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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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, because the scams hadn't already been cracked down upon a year ago, right here.
mircea_popescu: punkman so basically what, it verifies an alt-sig for the body of a prev deed ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, stercum means shit. sterculius sounds like the god of diarrhea
mircea_popescu: im not paying for a week of graybeard to go into its guts tyvm.
mircea_popescu: shouldn't grep -v -f (x rand(x)) y rand(y) be a function of x*y ?
mircea_popescu: ftr, grep -v -f is atrociously ineffectual for large files.
mircea_popescu: at which point ppl are like wtf, this is some sort of a kindergarten act ?! who ever heard of this
mircea_popescu: so it is decided that... fancy this... they'll simply not pay.
mircea_popescu: aparatus desperately calls to moscow, pls to not sign anymore
mircea_popescu: dictator-wife goes through dictator paperwork, wtf, why do "we" need planes.
mircea_popescu: romanian defence minister got sent to russia on business, including to buy some fighter jets.
mircea_popescu: one of those things only ever surprising in retrospect.
mircea_popescu: these consisted of accounts drawn against the national (and only) bank
mircea_popescu: the woman, being also a mother, took some money with her for her children.
mircea_popescu: eventually, as things got out of control they ran off in a helicopter
mircea_popescu: fun story : romania's dictators had nfi that they will be shot. because srsly, who would shoot obama, and why ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: it's not work of satan, it;'s work of whoever was the demon of sloth
mircea_popescu: well wait. identity is pubkey. the rest is the passport.
mircea_popescu: but i mean the passport comes as a temp freenode:#bitcoin-otc:blabla string
mircea_popescu: punkman 14r4VdZFYJnGG52B6w9Th7oKjGXU1pDzKX is spent say
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don;'t think the wired story has anything to do with anything. for one thing... they EXPIRE ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: besides you know, they prolly go in different bundles, and in general, it's not the signature that's subordinate to the document, but the other way around
mircea_popescu: punkbot suppose 200 of those people sign subtly different versions.
mircea_popescu: Adlai : "absolved from all allegiance to any entity ; if you pay this much no one can ask for more"
mircea_popescu: <Adlai> "absolved from all allegiance to any entity… is to pay a tax into the coffers of the Bitcoin Foundation" << you gotta re-read.
mircea_popescu: scams as geological features now, what's next, libertardism as a natural satellite ?