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mircea_popescu: heck, all the fucktarded broken software stack would really not be
a point of concern if all it took was you know, hitting the gym three times
a week and not being over 60.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo his approach is fundamentally broken, fwiw. "oh, be in shape and you'll..." you'll what ? you'll die, just like everyone else. what's it gonna do, exactly ? he keeps spinning these... what they are is basically "believable superman strips". self-contained submarine-jetfighter except you know, not actually THAT capable, so the weakness of the "self-contained" fantasy is
a little harder to put under fire.
mircea_popescu: nah. trompi is
a putative divinity introduced by
a comic strip. he's more mysterious than the fsm in that outside of me and those guys nobody even references it.
mircea_popescu: (yes, lenin is
a bit player in
a story that marx didn't start, and the french didn't start. the stone fell i nthe lake long long ago.)
mircea_popescu: "Atypical Neurotic. An Illinois-born refugee from academia who in late middle-age finds himself
a civil servant in Norway. An unashamed city-dweller, he walks 30 minutes every day to
a job where he is not paid to be an economist (lawyer or accountant), only to sound like one."
mircea_popescu: "where's your profile pic" of the 90s gave way to the "where's your instagram account" of the 2000s which gave way to "you make and send nude selfies on demand as
a prequal" of today which will give way to something, dat much is fo sho.
mircea_popescu: punkman that's nothing. i suspect the pedigree of "women with
a sexual market value" will in the future require full coverage much like the sale of cattle and other biomaterial includes full documentation by default today.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287253 << i dunno that it is. honestly, "Race relations" in the sense of, here's
a 10-15% ish scapegoat minority is the lulz of all time. same role the gypsies play in romania, same exact role of the small rus / white rus whatever in russian rhetoric, what the fuck are the ukrainians gonna do, bleed on everyone ?
☝︎ punkman: "Last February, Greek authorities took the extraordinary step of issuing an international arrest warrant for
a CIA official the Greeks believe was
a key figure in the operation while based in Athens. Unnoticed by the U.S. press, the warrant was
a nearly unprecedented action by an allied country. The intelligence official, identified as William George Basil, was accused of espionage and eavesdropping."
cazalla: maybe get
a blue yeti or similar to avoid handing microphone around though (missed what you said at the start)
cazalla: phf, sounds like you just need to drink
a lil' more
phf: actually reminds me of this guy, fred reed, from earlier internet,
http://www.fredoneverything.net. he used to be
a dc journalist, so he has
a lot of candid comments about dc northeast and generally race in america
phf: this sake i've been drinking put me in
a foul mood, and orcs at the door rhetoric is depressing
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He's
a white guy. Been in since the last Black guy was voted out.
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> what's available to smash and grab from
a car these days? << In Missouri? Firearms
phf: in any case i'd be curious to watch breakdown patterns in philly. you have
a lot of agents here, that are not just realtors. there's upenn, there's ethnic neighbourhoods, there's also
a lot of "blacklivesmatter" hipster feminist areas that are deep in the ghetto territory.
cazalla: what's available to smash and grab from
a car these days?
BingoBoingo: The surge in violence seems to have
a more nationalist feel.
phf: nicer in
a sense that gentrification line was pushed further out, or nicer in
a sense that ghettos were becoming better places to live? philly for example has
a large muslim community and Ethiopian community that pushing in the ghetto without necessarily turning it into polarising yoga and smoothies yuppie centrals
BingoBoingo: St Louis was actually getting
a lot nicer before Ferguson. Philly might just lack
a rallying event
phf: it seems like
a particular type of american boogieman
phf: tention. there's
a wide range of ghettos, and those that are there, at the end of the day, how many black of service age is there.
phf: i spent
a long time biking through north east dc and was friends with
a dc cop at umd and i know that north east is hellhole ready to burst. i'd bike during day time and would have old black guys on the street corner go "whacha doin here white boy". but then i moved to philly and ghetto here is not north east nor baltimore by any measure. i can walk up to 69th street or kensington and as long as i'm smart about it, nobody will pay me any at
phf: fwiw lafond's opinion is particularly negatively biased since he lives in
a city with such seemingly intentionally crippled police force. ramsey for example, former dc commissioner and now philly, has been pretty efficient at containment.
cazalla: in other words, don't make
a big deal outta it spider
pete_dushenski: recreational violence has
a long history amongst bank robbers and other 'pros'. highly effective means of persuation and, hell, gratification.
BingoBoingo: Philip Cook,
a Duke University public policy and economics professor who has examined crime trends, said most gun robberies do not lead to violence but that perpetrators sometimes injure or kill to eliminate witnesses to
a crime. "And in some cases it may have been purely gratuitous violence — what I called recreational violence," Cook said.
BingoBoingo: "Mayor Francis Slay said Monday he would give Dotson "unlimited overtime" to put more police on the streets. Slay reiterated his goal to hire more police officers, but warned it may not be enough to combat what he called "
a higher level of boldness" by criminals who are carrying more and higher-caliber weapons and who have little regard for consequences."
BingoBoingo: Prolly most North American cities have to look forward to: "It is the latest robbery in St. Louis in which the victim was shot even after complying with
a robber's demands."
pete_dushenski: and by 'the future' i don't mean 'the future everywhere' but rather
a great many north american cities, particularly those focused on
a single industry.
pete_dushenski: i mean, who wouldn't want to see
a real live honest-to-goodness usian dystopian ghost town to see if the future is really that shitty or whether it's in fact quite liveable
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo haven't been to either detroit or stl, but the former holds some appeal to me, at least as
a tourist.
mircea_popescu: course, not nearly as heroic as "dude that has
a bunch of other altcoins anal rings around his penis said ethereum's no different, and he had an open offer we mostly didn't take, and now it turns out it's no different and let's not mention the bitbet bet on the matter if possible."
mircea_popescu: "Short summary from clicking the link: this dude claimed to know Ethereum would fail, so during the crowd sale he offered Ether at
a huge discount to the official price. Since nobody took him up on this amazing offer of selling something he didn't have at
a price cheaper than the price people were willing to pay to people who actually had Ether to sell, he declared victory.
pete_dushenski: "Part of the initiative is to create around 20 cross-border Special Economic Zones. Khorgos, on the border with Kazakhstan, serves as
a cautionary example: two years after the go-ahead China has built
a city consisting of
a number of multi-story shopping centers in the desert. In one of those buildings, for example, there are roughly one hundred shops, each one of them selling exactly the same product: fur coats."
mircea_popescu: this is the problem of "regimes", let's call it.
a quest for oxigen, underwater. there's no more oxygen being added.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no but seriously. at what point does the idea form that hey, minuscule "pollutants" out of extant cars aren't the problem. stop giving so many derps cars! << The used car market is finally starting to regain some price sanity after the "cash for clunkers" supply contraction. The confinscatadors may be planning to do
a repeat except with more "fuck you" and less "$5000" rebate
mircea_popescu: dunno if
a peace prize so much. how about 40 virgins and
a burning bed or what was it ?
mircea_popescu: looks more like chappelle shooting
a confused farmhand.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: probably the same way people reacted to Dave Chappelle shooting
a slave owner on camera in
a skit.
pete_dushenski: halfway through 'django unchained' atm. if the locals in derptown texas couldn't imagine 'nigger on
a horse', how would they react to 'nigger sells your papy's farm to chinaman' ?
thestringpuller: the entire point of college these days is to get laid it seems, which I dunno why you'd pay 10k
a year just to get laid.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the epic moment where
a kenyan and
a chinese agreed that "the us can't pull itself out of the shit without chinese support".
mircea_popescu: yeah, by filling the country with
a bunch of retarded assholes you wholeheartedly feel like driving over.
mircea_popescu: last i heard ethereum is today in
a state that is generally worse than not existing at all.
mircea_popescu: it's clearly
a square. one edge has been optimized pretty well. tiome to do the other one ?
mircea_popescu: jewish mothers have
a saying, something like, "stick to being honest, you're too dumb to be crooked."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski at least he could have the commo nfucking decency to make
a new nick, like every dumbass / scammer before him.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> anything less than that, won't keep vw alive <<< for my political needs
a dead vw is much better than
a live one.
mircea_popescu: should be
a pretty lulzy showdown, once they try and "prosecute" someone who's not hired straight from central casting.
mircea_popescu: watching club fed try to dig itself out of the pile of fake bitcoin auction and all that surrounding fraud, on top which is piled
a layer of lying to jury every which way to cover up for actually criminal "investigator", on top of which is another layer of lying every which way to protect his co-conspirators, which are now coming to light...
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu "Ethereum now actually exists, and those who were lucky enough to take up Mircea Popescu’s offer to buy ETH from him that he doesn’t have at
a price of $0.12
a piece are welcome to try their best to collect." << from ethblogthing
pete_dushenski: "What if the rich get richer because they know how to invest their money more effectively? New research shows that this may be
a factor behind the rise in inequality."
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: but i need to render this webview in
a microsoft word plugin
gabriel_laddel: This is terrible and we should all be ashamed. No wonder PHP is so popular. How am I supposed to tell
a new web developer that this is what they have to look forward to?"
gabriel_laddel: "We’ve been doing this for 20 years. We should have this by now. It should work, it should be pluggable and agnostic, and it should do everything right — so if you threw away the web gui, it would look like something
a very tidy sysadmin set up by hand, not autogenerated sludge.
mike_c: trying to contribute with bitcoin results in
a unique address being generated for your donation
BingoBoingo: In other news craptop running
a Stator build is now up to September 11th
mike_c: blog post: "how to blow 31k btc in
a year"
ascii_field: trinque: depends on whether you are
a terrurrrist
BingoBoingo: Oh shit! Expenses of 410,000 CHF
a month and only 200,000 Swisscoin on their balance sheet.
davout: looks
a bit like bitcoin miners voting for BIPs
davout: "let's give
a bunch of five years old some charts and crayons, see what trends they can come up with"
davout: would you have
a link to one of these threads at hand?
davout: re jurov's comments suggesting an mpex-style API, there's
a slot for signed receipts in the returned JSON
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2015 00:33:51; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284827 << he has
a point. the notion of putting
http in there but then going "The settlement part isn’t covered by the document, for the pretty simple reason that settlement is
a business matter, not
a technical challenge. It would also vastly complicate everything." is pretty wild.
punkman: "There is
a serious amount of press focused on issues related to Nazi-era forced art sales from Jewish owners during the 1930s and 1940s. There is
a general art market fear of the possibility of Nazi-looted art and whole provenance departments have grown up in museums, auction houses, law firms, etc to deal with the possibility that there might be
a claim from heirs to any bit of art."
punkman: I got two m^3 tanks, they tend to last for
a few days
cazalla: no doubt mircea_popescu has
a commando 450
mircea_popescu: the future never came to me. i generally get 7 to 10, and
a coupla hundred galons is, if you do the math, just about one ton.
punkman: that'd have to be
a pretty big shower hose
mircea_popescu: and if you do the math, the per-capita water coming out of 15 tons would be under half
a liter. ie, not even enough to drink.
mircea_popescu: however. i do not think i EVER showered in less than
a cubic meter of water. if people are half-like me, we're talking 17k tons
a day, not 15.
punkman: "
a full building with 35,000 people would produce 7 tons of poop per day, plus all the additional wastewater for showers, brushing your teeth and so on, totaling up to 15 tons per day of wastewater."
mircea_popescu: he's like
a latter day george costanza this dude, "he never quit". just hjas
a great sense of humour.
BingoBoingo: <punkman> dubai is kinda startup-y << First rule of being
a start-up-y place is high rent and cost of living. Burns the capital faster.
punkman: maybe UAE is
a better lebanon
mircea_popescu: it won't fucking work, lebanon is the equivalent of new mexico. about as defensible as
a bowl of china.
mircea_popescu: answer : ETHEREUM CAN NEVER REACH ZERO BECAUSE IT IS
A TECHONOLOLOLOL
mircea_popescu checks the eth prices, the only thing that can cheer up
a man in these dark times.
BingoBoingo: <VariaVarietatis> was wonder if
a phone screen could cuase
a seizure with right flicker and heartbeat thats why I was looking for mircea_popescu << In people with photosensitive epilepsy 4-6 hertz of flashing can trigger seizures
VariaVarietatis: was wonder if
a phone screen could cuase
a seizure with right flicker and heartbeat thats why I was looking for mircea_popescu