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mircea_popescu: who the fuck even comes up with this shit. "there's future left"
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest electroal slogans here (in the line of "podremos vivir mejor", of course) was... "hay mas futuro"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. like the us did it back when it mattered.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do these schmucks need as much as a cigarette butt ?
mircea_popescu: borrows in europe, distributes loot to people in capital
mircea_popescu: decimation: what usg agency would perform this work domestically? asciilifeform:at&t. << top kek
mircea_popescu: but the idea throughout, at least in my head, was to have something to give new bloods
mircea_popescu: well, an item has the advantage that it can be used as it can be used, rather than as can be intended.
mircea_popescu: we will never have enough of these to simply throw away either
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said, this wasn't to my mind related to the p2p relay thing
mircea_popescu: "so you'd like to learn more about bitcoin ? here's a pogo and here's a webpage, make it work"
mircea_popescu: the idea was to make use of net jacks in people's houses
mircea_popescu: no, the thing they spent a trillion to build missiles and subs
mircea_popescu: again, the possibility is here more important than the actuality.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if bitcoin nodes agree to any different time, it's rejected.
mircea_popescu: decimation if this facetious "precision" were the point, it wouldn't be t here and t+1 hour a km away.
mircea_popescu: decimation there is no "sun does" immediately. sun doesn't. what there is, is, "here's what i say the sun does".
mircea_popescu: it already allows me to publicly mock all sorts of traditional power structures, reject nist, what have you.
mircea_popescu: mod6 iirc asciilifeform saw the same wedge spot for a bit.
mircea_popescu: also better than watching vr mj or whatever it is emi puts out
mircea_popescu: so, whatever, dogecon, keisercoin, auroracoin, gavincoin, blablacoin, let the kids have fun
mircea_popescu: this is a necessity, given that reddit simply is "that collection of people at the age and level of stupidity of a redditard"
mircea_popescu: reddit then creating a new dogecoin to serve its perceived needs is a sign of reddit staying reddit, which is top say fucktarded and unable to learn from its mistakes.
mircea_popescu: an' for that matter the "basis" doesn't work like you imagine it does.
mircea_popescu: (trying to make sure you can actually claim your prize - as it is anyone can in principle use a freenode nick)
mircea_popescu: also consider leaving a comment with the link and a functional email address on the trilema post.
mircea_popescu: punkman how far off do you think tyhat piece is, as a local ?
mircea_popescu: there is aschilopat, which is a purely nonsense word that is use to convey roughly the same notion, "invisible gross diformity worthy of pity" but it's blue collar slang mostly.
mircea_popescu: just like in english, it doesn't actually mean anything, unlike english it is not used by the hipstery youth.
mircea_popescu: fact is, if you're not willing to consider the things you aren't going to do, your not doing them is not any sort merit, and it certainly won't ever work in your favour.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-07-2015#1193636 << consider many of the things we regularly discuss here. most people are neither willing to consider not even willing to look upon the outrage that goes on daily, hourly. be it icons of say badly beaten up women, or whatever else. plenty of people keep lists of words they won't ever say. this disinclination ~to consider~, however the subject justifies it, is the c
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and generally, the quality of a system is to be measured by how many people it can make life meaningful for, not how many people it has to kill to survive.
mircea_popescu: so the problem there is of management not of nature. chinese exam taker is a great asset in any sanely balanced system.
mircea_popescu: unless you wish to experimentally prove that ~you~ can insert leap seconds into places.
mircea_popescu: a matter of conventional agreementr, currently overseen by exactly usg.
mircea_popescu: decimation in any case, the time bitcoin uses is a political construct.
mircea_popescu: specifically, that if you wait for the "optimal" you're waiting forever.