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mircea_popescu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/350.org << i suspect the number of things which exist strictly in wikipedia and the feverish brains of libertard delusionists by now exceeds the number of things that actually exist.
mircea_popescu: (yes i just quoted the seinfeld rabi. go me.)
mircea_popescu: but this is my point : there's theological problems with everything. "and often in life, just as there are problems, there are just as often solutions"
mircea_popescu: well, there's theological problems with everything. i'm for instance not terribly keen on the whole "higher power" stuff.
BingoBoingo: I thought there were theological problems with the thing before re: Darwin Fish
BingoBoingo: Anyways thinking back to the church thing, hard for tmsr to have a church without it being a proper church meaning a basement for AA, NA, etc meetings
phf: black being the more hardcore one, i think in russia it was celibacy, and in catholicism being a member of a monk order
mircea_popescu: fun fact : ru sosloviye (the official social segregation in power throughout most of the period ru was worth the mention, intellectually) distinguished white and black sub classes of the cleric class.
mircea_popescu: he got a penis somewhere under there or is just "talkin' in general" ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaah theo tait thinks jessica haines is "much too pretty" for lucy. http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/showering-with-panties-on.jpg << this woman. she's too pretty.
mircea_popescu: the swedes just picked this one because cock hungry.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's many dozens of ~equivalent pulp, british classically educated scribes of "nice" and correct dribblets of fiction.
mircea_popescu: "inarguably the most celebrated and decorated living English-language author", supposedly. a ridiculous notion.
mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with a nobel prize.
deedbot: [Trilema] "There is no such thing as rape", one of countless practical exercises. - http://trilema.com/2016/there-is-no-such-thing-as-rape-one-of-countless-practical-exercises/
mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile Tyler Gebhard (WOT:nonperson) invaded the home of a police officer in Lakeshire, an upscale suburb in south west St Louis County, Missouri." <<->> http://btcbase.org/log/2015-04-22#1106480
BingoBoingo: One linlk in there just didn't want to archive.
deedbot: [Qntra] Further Violence In United States Over The Weekend - http://qntra.net/2016/07/further-violence-in-united-states-over-the-weekend/
BingoBoingo: Incidently if the anybody but Trump thing had worked, the FBI press conference thing would have likely been the end of her run.
BingoBoingo: No. She was never together.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo woman is crumbling ; coincidentally (of course) it all started just about when mp heard about the bullshit dem party scamcoin ideas.
Joshua-I: Also mentionable as the comic that linked to ebbits
mats: there is nothing redeeming about it
Joshua-I: I think we should all take a moment to appreciate the classic: http://jerkcity.com
Joshua-I: They frequently used allusions to other works only other nobles would know
Joshua-I: mircea_popescu: a very good example of this behaviour is the construction of English gardens in the 17-19th centuries abouts when they were most popular
BingoBoingo: Not necessarily Trump, but the people who were supposed to split Trump's base are splitting hers
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "people thought they were for voting for when" wtf ? << cleaner. Choom gang was a meme from Bahamas pot smoking days
mircea_popescu: well, the more "read my lips : no new taxes" element of hussein bahamas' platform was "closing guantanamo ; getting out of iraq" etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "people thought they were for voting for when" wtf ?
mircea_popescu: (the 2010 smolensk plowing experiment being preceded by a 2008 similar incident at home, which only killed a bunch of military people and resulted in five firings etc.)
mircea_popescu: fun fact : the poles are responsible for two out of the total of two cfit accidents since the introduction of egpws.
mircea_popescu: and yes, "countercultural" of the 70s/80s connections, you name it.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah but it's been meaning the same in au bush and ozark rural communities and etc.
phf: it was part of the whole influx of alternative knowledge that was pretty inaccessible during su (or in any case was a thing for select few), so some people got into zen, others mouth harps and muhomors
phf: mircea_popescu: i think that's an american take. in 90s russia mouth harps distinctly meant "these kicks are nothing, some people out there in chuchka land or whatever have been getting some serious kicks for a while now"
mircea_popescu: but fwiw, they have them in the ozarks, slovakia, you name it.
phf: i feel like there was a ru fad on those things, kind of like indian flutes or whatever stateside
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs to me that, as per earlier discussion re anthropology etc, "it's a religious artefact!!!" best covers most of the things you make anyway
asciilifeform: and would work as shaman, also, if there is opening.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 22:21 mircea_popescu: another is that, well, its a much better way to hold real estate than anything alf came up with to date. since he's decided he's not moving because he's ax-crazy or something, this is the logical next step
mircea_popescu: trinque well... kinda iffy if they get too long
mircea_popescu: eh aliens. for the same money you can worship pacific islanders.
trinque: and generally let it do multiple messages for any that would otherwise truncate
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 20:00 mircea_popescu: trinque how hard would it be for deedbot to put a \n before any url if the message would be cut in the url otherwise ?
BingoBoingo: prolly best told through the eternal war between ants and termites as a metaphor
BingoBoingo: Gotta have the struggle between the reptilians and avians in there.
danielpbarron: I used that to my advantage in getting a traffic ticket dropped recently: the cop tried to get me to show remorse, I said nothing, prosecutor threw it out
mircea_popescu: (this is yet another, if rather central, reason why plea bargains are so powerful, and http://trilema.com/2015/heres-what-they-dont-tell-you-when-they-bring-you-those-papers-to-sign/ ) : i couldn't give less of a shit what usg SAYS you did or didn't do or whatever. but if you say it yourself, well...
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron at the very least the devil can't testify. who cares what the usg thinks you've done, nobody's liable to ask it, nor may it likely acquire a voice without losing itself.
danielpbarron: heh, really hard to say. I haven't been keeping in contact with him at all. Come to think of it I'd want to ask him ahead of time if he thinks registering a church with the USG is against the Word or not (he's not a big fan of USG -- prolly a plus)
mircea_popescu: for that matter - CAN there even be such a thing.
mircea_popescu: and meanwhile - all teh wot peoples, please do consider the matter to the outreach of your abilities. were there a tmsr theology, what'd it say and what'd it look like ? what wouldn't it say and what would it not look like ? and why and wherefore.
mircea_popescu: so in the end, we've very little to work on here. do you figure this fellow could be enticed to show up here sometime ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you figured out, entirely correctly as far as you can tell, and otherwise irreducibly in any manner, that indeed white people must paint black. and he says that's ridiculous. what do you do now, give it up ? give him up ?
mircea_popescu: so is your agreement to the interpretation the turning stone ?
danielpbarron: I'd compare what he said to what The Bible says (i'm sure he'd cite chapter and verse) and if I didn't think it checked out I'd challenge him on it
mircea_popescu: so if he tomorrow says white people must paint their skin black, do you follow or schism or what ?!
mircea_popescu personally couldn't give less of a crap about the entire thing other than it being in danielpbarron 's wot.
mircea_popescu: well, but i mean what exactly is the relation there. does it matter to the symbol "a true church" what the person "darwin fish" says ? where exactly is your loyalty there or how does this work ?
mircea_popescu: i suspect much more serious sticking points will come the other way. specifically, i suspect tmsr to be a larger intellectual force than whosoever darwin fish is, as a temporal rather than spiritual matter. consequently, the sticking point will not be inferences from him limiting us, but inferences from us driving him up the wall. for instance, obvious possible sticking point being that in tmsr doctrine, it is a sin to engage
danielpbarron: and yeah, obviously I'm not gonna enforce the death penalty for adultery and whatnot, just teach that it is wrong etc..
mircea_popescu: how are they to be helped then ?
jurov: Framedragger: yeah, the fornication takes up most of teh precious cycles
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron back to theology : it's one thing to forbid, it's another thing to enforce. does it also forbid, say, sitting in a room with "known fornicators" for instace ? up to a point it'll be their sin - their problem.
Framedragger: jurov: heh. bible as a list of optimisation heuristics for simulating the 'verse
mircea_popescu: so, sensible it is. whether it's workable or not hopefully can be resolved.
mircea_popescu: having a nice party house somewhere, free if you're in the wot sort of thing, can't hurt anyone.
mircea_popescu: another is that, well, its a much better way to hold real estate than anything alf came up with to date. since he's decided he's not moving because he's ax-crazy or something, this is the logical next step
mircea_popescu: next time something like that blows up, i'd much rather there's a whole church apparatus ready to go, rather than having to fish random people from portland for the purpose.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-03 13:08 mircea_popescu: but seriously - a dozen kegs is what ? nothing, for the finance almighty republic. get a dozen sluts to shirtoff with the kegs, it's a go.
danielpbarron: my form of Chistianity does not forbid: drinking, drugs, gambling, slavery -- but it does forbid: adultery (taking another man's wife), murder (unjustified killing), homosexuality (sorry jurov), fornication (probably the biggest sticking point)
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron theology aside for a moment, there's three major components in my mind here.
mircea_popescu: arguable i guess if it's actually destroying the world or just making it smell bad
danielpbarron: shinohai, God promised us that He would never again destroy the world with a flood (Genesis 9:11) so no ark is necessary
mircea_popescu: exploring this a little will certainly be beneficial, if for no other reason then because it'll force statement of the foregoing
mircea_popescu: but more practically : at issue is the theological consideration of whether [so far mostly unstated] tmsr.theological-doctrine actually does or does not contradict the form of christianity you were importing there
jurov: you can always use the simulation loophole, like "even some atheists say that we live in simulated universe, so it's likely God saved cycles and really started the sim for 6400 years ago, and other things Bible says likewise"
mircea_popescu: well... nothing right can contradict rigthness, all right things are one. so in principle they shouldn't.
danielpbarron: in the sense that God causes everything, nobody has "full control" over anything, but I mean my control vs yours or anyone in here -- say if you wanted me to teach something that contradicted The Bible
mircea_popescu: well, on one hand certainly one can't have a church worshipping a false god ; as far as practice goes you can't have full control of the doctrine cuz it being a church, it has to have a metaphysical component.
danielpbarron: not if i have to seriously worship a false god or something. Or lie about worshipping one. If I have full control of the doctrine and what is taught (strictly The Bible, specifically as it is interpreted by Darwin Fish on atruechurch.info) then I might be interested
mircea_popescu: jurov lol why are they dressed in gay suits ?!
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron good work. so the practical question here is, would you be personally interested in running a us tmsr church ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: I'd rather my polish have a bit more grit than that.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. seemed at the time and still seems today like polish suicide.
asciilifeform: aha, putin's bad-weather rayz.
mircea_popescu: president, most of the general staff, natl bank president, ex president, etc
asciilifeform: the one with the drunken, belligerent president ?
mircea_popescu: classically. modernly, where did they scatter that plane ? smolensk was it ?
asciilifeform: phun phakt: there is a titanic katyn memorial thing in bmore
asciilifeform: doubt it will come to any useful result, but worth the periodic try.
jurov: re:oglaf - what does mircea_popescu do with the skulls?
ben_vulpes: no link to the wapost?
mircea_popescu: trinque how hard would it be for deedbot to put a \n before any url if the message would be cut in the url otherwise ?
Framedragger: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-10#1500536 << yeah, hm. suggestions? a non-ad-hoc solution would be to make deedbot split its irc lines as needed i suppose; or for this particular case, not to mention the comment in the gpg key if it's too long, or to truncate it; or to consider shorter gpg comments for these ssh keys in the future i guess..
BingoBoingo: And anyways there's prolly a joke in ther that would be hampered if url was fxd
mircea_popescu: i recently blew up a trilema title, someone pointed this out in the log, you can check the thing working there.
mircea_popescu: wp (at least, mp-wp) will forever 304 the old requests to the new
mircea_popescu: you can also fix the url.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I mispelled the title initially, so url is mispelled forever even with title fixd
Framedragger unsure how to rate mp, so will wait for the time being. "smart guy, runs things, unsure whether instrumentally delusional or i'm just failing to cognize fully"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-09 17:31 BingoBoingo: <Framedragger> (some nice dump and pump BTCUSD volume it seems; curious how the price moves in the hours/days to come) << Watch not days, but months
mircea_popescu: "hey, is there obscure item x ?" "$obscure-x"
gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: ;;later tell trinque is there available a dump of deedbot wot? thanks in advance.
BingoBoingo: Also like dandelions if you spray them with enough triclopyr to injur but not kill them, they will exhibit neoteny when they resurface.
BingoBoingo: If you cant see it at the moment it just hasn't gathered enough Nitardgen and phosboorous to attempt another surfacing yet
BingoBoingo: Gotta remember idiocy lives in the dirt
BingoBoingo: They die in the same sense a dandelion "dies" when you pull it up with your hands. There's going to be a bit of herproot left and it may take a while, but it will return.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me these idiocies DO actually die eventually.
mircea_popescu: it's been around almost as long as "colored coins", which incidentally, where the fuck did those go.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is open bazaar "a young platform" ffs.
mircea_popescu: in similar autoimmune-disorders-that-destroyed-countries, stalin wiped the russian mob ; inexplicably hruscev couldn't get the economy going, not ever again.
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking scary thing there - he got all the good jews, leaving some shitty jews to fill the void. it's ~exactly what the usg did to the us : killed the competent mobsters, now there's inexplicable problems.
mircea_popescu: he got the good ones
BingoBoingo: Or all the mercantile ones leaving just the depressing entertainer ones
BingoBoingo: Either that or Hitler really did get all the Jews
BingoBoingo: Well that's how 1944 Bretton Woods work, through the bond created by touching all those other people's dicks.
mircea_popescu: ah okthen.
BingoBoingo: ANd they will all sit in a circlejerk and ski the dicks next to them
asciilifeform: but hey! this time they will use the magic of the magic forest!111
mircea_popescu: right. amusing how they carefully omit the only thing that matters in that sentence, the expression "YET ANOTHER" right before "model".
asciilifeform: 'This collaboration will produce a model for bitcoin and blockchain-based companies that also addresses the concerns of regulatory entities.' << l0l!!
asciilifeform: originates with manhattan project, and american expression 'ya can't hit the broad side of a barn')
mircea_popescu: hence the english "are you barmy ?"
asciilifeform: who the hell was that
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 14:56 shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-09#1500427 <<< so great are the lulz that they compare themselves to BArmstrong, who can't sell pretend Bitcoin to Pete.
BingoBoingo: Determining what it will toast though is another 5 billion USD in development fees paid in advance.
BingoBoingo: Nah, its for toasting. Just not around Serbs (they'll shoot it down)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the reason there isn't a "the northrop derpmann of toasters" is just that happenstance. << There totally is. I will totally make a stealth toaster for anyone who brings pays 2.5 billion USD per unit straight from the printer.
mircea_popescu: the reason there isn't a "the northrop derpmann of toasters" is just that happenstance.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the disadvantage of making popular things is that you become part of the "X like Y" mill.
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-09#1500427 <<< so great are the lulz that they compare themselves to BArmstrong, who can't sell pretend Bitcoin to Pete.
deedbot: [Qntra] Meh Of The Week: Coinbase Can't Serve Canada - http://qntra.net/2016/07/meh-of-the-week-coinbase-cant-serve-canada/
mats: lol he lived with his mother
mats: i think i can look at the transcript of the courts martial if i submit a foia
mats: i'd like to see the documents related to his other than honorable discharge
asciilifeform: 'Investigators were digging into Johnson’s military history and are seeking to corroborate reports that he was sent home from Afghanistan after a woman lodged a complaint of sexual harassment against him in 2014, another federal law enforcement official said.'
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: The best jokes have a price
hanbot: http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/#comment-118023 << mats mircea_popescu & anyone else following the courts circus awarding thingie.
mod6: i was able to get that 0.001 to the foundation into 420`000 :]
mircea_popescu: a man reportedly called 911 and when a police officer arrive at the << arrived
mircea_popescu: "suggesting that they may correspond to shitty DSL modems" << which may translate to shitty DSL modems
asciilifeform: i'd still like to know how it earned the spot of honour
a111: Logged on 2014-08-16 02:38 mircea_popescu: in short : your notion that sitting with the usg is safe and joining the rebels is dangerous is fundamentally broken. sitting with the usg is safe except if the rebels get the upper hand.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-24 00:19 mircea_popescu: and i'll say this to assuage your doubts : i am the man who said "you are not safe, for we know where you live". a year and change later, reality has borne my saying : the entire usg employee list, leaked. etc.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-10#1500581 << how about, usg lost the capacity to protect its underbelly ; http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-16#798049 and other flondor discussions, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-07-24#1211091 etc.
mircea_popescu: they can follow sixteen bodies moving in arbitrary directions on the basis of the FIFTH derivative of velocity! so nyah.
mircea_popescu: hey, just because you don't drive well is no excuse to oppress teh muslim brotherhood!
mircea_popescu: jesus they must be mixing some pretty strong cockroach powder in the smack these days, idiots stole the bumper instead of the wheels ?
asciilifeform: spent all day in mothefucking open air zoo
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-10#1500575 << let me guess, this is really the washington-thinktank-gendarmerie plan getting rid of those pesky washington-local-thinktanks ? plan proceeding according to plan ?
asciilifeform: dun care which of the four alchemical elements, end is the same.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 00:30 asciilifeform: what are they looking for here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i vaguely regret not finding this shop earlier, would have ladden the lot of you with real coffee.
mircea_popescu: that's fucking it, 99.x% of the whole shebang and the rest consists of typographical errors.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 00:29 asciilifeform: 'Why the DAO robber could very well return the ETH on July 14th' << pass the lsd.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-10#1500553 << it's the atlantic, gawker & rest of "mainstream" in their own minds crapolade. 1. "an event happened, here's what i was doing at that exact time : {picking my nose|wiping drool off chin|clicking through pictures of redditards / stuff cats wrote} ; 2. "here's why X real entity that doesn't give a shit about us ~might very well~ do Y thing that's only relevant in our context".
asciilifeform still has not found the mythical wholly unburned coffee in usaschwitz
mircea_popescu bought 1kg of costa rica ; kenya and sumatra. is having a taste off. jesus christ they're wunderbar.
asciilifeform: anybody wanna do the deed ? ( take that key, log in , see ... )
asciilifeform: 'Macauley was the vice president for research and a senior fellow with Resources for the Future in Washington. She first joined the organization in 1993. She was an adjunct economics professor at Johns Hopkins University for nearly 20 years.'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-09 15:35 BingoBoingo: In other news, a Tornado hit Metropolis. Another candidate for Alfugee settlement, just not as cheap or black as Cairo. Also has Casino nao.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 00:30 asciilifeform: where do they come from ?
asciilifeform: what are they looking for here.
asciilifeform: where do they come from ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-09 20:55 summerverbose: I write software for a non-VC-funded company that expands Bitcoin accessibility around the world
asciilifeform: 'Why the DAO robber could very well return the ETH on July 14th' << pass the lsd.
trinque: corollary to read teh logz is read the sauce!
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-09#1500503 << rotor builds armv5 binary and it is THREE MOTHERFUCKING LINES to change in the build script WTF11111
asciilifeform: ^ for anyone who wants the keyz.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-09 19:48 mats: there have been rumblings of .fi and .se joining nato for a little while now
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-09#1500397 << 'nato will happily fight russia to the last finnish soldier.' -- putin
asciilifeform: they're all on frontier dsl.
mircea_popescu: ah this was with the ninjas forced meme
mod6: the hate mail is awesome
shinohai: Who was the mayogenderfluid thing that's bigger than Brian Armstrong here earlier?
BingoBoingo: Zhe prolly doesn't even know the halvening happened.
mod6: mats: thanks for putting that list together.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> mod6: Prolly ought to do asparagus mound since the payoff takes so long << this is a solid idea
BingoBoingo: mod6: Prolly ought to do asparagus mound since the payoff takes so long
mod6: We'll see if I can get it together. Heheh.
mod6: my blueberries haven't grown very much in the last year or two tho. they're only like 1' high. so... maybe some day? i might have them in a bad place though. about 50% shade.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> shinohai: Sure. I put in a thornless blackberry. Finally doing a cazalla and putting in an edible. << in the background of that first pic, i've got raspberries (red and black). been eatin 3-5 per day.
mod6: i'll show off some of the other stuff once it's gets a bit farther along
mod6: there we go
mod6: crap, think i somehow linked the same pic 2x. derp
mod6: here's a couple of pics taken a few weeks ago of my one lettuce box (also has some cabbage in there): http://i.imgsafe.org/16b49a49dc.jpg http://i.imgsafe.org/16b908a468.jpg
shinohai: http://archive.is/gjq8i <<< lulzy the delusions of this guy
mircea_popescu: in other non-news, along halvening day today is also argentina independence day. inexplicably, they celebrate this - roughly like the acneic woman celebrating nodule day.
mircea_popescu: mats but plox to submit a comment there.
mod6: <+shinohai> I have tomatoes and peppers already ala mod6 << last year I did bell peppers and habaneros. Only the habaneros did alright. This year made room for Eggplant, Pumpkins, Watermelon, Red/Green Cabbage, Cucumbers (large & small), and Broccoli.
trinque: summerverbose │ I write software for a non-VC-funded company that expands Bitcoin accessibility around the world << that is not a sentence that sentences
mod6: Everything else is getting there too.
mod6: BingoBoingo: ah, thanks for the q. No, didn't plant anything. Raised up my lettuce (romaine), it's over 36" tall now. Watered everything. Zucchini's are getting big. Tomatoes are still green but coming along...
BingoBoingo: and other assorted vigilance
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mod6 Did you plant anything today to commemorate the halving?
summerverbose: or as my grandmother would say, "doing Bitcoin"
summerverbose: I write software for a non-VC-funded company that expands Bitcoin accessibility around the world
BingoBoingo: The fluid identity thing tends to be a handicap in the long run no matter what your impression of the short term benefits are
summerverbose: services for the public good basically
summerverbose: but on this special day, perhaps I will take the plunge .. need to push a few commits first :)
summerverbose: so, I'm a wot:nonperson but just wanted to say, been an avid follower of QNTRA and trilema for a number of years and have spent the last 3 years of my life building on Bitcoin
mats: if nubbins shows up in the next sixty days and identifies with the key stored in deedbot, ill give him 0.5btc for his efforts
mats: i submit that hanbot should be rewarded with 4btc and i receive the remainder of the pool
mats: the Africk cases he posted aren't relevant because that judge doesn't meet the requirements - too old - and the list of magistrates in the other comment, while mostly complete (its missing Wilson), it also has many judges that don't meet the requirements
mircea_popescu: and it's the sort of thing best explained with the pickaxe to the skull.
mircea_popescu: please bury me with a pickaxe, i have a few things to say to FUCKING EVERYONE from plato to the current pope
mircea_popescu: because no, there isn't such a thing as a collective, it's a circumstance not a thing.
mircea_popescu: but the matter is in itself important, "how to reward collective effort ?" "i dunno, have the INDIVIDUALS composing the collective submit plans, and pick the fairest of a selected set ?"
mircea_popescu: salt to the snail, real things to the fetish-only ustard and so on.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, here's an ~actual~ bit of post-bitcoin governance being tried out etc. with institutions and mechanisms and whatnot. of course, the usual fucktards, the nullities that spent a million words discussing "the dao" and "futublabla" and so on will never EVER mention it.
mircea_popescu: do your best as they say.
mats: idk how to reach nubbins so as far as i'm concerned hanbot is the only other participant
mircea_popescu: but hey... the empire's outta juice.
mircea_popescu: one battalion is barely adequate to police the base at constanta.
mats: four battalions is a weak attempt at reassuring the baltics
mircea_popescu: mats well, the implosion of ukraine pretty much convinced everyone there's no future for the ... you know, "peaceful, independent country" a la frace in the 1800s.
mats: there have been rumblings of .fi and .se joining nato for a little while now
mircea_popescu: mats coupla batallions in constanta and somewhere around the carpathian bend
mats: >we have decided to enhance our military presence in the eastern part of the Alliance. With four battalions here in Poland, as well as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on a rotational basis.
BingoBoingo: But a member of the foundation building on it would be well appreciated
deedbot: [Qntra] The Bitcoin Block Reward Has Halved A Second Time - http://qntra.net/2016/07/the-bitcoin-block-reward-has-halved-a-second-time/
BingoBoingo: <Framedragger> (some nice dump and pump BTCUSD volume it seems; curious how the price moves in the hours/days to come) << Watch not days, but months
mod6: yeah, I can try to throw a short one together here in the next little bit.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> let's not forget that all the hype, buzz and derpage isn't worth a cupfula warm piss ; this thing has to sustain itself ON FEES. << yup!
mircea_popescu: let's not forget that all the hype, buzz and derpage isn't worth a cupfula warm piss ; this thing has to sustain itself ON FEES.
Framedragger: absolutely; will try to do the same later today, just out of curiosity. interesting indeed
mod6: Yeah, looking at some bitcoincharts ... last time the blockreward halved @ 210000 it was 2012.11.28
mod6: last time, there seemed like there a small percent bump to the upside. but then after a while, price moved signifigantly.
Framedragger: (i guess the speculation-based pump happened long time ago? though i didn't follow much)
Framedragger: (some nice dump and pump BTCUSD volume it seems; curious how the price moves in the hours/days to come)
mod6: I snuck in this tx to The Bitcoin Foundation
mod6: there it is! 420`000
mod6: <+thestringpuller> happy halvening day TMSR << salud!
BingoBoingo doesn't know if they ever gave him super carpentry skills so he could... rebuild

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