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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the earlier discussion about iq, say, in the recent days.
mircea_popescu: (as to the first part, bitcoin mining is EXACTLY insurance, as a mechanism. it turns a string of discrete events (blocks found) into a practically continuous stream of services (hashes))
mircea_popescu: now these may be used synonymously, but this misuse speaks only to the idiocy of the user.
mircea_popescu: then there's sociaism, which makes no sense (average out nonscalar values)
mircea_popescu: there's insurance, which makes sense, if events happen discretely converting them into a continuous stream is useful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he doesn't know the juicy details that fate was held as more powerful than zeus.
mircea_popescu: what's left of people after 70 years of selection for derpitude.
mircea_popescu: that way insurers won';t be able to tell the difference in flood insurance between kansas and louisiana
mircea_popescu: you are objectively more expensive to insure. reflecting this in the cost of insurance is a subversion ?
mircea_popescu: in short : everything worth talking about "affects the person"
mircea_popescu: bounce how far does this extend ? the fact that i know you're fair haired gives me the power to say "blondie"
mircea_popescu: Adlai it's like 1/4 ton with all the lead required etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a possible explanation : flying the whole thing relieves the family of the cost to fly a corpse (20-30k or so)
mircea_popescu: "your honor, his entire plan of terrorism can be read as function headers"
mircea_popescu: that's how the function names end up being _____BgFkShit___1()
mircea_popescu: "guys, i have a great idea for a thing. here it is : function greatidea(); <stuff> return;"
mircea_popescu: well whatever you think, you're not thinking as person, therefore not a sovereign, therefore nevermind.
mircea_popescu: undata for my curiosity, be a darling and narrate the boston tea party ?
mircea_popescu: bounce no, my point is, the likes of popescu. mircea popescu. the likes of redmon ? redmond who ?
mircea_popescu: which is why i said earlier, why;d the gunpile be integral.
mircea_popescu: also a project. there's no shortage of projects, it's not like you can either pick "go to moon" or nothing.
mircea_popescu: week ago we were discussing the "iraq will be the 51st us state"
mircea_popescu: anyway, this entire "fix the computers" thing is just a random example.
mircea_popescu: only crowdsourcing can explain this level of fuming stupidity, i'm affraid.
mircea_popescu: they'd come up with something a little better than derpobama.
mircea_popescu: and if there were some guys on a pile of weapons somewhere, who then could vet anything,
mircea_popescu: because well... it's a colony. it depends on its mother.
mircea_popescu: the most loyal subjects of each european crown were the respective colonies. for fucking centuries.
mircea_popescu: how the shit is this supposed to work ? if you don't have the ability to control anything, how are you going to own the industrial processes makin space flight possible ?
mircea_popescu: the proposition that space flight creates somehow independence.
mircea_popescu: how about napoleon ? better string of predecessors pissing away throne could scarcely be devised.
mircea_popescu: there is no situation fubar enough as to render leadership powerless.
mircea_popescu: dude, who asked kennedy if he inherited the best throne he could have ?
mircea_popescu: whatever it is, he ain't it. that's why people object. not because he's black, and not just because he's stupid.
mircea_popescu: well that's the extend of the discussion. what's stopping mr "nobel prize" from being it ?
mircea_popescu: all the music that didn't fit notation, developed at huge cost of time during times of frequent famine ... gone