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fluffypony: like you get taught reading, writing,
a bit of geography and history, and enough maths to add stuff up
mircea_popescu: but still " I never had any of them complain" is
a weak counter
fluffypony: the root of the problem here isn't corporations per se. if you go back to the 60s and 70s
a lot of blacks were given "Bantu Education", which was the equivalent of like
a US Grade 5 or 6
bounce: "rent
a gun", where you rent (officership in) "gun #n llc" and get the gun as
a perquisite
fluffypony: well they fish
a lot less than the corporates, for sure, but in the many times I went to the harbour to buy fish I never had any of them complain to me about restrictions or limits
mircea_popescu: bounce most rich people with
a large gun stash and tax attorney have
a gun llc
fluffypony: there are
a number of fishing communities like that
decimation: re: corps owning guns :: in the US there is
a well-known loophole around the background check laws - if the "owners" are both officers of
a "corporation", no transfer papers are needed, and the corp owns the gun
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but how much of the caught fish is caught by their little tug boats, as
a % ?
fluffypony: tbh there is
a MASSIVE coloured fishing community in Cape Town
bounce: that I'll agree with. but that's politics, and we already more or less established that the politics of there are
a bit fscked up
bounce: this is something for fluffypony to eludiate, I think. whites have been out and about there for
a while, true enough.
mircea_popescu: ie, they don't have or want or could support
a proper restaurant
mircea_popescu: restricting access to essentials would allow
a softer transition.
bounce: it'd be
a neat idea if it worked. but now we have
a million fishermen fishing for delivery to bigger companies. oversight goes down, quality of fish goes down, loss goes up, total fishing goes up
mircea_popescu: solves the problem, cause you can't fucking extinguish fisheries with
a line
fluffypony: thankfully they don't have
a phenomenally big following, mostly disgruntled ex-ANC Youth League guys
bounce: those quota are there so the next generation will still be able to fish. if they don't work, make'em work, not speed up the fish' extinction
a bit.
mircea_popescu: “They take
a few thousand people, then they eat on our behalf, then they are telling us we are OK.”
mircea_popescu: “If we nationalise it, then the people on the ground will benefit, not capitalists. These big companies come to Cape Town and they fish as much as they want and then when
a normal or poor person goes to do the same, they are given
a quota.
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves btw, atc nao has
a casino. /// i sullied my boots and updated the forum
bounce: ukrainian with
a romanian sailor for
a dad
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is he that romanian dude that sunk
a german ship ?
moiety: damn, the way you did it is
a bit easier
moiety: <mircea_popescu> fuck you, i'm
a dragon. << lol please bash this
fluffypony: I remember making
a TNG Enterprise paper model
ozbot: Sleepy walrus on
a Russian submarine - Us Vs Th3m
moiety: i may be thinking of
a fox but hang on
jurov: but i guess moiety'll gladly accept
a penguin instead
moiety: i'd take
a domestic that's lived all its life there asciilifeform
moiety version - live to pet
a native cat on each continent*
mircea_popescu: anyway, you ever did
a black woman ? how about
a creole woman ? how about etc.
moiety: no but makes me look
a bit pregnant which doesn't go down so well in
a drinking situation fluffypony XD
moiety: you get
a funny moustache though :{D
moiety: fluffypony: half
a pint and i feel like i have drunk bricks
moiety: guiness is like
a meal. i can't handle it
fluffypony: over hear when I'm too lazy to eat I pour myself
a beer
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have
a stack of hand made pralines, those count ?
moiety: mircea_popescu: do we have to get you
a usb toaster?
mircea_popescu: so i think i've reached
a new low. i'm starving but too lazy to either make anything or order someone to make something or order
a car to go to eat out or any other alternative.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid prolly there's going to be
a panel o nthe next conference where we sit down and see if anyone needs to be added/removed.
HeySteve: jurov do you know how they do it? I'm guessing it's
a bit of clever code but not necessarily something the regular user could use
mircea_popescu: i can;t imagine
a situation where the splitting of the coin is the point of failure.
fluffypony: Apocalyptic: if it's being distributed among 5 people then make it
a 5 of 5 wallet
fluffypony: you missed
a 2000 Learns to make animated GIFs for his Geocities homepage
HeySteve: ok let's say people have
a pre-existing arrangement to divide all BTC income. instead of the income going to one person who must be trusted to then distribute it, it goes to this service (which hopefully we don't need to trust)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in the us, Engineer = 1900 Can build
a bridge ; 1960 Can assemble computer from parts ; 1995 Knows how to compile kernel ; 2014 Makes button blink w jQuery
HeySteve: do you guys think it's useful to have
a special wallet that automatically divides payments up into apportioned shares to
a bunch of wallets it sends on to?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: will do, just making
a couple of other dimensions
mircea_popescu: for i have
a deal for you! you go gamble on that site, if you win we split the gains.
moiety: no i just passed out the website link
a lot when people were looking for something
HeySteve: it's
a TV show about
a startup in silicon valley
ozbot: Starting
a new FPGA mining farm/contract Cognitive Resurrected on[Havelock]
HeySteve: on the plus side it's make things more international, the foundation being very US-centric is
a common criticism
bounce: somebody cook up
a "not affiliated with the bitcoin foundation at all"-banner, just to show how supportive you are of that bunch
mircea_popescu: i don't like obvious scams,
a la doge / aurora / keisercoin / what have you
fluffypony: more of
a branding thing than anything else, with the advantage that they can be re-sold more easily than store credit
mircea_popescu: Even beyond these political and economic incentives, there is
a process of cultural dekulakization: look no further than the young poor Whites who now call each other “nigga”.
fluffypony: people are also stupid - I've had an argument with
a friend in Cape Town who was considering accepting crypto at his store
fluffypony: pankkake: well what if
a government outlaws Bitcoin but doesn't mention other cryptocurrencies? or they suddenly start locking people up because they can identify them, and then stuff like this Bytecoin thing with its ring signatures suddenly become appealing to people?
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically that entire article is
a poor rewrite of trilema material, by people who aren't quite smart enough or informed enough to be doing it.
mircea_popescu: The Mises Circle was founded in January 2012 by Michael Goldstein, George McHugh, and Jose Niño, to provide
a forum for scholarship in the Austrian economic tradition at the University of Texas at Austin.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside for
a second their complete inability TO FUCKING QUOTE.
punkman: because it's been like
a month
punkman: I bought
a 1TH mining contract to get some ATC, but seems like the guy screwed me
mircea_popescu:
a there it is. Vexual Difficulty 129,782.79 next 354,280.61