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Tue Mar 15 01:52:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432777 << and to think, in the worlds very capital of "murder for hire" even!
Tue Mar 15 01:48:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432775 << sadly there is no safe, cheap and effectual substitute for actual life. all previous attempts to build this philosopher's stone (of which there's been no shortage) have come to grief.
Tue Mar 15 01:46:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (and this being future china, you'll be getting six addresses or somesuch, typed out on paper. with misprints.)
Tue Mar 15 01:45:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (perhaps this is obivous to me only for some god-forsaken reason, but the next step after the view on the bitcoin protocol that it permits miners to arbitrarily reject txn and the collusion of miners is - you gotta get a license to bitcoinate. why hardfork to increase their revenue, even.)
Tue Mar 15 01:44:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> moreover, and more importantly, if you give over to the government the franchise to interpret private agreements, you provably construct a government even more far reaching than the welfare state, sitting in ~an equivalent position of the miner cartel but for contracts, and soon to issue "licenses to contract" or somesuch insanity.
Tue Mar 15 01:41:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo every day we discover another planet the republic must build eh ?
Tue Mar 15 01:41:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432774 << forget me. suppose tomorrow someone decides that you now like government cheese. what, this makes you ~like it~ ? government can have no such say, no matter how much you love lenin's own republic.
Tue Mar 15 01:37:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> at least is better than waiting in traffic listening to dayradio.
Tue Mar 15 01:34:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which is how and why chetty's passing bumped her trust in my eyes to 10 : not because she's "very good" now, but because she lacks any further capacity to surprise anyone. at least so goes the logic.
Tue Mar 15 01:33:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> 4/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/#footnote_4_53927 )
Tue Mar 15 01:33:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (and since we're on it, this important point seems perhaps lost and is still paramount : "It is important to remember that the score associated to a relationship does not mark the direct trust of the scorer for the scoree, but merely the scorer's confidence that the information he has about scoree is correct, accurate, relevant and complete. All four." from the ever-fascinatingly counterintuitive http://trilema.com/201
Tue Mar 15 01:29:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what's next, you know, ima negrate trump for not voting kanish or w/e that ohio derp's name is.
Tue Mar 15 01:27:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432770 << obviously anyone's free to use the wot as they please (and yes, lack of homogenity is still its only defense against immediate explosive doom) but i can't see myself negrating someone for not agreeing with someone else. seems rather rich.
Tue Mar 15 01:25:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm aware that they do these weird "can't throw X people off premises" in the us, but the excision of that sort of nonsense is no small part of what tmsr is all about.
Tue Mar 15 01:23:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> syndic*
Tue Mar 15 01:22:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a judge may decide what a contract means if there's dispute between the parties, which here is what the [judge] sindic aka receiver is going to do anyway. other than that - he can't order for "the world" to satisfy any party's perceived comfort, no matter how dressed up.
Tue Mar 15 01:21:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432761 << it's entirely unclear to me what you think this'd do. let's work an example. you sign up for one of those newfangled internet thingees. provider sells you it, you meet the girl of your dreams in australia, keep in daily email touch. provider hikes the rate. you... what, go to a judge, to order the provider to charge you less ? not something the judge can do - an
Tue Mar 15 01:21:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> d if he tries, they'll disconnect your thing an hour a day. at which point what, you go to your congressman to sponsor a law making it illegal for provider to disconnect shitty users ? are we trying to rebuild the great nation of america or something ? would be cheaper to just go with the one extant.
Tue Mar 15 01:14:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> who was that guy anyway, famously told judge that "he can be born wherever he wants to!" ? painter, accused of passing off a "too shitty to be sold" painting, late us reverberation of the school wars.
Tue Mar 15 01:13:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hey, i liked it too.