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a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 20:46
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the state of casual gaming is completely fucked up. so other than utter throwaways, stuff that looks like someone's undegrad project, the ~entire market of ipad-likes (stuff that works in the browser, or else via a "light" client for windows/mac, or else as a ipad/android etc app) is wholly like this :
phf:
mircea_popescu: i think nature of bootstrapping problem is that you have to choose a bedrock that you can affect, and that bedrock falls under counterparty problem. if your bedrock is hardware, then it's foundries that you trust. if your bedrock is a "a unix" then you need to trust a large binary blob. yes you can construct a rube goldberg that gives you unix from bedrock without having trust, but we don't have anything like that
phf:
mircea_popescu: tcc doesn't run on bare metal though
phf:
mircea_popescu: yes, the "you don't actually need a machine, just gcc and userland"
derpshart:
mircea_popescu interesting analogy
a111: Logged on 2013-07-08 13:30
mircea_popescu: just like i showed the SDRs as the exact equivalent, and people ignored it because well... they never had one so it don't exist.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: control room for brazilian planned economy iirc
a111: Logged on 2017-03-31 19:19
mircea_popescu: here's some random lul : wolbachia is possibly the most successful bacteria ; in any case is the most widely distributed sexual transmitted disease ; about half of all insects extant carry some form ; many species can't reproduce if uninfected, or cant' even survive.
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: shit i meant `!$ ssh` not getarchive, i'm forgetting myself lol.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-16 18:25
mircea_popescu: "debian world's first [albeit primitive] app store" jesus fucking christ i've never been this insulted in my life.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-24 17:52
mircea_popescu: ahaha oh this is delishious. "My work has appeared in LA Weekly, Vice, Curbed, Complex, ANIMALS, The Daily Dot, and LosAngeles.com" << dork quit law school because tucker max said to and is now a relationships advicerist.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-22 00:29
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, that's my point, OUT OF THE FUYCKING QUESTION she can, or that any one who was actually a lawyer would even consider trying.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-03 12:48
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron how do i get stuff from your blog that's older than feb ?
shinohai:
mircea_popescu: same here, and it looks like alien inception or something when they do that 7 yr molting cycle. Damned exoskeletons everywhere.
shinohai: As I lamented to
mircea_popescu the other day though, it is difficult to get them to see the value in Bitcoin (cam/twithos)
a111: Logged on 2017-04-03 05:15
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes one's the testnet iirc
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 22:22
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt it. the time for unsolicited manuscripts was sometime in between the summer of 90something and the autumn of the same 90something. nobody can tell you precisely when, but in any case "i made a book" is precisely the same as "i made a used condom"
mod6:
mircea_popescu: haha
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> as far as the forum is concerned, his latest foray was some very overreactive bs triggered by my refusal to take rice out of my sushi or somesuch. << AHA
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: ERROR: Failed to load/parse the verse or page. Check your syntax.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 17:47
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he "will spend significant time" to find... "Research" tasks adequate to that fuckdolls "level" yet he can't be bothered to figure out how deedbot works ?
shinohai wonders if
mircea_popescu broke the CompanionCube with that Trilema article .....
ben_vulpes: trinque:
mircea_popescu mentioned a tick-borne thing, i pointed out that it's not prevalent anywhere near me
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: northeast and upper midwest
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 22:22
mircea_popescu: iirc danielpbarron had one
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 20:07
mircea_popescu: "Each of HomeShare’s hundreds of tenants gets about 55 square feet along with half a closet, half a bathroom, and a compact common area shared with a roommate and usually two other flatmates, slumbering in the unit’s other divided bedroom." << how's this supposed to be preferable to simple, honest to god sexual slavery is anyone's guess.
CompanionCube:
mircea_popescu: coincidence or independent thought? Unless it's somewhere trivially easy to find, that is
CompanionCube:
mircea_popescu: imo plagiarism requires intent and knowledge - mere repetition of the idea s
a111: Logged on 2016-04-03 01:59
mircea_popescu: more like a "people responsible enough to understand the difference between 'people on tilt' and 'voices of reason'". otherwise i enjoy talking with a wide selection of folks. women, even!
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu> the one other item is ... jurov fell off as lord treasurer. i dun exactly recall why or wherefore ; but he is STILL holding a considerable sum for the foundation, and moreover why sohuldn't he be a lord ? <- based on the work he did/does as far as I know it, I think he should be on the list; that being said, my understanding was that he got dropped due to
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-03#1444966 ☝︎ jurov:
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ^
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: i plan to do a bunch of flying to mexico soon. I flew along the rio grande a few weeks ago and my right wing was practically in mexico
shinohai: The only person I have ever met that hated Argentines more than
mircea_popescu was this girl I dated from Chile .... but evidently there is this long-standing hatred between the dos paises.
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: te fuiste de argentina?
deedbot: lobbes updated rating of
mircea_popescu from 2 to 4 << Enzyme Supreme
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> mod6 tell urmom best compliments from the republic assembled! << will do!
trinque:
mircea_popescu: congrats on the move! enjoyed my brief tour of CR very much, will be back through someday.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-31 18:09
mircea_popescu: actually i was thinking, im not going to hold another conference, because it's just not a sane opsec proposition. however, one fellow at a time coming down for a week or somesuch is more than tenable. what's airfare, fiddy bux ? pack up the missus an' come say hi.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 17:59
mircea_popescu: correct strategy when dealing with the empire of idiots -- hang the idiots, not their handlers.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-31 10:22
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, leaving aside the whole "pvc doesn't actually burn hot enough to melt bridge" - suppose it's 16 inch schedule 80 pipe. that means 30 or so meters per ton, but it also means that if you store ten pipes on the ground (4 meters wide, this), with nine on top followed by eight on 3rd level etc you get five levels of that per two meters height. pvc is about 40 MJ/kg, the arrangement would yield 10+9+8+7+6 = 40m
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well tomorrow I guess I'll have to spend my guess on Liberia.
shinohai: Cheers,
mircea_popescu ... such a fitting name.
mircea_popescu:
http://trilema.com/2017/the-lordship-list-fourth-year/ << asciilifeform , ben_vulpes , bingoboingo , danielpbarron , davout , diana_coman , hanbot , mike_c ,
mircea_popescu , mod6 , phf , trinque
a111: Logged on 2015-11-15 01:17
mircea_popescu: i have this pile of very secret derpage here including the very expert "profile" of some random derp explaining how an elderly, principled gentleman is perhaps going to react crazily to the crass injustice of this entire scheme.
phf:
mircea_popescu: the pisspots story has the last paragraph repeated twice, second time untranslated
a111: Logged on 2015-04-22 02:33 ascii_lander:
mircea_popescu: the one where women in differing parts of cycle were attracted to proximate histocompatibility-pattern males (prefers 'related' during pregnancy) and distant mhc. during ovulation (prefers 'unrelated' to avoid recessive zap)
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: telecoms multinational but you'll see w/e, so w/e
trinque:
mircea_popescu: I am, but from a particular perspective, I'm sure