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a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:32 mircea_popescu: because no, words don't "have meanings". your meanings for ANY WORD are a function of ALL THE OTHER WORDS YOU KNOW. which is why my definitions regularily blow out english dictionaries, wikipedia and other sources of "wisdom" out of the water - i know more words, and in this knowledge i know all the words i know ~better~. infinitely and irreproducibly so.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Excellent tinkerer
kanzure: mircea_popescu: surely you don't follow the kurzweil philosophy of "sit around and wait for people to be productive on their own"?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-30 03:43 mircea_popescu: https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/WhyAntiInt.htm
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated kanzure 1 << old-new blood
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/fata-morgana-or-the-mirage-of-a-free-and-open-market/ << mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 16:53 mircea_popescu: recall the "where are the rembrandts then" argument ? the us fails to produce a philosopher worth the mention every other decade ; athens managed that much on 1/1000th the population.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-07#1563426 ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i would say my approach has been focused towards disciplined centralized technology roadmapping and planning. and then personally financing some of the projects. although it turns out that stuff is expensive and stupid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crackpot with looong history, goes back to '90s
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Never had the cabbage juice. Twas a big fan of curing hangovers with moar booze
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Explozie de SANATATE in zeama de varza . Bolile care pot fi tratate ...: <http://www.aktual24.ro/explozie-de-sanatate-in-zeama-de-varza-bolile-care-pot-fi-tratate-usor-cu-moare/>; Zeama de varză murată - 3 motive să o bei - CSID: <http://www.csid.ro/diet-sport/noutati-dieta-si-sport/zeama-de-varza-murata-3-motive-sa-o-bei-11877690/>; Varza murată şi beneficiile ei uimitoare pentru organism - (1 more message)
kanzure: mircea_popescu: i disagree with your evaluation of whether it's a waste of time, or that it is fashionable in the least. i simply recognize the value of controversy.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> don't be ridiculous, it's cocktail flu. << The doctor prescribes Bloody Mary x2
kanzure: mircea_popescu: correct. i've looked at it just now but i don't see how it changes anything. shouldn't you prefer people to be hard workers, even if they can't own property?
kanzure: mircea_popescu: well actually the origin of the idea is that i am interested in genome engineering and human enhancement technology. but i also recognize that controversy is necessary to bring attention and funding.
kanzure: about to get unvoiced i think. could someone offer mircea_popescu a link to the right place in the logs for the eugenics war.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: large peltier with drain hose ~cured my 'too hot, too wet'
a111: Logged on 2017-08-28 02:25 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> which one was stormfront again ? << The forum for which the Weev Daily Stormer was named, but no relation
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> which one was stormfront again ? << The forum for which the Weev Daily Stormer was named, but no relation ☟︎
asciilifeform: must leave this quandary to mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 02:15 mircea_popescu: and they existed very much because ro girls, unlike russki stupid cunts, did NOT perceive themselves at some kind of liberty to not whore up for the gangster class.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 19:16 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703694 << what is realistic mean here ? "retrospectively historically accurate in the abstract" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 19:15 mircea_popescu: recall the "neobee will make cyprus matter" lulz ? same exact scotland-goes-to-darien gambit.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 19:14 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703683 << you know you're the ~only reader of that sort of inane crap ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 18:57 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703691 << bottom of the barrel usgtronics.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 18:46 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703682 >> wait what ?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> tardigrade> is 79, so largely on borrowed time <<< whoa check that out << I like this guy.
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-08-27 06:35 mircea_popescu: also underline the item in log somehow, i have nfi which line on the bottom page of it this was.
asciilifeform: was exactly as mircea_popescu described.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 19:33 mircea_popescu: a, great film. anyway, summary : dude (ie, inept manchild) and actual cowboy compete for cunt. the cunt is indescribably dumb (really, just mouthpiece for ideological choices of author), picks dude.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: dead link http://trilema.com/2014/guidance-there-is-no-such-thing-as-bitcoin-taint/#selection-135.79-139.1
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: mayweather turning around is pretty amusing
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: also had a piece on the costs of privacy that i'm failing to dig up atm, but basically bitcoin is not a protocol that has privacy baked into it at any level, and moreover privacy is very expensive and impractical in most cases anyways
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 04:52 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703503 << 'he'll email you his fist...' (tm)(r)(mircea_popescu)
a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 04:45 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: any reason why syncing from 46.166.160.36 would be painfully slow?
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-08-27 06:35 mircea_popescu: also underline the item in log somehow, i have nfi which line on the bottom page of it this was.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'twas a recommendation for your glossarus
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703503 << 'he'll email you his fist...' (tm)(r)(mircea_popescu) ☝︎☟︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: any reason why syncing from 46.166.160.36 would be painfully slow? ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-08-25 20:20 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-25#1703339 << depends where you live (ie, quality of soil) but strong concrete buildings can be actually worse in a flood than rickety bamboo shacks. depends on whether the soil gives way.
hanbot: does mircea_popescu assert you can't suspect someone of something without knowing a plausible motive?
asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/zV7P7/?raw=true
a111: Logged on 2017-08-25 20:16 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron further 450k ecu coming your way when you're good and ready.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, pretty much all pantsuit has is identity politics and resentment promotion
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 20 / 4317.26586303 * 1e8 = 463256.1587477343
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 3 * 2e3 = 6000
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 3 * 10e3 = 30000
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 20 / 4317.26586303 * 10e6 = 46325.61587477343
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 4312.84, vol: 9947.26413152 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 4312.4, vol: 21579.21533179 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 4350.158, vol: 4530.77083126 | Volume-weighted last average: 4317.26586303
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/PHgVb/?raw=true
mod6: mircea_popescu: ya.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if the build has eatblock, there's not really any setup needed, just needs the 'can eat' flag on warmup
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i don't recall this wonder. << me either. looking...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gonna resistance-weld it ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ain't that what the installation of 'magistrates' etc. freislers, is for
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Die hard
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Farewell HF our brother!
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 1000000 / 255 * 6 * 24 * 365 = 2.0611764705882353E8
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~equally often they find cigar box of au, weimar banknotes, etc drywalled in by ww2 j00z
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sadly i wasn't alive for c1, missed out on the freakshow
a111: Logged on 2017-08-18 04:00 mircea_popescu: otherwise what, we'll be stuck in 2020 dealing with legacy yahoos ? noty.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-24 15:48 mircea_popescu: nutty bullshit, https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/#markets is led (and mostly composed of) some unheard of "Exchange" trading bitcoin crash for "krw", and pretending like this exchange of items not worth money is worth dollars somehow. 104 mn of it, ROUNDLY like that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can-do, but gotta testfire 1st.
asciilifeform: upstack : hey mircea_popescu , is it time to add a 'we dun take shitcoins' warning to snsa shop page ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-24 14:57 mircea_popescu: diana_coman yeah there's also no "catching up with the chain", one can turn eulora off for five years, turn it back on (maybe have to get a new client, till we freeze that down) and be ready to go. but then again the cost of having to check the blockchain isn't THAT terrible, we bring up back new nodes all the time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i ain't putting it into production yet. just sits there on hdd, lol.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a draft design for the sticks already.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-24 14:27 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-24#1702770 << the only advantage eulora has is the low friction, there's no cost to transfer ecu from one player to another. it costs about 5 bux to move btc on the bitcoin chain. if your holdings are small enough, this matters.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 so fucking epic you got that ready so we can just link noobs. good work man. << thanks! no problem.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-23 03:20 ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/xwwuJ/?raw=true
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: didja get http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702491 ? ☝︎
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> hanbot was teh witness << aha. i concurr it is a system, she was able to decipher it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notrly
mike_c: mircea_popescu: copy, thanks.
mod6: mircea_popescu: need some help when you're around.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 4200000 / 585 * 12 = 86153.84615384616
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 20:17 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-07#1639964 << one of the (~the~ ?) advantage of tmsr work for intelligent folk is that there isn't a braindamaged/choiceless manager in the loop going "i know it's stupid but it must be done".
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: BCH has a lulzy twist, a difficulty blow off valve for this contingency. Insures terminal yo-yo'ing
whaack: mircea_popescu yes
asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/729p2/?raw=true
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: apparently
mike_c: mircea_popescu: nudge on mpex withdrawal
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: it predates trb by a bit at least, ya.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: it was one of those "please to submit your version details" so... i did. can't recall if i actually clicked the "emergent consensus" button seriously or in jest, or if it was something that the hosts ticked, but it was definitely a test to see if they'd keep it up or not. looks like they have.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/xwwuJ/?raw=true ☟︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: gems in the linked piece in re bulldozer on tracks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hilariously wrong description of trb
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 23:56 mod6: <+mircea_popescu> and speaking of nodes and things, https://coin.dance/nodes << never saw this one before, pretty cool blurb there on trb.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-22#1702441 >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702465 ☝︎☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i mean, a trb capable machine is somewhere in the 50-100 bux / month range, certainly an expense but not the end of the world. << Negrodamus, i.e. 192.187.99.74 rents for less
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No idea what the concretes are beyond the admission that poverty is the condition of having a dysfunctional WoT
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 23:56 mod6: <+mircea_popescu> and speaking of nodes and things, https://coin.dance/nodes << never saw this one before, pretty cool blurb there on trb.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> and speaking of nodes and things, https://coin.dance/nodes << never saw this one before, pretty cool blurb there on trb. ☟︎☟︎
mod6: Ok all: trinque, ben_vulpes, asciilifeform, pete_dushenski, mircea_popescu : I have updated the trusted-nodes page, please take a look and verify that the information for your nodes is correct, thank you! http://thebitcoin.foundation/trusted-nodes.html
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 since these are public and publicly known, how about adding an irc name next to the ip ? so i know who to talk to. << sure, working on the updates now...
a111: Logged on 2017-08-22 21:36 mircea_popescu: nor to 172.86.178.46