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mircea_popescu: decimation on one hand yes they did, on the other hand they fucked it all up.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal most of what the man ever writes is golden. and unlike derps like moldbug or orlov, he a) isn't putting annoyingly self-advertising and b) doesn't actually have a pro-state agenda
mircea_popescu: he Man (but with no pension.) That's the system. Cut SSI payments and those docs-- and nurses and etc-- don't get paid."
mircea_popescu: "The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for T
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the "private", chris ballas had an excellent piece.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usg still working on hardforking the internet, huh ?
mircea_popescu: first time the bs "state owns the road" started afaik.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal how about that! i knew katrina was a floor not a top.
mircea_popescu: myeah. groupon being an effort to make this into a BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> introduction of a new versioning system should not be an ad hoc thing. << or a thing at all.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> can't say as i get it. either one owns btc or one doesn't. << one either owns real estate or doesn't. where does that leave the teenagers, inhabiting comfortable middle class homes they can't afford, and not even having to suck cock for it, like they will a decade down the road ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> fellow using webwalled - is quite like above illustration. << pretty good one. especially because it happened
mircea_popescu: see how many COUPONS you find. to "save" generally 5-10 bux.
mircea_popescu: go break into one of these low income households, rape the women, kill the men, ransack the drawers.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> everone else...gives zero fucks. and will continue to give zero fucks until usd/btc bubbles up again. << at the time it was 50-70bux or so.
mircea_popescu: anyone's more than welcome to run their own blocklists, which some people do. but the entire network's built on the premise that you can'trealy isolate nodes.
mircea_popescu: mod6 a) lord kelvin! there's no kalvin. an' b) just forget about this entire vanity version thing, why do you want to hardfork the versions now ?!
mircea_popescu: moar like, "welcome to we also use windows, because stupidity doesn't stink, nor hurt."
mircea_popescu: mike_c amusingly enough, it's exactly the same process (dressed in different words) that your average romanian inkeep uses to keep the average romanian wench working under the table.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ben_vulpes it's a thoroughly broken, dysfunctional and nonsensical model, andja know it.
mircea_popescu: you can't find five argentines to rob a bank with, let alone do actual work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not even the problem. the problem is that argentina has no school, and so either it uses us educated iditos, or else what, get the russians in ?
mircea_popescu: whether some 'enemies' were inept enough to do all this and just land it in her lap,
mircea_popescu: now, wehther the woman ordered them to do a job knowing they'll bothc it, or
mircea_popescu: that's the facts of the matter : spy agency is inept (practically) and missaligned (ideally). it has to get gutted.
mircea_popescu: whether the woman was involved or wasn't, the ss should get beheaded and well shook up after this.
mircea_popescu: hard to know what exactly happened there. however, there's little doubt this was a ss job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy wasn't some sort of bright young thing
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> can't use time of last block then << that's where i caught
mircea_popescu: and it DID have the correct time once. comes preloaded with the timestamp of say when we started this discussion. or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> it is then tempting to omit ntp entirely... << i have no idea why it'd have been included.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk basically sanity split from idiocy in bitcoin on the topic of porn, back in 2012.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is bitcoin. no need to give bitcoin a special name just because some derps are derping.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeh just as soon as bitcoind-unbraindamaged is ready... in it goes!
mircea_popescu: the advantage of silk sheets is you can silkscreen tits and stuff with your bare hands.
mircea_popescu: hey nubbins` did you handcarve the turkey last thskgiving ?
mircea_popescu: davout if memory serves nubbins` is this tall bear-y sorta guy