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mircea_popescu: "could i have cubic sphere with
this ?" "sure, why
the fuck not." "ah ok
then"
mircea_popescu: "professionalization" amirite. division of labour, am i rite. high
tech!!!1
mircea_popescu: imagine, you're not allowed
to pick up a woman and fuck her ; you're required
to pay someone
to pick women and fuck
them and film
the process and pass it
to you!
mircea_popescu is persuaded
the whole story with imperial ideology is
the mandatory indirection layer.
mircea_popescu: in brunei, porn is forbidden, fucking your wife is not ; in
the us porn is acceptable, "marital rape" is a
thing.
mircea_popescu: THEY WONT FUCKING YIELD. exactly 0 approach for
the actual issues involved, no you can't own your body, no you can't want actualities ; please consider
THIS approach
to a purely symbolic relationship with reality. oh, "imagining yourself as a 3yo" won't do it for you ? ok, ok,
there's other layers of indirection available! pick one! YOU MUST PICK ONE!
pete_dushenski: why kidlington ? close enough
to london, quiet enough
to be affordable, clean air, safe. what else could a pekingian want ?
mircea_popescu: glod, evidently cognate, is "dirt" in romanian. not so much as
the generative mud but as unwelcome dirt.
mircea_popescu: THE MOMENT you slate august 9th for lavish banquet at astoria, YOU
THEREBY ALSO slate unconditional surrender in any other case.
mircea_popescu: there's exactly nothing
that'd keep
them from coming here and giving away
the nuclear button
to
the l1. yes we'd butcher some daughters / most sons, but so what of it - some'd survive. even
the cod knows
this much,
that
the correct reaction is
to
throw
the meat at
the knife, rather
than
to
try and protect it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and as per
the "Won't fucking yield" disbelief,
they'll go
to
their shallow grave kicking and screaming about how great
the reich is and how black women matter or some dorkage.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
the us still pretends it doesn't know who or what
the icbc is, as discussed last year and etc
phf: business exits – for example retail banking in
Thailand – in 10 more countries."
phf: "reduce group risk weighted assets by about US$290 billion" ... "we will be selling our operation in
Turkey. We’ll also be selling our operation in Brazil, but plan
to maintain a modest corporate banking presence
to serve about 300 international clients in Brazil. We are actually going
to keep Mexico" ... "So we moved away from
the World’s Local Bank" ... "We’ve exited 15 countries, reducing from 87
to 73 so far, and whole lines of
mircea_popescu: you kidding, brunei has its own army!
three companies! and own navy! five frigatges!
mircea_popescu: nato reich gradually being ghettoized, i dunno who
the fuck will swallow
this
theory whereby you actually want
to move banking out of brunei. what, world's richest state ? mmkay.
mircea_popescu: phf first
they kicked out
the us
then
the brits (historically colonial owner)
phf: "This is part of
the group’s global review of businesses and represents a significant step in HSBCs goal
to optimise its global network and reduce complexity outlined during
the HSBC Investor Update on June 9, 2015." "optimise and reduce" huh
phf: oh i was going
to say cbc next
mircea_popescu: eh who's letting
the soviets in. no, no. bank of china.
mircea_popescu: speaking of fiat world : citibank had a branch in brunei since 1972 ; it was closed in 2014. hsbc is closing down. guess who received permission
to open
this spring ?
mircea_popescu: part of all of
this - "asciilifeform" "framedragged" will be permanently associated with "a list of derpy boxes" huh.
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mircea_popescu: the notion is not so unlike "what if we diffed asts". it's a bad idea because now you want
the "encoding".
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 05:28 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: is
there an argument for vetoing out-of-hand a v/patch implementation
that diffs at
the sexpr level rather
than
the line level?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1578953 << just fyi, while you can diff an intermediate ~state~ of an image as a sexp, common lisp's input is a ~character stream~. builtin dispatch ~mostly~ operates on forms (like #p #. (concatenate 'string "foo" "bar")), but not always, like #\; comment reads
till end of line.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: you always want
to pay in silver and be paid in gold.
that's
the rule ;
that "nobody knows it" has little bearing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not ? if bitcoin were weaker
than fiat ?
mircea_popescu: the rat's preference for cheese over charcoal is dispositive in
the matter.
mircea_popescu: that
they picked a specialist which handles bitcoin storage is not germane ;
the rat also picked a specialist which handles
the fats cycle, called a liver.
this doesn't mean
the rat dun eat, nor does it mean charcoal is cheese or vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: mno. all fiat companies are
the same company, call it
the united states department of business fronts.
mircea_popescu: oh wait,
the divisibility fallacy ? "the rat doesn't eat because
the mouth doesn't hold on
to any food!" ?
mircea_popescu: moreover... why do you
think a company would
take bitcoin, but refund in fiatola ?
Framedragger: i mean, it does seem pretty pathetic... plus, yknow, pay-"call me / charge me back some
time"-pal
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, i can't hear you over
the sound of worthless dollars sloshing around. what was
that ? i didn't...
try hard enough
to find
the real place where
they don't have meat in exchange for rubles ?
Framedragger: i'm just sayin', you didn't
try hard enough :p
Framedragger: i've joined about
the
time you asked about ppusd, getting reminded via nostalgia.
there was no interaction as of yet :p
Framedragger: (well, 'alive' as in
there are nyms logged in.)
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less, but sum up
the
trades for
the day, do
they come
to $100 ?
mircea_popescu: passive niche support is what
the game is all about, because indirect effects overwhelm direct effects in nature.
mircea_popescu: just like men clean up
their kitchen
to ensure
their survival, just so fungi dirty up
the kitchen,
to ensure
THEIR survival, and of
the rats, cockroaches and other elements of
the same ecosystem.
mircea_popescu: kinda
the deep reason smart people are so very hesitant
to join anything. which is all
the better - a divided elite is how
the plebs get
to pretend
they matter.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the way "tech" works in
the us aka sv is very simply : get
the "hipster ass rorbros" on
the wagon,
then sell
them out later for mass market.
☟︎ davout: #trilema,
the
temple of bitcoin finance
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 13:23 mircea_popescu: soo... anyone want
to sell me bitcoin for $100 paypal ? o.O
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 05:28 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: is
there an argument for vetoing out-of-hand a v/patch implementation
that diffs at
the sexpr level rather
than
the line level?
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: well,
technically he asked alf, so
there is
that. none of our bidnis :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ahahaha i
thought you meant
that apple pr piece, i was
totally lost here.