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mircea_popescu: total waste of trees, but if you want to get the veblen good, get the actual fucking veblen good rather than some plastic mass market replacement. nobody of the old jews you're trying to impress is going to give a shit about your book ; they WILL however notice that your thing comes off a web press not a pod outfit, and that'll scare the everliving shit out of them.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1340908 << i have no idea about the outfit in question, other than being quite obviously part of a venerable scam, so old it's even monographed by balzac. if you actually want to print your blog, get yourself latex, make it spit out printer files ; find a local printer with a web press, see what's the lowest they'll take in run overhead (should be 1-2k or so) and do a run.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea how the niggers can stand themselves. it sure as fuck galls me, and i don't even live there. here sits Lee Cowen, re-interpreting history for his fellow jews, according to what lenin said ?
mircea_popescu: if they were after eastern european votes they'd be going "support a stronger usg because you as a group have the institutional memory to show what a great idea a soviet union is, and the scars to prove it!"
mircea_popescu: lol. yeah, in relative terms its hard ot beat 2009-2010
mircea_popescu: if the 2-3 day estimate actually gets supported, it will be the largest jump in hsitory.
mircea_popescu: this "nothing can ever happen" thing that everyone wants to bake in the axioms is exactly the castration limonov discusses.
mircea_popescu: either that or that the value of bitcoin actually motivates him to start actually thinking about things, for the first time in his life.
mircea_popescu 's interest in programming has been remote for many years, pre-btc
mircea_popescu is amusing at the thought that the "fuck you, apparently gotta maintain an old version of everything one intends to use" did not start with bitcoin. but with wordpress.
mircea_popescu: not like you can read any sort of anything about it, either you do the experiments yourself or else fu you never know.
mircea_popescu: because hey, it's crapple universe, they have all the scholarly achievement of a dead congolese stray dog.
mircea_popescu: but i mostly used it specifically to review the store.
mircea_popescu: well you could root it, obv, if oyu cared for a shitty pentium 2 in the house.
mircea_popescu: maybe. not so convinced. /me got an old ipad for his game research a year ago. ipad 2. retina display. shit still works 100% no dead pixels no nothing.
mircea_popescu: if FOSS had a hand in it, i'd buy 10k cpus every time i wanted to make a working station.
mircea_popescu: the REASON i never have do debug my cpu, my very dear alf
mircea_popescu: chuck norris seems to have gone the way of the superman
mircea_popescu: i suppose by 2018 it will be samuel l jackson and the lord our god.
mircea_popescu: adlai back in 2013 or w/e they were hoping for interpol / tsa / ama. it... fizzled
mircea_popescu: yeah but on the other hand the only place i was ever actually bombed in was jerusalem.
mircea_popescu: i guess if you took a vote among the domesticated ducks, they'd agree wild ducks must either be all shot or else a ceiling put over the village.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/CNsNN << pretty lulzy thinking tho. "how dares this mp guy act independently! this should not exist! i will call upon my liege lords to efface this abomination from the face of the earth - if not in reality then at least from the earth as i can see it. for it bothers me so."
mircea_popescu: derps accusing me of "seeking attention", when i own their mother, in a fucking trasnparent ploy to seek attention. herpitty-derp.
mircea_popescu: which makes me suspect it'll be "raising awareness" on his dozen-followers twitter.
mircea_popescu: conveniently omits to mention WHAT the fuck he'll contribute
mircea_popescu: to comprehend how fundamental this all is, look at a leaky toilet sometime, or any flow on an incline. you should be able to observe regions moving UPSTREAM. "oh it's not supposed to do that" "said who ?" "newton".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why all plumbing is full of cockroaches and all sewage has rats nests.
mircea_popescu: and whatever enthusiasm may tell you about this, there's a very fucking fundamental problem here. you don't get to control backflow and complex emergent behaviours just because you don't want to think about them
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "why did function flush return flood ???" "uh... it's not supposed to do that" "no shit"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the practical implementation promises from experience to create the undebuggable situation where the dumb blonde in 7a flushed her diafragm and now the results of your flushing will be a bathroom flood.
mircea_popescu: this example happens to get at the core of my misgivings about the model (which yes, is as seductive and great and promise-y as ben intuits, sure) : while the theoretical machine may have all the nice properties,
mircea_popescu: there exists exactly one billionaire involved in bitcoin, what the fuck are they smoking ?
mircea_popescu: so they're earning us slack. not that it HAS to be used, obv.
mircea_popescu: pre hearn&fail-bip, the standard was pretty high. by now it's a lot easier to argue "hey, at least it's not as bad as THAT dumb shit"
mircea_popescu: so in a sense they're actually working for us, unintentionally, in their idiocy.
mircea_popescu: the more inclined to break the protocol the power rangers become, the less important it is to actually maintain all the warts.
mircea_popescu: mod6 a perfect backward compatibility <<< every month less perfect.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what they imagine they're doing, but more power to them and their clown car.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so this entire MONTH trilema got exactly 3 clicks from twitter.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> aaaaand the trilema twatter account is suspended <<< now i gotta go in the logs, see what all that does.
mircea_popescu: then they DIDN'T want to go in pro-rata on the new round.
mircea_popescu: "CountOneInterrupt 2 points 1 hour ago Gotta love that classy web design with a butt next to the name. It's our sister site!" << check it out! someone fucking got it!
mircea_popescu: "edmundedgar 6 points 1 hour ago Why weren't people like this around when they were designing CSS?" << also, buttcoin is about 50 iq points over bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> top kek, mircea_popescu made buttcoin << eh, they've got a fascination with me ever since back when the subreddit was called somethingafwul
mircea_popescu: <cazalla_> yeah that guy, i actually bought a hard copy of the book though, been working on in it 1-2 hours each evening, trying to make a Legend of the Red Dragon mud type game meets bitcoin <<< ahahaha check out the guy that took a year off from btc biz :D