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adlai: mircea_popescu: member of the peanut gallery, warmer of bleachers, leader of cheering squad, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought the moral of that snippet was that the folks somehow believed that they had a ~share~
asciilifeform: i do not know enough to usefully say. but iirc mircea_popescu introduced him as 'fuck-you-moneyed' character.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...in 2016 common people simply can not buy new miners, no matter what happens and how much money they're willing to spend...' << ahahaha precisely what i predicted when i showed up
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i missed the billion mit dollars thing ?
asciilifeform: hey recall, my main criticism of the demo run mircea_popescu gave me in '12 was 'i made too much coin investing in the exchange itself'
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: as much congratulations as are due and as many condolences.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting. am i thick or what am i missing, but afaik 0 implications in re the things that i do...
PeterL: mircea_popescu meant to take down bbet and removed mpoe instead?
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls to mpex
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of kakobrekla from 5 to -5 << Cap'n of industree, borrowed my blender, then decided to try and make gravel and... it just didn't work out!
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated kakobrekla 5 at 3571240878 << too much stuff to list. inquire within..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y Officially! shat his pants re alphago even before the lee sedol thing!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because greed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how will cat piss on an aerical cable.
asciilifeform: but i see where mircea_popescu is going from.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lotr is circa '40s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in english world, ^ ~the~ orcs.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Why wouldn't it exist?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That list could be interesting if they drop the Putin-Messi sex tape
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think Rush Limbaugh invented the word lamestream
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: massive leak (or burn, as you like) of tax haven docs a few days ago
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/2KWDGFV.txt
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: we'll see if this 15 minutes of fame lasts longer than my stint as a lord ;)
phf: right now the switch over between t-a and b-a happens at log entry 1440677, which is "mircea_popescu: and so, this is the end for this particular irc channel as a venue for tmsr. ..."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are related strictly in the sense where we are likely to get 1980s fabbing capability long before 'modern', but also in the sense where we might have to use fpga or even discrete logic elements before this is all through
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only in the sense that alligator bite is same as mouse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't as if the parts have fixed cost ~each~
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu and other n00bz : http://image.slidesharecdn.com/dram-140915070657-phpapp01/95/dram-6-638.jpg?cb=1410764912
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what sort of tard does one need to be to blow 50kus on patent ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the reason i said 'not only intellectual property' is that cn is happy to piss on american patents but STILL continues to churn out straight knockoffs of usg crud
mod6: (17:57) <+mircea_popescu> shinohai> I see there is no way shinohai can just donate the shares back to qntra and forget about it all. << you can prolly instruct jurov to sell them and donate proceeds to foundation say. << this is exactly the correct approach. this way we take a btc donation (tyvm!) and we continue to only hold M1
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: airgap will not help against tivoization.
jurov: mircea_popescu: 78
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ah in that sense yes. but it is STILL an intermediate product, far closer to actual src than binarysoup.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: After I finish latest piece in que digesting email
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: rotor takes you from bare metal (currently x86 and arm but potentially vax or whatever) to bitcoin.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trb's www
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if 'rule of law' were an actual thing, aha
PeterL: <deedbot-> [Trilema] MiniGame (S.MG), March 2016 Statement - http://trilema.com/2016/minigame-smg-march-2016-statement/ << mircea_popescu shouldn't the shareholder's equity change be -1.x instead of +1.x?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what did 'research' consist of there ? re-creating z80 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and guess what i do here at rupture farmz!
asciilifeform: phf: this goes back, again, to mircea_popescu's human-element. see the 'pulling the pin' thread from 2 wks ago
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is the basic principle of 'specificity of diddling' (for fuck's sake it needs a name)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how about c-s in place of ecdsa ?
asciilifeform: in other 'news', in my dream, mircea_popescu was camping in a tent in my house, and reading a dead tree copy of the logz summarized by somebody or other, and it was a thing on ancient yellowed paper, he cursed and spat and in the end tore it up and started smashing things, then went out the door and started firing some sort of energy weapon at the trees
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu i had a notion: if we're no longer holding the 'father's pistols' line, is there any good reason not to replace openssl in trb with, e.g., ada bignum ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have not forgotten the broadcast! it will appear tonight.
mircea_popescu: $gettrust deedbot mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: $gettrust mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: $gettrust mircea_popescu
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> what did your evaluator make of that line ? "i suppose i could be my own judas, bla bla" ? << well, yes, sometimes I just skim over half your statements
mircea_popescu: "<mircea_popescu> i suppose i could be my own judas, in a strange sort of kathar approach to it."
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> once the messiah comes back it's the end of the show << no, there's supposed to be a thousand year reign of Christ on earth before the whole thing is destroyed
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: has the /best/ drugs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: part of their mythology is that cn disassembles miscreants for spare parts (afaik this is not untrue, but the scale of it is exaggerated for effect)
asciilifeform: phf is learning mircea_popescu's problem-solving algo i see! l0l
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hm ok
asciilifeform: looks like mircea_popescu found the 200 ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how did you derive those rates?
davout: mircea_popescu: ty
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgvm23MWZU1qcesmoo1_1280.jpg << they have faces!!1111
phf: <mircea_popescu> [23:48:39] anyway, this entire "i don't understand what's << it's like the audience in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6q4n5TQnpA
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, I get a different checksum on your tar.gz >> 378914b4b8363d941252afc46ae5b9fdd8bf19f37cbc767f60057470000d6f2eca0ed0d7c822d8124e5396762df25d1dfa6a05173ae79eca2aa47ded5117548a tmsr-logs-apr2012-oct2013.txt.tar.gz
asciilifeform: pretty sure mircea_popescu is the closest we got to an archaeologist.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a tenbux uc
adlai: mircea_popescu: re "seems to me this coolness resolves no actual problem, just pushes the goop around.", this ends up just as bad as patching binaries directly, or worse, because it feels like you're just writing more source
BingoBoingo: Wait "<mircea_popescu> fwiw /msg ChanServ FLAGS #trilema deedbot +AOhiortv still works, so w/e." A string fleanode accepts contains "Ohio" and "tv" could this thing be more John Kasich
trinque: asciilifeform: wot is imported; mircea_popescu was setting l1
ben_vulpes: i do not understand mircea_popescu's selection criteria for the new l1, but i don't think i am given to.
asciilifeform: or it is already in, and mircea_popescu is doing l1-only autovoice ?? or wut
mircea_popescu: Feb 02 19:50:31 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: working on it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc 'civic' was an old honda.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i always wonder, why 'someone buy me', a .22 can be had in usa (where i assume this unfortunate creature lives) for < cost of 'ipod'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, mod6, et al : did jurov stop working as trb treasurer , coinbr operator ? i must have missed this ? 'cause i dun see him in the mircea_popescutronic list
ben_vulpes: interesting yeast sourcing, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: how does mircea_popescu even come across such a turd
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated deedbot 10 << It is indeed a bot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: w.j.cash's 'the mind of the south' describes interesting thing: how the p000rwhitez of the old south were in a historically unique position, where the elite ~did not need them for anything~, nor even bothered to hunt for sport, because they took up space that wasn't cotton or tobacco - enabled
deedbot: mircea_popescu has not rated deedbot.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu wants certainties fit for the godz, he'dve stuck to mathematics, no ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: negative to all 3. again, i only ~suspect~. when i pull the parachute cord, i also do not ~know~ that it will open.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the same sense the easter island folks were dumb
ben_vulpes: returning to 'boots on the ground', mircea_popescu raises a valid point about changing the interface on users. but the "it should restart on code change to tell users things changed" imposes a very painful, unnecessary constraint on diddling deployed systems.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sanity also includes ~actually specifying~ the fallover behaviours.
trinque: mircea_popescu: ^
deedbot: deedbot rated mircea_popescu 1
mircea_popescu: !lord mircea_popescu
trinque: mircea_popescu: ^ ?
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> check it out, ten bitcents buys you all four. << i bet it buys a good bit of hot air. 14yos ~lie~...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what means 'historical b-a' here ?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 hey man do you have bouncer logs of historical b-a ? << sadly, no. :/
phf: mircea_popescu: 26-04-2013
asciilifeform: but plox call things as they are, it is not erections that are scarce, but that mircea_popescu has only 1 cock afaik
asciilifeform: i still wish i knew what mircea_popescu means by 'erection is scarce'
phf: which returns 29-08-2015 14:14:55 <mircea_popescu> maybe you're right, and it's incidentals. or maybe lisp to the young mind is like meth-lsd
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ideally, they go in the form of renting time from a workshop wtf is this my garage is my workshop artisan thing. << Arises from the idea that public tools are icky
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://imgur.com/a/aKIww
asciilifeform: but increasingly i am convinced of mircea_popescu's point, 'ecosystem' of cockroaches is worse than none