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mircea_popescu: Since the stern art of poetry calls for words, I, morose, deaf, and balding ambassador of a more or less insignificant nation that's stuck in this super power, wishing to spare my old brain, put on clothes – all by myself – and head for the main street: for the evening paper.
mircea_popescu: Sorry that the conference was busted big time. I took all precautions available to me, but considerable force was used against me. If anyone related to the matters currently unfolding is threatened with physical harm, I am able to cede the control of a necessary number of bitcoins to redeem him/her.
mircea_popescu: incidentally this was fred wilson's q, "how come you know so much about me". teh lol.
mircea_popescu: not like including people on the outskirts is a mission failure
mircea_popescu: mjr___ wouldn't it be better to solve a softer problem ? ie, take a guess of the park size and do x radius from center ?
mircea_popescu: as a simple heuristic, the line between welfare and employment can be drawn right there : does it come with free smartphone ?
mircea_popescu: certainly the smartphone is a marvel of cheap token replacement of circus.
mircea_popescu: except all this does is replace the proper elite with a failed elite.
mircea_popescu: that "privilege" is bad and that the more people "rule" the better.
mircea_popescu: and conceivably if you were in a position to know what rich people benefited most from, you'd be rich yourself already
mircea_popescu: b0n1 the fact that you don't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't make senSe.
mircea_popescu: and ends up in a horror, which then the libertarda claim is distinct from "their ideal"
mircea_popescu: every instance of communism starts out as an attempt to implement the intellectualy bankrupt "ideas" of the libertards
mircea_popescu: b0n1 to punish noobs who think bitcoin is a get rich scheme and they can ride the bandwagon.
mircea_popescu: it sounds to me like "if you shat less you could cum more"
mircea_popescu: b0n1 not really. it just shows how "speculation" doesn't work in btc.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter the fact that some guy walks on two legs doth not a human make, either.
mircea_popescu: (tho i guess cat on a hot tin roof may make a claim there)
mircea_popescu: the entire population of the united states has not yet produced a pasible play.
mircea_popescu: just because the us has finally given up after two cventuries of trying to build a culture
mircea_popescu: billions of businesses have been built, a good play has not been written
mircea_popescu: <benkay> except that it consumes bandwidth that should go towards building shit <<
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the content of books endures longer than the shape of buildings.
mircea_popescu: culture, benkay. it's a waste from a strict civilisational pov
mircea_popescu: there's this fallacious expectation that liberal and innovation go together