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mircea_popescu: which is a cognate of both why regulation can'
t resolve market problems and why "self enforcing contracts" are nonsense.
greenspan_fan: I don'
t know whether my reasoning was correct or if other factors decided things
greenspan_fan: insofar as I can'
t sample all possible histories after the fact
mircea_popescu: sure greenspan_fan you can think whatever you wish. but that doesn'
t resolve your decidability dilemma.
mircea_popescu: and similarly as you can'
t here, you generally can'
t anywhere else.
mircea_popescu: well why wouldn'
t it be ? maybe it was. maybe i can read the future in uvulas.
mircea_popescu: and if i had, we wouldn'
t know if the disclosure was complete,
mike_c: he didn'
t predict it, he announced it :)
greenspan_fan: wasn'
t that the basis of your predicting mt gox's failure, though?
mircea_popescu: this doesn'
t change the fact that all the other subgroups of the subgroup each had their own pipe dreams
mircea_popescu: you still don'
t have that sort of privileged relationship with reality that'd allow you to turn an is into a should.
mircea_popescu: this'd be more of the berkely approach. who said i don'
t try ?
greenspan_fan: I am not sure how you can live if you don'
t try to understand the world around you
mircea_popescu: all i'm saying is that you don'
t really have the priviledged relationship to it you readily grant yourself.
mircea_popescu: any nonsense can meet in your head, that doesn'
t matter all that much.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu I don'
t really understand that, though. Are you saying that human decisions are too complicated to analyze after the fact?
wbaw: and didn'
t napoleon lose?
greenspan_fan: And wasn'
t it barras who was jockeying for position w/ napoleon?
Duffer1: define success - he successfully scammed a lot of people, TaT didn'
t mircea_popescu: philippe egalite didn'
t end up the head of the french republic. napoleon did.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you don'
t draw any inference from it, you may continue to think so.
greenspan_fan: weren'
t you arguing the other day that they're still there regardless?
mircea_popescu: in fact, matrices aren'
t even there. and besides they could never be small enough to fit.
mircea_popescu: if i don'
t find the coal over here i'll find it over there
greenspan_fan: because you wouldn'
t be part of that mass if you had real agency
greenspan_fan: but it's irrelevant because most of the money isn'
t in the hands of those people
greenspan_fan: you can either have the most money or you can have the loudest megaphone, but if you don'
t have one one of those then it doesn'
t matter what you think
mircea_popescu: "Marching gets our message out." No it doesn'
t, it gets CNN's message out. "We don'
t watch CNN, we use the internet." Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and...
greenspan_fan: "So I decided to try again, I told myself that there was going to be porn at the end of it, took off my pants, and watched. No, I didn'
t go back to the theatre; fortunately, the major studios have joined together and created a website called "The Pirate Bay" which allows you to watch a movie for free before you decide if you want to buy it from Amazon for 4 bucks"
greenspan_fan: on the off chance you haven'
t read those particular ones
mircea_popescu: "The government allows it because someone has to deal with those "patients." The government doesn'
t any other options. "
mircea_popescu: soviets couldn'
t have fucking done it for lack of you know, tv. internet. roads. stuff.
mircea_popescu: e Man (but with no pension.) That's the system. Cut SSI payments and those docs-- and nurses and etc-- don'
t get paid.
mircea_popescu: works before you spew nonsense to your local Fox affiliate. "Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of a bitch, why didn'
t I think of that.
mircea_popescu: I'm guessing that this probably upsets people, on both sides of an imaginary political divide that only took 40 years to perfect. Thanks TV! Certainly I have my own opinions, but it doesn'
t matter what I think, what matters is what is. This is the system. If you think you can effect a huge social overhaul then feel free to vote for Hope And Change and ongoing Afghanistan deployments, otherwise understand how it
jurov: ah that isn'
t pympex
nubbins`: phun phact: DXM is just as effective in pill form as it is in syrup form, and pills don'
t taste like goat anus; syrups are popular because people feel that having their throat coated with the shit means it works better
Duffer1: "This is why you can'
t have nice things. Ever." maybe PR? lol
mircea_popescu: basically... if you can you must. the us will include ritalin in water if it doesn'
t fucking collapse first.
mircea_popescu: or else i actually am in which case the post won'
t last long
mircea_popescu: is the theory therein contemplated that the post won'
t last long because of how close I BELIEVE myself to the higher echelons blabla ?
mircea_popescu: "Due to the real identity of these troll accounts belonging to Mircea Popescu and how close he believes himself to be to the higher echelons of Bitcoin including the Mods/Admins of this forum, i don'
t believe this post to last long."
Duffer1: i can'
t imagine the amount of resources it would take
dexX7: "nah i won'
t tell" or "nah, i was not"?
mircea_popescu: before that some ny state guy is trying to get it licensed and the acct office said it can'
t,
mircea_popescu: water, proably. a more awkward thing i don'
t remember.
BingoBoingo: chatquack: Maybe, official story is prolongued DDoS, wouldn'
t be their first
mircea_popescu: "your honor, clearly we're winning by losing over here, wouldn'
t you agree"
mircea_popescu: fraud is a crime in romania, this wasn'
t too hard to prove really
nubbins`: anyway, point is that if the usa wants to extradite someone from a foreign country and provides even a tenuous reason for doing so, there's no reason to think said country won'
t comply
Korbman: or else I wouldn'
t be on here haha :P
Korbman: Duffer1: there wasn'
t any explicit indication that it was to be private
Korbman: mike_c: seemed that way, but they didn'
t divulge much on what's going on
Korbman: on HL, yes, but it wasn'
t about me they wanted to talk about
benkay: yeah gosh doesn'
t she know bitcoin is a people power movement?
benkay: no but wait she doesn'
t matter we must consult the forumoracles
benkay: Apocalyptic: of course, saying "you don'
t deserve your coins" yields a quick ticket to the edge of the desert
nubbins`: do they even have a product? i can'
t find it amongst all the SHARK TANK logos
nubbins`: anyway, pankkake might argue that i don'
t speak "french" at all
bitcoinpete: Maybe I didn'
t need to mention Neo… but it's been hyped enough of late. Makes the article seem up with the times.
mircea_popescu: can'
t you make it so unrecognised characters are just stripped out ?
mircea_popescu: that is the thing i was commenting about and doesn'
t show up in the log!
mircea_popescu: this is fucking ridiculous, x doesn'
t have any isolation
nubbins`: meantime, i need to figure out why my keyboard input doesn'
t get redirected to the gui