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mircea_popescu: ah that. ok ok nm, im not going to speak on things i don't have before eyes.
mircea_popescu: decimation: I remember using the boost/bdb that was available on the ports << if you could document what you did exactly it'd prolly save people time.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell brendafdez: ^facebook^bitcoin << the posix format for this is /facebook/bitcoin/ in reference to the sed command.
mircea_popescu: moral being, don't try to be funnay with people you don't know, it never works.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: jurov: you're three right of mircea. thestringpuller is crowding you with his long name. << write names inclined 30 degrees ?
mircea_popescu: this is the first time powerful people were involved in irc, since also 1996.
mircea_popescu: PeterL because the last tiem anyone thought about this it was 1996, and the next time anyone wil lthink about this it will be to systemdize it
mircea_popescu: "Marching gets our message out." No it doesn't, it gets CNN's message out. "We don't watch CNN, we use the internet." Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and...
mircea_popescu: which yes, it has to happen, because most "major cities" are inhabited by... twits.
mircea_popescu: and by "not ok" i mean i will fucking shoot you over it.
mircea_popescu: i will not be ok with a "no cars" town in which the fucking mayor/police/you get to drive if you feel like
mircea_popescu: except this is a naked problem of power. i would be ok with a "no cars" town in which i personally can drive if i feel like.
mircea_popescu: i don't need to be jostled just because sopme other fuckhead can't drive at his speed.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski right. those twits ? their dad was nobody, some anon derp with, as orwell put it, "Well-meaning, over-civilized men, in dark suits and black felt hats, with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm, were imposing their constipated view of life"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's a great place, but the people are inept to a degree that can not even be put into words. doesn't even look like a year's famine would be enough, more biblical measures required, 30 years in the desert, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: argentina is set for a much more major collapse than anyone seems to realise.
mircea_popescu: they kinda get a very superficial formal thing about granpa, but otherwise the head dun work.
mircea_popescu: their grandparents were pretty cool. their parents rather mediocre. now they're fucked in the head.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski basically what i see is a cargo cult generation. if you've ever seen monty python's twit of the year sketch that's basiclaly the idea.
mircea_popescu: “nowhere does the agency identify any kind of systemic harm in the Internet economy, but nonetheless it invents one in order to regulate it, and so it’s this classic situation where we’re adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority we don’t have.”
mircea_popescu: “adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority we don’t have,”
mircea_popescu: was there no gold before mendeleev ? or what, did he invent "eka-aluminium" ?
mircea_popescu: but... if it didn't exist... then how was it that "the company" made it ?!
mircea_popescu: "The problem, in part, in this debate arises from scientists confusing discovery or research with invention. Looked at in terms of the production of novel material, certain distinctions can be made. Discovery and research are not creative acts. While they require creative thinking, they do not add anything materially new to the world. Alternatively, invention is the act of creating something that did not exist. There w
mircea_popescu: "Except the argument isn't grounded in reality. Saying something vague like "people need these drugs," misses the immediate point: which drugs? On what grounds is it even possible to say that people "need something" that didn't exist until a company created it?"
mircea_popescu: for the record, i've made a complete backup of tlp's site. 702 articles it has.
mircea_popescu: whaack: anyways I came here to ask if you guys have btc entrepreneurial ideas that you think are good but just don't have time to get around to << jobs pop up occasionally. you have to read the log to have a chance at them. this is intentional.
mircea_popescu: whaack: It seems like something that takes a little bravery other than just holding and seeing which chain wins << what exact bravery does it take ? you get dollars for it.
mircea_popescu: wtf ban evasion is this, can be arsed to avoid a ban, can't be arsed to fix bouncer.
mircea_popescu: if i keep a spare pair of panties in my briefcase in case i shit myself, i do not send a record of their purchase to the new york times, for publication in their news section, nor do i send the unfortunate reports of the occurence for the obit section.
mircea_popescu: whaack: I think multisig for that reason is retarded, I thought the main purpose is for personal use to reduce the chance I fuck something up << why do you think your personal measures against fucking something up should be world-readable ?
mircea_popescu: it wasn't even us per se, it was more west germany than us.
mircea_popescu: no, they surrendered to the best wot to be had at the time.
mircea_popescu: "i bet you mp wouldn't say the USG gets to make classified filings"
mircea_popescu: the logical segue is, "well it's a LOT better to publish the stuff on the internet than to submit it to a court"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but for remoras - the swiftest possible discipline. << eh, it's best to fix problems well after rather than well before they're problems.
mircea_popescu: for the record it's /mode #bitcoin-assets -b *!*zip55413@pdpc/supporter/bronze/kermit
mircea_popescu: incredibly, iirc this is actually mentioned in teh logs.
mircea_popescu: ;;google da-ma mama dupa gyury ca ma tine-n virfu pulii
mircea_popescu: the romanian folklore has the exact discussion of this behaviour, as folklore.