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mircea_popescu: don't tell me these idiocies DO actually die eventually.
mircea_popescu: it's been around almost as long as "colored coins", which incidentally, where the fuck did those go.
mircea_popescu: in similar autoimmune-disorders-that-destroyed-countries, stalin wiped the russian mob ; inexplicably hruscev couldn't get the economy going, not ever again.
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking scary thing there - he got all the good jews, leaving some shitty jews to fill the void. it's ~exactly what the usg did to the us : killed the competent mobsters, now there's inexplicable problems.
mircea_popescu: but by all means, keep pretendin' you're in control, twerps.
mircea_popescu: right. amusing how they carefully omit the only thing that matters in that sentence, the expression "YET ANOTHER" right before "model".
mircea_popescu: isn't it supposed to ding when your stealthoast is ready ?
mircea_popescu: the reason there isn't a "the northrop derpmann of toasters" is just that happenstance.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the disadvantage of making popular things is that you become part of the "X like Y" mill.
mircea_popescu: a man reportedly called 911 and when a police officer arrive at the << arrived
mircea_popescu: "suggesting that they may correspond to shitty DSL modems" << which may translate to shitty DSL modems
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "while working of a dump " << working off ? on ?
mircea_popescu: they can follow sixteen bodies moving in arbitrary directions on the basis of the FIFTH derivative of velocity! so nyah.
mircea_popescu: hey, just because you don't drive well is no excuse to oppress teh muslim brotherhood!
mircea_popescu: jesus they must be mixing some pretty strong cockroach powder in the smack these days, idiots stole the bumper instead of the wheels ?
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry... you... lost a bumper that was attached to your car previously ?
mircea_popescu: it is in fact so good womandom voluntarily switched from filter to cooking by hand.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i vaguely regret not finding this shop earlier, would have ladden the lot of you with real coffee.
mircea_popescu: some venues also publish "scientific research", but it's very much 2 : "here's what [known to be broken] statistical models said about [dubious, low sample] data : Y item only meaningful in our context may correlate to Z item only meaningful in our context!"
mircea_popescu: that's fucking it, 99.x% of the whole shebang and the rest consists of typographical errors.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-10#1500553 << it's the atlantic, gawker & rest of "mainstream" in their own minds crapolade. 1. "an event happened, here's what i was doing at that exact time : {picking my nose|wiping drool off chin|clicking through pictures of redditards / stuff cats wrote} ; 2. "here's why X real entity that doesn't give a shit about us ~might very well~ do Y thing that's only relevant in our context".
☝︎ mircea_popescu bought 1kg of costa rica ; kenya and sumatra. is having a taste off. jesus christ they're wunderbar.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo oh, he doesn't "owe me health", i owe him "not letting idiots die, because civilised society"
mircea_popescu: in other non-news, along halvening day today is also argentina independence day. inexplicably, they celebrate this - roughly like the acneic woman celebrating nodule day.
mircea_popescu: and it's the sort of thing best explained with the pickaxe to the skull.
mircea_popescu: please bury me with a pickaxe, i have a few things to say to FUCKING EVERYONE from plato to the current pope
mircea_popescu: because no, there isn't such a thing as a collective, it's a circumstance not a thing.
mircea_popescu: but the matter is in itself important, "how to reward collective effort ?" "i dunno, have the INDIVIDUALS composing the collective submit plans, and pick the fairest of a selected set ?"
mircea_popescu: salt to the snail, real things to the fetish-only ustard and so on.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, here's an ~actual~ bit of post-bitcoin governance being tried out etc. with institutions and mechanisms and whatnot. of course, the usual fucktards, the nullities that spent a million words discussing "the dao" and "futublabla" and so on will never EVER mention it.
mircea_popescu: one battalion is barely adequate to police the base at constanta.
mircea_popescu: mats well, the implosion of ukraine pretty much convinced everyone there's no future for the ... you know, "peaceful, independent country" a la frace in the 1800s.
mircea_popescu: mats coupla batallions in constanta and somewhere around the carpathian bend
mircea_popescu: mebbe jot down a qntra piece. you know, 30 years from now you can frame it and hang in your office
mircea_popescu: let's not forget that all the hype, buzz and derpage isn't worth a cupfula warm piss ; this thing has to sustain itself ON FEES.
mircea_popescu: a more decent 5-10% sort of fee vs subsidy composition.
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin doomed because block reward too small to carry littoral combat sheep."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did yours propose "just because it's bloody doesn't mean you have to throw it out" also ?
mircea_popescu: say no to domestic experimentation! let's make america great again!
mircea_popescu: i have burned in my memory this scene, me visiting the baltic sometime in september, and the sky was fucking ladden and the breeze cutting and meh, i was totally opressed. meanwhile, pantlegs pulled up, sauntering around in the wake, these tweeny girls, redder than boiled lobster in color.