mircea_popescu: you know how it goes when you get the flu and ancient cold sores also flare up ? bitcoin climbs, as a result all sorts of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657609 / bs "feel involved" and relevant and whatnot. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: and being americans they whispered about it, because nobody can have a blog.

mircea_popescu: ah, that's certainly a great passtime, mixed yogas

mircea_popescu: well yes but so redefined you could possibly "be ab le to lift" a meteorite.

mircea_popescu: but shit can't continue, they even made a special lab to certify cultures etc.

mircea_popescu: that's going to be a major butthurt, in the coming years, lots of stuff will have to be thrown out, and people dun really wanna.

mircea_popescu: perhaps a better measure is "hallucinated self-determination", ie uppity twerps pretending like they get to "make choices", something the chinese are very carefully keeping in check. this may continue indefinitely, in which case it might never even come, that time.

mircea_popescu: with this outlook it's a wonder you date.

mircea_popescu: it actually has a pretty close approximation of the "unreviewable source" principle, too.

mircea_popescu: next coinbase is going to be a bitcoin bank, what are we doing here ?

mircea_popescu: eh, panama's not a country.

mircea_popescu: a chocolate watch factory +- dun count for much.

mircea_popescu: there's rather pregnant demand for a country with a constitution specifically forbidding "provenance" verifications. put a pecunia non olet clause, win ~all the remaining capital.

mircea_popescu: i can't think of a worse clime.

mircea_popescu: dude the us is practically a solid block of comedy gold these days.

mircea_popescu: what is the charge, practicing identity politics without a dnc permit ?

mircea_popescu: something with a nuke plant

mircea_popescu: i thought it was a literal case of a bike shed becoming the sink of discussion.

mircea_popescu: basically, to the original point, this "soft alternative" approach to a present problem is a transcription of the bikeshed approach to decision making.

mircea_popescu: to my eyes that's still a match : inasmuch as there's no actual terrorists actually bothering with it, the "dept of homeland security" may continue to departmentr of homeland securitize about.

mircea_popescu: similar example, say, "homeopathy", is a level of complexity in nonsense inexplicable on the basis of simple dynamics. but the necessary requisite for its appearance is very good general health services -- then people can afford to "not trust doctors" and "practice alternative medicine" but in the sense of... not really practicing anythinbg in particular.

mircea_popescu: ah, yes. but the thing is -- the clueless could in principle be clueless about anything in any way, and on the basis of such simple model you'd expect normal distribution, with most not doing anything in particular. whereas the theory here is that ellaborate nonsense is always driven by this situation when a broken ideology encounters a weak reformist group and then idiots end up double-defecting, once into the reformists and

mircea_popescu: and there were also a bunch of germanz doing their take of french cuisine etc. but anyway.

mircea_popescu: the retarded bullshit, "here's a person for whom gatorade didn't work so now nobody may have any!"

mircea_popescu: (for the innocent -- the reason armstrong limit is an abolute limit on the height of the roof is because by the time it rains in your room you can no longer claim to have a roof above it.)