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mircea_popescu: why would magical dragon risk his magic to get involved in a system that may well tarnish it for no reason ?
mircea_popescu: the mistake is not to ask for it, the mistake is to contemplate a system that requires the question answered.
mircea_popescu: so, he put in his key, and the result came out negatory. what now.
mircea_popescu: specifically modeled for our convenience out of al schwartz.
mircea_popescu: how are you going to resolve dispute between party a which claims it ate its key and party b which claims the key was junk ?
mircea_popescu: then again... the past 50 years would look a lot different if i were actually right.
mircea_popescu: i am inclined to believe the solution to this problem is psychanalisis not software development.
mircea_popescu: if that reason can be descreibed, is that reason anything but psychogenic ?
mircea_popescu: is there any particular reason the amateur that's not in a kool dude wot now will manage to get in the kool dude wot of the proposed market ?
mircea_popescu: it'd seem very superficially that if this is true the other name for it is "polichinelle's secret"
mircea_popescu: a) monkey b) possesses the key c) will let go IF - c1. not painful c2. food and shelter.
mircea_popescu: what you said is a metaphor for womanhood, not the other way around.
mircea_popescu: you are trying to take the personal relationship out of sex.
mircea_popescu: in that example a) why would anyone accept to be paid less than the "cost to fuzz", and b) why would anyone opt to pay more thanb the "cost to fuzz" ?
mircea_popescu: i may be too slow for how fast this conversation has become, so gimme an example
mircea_popescu: will the computer test if the thing it is testing has met the test or merely circumvented the test ?
mircea_popescu: the 80% automation is what we do now anyway, for instance when using pgp
mircea_popescu: ah, i wasn't. an' i'm not about to link the theory wqith the practice formally yet.
mircea_popescu: well you might have noticed i AM making experiments in that province.
mircea_popescu: but that some is important and it falsifies a ~fundamental~ property of markets.
mircea_popescu: it works privately. there ~are~ dudes who get girlies to throw their soaking wet panties at them
mircea_popescu: they have a lot of common characteristics, yes, and the people "in" like to joke about it and pretend it's "the same". but... it is not.
mircea_popescu: but the market you propose, like the market which consists of assassins, like the market which consists of whores, is eminently NOT a market like the market that consists of grain, or ddram chips.
mircea_popescu: contrary to public idiocy, bitcoin's not particularly adequate to the latter. then again, public idiocy thought trains go too fast so it'll make passengers asphixiate out of lack of oxigen and cars explode.
mircea_popescu: the connection i see is that the proposition of this market is about as silly as the proposition of the trivia bot. there are fundamental differences between what a market is and what an assassination market is.
mircea_popescu: SELECT sum( length( post_content ) ) WHERE post_status = "publish"
mircea_popescu had a complete lotus 1-2-3 and novell netware ~suites~, hundreds of 1.2mb floppies in 50 item boxes, shelves of the shit
mircea_popescu: i had a batch of 100 out of which 30 died the first write
mircea_popescu: but also very variant. i had one that was good for hundreds of rewrites over a year
mircea_popescu: that aside, adding a curly bracket at the end or something doesn't hurt anything
mircea_popescu: the opinions about the Mysts of Mystery emitted by fans of the power rangers and co.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron "bitcoin hardliners" is becoming the #1 strawman. #shitlibertardssay
mircea_popescu: and obviously mike & gavincoin's dog and pony show have yet to address the fact that "hey, we are ehtereum 2.0, we have the support of "investors" and so on"
mircea_popescu: for my curiosity, you ever computed aggregate monthly utilisation of your capital goods ?
mircea_popescu: it can be purely platonic, "you may touch the instruments" thing
mircea_popescu: i suppose a version of the above "make it now" is what drives your hoarding behaviour
mircea_popescu: anyway, ftr : i don't expect the electric grid will cease to exist.
mircea_popescu: just like if you wanted a good plate mail, have it made in 1650.
mircea_popescu: because it's unlikely you'll be able to in the future.
mircea_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
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