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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
mircea_popescu: (actually, i wonder what a rc plane equiped with 4 ounces of acetone and a sparker would do to a drone carrying a missile)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo usg drone fighting rc planes is definitely the thing of the future.
mircea_popescu: the cost per lb hour of chopper should be in the 5 to 10 cents range, once you get it mass produced.
mircea_popescu: it'll be a riot to keep pumping the "nsa is doing an excellent job tracking everything!!1"
mircea_popescu: by the time the average city has > 100k of these in air at any given time
mircea_popescu: seems that's not exactly how it works out. market favours the "meth from the sky" approach
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember the old laser-in-eye terrorism post ?
mircea_popescu: "we have received large amounts of unsolicited mailings from various poseurs. sorting through all this crap takes time which would be better used otherwise. we are uninterested in the volunteered opinions of self-styled authorities, we intend to retain experts for answering any questions we may need answered and ingore anything else"
mircea_popescu: "We have received the warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. We recognize that we have not met the FDA’s expectations regarding timeline and communication regarding our submission. Our relationship with the FDA is extremely important to us and we are committed to fully engaging with them to address their concerns."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what was the response, "fuck you, we'll sell fior bitcoin " ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i vaguely recall that as long as the payload is finite, so is the offset
mircea_popescu: there exists a natural number indicating the first pi decimal at which that jpg representation can be found
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a theorem : for any jpg representation of a six year old riding a tumescent pig penis,
mircea_popescu: rarely a more insurmountable task was met by a less apt entity.
mircea_popescu: well at least, if we're contemplating the task of censoring the blockchain, i would say the bitcoin foundation is a well chosen agent.
mircea_popescu: truffles you can add some child porn to the blockchain yourself.
mircea_popescu: it's patent nonsense anyway. suines and hominides aren't sexuyally compatible.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you could use your bitcoin fortune to endow a monkey pigfucking farm
mircea_popescu: dub i dunno but i've seen this new thanksgiving nonsense where they cut a turkey and a pigglet and put the halves together