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mircea_popescu: moriarty this is a nice theory anyone would subscribe to. both those who will and those who won't. after which, disaster of commons.
mircea_popescu: <Gigs> Usage: !wire <AWG>, gives stats for copper wire of <AWG> size
mircea_popescu: so i go to #electronics to see if either asciilifeform or diametric hang in there. they have a bot, i do !help, it says
mircea_popescu: so what, stick to the fleshlight and egg custard crowd over on austrians ? i guess can do that, sure.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i know, but it was for his benefit. give the man a chance to redeem himself.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate moriarty 1 some sort of libertarian or something.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla this email, wtf is it ? i do not comprehend, what ?
mircea_popescu: basically, a government trending to totalitarism will correctly perceive as threats all protections from integration
mircea_popescu: disallowing sharing of financial information is a sizeable nook
mircea_popescu: for instance it being metallic is a huge gulf. arguably pegging it to btc even huger.
mircea_popescu: paper is a minor nook anyway, in the grand scheme of things.
mircea_popescu: hence the earlier discussion with decimation about how much the nist asked him to pay, and how it's basically "come with a note from stalin"
mircea_popescu: pretty much entirely integrated. no policy in the us can be implemented without control of the currency.
mircea_popescu: a metal coin is literally like a whore. 0 integration, she fucks random other men.
mircea_popescu: integration, for the record, is simply a measure of mutual dependence. think in terms of a couple. the more things they do together, te more integrated they are.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not the same pressures. i meant usg specifically.
mircea_popescu: and recently i have been giving them away for free, so.
mircea_popescu: ah. the consensus here is that domains are worth about 10 bux,
mircea_popescu: i can't read him, it's like going to a museum of children "artwork"
mircea_popescu: complexity is not a good predictor of quality. not in the ontos, not in the gnosis.
mircea_popescu: lacan is a total idiot, if he were a woman he'd be irigaray.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is true to a lesser degree in statistics.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, there exists no intellectualy respectable economist outside of buffett that lived in the 2nd part of the 20th century.
mircea_popescu: and the argument that taleb is "popularizing" brought by butthurt but otherwise worthless "statisticians" in their own estimation neatly mirrors the same criticism brought by "economists" in their own estimation re buffett.
mircea_popescu: i can be well spared the "conversation" of pointless academics trying to publish or perish. not worth following.
mircea_popescu: moriarty looky, if the conversation were worth following, then 30 years of the finance industry following it would show some benefit for it.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the conversation is worth keeping up with.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, i don't particularly favour new stuff. what exactly is ever new.
mircea_popescu: moriarty you're wioth the "it's the protocols of sion v2.0" point of view ?
mircea_popescu: <moriarty> mircea_popescu, UK, sorry to disappoint you in not being able to introduce fine latinas << nah it was because i was just laughing my ass off at this "galt's gulch" disaster.
mircea_popescu: moriarty possibly because you didn't make a fortune large enough :)
mircea_popescu: moriarty not the point to make a one liner, it's like chess. you construct his argument by asking me questions or w/e other discursive procedure you favour.
mircea_popescu: bounce that bit seems contradictory. how can you coerce the entrenched ?
mircea_popescu: moriarty yeah he's the guy who spent 2012 insisting bitcoin can't survive, then started a bitcoin kiler of his own which we kiled
mircea_popescu: well no, which is why celebrating traitors a la lincoln as some sort of national heroes is so mind boggling.
mircea_popescu: moriarty yeah but i mean, you can construct his argument and bring it at me see what happens
mircea_popescu: let the us not be a federation of states but a marketplace of states.
mircea_popescu: bounce the original idea of "voting with feet" as implemented in the us is exactly that.
mircea_popescu: o look, xmj still derping around on the basis of his 3 year experience. hai babee, how goes.
mircea_popescu: s a fundamentally self defeating, socialist-driving approach.
mircea_popescu: you can't possibly allow change on the grounds of marketplace success like that.
mircea_popescu: well yes you know ? suppose zig ziglar sells a lot of books, and starts his own university, where he teaches kids words like "fail" don't exist.
mircea_popescu: well i implement it wherever i can. seen the economy and sociology articles ?
mircea_popescu: there's one language, it's purely conventional, this makes education purely arbitrary to begin with.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, i believe "free market" education to be plainly idiotic.
mircea_popescu: so apparently reddit libertarians have a freenode channel. ##austrians
mircea_popescu: meh apparently #b4056df6691f8dc72e56302ddad345d65fead3ead9299609a826e2344eb63aa4 can't be a channel name.
mircea_popescu: what else ? a stash of gold is not "govt gives you permission" ? 300 bucks in a wallet ?
mircea_popescu: in general the more liquid an asset is, the more likely requisitioned. land is hard to carry so often left with it's alleged owner.
mircea_popescu: ugs can survive a coupla weeks with a dead currency ; currency can survive about five minutes with a dead usg on whose faith and credit it is based.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: its okay, i have faith the usg will mismanage itself into oblivion long before the dollar fails from due course << this is like hoping the heart will cease functioning long before the liver gives in. in reality, they're so interconnected their demise is a cvasi-simultaneous event willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you find a mob who is all derping the same thing, is it a conspiracy or organic knowledge discovery? <<< it's the internet :D