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mircea_popescu: was there no gold before mendeleev ? or what, did he invent "eka-aluminium" ?
mircea_popescu: but... if it didn't exist... then how was it that "the company" made it ?!
mircea_popescu: "The problem, in part, in this debate arises from scientists confusing discovery or research with invention. Looked at in terms of the production of novel material, certain distinctions can be made. Discovery and research are not creative acts. While they require creative thinking, they do not add anything materially new to the world. Alternatively, invention is the act of creating something that did not exist. There w
mircea_popescu: "Except the argument isn't grounded in reality. Saying something vague like "people need these drugs," misses the immediate point: which drugs? On what grounds is it even possible to say that people "need something" that didn't exist until a company created it?"
mircea_popescu: for the record, i've made a complete backup of tlp's site. 702 articles it has.
mircea_popescu: whaack: anyways I came here to ask if you guys have btc entrepreneurial ideas that you think are good but just don't have time to get around to << jobs pop up occasionally. you have to read the log to have a chance at them. this is intentional.
mircea_popescu: whaack: It seems like something that takes a little bravery other than just holding and seeing which chain wins << what exact bravery does it take ? you get dollars for it.
mircea_popescu: wtf ban evasion is this, can be arsed to avoid a ban, can't be arsed to fix bouncer.
mircea_popescu: if i keep a spare pair of panties in my briefcase in case i shit myself, i do not send a record of their purchase to the new york times, for publication in their news section, nor do i send the unfortunate reports of the occurence for the obit section.
mircea_popescu: whaack: I think multisig for that reason is retarded, I thought the main purpose is for personal use to reduce the chance I fuck something up << why do you think your personal measures against fucking something up should be world-readable ?
mircea_popescu: it wasn't even us per se, it was more west germany than us.
mircea_popescu: no, they surrendered to the best wot to be had at the time.
mircea_popescu: "i bet you mp wouldn't say the USG gets to make classified filings"
mircea_popescu: the logical segue is, "well it's a LOT better to publish the stuff on the internet than to submit it to a court"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for remoras - the swiftest possible discipline. << eh, it's best to fix problems well after rather than well before they're problems.
mircea_popescu: for the record it's /mode #bitcoin-assets -b *!*zip55413@pdpc/supporter/bronze/kermit
mircea_popescu: incredibly, iirc this is actually mentioned in teh logs.
mircea_popescu: ;;google da-ma mama dupa gyury ca ma tine-n virfu pulii
mircea_popescu: the romanian folklore has the exact discussion of this behaviour, as folklore.
mircea_popescu: even the people who could readily realise it'd be them, didn't care.
mircea_popescu: also, it was plainly apparent to everyone in 88 that yes, 93 will be starving
mircea_popescu: this was a major propaganda point (soviet propaganda had the unique distinction of actually being mostly true). nobody cared.
mircea_popescu: i mean that literally. nobody. more people were starving in new york than in russia.
mircea_popescu: decimation nobody was actually starving in russia in 1988
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how much work to auto-kick join/part sp4mz0rz? << i occasionally do it, but meh.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't the man in the street. it was EXACTLY the famished student.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the "man in the street" in russia STILL has batyushka portraits!
mircea_popescu: necessity is the mother of invention. and also, stupidity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most importantly : note that at the time they surrendered en masse, less than 1% of 1% had BEEN THERE
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as they see it, because fucktarded politburo is poisonng gender relaitons.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: yeah, cazalla and BingoBoingo are getting it done. < +1
mircea_popescu: for one thing, women are easier than ever. and they're mostly affraid of them. why ?
mircea_popescu: how they call it is irrelevant. note what they substantiall say.
mircea_popescu: do the experiment yourself. ask peopel what the ideal world is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it was centered on the aspirational class. as typified by gorby.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what triggered me was the 8chan pic. seeing how
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i blame both of you. thirty lashes. << o.O careful with that, sht hurts.
mircea_popescu: i would accept fealty from a us puppet president, sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but if your corvee theory is correct, why exactly was it that one could buy rusting cccp subs on the open market in 1991 ?
mircea_popescu: "Guy exposed a cabal of users taking over reddit yesterday, spawned a watchdog subreddit of 2500 subscribers overnight, was then banned by reddit's admins, all the subreddit's mods then banned, admins won't say why, and now they're handing the subreddit to the corrupt cabal of users who were exposed."