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mircea_popescu: the sooner he joins the rankls of the roger vers, the better.
mircea_popescu: fucking dickhead brian armstrong. literally, i'd rather look at a picture of an animated penis.
mircea_popescu: curious if the usg is going to actually gather in support of it or just let it go away./
mircea_popescu: anyway, the matter should be chased shinohai ; a good time as any to put a fucking end to that miserable cancer.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is "multisig" got to do with controlling own private keys.
mircea_popescu: "not worth it". an assessment i find difficult to dispute.
mircea_popescu: gotta pump them full of useless crap that doesn't work, instead.
mircea_popescu: as long as the pathogen is included in the organism, the situation is called "infection"
mircea_popescu: ftr, about 2.5 of the world's 7.5bn are infected with tb.
mircea_popescu: the victorian ideal of the phtysic beauty is pretty much === the "feminist" ideal of cosmo & co.
mircea_popescu: EXACT same symptoms. frailty of mind and spirit, a certain antisanguine fleshyness, weakness, palor, you name it
mircea_popescu: (note that whatever you ask you get no less socialism. if someone asked the gurlz if they wanted the job, they'd have said no, they'd prefer to dick around on smartphones, upvoting each other on social media. net result - still tb.)
mircea_popescu: it's not like the mold WANTS to grow in your bathroom.
mircea_popescu: course iirc phf released a patch version including basic theme and pre-tweaked most knobs.
mircea_popescu: not like someone couldn't MAKE one, for that matter. fine way to learn about governance i say.
mircea_popescu: and yeah, i wish it were around too, but i guess we can't have everything.
mircea_popescu: put another way : a) the mecca of "topical fiction" bullshit yields less money than it costs to buy a house, don't bother ; us tort law and practice is the lulz of all time.
mircea_popescu: and in other news : oj simpson may or may not have killed his nonconsensually slutty wife and some schmuck named ronald. that schmuck's family did in fact win a civil award of 33.5 mn. of the sum owed, they collected a few hundred k's, which consist entirely of... the royalties from a ghostwritten book. "if i did it: confessions of the killer".
mircea_popescu: sadly at the time i didn't have a blog, nor truth be told any interest in "the world" generally speaking. so the notes will forever sit.
mircea_popescu: did you for instance know that they mostly died of tuberculosis, which they mostly acquired through the "kiss of death", which was the procedure whereby they'd load the thread in the machine needle kissing it ? "went faster", not to mention female masochism.)
mircea_popescu: (the interested reader is invited to follow my steps through lowell and teh greater merrimack river valley, to dig through the history of 1800s "industrial" culture, ie, large nunneries filled with girlies presented a whole new sort of religion.
mircea_popescu: "if i let bill work remotely he might who knows, fuck his wife! whereas this amd is safe, it'll just sit there."
mircea_popescu: what puritan idiocy is this whereby things may be trusted with human attributes because... what, they reliably won't engage in sins of the flesh ?
mircea_popescu: very strange to me that the same people who fiercely resist employee not showing up for office hours cheerily embrace ... fucking office furniture not showing up.
mircea_popescu: i never quite understood the appeal of "virtualiation".
mircea_popescu: cash is safer than plans, though, in that context (which is a very sensible context i might add).
mircea_popescu: but as a heuristic, "things which will have to be done anyway are best done right now."
mircea_popescu: in this sense tool investment exposes one to a sort of reverse-interest.
mircea_popescu: after 3 years of not having it, what you saved was still the one time cost of having it ; but what you lost is the incremental cost of all the things you didn't get to have
mircea_popescu: but the thing is - if you had it, you couild write your piecve, add value to your life.history and therefore future. if you don't have it - you can't.
mircea_popescu: not like it's going anywhere. however, the important point is that absence of tools actually limits your life in a very drastic manner.
mircea_popescu: anyway, phf stood it up in ten minutes, which i'd expect to be typical, with the occasional alfexception.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, they prolly bought swag, crack and bitcoin for the whole sum already. as per the ancient "borrow all you can, trade the shiatola for proper currency, disappear."
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, the "crypto-contract", fit in head or not, is just an avatar of lazy thinking, much like any amulet. ignorant nonsense and no more.
mircea_popescu: working together, they manage the spoke-in-wheel trick all the time.
mircea_popescu: but irl it happens because on that bike, there isn't ONE person riding. there's two : a bodybuilder with no head pedalling and the brainbox+spinal column of a cubical drone with no flesh.
mircea_popescu: take baltimore lulz last year, for something palpably close. same exact mechanism.
mircea_popescu: or if you prefer, take vietnam war, amply studied (in english, i mean) application of the stupidity. grunts that just wanna get out alive and brass that has "political considerations" results in a resounding military defeat.
mircea_popescu: the intermingling of these results in a billion dollars in cash misplaced in middle east and a hundred million misplaced online.
mircea_popescu: lizards imagine themselves better than bitcoin. the tim swanson error.
mircea_popescu: he just did what was told. inexplicably things happened.
mircea_popescu: he lacks the capacity of ownership much like goat lacks the capacity to sing.
mircea_popescu: epic example of the whole "oh, etherape you say ? i vaguely recall some things which therefore clearly don't matter and also it proves stupidity pays!"
mircea_popescu: apparently "unfair" cuts both ways. what's more, one of them is entirely ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely imagine how much it must burn teh lizards, that the shit stopped working.
mircea_popescu: the boer's country is now forked, the bailout chain being called zimbabwe and the classic chain being unknown anymore.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, where was that imbecile/nobel laureate's quote