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mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> no matter much trilema you read, the wife ain't gonna listen! << this sounds like a cry for halp
mircea_popescu: people have often done 180 degree about faces talking here. and those who can't gather on forum not here. so all's well, even if we are invested
mircea_popescu: it'd be all "o, you can't talk good accountingpractices with people who own x stock"
mircea_popescu: i have no particular reason to suspect you'd go nuts just because specific points you happen to be personally invested in turn out to be wrong or unsustainable.
mircea_popescu: not if the people in question are scholars rather than believers.
mircea_popescu: the discussion was proceeding on the strength of what can be
mircea_popescu: mike_c whether we hold them or not is irrelevant in that context.
mircea_popescu: we are discussing something much broader than that, specifically the limits of agency, human knowledge and so on.
mircea_popescu: mike_c we're not discussing religious viewpoints, nor are we doing the equivalent for fuckpreferences.
mircea_popescu: mike_c this is false on its face. i'm a religious scholar.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i definitely don't propose there's a winner. the dispute of which is more complex a tool does not map on the discussion of which is a better tool.
mircea_popescu: how the hell is taste to emerge, if not from the public discussion of individual preference ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i'm with ThickAsThieves. debating love is like debating religion. nobody is going to change their mind. << the point oif the discussion is not to change mind.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the highway robbery the us govt is conducting as a matter of course is well documented already, yes.
mircea_popescu: but still, wives are not slaves (and probably shouldn't generally be)
mircea_popescu: not like one has to do anything on the strength of what ba said.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no itdoesn't. discussion and action are divorced topics,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves sure you can't debate it. why would something not be up for debate ?
mircea_popescu: benkay and if you say "you eat your dogfood with your hands shackled behind your back and if you run into a hair there fu you eat it anyway and if it makes you vomit fu you'll lick it all up the floor and swallow it" ?
mircea_popescu: benkay what's the count ? no way we have 10k lines in the log today
mircea_popescu: fluffypony he's providing the valuable service of keeping the idiots out.
mircea_popescu: best argument against letting the common folk out of the dungeon i ever saw.
mircea_popescu: somehow suddenly he's aware of that when it's his skin. but otherwise, happy to run the mouth,
mircea_popescu: and "it woudln't be fair anyway", for some variation of "mp has all the btc and can do whatever he wants"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you need money for that. his budget was in the decimals last he was offered a short.
mircea_popescu: since the 2012 days of glbse we're at what, 4 of these ? 5 ?
mircea_popescu: personally, i kinda like it how they keep making these forum threads about how mpex is bad, get laughed into the ground, close it and reopen it as if it were new.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how many non multilingual ppl ar you gonna find in assets ?
mircea_popescu: great time to sell into the dirt : when unreported gains.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah perhaps as much as fiddy bitcents profited.
mircea_popescu: did someone fatfinger or did someone hire a forum muppet for investment advice ?
mircea_popescu: jurov it's one of the sins burdening me in confession.
mircea_popescu: so that your nodes act as cjdns nodes too, help both projhects.