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mircea_popescu: honestly i think it's an outgrowth of the "college experience"
mircea_popescu: it's a very "western world" phenomena, roughly half the beatings in half the girls in the first half year have something to do with "i was surprised by X periodic event", usually a bill or w/e
mircea_popescu: "i've never observed these things show up regularly on a monthly schedule befoar"
mircea_popescu: ~like "hey, my electricity bill came thursday, i had no idea monday this might occur"
mircea_popescu: dude had an unexpected expense in the form of a lapsing subscription, being the idea.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what he was paying, something steam or whatever
mircea_popescu: his whatever subscription UNEXPECTEDLY ended today, he had no idea this is gonna occur you know, 4 days ago.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so dude goes in, wants to buy coppers, which me and n other people tell him to simmer down and figure out the game first ; then spends the next weeks hussling bitcent at a time.
mircea_popescu: the one time when "has Latin", that, specifically, not "can write" or other junk would have served as you wish it to serve, was cca 500 ad. and at that time it served like "knowing idish" served you in the new york harbor cca early 1900s. plenty of people were there because specifically "Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realta fuggivo, da lei, da quelle emozioni, da i sogni, da i ricordi, da tutto. E pensavo che dovevo dimenti
mircea_popescu: even then i'd still have had to ask "but do you know voltaire" and gut them if not.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473670 << this is a fallacy of the first order. it could be presumed to come from some sort of cleric, who could be presumed to be some sort of transposition of that horror which today i call a nigger. i see no benefit accruing to me on this score for going back to 1850 or 1650.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ironically, this whole thing is also discussed on trilema. lemme fish it out, mostly for diana_coman 's interest mebbe.
mircea_popescu: just don't step on any of the invisible tripwires that are found in places which don't even necessarily make geometric sense. TO YOU, NOOB!!1
mircea_popescu: yeah, but he's fondly remembered as the "let's keep going" guy.
mircea_popescu: good thing they didn't make a tin woman, in the shape of a raindeer with a funnel up its butt.
mircea_popescu: very deeply embedded in my skull as an example of "american engineering"
mircea_popescu: wasn't in the 40s either, more of a "holy shit engineering feat" than a "omaigerd its incomprehensible arcana"
mircea_popescu: now, not to say that current chinese capacities in rocketry and so on aren't mostly chinese. they are ; with a little dab of helping from anyone available to help for a reasonable fee, the swiss, romanians, jews, whoever the fuck.
mircea_popescu: sure, and according to every divorced woman the house was fair trade for the nagging.
mircea_popescu: there was military tech transfer to china right around the cuban crisis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they had norking wukes ~in the sense the brits do : the americans gave them some.
mircea_popescu: used to be, you know, back in the 80s, china was roughly speaking a very large vietnam.
mircea_popescu: so they don't end up embarassed. like, 1 of 3 regiments goes, sorta thing
mircea_popescu: nope. they actually (from what i hear) make pools and pick which to run
mircea_popescu: it's some obscure common cold branch. ain;'t got nothin' but wastin' my time.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi dude, i've never been this sick in my life.
mircea_popescu: there'd better be tits bouncing there i'm in a mood foul as hell
mircea_popescu: king's artillery school "trigonometeer" was trigonometeer much like aol subscriber was "interneteer".
mircea_popescu: since when does this "functional literacy" constitute a standard.
mircea_popescu: i am not convinced there's twenty people alive who know what a number is altogether, prime or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not going to import as much as a nail's dirt worth of old crap, even for all the vases in the world, be they made of glass bead or kidney stone.
mircea_popescu: "In Texas and a number of other states, it’s legal to shoot a dog if someone is “reasonably” afraid of it." << everywhgere sane, pretty much. wtf.
mircea_popescu: above any obama or any other nigger ; above any "4th column" idiot kids imagining themselves sikrit agents.
mircea_popescu: fuck whatever the fuck derp "can't" (ie, doesn't, DELIBERATELY, want to) get in the WoT. Fuck him with ten thousand dongs borrowed from the leprosarium, he is the enemy.
mircea_popescu: which is why "every" imbecile ustard agreed di maggio is some sort of big deal 50 years ago, much like every argentine fucktard thinks messi is "his idol".
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473642 << this is not merely false, it is backwards to reality. a lot of cocks do not result in a "loose" pussy ; they result in a well musculated, pleasurable fuckhole. similarly so, the only thing that results in thick "mental carpaces" are "healthy" ie deratized situations.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: perhaps the most amusing example for our purposes here being the late forgery known as "donatio constantini")
mircea_popescu: anyway, the renaissance happened EXACTLY because of the blog-like organisation of the textual community of the time, and it was for the record largely an oral process ; its notation rather very similar with the btcbase.org service.
mircea_popescu: it was whether they'll live or die on the corpse of rome's empire. strictly that. and in my hands locklin will starve.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the test for the nascent burgunds / germans / whatever the fyck you'd call them wasn't whether "they could build roman baths", either.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473589 << no, that's not the test, that's masturbation. the real life test is, take some kids who grew up on blogs ; and some derps who grew up on books, and see who manage to thoroughly fuck up their interactions with mp. that's the fucking test, the test of life, not the test of school-alike.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: cue mp saying there's no bitcoin price signal i guess.
mircea_popescu: so the various usg exchanges doing fuckall volume are STILL clinging on to their delusional notions of what the price is, days later.
mircea_popescu: curious if i manage to get two idiots to delete their blogs the same day.
mircea_popescu: (and yes i do think you people are ~idiots for keeping chattels there, exactly for the reasons and exactly to the degree i think jews moving around berlin in the 30s with golden whatevers on their person, such as teeth, idiots.)
mircea_popescu: phf i'm not entirely sure i wish to risk that much in property behind enemy lines, but i guess if one musts...
mircea_popescu: even more alternatively, if you're just about ready to move out of nato and place a rack in your own basement i'm definitely just about ready to ship you the server in question. have been for a while nao.
mircea_popescu: but not before, because honestly in between a) shrug and make the engineers rewrite the software to be windows proof and b) turn off the service for another year because the world is not ready yet, even an entry level manager would know enough to pick a every time.
mircea_popescu: anyway - since i recall you itching to do it throughout the YEAR LONG outage, which in my best business judgement is not fucking acceptable, suppose you find a server, and once (and only once) you're satisfied it entirely meets your specs we move over ?
mircea_popescu: it's expensive as fuck to run because it is redundant as fuck and built out of atomic shit.
mircea_popescu: and whoever the fuck cuts your neck did not do so because his blacksmith had better steel.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking CIRCUMSTANCE that makes me rich and powerful, ya prole.
mircea_popescu: mpex is written by people who, unlike you, live in the world as it is. consequently, it doth not care. what you see is not ENVIRONMENT.
mircea_popescu: there exists no such thing as a length of rope made by the fiat world that is genuinely what it claims to be.
mircea_popescu: i judge the move to have been preeeetty boneheaded the last time around.
mircea_popescu: which they ignore and subsequently lose the contract ?
mircea_popescu: ah. lol. so i guess i write to host warning that if this happens again they lose the contract,