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mircea_popescu: like... suppose there's
a club of shitbathers, who seek out filthy stables and other animal warehouses to bathe in the crap
mircea_popescu: they are proceeding on
a radically different sort of abstraction than the number-servants
mircea_popescu: i have
a set of three articles in romanian laying the foundation for understanding this and many other bullshits.
decimation: yeah electronics have to come in
a box with irrelevant art
mircea_popescu: it is not nearly as silly as it seems. there's
a fundamental tension at work.
mircea_popescu: they're "professional" which really is just
a shoddy translation of "civilised", ie, part of the polity
mircea_popescu: it's
a fundamental function of language, this symbolism.
BingoBoingo: decimation: That seems to be
a common lesson.
decimation: taught me
a lesson I will never forget
decimation: unfortunately I lost
a much bigger stash
a few years ago when my hard drive died
BingoBoingo: I think I'm going to try sealwithclubs, been about 9 months since I've been there. Maybe I can make
a profit or two.
mircea_popescu: and in general, we could have been
a subcategory of their culture much like they ended up
a subcategory of ours.
BingoBoingo: When aircraft carriers are
a tenth of
a BTC, I might pick one up and start an ocean voyaging farm
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess this makes
a case for chemistry as being
a somewhat acceptable surrogate for food.
decimation: There is something about the West that breeds
a certain creativity that is absent in the far East
decimation: this guy is
a hero to the amateur radio guys - he's making is own open-source codec for low bitrate speech
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm juggling 8 tasks, but is there
a bounty on the post key apocolypse novel?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the novel of "how will SE look in
a post-key apocalypse" could be an interesting novel.
decimation: on the other hand, you could argue that "IS-95" is
a "format" and Qualcomm camps out on that with their custom crapware
ozbot:
A Mathematical Proof Too Long To Check - Slashdot
BingoBoingo: I imagine Satoshi is
a lurker in this chan, never speaking, but simply logging the lols
mircea_popescu: simply because there's
a collection of idiots rather than
a single idiot.
mircea_popescu: we are today right here in this chan in
a much softer seat than satoshi ever was
mircea_popescu: by the time they're done they will have collected enough tidbits (such as this one) to actually make an alt with
a chance.
BingoBoingo: The simpler solution is to remember to grind spent but warm cigarette butts into the dirt when traversing
a tinderbox.
decimation: It seems to me that there would be some value in having
a multicast stream of blockchain updates
decimation: "Smoking tobacco is losing so it seems reasonable to ban smoking it even in your own car while driving through
a brushfire zone. Smoking marijuana is winning, so it doesn't seem like the ban on smoking in Laurel Canyon applies to dope."
nubbins`: “Health Canada had valid concerns” about the authorized license applications they were receiving last year, says Mr. Kennedy. Many displayed
a “lack of sophistication” about the medical marijuana industry, or had
a “lack of capital,” he says. The department “was concerned about the ability of new licence holders to meet demand.”
nubbins`: eating
a tomato will never be equally as enjoyable as smoking
a joint :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know wells fargo was originally
a stagecoach company ?
kakobrekla: well everything in this fuckin universe comes with
a finite lifespan
mircea_popescu: after paypal offers transparent exchanging into and from bitcoin to anyone with
a paypal account we won't even KNOW what the exchange rate is anymore.
mircea_popescu: and given the horridly ineptitude of the tech people + the horridly dishonest ineptitude of the "business" people involved in the "market" let's call it for lack of
a better term of interfacing bitcoin and fiats
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You wrote before on the subject of stolen credentials like credit card numbers making
a poor currency due to their short lifespan.
mircea_popescu: this, prior to bitcoin was the most valuable and only valuable thing to keep on
a server.
nubbins`:
A+++++++++++ WOULD INVEST IN :0
ThickAsThieves: from that Ebay vid: ""You can use digital currencies in the paypal digital wallet, that's in fact what PayPal is doing is building
a digital wallet that can take multiple types of currencies." - John Donahue, CEO of eBay."
cazalla: young for
a stroke esp deadly one
the20year2: As
a quick FYI for RENT investors, we are persuing two individual properties currently.
ThickAsThieves: "thecoder behind Namecoin-QT and main dev of Huntercoin has passed away suddenly, aged 27 from
a stroke"
mircea_popescu: "I agree with his final point. We've done the technical approach. It was
a good effort, but if the theorising (I'm assuming that
a lot of this is theorising?) is true, we can't build our way out of this problem. We have to shut down organisations and programmes like this by bringing them to the light of day, and the only approach to that is political."
Jere_Jones: That's
a long time to work dead-end jobs.
Jere_Jones: My resume at 18 would have been dominated by KFC. He sounds like
a kid.
mircea_popescu: so you know, doing stupid shit is one thing, being
a tard is
a different thing.
Jere_Jones: I have never written
a resume, but if I had, it would have been dominated by Aviation Electronics Technician, US Navy.
Jere_Jones: I think I may be
a tard. I am certain that I was
a tard. I don't want to be
a tard in the future.
Jere_Jones: By recognizing that one is
a tard? Isn't that the first step to nontardism?
Jere_Jones: mircea_popescu Maybe add
a part at the end of your latest post about not being
a tard. "Steer clear of all tards. Don't be
a tard. That is all."
mircea_popescu: r and I then moved on to work for the Census (US Goverment) for about 1 month. Once I finished with that; I worked as
a call agent from home which included taking orders for multiple different companies. I also helped run
a company called FragCorner.net which was
a game server hosting company for 5 years. I believe that my exceptional customer service record is one of my key qualities that I can bring to you're store.
mircea_popescu: I am applying to be
a full-time employee at this location. Before moving to Lake City, FL; I worked as
a cashier and many jobs in Ocean Springs, MS. This includes 2 years at KFC/Long John Silver as there head cashier. After moving here to Lake City, FL I worked as
a DirecTV Technical Support agent at Sitel. I worked there for about
a year before moving on to Walmart in Lake City, FL. I worked at Walmart for about
a yea
davout: even localbitcoins has
a better engine...
mircea_popescu: also runs
a "buy twitter followers" and "generate fake testimonials" site
mircea_popescu: but srsly nao : the guy that made
a lolexchange which only matches exact price
davout:
a phishing e-mail pretending to be
a legitimate scam company, heh
pLambert: I got
a coinbase phishing email today. It was very convincing.
mircea_popescu: We are sorry for causing any inconvenience with this method. Please keep this in mind while trading, and that it's not
a bug but still being worked on while Crypto Rush is in Beta.
mircea_popescu: The trade engine will trade only with orders that match your desired trade rate. This means that if you submit an order with
a rate of .10, it will only match with other orders with
a rate of .10, not .12 or .08. There is no dynamic rate calculation present right now in the Crypto Rush trade engine.
mircea_popescu: "At present we experience difficulties with the e-mail server. The pool is transferred to
a mode of service and will be postponed for other hosting."
mircea_popescu: "totally agree. What dev will do for
a sample, if chain will have some bug and he still not got profit to pay real developer for fix?"
mircea_popescu: "Starting at 11, her polycystic ovary syndrome made her hair growth really dramatic, the Huffington Post reports. She tried shaving, bleaching, waxing twice
a week but nothing quite worked. In school, she was bullied, called names like "beardo" and "she-male," because people seem to think it's okay to act like
a complete fucking monster."
ozbot: Meet the Woman Who Straight-Up Rocks
a Beard
deadweasel: my mom had
a tennis coach for
a while, pretty sure they were fucking
deadweasel: KRS-One: The gulf is
a cesspool, yes. but it's MY cesspool ^_^