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mircea_popescu: hanbot, not just DID
things ; but did
things as if
they had license
to do
things. it's
this sort of mental independence
that botheres
them most re gildon i suspect, "how dares he write biographies exactly LIKE HOW WE WRITE
THEM!!! not a word of his is
true, nor of
the official lifestory of obama-clinton-oprah".
hanbot: mircea_popescu eh, shame / suspicion are just anxiety / depression!
there's pills, and "everybody goes
through it" and "it's not
their fault" etc
mircea_popescu: lobbes, sure, "Everything is possible" -- with
the usual caveat
that "just as long as it's not big, noteworthy or important". a kid "can do anything" except nothing interesting, something kids generally keenly feel but apparently ustarded adults somehow forget.
lobbes: the whole "fixation on youth"
thing really feeds into
the insanity cycle, huh?
That age where "anything is possible" as long as you don't let experience (be it from others or self)
tell you otherwise
hanbot: which is possibly another reason why curll/gildon are officially bad;
they actively did
things, making idle spellcasters look bad.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i suspect hearing
that always comes with a however-hidden sense of shame / suspicion.
they kinda look like
they
think it's
tgtbt.
hanbot: i dunno, i
think
the best
thing
they can hear about homework is
that
they're so special
they don't need
to do it.
their unicornity shall manifest, and better
to retain/don
the woolies of youth
to maximize
the potential for manifesting firstbestbiggest.
mircea_popescu: well how
the fuck do you reconcile a and b,
the only
thing about youth is
that homework's not fucking done!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the funny part is
that
these are some people for whom simultaneously
two
things stand : a)
that
the best
thing
they can hear about homework is "it's already done" ; and b)
that
the best possible state is "youth".
BingoBoingo: But yeah, in
the Pizarro rack would be insanity. For miners in Uruguay
to work it would be necessary
to
take
the dam at Salto and mine with
the power
that would have gone
to
the Argentine side.
mircea_popescu: especially compounded by
the only
truly universal religion, panglossism. what's a pious fraud or
two when at stake's not having
to get fat ass off couch!
hanbot: <mircea_popescu>
turns out
the darkness of what's later referred
to as a "dark age" is not actually visible from inside
the age in question << dunning-kruger ain't just for individuals
mircea_popescu: it's
the fucking megawatt standard! not
the picowatt or anything.
mircea_popescu: many better options for
the cheap mw ; and no fucking way a kw farm is worth anyone's
time.
that'd be like a 12 sq inch diner.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform, nobody's going
to send a proper miner
to fucking uruguay. you don't even have
the power for it
there. << Maybe at
the dam in Salto, but no way in hell Montevideo.
mircea_popescu: turns out
the darkness of what's later referred
to as a "dark age" is not actually visible from inside
the age in question ; pantsuited morons from crisconius
to comnena similarly felt well at ease on
their redditardits, wikitardits &cetertardits.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile charles gildon is
the bad because a) male and b) said
the bad about HEROINES OF FEMINISM. and Edmund Curll is just as bad, because he was friends with
that baddie gildon. notwithstanding ~100% of what
the aspirational class is all
the fuck about is, "being a curll of
the 21st century", no more and nothing else. somehow
the hero of neets is not remarkable
to
the very neets in question.
mircea_popescu: aand in other items of entomological interest,
the wikipedia
take on politicized pseudo-literary criticism is something else. aphra behn is lionized, because
they're ever-so-desperate
to discover, invent or if need be entirely hallucinate "remarkable" cuntbearers of
the shakespeare period
that some random jailbird is A HEROINE OF FEMINISM!!!
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: so if you, mother[m], have other goals
than losing your shirt, putting your money in bitcoin options, forwards, whatever
time-derivative is exactly
the incorrect strategy.
mircea_popescu: however,
the ~personal~ problem is
that even in
those early days, options systematically expired at
the max pain point (as for instance discussed in
http://trilema.com/2011/max-pain/ though it was a regular occurence really.
mircea_popescu: mpex offered options for a long, long
time, but mostly because
the nascent republic required its currency protected in
those early days ; back when i was personaly large enough
to maintain some vague semblance of discipline in
the marketplace singlehandedly. it's meanwhile wel loutgrown me and so...
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that
there are some websites printing random numbers, but
their fantasies lack any economic substance whatsoever, and
therefore eminently can;'t be relied on
to price derivative instruments.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the general is
that
there exists no reliable bitcoin price signal. most (by VERY far most) bitcoin
transactions are handled otc, and not reported, and usually settle over non-economic considerations. for instance -- most of
the btc
the usg has historically lost on
the market in its half dozen or so attempts
to mainipulate
the price were obtained by
theft and extortion, not by economic activity, and consequently
they didn't ha
mircea_popescu: anyway, re bitcoin options (and strictly bitcoin options -- ethereum is not a
thing nor can be considered as one anymore
than you can consider "real estate" on imaginary planets a part of
this discussion)
there are
two problems.
mircea_popescu: in other curios, what's drone utility for geosurvey anyway ? is
there some relationship between visual presentation and mineral deposits identified meanwhile ? or what,
they carry honest
to god radars and ultrasound machinery and whatnot ? afaik none of it could be fit in a
ten
ton
truck let alone a hundred gram drone.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mother[m],
the republic doesn't much care for usg pretense, "regulation" or otherwise. why would you ?
mod6: asciilifeform: aha, for
those following along, we moved
that conversation
to #trilema-mod6
mother[m]: To my knowledge, Nadex is
the only regulated exchange on
the US markets for
this right now.
mother[m]: Going forward I wanted
to pivot
to Keybase
Teams.
☟︎ mother[m]: @mircea_popescu have one on Keybase I use, but primarily use Signal,
Telegram for co-located
team members as
the interface gradually became more 'Slack-like'
shinohai: I remembered it from
the agent zero sessions
a111: Logged on 2018-05-05 06:48 lobbes: ls: cannot access
toolchain/usr/bin/x86_64-therealbitcoin-linux-musl-g++: No such file or directory
mircea_popescu: mother[m], don't you find it difficult
to do business without pgp ? i mean... how do you even keep comms secret ?
mircea_popescu: mother[m], once
that goes
through you'll be able
to voice yourself ; feel free
to contribute if
there's something.
mother[m]: Finance/Tech background mostly. Sold
the IP in my last company I co-Founded with my friend
that was at
the Rackspace IPO. Just came back from West Africa using drones for geological surveying reselling
the data
to mining companies/using a prospect generation business model for new opportunities
there.
mother[m]: Good
to be here. douchebag gave me
the big picture of what
this would look like.
douchebag: I explained
to him
the idea, and I was
thinking mother[m] could be handling
the business aspect
douchebag: mircea_popescu: mother is one of my friends, he's a businessman and has a lot of good connections and would definitely be of use for
the security firm
mod6: Notice
that
there was no real resolution
to
the mike_c problem referenced by lobbes.
mod6: Sorry all,
thought it might be helpful
to others if we got his problem resolved.
mod6: so something waaaay earlier on failed
to build.
lobbes: ls: cannot access
toolchain/usr/bin/x86_64-therealbitcoin-linux-musl-g++: No such file or directory
☟︎ mod6: lobbes: if you are still in
the `bitcoin/build' directory, what does `ls -al
toolchain/usr/bin/x86_64-therealbitcoin-linux-musl-g++` return?
mod6: this is soemthing really dumb we're missing here. i'm nearly sure i've encountered
this before but can't remember what
the pill is.
lobbes: okay, cleared and
tried make again, but same egogg
lobbes: ah okay. no ~/.bashrc on
this
thing, digging on how
to clear
that in debian
mod6: then do
this again:
mod6: (want
to clear
the export CC)
mod6: ok,
try
this again:
lobbes: now
that I
think of it, I had
to install 'make' in
the beginning O.o
mod6: for folks following along,
these problems are very common in ubuntu and debian.
mod6: and see if
that solves it for ya.
mod6: my next suggestion is
to
try
to install build-essential, ala: `apt-get install build-essential`
mod6: well,
this is a deb problem of some kind.
mod6: (see if you get anything different
this
time)
mod6: are you still in
the 'bitcoin/build' directory?
mod6: And if not, I
think we might be able
to
try working around it here quick,.
mod6: hang
tight, one sec here..
lobbes: ah,
there I got a egogg: make: *** No rule
to make
target `bitcoin'. Stop.
mod6: ok lastly,
this exactly:
mod6: ok next, do
this exactly:
lobbes goes
to make sure logging is working
mod6: alright, next, do
this exactly:
mod6: so go
to your
trb machine, and
then cd into : bitcoin/src
mod6: what i suspect, is
that
the original makefile.unix can't find something it needs.
mod6: try
this: `command -v gcc-4.7` see what it
tells you,
then do `ls -al <from_whatever_command-v_told_you>
lobbes: oh wait, duh.
that makes sense
lobbes: and
then if I
try
to ls gcc-4.7 I get: ls: cannot access gcc-4.7: No such file or directory
mod6: (i suspect
this
to be a possible debian weird-ness)
mod6: So what does
this show you:
mod6: Ok, I checked myself,
too, and from your above paste of
the press, and my experience just now, your press I presume was fine.
lobbes: then issued: "./v.pl p v
trb054 asciilifeform_aggressive_pushgetblocks.vpatch"