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mircea_popescu: sex without people is masturbation. finance without people is also known as crisis.
mircea_popescu: law without people degenerates into the us sort of national-socialism.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this constant tendency to abstract people out of life is a sickness by now.
mircea_popescu: give her $100 to buy fishnet stockings, watch her come back with a purse and batteries.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking, this is kind-of how plenty of women do shopping today anywya
mircea_popescu: "go to buy shoes. come back three hours later with a half cup made out of tin foil and something that looks like a mouse with no buttons"
mircea_popescu: a sort more palatable to the modern religious mind, which as you stated, works on the " Grand Designers will come up with Cool Shit" faith
mircea_popescu: jurov has it. the entire thing is a restatement of the perpetuum mobile,
mircea_popescu: yeah, this is exactly the problem we're discussing. you don't understand the subject, but you do have convictions as to what works and how, and what the future will bring.
mircea_popescu: so i buy some shit from you. i send it to an addy where you have a sig and i have a sig and we must both sign for you to get paid ?
mircea_popescu: "when trust becomes a product of data instead of a product of human decision making." << srsly, this is nonsense fluffy
mircea_popescu: benkay our bitlordity's black, cold heart is warmed by your sentiments.
mircea_popescu: after you deleted it, you can no longer delete it anymore.
mircea_popescu: kanzure yes. before you deleted it, you can delete it.
mircea_popescu: this is the nonsense at work here, a sort of tech worship.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the fundamental flaw is the naive expectation for tech to work by intself and in of itself.
mircea_popescu: like the purpose of myspace/linkedin etc is advertising and "user data"
mircea_popescu: benkay the purpose of a stock exchange is major and ceo.
mircea_popescu: nothing stopped yahoo from recruiting their ceo on linkedin
mircea_popescu: nothing's stopping people from using myspace to organise major concerts,
mircea_popescu: jurov exactly the way myspace went. servers no purpose, has no utility. its entire lifetime is its endgame
mircea_popescu: just one of the many problems with "distributed" shits
mircea_popescu: like i go... pls to pay me back 100 btc. you say well... you ain't got 100 btc. how do you know i don't ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean... at any point you must somehow know the maximum im allowed to withdraw
mircea_popescu: benkay o hey, im a total noob when it comes to all these topics
mircea_popescu: tions and providing answers to problems from others who also want to do their job well and who find their enjoyment in their capacity to do just that."
mircea_popescu: "My impression is that the feel-good guys are incompetent and stupid and need others to be nice to them because if other people were fair and just to them, they would suffer tremendously, and therefore defend other incompetent and stupid people because they can identify with the sloppy bastards, but not with those who actually do their job well and have that as their primary motive and their reason both for asking ques
mircea_popescu: and they seem to be claiming it was a problem with bitcoinj which i find somewhat dubious
mircea_popescu: how much did you lose, how did you find the problem etc ?
mircea_popescu: dooglus now if only cloudflare didn't redirect me to root