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mircea_popescu: we don'
t want that, so, unless she's pretty, she's screwed. (otherwise, she's fucked).
mircea_popescu: so here's the scoop : if we don'
t kill the ugly ones, they will slowly multiply and take over.
mircea_popescu: the world isn'
t structured so as to make it possible for you to survive.
ughlol: I can'
t understand how investors dont understand that a two man team can'
t make a very great app, not in the desired timeframe. They say that they'll invest when they see a prototype.
Neil: ThickAsThieves: b.
t.w. with you on your discussion of 16hrs ago that I had to abandon for work
Neil: Fscking Japanese pension system - they lost the records of 20 million people FFS. And then local govt employees were found pocketing money because the records were so inadequate they just could. You can'
t make something disappear from the block chain. Guy got up and walked off.
mircea_popescu: which i don'
t know because you just dropped here and started talking randomly.
ughlol: Half year? Im sorry, I don'
t understand.
Neil: Dude, who works for a media company, says "but bitcoin's not stable. Not robust. I worry about ... " and I'm thinking "WTF are you talking about? I can hardly imagine anything more stable/robust". I don'
t think I can relate on the same level any more. Too many people want "authority" to tell them what to do / think.
mircea_popescu: i dun see much future in the us, let alone any magic manifest destiny sort of future. then again, im not from there and ostensibly don'
t much care.
mircea_popescu: Neil beliefs and experiences aren'
t telling the whole story.
Neil: mp: I don'
t understand your point. Deeply held beliefs that are not handed down to you must have been formed by life experiences, I suspect.
Neil: jurov: well I realized about 3 years ago that all I'd been told about money (which was almost nothing - an amazing and likely deliberate gap of the education system) didn'
t make any sense. And I wanted to understand money. Started reading, and 6 months later find bitcoin (2011) and think wow, and then many things all became a lot clearer. Perhaps I'm slow, but in most things I'm not. Just never had really been given the right
mircea_popescu: but this doesn'
t excuse me from having to pick them first.
mircea_popescu: TomServo the guy is definitely more worthy of being read, on a ROP basis, than pretty much any economics professor. and he doesn'
t even charge.
Neil: mp: don'
t understand how your qn relates
Neil: It's interesting how people believe automation will eliminate their ability to do anything. But it's clear that people always want something more - that's the nature of being human after all. So there is always demand for more products / services. Why isn'
t that obvious?
mircea_popescu: so this put them in this strange position whereby even if they wanted to, they couldn'
t do anything.
mircea_popescu: which is why we don'
t want more "adoption". we want more actual penetration. get off your ass do something, cause it ain'
t gonna do itself.
BingoBoingo: Well, if I am my own ISP that would suck wouldn'
t it...
BingoBoingo: No, they don'
t do some kinds of those in some jurisdictions
artifexd: And if it isn'
t available for streaming, just about everything available via torrent is available via nntp
BingoBoingo: I watch streaming shit. If stuff isn'
t on Hulu I'll watch it somewhere else.
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: If there isn'
t time for shennanigans, there isn'
t time at all
pizzaman1337: this is just a striptease to see MP's bitcoin dick. We can'
t be impressed without a little build-up.
ThickAsThieves: we're just dancing anyway, i don'
t see any other way to interpret this
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves anyway, it wasn'
t some sort of "omg you're a bad person", it was more of a "why the fuck would you be shy of the world. fuck em."
Neil: Doesn'
t seem to me that came from people betting on bitbet; that's my only point.
Neil: mircea_popescu: Coz you spent a huge output for the big payout on bitbet; it wasn'
t an input to anything plausible on bitbet in its history. So bitbet's wallet it definitely being mixed with something else - yours or mpoe's or ...
pizzaman1337: mircea_popescu: yeah, because in practice it can'
t all be turned into real btc at market rates
Neil: BingoBoingo: MPOE holdings aren'
t BTC.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: Aren'
t his MPOE holdings largely public?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just discussing the more general point. why should you be in their heads ? because you're cool, and they aren'
t./
nubbins`: we just don'
t remember them ;D
nubbins`: haven'
t listened to much pj harvey altho i've got a few friends that are really into her
diametric: I still think its a good thing there is such transaction volume, even if it doesn'
t directly translate to bitcoin being exchanged and moved between people and groups.
diametric: nubbins`: i mean not that i'm a fan of WU or anything, but that doesn'
t really mean anything. I can send coins between wallets all day long and have more transaction volume than WU.
nubbins`: yoga pants aren'
t smell barriers, so i'd say it'd smell the same way yoga classes do now
pLambert: My ancestors moved to the US from Bohemia, now I can'
t find that place on a map!
mircea_popescu: just as long as you don'
t make a lifetime out of it i dun see what it can hurt
pLambert: you could probably have your doctor do it, but I don'
t think you can do it at home
dub: those numbers don'
t come from science
mircea_popescu: judge can order whatever he wants, the bitcoin he can'
t touch
ThickAsThieves: they don'
t need a good reason in the losing party's estimation
blackwhite: You won'
t find a listing for that because no one want to take it unless they are mexicans. It's more or less the same problem around the world
benkay: i don'
t think there's enough 'work' to absorb all the meat that would need to emigrate to empty out the usa.
KRS1: When you go to leave, the checkouts make a beeping sound. When multiplied by 20+ checkout lanes the sound is deafening. The people are low class and aren'
t afraid to show it.
KRS1: its...an experience. Its so big its ridiculous and you can'
t find help. The one where I live sells everything from sardines to tires.
joecool: "top 15 things most americans don'
t know about the tea party"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves they paid for a wsj piece to explain how bitcoin isn'
t as good as gold.
mike_c: haha " After this version, DirectShow was moved to the Windows SDK". the windows devs didn'
t mind having it in their pile of crap
mircea_popescu: basically, the dev in charge of directx didn'
t want the shit in there anymore
mircea_popescu: mike_c nah, wasn'
t part of directx back in like... a decade ago at least
joecool: too bad didn'
t come out after april 15th
HeySteve: shouldn'
t have joined #dogecoin then
jcpham: gay dogs porn was something i didn'
t entirely want to see today
mircea_popescu: artifexd perhaps because it's the only one that satisfies some other criteria we don'
t know about.
artifexd: I don'
t argue with what your saying. I would instead say that this particular manner of attack would be monumentally stupid in the case of bitcoin.
artifexd: If we assume that md5 is a "good" hash function, then how much data you put into it doesn'
t have any bearing on what you get out of it. Thus the first character remains, essentially, random regardless of whether the input is 200 bytes or 200 megabytes.
artifexd: Solidifying a group of tx into a block doesn'
t provide security in the same sense that 100 twigs in a bundle are stronger than 100 twigs seperately. It provide security in providing a stable time reference for when tx happened. Completely different domains.
artifexd: I'm fairly well versed in block/transaction/hash/etc mechanics and I am trying to wrap your metaphore around that structure. It doesn'
t make sense. I normally have a high amount of respect for what you say. In this case though, I think you're wrong. Or, I don'
t understand the variety and thus need more lurking.
mircea_popescu: buffett explains quite eminently why he doesn'
t want an accessibility of his stock in material linked yest
Neil: These things should be chosen by the market, just like fees. I doubt we'll get blocks much bigger than 1MB for a long time to come, even if there weren'
t a limit now.
Neil: Can'
t argue with that.
Neil: I don'
t know, it's my belief.
Neil: Well I believe the block size will increase. But also with say ~1k txns per 1MB block, I don'
t see people paying an average fee of 0.0013 BTC. Especially as I expect BTC to be significantly higher than today.
Neil: mircea_popescu: No way in 2016... I don'
t see blocks with 12.5 BTC fees, and certainly not at 1MB
Neil: ThickAsThieves: Didn'
t realize it was your bet :)#
mircea_popescu: Neil: I'm definitely in the top 3 bettors on bitbet; wouldn'
t be surprised if #1 by amt of BTC bet. Scary. << how much is that ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Chris_Sabian i wouldn'
t be too worried about it. 2013 made bitcoin, it's a cut deal.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c he has good points on the topic. then people wonder why he wasn'
t ever a topic of study by acaemia. which academia, the one that subsits on ex hedge fund manager alumni bequests ?
cazalla: i can'
t remember the article but it mentioned idiots who happened across bitcoin and made some money
cazalla: i learned that i shouldn'
t try to chug champagne from the bottle
Neil: Wouldn'
t say no if we happen to meet one day :)
Neil: But I don'
t use 1 address
Neil: I'm definitely in the top 3 bettors on bitbet; wouldn'
t be surprised if #1 by amt of BTC bet. Scary.
btcinmypocket: Neil: Well, that data was provided by someone(s) who had the lack of ethics to include bitcoin stealing trojans in with the publication, so I don'
t doubt you have finding problem with the records. I would expect that they would mess with a bit if there is incentive.
Neil: Karpeles seems to have been a complete fuckwit who just didn'
t take anything seriously; least of all other people's money. Assuming there wasn'
t fraud.
Neil: Some of my old transactions could be found on that web page that was put up, but some weren'
t there either. Very odd.
cazalla: if it was obvious to me at that point, i don'
t doubt smarter people bailed long before that
Neil: Doesn'
t need much of a pause to get there
cazalla: didn'
t think it would stay under 10%
the20year2: When I got into real estate, i didn'
t believe the statistic they told agents. So, I individually tracked dozens of properties in my area that were listed without realtors, vs those listed with them
the20year2: I don'
t know how many foreclosed houses I've been in that were 2nd time foreclosures in a 3-5 year period where the buyer had bought a foreclosure in the hopes of doing it themselves, then never completing repairs
the20year2: for a owner occupant, they don'
t want to lend on a property that might have $5k in repairs, or $15k