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mircea_popescu: it may surprise the esteemed audience to find that i have never ever done laundry, in any capacity. not
as much
as load a load into a machine.
mircea_popescu: moreover, his notions of paul graham
as the victim scarcely meet yours. for that matter mine - it is rare to see a confessed ponzi fraudster go free to "advise" young people on "their careers".
mircea_popescu: ie, irc is what "social media" idly pretends to have been. notwithstanding that digg and myspace went away,
as reddit and facebook will go away. irc has been here throughout, and will probably see the successor websites putting forth the same sort of plowing flies idle pretensions. for idiots to believe ; and everyone else to laugh.
shinohai: Though I could just move to Colombia and start a harem,
as you suggest
mircea_popescu: the only burden of proof is on ridiculous short man with napoleon delusions giving god ultimatums and then pretending the "burden of proof",
as if such a thing could even exist in the nonsensical context, is on this or that.
mircea_popescu: burden of proof applies to meaningful statements. there's no burden of proof here,
as this inference isn't even wrong.
mircea_popescu: unlike fiat, there specifically ISNT
as much of this
as anyone could ever need.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:45 mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don't have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not,
as a factual matter,
as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's not even altogether clear there CAN be such a thing
as a bitcoin-equivalent of the fiat money market. yes, problems of all sorts, yes yes yes. and yet - what's he to do ?
mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don't have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not,
as a factual matter,
as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, little difference between idiot putting bitcoin into bitfinex and idiot putting bitcoin into canadian lottery. but this is not the same
as saying "we shall now has smart contracts bitbet"
a111: Logged on 2016-03-14 16:33 phf: nubbins`: it's a shame that you chose this approach for your denouncement. some people are here (myself, maybe ascii) not to make money, but to fuck around with novel ways of doing things. it would've been nifty if,
as a "lord" if you will, you picked up the game and made your accusations formal, maybe solicited a judge from the wot, made it interesting somehow! you don't have to obviously, but the approach that you chose was basic and
mircea_popescu: covertress
as we don't know each other, we have nothing to discuss "in private". public will work jus' fine.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 21:41 danielpbarron: seems to me the news is now broke-- whatever the details. Not that the qntra competitors are gonna link to trilema logs
as their source.. but still
mircea_popescu: lol nice story though, guy worth 1/4bn is going to bother with 15k piddly us dollahs. this is almost
as good
as "we found a street hooker who's willing to swear she was a hotel maid and the european central bank prresident did vague things to her. honest!"
mircea_popescu: re danielpbarron 's thing : yes, the texts do not support the reading of leviathan
as demon. it is beast ; a sort of cow, or hippo or what have you.
pete_dushenski: kim was harped on for being hairy ? this is nooz to me. i thought she just got sassed for being,
as chappelle would say, a nigger-lover.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the clinton ticket is such nonsense to anyone not-a-pleb. the one thing obvious is things can't continue - how to let steam out, where etc are debatable, but her utterly mccain-ish notion of "all is well" smacks of such senile delusion
as can scarcely be put into words.
mircea_popescu:
as per the quote, "sfondami tutta! prendi mia figlia! te la faccio sverginare!"
pete_dushenski: i recall the thread. it was persuasive
as to the difficulty of the cut. in the end, 'scammer' is probably an accurate tag for bitbet's new owner.
danielpbarron: seems to me the news is now broke-- whatever the details. Not that the qntra competitors are gonna link to trilema logs
as their source.. but still
☟︎ pete_dushenski: contravex seems like a better spot for the emails, qntra can pick it up after
as nyooz
danielpbarron: I can see why the levianthan would be particularly hard to accept, seeing
as how the thing is supposed to currently be alive in the ocean, whereas many of the other far-fetched sounding things in The Bible are supposed to have only existed long ago
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 16:16 mircea_popescu:
as it dislodges the meat robots from their comforts and forces them into towns.
mircea_popescu: he has the strong excuse no bitcoin was there. but the main problem of bitcoin
as "foss" is precisely this - that various idiots think they may change things.
mircea_popescu: such
as "in lowering the perceived barrier to entry, encourages idiots and degrades median code quality" ; "in encouraging writing over reading, it plays to software's weaknesses against its strengths" scl
mircea_popescu: "car goes through your house" requires "other way provider" to recognize car owner
as boss.
mircea_popescu: his "car could go there some other way" requires car user to recognize "other way provider"
as boss.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the incomprehensible mists were him, not you. who the hell knows what's in the box of a guy who does such contradictory things
as alf pointed out. i wouldn't risk much on the theory we share any mythology, and it's not even directly evident gabriel_laddel actually lives meaningfully related to the human condition.
mircea_popescu: well, it certainly is much more effective when stuck with the apparent incomprehensible mysts,
as seen here.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519202 << it's kind of a pun, i think of systems design
as landscape traversal. i think there are frequently paths,
as is the case here, that hit multiple design goals and have lower overall complexity, better than a seemingly direct path, that has a hidden high complexity. abstract discussions about ideological goals, that don't take into account design space traversal can be resolved by actual taking
☝︎ mircea_popescu: that is the policy. any opposition to this, such
as "we're now calling niggers afroamerican" or such
as "naggum redefined OPEN() to work on his system" is EXACTLY the same thing,
mircea_popescu: it's not that i chose not to redefine sink
as toilet. is that my sink CAN NOT BE so redefined.
mircea_popescu: wouldja stop with the fetishism ? "without money" == "dumb
as rocks" and nothing else. not now, not during roman judaeea.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: my understanding of the present situation is that the linux kernel is here to stay,
as it is a result of the way that the cee machine works, and contains drivers for a bunch of useful hardware
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: it is not yet clear
as I don't know enough about the kernel to know if I can do away with the whole "user space" thing.
phf: asciilifeform: i don't know why gabriel_laddel is saying what he's saying. truetype has already been rewritten in lisp, and that's what mcclim uses for fancy truetype rendering. it's expensive
as hell, and equally pointless.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel hey, they're people, with a brain right ? can benefit from discussion of this
as any other topic.
gabriel_laddel: were I in charge of fundraising, I'd not be doing it
as an anon anyways but rather calling syscog, ravenspack etc and trying to get donations in the 10ks rather than pocket change, but w/e
mircea_popescu: i know of no us-born individual of similar accomplishment
as that armenian.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Ketamin used in us hospitals increasing
as alternative to general anesthesia because lolwyers