Anyone want to place bets on what the cat would think? LOL.
O.k. I will bite.. but maybe not place any bets.
Wise investment strategy: TA predicts that I would win such a bet. ;-)
My quick perusal through your response seems to show that my initial thoughts were correct: namely, that Lauda would not be receptive to shitcoin pumpenings.
By the way, I am thinking that kitty, kitty is NOT very favorably disposed towards any kinds of shitcoin pumpenings.. just a hunch.
I myself was once raked bloody with sharp claws for my having started in Zcash. I was left pleading that it’s made by Real Cryptographers, that my crypto-idols
Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille had cordially collaborated with Zcash people on some zero-knowledge cryptography stuff (
on the Bitcoin blockchain), that Peter Todd was one of the trusted parties in the original Zcash Trusted Setup (per the
blog post that he repudiated and defaced (
archival link) when he unleashed a
tweetstorm against Zcash), etc., etc. At least technology-wise, it is not a typical shitcoin!
The cat’s reply:
Hiss.Lauda is a Maximal Maximalist.
My personal experience HODLing Zcash :-(, plus their horrid handling of
an unlimited inflation bug, their backpedalling on their promise to prioritize ASIC-resistance (just when XMR started fighting hard there), and many other stupidities, indicate that
Zcash is an atypical shitcoin. Technology alone does not produce the
Bitcoin Social Phenomenon; and worse is good technology poorly executed. I still say that Zcash is one of the best altcoins; but that is damning with faint praise: Just saying that it has innovative technology instead of being a dumb clone of Bitcoin sources, and it’s not an outright scam.
Kitty: 1; Nully: NULL.I don't recall ever getting caught in the cross hairs of kitty, kitty, but I do not tend to praise any shitcoins either or even to attempt to rank them as "less bad" shitcoins. So, perhaps, some of my ideology happens to line up with the cat's, even though I would not proclaim to understand some of her mysterious ways... which also seem to be true with a large number of cats, including trying to spot them in the forest.
Hmmm. Laura has been addressing me as “Nully”, which seems quite close to the grammatically correct Latin vocative.
Does the cat speak enciphered Latin?Whilst travelling on business in Carpathia,
I doxed Lauda:
I suppose that it could be true that the cat knows some latin.
I am thinking that a decent number of peeps in this particular thread do not give as many as two shits about what the cat thinks,
Though your point is well-taken, my mention of Lauda
was a one-line off-hand remark about someone whom I am honoured to consider my friend, amidst a post about some WO regulars.
Furthermore, I am thinking that the cat does not give
any shits about what those particular peeps think. As for me—eh. I am not a cat: I am a man.
Upon his arrival in Latium, Aeneas, blessed for victory by his goddess-of-sex mother, won himself a wife the old-fashioned way: Killing his rival. He then became the Latin king.
Protip: When a nice guy wants a princess, he buys her diamonds—
#ToxicMasculinity ♂ #MakeLoveNotWar ♂ #CodeOfConduct
Surely kitty cat participates in WO thread from time to time, and mostly, I tend to appreciate her perspectives and just her dropping in from time to time.
Regarding, your being a man, sure that seems to be my recollection with some of your seemingly manly lapses in judgement in connection with drama queen, alia.... and maybe some of her (its) various enticement renditions... hahahahahahha
I personally will toast you on that: Some of the trolls in Reputation perpetually accuse me of being Lauda’s alt. I take that as a compliment, for I compete with her for the title of
most principled and uncompromising. :-)
It takes all types here... I mean ultimately each of us have to live with ourselves and also decide how far to go with various battles, if our actions turn into battles.
As for philosophy, although the discussion itself is as ancient as organized society, I believe that perhaps the relevant reference would be Machiavelli—who actually said that it is easier to rule by being feared, but more powerful to rule by being loved.
Surely, I did not necessarily mean to suggest that she is always correct with her philosophy, but in the end, I am exaggerating a bit anyhow because I am fairly certain that even kitty, kitty has some needs and desires to be loved... hopefully.
I love Lauda (don’t take that the wrong way: our relation is amicably professional). So do many others. And is she fearsome? Frankly, I love the cat because she’s not a pussy (so to speak).
I have her on my trust list for a reason.. and of course, i had gotten a decent amount of slack for that.
All good things must be dangerous, and therefore widely feared and hated: As fire and Lightning, mathematics and cryptography,
freedom, and Bitcoin itself.
I suppose there is some balancing between a tool such as bitcoin and the humanity aspects of people, so I would not be inclined to suggest that people strive towards having bitcoin characteristics.
In keeping with my (in)famous “theme” of quoting things that will upset idiots less if left untranslated:Hier ist der Herd für die Entstehung jenes berühmten Gegensatzes „gut“ und „böse“: — in’s Böse wird die Macht und Gefährlichkeit hinein empfunden, eine gewisse Furchtbarkeit, Feinheit und Stärke, welche die Verachtung nicht aufkommen lässt. Nach der Sklaven-Moral erregt also der „Böse“ Furcht; nach der Herren-Moral ist es gerade der „Gute“, der Furcht erregt und erregen will, während der „schlechte“ Mensch als der verächtliche empfunden wird.
Surely, over my head.
and some folks here hate that fury beast.
I know. ;-)
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Man you talk about lauda an awfull lot..
http://HowManyTimesHasNulliusPostedLaudaToday.tk/ ??
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I also find it very funny that you try to come off as some cypherpunk anonymous anarchistic idealist but can't stop blabbering you unwavering support of
the greatest current authoritarian threat who would crush the liberty you portray to protect..Shit don't add up bro..
I am not particularly inclined to take up an extended discussion about this here in WO. But you see, I have been running far behind in my quota for talking about
Lauda: The cypherpunk nym who is so powerful that she is a greater threat to liberty than governments, banks, and all the armies of the world combined!Such wow.It seems to be good that you appreciate her work. Largely, I appreciate it also, but I have seen her fly off the rails a bit too much on a few occasions, but not enough to really cause me any kind of major concern.. especially since it seems to be justified given the level of seemingly nonsense attacks. Ultimately, the forum seems to benefit from her work and the work of peeps like her, but sometimes the forum, also, does not seem to appreciate some of her efforts and contributions.. but at the same time, we cannot always know all of the details and maybe some of the behind the scenes happenings.
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