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mircea_popescu: most of which, amusingly enough, are "delit d'association de malfaiteurs en relation avec une entreprise terroriste".
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: it's not a pill, even. "how can i lose weight while eating 5-6k calories a day ???" "you can't. stop eating." "
hurr durr."
mircea_popescu: bitch... you're the fucking president, your life philosophy is "
hurr, i'll just do what everyone does" ?
mircea_popescu: "you may call your socialism anything you wish including anarchism for as long as the allequal principle is not molested"
hurr.
mircea_popescu: i mean seriously, imagine it... "
hurr durr i heard a new word today, bitocin. let me google b-i-t-o-c-i-n click hmmm... apparently it's Bit-Coin. o look it's a dashed histributed layer of tips! NEAT! i'ma tell all my friends, which just happen to be plushies cut like japanese girls!"
mircea_popescu: how do you perceive what he did (
hurr durr i'm going to be a business) is different from average tardstalk forumite (
hurr durr i'm going to be an exchange) ?
mircea_popescu: from its humble beginnings as "i dunno if i'm ready for you to move in yet" to its full blown "i'm in bitcoin
hurr durr", it's the same thing.
mircea_popescu: antonescu got pissed off, rounded population, shot a bunch. because
hurr.
mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit, "what's the meaning of coincidence ?" "dunno dood, HE HAD TO FUCKING COME FROM SOMEWHERE"
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: PeterL yes, i'm aware that if we felt like it, we could just buy visa
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla> they also arent comparable in a sense << or in the sense of "case 1 is a derpy kid who tried his derpy time-arbitrage scheme without having the first clue as to what that entails, then whined to be made whole when it blew up" vs "case 2 - someone came into a shop, shot a patron, and now the business is charging the carpet cleaning against on its expense account".
hurr durr, "the police should pay for the ca
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "I worry that support for classic has become rather wishy-washy (like with everything else in bitcoin currently). Miners need to get serious right now, no more messing around."
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: it's more or less a 1966 argument that "it is not possible to alter a vinyl disc once printed because
hurr durr the plastic will melt"
mircea_popescu: "oh
hurr durr here is how hegel can be applied to maintain what we wish to see!!1"
mircea_popescu: "we both say $word about heavily advertised meaningless franchise".
hurr.
mircea_popescu: i'm in favour of the imperial house of jormania.
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BUT if the product was any good, it always got redone and typeset properly << "if the product were any good it was always mass produced".
hurr.
mircea_popescu: "... then we'd be out of what we hope to be a very good job". welcome to the exact reason why we accepted "intellectual property" in the first place. and now here we sit, both with the problem unresolved and with the massive infrastructure of the not-working fix for it in place.
hurr durr, i wonder what's the problem with western civilisation. it must be the womenz fucking niggaz!
mircea_popescu: yeah, until karpeles lied about an imaginary cause of stealing people's bitcoin, the other dudes working on wrecking bitcoin didn't have a good excuse.
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: here's a fun fact : about half the actual rapes (not
hurr durr i'm on social media and bored) require a fourchette stitch.
mircea_popescu reviewed them in 2012. the answer was, come to think of it, very much like monero's. (oh
hurr durr we're visionarily important and lalaal). so i decided to give them all the time they could possibly need to figure shit out and well...
mircea_popescu: "Patrick Byrne has been worried that the big Wall Street banks would “circle the wagons,” creating tech that locks everyone else out. << ever since reading all about it on trilema
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics in Continuous Media.
hurr.
mircea_popescu: "oh,
hurr, i kinda like the bible and my name is john smith".
mircea_popescu: because "raceysm" is the shorthand for a social convention, that's on one hand nonsensical, and on the other precludes people who are slaves from addressing their slavery as such. it must be called something else. because lo and behold, a person who does work for no pay at the behest of her masters is now "in a job"
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: "everybody knows that everything exists at the pleasure of usg
hurr durr" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: no quarter, no mercy, push that list building. "be safe"
hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: "chief scientist of a fraudulent foundation run by some people we've still, somehow, magically, not gotten around to investigating.
hurr."
mircea_popescu: da fuck is wrong with these schmucks, anyway. "herpitty-derp, i wish to push a widely unpopular, nutty agenda. obviously the best way to do this is to ask people interested in selling more to side with me. because logically if those racist white supremacists actually boycott walmart until it puts the lot of us in a concentration camp, walmart totally won't. because
hurr."