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mircea_popescu: just as long as you agree to move your sustenance to stealing from the government, the government won.
mircea_popescu: the part where he says "Regardless of whether you waive the fine or not, and despite conditional terms added to reassert authority"
mircea_popescu: decimation lemme illustrate the point with a humorous story.
mircea_popescu: that comes to... brace yourselves... 250 bucks a year per capita.
mircea_popescu: the only innovation there is refusing to take them in exchange for the only thing they used to be good for.
mircea_popescu: then REFUSED to take the same in exchange for tax receipts ?
mircea_popescu: you can't go plunk down a pile of em and get dollars in exchange.
mircea_popescu: not even kidding. you know that thing where you can't walk for 50 miles without ending up in a town, nor 10 miles without crossing a road ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla unlike europe, the us is very poorly developed.
mircea_popescu: now to the massive task of documenting this deedsbot thing.
mircea_popescu: from tax breaks to deferring of college debt, it's all a gift.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> one can get a nice flat and three fine meals [...] not coughing up any great advances in arts. <<< yes, they are.
mircea_popescu: what else do you suppose keeps approximately-washed middle aged boys in shared apartments with internet access ?
mircea_popescu: wait a seccond. is lawsky the reddit supernintendo or the actual supernintendo ?
mircea_popescu: whenever "joe said" is not automatically followed by "oh yea ? and who the fuck is joe ?" the situation is already in the handbasked and moments away from hell.
mircea_popescu: the us worked just fine, and definitely better than the entire rest of the world, BEFORE extending the franchise.
mircea_popescu: be it the peasants in russia, or the derps in nazi germany, whenever the "common man" is taken from under the foot and put on the table trouble soon follows.
mircea_popescu: all you need to have a reign of terror is to empower the bottom of the social hierarchy. it never fails.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> seems like the logs have been ddos'ed << i see em ?
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> is checking every 5 minutes a good timeframe you think? << yeah.
mircea_popescu: hm so i was just notified by the reddit sec that there's no reddit police
mircea_popescu: "digg decided to shoot itself in the head with web2.0, and reddit was one of the places that allowed child porn back then so here we are, hear us roar!"
mircea_popescu: <fivezerotwo> reddit killed digg, one of the fastest growing tech startups at that time <<< ahahhhaha o gawd.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla home | log | search | bash | stats | wiki << pls to insert deeds
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> reddit << someone missed the point << yeah, tarddit continues to inhabit this delusion whereby what it thinks and understands matters and is important. for greater lulz!
mircea_popescu: i mean, it's fucking incredible, the guy's anagram? rly ?! but sig checked out so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got a pointer to where you and nubbins` cut the book deal ?
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform not surprised, expected precisely this. << wouldja give a man a moment ? i gotta answer comments and whatnot!
mircea_popescu: punkman fatswell is an expert at the wikigame. how to say words that appear like they have substance.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: PinkPosixPXE don't knock .net, where else can you combine c-style code with visual basic in the same executable? :D <<< os/x ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: <@gmaxwell> nubbins`: blabla <<< how about we each do our part to keep idiocy cointained in -otc -dev and wherever else.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: fivezerotwo wants 2 btc to stop lol <<< guy sounds a lot more like, he'd want to start above the grunt level, doesn't know how to ask but figures (correctly) that no matter how he'd ask he won't get it.
mircea_popescu: assbot: "Work sets you free" sign stolen: Dachau memorial robbed. <<< that thing gets stolen periodically.