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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't see how it's not fully torn, but hey, maybe just me.
mircea_popescu: but now i have the ~option~ to do this. back then, i didn't.
mircea_popescu: because apparently i don't know how the world works, and haven't properly groked the memo about how "reality is enacted by convention" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: it broke down, because by now social consensus is the principal guide for people. and so... the trier of fact established some sort of social consensus and was very surprised when my reaction was to simply disolve it.
mircea_popescu: this system worked more or less for a while, which is to say up to maybe the 1920s. back then people had some sort of relation to reality.
mircea_popescu: traditionally, in the common law at least, the jury is the trier of fact ; with the judge establishing the legal meaning of those facts.
mircea_popescu: at that point, i was trying to get a court system off the ground, similarly with random people as judges.
mircea_popescu: we had an idiocy of ~this caliber back about three-four years ago, which newcomers particularly bored and people without anything to do are invited to read.
mircea_popescu: the matter to be resolved exactly one of two ways : fixing the report or fixing the wot.
mircea_popescu: if the people who matter think anything of it, it may see the life of day. if not... a well.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the internet generally is that otherwise unemployable bits of social refuse can offer their unsolicited takes on things.
mircea_popescu: as time goes on, the bar raises, and many/most/whatever can't cope.
mircea_popescu: yes, lordlist was seeded, like everything else (bitcoin included) with very low effort , and very low bars, which is how people like nubbins made it in. this is both fine and the right thing.
mircea_popescu: which is fine - but i also don't and won't entertain any of it.
mircea_popescu: but by and large, the problem seems to be that either throgh simple immersion, or sheer intellectual laziness, or a mix or whatever, lots and lots of people have SERIOIS
mircea_popescu: jurov plox to quote rather than imagine. this imagination hasn't served you well in the past, won't start to at any point.
mircea_popescu: really... could we conduct the nutso convention on tardstalk, reddit or whatever usual venue ?
mircea_popescu shudders to think what happens if a woman tells nubbins off or something
mircea_popescu: well, it's been time for years now, but the chinese ain't going away.
mircea_popescu: this was true before the age of machine-enabled decay. recall the "90 yos get together to establish what 80 yos should retire" thing ?
mircea_popescu: hitler, also "grown" for "purpose". ask that pappen baffoon
mircea_popescu: what ? makes a lot more sense than half his platform, not to mention all the others.
mircea_popescu: with any luck, trump wins the election, we get 99 year lease on ft meade and martial law ten miles around the perimeter.
mircea_popescu: and fwiw, i doubt anyone has the money, or had, in the past century. we're talking 50bn turkey dollars here. gates can, at most, make a foundation to greenhouse little hussein bahamas out in africa.
mircea_popescu: but as it is, i'm at best useful as a seed. tho from years of reading the logs it's apparent to me seed-cultural is actually a lot more sorely needed than seed-capital, but that's aside.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mircea_popescu found a chip fab between his sofa cushions yet ? << i don't have enough money to outright do this. if i had, i'd be outright doing this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my idea being that whatever you call it, both g and this p will be running a lot of common code in the cyrpto
mircea_popescu: which, in the grand scheme of things, is perfectly reasonable. argentina spends about that every coupla years and has ~icecream and steak to show for it.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the republic is currently short about twenty to fifty billion in filthy fiats and a few thousand to thirty million engineer hours, depending who's counting the hours. not depending on who's hiring the engineers tho, you ~can't hire for this.
mircea_popescu: and since i'd rather include the chip fab, ima support the horsies being radical.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and truly there's no good reason to even justify chip fab if you're not going to do something that radical.
mircea_popescu: c compiler i suppose will have ~0 chances of happening, the horsies are pulling towards lisp.
mircea_popescu: seems altogether likely the whole keyserver model is getting eaten into g.
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall some discussion about running a b-a one, maybe last year.
mircea_popescu: by and large web based ones have to prune very narrowly because well... memory.
mircea_popescu: lemme rephrase. "there are more web-based blockexplorer than two. why do you say neither."
mircea_popescu: what do you mean neither ? there's ~500 various web explorers.
mircea_popescu: "son, don't you want to marry this woman ?" "notrly." "well, you should!" "really ?" "yeah. except she's ugly." "well then ?" "but the other women are even uglier." "dad, you're really doing a bum job here."
mircea_popescu: in other random lulz, i wake up to three notifications from various parties spread about the world that transfers sent yesterday have not made it. upon examination, it's three times the case that the fiat world has failed to move money in 30 to 40 hours.
mircea_popescu: ftr, "the color of money" is so fucking bad, tom cruise prolly wrote the screenplay.
mircea_popescu: one day s.mg is going to do somethingwild like i dunno, acquire a paper clip. watch out then.
mircea_popescu: if the concern trolls in chan are in fact shareholders and to any degree representative for shareholder sentiment (which i deeply doubt, but w/e)... oy vey.
mircea_popescu: at the rate this is going, bitbet actually needs to buy a significant pool, which would go for oh... 10-20k ? i guess ?
mircea_popescu: king, to spend just about enough to buy half a rifle to defend $item ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> what out-of-wot advice is this? and why send the wire twice instead of calling your drinking buddies who /use the same bank/ to ask if /their/ wires are in the habit of simply not showing up and what they've done in the past in the circumstances <<< you don't mean my drinking buddies who a) would take ANY explanation just as long as it doesn't mean gotta get off ass and b) would not be willing, broadly spea
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but bonus points if you do conversion with really large pencil sharpener
mircea_popescu: and the velvet fog aka mel torme was this very soppy lounge act / singer mostly on the old vegas circuit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, cher was a teenage pop singer chick that successfully pivoted into a sort of softcore burlesque career pre dita von teese. also married to sony bono.
mircea_popescu: ;;google velvet fog best of in autoplay format that can't be turned off. ever.
mircea_popescu: and this my dear alf is how slaves are born on the planet gor.
mircea_popescu: sometimes if you crack open an acaju nut, a tiny girl comes out, and you feed her various comestibles and eventually grows up into a slavegirl.
mircea_popescu: what was it, cher on every channel and the velvet fog on every radio ?
mircea_popescu: absence of cool is no cooling of absence tho. 80s still fucking sucked.
mircea_popescu: shinohai no, that is PRECISELY what you'll have to worry about : her running around ON you.