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mircea_popescu: twenty years ago you COULD NOT buy
a house in romania other than for cash. no matter what.
mircea_popescu: nobody that you know paid in cash for
a house or even
a car. think about that. what cash ?
mircea_popescu: "no inflation for
a century" ==> "time to cut two zeros off the currency"
mircea_popescu: think for
a second : your largest bill is worth ~80 euros.
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 14:16:03; assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 11:24:12; punkman:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7967908e-5ded-11e5-9846-de406ccb37f2.html "The assumption is that if
a central bank introduced negative interest rates —
a radical move that would effectively amount to
a charge on holding money — people would convert deposits into cash. But abolishing cash would remove that option. "
shinohai: meanwhile, thank you asciilifeform for giving us
a bitcoind that isn't
a horribly bloated p.o.s.
mircea_popescu: (which is pure necrodearia style insanity-on-
a-stick, for the people who haven
mircea_popescu: and within not so long, the only people left standing will have
a very strong "opentransactions" flavour to it
mircea_popescu: "Taylor Gerring @TaylorGerring · Sep 17 Taylor Gerring retweeted Vitalik Buterin The benefit of #Ethereum being defined by
a spec, not an implementation "
shinohai: I'm still rofl from the guy who sent all his coin to
a contract the other day and now can't recover it.
shinohai: When you create your own money, you also get to make up
a job title! How cool is dat?
mircea_popescu: they actually sit around and pretend like this shit's
a thing. i have so much trouble processing this...
mircea_popescu:
a) all the wrong fucking choices ; b) they actually believe this shit has some sort of meaning. god help me, "the eth dev brand" ? how the fuck is it
a brand.
mircea_popescu: We will make an effort to de-emphasize Skype, and emphasize Gitter as
a means of real-time communication for developers. Gitter has the advantages that (i) it’s easier to quickly jump in and participate,"
mircea_popescu: "The foundation is currently in the phase of restructuring its communications activities. Several members of our current communications team in London are soon leaving or reducing their involvement in the Foundation in order to pursue for-profit ventures on top of the Ethereum ecosystem; we wish them the best of luck. And so, we have both the necessity and
a unique opportunity to “reboot” that side of the organizat
punkman: "Ethercoin is
a proof-of-stake blockchain with
a fixed supply of coins provably backed by REAL ethers purchased from the Ethereum sale"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: someone gotta explain to me on what basis the (mistaken, btw) proposition that "the UK" exists, or has
a government or anything is even supposed to rest.
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 03:13:14; trinque: I met people in TX that were
a meatwot node away from the Bush family. They're *not* free people.
punkman: "During our ongoing discussions with Symantec we determined that the issuance occurred during
a Symantec-internal testing process." hah
☟︎ kakobrekla: mircea_popescu> <kakobrekla> how the latter flows from it < dishonest software does not require honest hardware the way i see it << more or less unrelated. dishonest accountand doesn't require dishonest FED nor vice-versa < mno. what another lie to
a liar?
mircea_popescu: "The organisation hopes to buy the Concorde currently on display at Le Bourget airport in Paris. If it is successful, the plane will be restored before resuming operation as
a private heritage aircraft that will be flown at air displays as well as being available for charter. "
BingoBoingo: That ETH bet is moving up awfully fast for
a bet that only started with 1 BTC
cazalla: damn them chicken wings were good.. 24 hours in
a tub of soy and yellow box honey then smoked with mesquite.. i am snake full of chickun wingz
mircea_popescu: Who cares if men are stuck in
a glass cellar? (They can change the ... ) <<< i expect they expect "men" to "fix everything" because "theyt're good at that and shit" ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah white butterfly but broad beans are
a good scam as the flowers trick them
trinque: I met people in TX that were
a meatwot node away from the Bush family. They're *not* free people.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: even if the house itself may be the size of
a contemporary town.
mircea_popescu: doth not make the exceptionally large log cabin
a "town house".
mircea_popescu: that
a 1789 nigger may be allowed to build himself
a log cabin the size of the washington momunent
mircea_popescu: there is at no point any fucking question of
a) being required to take her back in or b) being required to give up the mansion.
mircea_popescu: let's start with
a simple thing. if x owns
a mansion, and x owns
a wife, and x beats the shit out of his wife and throws her into the street naked to henceforth fend for herself,
trinque: BingoBoingo: I was going to say, one measure might be whether the cops are going to need something more than
a boot to enter
mircea_popescu: whereby you can somehow magically be
a thing of the past only.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude. it does not seem to me possible to even have
a mansion in the land of "we rent - unfurnished!" and "building code" etc.
cazalla:
a-ok, don't really follow it much these days but i see rousey is headlining the ufc down under in november
mircea_popescu: also the only cln seems to mean to me is
a credit linked note.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get
a different citizenship, deny you ever had us citizenship, let them prove otherwise.
BingoBoingo: Note to potential Qntra submitters: If you want to submit
a story you think is interesting, but don't think you know how to amp it up... the editors can help with that
trinque: see, I knew there was
a BingoBoingo hand involved in that title
phf: asciilifeform: actually i think the main difference is that sml/nj has
a repl and better debug messages. i think these days the two are pretty much on par. shows how much i remember, last time i touched either it was on ibook g3 linuxppc
phf: asciilifeform: yes, i did some ml
a while ago. i used sml/nj as
a default compiler, afair it had full language coverage and nice emacs support, i would then port code to mlton or mlkit. mlton has
a particularly nice feature set, small binaries, everything's unboxed, gc can be tuned, but it's full program optimizer, so at the time i didn't have the patience to use it as my primary compiler.
mircea_popescu: (it was intended as
a sinecure - he chose to make it
a job.)
BingoBoingo: Well the engineering trade off of putting
a turbo charger in
a vehicle is you can increase the fuel economy or power, but the NOx emmisions must increase too
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 19:02:42; kakobrekla: >When I last bought
a VW (2008) I was concerned due to
a clunking noise after first starting it up and driving
a few miles; I called the VW service dept and they explained that there was
a compressor which captured exhaust fumes and released them at
a lower rate for the first few miles of each journey -- to help them meet EPA emissions standards.
mircea_popescu: here's to hoping they move to africa and live in
a commune.
mircea_popescu: but i eat meat specifically because it is
a murdered animal.
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 23:06:24; mircea_popescu: the proposition is that the usg exists as
a system of stupid people, dedicated to the supporting of stupidity and the containing of the threat (to them) presented by intelligence.
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 04:04:02; mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's quite obvious that the b-
a conversations consist of both spoken and silent dialogue
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 22:15:20; punkman: mats: punkman: if it was not clear, i am handrolling the pgp packet parser in python (watta mouthful). and not having
a good time of it. << I think you might have to come up << you should probably throw out
a bunch of idiocies contained in the canonical rfc