mircea_popescu: that's a new one.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2016#1434528 << you thought wrong. a bunch of nobodies declared idiocies about things in their head, generally on reddit/medium/wherever they gather. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "• It spends it on a bunch of aircraft carrier groups. These are very useful for launching attacks on defenseless countries. But it is very important to keep these aircraft carriers outside of conflict zones that may involve China or Russia, or even Iran, because each of these countries has several cost-effective ways to destroy an aircraft carrier: ballistic missiles, supersonic cruise missiles and supersonic torped

mircea_popescu: if a box goes down trying to figure wtf takes 10x to 100x longer than it takes t oboot

mircea_popescu discovers that he can't rightly say what fedora even is. is it what, a distro ? some sort of centos ?

mircea_popescu: of course - a bee can kill a man, if it's the right bee and the right man.

mircea_popescu: rarely was i so happy to hear of a monk's demise.

mircea_popescu: (ever wondered, btw, why some men favour ugly, unattractive women ? the freudian explanation is exactly above - they seek to reunite with mother, in which case sexual appeal is a hindrance not an asset.)

mircea_popescu: ethics (ie, the mechanism to answer "what should i do") is a very severely limited science.

mircea_popescu: these are as far as i've seen the two mindbugs of the republic : a) A -> B therefore B-> A, ie backflow ; and b) the above.

mircea_popescu: but look at the jump : 1) unexplained item can be explained by a or b ; 2) it's a b-olympics!

mircea_popescu: what is this. mayhap the explanation isn't that mp lives in a heat-death immune dirigible (upgraded from atomic) but simply... does not care ?

mircea_popescu: later finding herself at a good time for such, inquires why parts were shiny ?

mircea_popescu: non-closedness of a system is an accounting fiction.

mircea_popescu: the whole deal was something like "and lee sedol will now play the whole nation of china - elect a representative, or two, or whatever. the go competence of the entire han race is being judged"

mircea_popescu: machine is not a thing in the sense here contemplated.

mircea_popescu: teh dsc sounds like a pretty kickass patron deity, thinking about it.

mircea_popescu: actually that's a great name for the temple for this here cult,

mircea_popescu: everyone's a diogenes of a single candle.

mircea_popescu: you think like the man of a single woman.

mircea_popescu: "on the basis of the leaks coming from the invisible aircraft we have learned that it is a duck."

mircea_popescu: or, in the words of the ballas master, " 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..."

mircea_popescu: it is a really hard thing to pass.

mircea_popescu: except for a very poorly defined, mostly felt notion of "anonimity"

mircea_popescu: well... by some standard a brick is a computer, so sure.

mircea_popescu: "Fix the motherfucking code before you have to be fired. To recap : a. If I want to make 1 Mb txs I make 1 Mb txs ; b. correct inputs are selected to feed the outputs as if a human or better was doing the selecting." << also march, as fate would have it.

mircea_popescu: my sister killed more than these by being a kid and accidentally stepping on their heads than i can recall.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but i never had a whole fucking chicken << seriously ?!

mircea_popescu: so tell me, as a curio : what is the correct accounting for "city having subway" in the books of a donut shop at the corner of 85th and 10th ?

mircea_popescu: "no subway, no travel - i don't own a 1/100000 of the 100`000 spare car meta-pool, nor do i have anything to do that'd justify it."

mircea_popescu: in the same vein, mihai margineanu playing atm, just went "whenever you ask a question you don't expect answered ; why are you surprised when you get an answer you didn't expect".

mircea_popescu: "if you meet a derpy teenager with whispy "beard" hair, onanistic odours wafting every which way who can'tstop prattlingabout his erotic exploits...

mircea_popescu: A student asked Master Yun-Men (A.D. 949) "Not even a thought has arisen; is there still a sin or not?" Master replied, "Mount Sumeru!"

mircea_popescu: but yes, that's the major problem of murder : a private act with major public effects. pretty major conundrum.