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mircea_popescu: not all an0 have to have some sort of mpoe bond equivalnent just becaue mpoe did
mircea_popescu: not a matter of that dude, it just depends on how the bond is structured. as the bond is structured, so it is reported.
mircea_popescu: well that'd depend on the arrangement the bond has. it's not required or anything
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller should be. "1. distribute all income."
mircea_popescu: but quite in line with the presumptious ignorance of redditards. they also think they know things about politics, and even imagine they influence it.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it's 11% over TWO WEEKS, when two days ago it was up 5%
mircea_popescu: the over 50% that sent todd in a tizzy was also what's published.
mircea_popescu: the waiters gathered round like they're not even working there
mircea_popescu: * mthreat watching it too << dude everyone here was watching it, it was uncanny going down the streets and seeing everybody in all the eateries, bars, restaurants, everything just oriented the same way like it was fucking mecca
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> thankfully, they made $1.6m from the share sale << kinda pathetic i guess.
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> so the australian securities exchange has completely lost its marbles << why ? they wanna compete in the ghlobal markets.
mircea_popescu: lol noboy voiced * pmarcup (~circuser-@12.130.117.131) has joined #bitcoin-assets ? what if it was teh horowitz guy ?
mircea_popescu: <artifexd> I now understand mp's desire to limit []bot's reports in here to bets >= 1BTC. There have been a lot of bets lately. It would have made for a lot of noise in here. << :p
mircea_popescu: civilised man shall have his dawn, and a proper burial.
mircea_popescu: one does not bother to call another barbar unless the another said something that really scared our one.
mircea_popescu: not only does it not work, but it provably can not work.
mircea_popescu: i vote for "other reason" : because it's fucking dumb, that's why.
mircea_popescu: the empire wanted (correctly) its sovereignity invested properly
mircea_popescu: and then, kinda is constantly scared by and trying to escape his own creations
mircea_popescu: somehow ends up in the laboratory of power, obviously he pushes that ftizic trotsky aside. why not ?
mircea_popescu: the mental model for stalin is roughly speaking a 15 yo country boy.
mircea_popescu: the man was not grand in any sense. he was merelysimple.
mircea_popescu: all extant ones that i know of are written by dumbstruck idiots who think the man was somehow grand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform someone needs to write an actual biography of stalin sometime.
mircea_popescu: in general, in pursuit of an idea the bone gets picked rather closely of meat.
mircea_popescu: chetty well what, you expect to make omlette without breaking out some soviets ?
mircea_popescu: problem is, even if you put obama on the glory chair, he might not be able to remember who the fuck was in his cabinet
mircea_popescu: which is really not hard to do, take everyone that was involved in any manner in the government of an european or north american country past 1940
mircea_popescu: feeding the christians to the lions was perhaps insufficient, but nevertheless in the right vein.
mircea_popescu: how do you say fascists in russian, except to denote not the folk that derped with hitler but the folk that dared propose the solutions to human problems are to be expected from groups rather than individuals ? and in english.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the gulag shall be quite public. webcams everywhere, with ample explanation as to what the criminal did.
mircea_popescu: the actual risk is that they're getting rounded up and sent to extermination labour camps.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i only fuck whores anyway. they're no longer fertile on the grounds of all the countless abortions back when they were 16.
mircea_popescu: i'd be stuck getting back to this blogpost which is already too big anyway
mircea_popescu: which i suppose is a very good formalisation of what i mean by "not analysable" : imagine a set of numbers which includes an order property, but excludes the highest and lowest member in any subset.
mircea_popescu: basically, this is a magical set that never includes its margins
mircea_popescu: right. which were never part of the discussion of the ideal temperature anyway
mircea_popescu: this is part of the non-differentiability, it does not contain its degenerate cases.
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's a much better statement than "merit isn't a thing"
mircea_popescu: the domains are not discrete ; the functions defined on them are not monotonous nor even differentiable.
mircea_popescu: isn't this the probabilistic thing that finds the shortest path going through one city or we ?
mircea_popescu: merit only exists in a measuring context. the choice of a measuring context is political.
mircea_popescu: so a bunch of spanish peasants burnt down mexico city.