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mircea_popescu: arguably about as
tenuous a basis in reality (what is "a processor" ? really ?)
mircea_popescu: computer science, for instance, also almost entirely consists of
terms of art.
mircea_popescu: so it is.
then again, it has
to be pointed out
that all
these "studies" are derivative work of literary criticism and phenomenology as
the philosophical discipline (80s variant, see eg stanford's "it is
the study of structures of conscxiousness"). consequently
they consist almost entirely out of
terms of art.
mircea_popescu: Mariono prolly want
to
talk
to shinohai if you need help ; otherwise register your key with deedbot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly enough, it could be rendered in
terms of
the mp-alf discussion ; on
the alf side. it ~says "tyvm for
telling us
to be less poor ; here in africa no dirigible."
Mariono: i saw a
thread on bitcointalk
trinque: the cop was in a nervous sweat when he came
to my door asking if I knew anything
trinque: this with rents at 1600/mo for
the smallest
trinque: it's like living on a cheap
TV set. my neighbor's door - when kicked in
two weeks ago - broke like balsa wood right along
the only (soft) metal in
the door, at
the "lock"/"latch"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 19:54 asciilifeform: where my father worked
they had always 3 bins.
mircea_popescu: through
the
technomagic of "noblesse du robe" or whatever.
mircea_popescu: ersatz is
those people's very life ;
their existence is subjectively predicated on
them being ersatz for actual people
mircea_popescu: whereas
the us is a french colony
through and
through.
mircea_popescu: army does not generally favour ersatz, but bulk ; and unlike us,
the su was army-run. much like ~much all eastern
tyrannies, from
turks
to what have you.
mircea_popescu: yes, but anything
that isn't luxury is,
today unlike
the days of
the su, ersatz.
mircea_popescu: back in 2005 i ate on
the boston wharf ; bill came in a hundreds.
today
they come in
the
thousands.
mircea_popescu: dubious, because
the "basic necessities" a la mchappy meal never needs
to cost anything, which is why it's
two dollars ; and actual food is already going into a spiral.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: back before bitcoin fucking banks were like, a major core ;
these days,
they barely count on
the level of gardening.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger it is possible i'm left stranded on some historical branch. i've been doing ever less banking over
the years.
Framedragger: thestringpuller: heh; up until maybe ~2012, UK banks allowed
these cash deposits without any account or docs; so folks deposited cash into bitcoin exchange accounts; and
then
that changed. so it goes hm
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: US banks pretty much require id for nearly every single
transaction you intend
to make with
them...
mircea_popescu: yes it's a calender, ie keeps
the pasta in. but if you dump it in
the sewer, don't expect you'll fish it out later and contents edible.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the notion
that
this calender would be watertight is laughable on
the face.
mircea_popescu: there's five billions
things. open acct with hk branch, have it
transferred. whoops.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-28 14:41 Framedragger: well in uk you have
to walk into
the bank physically. (from recent experience opening business acct). and it's barclays, quite sure it's similar
to
the bank i dealt with. but heh, maybe workarounds. especially in .pl
a111: Logged on 2016-09-28 14:40 mircea_popescu: anyone willing
to spend 1mn can have ~10k us registered businesses by friday sort of
thing.
mircea_popescu: it's like boys in clubs, all
they really wanna do is rub on you a little. if
that.
mircea_popescu: cattle couldn't have done
that independently well enough. needed collective ostrich built.
mircea_popescu: this is an important societal change
that of course "nobody could have predicted" and nobody noticed. because
that's what "modern democracy" governments are for,
to stick hand in sand.
Framedragger: heheh. oh yeah. i also forgot about
them craigslist job posts, as well $x's friend's boyfriend who asked $x
to
temporarily hold some money in $x's acct because reasons
mircea_popescu: recall
the good old days when people wanted
to get money from
the cattle ?
things have changed,
the cattle is now poor enough
that people want its moo not its money.
mircea_popescu: which i
think is supported by >1 bn pieces of yearly mail.
mircea_popescu: one obvious explanation would be
that
the accts in question belong
to a derp who has agreed
to "handle comissions for international firm"
Framedragger: this relates
to
the "not a bank if no rsa in relevant wot" point.
mircea_popescu: plus
there's also
the legions of captcha solvers / employees working remote etc. but i doubt anyone spends
that much effort.
Framedragger: but maybe didn't
try hard enough, because, you know, i could just walk in later
mircea_popescu: note
that what people
tell each other and what is actually
the case never have yet matched in
the history of people.
Framedragger: i
tried
to do just
that while being away from uk!
Framedragger: well in uk you have
to walk into
the bank physically. (from recent experience opening business acct). and it's barclays, quite sure it's similar
to
the bank i dealt with. but heh, maybe workarounds. especially in .pl
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyone willing
to spend 1mn can have ~10k us registered businesses by friday sort of
thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger
the way
that works is, you can open business online ; and
then bank account from it.
Framedragger: didn't even have
time
to investigate, honestly not sure if worth it, reported bank details
to banks in question as per process, but
that's about it
Framedragger: like, legit uk and polish bank account details. wonder if
they belong
to old granny who gives out passwords
to her grandson
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-28: [03:06:04] <ben_vulpes> me, sure, give me 500mm and 2 years. instructables
though? great hopes for instructables? and wikipedia, right?
Framedragger: on my work email end on
the other hand, multiple emails as of late, sent from director, with instructions
to pay
to
this fiat bank acct and
that fiat bank acct.
Framedragger: next
time i'm desperate for cash i'll make a markov bot which will include
those keywords, and will spam research funding agencies.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-27 22:32 pete_dushenski: man alive flights
to ireland are priiiicey. more
than oz even. /me will be waiting for a deal like a good jew.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: ...so, how's
the rest of
that dream,
then? did you eat
them slugs?
Framedragger: aha, i wonder if
the sending irc client encoded msg in some strange charset, and ACTION was *not*
technically
the first set of characters in
that message, from point of view of znc.
☟︎ scriba: slugs, shaped like various animals, e.g., pig, out of a
tank, and by
the choice mircea_p
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-27: [13:14:42] <asciilifeform> ACTION woke up from dream where we had 4th conf.
this
time, at mircea_popescu's house, which
turned out
to be a gigantic repurposed office park, wunderwaffen in every room, even
the nazi 'Glocke' neutron generator; we sat in a great hall and drank mead and
thanked odin for
the gift of valour;
then went
to
the
tank room and each pulled gigantic sea
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-27: [14:25:47] <phf> so
there's at least
two bugs happening here :) somehow it's missing from btcbase and Framedragger's znc (or is it
the python bot) is leaking ACTION marks
trinque: ben_vulpes: man, last job I had
to interact with some guy who was doing a dissertation on... some python/postgresql CMS
ben_vulpes: > some of us even
teach web dev in a graduate cs program
shinohai:
the pic of
the security admin alone was worth
the visit
jhvh1: BingoBoingo:
Time since last block: 14 minutes and 20 seconds
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah. Boobs matter. Particular lives
tend not
to.
mircea_popescu: maybe
they could be joined
together at
the hip. have moon rocket carry baby
to
term.
mircea_popescu: i have about
the same interest in achieving either feat is
the problem.