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mircea_popescu: yes it would have been. whatever the fuck happens, problems are permanent part of phenomenology.
mircea_popescu: so's everyone in the "we wanna capture bitcoin" camp.,
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon> say mp or other decides to nuke. makes own alt? opens fiat exchanges??? << "we da people"
mircea_popescu: "fucking a ten dollar hooker in the cunt is safer than fucking her in the ass".
mircea_popescu: "these people'd be a lot more interested if they tried cooking naked."
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon you know the b,tmsr~ emissary makes a report that sounds a lot like the nsa emissary's.
mircea_popescu: schmucks better ponder it well before they go running their mouth about "supporting" this or that.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, stranding the miners is an important reserve power.
mircea_popescu: i'm not particularly convinced this would solve anything, also.
mircea_popescu: technically. there isn't really a good solution to the problem in my estimation either.
mircea_popescu: but see... he has the capital of knowing how to... uhhh... oh i know, misrepresent his vices as virtues!
mircea_popescu: "knowing how to" fill the fucking paperwork and ask for permission.
mircea_popescu: yeah, im sure you're alt-getting laid and christian rock rules.
mircea_popescu: "is the choice between being a priss or getting laid, or is the choice between what ~kind~ of getting laid ? maybe i'm getting laid with jesus!"
mircea_popescu: or, perhaps more accurately, what feeds the swam in which you wallow.
mircea_popescu: the pretense to the contrary is what fucking created, and what fucking maintains, the miserable situation under which you belabour.
mircea_popescu: whether you personally will or will not be able to defend your capital has no bearing on whether you OUGHT to accumulate capital.
mircea_popescu: he is saying what orlov is saying, and what yarvin is saying, and what generally the castrated son of a stupid anglo whore is always fucking saying
mircea_popescu: this is a substantially different statement from your "i expect it won't work".
mircea_popescu: did you just ignorantly substitute an ought for an is or was it actually deliberate ?
mircea_popescu: so wait, i shouldn't fucking own things because "they canb bestolen" and instead be a good slave and own my two arms ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the part where he's saying exactly " The power is traded for the fetish of power. That's not capitalism, it is madness, and apparently Davos and Randi think women especially will heart it." except he sounds like he means it.
mircea_popescu: "Likewise, there were only two gasworks in London in 1814, and by 1822, there were seven and by 1829, there were 200 companies."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was referencing that "i can throw them out for you" thing
mircea_popescu: also known as "fuck everything up, nobody'll figure it out anyway"
mircea_popescu: the way most of the early industry was rolled up, was that the "chosen" schelling point got tax breaks.
mircea_popescu: there's no reason they should have, statistically. that they did is a miracle.
mircea_popescu: yes, actually, there were. you don't recall their names, but there were.
mircea_popescu: i want a single, competent it corp like i want an elk horn up my ass.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help us with a symbolics entrenched in success.
mircea_popescu: that this particular brand of "just low profile enough" actually died for once is nothing short of miraculous.
mircea_popescu: and if i wanted to upgrade it i had to buy from them, right ?
mircea_popescu: "The largest criticisms of Symbolics in the article are that Symbolics believed AI would take off and that Symbolics mistakenly pushed its view that proprietary hardware was the way to go for AI."
mircea_popescu: the whole thing that company was - a giant apple store.
mircea_popescu: because if the personification of justice sits there and says "only had one bullet, and ms were idiots - so i killed the dangerous morons", i can't protest.
mircea_popescu: that it fucking died a sad death almost excuses the fact microsoft didn't.
mircea_popescu: b) symbolics was a nefarious piece of shit i'd burn with my own hands if it was still aroundm.
mircea_popescu: a) you don';t get to say what's the criteria for you being proven wrong
mircea_popescu: jurov "gets it" in that he flatters your favourite worldview, is all.