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mircea_popescu: ro cuisine ius sorta like cajun, grew wealthy out of theft and treason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nice find. you should prolly buy a warehouse by now, move in, make the rest museum.
mircea_popescu: helicopter notoriously vulnerable to small arsm fire. as per log discussion
mircea_popescu: for the record the correct ban format is /mode b+ *!*@91.233.116.245 or such
mircea_popescu: internet access is a great boon to knowledge! all the learnin' of five billion bovines at your fingertips!
mircea_popescu: elliot rodger was such a trendsetter / visionary / posthumous jobs award.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in herdemocracy, "Life is a scam if you don't luck out to become super rich."
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin is a very poor store of wealth long term"!!! it's just how things are!!!
mircea_popescu: "because of pressure". i suppose their submarines are made out of rubber ?
mircea_popescu: "It's only a matter of time before one of the Trident submarines are lost. HMS Vanguard a Trident submarine makes an appearance in the book for the deep depth incident. The submarine exceeded 300 meters (safe depth is 65meters). They under estimated the weight of the submarine and didn't have enough speed for the Aft-planes to create raise. The further the submarine descended the more the weight of the submarine increased due
mircea_popescu: "We are at war, with a new kind of enemy. The terrorists have infiltrated every nation on our planet. Our nuclear weapons are a target that's wide open to attack."
mircea_popescu: so who's kim gonna nuke, that all-jewish canton in siberia ?
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : aspie ro chick's mother becomes senile, girly is very indignant that her redditlife is interrupted and she was transformed into a traditional society woman WITHOUT HER CONSENT!!!
mircea_popescu: btw, that "we are vary silbert for your loss" is like so pregnant with meme. barry the sorry sorbet sillybert!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's quite plainly the mark of ascendancy. "demonstration" aka "here's proof you can't enforce the law on us", and appropriation, aka, "we think more than you and therefore your symbols aren't yours in any meaningful sense".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: guess what... "I don't see the appeal of startups at all. I have never been a gambler. big companies allow me to get paid well while not really doing much work A++"
mircea_popescu: "Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?"
mircea_popescu: but because rank and file everyday tard is entirely incapable of even representing a working economy.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the country is doomed, not strictly speaking because "educators" who literally think the shamanic traditions of africa / sitting around in a circle chanting count ; nor because they "produce" "goods" that are literal painted paper like the rocks on a theatrical stage.
mircea_popescu: that dude's a fine example of usgistani ersatz. he hangs out in "personal finance" talking about finance, all the while his worldview is purely soviet socialism, command economy etc.
mircea_popescu: apple could buy russia, if you're drunk and all the russians go to space ; meanwhile bitcoin bought america.
mircea_popescu: whodda thunk tardstalk can take over the entire pantsuit forum ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, apparently 90% of reddit advertising is bitcoin-scams, bitcoin-alts, i-cant-believe-it's-not-bitcoins and other such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: kinda why medieval greek separated from it, leading to today's lang.
mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: a greek word is "what is left out of the space of all possible meanings once all the meanings interdicted by the other words have been removed".
mircea_popescu: the latin approach to language is "word is symbol for its definition".
mircea_popescu: (contrary to the naive expectation, common attic fluency is not achieved throgh "knowing the words". there is no such knowing.)
mircea_popescu: anyway. his ro "diortosire" is a very well illuminated source, as to the original material, and if one speaks ro one benefits from reading it even if one can also read the septuagint in original.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, because a succession of these since the 1970s, there's much better ro testaments than say en.)
mircea_popescu: amusingly, guy prayed he survive to complete translation of testament. did so. died thereafter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, he was bishop of cluj and nearly ended up patriarch
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it irks me that over time, the points made need ever more words AND STILL the jumps/gaps have to grow. fucking radial problem.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 0 shits given, becoming "more subtle" does not help the cattle empire. if the blunt didn't work, the sharp is a lulz.
mircea_popescu: right, maybe there's some color-of-bits finally imported into bitcoin this way ? please ? so usg can still has a point in world ?
mircea_popescu: so in this sense it makes securing the chain more expensive, which is a legitimate 2nd goal of usg.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the substantial weakness segwit adds to bitcoin chain security is that witout it, one needs the power to unwind the chain AND the keys of old txn to steal bitcoin. whereas with it, one only needs the hash power, as anyone can spend the segwit shit.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, this is no different from any other rewind : if a long chain is orphaned a number of txn are reversed thereby.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and block depth. if you make segwit tx a to me at height 1 and i put it into a normal tx at block 2, i can spend it from block 3 as my bitcoin, the segwitnmess is gone out of it. to steal it from me, one has to rewind all the way to block 1 again. which is possible, but expensive as the chain builds.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but then again usg fronts don't need a good plan, they just need A PLAN. something, at all. idiots don't read.
mircea_popescu: now, if this is the plan it's not a very good one (you can bury a segwit tx into legitimate spending which is deep enough to not be practically reorg-able) but anyway
mircea_popescu: exactly the same play. oh, we "buy" bitcoin crash. if it takes, it's good. if it doesn't take, guess what, segwit unroll later.
mircea_popescu: when bitbet blew a ~1k hole through this plan, they paid luke-jr a pittance to falsely claim they had delivered to him.
mircea_popescu: this got called out, and in order to "silence" it, josh zerlan went around making "bets" on "betting sites" about how bfl will deliver.
mircea_popescu: for instance : usg released a convicted felon / ndrngheta man (sony vleisides) for the purpose of pulling a "we build asic miners" scam in bitcoin to buy nsa enough time to make some themselves.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't be trhe first time usg's criminal entreprise front pulled this scam.
mircea_popescu: summary : he's trying to make sense of the political posturing of fiat entities, arrives at the conclusion that bitmain is buying the worthless clone with bitcoin it intends to doublespend away from the silly buyers later on.