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mircea_popescu: "What if you had access to the combined intellectual powers of all mankind? It would be easier for you to make decisions." << you know, not only this does not follow, but the contrary is actually recorded as anecdotal observation by pretty much all sources. like say russell.
mircea_popescu: gernika a) would you agree that the superset of this inquiry is the bbs and b) would you say it meets definitions of either "forum" or "decentralized" as you use them ?
mircea_popescu: (clearing, obviously, is a term of art, in finance. it's the process whereby definite items are recognized by others. very similar to the function of a torens title registrar, or the births book, or the military despatches.)
mircea_popescu: ok. it's for clearing risk in a centrally-controlled environment.
mircea_popescu: well bitbet is plainly a central market for clearing risk.
mircea_popescu: but in the original terms. "in Truthcoin the operations performed are almost exactly the same as existing Bitcoin transactions".
mircea_popescu: to take a step out of the purest theory closer t oactual practice.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, "the earth centralizes the imago-es of all astral bodies, as their light projection". nevertheless, the earth is not a black hole.
mircea_popescu: but the "meet" in "market" has a different intension from "meet" as in "sql join".
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is why it actually is trustless. but also why it's irreversible.
mircea_popescu: depends where you're taking it. this could perhaps be said.
mircea_popescu: dja know of any example from nature where something like that happens ?
mircea_popescu: this argument is not even apparent if people were spherical cows in a vacuum. but as people are, it's impossible to obtain an outcome by opposite process.
mircea_popescu: well no. the fundamental problem is that the function of a market is to centralize trade. decentralized market is like cool boiler.
mircea_popescu: jesus reddit is retarded. omg not even wrong where to even start /me abandons the entire thread.
mircea_popescu: you understand the fundamental problem with trying to create a "decentralized market" do you ?
mircea_popescu: "Truthcoin is my ambitious project to create a trustless P2P prediction-marketplace. This is possible because, unlike most marketplaces, the end product of a prediction market (PM) is information. "
mircea_popescu: recommended reading for asciilifeform just because i know he's a livresque masochist.
mircea_popescu: "certain elements" are "attacking" the re-ripple thing by pointing out that it's stupid and pointless. TO THE BARRICADES!1
mircea_popescu: lkol wait. 21 thing won't accept btc for its "product" ?
mircea_popescu: kinda been degrading tho, curious if there's the required 1-200 btc left in the eth cheerleader camp to get it back on target.
mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, poloniex lost its 50% eth trading marketshare. now #3, #1 being something "gatecoin"
mircea_popescu: that's 100% of psycho, and most of nonspeciffic pain (which only exists because gps wanted a loophole to prescripe medocal social security to healthy men) and then "old age/shit habits" diseases. like some arthitis types (aka gout)./
mircea_popescu: one of the most lucrative and so often targetted by pharma spaces is where doctors go "dunno, let's try this. and that. and then see."
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> But even now those things are going from treatments for the rare and debilitating to treatments for the common and hammy << exactl;y, and these two go together. we're now at the point where "important" vaccines for purely imaginary conditions are being pushed out. srsly, some people get nonspecific pain from what may be a viral infection ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but the 'research' is not happening. << this is a point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> why this particular schmuck was chosen as the whipping boy of the day << was in the news recently, '87 born catamite of "tiger fund" gonzo increased price of some shitty expired patent medicine nobody else was manufacturing because us is as springy as a dead halibut.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron watch the guy being like 112 lbs and really awkward too
mircea_popescu: i bet the "controversial" ceo now uses his vast wealth to fucking hang the entire troop of assholes, including the da involved.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually 365 to 370k some of the messiest blocks in all of the chain
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's kinda the thing with the earlier "oh, they'll get out of the pen, fat is compressible"
mircea_popescu: i know i've not seen nearly enough of it yet to suit my tastes.
mircea_popescu: you know, like there's relatively little research on the true benefits of hanging us academitards above a smoldering pit of hot peppers.
mircea_popescu: "there is relatively little research on the true impact of merit scholarships. "
mircea_popescu: marxism went from an overgrown cult/self help weirdo club to this sort of implicit agreed upon mantra.
mircea_popescu: "Critics have said that merit scholarships may help institutions, but don’t truly help students (most recipients of merit scholarships have many options) or broad social needs in higher education (the merit awards divert attention and funds from the needs of low-income students)."
mircea_popescu: in the us, i am deeply unsurprised it would do nothing.
mircea_popescu: and the people who know they don't read because omfg, that'd be giving in.
mircea_popescu: fragmentation of the masses! for gleat gloly & justic!!1
mircea_popescu: so now there's going to be three-four meaningless forums + reddits + whatever else.
mircea_popescu: kinda lulzy outcome, the stupid got left behind and then decided to give away their remaining asset and split up!
mircea_popescu: anyway, the angry jealous poor club should take solace in the knowledge that i've shed more dollar value this calendar year than they will ever manage to see.
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see the only salient points re isis are that a) has own agency ; b) percepibly unalligned to usg.
mircea_popescu: the definition of inputs into the army camp is "plunder".
mircea_popescu: the very definition of army includes two points : a) that it does not support itself (if it did it'd be a stampede) ; b) that it makes up the difference through plunder.
mircea_popescu: ("our tanks photosynthesize now!!11 SUPPORTS ITSELF!!1")
mircea_popescu: that is not an answer which can be made into a question.
mircea_popescu: political choices are in the end nude exercises in narrative fiction.
mircea_popescu: so i guess the real story here is, mujahedeen cultivated usg to provide them with apples.
mircea_popescu: "usg spent some items to addresses it didn't have the key for. isis cracked the keys."