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mircea_popescu: "shouldn't the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 in any and all circumstances" ? i guess
mircea_popescu: shouldn't the difference between .1 and .5 count for more than .23 to .1 ?
mircea_popescu: so the 1 buying at .1 lost 77%, whereas the .8 buying at 49 lost 90%
mircea_popescu: <decimation> turns back to me like nothing happened. Miriam faces these ancient human problems of violence and poverty, yet she owns a futuristic technology like a smartphone. This haunted me for months." <<< all this meaningless bs. was the daughter hawt is all i want to know.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'number one rule' of dominating mining - don't be an obvious idiot << problem is the obvious symbol is only defined in the core dump
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> $600 million worth of mining hardware would not work << kinda th point.
mircea_popescu: i don't need to be buddies with a cockroach to know why it can't fly.
mircea_popescu: he has lots of resources as long as he uses them a certain way
mircea_popescu: what, ima be trapped in meta jail now cause you're bored ? log's there.
mircea_popescu: i have little worry about the actual market value of things actually on the actual market.
mircea_popescu: in the sense someone is stupid enough to pay 100bn for fb and 20k btc for eth...
mircea_popescu: and whether i do or not is a matter of my own private and personal arbitrariety and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: zuckerberg does not. which is why i'm a player and zuckerberg for all the press, is not.
mircea_popescu: something i can do, if i want. i can sell out mpoe stock and put a 1bn dolar contract on obama's head.
mircea_popescu: that's cashing out : when you take your money and hit someone over the head with it.
mircea_popescu: it's a cash out when he takes 1bn of facebook stock and gives it to support rebels ousting the us from the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: BigBitz also you will notice, taking 1bn of stock and lavisingh it upon some charity does empathically not constitute a cash out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Anyways - I am not trying to incite an argument. I just think and believe that if they wanted it they'd get it. Cash is their king (and many others). << the world has new kings, meanwhile. the direct effect of this being that no, the old kings couldn't anything, whether they wanted it or not.
mircea_popescu: that reason is that the people with some self respect left don't wish to play the part of decorative mosquito.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason only washed up nobodies a la pierce and twinkletoss come derping around to be impaled on the fence pikes.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't impossible, it'd have been done already.
mircea_popescu: <BigBitz> Either way - don't fool yourself if you think the SUPER RICH couldn't do what they wanted with Bitcoin. Not saying it would be an easy thing but it's not at all impossible. << i'm saying it would be impossible.
mircea_popescu: what btc revenue can you guarantee me today for a 1bn usd investment in s.rig ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> fluffypony: no market implications if you sink the usd into mining vs. buying. << think again.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (nobody but me and perhaps half a dozen other weirdos give a flying fuck about usenet archive) << nonsense. history is history.
mircea_popescu: it'll be the lulz of all time if 20 years from now google survives as this grim, unwelcoming steward of usenet archive.
mircea_popescu: and that's raw frequency. if moderated by importance... 99% of what google does for me is grep trilema.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i call lo... from the url bar to go places 10x as often as i call google.
mircea_popescu: so really there's not all that much left google can do.
mircea_popescu: and the more action driven among those are on the various muppetwitters already
mircea_popescu: in any case, the people who end up places because google are generally speaking they too young or too stupid to have a populated mental space / bookmark list
mircea_popescu: if you dont, you know how to identify one, and google supplies a raw list, like a sort of research intern.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with google is that it's becoming rather irrelevant. think about your own data consumption process, how often do you include something you found on google ? and when exactly ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i know i treat teh backdoors as a right...
mircea_popescu: this differential does not yield surprising results in practice, and the standing of the us govt is weaker than the tsar's was.
mircea_popescu: if the tsar's government fails the test, its punishment is to no longer exist.
mircea_popescu: if lenin fails this test, his punishment is to... go to switzerland.
mircea_popescu: which lenin did not bother to get. he was arrested, and accused of lenining without a license. this is the test above.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tsar (who ruled by divine right) govt (which HAD the authority to exist as a merely regulatory body) made a leninlicense.
mircea_popescu: kinda why lenin and the gang survived the tsar just fine.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, one party risks being maintained by the other, at its expense, well in excess of 100 btc a year, for a while. on the other hand, that other party risks complete disolution.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the test is disproportionately expensive to undetake, for this reason.
mircea_popescu: just as well one could argue they don't have the means.
mircea_popescu: the us may only exist as a LAWFUL body, not as merely a regulatory body.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i think you're missing a major component here. what you describe, I can afford, the us can not.
mircea_popescu: it attaches to the named. temujin had a wife as an unborn ?
mircea_popescu: "The father Temüjin knew was not his biological father but his wife’s captor"...
mircea_popescu: none of this "adapt bitcoin to whatever laws" and none of that "adapt laws to bitcoin" either. submission, complete, not negociable.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski "2. Forbidden to ever make peace with a monarch, a prince or a people who have not submitted." << definitely how it goes for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you're so far the winner of teh referrals contest.
mircea_popescu: being rich is no big deal, but being an asshole is worth all the gold in the world.