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mircea_popescu: well sure i could.
thestringpuller: i mean you could?
mircea_popescu: why don't i rent them out to fuck other people ?
mircea_popescu: i have access to women and can't monetize them,
BigBitz: thestringpuller should I get a manager?
thestringpuller: i don't understant though fully. If hooligans have access to botnets and can't monetize them, why don't they rent them out for people to attack other people?
BigBitz: I like how they called my Anonymous.
thestringpuller: ".I, BigBitz, can confirm the person in this video is indeed Mr. Ryan Kennedy. I say Ryan Kennedy, and not Alex Green or Ryan Gentle or various other nonsense, as Ryan Kennedy is the name I had him arrested under when he scammed me" - BigBitz via https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/new-sources-verify-bitcoin-exchange-moolah-ceo-alex-greens-former-scammer-identity/
BigBitz: Since you ask so nicely, how could I not?!
BigBitz: did they at least use the message I signed -- and made a typo in. Sigh.
BigBitz: I didn't interview, a friend asked me some information, I told him... ummJackson wasn't to allow CCN to use it.
thestringpuller: BigBitz: i saw your interview about Alex Green
mircea_popescu: ;;rate trinque 1 "<undata> look guys, I'm merely gay-for-trip-to-spacestation"
undata: mircea_popescu: I am also trinque
BigBitz: I bet she has multiple cats. ffs.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate undata 1 "<undata> look guys, I'm merely gay-for-trip-to-spacestation"
gribble: Error: "<undata> look guys, I'm merely gay-for-trip-to-spacestation" is not a valid integer.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate undata "<undata> look guys, I'm merely gay-for-trip-to-spacestation"
BigBitz: I fucking hate cats.
BigBitz: I'd rather be a chick than a cat, that's for sure.
undata: look guys, I'm merely gay-for-trip-to-spacestation
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm a sporting man. i like to lay the occasional bet.
undata: but I am sure he's covered
mircea_popescu: lol i don't have a particular plan in mind
undata: the huddled useless masses I'm paying insurance for, and who are going to receive unburnable housing
undata: I haven't a clue
mircea_popescu: cazalla i shall have some baba ganoush in your honor.
undata: I wouldn't mind seeing the last few generations of americans starve, though.
cazalla: "..which included a fingerprint scanner and camera, downloaded images of users' bitcoin identification cards." << where do i get one of these?
undata: due to the recent US healthcare laws, I'm expected to subsidize the old and infirm
undata: bounce: example, I'm a small biz owner and in my 20s
asciilifeform: there was an sf tale where rich folks (alien dragon-like creatures, i think it was) actually get bigger
undata: maybe I'm smart enough to avoid them entirely
thestringpuller: i thought that worked though
bounce: I don't follow. did that guy know that would happen in that case?
mircea_popescu: well thereabouts : if i live in a neighbourhood where flood is 10% yearly, but because of where exactly my house is my chances are 2.3%
mircea_popescu: aite, what did i miss
undata: I'll admit I've never thought of insurance as such a central component of economics
undata: complicated way to say that the primary role of the rich guy is dispensing his capital-allocating wisdom, if I follow
mircea_popescu: Ei, asta-i patriotismul, fetele din exemplu dau dovada de “dragoste de cartier”, si asta-i chestia pe care s-a construit Romania socialista daca sunteti curiosi, o structura de altfel imprumutata de la Romania carlista. Totul pentru patrie!"
mircea_popescu: indiferent de toate aceste aspecte, ele joaca un rol ca sa sustina o teorie : ca si la noi aici in cartieru’ curului avem chestii fine, si-un Ion care chiar daca-i numa’ din trei litere totusi e la fel de bun ca orice sef venit din zari.
mircea_popescu: si i se ghemuiesc la picioare si ele, ca alelalte. Ele sigur nu-s sclave, n-au nici antrenamentu’ nici priceperea nici pina la urma nevoile si structurile relatiei respective, acasa nu le-asteapta coloane de marmura, gradini unde apa susura printre chiparosi si havuzuri din care irumpe martipan ci peretii goi de beton, carpeta cu rapirea din serai si noptiera de placaj ramasa de la strabuna cu plosnite cu tot. Da’
undata: if I'm willing to provide you insurance, I'm giving you useful information about my assessment of your risk-level
Adlai: bounce: i don't know what it's worth exactly, but just listening to everybody's fearbabble and the taboo against suicide suggest that it's way overvalued these days
mircea_popescu: <bounce> you know, insurance by its very nature is a social institution: statistics to spread the pain of disaster over many in manageable proportions. << i do not agree.
mircea_popescu: i think there's equivocation at work here.
asciilifeform: thing is, insurance and full-blast commune are both ways of distributing risk. (sorta how cannibalism is just another way of producing meat, but i digress.)
asciilifeform: 'I would like to sell you some hunger insurance. Are you insured against hunger? Perhaps you should be! Without this coverage, you may find it impossible to continue to afford feeding yourself and your family. With this coverage, not only will you be assured of continuing to get at least some food, but so will I. In fact, thanks to this plan, I will get to eat very, very well indeed.'
asciilifeform: i suspect - knows.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea.
mircea_popescu: i dun get it.
mircea_popescu: bounce how far does this extend ? the fact that i know you're fair haired gives me the power to say "blondie"
Apocalyptic: <gribble> qntra.net is up // I get a 403
TheNewDeal: I love to fight
kakobrekla: i guess source must never leak nao
kakobrekla: i guess so
kakobrekla: i use impossibly long function and var names when im coding pissed off.
mircea_popescu: "guys, i have a great idea for a thing. here it is : function greatidea(); <stuff> return;"
assbot: I'm fucking Matt Damon - YouTube
mircea_popescu: i was just writing it
ThickAsThieves: i said it silently tho!
ThickAsThieves: i just liked teh tweet!
ThickAsThieves: i bet it wins
ThickAsThieves: lol i got 1 rt for the dorian pic already
ThickAsThieves: i pwefer wabbit
ThickAsThieves: i git dat social currency nao
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's legit. i can tell by some pixels.
mthreat: I thought it was "I'm fucking matt damon"
ThickAsThieves: may i tweet that?
ThickAsThieves: yeah i just got antsy, sry
cazalla: i gave you a retweet though TaT
cazalla: ThickAsThieves: i haz a post i wanna give them dibs on <<< if you've posted it to your own site, i don't see much point in qntra mirroring it
mthreat: i wish they did that here
thestringpuller: i think nintendo
BingoBoingo: I hear Redmond I think Microshit
mircea_popescu: i used to have one, don't particularly miss it.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said earlier, why;d the gunpile be integral.
mircea_popescu: only crowdsourcing can explain this level of fuming stupidity, i'm affraid.
ThickAsThieves: pretty much amounts to, if i could be a god on another planet, everything would be my way
undata: I think they'll always have them.
undata: that's what I was poorly articulating yesterday, thinking it unlikely that one could either hide from or commandeer the vast pile of weapons and thugs manning them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you asked if i can imagine.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dun see that many commercials.
asciilifeform: i can also imagine. e.g., strategic guided monkeys rocketing from my arse
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can imagine all sorts of things.
thestringpuller: i.e. you send someone money via email or something with their app
thestringpuller: is it just me or am I seeing more commercials with banks introducing "p2p payments"
asciilifeform: and we sit down for tea, and i tell him we have to use... ternary
asciilifeform: what i was suggesting is, that it is very difficult (not impossible, but close to it) to get people to shake off design-space constraints when it jumps costs by orders of magnitude.
asciilifeform: not surprised if nobody agrees - i think i've yet to meet anyone who does (other, than, possibly, chuck moore, and i haven't asked him in person - only read him)
mircea_popescu: more importantly : the war didn't work like, one day there was a zhukov, and he went hey, what if we had the germans attack us, so they i could be really cool ?
thestringpuller: no just annoyed i can't get legit information because hooligans are butthurt
asciilifeform: how i know? my estimation, three people who can crap out the answer. one's a schizophrenic, far gone, other's me, who works 3 jobs, and the third is probably too old already.
asciilifeform: how do i know that my arse does not contain monkeys?
mircea_popescu: "i want a complete report on every tcp/ip implementation out there. by hand. line by line comparison of all versions ever made"
asciilifeform: i shit thee not, ms winblows is one of the two (afaik) nsa-approved os.
mircea_popescu: bounce last i heard, the usg was throwing money into the street because "gotta spend"
mircea_popescu: i still don't see what's the advantage of "go everywhere with an identity provided by a 3rd party"
mircea_popescu: i'd rathe eat dirt.
mircea_popescu: i could see if it centralized in my own hands. but centralizing it in the hands of the enemies of everything that's nice and good in this world, the ycombinator crowd ?