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chetty: just rehashing
the sec exchange
chetty: hopefully people will get
the idea and stop shaking in
their boots when
the gubermint comes calling
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Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
chetty: MisterE,
the whole email exchange is at:
MisterE: chetty:
thats what I want
to know
too!
MisterE: [23:25:09] mircea_popescu: but im
the elitist asshole
to end all elitist assholes.
MisterE: [23:24:57] Ghaleon: your letter
to sec was an example of
that respectable, legally sound, defiant.. yet friendly
MisterE: [23:24:41] Ghaleon: mp, yes,
the challenge is finding
that person who can build
the epic bridges and present
the right face... without going insane for long enough
this community is doing an awesomejob
MisterE: [23:23:48] mircea_popescu: Ghaleon as you approach mastery you'll notice
the leet asshole is an epic bridge builder
type.
MisterE: where is
this letter
to SEC?
Neil: Shit
the last 70-ish blocks have been insanely fast.
mircea_popescu: and with
that i'll bid you all a very good nuclear summer!
decimation: there would be concern about
the rights of
the eskimos
decimation: that logic more
than anything explains
the lack of nuclear exchange, in my opinion
mircea_popescu: if
the russians invade alaska
the us citizenry would flock
there mostly
to
tweet about it
decimation: in a duel, you can be certain about
the death of
the enemy; not so much against
the nuclear
triad
decimation: what's
the point?
they will do
that
today in exchange for little green peices of fabric
decimation: are you going
to mine some coal and grow corn?
decimation: like in what respect would
the us free of cities be valuable?
decimation: in retrospect,
that seems like a big joke
mircea_popescu: which brings us exactly
to why bitcoin is so important.
mircea_popescu: seems more practical
to just start a facebook campaign
decimation: well,
the other point is
that if
the goal of your war is
to capture
the enemy's resources, destroying
those brains in
the cities is
the way
to defeat your own purpose
mircea_popescu: and
the
thing with megalopolis-oi. cairo yes, cause it's shit. but most modern people live spaced out.
decimation: (8 300 000 000 000 000 000 joules) / (1
ton of
tnt) =1.98374761 × 109
mircea_popescu: so if you want
to boil up afghanistan, you're looking at
mircea_popescu: and
this if you roughly know
the direction. if you don't....
decimation: yeah, you can't carpet-nuke
that kind of area
mircea_popescu: like
the problem of finding
that plane : it only flew what, 500 miles ?
mircea_popescu: but fundamentally : every mile you walk adds more
than a square mile
to
the area you've covered.
mircea_popescu: joecool
that can't be right, mostly because nuclear power is economical as compared
to burning oil.
joecool: mircea_popescu: compared
to nuclear weapons? sure
decimation: carpet bombing with napalm would probably be far worse for
the average citizen
than a nuke going off
mircea_popescu: and as
the countries spending billions on
them like
the people
to continue
to believe.
decimation: indeed, nuclear bombs aren't nearly as dangerous as people like
to believe
mircea_popescu: as long as nobody uses
them it's "those incredibly, exceedingly, unrepresentably powerful weapons". after a dozen or so pop it's like...
those very expensive, inaccurate
things.
mircea_popescu: this works across
the board, currently
the biggest deterrent
to nuclear detonation isn't a bunch of fucktarded chicks
that drink
tea and blather like sheep. it's simply
the desire on all parties
that invested billions in
these
things
to avoid proving
to
the general public
that... big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: if you've never been punched in
the face your reptillian brain builds
this
thing into an endless colossus. if you have, whatever. maybe you lose a
tooth, your lip gets swollen. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even have
to be all
that present, but human beings need experiences, and a balanced diet
thereof.
decimation: the parents I know who pratice physical punishment have
the most well-adjusted children
mircea_popescu: experience, direct experience, remains
the best cure for mental dysfunction.
mircea_popescu: apparently you can't get a fetish going if you get
to see
the actual object, in all its nude glory.
mircea_popescu: the romans had
the following problem
to sexual fixations in pubers : exposure.
decimation: somehow
the risk aversion circuit has gone haywire?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
they play dice for a 2% house edge.
that's okay.
decimation: it does seem
that paranoia is
the mood of our age
mircea_popescu: i mean, even in
the middle of an armed rebellion/invasion your chances
to be plugged are what, 1% ?
mircea_popescu: what if
the
tootbrush gives
them an evil look one day ?
mircea_popescu: there's
this generation of nuts
that fears its own shadow. cops ? hoprrible.
the sec ? omaigawd. black kids ? HALP HALP
decimation: which would be awesome for him, but it's not going
to happen
decimation: if it is a switching supply and your generator puts out crap AC, you might ruin
the dc supply
mircea_popescu: diametric "here's how i
try
to inject myself in stuff
that has nothing
to do with me over 5k words. call me michael moore"
decimation: should be fine, don't put
too much other stuff on
the AC circuit
dub: asciilifeform: noob question im having
trouble getting a straight answer, have 20a dc supply
that I want
to drive (carefully) off 10a of AC mains, bad idea?
decimation: The goal of formalism is
to avoid
this unpleasant little detour. Formalism says: let's figure out exactly who has what, now, and give
them a little fancy certificate. Let's not get into who should have what. Because, like it or not,
this is simply a recipe for more violence. It is very hard
to come up with a rule
that explains why
the Palestinians should get Haifa back, and doesn't explain why
the Welsh should get London back
mircea_popescu: dub forget
that part,
that's easy. ever
tried
to
talk
to
the beast after she's been rubbed raw on marble for half hour ?
dub: no,
tried getting jizz out of felt before?
Diablo-D3: but I
thought
the point of a pool
table was
to
throw a woman on it and fuck her
dub: its
to get away from
the woman