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mircea_popescu: "bitcoin will solve the problems of wealth inequality" like hell it will
mircea_popescu: symptomatically... the people who will most get raped tend to flock to it and do a bunch of ablutions pretending like it's the opposite
mircea_popescu: anyway, anonimity, privacy, these are categories amply disrupted by bitcoin i would say
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves basically "Privacy exists as a hiding place for the deviant, so as to have a space where his inadequacy to the rules isn’t directly, painfully or dangerously visible. At least within some limits there’s nothing wrong with that (but it does carry the seeds of insanity)."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remind me to tell you the icecream joke. it's one of my favs, but it has to be performed rather than told, so.
mircea_popescu: well no, but i never cared to think about these items before it seems
mircea_popescu: leah derpman is still "hiding for her lyf" and she didn't even talk to me, so well it worked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and that'll go over so fucking well with me, i can see it already.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves to be flatly honest, i suspect these just aren't matters that anyone over there ever considered. at all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then how can what he says be useful or meaningful ?
mircea_popescu: there's been a digital revolution since, which they've been covering ad nauseam ever since hte days of the information superhighway
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yet the value of my work, as public as it is, far exceeds the value of his work.
mircea_popescu: i mean wasn't anything of much interest, i guess, and i'm trying to be hospitable/accomodating to the strange mores of these foreign peoples,
mircea_popescu: "outperformed almost everythjing except for mpex stocks which we don't talk about because they suck because they suck because they suck because they have been outperforming all our retarded shit for three years straight now and mp is an asshole who fucks a lot of women and is currently paying one with a huge rack to humiliate us in public so fuck that shit mate!11"
mircea_popescu: he's a lumberjack and he's okay, he sleeps all night an' he chats all day...
mircea_popescu: nubbins` both are trying to make it so their "achievement" such as it is gets more and more difficult to replicate as time goes by.
mircea_popescu: everyone's a conservative until they become the richest guy in the valley, at which point their concern suddenly becomes "what if all these thirtysomething conservatives do what i do only better ? QUICK! TO THE LIBTARD MOBILE!"
mircea_popescu: this'd be universally true of everyone tho. nobody has a clue what it's like before it's like...
mircea_popescu: if there's no large party by god you will hjave to gather the wood and strike the tinder.
mircea_popescu: chetty while it's true that you could cook your pot of beans in the cinders of someone else's large party,
mircea_popescu: im sure he doesn't like tits-pr. me... i'm an abstraction.
mircea_popescu: i experience the world through it commenting on my blog.
mircea_popescu: y other anti cis activist I did nothing,finished my workout and just bitched on tumblr.it was as if I could hear Gertrude Stein saying..Bravo…Bravo…"
mircea_popescu: "Yesterday as I walked to the gym, I saw that all the treadmills were occupied by fatties. so I chose the stairmaster/step machine for a try. to my surprise I saw that you could set your gender only with two options! male and female! I was outraged because although I was assigned a male because of my very big dick I identify with leopard slugs which are hermaphrodites with penises on the back of their heads! so like an
mircea_popescu: which is true. there is a lot of fludity in human gender, and it is a lot of a function of environment
mircea_popescu: somebody linked recently a post about feral children in the romanian sewers
mircea_popescu: men don't normally, but then again female is the default gender so if you vegetate for long enough you will start exhibiting feminine traits)
mircea_popescu: and it's overall a collapse into feminity (as it is women that mature over being hurt
mircea_popescu: they just want to be hurt. there's a difference between being hurt and mattering.
mircea_popescu: course most of that happened before mothers were automatised away from the childrearing process, so traditionally it's noted as "i want my mommy"
mircea_popescu: where they essentially go "i waaaaaaantttt my myyyyspaceeee"
mircea_popescu: people with actual trench experience, under actual shelling, and all that will tell you that most noobs have this cry time
mircea_popescu: I want to run away to Syria and become a fighter, or a pirate singing sea shanties, or a cossack in the Orenburg steppe, or to join a Chechen teip and steal horses from the lowlanders.
mircea_popescu: "I’m tired of university. I’m tired of having a fucked up sleep schedule, and studying. I’m tired of the fucking time I waste on the internet liking ironic meme pages and managing my facebook reputation, and shitposting on ylilauta.
mircea_popescu: ;later tell benkay i'd say Bitcoin is the name, like Coca-Cola, and bitcoins is the generic, like give me two cokes
mircea_popescu: anyway. ima be off for nao, so we can take shits in briefcases later :D
mircea_popescu: what if you accidentally leave the string in paste buffer or w/e
mircea_popescu: flat fee. you give away a server ? that'll be 100 btc.
mircea_popescu: so everyone knows not to keep over 100 btc in hot wallets, and so every hoster has a serious incentive to do security.
mircea_popescu: any hoster that does this, fined 100 btc. fixed flat fee.
mircea_popescu: "Rogers Data Centres told the Citizen that it is cooperating with the investigation, but that the security issue is not indicative of larger problems at its company."