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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski feelings fusion to provide free energy soon
mircea_popescu: "the interwebs doesn't worx ? oh, you must be on a different browser"
mircea_popescu: prolly code element not playing well with long lines huh
mircea_popescu: poor reddit, stuck with this sad situation where it doesn't matter, and the people doing things are the people it hates.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ah, not necessarily either, at your disposal.
mircea_popescu: then again, this is kinda why we don't give a shit about the lot of them.
mircea_popescu: the disagreement mostly stems from definitions tho. what people mean when they say "don't use brainwallets for you are stupid" mostly reduces to redditard going on brainwallet.org
mircea_popescu: the entire thing was mostly about instructing the bitcoin-lemmings (peeps who think themselves "the community") about where to not step on the tiger.
mircea_popescu: but you've seen the general public lose btc to weak "brainwallets" ?
mircea_popescu: and the argument here isn't about "guessing", it's about reducing entropy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but it was written in a language nevertheless, right ?
mircea_popescu: let's work this out. ascii_field would you agree that the mental cost PER UNIT of generating five random bytes is larger than generating six ?
mircea_popescu: the only reason we're here is that they're too stupid to understand they need to negotiate, and yesterday, or for that matter to correctly evaluate their hand
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if you were fuhrer we wouldn't be at war in the first place.
mircea_popescu: "the limit on open source is the open sourcer's willingness and ability to read code - so put more code in there!11"
mircea_popescu: the notion that anyone can have a peculiar, different, original liberty...
mircea_popescu: it goes "better a hooligan than a communist" etc, and it specifically says "we do not wish for original liberty and other lies"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's a bit to go with that : the more or less official hymn of the romanian revolution, which is this thing :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkI42zPuH7w (very neener tune, incidentally, much like the argentine's favourite thing - and btw those guys put the cap everywhere)
mircea_popescu: usually castrated prior to their ascension and torn to pieces by the crowd after.
mircea_popescu: freed slaves with "a lot of money" or "power" or "influence"
mircea_popescu: they're in "we thank the party for its great idea to make an orphanage in our ex country house - we would have done the same if we were as smart as it" mode
mircea_popescu: no, it was done to a collection of "scions" of rockefeller and rotschild and the like.
mircea_popescu: all the young schmucks enthusiastically approving the obamaplans.
mircea_popescu: bad one, eh. what was the entire "we will herd you over at wh and tell you where to donate your money - it's not confiscation btw" episode than this ?
mircea_popescu: which is why i spend my time publicly humiliating bharara rather than "the liberal lion elizabeth warren"
mircea_popescu: that conduit is politically vulnerable, whoever has the courts can send the guy up river.
mircea_popescu: again, this is what the coumo associates prosecutions mark. not that it wans't a fact a while before.
mircea_popescu: (which is what the recent prosecutions around the govt of ny marks)
mircea_popescu: and while people might pretend like it's not the case, everyone depends on their contacts and the days of the dual-head contracts are coming to an end
mircea_popescu: and whether the next budget overrun is going to be ok'd or not is always up in the air
mircea_popescu: are they consulting for $$$ or just taking living wage as zeks ?
mircea_popescu: this is how the us became the most beloved, greatest and best country in the world.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's "their" palace, or in proper words their master's palace.
mircea_popescu: vast expanses of marble arches do nothing for the self esteem of the slavegirls chained there.
mircea_popescu: yes. a perceived social consensus and low self esteem.
mircea_popescu: there's a minimum bar to belief, and it's "not being made out of pressed shitboard"