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mircea_popescu: i went to the fucking vagrant epicenter aka "design college" here.
mircea_popescu: ever more stuff for the "it never happened and hanno boeck did it anyway" machine.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486970 << you know, the proposition that drugs enhance the mind is not so unlikely from the proposition that hanging polished stones of various colors, dead parrots and other detritus from the weights of a grandfather clock improve its timekeeping accuracy.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. if you're not too invested in current sig, making new one treating it better is certainly the golden road.
mircea_popescu: well, at least gives you something definite to point to
mircea_popescu: gernika how'd a retraction work, you know ? think of the dao!
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so pick a bottle of wine, go knock on door.
mircea_popescu: depends, what's legal and illegal in the states varies a lot by where you live, the color of your skin, whether you're married to one woman or just live with half a dozen etc.
mircea_popescu: of course i've not seen any kids with the threaded key around neck here yet.
mircea_popescu: possibly made by the exact same machines, too, i routinely find ancient euro machinery at work here.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman the little bitches here are whining that "costs - by the sky, presupuestos (ie, "conditii"), under the floors". you should see the fucking place, i nearly wept for 1970s nostalgia.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman that's good in case your high heels aren't even.
mircea_popescu: lol. "on the plus side, i have my own kitchen. on the minus side, let's go eat out."
mircea_popescu: i suspect it was one of those prison showers & shittery combos.
mircea_popescu: the many republics before the republic. they all worked.
mircea_popescu: maybe tomorrow municipality decides there's too many people and you have to share living quarters, like the NY derps occasionally decide people gotta share cabs.
mircea_popescu: well, this is the true problem of political decay : society decays too, and in this precise manner. what used to be an ideologically-mediated disconnect between action and representation ("if you see a fire don't jump into it, call the FD, it's better that way) becomes a fully separated disconnect, mediated by nothing.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i was thinking about this too. so now we're going to saddle him with protecting the idiots. what is this, minidao ?
mircea_popescu: they can't even signal turns. NOT for any other reason than THIS. they have no relation between action and representation whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: argentines are entirely unrelated, there is NO relation between what they hear/say and what they do.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber well, the muricans are behaving stupidly, yes, but at least there's some relation, however contorted out of shape, between ear and head.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so between a misbehaving slavegirl and an idiot slavegirl your preference's for the idiot ?
mircea_popescu: well, so far they have enough trouble trying to track bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller history is not a thing, they got social sciences to make it all right!
mircea_popescu: which is the point here : they're not people. they're a herd.
mircea_popescu: it takes one fucking click to add it. it takes actual walking and QUEUING to vote. it's two hours.
mircea_popescu: this, as the foreign women stuck helping me out here readily confirm, is just about representative of the derpitude of the local mind.
mircea_popescu: out of an estimated 30 to 40k twentysomethings THAT VOTED for this entity, a little over 1% BOTHERED TO FOLLOW IT ON TWITTER. notwithstanding that ALL THEY EVER DO is fuck around on their phones.
mircea_popescu: a total of ~500 people FOLLOW it, which brings us home :
mircea_popescu: these are the people with the "a pili la indigna la pobreza" bullshit that i mocked. more importantly, they also have a twitter handle, which they promote insistently.
mircea_popescu: there were elections for the student representative body recently, and an entity called "FADU SUR" whatever trhe shit that is "won them", with a shattering 45%. this means many many tens of thousands of votes.
mircea_popescu: so, the architecture design and practically & indumentaria (which is how you say "dumb etsy shit" in spanish) is one of the largest and most populous colleges in this 10-20mn strong town. this, obviously, because the stupid girlies "must get a degree" and they're not going to go into law, too much reading.
mircea_popescu: in other news, perhaps a most interesting datapoint to help foreign mind comprehend local bovinity.
mircea_popescu: there's obviously no stable solution for this problem, inasmuch as it's the nonsensical issues of a bunch of parochical derps. nevertheless, i wouldn't properly call it "corewars" either, there's no core involved. periphery wars ?
mircea_popescu: consequently, the troop that got fucked (mit) is in favour of "defend this perimeter at all costs!111" attitude. whereas the rest of them (ie, cornell, stanford, etc etc) are more of a "this perimeter is not defensible, retreat and create a new one".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's no "corewars" per se. there's the bloodied remains of the imperial hopes and aspirations. the problem with this empire being that it's not unified under a strong crown, but run around blindly by a crowd of decerbrated bureaucrats.
mircea_popescu: damn the language support for this thing is apalingly poor!
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber isn't teh butthurt lulzy to watch tho ?
mircea_popescu: anyone recalls the case of the famous mr nick leeson, the man who put an end to barings bank after two centuries of successful operation through the exact same process ? doubling down on being on the wrong side of the market and then earthquake striking japan ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. the lulz has cost usg more turkey dollars than mit has cost usg this year. that's an accomplishment right there, they could have made ten thousand hookers and fifty thousand "aides" happy for that money. this means 10k angry hookers and 50k passive-agressive pencildicks extra to deal with.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not only is he actually getting the facts right, but his numbers are almost accurate. pretty impressive.
mircea_popescu: if anyone still has an account do me a favour invite "r0ach" over.
mircea_popescu: e moon while liquidating shoters. Dan Larimer actually talked about attempting doing that himself once in the past when BTS was in the dumpster but he chickened out. Him and Vitalik have been speaking a bit these days and maybe he gave Vitalik the idea."
mircea_popescu: The DOA event caused a dumpocalypse on them forcing them to absorb even more losses. This single entity that controls the ETh price is underwater as fuck now and probably desperate to rid himself of some of those scamtokens. I have a feeling the only reason it made it that high of value in the first place is the Eth devs themselves sent a bunch of Eth to Poloniex, then used those coins for collateral to margin long it to th
mircea_popescu: "Eth is the LEAST aggregate market I've ever seen, which is why I never recommend people to short it. The price is controlled by one single guy who runs the bots on Bologniex tied to either the Ethereum developers themselves, or some entity like Goldman Sachs. Ever since Bitcoin started to rise, I watched them absorb something like 5000-10,000 BTC in Eth dumps on Poloniex just trying to prop the price up and prevent it from
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski yeah, exactly. the ONE THING the chitlins loathe like lye to the eyes is having to slave under actual men and in the process actually mature