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mircea_popescu: "don't worry about not being on the pill, honey. i got a yellow contraceptor."

mircea_popescu: psycho fly guy got a pretty sweet setup there. one date only.

asciilifeform can always tell who did a tour of duty as a sysop in this, among other, ways.

decimation: I suspect rack units acquired their height from the ability to reach into that space with a hand

mircea_popescu: i guess it means "a russian guy measured this, throw it away"

mircea_popescu: decimation you know what an inch originally was right ? or a foot

mircea_popescu: plus they vary a lot by measurer.

decimation: a bit wobbly as a ruler don't you think?

mircea_popescu: took them a good five minutes to figure out the whole thing;s a snipe.

asciilifeform: 'a tiling of tits'

BingoBoingo: 'a bounce of tits'

Dimsler: no i think its a clutter

mircea_popescu: n o, that's a smatter.

Dimsler: oh thats a funny one

asciilifeform: 'a clutter of cunts' ?

mircea_popescu: you mean a slurp o' black holes ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform conceivably supernovae would be more like a cough than a slurp

asciilifeform: where and how might one expect to meet 'draught o' butlers' !? what's next, 'a slurp of supernovae' ?

mircea_popescu: right. for many years men gathered together, trying with their humble powers to implement as much of a bitcoin-assets as possible.

Dimsler: its a bastardization of germanic latin and french

mircea_popescu: a sedge o' bitterns ; a sounder o' boar ; a blush o' boys ; a bellowing o' bullfinches ; a draught o' butlers.

Dimsler: a murder of crows

decimation: you know what orwell missed was that you didn't really need "Big Brother" to convince everyone that the digits/zinc is worth anything - you just need 'the people' to have a 'stake' in the success of the graft and they will 'big brother' themselves

assbot: Keeping Bitcoin is a Hard Problem

mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2014/10/keeping-bitcoin-is-a-hard-problem/ << o look at that ?!

mircea_popescu: when dealing with a woman... apparently, the opposite!

decimation: it works for him because he understands physics like a high schooler except 300 years ago

asciilifeform: it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?' ' ☟︎

asciilifeform: 'Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering a spoken objection: 'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But what of it? Do you suppose ☟︎

Dimsler: vs a string of numbers?

decimation: surely serious men must find it extremely silly to sit around and pretend that nickel coated zinc is worth a shit

pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: is it me or is pete_d on a roll ? << and i think it's just you :D

pete_dushenski_: mircea_popescu: v. good point about the shaw thing. i'm logging on from a different comp and i don't quite have the flow sorted on this one.

BingoBoingo: decimation> the clerks in the bank of england thought they could use 'one weird trick' to materialize gold from thin air << To the extend Geography poses a challenge to verification they could pretend

bounce: ``Newton moved to London to take up the post of warden of the Royal Mint in 1696, a position that he had obtained through the patronage of Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, then Chancellor of the Exchequer.''

mircea_popescu: just add lavoisier to the list and we can call it a day eh.

mircea_popescu: a wealthy lord with a de jure mp seat ?

decimation: 'government' was quite a different thing then though

mircea_popescu: fumes will kill you before the fire even warms you a little

Dimsler: yeah like the combustable house and obsession with firemen is a north american thing

asciilifeform: decimation: not necessarily. just monitor for out-of-place masses, would go a long way.

decimation: yeah, it's a delicate microstructure and your tools are basically 'hammer' and 'sledge'

mircea_popescu: decimation you can appreciate the shittyness of it, right ? suppose you were given the task of fixing code you may not read running on a one of a kind processor you don't even have the spec for.

Duffer1: speaking of dr, that coffee was a big hit, thanks for the suggestion MP

Dimsler: problem with being a scientifist in todays modern age is you aren't working from home

Dimsler: i don't know a single non-american doctor who isn't miserable

mircea_popescu: this seems obvious enough with say, love. people who hope to earn a living at it can't really make very good lovers.

decimation: well, there's certainly a conflict of interest between "researching physics" and "maintaining a career in physics"

mircea_popescu: if a girl did that they'd call her a slut.

Dimsler: now i spend my days spinning in a chair really

DanielKrawisz_: Yeah, academics is a leisure activity, and there's kind of a conflict when it becomes professional.

mircea_popescu: that's not a lawyer now is it.

decimation: DanielKrawisz_: the general feeling here is that academia in the us is a bureaucracy that has little to do with actually advancing human knowledge/technology

mircea_popescu: DanielKrawisz_ originally i was going to be a physicist.

DanielKrawisz_: Originally I was going to be a physics professor but there are a lot of things about professional physics academics that are a lot less fun than the physics, so I dropped out.

DanielKrawisz_: That's quite a complement.

decimation: might as well label themselves "I am a kulak, crush my shit"

decimation: 'nazi' crap is a particular chumpatron that the dumb stumble into

mircea_popescu: "He's a very bad person," said Heidi Beirich, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which tracks hate groups. << actually, heidi is the bad person here.

mircea_popescu: the most he could stand for would be perhaps a brand of goth from one particular hs. they were doing hitler that year.

decimation: he's a derp, no doubt, highlighted by the local lefties

gribble: Error: '26AB' is not a valid GPG key id. Please use the long form 16 digit key id.

gribble: Error: "eregester" is not a valid command.

mircea_popescu: holy shit on a stick, 4 people i never heard of ?! and likely nobody has ?

Dimsler: i'm not sure if some of these articles contain the eloquence of someone with a masters in physics

mircea_popescu: fucking on a pile of ash is unconducive.

mircea_popescu: meh, that thing's like humour. works a lot better if unexpected.

Dimsler: I teach bitcoiners about the implications of Bitcoin so as to alter their behavior in a way that improves the overall health of the Bitcoin network.

decimation: yeah um is that a paid position?

DanielKrawisz_: Oh, she did 26 ways to be a bitcoin hater?

mircea_popescu: a ok.

Dimsler: he could have a router at home, and talking on his ipad

mircea_popescu: Dimsler seen a lot of mobile devices on times warner cable ?

mircea_popescu: o also, i attempted to bring a dead girl back.

asciilifeform: just observing that a mathematically-inclined boy is of course going to try to prove flt.

mircea_popescu: i dunno what huey long is supposed to be other than a sort of us peron.

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: surprised nobody's yet acting as if they invented hitler << americans used to. huey p. long was supposed to be 'original hitler' << Long himself had a prototype in William Jennings Bryant

DanielKrawisz: Well Bitcoin used a lot of elements and ideas from the digital collectibles, so I think there is some continutity, but it's very innovative too.

asciilifeform has yet to meet a p2p derpatronics experimented from '95-'05 era who -didn't- have own secret pseudo-bitcoin at the time

mircea_popescu: yeah, like, penicillin fixed a lot of stuff shaman cures got wrong.

DanielKrawisz: Then there were some proposals for digital collectibles; b-money, RPOW, and bit gold. Those things were an important step forward, but RPOW was the only one ever implemented, and it didn't take off. I don't think they would have worked. Bitcoin fixed a lot of stuff that they got wrong.

mircea_popescu: Dimsler wouldja stop trying to drive people into a wall deliberately.

DanielKrawisz: It's a money substitute, like a bank note. I'm writing a paper on this stuff now.

DanielKrawisz: Well we wanted to use that name because we agreed that a lot of the bitcoin world was trying to downplay him.

mircea_popescu: so what's in a name.

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> I've got a camera. I've got a tent. << lmao what an attitude << Given the alternatives in Usaschwitz, that Thompson guy found an interesting defense against the Feds with his selectively unreliable narration.

DanielKrawisz: Oh, they are doing a deliberate pump and dump?

Dimsler: a pascification of the proletariat

Dimsler: its a source of amusement, entertainment, and misinformation

DanielKrawisz: And then we were like, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if we started the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute?" for a while and then we stopped making jokes about it and just did it.

DanielKrawisz: Basically, we started out as an econ discussion group at a university called the Mises Circle, but then I got everyone talking almost exclusively about bitcoin.

Dimsler: and make a character

mircea_popescu: I've got a camera. I've got a tent. << lmao what an attitude

Dimsler: BingoBoingo, thats a good read

kakobrekla: for a free service

assbot: Self-Destructing SSDs Will Nuke Themselves If You Text Them a Code Word

thickasthieves: i have a small bet on the other side too

nubbins`: i didn't bet on brk-a

BingoBoingo: decimation: Nah, maybe I just want to see the world burn? I've got a camera. I've got a tent. By oversee I don't mean taking control, but documenting the absence of control for great lulz.

mircea_popescu: decimation totally lol. if btc runs up to say 800 that no;ll need a shitload o' hedgin'.