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mircea_popescu: smartiferous should totally be a thing. the ooze of ferrous craneus
mircea_popescu: At the risk of stemming the stimulating debate revolving around OGNasty's smartiferous proposition "losing money on various bitcoin investings is teh road to riches,"
mircea_popescu: depends who buys it. if any non alligned buyer actually makes a serious offer, upwards of 25mn. if nobody gets involved and the original plan can proceed, 15mn or so.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: that i could play in with friends << private bet is your friend.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: understandable, just saying there might be less expensive solutions << perhjaps, but you gotta understand, there's no game in the world that's cheaper than 1k.
mircea_popescu: Subject: Your FED TAX payment (ID:03SIRS815097882) was Rejected
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i did say the case tho. i mean, grow, sure, fine. doing what ?
mircea_popescu: you know how people used to make a living writing books ? and you know how it wasn't long before all books were blogs and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c you know what tried that ? the original company hiring the pierce muppet as a male twink escort.
mircea_popescu: "Young male founders must all be drinking the same Soylent. Either that or they have a hard time…" USING THE NOGGIN ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves fwiw i don't see the case for netflix. what are they going to do ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake: moiety: encrypted wallet.dat on dropbox is certainly more secure - actually I can't find any drawback in terms of security or privacy << stock "encrypted" wallet leaks a lot of metadata.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: >“We’re the backbone of the entire Bitcoin industry,” says Kodrič, 25, who’s wearing a black t-shirt with “Zero Excuses” in fluorescent green capital letters. <<< ahahaha epic
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think that was bottom < something like that
mircea_popescu: artifexd can []bot take a search and return the result from bitbet ?
mircea_popescu: ok, sorry everyone! the order shall fire at, lemme see here
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's like, "tvs from 59.99". doesn't mean any tv in the shop is 60 bux
mircea_popescu: other than not doing what i had intended / you thought i said! what i actually said however, is starting on.
mircea_popescu: i see no real downside in holding it back a day or w/e
mircea_popescu: anyway, the story is, was gonna do it yest but wanted to have bitcoin active so waiting a little for mike.
mircea_popescu: i must be a native asshole the way i phrase these things, i had fully intended it be done yest, but look that it actually supports eventual reality.
mircea_popescu: well it's not done it before the 25th, so there we go :D
mircea_popescu: pankkake: wait you can buy F.DERP too? << yeah, next month
mircea_popescu: hm, i dun has a vision. what am i, some sort of reformer ?
mircea_popescu: the problem with being hitler is that you can actually reach this point where you've read too much to be one.
mircea_popescu: fundamentally, it used to be cheaper to surrender, now it's cheaper to not. fundamental change of paradigm
mircea_popescu: where's that hobbes quote about how everyone's life is basically the result of surrender to the state, which may at its option dispose of it ? thus everyone's a slave ?
mircea_popescu: a free man is exactly NOT the guy who has to make a deal as to anything with anyone. none of this "to fly on the plane you must turn off your portable perfume dispenser" bs.
mircea_popescu: just like an artisan is exactly NOT the guy who has a three ring binder telling him how to move and what shovel to use when, as per company policy
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's my understanding that it's that apportioning that's the cause of evil.
mircea_popescu: famously plato tried to bribe the jury with 30 minae in socrates' case
mircea_popescu: whereas in english law you had a billion different causes for action. you can sue saying "this is a nice guy that has my cow"
mircea_popescu: either you sue this guy under the title that he's basiclaly human waste,
mircea_popescu: the greeks didn't have it. it was an all or nothing affair.
mircea_popescu: there's this constant negotiation and apportioning of things.
mircea_popescu: now contrast this with the very invasive modern style, as epitomised by the us system : you're allowed out of prison as long as you promise to not x y z
mircea_popescu: well basically, anyone having a problem with someone could sue before the city. the arguments reduced to "the other party sucks". if the suit was successful the other party was banished (killed, originally, but then they softened).
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves to round out this point, do you know how justice worked in classical greece ?
mircea_popescu: and so irrespective of anyone's wish, that's what we'll do.
mircea_popescu: im pointing out that now it just became cheaper to have actual freedom
mircea_popescu: the collision was, some guy made an order, trilema came back "pay x". he didn't. months later, other guy made order, trilema said "pay x" same x.