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mircea_popescu: how is coinbase going to pay for big blocks. more tax money ? more fees ? what ?
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody ever thought to ask the self-proclaimed "bitcoin businesses" that nevertheless have 0 bitcoin income signing whatever ridicuolous proclamation HOW DO TYHEY INTEND TO PAY FOR IT.
mircea_popescu: "here's your flier advertising cheaper mass transit in lieu of taxes this year. fuck off."
mircea_popescu: and if in facvt it is cheaper, that's only proof the government is taking in too much tax.
mircea_popescu: well how about fuck that. no "bigger blocks", no mass transit, no government anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then it's "since you need us, here's what you must do".
mircea_popescu: 1st it's all about "why will you use something you control instead of something we control ? it's cheaper! environment! racism!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and that's exactly how govt ploys work, ever since forever. in all cases.
mircea_popescu: to be noted, of course, that this "if you're poor enough to need to use our mnass transit, here is how you must sit" nonsense follows twenty-thirty years of "oh using cars is bad for the environment, when mass transit is just as good"
mircea_popescu: (my own interpretation of reality being that china has decided there is no need of a us in the future, which would be implemented through a slow divestment so as to extract the maximal value possible out of their holdings. now that they've actually moved on it, they're not going to change course. which means 2010s are the last decade for the us.)
mircea_popescu has redominated all his real estate leases throughout the world into usd during the past ~year, so this should be fun indeed.
mircea_popescu: CHINA DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW CHINA SHOULD WORK SO THE WORLD CAN WORK LIKE WE WANT IT TO BECAUSE WE'RE IMPORTANT!111
mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that
mircea_popescu: i am unconvinced by any explanation of decline that reads different from "success brought abundance which made people complacent. the end."
mircea_popescu: and i don't care how "raceis", "rapey" or whatever else the understanding of women as people is.
mircea_popescu: therre is no such thing as "creativity" in tech, and there's certainly no place for "women in tech" understood as monkeys.
mircea_popescu: reality may surprise and remain valid. thoughts may not. surprising thoughts are ipso facto invalid. which is why the destruction of engineering as an intellectual activity is covered in "creativity"
mircea_popescu: if you also know, the same way, why do you want it ? if you do not, why do you aim to be involved in this ?
mircea_popescu: who made the standard ? how did they know what to put into it ?
mircea_popescu: let me put this question in its proper framing, harking back to the scholastic disputes of a millenium ago.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does anyone need "best business practices" ? and what do they need them FOR ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, if i were to say "the appearance of best business practices is proof positive business as a going concern is dead" you'd see what i mean
mircea_popescu: you could run the entire "vc software industry" off of half a brain
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no i meant ag3nt_zer0 s crop. i don't read the other fucktard but i know what he'sa saying anywa
mircea_popescu: whats the executive summary, girl wanted to fuck him, he said no, girls brother killed him ?
mircea_popescu: dawg im not reading that idiot yale grad's bland prose.
mircea_popescu: but the romanians didn't much like the soviets. (if you recall, nixon visited in 69 etc)
mircea_popescu: it was actually in part based on stolen us ip throughout the mid 60s, and in part on actually refined tube techs
mircea_popescu: im not making any claims as to value or quality, mind.
mircea_popescu: a degradation of that expectation under the blessings of mass educationm is visible for instance in the very vulgar but sadly necessary habit of peppering ^H^H^H^H in the logs.
mircea_popescu: (this , incidentally, is a large reason why classic texts are so commonly misunderstood by the layman - such as for instance shakespeare by tolstoy. there exists this device where a is replaced by b with the expectation on the part of the writer that the reader notices the substitution and holds it meaningful
mircea_popescu: the spanish/german substitution was intended to be funny, to they familair with the classics.
mircea_popescu: charles 5th, hre, said I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
mircea_popescu: the second is a tongue in cheek reference to a famous quote
mircea_popescu: you readily see how the first one was being sarcastic, re alf's complaints right ?
mircea_popescu: try telling the us tax man that "you just never gave a shit about irs stuff"
mircea_popescu: the fundamental driver being the stupid woman in question's inferiority complex. she knows she's filth and she knows actual people wouldn't give her idiocy the time of day. which is "resolved" in her mind as "of course what everyone spends ever ymoment doing is thinking about my stupid shit. yes that's right i'm that central"
mircea_popescu: or it could mean he fucvking forgot, or that he finds my body odour objectionable and wants to get out already
mircea_popescu: "He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable."
mircea_popescu: no, seriously, it's a cornerstone of a functioning internal life : always have the source material at the ready.
mircea_popescu: odds are you'll remember it ever-so-slighty wrong and piss me off
mircea_popescu: ftr i dun hold the "always language of slaves" thing and omg if you're going to say what i said link to sauce!
mircea_popescu: i have yet to find anything intellectually stimulating in spanish. the thing's incredibly dead, last noteworthy anything happened apparently in the 1800s
mircea_popescu is glad to see the downward spiral activated, will welcome a world with that excrement pile relegated to its proper corner.
mircea_popescu: "Now I happen to have a large enough domain portfolio that I have my own personal rep at Godaddy"
mircea_popescu: "UPDATE! PayPal has reversed their decision!" was the best part.
mircea_popescu: if the alternative costs $19 but breaks down once a day, the 1k one is cheaper.
mircea_popescu: dude check it out, next year's crop of "evasion technisuke crrrrreativity" will be rot13