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mircea_popescu: maybe they start a new innovative coinplatfromscamderpage thing
mircea_popescu: and from what i recall reading about canadian politicians, it's n o wonder they invited him
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> does getting scammed fall under 'charitable giving' ? <<< yes. people charitably gave to neobee so that antonoscampulous could bum ciggs off people and derp before the candian senate.
mircea_popescu: princessnell they were discussing some testimony or w/e
mircea_popescu: which kinda explains the unholy proliferation of the "vlogger". derp that can't be bothered to write shit down because it's too much work, and so instead he wants everyone to see past his out of shape flesh and obnoxiously poor vocalisation. beause that's somehow not a lot of work.
mircea_popescu: how about you write a piece of bitcoin news and submit it to cazalla princessnell ?
mircea_popescu: mebbe qntra publishes a summary, then i can "watch" it too
mircea_popescu: lol this scamming the noobie carnie sounds so mark twain like.
mircea_popescu: e has got you into several sorts of trouble" << my question is, why one word per cycle ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Suppose you want to support strings and have a string comparison instruction. You might think that "it's done in the hardware", so it's blindingly fast. It isn't, because the hardware still has to access memory, one word per cycle. A superscalar/VLIW assembly loop would run just as quickly; the only thing you'd save is a few bytes for instruction encoding. On the other hand, your string comparison thingi
mircea_popescu: have trouble understanding your proposal - ordinary users will be easily bamboozled by a government sponsored security update. Further, when the crisis hits, to disagree with the line, to doubt that the regulators are right, and the problem is the evil speculators, becomes political suicide, as it did in America in 2007, sometimes physical suicide, as in Weimar Germany."
mircea_popescu: er, more serious, and more disastrous, as with the most recent one. Each attack is hugely successful, and after the cataclysm that the attack causes the attackers are hailed as saviors of the poor, the oppressed, and the nation generally, and the blame for the the bad consequences is dumped elsewhere, usually on Jews, greedy bankers, speculators, etc, because such attacks are difficult for ordinary people understand. I
mircea_popescu: "The big and easy government attacks on money target a single central money issuer, as with the first of the modern political attacks, the French Assignat of 1792, but in the late nineteenth century political attacks on financial networks began, as for example the Federal reserve act of 1913, the goal always being to wind up the network into a single too big to fail entity, and they have been getting progressively bigg
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> i don't really like the mr trololo treatment << this was re the seuss link
mircea_popescu: people with the drive to push the absurd quite very far, and with the means to actually do so irl rather than in their own minds/reddit pages.
mircea_popescu: and so the superman and the existentialist are both models of the late french aristocracy
mircea_popescu: well this is a very difficult question. but a good part of it is that nietzsche and sartre are not innovators except formally. fundamentally, they were retracing preexisting ideas,
mircea_popescu: i mean what, hollywood used it to establish just how speshul redford is to make sharon stone fucking him for money acceptable to the housewife in attendance
mircea_popescu: decimation you know who was talking on the cellphone back in those old days ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i am really excited about this thing, i hope it keeps up. it would be so awesome if i never had to look at coindesk again. << you have NO IDEEA how awesome this thing actually is
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> when's hanbot going to start contributing? << latest was hers neh ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because modern111!1111 browser won't build there << what is the "modern browser" for ?
mircea_popescu: myeah. funny how obvious the obvious is once the correspondingly larger sex-and-money processor is put to the task.
mircea_popescu: it's not nearly as smart as it would want to be. its direct equivalent would be "never rape anyone and enjoy being raped whenever it happens"
mircea_popescu: something something powerless people ?. ahem... fuck em ?
mircea_popescu: and the supposed benefits are not really that readily apparent. what's the benefit to beint tolerant supposed to be, again ?
mircea_popescu: apparently tolerance as in the libtard notion has a lot of drawbacks
mircea_popescu: as much as we'd all like to see little machine guns come out of the chassis and blow things away
mircea_popescu: fuck them, they should be thankful for this difficulty now, and humbly submit
mircea_popescu: and sure, the coindesks of the world will derp about how "xe has difficulty with bitcoin". so ?
mircea_popescu: build a machine from the ground up, that works like that.
mircea_popescu: whoever makes it, either makes it to spec or it won't work. period and enforced.
mircea_popescu: the correct solution is, only accept stuff that does x y z
mircea_popescu: the false dichotomy here being that either you apple (onlt accept stuff we made) or else foss (accept any turd)
mircea_popescu: you can't install airplane flaps on your car. somehow this is perfectly comprehensible. why should you be able to use a noncompliant usb stick ?
mircea_popescu: the converse, the expectation that everything is s upported, is insane.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing insane about refusing to support lunacy
mircea_popescu: they're belabouring on the outskirts of the fiat world still.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the "working group" hasn't yet heard of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> you can do minimalist without stooping to using browser defaults << i don't think that's stooping.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah can't be bothered. but also am not depressed.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it's generally the common refuge of the inept, to pretend that "if they wanted"
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> xanthyos, start a garden, makes the world of difference < << actually this is quite good advice.
mircea_popescu: dude everyone fancies themselves a "we" and a world creator
mircea_popescu: “That’s awful, but you gotta admit… hilarious!” Once again, high-fives all around. This is the world we have created.
mircea_popescu: such nonsense, really. people this frail have no business in the public view. take a mcd job and be happy there
mircea_popescu: 2. ignore them (they escalate, make your life more miserable, DDoS, ruin your career, etc. i.e. They Win) <<< wait, wut ?