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Thu Jan 08 23:23:46 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> you can't say "clothes are dumb" just because americans are poor and the chinese are mocking them.
Wed Jan 07 18:05:06 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> what atlantic really means is "why are there so few black scammers in bitcoin, because that's all we know about anyway". and the reason couldn't possibly be "because they're just more honest than whitey"
Wed Jan 07 01:58:19 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> the only way to guard against it is, obviously,for the "large" chain to maintain 1:1 identity with the "small" one. because you don't just fork bitcoin.,
Sun Jan 04 18:50:57 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> just... has to cover his bets, because he might be old but he suspects he'll outlive teh muppet show.
Sun Jan 04 06:14:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> and yes, he still hangs around -dev and so forth, just like gmaxwell and the rest of the walking dead. because who knows, maybe someone forgets or something.
Sun Jan 04 00:49:32 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> just like that, they happened to be in the way. because wealth is a sort of rain.
Sat Jan 03 14:46:07 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2014#958151 << lmao too good. "oh b-a is a cult because it points and laugh at us. what's this, something malfunctioning ? no no it's a feature. oh wait, devs actually admit it was a bug ? uhhh... we're just the us agitprop machine, wut."
Sat Jan 03 07:54:32 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "Hey friends, reddit cryptocurrency engineer here. The post is deliberately vague about technology and legal. For one, we're holding back on committing to a particular technology just because the bitcoin world changes very fast, and we want to make sure we pick the right choice. However, almost certainly it will be either colored coins or sidechains."
Sat Jan 03 05:49:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> nevertheless, it won't do anything for the case at hand, because well... dude can just get in the wot, what's the big deal.
Fri Jan 02 23:06:44 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> anyway, there's no "bootstrapping" a monarchy just like there's no training a virgin. a monarchy exists because it exists, if it does. that's all it can do.
Thu Dec 25 21:51:55 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> apparently people do think 100 dollar bills are worth 100 dollars just because they can reliably transmit 100 dollars.
Mon Dec 15 04:28:40 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> no because they're just as good as anyone else!
Mon Dec 08 19:56:41 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Anyone who plans to waste the shareholders' money can undercut the competition. The easiest thing in the world is to charge too little, it is just as easy as spending too much of other people's money. Customers will flock to those who do because they are giving away some, if not all, of the value for free. Somebody may even pick up the underpriced goods and sell them at a profit when the stupid company ceases to ex
Mon Dec 08 15:11:04 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> " Very little overhead - because hardware sales is just a necessary part in this service industry." mkay, very logics in this verbiage.
Wed Dec 03 23:36:54 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform because he was just drunk.
Wed Dec 03 23:11:48 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> just so, these dudes were going there because "el dorado", not because... whatever, empty space.
Wed Dec 03 16:22:26 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> you just... gave a scammer... some of your money. because you're stupid. whole story.
Wed Dec 03 00:20:40 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> this hasn't somehow magicked away just because whoever likes to sell to the gubmint
Mon Dec 01 20:48:14 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> kinda shocking for the idiots at the time, because before i did that, everyone just schmoozied with the scamers
Sun Nov 30 07:02:45 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> "Why? I think there are several reasons. One is that being mean makes you stupid. That's why I hate fights. You never do your best work in a fight, because fights are not sufficiently general. Winning is always a function of the situation and the people involved. You don't win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. And yet fighting is just as much work as thinking ab