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mircea_popescu: because
they got offered
the cushy sec job and passed on it
to be on
the street ?
benderp: or as I say
to my staunchly little-d democratic friends "everything is born, matures, ossifies and dies. governments are no different."
Ghaleon: yes, much as among humans, it is
the cowards we must watch for.. not
the brave ones
Ghaleon: tiger only go man eater when
they lose
their
teeth , get wounded and cannot hunt normal prey, most animals avoid humans
Ghaleon: we need
to propel bit coin
to mass respectability,.. one inch at a
time
mircea_popescu: or, "every ass looks good on a bike.
that's why we buy bikes"
mircea_popescu: at
the
time bitcoin didn't look as big as it does
today. iirc it was ~2-5 bux per or somesuch
mircea_popescu: afaik he got some job in
the uk and forgot all about
this
joecool: bitvps 2.0 was supposed
to happen for him
too but he started selling
the equipment he lined up for
that last week
joecool: mircea_popescu: i'm guessing he got embarrassed about his habit and stopped reporting P&L statements when
the L was coming from heroin acquisitions
joecool: mircea_popescu: heroin was
the likely answer regarding
that case
joecool: heh i never read
the bitvps story on
trilema
mircea_popescu: you have no idea what depression is until you've seen
the depths
through
the eyes of a high ranking bureaucrat.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : anyone remember
tom green's performance in road
trip ?
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that reptiles are great hunters. it's false
that
they're uber hunting machines as
the kid imagines
them
moiety: he included
therapy costs for
the stress
Ademan: mircea_popescu: I got a good chuckle out of your correspondence with
the SEC, bravo.
ninjashogun: benderp - I would go
to monthly billing, it's probably psychologically easier
to justify :)
mircea_popescu: i mean, normal people have normal kids, from down syndrome
to superclever.
ninjashogun: benderp 5 btc for an hour seems a bit steep :)
that's $3000 per hour or a daily rate of... $24,000 - or a monthly rate of... $600,000.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of space between "exists for
the good of
the people" and "was spawned by
the devil and is making him proud"
Ademan: asciilifeform: some people believe
that
mircea_popescu: just because her name is lilith does not know she knows how
to suck cock, you know ?
benderp: ninjashogun: you also owe me 5btc for my
time
this afternoon ;)
mircea_popescu: maybe
they're honestly just
trying
to understand wtf is going on. i could sorta see if i was in
that position i'd go fishing like
this. why not.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 maybe
the sale was fictitious. maybe erik had
the wrong kind of friends, a la shrem. maybe shrem was his wrong kind of friends. who
the hell knows at
this point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the incentive it does have. it's more effective, more effectual and cheaper.
that's really
the eos.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 well on what basis would i
think about it. i have no idea.
ninjashogun: I'll pay your backtax on unseemly behavior (along with my apologies). I have a better grasp of
the channel dynamics here.
mircea_popescu: this obviously will have
to chance, and
this obviously will change. it's just
that a number of otherwise well meaning people didn't even know
they had
this problem until last month
mircea_popescu: well... it doesn't have
the people,
the brains,
the
training or
the intellectual culture.
mircea_popescu: i somehow can pursue bitcoin fraud quite in
the open.
the sec can not. why not ?
mircea_popescu: the clash of cultures is between
the ankylosis of old bureaucratic paperwork and contemporary digital openness
dexX7: they may not want
to say it, sure. but what do you
think about it? any guess?
mircea_popescu: but
the real clash isn't "you wanna phone me ? get on irc"
mircea_popescu: people have been pointing
to "clash of cultures" discussing
this, and its
true
dexX7: what does
the sec want with
the user data etc.? i'm wondering, if
this is about
the sale of sd, btc stocks in general or an investigation about some fraud going on etc..
Ghaleon: what is
the best route for a startup
to go public btc style?
benderp: can we buy
them already in a butt?
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benderp: blow stamps
to be had for cheap
moiety: thanks,
the photo
tours gave me
the idea
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so you got me reading
the adventures of
the 14th waffen grenadiers, which resulted in much amusement at
the freitag guy
mircea_popescu: the blood argument is incredibly weak.
there's a shitton of blood on "romanian", doth not make it particularly unusable.
TomServo: around 2:00 is
the more relevant piece
TomServo: mircea_popescu: you might appreciate
that, he may even be a reader
jurov: was
that 17 lines? guess i'm sending 0.17btc as donation
then
mircea_popescu: i
think we should institute a 1 bitcent fine for unseemly behaviour
jurov: administrators are more conscious about
the importance of strong passwords
than
the average
jurov: .
This most likely reflects
the fact
that system
jurov: found in
the LulzSec leak, which was
jurov: characters, a lot longer
than
the
jurov: than we expected.
The average length is
jurov: The first
thing
that stands out when looking at
the data is
the average length, which is much longer
mircea_popescu: tl;dr :
things happen in ways
things happen, it's very important
to either
this or
the other and make sure you brush your
tits in
the morning.
dexX7: haha yea,
that's
the
tltr
ThickAsThieves: Paypal was and is a
target for scammers and hackers, bitcoin is
too! better have good security!
ThickAsThieves: i
these articles
that
take so many words
to say something you'd see in a
tweet
benderp: i
think i'll be getting my babe and my pit another puppy here soon.
mircea_popescu: tech crutch. read all about how you don't need
to really understand anything about new
tech.
ozbot: Bitcoin Is
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TechCrunch
mircea_popescu: benderp if anyone was curious
to see how
the bega looks.