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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
mircea_popescu: they are proceeding on a radically different sort of abstraction than the number-servants
mircea_popescu: but you are wrong to think that the language-servants are not proceeding abstractly.
mircea_popescu: possibly the most imporant articles i ever published but the shit's fucking abstruse.
mircea_popescu: i have a set of three articles in romanian laying the foundation for understanding this and many other bullshits.
mircea_popescu: it is not nearly as silly as it seems. there's a fundamental tension at work.
mircea_popescu: they're "professional" which really is just a shoddy translation of "civilised", ie, part of the polity
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental function of language, this symbolism.
mircea_popescu: "you'll find the east indies, you just don't know where".
mircea_popescu: and in general, we could have been a subcategory of their culture much like they ended up a subcategory of ours.
mircea_popescu: and their ships could have easily arbitered the 100 years' war
mircea_popescu: chinese merchants shopwing up in europe would have disrupted the hansa
mircea_popescu: may i remind you that at all points of human history the chinese hel;d the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because they could never sail, because they were fucktarded in the roman sense
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps, but that may well be misleading. hard to see
mircea_popescu: who knew that sort of ossified, concrete stability is the enemy of long term survival.
mircea_popescu: it all begun when they decided it'd be more stable if they stopped making fun of their captives.
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps usable as an explanation of why the us and generallythe english world collapses today
mircea_popescu: but the western chimps tend to lol at the slave troop while doing it.
mircea_popescu: both sets of chimps will readily ensalve the troop for their benefit
mircea_popescu: decimation something in that sense. i dunno that it could be readily reducible to any other form.
mircea_popescu: the head whore cixi rejected trains because they were TOO NOISY
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what. they had alchemy inception cca 2nd century BC.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even the bureaucracy. i despise their 5000 years of dumbass comme-il-faut-confucianism
mircea_popescu: i've not learned chinese yet mostly because i know of no noteworthy intellectual achievement in their classics.
mircea_popescu: but yes, this is the major criterion i employ to guide me linguistically.