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mircea_popescu: "for fucks sake, is it necessary to invade every last god forsaken swamp ? is burma next ???"
mircea_popescu: first time the equivalent of turing's definition was constructed in practice.
mircea_popescu: it is a central tenant of computer science, henceforth.
mircea_popescu: "There remains after today no alternative manner to deploy Bitcoin software, or indeed any software that is not a toy intended to be used by children playing, outside of this paradigm. May the switchover be bloody and painful in all the right places." is not some sort of a joke, and in no case can it be waved aside.
mircea_popescu: because the whitegoods are fucking made for a house with running water by people who have running water and intend to continue having it.
mircea_popescu: just like you can go make yourself a house on the prarie. it won't have running water. and all the whitegoods will work poorly fed from canister.
mircea_popescu: but in being non-ba project, it misses out on all those things a ba project gets.
mircea_popescu: if it burns to the ground tomorrow it's about fifty million years too late.
mircea_popescu: humanity as it chooses to understand itself is the chief enemy, actually, and also the author of shit like the gnu diff. and everything else.
mircea_popescu: b-a is not a fucking gift "to humanity" as that "humanity" chooses to understand itself. b-a is a gift to humanity as defined by b-a.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c hey, would you make the v graph alongside the wot graph ?
mircea_popescu: and this exact scenario has played out a dozen or more times in the history of b-a
mircea_popescu: (really, V chiefly exists because we put other thibngs together a while back, and we didn't at the time know yet this is how it'll come out.
mircea_popescu: because really - they much belong together, and i expect synergy to be productive
mircea_popescu: maybe mike'd consider making it a subthing of his excellent wot graph
mircea_popescu: which is exactly a) what should be favoured (make it easy for the DEPLOYERS to sign, let the writers have to do all the hard work) and b) maximally economical.
mircea_popescu: b) you farm these and let them age, what's the big deal. 99% of all social media accounts are registered for the purpose of aging and then be used in a scam exactly like is contemplated here.
mircea_popescu: a) twitter is a piece of shit web 2.0 item. they are probably hacked by 4 different teams as we speak and they don't even known
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can't be arsed to, but it takes anyone five minutes to create a twitter accouint, link it to a dead website and say "dear mircea popoescu" on it
mircea_popescu: lmao twitter now sucks uisers phone number as a "security" thijg too ?
mircea_popescu: well, it's denominated in one euro increments, and i don't think he ever had outstanding enough to payu for even one year of college
mircea_popescu: antonosika no, that's not what it says. the contract creates no nude obligation to pay, which may be satisfied, and then a separate and ulterior consideration as to whom.
mircea_popescu: i'd seriously consider ending davout's contract if he pays without signature.
mircea_popescu: "i am taking this from you because you're too stupid to have it". and they knew this is true, and SIGHED THEIR RELIEF.
mircea_popescu: (can you actually read stuff like that or should i provide a summary instead ?)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your no shortage of "sane examples" refers to an abundance of "convenient retelliungs"
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. technology is intellectually sterile.
mircea_popescu: "how do you propose to make diff work ?" "above my pay grade chief, but here's a website with code snippets"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it did prevail in the justice of the time, did it not.
mircea_popescu: for the record, it's not even clear moving from bearer to certified insturment is anti-liberty. for insmtance - hansa used the certifierd instrument greatly, because as a merchant, giving your son a plain "pay the bearer so much silver upon presentation of this note in such town" was merely an invitation to any highwayman on route to "please fuck this young man in the ass and here's the pay for your trouble"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: technically money, in its circulatory form (ie, currency - to distinguish from the money as unit of account, for instance) was coins and bank-notes. coins are now disused, for entirely practical reasons ; and bank-notes come in those two flavours. moving from one to the other isn't THAT big a leap.
mircea_popescu: "pretty miss dutchess found by peasants - they didn't get to keep her"
mircea_popescu: which is quite contradictory with all the soaps the peasant women watch, which all reduce to
mircea_popescu: perhaps by this notion same peasant who finds young dutchess and "always had her in family" should ALSO keep her
mircea_popescu: well the entire contention was the strange notion that peasant who "finds" vermeer and "has always had it in family" should get to keep it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: debate that teh peoples involved have little juice left in the ballsac.
mircea_popescu: sure, and exact same could be argued (and has been argued, by people arguing from your same chari) about trhe evil capitalists which "do not even see the common people they vampirize"
mircea_popescu: so you say "they came as locusts" ? so did we. ask the power rangers.
mircea_popescu: the class at issue is the class which includes that "they" and that other "they" and also "us".
mircea_popescu: special pleading is a category of pleading, which is a category of speech, which happens in the forum, where the speaker proposes that one member of a category be different from the others on no grounds.
mircea_popescu: so. b-a is the irc channel where vampires of mankind gather, to discuss how to lower into pederasty the teenaged daughters of hard working social media wokers.
mircea_popescu: can you say something more substantial of this than plain if third hand echos of 1970s soviet postcards ?