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mircea_popescu: well notrly, buy bitcoin for it, then buy the rocket :D
mircea_popescu: 1% of earth is worth 1% of earth at any point in time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform % of total world still works as a comparison term.
mircea_popescu: glonass didn't cost 20 bn, and it;'s afaik better than the gps stuff
mircea_popescu: i actually invented watt engines 750 years ago, over a coffee chat with twinklebros
mircea_popescu: decimation you're starting to sound like the hershey bar guy
mircea_popescu: but even for the hell of it - calculate the sub that can carry the diesel engine that can make the electricity thyat can fill a baloon
mircea_popescu: decimation not the rubber, not the gas (how do you get helium on a sub ?)
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin.org is the original domain name used with the first Bitcoin website. It was registered and is still managed by Bitcoin core developers and by additional community members, with the input of Bitcoin communities. Bitcoin.org is not an official website. Just like nobody owns the email technology, nobody owns the Bitcoin network. As such, nobody can speak with authority in the name of Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i wanna meet the followers for all these leaders. america, the land of the 99 leaders to the duck.
mircea_popescu: jurov> you see for youself what happened to it anyway. << it took over and set the course of computer history ?
mircea_popescu: bounce know anyone that did fundamental research on his own account since ww2 ?
mircea_popescu: that end up is not even correct. they are. pretense to the contrary won't long endure.
mircea_popescu: such a primitive arrangement even keynesianism is an improvement
mircea_popescu: all places devoid of property end up with a state-party system
mircea_popescu: similarly to how noobs and "journalist" derps talk of wall street
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, as far as romanians are concerned, russians (muscali) have tails.
mircea_popescu: basically it masquerades as an ontology when it's merely phenomenology is my objection.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your pissing theory is weak because singapore went from one to the other over one generation.
mircea_popescu: which is ridiculous, because in romanian that says "the russians" which were his backers mostly.
mircea_popescu: but, on his tv address, he blamed "foreign agenturas", ie, agenturile straine
mircea_popescu: it failed horribly, the cryptocommie in charge brought some miners from mining country to beat the shit out of the "intellectuals" and assorted aggitators
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funny linguistic trainwreck : during the early 1990s, the leftover us derps tried to organise the maidan thing in romania too. it was called "miscarea piata universitatii", dunno why the fixation on "plaza" in the name.
mircea_popescu: "well they're not corsicans, i'll tell you that! so..."
mircea_popescu: your idea of germanity is perhaps very similar to napoleon's
mircea_popescu: because the current one "wrongly vaporized" or w/e was gmaxwell's expression.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's your idea of teh bohemian kingdom ?
mircea_popescu: russians having invented robots, they get the benefit of seeing things like "worker worker" whenever someone has a worker robot in a game or somewhere.
mircea_popescu: the problem of course is the converse situation : products like the btc, wot or gpg, without which life ACTUALLY IS not worth living
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely, i'm not saying barriers must go.
mircea_popescu: all you really need to do is make life appear unworth living without your 18k tablet, for guaranteed sales well north of 1.8 trillion
mircea_popescu: in fact items as expensive as 50k are consumer products just fine, because of the finance economy.
mircea_popescu: the only consideration is if the thing actually costs 18k to make (cars don't really, but the mess of "safety" and "environmental" regulations make the "car" as defined actulaly cost a lot to make)
mircea_popescu: in point of fact people can and do spend 18k just on financing for a car they don't need (either because they live in ny, or because it'd be the 3rd family car etc)