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mircea_popescu: but no, in bitcoin it's "and if the clown car on the left comes unglued call this number and if the bla bla 5000 entries long"
mircea_popescu: do you understand how normal work works among humans ? bob has a widget factory, which needs a widgeteer, which is a job composed of 5 movements and 3 reaches, so he goes to the corner where kids loiter and goes "you there! do like this with your elbow! good. now read this list and apply it. every day."
mircea_popescu: a nothing! i can't as much as have someone to clean the fucking floors.
mircea_popescu: if banks ran like this the average teller would look like a fucking safari hunter,
mircea_popescu: and EVEN THEN everyone must have access to the fucking top of the hierarchy because it is a GIVEN that everyone will encounter fundamental problems on a monthly basis.
mircea_popescu: but on the other hand - i can't fucking hire people for the love of everfuck. there is no such thing as a lowly bank clerk in bitcoin. everyone must be at above-phd level of tech awareness - yea, i know that doesn't cut it to be in b-a, fine, fuck you all, there are STILL 100k phds spewed out the world over who think themselves as they add to the pool of millions floating around that they are pdh-level! -
mircea_popescu: a collection of rotten hardware running dubios kernels with ball of shit visual studio-level bitcoin implementation, expected to somehow do things.
mircea_popescu: i know it sounds ridiculous, but however it may sound, it is the fucking truth.
mircea_popescu: my list is in the thousands and i am still regularly blindsided.
mircea_popescu: in truth the failure modes for discrete production processes on the bitcoin network are currently still innumerable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nevermind, false alarm. meanwhile i see it propagated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you see txn bf77bf5ec7c02f4027caab024d5581d82bdea97ab8d7d97aac856169c038dd31 on 173.73.235.152 ?
mircea_popescu: lol what's with this trend of rewriting trilema poorly among the yuppy class ?
mircea_popescu: which is about as nice as all the derpage post-snowden.
mircea_popescu: but what i personally take home from the whole "o noes, branded bugs nao" thing is that hearbleed REALLY hurt.
mircea_popescu: because yes, socialist notion of belonging is always built on some version of "plox to believe there is technology of prayer"
mircea_popescu: i am clearly not a any one thing, but instead "rootless cosmopolitan"
mircea_popescu: whether you are or aren't : the notion that what nadia heninger did is in any way related to what nadia heninger "got" is the core and the root of cargo cultism.
mircea_popescu: obvious is what stuff is that sits at the root of the tree of things and denies certain branches of thought
mircea_popescu: and once i fucking croak, they'll get a cat's paw magazine.
mircea_popescu: if i feed the fish in my tank, it does not follow that the tankfish "got" food.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion that nadia heninger "got" a phd and "got" a cushy sinecure, in the sense of got that you employ when you say b-a got x done is ludicrous!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, joined #freenode typed out the above turns out i had no voice. shrugged an' left.
mircea_popescu: the difference between "S&P 500" and "here's a retrospective list of 500 companies I picked" is moreover slim.
mircea_popescu: the thing anon establishment ho fails to mention, however, is that S&P 500 is not in any sense a thing.
mircea_popescu: trump didn't actually beat inflation, let alone the s&p.
mircea_popescu: but then again, i am youthful and inexperienced. also was not in bed with woman and her infant child.
mircea_popescu: let's just say that being able to see opens new dimensions to your life you never could see before.
mircea_popescu: SuchWow hey, govt has a lot of experience running ponzis. heck, social security is still somehow magically protected by illusion.
mircea_popescu: which is fine and good - by now it's obvious it's cheaper to kill it on technical grounds rather than financial seeing how nsa can print money but can't really hire anyone but indians and idiots for the life of it.
mircea_popescu: then i went into them financially and they actually burned a few millions propping it up, and that pretty much brings us to the present day.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, basically the story of eth is, "what if we made a b-a, except not on irc but in a spare closet at a usg-sponsored university, and we tried to get idiot kids on reddit excited and inept javascript developers contributing code and MAKE A BETTER BITCOIN in the sense that it'll suck where bitcoin hurts us."
mircea_popescu: well, if it did or if it didn't, it's not like the case of ethereum in any sense.
mircea_popescu: but yes, an inkling of trust necessarily must stem out of outside the wot.
mircea_popescu: entertainment and trust are orthogonal matters SuchWow
mircea_popescu: i can't say i'm not flattered nsa's trying their idea of "the mp approach", but in the famed words of knight, "get the fuck off the horse!"
mircea_popescu: tis much less of a hypotetical, tis a factual. look into the structure backing it if you're bored.
mircea_popescu: see there's this thing where they "prepare" future candidates. sanders may well get 2020.
mircea_popescu: i didn't even bet, myself. but i think it's pretty much on the money.
mircea_popescu: i mean there's some REALLY seedy places here, "hotel familiar" etc, literal hookers and bums,
mircea_popescu: no more tables, no more cocktail waitress cocksuckers off duty waiting for teh winners, no more vegas!
mircea_popescu: "oh i played with chow" "o yea ? how'd you do ?" "folded three hands!"
mircea_popescu: well because it was the loss leader also. people went to lose money to champs just on the basis of hte brand