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mircea_popescu: if they didn't there'd be 3-5% casualty rates each year
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do they manage to keep fireworks off the grounds ?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> " it's amazing the mortality rate's that low" << im still wondering at the following social engineering feat :
mircea_popescu: well, if something holds itself to be a power, it'd really have to be independent, n'est pas ?
mircea_popescu: lizard empire very large, very porous, generally i get the good bits before they fully propagated even.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm curious what the gossipd "counter" strategy is going to be. 've not had the pleasure of finding anything yet.
mircea_popescu: apparently in this case shit burial wasn't deemd good enough.
mircea_popescu: there is going to be a transfer of power, and the only thing demuring can possibly accomplish is make it bloody. which i don't mind, because old people are too old as it is. even them out a little.
mircea_popescu: twitter, reddit and the rest of the social media crapolade aren't powerful enough. they work, for as long as they suck my cock. otherwise... they're about as useful as homework, who the fuck wants to bother themselves in a playpen designed by adults for "safety".
mircea_popescu: anyway. there IS going to be a transfer of power, and all the bs "let's ban mp on twitter because he stands for priviledge and against our impotent, nonsensical brand of socialism", "let's delete reddit articles because they humiliate our houseboys" etc won't do jack shit.
mircea_popescu: Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life."
mircea_popescu: it on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourselves.
mircea_popescu: hanbot the monologue in question is, "Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece su
mircea_popescu: well, plenty of people died and a buncha women got raped and a bunch more kids were born out of it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, by the time they're resorting to such things, they're clearly desperate. the matter must be pressed relentlessly.
mircea_popescu: the one that's still there, andwhich somehow displays thew comments made on the other one, never had more than a few votes
mircea_popescu: the one that's missing had 100s of votes and like 300 comments
mircea_popescu: no, see. there were two reddit submissions, exact same title.
mircea_popescu: read mah piece on the topic, write your own take, see what qntra editorial board policy is to react to censorship etc.
mircea_popescu: well hey, you're the one that got censured by reddit right ?
mircea_popescu: you know this voice shortage turns out to be kinda useful. thanks for teh love!
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't be able to read all that stuff, as far as reddit's concerned.
mircea_popescu: and the db just moved all the comments to the other, identically named, article.
mircea_popescu: but there existed another insertion, same article, by a diff person
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah, see, bob allison had put the thing in too,
mircea_popescu: "reddit will actually delete the vote count and comment count of popular threads if subversive."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, how's that for "unmask itself" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno why they persist in thinking that it actually matters how it LOOKS, but hey.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: never bought that line, worked on assumption if it's plastic, it is shit regardless of label << a wise man is you.
mircea_popescu: yes, he was. do you know who else is just as stupid ? oh... everyone in america ? the smartest lawyers and the smartest businessmen, graduating at the absolute top of the absolute best classes in the absolute best universities ?
mircea_popescu: then people say that pirate roberts character was stupid.
mircea_popescu: that's what they say, and they say it over plaintext channels held by their enemy.
mircea_popescu: these are, it should be noted, the ivy league's best and brigtest
mircea_popescu: "Canellas wrote to defendant Warren, “Great job dude. We kicked ass! Time to get paid.” About ten minutes later, defendant Warren responded, “Hey man, I don’t know where you come up with some of this stuff, but you saved the day. It’s been a rough year but it’s been damn good. Nice work dude. Let’s get paid!” Canellas and defendant Warren then left the office to enjoy New Year’s Eve."
mircea_popescu: heh at that link. "replace bisphenol-a with bisphenol-s. be surprised that s stands for shittier."
mircea_popescu: bitcoin holders may put up more rigs to protect hteir holdings, and they may or may not also be miners, but that's coincidental.
mircea_popescu: seriously and why miners actually aren't given that much of a voice in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash: you'd essentially have a narrow window where you could have an easier time manipulating things, but the technicals of mining and others miners would catch up. << "other mienrs will catch up" is so much nonsense. other miners are turning down their rigs as it is with the price today. if diff suddenly jumped 100%, "other miners" will give up and go home. which is why the other miners are not to be taken too
mircea_popescu: that's why the article says the only stable solution is once 50%+ of the earth available energy is used to mine.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter WHAT the other, larger altcoin is. even if it is "nothing at all" : for as long as most miners are mining "nothing at all" then the altcoin Bitcoin is in danger of being stomped.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's a 15-25% ish chance by now they actually did and it's just being noised out. tough chance.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash:so watch for a noticeable permanenent 40 petahash drop over the next few difffchanges << it's pretty noticeable they DIDN'T have 40 ph.
mircea_popescu: just waiting for kako to put finishes touches on assbot wot.
mircea_popescu: cazalla they been arounbd a long time with no withdraws ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose the part where satoshi pretty much left because he couldn't believe just how fucking idiotic gavin is doesn't really make the cut of what reddit likes to discuss huh.
mircea_popescu: Gavin Andresen: Um... I haven't had email from satoshi in a couple months actually. The last email I sent him I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it's possible , that.... that may have um had something to with his deciding"
mircea_popescu: "Bruce Wagner : When was the last time you chatted to satoshi <laugh>
mircea_popescu: so any bets/guesses as to what price bitcoin needs to touch for coinbase to fire 9 workers ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's passive-aggressive "i will crop a screenshot rather than link because somehow links from this shithole matter in the grand scheme, whereas 15 minutes of my life are worth squat"
mircea_popescu: "hardfork is considered by a majority of items nobody asked compatible with bitcoin and its rules"