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mircea_popescu: this is what i meant : while the thing's not necessarily useful, at least it's trying.
mircea_popescu: that idiocy aside, using skein's not necessarily a bad choice
mircea_popescu: did you shutdown your pc uncleanly ? such as for instance power fsailure ?
mircea_popescu: 2015-03-14 08:29:22 LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch
mircea_popescu: just assign costs to cpu/bw usage, and price to information obtained, and there you go
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ideally it'd have a performance based model, where it sorts the connections according to a "value", periodically kicking the bottom one and taking a new one in
mircea_popescu: dude, we went over this. the list is strictly made out of wot nodes. nothing else.
mircea_popescu: 00000000000000f9386cebe790b230739587e8d554d94579e8e569b73107c472
mircea_popescu: i mean it's traditionally a device to humiliate the girls, but the degree!
mircea_popescu: well considering all the bezzle poured in, it should be d.cbse
mircea_popescu: and so for them erring that way is sensible. but in actual fact... good god, the world is better off.
mircea_popescu: im sure if someone burned down reddit loads of future intellectuals will be all "o noes, the treasures lost". because they don't exactly know.
mircea_popescu: if the people that wrote them weren't idiots, the books wouldn't have been burned.
mircea_popescu: which is why i don't particularly share the worries of most intellectuals abnout the various books burned during history.
mircea_popescu: that's the important thing about colonialism : it is a plain statement of the fundamental worthlessness of the locals. what it says is that their culture is not worth reading.
mircea_popescu: that's the point of colonialism : much like b-a, you may only join it nude.
mircea_popescu: colonialism is about coopting the locals on its own terms only.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no dude, iut's not a real thing. the idea was that somehow there's a cutoff : up to moment t, imigrants are a ok. at t+1 they're now cattle. well, how do you choose t ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know the "first shave, then shoot" one ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bagehot now you can self-voice, pm assbot !up
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.bagehot.1:db856e96a87cbb812489644043c3577315f61997069f2c79c3c0d4cd29f66b59
mircea_popescu: there's no relation between assbot and gribble really.
mircea_popescu: if you can't use a bank, join a local community and do face to face.
mircea_popescu: if you can use a bank, talk to sturles, he's been doing the offices of noob introducer since 2010.
mircea_popescu: i don't think many people do that, on account of how unreliable it is.
mircea_popescu: just like gravity causes fishes to swim and birds to fly, just so money and the economy cause black people to be poor and jews to have long noses
mircea_popescu: but vice-versa : money and the economy decide what people are.
mircea_popescu: one interesting idea that came out here is that the people do not decide what either money or the economy are.