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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves can't be large ? hm. the hansa was very large. i believe it can be quite large.
mircea_popescu: "democracy" as practiced among a hundred that know each other is no democracy anyway
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the smaller it gets, the harder it is to say
mircea_popescu: so... they've modified themselves, to take more cock with less fretting.
mircea_popescu: decimation and so they have modified themselves. no man living with carlyle would regard the average existence of today's westerner as anything but the most abject imprisonment
mircea_popescu: well yes, but this was before a time people expected the king pick up their apothecary bill.
mircea_popescu: but that's exactly the concept. my slavegirl might not want to visit you in a room you can lock at your option.
mircea_popescu: and so in this sense, it's not that bitcoin isn't insured in that way. it's moreover that bank deposits etc aren't, and the continuance of the fraudulent pretense to the contrary promulgated by various usg agencies among which the sec above strictly depends on it not being needed.
mircea_popescu: that type of insurance is typical manufacturer insurance, "that the product be free of defects or replaced"
mircea_popescu: nobody can insure bitcoin in the sipc/fdic sense, because nobody can print them.
mircea_popescu: Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial. Registre su marca hoy.
mircea_popescu: let it not be said that irresponsible laziness has not made nice things
mircea_popescu: to be a modest chap, the logs kinda exist because i had this irresponsible attitude where i'd only log while awake, and so things got lost.
mircea_popescu: in other words, two mice disagreed once on how to split a chunk of cheese they had found. so the cat ate the cheese, and the mice.
mircea_popescu: only THAT is the correct way to solve all the world's p[roblems
mircea_popescu: decimation no no, "we should tax everything and put the money into '''research'''"
mircea_popescu: mthreat seems reasonable. were yopu able to find my 2012 bits or did i accidentally only send you one file of two ?
mircea_popescu: benkay problem is that approach contradicts the "world peace" approach. not burn anytihng at hand but clothe and feed anyone at hand ?
mircea_popescu: "lo and behold, we should be affraid that democracy is now in peril of falling out of the box and revoting cape horn"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of the inept scientists of today realise just how amusing their global warming pretenses are
mircea_popescu: such are the blessings of closed society : that art may flourish. democracy and social mobility allows for no such thing.
mircea_popescu: and the audience knew the craft better than any debutante.
mircea_popescu: consequently the producers were forced to iterate a lot and fail fast
mircea_popescu: turns out, it's that they were all produced for a small audience of the same people.
mircea_popescu: here's an interesting if unrelated point : what characteristic of classical english theatre, cca 1600s, was shared by both classical french and italian, but not ever since ? so that 99.x% of all good plays, all good actors and all good performances have this one thing in common, that's not been seen again ?
mircea_popescu: ideally this should be done once and cover the whole shjebang
mircea_popescu: up to the point where he rebuffs roper you may entertain the notion more is a whole man. but after he admits he will grant the other's safety for his own safety's sake you know he's not.
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, the climax was when he shows himself an eunuch
mircea_popescu: ie, once they get that schmuck to lie under oath and convict him of treason
mircea_popescu: benkay you will note that more only forms a moral judgement once he is no longer subject to his king
mircea_popescu: loyal subjects can not distinguish the situation where the sovereign is a dumbass from the situation where evil people are prevailing with their treason and schemes.
mircea_popescu: in fact, feudalism is a means of working land held in escrow.
mircea_popescu: there's very little difference between feudalism and escrow
mircea_popescu: this is yet again the degenerate form of the sybill attack for a degenerate wot
mircea_popescu: the situation where the sovereign is a dumbass can not be distinguished from the situation where evil people are prevailing with their treason and schemes upon the monarch by loyal subjects
mircea_popescu: a sovereign can not be demonstrably immoral tho is the problem
mircea_popescu: what is this revolutionary scandalous licentiousness where a subject may be allowed to pass himself as moral agent equal to his sovereign ?
mircea_popescu: you are not humble and therefore can not be given a ton of power.
mircea_popescu: past days don't change anyway so you do once a day as it were ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat the linking is particularly useful tho. is the crawl inefficient ?
mircea_popescu: ha! now this may be a good formalisation of the vc problem. birdy whispers in my ear : "all those guys trying for financial dominance without intellectual dominance ? ya, that'll work..."
mircea_popescu: i think the deal is kako gets the praise for the logs,
mircea_popescu: just, their world isn't really THE world. but then again who knows this ever.
mircea_popescu: in a sense their intuition is quite correct : the world is in fact ending.
mircea_popescu: by now im quite thankful for this entire global warming scam. it saves me so much reading.
mircea_popescu: same article above, with the bad model for evaluating bots.
mircea_popescu: lol derp goes right into how "they've won the scientific debate on climate change"
mircea_popescu: i'm not a professor because i find fucking and beating a few selected girls at a time a lot more effectual than merely speaking to an entire gaggle, who also cling to naive misrepresentations as of their "rights" and "freedoms".
mircea_popescu: (for the esl folk, a flap is an affectionate term for a prepubescent prostitute, also used for uppity, vivacious girls in general, as a testament to the traditional positive social view on tween prostitution)
mircea_popescu: that perhaps they were, twenty years prior, back in their flap days
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if being a scientist consisted entirely of beating the cheap boarding houses and asylums to select out of the pox ridden old hags "the paragons of beauty"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the part i find the lulziest about these recent academic papers on google page rank is just how utterly broken it is in the field, defeated by hundreds if not thousands of different approaches implemented by scores more different agencies.
mircea_popescu: probably publishable as a paper if you can be bothered to run in that threadmill
mircea_popescu: (which approach probably would improve the original paper a lot too, just re-do it but not counting totals, merely counting cases of backstabbing)
mircea_popescu: punkman also, the bs "nice" has to be thrown out, it's meaningless. just count who starts wars.