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Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: actually got
a text message from thestringpuller this morning, he’s still alive!
☟︎ ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: let us not neglect the headache of coordinating
a blocksize change
mircea_popescu: much like paper dollars can only exist if there's no strong currency and "welfare states" in
a world without rhodesia and so on.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, poor people are
a liability not an asset. they are below zero.
williamdunne: Yeah, but that one guy isn't going to be betting all his money on Just-Dice, collectively there is
a lot of value to exploit
mircea_popescu: no, there won't be. it will be
a bunch of fucktarded dudebros, that aren't even legal to drink.
mircea_popescu: it's worse, because
a) every party participant is stuck b) keeping ~complete~ records of the whole thing c) forever. it's not just
a process thing like the party. it's that you have to write their noiise down, and pay for warehouses.
williamdunne: Yep, but seems like
a relatively invalid comparison
mircea_popescu: adding more people, especially if adding more people SELECTED by the criteria that "they are poor, stupid and usleess enough to need to be added specifically" is
a recipe for making your thing worth less.
trinque: ben_vulpes: I'm not going to accept being called
a muppet for saying we're not in
a position to evaluate an appropriate block size, therefore changing it is unwise.
williamdunne: ben_vulpes: Of course it matters, its
a network. More people = more useful. I don't see how that can be anything but an objective truth.
ben_vulpes: the thing about bitcoins is that it
a system that conserves, and resists diddling in the vein of fiat economies.
ben_vulpes: trinque: you gotta have
a hypothesis about what's going to happen, man.
williamdunne: The blocksize is
a limiting factor of its usage, 21m doesn't thanks to 8 decimal places
trinque: the way to find out what
a good blocksize would be is to let the thing bang into the ceiling so we know what that looks like
trinque: 1mb seems to be
a reasonable cap
trinque: ben_vulpes: that sounds like
a tautology
ben_vulpes: if
a thing exists with
a block size that is not one megabyte, /that thing is not bitcoin/.
pete_dushenski: i don't, i could've just as well said 'like i want
a hole in the head'
williamdunne: trinque: I agree, but thats different to
a permanent cap
trinque: how bout just fill the bucket before considering marrying
a larger bucket?
pete_dushenski: to the extent that scarcity is the goal because scarcity is
a key driver of value, then yes
pete_dushenski: i'll try it today but i'm
a little stuffed up, still recovering from last week's mega-fiesta, so if it doesn't sound great i'll re-do it tmrw
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trinque: mircea_popescu | well you will notice that nothing happened here also. it's just ... what was that word, for an item that breaks minds << star trek used this against the borg, could've been ripped off from
a novel
mircea_popescu: williamdunne yeah was that
a complete rewrite or what ?
mircea_popescu: that she was his "manager" and violated his trust by anti-representing him is not
a point of concern, not even for people so finely tuned to the iffy intricacies of you know, the violation that occurs should
a finger stray into
a slit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, remarkable how little thought is given to the puppet master (Vanessa Veronique apparently) getting all these shenanigans in motion to get even at the 60yo derp that found
a 20yo slut.
williamdunne: Generally natural escalation seems like
a better idea
mircea_popescu: williamdunne yeh, but it resolves none of the fundamental problems. you're still you, she's still her, the situation just got more volatile. just like pushing the gas pedal doesn't make one either less drunk or better
a driver.
williamdunne: Easiest way to get
a girl naked is to stick her in front of
a camera, no?
mircea_popescu: (there's also
a major historical angle of [seazy beta] males pushing women into sex via "art")
chetty: if you get naked and let
a guy tie you up seems to me its not rape, got to take some responsibility for getting to that point.
mircea_popescu: but if you call every bicycle
a tank soon enough the army's going to be riding into battle on clown materiel.
mircea_popescu: she has
a story, he has another, as it would be the case.
mircea_popescu: how about dentist ? i don't recall
a dentist ever asking me if it's ok to fuck up my teeth.
williamdunne: If I didn't go there for
a prostate exam, yeah I'd guess so
mircea_popescu: if you go in for
a prostate exam and doc sticks finger in you without asking specifically, also rape ?
mircea_popescu: the guy is
a total douche, as far as his emails let on, and the woman is both smarter and more collected than him, for sure. they weren't
a good fit anyway.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Yeah I'd say that probably counts as some form as rape. In the same way that stealing
a handbag from inside
a locked house is burglary
mircea_popescu: williamdunne " what happened ? some derp tied up
a professional model he barely knew, and then fingered her. she had no idea he was going to finger her, and didn't care for it."
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I can understand that position, but equally someone walking home, being dragged into
a hedge and raped is certainly, most definitely rape - but I don't know that backstory of what you're talking about here
mircea_popescu: "You violated my consent, my body and my trust. You made me doubt my love for rope and my career as
a professional model. What you did is legally considered as rape, and YOU are not allowed to minimise it for your own interest. YOU are only allowed to be sorry, certainly not to be upset at anyone for letting other people know what you did."
mircea_popescu: what this turns into is
a massive one year saga where the guy's manager becomes jealous at the guy's new girlie (depicted above), and then badmouths him and then he tries to talk to the original model who comes out in favour of the slighted ex
mircea_popescu: what happened ? some derp tied up
a professional model he barely knew, and then fingered her. she had no idea he was going to finger her, and didn't care for it.
mircea_popescu: dude this shit is epic. fetlife essentially exists as
a sort of liverjournal, it comes out.
mircea_popescu: also it is
a very good iudea to ask all job board qs on the article
mats: mircea_popescu: "Verifies key material was created by
a GnuPG version ulterior to 1.4.10 and prior to 1.4.20" << what should happen if --no-emit-version is included as
a flag?
williamdunne: Perfect, just found
a bug I will need to fix which will take about the same
mircea_popescu: williamdunne actually i was gonna write
a spec, soi i guess brb
williamdunne: Ok, ScoopBot should now be working, won't know until someone makes
a new post though
mircea_popescu: you can't mistreat
a sixteen year old on the grounds that your 50yo ex wife was
a harpy.
ascii_panama: especially if the only lesson resulting is 'go eat
a nagant'
mircea_popescu: as per plato's education : in
a cave bereft of light, light hurts the eyes. in
a world where education's
a long lost tech, education hurts the mind.
ascii_panama: of course there were earlier stories. one involving
a record player, for instance. and if one thinks, the whole thing goes back to at least medusa
mircea_popescu: "He could fall under international terrorism law as
a cyber terrorist, if I am not mistaken."
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's
a sort of memetic prion.
a certain kind of broken mental software can not gaze upon this thing, it collapses into
a new foldage.
ascii_panama: pretending that there was not, and could not have been,
a kick, or
a face to kick
mircea_popescu: well you will notice that nothing happened here also. it's just ... what was that word, for an item that breaks minds ? it was visual in the original sf novel. like
a fractal.
mircea_popescu: it's kind of fascinating, i'm
a little boy at heart, i just lifted
a rock and omfg the grub it covered!
mircea_popescu: "Is there
a way we can drag him into the light of day. Out him for the misogynous bastard he is? The name links to
a lot of Bitcoin info... Same guy? If it is, I wonder how potential investors would feel about his cyber-terrorist behavior."
ascii_panama is definitely doing
a c3 piece but has no idea when, might have to sleep for
a week 1st
mircea_popescu: "this guy is
a complete disrespectful, arrogant asshole. Reading his "blog" literally made me feel ill."
williamdunne: Okay, what blogs would you guys like to see in scoop? Currently thinking Contravex, Qntra, Trilema, btcalpha. Probably missing
a few.
mircea_popescu: the ridiculous thing about copyright is that i actually have
a perfectly valid claim to the copyright of the lists i published. copyright attaches to selection of material.
mircea_popescu: such
a perfect fucking storm. admire the dilemma these poor people face. if they stfu about it, well... then they're kneeling in silent abjection before the man, right ? just like the man said.
mircea_popescu: e reaction he wants ... he is
a huge attention slut! And we are just giving him exactly what he wants ..."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes from what i've been explained, it's so that the tribe of
a user gets
a reference they can follow in their flux
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mircea_popescu: lmao and apparently they brigaded
a bunch of random people off twitter/facebook too.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha turns out fetlife has
a group dedicated to me nao.
mats: i bought
a few shares
ascii_panama: some nonzero portion of socialistoidderp is 'revenge' of low-smv folks against the high. dan mocsny observed this and it is
a hypothesis with some explanatory power.
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