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mircea_popescu: perhaps. then again this may be a rather short term concern you see.
mircea_popescu: this is a fact and it's not going away except in fiction.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony all future coin, of any type, and more generally all future human industry of all types is indelibly linked to bitcoin
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you are in the endsaying this is more of a hobby than serious.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i dun think his idea is directly applicable (stolen by btc), but nevertheless, someone with a better business value proposition can just fork your code.
mircea_popescu: what do you think the earth is if not hardpacked, ancient sewage.
mircea_popescu: it'd decript somethinmg you got off a pastebin for you, but obviously it can't guarantee the computer you're on won't read your memo too
mircea_popescu: seems airgap means you're not touching some other system neh.
mircea_popescu: i dun think "invesing in altcoin" generally was being contemplated.
mircea_popescu: adlai that wasn't the most organised argument i ever read :p
mircea_popescu: well, if your view is correct then all altcoins are essentialy the logo.
mircea_popescu: canadian govt srsly has to do some liquidity injections o.O
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at crazy shit ranch : "I am a twenty-year old sub living with my dom in Sask in a 24/7 D/s relationship. For the past two years I have been training as a sub and saving money for school. In the summer I will be relocating to Toronto for college in the fall. My Sir will find a Dom for me there with the hopes of finding me someone to stay with while I study. In exchange I will serve him as his slave for
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with that, i just spent a coupla hours derping in eulora myself. jus as long as it's not coming as a surprise later.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it gotta somehow make business sense. and the problem is, if it doesn't make it for me it doesn't make it in general, because what exact particular assumptions got baked in ? nothing much. if there isn't a good answer to "so what's my btc buy me" other than handwave, there's probably no better answer to "what's your time buy you" other than, whatever, "playing a mmorpg".
mircea_popescu: fluffypony understand what i'm saying here. you seem cogent and together, you're working on this whatever thing i can't readily evaluate. i'd consider putting a few coins into it ; i can even ignore the involvement of whatever known derp on the theory that on the long term sterile works itself out of metal anyway so who cares.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but basically any growth won't come to me. so i won't build on it.
mircea_popescu: it may make sense if i won't hold it overnight sorta thing
mircea_popescu: well no, so far i gather the contrary : i'm guaranteed to not see any mid or longm term return
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so from a purely business pov, why would i give this thing a 2nd thought ? what exactly can my 1 btc buy me and how ?
mircea_popescu: + i accidentally sent asciilifeform's line about 2nd code and pots to some chick i'm talking with on the side. she's new and was just probing as to what's in principle required of new chicks.
mircea_popescu: this just took a turn for the weird - erryone discussing me in terms im unfamiliar with
mircea_popescu: beating the women i love is more work than i feel like as it is.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller eh let it excise itself. why should i do the work for people i don't even like.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> this is the correct use for the 'i dun wanna learn a second programming language' folks. << liek the ppl that want everything to be lisp ? :D
mircea_popescu: i dunno why all this geographic arrangement. a bitcoin island, a derp camp...
mircea_popescu: undata> "Javascript is actually in demand now for good reason. << "we are stupid but don't like to admit it" being the reason.
mircea_popescu: but at least the derp dept moved from "blockchain technology" to "bitcoin technology".
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> You can't make this shit up. << word.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> usg has more-or-less 'sat' upon the idle rich << the 'idle' (what does this mean? << the early modern period had ample supply of this particular type. literally, idle.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, the traditional heaven (dude, it's like a really large field, we can camp and hike! and graze!)
mircea_popescu: you can dress 'em whichever way you want, but in the end a monkey merely trained to recognise the letters is not a scholar, and just so these "modern" men and women are in fact quite primitive.
mircea_popescu: decimation the magical mental needs of the feeble minded don't go away simply because they are surrounded by / live in a society based on more advanced thoughts.
mircea_popescu: this is about 3x the mess they made over world cup stuff.
mircea_popescu: sooo buenos aires has decided to set itself on fire because some local team won the local football cup.
mircea_popescu: famously, ceausescu once visited kim in korea, came back with a cockfull of life and brand new ideas of how to perfect socialism.
mircea_popescu: i knew the moment the japanese started with that weird, and the us libtard class started paying attention, i knew this was coming.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: usg annihilated science to an extent no one ever, i suspect, thought of as possible. << lol not so. again the chinese lead. they burned the books 2x.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i write on a platform that doesn't run grep o.O
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, had this been centrally planned, it'd have worked as well as that whore cixi's trains.
mircea_popescu: the only great fortune of europe in the industrial age was that they copied the dutch approach (as the tulip mania was coming to a close, dutch courts simply refused to intervene in any capacity and "Fuck you!")
mircea_popescu: (they put a group of men in exclusive charge of battlefield rifle use)
mircea_popescu: just like the ottomans ended up "the sick man of europe" through a particular choice of centralisation