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mircea_popescu: the insanity of the aol internet turned all sense on its head.
mircea_popescu: the idea that you even care about "alt identities" is pure totalitarianism, about on the level of a "forum mod" trying to "enforce forum rules" with "bans". rank nonsense. the way it goes is the other way : only let people in that have a business in.
mircea_popescu: obviously it wouldn't be. if you're a waiter and you get married now you're a waiter and a husband. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, it's easy to maintain sole access over an identity, and pointless to discuss whether that is your only identity.
mircea_popescu: he wasn't looking for any answer. he was trying to shoehorn disorganised remains of broken history into the future. as he keeps trying to do this he'll figure it out.
mircea_popescu: it can make all the passports it wants, ima credit someone on the basis of that as much as i'd credit someone presenting a reader's digest letter.
mircea_popescu: declarations of pretenders to sovereignity like the brazilian government matter... to it. not to me.
mircea_popescu: conventions between you and X may matter, to you, to X, to people who know you, or X, or both.
mircea_popescu: "Maximum concurrent requests for this endpoint reached. Please try again shortly."
mircea_popescu: blockexplorer.com : ERROR: unknown (Most likely my bitcoind stopped working or this page is too large/complex.)
mircea_popescu: and yes, sucks for the remnant of teh middle class, obviously. which, i suppose, is a good summary of a large chunk of "what to do" discussions here.
mircea_popescu: "nobody on easter island realised that if we cut down all the trees on easter island there won't be anyting left, on easter island".
mircea_popescu: but, amusingly, no socialism to date, no matter it's (always on, anyway) claims to sophistication EVER realised that hte middle is finite.
mircea_popescu: the problem with this is that as the socialism progresses, the middle class dies out. because socialism is societal cancer, it just burns the fat and dies.
mircea_popescu: usg went in the middle and lost, there being no middle. but this is funny, psychologically, because : all socialisms always live by fleecing the middle class. for all the verbiage, it's the "kulak" that supported the soviets, not the filthy rich capitalist dudes.
mircea_popescu: the people who are incompetent also never cared what the usg was putting out, and have and use convenient solutions that mostly also don't involve it
mircea_popescu: meanwhile : the people who are competent never cared what the usg was putting out, and have and use functional solutions that don't involve it.
mircea_popescu: "In this case, the U.S. Attorney, while castigating politicians in Albany for playing fast and loose with the ethical rules that govern their conduct, strayed so close to the edge of the rules governing his own conduct that Defendant Sheldon Silver has a non-frivolous argument that he fell over the edge to the Defendant’s prejudice."
mircea_popescu: pki isn't even a thing anymore. i don't use it, for instance.
mircea_popescu: yes, the time for plaintext is over, but because wots and so on, not because pki.
mircea_popescu: they only exist because of the expenditure. how would it not grow ?
mircea_popescu: which a desperate govt would be doing, obviously. and so... one way or another...
mircea_popescu: crushing obama is obviously worth "all the oil" to them
mircea_popescu: heh. the saudis are stuck. sitting on a pile of non renewable resources is only valuable if the resources are still relevant.
mircea_popescu: the welfare governments wish to cultivate this pretense.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne it's a psychological thing dood. there's a large swath of imbeciles pretending like they're using computers.
mircea_popescu: i'd say i hope you shoot them, but then again you're not muscle so.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i would hope that if you point a gun at some idiot govt agent, you a) it's not a rifle indoors ; b) it's not a 22 caliber etc.
mircea_popescu: no, shooting the "dictatorial couple" is neither here nor there. shooting ^ that guy is the point.
mircea_popescu: it's quite obvious executions will be required, and en masse. just saying it now so people don't start pestering me with concerns once we're in a position to do it, like they did last fucking time around.
mircea_popescu: but also shoot the fact that he's a murderer for hire shooting people.
mircea_popescu: some idiot canadian murderer for hire thinks that working for the prime minister allows him to not only shoot random people
mircea_popescu: "For Mr. Dunphy, we were simply too late — but that doesn't mean we stop forging ahead into hopelessness, anguish and despair with the view of creating betterment, safety and wellbeing for the citizens we serve."
mircea_popescu: he's still gonna start offa something. iirc danielpbarron had instructions from arch ? or was it debian ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the pogoplug ? it's used to run the bitcoin node
mircea_popescu: everything happens a lot more than people who don't think think.