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mircea_popescu: ninjashogun things you don't understand and things that are random don't share much common ground.
mircea_popescu: because correlation may not be causation, but definitely is an academic career
mircea_popescu: shaman sitting on the steps of white house. "and now president will come out" obama pops out. shaman "i control the presidency!!!1"
mircea_popescu: this entire "o hey, X event is exactly like Y dumbass article i found" is pretty cool tho.
mircea_popescu: and so if it misses a packet in there you just keep on typing n ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier so then what happens actually is that if you press a key it sends a packet over and if you depress it similarly
mircea_popescu: anyway, i know what you're saying, it's sensible, but also a very hard problem.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i didn't mean that color. i just meant, red prius roling headlights at white prius for being such a mainstream pos car.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do the gawker idjits figure they're any better than the ozarks idiots just through being a different color...
mircea_popescu: dude, that article's something else. buncha tiresome hippies rolling their eyes at b uncha tiresome fargo inhabitants.
mircea_popescu: Uh HUH!" Dan Witz's mosh pit paintings? "AbsoLUTEly!" This is actually a clever form of communications ju-jitsu, because, over time, you start adopting the same affectation just to fit in, until one day you hear yourself saying "That ghost tour was AMAZING!" and you wonder if you have lost your identity somewhere along Highway 86.
mircea_popescu: ss your heart" Southern affectation of intense, polite agreement with everything that makes a mockery of any attempt at challenging conversation. Even when Bucky started ranting about various street artists and why they are or are not sellouts, Berry would strenuously agree, despite the fact that—and I don't think I'm speaking out of turn here—the street art scene in Branson is rather limited. Banksy's new piece? "
mircea_popescu: "BRANSON, MO—Among the things that I dislike most in this world are patriotism, religion, tourist traps, country music, and the Walmart corporation. So I traveled to the one area of this nation that captures them all. It did not go as planned."
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 no. they have their cults and we have a culture.
mircea_popescu: probably wasted in the venue, but i do kinda see you as this barefoot preacher to the huns.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea, but the performance issue triggers my everpresend paranoid suspicion
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "And then divide by… uh, I think 5, because Pieter’s libsecp256k1 code is 5 times as fast as OpenSSL << honestly, at this point i'd want everyone to give a good look to libsecp256k1
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> wait, no, not purpose, causes! << lol selfpwnt
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> they didn't forget as much as were attracted by the *new shininess* in the first place. now new thing is shiny. <<< or, moreover, aren't even bitcoin in any sense. notice the earlier guy with his strange "irc is insecure" notions. he probably thinks he's involved. his choices and mental processes however do not reflect that.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> some jobs simply do not parallelize. << i have trouble coming to terms with this concept. wtf do you mean ? they'd better parallelize or else can't work on a turing machine
mircea_popescu: dude i go make some porn websites with stolen false names for five minutes and when i return the log scrolled off my desk
mircea_popescu: check it out, that's a choke ain't it. 2 on >200 1 on < 600
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i knew a guy who basically had a soundstage, because he wanted to record all his fucking sessions, which he then catalogued and manically preserved for old age.
mircea_popescu: btw, im kinda surprised none of the evil-overgovernment conspiracy theorists have identified the oecd as the mechanism.
mircea_popescu: hanbot wait, you got schizopersonalify disorder and ocde/whatever too ?
mircea_popescu: lmao how do you make it in here without wanting to bash people's heads in ?
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd rather go to some full contact sport thing than a shrink if the problem is violence.
mircea_popescu: it's not "impulse control", once she hands you your ass twice a week for a month
mircea_popescu: how about steve irvin, BingoBoingo ? that dude was too crazy to live.
mircea_popescu: and that without even considering the part where you were born before he got it.
mircea_popescu: i never heard of any man's post pancreatic lung cancer giving their offspring braindamage
mircea_popescu: trust is a feeling! investing is a +ev activity for the amateur, just like people make a profit growing tomatoes on their windowsil. sticks and stones could break your bones but words is what really matters. etc.
mircea_popescu: so much shit on people's eyes getting in the way of their finding a loaf of bread
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, mike_c dja feel like doing some writing for qrta ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c i don't think he was proceeding very calculatedly tbh.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the sad part here is that 15k youtube views took $300 * 3 * 4.2 = 3800 dollars' worth of this guy's time.
mircea_popescu: Tapeke is the first personal finance application specifically designed for Bitcoin. We help Bitcoiners to keep track of their Bitcoin expenses and incomes and ..." << you couldn't possibly mean that ?!
mircea_popescu: i was a producer for a bunch shots, but that was back in the 90s.
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting point tho. i guess for the vast majority of the public, bitcoin is this "cool tech", nobody stops to think bitcoin is actually a bunch of saudi princes.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin created what, 50bn worth of value out of the ether. didja think it all went into the usg budget or something ?
mircea_popescu: hm, irc chats are actually the pinnacle of trustworthy, you just don't know about how it all works yet.
mircea_popescu: Quinn_ how long does it take you to make one of these ? could you in principle bang out one a week if scripts were availabe ?
mircea_popescu: you can contact me through here and we can discuss it further.