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mircea_popescu: teh dsc sounds like a pretty kickass patron deity, thinking about it.
mircea_popescu: actually that's a great name for the temple for this here cult,
mircea_popescu: amateur hunter returns empty handed from swamp. "nothing but migs out there good god what's the world coming to!"
mircea_popescu: "on the basis of the leaks coming from the invisible aircraft we have learned that it is a duck."
mircea_popescu: or, in the words of the ballas master, " Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and..."
mircea_popescu: except for a very poorly defined, mostly felt notion of "anonimity"
mircea_popescu: both the "shittier than historical" and "new addr for change" bits are satoshi's dubious kludges to protect "anonimity"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: even historical order would acvtually beat trb on this.
mircea_popescu: well... by some standard a brick is a computer, so sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how exactly is the notion ludicrous in itself ?
mircea_popescu: "Fix the motherfucking code before you have to be fired. To recap : a. If I want to make 1 Mb txs I make 1 Mb txs ; b. correct inputs are selected to feed the outputs as if a human or better was doing the selecting." << also march, as fate would have it.
mircea_popescu: trinque i recall me losing my top over this back in 2013ish or w/e the first time bitcoin-idiocy got in the way of bitbet, being told "oh wait, this is an actual problem - we don't resolve problems, we write code here at prb!"
mircea_popescu: davout> this "accounts" thing is such an abomination... << consensus on this since... 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: trinque> I'm aiming to build the calls necessary to run deedbot's needs over shiva. << bless your heart.
mircea_popescu: my sister killed more than these by being a kid and accidentally stepping on their heads than i can recall.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but i never had a whole fucking chicken << seriously ?!
mircea_popescu: i prefer to practice safe sex rather than safe assumptions.
mircea_popescu: hey, i dunno what posterity is like. maybe they're retarded.
mircea_popescu: in case this is not obvious, transparent parallel to our bitbet adventures.
mircea_popescu: so... how do you put the subway on the donut shop's books!
mircea_popescu: because it clearly IS part of the books, right ? trivially enumerable, as it is. just not easy to evaluate.
mircea_popescu: so tell me, as a curio : what is the correct accounting for "city having subway" in the books of a donut shop at the corner of 85th and 10th ?
mircea_popescu: "no subway, no travel - i don't own a 1/100000 of the 100`000 spare car meta-pool, nor do i have anything to do that'd justify it."
mircea_popescu: and silly me, to think that the guys in the subway are there by choice, and they could do something else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, the assumption that alternatives exist died in practice yet again ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is coincidentally the pompous name of the place where the events discussed transpired.
mircea_popescu: in the same vein, mihai margineanu playing atm, just went "whenever you ask a question you don't expect answered ; why are you surprised when you get an answer you didn't expect".
mircea_popescu: trinque "but what is the meaning of the colors!" "the wild fox is dead"
mircea_popescu: adlai you realise - google is even better at koans than at go.
mircea_popescu: "meanwhile this cock ain't gonna rub itself, so here we are".
mircea_popescu: "gotta do something while waiting for buddha to decide christ's more fun and come back to save or someshit."
mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit, "what's the meaning of coincidence ?" "dunno dood, HE HAD TO FUCKING COME FROM SOMEWHERE" hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: "if you meet a derpy teenager with whispy "beard" hair, onanistic odours wafting every which way who can'tstop prattlingabout his erotic exploits...
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure there exists but i'm sure i don't know anything more offensive than the precious derpage in the eastern tradition.
mircea_popescu: A student asked Master Yun-Men (A.D. 949) "Not even a thought has arisen; is there still a sin or not?" Master replied, "Mount Sumeru!"
mircea_popescu: so i made the mistake of following the tardpedia link. therein,
mircea_popescu: but yes, that's the major problem of murder : a private act with major public effects. pretty major conundrum.
mircea_popescu: discretionary acts are that, discretionary. no explanation is available for the private sphere.
mircea_popescu: you see the difference between to explain and to justify yes ?
mircea_popescu: nobody's going to do your work. you wanna talk to the adults, talk like the adults.
mircea_popescu: adlai can't propose weird stances for mp to have taken in the past and then crap out on the documentation.
mircea_popescu: (and to cap that story - yea the adults expressed outrage ["how could you do that!"] but no, he wasn't punished, because no there was no offense, and the father(s) wouldn't have it, or generally let the women run amok with their nonsense. so hurray for patriarchy or whatever, boo the psychopaths of this world!)
mircea_popescu: school hadn't yet started, so we were prolly 6 or so. but this was a rare concept even at that age.
mircea_popescu: so he turned the chicks neck and threw the corpse at the whiner.
mircea_popescu: some younger kid that didn't have one wanted to play with his, this guy would have none of it, eventually some adult intervened to make him share
mircea_popescu: my earliest memory of him is, we were in some rural setting, dun recall whose grandparents, and we had chicks (kids get young hatchlings to play with in the time and place, it's a time-honored tradition like getting your toddler one of those dingly noise things to put above the crib or w/e)
mircea_popescu had a friend, and a fine fellow he was, who unfortunately died young. but we were friends from childhood
mircea_popescu: mortals ain't pulling any pins, you see. so yea, "anyonecandoit".
mircea_popescu: for actual emperors. not for fuckrags a la obama, but for actual emperors.
mircea_popescu: i did build and burn a number of fortunes, but in my younger years. nevertheless : you know, peter ALSO didn't HAVE TO take the imperial guard with.