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mircea_popescu: so if they're at 10% of network they permanently pay the same divs
mircea_popescu: anyway, whoever sold those 12k 750T puts earlier is looking at something like 10k btc in profits atm
mircea_popescu: if only we knew yesterday what the evening of today spells out
mircea_popescu: yea well, let's just say i'm a lucky sort. haven't been outgunned yet.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is the path towards a harem of wives who aren't particularly inclined to cheat, among other goodies.
mircea_popescu: the feelings of others are their problem, not something that can ever carry a cost.
mircea_popescu: people wish to legislate against the fact that their wife will cheat ?
mircea_popescu: it's only my angle with regards to politics of reality.
mircea_popescu: and that mumbairite can always drop by and say hi. especially if she has nice legs and a thick ass i'll be interested.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody. but that's not really the point, now is it ?
mircea_popescu: and it's also why i laugh at silly notions such as midnightmagic's "progress"
mircea_popescu: it's how the civilisation engine has been working so far yes.
mircea_popescu: typical of the interaction between a more advanced and a less advanced civilisation
mircea_popescu: this is the underpinning of free markets : being able to evaluate what you buy and what you pay for it.
mircea_popescu: BitHub just as long as you can identify what it is you're buying.
mircea_popescu: we'd be looking at a muchly different us balance of trade
mircea_popescu: seriously, if us libertards did smart shit (such as ban any advertising) instead of dumb shit (ban smoking)
mircea_popescu: so in general, until marketing can be outlawed completely, trademarking is a bandaid
mircea_popescu: then when i say superior people misunderstand me, thus making me explain.
mircea_popescu: the association of shitproduct with "superior" damages the word superior
mircea_popescu: to the detriment of everyone else. it's a society-wide language-wide externality.
mircea_popescu: basically, marketing consists on trying to extract value from a word.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trademarks are really just a way to prevent idiots from abusing "some" names.
mircea_popescu: you may patent the process, you may not patent the result, inasmuch as the result is a plant
mircea_popescu: in this reading any attempt to patent anything to do with gmo is patent trolling.
mircea_popescu: a patent troll is any entity which seeks to enrich itself by denominating and thus proposing to have captured anything which exists outside of and independent of their efforts.
mircea_popescu: if you think riaa is making artitsts be paid you're perhaps going on wishful thinking
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i fail to see a difference between patent trolls and any other ip rights trolls.
mircea_popescu: the jewish deli still the best way to get edible food in ny
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are these provably intelligent or just assumedly intelligent ?
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder also true. was just doing a sort of "minimal eval"
mircea_popescu: bgupta why do the inept and poor matter in this discussion ?
mircea_popescu: benkay even so it's safer to purchase it from a distance.
mircea_popescu: they've changed the proposed law 3 times so far, still not a law.
mircea_popescu: unless, of course, you imagine the amish are some sort of separatist state within the us.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "miners will be shutting out s.dice"
mircea_popescu: the original innovation that even allowed the state (ie, bureaucracy) has been meanwhile erroded by the internet.
mircea_popescu: i don't think so. without a cheap and effective way to maintain informational supremacy and without control of wealth transfer there simply can't be a state.
mircea_popescu: actually bgupta ... any sort of future that includes the state is science fiction at this point.