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mircea_popescu: since i'm not in the pizzeria business... fuckall i care.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform personally, i dun knowmuch an' i dun care much.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely comprehend why anyone would leave his heirs anything but btc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, best gift for bitcoin he could have ever made.
mircea_popescu: anything to prevent that ol' capital acumulation thing.
mircea_popescu: then, should your inheritor sell it when it's $10`000, usg wants further capital gains tax. not on 9k, but on $9990
mircea_popescu: specifically : if you bought 1k btc at $10, and you die when it's $1000, usg wants about 400`000, in usd.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you can even blatantly abuse your journalistic position to make moar comedy gold.
mircea_popescu: well if it were easy to say it wouldn't make much of a bet.
mircea_popescu: diff between c2 and fedwiki is that well... fedwiki dun work.
mircea_popescu: lecherous if impotent old men have a comparable preoccupation with "the unfucked"
mircea_popescu: this is just a conspiracy to drink more piss, isn't it.
mircea_popescu: The algae has actually been tested and successfully grown in human urine at 1:180 parts. After 7days, 97% of NH4+-N, 96.5% of total phosphorus (TP) and 85–98% of urea in the urine (ca. 120-diluted) were removed by the microalgae under autotrophic culture (30 °C).
mircea_popescu: <punkman> asciilifeform: because there is less crap to undo? << because it's actually before the "bitcoin is important" point of no return.
mircea_popescu: and now im off to trilemize the dictionary/spec discussion, if anyone wants to be in ask now.
mircea_popescu: however, the absence of "chthulhu" from there will be regarded as prima facie proof that the word in question was in fact not 1900s london argot.
mircea_popescu: note that they usually explain their limitations. "A dictionary of 1900 London argot" won't contain nixonisms
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the only thing that makes you go "this isn't a fucking dictionary" is if you look for a word that should be in but isnt
mircea_popescu: earnest effort never killed anyone. except of course in soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: i see little in there other than "agend desperate to create personal raport as attempts to control teh public venue aren't working for ununderstood reasons that look scary."
mircea_popescu: there's not even any need to specify it actually contains definitions. the quality of the definitions distinguishes a good implementation from a bad one and that's all.
mircea_popescu: dictionary = "exhaustive list of all the symbols in a conventional symbolic space, with adnotations."
mircea_popescu: it's not a book, it's a list. and it doesn't have to be alphabetically sorted.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside that there's no etc allowed ; A BOOK ? why the fuck is it a book.
mircea_popescu: "a book containing the words of a language alphabetically arranged, with their meanings etc"
mircea_popescu: and the problem is even more visible in dictionaries (as definitions are simply the specifications of words). never is it the case a dictionary manages to not include extraneous nonsense in the soup
mircea_popescu: i defy you to find a spec anywhere in use in the shitstack today that manages to not include things it really has no business specifying.
mircea_popescu: that's how you end up with small programs that do clear things and without a userbase that "has come to expect"
mircea_popescu: that's the main task of spec work : avoiding doing anything as much as humanly possible.
mircea_popescu: complex specs are in no sense better. the only thing a very complicated spec shows is that the designer did not understand the overwhelming importance of not specifying.
mircea_popescu: adlai still. even people with good indedices, what are they going to put in there ? can't make it half the book.
mircea_popescu: the_scourge generally the advice given to noobs is to read the logs for six months to a year.
mircea_popescu: adlai the same process ruined me for books. i'm like "fucking paper no grep"
mircea_popescu: trinque the thing is tho, by now "free" is wholly captured.
mircea_popescu: not nearly as orthogonal as all that, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> you'll have a hard time finding a private trainer to subject you to them << not if you're a woman, wink wink
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in their defense, they can actually use it
mircea_popescu: hard times in the international diabetes federation :D
mircea_popescu: but weren't stupid enough to accept the balancers as their own currency.
mircea_popescu: ie, earlier european governments understood the problems of unbalanced trade, and invented balancers.
mircea_popescu: they did, kinda. cowries played the role in africa that opium played in china
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that merely the fact of exchanging "Shiny" for "cunt" might well be reported as "monetary shiny" by some people and 'loads of fun whee' by some others.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a word in your ear about "cowrie shells" : it is possible they were ever used for money. it is also possible libertard anthropologists created the pious fraud of "retarded non-white peoples also have some semblance of intelligence".