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mircea_popescu: felipelalli are you using
the raw or
the html version ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: yeah,
the
thread kicked off at "<ben_vulpes>
trinque's doing a major launch
this week, i
think we'll be lucky
to get much of a peep out of him at all"
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:23:07;
trinque: "don't be evil" has
to be
the cheesiest wink at
the camera of all
time
ben_vulpes: definitely in comparison
to
that required
to survive in fiatland
ben_vulpes: taxation you, i
trinque pay
to la serenissima is rather small
ben_vulpes: trinque's doing a major launch
this week, i
think we'll be lucky
to get much of a peep out of him at all
mircea_popescu: ah.
the spec doesn't change by
the implementation yo.
the other way around.
felipelalli: mircea_popescu:
thank you! I'll
try dpaste.com
ben_vulpes: i'm just pointing out
that pastebin's not allowed in
these parts.
felipelalli: I also
tried
to paste my key
there and I was disconnected due
to "flood"
ben_vulpes: well i've no idea how
trinque's configured deedbot-,
that's not my problem.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at some point a roman army was defeated, a
total of
three aquillae (legion header) were lost.
the romans spent a century
trying
to get
them back, at one point famously excavating a few square miles o land
ben_vulpes: decimation: "schmoes" <<
that
they have anything
to invest in
the first place is due
to
the american democracy/communism
thing, from
there we quickly hit
the "one day bitcoin will make us all royals, and when can i lop
the peasants heads off again?" checkpoint
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu>
three vultures lost in
the east. << i do not get
this reference.
decimation: anything
that is 'mass adopted' is nearly by definition some kind of scam
decimation: ben_vulpes: no, my hypothesis is
that
the current us style of "just stick
the money in
the market and get returns" is slated for
the guillotine under
the new regime. <
the problem isn't
the passive returns,
the problem is
that schmoes off
the street can invest
mircea_popescu: and some guys went
to sit. and well... who sits where /
mircea_popescu: if you look at it,
the entire history of rome, from kingdom
to empire, was basically
this :
they had a set of benches under some
trees somewhere
ben_vulpes: here we are again at
the "no people outside
the forum" checkpoint.
ben_vulpes: sipahi << yeah.
that berber book's really good.
mircea_popescu: let
them rebel over it, and be mowed down periodically.
mircea_popescu: like army.
take
the children women weep for. or men, in
this case.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean, as in latium,
then note octavianus didn't adopt random orphans a la dick
tracy.
ben_vulpes: there's a
time
tested model for
this, and it's
the noble family.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making
the point
that if you're going for your reagent, make
the relative situation obvious :
the outside world is despised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this modesty... fuck
that. collect
the most desirable children from outside :
teenaged women with big
tits.
ben_vulpes: who
though will start
this monastery
today?
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:17:58; asciilifeform: and before
that,
they glommed it into
their idiot 'google groups'
thing
mircea_popescu: took a while, but i suspect more due
to slow comms at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: as discussed in
the pseudoscience bit : unless you folks start quoting it
to me, it's just another bit of anglowank, couldn't care less.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:10:54; asciilifeform: since mircea_popescu is out, i will fill in for him and observe
that library of alexandria burning is no loss, when cockroaches evolve and replace man
they will rediscover everything.
ben_vulpes: "proof of existence" << sad story of not being in
the wot and ergo not mattering.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: even
the CEO will drain his accounts after...10? 20? years without income.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't have
to starve at all. he just has
to not expect
to suport self by singing-songwriting.
cazalla: ben_vulpes, yeah, summed it up better
than how i explained it
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 01:59:35; felipelalli: Let me ask one
think out of
the context: isn't gpg contract useless without some "proof of existence", published in Blockchain, e.g.?
ben_vulpes: cazalla, felipelalli: identity is not
the important bit.
trustworthiness is. no drivers license or electric bill proves
trustworthiness.
mircea_popescu: all
the schmuckodon in "bitcoin business" comes from
the completely irrational expectations of all
these schmucks
that
they can earn a living "being" "ceo"s.
cazalla: felipelalli, also i don't place much faith in how
they identify people, a driver's licence, electricity bill.. worth just as much as newly created wot identity with no feedback.. plus
the sort of person who needs
to borrow $500 is
the sort of person who would lift
things such as a drivers licence from parents/friends/partners wallet anyway
mircea_popescu: the moment creation is +EV, all
the narcisists flood in and destroy
thinking.
mircea_popescu: they ALL stem from
the mistaken idea
that creators should be able
to eat, and
the
typiocally american (ie, fucktarded and grossly ignorant) solutions attempted.
mircea_popescu: looky here : ALL
the problems of modern academia, from faux psychiatry used
to cover up for govt failure
to faux "earth sciences" used
to cover up for govt failure
to
the diploma mill etc
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:04:58;
trinque: asciilifeform: I have long wanted a system where member nodes can all publish wads 'o gpg stuff, peers don't know
the contents of
the wad, give each-other redundancy