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mircea_popescu: the people answering how-questions don't need (or want) the tools used by the people answering what-questions.
mircea_popescu: decimation looky : there are two types of questions before mankind. one type reduces to what ? the other type reduces to how ?
mircea_popescu: resources still have to be allocated, somehow, by someone/thign.
mircea_popescu: there's also money-flat, like what most people thing of "dollars". these are used to buy groceries with.
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of money see ? money-%, like btc. that's the money used by the people who allocate resources.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, this is true. but they are not managers, they're not the sort of people who play the resource allocation game. thus they have no business handling money as a % of total supply.
mircea_popescu: what other effects would you expect, except for rents being in the 20mn a month range ?
mircea_popescu: suppose tomorrow the agreement was that no engineer working in sv is paid under 350mn dollars a year.
mircea_popescu: if you overpay them the bezzle-usd just runs into inflation.
mircea_popescu: in this sense the rate-control agreement of the employers in sv is quite rational and in effect socially beneficial
☟︎ mircea_popescu: people who aren't in the business of control (such as engineers, say) wouldn't -logically- be paid enough money to go into 2nd category.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspect the earlier lengthy discussion about money conflates two different uses of the thing.
mircea_popescu: <mikaeldice> So, this guy who said that people who put money on an exchange are stupid sheep and that the next MtGox fiasco 'is coming' is now opening his own exchange. << which guy ?
mircea_popescu: <kanzure> kids out of school are making $90-$100k in the bay area <<< sure. but the 10 year veteran is not making 5-10mn.
mircea_popescu: moiety thats just the contemporary implementation of "every man needs a lord"
mircea_popescu: no fucking idea who told you people cement works for this application btw
mircea_popescu: but no, these were just poorly maintained state highways
mircea_popescu: which was the first time i heard of that sort of shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back in 2004 mass was fighting like 3 separare wrongful death suits arising out of chunks of concrete coming off the road and flying into people's cars
mircea_popescu: he accidentally died of a self inflicted would while trying to propel himself with a nailgun
mircea_popescu: it shocked me what poor state of repair the infrastructure was
mircea_popescu: with culture like this illiteracy seems an impossibility.
mircea_popescu: seriously, that's all they have to say about taki, that he called some simian looking jew "homely" and that fascists taking over greece'd be an improvement over the current sort of socialists ?
mircea_popescu: decimation that wikipedia article is perhaps the best indictment of the "wikipedia" notion of an encyclopedia one could devise.
mircea_popescu: jborkl yeah. two thirds of a bar gets you all of ripple.
mircea_popescu: vragnaroda, whom only the eldest perhaps still remember, was famously accused by some derp of "being a grammer naxi that corecteing people 24/7"
mircea_popescu: i guess "the first and biggest" sounds better than "the derpiest and cluelessest"
mircea_popescu: "Have you ever wanted to trade your Crypto Currencies against GOLD, SILVER, Platinum? Now you can"
mircea_popescu: poor tat, causing trouble wherever he goes because he's a mp sock
mircea_popescu: "with some element of threat" ; " the attention will begin to trickle down", to not even go into teh forum reddit etc.
mircea_popescu: sec is just trying to find its place in this new world, it's just common sense they'd come to talk to me about it.
mircea_popescu: tbh, it'd seem the vast majority of the internet population is sorely legally illiterate and otherwise quite psychotic.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't be political to issue threats in any case. i guess they didn't get what they wanted and are considering their options.
mircea_popescu: teh state is getting increasingly more collectivist too.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny that just as bitcoin organises one end of the spectrum towards individualism,
mircea_popescu: The committee also criticises the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraphfor placing “heavy reliance . . . on the ability of their readers to distinguish between fact and opinion on climate science”.
mircea_popescu: see kakobrekla ? eastern europe is not the issue here.
mircea_popescu: "Let's not succumb to this collectivist Eastern Europe sucks mentality. Eastern Europe is not the issue here. Best Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp is operated from Slovenia and second best, BTC-e is run from Bulgaria."
mircea_popescu: not the first time the 51st state is used for a sort of current day new jersey
mircea_popescu: but to actually try to use a mixture of sugar and quick setting cement as fuel ?!
mircea_popescu: just absolutely incredible, i mean people may occasionally get the idea that their car doesn't need gasoline to run, not really. so they run it on whatever, toluene
mircea_popescu: it was beyond the believable, it literally said, "take the string from the url and put it in the db as is"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla dude are you kidding me ? mysql/php exchange, with mysql_insert(straight-get-reference)
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 were you thinking of the bitbet overpay last month ?
mircea_popescu: possibly my favourite incompetence story in the history of btc. that and the early polish dudes.
mircea_popescu: mike_c he sounds quite admirable, especially when he's doing the narration. third parties... well more of a mixed bag.
mircea_popescu: twizt: lol companies cant go public without being in here? < not successfuly, no.
mircea_popescu: punkman: farming's hard work for most people << not harder than a good workout at the gym. except instead of paying for membership, you get paid.
mircea_popescu: this is what the uk comissariat imagines buying more xp means.
mircea_popescu: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) - a new cabinet office department that handles public sector purcasing and commercial operations - said in a statement, "By combining demand, on behalf of Central Government departments and the wider public sector, Crown Commercial Service has demonstrated the benefits of government working as a single customer to achieve best value for the taxpayer, whilst continuing to build good worki