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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i know, but it was for his benefit. give the man
a chance to redeem himself.
mircea_popescu: basically,
a government trending to totalitarism will correctly perceive as threats all protections from integration
mircea_popescu: disallowing sharing of financial information is
a sizeable nook
mircea_popescu: for instance it being metallic is
a huge gulf. arguably pegging it to btc even huger.
mircea_popescu: paper is
a minor nook anyway, in the grand scheme of things.
mircea_popescu: hence the earlier discussion with decimation about how much the nist asked him to pay, and how it's basically "come with
a note from stalin"
mircea_popescu:
a metal coin is literally like
a whore. 0 integration, she fucks random other men.
mircea_popescu: integration, for the record, is simply
a measure of mutual dependence. think in terms of
a couple. the more things they do together, te more integrated they are.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: currency can survive about five minutes with
a dead usg << more complicated. reichsmark outlived reich by
a few years (until occupying armies got their shit together) << didn't roman coinage remain in some limited use into the middle ages because of lack of alternative?
sardan_: I sent you an email by the way, not sure if you received it (regarding
a domain)
assbot: The Misbehavior of Markets:
A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence: Benoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson: 9780465043576: Amazon.com: Books
moriarty: mircea_popescu, an example of
a less biased conversation would be one by Mandelbrot
mircea_popescu: i can't read him, it's like going to
a museum of children "artwork"
moriarty: mircea_popescu, finance or economics, is closely linked to the political nuances of
a country, so whenever one reads journals by personalities like Paul Krugman, nobelist though he may be, i always read it keeping in mind his political proclivities
moriarty: mircea_popescu, actually, the conversations in finance are not as cohesive unfortunately as in other fields, so the flipside of that is today the popular strand of conversation happens to be
a fork that the more seriously inclined would not fully agree with or find it
a bit juvenile
mircea_popescu: complexity is not
a good predictor of quality. not in the ontos, not in the gnosis.
mircea_popescu: lacan is
a total idiot, if he were
a woman he'd be irigaray.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is true to
a lesser degree in statistics.
xmj: or, well, who gave it
a name? likewise for antifragility
moriarty: mircea_popescu, i guess i can see why from
a philosophical sense, if one has inclinations towards the literal and the objective
moriarty: mircea_popescu, so i suppose we ought to thank the popularists for at least reminiscing some of the past arguments for the popular public to enjoy
a flavour of, and perhaps bring some publicity to what would otherwise be dusty fields relegated to the backshelves of some university library
moriarty: mircea_popescu, well, i guess it was easier being
a popular philosopher or statistician in the past, when one did not have to read countless landmark academic papers in order to keep up with the conversation, as one has to these days
xmj: ayn rand did have
a few cool things
moriarty:
a popularist of sorts, amalgamating opinions of the past and attempting to take credit for it
xmj: moriarty: it's funny. i've seen the progression AnCap -> NRx happen
a few times
mircea_popescu: moriarty possibly because you didn't make
a fortune large enough :)
moriarty: mircea_popescu, heh, well i made
a fortune off bitcoin, but i never saw the point in holding
a strong philosophical stance on the utility of cryptocurrencies
assbot:
A complete theory of economics pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: moriarty not the point to make
a one liner, it's like chess. you construct his argument by asking me questions or w/e other discursive procedure you favour.
moriarty: mircea_popescu, well, i'd try not to dilute his book into
a one-liner, but essentially
a blend of technological warfare i.e. guns,
a serendipitous adaptability to germs via advances in medicine, and progress in transport hulls made out of steel, which arose incidentally from ideal farming conditions e.g. arable land which gave rise to
a choice of livestock, was why the seemingly unequal
bounce: hm. probably
a hairsplitting confusion here
xmj: he's pioneered
a good deal of the "reactosphere" -- neoreactionary blogosphere
moriarty: xmj, i got routed to ##austrians from ##econometrics when someone made an observation that some of my comments leaned towards ancap tendencies, so i'm newer to the scene, although i've always found
a blend of hayes/keynes economics to be most delightful
bounce: bit of
a problem where all you get is package deals run by people who, because they run the show, suddenly have all sorts of entrenched interests and become vulnerable to all kinds and manners of coercion
mircea_popescu: moriarty yeah he's the guy who spent 2012 insisting bitcoin can't survive, then started
a bitcoin kiler of his own which we kiled
moriarty: xmj, lol moldbug is
a blogger, i take it?
mircea_popescu: well no, which is why celebrating traitors
a la lincoln as some sort of national heroes is so mind boggling.
mircea_popescu: let the us not be
a federation of states but
a marketplace of states.
moriarty: Jared Diamond tries to take
a holistic look into the apparently serendipitous distribution of wealth among nations
bounce: IMNSHO there's no universal magic perfect government size, so it comes down to choice. what do we want our government to do? well, maybe we could start
a market to find out.
moriarty: mircea_popescu, Adam Smith is
a classic if not
a little dated, like most liberal arts field, perhaps it would be more helpful to consider more recent counterarguments like those by Jared Diamond
assbot:
A complete theory of economics pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
assbot:
A complete theory of sociology pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: s
a fundamentally self defeating, socialist-driving approach.
mircea_popescu: well yes you know ? suppose zig ziglar sells
a lot of books, and starts his own university, where he teaches kids words like "fail" don't exist.
mircea_popescu: so apparently reddit libertarians have
a freenode channel. ##austrians
mircea_popescu: meh apparently #b4056df6691f8dc72e56302ddad345d65fead3ead9299609a826e2344eb63aa4 can't be
a channel name.
xmj: because it makes you lose money and they make
a profit off that.
xmj: that's the thing
a futures exchange would say.
Vexual: are we gonna have
a prolem gribble?
cazalla: chicken and feathers seems
a pita
cazalla: yeah sure, maybe i'll open my home as
a restaurant where not only do you have to cook your own food like some places, you kill it too
Vexual: theyve got
a thick neck on em
cazalla: you can make
a rabbit wringer
Vexual: i do like
a fat rabbit
Vexual: id brain em with
a spike if i did
cazalla: Vexual, wild would be nice, i wouldn't mind going hunting but never looked into what it takes to get
a gun licence here
cazalla: and then i cut myself half
a dozen times butchering it as the adrenaline still had me shaky
cazalla: it's
a waste eh, been meaning to learn how to tan but yet to get around to it
Vexual: or
a strong spring with some tool steel?
Vexual:
a good genetecist would put that buck on his aunties
cazalla: i will, i'll keep ya updated, would be easier if it's
a female, don't need another buck
Duffer1: that's still
a lot of rabbit
cazalla: low and behold, there is
a nigger rabbit amongst this litter, black as the ace of spades
cazalla: nz doe had
a litter other day right
Vexual: well them: im waiting for
a mate
Vexual: even if its: yes im
a total arseshole criminal
cazalla: not when ya waiting for
a mate
Vexual: cazalle, it souds like youve met
a magistrate before
Duffer1: wait your beef was with
a cop?
cazalla: consider it
a stupid question
BingoBoingo: To Pull! When you've got it... You're
a retard...
BingoBoingo: punkman1: It can be up to either money I don't have or
a month of my time they WILL regret
punkman1: disorderly conduct, wouldn't that just require
a donation? or do they take kickbacks from the local prison baron?
BingoBoingo: Because I read MP, I know how to break
a starfish
BingoBoingo: punkman1: Not sure, hugged
a state senator though
BingoBoingo: When it comes to the matter of wether I will ever plead to anything... Watch the actor playing Rearden in Atlas Shrugged part 2. Or play
a game of chess with me.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: decimation: easy riddle. 'fritz chip' was finished, shipped, now ubiquitous. no more need for group. << Not chip, but Fritz has
a lot of history
punkman1: buy some in
a dark pool or private deal, pour some money in the exchanges, watch your money grow
TheNewDeal: good luck getting
a hold of that 30 million in coin
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 23659.909 bitcoins, for
a total of 21442613.6279 USD and take the price to 99999.9900. | Data vintage: 31.3611 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp |
A market order to buy 5000 bitcoins right now would take 2263217.8941 USD and would take the last price up to 479.9700 USD, resulting in an average price of 452.6436 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0305 seconds
punkman1: > ghey: how can I buy 30 million dollars in bitcoin?
a casino operator is intrested in bitcoin payouts and needs to secure bitcoin.