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mircea_popescu: if we seriously mean to take over teh fiat world we imperatively must have forbidden words!
mircea_popescu: nigger is one thing, that's like freedom of speech and shit like that. but saying the bad about mpex and shit ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so is he quoting a convo that actually occured on irc or one that actually occurred in his head ?
mircea_popescu: there's no "control" involved when the two options are "give us stuff for free" and "disappear into the night"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: because - in all but one out of thousand cases - why??? << once the why is answered, the "make their own" is answered too, fiveseconds later .that's the point.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller << re the techcrunch cadaver washing job in the case of mccaleb : mebbe someone should write a piece detailing how tech crunch bit a steel girder providing whitewashing services for well known bitcoin scammers.
mircea_popescu: alrighty, well, that was all for me today. hohoho an' merry xmas yo!
mircea_popescu: usually it ends up a little later with "here's the thing we were talking about, except i built it inside a submarine just in case. and here's some beer i brewed and by the way, do you know candi and brandi ? they're twins."
mircea_popescu: i mean, suppose you do that. so ? people can just reup outside of your control, all you achieve is piss off the wot list.
mircea_popescu: then we can count how often this happens to de-l1 people.
mircea_popescu: leaving a loophole there deliberately where someone with >1 l1 and 0 l2 can still voice themselves
mircea_popescu: people still can /ignore for that short interval, what's teh big deal
mircea_popescu: the link actually is to his previous bout of derping here
mircea_popescu: and it's what generally happens whenever a state claims to be "protecting rights". it's not protecting anything, it's stealing freedom and issuing in its place token "rights". which, much like its paper currency, are fiat worthlessness.
mircea_popescu: in any case : a freedom is something the people have, and the state can't take away. the rights are constructions that the state gives, and so the state can take away.
mircea_popescu: the difference between rights and freedoms being essentially the difference between pearl necklaces and dog collars.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people noticed the subtle change from freedom of speech to an alleged "right" of free speech.
mircea_popescu: anyway, better off this way, had the democratic delusions failed to explode we'd just have been belabouring under falsepremises for this interval mostl likely, wouldn't have the lordship list and the supremely valuable understanding of what hierarchy means in society and why equalitarianism is the fruit of the devil jacking off and so on.
mircea_popescu: yeah you and a 2nd that never actually got to go on a jury didn't get anything. i think mebbe it was jurov ?
mircea_popescu: i never had any idea, but liek... teh most fundamentally humane thing actually is going "hey, try again"
mircea_popescu: iirc rassah didn't want it because he didn't think he had done anything
mircea_popescu: what, trying to imply something's missing ? nothing's missing, it's all there.
mircea_popescu: either way, you know ? things should be what they are.
mircea_popescu: what's so offensive about it ? you had a chance to be like intelligent and prove the common man should have a voice.
mircea_popescu: i imagine neflix goes gangbusters mid to late decvember
mircea_popescu: kinda why democracy is a fucking stupid idea. the only logical counterbalance to the common man's moral myopia is a solid grasp on the кнут.
mircea_popescu: yet plenty of idiot muppets going "o noes, we tried to scam with 10 btc and it didn't work out like we wanted it to BLAME MP"
mircea_popescu: i recall this one instance where i was going to buy some btc but the guy turned out to only have like 5 or so, and i was meh, for that much not worth my time going into paypal.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall which chan it was in tho, some pricewatchers something
mircea_popescu: it was oscilating aroudn there, at some point prior the pirate muppet was "going to ruin the price" while it went from low 6s to 7s.
mircea_popescu: eventually people started caring and it got crushed into the dirt, but for a year or so all sorts of bugs got to dance on the tools an' pretend.
mircea_popescu: at the time, bitcoin was a few dollars and basically nobody gave much of a shit.
mircea_popescu: but he had an insider deal where he paid the various captains of industry more so they got the idea to resell.
mircea_popescu: jborkl: What was the rate, 7% per day? Or week << per week
mircea_popescu: cornfeedhobo isn't support the hell computer afficionados go to die in ?
mircea_popescu: Apr 06 06:25:10 <pigeons>i set mine to "incorrect", so when i forget it, the app tells me
mircea_popescu: Apr 06 06:24:27 <rg>just set your password to asdfghjkl;' that way you can zip through the whole row. the enter key is even at the end. thats to root password to every bitvps server.
mircea_popescu: a really ? i never kept too close track. just a kid wandered in one day.
mircea_popescu: well, let it be a lesson to all aspiring states : don't allow gmaxwells anywhere near anything, or they'll shit up your future.