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mircea_popescu: twitter sez "discosync.co just won $25k on stage at @Launch."
mircea_popescu: english misunderstanding of french socialism is the problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have a piece about how lincoln is the original cause america sucks.
mircea_popescu: direct experience shows that without a government people are pretty much doing the exact same things.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the collapse of the serbian govt during the allied bombing didn't engender much violence at all.
mircea_popescu: certainly less than what counts as a "quiet day" in washington dc or la.
mircea_popescu: but for the record, there wasn't much violence at the time.
mircea_popescu: a three week old egg in the summer is more of a weapon than a food item
mircea_popescu: on the collapse of bulgaria in the 90s i went there with a truck full of cans
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> when a nation collapses, people from nearby (and not so nearby) places come to vacuum up the valuables. << word on that.
mircea_popescu: <gribble> There are currently 112.41585 bitcoins offered at or under 43.0 USD, << epic.
mircea_popescu: <jcpham> i really hope this price finds long term support << it just might. the reason is that bitcoin with large marketcap is more useful than bitcoin with low mkt cap.
mircea_popescu: i think many people love bitcoin PRECISELY because it's so ethereal.
mircea_popescu: my problem was, so buy 100 ounces. da fuck do i do with it now ?
mircea_popescu: jcpham i'm still in that phase, just, the rate supports my extravagance.
mircea_popescu: 1600 btc wouldn't have bought a car back in sept would it have ?
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi yeah, asciilifeform was making the same point, marketing gimmick.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi there was recently a rash of small arms manufacturers refusing to deal with their rogue government there
mircea_popescu: i don't really know either two of them, tbh. never used the bitinstant thing
mircea_popescu: so i'm thinking... best stick to smpake and d&t's services.
mircea_popescu: which shrem just went on the record saying he doesn't comprehend.
mircea_popescu: they make no mention of what actual measures they took for the future, and don't seem to have learned anything at all.
mircea_popescu: they saw the foreign email, removed it and went to bed
mircea_popescu: dude i totally like this bitbet. wouldn't it be the laugh of all time if i end up retiring over my bitbet stock
mircea_popescu: yea...welll... the trillions in yearly online fraud have to come from somewhere.
mircea_popescu: kinda hard to secure platforms that weren't build around security from the very beginning.
mircea_popescu: i think the perspective shift from "we're trying and so nobody should criticise us" to "w'ere doing" is really difficult for most kids
mircea_popescu: i dunno, they don't seem scammy to me, but certainly veering into the "we're 18 hear us roar" sorta attitude.
mircea_popescu: Chaang-Noi they got fucked but it's not their fault and their #1 priority is security except not rly.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you didn't buy enough under 20 cause it was too expensive last month, did you.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bugpowder BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 41.56001 - the oix fuckin' predicted, man!