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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski entirely up to him i would think, but yeah.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski hard to price the sovereign risk for russia tho
mircea_popescu: how many people came here with a "omg i can't believe how stupid i was" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: just like the "community" of high voltage wire lickers, or "transsexuals" or what have you may only exist for as long as it's entirely made of either fresh idiots or the trolls that bait them
mircea_popescu: the thing the "community" prefers to ignore is that its continued existence is fully predicated on it being made 80% of people who are not older than six months and don't intend to be.
mircea_popescu: anyone ~else~ inclined to listen to gavin, take notice
mircea_popescu: which is, incidentally, why any discussion with the devil may only logically start with a full and unwavering declaration from the devil that it is talking to ~the incorruptible~. ie, outside of its jurisdiction, they whose "corruptness" may not be judged by it.
mircea_popescu: obama also "might" be corrupt. nixon "actually was" corrupt. the difference between these is left as an exercise, but not to the reader of history. it's strictly an exercise to the writer of history.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense "cuomo might be corrupt". they... they just haven't figured it out yet lolz.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly as you point out, "the devil is not interested in lies, but in liars". so it is. with the caveat that it is not interested in THE TRUTH of anyone's being a liar, but in the useful political lie of anyone having been a liar.
mircea_popescu: , the guy's action to disclose was "reasonable", and your approach only works if you're there as an envoy of the most serene republic or the republic of china, and they are actually afraid that if they misbehave their children are going to be used as ingredients in someone's supper.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-06-2015#1164751 << i think you broadly miss the point there. it doesn't matter what it ACTUALLY asks. what matters is that once you sign and serve it, they will pretend it had asked whatever it is they wish it were the case it had asked at any later point, which is how "it doesn't ask about fucktoys" turned into "paetreus broke the law by visiting a local socialite!11". so in this
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: must be in backwards world, this magical place where "official replies" go to reddit and tardstalk.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo of course, the truly ridiculous thing in that inept flailing of two different groups of idiots with 100 BTC in the middle is the proposition that btc-e stealing user funds is "what any legitimate busines would have done".
mircea_popescu: so basically... a lot of "different people" who are actually all the same guy compose a community which spent years accusing me of being hanbot ?
mircea_popescu: mno, more like, "well... you are aware the alternative would have been being eaten by cannibals right ???"
mircea_popescu: usually it's resolved with "if you ever do this again im going to beat you with a wet dulap"
mircea_popescu: i run into this question a lot. "just stop" "how ?" "by not doing it" "but i don't know how!!1"
mircea_popescu: "would you like the beatings here or to be run over by a bus ???"
mircea_popescu: as such it is misstated, in the manner owners of slavegirls misstate the world to the slavegirls.
mircea_popescu: the junkie with fifty pounds of pure heroin stashed away isn't going out in the streets either.
mircea_popescu: well, partly that, partly "there's no longer the state here to clean out x y z and make it livable for K M N so Q W R win out"
mircea_popescu: it's not just "more" or "random". it's actually different sets.
mircea_popescu: which is to say : interacting microorganisms sorta repress each other, all the time. but in imunocompromised patient, DIFFERENT set has the upper hand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, in aids patients virulence does not follow the usual curves.
mircea_popescu: (and yes as alf points out, the "broken presumptions" are always faces of the same demon. "people are equal", his proper name)
mircea_popescu: some institutions are necessarily going to fuck up because they proceed from broken presumptions.
mircea_popescu: but the church is funfamentally good amirite? just it was misimplemented in practice.
mircea_popescu: decimation oh, comrade stalin betrayed the sacred ideals ?
mircea_popescu: christianity ended up creating on earht the hell it was going to save people from
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no dispute that the state creates that place it supposedly defends you from.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. about as rare as women giving birth to buses.
mircea_popescu: in the european cultural discourse it ended up as a bit of editorializing by people without a daily mail, looking to illustrate the idiocy they read in some book.
mircea_popescu: not so observable. antrhopologically speaking, the behaviour in question is beyond rare.
mircea_popescu: yeah. what you don't know is that the concept of "cannibals" is alike the concept that "niggers are by nature made to be slaves"
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, they are discussing salvation in the reliugious sense
mircea_popescu: i am not responsible for the subjective delusion of inquirers.
mircea_popescu: might as well ask "what in your cosmography, maps the thing that ensures my eternal life past the pearly gates"
mircea_popescu: "how would they solve the prob lem solved by chips" ios one question.
mircea_popescu: decimation are you putting formal constraints on human happiness noiw ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i doubt most people realise security is not an app
mircea_popescu: we routinely pass messages here as dpaste for instance
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 the fewer things involved, the less available to break. and yes, what he said.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, is still uncharted territory in the mental map of the fifth millenium.
mircea_popescu: whenever you see a cripple walking on a crutch, it's a good idea to think the crutch as compensation for HIS shortcoming, not yours.