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mircea_popescu: i dunno wtf you're doing programming computers yo. go be a negotiator.
mircea_popescu: i hope me and mike_c die in the same plane crash and i get to hear him talk it over with ol' paulie.
mircea_popescu: but my involvement in bitcoin has been deeply educative through example
mircea_popescu: dja understand any minor mistake the man made PROTOTYPING is now preserved in billion dollars' worth of amber ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c "some reason" aka it's fucking stupid and who the fuck does this to people, takes their napkin sketches and puts it in a frame above the mantelpiece!
mircea_popescu: thoughts ? what thoughts. this is abuse. you want 12-c down the hall for thoughts.
mircea_popescu: check it out thestringpuller you got better score than orlov.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli that's exactly it : there can only be one, and miners don't pick it. mike has it.
mircea_popescu: it's a great faith for the defeated, and always popular with them
mircea_popescu: christianity took over the decaying roman empire as the most concise, most popular embodiment of their hope and aspiration. the only such remaining - that even as they've failed, they still must survive "for there's nothing else".
mircea_popescu: and has so appeared, since before the greeks were invented.
mircea_popescu: the world is not unipolar. even if, for various inhabitants of various rural places, it so appears.
mircea_popescu: lemme put it plainly : if this were a unipolar world, it's not that bitcoin wouldn't exist. it's that it COULDNT.
mircea_popescu: because it's their fucking car, and because if they fuck it up they don't get another one.
mircea_popescu: yet lo and behold that not so many people drive their car through other people's doors.
mircea_popescu: that said, yes, people who disregard their own property can "mess around" with your property. for instance, a guy that doesn't give a shit about his 50k car can drive it through your front door.
mircea_popescu: would you say this means "hanging has taken over the us" ?
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow all white dudes in the us go hang themselves, leaving all the black dudes
mircea_popescu: a) what takes over ; b) what less and less. for starters.
mircea_popescu: " What neither side seems to grasp is this: as the virtualized realm of cyberreality and social networking takes over daily life, the actual physical economy will matter less and less"
mircea_popescu: i guess you'll have to provide offsets with your orlov links nao
mircea_popescu: events that increase in frequency due to the rapidly destabilizing climate." <<< ascii_field i'm sorry, what ?
mircea_popescu: "With each passing week more and more of us become ready to concede that economic growth is no longer possible. Economic development, on the old model, which UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon recently characterized as a “global suicide pact,” is becoming constrained by the limits of natural resources of the finite planet, energy, arable land and fresh water foremost among them, and stressed further by extreme weather
mircea_popescu: but to my own head it's a huge step forward. i guess i was coming at the internet from the wrong perspective. took a while to clear in my head heh.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess it's not novel nor really anything but the most banal observation.
mircea_popescu: "go hang out on a website or whatever it is your kind does", as it were.
mircea_popescu: the moment you have go around in the sentence you've made it about "giving stuff to people who haven't earned it"
mircea_popescu: the web 2.0 has, basically, failed in all its promises except one. it does give monkleys something to play with.
mircea_popescu: they pretend like they're advertising, but aren't actually reaching anyone. they pretend like they're socializing, but they're socialising with perl scripts (as per
http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ ). they pretend like they're doing banking except they aren't actually, and "cheating" on their wife with gif-provided motion and indian call center provided voice.
mircea_popescu: and what they do all day is, PRETEND like they're doing something.
mircea_popescu: these, without exception, are populated by idiots. without exception i say.
mircea_popescu: then there's a secopnd web, to use its own terminology web2.0. this is composed of ALL the sites that uses
https, for any purpose. such as "logins" as if that makes any sense.
mircea_popescu: which is to say : there's two webs. one is the original web, which exclusively consists of non-interactive
http served documents. this is the same it always was, more or less.
mircea_popescu: i guess it COULD be that it actually rejected the provided ids "because they start with digit" and ending up with a soup ?
mircea_popescu: but i suppose it could be some mysterious css/js interaction
mircea_popescu: trinque the file i uploaded uses the same css the not working log used tho, and worked fine!@
mircea_popescu: rguments-raised-by-the-very-stupid-people-that-like-the-gavin-scamcoin-proposal
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron lotta people are sorta like that, really. the hope and expectaton of a "greatness of the people" is hard to shake.
mircea_popescu: <meta name="description" content="#bitcoin-assets log" />
mircea_popescu: <meta name="keywords" content="#bitcoin-assets log" />
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i just loaded a version without the head section
mircea_popescu: <script src="/js/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script><script src="/js/jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.min.js"></script> < those changed ?
mircea_popescu: Line 4051, Column 13: value of attribute "ID" invalid: "1" cannot start a name
mircea_popescu: might not be... i noticed after they were introdfuced tho
mircea_popescu: but i guarantee this was not present 1 month ago, or even a week ago.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla specifically what was i testing ? log.bitcoin-assets.com right ?