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BingoBoingo: Supposedly they are getting a 100 inches of snow soon. Can'
t fall into the ocean soon enough
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i must confess i don'
t get the latest qntra. wut ?
mircea_popescu: because B mined on the basis of the chain that it saw ; and A idem. there's no guarantee these would stay coherent, and so they didn';
t.
mircea_popescu: not being a superposition of eigenstates myself, but a resolved one, i can'
t both credit and not credit the 5btc. would seem i have to choose one.
mircea_popescu: ok, take the nonsense practically : there's A, as illustrated yesterday, the group of six nude ladies ; there's B, b-a. i hope you folks aren'
t nude atm ?
mircea_popescu: i don'
t expect this realisation to be within common reach.
mircea_popescu: trust me, unlike you that doesn'
t play, i ~created~ a homeostatic game world.
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense. you needn'
t balance the desire of syphilis to defect from syphilisdom by injecting my with tb ffs.
mircea_popescu: males trying to get together to gangrape individual females ; females getting together trying to create wailer choruses to keep the male group at bay, everything we don'
t like about society reduces readily to "it's not made up of individuals", ie, poolmined.
thestringpuller: should be making "free asciilifeform"
t-shirts and protesting the white house
nubbins`: wait, btc is money in the USA, isn'
t it?
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 14:01:07; nubbins`: alf is simultaneously saying he can'
t afford to get a box of shirts shipped to him, AND that he can'
t find anything to spend $10k bezzlars worth of btc on?
nubbins`: for alf, "poor" means he can'
t stop working permanently
nubbins` flatly doesn'
t believe alf is "poor" in any reasonable sense of the word
nubbins`: alf, i don'
t think you quite understand how few shittier countries exist than the one you're in
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 13:44:29; nubbins`: he can'
t just move out of DC, he has to do it on a carrier fleet
nubbins`: alf is simultaneously saying he can'
t afford to get a box of shirts shipped to him, AND that he can'
t find anything to spend $10k bezzlars worth of btc on?
☟︎ nubbins` can'
t imagine the sort of mindset required to believe that the only two viable options for one's future are stasis or a $10mn windfall
nubbins`: he can'
t just move out of DC, he has to do it on a carrier fleet
☟︎ nubbins`: you don'
t get to control what happens to it once it leaves your hands
nubbins`: wait, you don'
t want usd or something
nubbins`: "what can i buy" as a process of elimination isn'
t something i'm interested in participating in
nubbins` can'
t imagine alf in a department store
nubbins`: no, problem is we don'
t know what you need because you're not telling us
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2016 13:18:04; mircea_popescu: 18<nubbins`> buy something with it. oh wait, the seller may convert it to usd. << he got the exact answer, but wouldn'
t take it, because reasons.
mircea_popescu: 18<nubbins`> buy something with it. oh wait, the seller may convert it to usd. << he got the exact answer, but wouldn'
t take it, because reasons.
☟︎ nubbins`: thestringpuller can'
t quite recall the print
nubbins`:
t-shirt is something people spill mustard on & get cum all over
nubbins`: fucking up a
t-shirt print = $6 wasted. fucking up a poster = $0.70 wasted
mircea_popescu: i don'
t even recall how many we ended up distributing, was it like 10% ? 25% ? 1% ?
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform had nfi >> you recall, we made a
t-shirt design, he agreed to print for a very nice rate, ended up storing them for us.
nubbins`: speaking of work, i have a large number of S.NSA
t-shirts still taking up space in my basement
nubbins`: it's a "work machine", so i'm more concerned about how it runs illustrator than how well it protects the private keys that aren'
t on it
mircea_popescu: well - i thought you didn'
t like the father pistols, and shouldn'
t you be thankful this one's dislodging ?
danielpbarron would have been more surprised if either 1) bitcoin didn'
t fail or 2) bitcoin didn'
t become some sort of one world government causing monster of a thing
mircea_popescu: don'
t tell me we're in any imminent danger of selling cardanos ?!
mircea_popescu: how do you know what you were doing helped kill hitlker and how do you know it doesn'
t no mo.
mircea_popescu: what do you expect changed with trb ? you weren'
t doing it to get rich, were you ? you weren'
t doing it for redditettes to throw their panties at you, were you ?
mircea_popescu: this particular system, for instance, i've been running for a while now on a half dozen long etc hosts, i don'
t even notice.
mircea_popescu: which, inasmuch as it's philosophical, doesn'
t really get touched by phenomena.
mircea_popescu: not that the philipinos won'
t be coming out of the underbrush to push the unexpected "just as good" verbiage, or w/e.
mod6: well, everyone who doens'
t matter.
mod6: Why is july a thing? This doesn'
t make sense. If prb wants to fork a centralized mining protocol, that doesn'
t make it any less dead.
JuliaTourianski_: the thing alt coiners don'
t get is...if btc "fails" alt coins lose all cred. wont get any traction EVEN if perfect
BingoBoingo: Becaus ewe can'
t have a republic without money
BingoBoingo: JuliaTourianski_: They went against the don'
t be shitheads when 51+%
mircea_popescu: and sure, you can blame the miners. the problem is - the design sort-of forced this endgame upon them. i doubt most of the chinese even understand ~what went wrong~, in the very faint general, letalone in this specific ~what we did wrong~. by the chinese bible they were being very reasonable and i just don'
t understand how the world works. ach ach my dear fellow mp.
mircea_popescu: however, if it is going to be an altcoin, as in, no continuity, then it doesn'
t matter so much if tomorrow or yest or whenever.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-03-2016#1422884 << well, the privacy risks aren'
t exactly dubious in that i don'
t atm see how ring signatures would prevent miner cartel from attacking bitbet. except, of course, if predicated on "miners are lazy and dumb". which is true - until they aren'
t. much like ants are lazy and dumb, until they get into the fridge, at which point they'll dumbly&lazily never want to leave.
☝︎ fluffypony: I don'
t think there was a question of whether or not he would come
fluffypony: ah yes, the asciilifeform "everything is bad except this hardware thing I've been working on for 4 years and still can'
t finish" argument
fluffypony: for everyone else your special case doesn'
t apply
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo? << was a thing, don'
t recall exact link or quote