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mircea_popescu: but actually, as it was, with a view to its own self coherence.
mircea_popescu: not re-narrated with a view to make contemporary institutions meaningful and appear sensible.
mircea_popescu: s perhaps the most informative avenue into the ACTUAL history of this sphere.
mircea_popescu: rms' ideas are a sort of "this is computing so elvis never happened".
mircea_popescu: may you have now anal sex ? provided you both agree to it ?
mircea_popescu: if you get married, which is to say, BORROW a woman from her father, and swear an oath
mircea_popescu: so let's go further in the fertile soil (hint hint) of female simile
mircea_popescu: not that i think fsf's bad or anything. merely observing that peanuts aren't aeroplanes does not imply a hatred of peanuts.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for whatever reason, things still are what they are.
mircea_popescu: pretending the contrary is fine, if one so prefers, but it's still mere pretense.
mircea_popescu: your " without gestapo suddenly breaking down the door and demanding to see if you've multiplied unauthorized numbers" is exactly equivalent i suspect to what i call who are you again ? fuck off, I don't give a shit" sort of approach to third parties of any man owning a computer
mircea_popescu: suppose i make computers, and decide to not sell them. what now ?
mircea_popescu: well he gotta have something. you can't start a "social movement" out of vague descriptions of desired outcomes
mircea_popescu: state the rms "ethical consideration" w/e it is. "nobody may forbid anyone's access to written strings" ?
mircea_popescu: yes. that if i write something on my slave's thigh, it's none of your damned business.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in one aspect. now make an ethical distinction / moral rule (really nfi why they keep derping about ethics, its all a moral consideration) that resolves that while preserving my slave's thigh.
mircea_popescu: if i write something on my slavew's thigh it's none of your damned business wtf.
mircea_popescu: and in the end it killed ms, but then... google was born, and apple was reborn, and here we are.
mircea_popescu: the situation was microsoft or go hang yourself, to which a lot of people who didn't particularly wish to hang themselves reacted as best they could,
mircea_popescu: i don't propose that rms "shouldn't have" or that fsf shouldn't have been or anything of the sort. but really, the pretense that at some point the situation seriously was, red pill vs blue pill and o'reilly of all people tricked everyone into getting the wrong pill...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: neither of it enacts rms as some sort of Jesus unless im missing a lot ?
mircea_popescu: i guess "important" is not the best word, as im discussing size-importance.
mircea_popescu: yeah, tellingly no mention of gates makes into morozov's thinking.
mircea_popescu: and an argument that hitler marginalized antonescu is at best bizarre.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but listen. just because the tiny nation of romania made the famine at leningrad possible doth not mean romania was an IMPORTANT player in ww2.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller more like, proving that he can STILL do it.
mircea_popescu: check out the many ways you can lose "intellectual battles" lol.
mircea_popescu: "MP def lost the intellectual battle by the brag of wealth as his last effort to win."
mircea_popescu: 's "just as much bitcoin as bitcoin only better" ? poopy for him lol.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin didn't appreciably suffer because whatever scam, paycoin or w/e was created
mircea_popescu: the great gift of satoshi is exactly that : we finally have a tool whereby idiots can only hurt themselves.
mircea_popescu: liberia fucking changes its labor laws to accomodate bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: the sec changes its procedures to accomodate my dictates.
mircea_popescu: we don't change for the fucking world. the world changes. anything and everything.
mircea_popescu: how about the idea is that bitcoin adoption means OTHER PEOPLE AND THINGS CHANGE ?
mircea_popescu: and for that matter c) there's already precedent, the "poor users" who wanted to play but didn't want to pay tx fees were given free stuff before.
mircea_popescu: because a) poor workers, they need it and b) not agreeing would be being against expanded usage of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: so what's next, if this somehow succeeds ? two years from now, liberia uses bitcoin as nat'l currency, suddenly the workers go on strike, ask for double salaries. govt asks gavin to fork btc to give them an extra one-off five million btc to pay the workers.
mircea_popescu: - Support for the fork should be overwhelming. If 95% of the users agree with the fork, the 5% that don't are pretty much forced to participate. Sure, they can keep running the non-forked version, but coins on that chain will be unlikely to keep their value."
mircea_popescu: "I don't think a hard fork would be very difficult, but only if the following two points are taken into account:
mircea_popescu: what difference does identity make ?! ANONIMITY IS THE SOLUTION!
mircea_popescu: "If Popescu chooses to wage war in fragmented environment and can demonstrate some potential to come out victorious I'll likely put my resources behind his efforts. This exclusively because whatever his motivations might be, his basic end goal and my own seem to align."
mircea_popescu: this could be about silver, or about assignats, or about "the debt ceiling" or anything
mircea_popescu: it's so funny how the arguments in favour of inflation go with the "general public"
mircea_popescu: "If you are worrying about the time when 20MB per block is filled, you are worrying that bitcoin will have 20x more transactions, an increase from the currently throttle of approx 6 per second to around 120 per second. If you are worrying that bitcoin will have 20x more transactions, then you are worrying about it having many more users."
mircea_popescu: references to formal definitions as "by the very definition" are shaky.
mircea_popescu: the definition of savages, you will notice, is formal not substantial.
mircea_popescu: pgp seems to be living a nice 2nd youth these days tho
mircea_popescu: cazalla if it does translate into traffic you'll see it as a worsening of the demographic quality lol.
mircea_popescu: undata right. "men with guns ? wheee they came to play!"