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mircea_popescu: assbot: The Tremendous Features Of Fedora 22 << there's something very wrong with any software that reaches v 22.
mircea_popescu: a, i was starting to think my accounting's as tight as the dod's.
mircea_popescu: the penthouse interview with the faloon prostitute a fine example.
mircea_popescu: unless it's "look at stalin sucking cock" it ain't worth printing.
mircea_popescu: about 300 years worth of experience with printing show that negative pamphlets only work in dictatorships.
mircea_popescu: the actual us hitler (the nigger, whatever his name was, king something, the million brown MEN march on the capitol guy)'s thing is hilarious translated in romanian.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah. more like nostalgia for an earlier, simpler, matasareanu-er time.
mircea_popescu: tbh, i kinda look forward to being forcibly relieved of all sortsa responsibilities.
mircea_popescu: punkman: asciilifeform: but why shadowstate and not private concern? <<< a shadow state is by definition a private concern.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah well if you're about to take down the president but can't resist a little social pressure...
mircea_popescu: you spend a year's salary on throwing the biggest party ever.
mircea_popescu: dude, that's not what you do. what you do is, you go to the biggest restaurant in town and start buying people drinks and lunches.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Then last night panicked phone calls and forever silence. << i don't get these people. nismann (argentine da, shot by state because threatening to put president in jail) was the same way : spent his crucial night before the great day ALONE ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: dun rush things, foundation snipped thing isn't even stable yet.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` sounds like a fine way to begin your qntra career.
mircea_popescu: all vying for supremacy and the hand in marriage of the one true alf
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nice move linking the local site. should be standing policy : all news is local news, always eschew the aggregators, from reuters to gawker, in favour of the source.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform righjt, kinda what i meant by runninmg it on testnet to see
mircea_popescu: ie, "we imagine ourselves the owners of a distributed project"
mircea_popescu: the problem with the "if it valdiates the previous chain is good enough" approach is its very pure gavinderpitude.
mircea_popescu: you're stuck with that. how do you think the original fork happened.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's worth doing on a test network just to count subtle bugs.
mircea_popescu: ffs, i can sleep safer at night knowing that usagi v2.0 is offering derpsurance.
mircea_popescu: it'd have been a lot more helpful if instead of empty boasts and declarative statements they just explained the math.
mircea_popescu: "BitGo is the only company in the industry we trust to secure our hot wallet. The integration was very straightforward, and now I can sleep better at night knowing that my customers' holdings are secured with BitGo."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> jurov: can't recommend a large, recurring btc expense << fiddy bux isn't large yo.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> -- from today's fan mail << what was that for lol
mircea_popescu: "you don't refine your query, numbnuts. you BECOME the genie."
mircea_popescu: all these kids hoping that some sort of magical "tech" is going to get them into the girl's panties were very poorly parented. apparently nobody told them any of the numerous genie stories.
mircea_popescu: the "3d printed" guns were obviously going to push towards regulation of bullets.
mircea_popescu: if the chem lobby seriously wants to strangle the pretty farm girl, that's one thing. but framing that discussion in terms of "rich" is about as helpful as proposing beer is better than wine because it bubbles.
mircea_popescu: james smith's farm fed five hundred people in 1615. these aren't "500 out of the total pop of 5mn" for the same reason discussed in the thread about "average life expectancy"
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : just because inflation has made every pauper think he holds money doesn't change the fact that a farmer today is worth a hundred million just by simply maintaining equality with a farmer of relatively the same social importance back in 1615.
mircea_popescu: "rich" does not mean what the poor imagine it means. the notion of running a farm on 26k subsidies a year... heh.
mircea_popescu: that cap agricultural benefits thing is uniquely misguided.
mircea_popescu: you can also expect to find the last time someone made fart jokes publicly @ the expense of people present buried under at least a decade of history.
mircea_popescu: it's not coincidental that all successful specialist groups are irreverent.
mircea_popescu: the problem essentially is that specialist groups do need a variety talk, however "politeness" combined with that results into a lot of nooks and crannies where alex can hide.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller lack of focus lack of schmokus. it's because they're impotent. they know they're impotent.
mircea_popescu: no he was being proactive and communicaty or whatchamacallit.