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mircea_popescu: "by which i don't mean anything other than that they themselves were unaware of what exactly arguing". it's not aboot you!
mircea_popescu: i thought the whole discussion started with some derpy webservice being surprised by its own success or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: there's also nothing surprising about the effects of preferences.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing illegitimate about preferences, inasmuch as they're someone's preference.
mircea_popescu: hey, check you out using the sexual comparison skill to great disruption and awesome effect.
mircea_popescu: suffice it to say that one thing leads to the next, and before you know it you're a robber on the lam with some dead nightwatchmen in your past, merely for "just wanting to". evil is fruit of the poisonous root, and for as long as one buys into the priors, one will end up in VCtron land willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: well, their notions about the world are arguably also not a "universal good" in this sense, and similarly based on utter loathing [based in turn on fear, like all loathing {based in turn on unexamined ignorance, like all fear <supported by optionality, like all nonsense>}]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, it's just this lifestyle / mentality thing. not SO different from your very own gyro-boat thing, really. by which i don't mean anything other than that they themselves were unaware of what exactly arguing.
mircea_popescu: there were also some other side shows, but that was the central attraction.
mircea_popescu: somehow this "usg matters" is a difficult drop of molasses to escape
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the noobs : mpex 1st conference was principally this thing where voorhees and casares tried to convince me usg is the only game in town, with me laughing, and me stating mtgox isn't going to be around for long, with them laughing.
mircea_popescu: it's ~nothing, in the style of xapo and whatever else.
mircea_popescu: anyway, shapeshit's irrelevant with our without all the "oh noes look at how famous bitbet is let us try and engineer an imperial equivalent"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'LLI performed an assessment of the ShapeShift infrastructure against the CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS). The assessment identified...' << holy FUCK what?!! <<< hey, the empire's hard at work.
mircea_popescu: check that out, poor deedbot. blackholed on the hour like clockwork
☟︎ mircea_popescu: eh, and man without "an appetite for labour" will have to do pretty good on theft ?
mircea_popescu: "community" has gotten together and made it obsolete. *rolleyes*
mircea_popescu: politics are easy ; technology is hard. that some people would dedicate themselves to the hard without any whatsoever effort put into the easy is both scandalous and suicidal.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> every chimp can punch out another chimp. no chimp made a boat.
mircea_popescu: i know no such thing, and you're lucky you don't have tits, there'd be a whipping in it for you by now.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless. the cure is the cure ; the dicking around is the dicking around.
mircea_popescu: but it is actual lived experience, not just theory. i have a female human right here whose task it has been to talk to women each day for the past months, and it has driven her to tears and the very brink a few times already.
mircea_popescu: mno. there's the end where you try to build a gyroscope-stabilized microscope on a small sea platform ; and there's the end where you start going to bars and picking up women you're not the slightest bit interested in and marrying them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a problem. for some reason you're approaching it at the very wrong end of the funnel.
mircea_popescu: fuck, seawater great solvent, will solve a lotta things.
mircea_popescu: it's called a sexual preference, not a fucking heuristic.
mircea_popescu: this heuristic is about as idiotic as the heuristic that you consider men approachable for sex but women not.
mircea_popescu: every chimp can punch out another chimp. no chimp made a boat.
mircea_popescu: why is it that you think yourself the crystal dragon jesus of wrighting boats when you can't as much as punch out another chimp ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless you do not consider the former a feasible approach to the problem of tax ; but you without as much as batting an eyelash pull the former out fo ass in response to a challenge you hadn't even considewred!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not the point. the point was that YOU COULD, actually, wring a tax accountant's neck. you could not, as a factual matter, plug a leak.
mircea_popescu: the problem of old people is that they don't think they may have permission to exist.
mircea_popescu: "i need X for X" "wouldn't it be cool if X then i could Y" etc.
mircea_popescu: easy to be recognized because they come in a few standard flavours :
mircea_popescu: the reason this is so, is because as you age you become enmoored to various idiocies.
mircea_popescu: phf everything's fun when you're young and have money.
mircea_popescu: guaranteed not to even notice the inconveniences of the lifestyle.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to do that might as well move to rural georgia, pick a blondy and a mulatto woman and smoke meth for your remaining years.
mircea_popescu: which folks are old, poor, and marginal for a fucking reason.
mircea_popescu: the folks "doing the boat thing" are a 1% subset of the folks doing the RV thing.
mircea_popescu: if the rent is 2k the leak fixing is 20k. for the same reason.
mircea_popescu: costs have a structure that is idependent of your perception.
mircea_popescu: no, "live on boat" is more of the same adolescentine male fantasy displayed by overfed neotenic preteens captive in aging, sagging bodies that won't grow up for the life of them.
mircea_popescu: you're going to fix leaks alone when you couldn't as much as buldgeon to death a puny taxman.
mircea_popescu: too fat ? eat more junk food. too lazy ? get comfier couches. wanna escape rent ? move on fucking venus! no rent there, it's all costs!
mircea_popescu: and if you can't talk to women - BE MORE SELECTIVE AS TO THE WOMEN YOU TALK TO!!11
mircea_popescu: hey you know what ? pay more taxes, thatg'll malke them go away!
mircea_popescu: the notion that escape from rent is to go into a hostile element that's not self-sustainable is about as retarded as you'd expect from americans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose you spring a leak and must have it fixed RIGHT NOW. or at least be toed in drydock.
mircea_popescu: ie, if you can't afford the toilet paper in monaco, that doesn't mean it's because ofg the cost of tp you can't move there.
mircea_popescu: nowhere it is relevant for STRUCTURAL reasons. that it appears significant to you in x context it's only because you're not accounting for the other, more important costs, which also scaled up.
mircea_popescu: trinque thanks god you made it come back after getting fucked, seems an hourly occurence these days.
mircea_popescu: the point being, that the mooring costs of a small vessel are about as relevant to such decisions as the cost of toilet paper to choosing your eventual residence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform costs a lot less than that to park it in colonia on the rio de la plata.
mircea_popescu: o wow i suspect this means i wrote over 65k footnotes to date
mircea_popescu: at least in theory. but then they went from 20ish entries to like 9.
mircea_popescu: ah no, it's handled as a round robin. you ask for it, dns server gives you the least loaded ip
mircea_popescu: in this case the dns round robin went to shit i suspec.
mircea_popescu: or in the immortal words of gnny sgt hartmann, i had no idea they stacked shit this high!
mircea_popescu: trinque no i don't think YOU're the problem. i think ircd is the fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: trinque there's something very deeply wrong about a system in which "what happened" has no bearing on "what to do next".
mircea_popescu: doesn't even have to be pm, actually. could also say here, "hey X, your deed was notarized : url"