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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the ancient discussion with TaT re women. "do you like her ? if not, get rid of her"
mircea_popescu: im starting to understand why religion is such a big deal. it's not that it makes any sense, it's that it provides answers to "fundamental questions of life"
mircea_popescu: yes, but the fictitious game of "may be" is by definition going to provide any anwer you seek.
mircea_popescu: if the answer's no, then you've got yourself a social study. if the answer's yes, more power to ya.
mircea_popescu: it involves an answer to the very simple q : "can you do something with it ?"
mircea_popescu: this does not involve finding the officer of serenissima hr.
mircea_popescu: there's a very simple heuristic to evaluate whether you're currently developing or whether you historically developped skills teh most serene republic has a need of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform moreovber, you know, resolving problems that are clearly past what you probably correctly call an event horizon is an exercise in derpitude.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can build all your factories you want once the idiot in the room (made out of a bunch of idiots glued to each other) is dead.
mircea_popescu: i recall this point where some derpy agent swore before the court he used excel spreadsheets to rape a db
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform REAL PROGRAMMERS DO NOT LISP LAWL YOUR ARGUMENTES INVLEAD!
mircea_popescu: just wait patiently while oponent kicks himself against everything in sight ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's that azn fighting style where you don't particularly give a shit ?
mircea_popescu: except we don't really participate in plankton whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im quite unconvinced of the latter. and the former reduces to... what exactly, "not everyone has the biography and talents of a computer user, windows plox" ?
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, 4chan and the internets have blown what looks like a permanent hole in the sort of deffective mental processes that are required for "patriotism" or whatever the pink-bellied shit involved in wwX was.
mircea_popescu: i personally can't quite see how i'd manage to motivate myself to participate in yet another "we good they bad fight for great justic!!1" conflict.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you appreciate how the task to defeat germany3 is quite different from what we're doing here ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well in the abstract it is dificult to evaluate. what exactly would be the task fo this red army ?
mircea_popescu: no wait, make a full sentence, i have no idea what you're saying.
mircea_popescu: o no wait it wasn't you, some other guy was making dire warnings about how teligent mit is
mircea_popescu: low level scamming, "i'ma call this empty jar MONEY and wait for idiots to deposit".
mircea_popescu: nah you're fine, kako verified it. from what can be seen publicly bitbet is short like 400 btc.
mircea_popescu: alf : he just wants to hook up with local whores from the convenience of his own home. internets ftw!
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100530 << on which line, trinque you'd seriously shoot a burglar ? and i don't mean shoot them in the head, just, one to the kneecap for good measure. seems to me woefully excessive. the... only time i was in a situation of that nature the dudes beat the shit out of the guy and i thought it was excessive even for the time and place.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: auditing in bitcoin works like it works - sorta halfway.
mircea_popescu: since mats brought it up : yeah, currently people can't audit bitbet's reserves. this is unfortunate, but i'm not going to do anything about it.
mircea_popescu: yes, i may consider young females for education, but that is neither here nor there. i did that before bitcoin, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: i am simply not interested in that sort of centralisation. i also think it's stupid, and self-defeating, and in no way different from you know, making gossipd on windows vista.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne yes, it would be. it'd make it possible to be wrong, and then guilty. which is the main reason the law as a construct even exists : save people that.
mircea_popescu: "tax the rich so you can clean up the mess we made! of this sidewalk and of our lives!"
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, imagine how the place looked after ows was done with it ? all the discarded packaging etc ? this was supposedly a group of civically-minded folks.
mircea_popescu: but see, the same people who can't be bothered to crypto anything... can't be bothered to nullify anything either. too much work.
mircea_popescu: actually the only useful function of a jury these days.
mircea_popescu: "the only reason you want the jury is because you hope to trick it with things a judge wouldn't fall for."
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100440 << amusingly enough in japan jury trials were (and perhaps still to some degree are) very dimly regarded. people thought that someone willing to cast his fortune on the disinterested call of a dozen uninformed people rather than have a specialist handle it could not possibly have any sort of case.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in fact, the ability of a user to create pseudo-trust out of nothing, just like the "ability" of a perpetuum mobile to extract energy out of the void, just like the "ability" of a government to print money are the same thing, really : the degrading macula of subhumanity.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, this has become the surogate closure for the internet horde, "o no, here is his real name". mmmkay...
mircea_popescu: " Especially in Brazil where there are many scammers that exposes all of your personal life, and we know their real names, their documents etc." << aaaand this isn't indication that it really doesn't work ?
mircea_popescu: actually, it seems to be resolving. that was a very spooky 5 minutes up there.
mircea_popescu: i see subsets of dozens of otherwise well connected nodes not knowing of txn back and forth
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100378 << morally neutral god of all knowledge ? interesting, incidentally, that the price the various jewish groups (including xtians) had to pay for the "church-state" frankenstein was overloading the correct notion of god with the notion of a "correct" god. only once god knew all AND GAVE A SHIT ABOUT THE KING'S WILL was there to be mandatory churchgoing and burning of
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i want to reconsider that about as much as windows user wants to compile from source.
mircea_popescu: then i'd throw up, likely, because fucking hell now i have to reconsider the "no universal human quality" pillar of thought.