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mircea_popescu: fwiw, i thought you were like 50.
asciilifeform: lol i thought it was pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: all teh cute doods are in b-a i swear.
mircea_popescu: i fully expect they elect 15yo christina ricci as the next president.
gabriel_laddel: http://imgur.com/zwz0KnY << does this quality? I've not heard of this "darkhaired goldilocks" before...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar has ru-style 'meetings' ? i.e. crowds of folks with prefab picket signs, paid chump change to wave around ?
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2015 23:17:04; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some things for me. i live within blocks of the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth. there's on average two a week of these. they're not all political, but the political ones seemed quite suspect to me
mircea_popescu: "i have come to liberate the buds man!"
gabriel_laddel: I will note for those reading, Argentina's orcs look the part.
asciilifeform: not having an intelligence agency of my own, i regard it as an open question just how usg might behave should it ever begin to lose
gabriel_laddel: in any case, I don't plan to be around for it
gabriel_laddel: Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. that I belive is our basic function: to develop altenatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable. ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: I suspect we won't have to wait long.
gabriel_laddel: Vaguely related to the conversation above, I'm hoping for a war sometime soon - they are a good way to go about separating content from nonsense. Von N., Teller, etc. wouldn't have been able to work on the atomic bomb without the various powers that be helping out.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the next phase of the disease, as i understand, is to 'turn nero'
gabriel_laddel: related to "cocaine" - the only way I can do boring parsing tasks anymore is by drinking enough caffine to get high.
gabriel_laddel: also, I've been doing this programming thing for going on 3 years - let me be clear - I /hate/ it.
gabriel_laddel: my search failed, but I specifically remember you complaining in here about what you currently do. You've been doing this for some time now iirc
assbot: 0 results for 'how did I end up doing this?' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=how+did+I+end+up+doing+this%3F
gabriel_laddel: !s how did I end up doing this?
gabriel_laddel: ! how did I end up doing this?
gabriel_laddel: I'm glad to have communicated that.
asciilifeform: i specifically assign the failure of each and every attempt to date with the notion that you can get to the moon by piling chairs.
gabriel_laddel: I disagree. You want to do this in one fell swoop. There are other ways to go about it.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: possibly because i explained to him just what would be involved
gabriel_laddel: I'd happily pay 100k for a computer that actual /worked/
gabriel_laddel: I agree. My point is that there is a market.
gabriel_laddel: I doubt it.
asciilifeform: can i connect 10,000 x 8,000 of lcd acreage ?
gabriel_laddel: (I have a $300 compaq that I prefer to any apple crapware - same one as MP iirc)
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i recently watched such a machine burst lcd for no discernible reason
gabriel_laddel: Also, I /don't like/ the macbook retina, fancy as it may be
gabriel_laddel: Eh, perhaps I'm strange, but these things don't tickle me in the right places. Mountains of coke? Fun, surely, but it gets boring after a while... ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: "why funded and by whom ?" << I really can't figure this out, it's like the relationship the USG club have with the Saudis. *mumble mumble* ... little boys... *mumble mumble*
gabriel_laddel: I don't think it's a scam exactly... what they want is for nothing to change, and he provided it. :/
asciilifeform: but as i gather the urbit folks are occupied primarily with pitching just this elaborate scam on the vc circuit
asciilifeform: incidentally - and i am quite sure that mr mold would disagree - but he went to the precise place where i proclaimed he is doomed to go.
gabriel_laddel: I hope you like carving toys (or demunging databases) for Mr. Altman and his ilk. Because that is what we'll both be doing soon enough. If permitted to live...
gabriel_laddel: I think this "Stanislav Datskovskiy" guy has the right idea though...
gabriel_laddel: I've listened to my friends talk about their sibling's lives at google. They make (nominally) lots of money, but it all is consumed by the costs of living.
asciilifeform: outfits such as 'google', i'm told, are experimenting with bringing back the factory dormitory. which would have a bright future in usa, if there were any factories
asciilifeform: just a few hrs ago i drove past a street where they were knocking down, as we speak, sixteen or so blocks of rental houses
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i live, the rental racket is being rapidly rolled up by mega-conglomerates who specialize in building titanic blocks of communal flats
asciilifeform: 'gravy' in trad. engl. i think.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure there's some fatalistic reasoning against buying property and renting it out in this scenario
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 04:09:15; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the town where i live is being slowly converted into gigantic sov-style communal flats (officially, 'student housing', in practice - they will live their whole lives therein)
mircea_popescu: btw i sent the archive.today guy a note, if he shows up him
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 23:38:48; ben_vulpes: i'm interested in the survivor's tale. taking notes on how to get the least fucked.
mircea_popescu: you ain't bought a license to kill bookies, and today i ain't sellin' any. ☟︎
asciilifeform: was that the one where 'i'm not selling a license to shoot bookies today'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll do that one next, quite possibly
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can read russian poetry a lot better once someone's conveniently done 99% of the work, found the equivalents, set out the rhyming scheme etc
asciilifeform: first few times i walked past it, was convinced that it was abandoned
asciilifeform: there is actually a small drywall (sheets) factory not far from where i live
asciilifeform: (personal recommendation. his later stuff, i'm not a fan of, anarchoprimitivism is not my cup of poison)
ben_vulpes: i shall
ben_vulpes: i'm interested in the survivor's tale. taking notes on how to get the least fucked. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i.e. the folks with houses, jobs, savings (miracle!), bitcoin
BingoBoingo: decimation: I'll give it another read. Maybe you could give a writeup a try since you seem to have a hook for it.
mod6: i don't think i've ever been 3 days behind on logs. lol.
mod6: well, I'm back. :]
cazalla: maybe it's an aussie thing to use killed for violent deaths, i am not the only one.. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-28/bitcoin-ceo-adam-tepper-killed-in-thailand/6271440 http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-killed-in-thailand-identified-as-independent-reserve-ceo-20150228-13rmqe.html
thestringpuller: "i dont think its a good idea to go poking around the profiles of the dead on reddit."
mircea_popescu: i like how asciilifeform makes notes to point out that hey, you could be looking this up :D
fluffypony: no I read the article on Qntra, this is the media getting it wrong again
fluffypony: welp, CEO of Bitcoin killed again: http://i.imgur.com/bIUctbS.jpg
asciilifeform: damn, now i forget why i did this.
asciilifeform: And dream till I die, of the bugler's bright song?
asciilifeform: And as old age draws near, will I remain strong,
asciilifeform: But still I shall wait for my bugle to sing.
asciilifeform: I thought I saw all - but blind have I been,
asciilifeform: Yet still I would wait for some obvious sign.
asciilifeform: Since childhood I've dreamed that a bugler would blow,
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1UGC9WT4 << translation
mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/4a63527f5a90fd698739f30285fe0ba0/tumblr_mmoapj3TvS1rnhnkmo1_1280.jpg i leave you with the gift of dulap.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i get a general idea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say later if were able to digest it. otherwise i might have to attempt a transl.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu remarked, iirc, that i'm living in berlin circa '44, but it looks rather more like '38 here.
asciilifeform: has private keys just like you and i
mircea_popescu: suppose you're 13, and suppose you're hot for mary sue, and suppose i am invisible, and suppose i steal her diary.
asciilifeform: could go on, but i'm not a novelist, just trying to make a point
mircea_popescu: well, i'm not the king of tinseltown, however, on the grounds of my cursory familiarty with the topic of making movies (ie, being a producer),
mircea_popescu: and i dunno how truthy clerks looked to you ?
assbot: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) - IMDb ... ( http://bit.ly/1wwiLia )
mircea_popescu: well im not really THAT into it, but i recall part of the eu assumption conditions was "no territorial disputes and no unresolved conflicts"
mircea_popescu: if you ask the slut, often enough it's because "he's the only one that asked, and i was getting bored" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would guess that the successful instances of actual merit wash, as opposed to usg being straight scammed, to be under 10%.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform uh, not what i meant. peron's usg is an usg exactly like obama's usg, right ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-02-2015#1035617 << i appreciate the .1 lulz. ☝︎
trinque: I tend to pine for some period of harsh weather and natural disasters as yeah, training wheels
trinque: I think we'll benefit greatly from the hostility of space
asciilifeform: king, if he has any sense, begins with 'i want a tetris and underlying stack that doesn't crash, and if it does, you+extended family get intimate with anthills'
trinque: king says I want a moon base
asciilifeform: call it megalomania, but i'm fascinated with a certain kind of engineering
asciilifeform: this is merely a hypothesis in my mind, i'm putting it here for others to ponder.
ben_vulpes: i've not the planet.
asciilifeform: i can't recommend this for 'tetris' (that was a homework)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've historically been a skeptic of 'provably' whatevers, because the required furniture, in my experience, never failed to interfere with 'fits in head' - and the promised are often overblown
trinque: sure, I guess I was talking about in the context of modern US politics
trinque: asciilifeform: I mean the social news cycle fad "leak" is now established