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mircea_popescu: the common law has some categories. there's robbery, with violence. there's theft, without violence but with the knowledge of the victim. there's fraud, without the initial knowledge of the victim. there's embezzelment, where the victim isn't a person per se. and there's defalcation, which is merely negligent or reckless, rather than intentional.
mircea_popescu: the us fed is just about ready to implement the ancient christian venice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more studies needed, this is the controversy, progress and change, all sortsa gunk.
mircea_popescu: she has that vibe. the female equivalent of the male creep.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i muchly doubt anyone ever fucked the poitras chick.
mircea_popescu: the usg essentially consists of this : "instead of doing anything, why not sit on your ass and ruminate the future ?"
mircea_popescu: adlai all this "evangelist" bs. they should just hire linda for an evening's outcall and stfu already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meta-people, basically. unable to act because stuck pondering implications as a passtime.
mircea_popescu: puts every single usg drone in a very uncomfortable position.
mircea_popescu: decimation nope. understand : when usg wants to impress me it's stuck prosecuting derps like shrem.
mircea_popescu: he thinks his life is a life, and his woman a woman, and so on and so forth
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why do you think the idiocy of a bureaucrat is remarkable to any degree ?
mircea_popescu: which will make large banking concerns impossible, but perhaps to no detriment.
mircea_popescu: the correct solution probably is to simply put someone in charge, and have them answer with their head.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2015#1040271 << tbh, i suspect there are fundamental problems that prevent functional implementations of this segregation in functional currencies. you're essentially stuck choosing : either fiat currency and imaginary "segregation" (of definitionally worthless "money") or else strong currency and no segregation.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: speaking of which, "xerox" is still how you say copier machine / to copy paper by machine in most of the world.
mircea_popescu: they had a chance at making games = consoles, prior to 94
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "dead" in the sense of, "not what gaming is"
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of like looking for a soviet army unit without a political comissar.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you stil lthink 18mn units sold means something ?
mircea_popescu: "Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs." szus nothing to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, "uni studends" right. "use" mhm kay.
mircea_popescu: what's widely, 50 actual usecases which all depend on the same three contractors ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your idea of widely differs from nature.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform overheard right now "o yeah ? well the gentoo manual was down for likle... 3 days. i don't think this is a good sign"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion of a "deprecated symbol" boggles my mind.,
mircea_popescu: i remember a time, maybe 10 or so years ago, when having a paypal was like, a point of pride.
mircea_popescu: this "private language" thing is a lot easier said than done.
mircea_popescu: looking in the logs, apparently alf created a new word nao, "portatronic"
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mircea_popescu: if you want to run it at 100% doing shell forks for five months, your problem.
mircea_popescu: lobbes ideally, colocate. but otherwise, sure, get a dedi, if they start discussing what you run on it tell them to get lost./