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mircea_popescu: a fine example of the insanity is the life and times of one little, aka max hardcore
mircea_popescu: well the difference beeing that seeds were also not illegal.
mircea_popescu: r his death: "Neville was a Radical to the end of his days. It makes my blood boil when I see his ‘Tory’ and ‘Reactionary’ outlook taken as a matter of course because the Whirligig of Politics made him leader of the Tory party."
mircea_popescu: What a Chamberlain government would have done had there been no war in 1939 will never be known, but an election was due in 1940, and the manifesto proposals outlined by the Conservative Research Department embraced family allowances and the inclusion of insured persons' dependants in health cover—about half the advances usually attributed to Beveridge. As Lady Cecily Debenham wrote to Chamberlain's widow, Anne, afte
mircea_popescu: "No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no it's nbot. he's canadian national doing time IN CANADA for having offended foreign government.
mircea_popescu: i told him he was wrong back then. sadly... as per the castrato model, never answered.
mircea_popescu: the only actually available thing is, print a "Obama made this lolz" sticker, try to affix.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, draper gets to pretend like he's a savvy businessman ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, they bought isis the weapons and then they bought isis the meatsacks to practice shooting round tikrit.
mircea_popescu: everything since 2009 or so is a post-dollar discussion.
mircea_popescu: the only purpose it would really work for is, giving us a lot of weaponry to kill them with
mircea_popescu: but notice that the people who do not suffer from that famous " pathologically difficult attitude toward various important software development philosophy " will not have much problems using usg-nodes anyway
mircea_popescu: sadly for that party the attempt to do so quietly failed catastrophically, but what's that mean ?
mircea_popescu: there's a reason usgavin & co pretend like nodes are not important while trying to make them not feasible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose they make a few peers that use Luke-Jr style rules, and then ddos the ~60 or so remaining nodes.
mircea_popescu: but it jives very well with "so what if we can't control bitcoin - it'd divisible, so let's just carve a kiddy pool and play in there! "
mircea_popescu: in this view of Bitcoin, only Draper has any, or whoever bought it from USG.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yes, the entire "taint" bullshit does not work. the correct avenue is exactly the reverse : require to be paid only in "proper" bitcoin, that is to say, bitcoin traceable to X or Y or Z purchase, from agent of the crown, which fictitiously has title.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why the picassos aren't going to the state, but to the heirs.
mircea_popescu: that's not the controlling bit. the controlling bit is, "can you prove this is yours ?"
mircea_popescu: but that's the font of all the "prove you didn't steal it" thing.
mircea_popescu: "except so and so" = "except if it seems to come from drugdealing"
mircea_popescu: well, you can read it any way you want, but legally, it flows from "title is title, if you don't have title you may use constructive title (possession is 9/10 of the law and all that), except so and so"
mircea_popescu: note that i'm not saying anything about what's useful, merely going through how the logic of that thing works.
mircea_popescu: which is why the whole "confiscated cash in drug bust" thing.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller so many whizz kidz, so little whizz chezz...
mircea_popescu: moreover... "Defense". defense from whom ? clearly it can't rely on the us to defend it from the us, an' so...
mircea_popescu: and if the wife is fully dependent on husband for sustenance this means what, that she doesn't fuck whoever she pleases ?
mircea_popescu: nah, they actually eat them, but have for > 30 years claimed their whalers are "researchers"
mircea_popescu: (and no, forest does not mean "heavily wooded", it means "set aside from common law, at the disposition of the king". much like "real estate" does not mean "thick withj buildings")
mircea_popescu: but anytway, yes, all the "ecology" and "protection" legislation in the us has exactly nothing to do with anything but "you plebs, off to your gruel". it's copied exactly off the forest laws of medieval england
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem im curious how BingoBoingo's update reads is all :)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo imo after an article like that must make update "here's what it was"
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ i fully expect it will eventually be illegal to wear leather, natural fibers, etc. everyone must plastic!
mircea_popescu: yet somehow this ain't making the news. "hey, more shit you're not good enough to have!" not really interesting to anyone.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller now turn that on its head : business decisions without human heuristic can't beat adlai's scalpl.
mircea_popescu shudders at the thourght of "true trilemians" long after his death doing really stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think his point stands tho, rothbard never said it, and what idiots trying to be "rothbardian" understood of it all isn't really relevant.
mircea_popescu: just, manure, as george observed, is almost pleasant if you get down to it : there's a pg, which isn't bad, with a gnu in front of it.
mircea_popescu: and so here we go, " people with a pathologically difficult attitude toward various important software development philosophy (e.g. API and UI design)"
mircea_popescu: but likeable != popular, nor are the applause of the mob worth anything nowadays, like they weren't worth anything when cicero walked the earth
mircea_popescu: which idiots then go on to "really trust the brick and mortar neobee" and well..
mircea_popescu: so perfectly likeable folk (if you're sane) will look like total assholes (to idiots).
mircea_popescu: fluffypony generally, the thing there is that people who are trustworthy are uncompromising, and people who are popular are very, VERY compromising.
mircea_popescu: the various cultural conventions of stupid, while the leading heuristic leading the stupid, aren't really all that important on their own either.
mircea_popescu: how the "bay area" looks is really not all that important.
mircea_popescu: how about stranded on island, east half of which is constantly flooded, all esl-ians gather there because "it looks just like the bay area, man!"