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mircea_popescu: or should someone aspiring to qntra publishing do it instead ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so can we get a block count and runtime count so far ?
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk microsoft is not in the wot. it can't sue anyone.
mircea_popescu: we're having private chuckle issuance on the basis of future comedy gold revenues.
mircea_popescu: then in a decade they start with the "TIME TO RUN ALF OUT OF THIS FREEDOM MOVEMENT"
mircea_popescu: mike_c we don't have to tell them it was asciilifeform not "linux"
mircea_popescu: but it's a good contact. "WAIT LINUX ALLOWS BITCOIN TO RUN ON ROUTER?!?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, i wonder for how many noobs this will eb the first practical contact with a nix machine
mircea_popescu: dude i like talking things through in here, it's like a mental lens.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron include that bit in the write-up, will be the identification for rebate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a good idea btw. can it do that much ?
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk i don't think anyone'll be able to beat the "spend a coupla hours having fun with real deal code, then forget about it" deal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. well nubbins` was proposing a packaging etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't want to be shipping these out by hand if i can help it.
mircea_popescu: wait, is his NAME shiller or is bloomberg now owned by s.qntr ?
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk that's not the problem : anyone with half a clue can do the same and make a diff bitcoin static
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but he'll hjave to get gavin to sell him some of those magical 10 terrabyte ssd's he has from the future.
mircea_popescu: l;et people buy individually, i dont want to ship out a stock of special-diddled machines
mircea_popescu: i specifically do not wish the purchase tobe identifiable.
mircea_popescu: that's the problem : to have them shipped to a central location and then shipped out trebles the cost
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, schemes to grow rich off rebate deals are kinda kramer-esque
mircea_popescu: trinque for one thing, you can use it as a proxy for your actual bitcoind
mircea_popescu: the long term benefit is a "just keep it powered and you are providing one full node"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but this is an "owner orders unit and loads the code"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if whoever buys a unit installs whatever code he wants on it, he can use any address he pleases.
mircea_popescu: cunts are made to be seen. browsers are made to not be identified.
mircea_popescu: understand : naked cunt on the internet, no big deal. your ad tracking cookie in browser ? huge deal.
mircea_popescu: anywya, danielpbarron is working on a full length noob guide, online cheaper than on paper
mircea_popescu: but w/e, if you were going to get yourserlf one, get yourself three, give to your gf and your mother, get rebate for the two
mircea_popescu: way i was planning to do this was an equivalent of "show me your tits", ie, buy a router, install it, show proof, get your money back.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what'd you charge to package an' distribute ?
mircea_popescu: TomServo might be. but ntp sucks and gossipd don't exist yet.
mircea_popescu: guy walks into a bank : "hold it motherstickers! this is a fuckup!!!!!"
mircea_popescu: mats i might have to resurect my trading accounts just for this.
mircea_popescu: taxes is felt like an attack on the Second Amendment. "Liberals! Taking away our rights!"
mircea_popescu: unches), the less frequently their water balloon worldview is tested by people with pins, the more they will cling to the premise that "facts" are what's important. In this way the one personal issue serves as a reference point which the propaganda exploits: "hey, gun advocates, did you know you like low corporate taxes?" I do? "Yes, because the people you hate are for raising them." Consequently, raising corporate
mircea_popescu: Commonly, independents have a single personal issue, say gun rights or abortion, but no personal experience with other issues, and lacking any subjective starting point, they therefore believe that ONLY objectivity will give them the truth. The less life experience they have the better; the less they've seen of the world, the fewer people they've argued with (in person, where it is real and has real consequences like p
mircea_popescu: even better : call structured societies that are immune to both the media and the issues it brings "cults" and go back to the charade!
mircea_popescu: o do this heavy lifting as long as they are given just the right facts, filtered from the "noise." "Where can we get the right facts, in a world of liars?" Good question, maybe the news?
mircea_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their mind is prepared t
mircea_popescu: The "independent" demo actually has all the textbook characteristics of a group most susceptible to propaganda, more correctly "pre-propaganda", and by textbook I mean literally Propaganda.
mircea_popescu: I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960.
mircea_popescu: "That does sound different. And awesome. What did their Millennial kids inherit, what did they experience over their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"
mircea_popescu: religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution. Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn the likes of which never existed before.
mircea_popescu: Well, yes, obviously, there had just been a massive leap forward in technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap, temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by the failure of two overspeculating brokerage houses. There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on the background of decreasing importance of
mircea_popescu: "But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were a lot different then."