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asciilifeform: if this one were a coffin, it'd hold a very obese 5 y.o.
BingoBoingo: <devthedev> Yes, I worked with Plaxant.com a few months back when they ran a Bitcoin news venue. << Wrote the only worthwhile stories on a since failed venue. Operator never showed and stayed here in spite on invites.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is that a helium release valve?
devthedev: Yes, I worked with Plaxant.com a few months back when they ran a Bitcoin news venue.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He's a Florida kid. Was on TradeFartress's CoinChat and did his own thing afterwards.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you'll appreciate today's puzzle box: http://imgur.com/a/ZcyQH
devthedev: What would be needed to make it a reality?
devthedev: The talks of a properly run Bitcoin news site is interesting.
BingoBoingo: It would take some disease with a hashtag.
asciilifeform: basement, office, bag of money the size of a Waring laboratory blender. recipe for eternal life.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Bankruptcy is a powerful tool as Mr. Trump can attest.
mircea_popescu: an office in a basemenent somewhere
asciilifeform was a little surprised
asciilifeform: (my brother at one time worked in a tiny game firm, their product was released with 'atari' on the box by the publisher - at the time, hasbro corp.)
mircea_popescu: it's like this dumb kid in the courtyard figured somebody gives a shit if he loses an eye.
BingoBoingo: Samizdat in IP land: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/gaming/2014/09/major_scrabble_brouhaha_can_you_copyright_a_list_of_words.html
BingoBoingo: If the news site starts tomorrow... I can be a srs contender for newbs around X-mas
BingoBoingo: Whatever the initial name is...there's sites in the #b-a interwebz hood that can get your google juice organically primed and buzzworded
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> would you suggest latest wordpress ver or reverting to an older one? i have not used it much since 2.x << Maybe MP can lend WordPress insights. I just kind of start with current and kill obnoxious defaults. For a news site though you probably want a new enough version to have decent multiuser handling.
kakobrekla: fuck me. one of these days im gonna have a heart attack.
mircea_popescu: cazalla sounds liek a sound plan actually.
cazalla: i figure modelling it after coinfire without all the silliness would be a start, see if i stick at it longer than a few months and then maybe bring some more people on board
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Well, the first thing to have is probabaly a site pushing quality blocks of text. Within hours of settling on a domain.
cazalla: they incurred a loss of 11m for the financial year
assbot: The Best Hot Dogs In America Are Going Extinct, And Everyone Wants A Bite Before It's Too Late
AMDCeleron: BingoBoingo, i dont know i have had an amd cpu in a year
AMDCeleron: i had a netbook with c60 two years ago and it was ok i guess
AMDCeleron: i like AMD better than Intel yet i got a Celeron cpu in my laptop
BingoBoingo: http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2010/02/ksk-off-topic-how-to-foil-a-child-molester.html
ben_vulpes: it was a long shot
BingoBoingo: Maybe that McCain kid is finally senile enough to be a reliable empty suit?
BingoBoingo: You know it has been a while since a Roosevelt, but maybe we finally call in a Rockefeller off of the bench
ben_vulpes: a fine dynastic do-si-do
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: You forget a third Bush... For the pretense of a second Party
cazalla: BingoBoingo, still trying to think of a name
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re jurov's rats : i wonder what happens once "they" finally figure out a) how to induce headaches with RF economically and b) get the social media profiling fine enough. search for bad words on google ? headache, stfu.
jurov: A free-programming language is available for generating custom procedures.
nubbins`: when i was in colombia, i had dinner with a german scuba instructor. he said "if you needed to study and pass a test to be a boat captain in Taganga, there would be no boat captains in Taganga"
mircea_popescu: google ads : Don’t Pay a Prostitute - Meet a Lonely Austrian Housewife Adwww.ashleymadison.com/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: hanbot: you were not mistaken in figuring that i'm one of the people weighed down by addiction to luxuries. but the only luxury i really give a damn about is free time. <<< this is so funny.
mircea_popescu: especially a gambling something.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: basically i think they never intended a 5 btc freeroll, they were hoping to sign up a lot of a ccounts in the run-up to a big freeroll, and hope that some account generators would then deposiot << what a great way to start something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: hanbot: sometimes, calculation is fairly simple. you're in a box. outside - vacuum of far space. <<< dude get out, people live everywhere people live.
mircea_popescu: hanbot: hehe how's one supposed to do such rational calculations from inside a closed box? << ha! she got you there.
BingoBoingo: I might name a kid gamble nao.
mircea_popescu: you suppose naming your kid gamble is likely to give him a head start in lif ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what's in a book.
nubbins`: now you gotta have a cell phone contract if you wanna play!
nubbins`: just think, all cohen wanted people to do was light a match
nubbins`: looks a bit lonely, hey
nubbins`: bounce lives in a city without tunnels 8)
nubbins`: this is a trial run, wanted to make sure the guy didn't suck before i get him to post larger ones
nubbins`: a wild poster appeared ;0
mircea_popescu: well, brb, i need a drink
asciilifeform: steal and turn loose in africa, or on city streets ? makes a difference.
hanbot: did the ELF never steal a cheetah?
thickasthieves: notexactly a zoo, but similar in practice
asciilifeform: notice that 'wait to be lifted' isn't on the list. no one steals a cheetah except to place in another zoo.
asciilifeform: for some people, having a master feels liberating, sure. no disputing this.
asciilifeform: mats_cd03: depends on hypothetical destination. but, overall, just picture a figure large enough to 'become taleb' and live as 'gentleman scholar' in total disconnect from economic reality around you. ☟︎
mats_cd03: so lets cut to the chase. do you have a number for your 'fuck you money'?
asciilifeform: perhaps also worth noting is that, imho, 'free time' is not only a freedom to act, but having with what to act. hence there is a difference between the free time of prisoner and non-prisoner.
bounce was just reading a text about buddhism, from some tibetan guy went and lived in the yoosah. said it was all about freedom. and that it's all in your mind. that's right, freedom in your mind. -- maybe this'll go over better if actually imprisoned in the yoosah, maybe.
asciilifeform: hanbot: you were not mistaken in figuring that i'm one of the people weighed down by addiction to luxuries. but the only luxury i really give a damn about is free time.
asciilifeform: hanbot: if i had to do a conventional 'job', with physical movement and shifts, the kind that actually leaves you tired at the end of a day - that'd be much like prison.
xanthyos: jsut a theory
xanthyos: basically i think they never intended a 5 btc freeroll, they were hoping to sign up a lot of a ccounts in the run-up to a big freeroll, and hope that some account generators would then deposiot
xanthyos: haven't heard from stander since nitrogensports.eu opened and had a promised 5 btc freeroll on opening night, then was conveniently ddossed, and promises a 10 btc freeroll that has yet to be scheduled
xanthyos: someone on tinychat tried to sell me btc, i set a price 5% under spot and was ready to buy, thesy stlled me out for hours, then said they changed their mind
xanthyos: no, it's a joke that he might
asciilifeform: hanbot: technically, anyone who can scrape together the loose change for a plane ticket - and can physically get to airport - 'can.'
asciilifeform: hanbot: it isn't really a 'profession structure' in my case. yes, for some people, 'i'm a lawyer and without that i'm nothing, where's my pistol' etc. these folks dropped like flies in '90s russia, say. but i'm more of - 'if i can move across the sea, but have to work as shoemaker in a cellar for 12h day, instead of 'turning the right screw' here in usa, why do i need to buy plane ticket? i can do the shoemaker th
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mats_cd03 I'll prolly have a list soon
asciilifeform: the picture of usa 'ticking' because of some abstract ideal like 'war' or 'consumption' is mistake. rather it's more like the tissues of a corpse that can ferment anaerobically, living on for days or even weeks past burial
asciilifeform: i should probably point out that unlike many people i know in usa, i'm generally more interested in aggregate free time than usual luxuries. this gives me a somewhat perverse incentive structure.
asciilifeform: hanbot: i can only speak for myself, really, but i do have a fairly solid picture of what kind of life folks with profession similar to my own live, in various parts of the world, and how much sweat they must sweat, vs. i at my duties, and so forth.
punkman: so it's a rationalizing calculation :P
asciilifeform: hanbot: possibly try to construct a suit, sure. but not going into vacuum until suit is reasonably airtight.
asciilifeform: hanbot: sometimes, calculation is fairly simple. you're in a box. outside - vacuum of far space.
asciilifeform: hanbot: usually, by the time leaving seems like a good idea regardless, it is far too late.
hanbot: hehe how's one supposed to do such rational calculations from inside a closed box?
asciilifeform: hanbot: i suspect that it isn't leaving with suitcase that bothers people, but for the most part a rational calculation of whether leaving would in fact give them increased freedom - or not - to do the kind of things they actually want to do.
hanbot: and it may not be the place per se, love for a certain avenue or whatnot, but fear of what's left when x certification or y language mastery doesn't matter so much anymore.
hanbot: kinda like getting served a bad meal at some restaurant and deciding you're not going there anymore, whether it's the only restaurant in town or not, whether that's where all your friends go, etc.
hanbot: in terms of physical stuff i left the us with a suitcase. more important imo was actually letting go of the place itself and one's place within it --possibly never to be reunited.
asciilifeform: hanbot: if you meant luxuries - cars, houses, etc. - americans are having a fine time 'letting go' of these, with a little help from an imploding economy and hungry creditors...
hanbot: food and shelter are a lot easier to acquire when you let go of stuff you don't need. that latter part tends to be harder.
hanbot: <asciilifeform> -- also you will need to remove little embedded shrapnel of X from inside your head. this may be the hardest part for some people << always a bitch. the good kind, tho'.
asciilifeform: folks who actually want to escape from -everything-... fellate their pistols. a more selective solution - takes finesse and resources.
hanbot: never been stuck in a gravity well, but i find escape from most anything hinges on ability to recognize and part with things that aren't needed. escape based on what one'd rather keep/is fond of mostly consists of waiting afaik.
asciilifeform: basic mechanics of escape from a gravity well - and of escape from a country - are very similar, i dare say. you need sufficient energy (usually in the form of hard currency, but can be some unusual substitute like familial, mob, or military 'in
hanbot: why not the debate regarding whether people drowning in puddles should be given a swat?
asciilifeform: hanbot: or whether folks sentenced to sit on a stake should get oiled or not oiled stake.
asciilifeform: hanbot: this is reminiscent of the debate regarding whether folks being burned at the stake should or should not get a little sack of gunpowder to wear around their neck
dignork: punkman: not sure about legality, but there is a cypherpunk solution: video recording crypted by 3 keys (Shamir's scheme), 2 keys needed to decode, 1 key at court, 2 other keys are of the involved parties
asciilifeform: there's an interesting set of legal precedents in usa, invalidating any and all concept of sex contract (consent can be withdrawn, e.g., five minutes... 'in' - and thereby, retroactively, if you like, because 'i cancelled five minutes in, in my head, after that it was a rape') etc.
hanbot: let's leave out the question of whether you should fuck if your decision making relies on a dumbed-down cosmo quiz and pepper the name of the thing with "hot" and "trendy"
punkman: "nine technical leaders wrote a report, entitled IEEE CS 2022, surveying 23 innovative technologies that could change the industry by the year 2022" < didn't mention bitcoin, because what is a computer and how do I even use it
mircea_popescu: you could say that before angie duff of derpytown, montana thought to dress in a sheet for her school play role as a roman matron
bounce: won't happen. this schizophrenic one party system has a serious aversion to truth in politics.