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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: a i do not. i only ask because de maistre came up in britannica's articles on fascism.
Beyond_Bitcoin: i am not only talking about bitsharesx btw..
assbot: /hashtag/BitsharesX?src=hash is proof that cryptocurrency developers have no grasp of basic economics.I'm kinda embarrassed for Larimer.
Beyond_Bitcoin: actually not bad. i personally focus on bitshares but the server is open to others who like different tech
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu: ww2. most of the better frenchmen got shot. << i thought the point of surrendering was precisely so that this didn't happen, as it did in ww1, n'est pas? <<< maybe. who's to know.
Beyond_Bitcoin: i like the links up top to your blog(s)
Beyond_Bitcoin: thanks for that, but i mean the "assets" part
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: inasmuch as bitcoin is a lot more fascist than stalin ever got... i guess prepare for a helluva lot o' love. << cuddles and hugs for everyone!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ww2. most of the better frenchmen got shot. << i thought the point of surrendering was precisely so that this didn't happen, as it did in ww1, n'est pas?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: negrated him for pimping pirate << meh. i got the same shit from usagi. it's a badge of honour nao
pete_dushenski: well i guess there's xrays
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Also ""WARNING: Do not attempt to take any firearm into Mexico << i carried a .45 all through the us customs, into mexico and back into europe. nobody gave a shit. << dayum. did they even check the chamber?
pete_dushenski: "now that mason jars are on top, now that my fellow executives and I are goddamn beverage conquistadors, we’re going to enjoy this cocaine-fueled rocket ride for as long as it lasts. I’m blasting off to fucking Mars, dicksuckers, and I’m headed straight through the belly of the goddamn sun!" - James E. Lillie, CEO, Ball Mason Jars
pete_dushenski: decimation: mircea_popescu: growing up in the 90's I witnessed Brahmin culture shift from vaguely rock 'n roll to thug rap << now it's all skinny jeans, flanel shirts, piercings, tats, and drinking from mason jars
pete_dushenski: it's like i'm becoming a man or something. feels good.
pete_dushenski: result? "i love you"
decimation: yeah me too, but that's an interesting thought, and I think it is visible with this ukraine business
decimation: I suspect much of the upper dod management are 'old sovietologists'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's this sort of thing I've wondered about. The proverbial "hotdog stand" where a person serves good tacos al pastor or canitas in urbanity.
decimation: asciilifeform: no, and all of the documentaries I've seen on the subject failed to mention his involvement
mircea_popescu: *BingoBoingo wonders as a lifelong USian what professions might exist in actual economies <<< here's one. while sitting idly after a dinner of delicious empanadas, i did the math with the girls. the profit selling them in the street (like people do)'d have been 5 to 10 pesos a pop. any one of them could have easily cleared 2-3-5k pesos a day, more than enough to live by.
decimation: oh I misread the wiki article, mccain's plane was the probable 'victim'
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_USS_Forrestal_fire << LOL I didn't realize it was Mccain's plane that fired the missile
decimation: asciilifeform: I hadn't heard that one, hilarious
decimation: "Their [VC's] ability to coast, and to fund suboptimal founders, rests on the fact that no one is paying attention to whether they do their jobs well, the assumption being that we (technologists) will stay on their manor, passively keeping our heads down and saying, “politics is someone else’s job; I just want to solve hard problems.”"
asciilifeform: (i haven't a more parsimonious hypothesis)
asciilifeform: i vaguely recall that it broke records for cost
decimation: I remember when that movie came out it was big news how terrible it was
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i saw this yes.
decimation: I suspect half of the 'occupy' protesters were either unpaid 'interns' or students living on mommy's stipend
decimation: I once spoke with an ee prof who explained that he had to justify his error correction/information theory research in terms of helping poor minorities
decimation: the ionosphere is a worthy research target, I'm just not sure a giant HF transmitter will help much in unraveling its secrets
decimation: of course I would rank haarp research far above most social science derpage, at least they are building stuff, trying ideas
decimation: asciilifeform: yes, I think you are right http://www.arrl.org/news/haarp-facility-shuts-down << hams hated it because of the HF spam
asciilifeform: HAARP << defunct, if i recall
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the idea that there's more than one peoples reading romanian encourages me. im writing a large piece now and ima link a ton of good romanian material, all quite relevant and i imagine a lot moire instructive to teh english native than the romanian.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I skipped over ITA2
decimation: obviously Putin et.al. are convinced that any western opposition is going to be weak and divided. I suspect he even has tacit approval from Germany
decimation: ben_vulpes: I can. see ascii's blockchain teleprinter
ben_vulpes: i can't even imagine a world in which bits are expensive
ben_vulpes: there were 4 lines of lcd (or maybe only 2, i was a wee one at the time) and then transmitted them to the poo-snaper via fax iirc
ben_vulpes: lol decimation i have that precise url open right now already
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: yeah, i figured tty was involved but what does that first 't' stand for?
ben_vulpes: i mean i have no clue. perhaps communism is just a thing that the us progpagandacrats came up with to point at to distract the proles from that as what was going on on the daily at home
BingoBoingo: decimation> yes, it's useful anyway. By that definition, the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against the soviets << I dunno any other explanation for Patton's political positions.
decimation: yes, it's useful anyway. By that definition, the usg 'anti-communists' I mentioned above are quite simply socialists with a beef against the soviets
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: I'm approaching this problem though as someone dropping into a culture as a full time n00b
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: best as i can tell, my business' sole selling point is "we're not fucking retarded and won't flake on you as soon as something more shiny comes along"
ben_vulpes: i'll let you know if i ever figure it out
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as bitcoin is a lot more fascist than stalin ever got... i guess prepare for a helluva lot o' love.
decimation: re: cold war paranoia: in retrospect, I think the paranoia was for midwestern kulaks, the elites were all "anti-"communists, in the sense that they thought that the soviet union wasn't "real" communism. Those elites didn't mind sending said kulaks to die in various foreign adventures though.
BingoBoingo: <decimation> "white hierarchy collapsed" << seems legit. I blame complacency & wealth that came after the destruction of WWII << ALso the decades of persistent paranoia through the cold war
decimation: "white hierarchy collapsed" << seems legit. I blame complacency & wealth that came after the destruction of WWII
mircea_popescu: yes, on a first listen. but i'm culturally rigid enough to generally regard the entire thing as you know... little more than children babbling.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes " understand" ? i get what the words are.
ben_vulpes: i figure this is related to why i can't make any money scamming "nobody will ever fall for that!"
ben_vulpes: i can't wrap my head around how these people would give dryuns kids jobs and not see this coming ten miles away
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i'm now playing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill loud enough for the bums outside the warehouse to hear
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah that's how I read it. the taxpayers "needed" to give that money away, and plenty of 'legitimate' boeing execs will get golden parachutes, etc.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell ognasty do stop in to the channel of record and explain how i'm abusing the WoT rating system.
mircea_popescu: and in the same vein : i find it amusing that folks in a quarrel with the government hire government agents to "defend" them at significant expense.
decimation: I find this to be as likely as darth vader abiding by his verbal contract
decimation: asciilifeform: I find it amusing that folks with retirement accounts work so hard to 'shelter' them from taxation under the latest rules, as if usg would allow one to accumulate wealth without taking it
mircea_popescu: it's not that when i ran into the local mobsters i immediately knew. it's that they ALSO figured it out within five minutes.
mircea_popescu: i would suspect it much depends on what you mean by "one".
mircea_popescu: i mean... what the fuck more.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what's this fresh danielpbarron drama BigBitz ? << My best impression is he is trying to WoT up a bunch of local acquaintances and... old tensions and dramas come forth, but I lack context to interpret severity...
ben_vulpes: i got my first negrating this month guys
mircea_popescu: i can tell.
ben_vulpes: hook from the latter "i guess that cunt gettin' eatin"
decimation: mircea_popescu: I would ceratianly agree that whatever one wants to label "brahmin culture" in the us, it hasn't contributed much to global human capital
cazalla: he'll step down if i request it lol
cazalla: coinfire are pretty lulzy, one line and i'm reelin' em in http://coinfire.cf/2014/08/26/gaw-increasing-hashlet-prices/
mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea_popescu: growing up in the 90's I witnessed Brahmin culture shift from vaguely rock 'n roll to thug rap << wut ?!
mircea_popescu: i'm a dangerous nut to follow blindly.
mircea_popescu: now mind, i wouldn't recommend anyone try it just like that.
mircea_popescu: decimation i dun see this entire racialist angle. it either is one thing or the other.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Also ""WARNING: Do not attempt to take any firearm into Mexico << i carried a .45 all through the us customs, into mexico and back into europe. nobody gave a shit. costa rica exit checks made an older french woman throw away her clearly rare & expensive cream. i put the thing right on top of the pile, explained to the guy it's got no clip. the guy was "a ok, if it has no clip..." waved me through. woman's
diametric: asciilifeform: maybe if i was pro at flying.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> re: yarvin's OV-BDH model: I'm not so sure the mob would count as Dalit, I was thinking more underclass non-black minorities << why not ?
diametric: though, I think my days of flying RC stuff are over. the only place i had time to do it at put up a massive fence that prevents me from retrieving my aircraft when it crashes over the field.
decimation: mircea_popescu: growing up in the 90's I witnessed Brahmin culture shift from vaguely rock 'n roll to thug rap
BingoBoingo: How am I supposed to finance a walk through Mexico and build a war chest by picking a cartel and selling their enemy's heads to them. MOdern Role Playing Games are a lie.
decimation: at any rate, I Yarvin's model of elite whites being allied with minorities/plebes against productive people is quite obvious. The problem is that the gig is up, the elite/underclass are the clear winners
decimation: diametric: I bought the custom powerpole crimp tool, so I'm stuck
diametric: decimation: funny enough, i've been using traxxas connectors for high-current dc myself.
decimation: re: yarvin's OV-BDH model: I'm not so sure the mob would count as Dalit, I was thinking more underclass non-black minorities
decimation: diametric: I use those overpriced 'anderson powerpole' connectors for high-current dc power
diametric: yeah, i don't want those for these
diametric: but i ran out of connectors a while ago and i have a few 3d printers i want to throw connectors on the tool heads so I can switch out various hotends for testing.
diametric: i try to wait until i have a ton of things i want.
diametric: so i can connectorize all my things
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I was but a larva, I merely wanted to exist with a minimum of external human dependent inputs and persist to a natural end.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Through much of my childhood I though winning was getting a cabin in the woods and simply abiding.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes> they bill the same for choose your own adventure degrees << I tried to do this and major in "reality studies" a combination of mathematics and philosophy
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well, this was a late 90's one. Had exactly all the performance I could want or handle out of a car
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't/didn't eat them in the states. but here they're pretty great
BingoBoingo: I still miss my bright red Grand Am with the sound system
mircea_popescu: i dun follow.
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> that convinced me they were too fragile and i ended up with a 350z for a few years << how was it? >? new subies?