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mircea_popescu: if the kingdom actually worked like teh king's ministers propose it does, i wouldn't be looking into the yard of the king's minister's wife at the car of the guy the minister doesn't know she fucks
mircea_popescu: this has some trouble getting past things such as you know, that wikileaks guy.
mircea_popescu: i mean obviously, the king's ministers, no matter how cornered, will attempt to put forth the theory of how dominant their kingdom actually is.
mircea_popescu: try capturing chtulhu. hey everyone! free insanity today, and all get seconds!
mircea_popescu: no, it's the "know the magic incantation that'll make them rue the day they messed with me so close"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you perceive the difference being, between military and legal ?
mircea_popescu: "Unless you have been through this, with much of it kept secret to protect means and methods of investigation and prosecution, prepare for an exciting first time on the actual hot seat, not on TV or online where hypnotic disinfo rules and seduces the unwary to believe tickling the comsec tiger's tail is fantasic rep building." <<< heh.
mircea_popescu: decimation well if it wants to be a republic, it gotta be a republic.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> ascii so the point is that the court can dodge questions of "what exactly are you charging me with?" by making a grand-jury circus? << the principle is that "the people" can charge you with w/o the shit they want.
mircea_popescu: he may not be talking too much or too loud\ly about it because of that shithead ida, and her unwanted, unwelcome and damaging "love", but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: what, big daddy doesn't know what bum love is ? yes he does.
mircea_popescu: compare the father with the son in cat on a hot tin roof. that's it.
mircea_popescu: decimation but you see the signs of decadence much closer to home : the moment people start shying away from calling someone a cunt in the street, because o noes, we're civilised now. that's it.
mircea_popescu: because the relative value of things can't really be fixed.
mircea_popescu: the point is specifically to be able to serve everywhere, so to speak,
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem is exactly there : a roman citizen is required to be part of the army, even if he could serve the republic "better" elsewhere.
mircea_popescu: and from there on... anyone with a wrench can wrench a deal out of you.
mircea_popescu: pretty soon it's "we're too cool for our children to be killed off like the worthless shitbags they are"
mircea_popescu: decimation it only indirectly results from a too long period of wealth and power. i know, for i've been wealthy and powerful my entire life. the trick is to not buy into comfort. that's the direct causation : once people become comfortable and think "i'm too wealthy and powerful to be here fucking with a wrench inside this engine on the side of a road".
mircea_popescu: Daniel: "We believe that we can build a better future. We believe that we can enable all to participate in a revolution of collective ownership, something that will radically shift the nature of human society." wtf; are they socialists? <<< lulzy danielpbarron
mircea_popescu: people who're not fucking aren't going to be interested, unless, of course, they're retarded.
mircea_popescu: this entire situation is reminiscent of someone trying to "enhance" abstinence-only sexed by reports about how "women's orgasms per capita set to increase this year"
mircea_popescu: there's exactly zilch that the "share of wealtyh of the hispanic population" means.
mircea_popescu: this is such idiocy. rich people are rich people. they're not "hispanic", they're rich.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as some jews are hispanic, im sure it will increase.
mircea_popescu: if only they had a smidgeon of business sense to start back in 2013 by coming here, they'd have actually had a future.
mircea_popescu: i don't get what that coinsource thing is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: when one starts pretendling like reality, going to school in their pony suit and mixing fiction in power points... well... that's actually unhealty.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with this any more than there's anything wrong with watching animated pony cartoons.
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. people like to dream. one dream they like to dream is that they'll be the sherlock that'll discover "the real satoshi". another dream they like to dream is the vicarious wealth of amillionbtc.
mircea_popescu: which judging by his disappearance, he prolly did have.
mircea_popescu: and besides, artforz is likely a much larger holder than satoshi himself. IF he had any sense.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's just... you know. pretty much everyone i know who's been mining in 2010 has actually lost the majority of bitcoin they ever mined. irrespective if they still mine or not.
mircea_popescu: decimation i am aware. it's not "his" estimation. there's been this thing pushed around since 2011ish, a meme equivalent to "who really is satoshi"
mircea_popescu: <decimation> quite. To be fair, satoshi still has his hand on the banana << i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform according to their own claims, they got > 5k btc deposited by people looking to get a total 10mn of the shits.
mircea_popescu: decimation if this gets funded ima allow interested buyers to take positions. either directly or via bitbet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform welcome to the world of a different set of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: obviously i'll be buying some once it comes out. if shit happens like on icbit , where your bids are simply ignored while it "sells" to lower bids... then it's not reputable.
mircea_popescu: "just get rid of her if she's annoying" leads directly to "and get rid of any slaves that can't cope with no pp or complain enough"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it will, yes. it will resurect the not-yet-corpses and make the rest obvious.
mircea_popescu: try a family of a coupla dozen wives that are all "equal partners" and see.
mircea_popescu: in fact : traditional views on sexuality impose monogamy as a standard because that's the only way to hide just how dumb and inept a commune actually is : by keeping it real small.
mircea_popescu: right. then it becomes fashionable and before you know it the dumb broads in your household are giving pps to each other. and you can't do shit about it, because they're not your slaves, they're your "equal partners"
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, you're trying to make everyone dumber.
mircea_popescu: the problem is exactly what he states : pp makes it easier for the presenter, harder for the audience. this is not a tradeoff you want
mircea_popescu: actually tbh bezos may be the only guy in the derpeconomy of websites and whatnot that i actually like.
mircea_popescu: y saying investing in a "just-in-time fashion would be too clever by half." << guy's got a point. he shgould be here.
mircea_popescu: (i made some comments about buying traffic yest, now im innundated with people pitching their various traffic generating offerings. some are lulzy)
mircea_popescu: the average lifespan for a blog is about 13 months, and that's an upper bound for dumbass internet kids and their projects.
mircea_popescu: btc111_ the notion that they have the discipline to maintain work on that thing after 9 months' delay six months from now is beyond ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight that's something to ask your tax attorney not the internets.
mircea_popescu: people can hype all they want, i deflated the dogecoin hype just fine, what's so special about eth ?
mircea_popescu: btc111_ you overvalue hype. this isn't fucking feminism, or some other internet thing where what people say matter.
mircea_popescu: i have more btc than what eth can ever be worth, ever.
mircea_popescu: 0 is not a bit of a stretch. the central bank is nominally 0 risk in any economic system.