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mircea_popescu: it already paid lulz in spades. buffett held his yearly meet, supposedly "couldn'
t find any short". just the embarassment of that...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:they aren'
t rich, in the customary sense - but not paupers. << compare what'd happen to the us bureaucrat pauper vs the russian bureaucrat once someone in a hostile nation put the kaibosh on them. they're paupers.
mircea_popescu: it's the easiest skill to recognise, too. so... not much hope. they're hiring people, sure, but people only google/microsoft/apple/amazon would hire if they didn'
t.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: in that picture you said you could tell who was wifed, as they weren'
t displaying lordosis
decimation: I still don'
t understand why serial terminals went out of style, seems like the perfect solution to point of sale units, etc
decimation: this goes back to Mircea's point - USG "wants" things, but it can'
t really afford them - it's running on the "fumes" of past memories
decimation: asciilifeform it seems that the meta-nsa doesn'
t exist in reality
mike_c: lobbes: or.. there shouldn'
t be migratory bird treaties. it's like flat tax. simple, yet insufficient.
mike_c: no way, stocks can'
t peak in bezzle world.
mike_c: so when it gets picked up it will increase the worth of life shares, and the guy who bought at .1 won'
t be so hurt.
mircea_popescu: "shouldn'
t the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 in any and all circumstances" ? i guess
mircea_popescu: shouldn'
t the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 ?
mike_c: TheNewDeal: weren'
t you the one who liked late easy money bets on bitbet? you should check out the current game of the week on WoL.
decimation: the question is: if this isn'
t a scam, where are they going to trade bitcoin?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'number one rule' of dominating mining - don'
t be an obvious idiot << problem is the obvious symbol is only defined in the core dump
mike_c: how so? the possibilites aren'
t limitless
fluffypony: I just don'
t think that this is entirely plausible through mining or market buys
mircea_popescu: i don'
t need to be buddies with a cockroach to know why it can'
t fly.
mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Anyways - I am not trying to incite an argument. I just think and believe that if they wanted it they'd get it. Cash is their king (and many others). << the world has new kings, meanwhile. the direct effect of this being that no, the old kings couldn'
t anything, whether they wanted it or not.
mircea_popescu: that reason is that the people with some self respect left don'
t wish to play the part of decorative mosquito.
mircea_popescu: if it weren'
t impossible, it'd have been done already.
mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Either way - don'
t fool yourself if you think the SUPER RICH couldn'
t do what they wanted with Bitcoin. Not saying it would be an easy thing but it's not at all impossible. << i'm saying it would be impossible.
fluffypony: but amassing 1M BTC wouldn'
t cost him $660 M
BigBitz: Either way - don'
t fool yourself if you think the SUPER RICH couldn'
t do what they wanted with Bitcoin. Not saying it would be an easy thing but it's not at all impossible.
pete_dushenski: BigBitz: his resources are tied up in a stock which he basically can'
t sell
BigBitz: yeah, because he wouldn'
t have the financial resources to do it on BTC....
mircea_popescu: just as well one could argue they don'
t have the means.
Namworld: Regulating people usually involve punishment after the fact, since altering how the world works isn'
t really a possibility.
Namworld: They even didn'
t say that Bitcoin can'
t do X or Y, because they can'
t regulate that, obviously. They regulate what their own people can or cannot do/use.
mircea_popescu: so what i wish to know is, anyone left on the internet that didn'
t shitlist mcdlv.net as far as stmp is concerned ?
BigBitz: Their point is around the inability to confirm the data as HOLD won'
t share/release it.
BigBitz: and if Sophos research team can'
t expense $120 something is fucked.
BingoBoingo: "But I can'
t answer that because the people who disclosed this decided they want to make money off of this. There's no way for others to verify." Wisniewski was referring to an offer by Hold Security to notify website operators if they were affected, but only if they sign up for its breach notification service, which starts at $120 per year.
cazalla: clearly a smart guy though, his leftism essay helped me to understand some of the frustration i feel towards leftist people but wasn'
t smart enough to figure out myself
cazalla: i don'
t really see the connection between unabomber and elliott rodger types besides the violence
BingoBoingo: Well, let's consider like versus like, now there are less middle aged and aging hermit sending mail bombs. They've been instead been replaced largely by 20 somethings who can'
t get laid and take it all out of one venue and they are spent.
cazalla: post internet trolling being an outlet for people who may have sent bombs in the past if they didn'
t have it
BingoBoingo: cazalla: You have to remember that pre-Internet trolling wasn'
t as viable outlet for dissent as it is now.
BingoBoingo: re were too many people around my cabin so I decided I needed some peace. I went back to the plateau and when I got there I found they had put a road right through the middle of it... You just can'
t imagine how upset I was. It was from that point on I decided that, rather than trying to acquire further wilderness skills, I would work on getting back at the system. Revenge."
BingoBoingo: Don'
t everyone guess the author all at once...
assbot:
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rithm: quantum computer can'
t touch my stellar bro
pankkake: wait, tahoe devs can'
t backups? :/
pankkake: shouldn'
t the Bitcoin icon be a bubble too?
fluffypony: I was going to say that with Zooko's triangle it was believed that a naming system couldn'
t be simultaneously human-meaningful, decentralised, and secure (you had to pick 2)
chetty: well I don'
t 'get' most of the icon stuff .. maybe I am not human
thickasthieves: fluffypony it seems to make 3 properties that aren'
t exclusively linked or equally related and paint them in a triangle
BingoBoingo_: Isn'
t it weird that people want super detailed and incredibly specific information when we label a bad idea a bad idea, yet they take light teasing super seriously and start writing off people's opinions immediately...
punkman: assbot don'
t like your links
pete_dushenski: those of you who didn'
t kill andreas should definitely be following that dude
Vexual: don'
t read that, read law
fluffypony: decimation: they were fighting an incredibly oppressive regime, I don'
t think you can hold them any more accountable than those that continued to push Apartheid policies
fluffypony: you don'
t correct the problem with handouts
mircea_popescu: somehow i don'
t see this education angle too much. seems it's more a case of, "let's take the land and maybe white people will just pay us to be black"
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fluffypony: and that isn'
t something you can breeze past politically
RebeccaBitcoin: I don'
t know enough about it to really have a valid opinion
fluffypony: Congo, Ukraine, and Rhodesia aren'
t quite comparable
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> decimation: nope - too many overseas companies with skin in the game, they won'
t let a despot ruin their income ;) <<< this is at best naive.
fluffypony: decimation: nope - too many overseas companies with skin in the game, they won'
t let a despot ruin their income ;)
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: nah, Afrikaaners aren'
t like that at all, more like generally overweight, beer and whisky loving, meat-bbq'ing biltong eating men and women
decimation: Why wouldn'
t pretoria be a nice place if it's old-school Afrikaans?
fluffypony: I don'
t mean paramilitary safe, but safe for ordinary people
fluffypony: you can'
t - it's whatever IRC client you're using colouring it
RebeccaBitcoin: So in conclusion: I should not store any coins with rush wallet, unless the amount is such that I don'
t mind losing them.
mircea_popescu: someone here could not be arsed for 10btc, and someone who could be arsed ain'
t here.
decimation: you can'
t run it if you don'
t have the source
decimation: if you can'
t find the source of the javascript on your webpage you are in a world of hurt
fluffypony: RebeccaBitcoin: it doesn'
t matter who made it
Vexual: you wouldn'
t discard a printer
decimation: asciilifeform this is basically "don'
t blame the pilot" in the air-crash investigations
fluffypony: Electrum isn'
t cold storage, it's a hot wallet to use every day
decimation: to do a proper job would require thousands of good man hours, which you can'
t afford