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mircea_popescu: nubbins` i think that's the most visible form of the thing, "so this guy can drive, well, so can I. watch me"
mircea_popescu: why do you think people watch the crud "entertainment" produced these days ?
mircea_popescu: well, would you rather lose the elections or win the elections ?
mircea_popescu: democracy fundamentally incentivizes people to be wrong.
mircea_popescu: more generally : on any particular question you will always find more people who made a mistake than people who got it right. this is the very nature of error. if voting decides what's error and what's not then there will be nothing but errors.
mircea_popescu: well, i'd state that as "people are willing to step on their unwarranted self delusions of grandeur and recognise other's superiority only when hunger or fear compels them to"
mircea_popescu: it incentivizes people to deny competence instead of recognising it, yes.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, democracy is possibly the worst system, inasmuch as look at all the wrangling in the forums re mpex.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to not arrange economic incentives so that anyone is better served by denying another's competence than by recognising it.
mircea_popescu: he has a point tho. it doesn't HAVE to come with bloodshed.
mircea_popescu: this is the internet, where things are whatever anyone imagines them to be.
mircea_popescu: the funny part : his cold wallet was 600 btc and his hot wallet 5k
mircea_popescu: basically this is a "bfl will fail to deliver by march" wioth some irrelevant crap tacked on
mircea_popescu: pankkake well the entire "we put lamp in there" thing i could see maybe
mircea_popescu: you mean the time pirate guy tried to depress the exhcnage rate and failed miserably within an afternoon ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no there isn't, people have put child porn in there.
mircea_popescu: (blockchain uses a hash mechanism to mostly avoid this problem)
mircea_popescu: otherwise you can introduce arbitrary data in your tx, which peopel don't like because it bloats the chain
mircea_popescu: dexX7 you mean tag txs ? blockchain wallet apparently does it
mircea_popescu: this on the surface seems to be exactly wrong : the sorts of people liable to send btc over to "profit" in such a scheme would be the exact ones not inclined to sit down and try and figure out anything.
mircea_popescu: much in the way plato's own nonsense ended up with socrate dead.
mircea_popescu: they're both very naive, yet very pure and very faithful platonisms,
mircea_popescu: jurov` he did so mean centralisation. plato's idea of the republic informs both mussolini's "all in the party and nothing outside the party" as well as mao's cultural revolution.
mircea_popescu: 's leviathanesque ideas struck as edgy rather than stupid
mircea_popescu: but in general the greeks were quite decentralised, to the degree plato
mircea_popescu: ok, i think I found the oldest written argument against the state and for decentralisation.
mircea_popescu: i had seen it once before, 10ish years ago. it sucked then, it still sucks
mircea_popescu: count yourself lucky if they deliver a box of fans by the 4th of july
mircea_popescu: i am black napoleon, i discovered america in indonesia.
mircea_popescu: people with subclinical mental issues trying to make their insanity socially acceptable ?
mircea_popescu: "First things first, I am a Genderfluid, meaning I consider myself both male and female, but I am a biological woman. I am in tune with myself and I am a Black Beta Wolf."
mircea_popescu: o oops sorry my bad, the HOLE i meant. the ozone layer is fine. it was saved.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because if a bunch of redditards didn't do a lot of worrying, the ozone layer would still be there
mircea_popescu: forum muppets never heard of this mystical concept of, you know... like having money ?
mircea_popescu: aka, "how does one not steal clothes while also not returning them"
mircea_popescu: "how one never enters naked options positions, while simultaneously never hedging options positions"
mircea_popescu: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform
mircea_popescu: at least the router you can configure to only be accessible from the in side.
mircea_popescu: if your ipmi interface is exposed ot the public internet you're at risk
mircea_popescu: everyone : there's a new ipmi exploit, it's perfectly capable to root your box.
mircea_popescu: yeah. i agree pankkake, i can't discern any point where this diverges from bitcoin differently than simple ignorance.
mircea_popescu: now, that i do it with a 200kgf vice and an acetylene blowtorch... well.. just a matter of style.
mircea_popescu: i'm not dogmatic either, contrary to what you may have heard :)
mircea_popescu: but i fail to see the logic, if you don't like the bitcoin in bitcoin why not just sell them for fiat or rubber tyres or w./e that better suits your needs.