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mircea_popescu: "it is not possible we just simply suck. our excellent goodness is hidden somewhere. if we coud just unleash
the real we..."
pete_dushenski: seems so ? link for "big five" goes
to "big four" article...
pete_dushenski: and wikitardia is saying
that aa was part of
the "big five"
mircea_popescu: so "twice
the money" except it's probably
the same value,
mircea_popescu: apparently accountancy become a pretty good business in
the us, past decade.
pete_dushenski: "Cathy Engelbert has been named chief executive of Deloitte LLP,
the first woman
to become CEO of one of
the Big Four accounting firms in
the U.S."
thestringpuller: It's like
the dinosaurs getting mad at mammals instead of
the asteroid or something like
that.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: Yes, but back in
the day people would just die after wasting
too much energy
trying
to change something absolute in inevitability. (Doing rain dances during droughts instead of looking into irrigation).
pete_dushenski: i'm generous enough
to propose
that
the value of a free and productive man is a bitcent
mircea_popescu: the point of money is exactly
this :
that it may not itself be measured.
there's no "utility" of money. it exclusively exists
to measure everything else.
mircea_popescu: repackaging of
ther "oh, utility of mining, all
that electrictiy burned for nothing" crapolade.
thestringpuller: How do poor people have
this much energy
to be
this vocal about something
they will not be able
to control...
mircea_popescu: all it has
to do is make sure it's
the best money. which it did. once
that's done, utility is not a concern. you will work
the blockchain if you have
to do it by hand in dank cellars chained
to
the wall,
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what I don't get is why people are freaking out
they will have
to pay a lot of money
to use
the system?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin itself is money.
that means BEYOND ANY UTILITY CONSIDERATION.
mircea_popescu: the utility OF EVERYTHING justifies itself in bitcoin
terms.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, all
this
talk of "utility of bitcoin" can get fucked. it's a flimsy if doomed and in any case
transparent attempt
to frame
the question in fiat
terms.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : it's not "mostly engineers". it's 100% of all
the business people actually involved with bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: five years ago romania was replete with kids who rewrote
trilema articles about
this and
that
to be like all cool and civilised and worldly and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: what i find comedic is
the sort of schmuck
that
thinks he'll survive on intellectual dishonestly. here's
the story : if i made it and you stole it, whatever you
think about it and however you're representing it... it'll still work for me. not for you.
that's
the
thing with culture.
mircea_popescu: "something i heard from all
the people
that all read
trilema but i won't mention
this"
mircea_popescu: o look at it, suddenly
the arguments
that didn't exist now exist ?
mircea_popescu: "It's largely engineers who
think about it in
terms of game
theory.
They
think
that if you have unlimited blocksize,
then
the cost of
transactions will go
to zero because
there will always be a competitor
that is willing
to include
transactions even if you're charging X.
They believe
this will cause a race
to bottom and
there won't be any incentive for miners
to secure
the network because
they can't cover costs.
cazalla: nubbins`, not my sorta music, i'll stick
to hyuna
cazalla: nubbins`: incidentally, a guy i went
to uni with, and whom i help get oriented on his first day in south korea, is now a straight-up major label pop star <<< western kpop stars exist?
nubbins`: girl goes
to porn audition, guy says "we have roles left in
two films: 'beaten
to death by hard cock' and 'do not
talk
to me, just cum on my face'"
mircea_popescu: i dunno what's more alienating
than
the bizarre
that obviously feeds
this comic strip.
nubbins`: it's only okay
to have /some/ mental illnesses
mircea_popescu: on my
tenuous grasp of insanity, it'd seem
that it's an entirely vacuous
thing, which
takes
the shape you impose upon it. if you insist it's dangerous... it will probably grow some dangerous appendages. if you
treat it as benign, it will basically be benign.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, it does exactly nothing
to anyone, including
the kids in question,
that some weirdo jacks off.
mircea_popescu: fwiw,
this particular sort of strange would definitely benefit from support more
than OUTRAGE OMG!!1
nubbins`: technically 90s-present depending on your
tolerance for working illegally
nubbins`: incidentally, a guy i went
to uni with, and whom i help get oriented on his first day in south korea, is now a straight-up major label pop star
nubbins`: speaking from experience, roughly half of all ESL
teachers are "strange"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu you probably would not be surprised at how common
this is
mircea_popescu: mebbe he actually went because he wanted
to jacvk off
to 12yo jap gals.
mircea_popescu: english
teacher ;likely
thing for a foreigner
there
to do.
nubbins`: and his employers caught whiff of
this necro-mastur-porn comic he did
nubbins`: i can't recall
the details, but i feel like at
the
time it was a sort of "english
teacher overseas"
thing
nubbins`: iirc
the guy got outed in meatspace and had
to "disappear"
the old name
nubbins`: any of you remember when it was called "the
thin H line"?
mircea_popescu: much in
the way kids used
to replace
the "made by" strings in
the old 8086 days with a hex editor.
mircea_popescu: in fact, as ridiculous as mormonism is, he is an exact copy.
the cultural relationship between judaism and christianity is exactly
the same as between christianity and mormonism : a barely literate lout ran off with a few pages and made his own, self-important "variant",
mircea_popescu: (so a bunch of idiot chicks are
trying
to write it, out of boring gender and race stories)
mircea_popescu: roughly about
the same weight as what in europe constitutes "the humanities".
mircea_popescu: and yes, on
top of
that
there's a web of commentary stretching out approx
to
the roman period.
mircea_popescu: davout well
the split happened after some pretty heavy duty pruning.
davout: danielpbarron: it's ok
to have sidechains!
danielpbarron: jews add
too;
they have sets of books of "oral
tradition" separate from
the scriptures
mircea_popescu: "oh, people mock us for being essentially jew
torrent artists ? FINE. WRITE A CONTINUATION."
davout: danielpbarron: i heard gavin andresen wants
to add a couple extra chapters
to it, for moar adopshun
danielpbarron: in Bible
terms, it's enough
to "lay with" someone, or "know her," or "see her nakedness" ; not sure a condom would get in
the way of
those
things
mircea_popescu: "hey, suicide guy, you gonna kill youself ?" "yeah. life sucks." "wanna fuck first ?" "no, you freak!" "i guess ima have
to wait for your body
to wash ashore."
mircea_popescu: speaking of hats for nutjobs, always remember
to wear your condom!
davout: aaaaaand we're back
to hats for nutjobs
mircea_popescu: o wait. i
thought you meant
the pope's (abandoned) claim of sovereignity over
teh sovereigns.
mircea_popescu: hey,
technically a valid claim. all of europe exists as embezzled provinces of
the roman empire.
ben_vulpes: right up
there with
the sovereignty of sovereigns.