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mircea_popescu: there is the problem of manufactured street cred. what to say, what to say ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people burned themselves trying to be me. perhaps i find out one day.
mircea_popescu: some that are in should come out of it already. some belong in there, be they now in or out.
mircea_popescu: it's a semi-permeable membrane. i don't indiscriminately counsel everyone there to come out.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> i use ctrl to jump to next nonwhitespace if needed. << i do.
mircea_popescu: the actual bitcoin network looks like a fuzz atop those teeth
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you graph the mempool you'll see that there's this see-saw pattern, resulting from spam txn being introduced, then they expire, then reintroduced...
mircea_popescu: there are still floating around 14,7kb shits with 0.00015 fees that were introduced on the 18th. by the thousand.
mircea_popescu: the mempool is beeing pretty well flooded by bs, so depending on exactly what type of txn you had that may account.
mircea_popescu: it is good to have backups : they can fail when used and thus justify keeping around trickups.
mircea_popescu: no he wants to pick the destination from among the windows by pressing arrow keys
mircea_popescu: Xplosionist as it happens, "( function() {" but why would it matter.
mircea_popescu: if you use csplit to create individual files by the record separator, you end up with 500k files, and
mircea_popescu: Xplosionist you specifically can not rely on newlines because they are used in the profile text.
mircea_popescu: (grep also dies, but not silently - lack of memory, supposedly, because it's badly written)
mircea_popescu: if you make it into a single line and try to then use sed to recreate lines by the separator, sed silently dies
mircea_popescu: how is this done ?! obviously, "turn it into a sql thing somehow and sql it", but no, i mean in bash.
mircea_popescu: required is a list of all profile names whose profile textual content matches a certain string.
mircea_popescu: given is a text file, worth ~1.5 GB, containing a) reliable record separator ; b) a profile name ; c) the textual content of the profile in question.
mircea_popescu: ok, so time for me to admit defeat, and come to humbly beseech the masters of computer craft far more advanced than me. here's the story (brace yourselves) :
mircea_popescu: Santoshi International Pty Ltd: Pleaded guilty to “shortfalls of up to 50% in prepacked spices”. Fined $3,000. << no value backing the bitcoin ? i beg to differ! backed by 50% spice!
mircea_popescu: "A spokeswoman for the NMI, Yen Heng, referred questions about its application to the attorney general’s department." yeah, this makes sense.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is ever more broken, while these derps "raise awareness" about how to fix hallucinated problems we don't have.
mircea_popescu: nah, i know what txn to look for from the payout logs, and then see what webservice shows it. no way you can do this yourself, really.
mircea_popescu: supposedly the txn is doublespent but i can't find the supposed doublespender in mempool.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 what people claim has naught to do with anything else other than what it pays to claim. if society pays for being a victim, they;ll claim being a victim. a century ago when it paid being a winner, you couldn't get out of talk about how winnery they are. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: bagels7 this view is a lot more common than generally realised.
mircea_popescu: maybe you meet a nice aide or something... you never know.
mircea_popescu suspects roomate is "gay" in the sense of "he fucks holes".
mircea_popescu: on" and they represent as a fundamental failure to thrive.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what your barely-literate friend was trying to convey was that he and his friends regard themselves as sovereign and outside the common mores of fucktardation and idiocy (conveniently equated with white society), and as such pussies get taken in. which is what happened to you. which makes sense, in that context, and has exactly 0 to do with color and everything to do with what you represent as "sexual orientati
mircea_popescu: uh im pretty sure i lent money to black dudes, actually.
mircea_popescu: in this reading, the bunch of socialist, liberal, rights-and-whatevers, equality-and-environment folk are self-excommunicated, ie they can't take part in the workings of the church. which, judging by the devil-fell-in-holy-water level of hysteria displayed when they encounter submission etc, may not even be that far off.
mircea_popescu: "Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest – For Brutus is an honourable man; so are they all, all honourable men – come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me, but Brutus says he was ambitious and Brutus is an honourable man."
mircea_popescu: but, let us quote for the memory of it. "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears - I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
mircea_popescu: the irony of this being EXACTLY how it works out in practice being why we even made laws to begin with is of course lost on the proponents.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the thing to do is "raise awareness" on reddit, get 51% of "the people" to agree the forked history is better off and then there you go, consensus has been achieved and all is well.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-01-2016#1378294 << technically, yes. consider any fanatic dude going "oh, if i only had the opportunity to kill hiltler before he could do all that damage!!1" gets his opportunity and is now explaining to a munchen court why he dispatched the 9yo boy with a pickaxe. what do you say, "i guess it's one of those where you had to be there" ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: usually an unconscious belief, but nevertheless, all-permeating.
mircea_popescu: more broadly, there's no merit in trying to hold categorical discussions with idiots, they're both incapable of keeping the categories straight and also believe that their "best weapon" is to muddy them up.
mircea_popescu: which is why nobody bothers to engage the derps going "bitcoin/b-a/whatever is a cult!11". sure, whatever, it's a cult. not as much as your "feminism" "environment" "government" "state will save us" blabla.
mircea_popescu: otherwise the doctrine as well as the history is fulla intermediations and intermediants.
mircea_popescu: fucktards. don't even own enough dough to buy my flock stockings.
mircea_popescu: o noes! but bitcoin was dying because lolz, and then it recovered because why ?! WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Connecting to reddit failed. Double check the url"