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asciilifeform: landscape is now permanently spammed with houses << 1km or so from where i sit, thousands of condos are being built. many already put to market; not 1 in 10 is inhabited.
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, that shows some proof of the status, but not how it came to be or maybe I'm missing something? Like OpenBSD being put to good use after... :)
mircea_popescu: i actually saw this in the act.
mircea_popescu: (it's not mine, i just put graham's idea in better wording)
asciilifeform: i can picture a scenario where random bozos are invited in, but with the understanding of... biodiesel, if they don't make themselves otherwise useful
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nobody wants those. this is surprising to nobody outside of us folk i would think. << Well considering that most US local and state level economic development projects consist of efforts to attract and create consumers... Yeah
mircea_popescu: nobody wants those. this is surprising to nobody outside of us folk i would think.
BingoBoingo: I need to find someone who can introduce me to one of those Chinese agencies which rents out designated white people
mircea_popescu: i guess some foreigners conflate the two.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really from what i hear.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you're talking to the only romanian billionaire. i don't jobs.
asciilifeform: if i recall, you need to be very popular with the locals, collect signatures, demonstrate cash flow, etc.
mircea_popescu: well, permanent. i don't do permanent, i do a few years.
mircea_popescu: i'd say it's much easier to get japanese citizenship than bitcoin citizenship
mircea_popescu: i know a guy who moved to japan and got citizenship, i know a guy who married a very pretty japanese rosebud and settled in yurp
decimation: I think most of them would rather die then let that happen
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a valid point. if i hadn't had trilema and all i did was finance i'd probably hang myself
mircea_popescu: “To have a nation, you must have people and you must have young people to be able to drive the economy and young people buy the products — all these gadgets and fine dining — and if you don’t have that, and you refuse migrants as the Japanese do, you will just dissolve into nothingness! I think before that comes, they may change (their) policy.” << a country which doesn't have enough gullible fools is not use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform merely the fact that i reject the message doesn't say nanything about its validity.
mircea_popescu: if presented with traffic from alleged key, i expect it to be signed by keys i already accepted.
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, I didn't said their passwords
mircea_popescu: "but parents don't want to share the ideology xD" <=> "i'm happy with it but i can't get my parents to use it themselves" ?
DreadKnight: I meant that they're not keen on complex / strong passwords
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, 27, but since I'm into tech, parents learned a bit from me, both are using linux for years now
DreadKnight: I mean make use of it*
DreadKnight: got my own algorithm for strong passwords that are unique and that I can actually remember and type for a while now
mircea_popescu: wordpress is fine, i've used it for > 5 years without issue.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, used to, but got popular faster then I expected and hacked a few times without backup; might get back into writing soon, without using wordpress this time
DreadKnight: no, just that some people around are not into mobas and feel like we're boring or offtopic, I respect not playing moba
danielpbarron: yeah; I don't play that often anymore
danielpbarron: i have fun playing dota2; my brother plays, and a few of his friends
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I'm not the problem, the game sets me up with weirdos most of the time and it's bad for my health; I don't always have semi decent team mates online to play with
DreadKnight: it's rare that I win a game because of another team mate; I usually get really annoyed and tell people what are doing wrong, but not many listen
danielpbarron: DreadKnight, i used to play all-stars; now i play dota2
DreadKnight: cazalla, it has less things to deal with, but yeah; I hate the account system, region limitation, runes and summoner spells needing levels, LoL requires purchase of champions, basically limits you to constantly play the same 2-3 champs most of the time
pigeons: dignork: yes dogeparty is just counterparty on doge, but like i said, much more useful than ethereum
decimation: heh I just read about it on wikipedia
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it seems improbable russia shot down the thing. << I'm waiting for the investigation to reveal a la TWA 800 that the plane was doomed when it took off
decimation: I think it is unlikely that it was explictly ordered, but I read another news story that the 'rebels' shot down some more ukranian fighter jets
mircea_popescu: i think naggum was it had a rant on the topic.
DreadKnight: but thanks to the BBA group, I log into skype once a month tops, very annoying
mircea_popescu: sort-of where i was seeing the "b-a public registrar" project that nobody wants to do going, in step 2.
asciilifeform: again, as a certified armchair general, i've no idea whether this is actually necessary.
DreadKnight: asciilifeform, year zero will cut off confirmation for new transactions, but I would want for the downloaded stuff to not be 10gb; there are wallets that skip that stuff nowadays, though not recommended in certain cases
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: either we keep every pissant transaction around, or we snip. tertium non datur, as i understand.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't think i actualy understand what i want re chaining
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: make retaining blocks spurious << i thought this was solved, at least in principle, with 'checkpointing'
assbot: Ten Things I Learned from the Dogecoin Community | The Biohazard
BingoBoingo: Moar biodiesel http://thebiohazardblog.com/2014/07/23/ten-things-i-learned-from-the-dogecoin-community/
asciilifeform: the question of whether this needs doing, i'll leave to the folks who give a damn.
mircea_popescu: i actually kinda want this built, if there's any hardcore c programmer looking for a major project.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dont wanna weasel out of inflating block size i dont think
mircea_popescu: the shit can never get old. "here's what i want, here's what's to be done, here's me not doing it". how would this ever get old.
danielpbarron: DreadKnight, i play dota
DreadKnight: asciilifeform, I think he was afraid of players doing the same things over and over again, or picking only the best units
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i don't like the "learn this succession of small movements" part.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the explanation is i nthe log, which part didn;'t make sense ?
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to spend my time doing that sort of shit i
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i play lots of things to try them out. i quit because i can't stand the model. too much like [lowly paid] work.
BingoBoingo: Only recent dell hardware I've been impressed with were those Latitude netbooks they made for a while
nubbins`: i just broke 2000, but still gaining ground
cazalla: yeah, i just passed 6000
nubbins`: i've only started recently, got my cups first
cazalla: nubbins`, i've only been given a lower ranking than i expected a few times with that
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, she had the cd with Angry Birds, I hate that game
cazalla: mk8 handles latency really well from what i've played of it online
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, yeah, played that one as well, I was a moba junkie, it was part of the experience and motivation when designing Ancient Beast
nubbins`: guy says "i didn't think it had a crown on the top"
nubbins`: so i create "keep calm and <verb related to business> on", complete with royal crown
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight o i think i tried something like this at one time, ragnarsomething
HeySteve: ha funnily enough, I do sing kinda flat. tried a few bands but never became a rockstar
gribble: the Dollhouse - Steve, I think your singing was a little flat - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmBMvSf2BOY>; Lagwagon- Leave The Light On 03. - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6CQF8kQtaA>; Welcome To The Dollhouse Script - Drew's Script-O-Rama: <http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/w/welcome-to-the-dollhouse-script.html>
nubbins`: ;;google hey steve i think your singing was a little flat that time
mircea_popescu: or slavegirls i guess
DreadKnight: I'm really starting to hate having to team up with random people in online multiplayer games, nothing good comes out of it usually
ThickAsThieves: never looked i guess
ThickAsThieves: i didnt know
DreadKnight: HeySteve, I agree; I'm keeping pay to win totally away from free to play; hated that I played Ancient Summoner (now called Rise of Mythos) and I was pawning most players, but everytime I was fighting a noob that put a few bucks in the game, I was getting humiliated, I eventually quit playing because of that
HeySteve: ThickAsThieves I guess so yeah, but I don't like the pay to win kind of thing at all
ThickAsThieves: HeySteve i thought it was retarded at first, turns out its way less retarded than raiding for 80 hours to make your hero look dope
mircea_popescu: this isn't the case here tho, from what i gather.
mircea_popescu: i have some hard in-principle things that can disqualify a proposition, but they're pretty sparse.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I guess you have some terms, the poker / randomness stuff?
HeySteve: I saw that, needed more PC master race
ThickAsThieves: it's been discussed i think
DreadKnight: like I said for the business model, subscription granting access to more game modes, digital merchandise (card packs / lifes , food / boosters, skins), physical merchandise and fees from betting currency (as spectator or player)
DreadKnight: quite a few seen "Video Games the movie" and asked "what about open source?", well, open source game dev is not even on the map for proper reasons, but I want to show it's possible
DreadKnight: as in, I can't spend tremendous amounts of time working on it along with other people if it wouldn't sustain itself, not to mention me eventually
DreadKnight: I use every single dollar efficiently and know to bargain
DreadKnight: yeah, donations, it wasn't worth much but I held on to those coins and sold when it started to get fatty
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight i lived for a while in timisoara, cluj before that.
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, wondering, I'm from Constanta, what about you? (most likely Bucharest)
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should say "sponsor" in your terminology.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: kakobrekla: so everyone should pay off their mortgage / student loans / credit cards / car loans before buying bitcoins? Seems a little extreme and just poor balance sheet management imho <<< i can see it. bitcoin is still not for the poor.
asciilifeform: am i doomed to see every gedankenexperiment brought into flesh ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight mkay, i guess if that's how you swing.
DreadKnight: I don't really need a publisher, need a bit of funding / sponsorship to speed things up and get some help with coding
DreadKnight: getting weekly emails from people to allow them to use artwork / assets in their games and I'm pretty much underground atm
DreadKnight: I'm proficient with organic low poly modeling though, but that will be noticeable a bit later, when animations will get in the game, sample www.AncientBeast.com/viewer
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, I'm a jack of all trades, designed the project, I manage the thing, make abilities, made the website, look for contributors, code, sketch, test it with fans, whatever it needs to be done; I'm working with quite a bit of people, constantly looking for fresh blood, that's the beauty of being open source