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mircea_popescu: that's why the classical, 19th century murican has the reputation of being uncouth and direct and undecourous in europe
mircea_popescu: if that is reduced significantly, the need for some forms goes away.
mircea_popescu: warzones are "unhinging" because the complexity of "society" is a function of the mean distance between individual and his own death
mircea_popescu: their logic fails all the god damned time, mostly because it's not logic, self-supported, it's dreamweaving
mircea_popescu: othernubs`> imagine living in a world where logic can fail <<< that's life in a "social sciences" universe.
mircea_popescu: makes no difference "what use is the sun to us", that's an ontological point not an ethical one.
mircea_popescu: stop mixing utility into ideality, that's not how thinking works.
mircea_popescu: bounce it's irrelevant what it "does" at the level where ip is defined, see ?
mircea_popescu: just, the fucktards that write about things they don;'t understand, when they're not busy husslking pete in his comment section,
mircea_popescu: no, it doesn't need them "to function", because it functioning is not a layer 7 thing.
mircea_popescu: "benevolence" as an objective quality is a layer violation.
mircea_popescu: you're not wrong or right, we're not there yet. just waiting for bounce to pick a time.
mircea_popescu: let's try it this way. suppose there's a cathedral tower with a clock.
mircea_popescu: bounce no, inasmuch as fist though your skull moves the matter of your skull around in one way, but MEANS in a number of different arbitrary ways
mircea_popescu: it's like asking for an "app aware" tcp/ip implementation.
mircea_popescu: obviously nothing in nature can be "benevolent" seeing how human agency is an ulterior layer.
mircea_popescu: you know, like obama, the us ally, was the first and perhaps the thickest cock to rape washington.
mircea_popescu: visited the man's grave, too. he was the first and the thickest cock to rape byzantium.
mircea_popescu: o look, there's a 20 yo junior rabbi in the house. lmao.
mircea_popescu: no, he prolly realised that he doesn't need it or want to use it and it'll just gather dust
mircea_popescu: lol failed impulse buy. oh #b-a whay are you such a mall!
mircea_popescu: it'd almost work as a parody of the redditard generation, except spacey is playing it full straight.
mircea_popescu: dude this "father of invention" flic is the most god awful pandering piece of shit
mircea_popescu: eating some earthworms or w/e isn't really doing much anymore.
mircea_popescu: which in the grand scheme of things isn't really much at all. they've already fucked the goat in the public market long ago
mircea_popescu: they'd just be a iota more ridiculously pointless than they are today
mircea_popescu: their failure was signalled to them within minutes, and they obeyed that signal in an hour.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's possible miners won't make the best decision. this was illustrated yesterday, when the atc miners failed to make the best decision.
mircea_popescu: because money doesn't think all that much of code monkeys. and definitely isn't going to start taking their ideas of how to manage things seriously.
mircea_popescu: most bitcoin reads mp way before it remembers who the fuck this gavin schmuck is.
mircea_popescu: i'm all for it, the level of either cluelessness or desperation such a move entails is promising.
mircea_popescu: this is sort-of like wanting to see what happens if/when the soviets finally decide to cross fulda ?
mircea_popescu: i totally wish to read more idiocy from this gavin puppet.
mircea_popescu: so "governments" will prevail, as fucking if there can even be such a thing as a government other than bitcoin ; and bitcoin gotta hide its misshapen form in the dark.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski oyu know, if anyone gave a shit about either gavin or reddit they'd just go there.
mircea_popescu: On 15 June 1961, two months before the construction of the Berlin Wall started, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and Staatsrat chairman Walter Ulbricht stated in an international press conference, "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten!" <<< nobody has any intention to fuck up bitcoin o.O
mircea_popescu: * Adlai must admit that he first misread that headline as "BitBet lands $14.5M ..." << da fuck would bitbet do with 15mn.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> cazalla BingoBoingo derpndesk.com/bitnet-lands-14-5-million-series-funding-rival-coinbase-bitpay/ << and somehow in spite of all these "investement" nobody is buying the shorts pretty much.
mircea_popescu: i mean... how many east germans joined west germany ? ... all of em ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone leaves the mines. part of why "big government" is so lulzy.
mircea_popescu: "we have yet another version of bitcoin without bitcoin, choose us, because this works!!11"
mircea_popescu: who knows, perhaps it has enough criminals that they become a significant minority in the new world, giving it some claim.
mircea_popescu: it's funny that the us lost the "innovation" war back in 2013, and then lost the finance war. no smart kids, no rich kids,
mircea_popescu: ripple's problem is more like "we enabled some scammers stealing a buncha coins" tho.