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mircea_popescu: errything
to do with what every senator knows and fears at home.
mircea_popescu: generally, people
tend
to hurl as insults/bombs/damage
to others what
they're most afraid of
themselves.
there's a very good reason color revolutions exist, and it has nothing
to do with ukraine or gaddafi.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
they go out, same as in usg-sponsored 'colour revolutions', because 'there's action
tonight' << quite. which is why it's so lulzy
to watch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: But...
the 3d printed gun dude says burn it all down is an ideology... << i agree. it is.
☟︎ adlai: kakobrekla: i'd say you want at least 100x
the exchange's minimum order size
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla 1 because it's
the smallest amount of number.
mircea_popescu: (and generally, moral
thought proceeds quite strictly : 1) is
this a good
thing or a bad
thing ; 2) how much of it ?
there's no overalpping
these stages)
adlai: well, i do
think
that an oligarchy is better
than a monarchy, if
that's what
the question is
adlai: i'm not proposing
to lower it
to
the ground, scalpl works quite badly on small accounts, and even with
the usability changes i'm imagining, it'll be easy
to footgun without either my help or some level of understanding on behalf of
the shooter
mircea_popescu: let's put it in more general
terms. you're proposing
to lower
the bar of what constitutes a qualified investor.
mircea_popescu: nothing at all. (note
that i use "moral" properly, not in
the bastardized form common among
the plethora of would-be stalins without
the ballsack.)
adlai: you could point out
that i've fallen short of pure greed by not accepting investment, paying dividends, and retaining some fee as a personal profit
adlai: right. if i get a well-capitalized account profiting from
this, what's morally wrong with
that?
mircea_popescu: there's a reason capitalism historically flows
towards enriching nodes, not elevating
the graph.
mircea_popescu: the logical approach
to
that is
to increase your bankroll, not
to spread among a bunch of idiots.
adlai: to maximize
the amount of wealth profiting from stabilizing bitcoin
adlai: there are also
two ways of interpreting
this question - "why would other people want
to use it", or "why would adlai want more people
to use it"
mircea_popescu: on
the 0 1 infinity scale i readily see why 1 rather
than 0, i just don't grok why infinity rather
than one.
adlai: not everybody,
there are plenty of other places
to put money; but it's reached
the stage where more people are interested in using
this
than i'd like
to hand-hold
through
the -entire- setup. (this is a very low number of people, i'm not good at customer support...)
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to you know, one single person (presumably you).
adlai: you mean why anybody would want
to use scalpl?
mircea_popescu: i don't follow
the logic of how it would be useful "in general".
adlai: requiring my magic
touch is a sort of "job security", but i'd rather get paid
to write new code
than configure old apps
mircea_popescu: if
they were merely offered a fair salary for
their work
they wouldn't
take it because "it's not enough
to live on". as if "living" is somehow fixed and god ordered
that black guy in missouri must live better
than black guy in senegal.
mircea_popescu: the irony being
that out of
the scum in question, no other process can extract any use.
adlai: make it possible for people
to use it without me having
to set it up for
them myself
mircea_popescu: just like slag goes with burning coal for power, buncha idiots
thinking
they were "robbed of making it big like everyone else" goes with "we don't pay you but maybe you get a promotion"
mircea_popescu: undata: everybody in america
thinks
they were somehow robbed of making it big like everyone else did <<<
the necessary byproduct of
the entire "hero"
thing graham & co promote. "work hard and we'll pay one in a million
ten
thousand
times a salary, maybe you'll be him!"
mircea_popescu: the one
thing i enjoy alongside redditard butttears of impotence is glaring bagging officer not comprehending why he has
to bag my groceries.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: who somehow lives off
their
tears <<< i do live off
their
tears.
adlai: at some point it'll be a good idea
to make
this
thing usable
to people who don't speak lisp, some sorta local webserver or rpc
thingy
mircea_popescu: "For most of America’s history, one of
the most righteous anti-white supremacist
tactics available was looting."
adlai: chinese exchanges are probably next, although i'd like
to do repay some
technical debt first
adlai: no, i'm just improving its abstractions
to accomodate new exchanges' quirks; and i did
this a little carelessly, crashing
the one bot. so i'm
trying
to setup methods in
the other bot so it updates
to
the new code cleanly
mircea_popescu: Vor der Kaserne, wor dem grossen
Tor stand eine Laterne und steht sie noch davor...
adlai is a little lost, also
trying
to extinguish fires in a running bot
mircea_popescu: that's not related
to
the historical fact in question.
adlai: well
there's a huge prejudice against germany
the nation and german
the language, even among people my age who don't have any family who suffered in
the holocaust - but
they just inherited
the prejudice because it's so pervasive
adlai: (sounds like a stretch,
too, israel has/d plenty of german- and yiddish-speaking immigrants)
mircea_popescu: how exactly did
the nazis sully
the soup for dietrich ?
mircea_popescu: now, look at it. admitting for
the sake of
thinking
that
the germans were entertainers, since you're admitting garza is in business
adlai: ok, how is
this relevant?
mircea_popescu: adlai let me give you an example of what i mean. do you know who was
the first person
to speak german in israel after
the war ?
adlai: wasn't it going
to be 20 a few days ago?
adlai: hmm i'm not
that socialist, i've probably miscommunicated
mircea_popescu: we're not all one, all
the same, all on
the same plane. we don't interact with
the same
things.
mircea_popescu: adlai
this is merely an artefact of your socialistoid perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: iirc, it was designed by a woman. i won't psychiatrize on
this point, but let's see what mircea makes of it! << i dun get it, so what if a woman designed it ?
adlai: how so?
there's a market, and
these "industries" each squabble over
their potential market
adlai: we could replace
the
term with "commons",
to remind
the participants
that by shitting in
the reservoir,
they sully
their own soup
too. eg, "garza is a prominent scammer in
the bitcoin commons", "bitcoin is causing a power shift in
the pornography commons", etc
mircea_popescu: (tpg =
thumbnail preview gallery, at
the
time an innovation
that consisted of putting eight,
then six,
then four
then
three pics in a row and filling pages with such rows. each pic ideally linked
to
the material (more pics of
the same set).
then
that evolved into
the skim, where some pics are linked
to whatever junk being sold etc.)
mircea_popescu: and from
there, via warriorforum and
the nerve centers of "i failed local college business school" braindamage... it's in every confidence scam on
the webs.
mircea_popescu: but
that generation soon got pushed out by
the
tpg braindamaged set, and what was once irony became cereal.
mircea_popescu: then,
the porn people picked it up. it was a very
tongue in cheek sort of
thing, originally, like a mockery of hollywood.
mircea_popescu: much like all
the shitty studios of
the 50s were called like "empire" and "megaultra" etc.
mircea_popescu: it got started by
the virtual schmucks of hollywood
trying
to give
themselves some word based weight
adlai is pretty clueless/restless
to qualify for
that
mircea_popescu: "(2) Can you provide evidence
that GAW actually mined (a) any blocks, and (b) anything like
the number you claimed you were mining?"
mircea_popescu: adlai: it's about
time for one of
those "velocity per utxo" plots
to get updated, my guess is
that it'll show
that "strong hands" give increasingly fewer shits with each dump, while
the churn at
the bottom only gets frothier <<< guy's been here what,
twelve weeks ? already enlightened.
mircea_popescu: who are complete idiots and
that country is
the absolute asshole of
the world, you're better off visiting
the new delhi old dump.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, for
the sake of fairness and balance : i dun recall ever having been hassled in any airport for any reason, except guatemala.
mircea_popescu: i was half expecting
the customs say something, but
they didn't.
cazalla: damn,
that's a lot of porn
mircea_popescu: just
the disks,
too. interestingly enough, nobody cared.
mircea_popescu: last
time i flew i carried something like 38 encrypted disks.
mircea_popescu: "o gosh jolly, wouldn't you rather
take a blowjob instead ?"
mircea_popescu: i guess my mistake here is
to imagine
the problems of poor people are relevant /
the problems of people.
kakobrekla: she prolly had
the option
to leave it
there
mircea_popescu: decryption does not happen.
take it
to nsa or whoever
the fuck,
they're smart righ ?
kakobrekla: it may have
to with
the 'check if its real laptop or bombtop'
thing
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't decrypt jack if
they sat on
their head. what
the fuck is
this,
the future or some shit /
thestringpuller: The mexican's will have a field day when
they figure it out.
thestringpuller: Kidnap someone with money, deliver ransom note, "pay in bitcoin or ELSE." You don't even have
to have a drop point.
cazalla: zomg
thestringpuller, it was clearly stated it was a hypothetical!
kakobrekla: yes more ransoms plox
to keeps
the price ups
mircea_popescu: the logistics of fiat paper make it useless for
the purpose.
mircea_popescu: punkman: cazalla, better yet, kidnap rich guy's kid, make him buy bitcoin
to pay ransom. price goes up for sure. <<<
this is unavoidable. no ransom of
the future will be anything but bitcoin.