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mircea_popescu: right about at the time they tarred and feathered that asinine idiot who said they should wash hands
☟︎ mircea_popescu: genders don't preserve through the eons, they bleed. the french soldier of 1800 wasn't a soldier in 1750. he was a peasant.
mircea_popescu: old men pretending to be teaching the young'uns "trigonometry" who thought pi = 3.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that he'd have a complex story as to how earthworms cause trees to flower
mircea_popescu: if gavin were a blacksmith, he probably would have passed for a good one. if this guy were an actual lumberjack, he'd probably have counted for a fine lumberjack.
mircea_popescu: fifty or five hundred years ago, that wasn't a crowd. it was sole individuals, and the idiots were still a crowd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean it deeper than that. i mean, actual quacks passing for professionals. see, since the internet there's a line being drawn : sure both gavin and wood dude pass to a certain crowd as idiots for the genuine article. but there exists a thinking crowd that sees through it.
mircea_popescu: how many idiotic "artisans" filled each corner of england ?
mircea_popescu: the funny thing (to me) here is, gotany idea how much of this shit floated before there was an internet ?
mircea_popescu: he can still prove it to you, but only secretly and if oyu agree.
mircea_popescu: "I can and will still prove to you that Nubbins is full of shit and on a smear campaign, i am now just choosing to do so directly with the people who matter, not every tom dick and harry that thinks they know a darn thing about woodworking"
mircea_popescu: it's like a diamond, depends which way the light falls.
mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on the internet, the "everyone is as stupid as me / everyone's a goat the same gender and age as me" issue.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) do not make too tiny cuts that wouldn't have survived mechanically b) clean the fucking piece.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` at this point, expecting a "well of course SOME PARTS were done with a laser but that's not what we were talking about" pivot for the entire "you're a bad person for hurting my feelings and i'm putting together a lynch party" talk
mircea_popescu: He did the BTC from memory << ok that's pretty good lol
mircea_popescu: this one is just as plausible. all you need is to be stupid.
mircea_popescu: you know, the fucking exchanges send like an email on everything now?
mircea_popescu: so if they're willing to commit to the same level, they'll get the same result.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "ukrainian government" still exists right ?
mircea_popescu: this is fine, the us wants to be humiliated on this front too, let it be humiliated on this front too.
mircea_popescu: but yes, im sure gavin "talked" to everyone handled by the same office.
mircea_popescu: "Edit: On IRC, Gavin explained he already talked to most (all?) big merchant processors and exchanges, and they were all onboard." derp.
mircea_popescu: da finally came out and said, here's how the president is linked to the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: they created a "joint comission" with iran. it didn't get anywhere.
mircea_popescu: teheran was behind it. first investigation said so. presidency (same fambly since forever) tabled it.
mircea_popescu: davout here's the story : big bombing here in the 70s, at the jewish center. dozens of victims.
mircea_popescu: hopefully they get replaced, and the replacements get raped and impaled as well.
mircea_popescu: so... love food riots. if president + government get raped and impaled, all the better.
mircea_popescu: whereas individual terrorism is regarded as ordinary and perhaps welcome.
mircea_popescu: i am personally in favour of so much individual terrorism until it is inconceivable for the slightest hint of the state doing it,
mircea_popescu: turns out, when a government is the terrorist, all is ok. but if individuals are the terrorists, oh noes, gotta make the press talk of nothing else for a month.
mircea_popescu: i would expect a degree of magnitude more pressure as a result of this rather than that.
mircea_popescu: but for the sake of argument, explain to me how exactly is this any less than some derpy cartoonists being shot by some random idiots ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes to get a couple aweek you gotta scrape pretty thin yea ?
mircea_popescu: clearly the population is not naturally represented in this process.
mircea_popescu: and then simple political murder, of the most shameless sort, fails to stir three dudes.
mircea_popescu: you can't get me to seriously think that some intricate point of policy yields 500 people holding signs in the street,
mircea_popescu: govt can print. and does print. which is how it went bankrupt.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with this thing where a bunch of people holding signs walk or stand ?
mircea_popescu: so i am satisfied that all the "manifestations" are just so much empty theatre.
mircea_popescu: but tell you what, da got assassinated by president (there's absolutely no doubt cristina kirschener ordered it, and it was an assassinate) and... no manifestation.,
mircea_popescu: something like, "a bunch of people who appear bussed in, and some derps organizing". ie, it looked to me like astroturf.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some things for me. i live within blocks of the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth. there's on average two a week of these. they're not all political, but the political ones seemed quite suspect to me
☟︎ mircea_popescu: only real difference being the idiots don't have sense enough to chicken out right before the jump
mircea_popescu: hard to tell, the one thing cowards and idiots have in common is that both talk the tough talk all the way through.
mircea_popescu: it's funny what vanity does to people. is he actually blind to how his entire position reduces to "i wish to be relevant, damn the world" ? neat.
mircea_popescu: so wait, "you must accept MY altchain because otherwise you get a CHOICE of alt chains" ? this is the gavin pro-fork argument ?
mircea_popescu: "nothing substantial has changed anywhere else but where we want you to look. please infer"
mircea_popescu: "it's not like we're counting fewer people as a basis or anything"
mircea_popescu: "when divorce occurence in a population increases by 10%, the per-capita dependent children figure goes up by 10%. when 12%, 12%. clearly, divorce causes fertility."
mircea_popescu: academics in the scholarly academic topic of correlation is causation.
mircea_popescu: If a city had increased its road capacity by 10 percent between 1980 and 1990, then the amount of driving in that city went up by 10 percent. If the amount of roads in the same city then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000, the total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent. It’s like the two figures were moving in perfect lockstep, changing at the same exact rate."
mircea_popescu: “We found that there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship,” said Turner.
mircea_popescu: "to take a closer look at the problem. In 2009, two economists—Matthew Turner of the University of Toronto and Gilles Duranton of the University of Pennsylvania—decided to compare the amount of new roads and highways built in different U.S. cities between 1980 and 2000, and the total number of miles driven in those cities over the same period.
mircea_popescu: a decade or two of that should put the country on pretty decent footing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't clean it, i'd just host impalement orgies for kidnapped daughters of the "elite" doing whatever women's studies bullshit in college.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the definition of an expert is, fundamentally, "one whose judgements are not based on his own circumstance".