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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu jesus christ on
a cross you're fast. like seriously.
decimation: the amusing bit is that folks think they are trading in
a 'free market', but then actually act like they are scared government lackeys
pete_dushenski: to the extent that they don't have to, that no one is holding
a gun to their head and they aren't starving, why bother ?
decimation: yes. for instance, the fact that the bond market in the us freaked out because
a semi-good jobs report might imply that the fed might begin 'targeting' higher rates
decimation: I think there might be some of that, but I also doubt that britian's 'good men' could get much done trapped in the crazy monkey house of
a modern us bureaucracy
pete_dushenski: unless of course this is
a case of, like mp's observation on the decline of the british empire, there being no good men left to do what has to be done
ben_vulpes: <decimation> I asked 'why don't you just use
a cnc mill to shape the parts'. the answer: 1.) they apparently don't 'do' computers and 2.) the aircraft were all half-ass made to the blueprints anyway, often with 'by hand' adjustments << uh yeah that's how hand machining worked
decimation: I asked 'why don't you just use
a cnc mill to shape the parts'. the answer: 1.) they apparently don't 'do' computers and 2.) the aircraft were all half-ass made to the blueprints anyway, often with 'by hand' adjustments
decimation: old men pay top dollar for these things, some of which were found as
a wreck in the jungle. the end result has maybe 30% 'original' parts
decimation: I recently toured
a 'restoration' shop where they rebuild wrecks from wwii
pete_dushenski: original or hand-made, either or
a combination of the two are desirable.
decimation: at some point, are you just driving
a replica?
☟︎ decimation: there's
a somewhat similar market for 'restored' wwii aircraft
decimation: hehe yeah, well it's pretty much
a museum piece
pete_dushenski: looking forward to finding
a story worth exploring therein
mircea_popescu: such
a perfect mirror for the peak of l'aile ou la cuisse
assbot: Bitcoin is unfair. That’s the point and so it shall remain. | Contravex:
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cazalla: prolly because i included
a link
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/michael_munger_1.html < "Guest: And that--I do want to keep defending Buchanan. What Buchanan's worried about is
a monolithic Leviathan. Because he thought, once you have
a state, it will just eat all of the other choices. It will pull all of them inside, like
a sort of great vortex. All of the choices will become public because that's the way that states work. That's the logic, is to expand.
ben_vulpes: i don't know about that. generally working with any given individual for
a few months is enough to suss out their competence.
decimation: I suppose that part of the problem really is that humans need
a few more generations to sort out how to have
a 'status hierarchy' for programmers
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo> Studying CS would be
a fine path if only the studiers would accept being deprived of computers until their 30's < hehe my old man was writing code years before he first saw
a computer.
decimation: punkman: yeah that's
a good point. the outside visibility on
a superficial level is somewhat obscure
BingoBoingo: Studying CS would be
a fine path if only the studiers would accept being deprived of computers until their 30's
thestringpuller: most of the undergrads coming in had never seen
a programming language in their lives so...
thestringpuller: I will be interested in seeing what happens when you throw
a key generator from here into the mix
thestringpuller: "Yes, it is as safe as generating your keys using
a local application. The key generation on our website is done client-side only. This means the key pairs are generated entirely in your web browser and they never leave your computer. Our website never sees any key related data or the key itself."
ben_vulpes: key backup as
a service is downright braindamaged.
ben_vulpes: punkman, thestringpuller:
a "better keyserver"'d not be
a bad thing to do.
punkman: thestringpuller: they more wanted to make
a "better" keyserver, that linked to your twitter/github/whatever.
adlai: good thing you didn't answer, might have been implicated in
a coup
punkman: so I just got
a call from the Congo, didn't have enough time to pick it up. wonder what kind of scam it was
ben_vulpes: (although who knows - maybe i'm
a moron for trying to pass it quoted empty arrays)
mircea_popescu: anyway, those fucking idiots. just how hard is it to mine
a coupla guard towers.
adlai: well the us plays the role of global policeman, and suicide-by-cop is not punishable (except for maybe retiring the individual cop early, since he won't make
a good public face for the department)
mircea_popescu: adlai from what i've heard, they want to form
a Third Foundation. this is getting even thicker than asimov << lolz. the part where they carefully avoid the why of it, and how exactly the old one died is also the part that ensures they stay irrelevant.
whaack: adlai: ah yes I've read this, I like it
a lot. I'm currently taking the task of building my own hardware and writing my own transaction signing tool. It's difficult though and pushing the limits of my feeble brain
adlai: from what i've heard, they want to form
a Third Foundation. this is getting even thicker than asimov
adlai: you have
a voice, use it!
mircea_popescu: i doubt they generally comprehend there is such
a thing.
mircea_popescu: average usian has never traveled, never read
a book in
a foreign language, never fucked
a woman he didn't know etc. his ideas of "isis" are necessarily
a reflection of his own pen, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: also no cc debt, not caring about college, no idea what
a quarterpounder with cheese is, completely dissinterested in police sirens in traffic etc.
trinque: I've had
a highlight on deedbot- in the meantime
mircea_popescu: those dudes find themselves in the position where atrocities that were just fine suddenly are viewed as atrocities by
a cohesive group.
mircea_popescu: really, bitcoin is quite aptly "
a microscope". specifically, in this case : the sort of bs idiocy we deride used to pass for "business" and "entrepreneurship" as
a regular thing. sop.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nfi, just saw an image posted
a few hours ago, assumed it was from today, guess not
mircea_popescu: "Thompson was faced with
a hardware environment cramped and spartan even for the time: the DEC PDP-7 on which he started in 1968 was
a machine with 8K 18-bit words of memory and no software useful to him."
cazalla: bah, that pdf to text converter butchered
a bunch of paragraphs
mircea_popescu: when you peer into the b-
a, the b-
a peers back into you.
adlai: "Immediately I noticed the feeling of
a fishing line pulling me screen-first throughout the day."
danielpbarron: you might need to ask for
a cloak in #freenode / there's
a DDoS bot hanging around here
danielpbarron: Nobody noticed the hat initially. Was the city too busy for the hat to be anything of interest? It took five or so hours of walking around different parts of Manhattan before anyone said anything. When it started to get dark out people reacted completely differently. One person came up to me, asked about the hat and then offered me
a range drugs.
http://ecstaticpessimist.in/projects/4-forehead-gallery << LOLOL
ecstaticpessimst: true, I just have
a very small web presense so most of the views come from people Ive met in person and I dont tell them about it usually.
ecstaticpessimst: I havent given anyone that website, i havent added everything ive done to it yet, its like having someone read
a book that you've only made loose scribblings on.
ecstaticpessimst: I heard it was
a good knowledgable bitcoin community and I wanted to observe
jurov: it already shrugged off
a ddos attempt at lower cost than anything else