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mircea_popescu: and yet qntra is supposed
to be censoring stuff. go fig.
mircea_popescu: cazalla here's a funny : one view shows
the article at 5 votes and 8 comments.
the other, 6 votes, 6 comments
mircea_popescu: wasn't
the guy married
to some chick people were more or less jokingly proposing
to be satoshi in early say 2010-2011 ?
shinohai: > Did Gavin sleep with Mircea's wife or something?
This article #9281 from qntra claiming
that Gavin is incompetent.
williamdunne: cazalla: Comment deleted, just as I was about
to make a witicism
mircea_popescu: (the
three, for
the studious : 1929 ; 1945 ; 1989.
the ww1 was not on
the list, but instead a great
time for romania. unexpectedly enough. young cvountry)
decimation: yeah I
think I follow. it's kinda
the root of ascii's complain about computing stuck in
the 70's
assbot: satoshi_pokemoto comments on Influence of Gavin Andresen and his fellow developers of
the Bitcoin Core client waning
to new lows as
their attempts
to force misguided efforts end in disaster. ... (
http://bit.ly/1H27rJ9 )
mircea_popescu: once you have
to start forking
the
thoughts
tho...
that's gonna be hard.
mircea_popescu: the general fate of "o noes, we will be poor" decay-of-civilisation ~small
thinkers~ envisage is nothing compared. romania went
through
three of
these in a century, was fine, will be fine. so will
the us, if
that's all it is.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help us if we have
to fork human
thought
that deep.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless...
this isn't, actualy, a big problem. hasn't been, for five millenia.
mircea_popescu: obviously if you restart
the process of 5k years ago with
the means of 5k years ago you will get
the comensurate results.
this is a fact, because
the processors still work, and in
the same way.
mircea_popescu: this is in fact a big problem, and it was a major scientific advantage. in 3000 ad. five fucking
thousand years ago.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and sometimes wonders if
the stars are real or
the world is real.
mircea_popescu: one of
the rural inhabitants of a post-war italy
that looks like 1300 ad is a shepherd. and he
tells,
the story of sherperding, specifically,
that he
talks
to
the stars
mircea_popescu: the plot is
that a guy goes
through villages with a broken camera,
tricking people into paying him
to make
them cinema stars.
mircea_popescu: and
the epitome of ~that~ distinction is as far as i know best illustrated by
tornatore. in "l'uomo delle stele".
mircea_popescu: moreover,
the strategic problems are often disguised as mundane
things. i know at least a coupla of
times my clock fucking stopped right here, over apparently nothings. and what
the inept represent as "big problems" is almost never a usable or even vaguely correct representation. all about 'em,
their emotional conflux, stuff like
that.
mircea_popescu: that's a guy "thinking about big problems". he is no different from a dog
thinking about bacon.
mircea_popescu: if
that 1% doesn't feel
the state like a glove,
the state's gone. kinda like my ancient "the state may exist inasmuch as and for as long as i can't
tell it's
there."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: basically,
the usg has managed
to alienate itself from
the
thiny sliver of people who actually matter.
assbot: Logged on 09-06-2015 16:46:31; mircea_popescu: but moreover avoidance of
the situation where you piss off
the rightly powerful.
decimation: plenty of folks in usg and elsewhere see
the big picture problems, but
the usg
throne seems
to always get itself into 'urgent but unimportant' problems
that distract
them from any kind of long-term strategy
decimation: on
the freakonomics podcast,
they had a guy on (retired army colonel) complaining
that usg has nobody who
thinks about anything strategic now
mircea_popescu: or, as
the ever wise azn someguy or
the other observed, "what good is your gold
to you now ?"
mircea_popescu: you don't
take over
the enemy's
things. you just make
them be a burden
to him now.
mircea_popescu: "see, we're not even
taking
their lease on hong konmg. clearly we are
the empire of law"
decimation: they would be willing
to wait until
the locals capitulate and beg
them for jobs
decimation: the chinese are willing
to wait 100 years until your lease on hong-kong runs out
decimation: because...
they will help fund
the real estate bezzletron
mircea_popescu: jurov shut up
this facebook autoposter is great! really needed for it simplifies my lyf!!1
jurov: just buy
the land with ..useless
trinkets
decimation: but nearly all of
this opposition would be happy
to work in exchange for chinese money
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:44:43; mircea_popescu: in general disputes over land utilization resolve in favour of
the more intensive.
mircea_popescu: not exactly
trolling, not exactly wot, not exactly industrious. something.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the closest approximation of gypsy culture accessible in
the us would be stuff like eve online.
pete_dushenski: also "it is
time for any last pretense of Bitcoin Core's development having any actual relationship
to
the actual living core of
the Bitcoin Network." <<
time for what ?
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell BingoBoingo "This incident highlight" << missing 's'
mircea_popescu: contrairiwise,
the irish drink quite well, russian-like
mircea_popescu: anyway. actually genetic gypsy people don't drink well.
this,
they have in common with
the hungarians. hence
the entire
thing in romania.
mircea_popescu: stuff like burning man etc stand for
the peak of it
there, but it's just about life 101 in gypsyland
mircea_popescu: actually gypsy culture would stand out like
the second coming in
the us
decimation: those we got plenty of, but I never saw any evidence
that
they had families and culture
trinque: punkman: just losers in
their 20s panhandling because as mircea_popescu said, nobody cares enough
to beat
them up for it
punkman: trinque: lol I can picture
that
decimation: then again
there's enough land in
the us
that you could live in bumfuck nowhere and not bother folks so much
cazalla: the irish have been flooding aussie shores for
the past few years
trinque: there are stinking punk kids
that call
themselves "travelers" here
williamdunne: decimation: I was lead
to believe
there was a growing "Irish"
traveller population in
the US
decimation: it's interesting
that
they didn't really come
to
the us
mircea_popescu: williamdunne
they're not really irish either lol. just called irish in england like
they're called hungarian in some parts of romania
williamdunne: decimation: Generally people don't differentiate between Romani and
the Irish
traveller sort - all come under
the name 'gypsy' in
the common
tongue
mircea_popescu: gypsies are a migratory sort,
they're not anymore romanian
than austrian, french or british
williamdunne: mircea_popescu:
They say born in Romania, so yeah I guess it includes Romani born in RO
mircea_popescu: williamdunne do
those statistics distinguish romanians and gypsies ?
punkman: williamdunne:
the great unwashed, we don't care about
those
decimation: actually an enterprising young man from
the uk ought
to move
to romania and start a factory
williamdunne: "The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in
the UK has risen by 15% year-on-year, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show. In
the last
three months of 2014
there were 172,000 people working in
the UK who had been born in one of
the
two eastern European countries"
mircea_popescu: people gotta know why
their ears are nailed
to which board.
punkman: williamdunne: only
the latter is "people"
decimation: mircea_popescu: I wouldn't be
too upset,
the romanians are
taking
the piss from
the uk right now -
talk
to any london cabbie
mircea_popescu: decimation
the particular
thing
that annoys me is
that
the fuctarded anglos
traded greece for romania after ww2, because oh noes, got forbid
the english "Aristocratic" fauntleroys get separated from
the fabled homeland of collegiate faggotry.
decimation: People I know who are from greece
tell me
that anyone who is worth a shit left long ago
pete_dushenski: but since my stick was so large and cumbersome
to use, i had
to finesse my way around problems
pete_dushenski: few restauranteurs and fewer landlords ever wanted a call from me, but
too bad, i'm calling