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mircea_popescu: they want
a fork. they failed to ghet the xt fork going, they're back to pretending like they're in after spending
a year pretending like reddit/xtcoin was anything but outsourced philipinos. and now the pretense is that you know, whatever, nobody knows anything of the last year, nobody learned anythning, we'll just do... this. which is that.
mircea_popescu: mod6 perhaps an announcement that the bitcoin foundation maintains and will continue to maintain
a real bitcoin client, notwithstanding continued attacks from well known usg agents on the core values of sound money ?
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna do it ? you need
a few k sq ft of warehouse, somewhere where it's cheap (michigan ?),
a coupla packaging machines,
a plastic printer and
a few workers, no prior skills required that's it. 50k for advertising 50k for the gear gets you wll going. buy the nuts in bulk for cents, sell the packs for dollars, you're looking at 99% margins.
mircea_popescu: have
a website, with
a selection of nut packages. some serving sizes of peanuts, pistachios, whatever.
mircea_popescu: sooo... here's an idea for
a consumer company : dropship nuts.
BingoBoingo: This is in contrast to: "We had one huge manlet of
a kid in junior high. 14 years old probably 300+ pounds at about 5'4. We all hated the kid not just because he was fat and stunk like shit, he was
a massive nerd and
a complete prick. Some shitlord brought up the fact that he smells so bad because he probably can't fit in the shower, so we took
a pink highlighter, not
a permanent marker, and highlighted his arm to test the bathing
pete_dushenski: in other nyooz, eth below 0.002 and dropping. i think we've got
a nail-biter on our hands !
pete_dushenski: < boohoo everyone should be
a middle class conformist and comport themselves with only the flattest and shallowest mannerisms and phraseologies.
pete_dushenski: "This isn’t just bad manners, it’s destructive. Taleb is intentionally tearing down the kind of back-and-forth conversations that are critical to helping laypeople (like himself) form educated opinions about the safety of GMOs and other scientific subjects. And he’s doing with ugly, personal insults that demonize the other side of the debate, just because it’s fun. It’s
a terrible, foolish strategy." <
pete_dushenski: "Taleb’s tantrum is reprehensible, but at the end of the day it’s his own business whether he is willing to listen to actual experts. He does more harm by setting
a bad example. He’s not just refusing to engage opposing opinions himself, he’s encouraging his readers and followers to do it too"
☟︎ fluffypony: every time there's
a new feature we just create
a new separate chain
punkman: "disposable structure known as
a "witness" that does not get committed to the blockchain" << sigs still stored in blockchain last time I looked
punkman: can't wait for
a believable satoshi though, will be fun
BingoBoingo: This really doesn't look like the first time Hoaxtoshi has keep up
a con for multiple years
punkman: maybe you can have
a believable one, but it can't be proven
pete_dushenski:
a millennia is too long of
a historical recollection for idjits still using last century's slurs.
mircea_popescu: that's traditionally where these grand adventures against abstractions predicated on
a shortage of currency traditionally started
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski because without saudis their whole southern flank collapses, and that's how they had
a famine in leningrad last time.
mircea_popescu: they'll get
a little, but they'll get less than they would gladly take and WAY less than what they'd need to keep the charade going.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the saudi's have russia's backing, which is what the whole oil glut and cutting bahamas down at the knees was all about. they did their part and the russkis can't afford to sell them out. nor does anyone exist who could make
a decent offer, bahamas' is dead broke and the eu is
a joke.
mircea_popescu: lol, "we accuse this guy of trying to survive. HES
A WRECKER!"
pete_dushenski: "“I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer [black students if the admissions policy changes]. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks, admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less,” he added. “I don’t think it stands to reason that it’s
a good thing for the University of Texas to admit as many
pete_dushenski: "“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to
a less-advanced school,
a slower-track school, where they do well,” he said."
pete_dushenski: "The comments by Antonin Scalia came as conservatives on the court gave
a sympathetic hearing to
a white student who claims she was deprived of
a place at the University of Texas due to her race."
pete_dushenski: "
A US supreme court justice has suggested that black students may benefit from the end of affirmative action admissions policies in US universities because many are “pushed ahead too fast” and should go to “lesser schools” instead."
pete_dushenski: "Saudi Arabia stood accused on Tuesday of trying to wreck the Paris climate summit in order to protect its future as one of the world’s largest oil producers." << wow. 'wreck' is so apt they had to use it twice. 1st su, 2nd us. now the only thing missing is
a shiny red star in bahamas' (faux) fur hat and you'd swear you had deja vu.
pete_dushenski: "our phone is so epic that we had to rip off
a chris bangle design from 20 years ago to just to allow it to function for an entire day without recharging! electric batteries are our future! (tm) (r)"
mod6: hoping to test it with the required packages in
a test dir on the foundation site this weekend.
mod6: got
a fair chunk of
a script to alter the buildroot .mk files working.
mod6: Hey, took one guy
a whole day to figure out the recipes go in the mind slot :D << lol!
nolanbugg: yea, i take
a long time to do anything but i feel like i have
a feel for some of the personalities here, but i have plenty of catching up to do with the logs
nolanbugg: daniel insisted i join, it has been
a long time since i have used irc
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 9 for nolanbugg with note: childhood friend, known for 15+ years
mircea_popescu: in fact the reason precedence even exists is because it's
a schelling point for lazy.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50." <<< imo this is the symptom of
a badly written assembler or w/e the thing is.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> the company literally had to get
a local college to offer
a course in it, and they sent an employee over to teach it << this is how it should work, actually. all the OTHER courses should be discontinued, pretty much.
mircea_popescu: revolutionize the things, end up trading your vaginal virginity for
a pair of jeans
nubbins`: the company literally had to get
a local college to offer
a course in it, and they sent an employee over to teach it
nubbins`: i worked at
a company that does ~$1bn in annual revenue, all back-end is accessed via RPG IV
nubbins`: there's
a guy selling one of Carl Mark Force IV's business cards
mircea_popescu: this bit is golden. 26 yo derp is
a figure, of any kind ?
mircea_popescu: Johnson’s isn’t really
a marginal or peripheral figure in mainstream conservatism"
mircea_popescu: "It’s not just Johnson’s attitude toward people of color who’ve been victimized by cops. Johnson in general likes to retaliate against certain individuals by publishing their personal information (
a.k.
a. doxxing).
A recent example: After the New York Times published
a copy of former Ferguson cop Darren Wilson’s marriage certificate, and named the street on which he used to live, Johnson published the home addre
mircea_popescu: still unsure why anyone'd give
a shit. twitter ? wut ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema used to have
a fb and
a twitter where some webapp (that no doubt is
a great success) dumped the rss
mircea_popescu: sounds
a lot like the story of the man upset that he went to the brothel, and they touched him in
a sexually suggestive manner.
ascii_field: 'Twitter is
a natural monopoly. Outrageous Chuck Johnson is still banned after all this time. They're showing why they need to be regulated.'
ascii_field: nor will you, other than at some considerable expense and choice of constrained envelope - have
a linear one.
ascii_field: (was
a mega-issue in vacuum valve manufacture)
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> (they still flaked, saw it with mine own) << there's
a reason thermosensors are made out of two different materials stuck to each other. that reason is that this problem of geometric affixing is INCREDIBLY hard.
nubbins`: anyway, i figure counterfeits are
a much more common issue going forward
nubbins`: today, for the first time outside of casascius' blog, i see
a photo of an un-lasered sticker in an auction on the gooftalk forum
nubbins`: the holo stickers for the 1btc silvers were too large for the space on the coin & tended to lift at the edges, making for very easy solvent insertion -- most stickers were then burned around the rim with
a laser to make
a fried-on messy ring that allowed the sticker to lay flatter and ostensibly would reveal tampering more easily (they still flaked, saw it with mine own)
nubbins`: i recall
a discussion in which it was posited that
a device to read private key would be easy enough to make
ascii_field: nubbins`: do you remember the thread where i described how to trivially rape such
a coin ?
nubbins`: for those who are interested in matters of pedigree, i just sold
a casascius coin and the buyer paid an additional 1btc to have the pgp chain of custody extended
ascii_field: and i had
a forbidden cloth-backed chair that had to be hidden during inspections
ascii_field has never even been there as
a tourist. oughta go some day.
mircea_popescu: "La 27 de ani, Vladimir Oane
a riscat şi
a reuşit. În doi ani,
a pus pe picioare o afacere prin care monitorizează diverse reţele şi oferă statistici marilor branduri. Contractele au început să curgă." <<< for the lulz. romanian "airbnb could buy all of russia" thing.
mircea_popescu: it's not like yc will be displaced by b-
a, it's like his derpy www-persona has
a chance and all that.
mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was
a nobody in the investing world, but I spent the next year afterward traveling around the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I talked to just about everybody in tech I could. I read voraciously and learned as much as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in
a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
mircea_popescu: "Losing
a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from the rejection at the very end, however. After getting the cold shoulder, I realized I needed to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed
a more robust network, and needed to craft my own brand as an investor.
mircea_popescu: or if you will, they executed what groupon executed :
a maddof in the background, in this case named graham, scammed some old ladies and wrote the details in
a notebook bearing this title
assbot: "You cannot fix
a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1QwJDpi )
mircea_popescu: derp wants to think that hey, this is how i got bumped out of
a great deal
mircea_popescu: you're guaranteed to get it, the higher accomplished you are. it correlates with your visibility because the point, from the niggers' perspective, is exactly to try and make it
a thing by sticking it to people.
assbot: Rafe Esquith, famous teacher, accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior in school by L.
A. schools ... (
http://bit.ly/1QwIdel )
mircea_popescu: not EXACTLY
a tall tale, like the canadians got. crazier.
mircea_popescu: by now i suppose the prosecuting attorney will suspect the case may not seem like
a "real" case w/o one.
ascii_field: and somehow
a sting/entrapment op was in the mix, even
ascii_field: earlier link features
a chinese fella on trial for supposedly pinching
a priceless!11111 filesystem driver from ibm
mircea_popescu: but these are places that've been continuously inhabited for
a while, where the space of possibilities has been
a little more explored.