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mircea_popescu: "i think it's here to say but please don't misconstrue anything i say into grounds to sue me. also don't ask me about various milky topics re the bf"
mircea_popescu: ( jurov it's for cutting the plastic casing, not rly anything supersexy)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you satisfy the inquiring minds by snapping a coupla shots of the ded lazr ?
mircea_popescu: i guess this dethrones roger ver as Bitcoin Jesus of the Used Computer Parts ?
mircea_popescu: besides, when the us says "you're taking a step back" you know you must be doing something right.
mircea_popescu: but seriously, the decriminalize corruption thing is quite along the lines of my thinking.
mircea_popescu: so it appears among the executed orders. you know it's executed, at what price and what qty.
mircea_popescu: i seem to remember simpleminded psychopathy was on the list.
mircea_popescu: xoinfinityox sort-of. notrly, i think the point of this channel is more like, hm.
mircea_popescu: except the message is "we're much too big for our breeches, please take us down three notches."
mircea_popescu: anyway, this pedestrian equalitariansm has gone way beyond far enough.
mircea_popescu: xoinfinityox well apparently they don't anymore, not in india.
mircea_popescu: powerful people get their own courts and their own procedures or else.
mircea_popescu: there's just no room in the world for such nonsense. you can arrest a bum because some other bum said so.
mircea_popescu: or, for the earlier example, anyone who imagines a lower court us judge has the authority to detain strauss, and the testimony of a hotel maid can serve as basis for such
mircea_popescu: benkay anyone who believes that, to quote asciilifeform's earlier quoted article, "the U.S. government expects laws to be followed by everyone in the USA" may translate as hassling a foreign high class person
mircea_popescu: fucking travesty of justice, to pretend like you can meddle with the top tier.
mircea_popescu: muricans gotta get it in their square jawed skulls that there's a difference between the rich and the poor, and confusing this difference will get you exterminated.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that;'s a particularly well fit quote. if only the various twentysomething ex-geek now bitcoin financiers & investors had a financial culture.
mircea_popescu: surprisingly, it still delivers benefits way past the 5th repetition.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, i just keep linking the same shit over and over.
mircea_popescu: "Viewed individually, each company's capital investment decision appeared cost-effective and rational; viewed collectively, the decisions neutralized each other and were irrational, just as happens when each person watching a parade decides he can see a little better if he stands on tiptoes."
mircea_popescu: " Each proposal to do so looked like an immediate winner. Measured by standard return-on-investment tests, in fact, these proposals usually promised greater economic benefits than would have resulted from comparable expenditures in our highly-profitable candy and newspaper businesses."
mircea_popescu: rational market participants are individually rational.
mircea_popescu: benkay well, the hash power is designed to be commodified. this means it'll always sell just a shade under average cost.
mircea_popescu: xoinfinityox i guess that may be interesting in the sense pointing the spot lights at airplane wrecks could be interesting. meanwhile in the real war...
mircea_popescu: benkay you read the buffett bit re commodified markets ?
mircea_popescu: "hey guise, here's a cool idea, make us president coins narf" ?
mircea_popescu: xoinfinityox other news outlets don't practically exist. what's out there ?
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 yes, that 16th of oct article linked earlier, is where it was announced. toffoo has been asking me about whence and wherefore ever since.
mircea_popescu: <Duffer1> if confirmed i expect the price will rocket << you know it was announced before btc rocketed ?
mircea_popescu: it became a definite a coupla months back, but they had been doing it for a while.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, davout's site is the cannonical example opf that.
mircea_popescu: monolithik perhaps many alt chains are futile. keeping one on hand just in case makes some sense tho
mircea_popescu: monolithik i agree, but that means little in the context.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, Duffer1 has a point, trilema isn't exactly a manual, more like that one asshole instructor in karate that just beats the shit out of you and then laughs.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like nobody figured out why ruby on rails utterly sucks until they had tried to make websites in it for a few years and they could never get one secure. then it was pretty clear.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: monolithik exactly. also, if there's going to be improvements to the concept, they may be discovered this way. atm we don't really know what utterly sucks in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: maybe even make your own list and publish it somewhere.
mircea_popescu: xoinfinityox hit the bitcoin category, can't hurt anything.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda dying, really. anyway, yes, it's a good use of resources and has been for a while to try and specify the code. bar that, alternate implementations may work.
mircea_popescu: seems of late he's taken to heart the invitation to do less of the speaking.
mircea_popescu: the wilson guy definitely means well. i don't see he;s delivering any value yet, but it's way too early. the other thing sounds like it means well, same situation.
mircea_popescu: implementing any sort of legal controls is more of such a fuckup.