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mircea_popescu: anyway, getting gbps connections isn't either hard or expensive.
mircea_popescu: boolcrap there are, but you'd have to go there FOR THAT purpose.
mircea_popescu: there is no "countryside" in the arizona sense of the term
mircea_popescu: europe, and especially romania, has been continuously inhabited for 2k years.
mircea_popescu: there's this romanian joke whereby the insane in one asylum loved jokes, and knew them so well that people'd just say the index # and everyone laughed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what were schoolkids' paramilitary thing called in the ussr ? i forget.
mircea_popescu: whereas for comparison the kids in the soviet union are free and happy and even get icecream!
mircea_popescu: tells the kiddos all about the horrible imperialist barbaric lands outside of The Country, and how children there are kept naked and starving and forced to labour in huge child labour camps
mircea_popescu: a guy in the required sunglasses joins the 4th grade to help with their political educaiton
mircea_popescu: you know, i like the americans better. at least to them i can tell jokes :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the joke with the little girl and the icecream ?
mircea_popescu: all sorts of obscure nonsensical shit you sincerely thought are an artefact of the time and place,
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is, you know ? i mean people who haven't lived this side of the iron curtain can't really get the depth of it, it;s not the same to be told about it or to see it with your own eyes
mircea_popescu: and well... you can't have a society of nothing but that.
mircea_popescu: no but this is in reference to an amply discussed 19th century problem, where jewish kids didn't really want to do anything but learn
mircea_popescu: fight the tendency to spend 100% of one's life in the sinagogue
mircea_popescu: they're there to force people to also do some work in a day. at the very least to pay for the credits.
mircea_popescu: people love to think that trilema credits system is there cause im greedy, but it may just as well be the case
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this brings forth an interesting point :
mircea_popescu: Jere_Jones wonderful thing technology, i'd have forgotten 80% of my good ideas without it.
mircea_popescu: heck, goat is still there, rpietilla is still there, one of these days the pirate character is gonna start posting again.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are all these people without a clue involved in stuff.
mircea_popescu: "We are being blocked, even in a startup the owners can move their ownership to another investor, we can't even do that."
mircea_popescu: pankkake that'll be interesting. i guess the results are only predictable to like five people or some shit.
mircea_popescu: jborkl i don't even remember which bahamas it supposedly was.
mircea_popescu: it's clearly a fraudulent construct and will be pierced by any court, but hey.
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah, because they want to sell more treasury stock.
mircea_popescu: any chick with nice tits has serious problems running topless.
mircea_popescu: they only took their investors down 30% or so, so far.
mircea_popescu: i'm with pankkake, they actually are one of the less scammy things on havelock.
mircea_popescu: s/laungh/launch. apparently laugh got impacted in there
mircea_popescu: deadweasel maybe they can laungh a poll so that 2013 comes before 2011 in their personal history.
mircea_popescu: more abstractly : for things to be unique it's not enough for them to be different, it's also required for that difference to be meaningful in some sort of actual system. it's not enough that a system may exist in which the difference may be meaningful. it has to be actually meaningful in an actual system.
mircea_popescu: i get that this has of late become fashionable, but it's not actually true.
mircea_popescu: wtf must you be thinking, to simply make false statements for absolutely no reason.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves> "New bitcoins are now far more likely to be spent than hoarded" << on the basis of what ?