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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " in
that is discards
the organized
theft and poverty cultured by socialism" << in
that is discards
the organized
theft and
the poverty cultured by socialism. if you enumerate gotta keep all elements in
the same degree of articledness.
mod6: yeah. it ate
that one of mine
too. its hungry.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6 check plz ? << i don't see anything in
the mailing list
mircea_popescu: line up and skirts over head bitches,
there's no decency in sight.
mircea_popescu: a) "stagnation" is not
the ultimate evil.
that fake dilemma. b) seriously,
the only "decent" way ?
mircea_popescu: which such control can be exercised is
through a democratic, collective agency."
mircea_popescu: "The reason
that money is and can only be political is
that
the only way of steering a course between
the Scylla and Charybdis of dangerous ponzi growth and stagnation is
to exercise a degree of rational, collective control over
the supply of money. And since
this control is bound
to be political, in
the sense
that different monetary policies will affect different groups of people differently,
the only decent manner in
assbot: Logged on 20-07-2014 23:47:17; asciilifeform: likewise - perhaps
there is no need
to point
this out, but
the linux/bsd kernel is also not a scientific instrument.
decimation: yeah it's not really able
to measure 1 ns with precision
decimation: interesting,
they must have some kind of functional
timer
adlai: mircea_popescu: scalpl has existed for less
than a year. puberty rarely starts in less
than a decade. by
this metric, i'm optimistic!
BingoBoingo: Now now, apparently distributive justice is a concept white people who redefine queer
to no longer mean gay
take seriouslu
mircea_popescu: decimation asciilifeform only q is, does it
take less
than 10 mins per block.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " can indeed wield
the power of capital
thwart assaults on " <
to.
decimation: asciilifeform: I imagine
the pogo is slow as balls
mircea_popescu: "First,
the bitcoin social economy is bound
to be
typified by chronic deflation. Secondly, we have already seen
the rise of a bitcoin aristocracy (a
term ‘coined’ by Greek blogger @techiechan) which, besides
the issues of distributive justice which it raises"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "rewarded with private profits while
the losses are socialize eliminating risk"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if memory serves it worked by "ignore missing deps" flag at compile
time lol
decimation: I had
to do
that
to make it build on openbsd
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: When hardware replaces pile cooked by fucking NetPG will
try. Worst BSD experience ever. Would not lament painful demise of NetBSD devs responsible for
that abortion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. im prepping your packager so you don't have
to do it yourself.
Apocalyptic: re self-centered cultures, I recently stumbled upon Bridgewater, a hedge fund
that mainstream media often described as "a cult". It shares several concepts with b-a
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron drop an address i'll send you a few dollah so you can buy yourself a few pogos
to
try it all out on.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron wouldja be willing
to package asciilifeform's final pogo stuff into a very detailed, any noob can get it post ?
mircea_popescu: as it is, it dun exist. has
to have rounded corners yo! but anyway! let's do packaging separately.
adlai: mircea_popescu:
the problem is
that i'm not certain what's
the best arrangement.
the "fx bot" currently runs on 3 btc/fiat exchanges, but
that's not necessarily
the best place
to run it, and i'm not sure
that i'm
the best person
to handle
the "get btc from investors
to exchange and back" side of
things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you going
to write a full step by step guide and publish on blog ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: absolutely,
the 'harvard elite' are very much a cult
that happens
to be in fashion
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of
the matter is
that ONLY
THEY DO. and
the current libertardism of
the us was exactly b-a back in
the 70s.
mircea_popescu: decimation incidentally, for all
the idiots who imagine (well, wish
to believe, and so do believe)
that b-a is "a cult" or
that well designed, self-centered cultures do not prevail irl...
decimation: Destructive War, he mentions a foreign
traveler in 1864 who asked some random American
to explain
the war. "It's
the conquest of America by Massachusetts," was
the answer. Massachusetts, of course, later went on
to conquer first Europe and
then
the entire planet,
the views of whose elites as of 2007 bear a surprisingly coincidental resemblance
to
those held at Harvard in 1945. But I digress.)"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
thought you just said it worked a moment ago ?
mircea_popescu: Dimsler yeah, "trade" is not "give me free shit while i
tan". how did
that silly quote go, "And so on.
The
three men ended up working like dogs, using all
the skills developed by
trial and error in
their first few weeks – building a hut, fish,
trying
to get
the women
to forage.
The women continued
to bitch and sunbathe."
Dimsler: decimation, i can assure you most of
the larger cities are pretty much dumps
BingoBoingo: adlai: In my mpif experience if an exchange or asset looks like it is becoming imminently untenable
the MPIA will
tell you
to bail and when.
Dimsler: what he didn't see was
that
the
trade was onsided, inexchange for a bunch of debt
decimation: as an american, I see germany as a
theme park filled with stuffed animals, spouting libtard-ideology
mircea_popescu: adlai dude, you're making yourself impossible
to follow. i
thought you wrote a fx bot
that works on 2-3 exchanges currenty and you're looking
to finance it.
Dimsler: "Simon Heffer wrote in 2011 "Where Hitler failed by military means
to conquer Europe, modern Germans are succeeding
through
trade and financial discipline. Welcome
to
the Fourth Reich."
adlai: what's mpex, a
text-based casino?
Dimsler: decimation, i believe simon heffer rejuvenated
that idea back in 2011
adlai wants
to minimize counterparty risk. if mp is investing in a
trading shop, why should mp's money leave mp's ex?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> of course
the ideology of
that fourth reich was harvard circa 1945 << very astute observation.
mircea_popescu: adlai you don't have
to have a mpex account
to be a pc manager if
that's what yer asking.
decimation: of course
the ideology of
that fourth reich was harvard circa 1945
adlai: mircea_popescu: question: could a profit center be run within mpex/coinbr? ie,
the extent of "you get some btc" would be crediting an account? kinda like how margin is described in
the mpex faq.
mircea_popescu: what,
the french in alger,
the belgians in congo,
the erryone errywhere.
Dimsler: the fourth reich
take over of europe ultimatly ended in a wealth
transfer scheme and a failing currency
Dimsler: yes and all
those euros
that flew in
to build roads
mircea_popescu: thousands of dacias sailed out of
timisoara EACH DAY by
train, for over a year
mircea_popescu: Dimsler but at great gain
to
the quality of life of
the average romanian. and
to a lesser degree, frenchman.
BingoBoingo: My spirit animal
though is a most likely a wound spring. It used
to be a wood chuck until Preston Byrne appropriated
them and relabled
them all fucking marmots.
Dimsler: decimation, at great cost
to
the quality of life for
the average german
decimation: Dimsler: note
that
the 'free bmw' plan also allowed germany
to 'increase' its gdp
mircea_popescu: i
think it's so
tense and comma-tose because you're
too
tight. gotta learn
to relax without liquor.
Apocalyptic: trinque, by
the way how's deedbot coming along ?
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Amazingly all but
the last
two paragraph happened before I acquired vodka.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yanis did write more naive Bitcoin essays by
they came later.
Dimsler: the fourth reich europe domination has proven
to be a failure, instead of bodies all
the
tanned skin loungers got a free bmw or merc
mircea_popescu: adlai so
that's how it works. you get some btc, publish your
trades, etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Dimsler fat chance of
that. you folk will need
tyo go beat all
the gypos over
the head again, and
then
the brits will burn berlin because 'o noes' again.
adlai: i'm familiar with
the overall idea, although i couldn't recite its returns from memory
mircea_popescu: adlai you ever looked into
the workings of panacea ? and mike_c's
tracking
thereof ?
Dimsler: mircea_popescu, good riddance, maybe
the euro will go back
to being called
the deutsch mark like it really is
assbot: Logged on 28-01-2015 05:24:23; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I
think adlai mentioned it assuming an intermediary being necessary not knowing
that MPIF is direct.
mircea_popescu: ially it may seem unfortunate
that someone decided
to promote him from penny arcade optimisations
to managing
the finances of a populated area
that
to some degree still succeeds in putting forth
the pretense of a sovereign state, with a government and everything. Upon further consideration, you will notice it's exactly adequate.
mircea_popescu: One piece of fallout from SYRIZA's recent win in Greec is
the appointment of Yanis Varoufakis (mostly remembered for
tinkering with Valve's Steam marketplace)
to
the position of Finance Minister. Yanis Varoufakis could also be less charitably remembered for penning numerous naive essays
throughout
the Spring of 2013, dedicated
to misrepresenting Bitcoin as some sort of impossible fantasy incapable of anything. Superfic