mircea_popescu: (read that in a kennedy accent)

mircea_popescu: apple aren't engineers, they're like yahoo. a media buying company.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy shoulda started a police department instead of a frozen yogurt brand.

mircea_popescu: so basically in rothbard's reading, this rand character is the quintessential balabusta, a staid, obnoxious, overarching yet profoundly ignorant and puritanical fat old woman.

mircea_popescu: it could be inspected in detail, his doom as a member of the movement was effectively sealed."

mircea_popescu: information and after spending a sleepless night, the girl rushed to inform the top leadership of this terrible transgression. Promptly, the leading participants were called on the carpet by their Objectivist Psychotherapist and bitterly denounced in their "therapy" sessions: "After all," said the therapist, "you wouldn’t mock God." When the owner of the tape refused the therapist’s demand to relinquish it so that

mircea_popescu: "Driven by their conception of rational duty, every Randian lived in – and indeed was himself – a community of spies and informers, ready to ferret out and denounce any deviations from Randian doctrine. Thus, one time a Randian, walking with a girl friend, told her that he had attended a party at which several Randians had made an impromptu tape imitating the voices of the top Randian leaders. Stricken by this dire

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic was it just a renamed backoriffice for maximal lulz ?

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves someone was saying a few days ago about all the bitching that thing caused in ##mtgox

mircea_popescu: notrly, let enough do that then slap a surcharge on them

mircea_popescu: i think they were exploiting a loophole

mircea_popescu: "In a development eerily reminiscent of the organized hatred directed against the arch-heretic Emanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s 1984, Rand cultists were required to sign a loyalty oath to Rand; essential to the loyalty oath was a declaration that the signer would henceforth never read any future works of the apostate and arch-heretic Branden."

mircea_popescu: "Lenin seems to have believed that the party, as organized consciousness, consciousness as a decision-making machinery, had superior reasoning power. Indeed, in time this collective body took on an aura of infallibility, which was later elevated to a dogma, and a member’s loyalty was tested, in part, by his acceptance of it. It became part of the communist confession of faith to proclaim that the party was never wron

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete ah i see it's in the footnote. but yeah, the select from a page process is very dubious (natural languages don't have equally distributed words, it's actually how zipf curves were discovered in the first palce)

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete bt otherwise your article suffers from a very strangely naive approach. ever heard of a dicelist ?

mircea_popescu: you can never get the shrimp properly cooked other than in a cast iron pot.

mircea_popescu: i have a pot too. they're good for many things.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform currently a 21 inch dell thing. i used to have a splendid 24 inch sony but hey.

mircea_popescu: a sad sympthom of a cash starved community of shoelace investors.

mircea_popescu: and a good crt is way better than the best lcd/lft we you'll ever find.

mircea_popescu: i don't need it! i like it! there's a difference!

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or live in a country where they fix shit.

mircea_popescu: most people just leave the stuff outside on set dates for the dump workers to collect it (they get the respective cents themselkves, sort of like a tip)

mircea_popescu: yeah, they mostly reuse them. as long as you give it up clean/sorted (ie, not covered in rotten meatjuices or w/e common garbage) they usually give you a few cents/kg

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this was if memory serves a 1992 seagate.

mircea_popescu: i may be the only buyer left for spun drives and crt monitors in a 100 mile radius

mircea_popescu: cpusa still a thing ?

mircea_popescu: it might, as a private joke of some bored people somewhere

mircea_popescu: this socialist re-defining of liberal is a purely us thing.

mircea_popescu: BitChrista if you think that'd wear someone down, try being mp for a week :D

mircea_popescu was a politician for most of his lyf.

mircea_popescu: it's a challenge.

mircea_popescu: he just needs enough of a clue to figure that out.

mircea_popescu: there's about a billion or so worth of bitcoins represented here, and likely more reachable because the logs make popular morning newspapers for many people

mircea_popescu: and also branson, and a number of other people who have little to nothing to do with bitcoin ?

mircea_popescu: BitChrista so are you keeping a list of "Best For Bitcoin" politicos somewhere ?

mircea_popescu: yeah the diff bets are a major part of bitbet, mostly because it's one of the few places where btc holders are well connected to the economy.

mircea_popescu: this is a us only thing is it ?

mircea_popescu: bitbet is in crazy mode again, doing 50 btc a day and shit.

mircea_popescu: so do you have some particular angle for that market that puts you in a better position than say bitpay ?

mircea_popescu: well, a subspecies

mircea_popescu: then if you actually sell it down the road, you have a history. if you scrap the thing, whatever. a website.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` thought : whether you do this or not, do the following : make a website follow the generations.

mircea_popescu: bitcoin isn't "a currency" nor much of a "medium of exchange" at all. it's a substitute for government is what it is. in all its forms, from actual electoral validation processes to deciding where you eat today, and how much.

mircea_popescu: nubbins` ahaha poor spitoon what a wot.