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mircea_popescu: in victorian britain people were more than willing to pay the fixed costs for parties in excess of the sustenance needed by one lancastershire neighbourhood.
mircea_popescu: stop making the chumps have money they can't earn, problem goes awaqy
mircea_popescu: and that flattening begins with "fuck you, salaries between 20k and 100k. how about from 120 to 12k a year instead"
mircea_popescu: this pretense whereby "everyone is equal" covers the very abrupt distribution curve where 99% owns jack shit and 1% has no fucking idea what to do with the world. needs to be flattened out.
mircea_popescu: the original buyers of cars weren't the 150mn derps, but the 15k people with means.
mircea_popescu: make the average derp earn 10 cents an hour, make a car 5k and all is well.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: cars are fine, just, a society where income disparity is less than 100x makes a mess of them.
mircea_popescu: (saliva is a digestive juice. you can end up with a pretty miserably upset skin.)
mircea_popescu: un-fun fact : too much oral sex is actualy damaging to the penis.
mircea_popescu: you shyould see these derps. half of the half that even bothers to signal, signals wrongly.
mircea_popescu: phf cars drive the first case of power laws observed in day to day life. people manage to generate traffic in 1k inhabitant townlets.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should confess i read "nigger tagging" and did a doubletake
mircea_popescu: in fairness fluffypony always drove it as a research interest.
mircea_popescu: who knew the geeks were going to take their "go to the prom with their friend dressed as a woman" to its logical conclusion.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah but this is the spawning ground of long tail events. the chances of the us ever mattering were about the same as argentina's.
mircea_popescu: so in the end, what any dev group thinks on the timing of forks is of interest to pretty much their biographers.
mircea_popescu: anyway. forks are utterly not at the disposition of any mortal. and there's no lesser mortal than a dev.
mircea_popescu: and so if somehow monero became the one, it would simply be the one.
mircea_popescu: people keep loving this idea where they can "change" things. unless money follows you can't change jack.
mircea_popescu: more properly put : what happens if someone actually takes monero seriously, and decides to disallow your future forks.
mircea_popescu: in case you were wondering what that is - probably reddit.
mircea_popescu: "What I’m doing with my life Currently working at Starbucks, but hopefully moving on to bigger and better things soon."
mircea_popescu: because we live in the world rather than in the crystalline tower of pure thought that by rights should have been our inheritance ?
mircea_popescu: lol take it easier mah dear activists, there's need of educators also, as that femininemagic chick pointed out :D
mircea_popescu: sure. roads have throughout the history of states been the largest expense.
mircea_popescu: grass still grows, whether on top of oil or bare rock.
mircea_popescu: what if everyone in cascadia had to ride wherever they were going. you know, just like a century ago around there
mircea_popescu: i would guess stables and all that takes just about as much space as parking does.
mircea_popescu: of course...i suppose if it comes to it i could just ride.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you realise that i've never in my adult life gone anywhere on a bike, nor would i ever go anywhere if i had to go by bike ?
mircea_popescu: noobsRus once went to the dojo and asked the master "hey, i'm new, and i was considering practicing karate, because i've seen others doing it and i feel bad about not contributing to the welfare of this discipline".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well in fairness, you don't tend to take the lady to arby's for your aniversary, so their +ev move is to push you out of town.
mircea_popescu: did you approve any quotes still up in the air jurov ?
mircea_popescu: few people here do, but then again that's not necessarily dispositive.
mircea_popescu: noobsRus there's no unified value function. if you figure it's worth your time, by all means.
mircea_popescu: "Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members."
mircea_popescu: "and the organizers were okay with that, but to not inconvenience or surprise the organizers, I decided to present the same talk I had given at Security BSides Las Vegas in 2012."
mircea_popescu: how the fuck this isn't the end of that whole bsides thing is anyone's guess. it's certainly their plain and open intellectual surrender.
mircea_popescu: "It had been decided months ago that I would give a talk at Security BSides San Francisco. The subject of my talk was up in the air until just before the conference started"
mircea_popescu: seems a legitimate enough fetish. "honey... i can only get it up to the sweet music of bitchez gettin' triggered"
mircea_popescu: tie a buncha "rape survivors" etc in a chair and trigger the shit out of them.
mircea_popescu: you know, this may actually make a pretty decent show.
mircea_popescu: show to be rebranded as "OhMySides", to move on F! tv ?
mircea_popescu: apparently mining difficulty is not the only thing that went up over the years. submination difficulty also follows.
mircea_popescu: "For all the ways the manufactured crisis around the ClassicCoin hard fork push is made to seem more polished than the XTCoin manufactured crisis, the results of the effort somehow seem still more underwhelming." << word. ten times the effort, a tenth of the result.
mircea_popescu: i'm in favour of the imperial house of jormania. hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: but hey, for a generation of worthless retards that's in love with a woman they've never met and will live or die depending on whether santa/thegovernment/isis paradrops them food & other supplies as needed... it makes perfect sense.
mircea_popescu: im sure if you ask these fuckwits they "support" windows.
mircea_popescu: the very notion, you know, "we support a code bundle that's not written yet".
mircea_popescu: after all the point of life on earth is to find out things.
mircea_popescu: for anyone that doesn't wish to remember that the march fork was healed over mp saying noncontroversial and wishes to see what happens once mp doesn't say that... proceeding on a "vote" is the smartest move possible.