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mircea_popescu: tactical and strategic are properties of abstracts for crying out loud. you can't have a plapable tactical anything anymore than you can have a concrete idea.
mircea_popescu: so i guess my tit tickling cock shall henceforth be tactical too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so if anodized metal is tactical, what's strategical ?
mircea_popescu: far as i can discern this is it, the permanent mode of industry since forever, and how things sould work, and how things that work do work.
mircea_popescu: "This, then, should be the new main thrust of industrial activity: to manufacture and distribute products with the understanding that this process will run out of resources and stop. These products must be designed to outlive the process by which they are made, by as long as possible." << i can't fucking imagine why this would have to appear as new.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the main challenge to economy, since forever, is scalbility.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform prolly some sort of smart battery balancing
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well google, like wikipedia, is only intended as a good enough first approximation.
mircea_popescu: course, the only way people learn this is through trying.
mircea_popescu: the thing is that there's this large group of professional rent seekers who are trying to find a niche for themselves in bitcoin, not the normal way (buy some), nor the professional way (join bitcoin-assets) but the fiat way (politicing and derping around).
mircea_popescu: anyway, bitcoin as made by saotshi is eminently blind-friendly. you can get everything as json from bitcoind and put it through your favorite reader.
mircea_popescu: mike_c another rule is that you can't send people mail as single-image pdfs.
mircea_popescu: blind people gotta use a credit card whether they want to or not.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ist's just another sympthom of inflation heating up i guess.
mircea_popescu: "As companies try to retain top employees and hit growth targets, some are ditching the annual salary review and doling out raises and bonuses several times a year."
mircea_popescu: which is a GREAT thing. nobody's making new "fully featured" irc clients, which then don't work,
mircea_popescu: yeah problerm is irc clients sorta went into freeze mode cca 2001
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: can't we have assbot ban people that do that for an hour? << this actually is a good idea. kakobrekla could assbot put a ban on anyone it sees part/joining 12 times within an hour, with a ban message that "please get in touch once connection is fixed, ty"
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it as part of some other acquisition
mircea_popescu: assbot: ING: Future Bitcoin Protocol Should Include Central Bank Functions << yeah, it totally should. I'm fucking sick of having to bitchslap people like ing from the shadows.
mircea_popescu: now, is this proof that the process is broadly non-positive-feedback ?
mircea_popescu: thing was made for cixi, whom i've referenced before. the process was, tumble the thing in water + garnet dust
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the story of the largest crystall ball in the world ?
mircea_popescu: entropy and bias are not exactly orthogonal concerns, but they're still at an angle here
mircea_popescu: benkay: assbot's an interesting focal point for the WoT << didja graph it ?
mircea_popescu: but even so, 10 bits a throw, a 4k rsa key needs what, 7-800 ?
mircea_popescu: fortunately, they're well isolated from the wot that actually matters.
mircea_popescu: what's fucking spurious are all the idiots rating on the basis of a 20 bux moneypack
mircea_popescu: dub: hardly surprising now its full of spurious 'is on irc' entries << spurious on what grounds ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ahahaha seriously ? economic patriotism ?
mircea_popescu: benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can tell. // this is to imply that actually discerning females on internet is hard? << yea.
mircea_popescu: decimation: and rolling dice would take days << dice is iirc just about 6/8 of a byte per dice per throw.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: it'd be cool to see namecoin get better play << yea
mircea_popescu: this is a country where prostitution is legal but abortion illegal.
mircea_popescu: runaway slave must at some point be confronted with the reality that no matter how he's pretending, there's a plantation somewhere missing his dumb ass,
mircea_popescu: i'm gonna start asking "aren't you supposed to be cutting some sugar cane or something ? what are you doing here boy ?"
mircea_popescu: as for the kids that keep going to airports pretending like they belong there.
mircea_popescu: not so much for the people who've not had a shower in a week plus and are being pushed outof the tenderloin
mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound like a psychopath act, "i am now Maria and Maria doesn't want to pay you"
mircea_popescu: you just picked the other part because you mismanaged your book and are now overexposed to the pits. just like any other young, bright, ambitious GS fundboy.
mircea_popescu: translated in normal speak that's "omfg we're losing it across the board here."
mircea_popescu: anyway, for that matter, the big part in there is "didn’t generally view asset prices as excessive".
mircea_popescu: of fucking course. they have no tools and the job alloted is in principle not doable anyway.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck was the army supposed to win vietnam ? start there.
mircea_popescu: what, you're telling me because the us as a whole is in freefall because pretty much any field you look at consists of people given tasks they can't do with tools that can't do them ?!
mircea_popescu: but anyway, this was the fundamental argument of the euroskeptics as to wtf is wrong with the euro : replacing twenty cbs with just one merely further exacerbates the centralisation problem
mircea_popescu: when people were bitching that greenspan was "asleep on the job", da fuck do you think they meant ? housing overheated without him realising it.
mircea_popescu: it does work exceedingly well in small countries with exceptionally gifted cbs, as romania will attest (and before that, azn minor players)