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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, the girl actually lives and breathes.
mircea_popescu: this is not like saying "go on a blind date with an unqualified woman", but like saying "take a random dude as a slave 5.8mn times"
mircea_popescu: kinda how it goes, pretend like you're a tough ass prosecutor for a few years, get a juicy private practice contract.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> considerably easier to collect than 'bitlicense' <<< lol what, vespasian v2.0 ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> greer's article is not entirely wrong that ancient egyptian tinsmith could have built it, if he knew how and had a reason. <<< electroplating was the reason, and the tech was in fact used in all likelihood in the golden crescent cca 1500bc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'Thank you folks for your work and I do apologize for the likely barrage of angry and childish emails I suspect you may already be receiving. The concept has attracted a couple of groups who can't accept playing by anyone's rules but their own.' << exactly fucking right.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> some kid named johnny cowabunga bought << nfw ?!
mircea_popescu: people are internet-interested, which is to say, up until that point when the wallet has to come out.
mircea_popescu: for the reason that you know, nobody absolutely had any ethereum in the first place ?
mircea_popescu: you mean my short contracts that NOBODY ABSOLUTELY bought ?
mircea_popescu: you just... gave a scammer... some of your money. because you're stupid. whole story.
mircea_popescu: you weren't in any sense and at any point trying to "take over bitcoin", or anything else for that matter.
mircea_popescu: here's a newsflash : idiots defrauded by garza haven't "lost their money trying to take over bitcoin" anymore than the idiots defrauded by buterin & the us propaganda machine through the etherium scam have lost their money "trying to take over bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: dude such typical scammer behaviour. "set an impossible goal for your ponzi scheme, at least the chumps can then pretend they failed doing something important"
mircea_popescu: "You have said that you want Paycoin to take over bitcoin a coin that you said you dont believe in"
mircea_popescu: it's like the good days of the 90s all over again. "oh, you don't have a computer at home ? THEN YOU CANT PLAY WITH US!"
mircea_popescu: all email gets 80 col wrapped, if the original isn't so wrapped you can't get it to ever verify.
mircea_popescu: looky here : i can't pay teh foundation its tax because i can't link to a justificative document. wtf do i do now ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla: plowman has ample room for gardening, perhaps rabbits and even other livestock.. plowman is actually plowking! << we'll talk once your kid grows up a little. it's not about you. it's about the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's not a bad way to waste money, who knows what the reaearching kids come up with
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, the implication is that you plot its trajectory and wait for it there
mircea_popescu: at some point, the rocket, low on fuel, turns back towards the earth. at that point it's damned slow.
mircea_popescu: so your "i'll trust them when they use one" is kinda an unfairly distant bridge.
mircea_popescu: anyway, long story short, i dun think anyone's doing anything with any rockets. bulava or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: afaik the classical approach mostly intercepts them at perihelion
mircea_popescu: it's roughly like firing a tank in slow motion at someone.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that the bulava pose any sort of threat to anyone these days tho.
mircea_popescu: decimation the best way for you to access that spirit is, read up on koschei.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a very specific thing, tho. rural russian kid cca 1920.
mircea_popescu: it worked because it echoed what the idiots in question were thinking anyway.
mircea_popescu: the propaganda said this specifically, but it worked not because it said it
mircea_popescu: genuinely loved it. the fucking adventure of it all, fuck dude, think of it, he's like a hero of legend.
mircea_popescu: that the sheer entertainment value of it al is what motivated 99% of the movement.
mircea_popescu: the other construction is that peasant 20 yo kid FUCKING LOVED getting to travel, getting to work on a construction yard and whistle at anon girls in skirts passing by
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform take the earlier point re "stalin made an experiment of making peasant life suck more". it's a construction.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release.
mircea_popescu: "need" doesn't work in this ethereal, abstract way you use it.
mircea_popescu: if this patent nonsense had any sort of irl merit, you'll be stuck explaining the crowd at my door.
mircea_popescu: dude this is like saying guy has to "subjugate" woman, as she needs nothing etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform food hasn't been a serious geopolitical issue since about 1600.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down.
mircea_popescu: decimation chechens are a fan of whatever empire they happen to have clung to the skirts of.
mircea_popescu: turns out the solution is adding &ncr=1 to whatever string you use for autosearch
mircea_popescu: so google decided spontaneously to redirect me to argentina google.
mircea_popescu: im sure they picked on them over disagreements as to how to treat bitchez.
mircea_popescu: nah, bosnian dude was kinda off-white but not dark enough.