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mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic they pissed everyone off with their appaling treatment of the lzw patent
mircea_popescu: and these are 1993 dollars, pre 5 or so bubbles. prolly 5k in today's obamadollars.
mircea_popescu: I've talked with Unisys by voice and E-mail, and the voice discussion was entirely unsatisfactory as I posted when it happened - basically the Unisys guy said anyone who sells code for $100-$300 a pop was a total _____ for selling it that cheap.
mircea_popescu: i figured better not, seeing how you never know when it shows up on your sm profile :D
mircea_popescu: splendid document of what the absolutely normal teenager is, does, and looks like.
mircea_popescu: the things these people imagine to constitute natural flow.
mircea_popescu: "Susan’s interest in crypto currency flows naturally from her abiding love of social media, the Internet and the environment."
mircea_popescu: canada trying hard to make sure it won't exist in the future huh.
mircea_popescu: like you know, 14 yo indian woman raped daily is a milennial too.
mircea_popescu: pigeons if you mostly don't read it you can pretend like it's not paywalled.
mircea_popescu: nanotube "It is important to remember that the score associated to a relationship does not mark the direct trust of the scorer for the scoree, but merely the scorer’s confidence that the information he has about scoree is correct, accurate, relevant and complete. All four."
mircea_popescu: way, by making the values of 0-100 mean "percent of current world GDP
mircea_popescu: because im not happy with the The contract operationalizes the trust values in a currency-neutral
mircea_popescu: trust, but verify is also why eventual consistency is so deeply buried at the root of practical business.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> what if nanotube dies, gribble gets compromised and farts all over the ratings << we got teh logs ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` there was this guy tryhing to get a music festival going earlier.
mircea_popescu: this helps keep gribble honest, what if it later decides to lie ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know sooner or later you'll have to make the plunge and learn how to make a bot
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> "Obviously, a criminal justice system that punished only those who volunteered for punishment was unworkable << this is what the contemporary thinks.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves technically his could have been correct
mircea_popescu: HeySteve "certainly, the welfare state sucks. it incentivizes behaviour."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since we're doing great covnersation : someone should write an essay on the possibility - in principle - of distinguishing between "common good" and "groupthink". writer out criteria, give me a method, break that shit up.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve the only reason i comment is because you seemed to want to know why i wouldn't use it.
mircea_popescu: merely pointing out how easily dysfunctional this "common good" argument is.
mircea_popescu: hugely compelx anthropotopic, this. and i am not actually arguing against clothes per se
mircea_popescu: what about my firm conviction that you should go around naked ?
mircea_popescu: this is what bitcoin is here to do : make it impossible for pompous assholes to raise taxes on cigarettes.
mircea_popescu: for it to be bad, it suffices that there is one case where it's bad.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve do you see why incentivising people to marry is bad ?
mircea_popescu: Naphex definitely. gribble is just an incremental improvement.
mircea_popescu: it's been the curse of the humancondition, this, for most times and places most bipedal life forms were bios rather than zoon
mircea_popescu: nobody;'s fault the rest of the bipedals aren't human.
mircea_popescu: to a large degree it already is, in the offices that matter anyway.
mircea_popescu: soon enough political office will be decided simply by wots.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve not that narrow. the wot holds all trust in human society. all of it.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve i think you misconstrue the scope of the wot.