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mircea_popescu: which isn't THAT expensive to do, but it does require a puppet-master sysadmin type to start it all
mircea_popescu: problem is, someone needs to put first tier resolver servers online.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that idiocy aside, an actual namecoin that actually worked well'd be a pretty good thing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the monthly delving in the trials and tribulations of the reality-is-people folk has been most rewarding.
mircea_popescu: turns out it cost like 20mn to build back a century ago.
mircea_popescu: if someone made a sterling silver lifesized replica of the golden gate, it'd still not be 3bn.
mircea_popescu: mobsters don't pay retail, let alone golden toilet prices.
mircea_popescu: it only costs 3bn if a particular type of sucker (us govt) is buying it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he failks to comprehend that the bridge in question does not in fact cost 3bn
mircea_popescu: i ran a town, it was a pleasure to live in. for everyone except the buttcoiners, of course (the dumbass kids that go for postdocs in the us didn't exist) and the feminists (the dumbass womenz also didn't exist).
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it'd logically be the 5k it originaly got. anything it gets past 5k past the 5k would be outside interest.
mircea_popescu: derp : "omfg they got 5k btc this is so important". older generation derp : "ripple claimed the same thing, a year later they have nothing to show for it"
mircea_popescu: "Somehow I managed to partially recover from my Ripple loss, I don't think I will invest in anything else but bitcoin in the future."
mircea_popescu: also the various eth threads all over are pretty lulzy
mircea_popescu: lol that day when romanian newspapers actually buy google adwords exposure on your name.
mircea_popescu: but it's by far the most sensitive to pollution/freshness food there is
mircea_popescu: hm, now that'd be a character : a gaudy hipster that identifies as vegan and chains oysters
mircea_popescu: i've definitely spent more than 500 hours whipping slaves over the past decade
mircea_popescu: am i to be impressed that somebody did something for 500 hours ?
mircea_popescu: "O'Connell went through this process whenever he could, be it while he was watching TV or surfing the internet. He estimates that he's reset the game maybe over 100,000 times, with over five hundred hours dedicated to this single consuming task."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c isn't that "long life and prosperity" in chinese ?
mircea_popescu: ZTV Asphalt-tr 07/ZTV Beton-StB 07 being the relevant standards, if anyone's curious.
mircea_popescu: the way a country of "laws not men" works is by definition that unless it stumbles into sense, it will thread stupidity.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is an unfair observation. who in the us has the authority to actually take these facts in hand and make a decision ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you mean so apache will serve the pages remotely ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight php is not too popular here, following a total bashing it got a few months ago over some bizarre design choices and (i suspect) the fact tux loved it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's something for you. who said 'Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.' ?
mircea_popescu: however a half pound glucose crystal is about as perishable as plastic.
mircea_popescu: they have the money to wreck communities, and they do.
mircea_popescu: suppose rich fools (in the shape of oversexed, misguided older us women) show up in africa, with a cohort of young, undersexed male followers
mircea_popescu: (it's not mine, i just put graham's idea in better wording)
mircea_popescu: decimation you familiar with the "the best way to sink a good start-up is a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
mircea_popescu: decimation yes. rich fools are dangerous in the manner of the weak tower discussed earlier.
mircea_popescu: decimation try a mental experiment. consider very insular, outsider-hating middle america community. consider you show up there and lavish new york mannerisms and expectations upon them. lynch mob is unsurprising. consider oppositely you show up there and display an intimate knowledge of the various blood feuds underpinning their social system. suddenly everyone wants you over for sunday dinner.
mircea_popescu: nobody wants those. this is surprising to nobody outside of us folk i would think.
mircea_popescu: you can be a scholar or you can be a merchant. what you can't be is a consumer
mircea_popescu: decimation there's exactly two ways : one's wealth and the ability to select and hire local helpers. the other's deep knowledge and an ability to select and persuade local patrons.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you're talking to the only romanian billionaire. i don't jobs.
mircea_popescu: well, permanent. i don't do permanent, i do a few years.
mircea_popescu: i'd say it's much easier to get japanese citizenship than bitcoin citizenship
mircea_popescu: there's this cracked.com v2.0 set of websites, which pretty much live off internet-hyperbole.
mircea_popescu: the situation in the field has justabout 0 to do with the zerohedge-esque nonsense therein discussed.
mircea_popescu: i know a guy who moved to japan and got citizenship, i know a guy who married a very pretty japanese rosebud and settled in yurp
mircea_popescu: you should be able to reconstruct state on your own from the sea so to speak
mircea_popescu: like all the people falling on a nail gun from the 9th floor
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a valid point. if i hadn't had trilema and all i did was finance i'd probably hang myself
mircea_popescu: ful to the bezzlers, which means IT DOESNT EXIST O NOES