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mircea_popescu: start beating your wife whether you know why or not, she's going to start behaving like lady huddington.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> so with different structure we'd get better ideas bubble up to the top? << people don't do what they want to do. people do what works.
mircea_popescu: in a world created out of catastrophic punishment and complete and utter disregard for the /other/ sections of society however,
mircea_popescu: in a world created of tailored punishment and precision strikes, the incentive is for the bullshit you see.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem is not the people, the problem is the structure.
mircea_popescu: you just decide "this entire culture must die out". least possible effort.
mircea_popescu: chetty but in these matters, "precision strikes" take effort. carpet bombing, on the contrary, does not.
mircea_popescu: chetty i thought we were discussing metaphorical bombs.
mircea_popescu: bounce the argument here is that "later" is meaningless absent and sort of process, and that precision strikes are a liability not a +ev move.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, the weasels plan and account for it aforehand.
mircea_popescu: i am assuming that precision strikes aren't to be preferred because punishment must be disproportionate and impredictable to work.
mircea_popescu: those /other/ sections of society have to be bled for their indolence.
mircea_popescu: so then you don't really have half a leg to stand on here, do you.
mircea_popescu: i should be so fucking lucky, walk from here to the bathroom, be ready for the olympics.
mircea_popescu: he's sat down and thought about it for a whole half minute and so therefore has a result on the topic that should be shared with the world.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 7s @kendo451 @kLee1977 And for that matter, #bitcoin doesn't present itself "as" anything. What you perceive it as is your own issue.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 33s @kendo451 @kLee1977 So your wife is limited, but women are not. Your logic isn't all that it might have been, had you learned some.
mircea_popescu: Ken Griffith @kendo451 · 5m @Mircea_Popescu @kLee1977 My wife doesn't present herself as a monetary unit. Point is, Bitcoins are limited, yet cryptocurrencies are not. Hide conversation
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu · 28m @kendo451 @kLee1977 You really have no clue wtf you're talking about. Is your wife easily copied with "women" resulting in unlimited supply?
mircea_popescu: Ken Griffith @kendo451 · 2h The primary weakness with Bitcoin as a store of value (money) is that it is easily copied with "altcoins" resulting in unlimited supply.
mircea_popescu: by heaps and outrageous bounds messier than necessary.
mircea_popescu: no dude, let it be way way way fucking messier than necessary.
mircea_popescu: bounce the idea that there is such a thing as "messiser than necessary" is how the problem started and spread.
mircea_popescu: i am fuming out of five different smokestacks for five unrelated reasons.
mircea_popescu: and the fucktarded children of the women that he didn't fuck are roaming free
mircea_popescu: what the shit, how about someone start a bdsm cartoon stating everyone is under 12 and being based on real persons who are being forced to do the things depicted.
mircea_popescu: the collapse of the western world is a fucking moral imperative by now.
mircea_popescu: and if it did, i would start spending on terrorism, simply put.
mircea_popescu: pankkake this event has not yet occured where i try to load a site and my isp won't serve it.
mircea_popescu: i swear the day i can't load a website for fault of my isp i'm burning it down wtf is this
mircea_popescu: so everyone is just setting encrypted tunnels to their own boxes outside of the uk/eu or what ?
mircea_popescu: (this chapter includes scamming, incidentally, which explains why large corps in socialist/welfarist governments and internet scammers stumble on the same tropes)
mircea_popescu: taking the ipo of an ipo idea into reality : there's a monopoly on the monopoly.
mircea_popescu: bounce no but see, in order to support research and the free and fair interchange of ideas, as well as the scientific development required by modern society, only one of about five megacorps is allowed to file for a state-enforced monopoly on select chemical processes.
mircea_popescu: pankkake bounce explain this censorship thing to me like i live in the civilised world ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla: blue yeti is pretty nice, i have one of those << hey cazalla you called the girl up yet ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I remember those Creative Labs mics that used to come with the SoundBlaster cards in the 90s << fuck, me too!
mircea_popescu: benkay: why is it that one should not drink while taking antibiotics? << because the enzyme pathway responsible for putting away alcohol is also involved in most antibiotics processing, and it's easily overwhelmed.
mircea_popescu: and nobody from goldman sucks ever stole anything in their life ever.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve wasn't one of the yet-another-coinbases offering 10 bux in credit ?
mircea_popescu: benkay: it makes no sense. << have you tried using the othere side of the brain ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake could "by Mircea Popescu at Monday May 19" be "by Mircea Popescu on Monday May 19" ?
mircea_popescu: apparently if oyu include a > rather than a > it breaks some parsers
mircea_popescu: pretty much every single article they run is bs, just, generally one doesn't have the direct knowledge for this to be obvious