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Vexual: i think i can'
t , and dont
mircea_popescu: either they are in fact intelligent but it has nothing to do with the shameful stupidity of communism, much like beethoven probably farted but this isn;
t normally mentioned
greenspan_fan: cf. zizek, who I can'
t really slot into one of the above groups
greenspan_fan: but there's also the people who don'
t respond to any sort of abstract counterargument
greenspan_fan: on one hand, there are the people who just don'
t learn from experience
mircea_popescu: communism is like cancer : at the very most it allows the fucked to appreciate how great it'd have been if they weren'
t so fucked.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu I don'
t really get the "infinite hitpoints" thing
Vexual: i expect dreadlocked hippies living in a squat isn'
t the same
greenspan_fan: it just doesn'
t seem like enough to point out how it goes the same way every time
B007: greenspan_fan: I mean I don'
t know exactly how much he makes
mircea_popescu: davout i wouldn'
t particularly mind having this to hold over taleb.
davout: don'
t give dem coins away
greenspan_fan: my impression was that they're past the point of being a functioning business since they're not bothering to update/answer customers, and one of the public facing parts of their business (twitter) hasn'
t been updated and what is there is embarrassing, since, like a month ago
greenspan_fan: the fact that it isn'
t (and assuming it's possible to trade in any volume) means that you'd be selling/buying from people who clearly don'
t know as much as you do
mircea_popescu: before it had to fucking invade. and they likely wouldn'
t have cared to find out.
mircea_popescu: a russian officer makes the point that most of the russian soldiers didn'
t even know wtf germany is
greenspan_fan: but for nixon it wasn'
t from a position of supplication
mircea_popescu: " I was pretty amazed that he went for it. He flat out said that he wants his film to be funded and wasn'
t sure if it'd be possible after all of his, and I replied that it realistically wasn'
t going to happen without the say-so of someone like me, and I wasn'
t inclined to give some producer the nod on this. "
greenspan_fan: political considerations (can'
t do much if other democrats can'
t get elected). Which is the price you pay for living in an egalitarian society.
mircea_popescu: arguably clinton was a lot better than the lot of them, but hey. he didn;
t in the end have the balls to come out and say "i am the president. i fuck whoever i want whenever i want in whatever manner i feel like. get lost twerps"
greenspan_fan: i'd still say that the u.s. could project more power but doesn'
t because the world is too complicated. Something might be a good idea tactically but terrible strategically, etc.
mircea_popescu: somehow it wasn'
t a north vietnamese that leaked the homemade porn of the fucktarded "supreme leader"
mircea_popescu: no, it wouldn'
t be. he'd just be stripped naked and anally raped with a pole for public amusement.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu: I don'
t understand-- why more benefits? why unsustainable?
decimation: In old Japan, it wasn'
t illegal to be an asshole. It wasn'
t even illegal to be an asshole to a samurai. But it was illegal to be an asshole to a samurai - if you weren'
t a samurai. See how it works? You might say the samurai were a sort of protected class. A system not at all unique to old Japan. Always and everywhere, "microaggressing" against the protected class is hazardous to your health.
BingoBoingo: It doesn'
t even have the history to be religion.
BingoBoingo: The Alma mater couldn'
t do it. Maybe this woman who turned tits into a rocket can.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well he started with two other noobs. One had sense to quit hours after my blog post. The other didn'
t quit until a few weeks ago. The one unfortunately stuck with the forum handle has sent me so much angry correspondence.
mircea_popescu: well wouldn'
t a car which also sucks your cock be naturally more expensive than one that doesn'
t ?
mircea_popescu: it could just as well show that the pedestrian definition of "physical" isn'
t really as important as we thought.
decimation: bitcoin teaches that the valuable part of the gold coin isn'
t the physical coin but merely the information it conveys
mircea_popescu: i don'
t know the guy well enough to discern da fuck he's thinking under n layers of public communication bs
mircea_popescu: "you'll find the east indies, you just don'
t know where".
decimation: why didn'
t the 1000 BC Chinese sail to the new world and scap some Indians?
mircea_popescu: proofines = the quality of something which isn'
t proven but you'd like it to be.
mircea_popescu: because they mostly don'
t exist standalone because people in gaming need and so make them
mircea_popescu: decimation because satoshi didn'
t understand udp and couldn' find any libraries.
decimation: what I don'
t understand is why bitcoin network code uses TCP, yet includes optimization hacks to try to improve performance. Why not manage things properly at the application layer with UDP?
decimation: "Smoking tobacco is losing so it seems reasonable to ban smoking it even in your own car while driving through a brushfire zone. Smoking marijuana is winning, so it doesn'
t seem like the ban on smoking in Laurel Canyon applies to dope."
mircea_popescu: after paypal offers transparent exchanging into and from bitcoin to anyone with a paypal account we won'
t even KNOW what the exchange rate is anymore.
the20year: i think it could be good for worldwide acceptance, but won'
t displace many
BingoBoingo: I don'
t know if Paypal can make the jump from holding nothing of value on their servers to holding numbers of extreme value.
mircea_popescu: "I agree with his final point. We've done the technical approach. It was a good effort, but if the theorising (I'm assuming that a lot of this is theorising?) is true, we can'
t build our way out of this problem. We have to shut down organisations and programmes like this by bringing them to the light of day, and the only approach to that is political."
Jere_Jones: I think I may be a tard. I am certain that I was a tard. I don'
t want to be a tard in the future.
Jere_Jones: By recognizing that one is a tard? Isn'
t that the first step to nontardism?
mircea_popescu: i mean i don'
t mind telling people what to do, but i'm kind-of partial to telling them to do that which can be done.
Jere_Jones: mircea_popescu Maybe add a part at the end of your latest post about not being a tard. "Steer clear of all tards. Don'
t be a tard. That is all."
ThickAsThieves: Asked why the company hadn'
t addressed customers' concern sooner, Mr. Karpelès responded in an email interview with The Wall Street Journal on Monday: "I assume you refer to the malleability issue. We sincerely apologize for this incident; however, please understand that we are NOT the developers of Bitcoin." He added, "We are very surprised that anyone could fault MtGox instead of
mircea_popescu: anyway kakobrekla you just don'
t understand the range of my interests!
davout: kakobrekla doesn'
t get fooled into sex that easily
KRS-One: mircea_popescu: there sure isnt any I.
T. here in Florida..I've got to get my ass to California at some point.
ThickAsThieves: so the US residents active in this channel are majority floridian? that can'
t be
KRS-One: ThickAsThieves same here..sucks for I.
T. I'm in south FL, aka little "New York"
deadweasel: KRS-One, if they had it all, they wouldn'
t be selling pill illegally?
pankkake: ThickAsThieves: I think "it's a secret" - forums are down so can'
t check
mircea_popescu: yet somehow dt magically doesn'
t understand what (one of) the appeal of mpex is.
mircea_popescu: "hei guise, wouldn'
t it be cool if ketchup and mustard came in the same bottle ?"
bones`: blah blah Edison, 1000 ways a lightbulb doesn'
t work
Jere_Jones: If I believe that I am incompetent, I won'
t act until I believe that I am, at least minimally, competent. Always thinking that I am totally incompetent would lead to paralysis. At some point I have to open up the editor and lay code down or I am useless.
Jere_Jones: Why can'
t I say "I am not competent to create X. I must improve."?
deadweasel: i'm just saying since we don'
t know the final outcome, assuming it ends at death is a big jump.
mircea_popescu: doesn'
t depend on anything, if it isn'
t it couldn'
t possibly cause.
deadweasel: you don'
t eat you die, happens all the time.
deadweasel: ThickAsThieves: i'm just saying that the ignorance itself doesn'
t lead to comptence
mircea_popescu: and speaking of magical php, any language out there which isn'
t served enough by 3 and has 4 or more ?
pankkake: the entire alt community wouldn'
t exist without pump and dumps