mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform had nfi >> you recall, we made a t-shirt design, he agreed to print for a very nice rate, ended up storing them for us.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/#comment-116709 << lose a kingdom, gain another, or how did that go.

mircea_popescu: a well. i shall go out and have some myself.

mircea_popescu: +5 lbs guaranteed over a week, 96% or more from icecream.

mircea_popescu: so send the pet over on a btc-fueled joyride.

mircea_popescu: heck, you could come over for a spell.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "The anger of the base directed at anything: socialism, political correctness, brown people, etc; which they feel is giving them an unfair shake. This demographic also carries a substantial number of people among them who have traits that make them readily victimized for con artists." missing a verb, no idea what's going on at the end and prolly 50% too many words

mircea_popescu: well yes, in principle anyone left holding "a very slow, unreliable and expensive visa run by idiots" is definitionally a bagholder.

mircea_popescu: engineering consistently presents management with two options : a) either shit takes forever or b) well now there's no pistol.

mircea_popescu: mod6 even if - and consider i'm speaking of a purely cartoon view of reality, merely for illustration purposes - even if trbf "misses the boat" and instead dilligently focuses on fixing satoshi code, and three years later the "winner" of july competition falls on sword that trbf actually fouind and fixed, the relative position of trbf in the world has not suffered one iota.

mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure we actually took a single walk around the whole item

mircea_popescu: it had a failure mode that was known forever. so ?

mircea_popescu: how is feb 5th differfent from march 5th ? there's a pile of shitty code implementing sort-of kinda badly a concept, that's being extracted to light.

mircea_popescu: (i'm not porposing you have a lot - merely poking fun at the rounding process you prolly use regardless)

mircea_popescu: this particular system, for instance, i've been running for a while now on a half dozen long etc hosts, i don't even notice.

mircea_popescu: why the fuck did you imagine the various items and pillars to build a coherent world-envelloping system come to me so easily ? i'm not coming up with fucking wot-economy and pgp-corporations and all this de novo, i'm just applying to pre-existing items!

mircea_popescu: without these things ~free world accessible to arbitrary $fortune~ is a dream.

mircea_popescu: sound money can at best be a practical foundation.

mircea_popescu: in general "what to do" has been a foremost topic in everyone's head for days now, i would imagine.

mircea_popescu: we at the very least achieve a very useful head of a mongoloid on a stick for the education of future retarded children of (principally) asian mothers,

mircea_popescu: but anyway - there's a substantial difference between the degree of brokedness bitcoin experienced between 2010 and about 2013ish, where imbecile independent miners nevertheless gave their vote blank to "pool" operators (mcuh like idiot shareholders let the various brokers to vote for them)

mircea_popescu: ah, that post was made in a happier time, a more innocent time.

mircea_popescu: nobody in the us has done a spot of work in about fifty years.

mircea_popescu: it ended, long ago, various 2nd hand leaders a la putin now and again go to kick the once-great, currently ridiculous loser.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose it's absolutely obvious and entirely uncontroversial that a bitcoin with cartel-mining is entirely uninteresting to everyone.

mircea_popescu: mod6 because more or less then, it'll be a case of "well... what does everyone use ?"

mircea_popescu: now imagine what other incredibly dumb shit they imagine is a good idea for crying out loud.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo imagine someone somewhere thinking this is a good idea.

mircea_popescu: hopefully some hicks from missouri capture you and i can hear all about the ozarks supremacy for a while.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btc cartel is a bunch of dudes with some technical ability and no clue generally.

mircea_popescu: if whatever you're doing is threatened by a government, you're either very stupid or very lazy.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (because there is no satisfactory way of bootstrapping any alt.) << in principle a ~WELL DESIGNED~ alt with a ~WELL CHOSEN~ pow would work quite well.

mircea_popescu: anyway, ftr, re ben_vulpes link (not that i've read it or intend to read random derpage from nobodies on topics) - years ago protecting miner investment made sense as a topic.