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mircea_popescu: no, that's how you dispose of the MATTER once you disposed of the communism charge on the side of "yep, s oit is"
mircea_popescu: but the problem remains, i have nfi how to dispose of the communism charge in that place.
mircea_popescu: so then how do you discern when another's crossed the pole, which practically speaking is an event horizon ?
mircea_popescu: a flattering view, in its innocent purity, but not how practice ever works that i've seen
mircea_popescu: in short, yes, i suspect your take on communism may actually require alienation outright.
mircea_popescu: if you go eating together, is it communism if you go wherever you all agree to go ?
mircea_popescu: i think this angle is interesting and should be pursued. so asciilifeform : do you suppose that the harem is intrinsically communist, if and in that the women are equals ?
mircea_popescu: so really equalitarianism ? not, "from each according to his wallet, to each according to his needs" sorta thing ?
mircea_popescu: let's maybe start with, what is your definition of communism ?
mircea_popescu: can you elaborate on this communism identification, cuz i dun see it ?
mircea_popescu: well, it is also possible bitbet sells well and makes the issue moot.
mircea_popescu: things may suck equally, so what of it. MERIT STILL DUN ENTER INTO IT!
mircea_popescu: no, your "from my perch, they suck ~equally" is no argument, just color.
mircea_popescu: man and woman also suck equally, one has the children the other doesn't.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin addresses aren't acceptable proof of identity (such as for instance through that "signing" kludge) specifically for this reason.
mircea_popescu: if this were the case one'd get one key issued with the ssn.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, this is how professional life goes. you are paid well to sit in silence in a room and pick the right thread under a microscope ; i am paid even better to sit in the din of the market and pick the right thread with bare eyes.
mircea_popescu: and in the interest of not fucking up everyhing in one fell swoop of well meaning idiocy, "deserve"'d better not enter into it.
mircea_popescu: (and if anyone's unfamiliar with the hunchback god, plox to take a break and read up on teh gnosis. it'll be good for you.)
mircea_popescu: will there be judgement day, when all there is is dark, or will there be "communism" aka "christianity" aka a hunchback god tries to create a world just like he's seen in his sane, healthy brother's hands ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not the issue. the issue is, can you assume or can't you assume. and the result is you can't assume.
mircea_popescu: lol k. what you're doing is roughly equivalent to coming into my house, attempting to give a name to one of my women and then proposing to exchange her for your own of the same name. ty but...
mircea_popescu: it is the actual threshold of maturity, when the agent comprehends that some things must be done because of themselves and irrespective of their will. usually this discovery came to young people who were in love - but society has meanwhile "progressed" past that.
mircea_popescu: davout hey, i can appreciate the sentiment. the equations, however, stay cold.
mircea_popescu: fine, if you must : your question is not even a question in that it doesn't make any sense.
mircea_popescu: PeterL do you find people are often able to help you when your problem is "wtf?" ?
mircea_popescu: davout it worked, that time, but i wouldn't rely on it!
mircea_popescu: PeterL what is the correct way of cheering your mother up with a tin of maltova and and a chunk of cloth ?
mircea_popescu: they're meaningful to us, if risible ; we're not meaningful nor can be rendered meaningful for them.
mircea_popescu: it is perfectly meaningful in its own proper terms, which is why tmsr prevails over any pretend fiat sovereign :
mircea_popescu: promise here being a term of art standing in opposition with protocol.
mircea_popescu: that it seems justified to you may make a difference when you're king of the world and can promise me to appoint all judges forevermore to comply with your notions.
mircea_popescu: much like the tmsr license, bitcoin is deliberately constructed a certain way to destroy fiat notions of this world, not to maintain them nor to permit their maintenance.
mircea_popescu: solrodar there's no bitcoin precedent of "unjust enrichment", and if it is introduced it applies first of all to all miners.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and for that matter, are you going to pay out of pocket for the costs anyone and everyone incurs to adapt to this model, like nsa via gavin paid (to their own people) for their 2013 debacle ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, take it from a software design perspective. you are proposing to change the stateless parser (bet accepted) -> (bet resolved) -> (bet paid out) into a stateful and undefined (bet accepted) -> (bet resolved) -> (???) -> (some thing paid according to some rules you can't know)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: funny how everything is in the fucking log. dja recall it davout ?
mircea_popescu: this is an eery rehash of the earlier thing re "bitcoin is addresses / no it's txn" where jurov massacred me.
mircea_popescu: if you are going to make other determinations than who won a bet, might as well put a 50% tax on the richest 10% or w/e the french fashion is these days.
mircea_popescu: you introduced it, really. but i restated the issue more formally and without reference to it.
mircea_popescu: which is, seal things in the past in such a way they aren't revisable in the future.
mircea_popescu: it is also very visibly, and very risibly, reaction to bitcoin, which is to say a transparent attempt to exactly prevent specifically what bitcoin does,
mircea_popescu: fine, if you absolutely must : suppose owner made an agreement with a third party that the nth txn goes to x and the nth+1 goes to y. are they now bound to revise their agreements on the basis of how you may wish to liberally reinterpret the protocol ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: davout i am not proposing anything. you are proposing to introduce some assumptions, which seem ridiculous on the face, and are invited to support them.
mircea_popescu: "you know, react, dissolve, whatever you wanna call it" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the difference happens to be rather important from a legal perspective.
mircea_popescu: but other than that - nobody has any title over any bitcoin nor could anyone acquire any title over any bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: solrodar no, because while the dog might be your dog, bitcoin may not actually be your bitcoin.