mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ancient romanian joke : people trying to become cops are given an intelligence test, the geometric shapes and box with cutouts thing.

mircea_popescu: jurov: it's beneath them to concern with individual and personal key verification << yeah, because everyone wants to talk to people it can't even learn the name of. totally.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: then later "hey did you get my message?" << they don't have gribble where they live. because barbarians.

mircea_popescu: punkman: ben_vulpes: oic, they put everything in btcwire library, but btcd won't use it << bitwire is iirc todd's thing to make network move faster

mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TheNewDeal: the site has a profit motive in having big showdowns. in cash games it increases rake taken on the hand. << it's not just that. most poker players are idiots. they like to see the pretty pictures. makes them feel better about themselves.

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: xanthyos whenever I played SWC I also suspected that good hands came too often << as long as they come equally often for everyone, i imagine the argument goes, this isn'tr cheating but promotion.

mircea_popescu: !up toddf

mircea_popescu: to put it another way : a century ago, back when university professors had the common decency to die aged 60ish, kids ended up with assistant professroships aged 20something, not 30+.

mircea_popescu: you know what pays for keeping 60yos around to be 80yo currently ?

mircea_popescu: dude i tell you... reviving sickly old farts sounds pretty fucking threatening.

mircea_popescu: in fact, any half-sane investor would back out once this mess is brought to their attention, seeing how the only thing coming out of it is a decade of litigation on his money.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i suspect Cavirtex is doing fundraising or such and wants to fuck over the real early angels << if this is true, the published announcement opens all the directors to pretty serious criminal liability, not to mention that any court would undo the "sale".

mircea_popescu: to the ace, pre river ? that's what, 1 in 300k

mircea_popescu: nubbins`: in making the election to accept $20 for a cab ride home, you will be deemed to not have been drugged and assaulted at my house last night << sounds legit.

mircea_popescu: dub: a bartender can't legally serve someone thats already drunk as fuck, a bank only has its own criteria << actualkly a bank also can't lend to the bankrupt, so...

mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: blaming banks for bubble is like blaming bartenders for alcoholism << this has a lengthy tradition in the puritan world.

mircea_popescu has the great buenos aires trial of the enemies of freedom script half written already.

mircea_popescu: o, the notion that hearn survives the transfer of power is just ludicrous anyway.

mircea_popescu: people - reasonable, respectable people that is - need to stop engaqging that scumbag in conversation and simply insult him wherever he shows up.

mircea_popescu: this is why you don't want every dick and jane "participating". they fucking corrupt anything they participate in.

mircea_popescu: the problem with reddit is that a fucktarded audience gives incentive for fucktarded arguments from people who would otherwise shut up.

mircea_popescu: "o my house is burning, it's not reasonable to stop watching pokemon while putting the fire out"

mircea_popescu: fucking hell ? a) STILL with the "satoshi hairball" bs ? 5 years later ? b) it's not "Reasonable" ? it';s fucking mandatory.

mircea_popescu: "Satoshi created a hairball. It takes years sometimes to cleanup a codebase that has accumulated a lot of technical debt. It's not reasonable to just stop all feature development in the meantime."

mircea_popescu: cazalla: is price-to-income a good way of evaluating a housing bubble? << it's an indicator. tho it also reflects the center/periphery balance (ie, in any realm, the capital is cheapest and the fringes most expensive. that's where mining happens or w/e, higher risk adventuring. easier money, less boring people, higher risk so many explanations for larger rents)

mircea_popescu: i should prolly group all these huh.

mircea_popescu: i like how hearn is attacking todd lol. asif.

mircea_popescu: he's not being tone deaf. teh usg wants to be able to take over bitcoin, is all.

mircea_popescu: "Mike's response to that concern included the idea that "the community" would "just" decide to delete UTXOs - that is freeze funds - by creating a chain fork. Not the first time he's suggesting freezing funds; I think he's being a bit tone deaf here..."