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pete_dushenski: the "exit" terminology threw me off
a bit but i certainly subscribe to the approach
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] Adlai that's the idea. looky here : gribble/wot was created
a few years ago,. when btc was worth nothing and nobody bothered distinguishing between taaki and gavin. << oh we're distinguishing between taaki and gavin nao
mircea_popescu: also all that talk about unsheating your own conscience / not constructing your mental process as
a reaction to bs / etc.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu basically, ignore the current institutions and their pretenses at anything, develop
a new system exterior to it
ben_vulpes: the shop is considering entering
a local "hackathon"
mircea_popescu: take
a simple example. "dude, get out of the us." "no, i'm going to write my senator."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that is actually
a valid point. certainly what i've been doing / saying.
ben_vulpes:
a new fucked company presumes someone who can "write" scathing..."blog posts"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes better task :
a dead pool / fucked company blog & stuff
ben_vulpes: easymoad: just use crunchbase, propose
a decent discount factor
ben_vulpes: but hey "tow the party line" at least you got
a decent pun out of it
pete_dushenski: plus, i sorta got myself banned from
a few press fleets after failing to tow the party line..
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes my guess is either he's running
a high end brothel out of the preppy sluts he grew up with, or else he's living off teh fambly fortune.
pete_dushenski: i spent
a bit of time trying to grok them since they came across my desk this week and it's really quite challenging to find much positive in their thinking
pete_dushenski: "neoreaction is
a specific discovery of the arrow of time, within the field of political philosophy. It learns, and then teaches, that the way to get out cannot be the way we got in."
pete_dushenski: ha well these neoreactionist kids are pretty darn confused so it'd be
a fair reflection of that
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the misshapen face seems more concerning. haircut easy to fix, buzzcut still required for moloday
a mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i'm kinda waiting for the moment when broken code is defended as "different perceptions of software". why should it fixed ? it's not
a bug, it's
a rights issue!
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Adlai: but if you're gonna pick
a new scammername, why take "josh"? that one is already taken...
mircea_popescu: "I am so proud of my wife Sandra! She is such
a hard working women!"
Adlai: just didn't have
a presentation
Adlai: (this was in
a comparison of bitcoin to tcp/ip or smtp... "you can't short SMTP when your inbox takes forever to load"
Adlai: another quote from miami: "bitcoin is the only technology with
a price feed". me: "bullshit, bitcoin has no price feed, although each person in this room has their own slightly differing one"
mircea_popescu: they're predicated on the theory that ustardian faggots really enjoy the feeling of
a stretched rectum, and politicians are essentially whores : in the business of pleasing the customer with the least possible effort.
mircea_popescu: undata: because terrorists can't find an old copy of gpg? << gun laws aren't predicated on the theory that criminals can't find
a gun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: original pgp was not an apparatus for one-off deals with strangers, but something to use between friends, as i understand. << what you say is accurate, but doesn't excuse. suppose i knock up
a girl, and the blastule in her folds goes "hey, daddy's cock was crooked, so let's make the baby's cunt crooked too. nothing like baking in random assumptionbs for no good reason!"
Adlai: seems to be working well for them so far, guy at the conference said that coindesk is
a reliable news source so it must be
mircea_popescu: Adlai the worse part being that they're innocent enough to not know that's
a dumb business model.
mircea_popescu:
a) ibm is
a real estate agency ; b) proof of concept = vaporware ; c) buzzword-buzzword-something-buzzword.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a proper russian hat is about there also. sable or w/e.
Adlai: in the (badly remembered, can't be bothered to watch all his youtube videos to find the exact) words of the great Pat Condell: "they'd rather the world returned to the stone age, aside from
a brief excursion into seventeenth century poland for some clothes"
mircea_popescu: you know the ones where wearer looks like he's put
a cake on his head ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai btw saw
a sight today in ba jewish quarter. guy with proper astrakhan hat, plus two kids in full costume.
mircea_popescu: whole country is essentially
a "we were too cheap to actulaly build the disneyland but we're selling tickets to it anyway"
decimation: except for the tiny skin of civilization near the water, the city is
a giant slum
decimation: first time I went there it struck me as
a shithole
Adlai: well the conf did yield one good thing,
a new idiom: "bullshit bingo"
Adlai: hey now, bfl miners exist, i have one as
a doorstop since it doesn't work anymore
Adlai: btcmiami is
a disappointment, we were robbed of our chance to hear the great garza speak
mircea_popescu: well, once completed gossipd actually is
a fully decentralized wot keeper, sure.
Adlai: using
a wot to reduce spam/noise
mircea_popescu: my idea was to simply network
a bunch of centralised gribbles.
mircea_popescu: nanotube's idea was to re-create the wot as
a p2p thing of sorts, and he's been working at it for
a while, but hey. it's hard.
mircea_popescu: Adlai that's the idea. looky here : gribble/wot was created
a few years ago,. when btc was worth nothing and nobody bothered distinguishing between taaki and gavin.
decimation: the implication of your statement being that the office even has
a coherent agenda
mircea_popescu: decimation yes but
a single watsapp "could buy all of russia".
mircea_popescu: davout: Apocalyptic: RFC 5.2.2 sez
a signature packet contains "Eight-octet Key ID of signer" << seriously in shock/denial about this.
mircea_popescu: that's basically the long and the short of it. nsa = national scriptkiddie association.
a glorified derp club.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck woud be stupid enough to use
a protocol for this job ?!
mircea_popescu: "famine is
a disaster that opens the door to opportunity : you can swallow knots!"
decimation had
a landline for years, became enraged that
a $2 per month service became $40 after taxes & fees
mircea_popescu: decimation i doubt they would meet my definition. things like "every boy under 16 must have 4 acres of forested hillside and
a dog"