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mircea_popescu prepares the 2016 version of the "stop buying" article.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the diocletian edict is a fine example. the problem isn't even economic there, it's purely political. "oh, we have a problem we don't know how to solve, here's some red tape" "tell you what - it's not worth the risk of dealing with your red tape AT ALL. see ya". "oh noes! who could have predicted!"
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "the pornstar is brunette and tall." mkay ?
mircea_popescu: "The idea of a federal betting parlour on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque."' << so ?
mircea_popescu: specifically to get your two years interdiction, usg needs to control 99.999% of the network, and admitting half an exahash was legit that requires they get a further 50 or so yotahashes. and that nobody else does anything.
mircea_popescu: to obtain similar performance to wires in this respect [delay only, not in all the others, you still get bitcoin, rather than usg-fiat moved around] you need a 0.2%ish of the network.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform specifically : to guarantee your transactions are on average included the same day, you need control over ~0.5% of the network.
mircea_popescu: as some derpy woman said, "congrats to the winners [which is everyone]"
mircea_popescu: s so decided to delete it because if deleted it's somehow protected from its meaninglessness.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically the french version of the redditard decided that right wing females appreciate macho men. further decided that all men are the same, and that includes him. further decided that hey, if they queue up to kneel for mp, why not for him. figured out that this is ridiculous, so instead of doing it wrote about it. everyone [that never does anything] got all excited about it, then realised it's meaningles
mircea_popescu: i had no idea BingoBoingo is cajun enough to read french
mircea_popescu: "beat your wife every day. if you don't know why, she does."
mircea_popescu: the slaps start flowing once they start talking out of it.
mircea_popescu: adlai if you read carefully, nobody gave a shit at any point about what the congenitally retarded / ustards do in their bathroom.
mircea_popescu: now dump that much gasoline on the fake carpeting and set it ablaze.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're not demolishing anything with a propane tank.
mircea_popescu: i don't get this. propane tank has significantly lower potential than gasoline bucket. harder to handle. why bother.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun get it... so the news is that some people bought some phones in bunfuck ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "blood is the best lubricant. well, other than tears" line of thought ?
mircea_popescu: granted, eating her out during her period is fucking weird/
mircea_popescu doesn't seem much problem with fucking bleeding woman. a) sex can lead to bleeding anyway and b) you're fucking hr in the ass, might as well.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well wait, it gotta be based on principle not how it makes you feel.
mircea_popescu: also, the thing with harems is the chicks synchronize periods.
mircea_popescu: technically speaking one could just sit down and shut up for the next 50 years. but that doesn't mean one should, necessarily.
mircea_popescu: suppose you sit down to have a meal, there's this great broad at the other table, you seduce her and she sucks you off in the toilet. gotta ask if she's on her period first ?
mircea_popescu: there's dozens of different mechanisms which dictate spontaneous abortion.
mircea_popescu: but it must be pointed out that as many as 1/3 of all pregnancies are electively aborted by the woman anyway.
mircea_popescu: not really. it's a congenital defect. as fundamentally broken as it gets.
mircea_popescu: point remains, if you're going to "ban smoking" because "smoking is bad" you gotta ban down syndrome births.
mircea_popescu: men can't smoke, women can spawn retards ? da fuck backwards world is this.
mircea_popescu: check it out, the richest country on earth meets restaurants. "what do you mean, i can tell them what i want and they'll get it for me ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: and holy shit that alf link. "You can ask for the Buns of a different sandwich. Most people don't know that. Like get Big Mac buns on a mc double"
mircea_popescu: if you happen to live in argentina you can also get the whole ensemble a la mode.
mircea_popescu: soo.... one thing to do if it's hot and you got a buncha spare girls : have them take cold shower by a 5 minute offset, towel off and then make out with pleasantly cool girl for five minutes
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo bitcoin is for people with a 6mo memory. what is this 2012 you speak of.
mircea_popescu: shinohai it's generally more productive to link derps to trilema than me to derps.
mircea_popescu: in other news, million euro in jools stolen from high ticket store right across from hollande's office.
mircea_popescu: because whatever, sweet drops, woman's buns, same diff.
mircea_popescu: other interesting things from chinatown : gran masala because wtf is this garam thing, and ciruelas bombom
mircea_popescu: sooo nubbins` : just had blt ranchero with some absolutely splendid kimchi