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mircea_popescu: !rate justusranvier -1 I dunno, afaik he's just kinda derpy (see
http://trilema.com/2015/what-amused-me-today/ etc) but my WoT hates him now, and so I can't in good conscience keep a meaningless +1, nor do I want to set it to 0 because then it gets deleted. Brb adding footnotes to this rating.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov guy made a reddit post complaining about how okcupid canned his acct.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : i had a proper bleue davout! quarter inch cooked on each side, one inch pure cold red inside
mircea_popescu: i know for a fact my knowledge of welting and bruising helped cooking
mircea_popescu: davout it's a svn, you should be able to zoom natively
mircea_popescu finds it harder and harder to care about whatever the derps outside do.
mircea_popescu: the police are trying to compensate, what with the random raping of middle class derps, but it's really a toothpick in a levy breach
mircea_popescu: and so california is running out of water because while population doubled, water works have not been allowed to go forward ; and the us is ethically collapsing because hey... no useful violence to be had.
mircea_popescu: one of those nimby problems : violence is not only great, in the general, but sorely needed for functioning society.
mircea_popescu: anyway, violence has the marked ethical advantage that it removes people from the goop where they imagine they are in control of their environmenty and the future.
mircea_popescu: this "most productive" approach is how you got eminent domain.
mircea_popescu: hopefully something more substantial than "most people agree"
mircea_popescu: no sommelier "deduces" what the better wine is on the basis of watching winemaking videos or some shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but yu're a deductive nut. whereas the job of a sommelier is ipso definitio inductive.
mircea_popescu: if you construct more complex spaces you get "WasItGood()" and "ShouldItHaveHappened()" etc, but now you are also stuck with the complexity.
mircea_popescu: well, "just" only exists in a certain context. in the context of violence itself, there's no space for more functions than "DidItHappen()" which returns a bool.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne if you manage it, you've managed it, right ?
mircea_popescu: you similarly don't expect to find experience with cars and car parts at the mechanic's ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would you achieve this regard other than through experience ?
mircea_popescu: violence is always just by its own measure. that's what violence is.
mircea_popescu: there's a space between "x is bad" and "x shouldn't have happened".
mircea_popescu: williamdunne but these aren't involved third parties. so the burned jews are too dead to say, and the burning germans are also too dead to say. at the time however it stands to reason the victims all agreed they shouldn't be victims, and the perpetrator agreed on the contrary pov.
mircea_popescu: well, not necessarily web, people might want to host irc servers, etc. but yes.
mircea_popescu: soviets sunk on the former, the us is sinking on the latter, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: as a government, all you can get is beta males and menopausal females.
mircea_popescu: hot women don't work for idiots. governments are always hierarchies of idiots. ergo...
mircea_popescu: the thing with violence is that it's pretty self-explainatory.
mircea_popescu: besides, a little bit of violence would go a very long way towards resolving most of the western problems currently.
mircea_popescu: what was it, 1% of world pop owns 50% of assets or what ?
mircea_popescu: if violence worked, the situation wouldn't be stable currently.
mircea_popescu: then OboombaIII is more than welcome to use all his cards for all the benefits he wants, whatever they may be. it won't be food, but hey, a rich life of the mind doth not require material contraptions.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin doesn't take over through convincing random fuckwit of "more benefits". bitcoin takes over by raping the state. permanently.
mircea_popescu: because no matter what, govt will keep getting that money, and keep seeing him as a worthy expense.
mircea_popescu: dude proceeds from this locus where no matter what, he will keep on getting money on his govt issued card.
mircea_popescu: "No thanks. I'll keep using my card. It has way too many benefits not to. I'll switch to Bitcoin when it's easier to use, offers buyer protection and has more benefits than cc's. Which won't be anytime soon." << funny how dynamic equilibrium perceived as static works.
mircea_popescu: "Another part is a distributed marketplace for dispute resolution based on smart contracts."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wonder if gay sites have a serious problem with supplying enough bottoms.
mircea_popescu: "we will deliver chicks to you because you're so speshul"
mircea_popescu: so fucking stupid this. who the shit would enter into a contract with justus ranvier and why exactly ?
mircea_popescu: so many of them, made with an apparent firm conviction that somehow they'll bring recognition...
mircea_popescu: in the bitcoin space, "matching engines" are the equivalent of crusted socks in adolescent boys' bedrooms.
mircea_popescu: <davout> williamdunne: some dudes made some code for a matching engine, not really noteworthy << actually it's the most oversupplied intem in stock.