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mircea_popescu: but, the discussion is in the logs, you can traverse it by searching. prolly a good start as any :
mircea_popescu: actually, this is exactly backards from reality. bitcoin is an utter mess, it works mostly by accident, most of the bits are horribly broken and dysfunctional.
mircea_popescu: people have trouble making rent down on earth, what mars.
mircea_popescu: " said Peter Smith, the Phoenix principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
mircea_popescu: "Perchlorate is not a common word in the English language; all of us had to go and look it up," << pls resign now.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : it'd seem on cursory inspiection that the components market is actually not very healthy.
mircea_popescu: so apparently there's exactly one producer of niobium oxide capacitors, and you can't put an order in.
mircea_popescu: re: electronic bits. funny what's left once a major empire collapses. japan used to own the electronics trade. and they still do, except... it's mostly moved away from the stuff they make.
mircea_popescu: decimation actually traders use a very similar thing to replace phones
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i mean, wtf ?! << it's widely used by gamers.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it's about 'imperio in imperium' << quite.
mircea_popescu: more important to humiliate them, in the limited sense of "here's what i am, and what i do, which you are not and do not because you currently suck. here's how you de-suck"
mircea_popescu: this is substantially different from the original quote tho.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-03-2015#1051816 << while much of human thought is in fact captured in language (and i'm too lazy to hunt for the "language is really a shared preprocessor to crutch the supid" threads), nevertheless that is strictly bad schooling. it has nothing to do with the kid, or his language, it'll wash out of him within a coupla years.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: known since before isabella expelled the jews from spain in 1492, causing them to invent america.
mircea_popescu: the italian (which is, by the way, the paradigm of the failed state, and whose history the us is quite bound to repeat) term is sprezzatura
mircea_popescu: NewLiberty you know that ballas bit on the daytrader ?
mircea_popescu: well, it was instructive for me, and considering how little shit costs these days, i call it cheap enough.
mircea_popescu: works better if you know latin in the first place, and i don't really know that many english speakers that do.
mircea_popescu: they had selected themselves over many years of revolutionary struggle.
mircea_popescu: or i guess that harry potter fanfic writer guy w/e his name was is a better example of the principle, alf dictis.
mircea_popescu: obviously a solution that encourages them to do shit on their own is even better, but generally "solutioners" are do-ocracists in the modlbug sense : they're chiefly tryting to build themselves a "4chan is not your army" army.
mircea_popescu: NewLiberty you know i'm half tempted to send some girls to talk at them in that breathy voice .
mircea_popescu: lol "bitcoin university". best thing that ever happened to any diploma mill : when the webmaster stumbled on tardstalk/redditards den and added "bitcoin" to the name
mircea_popescu: davout i don't think he's even racist per se, not enough development of some sort of pseudogeneticist crackpottery. he's just angry in a diffuse sense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either reddit or 4chan or some other social media thing, politicas.
mircea_popescu: what really burns them is the football team issue. they don't wish to not be cattle per se. they're just pissed that they were "come to expect" that THEY were the chosen people on account of, why the fuck not eh. and whenever it doesn't work as they "came to expect", it is clearly the case that really it works, but for someone else, so... whoddunit ?!?! (not them!)
mircea_popescu: and re latest trilema article : someone check the html of a page, whadda ya think ?
mircea_popescu: now THAT is a story of "sixteen tons and what do you get". you get to be four foot tall and with adaptive modifications of the spine.
mircea_popescu: the word is infamous because it denotes the boys working the sulphur mines pre ww1
mircea_popescu: carusu is the sicilian word for boy. it derives off latin carens (missing) as in, inexperienced.