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nockermensch
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Post by nockermensch » Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:13 pm

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/20 ... -implodes/
@ @ Nockermensch

> Koumei wrote:After all, in Firefox you keep tabs in your browser, but in SovietPutin's Russia, browser keeps tabs on you.

> Mord wrote:Chromatic Wolves are massively under-CRed. Its "Dood to stone" spell-like is a TPK waiting to happen if you run into it before anyone in the party has Dance of Sack or Shield of Farts.

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Koumei
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Post by Koumei » Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:53 pm

I'm pretty sure that's the long-awaited punchline to the joke that is Bitcoin.
It would explain the laughter, anyway.

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.

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Kaelik
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Post by Kaelik » Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:08 pm

Yeah, I personally love that someone decided to just set up a price difference so that people would literally buy bitcoins from other people and sell them to mt gox, and then, low a behold, they just aren't going to pay out.
It is almost like, and this is hilarious, not having guys with guns who enforce fair transactions is a bug and not a feature.

> DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?

The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
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Post by name_here » Tue Feb 25, 2014 3:35 pm

And thus a very important lesson is demonstrated about computer science: it doesn't matter how good your proof of security is if you fuck up your implementation.

> DSMatticus wrote:It's not just that everything you say is stupid, but that they are Gordian knots of stupid that leave me completely bewildered as to where to even begin. After hearing you speak Alexander the Great would stab you and triumphantly declare the puzzle solved.

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Koumei
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Post by Koumei » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:11 am

http://buttcoin.org/silk-road-replaceme ... free-coins
Meanwhile, Denmark says "No, it's not money, the difference is if you steal it nobody gives a shit", the US says "It's not money, it's taxable property - enjoy the worst of both worlds, suckers", and most people say "It's not money, it's a symptom of mental illness".

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.

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Post by erik » Wed Mar 26, 2014 12:12 pm

This is perfect.
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Maj
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Post by Maj » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:12 pm

I really want to add another circle onto that and say People who know nothing about the government.
My son makes me laugh. Maybe he'll make you laugh, too.
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Post by schpeelah » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:41 pm

> erik wrote:This is perfect.

I thought Bitcoin was people who know too much about math and cryptography but nothing about how money works?
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Post by John Magnum » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:27 pm

Maybe its designers and initial implementers, but the biggest Bitcoin boosters don't know shit about math. Any time they try to tell you that it's not fiat, it's "backed by math", or something? That's people who know nothing about math but like invoking it as a talisman of scientificity and objectivity and impartiality.
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Koumei
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Post by Koumei » Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:49 am

THE FUTURE!

> Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.

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