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thestringpuller: YOU AIN'T GOT
THE ANSWERS
ThickAsThieves YOU AIN'T GOT
THE ANSWERS!!!!
thestringpuller: ThickAsThieves have you heard
the Kanye-Sway interview?!?!?
truffles: saw at least 3 women in
that phot, 1 guy looks arab, 1 black guy hmm
truffles: oh i didnt even look at comments
this
time
ThickAsThieves: "Alex Robinson you are a nigga lover. and you
trying
to make me just like you. shame
that."
ThickAsThieves: the comments on
that youtube page kinda show
that google's switch
to using google+
to clean comments didnt work
truffles: hairstyle/face combo is
typical
ThickAsThieves: An estimated 70 percent of
the nearly 11,000 silent films produced in
the US have been lost, according
to a landmark study from
the Library of Congress.
Duffer1: need cable grade ping
time or better
though
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu> actually
that's what i'd like
to ipo : a
telecom satellite launcher corp. <<< I'm so in
mircea_popescu: actually
that's what i'd like
to ipo : a
telecom satellite launcher corp.
Duffer1: i'll miss my mmos if i'm forced
to satellite :( hehe
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, we'll probably be launching our own satellites before
there's any serious challenge
to net neutrality.
pankkake: so we just need spacex
to accept bitcoins!
pankkake: amateur (in
the good sense) wireless networking is easy in a city. but how do you go further?
Duffer1: all provided by at&t, comcast, or
time warner
ozbot: Telecom Firms
Thrive in Somalia - WSJ.com
mircea_popescu: on
the brighter side, from what i hear in
the larger cities you can already get point
to point internet
mircea_popescu: i mean a similar argument could be brought
that in somalia internet access is difficult, what with all
the armed bandits
Duffer1: i agree, i just hate
to see it happening
mircea_popescu: well conversely, i don't see
the us as much of a point of interest anyway, it's on its last legs as is.
Duffer1: exclusivity contracts are
the norm
Duffer1: startups are sued into
the ground or bought outright
Duffer1: i don't see
that happening in america, major monopolies are protected state
to state
mircea_popescu: as long as
there's ppl holding bitcoins,
there will be a market
to provide
them with internet.
mircea_popescu: any isp is free
to issue you whatever contract
they want, and you don't have
to
take it.
Duffer1: pay x more
to access premium sites like x,y,z
Duffer1: at least in america
the net neutrality issue also involves isp bandwidth limiting and paywalling
mircea_popescu: whatever anyone could possibly
throw at hte problem, bitcoin has billions soon
to be
trillions of vested interest.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves amusingly, bitcoin resolves definitively
the issue of net neutrality.
pankkake: I believe services could escrow a part of
their funds
Duffer1: first exchange
to offer insurance wins
Duffer1: not getting robbed would be nice, but i fail
to see how regulation would prevent
that in any way
ozbot: Ministers will order ISPs
to block
terrorist and extremist websites | UK news |
The Guardian
pankkake: before
that it was unregistered gambling
pankkake: france wants
to censor "tax evasion" next
ThickAsThieves: i still worry
that eventually
the only answer will be scary loss of net neutrality
mircea_popescu: adding
to
the amusement in romanian
that verb basically means "to fuck"
mircea_popescu: if one of
the strongest arguments in favour of regulation really is
the perceived need for consumer protection,
ThickAsThieves: lol so US regulation will also help
the Czech and Aus?
ThickAsThieves: bitcoins had been stolen from his Web site, most of
them belonging
to users. In any industry, one of
the strongest arguments in favor of regulation is
the need for consumer protection—something bitcoin currently lacks."
ThickAsThieves: "There may, however, be good cause for regulation.
There have been several high-profile
thefts of bitcoins recently, including a hacker attack last week on a Czech exchange called Bitcash.cz
that emptied four
thousand digital wallets belonging
to customers. Also
this month, an eighteen-year-old man in Australia who was running a Bitcoin “bank” announced
that more
than four
thousand
ozbot: Why Regulate Bitcoin? :
The New Yorker
pankkake: same for
this infinitecoin actually
pankkake: welcome
to
the endless pump and dump
pankkake: most of
that "increase" is already gone
ozbot: Bitcoin Alternative Quark (QRK) Increases In Value 500% In
The Last Week - Yahoo Finance
ozbot: The future in
the past pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
KRS|gotyawallet: oh because
there isnt enough
to find out out which is making me ask
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ticker for
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to you
to make sure (1 more message)
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mircea_popescu: foundations, conferences, is how discoveries are made in sciences
too neh ?
ThickAsThieves: i suppose
theyll claim
the
title long afte rthey cease work
ThickAsThieves: yes, but you can apply your
thought
to
the current state of
things, allowing for new more appropriate predictions
ThickAsThieves: plus you need
to have any new predictions in published record :)
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i suppose i should put
this up ion
trilema
too, even out
the chances of
teh populous a little.
pankkake: so many implementations
talking
to each other
pankkake: or, in p2p,
the most popular networks: ed2k and bittorrent
jamespeerless: yeah guess as long as
they don't have any way
to make money off of it, it won't happen
mircea_popescu: i've had people spend 1000s of hours modelling
this point, as it's
the one most important point in all bitcoin
mircea_popescu: as long as
those big corps don't actually have big btc,
they aren't big corps