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mircea_popescu: there's even
a thing in .ro folklore about this, balada mesterului manole. he keeps building and stuff keeps falling down.
mircea_popescu: for the least expenditure of intellectual effort possible we have
a full socio-political as well as philosophical!
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is how the pedestrian notion of "good" and "evil" is constructed even. let us arbitrarily divide
a set of real objects into "only has height" and "only has width". thus therefore the first set are ~obviously~ good, for they allow you to build up! (how will you manage to allign things with no width on top of each other is
a consideration best left to any masochistical engineers still stuck in your swampla
mircea_popescu: (that's
a particularly poor illustration of what i said, if it tries to be. for one thing i dun think i ever said anything alike.)
ascii_butugychag: masochist in the sense where an outsider does not know if 'do x or get beating' is
a bribe or
a threat
mircea_popescu: and while i am not certain "masochists" can be separated from the general population, i am well certain that they are not
a category to be, and that you're plenty one yourself.
mircea_popescu: no. but
a thing's "width" and its "height" ARE the same thing.
ascii_butugychag: if you want sheepfucking ruled on, you ~actually must fuck
a sheep~ etc
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag they're substantially the same thing, the division is
a matter of interpretation.
mircea_popescu: trinque no but he's asking me what he's doing when he's the one doing it. and in all honesty he expects me to answer. i suppose in the same honesty he expects
a snippet of code somwhere exists which says "how to subdue women". god knows the PUA subculture's been working tediously at it.
mircea_popescu: so to get back to it : <ascii_butugychag> so if i offer
a kid
a candy, i am threatening him with hunger ? << are you ?
BingoBoingo: Twas
a cruddy film but of all the comic book to film adaptations, twas the one that has sucked the least
ascii_butugychag: where
a persian envoy demanding tribute is shoved into
a pit, which appears to have been built and kept around just for said purpose
ascii_butugychag: there was
a cruddy american film some time in bush era about sparta
ascii_butugychag often pictures mircea_popescu pushing
a messenger into
a spiffy stone pit, 'this is SPARTA!~' (tm) (r)
BingoBoingo does not have
a solid idea who 副船长 on 8btc forum is
ascii_butugychag: so if i offer
a kid
a candy, i am threatening him with hunger ?
mircea_popescu: human speech is in all cases
a promise and
a threat, together. if you go see
a house for rent and you offer 100k, what you are saying is "stand with me and make 100k, or stand aside and damn you all". no matter how faint either side, it's there. it has to be for speech to be meaningful.
mircea_popescu: if he pays and he sees
a derp with gasoline fucking around and he calls you up, what then ?
mircea_popescu: this fellow's illiterate. he sees the world through eyes of stupidity, which is why he says "dead direct". it's
a barbarism in romanian, but he needs to import
a foreign symbol because well... sounds better thus.
mircea_popescu: you're thick. there is no bribe that doesn't contain
a threat, nor is there any threat that is anything but
a veiled bribe.
mircea_popescu: to which i say that if i were
a bird also i wouldn't flap my wings, but merely float. because why not, tis
a dream.
mircea_popescu: the fellow says "if i were to be
a pimp [ie, the dream mode, because hey, that's what he understood of
a discussion of technology, that "being an engineer" is
a blessed state, to be obtained through divine grace and / or ordination] i wouldn't beat the women, for they'd be more productive thus. but also, if they piss me off, "dead" directly. you know, like puff daddy.
mircea_popescu: the article is "how to be
a pimp -
a simple guide, easy to understand and exhaustive". which it is. which it exactly is.
ascii_butugychag: but given the mammalian tendency to 'hate to lose more than loving to win' (as described in
a mircea_popescu article !) it makes sense to distinguish 'threat' and 'promise' as items
mod6: no heat in the suburban, made appt. to have it fixed. showed up this am like "ok do your thing..". They said, "oh, can you pick it up tomorrow? we're busy...". Like wtf. It's literally like
a 15 minute job. How do I know? Because I just did it myself instead and if I exclude the drive time to pick up and buy the part itself, ~15 minutes.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what starded as
a more humane way to disposses the old (see balzac, he describes it in detail), has meanwhile become the universal way to cleave yourself from everything.
BingoBoingo: It's rare, but every now and then
a Bet needs BetLawyered in the comments.
ascii_butugychag: they are full of 'napoleons', but also there is always
a reasonable number of 'glass pitchers', 'acorns', etc
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Or just trying to "be cool" like all those movie stoners or something. It's not unknown among USG agents to either have or have invented
a "groovy" drug history.
BingoBoingo: "People’s reactions to the discussion have been mixed, with people pointing out that the discussion was inappropriate in
a group of essentially strangers. Furthermore, Bitcoin has been associated with drug use throughout its entire history, and perhaps it is in the interest of the community to separate itself from that." << lolz ClassicCoin can't even win outlets that flirted with Garza's Paycoin
mircea_popescu: it's
a semi-permeable membrane. i don't indiscriminately counsel everyone there to come out.
jurov: there's also f,t for jumping to
a character
ascii_butugychag: FUCK hitting an arrow more than once to traverse
a block of whitespace
ascii_butugychag: but if you have
a unique itch somewhere deep in
a body cavity, and wait for somebody to come and scratch it ~for you~ - you may wait for
a while.
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: somebody wrote an 'infocom adventure' interpreter. my brother played
a few gamez in it
ben_vulpes: window-jump and winner-mode make for...
a not horrible experience.
ascii_butugychag: the 'final solution' to the tx crud flood is, i suspect, mircea_popescu's concept of
a tmsr-ONLY block-
a-day mining pool
mod6: ah, can you give me
a point in the right direction?
mod6: that may have played
a role.
mircea_popescu: the actual bitcoin network looks like
a fuzz atop those teeth
☟︎ mod6: i'll note, for instance, that when using -lows lastnight, i created tx '320665468f018d9635da7e240f01f48b07e1e5114a2535895f7091fe3aa751a0' (and
a hand full of others) that never made it.
mod6: i just sent
a low-s one, and that seemed ok.
mod6: you passed me
a link to BIP66, which, as far as I can tell isn't anything more than
a bunch of sanity checks.
mod6: im thinking maybe, worst case, i can make
a patch with just the -lows code in there, and then wait to get the rest figured out later for -highs
trinque likes helm-apropos very much, and has it on
a reasonable binding
ascii_butugychag: BUT every alternative i ever tried made me want to eat
a nagant.
ascii_butugychag: jurov: please wake me up when you find
a replacement for emacs !
Xplosionist: if the record separator is
a newline, then I think I'd use awk.
mircea_popescu: if you make it into
a single line and try to then use sed to recreate lines by the separator, sed silently dies
Xplosionist: mircea_popescu is there
a good field separator?
mircea_popescu: how is this done ?! obviously, "turn it into
a sql thing somehow and sql it", but no, i mean in bash.
mircea_popescu: required is
a list of all profile names whose profile textual content matches
a certain string.
mircea_popescu: given is
a text file, worth ~1.5 GB, containing
a) reliable record separator ; b)
a profile name ; c) the textual content of the profile in question.
mircea_popescu: "
A spokeswoman for the NMI, Yen Heng, referred questions about its application to the attorney general’s department." yeah, this makes sense.
Xplosionist: I know there was
a way to see transactions, I thought there was, but I don't see it. Just the link to my payment address which shows no transaction matching the one I expect./
Xplosionist: clicking on the address in the bet shows the last transaction was
a previous one from another bet on jan 10.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 what people claim has naught to do with anything else other than what it pays to claim. if society pays for being
a victim, they;ll claim being
a victim.
a century ago when it paid being
a winner, you couldn't get out of talk about how winnery they are. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 this view is
a lot more common than generally realised.
bagels7: I would rather be
a sexual slave and get raped everyday than go through "childhood" again
bagels7: I lived with
a BDSM guy by accident and It was the easiest time of my life, I took
a 100 dollar taxi ride to
a complete stranger i met online the same day because it was midnight and I was in
a bad neighborhood on the streets. I didn't know he was an "experienced BDSM master"
bagels7: Like if he really had
a hard life like me my dad would beat that arrogance out of him and those disgusting childish manipulating games wouldn't work
bagels7: He is like 250 lbs jurov and he does treat me like
a child but he is
a bigger spoiled child who claims to be
a victim of society while calling his mother every other day. this one time he didnt talk to me for 3 days because we forgot to share
a joint with him, and now he is not talking to me because I said "oh fuck off" in response to him calling me fat after i told him not to tell me
mircea_popescu: maybe you meet
a nice aide or something... you never know.
jurov: he's not
a jerk, you're
a cuck if you allow him
bagels7: jurov: funny, but no, he's not into me, he has
a bf now and is
a jerk about it like coming in my room to make out then leave, which is inconsiderate considering I am seperated recently
mircea_popescu: on" and they represent as
a fundamental failure to thrive.
bagels7: I was
a brainwashed jehovah witness, it's
a wonder I am not
a zealot today
bagels7: if you aren't racist you probably never lent money to
a black guy
bagels7: my black friend told me "this is
a black house DUH" in response to her BF robbing me at his mothers house
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2016 05:17:51; trinque: how one can see how it works in "the church" and not elsewhere is
a matter of selective blindness.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-01-2016#1378294 << technically, yes. consider any fanatic dude going "oh, if i only had the opportunity to kill hiltler before he could do all that damage!!1" gets his opportunity and is now explaining to
a munchen court why he dispatched the 9yo boy with
a pickaxe. what do you say, "i guess it's one of those where you had to be there" ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: which is why nobody bothers to engage the derps going "bitcoin/b-
a/whatever is
a cult!11". sure, whatever, it's
a cult. not as much as your "feminism" "environment" "government" "state will save us" blabla.
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2016 23:22:41; mircea_popescu: (in the other view : all currency is always and necessarily
a ponzi scheme. and "fraudulent" in
a sense.)
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2016 05:13:28; danielpbarron: true gods or not, AA claims to be
a non-religious organization and this is
a lie