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mircea_popescu: how did all these schmucks end up so persuaded of their own importance anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was such a problem where i lived by 1992ish i was able to spot it with diskedit
mircea_popescu: we had a number of segfaults which were ironed out, curious if yours is a new brand or some edge case.
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu @ligayaya @nrrrdcore Of course you don't think so. Oppressors honestly think they're just being nice.
mircea_popescu: @ligayaya @Mircea_Popescu @nrrrdcore actually, I don't think it is. at all.
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu This is like saying "behind every nigger is stupidity" @ligayaya "Behind every troll is pain." Community wisdom @nrrrdcore #PassionProjects
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla bn in 2015 notes that are being written off.
mircea_popescu: was geared towards college kids originally, so prolly plenty.
mircea_popescu: sane people couldn't care less. when kid's had enough holding his breath he'll give up on it.
mircea_popescu: well, most parents have this experience. whereby angry 5 yo threatens to hold his breath to death.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan sure, it is really elegant, but not for those reasons.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has terrible overhead and it is without a doubt the klunkiest, most ineffectual way to transmit payments ever devised
mircea_popescu: "life is on the wire. everything else's just waiting."
mircea_popescu: and we'd use it better than them, so overal... thanks for the fishes.
mircea_popescu: jurov here's the funny thing on top of it : if the us actually DID try to build something, like a superadvanced asic design ? we'd get it for free in the next leak bundle.
mircea_popescu: thigns have changed. we have a real republic and a real bitcoin now, which leaves the us back among its peers.
mircea_popescu: anyway : back then the most serene republica veneta was the us. much in the sense of how back then the bitcoin of the world was the usd.
mircea_popescu: you know this was a majorly discussed topic recently hiar.
mircea_popescu: and your shitty empire trying to infiltrate it will pay through the teeth for no results at all.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan technical talent DOES respond to patriotism much more than to money.
mircea_popescu: they'd hire some people who wouldn't be spilling their beans each year.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan if the nsa, intel, whomever actually could hire more people
mircea_popescu: you're desperate to spend it, and the people you need to do things aren't desperate to get it.
mircea_popescu: their bitcoin being, of course, dollars, we couldn't, of course, care less.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the trap VCs in their own mind struggle with atm.
mircea_popescu: the people who can make asics are ALREADY doing it, on their own account
mircea_popescu: ok so. they spent a trillion "Dollars", but those trillion dollars could not have bought a trillion one dollar ringdings
mircea_popescu: not that you couldn't have run, achilles, but that you neglected the turtle.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan but a) they're not inviting him anywhere, because wherever they are so is he already
mircea_popescu: of course children expect to be the kings of creation. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: but merely that of course he expects it is no ground to say of course it can be done.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : your average kid on reddit could not survive if i teleported him to a random place on earth.
mircea_popescu: now, on these reasonable expectations you posit that the government can somehow take the shine out of metal for their benefit ?
mircea_popescu: they also do expect it to continue making their lives possible, as it has in the past.
mircea_popescu: so now... the people whose livelihood depends on government do see it as on their side. it is.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c here's the actual data : since jan 1st mpoe bot has quoted 7192 times, for a total book exposure of 62930 minutes, = ~43.7 days (out of 51.4) so like 85%. of these in turn 7 (so like 90%) have been since the 14th, ie since the signal divergence.
mircea_popescu: describing the people the govt actually extracts value from to give to a3.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan your axiomatic system is incomplete. the redditards live off the govt dole. since the govt can not create value out of thin air, you're missing an a4