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mircea_popescu: "This sounds like a legit deal to me because the bitcoin mining can keep it going."
mircea_popescu: can't fucking find well known sets that are all over the interwebs.
mircea_popescu: if anyone wants to know what happens to "exciting revolutionary start-ups" once the burn rate burns through... tin eye is a fine example.
mircea_popescu: maybe woodcollector should carve a block of boron carbide next, as a super-show of his super-talents.
mircea_popescu: apparently the average chump believes talent to be a sort of spark-of-superman.
mircea_popescu: His mastery of the skill comes not from his ability to "cut around the lines" but in that he can from start to finish carve on some of the most difficult woods in the world to work with. Wood that 80% of your so called "master carvers" as they claim on youtube and the woodworking forums would not touch in a hundred years because it takes some serious talent to carve them.
mircea_popescu: so in general, sanity only needs very minimal measures to defend itself from the otherwise doomed attempts to relevancy of the us-ists : keep issues from becoming simple matters.
mircea_popescu: which is whence the crisis-oriented politics of all US sytems comes from. the only time the US US made sense was during war with germany. "either yer fer or against!"
mircea_popescu: the only sort of situation where US systems approach survivability are very plain, obvious questions that everyone, even a turtle, would get right.
mircea_popescu: the intellect is rarely functioning and universaly expensive to fire up
mircea_popescu: and the solution will prevail because the problems universal suffrage straddles its practitioners with are not only unresolvable, but actually heavier than the sum benefits.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the solution is quite simple : do not give everyone voice. have a voicing procedure in place.
mircea_popescu: this is why you don't want "universal suffrage" : it makes politics a matter of emo manipulation, like marketing.
mircea_popescu: so of course any headcount-based system will try to talk to the latter.
mircea_popescu: well because the intellect is rarely functioning and universaly expensive to fire up, whereas the emoprocessor is always on.
mircea_popescu: which has to be beaten out of the afflicted, for everyone's benefit.
mircea_popescu: three guys that fire weapons by hand are not my concern. three million dickless schmucks sitting behind desks, those are the problem.
mircea_popescu: more relevant to our interests : the one public prosecutor murdered by the argentine state in argentina.
mircea_popescu: obviously they imagine the world is you know, someone just walked out with a ruler cca 100 years ago
mircea_popescu: well, "the west" in the sense of, "west of ozarks" are people who live in states bordered by straight lines.
mircea_popescu: you could in fact pretend like wait, "give russia back to the tatars"
mircea_popescu: this is what one means when he says "lithuanian situation is complicated".
mircea_popescu: but this because of what /r/ is, not because of what bitcoin is.
mircea_popescu: it's true that you can't be smarter than Y, but you also can't be stupider than Y, and so the average will always be over Y which is not an average /r/bitcoin looks likely to reach.
mircea_popescu: one group is motivated by greed, which brings all the idiots out of the woodwork. the other group is motivated by broken ideology, which HAS a barrier to entry, because you can't adhere to an ideology and act on that basis if you're arbitrarily stupid.
mircea_popescu: davout: seems to me that folks from /r/buttcoin are an order of magnitude less retarded than those in /r/bitcoin << this is true.
mircea_popescu: decimation: I didn't realize that the Crimea was filled with Tartars << golden horde sez nothing to you ?
mircea_popescu: coderwill: I was following a conversation on GitHub for Bitcoin.org, and found it interesting that Circle has explicitly requested to be removed from the site because it targets a different demographic from what they are searching for. << yeah., circle is looking for suckers / idiots / people who refuse to think.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: ben_vulpes: that's precisely the current Monero architecture << heh. apparently sanity is not a luxury product.
mircea_popescu: and he's going to try an' broadcast a btc txn from down there.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Tinder Makes Its First Match in Antarctica -- The Cut << speaking oif which : the brave mthreat amongst us is going on a south pole expedition like next week
mircea_popescu: hm.... i never knew an "artisan" that works wood by the truckload ? this is akin to someone claiming to be dali explaining how he gets a truckload of paint a week...'
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i suspect smoothie from the forums is kinda stupid << generally known as such. his behaviour throughout was, to quote hanbot "nothing short of bizarre"
mircea_popescu: well yes. politics doesn't work, we know that going in.
mircea_popescu: decimation sure, but on the other hand the job of politics is to avoid placing the table on the toes.
mircea_popescu: decimation i mean, if the entire objection to the mores of the black ghetto is that men don't live with the women they impregnate, and then you go demolish the one place for 500 miles where they actually do...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, if you gonna do something, best know why you're doing it.
mircea_popescu: not as to racism in any sense, but as to why it's a bad idea
mircea_popescu: decimation you know i can actually see that argument ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's a great way to end up in 20 years surrounded by junk
mircea_popescu: "To most, the fact that Lila called Mitch a hero for killing himself is strange. "
mircea_popescu: "Preference will be given to those who provide video of them damaging the finished piece with a dremel tool." lol ok
mircea_popescu: guy ended up falling on an inexplicable pile of bricks
mircea_popescu: i recall this grandiose commie romanian cinema thing, where "so what do we do ?! " "well... he can jump on some ears of corn" "but the camera will pick them up". pause. "not if you cover them in a brick painted sheet"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you should fish out the shows tho, they're great. derp has the camera filming in demo mode
mircea_popescu: iirc he even apologized and errything. dun recall if privately or publicly or what, years ago.
mircea_popescu: in his defense, this later one was the saner of the bunch
mircea_popescu: was also one of the guys involved in "banker cartel" pirate bs.
mircea_popescu: ambiguous, was a pedo early bitcoin advocate with a ridoinculous hourlong webshow
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller did you submit an article or something ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> because usg is too stupid to move to somewhere cheaper <>< nah, not how it works. wherever it moves, the bedbugs move there too. it won't stay cheaper.
mircea_popescu: of course the lord's slave mistress is what passes for upper class among the slaves. nevertheless, the actual upper class regards the favored equal to the common slave.
mircea_popescu: i've seen pics these days. half as full, everyone on gadget.
mircea_popescu: back in 2004, it was car after carful of people all reading a book
mircea_popescu: boston actually had excellent rail system. perhaps the best in the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you should have seen town meetings in the 60s. "FIFTY LANES WE MUST HAS! EACH WAY!"
mircea_popescu: who here is on an economy internet package ? everyone just "give me the fattest pipe you got" "oh only that ? INTRODUCE LARGER ONES!"
mircea_popescu: we would, of course. so what the driveway cost would not be a topic of conversation.