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mircea_popescu: anyway, it will be hard to outdo the walletbit fiasco they managed on the 2nd batch
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla kenna, doing anything to scam a little more. who knows, maybe it works.
mircea_popescu: TomServo i guess the reasoning is that if it stays shutdown that long it's never coming back.
mircea_popescu: for all i care they can drive to their customers personally and make delivery.
mircea_popescu: you can't hold bets for three months on the theory that who knows, maybe the post office is still delivering.
mircea_popescu: i don't see it. zero reports a day after cutoff. by now it's too late.
mircea_popescu: irrespective of that, the best and most general formulation of the limits placed on governments (all, no exceptions) by the social contract is that they may only act for cause (ie, react). agency is strictly reserved to the individual, and in that the individual is superior to the state, ie, more of a person.
mircea_popescu: notably the governments of today attempt exactly the same magic. "science" is now supposed to be the will-less, intention-less, choice-less engine that allows government agency without sin. at least in theory.
mircea_popescu: they came up with this constructed agency which was somehow magically devoid of will, intentionality or choice. obviously a lame duck (even to them), but otherwise the problem is irresolvable.
mircea_popescu: indeed. the problem of divine agency (how god managed to create the world w/o becoming the devil) is the biggest problem scholastics failed to solve.
mircea_popescu: and if the distinction is meaningless to you : a cause is in the past. a purpose is in the future.
mircea_popescu: jurov the difference is very clear : if it is for cause, then it's one thing. if it's for a purpose then it's moral hazard.
mircea_popescu: well now when he shows up ima be all dude! people's lookin fo yo cuz of your debts!
mircea_popescu: Anduckk probably because the mods partied hard on the bribe you sent and nobody's awake yet.
mircea_popescu: jurov you see the difference between moving children for cause (mother died, for instance) and for purpose. do you ?
mircea_popescu: people legitimately have to travel occasionally, give it a few days
mircea_popescu: <jurov> it isn't important. let's compare wealth redistribution to certain kind of maternity ward << your trolling is like s ocute.
mircea_popescu: would be cool if anyone who works for the govt would be castrated.
mircea_popescu: no, because it's hardly remarkable. yet another teenage love in the burgeois tradition movie. who cares ?
mircea_popescu: TheSeven so basically you're involved in the sense that they want to abuse your name.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if anyone'll eventually prove a link to the alberto amandi/owens/rosenfeld merry troupe of fraudsters.
mircea_popescu: with the use of only the occam razor, please specify which path will be chosen.
mircea_popescu: or he could just continue being stupid on the internet.
mircea_popescu: tyrion70 bitcoin. backed by lulz and drama. since 2011.
mircea_popescu: pankkake he's lucky if he actually has a job and he definitely shouldn't quit it.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : bathing in coke gets girls high but not boys.
mircea_popescu: lewicki if that person learns something it's a well spent grand.