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mircea_popescu: dude. i question it even makes sense to have a good programming language right back at ya!
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the problem is not nearly as hard as all that.
mircea_popescu: you know, while this may well be a pn complete problem in the general case,
mircea_popescu: well yes, because printers are still by and large about as smart as a public servant.
mircea_popescu: i tell you. fixed-form is an instrument for talking with the braindamaged.
mircea_popescu: nobody perceived a need for pdf back before sept 1993 did they ?
mircea_popescu: you pump out the text, they figure out how to display it ?
mircea_popescu: oh, wait, because the audience is demented and can't be trusted ?
mircea_popescu: keeping idiots poor and powerless is the only sound purpose of government.
mircea_popescu: then those idiots become a group large enough to drive fashions.
mircea_popescu: governments have actual money to waste, and they do on hiring idiots.
mircea_popescu: the reason for it is contained in the declaration's last paragraphs.
mircea_popescu: well, you gotta remember, a thing made is always a platform for further things.
mircea_popescu: incomprehensible the void powering these... things, whatever they are. what was he doing before, talking to a bottle of draino about how he's bald in spirit, just like the genie guy ?
mircea_popescu: wait. this dumb schmuck is talking to someone who isn't satoshi about how his fambly jesus christ
mircea_popescu: omg kako stop sabotaging yourself, you're ready darling! pop that cherry!
mircea_popescu: a spoonful of dung has very big possibility, in the future.
mircea_popescu: zanza if it helps you, kakobrekla had ~100 btc investment from F.MPIF for a few months, in his panacea forex fund. he paid back.
mircea_popescu: it's rare that noobs manage to ask questions i actually want to hear the answer to.
mircea_popescu: " After selling his ISP company in 2007, he began work as a researcher and advocate for digital currencies. He enjoys working as a freelance writer and is editor in chief at Altcoin Press." totally, 5 year gap in the mongoloid's cv. spent 2007-2013 staring at a brick.
mircea_popescu: seriously ? fucking retard world out there. "little timmy dribbles is an early cerealizer and soup eater"
mircea_popescu: "Greg Matthews is an internet pioneer and early domainer. "
mircea_popescu: "i read some shit from last year's trilema and here's my inept respinning of it!"
mircea_popescu: "In my last post, I posited a fictional world, Crypton, where no governments1 back up contracts with the threat of force2."
mircea_popescu: "investments" they're called. mpoe-pr was totally a smart way to use money huh.
mircea_popescu: "I lost a shit load in investments. I dont have anymore BTC left."
mircea_popescu: also if you queue incoming requests you can make sure you don't overrun your resources. sorta like how phuctor works
mircea_popescu: the next words out of my mouth were, PeterL pls to cache documents and
mircea_popescu: main point being that ever since kant, all sorts of imperatives are left around.
mircea_popescu: making it a moral imperative rather than a legal imperative is also important, precisely because the ancient style of voluntary taxation is actually superior, on all scores, to whatever coercitive crap the socialists are doing today.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, it's politically useful. while i can appreciate the philosophical argument of "epsilon is still fundamentally different from 0", it doesn't carry as much practical importance as all that. for one thing, everyone feels entitled to tax you .1%, including any bank moving your money, and so on and so forth. heck, the miners are taxing about 0.1%
mircea_popescu: manwhile, if they subscribe to this, they don't have to : "i won't pay you any tax, not for any other reason than that ~i already paid~".
mircea_popescu: anyway, arguing against all tax may be a difficult tack for your average business trying to get on with its business rather than become noam chomsky.
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol well... you familiar with the expression "i gave at the office" ?
mircea_popescu: <Adlai> nice domain name byte order :D << ben_vulpes idea
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> decimation: i suspect that if you kill the db and run it again - different yet. << pretty much how this works yes.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> as i understand, he is trying to somehow deal with the little problem of no one standing up to unwedge 0.5.3 block loader. << nah, not related.
mircea_popescu: <RagnarDanneskjol> in particular the words it is established and moral requirement are unconscionable << why ?
mircea_popescu: well... promising 2.0 businesses such as ethereum could use more css...
mircea_popescu: er-tax proceeds that will buy eight hamburgers, then (d) you have had no real income from your investment, no matter how much it appreciated in dollars. You may feel richer, but you won’t eat richer."
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately, earnings reported in corporate financial statements are no longer the dominant variable that determines whether there are any real earnings for you, the owner. For only gains in purchasing power represent real earnings on investment. If you (a) forego ten hamburgers to purchase an investment; (b) receive dividends which, after tax, buy two hamburgers; and (c) receive, upon sale of your holdings, aft
mircea_popescu: the fact that thew system offers a strong guarantee that any deed can be verified in 1 step is valuable.
mircea_popescu: punkman so how would a 3rd party verify the contentless signature is anything ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, "we're ~cracking down~ dontcha know, notwithstanding that we have no authority. this activity without effect could nevertheless which could affect scams we sponsored to try and destroy this thing but it didn't work out".
mircea_popescu: jesus the wot is packed so thight you can't even throw a rock at the swamp without hitting someone
mircea_popescu: ;;rate wired -1 such horribru coverage from the it kindergarten fishwrapper.