Tag: pluponents
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Reprint inspired by reprint
The Reddit anticoiners have been reposting a somewhat older news item about a Bitcoin Cruise Ship that failed spectacularly, but luckily didn’t sink. The organizers imagined that they could be free from International Law, but realized too late that International Law is enforced strictly against ships. In fact the original purpose of International Law was…
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He gets the big point
Most of the time, both “sides” in each hot-button Machiavellian divider are missing the main point. The anti-bitcoiners are right about some details but miss the BIG point that every transaction on the web is perfectly global, perfectly centralized, and perfectly public. Here’s one anti who grasps the biggest point of all. He’s citing a…
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Thinks it’s ironic
Post in Buttcoin, Reddit’s home for bitcoin skeptics: = = = = = START QUOTE: At last we have centralized trading of BitCoin for privileged first world citizens on a government-regulated exchange, with merchant bankers clipping the ticket on every transaction! This is the turning point that Satoshi dreamed of. Combine this with the whales…
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Useful timeline and landmark
Denyse points to this article about peer review. It’s headlined as a call for transformation, but it starts from a fake premise. The authors are puzzled that peer review doesn’t do what it was “supposed to do”. They do show a beautifully exponential timeline of the tenure fraud, and they bring out an important landmark…
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Hollywood is not learning
Continuing from here. Hollywood isn’t trying to regain our trust. They’re listening to this grotesque academic asshole. He correctly identifies the Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse as Thiel, Zuck, Xlon and Andreesen. Why does he think they’re evil? NOT because they squash every business they encounter. NOT because they steal every idea they can grab.…
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Pluponents in action
Vivek was giving his antiwar message in Iowa when some PRO-WAR protestors crashed into a car in his motorcade. He wasn’t in the car. First thought: This is opposite to the old setup. In ’69 we were protesting AGAINST the war. We got bashed and jailed. Second thought: Oops, not opposite at all, except for…
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Reprint on Pluponents
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2017 REPRINT: I tried briefly to follow this article on MMT. Gave up quickly. It’s EXTREMELY abstract and academic, full of name-droppings only familiar to members of the same subsubsubsubdiscipline, written by a creature whose academic title is longer than most articles.…
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Right strategy
RFK jr is running for president inside the D party. He’s obviously a pied piper. Remember: Before he started this crap, he was the head lawyer for the Gaian movement. He didn’t switch sides. He piedpipered the antivaxers into the Gaian movement, and now he’s hoping to use their strong support to elect Trump. He…
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