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mircea_popescu: in the real retelling of the situation, they start smoking pcp and quit showing up for work.
mircea_popescu: this in the ideal, business plan rendition of the thing (infinite hitpoints etc)
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan it's unsustainable because it creates frustration in the stupid.
mircea_popescu: you're nuts, i rode in elevators with all sorts of people, what
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, construct a microagression scenario.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like what, say he is ugly and his mother dresses him funny ?
mircea_popescu: after which i'll gladly answer if you need further answering
mircea_popescu: decimation dunno how far i'd take that always and everywhere, i like say nigger and shit.
mircea_popescu: arguably society as a whole extracts more benefits from the stupid who think themselves smart than from any other venue,
mircea_popescu: in general, if you're too stupid to make a pan, you're much better off thinking you're too stupid to make a pan thank thinking you're smart enough to make a pan.
mircea_popescu: cryptorush is a fine example in an endless string of fine examples as to why this nonsense is harmful to the stupid poor.
mircea_popescu: this notion that anyone could be anything is kind-of strange.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan they all have equally the same to lose : their place in the world.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you recall that "come up with what you'd take back in time" contest on trilema ?
mircea_popescu: ie, that tons of people are completely clueless as to their proper place in the world.
mircea_popescu: just the fact that someone'd even consider hassling you is indicative of serious systemic problems.
mircea_popescu: and just how unsustainable that theatre is, on the face.
mircea_popescu: i think one major point people fail to properly consider is just how unwarrantedly equalitarian society today is.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile today, abramovich visiting some london court has nowhere to eat.
mircea_popescu: imagine walking around with ~50mn in the shape of ten coins, weighing 1/4 pound
mircea_popescu: but say it was like a dollar, you needed 5 of them for a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: i wonder what one could have bought with a denarius or two back then
mircea_popescu: "In 301, one gold aureus was worth 833⅓ denarii; by 324, the same aureus was worth 4,350 denarii. In 337, after Constantine converted to the solidus, one solidus was worth 275,000 denarii and finally, by 356, one solidus was worth 4,600,000 denarii."
mircea_popescu: o cause not having delivered anything else they're now delaying for better stuff to not deliver
mircea_popescu: decimation "everyone's making roi" or how did the scammertalk go
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's dubiously fiat's fault, seeing how the solidus and aureus backed the same principle.
mircea_popescu: decimation notice that asic production only began in earnest once the set of fanbois crossed into the 100k heads territory.
mircea_popescu: tennis is free from this. if anything, every match makes you better.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo boxing has the problem that every fight kills you a little.
mircea_popescu: i doubt miss williams wants to play a scrappy player from romania.
mircea_popescu: (they spell the ligature i as a j for some god forsaken reason)
mircea_popescu: "It is plain to see, from both sides of the issue, the troubles associated with PayPal payments. The problem SWMC would have with accepting PayPal payments is this: An investor purchases a Contract for X-GH/s using PayPal for the purchase. The mined BTC for the Contracts is paid to the investor over the following 6 months (for this example, the life of profitability of the investment.) Then, sometime between 6 to 12 mo
mircea_popescu: the trade value of gold may never exceed the energetic cost of gold"
mircea_popescu: grossly stated, "seeing how the value of gold in a finite space would be a function of other physical processes in the same finite space,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think i may prove a metastability re neutronsa
mircea_popescu: kinda shows why the entire utilitarian and monetarist stuff is nonsense with a dab of cream.
mircea_popescu: well wouldn't a car which also sucks your cock be naturally more expensive than one that doesn't ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : teleportable gold would be cheaper than gold as-is currently is.
mircea_popescu: decimation one of the advantages of au is that it being elemental, it's actually finite in any finite region of space.
mircea_popescu: "well... do you know the color of the sky just as the sun is rising ?"
mircea_popescu: guy buys a new car. friend asks him what color is it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the absence of both of these being long regarded as a bug in the implementation of physicality.
mircea_popescu: what is more "physically yours" than something nobody can take from you ?
mircea_popescu: it could just as well show that the pedestrian definition of "physical" isn't really as important as we thought.
mircea_popescu: then you discover some of those people actually heard of merlot, and even can distinguish it from pinot.
mircea_popescu: like... suppose there's a club of shitbathers, who seek out filthy stables and other animal warehouses to bathe in the crap
mircea_popescu: there are, you know, even in soviet russia smart people.
mircea_popescu: i don't know the guy well enough to discern da fuck he's thinking under n layers of public communication bs