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mircea_popescu: it does have that by default by the time people are putting it in as space heating
mircea_popescu: it's true that fabing has a significant upfront cost, but at stake is not an improvement in energy efficiency,
mircea_popescu: i prefer to look at bitcoin flows rather than the crazy threads.
mircea_popescu: arguably with more success, owing to the relative cluelesness of teh forum tardcloud pre mpoe-pr & other meanines.
mircea_popescu: step 3 : no further attempts because "it creates confusion".
mircea_popescu: step 1 : no proofs. people clearly delineate whart proof is needed. step 2 : list of irrelevant crud masquerading as response to step 1. people clearly delineate why this doesn't qualify
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 this is an old scammor trick. it goes like this :
mircea_popescu: it's not nice they;'re also scammy fucks, but what can you expect.
mircea_popescu: it's nice that some people have stepped up to waste govt's time to no avail.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck does a distributed network need a spokesperson for ? it doesn't. it's the government that needs someone to talk to.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it, a foundation is exactly antithetical to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: "good price to enter for extreme risk takers" -> "excellent way to waste your btc"
mircea_popescu: it's the one skill poor people most desperately need and most utterly lack.
mircea_popescu: the only way this will be resolved is through the making of prototypes.
mircea_popescu: it's extremely difficult to evaluate claims of quantum computing in a theoretical sense.
mircea_popescu: also keep in mind the observation that it is quite common for people with no ability and no understanding to try and compensate through the imaginary creation of "communities" like minded
mircea_popescu: (except he didn't build anything as the t machine is an abstraction, but anyway)
mircea_popescu: and importantly, i'm not aware there's a "quantum computer community"
mircea_popescu: chose to neglect it, much like the us had ample warning re the 2001 attacks and chose to ignore it.
mircea_popescu: there's no proof of that any more that there's proof of elvis still being alive.
mircea_popescu: and finally all generalisation is the work of the motherfucking devil.
mircea_popescu: benkay all crypto is not broken, all businesses are not scams, all polticians are not corrupt, all governemnt is not welfare socialist crap, all niggers are not thieves, all women are not stupid
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller is butthurt or thestringpuller's butt is hurt ?
mircea_popescu: and so that's why it goes "letters patent confirming the X priviledge were granted to Y group".
mircea_popescu: at most some sort of written certification of recognition may be granted, but that's different.
mircea_popescu: this is why privilege is claimed (it's my privilege), recognised and confirmed, but never granted.
mircea_popescu: a privilege is a remnant of personal sovereignity recognised and perpetuated by some ulterior power such as some state or other.
mircea_popescu: "omfg girls get into bed with any guy just cause he has a whip"
mircea_popescu: the brit does not include enough fucking in his essay.
mircea_popescu: the cruft coming out of us "humanities" programs is woefully illiterate, they have no idea what the history of thought looks like
mircea_popescu: for instance, they'd state that my "fuck you if you get sick" above reflects my own priviledged thinking as someone who;s healthy.
mircea_popescu: one of those people who include the concept of "privilege" into any discussion at all.
mircea_popescu: someone needs to provide the "libertard chewtoy for hire" service.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's kinda sad none of the privilege analysts has the endurance. it'd be pretty fun to have one in here to mash into a pulp
mircea_popescu: well, my cto is currently on mission in argentina, measuring the place up and down.
mircea_popescu: back at reality ranch, us matches the rest or gets cast to the side as any random cumrag.
mircea_popescu: this entire system whereby the us gets itself drunk on tap water and "leads" the world into nonsense only works if you've had enough tap water.
mircea_popescu: 2. you don't get to imagine diseases and all the rest of contrivances and then get me to care. again, match the other dood or get lost.
mircea_popescu: 1. you don't get to fuck up yhour environment and eat arsenic in chicken eggs your entire life and then expect me to care. match the indian or get lost ;
mircea_popescu: anyway! here's the thing with sickness as defined by the western mind :