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mircea_popescu: yes, it's generally how "failed states" go :
the last resort subsidy is
through poor
tax collection.
ben_vulpes: what's going
to happen is
that
the federal government will continue
to subsidize
through irs
mircea_popescu: ahaha well
the federal government could of course pay
them in ious.
mircea_popescu: so BingoBoingo, since cazalla's getting out, i figure 10 btc for his chunk should be good enough ? (what you
think cazalla ?). you wanna go halves with me in it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gabrielradio it's "guide for half
the oral sex". see, because
two sexes ?
☟︎ ascii_field: ben_vulpes:
the whole shebang is on
the chopping block. only question is re:
the order and
timing.
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: odds are
that mine is on
the chopping block.
assbot: Oregon health insurer
to shutter, advises 15,000 customers
to find other plans - Portland Business Journal ... (
http://bit.ly/1X9z4ug )
punkman: "At
the click of a button he sends it
to a
thousand matches. After half an hour no-one has responded. Worse,
there’s a bounce message from some stuck-up arsehole saying he’s been blocked. He
tries
to argue with
the bounce message,
threatening
to report it
to
the Internet Police for curtailing his Freedom of Expression. “We int doing nuffink wrong” Shithead mutters."
gabrielradio: we have here none other
than
the 2nd most read article of
Trilema, now available for your literary delight in good old english
mircea_popescu: out of line equalitarianism is at
the root of ALL social ills in
the western world
today, not just one or another.
mircea_popescu: which is what drives
the de-professionalization of lawyers and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: in a world where evereyone's deemed a gentleman, you will need ~five
times
the population in lawyers. and it's all a colossal waste of
time anwyay, only about 1% or so of
the population actually gets in relationships complex enough
to merit memorialization
mircea_popescu: "psychothis is underdiagnosed" is exactly like
the court's idea
that
the population is juridically underserved. not so - you can't have
things
that are definitionally for
the few (because
the few don't benefit from
the banal commonality of
the many, soi
they need something else
to allow society
to function).
mircea_popescu: too stupid
to understand how
things work and why, dumb enough
to focus on one metric and forget about
the others ("hey, engagement is hard
to measure!") etc.
mircea_popescu: but
to say you can't afford contracts AND YET you
think you were gypped is basically juust
to swear and attest you're poor. of course you'd
think
that,
that's why you're poor : cause you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile -
there are not enough rich people around
to have
the same sort of "what's done"
thing going. and so
they must have contracts.
mircea_popescu: and
this obviously only affects
the poor
to any degree - if antinous had or hadn't a
trousseau or if he had
to pay some homonymous coins, hadrianus couldn't have cared less.
mircea_popescu: so, if here
the landlords rent out for 10 a month but you gotta pay 10 in advance "as guarantee" and
there
they rent out for 11 a month but you don't,
davout: first part sorta reducing
to "we'll give you money with
the girl
to make make rape and pillage less profitable
than civilized marriage" ?
mircea_popescu: but it is NEVER
the case
that
the poor are being gypped by
this. whatever
the law of
the land is,
they're getting it back in some other form.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: these are
tacit arrangements, you will notice : nobody bothered
to
type out nicely
the rousseau contract of it all, nor bothered
to ask
the poor
to sign, or even explain it
to
them. because fuck
them
they're not worth it.
mircea_popescu: aka, pay for all our sins, as we can't afford
to do it. and so you get godfathers, and get
to enjoy
the movie.
that's his role in
the community :
that he pays your blodgelt for you.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and when inheritance changes from male only
to both children, as it did in post fedual sicily,
the obligation moves from her parents (as he will inherit HIS parents but not hers)
to "both parents" which quickly devolves into a sort of "what rich man in
the comunity wishes
to sponsor
this festival"
mircea_popescu: this, so as
to prevent
the young people from just burning
the whole
thing.
mircea_popescu: conversely, in lands at carrying capacity,
the old dudes gotta pay
the young dude for
their unwarranted priviledge of having occupied a plot of land, which he can not do.
mircea_popescu: well obviously it's a
trick question. in pastoral communities/other situations where
the land is well under carrying capacity,
the young man pays, because
the old folk could have just drunk and made merry, but instead
they put
the effort into raising
the filly / rose garden / whatever
the dude's gonna enjoy. so
they should get something for
their
trouble.
mircea_popescu: in which of
these
two would you say
the poor are being gypped ?
mircea_popescu: in some other places/cultures,
the habit is
the reverse :
the parents pay
the young man
to
take her.
mircea_popescu: so, in some places/cultures, it is
the habit
that young men committing marriage PAY
to
the parents of
the young bride a sum of money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
to get
to
the bottom of
this matter, let's approach it from a more convenient angle.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: if your mark is bad << what a british way
to say "grade"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda lulzily parallels
the entire "i'm special in my you're special
t shirt"
mircea_popescu: (and amusingly,
the poor pretend
this is an exceptional
time-and-place
thing but pretend so ubiquitously and at all
times.)
mircea_popescu: this is what
the poor pretend it means. it never ever does.
mircea_popescu: if breached,
the breaching party carries
the cost of
the whole story.
mircea_popescu: very funny
to me/us, sure, but
that's besides
the point.
davout: too
technical apparently
davout: i
tried
to get fanny
to make *something* out of it
davout: heh,
that's what happens when bored at a wedding, waiting for
the booze
to be served
mircea_popescu: i just had no idea such a respectable, fetching jeune leader was under all
that muck and grime and long curly hair is all +{:D
mircea_popescu: And so it goes. If you wonder why you seem ADHD or anxious, it may be
that you are being
told certain
things are horribly important, yet you can't seem
to feel it; meanwhile you are also being
told
the
things you
thought were important are
trivial. \
mircea_popescu: portance of "gay marriage" in
the world is not at all
the important question-- it may be extremely relevant, or not at all, but
that's irrelevant. Why we're stuck with "bipolar disorder" until, I don't know,
the neo-analysts return with
their
talk of "repressed
thyroid energy" or something, but emphatically not because we discover anything qualitatively new about bipolar.
mircea_popescu: But having
the same guys means
that we'll be getting
the same philosophies,
the same filters,
the same phrases. We are guaranteeing not just groupthink, but we're allowing others
to decide what we're going
to
talk about, how we'll
talk about it.
That's why "gay marriage" will disappear not when gays can marry but when a new set of media people get jobs and "gay marriage" isn't as interesting
to
them.
The actual im
mircea_popescu: It is
the same guys, over and over again, each in
their own space, and by default we assume
they are
the most knowledgeable, or
the most rigorous; have
the most information or are best able
to remain objective. Or maybe we simply hope
they'll be good enough.
davout: also if you're curious what a really
thick accent from
toulouse sounds like, listen
to him
davout: he showed up a coupla
times here
mircea_popescu: The DroneDefender can help protect us from
those who may wish
to do us harm,” said Dan Stamm, who led
the research project. “It can help us in numerous settings, from
the White House lawn
to bases and embassies overseas; from prisons and schools
to historic sites. It easily and reliably neutralizes
the
threat.”
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 10:35:22; danielpbarron: shinohai, 1 Corinthians 6:19 Or do you not know
that your body is
the
temple of
the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price;
therefore glorify God in your body[a] and in your spirit, which are God's.
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mircea_popescu: no wait, it's really 1.5mb lighter
that makes sense. ok.
mircea_popescu: so
they at some point changed packaging
to make it 10x bigger ?!
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 10:17:42; BingoBoingo: I've been drinking vodka and banging my head against
this for about 8 hours nao off and on. I feel way
too angry for a 116/67 blood pressure reading.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 10:09:34; kakobrekla: >at least we have bugs because it means
that we're doing something, we're actually innovating whereas a lot of our competitors don't have bugs because
they don't change
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:55:50; cazalla: here, not reddit, not an attack, just saying having read daily for what, a year now, gets a bit much, spring is in full swing and summer on
the way, have a
toddler
to play with, need
to find a full job again, something gotta give i guess,
the whole bitcoin
thing is something i just want
to pack up in a box and look at again in a year
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:24:38; cazalla: BingoBoingo, problem is finding people who are passionate about bitcoin and lately for me, i couldn't
think of anything more boring
than bitcoin
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:11:50; punkman: BingoBoingo: well as you said, not sure if it's news. especially considering
there's a dozen or
three Ether clones with same exact story
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 08:21:48; *: BingoBoingo still amazed
that
the fluffy gene when expressed is a defect in any breed of dog
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 08:03:55; HeySteve: if
the scheme
takes off, it's also a way for honest landlords
to attract
tenants by declaring
their compliance
to a standard
mircea_popescu: t. hire some dudes with guns offer
the old style protection if you got what it
takes. and if you do not, i'll just
talk
to
the actual dudes in question and you'll eat your own ass so fast you'll be on youtube.
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 08:05:02; HeySteve: I'll require evidence from
tenant and landlord at start and end of contract and arbitrate based on
that
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300279 << so a) you'll spend your life driving between bickering nuts.
this is a worse deal
than what psychs get, at least
there you gotta drive
to his office. ; b)
the blockchain and everything else is entirely superfluous here. your entire idea is "hey, make me
the mp of renting in south africa". maybe
they will or maybe
they won't but you really don't need
the funny ha
☝︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this "o noes we are opressed"
talk is
the stock in
trade of
the worthless class. for good reason.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 08:01:03; HeySteve:
this sort of fraud is rampant here in South Africa and from what I've heard from people, common in Israel
too
mircea_popescu: seriously, you're going
to invent a blockchain way
to make losers not be beaten up by
their betters ? because why.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 07:55:20; HeySteve: punkman, it varies. often
they overcharge for minor damages or make a point of being absent when
the
tenant is required
to return
the keys
mircea_popescu: and if he doesn't, well,
twice
the deposit worth of damage + whatever it costs him
to break in should be just about fair.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 07:50:28; HeySteve: when a landlord retains a
tenant's rental deposit without justification. very common around
the world and hard
to challenge legally