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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform righjt, kinda what i meant by runninmg it on testnet to see
mircea_popescu: ie, "we imagine ourselves the owners of a distributed project"
mircea_popescu: the problem with the "if it valdiates the previous chain is good enough" approach is its very pure gavinderpitude.
mircea_popescu: you're stuck with that. how do you think the original fork happened.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's worth doing on a test network just to count subtle bugs.
mircea_popescu: ffs, i can sleep safer at night knowing that usagi v2.0 is offering derpsurance.
mircea_popescu: it'd have been a lot more helpful if instead of empty boasts and declarative statements they just explained the math.
mircea_popescu: "BitGo is the only company in the industry we trust to secure our hot wallet. The integration was very straightforward, and now I can sleep better at night knowing that my customers' holdings are secured with BitGo."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> jurov: can't recommend a large, recurring btc expense << fiddy bux isn't large yo.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -- from today's fan mail << what was that for lol
mircea_popescu: "you don't refine your query, numbnuts. you BECOME the genie."
mircea_popescu: all these kids hoping that some sort of magical "tech" is going to get them into the girl's panties were very poorly parented. apparently nobody told them any of the numerous genie stories.
mircea_popescu: the "3d printed" guns were obviously going to push towards regulation of bullets.
mircea_popescu: if the chem lobby seriously wants to strangle the pretty farm girl, that's one thing. but framing that discussion in terms of "rich" is about as helpful as proposing beer is better than wine because it bubbles.
mircea_popescu: james smith's farm fed five hundred people in 1615. these aren't "500 out of the total pop of 5mn" for the same reason discussed in the thread about "average life expectancy"
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : just because inflation has made every pauper think he holds money doesn't change the fact that a farmer today is worth a hundred million just by simply maintaining equality with a farmer of relatively the same social importance back in 1615.
mircea_popescu: "rich" does not mean what the poor imagine it means. the notion of running a farm on 26k subsidies a year... heh.
mircea_popescu: that cap agricultural benefits thing is uniquely misguided.
mircea_popescu: you can also expect to find the last time someone made fart jokes publicly @ the expense of people present buried under at least a decade of history.
mircea_popescu: it's not coincidental that all successful specialist groups are irreverent.
mircea_popescu: the problem essentially is that specialist groups do need a variety talk, however "politeness" combined with that results into a lot of nooks and crannies where alex can hide.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller lack of focus lack of schmokus. it's because they're impotent. they know they're impotent.
mircea_popescu: no he was being proactive and communicaty or whatchamacallit.
mircea_popescu: so why wouldn't you answer the phone. it's more like a boring highschool class than a meeting.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> "because ADOPTION" is my new favourite slogan for redditards et al. << orphans seeking adoption. nothing wrong with the picture.
mircea_popescu: This expectation is so ingrained that people in meetings routinely answer their mobile phones to say << maybe what has really changed is the expectation re meetings. just a decade or two ago, people would have expected meetings to serve a rational purpose and end with a result.
mircea_popescu: basically, the story the 13 yo mutters to herself under her breath to replace unwelcome reality.
mircea_popescu: not sure what it is in english, tho im sure it must exist. perhaps something like "shamanistic narrative".
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know there's a word for this, among people who shovel this particular sort of elephant shit for a living (mostly, clinical psychiatrist)
mircea_popescu: "i don't remember seeing before the parts i don't like seeing today"
mircea_popescu: obv, not exactly what's being contemplated with the "pull together" talk
mircea_popescu: sure, we'll pull together : come swear fealty to me. bring me your daughters, let me name the head of each usg agency
mircea_popescu: "we must pull together" is the age old statist refrain.
mircea_popescu: mike_c well, i think on the mid term qntra has better earning perspectives than whatsapp.
mircea_popescu: i'm happier with trilema's monetization than with cisco's soviet future.
mircea_popescu: absolute texbook case on the dangers of "obeying the laws".
mircea_popescu: mike_c cisco pretty much imploded once it became clear they're working for the usg against their customers.
mircea_popescu: "Chief casualty is U.S. network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc, which in 2012 counted 60 products on the Central Government Procurement Center's (CGPC) list, but by late 2014 had none, a Reuters analysis of official data shows."
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's just like bitcoin : not many shares, many people heard of it.
mircea_popescu: well i lost a main router somehow too. supposedly was a power outage downtown