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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm also
thinking MPEx account keys, et al
mircea_popescu: it's exactly like
the difference between knowing and not knowing
that washing hands prevents peripueral fever. now, for as long as you don't know, you don't know. once you do know, it all reduces
to a question of how well you washed your hands.
mircea_popescu: whereas for
the unaware,
this question unposed, everything
they do is a waste.
mircea_popescu: that IS a get out of
the circle card. because once you're aware, everything you do is more or less successful, but nevertheless in
THIS line.
BingoBoingo: Who hasn't. With all
the mongo and
the beans
BingoBoingo: Eh, I'm not sure how many keys
that get "life critical" use would be in
the "strong set" anyways
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the strong set's not much more
than 40-50k keys or so, iirc.
mircea_popescu: in other news, Submissions: 18160 / Known Moduli: 14733 / Moduli Waiting for
Test: 2018
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if you can be dekulakized -
that wealth wasn't really yours. some nice fella just felt like letting you use it for a spell. << quite. and quite shockingly how it works in bitcoin
too.
BingoBoingo: The fiat fail is a pattern
though. People near
the
top like Blair and Bradley with ItBit or Altman with CoinBase say
they are cool with
the law and people lower down in Utah and Iowa say STFU
they have laws
too.
BingoBoingo: In other news most of my meatspace contacts are now getting
that rosebush as mother's day presents. Just looking at
the odds it is almost inevitable of of
their moms is going
to pirate it.
mircea_popescu: the problem with not being an independent agent is exactly
this :
the loser's dilemma. either you charge
to your doom or you get shot for
treason.
BingoBoingo: And yet all of
the people previously demonstrated
to be aligned against Bitcoin while acting otherwise really seem
to be sweating
this
mircea_popescu: decimation :
the idea
that
the poor have some sort of choice or whatever is so damned laughable.
to quote myself, "Not only is
the consumer about as screwed as is currently
the case, but
to everyone's benefit he has just been clearly proven yet again
that revolt = being fucked in
the ass harder, longer, with a
thicker implement with sharper barbs on it. "
BingoBoingo: It
took a lot of
time
to get
the Qntra gloat piece at just
the right amount of gloat.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the amusing dilemma of
the defeated being, of course,
that
they're stuck either exposing
themselves in a doomed charge,
decimation: asciilifeform: also note
that
the people at
the bottom and
top of
the income spectrum have plenty of
tax-free income opportunities
decimation: asciilifeform: indeed. also if you have $3 mil per year income, it is highly likely
that you have many
times
that in net worth, and
thus can modulate your
taxable income at your leisure
decimation: so
the rates 'look' fair while being a stumbling block for
the up-and-coming
decimation: note
that 20% hurts someone making $100k way more
than 30% hurt someone making $3 mil
decimation: the
top 20% pay 20%
tax rate, and
the
top 1% pay 29%
decimation: asciilifeform: imagining
that you can use
the king's scrip against him is silly
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah,
there are
two goals - keep
the underclass paid off and keep
the kulaks from
threatening your merit-washed heirs
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's
true
that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but
the
two are fundamentally unrelated, and
there is such a
thing as
the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on
the side of hte road.
decimation: not gonna happen, but would be lulzy
to see it
tried
decimation: saying
they ‘want’ such a policy – and backing
the (D) pols who propose it. "
decimation: asciilifeform: his remedy: "For starters, (1) Get absolute rid of all
tax advantages for setting up ‘Family Foundations’ and ‘Blind Charitable
Trusts’ and all
that BS. GET COMPLETE RID OF ALL SUCH STRUCTURES. (2) Giant wealth-tax – like 95% flat garnishment – on all net-worth above, say, $10 million.Then let’s just see how many Richie Progressives (not
to mention Warren Buffets) of
the world go around in
the media
decimation: elect will
throw
them some bread & circuses)
to keep
them off his and his family’s back."
decimation: computers use power, cost money, expose one
to risk
decimation: utilization fee” of 1 percent a year on deposits in excess of
the money
they need for
their operations. "
BingoBoingo: <trinque>
the idea
that saving isn't saving unless you're also receiving a return is itself braindamaged << But you aren't saving, you are lending
trinque: smacks of
the
thing where nobody's capable of
taking action unless externally "incentivized"
trinque: the idea
that saving isn't saving unless you're also receiving a return is itself braindamaged
decimation: Russ's children being unable
to gain 'risk-free' returns at
the bank actually is a good
thing in my opinion
mircea_popescu: welllll... what else could have happened. "it's easier" is
the siren song of
the "you will NEVER matter" siren.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to round off
the capital
thing : without ownership you can not force anyone
to care about you. whether you can or can not force me
to care about you, i will force you
to care about me.
the illustration of
this narrative are
the sufferances of young gavin. he drank
the "piketty" aka libertard coolaid, and now here he is, wondering what
the fuck happened.
BingoBoingo: Yellow Dog linux similarly could not improve. Was PPC Mac linux, when PPC Macs faded and other *nic found
the platform faded
mircea_popescu: this isn't a worry.
this is empathy. i understand how fucked
the bug is, even as i crush it under my boot. it is, after all, a bug.
mircea_popescu: bitch, i don't "worry" about
the future. i know what capital formation is, and what ownership is, and so on.
these kids will never matter, because
they will never own anything, and because
they don't even know what
that means.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: l0l
tails is still a
thing << how would
tails cease being a
thing.
mircea_popescu: who would have
thought,
the us copying mexico. except, of course, everyone aware of history.
decimation: "Guest: Let's
think about how strange
that observation is. You're absolutely right. But just
to drive home
the point of how strange
that is,
this worry
the people have, you and many others, is occurring at exactly
the same
time
that
Thomas Piketty has become famous making exactly
the opposite claim--that
the capitalists are doing better and better and
the workers are doing worse and worse"
decimation: is, 'Well, what's
the point?'
They look at
their savings accounts,
they are getting pennies. Pennies. And it's a fool's game."
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/04/scott_sumner_on.html < "One of
the
things
that disturbs me about
the current world--and
this is irrational, I suppose--but it bothers me
that my children are growing up in a
time when
the return
to setting money aside for
the future is close
to zero. So, when you say
to
them, 'You could save some money and don't have
to buy everything with
the money you have,'
their response, which is correct,
trinque: ah
the great dick revolution of 2022
BingoBoingo: Nah, you send
the dick pics on Snapchat so NSA can see and become demoralized and desensitized
trinque: yeh I can
twiddle
the knobs on postfix, wouldn't mind sharing
trinque: (admittedly I've put way
too much effort into having email handled by a box under my own control)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I more astounded
the "privacy" crowd still uses IMAP over POP3
trinque: sounds awesome;
typically called
transactions not events
trinque: "When Arvo is working, ^C cancels
the event it's working on.
This event never happened. Don't worry, nothing bad will happen
to your computer."
trinque: asciilifeform: would probably help one assess
the ideas if it were possible
to
tell what
they are