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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo except, of course, there's not going to be 3k enmilionaired, but a little campaign contribution for wi whatevers and a little extra propo for the bezzle fortunes of w/e the fuck is the oligarch in charge.
mircea_popescu: (rome became a socialist state with sulla ; or if you prefer marian reforms. this is about 4 centuries after the founding -- we're not about to credit the 750 date of the founding of the ~etruscan~ city)
mircea_popescu: it is, actually, about twice as long as rome stood, their idle pretense to millenarity notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: to remind : venice stood for a millenium. this is longer than the "thousand years reich" national-socialism managed ; it is longer than any french "republic" ever succeeded ; longer than the entire existence of the us by a factor of about three, notwithstanding the us didn't start out as a socialist state.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the republic needs no such nonsense, as it prevails in the open air against the pantsuit decoctions.
mircea_popescu: the reason for the asymmetry is that socialism positively needs its unicity argument, as it has no others. without "ourdemocracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others [we're willing to consider, in a limited review intended to circularily "prove" the point]" there's no ourdemocracy.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the important, overarching point above is that the situation is not symmetrical. yes, the continued existence of the republic is, in and of itself, some kind of victory against socialism ; but no, the continued existence of socialism is no kind of victory, for it, or against the republic.
mircea_popescu: this is recurring item in african campaigns of colonial powers.
mircea_popescu: the hot topic nation has yet to come up with an original idea.
mircea_popescu: thermodynamics will eventually dispose ; how about you don't give blind nature too much kinetics.
mircea_popescu: other idiots fall into, then spiders come and lay eggs, then moss eats the etc. eventually it's flat again.
mircea_popescu: people gouging out their eyes to spite their nose aren't specifically winning "some kind of victory against noses"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not saying stupidity is not stupidity, you. i am saying, it is no sort of victory for the stupid.
mircea_popescu: obviously not the same size of stupidity. but the same KIND. which was the point here, category.
mircea_popescu: wrt to the item of interest ? who the fuck cares what dood writes on his website.
mircea_popescu: for as long as miners mine only txn divisible by two, they're welcome to... mine them.
mircea_popescu: what exactly "victory" ? for as long as ustards keep on pretending washington dc is "the capital" of some imaginary "sovereign country", they're more than welcome to... themselves... act if iti were. no more.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, online commerce is ~entirely incapable to proceed with the use of credit cards.
mircea_popescu: FACT : the "space gain" that will be provided by "segregated witness" in its entire existence will not actually cover the full bitcoin blocks lost to date with the dicking about.
mircea_popescu: (for the slow of maffs and usg bureaukratura : 3bn for 3k means 1mn per head. woulda been cheaper to shoot them.)
mircea_popescu: this is some of the choicest lolz chop ever seen in teh field.
mircea_popescu: and in other maga, wisconsin agrees to pay foxconn 3bn to employ 3k local tards so trump can claim the chinos invest in the us now.
mircea_popescu: if it keeps refusing his cancellations it can very well be.
mircea_popescu: no, i know. it doesn't do anything interesting ; perhaps a hash of some nonsense.
mircea_popescu: makes it even lulzier that they had to destroy the block space to save it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (such as colonna, more or less source of the old guy in
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=un+prophete ; at his conviction in 2012 the french equivalent of a federal court gave reasoning for its sentence, for the first time in french legal practice. cuz empire wanna be part of euroland.)
mircea_popescu: not to mention various corsican independence "malfaiteurs" and so forth.
mircea_popescu: ah, and in other imperial lulz : ahmed ben bella, m boufiaf, ex presidents of algerian republic, as well as all sorts of algerian politicians -> prison de la sante, paris.
mircea_popescu: dorkitude's pretention to the contrary never lasts too long, or how did shakespeare put it.
mircea_popescu: the topic of that line is "strange, unexplained bitfield, found unfunctionally in single tx block, and other places".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, in an empty block. enshrined if you will
mircea_popescu: and in unrelated random lulz : during ww1 the count of derby came up with a nutty scheme to pressure people into "volunteering" for service without actually calling a draft. in spite of involving every busybody that could be find, male and female, to pester and harass the general populace, 54% of married men and 38% of single men publicly refused to enlist thereby empirically measuring the mental power of a period wife to be
mircea_popescu: and in other weird, i give you tx 4dafebe97c293ac14788be9a0b8b4f900831c7424467dc92c787daf83d90c37c, sole item in block 477915
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dood only reigned in one of 3 principalities though.
mircea_popescu tried to review sherlock holmes (in the shape of 1939 piece, with b rathebone). still can't understand how anyone can like it. dude's simply an exercise in contradictorianism.
mircea_popescu: (everyone else thinks caul births are a good omen. romanians, as usual, reverse.)
mircea_popescu: in fact, there is, it was just born with story bifida.
mircea_popescu: so because the ro vampire idea was cleaved through the middle, separating the sexual and mystical portions into two different items it seems there's no indigenuous vampire myth.
mircea_popescu: through heart and other proceedings). these will then suck the mana (life force) out of crops/cattle.
mircea_popescu: for the record : it is incorrect romania had no indigenous vampire myth. the error is excusable due to the compelx circumstance : romania has TWO kinds of vampires. one is the flyer, a sort of strange beast that bothers young maidens (females only), giving them anemia and hot dreams. the other is a witch/ghost sort of item that comes out of children born with caput galeatum (caita in ro) which are improperly buried (no stake
mircea_popescu: "senior" "political analist" "on maternity leave". hurr durr etcetera, signalling up to 11 maybe 9 wasn't enough.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform virus does fine in "the hands" of enemy.
mircea_popescu: "I'm a grad student who will be going to grad school to become an occupational therapist."
mircea_popescu: phf and a clear if intentionally obfuscated sentiment of own inferiority.
mircea_popescu: you're considering things in isolation. sociology major has significantly different expense expectations.
mircea_popescu: souffle is a 4 week course if you're nuts. wtf are those, cupcakes ? out of pre-mixed batter ?
mircea_popescu: phf you realise, one could perhaps turn pastry making into a degree. BUT i guarantee that's not what they did.
mircea_popescu: in other shockers, " My name is Stephanie. I graduated college with an associates degree in baking and pastry arts."
mircea_popescu: also re the "maggots will find a way", the tmsr point is subtler than that : a) yes they will but b) let it be the intake manifold and c) make sure the machine corrupts them into humanity.
mircea_popescu: in fairness though, it perhaps contains more "moderate your expectations" than actual solutions, by mass.
mircea_popescu: phf i have long searched for said way. trilema is what i came up with.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "kitchen appliance" really should be a standard body type.
mircea_popescu: see, cause originally, when the venetics were little more than an orcish tribe, they wanted to matter in th world. so they went and stole st marcus remains from alexandria.
mircea_popescu: italian is somewhat mutually inteligible with romanian. but i suppose it also depends what exactly.