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mircea_popescu: all "rock" throuyghout the 60s-90s is simply us music set to [bad] localised lyrics. and contemporary "rap" is just about the same.
mircea_popescu: the crayfish, frog and pike story counts in romanian as "wholly original content by al donici", notwithstanding it's a plain as day translation of previous generation ru material.
mircea_popescu: all romanian literature, +- 2 or 3 people in the entire history, consists of translations and imports passed off as original.
mircea_popescu: and pretend like they have no clue about it, too. "i just got this idea".
mircea_popescu:
https://angel.co/syndicates << in other news, every proprietary scamsystem/kickstarter out there will be sooner or later building a bug-ridden, half-baked, ad-hoc implementation of the common wot.
mircea_popescu: "i don't have a name and i was born without a face, here's some salmon background" evaluates to p-bignum.
mircea_popescu: in other news, would any of the brighter minds present explain the jwz piece to me ? i have the feeling he thinks he's being clever, but i lack the resources to comprehend the intricate minutia of his idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i guess reuters, wired & all correctly judge that there's absolutely no brand value left in their shit and so why worry.
mircea_popescu: which is great, i guess, if you're at that level of stupid, but otherwise would seem kinda damaging.
mircea_popescu: anyway, so the point of the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so that reuters could run a piece saying "Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's not like their own unsufferable personalities ever bite them. it's just these damned dogs everywhere all the time!
mircea_popescu: that sciencemag bit is hysterical tho. idiots who buy into the whole "ip is needed for to creativity with!" hook line and sinker are displeased when it turns out "ip only exists for people to arb the process, and make money out of the money intended to support creativity". but it never occurs to them what the problem is. because hey, why should scientists be any better at thinking than random five year old, "dog bit me
mircea_popescu realised immediatelyt thereafter with some sadness that he can't actually be arsed to go into the anthill and impose sense upon it.
mircea_popescu just realised that what he should be doing with this time these days is interview isis derps.
mircea_popescu: hey, that's exactly what the republic of china's government hopes in china are. har har. they'll tax the mainland off taiwan!"
mircea_popescu: yeah dude. totally fucking suspect, that you film on my premises without paying me and then don't get to benefit from the product. so suspect it almost makes me wonder why the fuck would i even bother owning shit.
mircea_popescu: "Who filed the claim? Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Delta, two large national organizations of sisterly love, whose houses and members were featured in the video. This was highly suspect."
mircea_popescu: kinda how adolescents the world over do their dating. "hey, wanna go out with me ? no ? oh, i was only joking. ha-ha."
mircea_popescu: fluffypony no, the "joke" is only there to make the idiocy pass.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo>
https://imgur.com/Tv3cNqc << lol Wright really looks like a plant nao <<< ahahaa now i remember that muppet. intel turned him up sometime this autumn, total lulzfest.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Should we rename the blockchain Craigs List? : Bitcoin ... << pretty much the core of why redditards are so lulzy. THEY are going to RENAME things ? like what, their imaginary gf ? isis ?
mircea_popescu: l with us like the belief god may change your coke to pepsi : because it's easy, and because it caters to the specific lacks and infirmities of the "white" mind.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> just phrase it as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues <<< this is an exceptionally retarded approach to keeping idiots in check. it has a lengthy history of being deployed by "white" people ever before white people were invented, and it always failed. nevertheless, it's stil
mircea_popescu: punkman> "anthropomorphic global warming" << he means anthropogenic, but whatever. redditards.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Australian police raid Sydney home of reported bitcoin creator << ahahaha WHAT\
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm off to bed. looking forward to part 2 of the xotika discussion once Naphex shows up.
mircea_popescu: "drop everything! there's another same-way to do the stupid!"
mircea_popescu: "oh i know, we've never done the stupid thing THIS WAY before!"
mircea_popescu: god forsaken species that never in its history produced anything but stupid.
mircea_popescu: moreover, unless google;'s paying for this, why the fuck am i dirving their dumbass product on my dime.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone's downloading a browser to run your spunk app.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes afaik their major weakness is an inability to run in anything but chrome atm
mircea_popescu: i thought it was a one man show originally too, but apparently there's at least another guy (this CoraCrisT fellow) doing something in between ceo and pr.
mircea_popescu: i would expect it's a historical value of the software
mircea_popescu: that i recall the discussion of. i asked if it has resale/license value, and he said yes.
mircea_popescu: the one problem i see in there is that if there's 73 deposited and 35 withdrawn, the difference is unearned income, and improperly reported as shareholder equity.
mircea_popescu: just as long as they're paid fairly (ie, by share ownership proportion) they can be any arbitrary value between 0 and entreprise value
mircea_popescu: no, it generates dividends on board say-so out of its cash
mircea_popescu: it can pay whatever it wants in dividends, up to its entire cash balance.
mircea_popescu: they're not really related tho. so the site paid 35 btc in withdrawals (by performers) and 9 btc in dividends
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, it's an accumulator value. everything not otherwise accounted is shareholder equity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun recall what they charged, a few % but sliding scale
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's just the guy putting money in from his pocket.
mircea_popescu: for me for instance it is quite informative that a reasonable timespan for public consultation is ~2 mo.
mircea_popescu: to be fair : all out text is fine, the trouble starts when we quote the morlocks
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