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a111: Logged on 2014-03-04 22:05 mircea_popescu: romanian friends went to us, bought land, proceeded to build (proper) house
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: reliant robin ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the smaller lawn machines are ~all 2stroke here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right here in the land of the phreee
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: recall the thread where mircea_popescu described phriend who went to usa and tried to have a proper house built ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:25 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1521983 << zooko triangle zooko.
asciilifeform: as described by mircea_popescu .
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, do you not keep up with a harem of women?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522015 << what's this, the stick shit on all sides of lulz department ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 20:27 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522013 << go to iran.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: arite.
shinohai: i thought mircea_popescu proved that `promoted tweets` was garbage ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 12:34 mircea_popescu: dude fucking twitter is unreadable now. most of the screen is a "promoted tweet" which 1) has exactly nothing to do with anything and 2) is exactly the sort of slimy, anticool, "here's me being sexy - with a hoodie" stupidity. it's like all the girls that dedicated their adolescence to "abstinence only" moved on to "corporate advertising / governance" or some shit.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 12:11 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1521770 << why isn't zooko in the wot, incidentally!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is quite true, but tautological - 'magic' is definitionally the set of things you can't pop the hood on and fix
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno, prolly at this point crapple is Official 'tbtf' member
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is one of the reasons pretty much everyone in usa owns shredder machine
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so, chump asks bank to close account, in actuality it never happens, if decade later some hobo digs through his rubbish bin and finds old chequebook, and tried to charge against it, bank will attempt to collect ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elaborate re 'no closed account' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how's this work, you take out the money, and bank extends you line of credit against your will ?
phf: i mean, ~i~ benefit from "$300 back", why would i pretend like i'm mircea_popescu?
phf: mircea_popescu: no, i had some dodgy charges removed though
phf: mircea_popescu: i wouldn't say hsbc branches are everywhere, but they've been in every country i've been to so far
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: doesn't this require you to have stacks of cash at your residence?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usd was legalized in su in '91.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't help but wonder wtf actually goes on at these conferences
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see also http://btcbase.org/log/2014-07-07#747810 . ☝︎
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu this is not even the most monumental wtf, recall when 'symbolics.com', ~first~ .com ever regged, was auctioned off to spammers ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 12:13 mircea_popescu: and then szabo goes on to hurr while blogging on google's platform. sigh.
a111: Logged on 2015-01-30 05:50 mircea_popescu: the socialist state does not want a normally functioning society, but instead this stellar configuration where the state is at the center,
a111: Logged on 2015-02-03 23:23 mircea_popescu: "why vote for women ? because if women spend more time talking to the state and less talking to their husbands, the state will be stronger and society weaker"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i had to unfollow George Takei cause I think he's just being paid by blog spammers to post blog spam.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/lxs-ninxs-17.jpg << mircea_popescu - pigeon, yes, but window made from 'scotch tape' is now unremarkable ? it is almost like we are in 18th c again, but in place of fish bladder, this.
asciilifeform: in unrelated nonnews, looking at what is in bbet today, folks who a) willing to use it b) follow mircea_popescu's logic re clitler - stand to make some coin, possibly: https://bitbet.us/bet/1256/donald-trump-will-win-the-2016-united-states
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja ever explain the 'Ni Una Menos' thing ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'jailbird' ?
asciilifeform: ^ e.g., mircea_popescu last 2 pieces did not show.
znort987: mircea_popescu: was just pointing out that I ought to actually look at what I'm looking at. Re bitfinex: neve understood why people would want ever leave their coinz in other people's pockets. pretty much negates everything bitcoin is about.
znort987: mircea_popescu: cant say that I do. gotta go read up on it I guess. pointerz ?
znort987: mircea_popescu: that's how info@bitbet.us is setup. and asciilifeform is right: email is lame for auth.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: great till your dns is jacked.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 20:39 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-14#1521544 << how did that happen ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bonus fact, i finished $job with angle grinder, also chinese, which overheated and began to smoke.
asciilifeform: meanwhile mircea_popescu , i have a http://www.loper-os.org/pub/saw.jpg to match your http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/periplus-2.jpg .
a111: Logged on 2015-03-23 00:24 mircea_popescu: in this view of Bitcoin, only Draper has any, or whoever bought it from USG.
a111: Logged on 2015-03-23 00:23 mircea_popescu: but yes, the entire "taint" bullshit does not work. the correct avenue is exactly the reverse : require to be paid only in "proper" bitcoin, that is to say, bitcoin traceable to X or Y or Z purchase, from agent of the crown, which fictitiously has title.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:14 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519996 << this is altogether unclear. this "the people have the right to trace the coins" is a) still nonsense, bitcoin is not traceable ; b) still nonsense, forget the "dao" bullshit ; c) still nonsense, you trust the operator or you don't trust the operator.
asciilifeform: mats: mircea_popescu will drill you a new arse for this contention (though i still do not grasp why) ☟︎
covertress waves goodbye to mircea_popescu and leaves also
covertress: mircea_popescu, do you believe in a multiverse?
covertress: mircea_popescu, which are your fav euro dishes?
covertress: mircea_popescu yes, there is an art to timing the meal. comes with practice.
covertress: mircea_popescu, you never eat this way at home? always go out?
covertress: mircea_popescu, ala Mongolian bbq?
covertress waves hello to mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu is familiar with the process. and output.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to briefly revisit thread, one interesting tidbit you might not know about 'hardcopy fpga' is that it stands on same toolchain as the respective vendor's 'ordinary' fpga (on which one prototypes for the 'hard' variant.)
asciilifeform: but somehow still asciilifeform 'spouts nonsense' and mircea_popescu 'has clue' ?
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu does not operate foundry.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu operates foundry ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my 1986 symbolics 3620 was made out of this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu read this off a parchment or wat.
asciilifeform: my fave horse is the very same 'common man fucked with spiked club of monotonically increasing thickness' as described by mircea_popescu .
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 05:12 ben_vulpes: phf, shinohai, trinque, asciilifeform, mircea_popescu: i elected to nuke the "stale comments" thing, i'd be much obliged if any of y'all have a patch for that. in exchange i've got a patch on wp-comments.php for the suffix trick, not that it's hard or anything
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that thing really ought to link back to the waterbug piece.
ben_vulpes: great! neat mircea_popescu.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i pulled out the "comment_checks"
ben_vulpes: phf, shinohai, trinque, asciilifeform, mircea_popescu: i elected to nuke the "stale comments" thing, i'd be much obliged if any of y'all have a patch for that. in exchange i've got a patch on wp-comments.php for the suffix trick, not that it's hard or anything ☟︎
asciilifeform: aha, sorta special case of mircea_popescu's proposed reddit nuke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i cannot even give a reason to think he was paid at all, now that i think.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 00:54 mircea_popescu: and you've got A LOT of things built in, not just "antispam". you got admin hardening ; gpg comments ; auto-spam tagging, ddos protection, anti-trackback flood and etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when moose dies in the forest, 10,001 species of crawly comes out to eat - it is not a pest control problem as such.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would be interesting to read the court transcript of the executor swap. can haz ?
asciilifeform: hey, not universal once mircea_popescu unpacked his pith helmet and started the colonization, eh ?
asciilifeform: thus far i don't even know if mircea_popescu's concept is absolute ('must afford dirigible') or simply 'stay out of bottom 10% of social pyramid' or what.
asciilifeform: so since noses un unscrew, and i cannot trade with mircea_popescu for each other to see what stinks to the other, the train typically stops there.
asciilifeform: ok so all mircea_popescu said earlier is 'solving 1-dim. optimization is trivial' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes, in the context of, e.g., dark ages europe, 'non-stinking snatch' possibly required considerably more standing in hierarchy than presently. so context matters.
asciilifeform: i dun expect mircea_popescu to calculate it.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-14 16:36 mircea_popescu: there's a bunch of people who, however poor may they be irl, are still not driven by the poverty so to speak.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu wants to operate with a definition of 'stupid' that encompasses everybody on planet3 but mircea_popescu and five other d'artagnans, this is his business alone, and not mine
asciilifeform: incidentally if mircea_popescu's picture of 'poverty' is encompassed by the hero of http://thewhet.net/2016/alcachofa-7515 then i have absolutely no counter against 'must also be stupid.'
asciilifeform: nah it is just that mircea_popescu poses a riddle where there is 'or your ox wanders off' and i dun have an ox, and have to spend quite a few cpu cycles mapping it onto what i actually do.
asciilifeform: i really love mircea_popescu's 'choose hole a or hole b', 'fork in the eye or once up the arse?' (ru prison riddle) tests.
asciilifeform: for my edification, let's hear mircea_popescu's picture of 'poverty'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it makes difference if we want to even have a meaningful dissection of subj.
asciilifeform: does it include... all folx who work for a living? anyone with one fewer wine bottle than mircea_popescu's cellar contains ? folx without dirigibles? what.
asciilifeform: i'm not even sure that mircea_popescu and i agree on a def of 'poverty'
asciilifeform: i dunno that i've ever lived ~outside~ of such a thing, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the thing you witnessed in mass.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how did the 'trying to exclude' work ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno, here we have some mind-bogglingly bovine rich, and pretty clever poverty..?
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu will still repeat that 'money is brain' or what.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: box is worth maaaaybe 100 (minus the ssd, which is modern and cost 4x that)
phf: mircea_popescu: link to atkinson review?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, history is its own asset class.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kinda got nixed ; but if there's an artist in audience, mebbe i can get bb to reconsider. << Would also break Qntra's branding history. Perhaps if someone wanted to start an "Online Culture Magazine" it may have a place in the header of that as per http://trilema.com/the-boy-blog-network
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try compress the gif, it takes eons to load
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'cleaving' did not start, and won't end, with asciilifeform , or even with engineers, folks cleaved dry from green wood to burn in fire, and tasty from rotten parts of mammonth, etc. and will cleave in future.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu , what, throws it in the air, the gurlz catch ?