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mircea_popescu: pankkake just because you happen to be culturally immersed in the computers-and-internet thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, mechanical calculators and hashing ftw.
mircea_popescu: that's meaningless. "as quickly as feasible". if there's no internet that quckly slows down
mircea_popescu: tbh, it will probably be the case that the new ipos wioll be all about "mining slide rule" producers
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you think about it, bitbet isn't "a betting site". bitbet is bitcoi ncourt, which is to say a quick and flexible system to resolve disputes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the guy with "his" 10 btc onfiscated seemed pretty shot.
mircea_popescu: bitbet did the same to a number of different processes, even if teh community has not quite grasped how
mircea_popescu: deadweasel bitbet just decomplexified court proceedings by abourt 9 layers.
mircea_popescu: preferably starting with my comments as to what bitcoin court
mircea_popescu: The current way of changing the rules involves lobbying, deliberation, legislation and litigation—time-consuming, expensive activities for which there will be neither the time nor the resources. There are no non-destructive ways to decomplexify complex systems
mircea_popescu: so is he here speaking as livestock or as not livestock ? i get confused.
mircea_popescu: "A safe and congenial environment for you and your children is obviously very nice, much better than trying to survive among social predators." ummm.... we just went through why it's very very bad. wtf is with this guy.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel because they care about more shit than normal people.
mircea_popescu: he gets that part right. children always were humanity's dispensable test pod.
mircea_popescu: " The children, who are already in the habit of roaming the streets in gangs and harassing and mugging strangers, now come to serve as the community's early warning system in case of an organized incursion."
mircea_popescu: no nuclear famblies ye morons. married men are dead men.
mircea_popescu: ps were formed within a peaceful, civilized, law-abiding mode of social behavior. When they are forced to turn to scavenging, outright theft and looting, prostitution, black market dealing and consorting with criminals, they can no longer recognize in each other the people they knew before, and the laboriously synthesized community again dissolves into nuclear families.
mircea_popescu: Unaccustomed to operating outside the law and having few connections with the criminal underworld, they are slow to penetrate the black market, which now offers the only way to obtain many necessary items, such as food, cooking fuel and medicines, including the items that had been previously looted from their own stockpiles. Worse yet, they once again become estranged from one another: their acquaintances and friendshi
mircea_popescu: it doth denote instead this hand which will beat you until you do what it bids you.
mircea_popescu: the invisible hand doth not denote this hand that'll do what you bid it do.
mircea_popescu: but he just claimed it fails to make itself visible...
mircea_popescu: can't tell if trolling or retarded quite to the degree ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Just as one would expect, the invisible hand of the market fails to make itself visible, but it is plain to see that fuel is no longer delivered to either of these communities, although in the second one some fuel is likely to still be available on the black market, at prices that very few people can afford."
mircea_popescu: but generally, survival means getting quite well used to the idea that you will be killing for all sorts of reasons
mircea_popescu: i guess once you've decided you shall be the cow it may make sense to try and ensure you're a particularly milky one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform regardless, they WILL all live the same scenario.
mircea_popescu: in practical terms, becoming an enforcer in your local drug trade is much more survivalistic
mircea_popescu: then get the people to come up with a new constitution and so forth.
mircea_popescu: seek out and execute all law enforcement of any type, hang all political representatives of the old stystem in the town square and leave them there to be eaten by the crows
mircea_popescu: survivalism means, keeping a large enough group of determined individuals, who once govt collapses move in to take over
mircea_popescu: anyway, all the "survivalist" crap understood as "o hey i store dried beans and ammo rounds" is nonsense
mircea_popescu: "and then looking through old stuff i had in the fridge i found an emerald"
mircea_popescu: the seat cushions of #bitcoin-assets shall become more fabled than those of the shah of iran
mircea_popescu: in the current us cops are strictly pacified barbarian tribes, "keeping the peace" a la cumans in the old republic.
mircea_popescu: that means their usual "fuck you, we want yoru stuff" is perhaps not the be all, end all.
mircea_popescu: they feel threatened when it's a case of "you fucked up, you're fucked"
mircea_popescu: perhaps the deeply seated, secret reason why bitbet policy struck such a chord with the multitudes.
mircea_popescu: people, generally, will make any claim that seems on the balance of the moment to yield them more beans.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i can't remember a time when my largest expense was food.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could always threaten to post on bitcointalk if they scam you of your ham...
mircea_popescu: and you'kll somehow keep a horde at bay. through what means.
mircea_popescu: because they can't force their way in. you can't currently keep the police at bay from your basement
mircea_popescu: suppose you were the one guy in leningrad with a basement full of ham.
mircea_popescu: and that's well... harder to pretend "we're progressing" and that dietary restrictions are "for your own health"
mircea_popescu: gives the voters the opportunity to learbn slowly, move their diets towards govt cheese over a few years
mircea_popescu: basically the continued qe makes repatriation of all assets from the us a slow process