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BingoBoingo: wilbns: Blockchain.info went rogue soon after
they
took investment from
the wrong crowd. Irreparible now.
wilbns: It's annoying, because
there are some good and kind people who work at Blockchain.info, but
there are some "not right"
things going on at
the
top.
mircea_popescu: ;;google
trei grasulii se leganau pe o pinza de paianjen...
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> could we instead accept 1% more fat each year ? << No. It breaks
the BritneyChain
wilbns: That number counts users who have multiple wallet identifiers, and also algorithmically created via
the API.
wilbns: Sorry, was saying "not
true" in relation
to
the link.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No reason
to bother with
the voat cloudflare wall at all if you don't care
to afflict
the stupid
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It
trolls Ycombinator's reddit. Otherwise worthless. I derp on it and egg on
the controversy with dirty quarentine browser
BingoBoingo: Two consecutive days Qntra has been at
the
top of /v/bitcoin but
to be fair
this
time it
took all of 4 upvotes
BingoBoingo: "@petertoddbtc Why a /dev/ and not a call
to
the kernel for such matters? @EliteRaspberrie @dchest @zooko"
thestringpuller: didn't know if
they committed
to like a mac branch of gpg or something or its just all gui shit
thestringpuller: trinque: i installed it
to use
the command line
tools. it's kinda akin
to installing xcode
to have clang
to run a gcc like
thing...
trinque: actcually makes for more cumbersome use
than at
the command line
trinque: thestringpuller: I don't see
the need
to bolt a mac gui
to gpg
mircea_popescu: the notion
that
the group of redditards is "decentralized" is not unlike
the proposition
that salem at
the
time of
the witch
trials was "good christians".
mircea_popescu: anyway. no,
the "community" is not decentralized now, could not be decentralized in
the future.
mircea_popescu: (the
two are so strictly undistinct... omfg. us
took 200 years
to catch up
to post-ww2 argentina)
mircea_popescu: certainly
the source of
the state in all its broken implementations
to date, from nazi socialism and soviet socialism all
the way
to obama and peron populisms.
mircea_popescu: it is
THE MOST centralized
thing in both
theory and practice. and probably
the source of all others.
mircea_popescu: mes from hanging out with groups of similar retards strictly
to farm fake agreement, DECENTRALIZED
mircea_popescu: "I've mentioned
this countless
times but I
think it's obvious
that
true consensus should be coming from
the largest, decentralized group in
the Bitcoin space: its users around
the world." << how
the fuck is a bunch of circlejerking derps, who don't even REALISE
that google's been feeding
them results
tailored
to
their own stupidity for a decade, who
think wikipedia is a source of knowledge and whose enjoyment mostly co
trinque: many of
those
types
that I've known in Portland clearly hate
themselves, and engage in all kinds of self-destructive behavior
trinque: mircea_popescu: it does seem
to be a sort of suicidality
mircea_popescu: maybe not even
then. "socialism was never really
tried" etc.
shinohai: Why jump
through all dem hoops
shinohai: It seems a little
too complicated
to do what it does.
mircea_popescu: i wonder, incidentally, how, when or if will
the us-style feminist conceptualize
that her notions of gender identity and female rights imposes a significant cost on
the community, and as a result ensures a) its downfal and b)
the mass rape of most females and some males dumb enough
to have participated, deserved, as spoils of war.
trinque: people
tend
to protest
the
things
that are most
true, anyway
trinque: most
Texans would protest
that
they'd fit well with Mexico, but I begin
to see it
mircea_popescu: better
than any government. because, again, laissez faire and rape-y. can't argue with
that.
BingoBoingo: Aztalan (modeling on Sinaloa) is not
the "Homicide da Union" but a business like any other government.
mircea_popescu: the reason isis is such a problem is
that
they're not even comparable, but homologuous.
mircea_popescu: and cointrary
to all
the "hic sunt leones" anglo propaganda,
the worst arabs are gonna do
to you is in all likelyhood ask you
to go further in, because you're
too fairskinned
to be
this back in
the mosq.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but quetzalkoatl has
to eat! << Black man.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo not even for
the income. mexican woman sees you like you see swedish
teenager. << Meztizos want
to be
the new white race
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not even for
the income. mexican woman sees you like you see swedish
teenager.
BingoBoingo: Aztlan loves white people,
tis
their sole source of income
mircea_popescu: lol
the sad stories of previous usians with pinoy sluts
touched you huh
mircea_popescu: in fact
they're just doing what
they've always done : agreeing over
their stale beer + pizza
that
the boss is dumb and
the company doubleplusungood.
assbot: Wouldn't it be great if
the Bitcoin Community around
the world were
the source of "consensus" ? : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1LgnRTb )
mircea_popescu: sell oil and dope
to california, buy chained 20something yo ohioites in exchange. hard
to resist.
trinque: dunno, depends on what
the federation's like, I guess
trinque: mircea_popescu: could be, and if it survives
the fight with
them, maybe
that experience helps it on
the path
to being an actual country
mircea_popescu: tho it'll prolly be part of
the mexican cartel federation.
trinque: though
the chinese may eat
the rest of usistan
trinque: BingoBoingo: haha, perhaps I still suffer under
the delusion
that
Texas has a future
BingoBoingo: Though if in
texas
this fall it may make sense for you
trinque
to sell pecans you find
to Chinese Bitcoin miners
to build good will and a full wallet
mircea_popescu: trinque if nbothing else, autumn's a great
time
to go
tyhere.
BingoBoingo: Nah
there were non stupids earlier. I read
this
Trilema
thing a few
times.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo ya,
they're not ear-bitingly stupid, which is a non-qntra first
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> and lest it appear
that
they interviewed me,
they didn't. just referenced and cited an article from last october <<
This is what
the pros do
BingoBoingo: Wouldn't surprise me in
the least Virtual Mining News people could become qntra contributors before
the
Torpeys and other CoinTelophone people do.
pete_dushenski: and lest it appear
that
they interviewed me,
they didn't. just referenced and cited an article from last october
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
today's discussion of
the 1% ratchet should, if nothing else, serve as a burning icon of how exactly consensus is sought.
pete_dushenski: 'virtual mining' blog. same kids who pitted me against roger ver a week or
two back.
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