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ascii_field: same site also hosts marvels like 'A New Block Size Increase BIP is Planned for
the ‘Rough Consensus’ from Montreal' and 'The Josh Garza Interview: Organized Crime,
Threats and Is He In America?'
shinohai: "It should be noted
that Longtime Bitcoin Entrepreneur Mircea Popescu also shared his own account of Bitcoin adoption in Argentina roughly a year ago. His full
teardown of
the idea
that Bitcoin is
taking off in Argentina can be read on his blog."
mircea_popescu: "You might
think
that
the rage is
the spark for a
transformation of America, a full scale Dagny
Taggart meltdown or Bolshevik revolution, depending on your hat.
That's not how it works. If
this is narcissism,
then its purpose is protecting identity, defending against change. Doesn't matter what side you
think you're on, unless you are unplugged you are for
the status quo."
shinohai: I liked
the writing style, I bookmarked for future reading
thanx!
mircea_popescu: tbh i
think his grasp of
the fargo demographic is much better
than his grasp of cali.
ascii_field: tlp's usa exists. but i am stuck reading about it in
the fishwrap.
mircea_popescu: too busy pretending something or
the other, as
the case may be.
ascii_field: what would happen? cpu overheats from attempting gluttony and lust at same
time ?
ascii_field: would
this be something like a 1-man version of human wave attack?
mircea_popescu: it's a fruit off
the same bizarro
tree of
their sexuality.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
that was one of
the
times when i
thought 'wtf is
this'
mircea_popescu: but for
the record,
this "perverse pleasure" is strictly a ustardian
thing.
mircea_popescu: e is in your living room, eyeballing
the nice
things in your home. If it is a fact
that you will inevitably give him
the money, is it easier
to for you
to pair it with your venom or your sympathy?
Though it's enraging,
there is a perverse pleasure in giving
that bastard
the money. It
tells you
that you showed him
that you are better
than him."
mircea_popescu: "If
this seems implausible
to you, which it must--
that's exactly
the point of it-- consider
the following extreme analogy, which surprisingly will be easier
to understand, which is also
the whole point: Say your father raped you repeatedly for a decade. Hold on, slow down, it gets worse: now you're 40, and he shows up asking you for $2400 because, and I quote, "you have a responsibility
to
take care of me."
There h
jurov: ^^^ where are
the quotations from?
ascii_field: any other policy, not my place, I am pointing out
that doing it
the way it's done protects
the 1% by letting
the Aspirational 14%-- who crave recognition and are easily identifiable and hatable because
they are poseurs, just of a different kind-- act as human shields.
They
take
the bullets,
the unknown mega-rich
take
tinted window rides
to
the Hamptons.'
ascii_field: 'Here's
the other side's example: when
they
talk about raising
taxes on
the rich, why do
they pick a "low" point and push it higher? Should
the highest rates be at $250k/yr? $300k? Another way of doing it, which is precisely why
they cannot do it, is start at
the
top and move down. "We need $1T. Ok,
top five guys pay 90%. Not enough? How about
top
ten guys pay 90%. Not enough?
Top...." I'm not advocating
this or
mircea_popescu: " Is
there a natural economic equilibrium price where, say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid
to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do
this, my question is
that since
this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is
the cost? I don't have
to run
the numbers, someone already has: it's $150/mo for a college grads, i.e.
t ascii_field toils in
this uranium mine. 'ask him anything' (tm) (r)
ascii_field: ^ any
to any other reversers or aspiring reversers.
mircea_popescu: heck, it's practically done already, newton raves madly for most of
the lenght.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, i can make a summary statement of calculus
that reads exactly like
timecube for
the first half. after which it starts falling into place.
ascii_field: because we discard, or emplace, axioms, based on whether we get
timecube or skyscraper.
mircea_popescu: in so being,
they also become a descriptor of your worth as a being.
there's no good reason
to pick any set nor a good method
to find out which
to pick.
mircea_popescu: they ARE equivalent. a picture of a car IS equivalent
to a picture of a slut even if a car and a slut are not equivalent. axioms are just
that, axioms. arbitrary statements for no reason with no cause.
ascii_field: (and, by extension, with
the notion
that
they are equivalent)
ascii_field: some axioms give you euclid, others -
timecube.
ascii_field: but
there is no mechanical means of establishing
that you have
them.
ascii_field: as in, having
the proper pubkeys makes everything else non-spoofable
ascii_field: anyway prolly ought
to have called it 'axiomatic'
mircea_popescu: WHY is it
the root! what
the fuck is
this,
the game of calling
things
things ?
mircea_popescu: "why are you looking at woman's ass ?" "because it is in
the middle of my interest."
ascii_field: because
they are
the root of
the
trust circuit
mircea_popescu: why do i look at a woman's ass ? ask me
that, go in
the corner on knees on rice.
ascii_field: i'm prepared
to explain re:
the pubkeys, it is really very simple
mircea_popescu: also importantly, "by making
the mathematical approach
to many pricing problems unfeasible". MANY. not all. not "set of
tyres" necessarily.
mircea_popescu: no qualms with
that. and he who is in
the driver seat is
the driver. excuse me while i don't stick around with sweving cars.
ascii_field: and here i
thought mircea_popescu believed in 'who is in
the elite seat, is
the elite'
ascii_field: (want a set of
tyres? have a good phriend)
mircea_popescu: i loved
the soviet system except for
the parts where it deeply misunderstood elite.
ascii_field: by
this logic, mircea_popescu oughta love
the soviet system
mircea_popescu: otherwise derps will go right on into
the swamp of mechanised
trust / resource allocation / doom on a stick.
mircea_popescu: by making
the mathematical approach
to many pricing problems unfeasible,
they prevent undesirable mechanization.
mircea_popescu: incidentallty,
this is why "corruption" aka elite networks are both a needed as well as an efficient control on capitalism.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time you're done alf will have done his routing by hand.
mircea_popescu: or, as it more often
the case "you know, i still owe you on
that grain deal. if only you actually wanted any of
the shit i have." "well actually i'm moving
to argentina" "omfg yes. would you like an apartment ?"
phf: "how do i put it in
the
terms you understand? an apartment for $300 a month. -- whoa! how do i get
that? -- sure, so 5 apartments in
this building, 7 year contract, i'll give you a 25% discount,
that'll be $94.5k. my secretary will give your secretary ach routing details."
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 15:36:41; mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what i pay in rent and expect a number. as if
that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
mircea_popescu: s, but a picture of a baby isn't more important
than a picture of a car. "Yeah, but--" I know. Logic is mean. "
mircea_popescu: " I'll grant
that
there is some level of bonding
that occurs between women over baby pictures, worth exploring later, but not for men: men will only (and rarely) show photos of
their children doing something,
the activity is what represents
the kid as kid and
them as a parent. Showing a man a baby picture is equivalent
to showing a woman a picture of his car. "A #baby is more important
than a car, dontcha
think?" Ye
mircea_popescu: fucking ballas. he's like
this crazy drug addled chick you knew when you were a
teen and STILL catch up with occasionally because hot damn...
mircea_popescu: ubly interesting because calculus was invented
to make hard work easier."
mircea_popescu: "However, not all women are
the
target demo of Randi's lip synching,
the CEO of General Dynamics is a woman, I
think she has a higher security clearance
than
the entire Senate, and I know for a fact she builds alien spaceships, why not interview her about how she uses social media
to promote her brand and make connections and break ceilings? Because
there's no Like button for hard work or
triple integrals, which is do
mircea_popescu: so i started on
that medium article, by
the 2nd paragraph i was skimming, by
the 8th or so i bailed. i guess not
the demo.
mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what i pay in rent and expect a number. as if
that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: me likes
the way ben_vulpes's stylistics is distilling itself over
time.
mircea_popescu: "The final piece of
the puzzle is a bonkers fiscal environment driving capital misallocation on a scale
that
tiny shot-pulling brains simply cannot wrap
themselves around.
Take Adam, Bill, and Charlie:
three young men who all attended Harvard
together, and went into finance seperately."
mircea_popescu: this is practically rome conquering greece.
tho im kinda curious
to see if
the us actually has in it anything OTHER
than byzantium.
mircea_popescu: seems
the
two parties are finding an amiable solution. win-win as
they say : china is more
than happy
to own
the ground, and us is more
than happy
to continue pretending indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: "The power is
traded for
the fetish of power.
That's not capitalism, it is madness, and apparently Davos and Randi
think women especially will heart it. "
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 08:29:48; punkman: I don't understand
this
mircea_popescu: it's a european festival
thing with ancient
tradition, if you will.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 06:35:13; pete_dushenski: "sham ceremonies offer unparalleled chances
to meet new potential partners. “It’s easier
to meet someone at a fake wedding,” says Boniface. “I’d walk up and introduce myself as a cousin of
the groom, and
the girls immediately fell into
their role. It’s like a game everyone joins in.”" << no es un pais pobre, es un pais de jugadores !
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-10-2015#1296821 <<
that's not
the problem, i don't need you
to let me in.
the problem is
that you don't have
the means
to distinguish between one "humanities" and another humanities.
that's
the fucking problem. you can sort out a bad engineer in all of five minutes, just ask pointed questions.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 05:02:06; pete_dushenski: i
think selecting for science/engineering drop-outs (2+ years, not 1 week) would be more fruitful.
mircea_popescu: and
the ones where i stayed it was mostly because
table and alcohol.
mircea_popescu has
to date walked out on > 80% of performances in buenos aires, of all kinds.