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mircea_popescu: no fucking idea what they think it'll do, not like we don't have original copies.
mircea_popescu: punkman "let's put the blockchain into such a state it's no longer a blochcain"
mircea_popescu: this mental masturbation of inserting us into things as if it matters. it doesn't.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_modem> no 'war on drugz' - no sinaloa << dude, forget it. he was there before the us, he'll be there after.
mircea_popescu: first mexican beheading, a woman. not empowering enough for the derpstablishment ?
mircea_popescu: how is such a great story not in hollywood i wish to know.
mircea_popescu: this was a woman, married, with children. to a drug cartel boss. whose enemies sent a slick kid to seduce her, which the kid did. and he convinced her to withdraw millions of $ from her husband's secret stashes in the us
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know the fascinating story of one guadalupe leija serrano ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, as in all dead empires. caragiale notes the case of the 1900s hungarian who declares that he'd rather eat soap wrapped in the hungarian flag than cheese in plain white paper.
mircea_popescu: ie, the first step to establish if some item sucked was, "is it romanian made ?" for if it were...
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you gotta appreciate, at least at the time, being romanian was, to romanians, mostly a derogation.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i actually owned the town and their sorry asses to boot. but hey.
mircea_popescu: so then when i wanted to meet them she arranged a meeting and they were liek "oh, he's definitely not romanian"
mircea_popescu: best anecdote to illustrate this being, of course, that i had a (us born) woman over, many years ago, and she made some local friends (clueless kids all excioted about this english speaking american woman that knows computers and with nary an idea about the world around them)
mircea_popescu: chiefly on the grounds of not subscribing to various idiocies that there as anywhere constitute the spirit of propriety.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i meant was merely that i don't generally seem very romanian to romanians themselves
mircea_popescu: which is an ancient pecenegian clan. about as romanian as it gets.
mircea_popescu: how did that quote go, "In confronting that which they feared, he had become something else in their eyes...and no longer their champion."
mircea_popescu: there were like.... maaaybe two notable romanians. one was german
mircea_popescu: you get to be the first dragon, for lack of notable historical anything.
mircea_popescu: this is fascinating. perhaps the only advantage of being romanian, but also perhaps the only advantage that could truly be called an advantage
mircea_popescu: (this term, which probably does not exist in english, should probably be very much akin the xtian practice of eating crackers)
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i dun feel cosubstantial with the idiots of the past.
mircea_popescu: or just them, the lot of them, up to an unspecified and unspecifiable border
mircea_popescu: "i'm making a loss on every sale but hope to make it up on volume" ?
mircea_popescu: turning a broken system into an extensive broken system does not fix the system.
mircea_popescu: but up until that point... the whole charade had been powered by her trying to deny this. which is substantially what honor is.
mircea_popescu: not because lazy, not because princess in her own head, but simply because there's an end to things. at which point she gets the ants.
mircea_popescu: and i mean, mentally naked, not without clothes, but without any ideology
mircea_popescu: i suppose i'm not putting enough explicit into this which i know from experience but perhaps alone. there is this thing that happens to a slave, when she's naked
mircea_popescu: i answered that in not taking the ants, they're doing exactly what people proposed miners do in 2010 : "well it's centralizing but they should honorably resist"
mircea_popescu: they learned it the same way, too : by having it beaten into them as children.
mircea_popescu: objectively, what difference can you see between the slave that mines slavecoin because otherwise the ants and the holy paladin that doesn't ravish the maid because... "he couldn't live with himself" otherwise ?
mircea_popescu: even if you do. the ants are adversity. what's the definition of honorable if not "perseverent in the face of adversity" ?
mircea_popescu: goes right into the discussion re monetary incentives a week or two ago.
mircea_popescu: just like, you know, "coal burns in the furnace, yet coal in the mine will never run out" or whatever
mircea_popescu: it may very well turn out that bitcoin is a case of wishful thinking, entirely being powered by the illusion that we've managed to "get free energy" for as long as this illusion that "miners can be centrally verifying in a decentralizewd manner" lasts.
mircea_popescu: there fundamentally can not be a way to organize mining that's not centralizing, BECAUSE mining is going to have to follow the same rules, as that's what it does for bitcoin : checks them.
mircea_popescu: not that this problem wasn't broadly predicted and discussed 2010-2011. the solution, predictably, from white young adult us schmucks, was "honor!1!"
mircea_popescu: it was slowly nursed over half a decade by the above unfortunate centralizing force.
mircea_popescu: this is how the current "45% of network is dumb as rocks" thing has appeared
mircea_popescu: and so, once it's open, people that aren't every bit as good as you no longer have any incentive to continue
mircea_popescu: the way this works is : if you're any good as a miner, you're going to have your own infrastructure. you might keep the pool closed,
mircea_popescu: the broader problem is that the way mining works is very much discouraging middle, which is a serious problem, as death of the middle class always precedes centralization.
mircea_popescu: this middle may perhaps exist, sure. sadly it's hard to observe
mircea_popescu: chiefly because that game doesn't exist, in a number of wayus.