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mod6: i also think that V might get
a huge overhaul perhaps.
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, has some interesting interplay with key updates - suddenly in
a V world, the principal reason to get
a new key is, "i'm sick of all tyhe old bullshit, wanna take
a year off and rebase everything. here's my new key.")
mod6: i guess i don't see much of
a reason to rush this
mircea_popescu: although some pretty major cataclysm is needed to invalidate
a genesis. you can just patch it into correctness downstream neh ?
mircea_popescu: gtfo already. it never was
a game, it was always rape, and we always raped them. what "not
a game anymore".
mircea_popescu: all the bullshit about
a very faux, miserable definition of "ethics" - no, ethics is pointedly NOT what he thinks, not anymore than capitalism is what the us runs ; all the bullshit about how "it's not
a game anymore" as if
a) it ever was and b) the losers, ie, "law enforcement", derpy marketeers and generally the feminine enemy is possibly ever in any manner even conceivably winning anything...
mircea_popescu: if you're
a woman you can be
a cow. if you're not, there's nothing. that's it.
mircea_popescu: the only option for the non-elitist, other than feeding the worms immediately, is
a life of hypocrisy. there is nothing above, beyond or outside of elitism
mircea_popescu: as i age i'm simply rediscovering what i knew as
a nine year old, which is, that i really can't stand "smart kids".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fucktards. you just read it, son of
a drunk fucker! why ask ME what it means! what are you for!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's almost
a wonder these people choke on the oh-so-well written phuctor reports. considering the sort of inept bullshit floating about, you'd think they'd fall on knees and worship.
mircea_popescu: it's
a wonder the 2nd para doesn't start with "it's
a cold muscovite october and the snow crackles under the steps..." or somesuch shit.
mircea_popescu: yaya. and he checked everything and he fell in
a state of stupour.
phf: i was thinking of maybe making standalone keywords search for
a word, but if you want to grep, surround it with quotes. "t" will behave as now, where's t will behave as "^t " or " t$" or " t "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out, to this day the nebulously defined "community" around warez standard has
a) not moved away from rar ; b) not allowed unicode in names.
phf: of course producing genesis from original v.pl and then using mod6's vpatch will give you
a proper chain
phf: j-dawg: right, i think that's the one that's missing genesis though. so it's sort of
a hybrid, you need original v.pl and then you press with
a vpatch. i don't think that's the right way
phf: j-dawg: i think there's
a general "fear" of publishing
a dodgy vpatch so everyone's hedging. i think that's one of the reasons for asciilifeform's vector
davout: "here, have
a quake 2 in 287 bytes"
phf: biggest japan pirate network was an invite only wot based around harddrive exchange, with the "if your friend's
a rat, you're
a rat" policy
phf: j-dawg: btcbase secretly tracks btcbase itself, since i'm experimenting with (load-v "foo.vpatch") type thing, but that's not public. i don't think there's
a proper vtronic chain of V or rotor available, so unless i generate those myself there's nothing i can track
mircea_popescu: (in the above context, "her" is
a genderless pronoun used to denote stupidity)
mircea_popescu: Could I become an affiliate? Not at this time, although this may change in the future. Could I become
a partner? Not at this time. Can I advertise on BitBet? Not at this time, although this may change in the future.
mircea_popescu: the bank fraud where
a coupla clerks reprogrammed the system to have all cent fractions added up to their account is
a very typical chisel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's an underworld of hustlers and small time, nonviolent criminals, with its own cant. to chisel is to use an informational asymmetry for
a small, distributed gain.
mircea_popescu: $google "i used
a little information for
a chisel, that's all"
danielpbarron: and i won't bother with the faq since apparently ascii got
a text version of it
mircea_popescu: keeping the "try to chisel, lose your capital" rule it seems. oh and all the scandal and "mp is
a scammer" that came from that one, golly.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the admin interface as-was does not provide
a ready way to cancel bets that had already closed at the whatever arbitrary timepoint. but still, database is database, what.
mircea_popescu: "While this may feel inconsistent (the proper resolution should be "CANCELED & REFUNDED"), there is
a limitation in the current design of the system that prevents us from doing anything else." << this is an odd claim.
danielpbarron: was trying to write
a qntra on it, but ran into this serving-different-content-to-different-browsers weirdness
mircea_popescu: the REASON it bothered the dudes is that now they couldn't tell themselves that it's ok they're not running amok among the smiling she-herd, grabing all the tits, because "you can't get in there". manifestly you can, and
a foreigned=loser to boot, so they can^2, and what fucking difference does it make HE doesn't go japanese-subway-porn-berserk, that's because he's
a loser=foreigner, nevermind that part!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, in egypt trains (not the "expensive" stuff where you get the whole compartment and there's
a gay waiter in livery to attend to your every whim, the common cattle hauling things) are also gender segregated. and we (ie, me and chet) climbed in the girl one, which amused teh women no end and really bothered the dudes.
mircea_popescu: AND if you get
a hardon while needing to pee, which is why you're there, it'll be
a bitch to get yourself out of it as pressure is
a signal.
mircea_popescu: but i also didn't pretend i'm
a woman or anything. just, you know, these sorts of rules, psshh. they're lulzy because the pretense is always one way (protect teh modesty of teh ladies, o noes, as if), whereas the actual cause is exactly opposite (dudes can't fucking piss with women there).
trinque will try to fit this in head after
a cycle in his regeneration pod
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the fed is spending all the resources of pretty much everyone in finance speaking english today to try and come out with
a "passible solution" to mp's problem, that they doublespeak as "market stability" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: etc. you can not in fact find
a "blue chip" as the notion has been tarnished today that does anything else as its business than... that.
mircea_popescu: think for
a moment, what is the nsa supposedly doing ? taking THAT EXACT db and establishing "who's
a terrorist".
mircea_popescu: people are still clinging on today to this "search engine traffic is best traffic" mantra, which made sense 10 or 15 years ago, without stopping to think for
a moment how the context changed.
mircea_popescu: so they go around the web clipping bits out of ever site ; and like
a tgp they send
a lot of traffic to paysites ; and like
a tgp their traffic is mostly shit. and etc.
hanbot: mircea_popescu but wouldja say google is
a tgp? or indistinct failbucket?
mircea_popescu: google had perhaps, in 2002 ; and certainly held great promise, for
a decade-ish hence. but it's gone by now. they like to pretend like they know shit, but
a cursory examination of search results shows the charade for what it is. they know "
a lot for
a rock", which is great, except who cares about rocks.
mircea_popescu: hanbot i have nfi about etsy really, but stuff like amazon definitely has actual business power behind it. google likes to pretends it does, also. i do not believe them, and the desperation fluff pieces
a la "artificial intelligence" are so transparently tailored to satisfy the investor's dream needs (for an investor that's apparently pretty stupid), they count as proof to me.
danielpbarron: i know it's true of facebook; some youtuber made
a thing about how paying for offical promotion caused him to get ~less~ clicks because all the indians diluted out his actual fans
mircea_popescu: hanbot well... gimme
a list of these, what're you thinking about ?
BingoBoingo: If only we could drop PT Barnum in
a contemporary urban walmart
mircea_popescu: they claim they're not
a tgp, i do not believe so. that's the crux of teh matter. they in point of fact contain no actual content past some thumbnails they cropped out of other people's porn shots.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i stand by it, if the year were 2006 and twitter was
a tgp, it'd be worth about 600k. which in today's money is maybe 1mn.
mircea_popescu: then this interracted with the tgp sorting algos : you'd end up with
a list of thumbnails sorted BY HOW MUCH INDIANS LIKED THEM
mircea_popescu: and it being
a business, soon enough it became
a matter of skimming the milk. getting some traffic to come in meant you got clicks to send to all the other guys you're trading with which meant they sent you theirs,
mircea_popescu: so : these tgps "traded" traffic with one another like crazy, on the idea that hey, there's
a guy here with cock in hand, best sort him out to something he can get off to asap. so very much reminiscent of the egyptian shopkeepers who, if i inquired for an item they didn't have, would run off to
a friend/cousin/competitor that did, then take me there and get
a small cut of baksheesh.
mircea_popescu: the thing had developped to the degree someone made
a thumb sorter sometime in 2002 or so, which sorted the imagaes by how clicked they were, so people could manage their tgps with less effort. as
a side yielded all sorts of interesting anthropological results. for instance... hm. shit this is getting more involved than i thought.
mircea_popescu: (blind click skim, which apparently is entirely unknown to google, as per usual - jesus that shit's worthless, the answers it has you only actually need if you're retarded, and everything else it has no clue about - is this concept from the old days when internet porn still made money, but after the glory days when it made serious money. the silver age so to speak. it consisted of
a bunch of people making free tgps [thumbnail
mircea_popescu: so twitter can do what,
a hundred or two of these
a day, and is consequently worth maybe half
a million
a year, gross ? over an expense account
a hundred times that ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron obviously, being
a dumb cunt's way worse than being dead.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> and in other news, holy shit check out the scam of the future << sounds like
a copy-cat of "warhammer" which I think had
a medieval theme; the figures come unpainted and you're supposed to paint them yourself. i think that's more of the point as
a little art project although i'm sure the price is ridiculous
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> incidentally that was VERY MUCH
a case of usistan vs iranistan << iranistan is the actual name of
a street around where i live,
a word invented by pt barnum (the circus guy) who was the mayor for
a time ; he wanted to build his mansion on
a street that had an exotic sounding name. The thing has since burned down if i'm not mistaken, and the street is now littered with those getto style houses that look like they sho
mircea_popescu: next they're gonna sell these schmucks bitcoin mining kids in longhand. 95 dollar special pencil! has
a bitcoin logo on it!
mircea_popescu: and in other news, holy shit check out teh scam of teh future :
http://infinitythegame.com/whatis.php << why not do all the hard work of computing
a rpg BY HAND! and pay 50 pounds per fucking figurine so you can paintakingly reconstruct all the hard work of
a gfx card by hand also!
mircea_popescu: incidentally that was VERY MUCH
a case of usistan vs iranistan.
mircea_popescu: (yes, smegma does have some health benefits in some circumstances that you're not likely to encounter, that nevertheless had
a larger impact on history of life on earth than anything you ever encountered conceivably could.)
pete_dushenski: something like $4-6mn
a year ? maybe not much, but more than mp spends, likely
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that they very carefully don't go places lenin went w/o
a thought.
mircea_popescu: also
a large part of why diesel upscale cars were popular for so long. excellent torque.
pete_dushenski: armor, batteries,
a week's supply of astronaut food...
pete_dushenski: still weird that znort is awol. she has
a key, why not provide updates here ?
pete_dushenski: i wish bbet would come back so i could bet on phuctor cracking
a deedbot l2 key. seems like the kind of thing no one would expect, like ron paul talking for 10 minutes or w/e it was
pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-08#1464636 <<
a chunk of this seemingly excess capacity is to account for two things :
a) the obvious need for husky bodyguards to accompany asian heads of state, and b) the less obvious need for the same platform to accommodate the optional hybrid battery pack that weighs ~900lbs~ more and takes up most of the trunk.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: 'boomtown' isn't growing at 10-20% per annum, tis true, but it's pretty resilient at these oil price levels. $20 would be
a massacre, $40+ is more than liveable
BingoBoingo: Oh, you've talked about the "boomtown" in decline thing going on there for
a while
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, write it
a nice 8ball expander to keep adding primes and that's that, can let it be.