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mod6: ;;later tell pete_dushenski pretty neat ice scuptures. i'd like to see an ice sculpture of
a guy with
a sharpie in pooper.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: lol, ty thestringpuller for keeping Qntra moving on
a weekend.
mod6: running
a `emerge --sync` now.
BingoBoingo: The dope is merely
a symptom of deeper pathology
mircea_popescu: anyway. my in-between-the-lines reading of the situation was that alf found, unexpectedly, that he had been doing dope for
a long time, and while is working to get himself off the stuff, nevertheless due to the lenthy time spent on sudden solutions aren't practicable. so he's working on it.
ascii_shmoocon: no spot but here, watching
a bloke give
a talk on thermite, wearing
a firesuit
jurov: ascii_shmoocon i did offer you to become
a contractor to my company, paid by $$$, you recoiled in horror
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon you gotta at some point stop acting and trying to think like
a child.
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:56:29; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo except he doesn't seem to want them ; and besides, what confidence does
a bum inspire to be
a chief engineer ?
mircea_popescu: put your offer in the book, if it is of this nature of
a firm offer, and wait and see.
phf: i find the framing odd, i thought purpose of s.nsa capital was to assist ascii in his b-
a aligned, but essentially personal endeavor, which might potentially have
a return. somehow it turned into "pay ascii by the hour". if ascii doesn't want to work on cardano, it's not
a b-
a way to coerce him, but if the project still exists, is being worked on, then money will be spent when there's something to spend it on, and there will be
a ☟︎ BingoBoingo: Aha, this really gets to the meat of the problem. Impatience with fiat not dying fast enough for any of us to buy Nevada on
a whim yet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo except he doesn't seem to want them ; and besides, what confidence does
a bum inspire to be
a chief engineer ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov lettuce not be naive. the alternatives here aren't the alternatives we perceive we would prefer. it's either he's
a free man and does it as such, or else he's
a peon like al schwatz describes in that very well written piece.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lengthy list of various fiat-based stuff that tried the "low time, high money" approach. they all failed and had to be rolled up in ever-larger failed ventures, usg style.
mircea_popescu: you're more than welcome to prefer
a different time/money ratio, and even start
a competitor.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice that while it took
a very long time, s.nsa did not spend
a lot of money.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, is phuctor back online ? it'd have been
a very convenient answer for me to give
a few lines above.
ascii_shmoocon: but would not even feed me for
a whole year, if it came to it
mircea_popescu: and im not sure what is
a more productive use of bitcoin than holding on to it, but ymmv.
ascii_shmoocon: in fact there is
a reason this is
a recurrent motif in afterlife myths!!
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:10:40; mircea_popescu: when
a butt-ugly wench that should be thankful if she ever gets laid for free imagines herself above what kim kardashian / the very peak of her profession actually make, it's indisputable the self-valuation ran amok.
mircea_popescu: inept whining to the degree that "people might, and how do we know they won't" and etc are not germane. that's why there's the wot and fore that matter when's the last time you ate soup with
a turd in it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, to get back to things : 1.
a thriving middle class means very strictly, ruined-usg-everything as well as scandalously oppressed orcs. this is what it means, this is what'll happen because middle class is not negotiable.
BingoBoingo wasted too much of my life reading
a piece by Simon Edhouse of David Thorne fame. Copholarchaeologist can find it themselves
ascii_shmoocon: also wtf, you can't have
a planet with 15 much less 15k mp's
mircea_popescu: the degree computing "science" degraded,
a woman's
a much better model for
a computer than any sort of nonsense that sterile homosexual turing came up with !!11
mircea_popescu: this "made" bs. every woman i eve rfucked was made by
a woman i wouldn't have fucked.
ascii_shmoocon: every single one of us is on
a cpu made in 1 of 3 places.
mircea_popescu: next you're going to say love is
a fantasy, and so is liberty, and then ima say knowledge is
a fantasy and you'll what, agree ?
mircea_popescu: for one thing i'm
a fucking minority partner in that venture!
mircea_popescu: where you can get 1% of the world's wealth in
a room, but if you want 10% you need
a small city. etc
ascii_shmoocon: and there is already
a lizard caste, may even number 15k...
mircea_popescu: instead of today's arrangement where you can fit the nominal owners of the world in
a fucking room, whereas every fucktard worth ~0 out there derps about how "black lives matter" as if obviously his did,
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 20:06:27; mircea_popescu: "oh, i got better opportunities elsewhere" "working on fixing tyhat" "i'd rather sit on reddit than work for
a fair rate NO MATTER WHAT" "i guess we put
a reddit lcd on your tombstone then".
mircea_popescu: currently the wealth curve is very zipf-skewed, which is
a serious problem.
mircea_popescu: when
a butt-ugly wench that should be thankful if she ever gets laid for free imagines herself above what kim kardashian / the very peak of her profession actually make, it's indisputable the self-valuation ran amok.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
a) not looking like that. b) we can't really discuss absolute numbers seriously. there's no basis. i was just illustrating proportions.
mircea_popescu: "oh, i got better opportunities elsewhere" "working on fixing tyhat" "i'd rather sit on reddit than work for
a fair rate NO MATTER WHAT" "i guess we put
a reddit lcd on your tombstone then".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: some fields somewhat survived
a decade or so after world chumpification.
mircea_popescu: the only thing the FIFTY years of chump did was take
a shit on everything else.
mircea_popescu: and i don't give
a shit how many cardanos get sold. what interests me is for them to be good.
mircea_popescu: heck, maybe they won't. in which case they prolly have
a good reason.
jurov: the 15k people with means will pay for
a computer or
a car only if they foresee
a possibility to recoup it from the chumps later
☟︎ jurov: you could have had
a computer in fucking victorian britain. no one wanted to pay the fixed cost for the 1st item.
mircea_popescu: and that flattening begins with "fuck you, salaries between 20k and 100k. how about from 120 to 12k
a year instead"
jurov: how would
a tiny group of people cover the costs for mining and roads with smooth surface necessary?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: make the average derp earn 10 cents an hour, make
a car 5k and all is well.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: cars are fine, just,
a society where income disparity is less than 100x makes
a mess of them.
mircea_popescu: (saliva is
a digestive juice. you can end up with
a pretty miserably upset skin.)
phf: ben_vulpes: what i meant is that in
a city like new york or sf where everything's covered in cars at saturation, fighting over areas in front of shops seems like
a meaningful endeavor, but portland?
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should confess i read "nigger tagging" and did
a doubletake
mircea_popescu: in fairness fluffypony always drove it as
a research interest.
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as "cryptocurrencies" on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsGWG5 )
mircea_popescu: who knew the geeks were going to take their "go to the prom with their friend dressed as
a woman" to its logical conclusion.
fluffypony: let's be fair, though, the chances of Monero ever becoming the largest cryptocurrency is about the same as the chances of mircea_popescu secretly being
a woman all along
mircea_popescu: anyway. forks are utterly not at the disposition of any mortal. and there's no lesser mortal than
a dev.
mats: i had
a chance to scoop
a shmoocon ticket
adlai does think there's tangible value in
a blockchain that's ready to be capitalized, even if Bitcoin never actually does fail
jurov: not quite
a implementation plurality
adlai: thestringpuller: this was said outside of reddit, to somebody who mods
a large sub; he already respected my opinion on matters btc, and i respect his on matters of his expertise, so it went over alright
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << yeah, yeah, funny-haha. or in chinese, "我們將埋葬你們！" << Just because it wins doesn't mean it can't still earn
a chuckle.
copypaste: mircea_popescu: i started to understand things better when confronted with the truth rudely, not nicely in
a sugar coated way
assbot: Logged on 16-01-2016 14:16:09; mircea_popescu: it's complicated. for the true believer (not everyone who reads the books gives
a shit, you realise, though many do) faith is
a major factor, as measured in two things : uniques (on the theory that hey, god wouldn't allow the flock to scatter) and miracles (on the theory that nature is
a whore, and whoever she picks is king).
mircea_popescu: what if everyone in cascadia had to ride wherever they were going. you know, just like
a century ago around there
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you realise that i've never in my adult life gone anywhere on
a bike, nor would i ever go anywhere if i had to go by bike ?
copypaste: quiznos? what
a terrible franchise
ben_vulpes: phf: there aren't really "car people" in town. the closest thing is the various merchant groups owners all live in the suburbs and operate
a variant of the quiznos/arbys/starbucks franchise, and so want 'moar parking!', because that's all they understand.
ben_vulpes: noobsRus: nobody gices
a fuck about r/t/hn
noobsRus: is there any value in maintaining
a true narrative across reddit/twitter/hackernews/etc.?
ben_vulpes: phf: it's not "low car concentration" it's high people concentration. the concentration of cars in an area is nigh-meaningless given that
a car takes up > 8 m^2 of space for typically one user, and this imposes
a hard upper bound on
a) the number of cars in
a space and b) the number of people you can cram into
a space.
noobsRus:
a nobody with meager holdings who understands (i think) the gravity of the situation. i would very much like for bitcoin to remain as is (decentralized, incorruptible) and the recently amplified USG-SV social engineering has been somewhat disconcerting
mod6: looks like BIP 66 diffs reflect
a bunch of der sig checking
noobsRus: i appreciate the work you do maintaining
a narrative grounded in reality. with the latest hearn stunt i felt i should perhaps explore ways i might assist
ben_vulpes: regardless of what the merchants want, tight on-street parking is both the prime indicator that and
a core driver for
a neighborhood being worth going to and living in. merchant complaints entirely aside (what do they know, they've forgotten the import of "foot traffic" and "location location location"), sacrificing car parking for bike access is the utter best way to get more people trafficing past your dumb shop.
noobsRus: hi all, been following along in b-
a logs for
a few months now. first would like to say thanks to all for bringing some clarity to the bigblocksforking nonsense that started last year
mod6: so, start up bitcoin, to disconnect your internet connection just do
a `ifconfig <iface> down`, then see
mod6: <+thestringpuller> yea it exited when the connect failed << would someone like to test this & log their results so we can put this one to bed? basically should be able to start up bitcoind, run
a `ps ax`, `netstat -an` and an `ifconfig`, then
a `./bitcoind stop`, then the `ps ax`, `netstat -an` and `ifconfig` again to see whats happening - perhaps even
a tail of the last 100 lines of the debug log...
mircea_popescu: "Each BSides is
a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members."
mircea_popescu: "It had been decided months ago that I would give
a talk at Security BSides San Francisco. The subject of my talk was up in the air until just before the conference started"
mircea_popescu: seems
a legitimate enough fetish. "honey... i can only get it up to the sweet music of bitchez gettin' triggered"
mircea_popescu: tie
a buncha "rape survivors" etc in
a chair and trigger the shit out of them.