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mircea_popescu: "Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony
as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants." aaaand we lose interest.
pete_dushenski: the neat thing about places (like edm) that are increasingly insane is that the definition of 'what's central' continues to expand
as the peripheries explode across the prairie landscape.
pete_dushenski: this 10-20 jump ahead of the 'cool' kids i've seen work here
as well. currently 50-60s neighbourhoods are the attractive ones for $profit here.
mircea_popescu: eh get out of here. it's not so simple
as all that. recall that famous japanese chick that fucked some dude to stick a stilleto in his brain because he had won a war / killed her father ?
danielpbarron: what I don't get is how the "cool guys"
as you put it don't mind that their girls have been "passed around"
trinque:
as apparently this is required.
mircea_popescu: whether she fucks them or not is immaterial, however. hence my recomendation of iran : he might discover that in a hundred smoking hot virgin babes, thereby fitting his bill
as stated, there's not a single one worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: "HPSCI had broadly stated that it could withhold any document containing unclassified discussion on any topic that had been considered in executive session during Plaintiff’s 17 years of service,
as opposed to protecting the substance of Committee proceedings. For instance, this allegedly would apply to any discussion of any budget issue at any time."
mircea_popescu: phf depends. you mean "the overdraft thing"
as a feature to serve you, or
as a feature to serve them ?
mircea_popescu: that's not what you most stand to lose. what you most stand to lose is this situation where you "lose it", and tell the bank to close it, which they won't, so have to be screamed at and threatened, so they "do", except they keep re-opening it
as the charges keep coming in, over ~years~.
mircea_popescu: but you know, the nightmare scenario is when seven+ figure account is linked to half a dozen cards which regularly pay for things such
as "dinner for six at chez victor".
thestringpuller: trinque: lemme rephrase; MPEx::Bitcion
as X::USD what is X? Obviously no bank qualifies there.
phf: asciilifeform:
as far
as i gather they have highest ground coverage of all banks on account of running the world, which means that i can get a no fee atm pretty much anywhere
a111: Logged on 2014-07-07 14:00 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'terminator seed' is actually a very intriguing instrument from the standpoint of the mega-state. solves the ancient problem of the peasants not really needing the state for much of anything (
as described in j. scott's 'the art of not being governed.')
mircea_popescu: his intentions may be,
as declared, good, or just
as well
as undeclared ill ; but in any case his perspective is misalligned.
mircea_popescu: where by so on i mean truly basic stuff such
as "what happens to a tub when you open the faucets and plug the drain ???"
mircea_popescu: anyway. gathering some data would lead us to FIRST think about "disease, poverty war". THEN after we've grown out of kindergarten and its infantile emotional responses, it would lead us to think about our priors, such
as "Every life is sacred", and so on.
mircea_popescu: finance discussion, like most discussion
as well
as practice in "civilised society" suffers from a pruned-middle problem.
mod6: this is mainly a learning device anyway.
as now I can take what i've learned here and apply it to the makefiles.
mircea_popescu: hey, there's good reasons not to use email
as "security"
mircea_popescu: pro tip : set up your own mailserver if you're going to use email
as a security token.
mircea_popescu: in other news i had drinks with the dominicans running the official bar of the hos do kids' day event ; will put pics up
as soon
as im done with this log
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 18:50 phf: well, there is the wot, though nobody here
as far
as i know is buying/selling. there was also bitcoin-otc, which from what i hear died. i actually tried buying 10btc from a guy that was in bitcoin-otc wot, but we were l3, and he understandably bulked
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 18:47 phf: Framedragger: i was saying hawala
as an alternative to bitcoin. that was when we were looking closely at the implementation and finding all kinds of insanity. hawala is a system for tracking long term exposure, and you forego collateral because you have "fuck same woman" wot (i suspect there's still collateral involved when exposure is too high). you don't need hawal when you have near instant calls.
danielpbarron imagines the lulz one might farm from laundering bitcoin first through ethereum or a similar scam,
as a step between coinbase and bitbet, to see if someone else gets stuck with the 'blacklisted' coinz
danielpbarron: znort987, that coinbase bans you should be seen
as a feature rather than a bug
phf: well, there is the wot, though nobody here
as far
as i know is buying/selling. there was also bitcoin-otc, which from what i hear died. i actually tried buying 10btc from a guy that was in bitcoin-otc wot, but we were l3, and he understandably bulked
☟︎ phf: Framedragger: i was saying hawala
as an alternative to bitcoin. that was when we were looking closely at the implementation and finding all kinds of insanity. hawala is a system for tracking long term exposure, and you forego collateral because you have "fuck same woman" wot (i suspect there's still collateral involved when exposure is too high). you don't need hawal when you have near instant calls.
☟︎ Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-14#1521460 << this to me seems to be a confusion between metaphysical and epistemological relativism. "what green is to me" is more to do with the latter, and cannot be used to support full-blown idealism (
as in berkeley), or "there are multiple universes", or anything else which has specific *metaphysical* commitments.
☝︎ danielpbarron: i don't even care for the term universe; it's usually used
as a replacement for God, personified and everything ala "the universe did X"
mircea_popescu: ah, not so simple
as all that. depends what mood i wake up in et all.
mircea_popescu: in any case it is much better to have food, kill you slowly and the quod me nutrit bridge than just repeat 餐飲 until you fall down and then be worshipped
as a very wise man - hey, 5k yo wisdom "directly applicable" today.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't go
as far
as that. but not entirely unfamiliar.
mircea_popescu: (but yes, the fact that the dos did NOT put into obama's files the observation that the "labour" dispute in silicon valley was chinese driven test run is exactly the sort of thing that feeds my spite for the whole of usg
as a "state". it's a state like a collection of mahjongg players is a state.)
mircea_popescu: whether you have or don't have a clue
as to the economic process involved isn't related to my having or not having one. you can't simply run around turning any statement into any random converse, what sort of javascript is this!
mircea_popescu: yes. but the process itself is cheap, and the chinese will proceed to pirate.
as per above.
mircea_popescu: yes, yes, i get it : life is a contest for life, and you have your favourite horse. this is fine. the important point here however isn't so much "what trump can accomplish" but "mp is
as far
as the internet can tell trump's campaign strategist. because no one other has better proof."
mod6: <+mod6>
as soon
as there is a non-us wot-enabled btc provider... i might think about a bare metal thing for this. << i may not wait for this... i dunno, will have to see.
mod6:
as soon
as there is a non-us wot-enabled btc provider... i might think about a bare metal thing for this.
mircea_popescu: so doris duke was this rando slut inheriting some decent chunk of change from the guy who owned lucky strike. she did all sorts of things, including funding duke university. then she died and left a will, naming her butler
as executioner, leaving duke 10mn and stipulating that anyone contesting the will is to get nothing.
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
as we were discussing probate lulz in the us recently :
mircea_popescu: i've been kinda waiting for the proper greek drama of "hitler
as the executor of his own demise through countering his allies' enmity
as best he can"
mircea_popescu:
as proven by the fact that they have to date meaninglessly squandered ~5 fortunes.
mircea_popescu: ie, some definitions of stupidity require universal poverty.
as for instance documented re argentina.
mircea_popescu: "what kind of house can i build if you and your wife aren't seated on a couch watching tv
as we build the walls around you!!!1"
mircea_popescu: (the agreement i inferred to have with phf
as a result of that statement was "it's not even clear what sort of hyperexponential is involved, it grows so fast". we don't have any sort of upper bounds.)
mircea_popescu: i said "phf the problem becomes rapidly complex
as the tasks involved go above "i would like my snatch to not stink"". this is a statement of the nature of, "geometry becomes rapidly longer
as the number of possible dimensions goes above 1". you said "and i never for a moment disagreed with 'snatch stinks? yer poor & stupid'". this is a statement of the nature of "if you only describe one dimension, you suck at geometry". thi
mircea_popescu: the number 4 in there isn't comparable to the number 4
as you compared it ; they're different things.
mircea_popescu: generally complexity-reducing rules are for instance much more effectual
as a class than ~anything else.
mircea_popescu: phf the problem becomes rapidly complex
as the tasks involved go above "i would like my snatch to not stink"
mircea_popescu: mno. if it ever makes sense to say "i am poor", in whatever context, for whatever reason, EVER ; it then therefore and for this reason
as sole and sufficient it also makes sense to say "i am stupid".
mircea_popescu: again - the test is given. what, you expect this to be resolved from hitler's own throne, administratively and universally,
as if somehow universal knowledge is possible ?
mircea_popescu: that you'd be living there
as opposed to, say, argentina, while entertaining these ridoinculous "not all poor people are imbeciles" delusions is pretty nutty in itself.
mircea_popescu: it's consistently going to deliver ; not
as greatly
as the heights of fiction, true, but rarely
as poorly
as its pits.
ben_vulpes: mnno, these are not for repair, but for migration to
as the oldest give out
mircea_popescu: James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk "Adriana's essential vacuity, central
as it is the film's point, doesn't give us enough to hold onto, so by the time the narrative is winding its way to its climax, everything has blurred into one long rush of nothing."
BingoBoingo: It's a brand.
As much
as marketing is a scam, branding does matter.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kinda got nixed ; but if there's an artist in audience, mebbe i can get bb to reconsider. << Would also break Qntra's branding history. Perhaps if someone wanted to start an "Online Culture Magazine" it may have a place in the header of that
as per
http://trilema.com/the-boy-blog-network mircea_popescu: and i'd just
as well like to have it well exposed and catalogued to bitchslap the gwern-ish wikipedia/lesswrong/niceonline beta bois and assorted imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: problem is the seal relies on a certain environment. to work it requires a population of mit engineers "
as they pretend to be" rather than "
as they are"
mircea_popescu: very similarly to how i fully intend to jack off once. just
as soon
as i have occasion.