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mircea_popescu: go work out. none of that high performance gym shit tho, this isn't to perform, this is to relax. ride a horse. swim. something sane.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a matter of the machines per se tho.
mircea_popescu: even at the risk of driving down legitimate promises and capable people, the theory goes, this is still a worthwhile endeavour.
mircea_popescu: and the fiat state is predicated on the theory that productive work may be extracted out of assemblages of a trillion shitheads that by and of themselves are wholly incapable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. the fiat economy is predicated on the theory that value may be constructed out of a trillion promises that each on and of itself is worthless
mircea_popescu: on one hand because it is actually very limited on th edirect, on the other hand because it is very affraid to use even the little it has lest a hb rehash.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's all social engineering. the nsa does not have any technical capbility worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: you know, just like freenode, except with a helluva lot more moneyz.
mircea_popescu: that's immaterial. the threat defense, however, will be an array of geographically distributed servers which someone will have to shepherd the ircd on.
mircea_popescu: this thing seems to hold true in the most perverse and unexpected of applications.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know there's this pesky rule of nature that the more one speaks the less one knows.
mircea_popescu: i guess the catholics also did pretty well on the score.
mircea_popescu: someone should start a church of confusing form with function.
mircea_popescu: so end the glorious sunday pronouncements, join us next sunday for nude frolicking in the grass and fire spitting.
mircea_popescu: and therefore! whosoever knoweth well the workings of the irc demon and how to set it up let me know, for we shall have a plan b, and our plan b shall take over the earth!
mircea_popescu: knoweth ye, that while it is unlikely for freenode to buckle, more than anything because its brains are so scattered it's unlikely to manage to gather enough management to do anything, nevertheless this isn't a reason to not build parachute
mircea_popescu: pronouncement #b : and then he spake thus : ye knoweth the evil people of the world know no rest, for the very fire of hell scorches their gullets on the inside so they may never sit quietly in a room. and therefore it will come to pass that they will put pressure on freenode, starting for instance last thursday.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pronouncement #1 : and he said unto them lo! that bitbet now allows searching by weight of bets!
mircea_popescu: hi all, and welcome to mp's string of sunday pronnouncements!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cougars and cougarish types of housecats
mircea_popescu: or by the other side as "that desperate, harrowing last ditch effort"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` in some places the crag cat is a real danger to human life
mircea_popescu: no, for the inglischers is, "this is how normal debates work and everyone on reddit agrees."
mircea_popescu: подводная лодка в степях #украины погибла в неравном воздушном бою.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i wonder if old married couples get that same way, guy hears the condom drawer screech and gets an errection.
mircea_popescu: it's not a chasing predator. it lies in wait normally.
mircea_popescu: same exact thing here. monopoly money is not the same because it's not "in their space"
mircea_popescu: the cat is driven by an attempt to reduce the cognitive load. things that move impredictably draw its attention and require it to spend brainpower. better if they stop moving.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves exactly like the cat's reaction to "unapprovable movement"
mircea_popescu: speaking oif such instinct. i dunno if you've ever had dogs, but they're beyond funny when virgin. because while the dog's instinct absolutely drives him to try and mount the bitch, the dog's brain itself doesn't comprehend wtf is happening
mircea_popescu: course they do. how do you think all the drunk conceptions happen.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ever seen a cat when something moves irregularly ?
mircea_popescu: once you fix the coins to 21mn tops, everything else can exist in immoderate, endless supply
mircea_popescu: in bitcoin ? you're kidding. there's been what, 6 or 7 jesuses ? at least 5 or so satoshis...
mircea_popescu: from what i hear from people trying such things, it rarely works in the sense of comprehension, but almost always works in the sense of making the op stfu.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i do shoot emails to the more promising publishers.
mircea_popescu: fucktards don't understand rngs. took me all of 30 seconds to figure it out, too.
mircea_popescu: so im playing this tablet game. it has a slots implementation, giving some in game benefits. i turned 2k chips into 85150, and it will never end.
mircea_popescu: so... that way, bad capital. the money of idiots is not useful.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves had first hand experience, among many others.
mircea_popescu: everyone else tried to build businesses out of allowing idiots in. they all failed