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BingoBoingo: Mega lol The turk is to pay the jew, on the price of the day, twenty oca of prime pastrami, which he ate ; and the jew to pay the turk twenty lire, for having tricked him giving
a sack of clothes that held no clothes, but pastrami, and not proper sheep pastrami, but jew pastrami.
mircea_popescu: "some derp told tall tales on the phone!! TO
A WOMAN!"
mircea_popescu: didn't they just embarass themselves with the "high tech" capture of some slut on vacation and half
a dozen steeds, last year ?
mircea_popescu: lmao this suggests
a new insult for the chronically whiteknighting libertard warrior.
mircea_popescu: once people start coding with
a view to coding, rather than being massive flaming cockidiots.
mod6: and you're on like
a 128mb pogo or w/e right?
mircea_popescu:
a religion that likes to call itself political because out of historical accident it replaced yahveh with something identical but called "reason" for no good reason is realy butthurt at this
decimation: mircea_popescu: that's
a good point, gotta have the court jester to keep things lively
mircea_popescu: on average, the profession of vizier scores
a hair under the profession of mendicant popular medic.
decimation: mircea_popescu: of course, if such
a person would spew such nonsense to many kings of yore he would be hanging from
a tree
mircea_popescu: "organized theft and poverty as cultured by sociaism" perhaps
a lither, more fuckable version.
mircea_popescu:
a) "stagnation" is not the ultimate evil. that fake dilemma. b) seriously, the only "decent" way ?
mircea_popescu: which such control can be exercised is through
a democratic, collective agency."
mircea_popescu: "The reason that money is and can only be political is that the only way of steering
a course between the Scylla and Charybdis of dangerous ponzi growth and stagnation is to exercise
a degree of rational, collective control over the supply of money. And since this control is bound to be political, in the sense that different monetary policies will affect different groups of people differently, the only decent manner in
assbot: Logged on 20-07-2014 23:47:17; asciilifeform: likewise - perhaps there is no need to point this out, but the linux/bsd kernel is also not
a scientific instrument.
adlai is not looking for
a lump sum right now / yet. "scalpl is an experiment"
adlai: mircea_popescu: scalpl has existed for less than
a year. puberty rarely starts in less than
a decade. by this metric, i'm optimistic!
BingoBoingo: Now now, apparently distributive justice is
a concept white people who redefine queer to no longer mean gay take seriouslu
mircea_popescu: "First, the bitcoin social economy is bound to be typified by chronic deflation. Secondly, we have already seen the rise of
a bitcoin aristocracy (
a term ‘coined’ by Greek blogger @techiechan) which, besides the issues of distributive justice which it raises"
Apocalyptic: re self-centered cultures, I recently stumbled upon Bridgewater,
a hedge fund that mainstream media often described as "
a cult". It shares several concepts with b-
a mircea_popescu: danielpbarron drop an address i'll send you
a few dollah so you can buy yourself
a few pogos to try it all out on.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron wouldja be willing to package asciilifeform's final pogo stuff into
a very detailed, any noob can get it post ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you going to write
a full step by step guide and publish on blog ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: absolutely, the 'harvard elite' are very much
a cult that happens to be in fashion
Dimsler: excuse my ignorance but what is b-
a?
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter is that ONLY THEY DO. and the current libertardism of the us was exactly b-
a back in the 70s.
mircea_popescu: decimation incidentally, for all the idiots who imagine (well, wish to believe, and so do believe) that b-
a is "
a cult" or that well designed, self-centered cultures do not prevail irl...
decimation: Destructive War, he mentions
a foreign traveler in 1864 who asked some random American to explain the war. "It's the conquest of America by Massachusetts," was the answer. Massachusetts, of course, later went on to conquer first Europe and then the entire planet, the views of whose elites as of 2007 bear
a surprisingly coincidental resemblance to those held at Harvard in 1945. But I digress.)"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought you just said it worked
a moment ago ?
mircea_popescu: Dimsler yeah, "trade" is not "give me free shit while i tan". how did that silly quote go, "And so on. The three men ended up working like dogs, using all the skills developed by trial and error in their first few weeks – building
a hut, fish, trying to get the women to forage. The women continued to bitch and sunbathe."
Dimsler: what he didn't see was that the trade was onsided, inexchange for
a bunch of debt
decimation: as an american, I see germany as
a theme park filled with stuffed animals, spouting libtard-ideology
mircea_popescu: adlai dude, you're making yourself impossible to follow. i thought you wrote
a fx bot that works on 2-3 exchanges currenty and you're looking to finance it.
adlai: what's mpex,
a text-based casino?
adlai wants to minimize counterparty risk. if mp is investing in
a trading shop, why should mp's money leave mp's ex?
mircea_popescu: adlai you don't have to have
a mpex account to be
a pc manager if that's what yer asking.
Dimsler: neo-colonialism was not
a sustainable endeavour
adlai: mircea_popescu: question: could
a profit center be run within mpex/coinbr? ie, the extent of "you get some btc" would be crediting an account? kinda like how margin is described in the mpex faq.
Dimsler: the fourth reich take over of europe ultimatly ended in
a wealth transfer scheme and
a failing currency
BingoBoingo: Not
a grand animal builder of bunkers for
a post nuclear age
mircea_popescu: thousands of dacias sailed out of timisoara EACH DAY by train, for over
a year
mircea_popescu: Dimsler but at great gain to the quality of life of the average romanian. and to
a lesser degree, frenchman.
BingoBoingo: My spirit animal though is
a most likely
a wound spring. It used to be
a wood chuck until Preston Byrne appropriated them and relabled them all fucking marmots.
Dimsler: the fourth reich europe domination has proven to be
a failure, instead of bodies all the tanned skin loungers got
a free bmw or merc
mircea_popescu: ially it may seem unfortunate that someone decided to promote him from penny arcade optimisations to managing the finances of
a populated area that to some degree still succeeds in putting forth the pretense of
a sovereign state, with
a government and everything. Upon further consideration, you will notice it's exactly adequate.
mircea_popescu: ave remained entirely without note. Unfortunately someone decided to promote him from advising ways for an arcade could extract more money from chumps to managing the finances of
a populated area that is still by some miracle, in some form
a sovereign state with
a government.
adlai: that was mentioned as
a possibility. what do you mean by "MPIF is direct"?
mircea_popescu: adlai no dude, weren't you looking to run
a PC based on it ?
adlai: mircea_popescu: it really depends what that capital is for. for funding further development of the bot? not much, feature by feature, i'm not looking for
a vc-style investment. for testing the algorithm on larger amounts, to see how the strategy scales up? right now, two digit btc sum, more as progress permits.
Apocalyptic: teward's quit message faking
a segfault in znc
gribble: adlai was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 11 hours, 51 minutes, and 35 seconds ago: <Adlai> 'want' is
a strong word. i'm suggesting it as
a possibility, to an intrepid [General] Manager
mircea_popescu: maybe the blockchain that messes up seconds is
a minute off over ten trillion years. whereas cesium clocks, .855% off
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Latest qntra piece I took the opportunity to empty the venom sacks
a bit on new Derpolis. Pete apparently leik'd it.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: About 500 ml of 80 proof vodka tonight. Making up for the bender this past weekend could have been. After reddit IRL I need to clean the slate with
a strong solvent.
decimation: well, your 'bitcoin clock' would be pretty poor at precisely measuring
a range of natural phenomena, with epicycles aplenty
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as long as that determination was made in
a certain system that precludes so and so :)
mircea_popescu: i can see
a whole swathe of applications for which it would be.
BingoBoingo: Space similarly, not
a property of "nature", but imposed upon nature by the apperception
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "they had to act inconsistently to maintain
a certain facade of consistency"
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, which is why we just had
a cve earlier.
mircea_popescu: note, re the "replication" that recently they were stuck adding
a 2nd 3rd second off midnight,
mircea_popescu: standards generally are
a recent thing. but time is particularly iffy when you try to bridge what's fundamentally unbridgeable
mircea_popescu: even the other kind is
a convention rather than
a factual point at subsecond accuracy across decades
BingoBoingo: Time is not
a feature of physics. It is imposed by the apperception upon the manifold.
danielpbarron: TheNewDeal, not frequently.. but i host
a cash game every saturday
mircea_popescu: time as anything other than arbitrary convention is
a hard proposition.
decimation: mircea_popescu: well, the way it works now, to my understanding, is that there's
a kind of wot among high-spec clocks
decimation: sure. do you have
a clock that will but sub-second accurate across decades?
BingoBoingo: decimation: You forget I am one of the luck ones who sleeps ad libitum, who through the #b-
a logs primarily judges time in GMT in spite of proximity to 90 degrees west
mod6: ok, so i sent the build.sh script in plaintext with
a detached sig to the mailing and it just never showed up. lol
danielpbarron:
a second will henceforth be known as 1 six-hundredth of the average time it takes for
a bitcoin block to be found
decimation: well, the whole thing comes down to this: what ought to govern the period of
a day? the rotation of the earth or
a random clock?
decimation:
a leap second is literally correcting for the fact that
a cesium atom vibrates with more precision than the earth spins about its axis
decimation: BingoBoingo: no definition of
a second will cover the variation in the earth's rotation