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mircea_popescu: the group of people who think they like tgi tuesdays because X cultural reasons, irrespective of the food,
mircea_popescu: recall that idiot that was droning on about how he "didn;t like" some local woman because "she was racist" ?
mircea_popescu: the entire "like/dislike" process as practiced by esl people atm is due for some reform.
mircea_popescu: feel free to distribute teh log links to your friends.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's the flag. mebbe some intellectual leadership of that movement whatever it may be sees it, feels equal to the task of representing their ideas in front of the world rather than in some carefully constructed echo chamber and comes prove it.
mircea_popescu: once innovation is admitted as an arbitrary construct, well... it's a political matter.
mircea_popescu: " While the Non-Aggression Principle does not have anything direct to say about the legitimacy of retaliation" << entirely spurious distinction. there's no logical difference between "retaliation" and "initiation"
mircea_popescu: "It is possible to construct a rational argument, from broadly agreeable premises, that leads directly to the NAP." is a direct equivalent to "i can prove that blue eyes are what god intended"
mircea_popescu: sure, but as far as brazen claims go they could also claim your wife.
mircea_popescu: (the usg will readily dispute this claiming they actually DO have title to bitcoin they confiscate, and then create chain of title from there. this argument is illogical).
mircea_popescu: and since one can't give what one does not have, it then follows that one can't actually give bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: but there isn't someoine with title to bitcoin (other than, arguably, satoshi, which is WHY his disappearance is so important)
mircea_popescu: picasso himself did have title to his own paintings, and so he could transmit title to them.
mircea_popescu: for bitcoin it does not work, because no one has any title.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, if one wishes to avoid the sort of problem those giftees faced... get title with the gift.
mircea_popescu: it's not usually made much of, but the sensible way to take stuff like famous artpieces is exactly real estate.
mircea_popescu: and so are titles of various kinds - such as to mineral rights, or whatever.
mircea_popescu: take for instance "(7) Standing timber growing on land which belongs to the same person as the timber."
mircea_popescu: the remedies available distinguish the nature of property, and the remedies for chattels (your "personal" property) are of same value, because chattels are fungible.
mircea_popescu: very much doubt it, seeing how the above is at common law.
mircea_popescu: that's why if i steal your house i am ordered to give you back ~your house~ but if i steal your bottle of beer i am ordered to pay you for a beer.
mircea_popescu: real estate is that estate which is identifiable in itself, rather than by its characteristics.
mircea_popescu: that's just shorthand, "oh, real estate is that estate which can not move"
mircea_popescu: it has its own variant of torens title and everything.
mircea_popescu: obv, fake title will be constructed by convention, but hey. not unlike saying "the moon belongs to X"
mircea_popescu: gifts are nice and good but for unperishables it is always a good idea to obtain a piece of paper too. any golddigger knows this.
mircea_popescu: gtfo, 300 pieces for under half a million on average ?
mircea_popescu: "While the collection has not been officially valued, reports in the French and international press have estimated that it could be worth as much as 120 million euros, or about $130 million."
mircea_popescu: i intend to use it for the eulora new accounts process, and well...
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron hey, mind writing a "for total noobs" guide for deedbot in the b-a wiki ?
mircea_popescu: And studied all their OPSEC and legalities of what to say
mircea_popescu: I downloaded all five seasons of The Wire from The Pirate Bay
mircea_popescu: i've been saying plenty about it, here and on the blog
mircea_popescu doesn't really do this entire private thing. ask him here, it's what the here is for after all.
mircea_popescu: of course, exactly how the color revolution's gonna go...
mircea_popescu: if they pack it and leave everyone else's reduced to hunting wooly mamooths with bows and arrows.
mircea_popescu: anyway, brazil's actually in a better position in sa than the us is in na.
mircea_popescu: decimation one that got pretty well corrupted at the petrobras trough
mircea_popescu: i think undata's going for that whole "manic customer support" angle.
mircea_popescu: something like that, yeah. fucking scary by the looks of it.
mircea_popescu: decimation you seen that btw ? delma found herself with like 2mn people in the capital.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as to the interest rates, there was a discussion recently, and no, business rates aren't per month, you want to pay what, 3ish% a year or some shit.
mircea_popescu: it's an accident, and from the equity perspective, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
mircea_popescu: and this is incidentally why i said earlier that they are not a business in the first place. it doesn't fucking matter what "others think". others don'tthink, others bray. thinking is above. and the thinking is, it takes two days for them to lose half the userbase that matters.
mircea_popescu: visible across the whole spectrum, how do you think myspace went from selling for a billion to turner to selling for 18 mn or w/e it sold off to.
mircea_popescu: which, again, is why things go certain ways, invisible hand and all that.
mircea_popescu: and so then you leave, and so they lost like, one of the two guys that actually did something, and that's the end of it.
mircea_popescu: but for them, going from a 70 aggregate to a 100 aggregate is a net gain.