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mircea_popescu: the reason you can not see the substance of the future should be apparent.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking magic, yo. utterance is not the glue that makes it stick.
mircea_popescu: but it goes all the way to the fucking celts, you knoiw, "you never had iron tools. everything you say, and everything you think you mean or stand for is therefore invalid"
mircea_popescu: and it stands. no man can look you in the face past that, for he's a sort of a toy.
mircea_popescu: for kids born in the 80s when talking to their parents it's "shut the fuck up, you fucked women in a single hole your entire life"
mircea_popescu: every generation has this, an overpowering, indomitable reason why the previous one fails to matter.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, naggum's via alf point re complexity being usually and generally as a safe bet the result of someone missing the thinkboat certainly stands resplendent on its own feet.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2015#1222669 << the problem is this : you have to verify old blocks. all of them, al lthe way to genesis. if you do not, for whatever reason, you are on an alt. and if you're going to make an alt, better make it properly and deliberately rather than the idiot woman "i had too much too drink so things happened" approach.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: eulora is suddenly more advanced than the state of new york.
mircea_popescu: if jurov finally gets a proper chat system built in, and we have a chat bot that does auction lists etc...
mircea_popescu: hey midnightmagic ask me things about things will you.
mircea_popescu: heh Luke-Jr fighting a loser's battle with his "bitcoin core" matters twu faith.
mircea_popescu: or 120k of the romanian lei of the time. 50 or so salaries.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just an exotic way to rng, is in the end what he was trying to build
mircea_popescu: so you know... some people generate their keys at the firing range. some people have a designated bat. some people make a new key after each domestic argument/divorce
mircea_popescu: what would be really great would be if your thing could somehow be made out of glass
mircea_popescu: if you're going to do this why not measure inductance/harmonics/etc.
mircea_popescu: "the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia authorized a search warrant" << for the record, this is not how it works. a judge authorises it, and im nary too enchanted by this tendency of individuals to hide behind imaginary shields.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "as was the case with this one." << link missing ?
mircea_popescu: and a minority of tradesmen, moving goods on an abstract mercator map
mircea_popescu: most of classical london consisted of a majority of "recyclers".
mircea_popescu: decimation the difference is whether you run pinkerton or welfare.
mircea_popescu: (for the obvious reason - what do you think earth is after all. microorganism digested shit)
mircea_popescu: is this more jenkem journalism from the jenkem journals ?
mircea_popescu: "the humans sometimes feast on the bird shit". i guess ?
mircea_popescu: they like live flesh about as much as you like birdshit.
mircea_popescu: and the irish fought the blacks for who's gonna polish knob tonight
mircea_popescu: somehow the immigrants weren't the problem back when azns were washing gold miner's shirts for a penny
mircea_popescu: the idea that immigration is the problem is braindamage of the level of thinking the maggots made the corpse.
mircea_popescu: there's no resisting immigration. vienna fell. byzantium fell.
mircea_popescu: there hasn't yet in the history of mankind been a wealth marriage that was happy. and "free immigraton" is notexceptional just because large.
mircea_popescu: because the people you want don't want you, and the people you want you nobody wants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for as long as china takes the coupons...
mircea_popescu: which is ~why~ the libertard open border stuff doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: heck, 50% of the 1st generation immigrants return home with the loot, marry and live there.
mircea_popescu: jurov actually plenty of people do go back to afghanistan.
mircea_popescu: and re the myth of the west, there was that trilema article linked from a recent one, "florida and other places".
mircea_popescu: decimation> yeah, it would be interesting for someone to interview people exactly like this: grew up orc, came to 'first world' << ie, half of romania under 50yo.
mircea_popescu: nonsensical gimmicks of the ilk of "stop fucking your sister or else santa won't bringf you presents" and "eat your veggies so you can overpower your sister and stick it in her"
mircea_popescu: but other than that, it's as useful as "wysiwyg" or "point and click" or "just works!"
mircea_popescu: it had its importance selling technology to the retards.
mircea_popescu: imagine if every so often i had to click here to see if there's new lines
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is actually the correct definition of "text" for computing.
mircea_popescu: a world of play-pretend like they're adults and doing things