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mircea_popescu: historically various accidental constraints made the construction of one's ideas vulnerable, and he ended up sharing some part with the mob
mircea_popescu: and so everythiong the common man has must be taken from him, right now.
mircea_popescu: for everything the common man "has" is a) not his good property and b) acquired by him through some osrt of redistribution or other
mircea_popescu: this discussion made me intuit a strange sort of reverse-marxism.
mircea_popescu: ape may steal from man ; but man can not steal from ape. everything man takes from ape is glory.
mircea_popescu: or for making it impossible for the lot to exert any further control.
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin started with unnamed guy, then essentially vanished. except contemporary idiots using "blockchain technologies""
mircea_popescu: (/me is still unpersuaded anyone involved in lisp to date isn't an idiot)
mircea_popescu: this is actually a perfectly legitimate reason to take things from idiots
mircea_popescu: intuitive impression to the contrary notwithstanding, values do not contain their own definition.
mircea_popescu: for that matter setting a rate of flow gauge (like say a tap) to "4" is not in any sense similar to setting a wallet to contain "4". it's more alike "4x", really.
mircea_popescu: if i want you to set a vector to "4" do i mean 4.0, 4.0, 4.0 ? do i mean 4.0, 0.0, 0.0 ie the 1st invariant ? do i mean 4.0, 1.0, 1.0 ie the 2nd invariant ? do i simply mean 4.0, normal, normal ? what normal ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me by the time i dun know anymore how to fill the something with water i have a problem more serious in there.
mircea_popescu: for the record, /me holds the above way above theft and rape. it is the sort of intellectual dishonesty that should result in being drawn and quartered.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, if the writing part's the big problem, one's clearly not thinking enough.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: really, alf proposed a half truth when he said that if handling the mechanics of signing are the major time eater, one's clearly not doing enough work with the patches.
mircea_popescu: which is why "a life free of conflict" is such ridoinculous contradiction in terms.
mircea_popescu: you can't really have anything even resembling homeostasis in systems without contrary forces.
mircea_popescu: and no, "what's sensible with a narrow view may be insane from a broader perspective" doesn't hold because "every sperm is sacred" and assorted nonsense
mircea_popescu: well it is also in what a government of women would hold (and in those countries which do allow such nonsense, do hold) as reckless disregard of their litter.
mircea_popescu: trinque you familiar with the "psychotic" observation of poincarre (the president, not the other one) that "universal lack of suffering may never be a policy goal, for the simplest means to effect it would be simply killing everyone" ?
mircea_popescu: i'd rather expect it's "a reckless disregard of life and property".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, re the constant empress cixi references : the esteemed duke of wellington also contributed "Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!"
mircea_popescu: fortunately the point is exactly that bitcoin doesn't work like that.
mircea_popescu: because i'd so totally trade a mile of "internet" by which our friend of course means retardorama web 2.0, for an inch of bbs.
mircea_popescu: ". In the same way that the people who used to use BBS systems in small numbers that are dwarfed by the number of internet users, Bitcoin will undergo a similar transformation, with similar beneficial effects, only this time, penetrating more deeply into society at every level than what is simple net access today."
mircea_popescu: and they don't have to learn about santa and the guy in the sky. they will, sure, if that's what you wanna tell me.
mircea_popescu: exactly. you don't have to grow fat and stupid now that you have kids. but if you expect to, sure, you will.
mircea_popescu: children, inasmuch as they're yours, expect exactly what they're getting and will be equally thankful for it, which is why a six year old is happy whether poor african or rich swede, just as long as he's with his mother.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman again, matter of internalised expectations.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman which is how camp inmates ended up teaching linguistics lmao
mircea_popescu: rearing children is perhaps not so unlike going to reeducation camp for a few years. it "didn't work" on a. solzhenitsyn. it DID work, obviously, on all the schmucks he knows by name but you do not. so...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman i bet you it's primarly driven by internalised expectations.
mircea_popescu: whereas fuctkarded abstractions fucktarded people come up with greatly, and i do mean GREATLY benefit from a spanking.
mircea_popescu: the former's sane, the later's of the same ilk as children going to bed in their favourite clothes
mircea_popescu: and wanting everything you do to be driven by your brain.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between wanting to use your brain as a general thing,
mircea_popescu: (which, incidentally, is WHY we only care to fuck women < 20something. that's it. after she's moved on to office life, you can have her.)
mircea_popescu: same hit people going to work for a bureaucracy exhibit.
mircea_popescu: i guess the formula probably is, "the predominance of women best suited for housewifing equals the unit divided by the maximal litter of a woman"