http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 20:28:27 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/#comment-200623 Grand reopening of #jwrd, the IRC channel « Fixpoint Sat, 13 May 2023 00:32:29 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=53902#comment-200623 [...] server and network. Indeed it's quite likely that being able to speak at all will come to depend on being a somebody or else having a somebody to temporarily grant you [...] [...] server and network. Indeed it's quite likely that being able to speak at all will come to depend on being a somebody or else having a somebody to temporarily grant you [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/#comment-140953 Why "representative democracy" doesn't work and doesn't make sense on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:19:47 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=53902#comment-140953 [...] effects principally through its mediation. [↩]What in modern parlance is referred to as "their L2" [↩]Obviously the number's smaller, due to overlap : one's employee can well be another's [...] [...] effects principally through its mediation. [↩]What in modern parlance is referred to as "their L2" [↩]Obviously the number's smaller, due to overlap : one's employee can well be another's [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/#comment-140331 The Bitcoin Lordship list, first revision on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:16:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=53902#comment-140331 [...] thing was introduced four months ago, and at the time it was a wildly scandalous and utterly revolutionary idea : organise the space - [...] [...] thing was introduced four months ago, and at the time it was a wildly scandalous and utterly revolutionary idea : organise the space - [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/#comment-140028 The scum on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:47:44 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=53902#comment-140028 [...] There are multiple ways to challenge a criticism to your mental capacity, infinitely many in fact. Why shouldn't there be ? [↩]Definitely this works in practice, and after all to nobody's detriment : the masses will be upset at your impoliteness and flail helplessly, the actual people lost among that mass like solder suspended in paste will be thankful for the rescue and there we go. Another successful voyage on the fields of white. [↩]So basically the complaint here is that the masses are trolling respectable, intelligent (say they) townsfolk like the author ? But this is ironic! [↩]Can this be done ? How ? [↩]Well it definitely could do with less paranthesises. [↩]There are some major problems here, chief among them that this seems an ad-hoc appropriation of the "offtopic" methodology. (If you're curious, all "offtopic" discussion stems from and is reducible to the ancient soviet politburo practice of maintaining a false agreement through the exclusion of topics of conversation. Marriages survive - of sorts - through the concerted effort of all involved to keep particular topics off the table. Hierarchies once constitute tend to try and maintain themselves by limiting challengers as "offtopic". I am always very suspicious of a deployment of this technique, and to be honest I treat it just like any other mass marketing ploy. Which is why #bitcoin-assets doesn't have a topic. [...] [...] There are multiple ways to challenge a criticism to your mental capacity, infinitely many in fact. Why shouldn't there be ? [↩]Definitely this works in practice, and after all to nobody's detriment : the masses will be upset at your impoliteness and flail helplessly, the actual people lost among that mass like solder suspended in paste will be thankful for the rescue and there we go. Another successful voyage on the fields of white. [↩]So basically the complaint here is that the masses are trolling respectable, intelligent (say they) townsfolk like the author ? But this is ironic! [↩]Can this be done ? How ? [↩]Well it definitely could do with less paranthesises. [↩]There are some major problems here, chief among them that this seems an ad-hoc appropriation of the "offtopic" methodology. (If you're curious, all "offtopic" discussion stems from and is reducible to the ancient soviet politburo practice of maintaining a false agreement through the exclusion of topics of conversation. Marriages survive - of sorts - through the concerted effort of all involved to keep particular topics off the table. Hierarchies once constitute tend to try and maintain themselves by limiting challengers as "offtopic". I am always very suspicious of a deployment of this technique, and to be honest I treat it just like any other mass marketing ploy. Which is why #bitcoin-assets doesn't have a topic. [...]

]]> http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-assets-m/#comment-139987 The problem of the past on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:44:51 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=53902#comment-139987 [...] he asked me why can't he have voice in -assets, to which I replied that while he does seem a reasonable and useful contributor in the general, I [...] [...] he asked me why can't he have voice in -assets, to which I replied that while he does seem a reasonable and useful contributor in the general, I [...]

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