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mircea_popescu: but anyway, alkl this aside, let's put to bed the "if government were structured as
a business selling services to citizens, they could choose what to "invest" in" idiocy.
mircea_popescu: Adlai that's what pencil dicks are : those who attempt to fool people as
a means to existence.
mircea_popescu: he's not yet come up with
a way to ask people how intelligent they are. what the fuck.
ThickAsThieves: sounds like
a horrible drunken philosophy conversation, inventing moments of choice in the past
mircea_popescu: Adlai we readily agree, provided by "current way government is conducted" you mean "pencil dicks who chiefly need the government to steal from others and give them part of the proceeds as
a means of support derp about how to formalise choice"
Adlai: if government were structured as
a business selling services to citizens, they could choose what to "invest" in
mircea_popescu: this idea that "people" should have "
a choice" is bullshit of the first degree.
Adlai: have an answer because they never had
a choice.
Adlai: tl;dr of chomsky's interview: Had the people in the 1950s had been asked, "Do you want your taxes to go to development of the kind of technology that will allow your grandchildren to have iPads or do you want your taxes to go into
a livable society? Health care, education, places where people can have decent lives? And so on. What would people have decided? Well, whatever the answer was, they didn't
mircea_popescu: how is something that's
a fact that idiots don't know anything but news ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai if you review the log, there was ev en
a contract drawn for the purpose. and
a bunch of people were gonna participate.
ThickAsThieves: Ethereum announced they hired new people to make
a new website and new 'brand'
mircea_popescu: wallpapers holy shit, we can't even afford
a cascading ss.
mircea_popescu: ah don't worry about that tat. you can always fuck
a virgin and you'll be cured. or if not, one can make
a proposal and publish it on tumblr.
ThickAsThieves: i mean i'm worried this will turn into
a whole new CDC that operates like Homeland Security
mircea_popescu: well, unless there's
a refugee camp with hot sexy 12 year old locals. then all bets are off. Standard UN policy in the matter, as seen in Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan, Burundi etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i think going awol is probably more of
a risk than ebola.
mircea_popescu: Adlai you readily ignored the (previously discussed) reference and now are making
a soup of the statement ?
ThickAsThieves: i have peterl
a list of blawgs to make
a new aggregator, i *think* i got everyone
bounce:
a patent on setting printers on fire?
bounce: mod
a robocoin for bitcoin-paid confession taking or something
mircea_popescu: bounce yeah, just make sure you have
a wallet inspector made out of two cans and
a string or something.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: he's paraphrasing
a book, i don't think he agrees with that statement himself
mircea_popescu: you know it's startying to wear on me this. there's
a currently-in-the-process-of-universalizing-itself mode of behaviour of the principal mode of failure of contemporary youth (previously discussed) which consists in essentially... prayer.
Pierre_Rochard: ben_vulpes: is there
a clojure or lisp web framework you would recommend?
ben_vulpes: PE will want to see revenues tho, unless the IPO is
a juggernaut and the public markets are going to get taken hard.
ben_vulpes: and contracts are structured in equity-holders benefit, and not as
a raping tool for VCs.
ben_vulpes: "well you can take your dollar down the 7-11 and buy
a Keno ticket, or you can take your LIFE SAVINGS/4 of your best-performing years to the startup roulette wheel..."
Adlai: it'll be released within
a few weeks, i'm not sure i should blab right now
ben_vulpes: i'm only
a member of one cult of personality, and it ain't hickey's
ben_vulpes: various API's, toy BTC tools for myself,
a webapp here and there
ben_vulpes: i think the switching costs from py/whatever -> clojure are
a little lower than to the common lisp families
Adlai: the problem with "lisp" is that it's
a platonic ideal, but each implementation of this ideal falls short in various ways once you hit the real world
peterl: is there
a list of all the blogs that were on the blogroll?
Adlai: db.py-# TODO: there has to be
a better way of writing this
Adlai: and there's
a comment in the source code that i've been handed:
ben_vulpes: i suspect pythongs are going to resist
a cl
Adlai: sadly no, python, but the rest of the team aren't too married to python and will probably be open to
a saner backend architecture if i stay long enough that it's worth pushing for one
mats_cd03: #b-
a is about pc now? musta missed the memo
peterl: I like how Obama went there, spoke about how important it is to conserve water, then played golf on
a lush course in the desert
peterl: well, or just put
a bid at
a low price
ThickAsThieves: so
a rough takeaway from your charts, wait 2 years to buy s.qntr ;)
peterl: okay, I will see what I can come up with. I wrote
a bot once, but it was
a very simple thing
peterl: if nobody else wants to, I could volunteer to set up
a blog agregator?
assbot: WATCH: Florida's Gubernatorial Debate Gets Off To
A Bizarre Start : The Two-Way : NPR
ThickAsThieves: here's
a tweet if ya wanna rt too twitter.com/Bitcoin_Assets/status/523105108650102784
mod6: ah look at that, moiety came back in for
a bit
chetty: qntra certainly seems to have provoked
a hornets nest
ThickAsThieves: i may have missed it, but is there
a plan to reimplement the pankkake blog aggregator and penguirker announcements?
Vexual: there ne're was such
a meat that bounces back when you get it wrong
moiety: i hope its someone that will get bored and not
a rival paying for it
Vexual: you'd jump
a duck for some good roo
Vexual: it's lean as
a chech pornstar
Vexual: hell yes, but you can do it in
a hot pan
Vexual: you won't find it in
a resturant
Vexual: whenever i have
a supa peoblem i cook
a kangaroo steak to perfection
Vexual: some fat cunt wuth
a beard failed thats all i know
Vexual: the robocoin qntra articel quite clearly shows
a surveilance still, they took all the computers
Vexual: 2 year investigation, i'd give it
a week
Vexual: its
a fuckin big arse scoop while youre getting flooded
cazalla: anyway, i found the guys mobile number, maybe i give him
a call
Vexual: yes, i remember reading the story, i was even thinking about ducking in the for
a cafe
Vexual: well if you have
a sucessful cafe and
a bitcoin atm in southbank, i doubt you're dealing meth
Vexual: irk that fucker has
a palm reader
cazalla: Vexual, the guy that owns the cafe owns
a stake in the company that shipped the atms in
Vexual: anyway, you can get arrested for
a tshirt here, this shit isn't good
punkman: there's this guy around here with
a harley covered in tiny mirrors, looks like
a disco ball
Vexual: therea
a large part of the poulation that like american chrome ragnar
Vexual: have you ever seen so many cops in
a cafe that doesnt have free donuts?
punkman: you got
a lot of harleys down under?
cazalla: i have
a bit more personal info than that brissy times article though
pete_dushenski: the usgcannon is regressing from
a-bombs to slingshots, slowly but surely.
pete_dushenski: and as
a closing thought before the dreams take hold, i have
a hard time imagining that bitstamp will seize much more than 10k bitcoin. what's that,
a week of price depression?
assbot: Democracy vs. Aristocracy | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: undata:
a smart cult with an anti-govt streak would try to remain unnoticed << hm. now why might that be?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:"Dear Sir, I have 100% of your money, please send me
a quarter of this amount and then I will send the rest back to you, because logic." << lmao. this pretty much made my night
pete_dushenski: i'm in no rush, so if anyone has recommendations, please to give me
a holla :)
mircea_popescu: got
a decent router in front of the server, puny as it is.
assbot: Logged on 26-09-2014 01:54:40; asciilifeform: shared
a machine with
a 'sollipse' - also abandoned, of no use.
mircea_popescu: well... because nobody translates worth
a shit, and filters even worse than that ? perhaps ?
mircea_popescu: in any case, this speaks directly to
a revolutionary wonderment, to wit that "how is it that these reactionary types always see the golden age in some past".