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mircea_popescu: tho
to be honest... it's success had more
to do with bureaucratic idiocy
mircea_popescu: is
this
the expert system
that blew
the usnavy staff outof water ?
mircea_popescu: well it just goes
to show i don't realy master
that space :)
mircea_popescu: "You really are a fucking idiot and have no idea what you are
talking about.
The project I am working on will be more successful
than
twitter within a year. When I sell
the project for 40 million dollars I will ignore any emails from you begging
to be a part of it and will send you a postcard from my yaght."
mircea_popescu: typical "we will fix
this" government approach resulting in shooting own foot
mircea_popescu: which he intended
to make simple more-power equations unreliable
mircea_popescu: anyway, cga stands for anomaly w/e
the fuck.
the guy's idea is
that
the block reward for solved blocks is 0 unless some extended-modulo conditions of difficulty are met.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that was afaik
the best
thing ai experts ever came up with.
ThickAsThieves: altcoin will get exactly what it needs at exactly
the right moment
mircea_popescu: thermos is now
taking goat's coin ? how much difference does a year make when you're 25, i swear.
ThickAsThieves: just
text
that says "Goat says: "Bitcoin is NOT Illegal in
Thailand.
There is no law against Bitcoin in
Thailand!""
ozbot: [NEW]
The REAL Altcoin
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: Hey @dogecoin, prepare
to eat ...
mircea_popescu: btw, get bluematt
to
take off w/e links/watermarks/anything nao.
mircea_popescu: pumper answer ? "o we had an [unannounced] open beta" but srsly, we don't mean
to do any harm"
mircea_popescu: "Everyone
that is saying
that I have some kind of gambling addiction is a douche and
they can go and die in hell. I have never had and I will never had a fucking gambling problem."
ozbot: Dennis
The Constitutional Peasant - YouTube
mircea_popescu: clearly satoshi had done
that wrong, and clearly
they be fixin' it.
mircea_popescu: who knew all it
took was not premining. certainly all
the 5464598769485 derps in
the subforum
there hadn't figured it out,
their premine is like
their holy grail
ozbot: [NEW]
The REAL Altcoin
mircea_popescu: ima give him a bitcent, cause you gotta encourage kids. give him some altcoin
too neh ?
mircea_popescu: he's
the one photochopping
the altcoin into whatever altcoin site screencap
ozbot: All you may ever need
to know of financial planning pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ozbot: "It's like
twitter. Except we charge people
to use it."
pankkake: I've read a designer blog or something, yeah… I don't envy
them
mircea_popescu: pagefuls of retarded quotes and shit. so much win
this.
mircea_popescu: i love how he's
taking
the entire absurdist angle up
to 11
pankkake: kinda like paying contractors with shares, I
think
ThickAsThieves: "Coding bootcamps are scrambling
to figure out how
they can save
their programs"
pankkake: (the endgame being destroying altcoins by flooding
the market)
pankkake: but
that would not hide
the fact
that it was generated,
though…
mircea_popescu: well point out
to
the guy it might not be
the worst of ideas
to store
that at creation just as a convenience.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "Two GCHQ
technical experts – "Ian" and "Chris" – recorded
the process on
their iPhones. " <<< law enforceement never fails
to unintentionally entertain part 5487649587695
ThickAsThieves: [14:05] <BlueMatt> you could dump
the genesis block via rpc, I
think
ThickAsThieves: [14:04] <BlueMatt> so you'd need
to figure out
the genesis block, but other
than
that it would be
the same
ThickAsThieves: [14:03] <BlueMatt>
the only issue is
the genesis block is like
timestamped or so
to make
them all unique
ThickAsThieves: he's getting it, but says we'll need
to sort something about
the genesis block
mircea_popescu: fact is,
they failed
to publish. who needs a sob story ?
mircea_popescu: tbh sounds morel ike guardian vying
to retain relevance
than anything
mircea_popescu: "A lot of people in government
think you should be closed down."
jurov: yes, govt agent are infinitely cunning or incredibly stupid...whichever befits
the conspiration
theoris
Duffer1: oh i just read: "Asked if Downing Street really intended
to close down
the Guardian if it did not comply, Robbins confirmed: "I'm saying
this."
Duffer1: oh wow so
they just blatantly
threatened
to shut down
the guardian..
Duffer1: that surely fixed
the leak
Duffer1: ya you
teach
those files a lesson
mircea_popescu: yeah. soft catholic, not
the anti-abortion rabble-rabble
types
ThickAsThieves: “It's
the possibility of having a dream come
true
that makes life interesting.”
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture dedicated
to
this stuff (and embroidery) in romania
ThickAsThieves: “Remember
that wherever your heart is,
there you will find your
treasure.”
ThickAsThieves: “Everything
that happens once can never happen again. But everything
that happens
twice will surely happen a
third
time.”
ThickAsThieves: “You will never be able
to escape from your heart. So it's better
to listen
to what it has
to say.”
ThickAsThieves: “When we strive
to become better
than we are, everything around us becomes better,
too.”
mircea_popescu: the 1800s called,
they want
their pound of flesh back.
mircea_popescu: s legal
tender in payment of debts, alike by
the individual states and
the United States; and it will have
that effect, if it is rightly interpreted and firmly enforced."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in english, "Good money must have an intrinsic value.
The United States of America cannot make its shadow legal
tender for debts payable in money without ultimately bringing upon
their foreign commerce and
their home industry a catastrophe, which will be
the more overwhelming
the longer
the day of wrath puts off its coming. Our federal constitution was designed
to end forever
the emission of bills of credit a
mircea_popescu: diametric btw re
the goldstein
thing, grep
the logs for "republic of bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: Professor Bernanke is just
that - a professor. He is a specialist in a framework invented
to employ specialists. Computer science is full of
these research empires, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Detaching your little subfield from reality is
the easiest
thing in
the world. Reconnecting is almost impossible. First, you'd have
to admit on your grant application
that you'd been studying something other
than