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mircea_popescu: this is their charter. "our continued existence is a fortunate byproduct of the situation where nobody even knows what's in the boxes."
mircea_popescu: and i don't believe the man is anything but 100% honest.
mircea_popescu: foss seriously has a problem by now. and it is of the nature of alf's "fits in head" thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform & wimc : so rms sez he never heard of libnss before, and can't even recall what it does.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, cardboard boxes, packaging peanuts, they're all consumer proucts after all ?
mircea_popescu: as if attempt #795876 is going to fare better than 1 through 795875.
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of incredible (if you look at things rationally - otherwise if you look at things historically it's exactly expected) that two years later they are STILL TRYING to pretend like they don't have to come to terms.
mircea_popescu: this at present includes vesseness, murck and that dumb broad.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at reality ranch a) the foundation floundered because it managed to get mp to speak out against it. b) the only way to resolve this problem is with jail time for the speciffic names involved.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this playbook is as old as fucking herbert hoover. "fuck up. then replace the guys that 'fucked up' with another guy, who is going to admit to what everyone knows while fail to mention what nobody wants to hear. he can pose as somehow 'different' for the public of imbeciles, and we can continue teaching the controversy"
mircea_popescu: it does not wash. the difference between this muppet and the previous muppets is nil.
mircea_popescu: the plan here being that "o hey, we'll get one of our shills to try and direct the public discussion"
mircea_popescu: nice try olivier, but it doth not wash. masquerading as a part of the solution while failing to credit the actual mechanisms and trying to use the banal shit to avoid discussing the important shit does not work.
mircea_popescu: manages to go though that entire bullshit without once mentioning vessenes and his criminal behaviour ?
mircea_popescu: famously omitting to mention what actually happened. "people" right ? mmmkay.
mircea_popescu: "That new director decided that the only way to still get funds at that point, was to focus solely on funding core development, in the hope that people would see that as a good cause. But people were smart enough not to trust the Foundation anymore. "
mircea_popescu: aww, check it out, scam foundation joins the long list of shit that failed to outlive mpex.
mircea_popescu: often when people claim they hate well established foods, it turns out they never actually had a good example.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo just trying to give alf better ideas, the gasenwagen and recto-thermo-crypto stuff is getting old >D
mircea_popescu: d tr. is actually dupa Trompi, not Trilema. and only 7.
mircea_popescu: which is why natural laws do not rely on some sort of "intelligence", to be epitethically generous.
mircea_popescu: well, something like that. moreover, they aren't imaginary. they're actual. purposes are always and necessarily mere delusions.
mircea_popescu: it has no intended result, not being regulation. it simply flows from causes. this is why it's sustainable where the regulatory crud never was.
mircea_popescu: trinque comes down exactly to the ancient causes and purposes distinction. if people find a way to fly, nobody "deems gravity broken" or hoilds talks on how to patch it "because this wasn't the intended result"
mircea_popescu: gravity is a limit but it regulates nothing. the murder taboo is a limit and regulatory.
mircea_popescu: trinque the difference between that and regulation is the statutory nature of the later.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, most everything in life is unregulated.
mircea_popescu: btw cazalla and all folks who actually play games : once eulora 0.1 comes out, ima hold an event where there's gonna be magic money bags, yielding coin each day. i want y'all to show up an' get one.
mircea_popescu: the problem is "consumers have come to expect" and "representative democracy", not the central bank.
mircea_popescu: people have to accept their feelings don't matter. they always end up doing this, it's just some have to get raped with a spiked club first.
mircea_popescu: yes the market would be a great solution, were it applied. sadly, "the political costs". ie, exactly the same tired old record that drove the soviet union into the wall.
mircea_popescu:
http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-04-2015#1087666 << dude, it's not a discussion that "markets don't work". it's a discussion that before markets can work, you gotta have them. similarly, if you don't have running water, you have a hygiene problem. this isn't because "bathrooms don't work", it's because you.do.not.have.one.
mircea_popescu: a play about the free market, for instance, is not itself a free market.
mircea_popescu: not everything that happens to be perceptible is automatically a free market by virtue of that.
mircea_popescu: ballet is not "an efficient market", for instance. even if it exists, phenomenologically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what boggles most about those gymnastics is the fact that somehow the same people don't link the dots between "unaffordable health care" and "inflation". isn't this strange ?
mircea_popescu: compared to this, i couldn't care less what ipads cost.
mircea_popescu: fact remains you ARE stuck paying for college. and you are stuck paying for "owning" a "house".
mircea_popescu: if i go to the tailor and i tell him i want pants that are nine feet long, he doesn't get to tell me pant length is not a fair metric.
mircea_popescu: much shittier houses today than in 1965, about a margin of 2 to 3, that cost... 30x more, just about.
mircea_popescu: so : five to ten as bad college today as compared to 1965, which costs 100k instead of 10k. this is about 50x to 100x factor.
mircea_popescu: (hey, if the usg is pretending like increases in quality wash inflation away, same argument can be used the other way too)
mircea_popescu: divide the sum of this basked in 1965 with the sum of this basket today
mircea_popescu: take three houses in the top 10% land value areas of the country, take college funds for twelve children.
mircea_popescu: depends on your definition of inflation. by my definition of inflation, the us experiences about 15% a year, on average, since 2000. that's exacerbating over time, so 2015 may well see 30%+