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mircea_popescu: they've gotten cheeky btw, i recall the furore when blizzard dared break the tacit "no game shall cost over 19.95". by now ? 80 euros (ie, aboyut a benjie).
mircea_popescu: tons and tons of fruit flies with driveways and car payments, pretending to granite gravestones and "a normal life". THEY'RE FUCKING FLIES.
mircea_popescu: all these big deals were here at some point. at some point in my lifetime. frankly, it doesn't seem so much earlier than today's breakfast.
mircea_popescu: just went away. arianna huffington, right, "mover and shaker", america's most politially influential whatever the fuck dumb cunt, right /
mircea_popescu: gigaom, this "big deal" specialist/experiencialist/entrepreneur/moasa-sa pe gheata.
mircea_popescu: sells in the end for 1,5mn or some shit. that site fucking owned the internet before altavista could return a search page on "google"
mircea_popescu: it's just... look, i guess a preoccupation with gravestones and old musty writs and whatall else is to some degree a professional deformation / professionalized mental issue. but nevertheless, consider : slashdot. fucking slashdot, yes, the people who named the site so that lamers couldn't tell it each other over the phone, calling each other from the video store (which, face it, early ,com internet was 100% videostore cle
mircea_popescu: nothing seems to ever live up in death to the pretenses it puts up while alive.
mircea_popescu: kinda how it's fascinating to me how all sorta things end these days.
mircea_popescu: yes well, just as soon as someone wants to do all-visible-celestial-bodies montecarloisims / novel protein folding etc -- can pay you to do the lyso array
mircea_popescu: for the needs of desktop crypto this is perfectly calibrated.
mircea_popescu: you want industrial thoroughput for some kind of scientific megaapplication, use the crystals.
mircea_popescu: (here god stands for lobbes an'... spyked doing it too iirc ?)
mircea_popescu: thing could mine more bitcoin than the damned things are worth.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, do you perchance happen to recall which trilema article had a gif of SLUT spelled in pink glitter ?
mircea_popescu: kinda how "feel fast" langs and all the rest ends up built -- all sorta morons and assorted chuckas perceiving roadblocks around them.
mircea_popescu: someone explained somewhere the popup-human interaction, drom the chairwarmer pov : "perceives it as roadblock, clicks it away like his grandfather cut a clearing through bushes"
mircea_popescu: mroe recently. back in 2014 it was a lot of "bullet is meat too!!!"
mircea_popescu: "nobody does ill willingly" ? gimme a fucking break, seems the better definition for average human / subhuman (no, the two aren't distinct or distinguishable) readily reduces to "does nothing but ill".
mircea_popescu: you know ? double standard to the moon, "i'm going to be cheeky towards the sovereign and submissive towards the pretender", utterly ass-backwards worldview.
mircea_popescu: or perhaps because the "adverage" human strictly exists to forward the agenda of the empire of stupid, doing exactly nothing else all day the fuck long, like other inferior animals live to forward their genetic code and naught else ?
mircea_popescu: about the ONE THING they can't fucking take, yak yak yak all over again. why, because "for everything else it goes without saying" ?
mircea_popescu: about anything else, that in fact their masters do so take, "real" estate, small business models, whatever -- not a peep.
mircea_popescu: ][TAKE] the results, just as soon as there's something there to take.
mircea_popescu: i just meant from the slutpurse carrier pov. but sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, BingoBoingo how's the status, are you rather short or rather long dubaloo liquidity ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: is this wrong, should i jus tstfu so as not to ruin the small trades for interested ppls ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu was vaguely consdiering sending a large wire for pizz again, on the grounds of this vague impression i have they're desperate for liquidity.
mircea_popescu: well... if all else fails can always take daytrip, to closest urban center.
mircea_popescu: (you can still add it, of course o fcourse. but you gotta add it.)
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, it's funny how "sleek, modern" rounder corners etc bla bla always goes AWAY from productivity. firefox version 5 mn, five years ago or so i last looked, had a bar for url and a bar for search. firefox 4bn, latest vintage as of a few days ago -- no longer search bar. url bar only.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !!reputation stjohn_piano_2 -10 yet another self-sufferer / impudent lout.
mircea_popescu: !!rate stjohn_piano_2 -10 yet another self-sufferer / impudent lout.
mircea_popescu: i guess that means the forbearance window's also closed on that stjohn_piano_2 dork.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o wow, how cool am i, check me out, reached the end of logs!
mircea_popescu: because bitcoin exists. this is the very definition of market as an integration-of-value-symbolics metric.
mircea_popescu: currently you can put a much better price on privacy (and meaningful, too, as a % of the wealth involved -- contrary to what
the poortards imagine, privacy is not an abstract, privacy is strictly a function of money as a counter of value.
mircea_popescu: properly, ie from the bottom up, not "invented by some government" (which is why they're "dark", ie, do not figure in bureaucrat's files) and which is also why they work and so forth and so on.
mircea_popescu: because this is what bitcoin fucking does -- it creates real markets.
mircea_popescu: if so, your created relationships / network you sucked out of them just became more valuable now. if not -- well let that be a fucking lesson to you already, right ? reddit exists
SOLELY to suck its users off it (selectively, of course, they can keep their ninjashoguns) ; not to send it your blog readers.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917355 << i do not think data should be included with ffa ; while i do believe data should be included
with bitcoin. the reason for the split is that i perceive a difference between design and implementation / algorithmics and code, so following. if you see peh as a sort of "packaging of this theory for consumption" then maybe worth including,
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