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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.
mircea_popescu: who are complete idiots and that country is the absolute asshole of the world, you're better off visiting the new delhi old dump.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, for the sake of fairness and balance : i dun recall ever having been hassled in any airport for any reason, except guatemala.
mircea_popescu: i was half expecting the customs say something, but they didn't.
mircea_popescu: also a pile of assorted laptops, batteries, various cards and processors
mircea_popescu: just the disks, too. interestingly enough, nobody cared.
mircea_popescu: last time i flew i carried something like 38 encrypted disks.
mircea_popescu: "o gosh jolly, wouldn't you rather take a blowjob instead ?"
mircea_popescu: i guess my mistake here is to imagine the problems of poor people are relevant / the problems of people.
mircea_popescu: decryption does not happen. take it to nsa or whoever the fuck, they're smart righ ?
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't decrypt jack if they sat on their head. what the fuck is this, the future or some shit /
mircea_popescu: the logistics of fiat paper make it useless for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: punkman: cazalla, better yet, kidnap rich guy's kid, make him buy bitcoin to pay ransom. price goes up for sure. <<< this is unavoidable. no ransom of the future will be anything but bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: punkman: if Satoshi appears and says hey guys I lost the key to 250k coins, how much would the price go up? << wouldn't have any appreciable short term effect.
mircea_popescu: no, if i go there's going to be a bunch of ninja vamps suddenly very rich.
mircea_popescu: i didn't think of sons tbh. i guess that's what inheritance means.
mircea_popescu: not like it's 2011 and we're just figuring this novel bitcoin thing out
mircea_popescu: cazalla why would people with large holdings not have inheritance set up ?
mircea_popescu: right, louder. i guess not being a total redneck retard helps internet scamming.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol gaw thing has its own forum ? what is this, like ognasty redone ?
mircea_popescu: ther most incredible thing about that fun guy's link is that volume is 0 "?
mircea_popescu: decimation: well, certainly one cannot be enemies with usg or usg's agents << everyone in bitcoin is and can.
mircea_popescu: outside of this, there's really nothing wrong with reusing other people's *working* material.
mircea_popescu: that it still constitutes a majority of the cultural festooning of the colonies to this day... well... nobody forces the mt obe stupid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air. <<< "plagiarism", much like "sins of the flesh", is a construction intended to work as a tool for a very peculiar purpose.
mircea_popescu: ahh this was a great walk in the past, thanks for asking fluff.
mircea_popescu: the part where this thing ended up traded with usagi and who knows what else in bitcointalks most outrageous example of retardation, doing all sorts of insane valuations that essentially resulting in his few investors being fleeced about 95% in the first year also omitted.
mircea_popescu: the part where he wanted everyone to give him bitcoin so he gets 1mn of them together to build some sort of weirdo powerplant-dc combo and then got insanely butthurt when people kinda laughed omitted.
mircea_popescu: In addition, McFarland is a BitcoinTalk forum moderator."
mircea_popescu: "22. Patrick McFarland (@Diablo-D3) McFarland is the creator of DiabloMiner, a Java GPU bitcoin miner that uses the OpenCL framework to quickly perform the hashing computations.