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assbot: Why Kickstarter 'can'
t' and won'
t protect backers once a project is funded | Polygon
bounce: and don'
t forget to supply lots of government-issued documents with pictures of you, for your own safety, of course. while I'm holding your coins. and running.
Yna: That doesn'
t seem like a low rick investment
assbot: Anonabox scam - Why I don'
t trust them! : technology
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd be surprised if he didn'
t ?! how wouldn'
t he 1?
mircea_popescu: Fact is they ran away with $25k from me, if it was reinvested or not doesn'
t matter really as they promised to make it from trading..."
mircea_popescu: "Ok i can'
t say how much i invested in total, i had shares worth $25k but i reinvested from daily earnings, wasn'
t so much i signed up in September...
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: I don'
t get why people are hating on the anonabox, why does it matter if they were using existing hardware?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well at least he wasn'
t you know, part of the cult of b-a or anything.
mircea_popescu: (incredible, incidentally, that people who supposedly invest resources into getting a degree aren'
t even bothering to mention the distinction between actual degrees and quota degrees)
mircea_popescu: who isn'
t a volunteer ? obama and herr speer both are volunteers.
mircea_popescu: if it were a hallucination it wouldn'
t be quite so evenly distributed ethnically and geographically.
mircea_popescu: this time they figure the enemy is small and it may be overrun. it won'
t work, and they'll have to do a 180 and suck the cock.
mircea_popescu: that time they figured the enemy is big and it may be placated. it didn'
t work, originally, so they had to do a 180 and fight the war.
bounce: don'
t know until you try
bounce: sounds good. not that they'll listen; their motivation isn'
t the good of all, it's their own careers and coming up with regulation for this newfangled thing scores brownie points all over -- their own organisation, law enforcement, you name it. citizens? not important. so it only sounds good from the point of view of the important.
ThickAsThieves: you can'
t steal with a bitcoin, and you can'
t smuggle drugs with a bitcoin.
ThickAsThieves: The crimes that may be committed with bitcoin are no different, and lesser, than those made with cash dollars, an area which our government has a lose grip on itself. These crimes are ultimately realized not when the money is laundered, but when that money is obtained. Those are the crimes to focus on. You can'
t hide a kidnapped child in a bitcoin, you can'
t make a bomb with a bitcoin,
ThickAsThieves: "This regulation just won'
t work other than to give big institutions a way to feel safe getting into bitcoin services. That's fine, but the fact is that this is global, and money as a concept needs to change to be a private concern along with this. A centralized government should not try to impose its ideals on the world, it just can'
t work, will be expensive, and will ultimately hinder
mircea_popescu: chetty do they get shot if they don'
t show up or how does it work ?
mircea_popescu: who wouldn'
t want to go into the world's arsehole to deal with a contagious viral disease that makes you puke blood ?!
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic well but i mean, then obama doesn'
t regard executive orders as regulation mechanisms.
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, I don'
t regard the b-a voice system as a regulation mecanism
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i agree the art of dancing with goats is necessary if you agree it doesn'
t include fucking them.
bounce: sure. hence the need for people understanding regulation running the exchange in a jurisdiction that doesn'
t force them to fuck over the customers
BigBitz: P2P Exchanges aren'
t Exchanges.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> the chinese aren'
t more reliable, are they? <<< we don'
t fucking know.
bounce: the chinese aren'
t more reliable, are they?
BigBitz: shouldn'
t an indiciator of price ie; a ticker show an Exchange.
BigBitz: coinbase isn'
t an exchange, though, ThickAsThieves.
BigBitz: mircea_popescu I just trade for fun. Nothing fancy. Bitcoin doesn'
t have place for TA :)
mircea_popescu: i don'
t envy you ppl trying to trade your cross or anything.
BigBitz: but I can'
t day trade on thin air.
Adlai: BigBitz: i volunteer to translate. "don'
t trust bitfinex with your money, because they're potentially unwitting scammers through a combination of fecklessness and incompetence"
mircea_popescu: "don'
t worry about fucking me, it's true i raped a girl last week but i washed all the blood off my cock so should be ok"
kakobrekla: <BigBitz> but I can'
t argee that stupid people are instantly scammers. < so, it takes some time. are you going to wait for it?
BigBitz: hah don'
t high horse on me mircea_popescu.
BigBitz: but I can'
t argee that stupid people are instantly scammers.
BigBitz: Let's move on then. Since you can'
t articulate.
BigBitz: BUT... being stupid doesn'
t a scammer make.
mircea_popescu: and in general, you can'
t merit-wash a scammer with money.
Apocalyptic: <Adlai> aren'
t bitstamp registered in UK now? // they are for some time now
Adlai: aren'
t bitstamp registered in UK now?
ascii_on_tour: 5210 x 2880 << that's one of the mac-with-lcd combo boxes, so extra $1k for comp that i haven'
t any use for. but i'm told that one can plug in an external cable.
ben_vulpes: pet the sweaty things and don'
t sweat the petty things?
mircea_popescu: bounce: it's better than to not use it, <<< this is perhaps the longest endless discussion i don'
t feel like having. is it better to have loved a whore or to not have gotten the pox at all ?! etc.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall the last time someone was required to believe something they didn'
t lol.
mircea_popescu: so a guy agrees, a guy doesn'
t agree, big deal either way.
Adlai isn'
t sure what keywords to search for, to find a conversation he's never seen before
Adlai: possibly stupid question about WoT... doesn'
t it rely on everybody trusting gribble? what does it offer over the regular PGP trust model?
Adlai: it took around half a minute to realize that no, she hadn'
t forgotten glasses at home, it wasn'
t a language issue. she just couldn'
t read.
nubbins`: well, you don'
t, but if you can read a bit of code, at least you'll feel like less of a rube when you get robbed
nubbins`: "how do i know brainwallet.org isn'
t stealing my keys?"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` nobody, but then again eulora doesn'
t claim to be "decentralised yo"
bounce hasn'
t paid attention there
nubbins`: well, i mean, who's to say chetty isn'
t putting backdoors into eulora and 5 years from now everybody's account gets drained?
mircea_popescu: gotta expose people to things they wouldn'
t seek on their own. it's the very point of rape in the first place.
bounce: if it wasn'
t full of diddles to start with
bounce: o_O haven'
t paid attention tho
bounce: isn'
t that thing being maintained already?
mircea_popescu: they could just as well retire, because they can no longer actually contribute. but if they don'
t want to retire they can hang around as lolcow fodder.
bounce doesn'
t think of that as signal, no
bounce: too bad you can'
t just buy up a country and add some new management
frb: if you don'
t want me in here, that's fine. lol
frb: but i don'
t use them much now.
mircea_popescu: "I would like to start by saying that in context of the below, my identity is irrelevant. My identity becomes relevant if I break the law, which is something that neither myself nor my employees have done. " herp. "i am resigning. who is 'i' ? don'
t ask! and take my anon claim at face value as to everything else"
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol: dayum. so has redundant domains like mpx been considered? .co .us .biz, etc << the domains aren'
t the problem.
bounce: actually, wasn'
t there already an app for that?
mircea_popescu: considering how much they spent implanting the nonsense in the skull, it ain'
t never coming out.
bounce: depends. was there quite a while but left. apparently the spammer doesn'
t remember.