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mircea_popescu: computer plays like a shoe - true, but not just any shoe.
mircea_popescu: anyway. konspiraci isn't, on reflection and review, much of a persuasive explanation here.
mircea_popescu spent years hunting @ballet school. they do have other theorems.
mircea_popescu: anyway, thanks god for kakobrekla's idea of implementing that calculator on site, otherwise with bets like these that draw loads of noobs (i don't mean to bitrcoin, or to betting, i mean to thinking) we'd have had degrees of magnitude more idiotic spew.
mircea_popescu: how about the fee gets taken out of mps fortune, and losers are refunded for good measure.
mircea_popescu: "The fee should also probably be taken out of profit only, not the total bet."
mircea_popescu: "No kidding. What a scam this site is. I suppose they're planning on people not really reading the FAQ. I mean it calculates the odds for you and says 1 pays 1 but that's a LIE."
mircea_popescu: yaya. i'm all about to encourage ~that~ sort of insanity.
mircea_popescu: in other news, phuctor server paid for yet another month.
mircea_popescu: anyway, she's great in that film, warmly recommended - not just to watch, but also to get one of your own.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the incredible insanity of naming a girl carice. carici being one of the numerous ways you can say cunt in romanian.
mircea_popescu: well, either that or screaming at all teh folk who try things.
mircea_popescu: all the things that there are can in principle be understood, or as the old jew said (in fiddler on the roof) - there is a blessing for everything.
mircea_popescu: the world is not a picture, alf. the world is a moving thing. let people be wouldja!
mircea_popescu: course... meanwhile things happened, might not work anymopre.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron iirc he published a gentoo mask few days back
mircea_popescu: this is what we're trying for here : a) birth alfs ; b) continuously.
mircea_popescu: so no, broken in too many places to be worth contemplating.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even saying that, nor is it even needed. even if you ~could~ actually, provavly, known from my personal discussion with the all-knowing god, do it, what the fuck sort of arrangement is this, "so b-a exists so that alf can fix it" ? how is it better than you know, hiring microsoft to do it.
mircea_popescu: looky, lashing at me is not liable to do much. the point remains that this "i could do except alas" line is a total waste of time and utterly broken in so many parts it's not worth fixing.
mircea_popescu: he is actually in one of those god forsaken places, doesn't matter which.
mircea_popescu: so you're on the space station now, with your 4ton, ie, 200k volume library ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's an interesting datapoint, because 100 gallons of gas provide enough energy to haul 100 * 1.2 * 10^8 / 3000 = 4 tons of stuff
mircea_popescu: also, health at 1k a month is RIDICULOUS. pretty much all over the world, cancer treatment runs you 1k/mo.
mircea_popescu: he is a very good lawyer, and a hardworking fellow too.
mircea_popescu: by this logic, the gardener who is free needs a garden, but the movie director who is free needs his own studio. the cost of their respective freedoms, many degrees of magnitude apart.
mircea_popescu: i can readily see a definition of freedom as "one has enough resources to protect himself from the outside world". this definition is impractical, however, belonging to the sphere chicken world.
mircea_popescu: they are the things you say to protect from change, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: it goes, for me, in the same pile as xmas cardano, phuctor two weeks ago, and wahtever the fuck her name was,
mircea_popescu: i do not trust it at all. i'm not sure you understand this, but AT ALL.
mircea_popescu: the discussion is a whole not a half. yes we both understand one half of it. now you understand the other half of it.
mircea_popescu: if there could be solid weapon in 1/2-1y, you would have long ago been free man. that you aren't makes the proposition rather dubious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ideas of a not free man about what freedom'd do to him are null and void.
mircea_popescu: yes there are some cases where it has redistributed some dollars. in this sense, the numbers racket as practiced between the same poor black marginals 50 years ago also "worked".
mircea_popescu: in general, when your preteen's sister's friends start taking an interest in your party, you're lame.
mircea_popescu: wouldja try and engage what's actually on the table rather than what's in the noggin ?
mircea_popescu: you realise what you're saying is basically, that ~you~ are taking off.
mircea_popescu: not in statements of fact, we're not painting a still life here. what do!
mircea_popescu: yes, sure, we'll be sooner or later coming out with the perfect bitcoin, or die trying.
mircea_popescu: specifically : if miners come up with fork, what are you going to do ? so far all i hear is "blame de gods".
mircea_popescu: i'd rather we be prepared, if possible, and i pointedly not care how unpleasant a discussion may be to anyone's/everyone's favourite assumptions. so here we are.
mircea_popescu: things are happening with or without permission, as a general rule. either you're prepared for the possible outcomes, or not.
mircea_popescu: and you don't see how jumping from that to this is exactly panic ?