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mircea_popescu: heh gotta love the "usg could do shit" muppetry on qntra.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : the middle german term for a tournament is... butthurt.
mircea_popescu: digging up to see which the fuck earl of somerset was pete talking about (i thought that's a duchy), it turns out there's two different 1st earls of somerset : John Beaufort (Gaunt's son, in 1300s) and Robert Carr, in the 1500s.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation short explanation as to why exactly it can no longer be fixed.
mircea_popescu: i'm not a miracle worker, i'm a butcher. i don't revive dead cows, i just cut them apart.
mircea_popescu: "the only thing you know for sure is that tomorrow's going to be worse" = pain plan
mircea_popescu: when you tell the slavegirl "today, you X this much, and tomorrow X+k, and so forth each day X+nk"
mircea_popescu: it makes a nice jpg of the page that can be downloaded.
mircea_popescu: decimation you don;t mega hike it, you put it on a pain plan.
mircea_popescu: but as a theoretical, probably impractical solution. otherwise, 1-2% hikes each quarter for the next 3-5 years would be what a sane cb would do
mircea_popescu: i'm so curious if next mulatoo in chief actually finds a volcker v2.0
mircea_popescu: no, all this because they're not stupid, and would like to not hang.
mircea_popescu: by now every fucking wikipedia entry containing a sum of dollars has to have a "x in 2013 dollars" affixed.
mircea_popescu: explicitly : what is the difference between him making secure crypto arms and you cutting random heads ?
mircea_popescu: why then doi you claim to solve a problem through a process through which no solution could be had!
mircea_popescu: you gotta learn to behead people after rather than before, you nut you.
mircea_popescu: i know people who try to write novels. another problem for which the solution can not exist.
mircea_popescu: and specifically disused by people serious about their crypto
mircea_popescu: their user count has as much significance as princess leia's ex boyfriend count.
mircea_popescu: more's the point, even that watsapp spam outfit had 100mn active.
mircea_popescu: it just doesn't make sense for g+ to only have a few mn profiles for all the resoureces they poured into it.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think you're doing it wrong. ~5mn made posts, of a total > 10bn profiles ?
mircea_popescu: i thought it was pretty much dead, goiung the way of te yahoo briefcase or w/e
mircea_popescu delights in picturing the hordes of "awareness raisers".
mircea_popescu: trinque hence "<mircea_popescu> well... maybe his uncle!"
mircea_popescu: and 0% of the "responsibility to govern". if two dukedoms over someone makes clitoris stu, expect nobody to care.
mircea_popescu: expect the aspirational 20% to murder the rest of the 40% in the process of selecting the half of itself that may go on.
mircea_popescu: it's not magically sprung up by the end. expect a good half of usg to just lay down and die, just like that.
mircea_popescu: the reason there even is a remnant in the first place - vz, the collapse - is that they didn't have enough virility in the system.
mircea_popescu: this idea that the remnants automatically inherit a chunk of the future is naive. one in ten is my experience.
mircea_popescu: thjis idea that the remnants automatically inherit the land is naive. one in ten is my experience.
mircea_popescu: so it may be a case that YOU be thinking of another usa hm ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from boston to nuevo laredo, all the way.
mircea_popescu: that was the equivalent of the mike hearn "let's test bitcoin". the result came out kinda clearly - 9 maybe 10 days. that's it.
mircea_popescu: remember that time when food stamp system ran out of funds, took a three day hiaturs, everyone held their breath ?
mircea_popescu: give it a week and a half of "we can no longer give you free stuff"
mircea_popescu: well... once the usd v2.0 pistol rounds thinkg takes form, we can make these :D
mircea_popescu: that trivially ended up pushing against branches etc ?
mircea_popescu: you can shoot through us style "walls" by ir with it just fine.
mircea_popescu: let's put it the other way : a sharp tungsten tipped .5 round is >20 bux.