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mircea_popescu: "our city dump is already overfull. we can't dump no dollar"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` indeed. which is the genius of it, they just copy/paste old almanacs
mircea_popescu: venezuela, set to become first country without inequality. "in our stores, nobody buys nuttin'" one county comissioner stated.
mircea_popescu: one of buffett's first businesses was some discount stamp operation.
mircea_popescu: you'll have to take me slowly, my forum reports stopped coming in. i have no fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: nah, they just changed how they did personnel . for the nth time.
mircea_popescu: "you delayed me. pay up. you didn't pay up of your own accord. here's my lawyer. pay him too."
mircea_popescu: antephialtic and i agree with you[r unstated point] that they're too young yet to have shown they suck,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "what the fuck are you doing here ?" "washing your wife, what does it look like!" "get out! " "hey, you owe me fifty bucks"
mircea_popescu: actually that's exactly it. vagrants with dirty rags at ny stop lights.
mircea_popescu: they'll be a major liability this time next year, at the rate they're going.
mircea_popescu: overall, they're a slight liability so far, and the trend is negative
mircea_popescu: antephialtic you're sliding the conversation all over the place.
mircea_popescu: <antephialtic> asciilifeform: chain fork that happened << it didn't "happen". mike hearn manufactured it.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, if they went home today, or if they went home in 2013, it'd have made no difference
mircea_popescu: antephialtic in point of fact nobody sane uses their releases, most bitcoin is on .6 at the latest
mircea_popescu: that's a case by case basis. in their case, it does not.
mircea_popescu: dirty work does not become notable by virtue of being dirty.
mircea_popescu: i know, the circlejerk that is the pretend-core likes to convice themselves they're needed because they're stupid.
mircea_popescu: you really don't want to go into utility. so far the pretend-core devs are a liability overall.
mircea_popescu: let me underscore that the core devs of bitcoin are at conformal not at the scam foundation.
mircea_popescu: so what of it ? conformal pays its devs the salary to work on bitcoin-core full time.
mircea_popescu: for as long as he can put up with the imbeciles, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: he's the only brain left in the bitcoin scamfoundation troop.
mircea_popescu: she on the right matters. they on the left don't even exist.
mircea_popescu: however, they are perfectly useless, and will not matter.
mircea_popescu: aren't the girls on the left just as hot as the one on the right ?
mircea_popescu: this, actually, i propose as quite an illustrative 10k words summary of -assets
mircea_popescu: nah see, that's just moving the choir mentality down the road.
mircea_popescu: it'd certainly relieve me of the need to be always here whenever you schmucks manage to get an idea or something :D
mircea_popescu: the point was never to agree. the point was to disagree well.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory serves, the lessons learned were more about vetrov
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the point of blogging is to explore exactly that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun think that was such a bad call myself.
mircea_popescu: so the channel spends a while as a dump of copy/pasted material
mircea_popescu: the idiots left to replace you will decide well... the only way to maintain the glory of -assets that was
mircea_popescu: suppose you all get extradited to the us to stand trial as witnesses in civil proceedings against unrelated third parties, and are liek waterboarded for lyf. as the forum says will happen.
mircea_popescu: and then eventually that runs out too and that's that.
mircea_popescu: my own view of that cycle is something like : a cool thing makes inroads. the people doing the cool thing eventually die, their successors aim to maintain that greatness
mircea_popescu: anyway, once public education becomes a thing of the past, we'll be back to having actual literacy and actual encyclopedists will write actual encyclopedias,
mircea_popescu: i dunno about that. ideally we dun pour effort into dirt
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well because you were, what, you dare contest teh wisdom that is ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i suppose, depending on what exactly ou mean by that.
mircea_popescu: the "country of laws not men" failed much like the giant leap forward failed.
mircea_popescu: running an empire of generals and senators who ARE, they themselves personally, the respective institutions.
mircea_popescu: we're going back to caesar who is personally the emperor,
mircea_popescu: the future is of individuals, who are going to be the institutions. like it or not.