214800+ entries in 0.08s
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.
mircea_popescu: anyway, malcom x correctly identified "the state is this thing which fucks us over", but he thought it's about money (ie, what he didn't have) rather than about cocksize (ie, what the people actually employing it didn't have).
mircea_popescu: if you run gpg correctrly, whic his to say locally, use plaintext email
mircea_popescu: iroquis worked fine without anyone "claiming the land". fine enough for the us to try and copy off them everything they didn't understand from french anyway
mircea_popescu: this has exactly zero to do with governance in the general case.
mircea_popescu: it pretends, and apparently convincingly, to be either or both, but it is neither. for that matter, koreans believe "the party" is equal to "the atmosphere". what of it.
mircea_popescu: the proposition that "religion === morality" or "state===society" or "monarchy===worldview" etc is so much smarmy pretense.
mircea_popescu: needn't have "an alternative to monarchy" in terms monarchy'd comprehend. ditto re state.
mircea_popescu: he had some rather on point comments re bitcoin's end game in 2012
mircea_popescu: when an otherwise smart guy is too stupid to get out of the rain.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe. there should be a new word, "low functioning intelligence". the exact counterparty to high functioning autism
mircea_popescu: anyway, someone should tell falkvinge to gtfo in here and stop being retarded.
mircea_popescu: "we've seen teh weird web technologies deployed on 8chan last month and we figure it's actual magic"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for as long as fiat financing lasts, everyone gets to pretend they're the most serene republic.
mircea_popescu: how is "working undercover" what you do when you sit around in a gas station "trying to catch people who self serve" ? this isn't even lance corporal, whaty officer.
mircea_popescu: tire societal relations to make room for the horse on the battlefield.
mircea_popescu: seriously, as far as the "public opinion" is concenred, "there exists a weapon that has never been used on account of it being too effectual". something that happened with nothing never, the celts used iron weapons and the europeans used machine guns and everything in between that actually worked and was actually useful was actually used. and not a little used. USED. ubiquitously used, the franks re-engineered their en
mircea_popescu: i take it the unsolicited redrawing of mpex on toilet paper by kindergartners did not end up selling for the "very modest" five digit figure he had in... for lack of a better term, mind ?
mircea_popescu: cdefs.h doesn't sound like it would be needed anyway :D
mircea_popescu: (the word has a particular slang meaning in english, a certain sort of beer drinking, saber rattling british citizen.)