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mircea_popescu: cazalla: more lulzy shit at
http://www.canadianbusiness.com << all these biogas precursors are in for a rude awakening. at some point they'll discover that while I have the power to make something a problem by calling it a problem, they do not (any more).
mircea_popescu: it seems there's some worms more eager than some others in the government biscuit.
mircea_popescu: "It seems to be a way to extend and patch thee Bitcoin network without waiting on slow Bitcoin Core improvements."
mircea_popescu: im gonna have to make another div payment set without a deed registrar aren't i.
mircea_popescu: this shit's seriously a lot mopre trouble than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: the principal job of the nsa since about the 2010s is to be publicly and outrageously humiliated.
mircea_popescu: (in romanian it means, literally, the dough part of a pizza or a cake)
mircea_popescu: well this is the problem, you know ? once you decide to try nuclear detonations in your livingroom you can no longer have "fresh milk"
mircea_popescu: by now a "we hold 100mn chumps, who pay us 0, give us usd" is a better revenue source than "we have 1mn people paying us 1k a year each"
mircea_popescu: it quickly becomes perverse, the game of "let's have government in the market"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile jpm was NOT tbtf, because it held a lot of money from people who had money, so it could you knoiw, just steal that,
mircea_popescu: ie, boa was "too big to fail" because it held a lot of mortgages of people WHO COULDNT PAY FOR THEM.
mircea_popescu: decimation the ones who "don't" are more valuable as bezzle access. the ones who "do" really don't.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even that, it's just... the *meaning* of money changes.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, however you explain it on the "micro" basis : competition and central control are mutually contradictory. much like anabolic and catabolic processes.
mircea_popescu: in another perspective, qe is an abdication of monetarty sovereignty. sovereignity is a fixed sum, so it just moves in other parts of the system - monopolies form.
mircea_popescu: the worst effect is that everything forms monopolies. in a physics intuitive approach, what QE does is basically increase the superficial tension. this forces bubbles to merge.
mircea_popescu: the obvious effect of "keynesian" money pumping is bubbles, but that's not the worst effect.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so do mine. but at least a) i actually fuck them and b) i don't take them without a significant prior investment from other people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stop wasting your hours! you're a process man, you belong to s.nsa now!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : take the bright side of life. "not liking kids is not a valid reason to not have any - you'll be stuck with some anyway."
mircea_popescu: for that matter, if one doesn't have the culture to know that glob's a verb, the above is also "a very bad argument" .and so on.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, my "which of course is the very point" above is also "not very clear", in the sense that if one isn't particularly bright, the recursion of "what dk says is that people think they're better than they are" is not immediately glob'd into the expression.
mircea_popescu: your average doobie, with a mediocre college degree and an ESL culture mostly geared towards ingested summaries is perfectly unable to decode metaphor or recognise complex enough patterns and fill in the gaps. this to him is frustrating, and the frustration is predictably resolved by lashing out (hey, it's the guy fault for using rferences i have to google and math i don't grok!11). in no way better than a clinical mor
mircea_popescu: but in fact, the moderately stupid are just as handicapped understanding why they aren't smarter as very smart people are, understanding THE SAME THING (ie, why they aren't smarter).
mircea_popescu: people thinkg that effect only shows up in idiots, and so not in them. which of course is the very point.
mircea_popescu: well, fuck the world, trilema will survive. i guess the idea being that "winners write history".
mircea_popescu: so it pleases me to report that virtually all links from tlp to various learned repositories of articles are dead.
mircea_popescu: if this satellite is a ton of iron, a megawatt OVER A MINUTE will vaporize it.
mircea_popescu: there's a monty python sketch about missile hunting mosquitoes.
mircea_popescu: moreover, iuf you need 1mw to kill a sat chip you have serious mental issues.
mircea_popescu: how do the intended audience of these articles imagine stuff like plasma is made
mircea_popescu: gtfo, do you have ANY IDEA what the air looks like around your megawatt continuous laser ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean, "the angular projection of a 10 metre target 150 km away" ?
mircea_popescu: 10 yo laptops are basically the value of the rare metals in them. 20 bux.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if nubbins` weren't such a noob, he'd have laser etched a mechanical rsa by now
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids there's tons of quick and dirty cardanos out there already.
mircea_popescu: decimation that'd be cvounterproductive. more like, give everything, maybe then they'll finally take out the whip.
mircea_popescu: i think it was more like the first. 6.something prolly.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think it's just perverse masochism. self hating liberal white people finally found an empire of nationalistic chinese froggies that despise foreigners.
mircea_popescu: but i mean this quite literally. scam foundation tried to push a bitcoin fork.
mircea_popescu: his name's china, and the us can't even mention what he asks of her. let alone consider what to say.
mircea_popescu: decimation if you review the us foreign policy, it can't escape your notice that the us is playing exactly the role of one of the classical woman in love : will pretend like she's a priss to all comers, except there's one she will literally eat the shit from.