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mircea_popescu: it's probably the most diversely-held stock in the history of btc
mircea_popescu: well everyone's baby blue on my thing, except me. i'm gray.
mircea_popescu: including where you may wish to complain, some nl host.
mircea_popescu: guy's been running a node off the same ip he's spamming here ?
mircea_popescu: bitbet has the same problem, except there it's kind of deliberate to encourage ppl to be brief
mircea_popescu: lol this is what internet experts with mucho experience and #1 delo negocios come up with
mircea_popescu: and also we could keep gasoline in cups right next to our coffee cups and type away in the dark
mircea_popescu: anyway, i dun see the big deal. if this wasn;'t a problem we wouldn't need trademarks
mircea_popescu: how did that clemens line go, "the less one is inclined to make definitive universal statements, the less likely they are to look like some random noob that ended up in the wrong channel"
mircea_popescu: there's value in this "theory / practice" approach anyway. for one thing mpex contracts even allow assets to skip a month entirely
mircea_popescu: it'll get confusing as all hell because s.mpoe actually pays divs same month *most* months
mircea_popescu: mike_c oh i c. maybe make a note somewhere or who knows
mircea_popescu: stuff that lays on the bottom of still water, rolling its eyes and not putting any effort is scum, that's what it is, look it up.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, calling things you don't like to hear opinions doesn't much change the reality of them.
mircea_popescu: there's the truthfulness defense. something's not an insult just because you don't like hearing it.
mircea_popescu: it does also save you from making a fool of yourself thinking hemingway invented donne, but that's i suppose a minor point, especially if you are careful to live among people who won't laugh to your face for it.
mircea_popescu: or in other words, any fuckwit can "roll their eyes" pointlessly. actually reading a book takes some effort.
mircea_popescu: they're the same substance, "let's presume inferiority abroad"
mircea_popescu: <truffles> just trying to say u put in more effort than most ppl prob << how do you distinguish this from "niggers are just born with less smarts" ?
mircea_popescu: and scum is one who thinks that the solution to their own stupidity and laziness is enticing, encouraging and if need be forcing everyone else to be equally lazy and stupid.
mircea_popescu: more generally, any passive-aggressive behaviour fits under weasel.
mircea_popescu: weasel is someone who behaves arrogantly and offensively anti-thinking, and when they have it pointed out to them they claim they were "just observing", in your case.
mircea_popescu: didn't you just call the guy a nerd for not being as stupid as you'd like people to be generally ?
mircea_popescu: course there are those less fortunate who rarely get such a chance, but you're basically arguing that they should be opressed moar just to keep it up.
mircea_popescu: people enjoy reading, because people enjoy not being americans every chance they get.
mircea_popescu: truffles what's with this arrogand, offensive anti-intellectualism ?
mircea_popescu: and so got trampled underfoot by those with better meteoric exposure.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding their astounding other accomplishments,
mircea_popescu: most populations were unable to acquire a few pounds of iron,
mircea_popescu: decimation there's no requirement that fuel availability and mechanical complexity relate in any particular proportion.
mircea_popescu: because clearly she forced you through your lack of other options.
mircea_popescu: problem with this approach is that if you follow it you'll end up filing rape charges against the only woman that'd have you
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah well, i've been saying this to everyone's exhaustion for the past coupla years or w/e.
mircea_popescu: as there's only 20 years between the two wars, and plenty of locales changed hands multiple times... it happens.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's nothing, plenty of old women around the balkans shed 5-6-7 nationalities
mircea_popescu: o, you figure cause southerners weren't protestant enough ?
mircea_popescu: in the 1800s the us was a bit player, fighting with mexico over the silver export to china
mircea_popescu: this didn't always and didn't necessarily result in a default
mircea_popescu: even in practice, in the 1800s multiple governments owed more gold than was actually available in the world at the time
mircea_popescu: just as long as the promise isn't to pay in specie and in one go, it still can stand.
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a subset of "how can public companies be worth more than 20mn btc. they can."
mircea_popescu: much in the way what law and the courts are will change and so on
mircea_popescu: much in the way what tax means and what taxation entails will change,
mircea_popescu: what property means and what remedies for theft are will change.
mircea_popescu: the moral here is that willy-nilly bitcoin will bring about deep and far reaching changes in human society, culture and mentality.
mircea_popescu: old txn past the checkpoint may get pruned eventually.
mircea_popescu: completely indistinguishable from any address this guy'd make
mircea_popescu: it can say whatever the hell it wants. every time you make a payment a fraction is sent to a wholly new address