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cazalla: Adlai, ah i never saw it as such, i was only placed at the door because i got the job as a result of nepotism and they had to put me somewhere hence first evar security guy for that shop lol
Adlai: there's something intoxicating about a position of power, even if it doesn't really mean anything
Adlai: where was this? there are probably better targets for shoplifters who need to make a living
cazalla: Adlai, no-one ever objected and i imagine that to anyone who wanted to come steal socks and undies, i was a god send
mircea_popescu: Adlai i dunno, i told a schmucky kid once to mind his own business. nothing happened./
cazalla: Adlai: you've never had security at an event ask to open a bag/compartment, only to barely glance what was inside once open? <<< my first evar job was bag checker/door security at a retail store, i would ask to look in bag, they would open, i would nod and they'd walk out.. they might've easily walked in, filled up the bag and walked out with the goods because i sure as fuck didn't know
mircea_popescu: "well... because i'm not a dickless dipsit, like you."
mircea_popescu: so "why don't you organize a boycott"
mircea_popescu: Second, the programs can only address needs defined by the intellectual elite. We won't provide cheaper cars; we'll force people to use mass transit. One volunteer aid group once did a study of Third World needs, concluded that one of the most pressing needs in Third World countries was transportation, then excluded automobiles from consideration because they felt that automobiles had a negative effect. When mass trans
mircea_popescu: First, the money has to be taken by force from the wealthy. Voluntary contributions don't count. Taxation at a level that the wealthy will consent to doesn't count. Any approach that recognizes the wealthy as having rights is unsatisfactory. Even worse is any recognition of philanthropy and the idea that some of the wealthy have social consciences.
Adlai: if you really want to boost bitcoin's hashrate, why not organize a tx processing strike?
danielpbarron: "if there is a block bigger than X, Y, or Z
davout: Adlai: for such a thing to make sense it has to give the ability to short gavincoin into the dirt, nothing else
danielpbarron: not that i think this will ever be demanded, but there could other changes needed to avert catastrophe that depend on a fork
davout: Adlai: because imo a one-off 2mb block size increase coin would be valued very differently from an exponential-growth block size coin
nubbins`: i came across a picker/placer robot arm project recently that i meant to paste here
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 21:14:18; danielpbarron: i could specify that it doesn't count as a fork if the resulting coin is still accepted by MPEx :p
Adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2015#1050687 < a fork by any other name... what's so hard about referencing blocksize in the contract? ☝︎
nubbins`: ...and fwiw there was a tooling charge, just not presented as such :P
nubbins`: a
asciilifeform: even a free sample board in there.
danielpbarron: i could specify that it doesn't count as a fork if the resulting coin is still accepted by MPEx :p ☟︎
asciilifeform: 80% << obligatory >> 'We use the term "thieves" if the number of men does not exceed seven, "band of marauders" [or "war-band"] for a number between seven and thirty-five. Anything beyond this is an "army".'
davout: what if it's like a emergency bugfix harfork? or any kind of non-braindamaged hardfork we actually agree with?
danielpbarron: i'd define it the way they do: a fork of bitcoin that gets 80% consensus from miners (or 75% or 95%, whatever magic number they want)
danielpbarron: that aside, it should technically be possible to strike a deal
davout: either way, it can't really work now, there can't really be a contract that defines what a gavincoin is before the guy actually commits some code
trinque: they're just bored kids, with as much focused malice as a bored kid can muster
trinque: they're just derping through a script they've been taught
Adlai: you've never had security at an event ask to open a bag/compartment, only to barely glance what was inside once open?
asciilifeform: davout: because it's a lie
davout: asciilifeform: i don't really get why logging in to it isn't deemed enough proof it isn't a bomb
asciilifeform: davout: if it has any purpose whatsoever, it is a training run for shoulder-surfing the pw in case they decide to confiscate the machine
Adlai: after i repeated "linux" a bunch of times, ran xterm and opened random man pages, eventually the guy got overwhelmed/embarassed and just waved me on
mike_c: if you are > than that confident in gavincoin, it's a good deal
danielpbarron: right, it's still a "good deal" to those who are so sure the fork will be a hit; i'm just trying to figure out how "good a deal" it is
mircea_popescu: basically the usg is about 15 and has grown up on a gated community. in connecticut.
mircea_popescu: which is the ridiculousness of it all. teenaged priss kinda likes a boy, does not find it within her purview to go on knees moan for cock. oh no, must pretend this that and the other.
asciilifeform: nobody wants a copy, but only to be annoying
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2015#1050233 << funny thing being, that if they actually want a copy they can just ask neh ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "give us your tired, your hungry" omits the whole picture : sure a country of immigrants is a grand way to build yourself up. but, necesarily, it's a great way to fall over like a deflated donut within a century.
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 17:19:15; asciilifeform: thing is, colonizing power is not necessarily a civilizing one. how'd ya like ru colonial period in ro?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2015#1050215 << this is a complicated question. generally, the damage was done early on by a (perhaps understandably) revancharde russia, and late on, by a completely local brewed idiot. ☝︎
mod6: jurov: not even a test email made it through.
mircea_popescu: make the italian a cook and forget it.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, there could scarcely be imagined a more degenerate people.
chetty: I could go for a deserted island :)
mircea_popescu: i propose this matter still needs a lot more thinking.
asciilifeform: boat is a machine for getting away from fucking humans
mircea_popescu: yeah, sure, because he couldn't be served just as well by a common bus.
mircea_popescu: would be a shitload cheaper to just rent serially. FURNISHED appartments.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want to live in a bob sleigh or inside your go-kart either. it's not that dissimilar.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, as an outing, soemthing to do for a day or w/e, great. splendid sport.
mircea_popescu: but have you ever spent, a whole day, on a sail anything, at sea.
mircea_popescu: you ever like... i dunno, ever had a friend in porn invite you to spend a while with a coupla girls on a yacht ? or generally, spent any time on a sail vessel ?
mircea_popescu: what are you, a cartoon character ?
mircea_popescu: you were going to live on a sailboat ?
asciilifeform: (orlov has a small engine, he claims only for parking)
asciilifeform: i trained the pet, inadvertantly, by threatening, for some years, to move us into a ship
fluffypony: BingoBoingo: yeah, when he accused me of having a financial interest I got bored
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> which is what i call folks who don't need any physical plant << which is why i said i was a theoretical physicist :)
asciilifeform: a mathematician
asciilifeform: a good friend of mine is 'theoretical'
trinque: easier when you're poor, heh. I've moved across the country several times, selling all the crap that didn't fit in a car
mircea_popescu: that's a rare man, and a virtually inexistent woman.
asciilifeform: but i probably should elaborate a little
asciilifeform: but otherwise a nearly obvious description of what a gravity well even is
asciilifeform: but over here we live in demented pauper-land where sanity is a premium product available to select few.
mircea_popescu: the reason you find it so hard to escape the gravity well is in no small part due to the fact that you;ve spent many decades making the wrong decisions and they're a bitch to undo.
mircea_popescu: basically, you're in this space that doens't eixst, at all. there's a) real estate you own, and you like enough to own, which contains furniture of value proprotionate to that. and b) real estate you don't give a shit about, if you come back to find it ablaze you just shrug and move on.
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chetty: oo thats what I want a desk that goes up and down so you can sit or stand :D
mircea_popescu: antiques suffer from transport, and wtf do you even want to put nice furniture in a place you don't like.,
mircea_popescu: look, if you're going to fill a place with antiques, YOU SHOULD NOT BE RENTING IT
asciilifeform: my brother works in a chair that almost certainly was once at 'bell labs'
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chair+Ass | Chair Ass. The natural effect of the slow growth and spread of a clerical worker's physical frame, across the span of years of combining vending machine snack ...
asciilifeform: phun phakt: i once had a costly, 'premium' type office chair spontaneously convert into a stake
mircea_popescu: trinque i never used a chair for more than i dunno, a year ? two ?
asciilifeform: Adlai: and srsly, sha256 as a callout?! it's a pg or 2
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares about the desk! and a chair, whatever, you just... buy a new one! that fits!
Adlai: (guy used a defconstant symbol as a local variable)
chetty: germany unfurnished apts didnt even have a kitchen sink
asciilifeform: Adlai: aaargh, is that a shell callout!? wtf
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then you're muddying the discussion up by being one of those who lives in a warehouse
mircea_popescu: if i wanted a place to work on i'd buy it.
mircea_popescu: if i rent i expect to take the keys, take a girl there and fuck her in this order.
mircea_popescu: Adlai just a thought.
Adlai isn't hating and generally doesn't reach critical mass of serialized words to justify a 'blog'
asciilifeform: ' 500k 'worthless' dollars buy a moscow flat
mircea_popescu: not the slightest clue of a commercial spirit.
mircea_popescu: it came back to sense within a decade.
mircea_popescu: prices collapsed, an apt could be had for a working color tv.\
asciilifeform: and i think i'd like a 'boeing' too, for 250.
Adlai has a blog?
assbot: Logged on 12-03-2015 17:10:37; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Why would a property in a peso land be worth dollars ? Oh, because the peso is shit, they readily explain to you. Well, if the peso is shit, why do you imagine your real estate is worth anything at all ? ' << because if it were 10 usd, a beggar from calcutta would buy it and live in it; if it were 10K usd, i'd buy it; if it were 100K usd, american speculator corps. would buy it. so it
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-03-2015#1050204 << just to blow your mind : you are speaking to a man who has bought that sort of thing (apartment, 3 rooms, 75 sqm) for 350 dollars. ☝︎
asciilifeform: it'd still have a 'too good to be true' flavour were it at 10x the quoted price - so i'm not expecting much
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wrote in a 'wtf'
mircea_popescu: otherwise, they're a coupla hundred bucks to the million.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron 66 shitty twitter clicks are worth 50 bucks in the lalaland whjere twitter is a public company and so on and so forth.