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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.
mircea_popescu: everyone can "do a little coding' just like any man could ride a horse in 1800.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My gut is telling me that changing the public keys to garbage is going to be the quick << not that dirty, either.
mircea_popescu: forget that part and think of bandwidth. romania does not have this problem, but the us does. bandwidth accessibility is actually going down, not up, and it looks like it may go away entirely.
mircea_popescu: how are you to make them ? where do you buy your raw materials for bitcoin ? where do you hire workers and pay them in bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: and that if i or anyone else decides to bomb that place that's that for new hard drives for a decade or more.
mircea_popescu: and that at one point, when they had a flood, hard drive prices exploded on the market by a factor of 3
mircea_popescu: exactly schmexactly. there's a difference between the idle imagination of youth and the knowledge of men. for instance : i know but you don't know that the vast majority of hard drives are produced in the same few acres of asian shore.
mircea_popescu: how would this work ? you mean you manufacture the hard drives in house ?
mircea_popescu: if on the other hand expansion is paid in "hard drives" chances are whosoevere wants to participate has to SELL bitcoin to buy fiat assets.
mircea_popescu: point remains : if the expansion is paid in bitcoin, whosoever wants to participate has to SELL fiast assets and buy bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: yes, well... are you one of those who imagines bitpay "paid in bitcoin" for whatever sponsorship ?
mircea_popescu: what has made me come to this conclusion is neither here nor there. i am not proposing anything to you. i have made my own determinations, and if you inquire i tell you the reasons. that's how far that goes.
mircea_popescu: so : a) gavin is in no way involved in bitcoin development ; b) gavin's insanities have nothing to do with bitcoin's problems, and in no case are they solutions. as you'd expect of someone who has nothing to do with it in the first place.
mircea_popescu: both discuss camels and donkeys. both ARE NOT discussions of how to carry your rubble.
mircea_popescu: it is ANOTHER discussion to propose that you pile all the donkeys on top of the camels and then throw the lot in the river.
mircea_popescu: it is one idea to discuss how to load the donkeyus and the camels respectively, to best do this.
mircea_popescu: to understand exactly the situation, you have camles and donkeys, and have to carry a billion tons of rubble.
mircea_popescu: this is completely differet a matter, and it is not proper to mix it together in the consideration of an actual problem. it is not an actual problem.
mircea_popescu: unrelated to all of this, a usg mole is proposing to change bitcoin into something unsustainable.
mircea_popescu: these are, obviously, both going to be employed, in some combination, because the thing is going to grow too huge to allow exclusivity
mircea_popescu: another one is, to pay for it in fiat, via paying for disk space.
mircea_popescu: there are two avenues to pay for it. one is, to pay for it in bitcoin. via paying for txn.
mircea_popescu: looky here : growing larger implies growing costs. this is a given. a larger bitcoin will somehow be paid for.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "XII. The current 1Mb limit is arbitrary. We want to change it. Please ignore the fact that the discussion is about whether to change or not to change, and please ignore that the onus is on whoever proposes change to justify it. Instead, buy into our pretense that the discussion is about "which arbitrary value". Because we're idiots, and so should be you!"
mircea_popescu: you said that you read my articles, which is nice, but it'd be a lot better if instead of saying you did you showed me you did, by asking meaningful rather than meaninglessly general questions.
mircea_popescu: there's, intermittently, some unidentified derp that floods noobs
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's a true old courthouse favourite, "i pay your salary"