mircea_popescu: and for that matter maps of distribution and so on and so forth.

mircea_popescu: "From the Bronze Age, R1b male lineages replaced a large percentage of Megalithic Y-haplogroups, but female Megalithic lineages survived almost unchanged in frequency."

mircea_popescu: ethnohistoric : "Celtic culture was born from the fusion of Indo-European paternal lineages (R1b) with native Central and Western European maternal lineages (including H1, H3, H10, J1c, K1a, T2, U5 and X2)."

mircea_popescu: with quotes. medical : "Ruiz-Pesini et al. (2000) reported that men belonging to haplogroup H have the lowest risk of asthenozoospermia (reduced sperm motility)." ; "A study by Baudouin et al. (2005) found that members of haplogroup H had increased chance of survival from severe sepsis at 180 days compared with individuals from other haplogroups."

mircea_popescu: ask your representative why you can't have it in the 2nd best korea.

mircea_popescu: btw, for the racists in attendance : http://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_H_mtDNA.shtml << there's a lot of studies about various haplogroups and genetic history of populations in yurp.

mircea_popescu: unless you're keeping the army for offensive purposes (ie, we do 51% attacks etc), the army costs the town, does not produce for the town.

mircea_popescu: PeterL i doubt it'd be practical to try and get the miner to subsidize the wot. i expect it to work the other way around.

mircea_popescu: no, but you will end up doing fee rebates for people who bring you txns

mircea_popescu: the way this works is that whoever mines is on their knees for whoever knows txns.

mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag if it is the matter's not settled.

mircea_popescu: oh, you paid 200k to go to duke... so ? starve bitch.

mircea_popescu: as the subsidy dies out, trying to be a miner will be a lot like trying to be a lawyer.

mircea_popescu: but yes, the problem is here : the miners aren't actually doing anything and have no power. for all the posturing, they are at the sheer mercy of the actual bitcoin holders and traders.

mircea_popescu: unavoidable, yes, but i'd have liked it to come later.

mircea_popescu: yes yes, it's correct. and next thing you know the transactions are no longer publicly relayed (because why the fuck would i give the fee to random miners) and lo and behold we've split in the worst way.

mircea_popescu: part of why pushing tx fees up is absolutely fucking mandatory already.

mircea_popescu: now look at the garbage in them.

mircea_popescu: (negru voda is the legendary founder & first ruler of wallachia)

mircea_popescu: from a ~1860 notation of the ballad.

mircea_popescu: "down on the river arges, on a nice lawn, teh black king goes with ten people : nine great masters, learned in bricklaying, and manoli, the tenth, who's even better!"

mircea_popescu: "Pe Argeş în gios, pe un mal frumos, Negru-vodă trece cu tovarăşi zece: nouă meşteri mari, calfe şi zidari si Manoli - zece, care-i şi întrece."

mircea_popescu: "mester" means master, in the ancient sense.

mircea_popescu: ah but this was a famous architect, with a team and all.

mircea_popescu: if you think about it, getting walls to stay the fuck up hadn't been a point of sufficient isnecurity so as to excite the popular immagination for a good 25 centuries by the time rodari came out.

mircea_popescu: sort of an epic scale bundy farm thing.

mircea_popescu: what the derpy romans interpreted as "dacians invading" was merely continuation of a lyfstyle that had at that time three or four millenia of history behind it.

mircea_popescu: it comes from a time of pastoral life, when sheep went up the mountains then back down the mountains into dalmatia

mircea_popescu: (ftr, it's prolly stolen from ro. ie - the ballad itself is very old, older than rome.

mircea_popescu: seen as a foundational myth to romanian-ness.

mircea_popescu: there's even a thing in .ro folklore about this, balada mesterului manole. he keeps building and stuff keeps falling down.

mircea_popescu: this delusion of "i will build" so common in us "activists" and three year olds really needs the natural check of "go ahead".

mircea_popescu: kids no longer getting cubes to play with may have worse implications than originally thought.

mircea_popescu: for the least expenditure of intellectual effort possible we have a full socio-political as well as philosophical!

mircea_popescu: nd). the others - obviously bad, for all they do is take space on the ground for no good reason!

mircea_popescu: i suppose this is how the pedestrian notion of "good" and "evil" is constructed even. let us arbitrarily divide a set of real objects into "only has height" and "only has width". thus therefore the first set are ~obviously~ good, for they allow you to build up! (how will you manage to allign things with no width on top of each other is a consideration best left to any masochistical engineers still stuck in your swampla

mircea_popescu: (that's a particularly poor illustration of what i said, if it tries to be. for one thing i dun think i ever said anything alike.)

mircea_popescu: and do they ?

mircea_popescu: and while i am not certain "masochists" can be separated from the general population, i am well certain that they are not a category to be, and that you're plenty one yourself.

mircea_popescu: no. but a thing's "width" and its "height" ARE the same thing.

mircea_popescu: laymen famously can not separate the entreatment from the threat in what i say to my slaves.

mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag they're substantially the same thing, the division is a matter of interpretation.

mircea_popescu: to rest the matter, let's just say that there's excellent reason the us supreme court only rules on actual cases, never on factitious proposition.

mircea_popescu: trinque no but he's asking me what he's doing when he's the one doing it. and in all honesty he expects me to answer. i suppose in the same honesty he expects a snippet of code somwhere exists which says "how to subdue women". god knows the PUA subculture's been working tediously at it.

mircea_popescu: ok, so then you are.

mircea_popescu: so to get back to it : <ascii_butugychag> so if i offer a kid a candy, i am threatening him with hunger ? << are you ?

mircea_popescu: ah. that kind of envoy.

mircea_popescu: lol why the messenger ?

mircea_popescu: so as to silence the annoying women.

mircea_popescu: the brits at the time of their ill advised eastern trip thought nothing of caning children to death, and the general practice was to send off the louts to live as slaves to other people,

mircea_popescu: that whole narrative is something like "look at these people who gave us syphilis, it finds itself in biological equilibrium in their country and so they don't get it all that much and it's mostly under control - but here, lord! every face is covered! how much better we have it than they do!"

mircea_popescu: it infested the brits, they brought it back like the intellectual equivalent of the french pox.

mircea_popescu: well... they invented "unfair" crapolade. what the fuck do you think confucianism is ?