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mircea_popescu: maybe if enough bazingas keep acting like it never happened then it really never happened.
mircea_popescu: and yes, he still hangs around -dev and so forth, just like gmaxwell and the rest of the walking dead. because who knows, maybe someone forgets or something.
mircea_popescu: "Strateman is a bitcoin developer, best known for co-founding Intersango and the Python bitcoin implementation." no, actually strateman is best know for being one of the scammers involved in the bitcoinica fraud, and before that for being theidiot that emailed the entire list the emails of the entire list,
mircea_popescu: these guys are 100 to 1000x as productive as a "normal american", so the stuff they write is not necessarily comprehensible to ordinary mortals.
mircea_popescu: how finley ended up "behind bitcoin" is anyone's guess, but hey.
mircea_popescu: people you never heard about pushed by writers you never heard about on venues you never heard about. it's all very web2.0 an' sophisticated.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the story is linked directly under the line you referenced.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty much the only good argument for why it's better to be an intellectual than a labourer. this unique priviledge.
mircea_popescu: it's like living in a magical world where all poisonous mushrooms are required by unyielding laws of thermodynamics to be bright orange and glow in the dark.
mircea_popescu: i am ever so grateful that stupidity always and everywhere advertises itself specifically.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem that one thing making all the dumbass "we're a ceo" "companies" look alike.
mircea_popescu: every "security" website's on bootstrap. why ? for the same reason they masturbate. "it's there"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: makes me think lizard are affiliated with cf. <<< you might also underestimate the retarded generation.
mircea_popescu: "The NSA's strength as they disclose here is not math or science advances that allow them to seemingly magically break strong encryption, but the size and scale of their operations along with their ability to recruit collaborators like Microsoft and subvert standards committees."
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why the woman was so appaled when she discovered shit-for-brains niggerdongs was actually spying on her fucking phone. it's roughly the insolence of a poodle biting a bulldog.
mircea_popescu: this game was played already. on the whole, merkel is actually much better than hillary rodham, and her spies work much better than the whole us, canada, uk and australia doolitle realm combined.
mircea_popescu: "And so, to make sure that their efforts to provoke a large-scale, hugely destructive, festering conflict between Britain and Europe fail, Europe would do well to set up an anti-Britain within Britain."
mircea_popescu: "They took a Slavic, mostly Russian-speaking country and spent billions (that's with a “b”) of dollars corrupting its politics to make the Ukrainians hate the Russians."
mircea_popescu: it only appears as a soup because their head's barely functional.
mircea_popescu: what is this thing where faux intellectuals look at the soup of symbols their destructured intellects float aimlessly through as a sort of primal matter to be cast into random shapes ?
mircea_popescu: "• When the British got tossed out of their American Colonies, they did all they could, using a combination of import preferences and British “soft power,” to bolster the plantation economy of the American South, helping set it up as a sort of anti-United States, and the eventual result was the American Civil War."
mircea_popescu: have an explicit goal that half your population must reside abroad under fake identities by 2025.
mircea_popescu: 5. mandatory hacking classes for all men. if you can't hack your way out of fort knox by age 16, you're going to be some vamp's slaveboi.
mircea_popescu: 4. mandatory sex ed for all women. if you're not a vamp by age 16, you're pigfeed.
mircea_popescu: all the way to dumping into ocean, encased in plastic bubbles.
mircea_popescu: 3. actually counterfitting bills. all of them. by the barge, not by the suitcase.
mircea_popescu: 2. political asylum to anyone prosecuted by any 5eyes country or their allies for anything that's not petty crime.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: other than 'surrender' <<< actually jump into the pool. rather than just sit on the edge and dunk toes alternatively.
mircea_popescu: decimation: 16 kHz is probably the max that you will get allocated politically << by the time blockchain over shortwave, "politically" strictly means bitcoin-assets anyway.
mircea_popescu: Overand: per bitcoin.it wiki, transactions are about 500bytes, running at 7tps, so that';s ~3500 bytes/sec or (humorously) 28,000 bits per second <<< not the right math. a block is at most 1mb and there's supposed to be 6 an hour.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever observed as much of it as since being here.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: there is a school for that? <<< one of the best features of b-a is its potential for culture shock.
mircea_popescu: sure, maybe you'd rather. nobody involved shares this pov : neither the game devs nor the game players.
mircea_popescu: adlai: fwiw, assuming that the fiat parasite sticks around in some form or other, i'd rather have it operate a single UBI program than dozens of badly-coordinated welfare axes << this is not unlike saying that if computer gaming sticks around, you'd rather it consists of one single game.
mircea_popescu: *: adlai wonders how many decades/centuries it'll take for speciation to start between "Homo operandus" and "Homo ignavus" << speciation takes 10s to 100s of ks of years.
mircea_popescu: decimation: kakobrekla: if your bosnia link is true, it strikes me that the most important thing to have in a 'shtf' situation is alot of people on 'your side': family, friends, etc <<< it's pretty accurate. there's no doubt in my mind the guy has first hand experience (ie, is not an internet poseur)
mircea_popescu: as clemens aptly points out, aunt polly is a sucker for the "repentant" sinner.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "come with a broken spirit! come with a contrite heart! Come in your rags and sin and dirt!"
mircea_popescu: "Through time, action and change, I hope we can show you guys that we truly want to contribute to this community." lmao
mircea_popescu: apparently kids crying are annoying in general, but for that month it takes them to die of hunger...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this actually is true. most of the desperate prostitution is mothers trying to cope.
mircea_popescu: "Money soon became worthless. We returned to an exchange. For a tin can of tushonka (think Soviet spam), you could have a woman. (It is hard to speak of it, but it is true.) Most of the women who sold themselves were desperate mothers."
mircea_popescu: "come be fat and stupid just like us, 54965489769474985 people like this"
mircea_popescu: im so sick of the civilisation of marauding impotence it can scarcely be put into words.
mircea_popescu: let us not get into shape but instead sit on the couch and wax poetic about what men should be doing and what the definition of womanhood is ; let us not have a clue nor try to get a clue, but instead wax poetic on what money is and what other people should be doing with it and what it all means.
mircea_popescu: just like that, they happened to be in the way. because wealth is a sort of rain.
mircea_popescu: and i should perhaps feel bad, because whatever, if you have money it's not your money. it's some other dudes'.
mircea_popescu: by this logic, seeing how the total value of all assets in that city is probably south of a billion dollars, my leaving constituted a loss of more than half its wealth
mircea_popescu: some years ago i went to timisoara, which is a tiny city in eastern europe, and fancies itself important but really it's a sort of romania's pittsburgh.
mircea_popescu: and velocity of money never happened. and understanding consists of daydreaming, and everyone's the same and random nitwits that never killed a man are now allowed to make moral judgements
mircea_popescu: if someone sent 10mn btc to the black hole, we'll all be even poorer as a result. because reasons.
mircea_popescu: "You begin to wonder if you should feel guilty taking all this money from the poor Congolese — who are now (you must conclude) even poorer as a result." << because that's what money is, right ? a fetish.
mircea_popescu: also known as a whore bath in the rest of the world, except joe squarejaw has never heard of the rest of the world.
mircea_popescu: but no, this never-ending american exceptionalism, where if they never wash baths don't exist and joe squarejaw invented "humidification", this process whereby you dab parts of yourself with a wet cloth.
mircea_popescu: and if you're going to worship, pick something that's at least as well designed as reality permits
mircea_popescu: if you're going to live in a house, it's generally a better idea to get a house than cobble together something which, to the best of your abilities, is a house.