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mircea_popescu: en especially will heart it. It'll work for
a handful of well publicized people pictured above the caption, "$100 billion! You could be next!"-- followed immediately by
a story about how worthless the business turned out to be, so of course the goal for you is to sell out ASAP; but the vast majority who have aligned their psychology with this vector will pursue an impossible fantasy at the expense of their labor an
mircea_popescu: ed on starting
a business in order to sell the business to someone else. Of course the idea is to get rich-- which sounds like capitalism, if you're retarded, but observe the message that is being taught: that the necessary correlate to getting rich is to give all the capital to someone else. The power is traded for the fetish of power. That's not capitalism, it is madness, and apparently Davos and Randi think wom
mircea_popescu: So Randi goes to Davos, never once asking why they would want her there? Convincing her demo of underproducing hyperconsumers that capitalism-- controlling capital-- is pointless and mean, but globalism-- doublespoken as "progress", "human rights", "everything is connected"-- that is
a noble cause. Remember that the "culture" she thinks she speaks for, including those that hate her-- "the startup culture"-- is premis
kanzure: wikipedia image does not make me think
a tesla turbine is flat
mircea_popescu: in any case, the notion of "writing down incentives" is
a little silly.
kanzure: also does anyone know of
a design for
a planar engine? can be gas/steam/whatever. just needs to be manufactured in one step.
kanzure: and waiting for petertodd to start telling you to go fuck yourself is just
a bad strategy
kanzure: "!v" is giving me "Need
a decrypted verification string."
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452. This may take
a few moments.
kanzure: like, it is completely ridiculous that such
a document is required
kanzure: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: %d. This may take
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danielpbarron: ok.. i have
a bitcoind binary file that i did myself! :D
mircea_popescu: "this is, without
a doubt, the worst resume i have ever seen."
☟︎ assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for phillipsjk with note: His simplicity is endearing.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: Not even my 2 year electronic program or running
a node for
a year? <<< jesus god he's adorable. totally pwned ben_vulpes too, because the joo's
a lazy reader. meanwhile in the linked cv ? "Objective. To find
a day or night job in the Edmonton area."
mircea_popescu: "The one great example is IBM, which faced disruption and existential threat from PCs in the early 1990s and emerged stronger and is still
a thriving company. "
☟︎ danielpbarron: ok so apparently the openssl make install was getting stuck on making documentation (apparently
a known bug for the version ascii chose) and the fix is to use "make install_sw" instead of "make install"
BingoBoingo: "Ms. Kim has an impressively broad resume, but it is not especially deep. Ms. Kim appears on Stellar legal documents and itswebsite as “secretary,” “executive director” and “member” (under its bylaws). Whatever her talents, they do not include leadership. Her legacy at SimpleHoney was
a pair of false-start products, punctuated by
a blog post titled “How to Build
a Startup from
a Beach.”"
the_scourge: i'm undecided as to wether such scams demonstrate
a concerted smear attempt or are simply exposing the nasty nature of our 'corportate' culture
BingoBoingo: "Meanwhile, Mr. McCaleb and Ms. Burzlaff negotiated
a settlement for their children’s support, but his behavior toward his kids mirrored his departure from Ripple and, to some degree, every company he incubated. He fled the scene when things went south at eDonkey. At Mt. Gox, he actually claimed the company no longer had any of his coding DNA, even though he still owned 12 percent of the company and advised on an attempt to acqu
mod6: na, just saw
a bunch of those in there when looking through the hex of blk0001.dat, i think it's an OP_ script of some type maybe
BingoBoingo: "After the vote, as would prove to be his habit when faced with
a situation not to his liking, Mr. McCaleb simply disappeared. He and Ms. Kim went to Costa Rica to surf, then to Brazil. Even close friends at Ripple Labs had no idea where their mercurial founder was for months at
a time."
BingoBoingo: mod6: Wait, Was it
a bible verse that doesn't want to verify?
BingoBoingo: "This all culminated in
a showdown meeting in which the board and key investors sided with Mr. Larsen. It was
a 5-1 vote to keep Mr. Larsen as CEO with Mr. McCaleb himself being the lone dissenter. Even Mr. McCaleb’s ally, Mr. Powell, voted to retain Mr. Larsen, as did Roger Ver, another McCaleb friend in the room."
BingoBoingo: "Ms. Kim has one of the all-time great LinkedIn profiles: Harvard, Cornell, Columbia Law, the Innocence Project, Shearman & Sterling, two other law jobs, founder or CEO at two start-ups and now
a venture capitalist."
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: if you or anyone else has any suggestions for sorting archive pages, it'd be sweet if contravex didn't only post one article at
a time
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 06:30:52; phillipsjk: DeathAndTaxes on bitcoin talk made
a detailed post explaining why the 1MB block size in not good for anything other than inter-bank transfers:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=946236.0 He estimetes 2-4 TPS basked on the last million transactions
mircea_popescu: "he problem isn't
a limit in general but that 1MB is so low that under any meaningful adoption scenario it will push all individual users off the blockchain to rely on trusted third parties. In essence you will probably be priced out of the blockchain and the blockchain becomes yet another network you will never have direct (peer) access to, just like FedWire, SWIFT, and other private closed transfer networks. "
ascii_field: redhat patch << i can't help but think that this is
a 'wait, there was dioxin in my cyanide pill!111!' situation.
mircea_popescu:
a sad fate for
a race with such well recorded history.
mircea_popescu: inb4 "this github commit is worth 1k btc on
a qntra size arithmetic"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Everyone who wanted qntra to have
a category page << remove the <li>, separate them by ; instead ? << Work in progress. Things in the categories will be getting some better sorting.
mircea_popescu: besides, what "these folks" in the general wish and what individual folks actually managed when confronted with
a bloody club are quite divorced matters.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the system couldsurvive
a dozen total years of jailtime on this score.
mircea_popescu: each da jailed for contempt & disbarred is
a step forward.
mircea_popescu: "One particularly interesting tidbit is that when information about parallel construction in
a case leaks,
a special "Taint Review Team" must consult with
a judge to determine which evidence must be turned over to the defense. The Taint Review team is also responsible for insulating prosecutors from evidence that would reveal the application of parallel construction methods in
a case."
TheNewDeal: Mp, The largest difference is someone else being able to purchase
a larger percentage sstake in the pool I am in
mircea_popescu: "When I was in Sicily, I couldn't even get
a frickin' wifi login at the McDonalds without an Italian passport *and*
a local registered sim. "
assbot: This is the wrong way to do the Internet. Don’t worry, there’s also
a right way. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1LRaFVw )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> when you plug
a lamp into
a mains socket, is that also
a 'streaming query' ? << For some kinds of lamp sure. << LAMP! geddit ? roflmao
TheNewDeal: I usually just place
a premium, like, 3% on the timeweight
TheNewDeal: Any who, if someone is interested or becomes more interested as time goes on, send me
a gribble message
the_scourge: mircea_popescu: oh yah, i take every "finding" and "study" with
a grain or shovelful of salt. so, well spoken
ascii_field: which is
a pure rapefest from the standpoint of the phd coolies
assbot: PLOS ONE: Disgust and the Politics of Sex: Exposure to
a Disgusting Odorant Increases Politically Conservative Views on Sex and Decreases Support for Gay Marriage ... (
http://bit.ly/1FbeUXm )
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal but your holding is worth at the very most .189 BTC, and that if no has
a 100% chance to win ?
mircea_popescu kinda interested to see this model developped, but the fact that txns have to take
a time, and
a risk premium on top of what's actually bneing sold seems insurmontable
ascii_field: the_scourge: you are making
a loud public fool of yourself, unnecessarily. friendly warning.
mircea_popescu: this works splendidly well, on
a certain crowd, creating "consensuses" and "progresses" and whatnot.
ascii_field: the_scourge did not actually read
a word of it
mircea_popescu: unsurprisingly. sara miller mccune is
a reputed con woman that came up with the following scam : make up fake "peer reviewed" scientific journals, then charge variouis idiots that were stpid enough to try and carve careers out of "social studies"
a few hundred dollars to publish their goop
the_scourge: doesn't our politics and philosophy entirely derive from our finances? it's pretty clear that
a liberal is just
a fascist with effective plumbing and sanitary solutions
ascii_field: e.g., if you worked at
a paper factory in '91-93, you had
a good chance of becoming de-facto owner of
a hundred tonnes of paper - suddenly unobtainable in the usual way - and some pull.
mircea_popescu: the "turn the other cheek" folk over there. the "if you as much as bother
a hair of my beard I'll gouge your fucking eyes out with your own detached ribs" folk over here.
ascii_field: watson is
a special case here (see his auction escapade, for instance) - but
a garden-variety physics prof going 'on strike' means: taxicab
mircea_popescu: whether they have or they don't have
a choice today, it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: "never interrupt the enemy when he's making
a mistake". fortunately the internet makes so that "help him instead" remains undetectable.
mircea_popescu: well, the enemy proposes that relevancy is
a matter of headcount.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, i am lazy. also fortunately, it's
a job that does itself.
mircea_popescu: if i weren't so lazy i guess i'd organise
a special cell to create these derpy "controversies" about every single intellectually productive us person and have the academia "sever ties" with them.
ascii_field: hence, either 1) your build is trying to use
a 'modern' boost
ascii_field: try building on
a box that doesn't even -have- the libs
pete_dushenski: "It seems therefore that for
a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity." << well said
mircea_popescu: nobody wants
a plate of twelve "kinda-shitty" dishes when he could have an exquisite dish and eleven helpings of garbage, readily discarded.
mircea_popescu: ed. In seventeenth-century England, for instance, there was
a religious and political cleavage which distinctly resembled the left-right antagonism of to-day. Looking back, most modern people would feel that the bourgeois-Puritan viewpoint was
a better approximation to truth than the Catholic-feudal one. But it is certainly not the case that all or even
a majority of the best writers of the time were puritans."
mircea_popescu: "Mr Upward would no doubt answer that
a belief which was appropriate several centuries ago might be inappropriate and therefore stultifying now. But this does not get one much farther, because it assumes that in any age there will be ONE body of belief which is the current approximation to truth, and that the best literature of the time will be more or less in harmony with it. Actually no such uniformity has ever exist
mircea_popescu: fucking
a. didn't this guy as retold by asciilifeform end up sucking cock because "gentleman" in his own opinion ?
pete_dushenski: "Christianity is simply
a set of behavioral patterns that harm other human patterns in some respect and help in others. Catholic priesthood does, however, exhibit parasitic (viral) behavior on fatherhood."
mircea_popescu: kinda the problem with this guy, he's writing
a bizarre sort of fiction.
pete_dushenski: i scanned that dawkins piece
a bit more... there were more unfounded claims than i could take
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform's
a sucker for punishment
pete_dushenski: reading the trilema pieces in his direction were
a sufficient cure to reading more
pete_dushenski: goodness gracious... what
a dozen posts and 15,000 words each ?
the_scourge: so what carries currency here does not matter. reality matters. that is it. we've been living in
a suspension of reality for at least 300 years, so i'm not surprised that our conversation is missing each other
the_scourge: mircea_popescu: ok it wasn't quite ready. it's not
a strange notion what can be argued from first principles. i'm agreeing with your post