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mircea_popescu: stupid ass paradigm wherein business has come to mean "serving consumers" and obviously then the consumerness of individual people has to be "supported" by the state, and soon enough you've got an anthill being built want it or not.
mircea_popescu: leia*. for some reason i keep conflating her with the dog.
mircea_popescu: or the idea that what "consumers" "have come to expect" is relevant in any discussion of anything nonfiction anymore than princess leila's opinion would be.
mircea_popescu: like the idea that people may be "consumers" anymore than they may be martians,
mircea_popescu: bitcoin wants to entirely destroy the things crap such as mastercard even stands on,
mircea_popescu: this needs to be broken. it's not "o noes, bitcoin wants to replace mastercard with itself". nothing like that.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "Currently, digital currencies lack the basic protections consumers have come to expect when transacting online " << because what the "consumer" has "come to expect" is the fucking alpha and omega of the perceptible universe.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: training wheels on a function wave? <<< yeah, you know, help you find it exists.
mircea_popescu: amorous answer than you were looking for but we actually are putting the finishing touches on one of our biggest data centres yet in the next couple of weeks, I actually spoke to someone a few days ago who saw it and he's never seen that many miners and flash computers in one place."
mircea_popescu: "Josh Garza – What we can talk about is everybody, so, we quite literally use every major manufacturer in the world, so, bitmain, we're actually in discussions right now with bitfury, *inaudible*, I mean, every single company. We are in the process of beginning to build our own chip, we do have hardware that is not publicly available that created economies of scale for us, kinda all over the place, probably a less gl
mircea_popescu: cazalla can easily be read as "one order was this much".
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, species exist for the same exact reason and through apparently the same mechanism subatomic particles "exist"
mircea_popescu: how did that go, "if your nipples don't float halfway between your chin and your belly button, your tits ain't big enough"
mircea_popescu: spitting fucking image, she could have sucked cock off via flaminia sixteen centuries ago, only her hair'd be different.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's incredible how much bellucci looks like an italian matron as she ages.
mircea_popescu: i will be this codgery old guy with an ellaborate cough, an old german trenchcoat, aviator eye goggles and a sorta-functioning projector
mircea_popescu: it's one of the skills i reserve for the scavenger world to come.
mircea_popescu: hanbot which is this one anyway ? the 90s thing with ryder ?
mircea_popescu: this is a cognate of the guy who bought glasses to read. because that's what he was missing.
mircea_popescu: "Why are you locking up these important notices in a PDF turd hosted on a site with Facebook integration." BingoBoingo because they seek external validation, and they believe inaccessibility and hermetism are a good proxy. like all ignoramuses ever do believe.
mircea_popescu: hanbot well... you are aware vampirism is a rape metaphor yes ?
mircea_popescu: course, it did markedly improve pretty much any language-related cognitive function in the process.
mircea_popescu: gernika i had a slavegirl apply this process to a few pages of shaw. took her A YEAR
mircea_popescu: (who, incidentally, only does movies if she's raped in them, for some reason. perhaps with the exception of that one where she kills herself at dinner with her ex.)
mircea_popescu: and irreversible is of course that atrocious production with the 10 minute bellucci rape scene.
mircea_popescu: now who the fuck could hav efigured that out. i gotta make more footnotes.
mircea_popescu: a song about forced prostitution and hunger in earlier france.
mircea_popescu: i specifically meant rengaine as a reference to "Quand je m'endors bercée par une rengaine j'suis soudain réveillée par des cris"
mircea_popescu: holy shit how could that make any sense to anyone other than me ?
mircea_popescu: mircea popescu The white hierarchy supporting society collapsed ? How does the French underground go from rengaine to "Irreversible" ? WW2. Most of the better Frenchmen got shot.
mircea_popescu: decimation A more interesting question is: how does 'black music' go from Louis Armstrong to thug rap in 50 years?
mircea_popescu: and so i tried to read that thing with the eyes of a stranger
mircea_popescu: every single snail leaves a fossil. few cephalopodes do. etc.
mircea_popescu: dude this playboy interview is one of the stupidest things i ever read.
mircea_popescu: it's a worhtwhile argument that the only reason blacks aren't chimps is that some middle links died off ?!
mircea_popescu: ve chimpanzees none. But I think it’s a worthwhile argument."
mircea_popescu: "DAWKINS: No, never. But suppose an intermediate species hadn’t gone extinct. Suppose relict populations are discovered in the African jungle. In order to deny chimpanzees rights, you would have to set up apartheid-like courts to decide whether this individual counts as human. Because it’s a continuum. As a practical matter, the intermediates haven’t survived, so it’s possible to give humans basic rights and gi
mircea_popescu: why history repeats itself so much! boring history! bad history!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo omfg check this out, pravda lying about what the un said.
mircea_popescu: 5ph = ~ 10k antiminers. they never made that many did they ?
mircea_popescu: "In investigating these claims, BitBeat viewed a bitcoin address at Blockchain.info that was cryptographically proven to belong to GAW and in which almost 28,000 bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i need someone to go there and bring me a coupla affiliate managers.
mircea_popescu: anyway, who here wants to go to the next porn conference ?
mircea_popescu: i'm sure anyone who cares enough could as well have folloed the gpg sig ?
mircea_popescu: the small players always benefit more from the big players than the reverse.
mircea_popescu: also kinda why any kind of non-regressive taxation is bullshit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it cost me some money, but it also established a point. to my benefit, and of course to anyone else's who's paying attention, but that's a freebie for small fish.
mircea_popescu: adlai not what it was. more of a "couldn't really refuse" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: money well spent, because it resolved a particular set of otherwise very pernicious claims.
mircea_popescu: cazalla : the problem is that wordpress fucks up the dashes