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mircea_popescu: some strange ideas in there, and most of it oldman nonsense. there's no absolute limit to physical development.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform "Social networking and mobile computing are hot" dude this orlov guy...
mircea_popescu: that's the official, definitive, correct figure. 377k.
mircea_popescu: and you don't ADD inflation, because you're not in 2009 dollars today.
mircea_popescu: i recall recently seeing the us budget, and it was 100ish
mircea_popescu: fun fact : any point btc is over 1240 usd, the bitcoin network is spending more for its own security than the united states government spends on defense.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is much more than the us, why shouldn't it spend much more ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the us spends what, 100bn on defense a year ?
mircea_popescu: that's why the throwing money isn't stopping, i'd guess.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell heysteve2 "I believe every caller on talk radio, just like I believe every story on zh." << there you go. it's like playboy forum by now.
mircea_popescu: so in general expect pump and dumps to be punctured randomly and outside of the originator's control going forward, so as to hurt the originator and his friends.
mircea_popescu: this isn't supposed to be a "milking noobs for years" thing, and it's not supposed to be either accessible to or productive for the sort of car salesman that thinks himself a financier now.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: LTC on Huobi dump destroyed a lot of n00bs who could have been milked for years instead of in one big dump but nobody thinks long-term << no, you don't understand. destroying scams IS thinking long term.
mircea_popescu: MisterE except the only exchange owner we know is me, and so i guess you can use trilema for that purpose.
mircea_popescu: and with that i'll bid you all a very good nuclear summer!
mircea_popescu: if the russians invade alaska the us citizenry would flock there mostly to tweet about it
mircea_popescu: the ukrainians called a general mobilisation, nobody showed.
mircea_popescu: which brings us exactly to why bitcoin is so important.
mircea_popescu: seems more practical to just start a facebook campaign
mircea_popescu: and the thing with megalopolis-oi. cairo yes, cause it's shit. but most modern people live spaced out.
mircea_popescu: so if you want to boil up afghanistan, you're looking at
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's play with math. latent heat for water is what, 12k, +4k per degree.
mircea_popescu: and this if you roughly know the direction. if you don't....
mircea_popescu: like the problem of finding that plane : it only flew what, 500 miles ?
mircea_popescu: but fundamentally : every mile you walk adds more than a square mile to the area you've covered.
mircea_popescu: joecool that can't be right, mostly because nuclear power is economical as compared to burning oil.
mircea_popescu: and as the countries spending billions on them like the people to continue to believe.
mircea_popescu: as long as nobody uses them it's "those incredibly, exceedingly, unrepresentably powerful weapons". after a dozen or so pop it's like... those very expensive, inaccurate things.
mircea_popescu: this works across the board, currently the biggest deterrent to nuclear detonation isn't a bunch of fucktarded chicks that drink tea and blather like sheep. it's simply the desire on all parties that invested billions in these things to avoid proving to the general public that... big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: if you've never been punched in the face your reptillian brain builds this thing into an endless colossus. if you have, whatever. maybe you lose a tooth, your lip gets swollen. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even have to be all that present, but human beings need experiences, and a balanced diet thereof.
mircea_popescu: experience, direct experience, remains the best cure for mental dysfunction.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can't get a fetish going if you get to see the actual object, in all its nude glory.
mircea_popescu: the romans had the following problem to sexual fixations in pubers : exposure.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they play dice for a 2% house edge. that's okay.