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gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: You don't have to tell houseguests to flush the toilet. I see no reason you would have to tell SB, Taleb, etc. that they should use their brains. (Which is all I got from fluffypony's post)
fluffypony: I should retroactively fix those old URLs
assbot: What I enjoy about #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel well those two cause i love the shit they wrote and often quote it.
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, it isn't the gun per se - but the 'crowd'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov's boat routinely floats about in the open ocean. but, as i understand, he still relies on an intact usa for supply line, and has a day job of some form there. but - unlike me - he also has russian passport. and occasionally makes use of it. so he's something rather like a free man.
mircea_popescu: goin further on asciilifeform's very soviet public/private approach, i wonder how many peeps are creaming their pants reading this convo over tor.
pankkake: I thought of repurposing twitter as a file hoster, but I'm not sure how much overhead this would be :p
asciilifeform: privately - another matter. i'd be rather surprised if mr. o didn't hold some.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and kinda why i have to be so uncharacteristically dismissive of teh various pretender governments.
mircea_popescu: i tend to bait a lot.
pankkake: is this the "i'm a famous romanian blogger, sell me bitcoins?"
asciilifeform: (i admit that i actually store the parachute metaphor from him)
gribble: Call of Duty: Ghosts has been one of the worst MP experiences I ...: <http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/call-of-duty-ghosts-has-been-one-of-the-worst-mp-experiences-i-ever-had-with-the-franchise.453507823/>; "At civilization's end", an MP Megacampaign - Page 2 - Paradox ...: <http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?753005-quot-At-civilization-s-end-quot-an-MP- (1 more message)
pankkake: I had the same experience, I thought bitcoin was only acnee-ridden basement-living 13 year old gamers
asciilifeform: orlov, as i understand, has a very specific reason (i.e. falsifiable hypothesis) that leads to his disinterest.
mircea_popescu: the idea immediately popped that people who are doing this as a matter of course can't be as stupid as i had thought.
mircea_popescu: i thought i knew, and i thought i wasn't interested.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i went there because commenters on my blog kept pestering me.
mircea_popescu: the way i became part of bitcoin in the first place was an hour or so on the ba of the time
mircea_popescu: yes i was.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you know, i was originally not interested in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel well, the problem is i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: problem here is this : i don't want these people on any random terms. they have to come on our terms to be useful. that's a big part of it, smart people are great, educable smart people are actually useful.
mircea_popescu: ha. i invented one!
mircea_popescu: but honestly, it lacks a hook. so there's a group somewhere interested in things. why do i gas ?
bitcoinpete: i bet you tb runs wp
mircea_popescu: i mean, all the noobs a la neobee's "ceo", alongside andreas antonopoulos were doing exactly this : implement their idea of fun at the expense of investors.
mircea_popescu: I'm down with that."
mircea_popescu: "In fact, I know of at least one company just like that. It was run by an engineer who had produced a huge success for his investors, only to see the company fall into the hands of Company B type management. So he created a new company. For years now he has sucked in more and more capital from investors who imagine he might reproduce his initial success. But it's clear (to me) that he has no intention of doing so, exce
mircea_popescu: he had some bad data re romanian inflation, i pointed it out, herbi (who apparently knows him) conveyed it.
asciilifeform: orlov, if i recall, answers 'bitcoin' with 'the net dies in $nibble years and where's your shortwave, huh. count me out.' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: orlov specifically isn't here because when i pointed out to him he fucked up, his reaction wasn't the sane and natural "ow fuck me, i fucked up", but the much more common, and much more human "oh it's not really and i didn't really" and so on.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the bitcoin-bitcoin-assets-wot trifecta is the way, i would wager.
asciilifeform: 'my particular narrow focus in this post is in repurposing existing industrial capacity to mass-produce items that will outlive it and that will make post-industrial life better. The way it stands, we'll have lots of very well-built weapons, not so much ammo, lots of well-built but useless industrial equipment, and lots and lots of post-consumer trash. I am trying to find ways to change that balance.'
asciilifeform: inidentally, orlov swore off writing any further books re: collapse, declaring 'i've said what there is to be said.' making him, afaik, unique in that 'field.'
mircea_popescu: because what i had in mind was that two diff metals make a circuit element.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you said cycle i thought you meant, electrically. as in, hifreq.
asciilifeform: as i understand, the term originally applied to brands of optical rifle sight designed to withstand the field (water, whacking over enemy's head, etc.) vs ones that only need to survive a leisurely duck hunt ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i definitely can hit things with it
mircea_popescu: so i guess my tit tickling cock shall henceforth be tactical too
pankkake: I thought tactical was it can be used to hit things
mircea_popescu: far as i can discern this is it, the permanent mode of industry since forever, and how things sould work, and how things that work do work.
mircea_popescu: "This, then, should be the new main thrust of industrial activity: to manufacture and distribute products with the understanding that this process will run out of resources and stop. These products must be designed to outlive the process by which they are made, by as long as possible." << i can't fucking imagine why this would have to appear as new.
mircea_popescu: at which juncture i wonder if justusranvier ever read http://trilema.com/2012/the-politics-of-bitcoin/
mike_c: i guess there never has been a scalable way.
danielpbarron: idk, I know how to ship a pallet; could be a pallet of linen
mike_c: i don't know any way that scales well these days. jborkl's post was unsettling.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was a chicom die-on-pcb turd. no debug outputs; what was inside (other than clearly, a micro with state) only satan knows. so, i never learned.
danielpbarron: i like face-to-face and cash-in-the-mail
danielpbarron: mike_c, I agree; my objection is going through traditional financial institutions to aquire Bitcoin; these channels can be frozen by governments
ThickAsThieves: i guess i can try being reasonable
mike_c: i'm not a big fanboy of coinbase, but i don't see how they could do it better.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flashlight article << a decade or so ago, i had a flashlight that... crashed! when destroyed, it revealed a microcontroller, with eeprom... ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: maybe i should make a coinbase is racist reddit
ThickAsThieves: i guess OS handles most needs
ThickAsThieves: i'm mostly ignorant to the topic
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ist's just another sympthom of inflation heating up i guess.
ThickAsThieves: if i ognore someone, it should ignore joins
fluffypony: yeah, I don't want to hide joins/parts because sometimes interesting people join who don't have assbot !up access
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it as part of some other acquisition
mircea_popescu: assbot: ING: Future Bitcoin Protocol Should Include Central Bank Functions << yeah, it totally should. I'm fucking sick of having to bitchslap people like ing from the shadows.
mircea_popescu: thing was made for cixi, whom i've referenced before. the process was, tumble the thing in water + garnet dust
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron asciilifeform has it i guess.
mircea_popescu: jail ? i dunno.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall what the major drawback was
ThickAsThieves: i just realized the client also allows for easy NS entry and stuff
kakobrekla: i never head for tradeblock before
mike_c: i liked their mining calculator tool. never read the articles.
danielpbarron: I used to have some pretty choice names but I let them expire
ThickAsThieves: i dont have an issue with em
mircea_popescu: i'm gonna start asking "aren't you supposed to be cutting some sugar cane or something ? what are you doing here boy ?"
ThickAsThieves: something like i'm travelling and i need money
mike_c: " he sold Satoshi Poker for a plane ticket home from Thailand" yeah, that's what i thought.
mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound like a psychopath act, "i am now Maria and Maria doesn't want to pay you"
danielpbarron: how have i never heard of satoshi poker
mircea_popescu: my magical clipboard, look what things i found.
mike_c: hah. nah, i don't do biotech. i prefer revenue-generating activities as opposed to funding R&D.
mircea_popescu: i am not supporting rhe central bank system.
mike_c: i didn't realize they were handing out stock picks.
assbot: I love 90's Rock - Imgur
mod6: ok benkay, i'll restart it.
mircea_popescu: shit i'm good at this, i should make my own shanonizer.
nubbins`: http://i.imgur.com/uXXFbnB.jpg
mircea_popescu: i thought the campyness was the distinguishing factor.
mike_c: lol. ok, first time for everything i guess.
mike_c: i think your neighbor is just a cross-dresser. introverted drag queen is oxymoron.
mircea_popescu: but by now i just can't summon teh interest on the basis of looks for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i used to, when i was younger and less experienced, i'd see a pretty thing in the street, send the guard to tail her find out where she lives. this resulted in lulziness on more than one occasion.
nubbins`: i'm into printing shirts, doesn't mean i do it outside ;D
mircea_popescu: then again i guess sexual deviancy is born out of psychological issues, not a disregard for social norms in the quest for personal enjoyment. nttawwt
nubbins`: i can't think of anyone into drag that's not at least a semi-recluse
nubbins`: i wonder if somewhere there's a girl named R'Wanda
mircea_popescu: i bet the van buren boys could kick cfh's ass.
nubbins`: that's sort of what facebook is for, but i can't make fun of specific people
nubbins`: i tell ya, these people
nubbins`: i guess this is why people hide join/parts
mike_c: 26 countries, i guess it is.
mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio.
nubbins`: so now i've got a job where some guy paid literally double the cost for his blanks, and they're fucking wal-mart brand