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mircea_popescu: one could never have made a bitcoin without a block reward. this, of course, means that we now have a promise to renege on. but i'm not about to start reneging on promises.
mircea_popescu: god preserve me from heresy but! so far inflaiton has actually been beneficial for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: what that changes... ask them, not me, to borrow an alfism.
mircea_popescu: to a large degree, it was obvious that once we move from "inflation pays for it" to "you gotta pay for it" the "consumers have come to expect" were going to throw a shitfest.
mircea_popescu: mike_c like the butcher said, "i merely follow the lulzlines already present".
mircea_popescu: assbot: America’s Booty Obsession Is Another Symptom Of Social Decline << i also like ass.
mircea_popescu: it's possible, obviously, the chinese are nazi-private, but i dun really see it.
mircea_popescu: yeah in usd. still, this is like mpoe level, i very much doubt it.
mircea_popescu: davout: never heard about it, but apparently they're putting bs&t to shame with a $400mn loss, sounds doubtful << yeah srsly, sounds like pure bs.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, my measure to resolve the "police violence" thing would be a) everyone with a mental issue must wear a funny hat.
mircea_popescu: anyway, people only should hide the fact that they have a mental ilness if they wish to get shot.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, who can't donate sperm. to women. directly.
mircea_popescu: derp wants someone to pay for his surgery because one month's worth of government dole is too much for him ?
mircea_popescu: i'd expect it's exactly as full of morons as bitcoin generally, just, you have better benchmarks in that corner.
mircea_popescu thinks this entire "numismatics as an investment" thing is not unlike the "my balcony garden as a tomato farm" thing, but hey.
mircea_popescu: seems pretty obvious who's gonna crush everyone. also seems everyone knows it.
mircea_popescu: how was that line, "self serving minds have little trouble overcoming memory" ?
mircea_popescu: well if it was, then wh ythe fuck did you spend five years denying it.
mircea_popescu: attracts a particularly felonious type, too. there's this guy, who claimed he never worked with the secret police, then they found fiddy pounds worth of notes, at which point he declared that it was the patriotic duty of everyone to help the secret police!
mircea_popescu: basically, what the various "law enforcement officers" do in court these days.
mircea_popescu: "oh, your wife ? yeah she was writing weekly notes since 1972"
mircea_popescu: well the word means false police report for pay. but generally, the sort of late warsaw pact atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: and i come from a time and place where they had delatiune
mircea_popescu: rarely has it been the case that a man did a more thorough job of crushing himself before my eyes.
mircea_popescu: most starlets with youth fading, most inept actresses, most voiceless singers take refuge in scandal, because hey, "being controversial" is a good excuse to never consider if you're in fact any good.
mircea_popescu: it does make perfect sense in its devilish fatlogic system. lennart wants to matter, yes ? but how to do it safely ? AT JOB!
mircea_popescu: derp wants to rewrite X. but how to do it safely ? AH! I KNOW....
mircea_popescu: it is not the "moral" considerations that drive it. the moral considerations are merely the pretext under which the inept hand takes refuge.
mircea_popescu: i think incidentally, that this is the fundamental impulse driving most bowdlerization.
mircea_popescu: right. perfectly fine as it is, but what is more tempting than to mess with an accomplished writer's words ?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.danielkrawisz.-1:0e9ea38f1062dcfd1454f73db6e35003e335253868749cfbf6e95385c3f03dec
mircea_popescu: !rate danielkrawisz -1 go suck a coinbase, bitstamp and whatever cock.
mircea_popescu: s a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best.""
mircea_popescu: ""It is demonstrable," said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord ha
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell danielkrawisz what are you, the second coming of pangloss ?
mircea_popescu: this is such idiocy the likes of which was never seen.
mircea_popescu: 'the devil himself knoweth not the mind of men' as the expression goes.
mircea_popescu: well at the very least express yourself better. i dunno anyone who'd think much of thought crime.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem do you remember that walk when those gypsy girls accosted you ?
mircea_popescu: "We do not know what he would have said–it is just possible that the unprocurable pamphlet, 1601, would supply a clue but we may guess that it would have wrecked his reputation and reduced his income to reasonable proportions."
mircea_popescu: The tale is told, too, of a certain woman who performed an aeolian crepitation at a dinner attended by the witty Monsignieur Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, and that when, to cover up her lapse, she began to scrape her feet upon the floor, and to make similar noises, the Bishop said, "Do not trouble to find a rhyme, Madam!"
mircea_popescu: it's always possible one convinces himself anything's a good idea.