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mircea_popescu: way i read this sort of stuff from you is like so : "stoicism is important for one's balance" ; "the stoic position is 'heroes hang when traitors triumph'" ergo "i will look through time and retroactively call traitors those who succeed and heros those who fail, irrespective of how derps generally fail and competent people are rarely unimpeachable, because i really have no other ways and means to maintain balance so i'
mircea_popescu: "The aim of this mail is to let you know that, according to default, your bank account has been put on credit hold status, and will remain so until your balance will be completely liquidated. Your attention to this matter is sorely encouraged."
mircea_popescu: problem is that the last people who could think retired in the late 80s, and the leftover idiots will not yield until trampled. so they'll get trampled, short detour, we move on to hating ru and cn in 2030.
mircea_popescu: they'd prolly fade off the hate radar and we could all move on to hate putin and the chinese hydra like god meant it.
mircea_popescu: if it came to terms with the fact that they're in charge of a population of shitheads in a poorly developed country barely hanging on to the first world, with decaying infrastructure they can't upkeep etc,
mircea_popescu: also useful for forced public nudity social experiments etc.
mircea_popescu: (on paper they should get the major benefit of blame deflection, but in practice it dun work, everyone bames washington anyway)
mircea_popescu: by now usg painted itself in the very sad corner where it has to provide housing for free and does the whole ration meal thing via mcd. all the drawbacks of centrally planned, scarcely any of the benefits.
mircea_popescu: dude how the fuck does this braindamaged fucktarded generation work, already.
mircea_popescu: "Although Wikileaks first publicized the emails in 2012, they did not release all of them until two years later." << lmao wut, rly ?!
mircea_popescu: some Luke-Jr somewhere swore he "was delivered" and the fishwrappers echoed the unverified, unsubstantial claim is all.
mircea_popescu: shinohai something on a 100mbit pipe i imagine he means
mircea_popescu: <gribble> Sent 57 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> dulap desperately needs to not be the only industrial-sized therealbitcoin node. phuctor is severely i/o starved << so help hanbot get it going.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile they sold for 1/4 what i was offering ? "presale" , what's that, the web2.0 word for "fraud" ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lol ? they claimed iirc something more like 0.001 which is whyt i was offering 5k for 1btc last year
mircea_popescu: ascii_field: we know how. but market does not want penicillin. it wants the normal cocktail of horseshit and opium << this sounds like it';d sell
mircea_popescu: "it has problems, can't deliver on customer expectations, etc". you see the seeds in the amazon recent lol/
mircea_popescu: the 2016 usg line re bitcoin will be that "never happened, not important, uninteresting"
mircea_popescu: 2 uni profs aren't a threat to the fucking mice in their own lab.
mircea_popescu: but in fact it withered to a coupla, and doled out through the university program.
mircea_popescu: last year it was, "tens of millions". merely not jumping to hundred this year = fail
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you will notice, if inclined to notice, the distress manifest in the reduction of funding.
mircea_popescu: but hey. until that day, every wooden cutout's a soldier.
mircea_popescu: both these got a little crashed, and yes i'm going to bleed the living life out of the entire set of derp shartups, and yes it can say until it falls over.
mircea_popescu: lawl. actually hanbot & shinohai the stuff's quite well related. sv knows how to do one thing, the whole "make a market out of a trillion shitheads and sell them sheep olives for quarter pennies". and usg lives in this delusional alt-reality where it is enough for it to say, and things happen.
mircea_popescu: well... honestly, if one takes the stand that mcd is not really food, that same one'd be hard pressed to count neoprotestant lols as religion.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, so was england, at about the same time. diff flavour.
mircea_popescu: shinohai ironically, the us was founded on sectarian neoprotestantism alright.
mircea_popescu: might as well say "any kid today knows nkr is <<a country>>".
mircea_popescu: ask any muppet today, he thinks europe is christian and christian values fundamentally european.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and italy was an empire and spain was an empire and what else.
mircea_popescu: offer them what iran got, what cuba got, they'll take it.
mircea_popescu: is it a bad thing that i find him more amusing than the run of the mill usg "comedian" ?