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Tue Mar 15 00:45:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which is why the only time a market in women exists is when it's maintained by significant outside force.
Tue Mar 15 00:44:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432731 << this idea seems good in theory. in practice, this is exactly never happening. easier to understand why not, is to understand why there IS something categorically preventing a market in women ; like a supermarket where you go buy one. the ones that are above average have no incentive to participate - see the discussion about lemon laws and the death spiral except
Tue Mar 15 00:44:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in reverse.
Tue Mar 15 00:39:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432711 << i dunno why people figure i do all sorts of things myself, not that the idea isn't flattering. but no, i'm no shiva.
Tue Mar 15 00:28:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it is eminently difficult to reconstruct what people thought years ago ; famously - one can't actually do this for oneself, which is how proust got to be famous.
Tue Mar 15 00:27:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> possibly.
Tue Mar 15 00:27:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is the same kakobrekla, you recall, who went on a trip to check out a hungarian asicminer on a day's notice, also in these very logs. the sort of rationality of old people is not particularly relevant to the young - and same is true of bitcoin.
Tue Mar 15 00:26:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432703 << i'm pretty sure there would have been, yes.
Tue Mar 15 00:23:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but yes, if you're curious, the reason i might blast at you when you go into a patented jurov tailspin while i'm simply bitchslapping him into oblivion is that you WERE here then, and your spleen is actually part of that same ground. and yes these things matter, at least to me.
Tue Mar 15 00:22:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> obody's thanking anyone for giving up his spleen to MAKE UP the ground on which he walks - it's just ground, a given, forget about it) you want to credit rather than charge, so as to give things a chance.
Tue Mar 15 00:22:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432701 << the big problem here is that in a nascent economy (and please remember that bitbet was born in 2012, not in 2015, and its primary function at the time was stuff like http://trilema.com/2013/the-positive-market-effects-of-the-delivery-bet/ ie help clear up an entirely INSANE space, which it did admirably well and which nobody credits today because hey, fuck us, n
Tue Mar 15 00:18:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> obviously anyone reading is free to color what they read any way that suits them, but still.
Tue Mar 15 00:18:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform> phf: they never quite got to this point << i dun think this was the case either intended or implied.
Tue Mar 15 00:17:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-03-2016#1432692 << this is actually very true.
Mon Mar 14 19:44:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anyway, ima go indulge in sins of the flesh. bbl.
Mon Mar 14 19:39:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no problem.
Mon Mar 14 19:38:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it's neither becoming of your other talents nor any kind of service to the republic.
Mon Mar 14 19:37:45 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> stop adding indiscipline to the fucking pile.
Mon Mar 14 19:37:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform your offer to pay what the thing costs is going to cost us A FUCKING FORTUNE down the road. you understand this ?
Mon Mar 14 19:36:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and do consider that rarely do you see one that doesn't run into this sort of thing : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=07-03-2016#1424398 ; http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=12-03-2016#1431058 ETC