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mircea_popescu: but im serious about the ocr and the text to speech. it can do the bulk of the work.
mircea_popescu: and prolly best to make it a page rather than a txt file. people want what they want when they click.
mircea_popescu: automate as much of it as possible and then automate the remainder. twice.
mircea_popescu: textifying all the pdfs/scans idiots dump online, as well as textifying audio/video are very legitimates avenues for qntra to add value
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you going to make that court document scan a text btw ?
mircea_popescu: the very definition of a rogue state is "one which construes itself more powerful than the private citizen"
mircea_popescu: “The government posits two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere to a strict standard of conduct construed by the government,” read a final filing Tuesday. “The other for the government, which, with its elastic ability to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly transgress those same standards.”
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the technicality known as "technically, i gotta eat, and these people are paying for it."
mircea_popescu: if and seems like were rowing in a boat. if if weren't there, seems like seems like'd have drowned.
mircea_popescu: or in romanian, "daca si cu parca se plimbau cu-o barca. daca daca nu era, parca parca se-neca".
mircea_popescu: gerstein addressing known shill, scammer and general clueless derp : "you're just like us! we love you here!"
mircea_popescu: "SENATOR GERSTEIN (1:50:40) Mr. Antonopolous, your reputation preceded you prior to your arrival. You may recall that in my introductory remarks, I did not introduce you as a Bitcoin guru, but as THE Bitcoin guru. I think that I could speak on behalf of all of the members of the committee in saying that you have more than lived up to that reputation. We greatly appreciate your presentation today. Thank you very much, t
mircea_popescu: cazalla dude this chick can write. let it not be said all qntra articles are short ever again lol
mircea_popescu: and it was pretty derpy/insane to boot. i mean literally, going by shops, telling random people that hey, this is as much a dollar as that.
mircea_popescu: something anyone with any sense could have told him will never float unless he also has an army.
mircea_popescu: and fuck whoever came up with the soap-rest false dichotomy, too.
mircea_popescu: but there's a bunch of them. the retarded crowd that does videos instead of articles tends to send links to them instead of plain text.
mircea_popescu: then everyone copied it. casetext.com in this exampole
mircea_popescu: google has this "document" format that's basically just a bunch of spurious javascript
mircea_popescu: now if only someone made a site that wasn';t a retarded ball of javascript
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> quite clever IMO, but no dice. sovereign immunity. << exactly.
mircea_popescu: there's not that many handlers, they drive cars, they have wives, it's a solved problem.
mircea_popescu: what/how much they paid him, but he won't answer that one.
mircea_popescu: if the code stops working you shouldn't have been using it in the first place
mircea_popescu: in cryptography, every constant's a salt. you're well advised to change ALL constants
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 you know how if you install wordpress you're supposed to change the pre-generated salt to something ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller possibly i brought it up here, but otherwise it's old scool.
mircea_popescu: so no, i'd trust anything nist/ieee/etc certified a lot less than i'd trust random shit.
mircea_popescu: you are in fact better off using homebrew than "well vetted", inasmuch as the western world is in denial about exactly what "well vetted" means as well as what "working towards stopping use for illicit activity" means
mircea_popescu: bounce except this would meet the definition of "well vetted" as commonly deployed.
mircea_popescu: that site's so funny, it's been declaring the world ends tomorrow so convincingly and for so long by now its only audience are people who actually factually believe the world ends tomorrow, each and every day. so there's this palpable atmosphere of
mircea_popescu: o which reminds me, did the doom zerohedge announced as a given manifest in the fx markets yet ?
mircea_popescu: they've already won the war on drugs, the war on poverty and the war on terrorism.
mircea_popescu: not particularly curious as to how that confrontation's gonna end out. seen too many tards try to spit up.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, bitcoin is working fro mstopping murck &co's illicit activities.
mircea_popescu: "fuck you and get used to making the laws you can enforce as opposed to making the laws your delusions require" ?
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps going to be the one thing economists of the future will be trying to keep in balance.
mircea_popescu: (hoarded btc) + traded btc = traded property + (hoarded property)
mircea_popescu: however, because bitcoin will be hoarded in general and transacted rarely, it is quite possible for there to appear a new macroeconomics equation :
mircea_popescu: superficially, if one thinks btc is a drop-in replacement for fiat (which it isn't, just like car isn't exactly a drop in replacement for tricycle) one'd expect the same to hold
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have a good answer. on one hand, fiat currency can never meet the total asset value, for very well understood reasons.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: i suppose it's possible for bitcoin to be worth more than all the transactable equity in the world <<< this is actually one of the largest, most interesting questions in bitcoin finance.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mike_c well i guess it got deleted meanwhile. it just said "owned like a pony" or something
mircea_popescu: add the full minutes as an add-on file to be linked from your article for the perennially curious
mircea_popescu: princessnell_ the one he published or the one he acutally gave ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so it turns out deedbot got haxed. << deets? << someone put a random deed up there, i linked it above the comment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (put a bullet through a long-overdue zombie) << zombie being what, people running gentoo through an emulator on windows ?
mircea_popescu: it's one thing doing news pieces because that's the news. but people writing blogs aren't doing newspieces, they're doing editorial, and the news burnout is a century old, well known and documented mode of failure for editors.
mircea_popescu: soon enough all the forced writing kills your spark and then you're dead.
mircea_popescu: the problem with drinking the coolaid and starting to perceive yourself as "of a field" is that you end up with this obligatory slag.
mircea_popescu: no argument, but let's not forget they aren't in the world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these are also not pure categories in nature. their distinction follows tradition
mircea_popescu: these aren't distinguishable in the field. the nominal distinction follows mood or at best tradition.
mircea_popescu: which is why business has the concept of "knew or should have known". cuz it makes exactly no difference whether he "actually" knew.
mircea_popescu: the female ability to reclassify rape as consensual and consensual as rape and to negotiate her own presence in the circumstances of her being does exactly jack shit for any discussion of reality.
mircea_popescu: half of leningrad died in one night because a bunch of people "weren't really doing" what they were doing.