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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Bitstamp has emailed users stating it has banned access from all IP addresses originating from the Russian Federation access to the Bitcoin exchange."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform confucius say, better share toothbrush than buttplug.
mircea_popescu: heck, i guess in practice every insanity's heard of, including to subdivide a woman unawares.
mircea_popescu: look at my most recent article, the curve is there and intuitively obvious what's meant.
mircea_popescu: anyway. back in the day "warehouse" meant brick wall, etc.
mircea_popescu: middle of nowhere, but hey, it had natl road access right by the door.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the locals were kinda jealous of the guy, because it comes out that doing a 40 x 100 metre concrete slab and surrounding it in basically an elaborate, roofed fence costs less than building an actual house, and brought in rent slightly more.
mircea_popescu: now granted, it was just a concrete slab with corrugated sheet walls and roof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i did! you wouldn't even fuck the eager gypsy girls!
mircea_popescu: anyway, so if it's a wooden shed, cut a hole, add a pipe and some insulation, done.
mircea_popescu: i never lived in a fucking hovel where the heating wasn't vented, either outside the wall or in specially made vents ffs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh tell me more about how sane people don't get carbide this or that, please.
mircea_popescu: for all you know the world of manufacturing was lots and lots more powerful back when trhey were supplying bach's needs than sepultura's.
mircea_popescu: for all you know the world where every derp and his ten dollars causes britney spears is the world where quality musical instruments do not exist.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing but fartware and wishful thinking backing this notion that "every idiot getting 10 dollars to spend is the best possible world", pangloss.
mircea_popescu: you have no reason to suspect FEWER boeings would be produced, or in use, if only one person in ten was a citizen, and the rest nine slaves.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: again : the volume of production and the relationships between people are unrelated.
mircea_popescu: lol bitcoin core's implementing teh b-a mempool limit stuff ? ha-ha.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeh. he was quoting some policeman dude tho
mircea_popescu: you know there;'s a bloodletting coming by the time the fucking footpad imagines himself the baron outright.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374493 << In Lafondtology 'betters' are a known quantity as well. They attack down so avoid or appease. << oh, lafond himself gets the thing pretty close. it is a class thing. the problem is the speaker, who, like a bunch of his brethren, ended up in this weirdo alt-reality where THEY are the upper class.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: for the record fooplot.com actually spits out svg's! pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: ascii_rear isn't that straight out of the tinfoilhat annals ?
mircea_popescu: "cross the imaginary, retrospectively hallucinated '''line'''" bs is worth about as much as the piss it carries.
mircea_popescu: but once you start with "Democratic" and bla bla - guess what. your crazy old uncle is first to be burned at the stake. because you are the servant, and that's how it goes.
mircea_popescu: o protect MY old uncle and cuff the fucking street scum. that's how you may also, and to a lesser degree, take care of yours. that and that only.
mircea_popescu:
http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3657 << this is a nice and fine article, except at the part where the dude pretends like his betters - that is to say, rich people, white people, powerful people, me - are "an unknown quantity" and somehow an old policeman / janitor's relative is different. fuck that. you MAY have your little niceties, for jsut as long as you clearly understand that your role here is strictly t
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless, in their case it's empty blathering. the words they say are the result of what they think would work best as a thing to say, not anything deeper than that. they'd say they believe in cinderella fucking papa bear while riding on a golden broomstick if that's what the focus groups preferred ot hear.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-01-2016#1374299 << there's nothing wrong with that, let them have it, and enjoy its fruits. there's a reason the correct stance is to cater to the comfort of the priviledged and [not incidentally, but deliberatelty and by design] step on the faces of the worthless. but nobody's reequired to accept this as some sort of gospel - let them walk the desert of eating rocks and shitting
☝︎ mircea_popescu: did this guy ever do anything other than drive around looking for overturned garbage bins to sit in front of and selfie himself while explaining his theories about how moonrays cause littering and how the owls are to blame for moonrays ?
mircea_popescu: The price did drop a little, but almost certainly because of Mike's pessimistic statements, not because of that "attack". So the first line of defense failed: it looks like the miners will not be "punished" financially for lifting the size limit -- quite the opposite."
mircea_popescu: "Well BitcoinClassic -- that, according to the Core devs, is a hostile fork -- already has the support of 70% of the miners.
mircea_popescu: very valid place to invest a life in quite respectable research.
mircea_popescu: jurov that's not necessarily a bad thing to want, on its own.
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon oh, ~here~ you see the danger do you ? :D
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller true incompetence has a major advantage - it disperses.
mircea_popescu: we also only hold hammers, and maybe the hits can be modulated enough! shall we try or shall we not.
mircea_popescu: they go for the whole nine years, they're gonna make a clay divinity!
mircea_popescu: there's this ancient romanian rhyme, "caligula imperator si-a facut calul senator. petru groza, mai sinistru, si-a facut boul ministru". i can't help but think of it when would-be pygmalions are not content to merely cut themselves a fucktoy/mate out of stone
mircea_popescu: haha wait, wait, there's a "class of functions" in the sky that'll come and deliver you ?
mircea_popescu: jurov what you just described, my punishment algorithm implemented to mining
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon you know it's a common wonderment on the part of the okcupid sluts, too, "why would one such of you need for okcupid". what need.
mircea_popescu: jurov think about it : IF that were the case, then alf's fears about "whoever owns the production owns you" would be grounded.
mircea_popescu: you drastically overvalue the liberty and importance of miners.
mircea_popescu: it makes no sense to sell anything useful to the horde of reddidiots.
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon that broasca despises racul. si o stiuca.