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mircea_popescu: "worth a dollar each up
to a
total of fiddy bucks ;
there's
ten million circulating"
mircea_popescu: actually
thestringpuller has a decent piece on some other scamcoin explaining how
this "per
token value with a cap" works. what was it called, steaming-pile-of-shit ? something like
this.
mircea_popescu: it's
the official value attached
to
the entirely worthless bundle of
tokens in question.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 15:10 asciilifeform: why bother with
the etherape
thing only
to release
the mouse, still alive and well, from
the mousetrap later ?
mircea_popescu: you forgot yest's discussion re
this
thing ? fine, ill dig it up
BingoBoingo: "I get your point, but I'm in central North Carolina where we generally don't have water shortage problems, and I don't really want my side yard
to become a swamp and mosquito breeding ground. "
BingoBoingo: "They are dumb and giving you free water. I would make a wetlands, build a pond, or divert it all
to a new garden. I'd also
threaten
to sue and demand
they fund said project.
That way you get a water source and a new garden installation."
mircea_popescu: laughing, flying
through
the air - it's a can of soda. Have you ever been standing
there and you're watching
TV and you're drinking
the exact same product
that
they're advertising right
there on
TV, and it's like, you know,
they're spiking volleyballs, jetskiing, girls in bikinis and I'm standing
there - "Maybe I'm putting
too much ice in mine."
mircea_popescu: The bad
thing about
television is
that everybody you see on
television is doing something better
than what you're doing. Did you ever see anybody on
TV like just sliding off
the front of
the sofa with potato chip crumbs on
their face? Some people have a little
too much fun on
television:
the soda commercial people - where do
they summon
this enthusiasm? Have you seen
them? "We have soda, we have soda, we have soda", jumping,
thestringpuller: hey! if
the streets can
teach you anything it should be, "you can't
turn a ho into a housewife"
mircea_popescu: how do
they buy a house ? "oh wouldn't
this be a great house if it were a great house ?" "you don't get
title,
the credit
terms are insane,
the interest is massively overpriced, you give away all negotiating position and
the house is a shitfarm in a shithole" "YES BUT IF!"
mircea_popescu: how do
they get married ? "oh, wouldn't
this woman be hot if she were hot ?" "she's a neurotic mess, and unable
to stand on her own" "yes but IF!"
thestringpuller: oh yea. in
this scenario it seems like
there were many decisions made without evaluating potential aftermath.
mircea_popescu: no, more of "fuck, if we
try a fork and we get overrun we're fucked - not only
the legal mess we're in doesn't improve, but we lose control altogether"
thestringpuller: aha. so more of
the embracing of failure (if it so happens), and learning from it.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever succeeded yet in
the history of human life but by avoiding failing.
mircea_popescu: if it were avoidance of failuire per se, at least it'd be something. but it is avoidance OF
THE REPRESENTATION of failure. it's not
that
they
try not
to fail ;
they
try
to not
think about failing in any way.
thestringpuller: to
the point i
think people actually dress up failure as "success"
thestringpuller: reminds me of an article I read about "successful people" and
that when you read a success story you only read about
their successes, not
their failures.
the avoidance of failure in
this culture is profound.
mircea_popescu: that's where "nobody could have predicted" cuts in : nobody
THAT WAS A GOOD SOCIALIST DERP could have predicted, because in order
to be a socialist derp it is verboten
to consider
the downside. of anything.
mircea_popescu: this however leaves
them very fucking exposed, because
they wet panties over "oh, hard fork ethereum will set such great example!!1eleven". it will. for whom ?
mircea_popescu: nah, it's a very strict "look at
the upside only" nonsense, which is what passes for "critical
thinking" in
the usg concentration camp. and HAS
TO, it's not
that usg is evil, is
that
the stupidity of
the muppets in a socialist state IS REQUIRED.
they MUST only see
the upside, else
their entire nonsensical "State" stops working.
BingoBoingo: Which is all fine when its your own
things but when you
tell other people you are doing
this
thing
to
their
things it gets messy
thestringpuller: i attribute
this
to lack of patience. everyone jumps
the gun, instead of "wait and see approach".
The Silicon Valley approach
to "move quick and break
thigns as long as you make fake money" seems
to be infecting
the entire world.
mircea_popescu: obv next week it'll be all "oh we never said eth fork worked and
therefore bitcoin should blablabla". BUT
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no but he gotta learn
the importance of giving
the idiots
time
to invest
themselves in
the wrong side of
the dispute.
thestringpuller: looks like
the classic chain is picking up hashpower. difficulty is skyrocketing.
mircea_popescu: re
that : imagine
the lulz when a)
turns out
the miners attack
the "good" fork ; and b)
the legal liability on
the head of mit discussed yesterday STILL DOESNT GO AWAY.
BingoBoingo: Someone actually did
the numbers on shootings over some period of
time. Poor white males get shot most, as
they always have been.
BingoBoingo: Actually I
though
the stats came out and blacks WEREN'T shot more often. Now
they were beat more often and suffered every other many of humiliation far more often, but
the rate of shooting was
the same.
mircea_popescu: all in all i'd guess 1/4 is just about fair, really, but from
this level of zoom-out
the queen of england seems somewhat hot and hilary clinton seems like she might have a chance.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller because
they're poorer, which makes
them more frequently be in
the kill zone (do man-hours spent being a ghetto prop for each pop and see) ; and cowardlier, which makes
them more frequently misproject
their
threat footprint. (ie, whites carry concealed or discreetly, loaded weapons ; blacks carry visibly and loudly unloaded, often not even functional, or useful weapons - cue
the derp with
the assault rifle in
BingoBoingo: Has aspies, black man named Charles,
too many lulz almost
to be purely coincidental
thestringpuller: that's an interesting point. how is it
that blacks are shot more often
than
their majority counterparts?
mircea_popescu: 9 is nonsense also, but
too complicated sociology involved
to be worth
the stating.
mircea_popescu: there's only 1/9 or so black dudes around in
the us, prolly even less seeing how illegals are mostly non black and blacks don't have enough skillz
to even be illegal in
the first place. so
then 1/4 ain't enough.
mircea_popescu: "8.
The police are more likely
to attack black suspects
than whites. Untrue. [Look,
Tyrone 4
times as many pale faces are killed by pigs every year
than are blacks." <<
this is a broken argument. if
there's one baby and a hundred sluts and
the police kills one baby and one slut, it is
therefore fair
to say
the police is more likely
to attack babies
than sluts.
thestringpuller: in other lulz, Emin Gün Sirer, has gone full derp now.
Tweets: "Anyone can fork any chain at any
time."
mircea_popescu: "This year, so far, I have completed and published 36
titles and hope
to wrap up eight more next month." << da fuck ? what's at work here, does he
title his paragraphs individually ?
there's enough articles
to fill maybe half a book, is he not publishing most of his material ?
mircea_popescu: "Charles informed me
that my name is mud on something called reditt, a big reposting site." << lol nb.
thestringpuller: Then
they begin
to attack
the competing chain, so where is
the moral high ground now?
thestringpuller: okay so
they fork but still
try
to keep
the moral high ground
thestringpuller: All
the ether and DAO huffers were like, "We are just doing
this cause we have no other choice! We have
to fork cause Vitalik
told us Ethereum dies if we dont!"
BingoBoingo: I kinda wonder why
they don't sew a mesh into
themselves and use
their Beetus as a fuel cell
to charge phone.
mats: (i refer
to
the white cables in
the first photo)
mats: i presume
they're plugged into an external battery, since
the
thing eats power like a motherfucker?
mod6: <+shinohai> ;;later
tell mod6 experiment was successful << oh hey! didn't see
this before.
thanks!
mircea_popescu: "car" is also not
toxic, unless large concentration in your liver.
mats: ok, ok, 'Immediately Dangerous
to Life or Health Concentrations (IDLH)'
mats: i'm reading on a cdc site
that halon is approx. as
toxic
to humans as co2
mircea_popescu: nah, people stupid enough were born in
the age of praxiteles.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-24 02:32 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
thinking about it,
there were historical attempts
to morph clockwork into "escapist
tech". some idiots were literally
tryingm
to make
tin women, hence story of gepeto and such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: it never
took off,
the suspension of disbelief required
too great i guess.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
thinking about it,
there were historical attempts
to morph clockwork into "escapist
tech". some idiots were literally
tryingm
to make
tin women, hence story of gepeto and such nonsense.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's an iffy cheese, one of
the few
that do not age period. about as bad as seafood.