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decimation: I suppose that's the result of the mob seizing power: awesome party, terrible hangover
decimation: I suppose it was the ultimate outworking of enlightenment philosophy
mircea_popescu: uh. i dunno, but i suspect the revolution was a historical necessity.
mircea_popescu: i dun see it.
mircea_popescu: takes a whole of a lot more than "i cursorily looked through my textbook on sciences" to meaningfully impact the past.
mircea_popescu: i fucking knew it.
decimation: when I was in Maui I found Oprah's Maui mansion
decimation: I found a chocolate bush one day but it turned out to be rabbit turds
mircea_popescu: basically "i am a worthless sack of dung. the proof of this is that if i got sent to any other circumstance i'd make a total fool of myself"
assbot: Ron Maimon, Luboš Motl and other Internet things I hear of today for the very first time pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/ron-maimon-lubos-motl-and-other-internet-things-i-hear-of-today-for-the-very-first-time/#comment-109841 << a competitor emerges!
decimation: I guess kansas was kansas before kansas
decimation: I guess 'person' means whatever some court finds that it means, when they are presented with the question
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/Bn88rOZ << ahaha i remember fucking with solenoids
PeterL: no, not yet, I'm gonna swith it to a different chan for a minute while I derp with it a bit
ben_vulpes: PeterL: i'm not trying to make you cry, but mebbe offer suggestions how to keep the thing up
cascadian_derper: .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=f8nwfQx1
decimation: I think that the low country "jante law" culture is one of the things that provides an impetus to the lack of us folklore/home culture
mircea_popescu: i dun see it.
decimation: yeah actually I agree with that law
mircea_popescu: totally. i like thios reasoning.
asciilifeform: citizens - yes. i was thinking of other
asciilifeform: i can remember a few - the one with the flag-less submarines, and the one forbidding any biped on planet 3 from working on nukes without u.s. blessing
decimation: asciilifeform: I finished 17 moments of spring, thanks for the recommendation. It was an interesting show
The20YearIRCloud: I wanted to run a contest and give a few away to non-tenants, as they'd likely have much more of a desire for em
nubbins`: and i guess taleb's mailing address is hard to find.
nubbins`: fwiw i think they'd have been better served given to people who we'd like to see in here, but hey, i'm just the printer 8)
The20YearIRCloud: i gave em instructions
nubbins`: i eagerly await pictures
Vexual: thanks for the link to your blogpost mp, not I know what I sound like 3 force drunk
mircea_popescu: i mean b4
asciilifeform: i only just now opened it!
BingoBoingo: Well, that's why I prefer playing as black and starting with small pawn moves. Harder for the opponent to see in the dark.
dub: i think its worth noting that for eveyone other than mp and mike it was a 50-80% loss
cazalla: there you go thestringpuller, i was almost right
mike_c: just in case it's helpful, i was seeing some wonkiness with mpex.ws last night too but didn't have time to debug. so the problem may be 24+ hours old.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i picked out an XMas present for you early.
mircea_popescu: i can also understand how half the heads populating pikes around the stronghold used to be attached to people who didn't mean to.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't really argue that 'no we won't even talk' was a correct answer. but i do understand how a n00b might associate bitcoin as-a-concept with the derps and sp4mz0rs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, i and the other jugglers - find ways to hoover up enough usd to pay the usd-eaters in.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people manage to juggle a wife and a job and an insane government and still be here. i'm not one of them, as it happens, but that's neither here nor there : to condone jeffidiocy would be more of an insult to their otherwise unguilty face than i can stomach.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i weigh less than an isp/hoster/restaurant/etc. yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but brings back to the fact that usaschwitz is a thing. if i presently had to rely on btc for anything life-sustaining, i'd be quite dead.
mircea_popescu: and in any effect, i most motherfucking DEFINITELY did what told, by the people who knew
mircea_popescu: cue me in 2011 going "sorry, but unless you folks do my homework for me bitcoin sucks. i got math and rom lit."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is still not how i read that one. it was more of a 'what is this martian trinary computer, where can i plug it in? with what sauce can i eat it'. and iirc that was your own initial reaction in '11.
mircea_popescu: "oh i am great and speshul and what is this thing"
cazalla: Apocalyptic, mircea_popescu, i will go cry in the corner and rethink my approach
mircea_popescu: so in a sense, i'm the one thing supporting this here bitcoin economy.
mircea_popescu: no emotion. i am telling the sad truth just as much : adapt or die.
mircea_popescu: as a matter of policy, it will now cost these guys 10k to get any of my business, and if they ever get into the wot i'll negrate them right off.
mircea_popescu: so did i. well, up until 5 minutes ago.
mircea_popescu: but i'll make sure to charge a mango my digestion fees next i run into one.
mircea_popescu: i also have a point.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XwwiZPPa
mircea_popescu: i guess my idea reduces to "paint a brick black and pray to it" huh.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have some notion of how to transmute that into a solution to yesterday's conundrum - i'm all ears.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what i meant was, that it offers no useful mechanisms for anything other than, well, making ordinary backups for own use.
novusordo: but by same philosophy I meant in pricing
mircea_popescu: novusordo i thought that was a backup solution
mircea_popescu: anyway, i must say i am thankful to the "experts". they've got the rot so advanced by now it's sufficient to look at a site and know you're dealing with actual experts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i shall write.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i learned of them when looked for a hoster that specializes in censor resistance (through traditional legal-wrangling, rather than fancy tech. it was another age.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform write to the owner/admin/whatever ticket system you use, tell him that i am offering $100 in bitcoin if they as much as show up here, to claim it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't know them alive, no. but it is entirely possible that they could be lured. it's a small family op, afaik.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been using that hoster since starting my site, >7yrs. ago. they're absolutely super. the cost is virtually unbeatable for low-traffic, simple sites. and, on top of this, almost wholly ddos-proof.
asciilifeform: jurov: i don't have any fancy filtration on my end
jurov: i'm out of ideas. maybe it got greylisted but then the log would say sth else
jurov: i don't parse this
jurov: mhm i got both... looked into spam?
jurov: but i'll thry to configure the timeouts shorter
jurov: i have put amazon TurdFront (r) (tm) in front of it
jurov: no i did not fix it yet. but at least it's here: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2014-November/000010.html
asciilifeform: jurov: i received nothing, i thought that was clear.
jurov: asciilifeform: thanks, i need something to chew on. apparently mailman mangled the patch before saving to archive
jborkl_: yeah, I have the chicken and the egg problem. Now I have traffic, but not know what to do with it. I concentrated so much on making it all and writing the code, I never thought what was next
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can see - it merely disappeared into the aether.
jborkl_: i tries adsense for a week, did not like that. So the idea ben vulpes had was right on target but I am not sure if that is ongoing? ok, thankd mike_c
nubbins`: ooo i just found 100 sheets of paper i didn't know i had
jborkl_: I was looking for any practical advice on monetizing my site, did not know if any of you had some (advice) on this matter?
jurov: yes this is how i fucking did it
asciilifeform: jurov: i signed my patches. so if sent, from whatever addr, they should be displayed. (with note that one user signed.)
jurov: i can send the patches myself but did not looked into them yet
nubbins`: why do i have to send the letter, i wrote the damn thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, which is why i'm writing it out. easily verified, completely unfamiliar to the general public.
mircea_popescu: truely i am a broken hand in the chest of bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: sheeeit, i paid ppl 5 btc to write stories ?
thestringpuller: i just find it fascinating that the percent of redditards against any hard fork is going up by a lot.
thestringpuller: i would assume no less. it would seem though that in the future commandment 1 of bitcoin would be:
mircea_popescu: but let it be clear that if we get that far i will paying for abducted and gangraped usg politico daughters, and putting the videos online.
mircea_popescu: what they get or don't get is not material here. i understand that it's hard for politicos to look past pretty much their only asset, skill and ability, the herd.
mircea_popescu: which i suppose is long enough an intricacy that the retards won't be able to follow it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have had a spyring from before satoshi had a clue on c
asciilifeform: lol! i actually saw that film for the first time a few days ago.
mircea_popescu: now, if it actually also worked, it may count for something. it doesn't work, so i guess it's good for lulz.
mircea_popescu: main united. Those caught tonight in violation of curfew will be considered in league with our enemy and prosecuted as a terrorist without leniency or exception. Tonight, I give you my most solemn vow: that justice will be swift, it will be righteous, and it will be without mercy.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside that nobody i ever knew was seriously using the newer debian releases anyway for any purpose, you';d have to be fucking insane to think the way this goes is, we kill their heartbleed and they sit and wait.
thestringpuller: i would assume that is just a box that leads to a shredder
nubbins`: today i get an email saying my bulbs have arrived :0
nubbins`: "fuck those assholes, i'm buying from somewhere else"