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mircea_popescu: (note
that whatever you ask you get no less socialism. if someone asked
the gurlz if
they wanted
the job,
they'd have said no,
they'd prefer
to dick around on smartphones, upvoting each other on social media. net result - still
tb.)
mircea_popescu: it's not like
the mold WANTS
to grow in your bathroom.
gribble: Error: We broke
The Google!
shinohai: It worked out of
the box for me, literally
took 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: course iirc phf released a patch version including basic
theme and pre-tweaked most knobs.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 07:52 mircea_popescu: anyway, phf stood it up in
ten minutes, which i'd expect
to be
typical, with
the occasional alfexception.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 07:59 ben_vulpes:
the prefuckingcise reason i am not making
the investment in mp-wp at
this moment is because i am paying a debt on
the virtualization
tool choise.
shinohai: afaik
there is no 12-step program for Ether huffers, unless
they come here for
treatment.
BingoBoingo: At least I didn't resort
to
trying
to use ether on it.
BingoBoingo: Why do you
think I drank? I was
trying
to clean
the crap pop culture out.
shinohai: Nah
that sly edit was very clever, I like it.
mircea_popescu: not like someone couldn't MAKE one, for
that matter. fine way
to learn about governance i say.
mircea_popescu: and yeah, i wish it were around
too, but i guess we can't have everything.
mircea_popescu: put another way : a)
the mecca of "topical fiction" bullshit yields less money
than it costs
to buy a house, don't bother ; us
tort law and practice is
the lulz of all
time.
mircea_popescu: and in other news : oj simpson may or may not have killed his nonconsensually slutty wife and some schmuck named ronald.
that schmuck's family did in fact win a civil award of 33.5 mn. of
the sum owed,
they collected a few hundred k's, which consist entirely of...
the royalties from a ghostwritten book. "if i did it: confessions of
the killer".
mircea_popescu: sadly at
the
time i didn't have a blog, nor
truth be
told any interest in "the world" generally speaking. so
the notes will forever sit.
mircea_popescu: did you for instance know
that
they mostly died of
tuberculosis, which
they mostly acquired
through
the "kiss of death", which was
the procedure whereby
they'd load
the
thread in
the machine needle kissing it ? "went faster", not
to mention female masochism.)
mircea_popescu: (the interested reader is invited
to follow my steps
through lowell and
teh greater merrimack river valley,
to dig
through
the history of 1800s "industrial" culture, ie, large nunneries filled with girlies presented a whole new sort of religion.
mircea_popescu: "if i let bill work remotely he might who knows, fuck his wife! whereas
this amd is safe, it'll just sit
there."
mircea_popescu: what puritan idiocy is
this whereby
things may be
trusted with human attributes because... what,
they reliably won't engage in sins of
the flesh ?
ben_vulpes: i had no idea what i'd bought at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: very strange
to me
that
the same people who fiercely resist employee not showing up for office hours cheerily embrace ... fucking office furniture not showing up.
mircea_popescu: i never quite understood
the appeal of "virtualiation".
ben_vulpes: and with an unprovisioned server slowly grinding
towards utility i am /already ridiculously safer/
than running virtualized.
mircea_popescu: cash is safer
than plans,
though, in
that context (which is a very sensible context i might add).
ben_vulpes: the interest doesn't sting quite as badly when you've a plan and wait for
the right moment.
ben_vulpes: the prefuckingcise reason i am not making
the investment in mp-wp at
this moment is because i am paying a debt on
the virtualization
tool choise.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but as a heuristic, "things which will have
to be done anyway are best done right now."
mircea_popescu: in
this sense
tool investment exposes one
to a sort of reverse-interest.
mircea_popescu: after 3 years of not having it, what you saved was still
the one
time cost of having it ; but what you lost is
the incremental cost of all
the
things you didn't get
to have
mircea_popescu: but
the
thing is - if you had it, you couild write your piecve, add value
to your life.history and
therefore future. if you don't have it - you can't.
mircea_popescu: not like it's going anywhere. however,
the important point is
that absence of
tools actually limits your life in a very drastic manner.
ben_vulpes: (also did anyone notice
that
the malaysian project is being performed under
the civil forfeiture statutes?!)
ben_vulpes: anyways i have several mega housekeeping chores in between here and
trying mp-wp for myself.
mircea_popescu: anyway, phf stood it up in
ten minutes, which i'd expect
to be
typical, with
the occasional alfexception.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: well not yours, but
the
thing shared around lo
these weeks ago
ben_vulpes: last i recall you said something
to shinohai about scripts or documentation?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: so does
that
thing work?
ben_vulpes: but
the
thought of running
the org2blog export process for 120 seconds every
time i want
to
tweak something
mircea_popescu: anyway,
they prolly bought swag, crack and bitcoin for
the whole sum already. as per
the ancient "borrow all you can,
trade
the shiatola for proper currency, disappear."
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
there's no piece yet even
ben_vulpes: i) "sovereign wealth fund" issues bonds since
the usg performed some kind of backflip and
the phrase meant something other
than "giant pile of cash sucked out of
the earth"
mircea_popescu: on
the other hand,
the "crypto-contract", fit in head or not, is just an avatar of lazy
thinking, much like any amulet. ignorant nonsense and no more.
ben_vulpes: pockets of everyone on staff 3) gosh
this could be over 2000 words
ben_vulpes: anyways
this malaysian
thing is hilarious and interesting on several other axes as well: 1)
the malaysian government is nowhere mentioned in
the pr-wank 2) if one accepts
the usg narrative, gs is an obvious stooge of *someone* in
the play due
to not doing dd adequate
to determine
that bond monies were going
to an organization with inadequate controls
to keep
the money from draining immediately into
the
ben_vulpes: this machine is not log for
the living.
mircea_popescu: working
together,
they manage
the spoke-in-wheel
trick all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: but irl it happens because on
that bike,
there isn't ONE person riding.
there's
two : a bodybuilder with no head pedalling and
the brainbox+spinal column of a cubical drone with no flesh.
ben_vulpes: dude
the past week has raised my shits given about ethereum from zero
to like a half
mircea_popescu: or if you prefer,
take vietnam war, amply studied (in english, i mean) application of
the stupidity. grunts
that just wanna get out alive and brass
that has "political considerations" results in a resounding military defeat.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 00:44 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511937 << oh, "color revolutions" dun work ?
tell you what, we'll steal your country's exports and with
the proceeds finance an alt-country we'll pretend is realy your country. ha-ha!
mircea_popescu: the intermingling of
these results in a billion dollars in cash misplaced in middle east and a hundred million misplaced online.
mircea_popescu: lizards imagine
themselves better
than bitcoin.
the
tim swanson error.
mircea_popescu: he just did what was
told. inexplicably
things happened.
mircea_popescu: he lacks
the capacity of ownership much like goat lacks
the capacity
to sing.
ben_vulpes: but
the notion of a "fits in head" ethereum contract boggles
the mind, so.
ben_vulpes: utterly fucking hilarious
to me
that buterin hosed his own
thing
to fix poorly implemented scripts by others
mircea_popescu: epic example of
the whole "oh, etherape you say ? i vaguely recall some
things which
therefore clearly don't matter and also it proves stupidity pays!"
BingoBoingo: Who even knows anymore. I
thought noo rape was refusing
to sex a fat chick because
that denies zher sexual agency.
dvsdude: so on bitcoin
talk. MP is and I quot " He is one of
the most feared men in bitcoin." ....congrats I guess
mircea_popescu: apparently "unfair" cuts both ways. what's more, one of
them is entirely ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely imagine how much it must burn
teh lizards,
that
the shit stopped working.