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mircea_popescu: i am the one that sold the ukalele guggenheim bridge in abudja
mircea_popescu: i can have my customers contact you if you wish
mircea_popescu: i am a successful online bridge merchant.
mircea_popescu: i make a lot of money selling bridges.
mircea_popescu: hey, want this bridge btw ? i'm selling it.
decimation: I'm not sure what point he is making, other than helping sort newbies here
decimation: mircea_popescu: the guy is persistant, I would grant that though
asciilifeform: decimation: kakobrekla and i already posted, for free...
asciilifeform: i can't picture any other explanation, presently
decimation: who am I gonna spam?
asciilifeform: re: ddos: i'm still at a loss at how snmp/ntp amplification ddosnets can carry on existing without a 'tragedy of the commons' situation - recall, anyone here could in principle invoke the chumpnet at any time
cazalla: http://www.cio.com.au/article/565496/webjet-exclusives-trials-bitcoin-payments/ sorta interesting if ya australia, not qntra newsworthy on account i would be stuck writing abc business converts bitcoin to fiat 24/7 otherwise
decimation: I was watching incoming packets on my main router
asciilifeform: decimation: i'm curious how you determined that this is so, rather than the ordinary behaviour of a flooded router
mircea_popescu: i can't be famous, for obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: o no, that i already built.
asciilifeform: for all i know the whole thing would be tossed, like a rich man's prenup
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i like to think i've pulled off this effect once or twice on folks
decimation: punkman: ah no, apparently I failed to configure it when I changed computers
decimation: punkman: I did use sasl
decimation: it's funny, I don't see many incoming packets
decimation: I wonder if it is because I joined before the cloak took effect
asciilifeform: i'm unable to find one
asciilifeform: as for the photo, i happen to like it. and think it would look good in any respectable salt mine.
asciilifeform: i have yet to see an ad like this on 'google'
asciilifeform: but i'm probably terminally lazy.
asciilifeform: i've been known to do just that.
punkman: asciilifeform: punkman: is that a total de-wxcrudification i see ? << I think so
asciilifeform: punkman: is that a total de-wxcrudification i see ?
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: I guess we are counting on the deliberation time being widely reported
the_scourge: at least i'm better at unremembering things nowadays
the_scourge: now i know who they were and i still don't care
the_scourge: who is cryptsy and why should i care?
the_scourge: i don't care for reddit but the btcd guys were engaging in discussion on there
the_scourge: i was reading some really old logs and ended up mindwandering into some things about consensus and the various btc implementations. i know the xcp guys have crossed this bridge as well, slightly different angle
asciilifeform: and i'm actually on a stake.
asciilifeform: wasn't even arguing against the succession per se (next what, i should argue against snow?) but the bizarre deception games
mircea_popescu: suppose the converse. i have a girl with any of my women, she witnesses the life in a harem geowing up, i tell her all the dirty secrets of the world because i dfon't give a fuck, i encourage her to parade naked in town when she's 16 and so on, and when i die i leave her half a billion in untraceable money.
asciilifeform: the process is reasonably well-documented by mr mold et al and i will not waste more space on it here
asciilifeform: i.e. send children to harvaprinceyaleton, internships in africa saving monkeys or whoever, they are then eminently paper-qualified and no one can possibly object (tm) to their ascendency as apparatchiks
asciilifeform: (and where i live, it might)
BingoBoingo: I imagine asciilifeform's object as similar to kakobrekla's objection. Involves going outside.
thestringpuller: I'm telling you. Quit your day job and become stand up comedian
asciilifeform: why, i wonder, did he pick the indians as an example of 'the true path' and not, say, a stray dog ?
asciilifeform: ^ this article exemplifies everything i personally most dislike about herr orlov.
mircea_popescu: "This, I submit, is on its own sufficient proof that pornography is a wholesome, socially representative activity, whereas both cinematography and fashion are (by comparison at least) pernicious and very, very false. And that which is false can never be art, irrespective of all pretense to the contrary."
trinque: rather than a wad of concepts I believed
trinque: I think sitting there I realized the fact of my own existence for the first time
mircea_popescu: and i'll take any bet that feudalism as promoted by b-a will take the piss, vinegar and cockroach guts out of any alternative, startingwith the usg
trinque: this experience of finding oneself to be using old concepts to try to label new data in the present was sort of what I was trying to describe with the meditation experience
mircea_popescu: all it took was merlin i mean mazarin
trinque: I read that article re: representative democracy, but it's clarified in the context of the current conversation
mircea_popescu: best one point plan for world domination i ever heard. plus it worked.
mircea_popescu: to this day i suspect xiaoping's plan was exactly 1. industrialise through giving away the products to the west. within half a century you will have the industry and they will have collapsed.
trinque: I was thinking of it in terms of "go read these books" and "you know, don't steal that guy's potatoes"
trinque: as I think about it, mostly a fairy tale that extends the reach of foot-soldiers to nightmares
trinque: this calls into question whether the interaction between sovereign and subject is one of the dispensation of a (hopefully better) OS, as I stated, or whether he is rather to be a force of nature which is so, regardless of what winblows they're running
pete_dushenski: cazalla not that i've heard of either
mircea_popescu: i sit on the gigantic shoulders of logs.
asciilifeform: 'Joe Angelo, a decorated hero from the war who saved Patton's life, approached him the day after to sway him. Rather than accept and listen to the man whom he had decorated himself for his bravery under fire, Patton coldly rejected him and stated "I do not know this man. Take him away and under no circumstances permit him to return."' (pediwik)
trinque: mircea_popescu: if there is an objective mode of being, I am further down the mountain than it
asciilifeform: i can think of at least four separate incidents where usg armies loudly, publicly, beat and often fired on assemblies of veterans
trinque: pete_dushenski: I just spent a long time sitting once upon a time
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i still don't understand why
pete_dushenski: trinque: there was a moment where I realized my whole model of my life, experience, etc was that, a model << curious, when ?
trinque: there was a moment where I realized my whole model of my life, experience, etc was that, a model
trinque: pete_dushenski: I think we'd agree then. I'm saying the OS that's being distributed is a mangled hack
trinque: pete_dushenski: I am saying that this religion is irresponsible
trinque: asciilifeform: right, I assume they can and will warp reality to suit them as needed
asciilifeform: i've said it before, but will say again, if 'humane' paper tax collection falls apart (and it seems that eventually must) - the old-fashioned door-to-door shakedowns will return
mircea_popescu: i guess butthurt at it not having worked at all because well... nobody wants their money inside the beast.
danielpbarron: thestringpuller> US passport: Tax Curse, -10 from wealth << why i can't attend conference
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have no idea for a better spec.
thestringpuller: chetty was saying she was still paying US taxes (or maybe I recally incorrectly)
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i thought they'd flag your passport if you get IRS audited and charged for evasion? (though I guess this is more a dice roll if it occurs to an individual)
cazalla: i'm not implying he would have the authority, just when taxman might begin to believe he does
cazalla: how long until tax man comes to you and says, i'm a reasonable guy, i'll accept payment for your taxes in bitcoin?
asciilifeform: afaik no one expat has yet been brought back in a cage for not paying. but i'm told that certain foreign banks will avoid you if they learn you have u.s. citizenship.
the_scourge: i.e. peter schiff's dad
mircea_popescu: since i'm not in the pizzeria business... fuckall i care.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform personally, i dun knowmuch an' i dun care much.
thestringpuller: I.e. wesley snipes
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely comprehend why anyone would leave his heirs anything but btc.
thestringpuller: they try to, hence what I said about judge in future may instruct juries to stay away from bitbet
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo make it i mean on bitbet
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'll take that with 1 BTC for under six hours.
BingoBoingo: I'd consider putting 0.5 BTC on under 3 hours. Worried about holdout juror or jurors.
gribble: dexx7 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 33 weeks, 6 days, 4 hours, 5 minutes, and 31 seconds ago: <dexX7> i think i can up myself
mircea_popescu: o i thought btcetc
lobbes: I leave to code for an hour and the conversation has moved from grepping, to dictionary specs, to biochemistry. Several of the reasons I love this channel
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: i like the branch and fork model. and we do need a non-code collaboration toolset built around that model. and we know that model works for closed communities, dictatorships and everything else
ben_vulpes: the_scourge: they have an office nearby at which i drink occasionally
ben_vulpes: i infrequently find myself drinking in his proximity. mostly f(how often i'm at new relic)
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: dude i was working on it when i still believed in randos. a long time ago
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: i've been in on his weekly hangouts a few times, very very cool times
ben_vulpes: the_scourge: i don't fuck with any of that stuff.
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: ah thanks that makes sense. lurking is necessary anywhere you go. i thought he meant dead logs
ben_vulpes: <the_scourge> mircea_popescu: yah cool, i did read through some logs << some lol. the point is that you've gotta pick up the variety speak, and that comes from reading logs in near-real-time for six months, not "some" or "a few" or "the ones i found interesting and/or easy" ☟︎
thestringpuller: i was talking about evolutionary. the selection process of how they end up in cells
the_scourge: i'm not disagreeing with you. i eat lots of meat. when i lived in a freer countries, i shot most of what i ate. you're preaching to the choir here but there are huge benefits to some of the more accessible forms of protein