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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform were you thinking 1907 ? i dun see the 1848 angle in any light.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean after the austrian monarch was deposed ? in a negotiated peace ?
mircea_popescu: fuck you, you're a nail. whether you drive or bend, you're getting hit.
mircea_popescu: you see a nail go "don't hit me unless i actually go in the wall" ?
mircea_popescu: this is what cowardice is : the consideration of meta.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, to revisit this point : the byzantine generals problem is specifically and exactly mathematically formalised cowardice.
mircea_popescu: because the aliens aren't about to land with platinum visas for everyone.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everything ever seems one thing until it isn't. you know ?
mircea_popescu: decimation they're in fact the opposite sides of the same coin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pattern is actually not required in insurection. determination only requisite ingredient, carries day.
mircea_popescu: decimation you see the difference between being king and being, allegedly, a nation ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the principal problem of the byznatines was their cowardice
mircea_popescu: then it can be a "but i dun want to" and everyone can go home happy.
mircea_popescu: fine. just as long as we all stop pretending like this is "impossible" and we understand that it's quite possible, perfectly feasible and practically effective.
mircea_popescu: heh. people keep derping about the 1% but don't really want to be teh 1% eh ?
mircea_popescu: ie, less than the fucking effort to build the cardano.
mircea_popescu: so what's the problem, if half a million people shoot half a million cops, they're going to build you a special country club and keep you there with all your friends ?
mircea_popescu: people need to seriously stop worrying about imaginary hobgoblins.
mircea_popescu: what exactly are they gonna do ? feed you for the next 30 years ? big whoop.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << <mircea_popescu> then start shooting police officers coming to steal the cash.
mircea_popescu: stop pussy-fucking-footing all around the broken, shattered remains of a thing that no longer exists.
mircea_popescu: he should start doing actually roi able advertising. create a festival. say in the place where they stole that guy's cattle grazing.
mircea_popescu: this may be one of the first ones that has made a profit.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ahahaha scammer cuts loose already introducing new scam ?
mircea_popescu: we've made more good law here in the past year than the us congress in the past decade.
mircea_popescu: the usg has no priviledged relationship with the law. it's a poor mockery thereof.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more like "maintaining your penis in a state where it's enjoyable without ruining your life"
mircea_popescu: and fwiw a principle i studiously observed throughout my life and in all aspects so far. cop wants to bitch about tickets, his department can enjoy thirty eight different lawsuits.
mircea_popescu: this is how small government is both obtained and maintained, and this is how a country that actually works is preserved.
mircea_popescu: government is the bitch. the slightest getting in your way must be met with disproportionately escalated response until it either dies or gives up.
mircea_popescu: not the right approach. bitch talks back, she gets slapped. she starts crying, she gets beaten. she screams, she gets cut loose.
mircea_popescu: the nontriviality there is a little ofsometing else. the thought process of "she's a total bitch, let me try and work with her nevertheless" is responsible for more unhappy marriages than any other thing.
mircea_popescu: then start shooting police officers coming to steal the cash.
mircea_popescu: decimation pity they don't have the backbone (and leadership) to start a cash only program, and publicly denounce banking as a scam.
mircea_popescu: i can;t wait for when it's not about the block size but about the total bitcoins, and it's noit about "saving africa" but about saving ubs, and the howlers are not on the forum but on every tv screen,
mircea_popescu: so there's no confusion if i'm gettingserviced by oliver bussmann or by his mom.
mircea_popescu: ideally they patent the particular way in which they suck my cock.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody lost his job as ubs cio by doing old idiocy
mircea_popescu: if ubs wasn't so very bankrupt, it'd even matter more.
mircea_popescu: there you go, who asked if to own or to burn ? to this.
mircea_popescu: i thought this was highly personal and entirely idiosyncratic a view
mircea_popescu: and if you look at the place's history... those wolves that ate boston... their teeth are still visible in the striations of the skins of these people.
mircea_popescu: it's this particular concoction of the forcible solipsism of crusoe with the narcissism of a fifteen year old boy that grew up alone among cows, with the desperation of a dying beggar on the dark side of the moon.
mircea_popescu: about a farmer. who was in debt. who was married to a marry sue, whose published novel saves the farm.
mircea_popescu: so she stopped writing ~poetry~. and instead wrote a miserable novel
mircea_popescu: but then!!11 for it has a c. then her husband , who you know, was hoping to be able to enjoy a drink in a bar without being laughed into the ground sometime before he dies completely forbade any further writings
mircea_popescu: but then, for it doesn't end there! then she confronted teh comedy goldminers by saying that "they each paid a quarter to see a fool, but she's been paid 50 bux and sees a roomfull of fools"
mircea_popescu: a) claimed that the poor arrangement / band / etc were the reason people "didn't like" her 2nd performance.
mircea_popescu: but she persevered. the exact manners in which she persevered are, to me, the best summary of the american spirit that can be had.
mircea_popescu: this was a simple woman who couldn't write, that infatuated herself with the notion that she can produce poetry
mircea_popescu: it's just this font of lulz, like, hm... quintessentially american to me.
mircea_popescu: the best part of tradecraft is that it is so god damned hard to do well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check out this funny happenstance : once bb dropped the philippines bomb ? 20 mb thread suddenly of no further interest, off first page etc.
mircea_popescu: don't lol mr, my work on this topic has been reviewed by internet csseconomists and other lolexperts. plus oleg leganza.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> can also scan the old-fashioned way but then add two or three zeros to time required. << yes, but cheap enough :)
mircea_popescu: i mean, obviously, an idiot will exist for whatever idiocy. pretending that "transsexuals are hot now" is just trannie wet dreamin'.