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mircea_popescu: so basically if asics had never happened, bitcoin diff would be 10k
mircea_popescu: but i mean... wait, they;re not being bought to be used as gamingdevices ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the chances to find the actual nethash within an arbitrary precision are a function of that precision.
mircea_popescu: Next Difficulty Estimate: 883652397.234 == 883652397.234 based on data since last change
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i suspect they don't include that because it's so easy to calculate on your own
mircea_popescu: if you exclude under 15 say, it's quite hard for the thin sliver at the bottom to outnumber the fat peak
mircea_popescu: anyway, nobody has to be a slave. it's a voluntary arrangement, and it has its advantages. chief among which that you're about 10x as quick to learn as a slave.
mircea_popescu: and just like nobody botheres with amy i don't bother with that forum fuckwit and so the circle continues.
mircea_popescu: consequently, she gets 2 hours of "therapy" and social media q.s.
mircea_popescu: nobody can be bothered to give her a good lashing and put her to work, because this is more skilled and valuable attention than she "deserves".
mircea_popescu: up to her chest in shit, fed antibiotics to control the infection. everything at the bare minimum.
mircea_popescu: the way the capitalist democracy works is that she gets the bare minimum to survive, much like a cow in one of the insalubrous farms they invented.
mircea_popescu: but this doesn't happen where she lives. why not ? because nobody gives a shit.
mircea_popescu: she'd come back a marrigeable, useful and generally sane and adult woman.
mircea_popescu: now, if amy got to spend a few years on a mexican farm among mexican people who'd put her lazy ass to work rather than ask her about her feelings
mircea_popescu: in amy's system you end up with amy, who has no skills and no future.
mircea_popescu: well that's basically my point. in his system, every person is valuable, and because oif that you end up with hard working people who aren't depressed.
mircea_popescu: also unlike amy, he doesn't vote. he lives in a different system, which both explains him and makes sense to him.
mircea_popescu: the democratic system however ensures that he's well penalised for that.
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet so basically you're paying him more because he's worth it.
mircea_popescu: but this is the very point at hand : in the republican tyrani around vorkuta she might be discovered as somewhat valuable. in her hometown @ democracy, she's exactly zero.
mircea_popescu: in fact she may well be worth zero. that's an achievement, for a live human.
mircea_popescu: "amy" is not exactly tradeable for one random individual. she's worth less than the average of 7 billion, which is already pretty damning.
mircea_popescu: you can't escape value as such. it's there whether your current viewpoint hides it or not.
mircea_popescu: these all include two things : adversative education, which is to say education done forcibly, without bothering with the consent of the educated, and political power. neither exist in a democracy, thus reducing the youth to this situation of neoteny.
mircea_popescu: similarly, but more politely, the process through which the medieval youth moved from unskilled apprentice to skilled journeyman to actual craftsman on his own is similar
mircea_popescu: the process through which the antique adolescens solidified into vir, ie, a man, is the typical increase in value. it includes such experience as killing others, and being responsible for the self in new situations and so on.
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet no, i mean put them in a position where their abilities and knowledge actually improve so that they are objectively worth more.
mircea_popescu: KRS|gotyawallet well yes, the entire discussion started with an example.
mircea_popescu: Vexual yeah, inasmuch as it's done to exhaust the person without any benefit then it's acceptable.
mircea_popescu: the entire point of the whole thing is to make it so people are worthless and stay worthless.
mircea_popescu: exactly. it's actually illegal in the democracy to improve the capital value of labour.
mircea_popescu: i don't know of any system where labour capital has a lesser value.
mircea_popescu: yet you know, in imperial japan or soviet russia or republican rome it is not acceptable for some guy to go "i have no skills master but i would like to work" and he not be taken in, trained and worked.
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but i meant from his perspective. obviously from my perspective i'm laughing
mircea_popescu: but if you live in the heartless-est system ever invented, you can just nod and ignore.
mircea_popescu: if you live in some sort of more or less republican tyrany it is incumbent upon you to take in all the idiots.
mircea_popescu: no see, this is the main reason i like the capitalism-democracy combo : i don't have to do anything.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty funny, guy now wants to work for me, admits he couldn't do as good a job as thje girl.
mircea_popescu: in this sense the us rebellion was asymmetric as seen from king george's palace.
mircea_popescu: "this war is asymetric in that the enemy chooses to not make the same exact mistakes we do"
mircea_popescu: i dunno... this thing doesn;'t look like a little flame throwing would take its paint off