Unii sunt putin luati, da' altii saracii sunt luati rau de tot, mai frate.

Her

but it'd prolly be pretty sad, rather frustrating and quite boring.

Actually many men dont have the self confidence needed to fuck more than one.

Me At 15 ?!

Her At any age, there is always the OMG, what if I can't get it up? Which of course produces the fact.

Me I can't imagine teenagers having that issue.

Her Teenagers even worse, what if girl laughs? Or tells?

Me Tells what lol.

Her That he couldn't get it up, big joke among girls, now they are all laughing at you, and telling their BFs.

Me This has got to be a puritan thing.

Her Prolly, but your stats were US.

Me True.

Her All talk, no action. Seriously.

Me So how exactly is a sense of kinship and camaraderie supposed to emerge if they don't really fuck ?!

Her Well that indeed is the problem isn't it? While they are busy sending kids to sex-ed to learn how to put condoms on cucumbers they are telling them they are not allowed to touch each other and generally even if you manage to meet a sensible person they can't be bothered to teach you anything useful.

Me Nuts. Well, not really how it worked when i was a kid, honestly.

Her Yeah, you had a blessed childhood in many ways.

Me Girls were generally of the notion, unspoken but in retrospect quite distinguishable, that it's at least dishonorable for a woman not to respond to being called for fucking, much akin to how it'd be unbecoming for a man to shy away from war or whatever such. I'm pretty sure this is the ancient European view, and prolly wider than that.

Her Whereas I was taught the opposite. I have been fairly lucky to have gotten over much of that early teaching on mine own, but the prohibitions do run deep. It might be that the large number of women that get to be subbies are in some way reliving themselves of the responsibility.

Me In the states you mean ?

Her Ya well we are talking American culture.

Me I imagine generally it's just the universal fact that woman will do anything whatsoever with a man she perceives as great, which more or less boils down to the twin situation of her not perceiving it likely that any other may infringe upon his will and the contingent ability to control the immediate surroundings ; and that he's not insane.

Her I don't think perception of greatness can overcome all of early indoctrination. And a lot of women wind up behaving that way with men that are far from deserving. Surrender removes choice, and thus responsibility. Ignoring of course that the surrender is the choice.

Me Maybe. That sounds a lot more like codependent pathology than submission.

Her Most of it is, imo.

Me Most of what ?

Her At least the American version of slave master relationships.

Me Hard to tell. They're kinda weird.

Her And those are pretty much the only ones I know anything about so can't really sensibly comment beyond that, but yeah my short investigation of them kinda turned my stomach.

Me Back in boston ? Lol those were a lulzy bunch weren't they.

Her Well sorta, I looked into it in OK before that.

Me Ah yea.

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Sunday, 22 June, Year 6 d.Tr.

Ubuntu is a worse piece of shit than MS-DOS ever was.

If this is not directly obvious to you, let's consider two pretty decent benchmarks.

First proof that Ubuntu is a worse piece of shit than MS-DOS ever was :

Acquire a generic system with a > 1 TB HDD.

Install Ubuntu. Any version you feel like.

$ for ( ( c=1; c

Monday, 19 May, Year 6 d.Tr.

Today is the International Day of Remembering How Mircea Popescu Is Better Than Me and related observances

As you probably don't know, not for any other reason than because of your ignorance and laziness, MPEx is the only actual financial services provider connected to the Internet.

Every other group or entity that lays pretense to being both a) into financial services and b) connected to the Internet is making these claims fraudulently. Either while actually into financial services they are not in fact connected to the Internet ; or else while actually connected to the Internet what they're doing is not financial services. Period.

Specifically included here, Paypal. While you may erroneously think, and while Paypal itself fraudulently pretends to be involved in online financial services, they are in fact not. Specifically included here as well, every pretend-bank with an "online banking" service. Specifically included here each and every Bitcoin "exchange". Specifically included here everyone. Everyone.

Specifically excluded from there, MPEx. This because under my enlightened leadership, the market leaderi in financial services eschewed the PKI/https stack of shit in favour of the correct solution. Because that's what market leaders do.

Note that this was no accident, I didn't just so happen to stroll into the right position. MPEx eschewed the "common business practices" wilfuly, pointedly, and at the "cost" of much ire from the average engineer fucktard.ii

Note also that this is not the first time. Not even close to the first time.

Yesterday you had your space for scrambling around, looking desperately for ways to fix the hole, then fucking up the fix, then fixing it again. That's gone now.

Today is the day where you look up from the mud you rightfully inhabit, and gaze upon the stars. Today is the day you look up from your inferior position, to me. Today is the day you gaze upon your betters, upon those magnificent, excellent human beings whose mere existence is a miracle you should give thanks for with every breath and every heartbeat. Those people who aren't merely better than you, those people who are in fact a blessing through their mere presence, embalming the air you perhaps also breathe, if you're lucky, with pure splendor. The sources of grace in this world, and of anything good and everything worth living for. Me.

Not your children, not your wife, not your parents, not your boss whoever that may be. Mircea Popescu.

Today you spend your time contemplating the depths of your inadequacy, the sorrowful filth of your soul, the worthless structure of your being, and you give thanks for the exalted happenstance that I exist, and through my existence you have a - perhaps flimsy, perhaps easily extinguished, perhaps outside of your puny reach but nevertheless present - chance to redeem yourself.

You crawled into this world like any maggot, but perhaps you will leave it as something other than a maggot. For this possibility you set aside today, and give me thanks, and bask in the glory of how splendid it would be to not be you. To instead, even if only for a day, be me.

Not for you, of course, perhaps not yet. But that doesn't change anything.

This, if you're wondering, is going straight into my CV. And yes, if you're "interviewing" me at any future point and don't know what September the 26th is, you will have failed the interview.

———The actual market leader. Not one of the numerous entities that put the string "market leader" in their advertising copy. The only entity which does things correctly, the one entity which everyone else either copies or fails. That's what a market leader is. [↩]From Naggum :

To take but one simple example: suppose you thought of the new millennium when you wrote your application back in 1972 -- not only wouldn't you be invited to the party, those who knew you had done it right from the start and who probably laughed at you at the time would positively hate you now, and they sure as hell wouldn't tell people about you. and the more stupid they are, the more important it would be to pretend that nobody was smart enough to see the next millennium coming.

Does "Nobody could have foreseen their using the plane as a rocket" ring in your ears ?

Does "Nobody had any idea what Madoff was up to" ring in your ears ?

Seriously, dear everyone : Stop thinking like scammers. It's not about sticking with the group when the group is wrong. It's about worshipping the exception, when the exception turns out to have been right. That's what made white civilisation great, great enough for you to have something today which keeps you fed and clothed so you can whittle away your idle time in hollow pretense as to how it wasn't even great, like any worthless worm in the history of lumbricoid worthlessness - a privilege not white people do not happen to enjoy. [↩]

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Friday, 26 September, Year 6 d.Tr.

Time to recuperate this chauvinism thing.

A little bit of intro :

CollarBot wolf`girl is Am but a beast that shall one day live beneath a Master's sword, even if said Master is a complete and utter Brute, but that's okay, because they don't make such Men anymore - or do they?

Psychogopher hello wolf`girl

MirceaPopescu wolf`girl yes, actually they do make such men anymore.

wolf`girl hello, Psychogopher

wolf`girl lol... :c

lilponytail hi wolf`girl

Psychogopher how's it going, wolf`girl?

kitty{NH} heya wolf`girl

wolf`girl heya, lilponytail and kitty{NH}

wolf`girl It's going.... okies.. so far... Not gonna be a good day in general. You's, Psychogopher ?

Psychogopher It's going alright. Why is it not gonna be a good day, wolf`girl?

GentleMaster65 they still exist wolfgirl, dispite every effort to brand them abusers, neanderthals, chavenists, etc etc etc until and unless they are needed to respond to a crime, defend the country or reach things on the top shelf

MirceaPopescu GentleMaster65 despite and chauvinists if you care.

wolf`girl One year memorial today for my auntie. :c

wolf`girl Uhh... you talking about cops, GentleMaster65 ? lol

Psychogopher I'm sorry wolf`girl

wolf`girl Thank you, Psychogopher

GentleMaster65 pats MP on the head and sends him to the iggy corner

Psychogopher if I could give you a hug and some comfort, I would wolf`girl

GentleMaster65 hey there sweetly

MirceaPopescu i guess you never heard of nicolas chauvin huh.

sweetlysynful Hello GentleMaster65, nice to see You . Hope You're well?

GentleMaster65 alls well in this world

sweetlysynful Good to hear

MirceaPopescu a few head issues, but nothing serious. he'll be fine.

kitty{NH} morning MirceaPopescu Ma'am or Sir

GentleMaster65 forget who said this and not an exact qoute but " People sleep soundly in thier beds because rough people do hard things in thier name" something people tend to forget

All the gung-ho idiotarianism of a barely literate but otherwise self important "rough" derp aside, the difficult and uncomfortable word chauvinism actually comes from a French man.

That French man, who might have actually existed under the name of Nicolas Chauvin or else have been fabricated by whatever interest for whatever purposei is famed for :

having been a staunch supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte ;

that then was greviously wounded in the field of battle ;

for which he received an inadequate pension, too small to live on even if the First French Socialist Republic would have honored the obligations it itself undertook (which of course it did not, like the US Socialist Republic isn't going to, like no socialist state ever did or ever will) ;

which was then cut off completely once the Bourbons were restored to the throne, in exact opposition to the man's body of work, hopes and aspirations accummulated over a lifetime - a sad, painful, miserable and definitely uncomfortable lifetime ;

and in the usual race to please the winner, his erstwhile companions and friends forgot all about him - not through the normal workings of memory but through the peculiar workings of volition, in this case, the whore's will to cock ;

and yet he persevered.

Only six points there. The seven would be I suppose the notice, underlined in red ink, that he did not persevere "until the good king came back". The "good king" didn't come back too good, if he was any good at all in the first place. Chauvin did not persevere "until relieved", nor "until victory". There's no happy ending to this story, as there isn't a happy ending to most stories. He simply persevered until he died.

It would seem to me that moreso than Napoleon, Chauvin is a hero of the French Revolution.

More importantly, it would seem to me that this is exactly the type of heroii that's in shortest supply and therefore greatest need currently.

The cartoon-and-cardboard heroes of the coup, the Preet Bhararas of this world that waste public money to pile up a large number of something that upon examination doesn't actually exist nor is worth anythingiii, the Jamie Dimons of this world that waste exactly the same public money to exactly the same ends in exactly the same manneriv are both amply supplied and generally useless. What we could use a few more of would be the heroes of perseverence.

So no, I wouldn't mind in the slightest being called a chauvinist. As far as I'm concerned, irrespective of the speaker's intentions, it's a compliment, and a pretty heavy one at that.v

If anything, I'd like to meet more chauvinists, and I'd like there to be more chauvinists. It's a good thing, chauvinism.

———Speaking of this, consider :

fluffypony lolwut

mircea_popescu lol. I guess guerilla political campaigning ?

fluffypony Nah, I doubt Malema would have the wherewithal for that

mircea_popescu Well I can't tell which way it's intended. Maybe it's anti. Or maybe it's just bored people with an erection from the internets.

fluffypony Yeah probably that.

The defining characteristic of oral culture is exactly that you can't really tell which way it's intended. This is a chief cause of its perennial endurance.

The contemporary Internet has done a bang-up job of resuscitating oral culture, in spite, shockingly, amusingly in spite of the oppression of the written word. Truly we now live in a global village, which reminds me, how come you don't ever see that term used anymore ?

You recall, twenty years ago the "information superhighway" was going to create "a global village". Meanwhile it did. I can see why "information superhighway" isn't used much - nobody wants to be associated with that representative imbecile from Capitol Hill, the one with the trucks. Yet "global village" seems to have gone out of the self-important if very marginal "mainstream" just about the time it became obvious that no, it's not likely going to look anything like a pun on Greenwich Village. And if that's the case... lol. Butthurt much, ye buncha derps ? [↩]Yes there are types of hero. Some of which types are female, others which types are male. This one's ambiguous, but I suspect mostly female. [↩]You know the courts just rejected his patently nonsensical "insider trading" prosecutions. Which means as per usual that whosoever was stupid enough to "make a deal" with the USG is fucked, and everyone else has just got rich again. [↩]Ever wondered why is there a revolving door ? [↩]Let's not even get into the stupidity of calling someone a "chauvinist male pig". You need a whole goop of fatlogic to imagine that men are or could ever be in the sort of situation Chauvin found himself in. No matter how angry this simple fact makes a few raving lunatics temporarily given shelter in collegiate guesthouses, women were born to serve. Men.

This is a permanent characteristic of humanity, it is there for excellent biological (and thermodynamic!) reasons and it's not going away. Denying its plain factuality is not unlike denying Darwinism - a gargantuan, hopeless task which tempts the practitioner with success behind every corner, elegantly wrapped in the shiny of his own ignorance. But otherwise, the many ties that indelibly tie male supremacy to reality are just about as numerous as the many ties that indelibly tie evolution to reality. On that solid basis, fashions come and go. [↩]

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Sunday, 14 December, Year 6 d.Tr.

Three business bits

First bit :

Person #1 You were right about that guy I got into business with btw xD

mircea_popescu :p

Person #1 As usual lol.

mircea_popescu How's it go ?

Person #1 He was fine to start with them he just started making increasingly bad decisions, I heard a few days ago he commited suicide :(

mircea_popescu No ?!

Person #1 Yup. So now I'm back to wondering how I make some money again haha.

mircea_popescu Lol. Well, keep an eye on -assets, opportunities pop up now and again.

Second bit :

Person #2 Thoughts?

mircea_popescu What, already ? Gotta be patient.

Person #2 Sorry, figured you just go through it quickly and give me your thoughts. No rush.

(after a little)

mircea_popescu So it's an insanely expensive escrow website with no trust and some coinbase association. Someone could make something more offensive to me, but I'm not immediately sure how.

Person #2 Insanely expensive?

mircea_popescu Yes.

Person #2 Why

mircea_popescu Because who the hell heard of 1% for escrow.

Person #2 1% is to much?

mircea_popescu You get to charge 1 to 10 bitcents or something. In no case do you get a %.

Person #2 Most escrows charge a percentage.

mircea_popescu For what ? Whether you're escrowing 1000 BTC or 1, you do the same job.

Person #2 http://www.random-derpage.com/

mircea_popescu I don't care about random websites I never heard of, never will use and that do no business.

Person #2 I have never heard of an escrow service charging a flat rate. Can you show me an example pls.

mircea_popescu What's that change ?

Person #2 It doesnt, I'm glad to hear your feedback.

mircea_popescu You get a % when you do something substantial that influences the size of the deal. Do you pay 1% of all your income as an Internet bill to your ISP ?

Person #2 No lol.

mircea_popescu Why not ?

Person #2 In anycase any other suggestions

mircea_popescu Not really, this is too braindamaged to be improved.

Person #2 Sorry to hear that. You're the first person to give me such feedback.

Third bit :

Person #3 This kickstarter project, looks somewhat scammy, but in their presentation they detect amount of fat(?) in different types of cheese.

mircea_popescu Ah, yes. It's impossible to tell without a unit wtf it actually does. But, cheese is uniform.

Person #3 Yeah, but that's kind of their selling point. They do know their IR sucks. I just checked, I know a bunch of them indirectly. They look real.

mircea_popescu I imagine they've made some sort of doohickey. Just how useful it actually is...

Person #3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRa_IH-NJRQ sorry for youtube, but they kinda demo it. Well... you can make a basic classifier, say between cheese and veggies, and then subclassifiers. Based on the people in team, they're fucking with really bad SNR ratios, which is expected. I think i know a good market for them. And they know it too : silkroad buyers

mircea_popescu Maybe. You'd do much better with an actual gas column design tho. And proper laser rather than whatever low power IR diode.

Person #3 Yah, but the costs. Think about it, kids buying some MDMA or w.e, from unknown source. And i think they know. Their sales pitch mentions pills.

mircea_popescu Ya you're right, it does have that market. Experience shows that market is tiny.

Person #3 Based on past SR volume?

mircea_popescu Based on many things, such as hm. Did you ever read my discussion of the SR kid ?

Person #3 Nope, trilema?

mircea_popescu Sec. http://trilema.com/2013/what-the-drug-trade-is-how-the-drug-trade-works-and-why-silk-road-didnt-work-and-didnt-matter/ Prolly towards the end the stuff that actually interests in this discussion.

Person #3 10x. But actually it's not only SR, think of all the Viagra sales from weird online markets.

mircea_popescu Yes but, to quote,

"This is why two years later the famous marketplace was struggling to move one kilogram of cocaine, and this is why it took them three weeks to make the sale, and this is why it actually had to be the owner buying it on his own account : because SR makes no economic sense whatsoever. To be perfectly clear : the average highway toilet is capable of selling out a kilogram in about half a day. SR was a worse drug marketplace than the average highway toilet."

This is important.

Person #3 Yep, but online pharma is bigger, I think in 10e9 range.

mircea_popescu I have my doubts. The problem here is this : the sort of people who buy drugs online and the sort of people who are geeks and love gadgets share very few elements. It's like you have a market composed of all the blue wasps. Now it's true that the sky is blue, and it's fucking immense, and also that wasps are some of the more numerous taxa in nature. Nevertheless, you'll die of hunger selling to blue wasps.

Person #3 Well, still curious about the pharma volumes, will try to research it. No obvious earnings for me though, I just know the guys who know these guys :)

mircea_popescu More research never hurt.

The life and times.

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Thursday, 12 June, Year 6 d.Tr.

This privacy thing...

mircea_popescu So now that everyone else can be busy, ughlol what was it you wanted to discuss ?

ughlol Let me know if you have 10minutes to spare.. after that, I'll not bother you. But on pm, if you dont mind.

jurov What if he rapes you?i

steven-__ What about the log?

ughlol I know im practically nothing, and probably don't even deserve talking to someone like you. But I admire billionaires.

Dimsler Why? He's just a scammer like you are.

ughlol Thats my dream, which I might never reach.

Dimsler You might even learn somethin from him

ughlol Yes, I am sure I can learn something from him. Hence I want to talk.

mircea_popescu It's not practical to discuss things with me privately. We have no basis for that, and whatever you say is perhaps useful for others, later.

jurov Dimsler she learned nothing so far, 10 mins wont change that.

Dimsler Oh well.

ughlol mircea_popescu: I wont ask you about investment. Just want to learn and understand your opinion. I read your blog article, and what you say makes a lot of sense. Thats why. It's a request.

mircea_popescu So go ahead and ask, what.

ughlol Over pm please? Otherwise all your friends - Dimsler, jurov, etc will keep interrupting with their comments. Ok?

mircea_popescu Lemme explain how this works. I'm currently donating my time discussing things with people who otherwise would never get to talk to me, because I believe in some things. You can't try to leverage that into something that otherwise costs a whole lot of money.

ThickAsThieves thanks for the post MP.

ughlol I'm only asking 10mins on a private chat.

It's not just that some random kid from India with what he perceives is a business idea that automatically and unthinkingly yet insistently and tenaciously defaults to trying to talk to me "in private". It's everyone. Some SEC lawyer ? Wants to talk on the phone. Suppose I was walking down the street, run into this girl and asked her for her phone number...ii

And everyone in between, too. Every single journo that emailed me yesterday, after having finally heard about the release three days agoiii wanted to talk on the phone, but if that wasn't possible some were quite willing to come over to Freenode. Wherein they struck up a private conversation.

Why ?

I have been trying to put myself in their shoes since noticing it yesterday, and I'm not getting much. Suppose you were going on a journalistic expedition in the jungles of the Amazon, where live this tribe of people who have powers, or oil or whatever fascinating and great and barely understood thing they may happen to have. Except it's not either fascinating or un-understood a thing to them, it's a central part of their culture. So what do you do, do you sorta-sneak behind the tribe chieftain, or high priest, or whoever has the tallest headdress and sorta start whining in their ear "hey, can we go somewhere private" ?

I mean, if you're a barely socialised, autistically awkward child with a serious shyness problem you might, I see it, but it's not really for adults, is it ? Not really tolerated by society past the age of maybe seven or so, that's what schooling preteens exists for in the first place, to get the girls and some of the beta boys out of this pathologic mode. No ?

Seems to me that if I were the journalist in the Amazon, and the chieftain, or priest, or guy with headdress or whoever the fuck bid me to go ahead I'd do exactly that. And the more people that gather round the better! Because they're not "interrupting", they're contributing. They're helping me get context and depth and meaning out of what this guy is saying. They help me check alternatives and find which paths even are alternatives, irrespective of what my stupid brain may be telling me. Because odds are that as far as the topic at hand goes, they'd know. They'd fucking know, and I wouldn't.

Which is exactly what bars me from a private adventure with the alien : my perception that I don't speak the language, and as such there is no basis for intimacy with that guyiv and hence it makes exactly zero sense to seek privacy. But zero sense, not even epsilon, zero outright!

And this not even getting into the whole discussion of how privacy is overdone even for intimacy, at least of the sexual kind. Who the fuck are those people who go to a petting party and then break off from the group to "be alone" with the girl ? You don't fucking want to be alone with the girl, you want to be with her and all the other girls, to see how her tits look on a backround of everyone else's tits, and how she sucks on one while you're sticking it in her. What "alone" ?

Privacy exists as a hiding place for the deviant, so as to have a space where his inadequacy to the rules isn't directly, painfully or dangerously visible. At least within some limits there's nothing wrong with that (but it does carry the seeds of insanity). The trouble starts however when you're not talking to the deviant but with the normative. The normative does not have this problem of privacy, because the rules come straight out of him, and are by default and by definition tailored for his very comfort. Quite on the contrary from the deviant, the normative perceives privacy mostly as a burden, because now he's going to have to repeat the rules for all the other people who weren't present for your little private session, and that's inconvenient and wasteful, not to mention it creates the possibility of a rulechain fork. The resolution of which is even more inconvenient and wasteful.

So this privacy thing... it's really not for everyone.

———He'd know. [↩]"Oh, but that's different, asking a woman for her phone number is just how you say "let's fuck" in modern English." Really ? Fascinating! So what'd be the basis for the presumed intimacy here, exactly ? I don't know you, you don't know me, we've never slept together, we don't intend to, yet you want to talk to me on the phone. Who ever heard of this ?!

Not that I don't maintain offices or anything, you can call +40 731 076 827 and talk to the receptionist any time you feel like. It's in the fucking phone book. And do you know what people who do call the receptionist all.the.fucking.time do ? They want to talk to Mr Popescu. Who is this ? Just someone who wants to talk to Mr. Popescu. What'd it be about ? That they want to talk to Mr Popescu! Yes, well, he's not available at the moment, [because he is actually doing stuff and doesn't talk to random people he doesn't know on the phone because why in Carnation would he!] So when will he be back ? Well... just as soon as you're somebody he talks to on the phone, I'm sure. [↩]Of which they could have heard ahead of time if only they were following the proper channels. And yes the Buffett bet was also lead there, and the OpenBSD story literally happened there, and so did everything else. [↩]O wait, hence "what if he rapes you" makes a whole lot of sense ? Aww, and you thought jurov is just being stupid ? Well... this is exactly what we're talking about now isn't it ?

And boo-hoo that means there's a lot of material. Well of fucking course on a marshmallow there'd be a lot of material. There'd have to be! What do you imagine we've been doing here for the past three years, rubbing two sticks together and expecting a new world order to come smoking out just like that ? We've been building stuff, the smartest people alive today got together and worked together at the greatest thing in the history of humanity to date, bar none. And you expect to fit this within your head in an hour, or a day ? Count your blessings if you manage to fit any identifiable part within a lifetime, and understand that the best you can ever publish are your feverish, desperate notes, carrying all the flourish of a stretched intellect desperately trying to cope.

None of this "here's the template the editor told me to fill" bullshit works for this purpose. None of that "we understand what we're reporting, it's a car chase or a public demonstration scene or whatever ready-made press category". It doesn't work like that, you too will have to change to fit Bitcoin or disappear. What, you thought it's only the SEC that has to alter its process flow to make me happy ? Heh. [↩]

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Thursday, 20 March, Year 6 d.Tr.

This is just about everyone on the Internet

No further need for "social media" : You've now seen it all, and can safely do something useful with your time.

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Saturday, 14 June, Year 6 d.Tr.

This is how much I rule (today)

The timeline in question :

Krugman's drivel, intended to be a sort of in passing lofty RIP for Bitcoin (because the guy is delusional to the degree of imagining he's the larger quantity and it wouldn't do to talk too much or too closely of BTC) published October 4th, at 12:25

My article, detailing how the USG wasted another hundred million dollars it previously stole from average, hard working US citizens and nobody cares, published on October 5th, 17:02 GMT. That's right, comes to exactly the bottom of the bottom. Which means I did it again.

Kevin Roose in Ny Mag, October the 6th sometime.

This is why I am great. Not because it happens once, and not because it's happened once per quarter since 2011. Because it happens every single time.

This is how much I rule.

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Tuesday, 07 October, Year 6 d.Tr.

These people should be shot, basically.

Looky here :

mircea_popescu http://bitbet.us/bet/768/bitcoin-difficulty-over-21b-before-june/

assbot BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty over 21B before June :: 0.02 B (7%) on Yes, 0.26 B (93%) on No | closed 2 days 9 hours ago

So, what are we looking at here ? Just another difficulty bet, right ? Not exactly. First off, consider :

BitBet - Network Difficulty under 20 million. 48.51(93%) on Yes, 3.73(7%) on No.

BitBet - Network Difficulty under 12 million. 284.72(92%) on Yes, 25.36(8%) on No.

BitBet - Network Difficulty under 6 million. 25.52(21%) on Yes, 94.44(79%) on No.

BitBet - Network Difficulty under 4.5 million. 2.06(10%) on Yes, 18.4(90%) on No.

BitBet - Network Difficulty under 3.75 million. 0.64(8%) on Yes, 6.97(92%) on No.

BitBet - Network Difficulty above 90M in 2013. 14.99(97%) on Yes, 0.42(3%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty tops 10 million. 89.88(65%) on Yes, 48.42(35%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty tops 20 million. 0.54(8%) on Yes, 6.21(92%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty tops 15 million. 6.11(95%) on Yes, 0.33(5%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty tops 25 million. 43.58(26%) on Yes, 124.78(74%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty tops 42 million. 17.99(13%) on Yes, 125.26(87%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty tops 52 million. 122.72(94%) on Yes, 7.64(6%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty to top 69 million. 46.33(97%) on Yes, 1.58(3%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty to top 500MN . 197.22(98%) on Yes, 3.44(2%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network diff to top 210M. 31.93(96%) on Yes, 1.41(4%) on No.

BitBet - BTC network difficulty to top 1B. 619.37(89%) on Yes, 74.04(11%) on No.

BitBet - Difficulty to continue increasing >20%. 3.27(5%) on Yes, 57.91(95%) on No.

BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by less than 10%. 3.4(8%) on Yes, 38.14(92%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty to fall. 6.66(17%) on Yes, 33.04(83%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty at or above 2B. 1750.25(93%) on Yes, 136.67(7%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty at or above 5B. 1.28(95%) on Yes, 0.07(5%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin network difficulty > 14Bn. 30.09(74%) on Yes, 10.38(26%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty over 3B. 5.24(97%) on Yes, 0.19(3%) on No.

BitBet - BTC difficulty to increase by >30%. 1.24(7%) on Yes, 15.63(93%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty over 5.6B before April. 9.83(5%) on Yes, 180.55(95%) on No.

BitBet - May I suggest 9B difficulty?. 6.44(8%) on Yes, 72.03(92%) on No.

BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty over 21B before June. 0.02(7%) on Yes, 0.26(93%) on No.

This is an exhaustive list of BitBet Bitcoin difficulty bets. Now unless math changed since I was going to schooli, the total bet on the 26 bets preceding the one in question comes to 4456.84 BTC, making the average pool per bet 171.41, or 61`220.32% the pool of the last bet.

Moreover, the only comparable sized pool was bet 645, where the mods accidentally accepted a zeroconfii'd bet that was too low and on the wrong side (which resulted in slight changes on how zeroconf bets are evaluated w/r/t accepting proposed bets). Excluding that one, even the furthest outlier towards the lower bound of the total pool distribution is way, way, way above this piddly 0.28 BTC. 1k% and more above.

Why ? And what happened here ?

Well, BitBet bets have a close date, by which time all bettors must put their wagers in, and a resolve date, by which time the bet is, at the latest, adjudicated. These don't have to match, and it's been common practice to make the difference somewhere towards a week or so.

People, being people, have been clamoring that this is unfair. Like so :

I agree with "#2631 Toni" that the betting window is way too long. The betting window should regularly be 1/3 of the total time. Remember that because it is unfair to the ones betting early because the ones betting late have much more info.

This has been a major point of contention bitching by the forum plebs, and so as an experiment I allowed one bet where that window was significant : about one third of the bet duration. The net result ? Crickets. Why is that ?

Well why do you think! It's the classical socialist mindset at work : fat close buffer means a lot of risk for people betting early, because if something happens they won't be able to cover their risks / adjust their exposure taking into account the new odds.iii Your average two bit web-entrepreneur, the "solving world hunger from my rent controlled studio" sort figures this is great, because he's thinking of it happening to other people only.

Yes, that's right : your average redditard approaches a situation as is, with no counterfactual ability whatsoever. So, if there are fifty Bitcoin on the table, and he would like to use his half a Bitcent to somehow steal all (or if not all then at least most of it), he comes up with a rule : make it so that these people can't cover! Then he can maybe, sometime, somehow, put his half a Bitcent down in such a way as to take the world over! A globe spanning empire built out of two bits of retard string! And a dry bean!

The obvious observation that had the rules been written that way then those 50 BTC wouldn't have been on the table simply does not enter his... mind, let's call it, for lack of a better word. It doesn't enter his partially closed neural tube. I have to go to the trouble of actually making an experiment, and Bitcoins to doughnuts it won't make a difference anyway, because what! What else he got ? Cold math and hard reality can't take a fucktard's "dreams" away, can it now.

It doesn't stop here : the average libtard is the same way about anything and everything, most notably taxes and regulation. He wants high taxes, because he sees people producing wealth, and would like some. Once taxes are raised, the people producing wealth leave, and he gets less than before. Because it's not his damned money, that's why. Because what he does is not useful.iv

And that's how the story goes : people go to some new place, devoid of regulation and taxation. This environment encourages wealth creation, so they all get rich first (in a pool of their own blood), then fat and tolerant in short order. As a result, instead of raping their children, often and repeatedly, they coddle them. Because who the hell can be bothered to bitchslap the wife across the house if she dares start shrieking about how the "poor darling" is "trying the best he can". Let him fucking try the best he can in a pool of his own blood, that'll teach him.

Those children then grow up to be fucktards, with opinions about "what's fair" and so forth. Should things be changed to accommodate their worldview, as they always are, then and only then the problems become apparent. Then and only then can Joe Q Fucktard, son of a father made out of pressed shitboard, comprehend how the stuff applies to him. And so... he doesn't want to bet anymore. "It's fair", he says, just, no sort of fair he'd want any part of. He's done fixing California and moves to Texas now, to fix that too. To make Texas "more fair", and also unliveable. Ater which he'll move to Mexico or w/e, make that fair too.

These people should be shot.

And remember : if your kid isn't spending his "trying his best" time in a pool of his own blood, you're raising a fucktard that will have to be shot. So please : don't spare the fucking rod, spare me the indignity and inconvenience of having to shoot your fucktarded offspring.

Thank you for thinking of something beside your own convenience!

———Don't laugh, it's possible, to make it "more fair" or "gender inclusive" or "respectful of faggotry" or whatever the stupid shit. It's happened to everything else, why the hell not change math. Progress, yo! That unstoppable force of dumb which is indistinguishable from sclerosis. [↩]Zeroconf is when the bet proposer sends BTC along with his proposition. These tend to be mostly accepted, depending on the sum involved, as the house is guaranteed a rake. [↩]If this topic is a mystery to you, review the seminal http://trilema.com/2013/how-to-cancel-your-bitbet-bet/ article. [↩]No, sitting on your ass all day long and opining about how things should be run, and "designing" stuff and giving your most valuabe input on things is not useful. Nobody asked you if you think it's fair, nobody gives a shit how you think anything should be run. You don't have a basis upon which to discern if something is fair or not, you don't even have a basis upon which to understand how things work, let alone why they work that way. Shut the fuck up, I'd rather hear the strippers talk. [↩]

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Wednesday, 14 May, Year 6 d.Tr.

The Wolf of Wall Street

The news that some kid had his future shattered interrupted my watching an incredibly bad moviei.

"You'll hate it, you know", came the warning as I made the pick.

"It's Scorsese. I trust Scorsese", was my naive retort.

I was scammed, ladies and gents. I was scammed by Martin Scorsese. This film is god-awful. I have no idea how bad it must get to sign off on something like this, how desperate for rent money one must be, how dim and distant the memory of one's earlier days, when the brain still worked. I just can't comprehend it.

Problem I. The entire thing is, from end to end, a very bad advertisement to do drugs.

I am not a prude, myself, I've tried pretty much everything there is to try, I'm not exactly in the dark on the subject matter. Scorsese, however, is. So are the writers, so are the consultants (did they even have any ?!), so are the actors. Apparently nobody involved in this entire thing, from gofers to fluffers (did they even have any ?) ever did any drugs, ever had any sort of contact with anyone part of the culture, not as much as a cousin third removed in rehab somewhere. It's simply... I'm not sure your average highschooler is this divorced from reality. Maybe if the otakus made a movie about life in the subway it'd be this fucking clueless.

There could perhaps be brought very cogent, or very persuasive, or very elegant arguments pro various drugs. This film isn't one, in any sense. It does not discuss drugs such as they are in any known universe, and it doesn't in fact make any sort of statement or point at all. It just shows a bunch of dudes doing it, perpetually, randomly, as if it's the best thing ever and the only thing worth doing. Period. Just like that, advertisement by browbeating, like they do it in the US. Pick something stupid, vapid, meaningless and repeat it a billion times, through every available venue. All the time. With slight alterations that change nothing of substance. It doesn't matter that it's stupid, just keep saying it. It doesn't even have to mean anything, which it doesn't. Just repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeat repeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeatrepeat.

Who in his right mind would think this is entertaining ? It's fucking work, watching Scorsese's latest production is not unlike counting sand in a desert sandstorm.

Problem II. This thing has absolutely nothing at all to do with Wall Street, even if Wall Street were the name of some dubious lounge bar where the strange children of rich and absent Indian parents gathered together to play being US stock brokers, as they imagine that may be. There are some very superficial points of contact, badly mangled - like for instance surely people curse on the floor. This is because nobody is going to go to the star broker and tell him how to express himself. The man passed a Series 7 exam, he should be able to make the call on his own. Nevertheless, the sort of bizarre behaviour depicted by the actors in this film would have one committed before lunch, after about two to four hours of wtf looks from everyone. And yes WS people get committed on a daily basis. They're nuts, but they're nuts a certain way, or a number of certain ways, and what we see here ain't it, not even close, not even the same park.

The entire thing looks like a bunch of car salesmen and assorted losers from the Warrior Forum were set to music and for unknown reasons called brokers. Perhaps the idea is to play to the sensibilities and mental universe of Flyover Zone America, as the last retards who still pay for movies. Perhaps Scorsese is now sniffing glue. Whatever the explanation, these fuckwits couldn't pass muster to work in Glengarry Glen Ross, a run down real estate scam. What Wall Street ?

Problem III. The entire thing is lifted, being a complete (if unauthorised) remake of the otherwise bad Boiler Room. At least that piece of shit has the excuse that it's made by nobody starring Fuckfleck and what's his name. At least that thing is more or less a story, bad as it may be, but still somewhat grounded in some sort of vaguely believable reality.

At the rate this circus is going by 2025 people will be prasing the high production values of South Park and the credibility of 1960s B SF flicks. Because by comparison...

———The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013, by Martin Scorsese, with Leonardo DiCaprio [↩]

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Category: Trilematograf

Wednesday, 29 January, Year 6 d.Tr.

The weird of web "metrics"

Motto : <kakobrekla> Isn't Alexa rank like rand()*2/2?

On one hand, there's

So like... really ?! I'm THAT big in India ?

It got me thinking that who knows, that Shanti Dynamite chick is so into me she's reading Trilema compulsively and has an Alexa toolbar installed or something.

Then, I checked the Awstats for last month (which, while not necessarily more informative than any other random measure of nonsense, are nevertheless somewhat closer derived from actually verifiable data) :

That the US and its smaller, poorer cousin the UK are shown as 20%/10% in one source and 500k / 30k in another source I could perhaps see as a result of you know... errors. But picking up the 34th, moving it to first position and giving it a 20`000% stat boost in the process ? It's just a teensy bit rich, no ?

Sotto : See motto.

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Category: Meta psihoza

Saturday, 06 December, Year 6 d.Tr.

The Web 2.0, illustrated

With the site's own CSS :

Without the site's own CSS :

Which, in your own estimation, is the better deal ?i

Both get the same 1280x768 viewport. The web 2.0 version manages to get three lines in there. The sane version gets five. The web 2.0 version elides the status, method and protocol. Because the less information you get the better, right ?

That's what web 2.0 really is all about, isn't it ? Making stupid people feel less inadequate for their stupidity, making the clueless less capable to notice their cluelessness. Making everything "feel" better and appear "nicer", right ?

Fuck you.

Now go away.

———The shit's actually so bad ,cPanel includes to this day a small link going "Click Here for the legacy version of this screen, which uses less JavaScript* and formats the information differently."

It's been there for half a decade, that link. They can't quite bring themselves to out and say it, "We've made this look retarded because we're whores for peer pressure. If you'd still like a page that doesn't utterly suck, click here. Sorry we're such pussies, please still like us anyway!", but you know that's exactly what it is.

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* Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention : web 2.0 destroys an acre of virgin forest every time you click on some retarded gawker "media property", to pay for all the extra CPU cycles needed. [↩]

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Category: Meta psihoza

Wednesday, 01 October, Year 6 d.Tr.

The way of stones

The main attraction of an old 286 for a young boy carrying my name through the world was not Golden Axe, as much as he loved that, nor Death Tracki, as much as he loved that too, nor F-19 nor Qbasic, which allowed him to draw arbitrary circles and lines and whatnot on the screen, even nested in arbitrary for clauses. Nor XTreeGold, of which Norton Commander was a pale later copy, reluctantly accepted for lack of maintenance on the original - and which has meanwhile become a bridge too far for the constantly deteriorating computing UX standards, you wish today you had a file manager as powerful as NT was in the days of the 386s. It sucked as compared to the standards of the 8086s, but hey. Progress, which is to say rot, right ?

The main attraction was an ancient game, started one misty spring morning in 1989, in the remote mountains of China's Han Shan province, a Mendicant monk of the Northern School of the White Crane branch of Taoism, walked silently out through the front gates of the Heavenly Peak Temple. That monk carried a stone board, a set of seventy-two carved stone pieces, and an ancient scroll inscribed with brush and ink in elegant calligraphic script. That monk, of course, was Michael J. Feinberg, an extremist leftwing nut.

The game was by no means ancient, even if nobody I met as a teenager could be convinced otherwise. It had everything it needed to have in order to feel ancient : a sort of balance, a difficulty made out of the exact right stuff - the resistence of the medium.

I dearly loved that game, I was pretty good at it, and while I only spent with it before my eyes a fraction of the time I spent gazing upon the improbably pixelated tits of the sword amazon or Melissaii nevertheless I spent a lot more thinking about it, whether I was aware of the fact or not. Which is why when I think of what games were great in that period, Ishido comes to mind first and immediately.

So I wanted to show it to a younger friend, not even sure any implementation survives. Turns out... it does. Obviously the dork age that is iPad gaming does not have a reimplementation of Ishido among all the really stupid clones of themselves they list, but that doesn't matter so much : the current maintainer had the sense to make his implementation crossplatform by default.iii

So I fired it up and played exactly one game, explaining what I do and how it works as the game progressed. I had no idea if I even still remembered much, seeing how it's been a solid decade since I last touched it - at least. Turns out, I do remember.

That's right baby, eight four-ways and an empty pouch, 8285 final score. A master!

Encouraged by my display, making things seem easy, the friend tried later all by herself. Suffice it to say it didn't quite work as well as one'd have expected, which overall turned out to be a useful lesson.

So there you go : try a game of stones. It can't possibly hurt anything.

———Yes, there was a GTA in the 90s, arguably cooler than the later versions you kids saw for the first time and imagined originals. They ain't originals. [↩]Cine cunoaste stie. [↩]Which is, to this day, the only good thing that can be said about the web : even Fuctapple can't fuck up a browser to the degree it breaks the web. Or maybe I shouldn't say that lest I jinx the whole ecosystem. [↩]

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Category: Trolloludens

Saturday, 25 January, Year 6 d.Tr.

The USG wasted another hundred million dollars it previously stole from average, hard working US citizens. Nobody cares.

The 30k BTC that USG agents are currently dumping into the hands of la Serenissima (the same people they will gratuitously brand as "terrorists" and "criminals" and "WMDs" within a few years) for less than three hundred dollars a pop cost over six hundred dollars a pop mere months ago.

If you imagine this means the agents in question are making a trading loss (of 50% no less!) you are entirely deluded. No, they aren't. They will be indemnified for all their trading losses, and receive fees on top of that. Out of whose money ? Guess.

If you imagine that's all it took, you're very much deluded. No, they're >100k in by now. And if you imagine the people who lent it to them are going to make a loss once those obligations become unserviceable in Bitcoin, you are deluding yourself. No, they won't, they have indemnity clauses, they will be repaid in dollars, and generally speaking abundantly enough so they can rebuy. Out of whose money ? Guess.

And finally, if you imagine this means anything whatsoever to Bitcoin, you are deluding yourself.

It does not, Bitcoin is not the US derp, not since 2012. You had a chance to matter, you wasted your chance to matter. A year later you then had a chance to give up your delusions of sovereignty in a deliberately humiliating display, but you were too proud to go on your knees back when it'd have still done something. Now there's nothing left. We can't be friends. We can't work together. You can't kill us. You can, of course, keep yakking. Enjoy.

On which yakking note : the bill for Krugman's latest piece of flaming idiocy is at the very minimum half a billion dollars, and before we're done fucking the USG in all the holes it'll probably come to trillions, quadrillions, whatever you've got over there.

Krugman couldn't make half a billion no matter what he did. There's no way that "asset" is ever paying for itself. In fact, Krugman couldn't generate a thousandth of a thousandth of the value his stupidity destroys in your hands. So : while you're paying him, he's working for us. He's, unintentionally, perhaps, out of sheer stupidity, perhaps, a mole. Just like the agents you're indemnifying, and just like everyone else. It's not even a matter of, "how much would you have to pay your enemy to love you", it's even deeper than that. It's not that they're your enemies per se - generally speaking they either don't care or don't understand what's going on.

And what's going on is that in any contest with an objective scoring criteria, the objectively fit behaviours will overcome the objectively unfit behaviours. Which means that you don't get a chance to elect what you'd like to do or not to do. Which means that it doesn't matter what you think is right or what you think is wrong. Or fair. Or nice. Which means it doesn't matter what your previous identitarian or ideological investments were, nor what you thought they were. It doesn't even matter whether you - like the dinousaurs of yore - are physically unable, objectively incapable of adapting to the new scoring criteria. All that matters is that you're allowing yourself to be represented by people who trade horses for pawns and bishops for horses and rooks for bishops and soon enough there's just a "king" left with a bunch of pawns all around him.

So there we go : the Bitcoin price in dollars as reported for internal consumption is not like the US inflation as reported for internal consumption, nor is it like the US unemployment figures as reported for internal consumption, nor is it like their ancient Soviet counterparts. The difference is that Bitcoin is a sovereign, and above any US policy, any US "representative", and if it comes to it, above the entire United States, its faith, its credit, all of it. It will endure, the timeless Polar Star of the financial world, like it or not, want it or not.

You don't like the sound of all of that ? Great! Get lost.

Get lost and don't come back until you can either think or do something useful. Contrary to what you might have self-aggrandizingly imagined, we don't want you. You need us, of course, but that's an entirely different discussion.

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Category: Breaking News

Sunday, 05 October, Year 6 d.Tr.

The United States Scammers Service, Formerly Marshalls Service.

We find from Qntra that the USMS is going to bat with a reiteration of the "fake Bitcoin aucton" scam. The interesting details :

The [imaginary] 50,000 BTC are split into 20 [imaginary] different blocks

The first 10 [imaginary] blocks are grouped in Series A, the second in Series B.

Series A blocks [imaginarily] consist of 2,000 [imaginary] coins and a deposit of $100,000 is required per bid entered on Series A.

Series B blocks [imaginarily] consist of 3,000 [imaginary] coins and a deposit of $150,000 is required for each bid entered on Series B.

Translation : MP was right, so we want 10% of the BTC valued at 500 each.

TERMS OF SALE

Cash. The bid must be an all cash offer. Bids that are contingent on financing terms of any kind will not be considered.

Translation : Banking system lolololol.

Bidder Qualification. The USMS reserves the right to reject any bid for any reason whatsoever. The USMS reserves the right to sell all, some or none of the bitcoins at auction.

5) Is there a reserve price for this auction?

The United States Marshals Service reserves the right to sell some, all or none of the bitcoins for any reason. There is no disclosed reserve price for this auction.

Translation : we don't actually have the coins, but we will pretend like we've sold them to you if you're one of our agents. Then you can pretend like you have coins you don't and we can pretend like we confiscated coins we didn't and lo and behold! fiat Bitcoin!

What, pray tell, would be the difference between the USG holding a fake auction for imaginary goods via the USMS, and theymos & co holding a fake auction via Garr255 ? If you come up with something make sure to let me know!

6) What information about the auction process or results will the USMS release?

The USMS will contact the winning and losing bidders directly. The USMS will not release any information to the general public pertaining to the auction process or results.

Because that is legal now! Notwithstanding that on the first pass of this same scam, they promised they will release data. Then they didn't release it. Then they got FOIA requests, which they were legally required to answer within 30 days. Except they didn't. Because the US is a rogue state, and its idea of "the rule of law" is related to law in the same way Soviet "democracy" was related to democracy : as a pure exercise in nominalism.

So then some schmuck posing as a civil servant came out with an announcement that they'll release data within 30 days, two weeks after the legal term. Because this is how it works now, civil servants have this authority in some sort of parallel universe, where they not only break the law but construct an alternative law instead. What, problem ?

And then they didn't respect that, either. But you don't think they'd come out and say it plainly, "MP actually has better access to our own classified information than we do", would you ? Because the pretense must be maintained at all costs! So what if they're poor ? They can pretend like they're rich, can't they ? So what if they're stupid ? They can pretend like they're clever, neh ? So what if they don't have a leg to stand on, or much of a point, or any sort of future ? THEY CAN PRETEND LIKE THEY DO! NOBODY WILL EVER TELL THE DIFFERENCE!

Srsly guise... Flondor.

To recap, for the slow witted :

The USG made up an imaginary stash of BTC.

This is handy, because if you are going to try and depress the BTC price artificially having at least some of the market participants believe you hold some stocks is helpful. If the misadventures of paper gold are any indication, it doesn't actually matter how unfounded those beliefs are.i

This is also handy because if you are going to borrow like you're Obama it significantly helps your credibility to pretend like you actually own some. You know, just like Madoff & co.

This is also handy because maybe there are somewhere rich people interested in Bitcoin that are idiotic enough to sign a form for you, because why the hell not, right ? More information is never worse than less information, so what if you'll tell them they "didn't win" the mystical auction that never happened for goods you never had ? Not like they have any recourse anyway.

Meanwhile in the unintentional side effects camp :

Inadvertently confirmed that MP was right all along, and a fair value for BTC exceeds 500 USD per.

Inadvertently confirmed that MP somehow knew how the other auction turned out.

Inadvertently confirmed that the USG-owned banking system is a joke, that they were routed in the earlier financial clash, and other things.

I tell you, nude emperors are a lot of fun to play with. Especially when too big, too frail.

———This is how the G20 works to keep gold prices artificially depressed : by (falsely) claiming to hold large stocks, and by selling to (naive buyers) paper certificates of ownership in those imaginary stocks.

Unfortunately in the case of gold faling for such shenanigans is not easily avoidable, because unlike Bitcoin, gold is a physical item : it takes up storage space and it will interact with people through a simple unified API called "physics". In other words : anyone can put in his pocket "your" gold just as well as you can. It doesn't magically crumble into meaningless dust the way an encrypted Bitcoin wallet does.

Talk about the great value of "physical", right ? It's a great thing, at least for the people making their living building and selling vaults, outfitting and hiring out guards and so on. [↩]

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Category: SUA care este

Monday, 17 November, Year 6 d.Tr.

The two aspects of my urban negro.

« The power of the press, in English this time.

Natural law, and the problem of definitions. »

Category: Zsilnic

Tuesday, 25 November, Year 6 d.Tr.

The two all-essences

This is a translated version of an older Trilema article, Cele doua atot-esente. Together with Peri metaphyseos, in English this time and On essences it forms a trilogy, which should ideally be read in that order.

That essences have no flesh does not necessarily mean they can't move the flesh of others.

It's quite the mystery this, how and wherefore, but the fact remains that there's no rule requiring that essences remain forever "silent". My mind can identify without much effort two that regularly move the whole population of the globe.

The first is expressioni. Expression, which exists since forever, even before any one given language (be it "natural" or "synthetic") was born of its substance. Expression, which will doubtlessly survive all of them - the simple presence or absence of given tongues has no effect over the existence of expression, only the disappearance of the possibility of communication could possibly unweave it from the world.

Expression forms languages by its own rules and criteria, pushes and pulls on them by its own taste or need (admitting we are human, we will taste the sweet fruit of the aforementioned personification, it's more convenient), exposes them to the risk and sometimes the certainty of their own extinction should it be necesary, with no interest given or consideration paid to ulterior effects, just as white water will carry logs or cattle with no consideration if that may result in smashing them against a rock or bridge, and with no worry as to "what will become of them".

Language obeys, and draws the limits of human representation, which limits in turn draw, in a certain, mediated manner, the borders of individual humans' experience and activity. In this manner, thrice mediated (once through experience, which in turn through representation, which in turn through language), the universal essence of expression drags you back and forth, picks your children by picking your lovers by picking the experience through which you imagine you're choosing them and limiting your actions on the basis of which they imagine to be picking you.

The second is... well... the second doesn't, in fact, have a name. Would this be a sign that expression doth not approve ? Why is it the case that the second essence is not representable in terms of the first ? Coincidence, I wonder ?

Let's call it... changeii. What money is for this second essence are words for the first.

Change, like expression, has existed before people, the chemical exchanges within cells through respiration are, in the end, a matter of change, of merchandise and capital, the relation between a saprophyte and its host purely economical, like all political choice. Something as simple as the flow of water, in appearance a physical phenomena is in fact an exchange : capital as potential energy, time as gravity, constraints of various surfaces indistinguishable from any other environmental limits. Water flows just as economically as any corporation, no matter how sophisticated, there are no differences of essence.

The very evolution of life on Earth is, in the end, a matter of economics. And so here, this second essence controls your existence : it being cheaper you have no wings, you have no wings. No matter how much or how little this suits you, and even it seems to you that this is who the world "is", for you to have no wings. Were three eyes cheaper you'd have had all three and imagined it only natural, while poor blind fishes in the depths of the sea or captive in caves are not only blind, but perfectly happy to be blind. Because that's what it's to be.

And looky how, together, one coming from representation, the other from action, these two essences limit your very imaginary freedom. Surely, from a certain perspective regarding the entire matter these limits come out as beneficial, at the very least because absent them we'd have never found the two essences.

It's a postulation that to me seems absolutely evident that the two have nothing in common - and thus irreductible to a single essence (which, incidentally, offers just about the best possible argument against any conceivable monotheism, if there was any need for such arguments past the immense boredom imanent in any monotheism).

Why have they found to dispute in man the same tiny point of the world ? Is it happenstance ? Does this happenstance hide a purpose (and if yes, how would we go about transforming this metaphysics into teleology ?) Mystery.

But at least we have the satisfaction that we've spent a few hours in a pleasant manner together.

———The original had an easier job, Romanian distinguishing between "limbaj" which is a more general term, and "limba", which is more particular. As such a programming language is "limbaj de programare" in Romanian, whereas the English language is "limba engleza". To try and best reconstruct this distinction I'm going to use "expression", but really, it should be "lingus" or something.

There could exist alternatives, but in my eyes "expression" works because of "genetic expression". [↩]The original said "economy". Meanwhile I have realised this is wrong, and that's exactly why these three articles had to be translated before I could proceed to the Complete Theory of Economics.

As a sign of this error, the original had a paragraph we no longer need here, which went something like "but let us not misunderstand the term economics in the naive-bombastic sense people give generally to the term, under the fundamentally broken assumption that it'd be their creation, that it obeys them, that they can control it through laws and other bullshit of this kind, infantile nonsense roughly on the level of expecting the moon disappears every time one covers his eyes. [↩]

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Tuesday, 22 April, Year 6 d.Tr.

The twinheaded announcer announces!

Head #1 :

The well known and alreadily beloved precocious child that is VAN[ity] Adsi will be paying all accepted venues a little over a bitcent-and-ahalf a day for the entire month of August, starting tomorrow (in the shape of a Trilema advert).

Yes, that's right, all of them. So if you're looking for a little guaranteed advertising revenue for your blog, news site or whatever else it may be, get a hold of us in #bitcoin-assets and plead your case. We're very selective, so dress to impress.ii

~ * ~

Head #2 :

War of Life just finished its first month, during which it did a decent 80ish Bitcoin worth of total bets. While BitBet's 15k seem like a bridge quite far away, I can tell you with authority that on an Argentine Peso basis, BitBet's first month was actually just about 70.886116592 of today's BTC. The more prices change, eh ?

Anyway, to celebrate the complete blowout of Life depicted above, a natural phenomenon of which I personally am a great fan, the next person that manages to double his War of Life investment will receive a quadruple payoff. So, put down a Bitcoin nowiii, show a 1 Bitcoin profit on it at the end of the game, get 4 Bitcoins instead of two.iv As a bonus, if the investment so quadrupled is at least 1 Bitcent, you also get a commemorative War of Life t-shirt depicting your game.v

~ * ~

In closing : For lulz and profit, forwaaaard!

———Really, it's named for a certain toplessly famous girl : V's Advertising Network. [↩]This means we don't really care what the numbers are. We don't look at your "traffic". We look at your content. If your content sucks, this isn't for you. If your content is great you got a spot. [↩]Past year 608 on game 22. Minigames not included. [↩]You won't get more than twice your investment out of this offer, even should you be able to triple it or something. [↩]And yes you will be able to order these soon! [↩]

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Wednesday, 06 August, Year 6 d.Tr.

The tok o' capercaillie or the herd of harts ?

The moorhens plump and the mudhens fleet attacked by dusken flicht, causing the mallards' puddling all. In spite of significant goshawks trippe and capons mews, notwithsanding the dopping of the goosanders and the covey grouse, at the precise moment of right then the sedge of bitterns.

The pipers' poverty petitioned the parliament of rooks, to no avail blyad. A bypassing dopping sheldrake tripping stoats stopped for the swifts scream, admiringly. The spring teal near the toad's knot hovered atrout, in the wanton wigeon company.

No lapwings' deceit, no martens' richess, came the answer, none harts may herd nor emus mob while foresters doth stalk among the dotterel trip. The Curlews' murder that coots covert and colts doth rag must chattering of coughs and dunlins fling begone.

Tis all, tis lone, epitome.

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Saturday, 25 October, Year 6 d.Tr.

The thorny problem of violence, or the miracle of the talking ass.

Orlov has his fans in #b-ai, and so he keeps getting linked. This is to no-one's detriment, I don't think, principally because whatever merits or dismerits the original text may have, the discussion it engenders is usually productive. In this case :

First, when empires start falling apart, this is manifested in a few ways. One is loss of control over the periphery, as a shrinking pool of resources is used to shore up the center. Another is loss of control over the use of violence, as a wide variety of violent entrepreneurs enter the scene and the center is forced to play them against each other and make deals with them.

mircea_popescu Anyway, I'd say I'm the poster child for Orlov's "violent entrepreneurs". It's not that I make an enterprise of violence, it's that I clearly and pointedly reserve the right to use violence without limit. In a sense, "entrepreneurs of violence" is just a particular facet of sovereignity. Orlov was in a room with a sovereign elephant and what he came out with was the trunk.

And as the unraveling progresses, the violent entrepreneurs develop agendas of their own, which, inevitably, involve having the cooperation flow the other way: instead of cooperating with those formerly in charge, they demand that those formerly in charge start cooperating with them. And it is here that the scene turns bloody.

mircea_popescu "The SEC wants to matterii, the SEC better get in the WoT". Hasn't turned bloody yet.iii

undata Ah I understand; I took it as "violence start-ups".

mircea_popescu I dunno what he meant by it, but what he actually said does allow an interpretation that actually works, so. Benefit of the doubt. In any case, violence is not merely physical violence. Tim Swanson got bludgeoned into the dirt, what is that if not violence ?

asciilifeform Mr O is fixated on the 'elephant's trunk' because that was the organ he saw in action personally while visiting Russia in the '90s.

mircea_popescu Understandable.

asciilifeform In his words, approx., 'violent entrepreneurs are special and distinct in that they will work whether or not you pay them, whether they're paid simply determines whether they work with you or on you'.

mircea_popescu Exactly. See ? Sovereignty. "The country works whether it's your ally or your enemy, as what it does."

There tends to be a clean break with the old, collapsing society, which is motivated by money and prestige within society at large, because these entrepreneurial groups are motivated by honor and prestige within the in-group only.

mircea_popescu What is the WoT if not exactly that ? Guy pretty much has it, in the working parts.

diametric Stuxnet: Zero Victims - Securelist

mircea_popescu A they found the domains huh.

undata Iran to me is a great example of why strict authoritarian systems do not work. But to ask a different question, how do we end up with authorities who are rational?

mircea_popescu WoT ?iv

asciilifeform Iran is a poor country, and, afaik, run by populistic idiots generously helped by foreign wreckers from half the globe.v

mircea_popescu There's a much larger issue there. Iran is mostly ethnically Persian. The leadership, ethnically Arabic. On their own, the arabs are usually poor in Iran, therefore they depend on government dole. Exactly Manchuko scenario replaying itself, what used to be fearless warriors are now blind old dependants.

asciilifeform Interesting and it explains things.

undata My question is how a parasitic overclass is avoided if one is to believe in sovereignty and aristocracy?

mircea_popescu What's your definition of "parasitic" ? Mankind lives off the soil.

undata One that eventually wears out the thing underneath, leading to collapse. Maybe that's just the nature of it. I'm not convinced I'm asking the right question.

mircea_popescu Listen, until you start doing your own photosinthesis, you can be accused of being "parasitic". It's like accusing someone of US-"rape". Do they have a penis ? Well....

undata Sure, but there's a question of degree there.

mircea_popescu Yeah, and that question is called politics. The apportioning of penance among the universally guilty humans, aka the temproal role of the church, aka the first central government.

undata So the answer in Iran's case is "because an adjacent sovereign is not fit enough to destroy them?"

mircea_popescu They're just lazy and stupid. Could also say "they're letting the women lead much to their detriment". Middle easterners have this problem.

Some of the action is bound to be quite shocking; for instance, while the elites and the oligarchs themselves are rather well defended, at least initially, their children, ensconced in various elite schools, academies and universities, comprise a soft target, setting the stage for school take-overs, mass kidnappings and shootings of a very different sort from the ones seen to date.

mircea_popescu So Orlovs' prediction is that in the near future I will be able to order oligarch underage daughter prostitute to my hotel room in Odessa ?

asciilifeform Well sure, more like hotel in London.

mircea_popescu Why would I go to fucking London. I'd rather be the prostitute.

asciilifeform Idk why to go to London. Just following Mr. O's thoughts.

ben_vulpes At the risk of pointing out the obvious if you can afford the bundling and transportation, you could have them in Odessa.vi

asciilifeform Odessa is under american occupation atm, afaik. (Well, more precisely, NATO's unofficial little shitgnomes).vii

mircea_popescu Kinda my point. Ben_vulpes : yeah, but the idea is for it to be done for free. Generally, that's the formative experience of failure. When one's daughters are given away as mere worthless objects to they in the other system, because even as objects there they are still worth more than they'd be worth were they to stay in their parents' own system, much like infinitely little of something is still more than absolutely all of nothing whatsoever.viii Which is, I guess, what "traditional marriage" is all about.ix

There is such a thing as capitulation. In a market it's when the sellers lower their tail, and will take any offer to be rid of their worthless merchandise, whatever it may be. Any offer. That's capitulation, when the real estate agent isn't further putting up pretenses of "selectivity" and trying to govern your affairs by his ideas, when the paper holder isn't thinking of dividends anymore but of matchsticks and toilets. In a war it's when the purported "army" would take any terms, literally any terms. "Just make it stop, please, we beg of you, anything but make it stop". That's capitulation, and by that measure the US has not won a war since 1945 - but lost about a dozen. In a society capitulation is when people give their daughters away as slaves to better men of better societies.

There is no escape from the need for capitulation. For as long as the broken, the dysfunctional, the obsolete, the fiat faux miracles are not exactly and completely identified as worthless, not worth "very little", not epsilon, but exactly 0, education can not proceed. For as long as idiots expect to be explained what "the benefits" are to getting in the WoT, you know that somewhere there are some infants whose fate it is to be used as things, corned beef in penance for the intellectual sins of their fathers. Who don't even know it yet.

But in time, they will. They most definitely will.

———I personally think he's an influence agent, for whatever that's worth. [↩]Note the recent spate of imitators, presenting forged letters in their adolescentine attempts of maneuvering into the spotlight. Bearing in mind that children imitate the visible sorted by its apparent power, this spells bad news for the obsolete instutions. [↩]In fairness, I did kill that derp, whatever his name was. [↩]Yes, seriously. Read A complete theory of economics and What the WoT is for, how it works and how to use it. It's all there. [↩]Reference being the sad story of Rhodesia. [↩]Cheaper than you'd think, too. It is a shockingly unvariant truth across the endless seas of time that what you spent on the ass' ride is more than what it'd cost a determined party to ride the ass. I don't know if you're familiar with the Nasreddin Hodja figure, but he has a story about exactly this, except it's usually rendered for the needs of polite society as "teaching it to talk", and the ass as a literal ass.

This is historically inaccurate. The historical accurate play pits an actual ass as in, a barely underage female, against one who would teach her not exactly to talk, but more properly said, to work. Talking, if you must, but talking like so :

"I know it is the moon."

"Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun."

"Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun: but sun it is not, when you say it is not; and the moon changes even as your mind. What you will have it named, even that it is; and so it shall be so for Katharina."

And so : Nasreddin readily agrees to teach the ass to talk over some time and in exchange for less money than the ass' gilded covers would fetch in the open market. Because where she's going there's no further use for the gilded covers, and to sum it all up : your daughter's new car, 50k ; the total cost for me to kidnap her and use her, less than 50k ; your face when you finally figure priceless does not mean precious ? Fill in.

It was the case that the vizier's daughter cost less to have than she cost the vizier to keep, it was true of Judah and Tamar, it's going to stay true up on the spaceships, it's just how it goes. [↩]It's funny that the English propaganda machine is so very careful to discuss the other party to the conflict in exactly the terms that'd be best suited to a discussion of its own participation. [↩]What would you think "loss" is ? Suppose you fall to the level where you have to pay another some of your stuff to get to keep the rest. This is already a complete fall, because once you have to it's no longer what it's supposed to be, and so the objection is not without merit. That I propose the tactical approach where a little territory is yielded into a no man's land so the city can be better defended in a well chosen ford may be acceptable, tactically, but it's still not a fundamental response on the level of the fundamental objection.

Yet, falling doesn't end there, does it ? Not normally, once the slippery slope is crossed, the fall never ends. Suppose you fall further, so that how much you have to pay is no longer in your hands, but in the hands of "your representatives". And so well will they represent you that soon enough the proper question is no longer how much you pay, but how much you get to keep. Think that in the evil slave owning states of the Confederacy one paid about a dime out of a dollar they made, give or take. Think that in the best korea you currently inhabit, out of a dollar earned on your work by "the company", it will first pay itself a third, then out of the remaining 66 cents it will pay about 26 to the "healthcare" mafia, then of the remainder 50 cents about 30 in various taxes, then out of the remaining 20 cents you pay about 11 in income tax and whatnot, and then the remainder 9 you spend on things which carry various sales and consumption taxes. Indeed, the "evil" guys of two centuries ago paid a little more than you get to keep, and such a drastic reversal of fortunes, dear bums on the continent your fathers conquered, and in such a narrow timeframe should make it readily apparent why you'd best hate those evil guys. Because for as long as you hate them, you have plenty of emotional incentive to not understand just how shitty you have it and, god forbid, aspire to have it again, horror of horrors! Won't you think of the libertardism ?!

Yet you can fall even further. You canfall so as to have to work each day to eat each day. And in point of fact, you have. So does it stop there ?

Maybe there's further to fall. Maybe you can fall so far that putting your children in a basket and floating them off the river, at the mercy of whatever man or beast they might chance upon is actually a better fate than their continued existence as your pride and joy. Because you actually suck that badly, and because you have no sort of future - certainly no sort of future anyone'd want a part of, yourself included. This can never actually happen, can it ? It's never been the case ever, has it ?

Of course not. With the general exception of all the time, this has never been the case nor will it ever be. [↩]In reference to that entire pile of delusional lol. "Traditional" in what sense, "what I think my parents had going" ? Who ever knows what their parents had going, and how ? [↩]

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