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BingoBoingo: FoOdies5: There's also the chance that the big miner that picks up a coin for Merged mining won'
t be friendly to it, see CoiledCoin as an early example
FoOdies5: coins with the purpose of serving small niches that won'
t attract big mining
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: yep - what I meant is that I don'
t have a problem if someone launches a PoS coin with something fundamentally different to PPC, I don'
t think it's bad to play with stuff in a real-world environment
BingoBoingo: <fluffypony> I don'
t fundamentally have an issue with PoS as an experiment (albeit one doomed for failure at present) << Proof of Stake essentially lets big bagholders delude themselves longer by becoming still bigger bagholders
fluffypony: I'm disappointed that thickasthieves hasn'
t even bothered releasing a whitepaper promising Choctaw Star Gates for Altcoin
fluffypony: but it shouldn'
t have any maths or cryptography in
fluffypony: I don'
t fundamentally have an issue with PoS as an experiment (albeit one doomed for failure at present)
fluffypony: I can'
t look at a PoS coin without thinking it stands for "piece of shit"
fluffypony: tbh I don'
t know if the NBC "contributor" / blogger dude intended it that way
fluffypony: with a "stabilisation fund" that hasn'
t stabilised anything
FoOdies5: lol can'
t even type his name without smiling
gribble: mircea_popescu was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 13 seconds ago: <mircea_popescu> i didn'
t think the rss had propagated yet.
mircea_popescu: donating to wikipedia is kind of like donating to korea's rocketry programme. even if it were valid science i still wouldn'
t do it.
mircea_popescu: remarkable that chimps are saner than people, and don'
t really care about the young girls.
ThickAsThieves: i ordered two
t-shirts with a btc logo in the style of a citi bank logo
danielpbarron: it wasn'
t just for that; we had an extended conversation after that incident and I didn'
t like his attitude about it
ThickAsThieves: so the distilled answer is, "Dude I like sex more than you, it ain'
t mean nuthin!" ?
mircea_popescu: remarkably enough, my use of the sex metaphor is actually unrelated to sex. it just happens to be an incredibly good structure for explaining things to people, especially people who haven'
t spent a lot of time thinking, either generally or on the topic at hand.
mircea_popescu: cazalla you don'
t see the merits in taking another man's wife from time to time ?
mircea_popescu: chetty lol@cnbtc. and i guess the us hasn';
t recently embarked in a joyride of paying ransoms to hide the reality of its middle eastern defeat ?
justusranvier: If you don'
t like physical ATMs, then implement the same trading algorithm with human traders
mircea_popescu: just because something has btc IN it doesn';
t make it btc-that something.
mircea_popescu: if you can make items that can';
t be traced back to you, you've satisfied the rape requirement i detailed yest.
mircea_popescu: aml/kyc is a fundamental component of the current order. you can'
t annul it just like that.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, you;re basically saying that drugs aren;
t illegal everywhere, such as chicago shooting district.
mircea_popescu: just because you don'
t see it yourself doesn'
t mean either that it's not there nor that you can make your own.
justusranvier: They exist, but they are slow and don'
t handle many bills.
mircea_popescu: i still don'
t get what do you think will prevent me from simply walking in, taking your atm and leaving.
mircea_popescu: "Why We Need a Foundation" << wrong question. who's "we" and more importantly, why we don'
t need another scam run by vesseness ?
mircea_popescu: well they must be the only people on the planet who don'
t by now
mircea_popescu: the article conveniently doesn'
t report the average debt per 77 mn.
mircea_popescu: and heuristics are incantations, but they don'
t summon me.
mircea_popescu: cazalla said "well, that too but they were warned". to this i said, "a nod is as good as a wink". as in, it shouldn'
t really take much warning that when a cock is going in and out of your butt, you're being fucked.
moiety: don'
t give me ideas punkman!
cazalla: beautiful area though, can'
t wait to move to tassie
cazalla: moiety, i lived with 2 other guys in a 2 bedroom unit when i was much younger, we turned the loungeroom into another bedroom as it had a door, was worth it at the time to save on rent but the cooking, cleaning is a pita when others don'
t rate it as highly as i do on list of things to do
moiety: cazalla: thats another thing, this flat is huge but the spare room is actually really quite small. its the only small room. i couldn'
t cram someone in there and charge them for it. also i have cats that would piss someone off i thnk. they like laying on clean clothes
moiety: wasn'
t sure i was going to either. it really shouldnt be so hard to keep a roof over one's head
DreadKnight: "don'
t invest in btc, it's a bubble!" and after a while it showed a lot of stupid monkeys all like "I don'
t know how it works, but I sold x and y and invested it all into bitcoins" lol
DreadKnight: average joe won'
t know about bitcoin unless the elite implements it in businesses and requires it
DreadKnight: well, don'
t know about etherum, but I wish bitcoin was non-ASIC-able
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well more nonsense when you aren'
t in the thick of ground zero
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Yeah, Idiocracy being cruel doens'
t necessarily mean it is untrue <<< kinda meh slapsticky nonsense imo, but hey.
the20year1: Alright, i can'
t ever remember which one i'm logged into, i've got like 4 IRC nicks now
mike_c: i haven'
t seen much snl. that video is great
mircea_popescu: i fucking can'
t to, it feels like all the idiot kids that i flunked in philosophy class ran off and made blogs.
mircea_popescu: fuck me, i thought myself the alpha and omega of right wing anarchy. i guess i don'
t get out enough.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well one doesn'
t have to be a scammer for the roi to not be there.
BingoBoingo: Well isn'
t bitmain the people actually delivering asics now?
mircea_popescu: it's not worth it for any of them, just, they don';
t have the option not to do it. if they don'
t do it they don;
t exist. so gotta do it.
mike_c: bitmain isn'
t scammer afaik. that's antminer, right? they deliver.
ben_vulpes: i suppose people don'
t care if things are quantifiable, only if they put their stuff in front of the right audience
mike_c: quiet. i wasn'
t sure what to expect, but so far it has been indifference. i didn'
t post at a great time, late at night. thinking about getting some people to bump it. not sure what to do yet.
BingoBoingo: Basically in the PCP hole, body can'
t report pain/sensory data to the brain and brain can'
t impose coherent order upon the body.
BingoBoingo: Because deep in the k-hole you can'
t fire signals to move around. That deep in PCP that body runs blind
mircea_popescu: you don'
t hear reports about keto hipsters throwing fire trucks at airplanes.
BingoBoingo: Huh, I can'
t seem to see a genericpersona derping in the lawgs
BingoBoingo: Yeah, Idiocracy being cruel doens'
t necessarily mean it is untrue
assbot: My wife didn'
t want to take maternity pictures, so I hired a photographer and took her place... - Imgur
moiety: christ i didn'
t know they would be that much
moiety: i don'
t know when i'm going to get time to do this, is what i'm saying
moiety: I didn'
t say it would be hard
moiety: dub: i said yes when i didn'
t realise it was all the recording as well
jurov: or if you don'
t have the hardware, someone other will do and you'll only voiceover
BingoBoingo: moiety: Well, it won'
t sound like that to other scots at least
moiety: lol XD as long as it doesn'
t sound like i'm saying cunt!
jurov: but i suspect you just can'
t upgrade by restarting
midnightmagic: work out awesome physics problems." "I don'
t trust this guy to trade bitcoins with, he keeps stealing meat off my BBQ when I'm not looking." Or better yet, more narrowly, "I trust this guy, but I don'
t trust his ability to evaluate other peoples' trust."
jurov: <mircea_popescu> jurov: the solution is to not have one global wot for everything << i don'
t see it. << there may be one global, but there will always be plenty of local ones, often with contradicting information