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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.
mircea_popescu: was giving lazyass foundation peeps time to comment, but nothing lasts 4evar.
mircea_popescu: i might be the only one left doing things this way, but afaik the way is, you give the woman a task. she either does it or doesn't.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the differences between me and justusranvier dude are amusing. fetlife vs okcupid, the locus of butthurt, etc.
mircea_popescu: broadly speaking, anything without the lego quality is not a real thing, but a toy. that's what the "no user serviceable parts inside" sticker communicates to the world : this is not a tool, this is a toy.
mircea_popescu: a laptop is a toy, like a phone or a xbox, something kids that aren't smart enough / rich enough to own computers get for xmas from their weird uncles.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "If Macintosh laptops (long held up as the gold standard of quality in personal computing) " << nobody ever held a laptop as an acceptable form of personal computing. let alone any sort of standard.
mircea_popescu: lmao c3 drove a secession in the us across east/west lines ?! who knew that thing's so brittle and easily fractured.
mircea_popescu: also i find the idea that various things have different webs of trust silly. yes, idiots use meat wots. this is exactly how aristotle's "no politics is your politics" thing went. otherwise, the wot's for all things.
mircea_popescu: because nobody knows about computer parts quite like the people doing procurement for a datacenter. so if you run your own metal and sublet to people, you're in the best position to learn these exactly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes / asciilifeform : re "build an exhaustive knowledge of every company that has ever made computer parts and an exhaustive understanding of which parts were made well and not at which point in time." << the correct approach to this is to do what mp has been saying needs doing for ages and start a bitcoin hoster.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-04-2015#1112293 << on one end. on the other end, it has the advantage that it can allow *everyone* to pretend like they're part of the conversation. here people know nobody is listening to them, because they have no voice. on facebook/reddit/etc, every idiot can pretend that he's being heard because he can read himself and so why not.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, they did invent them alright. they just made the mistake to make them women.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.TheButterZone.1:011ae86d5de58325aca2aacc80b2f6459687dba7e0e50f9db83605b7c77ba1ef
mircea_popescu: cazalla gave you folks more disk. half a gig went pretty fast eh o.O
mircea_popescu: soo... 7.9 earthquake in nepal, kerry announces "us pledges $1mn".
mircea_popescu: i think ima collect the cunts-on-perl discussion. it's pretty good!
mircea_popescu: "a machine to turn penis projectile vibration into eyelash flutter"
mircea_popescu: i used to say b-a increases one's iq by a good chunk of points