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BigBitz: did
they at least use
the message I signed -- and made a
typo in. Sigh.
BigBitz: I didn't interview, a friend asked me some information, I
told him... ummJackson wasn't
to allow CCN
to use it.
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undata: mircea_popescu: I am also
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BigBitz: undata you know if you show
tits
that mircea_popescu will give you coin.
BigBitz: I'd rather be a chick
than a cat,
that's for sure.
BigBitz: has
the Hawaii chick been
to space yet?
mircea_popescu: undata you know
there's worse
things
than being a chick.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm a sporting man. i like
to lay
the occasional bet.
undata: pow, right in
the manhood
BingoBoingo: Ben Fox is usually
the person with signal on
this issue
undata: he
takes me with him
to uh... build space roobas or something, and
the rest are left on earth which at
that point is one big venezuela
undata: the fantasy for me goes something like emperor Musk establishing space stations
throughout
the asteroid belt for mining
undata: the huddled useless masses I'm paying insurance for, and who are going
to receive unburnable housing
undata: mircea_popescu: so you're going
to keep
the Freen0deAdmins as pets?
mircea_popescu: not about yourself lmao, who
the fuck gives a shit about yourself ? and you least of all!
bounce: concrete'll burn, if
the fire getting it going is hot enough. or whatwasit,
turn back into quicklime and whatever else
they put in it
mircea_popescu: like you know,
telephone poles. you ever seen a charred old pole, from a lightning strike ?
chetty: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo all plastics burn, more or less./usually with a lot of
toxic smoke
bounce: hm yeah still often quite a bit of wood. floors, roof holding up
the
tiles,
that sort of
thing
bounce: ceaucescu did a lot of building,
too, wasn't it?
mircea_popescu: undata not just. houses
too, if you build brick walls on concrete pillars... wtf is going
to burn ?
undata: box
them in soviet apartments
bounce: so
that's
the problem. youse houses be just
too good!
mircea_popescu: at least, not until
the idiot westerners came in
to build "offices" and "supermarkets"
bounce: the really young (and
thus families with young kids) also are a drain.
undata: mircea_popescu: so pragmatically, what
to do with
the useless?
mircea_popescu: nobody in romania has heard of or could imagine
the point of "a sprinkler system"
mircea_popescu: undata sure, but
that's not really a societal response.
bounce: if you live in a house for a hundred years, it never burned down, you paid its rebuilding value (given
the 2%)
twice over. is
that a loss? or a win, after al,
the house didn't burn down.
undata: nobody in mine needs it, but if
they did,
the younger generation could float
them
mircea_popescu: undata note
that
this isn't a matter of should, but of does.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, qntra editor needs his breakfast before
the day begins
undata: bounce: families should do
that
undata: I wouldn't mind seeing
the last few generations of americans starve,
though.
bounce: the usg
thing is a layer cake of fail. but yes, you'll end up with /some/ subsidizing in any such system. over
the long run you'll have been young, subsidizing
the old, and old, mooching off of
the young both.
cazalla: "..which included a fingerprint scanner and camera, downloaded images of users' bitcoin identification cards." << where do i get one of
these?
mircea_popescu: or in other words : someone's going
to be stuck with
the old and
the infirm no matter how you work it out.
mircea_popescu: undata
that's a different story
tho. some allowance will have
to be made for people who worked in one system, if you change it
to another system,
bounce: ``Tooth and Claw is
the easiest of my books
to summarize. It's a sentimental Victorian novel in which all
the characters are dragons who eat each other. If
that sounds appealing, you'll like it. If not,
then probably not.''
undata: and receive virtually no actual insurance for my
trouble
undata: due
to
the recent US healthcare laws, I'm expected
to subsidize
the old and infirm
undata goes back
to shoveling python
undata: maybe I'm smart enough
to avoid
them entirely
Adlai: dinosaurs didn't fail
though...
undata: bounce: if we all pile into
the grenade
together, some of us will survive!
bounce: though anyway,
the point of applying statistics in insurance is exactly because you don't know who's gonna get hit, you only know larger-scale numbers. even so, with
this you can mitigate disaster
to manageable proportions.
that's why it exists.
mircea_popescu: Load Averages: 0.00 0.00 0.00 <<< now listen cazalla, you'd better get moving with
that qntra
thing nao!!1
bounce: no? 'sides, making
the call without a clue is something governments do all
the
time
undata: bounce: you're saying
the government knows better
than
the hurricane?
mircea_popescu: we are, as a species,
the results of
that house surviving, you know.
bounce: plenty governments make
that call, and even
take away your ability
to opt out of insurance altogether.
mircea_popescu: and more importantly, what licenses you
to make
this call.
bounce: I don't follow. did
that guy know
that would happen in
that case?
mircea_popescu: well
thereabouts : if i live in a neighbourhood where flood is 10% yearly, but because of where exactly my house is my chances are 2.3%
bounce: that has nothing
to do with making statistics work for you and everything with squeezing every single chump
bounce: the problem is
that
they're making
the maps so detailed as
to follow every single
thing on
there, real-time. not areas, single persons.
bounce: that's your argument, and it's not
the problem
mircea_popescu: and similarly, arguing
that insurance can't see
the maps of
the land because you want
to have coops of idiots in insurance is nonsensicla.
mircea_popescu: but my argument is : just because your john is an idiot, itdoes not follow you now have license
to make a rule as
to what mircea
the evil can or can not do with his slavegirls.
bounce: actually
that doesn't have
to be
the case. some do pay back
the excess and stay small.
bounce: big ones with ambitions... oh dear.
that's
the ones with
their fingers in medical records.
bounce: small ones
that stick
to
their shtick can work pretty well
undata has been in
the bit mines
too long