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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: OMG MP vacation has been one of the best things to happen to MPOE price... aside from saving OpenBSD. << my lyf ;/
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: Hi, I was starting to miss this place << preach it sistar!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally, qntra ever cover the btcexchange thing ?
mircea_popescu: was a funny exercise in "so i shouldn't make emacs easier to use for the people already using it because this will lower the barrier to entry for idiots and ruin the party ? what are you, insane ?"
mircea_popescu: if they didn't mostly lose, they wouldn't be "homicide da union", they'd be the cupcakes and crumpets core.
mircea_popescu: in which case at most we can't say whether it's a good or bad idea, and shouldn't bother with it at all ?
mircea_popescu: this will increase failures from F to F+y, where y/F > x/U > e/X
mircea_popescu: this increases the pool of users from U to U+x. the average sophistication of x is < than the average of U. in fact it's common even if we won;t rely on it that the peak of x is under the lowest of U.
mircea_popescu: okay. suppose currently robot has use cost X, expressed in some translated value of he sophistication/time/etc needed to use it.
mircea_popescu: i can readily construct a scenario where it harms, if it helps.
mircea_popescu: this has little to do with the software in question mind.
mircea_popescu: errything to do with what every senator knows and fears at home.
mircea_popescu: generally, people tend to hurl as insults/bombs/damage to others what they're most afraid of themselves. there's a very good reason color revolutions exist, and it has nothing to do with ukraine or gaddafi.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: they go out, same as in usg-sponsored 'colour revolutions', because 'there's action tonight' << quite. which is why it's so lulzy to watch.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: But... the 3d printed gun dude says burn it all down is an ideology... << i agree. it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla 1 because it's the smallest amount of number.
mircea_popescu: (and generally, moral thought proceeds quite strictly : 1) is this a good thing or a bad thing ; 2) how much of it ? there's no overalpping these stages)
mircea_popescu: let's put it in more general terms. you're proposing to lower the bar of what constitutes a qualified investor.
mircea_popescu: nothing at all. (note that i use "moral" properly, not in the bastardized form common among the plethora of would-be stalins without the ballsack.)
mircea_popescu: i don't per se care what yu do, it's a moral discussion.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason capitalism historically flows towards enriching nodes, not elevating the graph.
mircea_popescu: the logical approach to that is to increase your bankroll, not to spread among a bunch of idiots.
mircea_popescu: on the 0 1 infinity scale i readily see why 1 rather than 0, i just don't grok why infinity rather than one.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to you know, one single person (presumably you).
mircea_popescu: i don't follow the logic of how it would be useful "in general".
mircea_popescu: if they were merely offered a fair salary for their work they wouldn't take it because "it's not enough to live on". as if "living" is somehow fixed and god ordered that black guy in missouri must live better than black guy in senegal.
mircea_popescu: the irony being that out of the scum in question, no other process can extract any use.
mircea_popescu: just like slag goes with burning coal for power, buncha idiots thinking they were "robbed of making it big like everyone else" goes with "we don't pay you but maybe you get a promotion"
mircea_popescu: undata: everybody in america thinks they were somehow robbed of making it big like everyone else did <<< the necessary byproduct of the entire "hero" thing graham & co promote. "work hard and we'll pay one in a million ten thousand times a salary, maybe you'll be him!"
mircea_popescu: the one thing i enjoy alongside redditard butttears of impotence is glaring bagging officer not comprehending why he has to bag my groceries.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: who somehow lives off their tears <<< i do live off their tears.
mircea_popescu: "For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting."
mircea_popescu: Vor der Kaserne, wor dem grossen Tor stand eine Laterne und steht sie noch davor...
mircea_popescu: that's not related to the historical fact in question.
mircea_popescu: how exactly did the nazis sully the soup for dietrich ?
mircea_popescu: now, look at it. admitting for the sake of thinking that the germans were entertainers, since you're admitting garza is in business
mircea_popescu: adlai let me give you an example of what i mean. do you know who was the first person to speak german in israel after the war ?
mircea_popescu: we're not all one, all the same, all on the same plane. we don't interact with the same things.
mircea_popescu: adlai this is merely an artefact of your socialistoid perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: iirc, it was designed by a woman. i won't psychiatrize on this point, but let's see what mircea makes of it! << i dun get it, so what if a woman designed it ?
mircea_popescu: (tpg = thumbnail preview gallery, at the time an innovation that consisted of putting eight, then six, then four then three pics in a row and filling pages with such rows. each pic ideally linked to the material (more pics of the same set). then that evolved into the skim, where some pics are linked to whatever junk being sold etc.)
mircea_popescu: and from there, via warriorforum and the nerve centers of "i failed local college business school" braindamage... it's in every confidence scam on the webs.
mircea_popescu: but that generation soon got pushed out by the tpg braindamaged set, and what was once irony became cereal.
mircea_popescu: then, the porn people picked it up. it was a very tongue in cheek sort of thing, originally, like a mockery of hollywood.
mircea_popescu: much like all the shitty studios of the 50s were called like "empire" and "megaultra" etc.
mircea_popescu: it got started by the virtual schmucks of hollywood trying to give themselves some word based weight
mircea_popescu: you will notice it is only used by people who are pointedly not involved in any sort of industrial matter.
mircea_popescu: "(2) Can you provide evidence that GAW actually mined (a) any blocks, and (b) anything like the number you claimed you were mining?"
mircea_popescu: adlai: it's about time for one of those "velocity per utxo" plots to get updated, my guess is that it'll show that "strong hands" give increasingly fewer shits with each dump, while the churn at the bottom only gets frothier <<< guy's been here what, twelve weeks ? already enlightened.