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mircea_popescu: and the criterion is attached to the reality rather than the appearance.
mircea_popescu: ie, the appearance and the reality easily cleaves (a word is an engineering term if appearance and reality never cleave)
mircea_popescu: the problem with both of those being that they're not engineering terms.
mircea_popescu: basically you have two unreconciliable "realities", and only one is real.
mircea_popescu: benkay i have my doubts 4k btc found their way to said dubious sr thing.
mircea_popescu: perfect excuse to the "we run off with teh coin" thing. much better than the used up "we were haxed" workhorse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... not these folks. but maybe some other folks.
mircea_popescu: then the investors who he did find that didn't heed my "you will be butchered" warning got their fingers caught.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "because they were saving it so karpeles could offer a "credible" lie as to why his well known fractional reserve scam blew open" ?
mircea_popescu: so you know, instead of having that thing settle somewhere in the desert, it simply got moved in your kitchen.
mircea_popescu: however they contain between .7 X and 2.2 X mercury in themselves.
mircea_popescu: ceteris paribus the halogen lamps reduce this to about .4 X
mircea_popescu: the coal burning power plants release X mercury into atmosphere as part of their working.
mircea_popescu: Puis j’ai mis en route un sèche-linge, deux plaques électriques, et un emerge -u1avDN world, le tout en musique grâce à un ampli à tubes. Comme il faisait un peu noir j’ai allumé les 8 ampoules halogènes qui étaient à ma disposition. Et comme il faisait un peu chaud avec tout ça, j’ai ouvert la porte de mon réfrigérateur.
mircea_popescu: Pour manifester mon soutien à cette initiative trop peu médiatisée, j’ai éteint à 20h30 les deux ampoules à LED qui m’éclairaient.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but inasmuch as you rely in any fashion on blockchain generated numbers
mircea_popescu: i put a lookout for the "mysterious m_c player emptied jd bank" threads
mircea_popescu: check out these fuckwits. "here's a scathing mp article we stole. would you like to buy ripples now ?"
mircea_popescu: both the big jumps are simply switching to a different, more powerful, cheaper, easier to deploy aspect of the same principle
mircea_popescu: you know, originally it went like fire -> metalworking -big jump-> firearms
mircea_popescu: yes. fire and waterfall, the original things that europe used to fuck over the entire rest of the world.
mircea_popescu: we're reduced to an emotions mill. the only power we can still harness.
mircea_popescu: basically everythning the western world is capable of making anymore is powered by mass curiosity, boredom, fear, generally emotions.
mircea_popescu: funny how people just rehash the same old scams. so bitcoin investment gems run dry ? it's okay, make doge, the altchain investment gem
mircea_popescu: well i guess they owe you one then for advertising their shitty gem ?
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> ITS SO FUCKIN SEKRIT WE DONT HAVE DEVS YET <<< lmao
mircea_popescu: benkay speaking of the ui bs, ubuntu did the exact thing with its v12
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla why did you break the nice guy's firewall ?
mircea_popescu: benkay heh who the fuck runs original os ontheir laptop.
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid well yeah, it emerged in the conversation. this was happening cca 2003 so i guess it checks out.
mircea_popescu: srsly now... if you've not outgrown your toys in two years it's time for the parents to pack you off for the development specialist. you got issues.