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mircea_popescu: you know the joke with the very brave man, went through the horrible leg-cutting bear trap ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, let me simplify this for you : pot smokers are socialist. if their brain worked, pot'd be more of a concern, but as it is...
mircea_popescu: but why bother the idiots with knowledge, let them "we've done the experiment and forgot to publish results" until they fall over.
mircea_popescu: lobbes, pot has a number of misfortunate qualities that interdict its large scale usage, which is why coca civilisation existed even, but not pot.
mircea_popescu: imagine, if you will, wehrmacht-sd being "concerned" about azerbaijani spies.
mircea_popescu: but there's a fucking reason they're "concerned" about "russian spies" rather than chinese spies. "those aren't spies, dummy, those are the peopel dropping food pellets in. they should get a good show, put out!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, sure. and then again there's this pesky algae bloom of maga, and so on.
mircea_popescu: and this is why it started with waitresses and janitors, too. their job is to PRETEND like they're servants so the "upper" class can pretend it's upper.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, pot is as much a performance drug as meth is for trucker.
mircea_popescu: as far as the zeks are concerned, their performance is purely performative : they're employed at the task of "being americans", so the chinese can take pictures of authentic.
mircea_popescu: of course it is. understand this : the us is, for all intents and purposes, an aquarium. someone now and again drops some food pellets in, the fishies inside are either depressed or part of the pantsuit club of "how to correctly display the beauty of aquariums for the benefit of the aquarium feeder folk outside".
mircea_popescu: turns out that pot mandate has extended past "the service industry" ie the white girl job (waitress) and the black guy job ("custodian", amirite ?) into the neet lands.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, do you recall, incidentally, the trilema piece discussing the future ? the bit about how "if meth is legal, trucker MUST do meth, like it or not" ?
mircea_popescu: alcohol is sedative in quantity and uninhibitor in mini doses ; pot is sedative in mini doses and psychogenic in quantity. seems evidently the better deal.
mircea_popescu: but that said -- seems almost a certainty that the pothead is preferable to the drunk, from the socialist nigger's perspective.
mircea_popescu: (there are no $1000 bottles, either, it's not THAT bad. unless for purely historical reasons, "this is the bottle marie antoinette vaginally inserted" etc)
mircea_popescu: note that there's no veuve cliquot securities, notwithstanding that is a genuinely and on its own merits $50 bottle.
mircea_popescu: now FRUIT alcohol, ie, the $200 bottle of wine, THAT exists. but it's also so finnicky to actually make as to justify the price.
mircea_popescu: the $200 bottle of whiskey is a product of the EXACT same process as "i have a bf, why would i be your slave" patriotism. there is no whiskey extant today, ever existent in history or ever to be devises worth more than $2 a galon. for the very simple and strictly unassailable reason that grain alcohol is one step above wood alcohol, and approximately equal to gasoline.
mircea_popescu: ie, we're still comparing mud pies to the washington monument.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, entirely improbable. alcohol ~is even the reason america exists~, i'll point out ; the driver for slave trade was sugar cane not cotton, historically, and so on.
mircea_popescu: and following this logic -- because pot is relatively unimportant therefore it'll never be securitized. sure, it'll exist, like saltpeter exists, but nobody will give enough of a shit to learn by heart arbitrary names for geological deposits like "brent" or "texas sweet crude".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the "robustness" principle is, properly speaking, the "computers are unimportant" principle.
mircea_popescu: the refinery isn't "liberal in what it accepts" -- on the fucking contrary, everything around it changes to provide it with the ~exact~ expected item.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the general : much like to say that there was a limit where the flaunting of their foul acts and opinions before the world must stop" is exactly like saying "the emperor got his crown from the pope -- not the other way around" ie, "pantsuit is the sovereign", just EXACTLY so saying "be liberal in what you accept" is exactly saying "you're not worth two shits".
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean, if shit only fucking worked and idiots kept their mouth shut and their gefingerpokers in their buttholes heh-heh-heh"
mircea_popescu: this is the other end of this same rifle barrel, you understand. we're indignant "shitgnomes, shitgnomes EVERYWHERE!!!", but meanwhile people in industry have to jump through flaming fucking hoops to keep the supply lines in working order. and they do. and they get good at it, and are slightly amused at the entitled neckbeards.
mircea_popescu: and that reason is... that the supply was made secure.
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose "securitization" is, economically ?
mircea_popescu: cryptography is not securitizable for the same exact reason - before we came along NOT A SINGLE ANYTHING CARED.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in principle. but in practice, if nobody cares, nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: not likely gonna happen, it doesn't occur to anyone to "make sugar illegal" to bring back dat cookie jar feelin'
mircea_popescu: turns out that if it's not illegal, it's not really all that demanded, either.
mircea_popescu: in other similar news : a) prostitution is legal here ; b) lazier, more disinterested in work "working" girls you never did see.
mircea_popescu: they suck at everything equally, if they manage to actually inhale 10% i count it a good month.
mircea_popescu: an acre of land can produce either ONE pig belly or else about half the bud all of san francisco smoked this month.
mircea_popescu: understand the difference between pork bellies and pot : pork bellies are a) the most closely guarded part of pigs which b) are animals that eat the most closely guarded part of corn which c) leaves exist to produce. there's three degrees of biomass reduction at work here, pork bellies are like tuna, not like fucking zooplankton. which is why prime tuna costs $$$ and pressed nori sheets are in the discount bin at the cheap st
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just because some rasta brains thought "cowrie shells are like, cool! and shit... man" dun mean jack.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, i can't follow your logic. how do you explain eg cowrie shells not being a "securitizable asset" by this same logic ?
mircea_popescu: outside of the imperial racket supporting it, ganja is worth exactly the same as usg's "intellectual property" or usg's "real estate" : ~0.
mircea_popescu: and then what, base the currency on the piles of thc ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, borrowing against the future dun work. what, then get the usg to "stockpile" it like sugar/corn ?
mircea_popescu: governments, the bigest draw on consumers since the invention of consuming.
mircea_popescu: anyone srsly thought anything but the usg is keeping the prices high ?
mircea_popescu: зможное наличие дубликатов закрытого ключа. ", they produced that on their own power ? that's like... 1000% more than what the esl world managed.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-02#1461007 << you know, i wouldn't even call it lulz. "Система проверяет применение для начальных коэффициентов составных чисел и выявляет использование в разных ключах одинаковых цикличных коэффициентов (модуль), что может указывать на во
☝︎ mircea_popescu: but the good news is that lobbesbot permits you to do a bond auction a la carte.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, if you end up in hong kong next, it'll be 2/3 done!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, 3 btc is like 30k, 4 * 8 + 2.5 is like 5k, did we misplace an order of magnitude somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in random lulz, "Copy right laws are in tact and if you violate those rules then you will be prosecuted."
mircea_popescu: why did you think the usg bitcoin-ersatz is a good thing ?
mircea_popescu: exactly as stated : that some of the usable bipedal mammals will get a serial id ; the unusable will get nothing. there's no birthright to the lordship.
mircea_popescu: everyone gets a tit string ; not everyone gets to be in the wot.
mircea_popescu: not really. most people are neither useful nor interesting.
mircea_popescu: if by globally you mean "we throw darts at a earth globe", then yes, you're that late. if by globally you mean "every last idiot on two legs" you're way the fuck early, in the sense that such miracle's never gonna happen.
mircea_popescu: it long ago has ; the republic built its uruguay datacenter out of what, you expect ? wot.
mircea_popescu: reminds me of this chick on fetlife, "So you don't want to have a smart discuss, you're here for what ? What do you research here ? Because I'm agree with your description."
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
https://gitter.im/ << gotta archive this lulzgem. "Where communities thrive Gitter is a chat and networking platform that helps to manage, grow and connect communities through messaging, content and discovery."
mircea_popescu: not so much as a prerequisite as a filter. reading helps you figure out if it's for you.
mircea_popescu: so when you say you've been reading logs, what do you mean ?
mircea_popescu: hey, i don't mind. but understand that avoiding bad habits is a lifelong uncompletable task, there's no magic pill that'll keep you safe from such. certainly contemplation from outside isn't much of one.
mircea_popescu: well, this overanxious approach is a bad habit all of itself.
mircea_popescu: of course, the more cogent question is, ~why~ do you want to learn to code/program