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mircea_popescu: it's not just preston byrne or this or that derp. it's about a hundred of them by now, and as the old saying goes : the problem with this world is that while smart people are hesitant, government shills are full of words.
mircea_popescu: for easy comparison, argentina legally allows prostitution, but not pimping. this is roughly equivalent to allowing lyft/uber but not the traditional style.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason the traditional "taxi mafia" is prevalent all over the world. that technology may force the government to release its extractive grip of said mafia tho... this is dubious. works for as long as people have the upper tech side, but this pendulum swings.
mircea_popescu: anyway, small, worthless transactions like say a cab ride aren't too adequate for this sort of application because people can't be arsed to bother.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense "stop being stupid and use the b-a model" is about a billion times more effectual than "here's how you could do it theoretically"
mircea_popescu: the reasons it's not well implemented are in no sense scientifical, but purely political, and so the solution isn't going to come from writing it up, but from a willingness to work with others already doing it.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes, that's the concept, it's not particularly novel or revolutionary, even if everyone from facebook to amazon ratings implements it very very badly.
mircea_popescu: well that's what it is, this reads to me like someone joined b-a and went "you know what ? ima make an altcoin!!1"
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with seeing something you like and trying to understand how it works, or implement it. there is however something wrong with seeing something you like and imagining you invented it. that something is that in exchange for the stroking of vanity, it also isolates you from the exact people you don't really want to be isolated from, id est, those people who actually do the things you like.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier so what is this, basically an awkward rework of the b-a voice model without acknowledging the source and practical use thereof ?
mircea_popescu: i hear great things about that bloomingdale's executives programme.
mircea_popescu: in other news, if anyone was ever curious, i give you horse vices.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it was served on a little stovelet at the table, with embers.
mircea_popescu: theodred that's typically romanian an ending. like -ian for armenians.
mircea_popescu: or else, i could document the best porterhouse steak in the history of porter houses everywhere.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz there's plenty of people in vegas already you know.
mircea_popescu: build abandonable colony, cut wood acros it (with hardy pioneers)
mircea_popescu: (and also, you could hexedit the map. i made a 6 ore deposit - 4 sugarcane - 4 tobascco - 6 wheat island once0
mircea_popescu: and also, the winingstrat was... 4 towns, all fortresses.
mircea_popescu: i fixed it by hexediting because trhe prices in amsterdam made no sense.
mircea_popescu: well in this sene, what's a gallon of screwdrivers cost ?
mircea_popescu: the rest got in through ppl closing eyes to this that or the other, cause well... gotta fill the seats.
mircea_popescu: actually the latest (secret!!1) data shows about half of all us secret service empoyees across the whole shebang (yes, including the soopar-sikrit outfits, heh), just a shade above half are actually legally working
mircea_popescu: "There had been no classes at Simon Business School on how to apprehend crooks who appropriated your assets." <<< what a shitty school.
mircea_popescu: so remember folks! whenever you ask here about a trilema post instead of asking in that post's comment section, you are helping communism.
mircea_popescu: and also, had you asked this on teh blog post, this comment'd have ended up on the blogpost. now it;s on the log. if some guy reads the post six months from now, i'll remember it, but vaguely, and i'll say "it's in the logs". how does that help him ?
mircea_popescu: the latter's too ugly, or as the kids today say, has no smv.
mircea_popescu: of course they also made financial speculation liable in excess of sanity, which didn't work out for them on a macro scale, but the point remains : there's no good reason to exploit the concept of limited liability as a sort of exclusive monogamous relationship with the company.
mircea_popescu: what if limited liability weren't improperly tied to the notion of corporation ? like it worked in the soviet union : medical practice is unliable, and so cheap and affordable.
mircea_popescu: a fine example of how problematic this is : financial services, because they are companies, are also unliable. meanwhile, medical services, which aren't companies, are liable. the result ? rampant financial speculation exploiting the public resources of local authorities, and unaffordable healthcare.
mircea_popescu: we don't need that mechanism, nor does it have much value really. without it, limited liability survives just fine.
mircea_popescu: seems to me limited liability is not directly involved in the discussion. it's true that there's at work in the fiat world this mechanism whereby liability is limited automatically, in order to conceptually prop the corporation.
mircea_popescu: trixisowned typical name for a slavegirl, to indicate that well... she's owned.
mircea_popescu: trixisowned interesting nick btw. what's the "is owned" part ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> wtf am i supposed to eat here? probably some fish or something. <<< beef.
mircea_popescu: if this isn't diogenes pushing his tub up and down i dunno what is.
mircea_popescu: everyone changes their name, from benkay to ben_vulpes and from bitcoinpete to pete_d. vexual changes too.
mircea_popescu: <Mexual> head north from toddler << omfg this is actually vexual ?!
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> if bitcoin = bad, ether = good, why would they sell ether for bitcoin? << it's the bitcoin patriarchy raping them.
mircea_popescu: <justusranvier> What happenes when somebody produces a platform just as useful, but without the need for an appcoin? << thinking is racist.
mircea_popescu: Boy: wanna cum my yard? Girl: Wher u live? Boy: Tooting. Girl: Hell no i aint going there homie i dnt wanna be killed!!! << wtf ud so gangsta nao ?
mircea_popescu: decimation you know the daily mail may not be the best source of porn. let alone anything else.