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mircea_popescu: could be a spv wallet even. it just checks for a speciffic address being paid, derived from the key.
mircea_popescu: not like you can't make one of these as an actual autonomous system sitting in hdd cpu
mircea_popescu: i suppose "an actual cryptovault you will never, ever crack" goes into the pile of things the republic is going to strike back with if rattled enough.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda too lazy to read, but what did they do, caught some derp's gf's mother's (she was underage) cc on coinbase or what.
mircea_popescu: "so then what hope for anarcho-syndicalism is there ???" you mean that enchanted land where you don't have to work because you're somehow rich and yet idiots being rich does not degrade richdom ? plus you have "all the choices" but never have to take one to get there ? "yes!!!!"
mircea_popescu: this is the overarching point. idiot : "bitcoin empowers idiots just like me". no, it doesn't.
mircea_popescu: Short of cauterizing your own genitals, nothing seems like it would change who you are like speaking in an-other's language. Blech, I'd rather wear someone else's underwear, no thanks, I'll take the 12 credits but no way am I retaining anything."
mircea_popescu: "If you want to watch these invisible unconscious defenses play out right in front of you, in real time, in a real way, watch an adult American try to learn a second language.
mircea_popescu: it's like the matrix, see. take the red pill of escaping censorship into the loving embrace of the nsa ofshots!
mircea_popescu: seems the entire "bitcoin is for crymynalzzzz" is more of the same "i wish i was cool, maybe if i put this hat on ?"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile dumbass white kids in montana can't get laid with or without assistance, what markets.
mircea_popescu: i assassinated buterin, lolski, derpersson, whoever. no need for a "market".
mircea_popescu: all the pants wetting about "Assasination markets" and whatnot is probably misplaced.
mircea_popescu: punkman so far bitcoin is batting 0 / 2 for "criminal anonimity" is it.
mircea_popescu: davout what exactly are they gonna do, go take up gardening ?
mircea_popescu: <davout> "Bitcoin XT: a project run by two men << who are the men ?!
mircea_popescu: eagerly awayting the amir taaki - mike what's his name NEWTHEREUM!!11 next spring.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <btcdrak> Mike is an outright liar. << this is neither surprising nor remarkable by this point.
mircea_popescu: word. "why can't i quit pop culture ?" "because to you it's a solution, not a problem."
mircea_popescu: culture isn't a symptom of our dying society, it is its heroic measures."
mircea_popescu: "There is no information there. It is there in order for you to talk about it-- so you have something to talk to others about, through a screen darkly or face to face, because if it weren't for these meaningless media stories which includes all partisan politics people would have nothing to say to each other, and society's collapse into hikikomori narcissism would be total. Which is why it is correct to say that pop
mircea_popescu: "The Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, Nev., has come under scrutiny since one of its patrons suffered an actual heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger there earlier this week."
mircea_popescu: supposedly there exist suckers buying into this. like supposedly there existed suckers buying into the original "sale". right-o.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: on 4 oct, last time it was 3, the "mkt cap" was 50mn. now 80mn. because sure, 60% inflation month to month, this works now.
mircea_popescu: from 1.x to 4 then to 3 then rebound then... then what ?
mircea_popescu: YO STUPID WOMEN : SHUT THE FUCK UP. nobody, really, literally, nobody wants to see or hear you. the kitchen is good enough.
mircea_popescu: yet i am a self-deluded imbecile, who imagines she still has something to say in spite of that.
mircea_popescu: "Disclaimer: I am not a kernel programmer, so I may have am certain I have misinterpreted some of the technical aspects of Linus’s original post."
mircea_popescu: The reason I think women are hot today is that they are today, not that they are hot. I watch pornos from the seventies and I think to myself, "well, it would be better than bestiality, I guess."
mircea_popescu: i wager no fucking higher power would as much as sneeze on this one.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to fix here. these aren't problems people get. these are problems things trying to masquerade as people get.
mircea_popescu: EVEN IF they find some way to "fix it" what they'll have found is a way to make empty bottles fake fullness for longer than anyone'd care to inquire.
mircea_popescu: this acting like every vessel that didn't happen to get a soul at fill-up is nevertheless full and should be given attention... sigh.
mircea_popescu: "go kill yourself. now. this is the best thing any specialist could ever tell you, and the only thing that you really should hear, from anyone. you are an unfortunately failed experiment in biocombinatorics. end it already, it's both uninteresting and wasteful."
mircea_popescu: the obnoxious thing is that tlp fucking coddles the fucktard.
mircea_popescu: sadly they're the pathetic us passive-agressive reinterpretations thereof.
mircea_popescu: this fuckhead should have been getting atomic whirlies and shitwedgies for 20 hours a day until he killed himself aged 15.
mircea_popescu: lately. Now that I'm nearing the end of my academic career, I'm starting to freak out about my career potential, and the related anxiety has me neglecting school work even further."
mircea_popescu: "I'm an economics major who doesn't know what the hell he is going to do for a career after graduating, and frankly doesn't feel qualified to do very much. I went into university thinking that I would try for medical school, but I was one of those kids in high school who got good grades without trying very hard, and my nearly non-existent study habits have left me with a C average, although even that has been slipping
mircea_popescu: (to mr pig, to mrs cow and up the girl's butt, a pickle)
mircea_popescu: (to the gent, pork, to the lady, veal, and to the miss in the back, a pickle.)
mircea_popescu: waiter, yelling out the order to cook : "la domnu' porc, la doamna vaca si la domnisoara-n fund un castravete."
mircea_popescu: romanian has an entire chapter dedicated to these. the fundamental attribution error, in romanian, is the confusion between 2nd line attribute and agent-complement
mircea_popescu: is broadly intended to mean "in the manner of a slightly-derogatory old style word for female" ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, because try as one might, the genders may be interchangeable but the sexes - not.
mircea_popescu: these two groups, the people who want to fuck 14 yo girls, and the people who do not want faggotry to be mental illness, will come to blows.
mircea_popescu: this yields the serious problem that... when does gayness ripen into no longer pathological ? and why ?
mircea_popescu: so the truth of the matter is that yes, sexual interest in early teen females is normal and common, and perhaps not ~necessarily~ harmful to the females in question [in those conditions where communication is sparse and pop density is under 1 per sq mile - which pointedly DOES NOT mean NYC or akron, ohio!], whereas sexual interest in bosy the same age is NOT common, or normal. but pathological. period.
mircea_popescu: "o really pops, she like, kisses your wee wee that once, and the skin was even retracted ? you go tiger!"
mircea_popescu: worst fucking film ever, the only thing it informs us is, just how fucktardedly primitive our parents were, sexually speaking.
mircea_popescu: i watched it because of tlp's idiotic fixation on basinger and an insistence on "white heels". a) she wears no heels at all ; b) she is as hot as my doorman.
mircea_popescu: next thing you know wife gets too confident of her position and the kid's covered in helmets.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the mistress is a very important surogate for the functional (ie, 3-4 wives) arrangement.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i am of the firm belief that an adult male with wealth and a monofambly is a liability to both the wife and the children.