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Sat Mar 05 22:10:40 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> there had to be some reason why mircea_popescu even bothered with bitcoin
Sat Mar 05 22:10:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> note that my interest in computers is, these days, ~strictly predicated on trb.
Sat Mar 05 22:10:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm more interested in slavegirls and icecream, but sure.
Sat Mar 05 22:09:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> soviet world had it's own free subset ; much like the 1984 world has its free subset. the people running the black market that orwell does not even wish to consider.
Sat Mar 05 22:06:31 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: a world where a lizard can print is by no reasonable description 'free'.
Sat Mar 05 22:06:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> why the fuck did you imagine the various items and pillars to build a coherent world-envelloping system come to me so easily ? i'm not coming up with fucking wot-economy and pgp-corporations and all this de novo, i'm just applying to pre-existing items!
Sat Mar 05 22:04:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but otherwise...
Sat Mar 05 22:04:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> without these things ~free world accessible to arbitrary $fortune~ is a dream.
Sat Mar 05 22:04:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you know - i did geographically dispersed honest commerce long before bitcoin.
Sat Mar 05 22:02:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which, inasmuch as it's philosophical, doesn't really get touched by phenomena.
Sat Mar 05 22:01:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> best i can see both these items sit on the same philosophical foundation.
Sat Mar 05 22:01:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> sound money can at best be a practical foundation.
Sat Mar 05 22:01:15 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> again spurious analogy. or is mircea_popescu about to explain how tmsr still has a philosophical foundation without sound money.
Sat Mar 05 21:59:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform dawg, portofolios get adjusted all the time in response to market conditions, whadda ya want.
Sat Mar 05 21:59:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well not all of it.
Sat Mar 05 21:58:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i have ?
Sat Mar 05 21:58:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what ?
Sat Mar 05 21:58:30 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> seems like mircea_popescu already decided ?
Sat Mar 05 21:57:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in general "what to do" has been a foremost topic in everyone's head for days now, i would imagine.
Sat Mar 05 21:57:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is deeply unclear as of yet.