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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".
mircea_popescu: but somehow it's not now the case that *I* should waltz in washington and buy the monument for a few bitcents.
mircea_popescu: but somehow it's NOT what the us has to do, once the us turned into a cold war ghetto.
mircea_popescu: eerilie reminiscent of how "financial discipline" was the imf standard pill for all of eastern europe all through the 90s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notice the very convenient "uilding Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse" just on the tail end of two decades of "we can't actually afford to build anything anymore" and as "we can't really even maintain what we got" sets in.
mircea_popescu: jurov not possible huh ? compare M3 to world trade figures.
mircea_popescu: as this carries on eventuyally fees will exceed block rewards sometime that decade.
mircea_popescu: i would suspect once we've beheaed gavin for things to proceed apace and by 2020 or so to have a more reasonable 50 to 100k move daily, of which that 1% is then maybe 50 btc a day.
mircea_popescu: as btc matures, velocity will approach more reasonable values.
mircea_popescu: a system where 1k btc out of a 15mn currency base moves EACH DAY has exceedingly slow velocity.
mircea_popescu: currently tx fees are in the range of 0.000000001% to 0.001%. they will increase, yes. degrees of magnitude, yes. past 1% as an average is unlikely, because alternatives will become lucrative enough. such as you know, people would stop "tipping" etc.
mircea_popescu: (tbh such a change is pure gunk, bitcoin will NEVER carry 10% fees, ever. period.)
mircea_popescu: well just don't make it scale down bvy the same formula
mircea_popescu: jurov make an actual model and i can show you numerically how feasible it is. or otherwise, estimatively, it'd cost about 1 btc to make the blocks any arbitrary size.
mircea_popescu: 120 ? is that just for newly minted coins or fees too ?
mircea_popescu: uh, you want a per tx% ? i thought you just wanted per block aggregate.
mircea_popescu: not clear why only once in 100, but granted that, 10 btc in fees per block on average is like what, 1mn% more than now ?
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't get your logic. why can't i use external tx fees ?
mircea_popescu: "If anyone reading this believes that a man whose time is worth THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS AN HOUR is going to pick up a chisel for $18/hr, stop reading RIGHT NOW and kill yourself." << i have personally fucked women whose time was actually that sort of money. i bought lunch.
mircea_popescu: "fifty eight men join plumbing school as the notion they will ever be hired to do anything with computers is laughable"
mircea_popescu: what happened to "verizon fired its entire security staff, hired hacker to form a new team" ?
mircea_popescu: "The app hacker quietly reported the holes to Verizon which issued a fix Friday, two days after it was disclosed, and rewarded Westergren with a year's worth of free internet." << heh, bad deal.
mircea_popescu: i can do it probably ten times in 10k blocks with very little costs.
mircea_popescu: "XDA senior software developer Randy Westergren said the FiOS API flaw since fixed allowed any account to be accessed by manipulating user identification numbers in web requests." shit sherlock.
mircea_popescu: miner makes a block out of tx with huge fees that he doesn't broadcast. if it goes in, it's in. if not, no loss.