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mircea_popescu: luke is trying to pretend like it is. that matters in the sense luke trying to pretend obama is jesus matters.
mircea_popescu: a gun is available to be used somewhere. it may even be used by mike hearn.
mircea_popescu: same thing with bs "features" that meanwhile got thrown out, same thing with bs features the spyteam has been trying to insert.
mircea_popescu: you may understandably wish to misrepresent it as such. nevertheless... it is not.
mircea_popescu: if i let you live in my garage because i'm too lazy to kick you out today, that doesn't mean the garage is your home.
mircea_popescu: narrowing fundamentally means those features never actually existed.
mircea_popescu: understand, if some kid somehwere adds a condom to his parent's the tv set, this is exactly meaningless to television.
mircea_popescu: <mjr_> i am saying that the code that is running on some mining machines is not the same code that ran in 2011 <<< this.
mircea_popescu: there's an entire class of them, occasionally i bitchslap them into the abyss, but whatever.
mircea_popescu: you can translte the miner';s desire to "runn different code" in the flurry of idiotic "revolutionary" nonsense imbeciles like molecular are pushing on the forum.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ it's not meaningfully different or else it wouldn't be able to run.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the english language'd have benefited immensely had it been frozen solid when handed off to the nutty colonists cca 1700.
mircea_popescu: i can refer you to some random bathroom stall ? what of it ?
mircea_popescu: <mjr_> considering the bitcoin standard gets changed around once every 2 months << i have nfi what you're on about, it's noit changed since 2011.
mircea_popescu: enter about 50 years of sterile "social studies" on the topic of how a bureaucracy is much better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> paging herr naggum! << change is not generally a good idea.
mircea_popescu: somehow ever since good old productive labour became something for niggers and mexicans, the ontological hope of all usians is inextricably tied to "ideas" and "Creativity" and "being famous" etc.
mircea_popescu: mjr_ there's very little ideas to be had and very many people who like to tell themselves htey have ideas.
mircea_popescu: godovo beats me. look through the logs, it's all there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that's not really what a good idea is now is it.
mircea_popescu: but inasmuch as the market for them is exactly 0... there's no way to short. nor do they have any \value
mircea_popescu: otherwise one could short them either as futures (like i am trying to shoirt eth/doge)
mircea_popescu: you can' tshort them because there is nobody buying them lol/
mircea_popescu: no you can't. im talking of the hyip crap. where do you think all these forum-ceos are coming from ?
mircea_popescu: mjr_ nah that's not it at all. it's much more like the online scam "industry", ie, 90% of volume is self-trading.
mircea_popescu: like, when sec got told what to do, it just... did it, none of that "we're too good to do what our betters tell us to do"
mircea_popescu: because nobody was too fucking smart to ditch something awful and suck our cock instead. like, ever.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` everyone who wants to remain relevant going forward.
mircea_popescu: what, nobody bought, you just sold ? what are you, the us fed ?
mircea_popescu: bubbins`> oh, and i sold a couple casascius coins for a record-high price today <<
mircea_popescu: that way, the people whoi can afford to pay, and the people who can't aren't hussled. best of both worlds.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the idea isn't to make it impossible for people to read for free. the idea is to make it not cost effective.
mircea_popescu: godovo it only works until they run out of credits on the exit nodes.
mircea_popescu: they figure they got enough crazy on their own, don't need trilema.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` her bf had a sort of antique store/fleamarket smorgasbord
mircea_popescu: i knew this chick, her thing was, she'd go through the trains at the end collect discarded books
mircea_popescu: well, 1 bitcent on trilema is way better value than 10 bux on amzon
mircea_popescu: for instance, suppose you commute or are one of the 100mn+ people that have to keep themselves quietly occupied for 1-2 hours a day.
mircea_popescu: hm. on second thought, i guess most people worth talking to actually read over 100 books.
mircea_popescu: imo it's really a sort of lifetime deal, i have nfi who has the mettle to actually read 10k articles.
mircea_popescu: on the positive side, i'm getting about one.x trilema credit orders a day by now.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` so how is this better than you know, cooking some meat and boiling some pasta ?
mircea_popescu: fucking idiots these people. why even put a contact email up then.
mircea_popescu: info@optalysys.com SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<info@optalysys.com>: host mx01.1and1.co.uk [212.227.17.191]: 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable
mircea_popescu: what sort of burgeois concilliatory anti-pseudo-scientific nonsense is this! out of wikipedia, the red flanel of the regime!
mircea_popescu: omfg look at that heresy! wikipedia lists sun radiative output as a causative factor in the first ice age (the one post oxigenation).
mircea_popescu: what in the huronic demonology is a "hamburger helper"
mircea_popescu: this is easily explained through this mathematical model.