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mircea_popescu: chumps are routinely downed for their troubles. but "dunno what it was ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: and anyone else a) doesn't hjave the money and b) would just be happy to send you support tickets
mircea_popescu: decimation but the people who could do it could get it anyway
mircea_popescu: if you can do it with a toothbrush you could ... restore art, or make your own, or be a surgeon or etc.
mircea_popescu: there's this very narrow lost demographic, mostly at the periphery of the world, made up of kids smart enough to be able to do it but dumb enough to not have anything better to do.
mircea_popescu: cazalla can't even be bothered to bet on it. "they'll make a bitcoin's worth of sales the first week, then half a bitcoin the next year and then that's that."
mircea_popescu: standard practice on cheap home connections, and the only reason the shit's even effective in any sense.
mircea_popescu: well but if the whole thing's tossed then they have not acquired the right to use it.
mircea_popescu: actually it would in principle bar any sort of legally organised body from ever using the software.
mircea_popescu: "he's a nice enough fellow, if only he were more serious."
mircea_popescu: what did the father of the girl schopenhauer was courting say ?
mircea_popescu: starts as a joke, which is kinda funny, except haha, only funny, except hm... etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have you notice how my shit grows on one in retrospect ?
mircea_popescu: have you talked with the dog about this, or is it entirely your own opinion ?"
mircea_popescu: the butcher, a huge guy with a huge mustache, "don't be afraid, it won't bite"
mircea_popescu: which starts to bark quite furious. the jew stops in fear
mircea_popescu: a scrawny jewish real estate agent is going down the street to show a house to a customer. on the way, a large butchery, and in it a huge dog
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which reminds me, you know the joke with the jew an' the big mean dog ?
mircea_popescu: obviously the offspring of the powerful will do just fine, unless a) the powerful's just a fake elite ;b) the offspring's retarded or c) both.
mircea_popescu: suppose the converse. i have a girl with any of my women, she witnesses the life in a harem geowing up, i tell her all the dirty secrets of the world because i dfon't give a fuck, i encourage her to parade naked in town when she's 16 and so on, and when i die i leave her half a billion in untraceable money.
mircea_popescu: otherwise teh empty rhetoric is suspect of well... that.
mircea_popescu: and if you say "this is midwest only" or "this is non democrat only " you already lost.
mircea_popescu: see how many kids rich people of 1960 had, how many of them are in ivy league in 1980,
mircea_popescu: well, the ones contained in the theory. apparatchick count, ivy league output, rich list.
mircea_popescu: if moldy had bothered to run the demos rather than just too busy sitting on ass and opining, he'd have noticed this theory is about as leaky as his submarines.
mircea_popescu: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more: it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and
mircea_popescu: he probably got a little horny for the nude girl at dating age
mircea_popescu: "This, I submit, is on its own sufficient proof that pornography is a wholesome, socially representative activity, whereas both cinematography and fashion are (by comparison at least) pernicious and very, very false. And that which is false can never be art, irrespective of all pretense to the contrary."
mircea_popescu: and ending with whatever the chinese will come up with at the final end of it.
mircea_popescu: and i'll take any bet that feudalism as promoted by b-a will take the piss, vinegar and cockroach guts out of any alternative, startingwith the usg
mircea_popescu: through horror of all type , famine, plague, rebellion, invasion, everything possible, thinkable and unthinkjable
mircea_popescu: a system, mind you, that had supported nine centuries of previous monarchs just fine
mircea_popescu: consider the doomed nature of centralism. so louis defeudalized france, forced the nobles away from their estates and relevancy, captive at versailles. fifty years later his heir was being decapitated, and the system collapsed.
mircea_popescu: early internet - boost of disease, mature internet - cure
mircea_popescu: best one point plan for world domination i ever heard. plus it worked.
mircea_popescu: to this day i suspect xiaoping's plan was exactly 1. industrialise through giving away the products to the west. within half a century you will have the industry and they will have collapsed.