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ascii_deadfiber: ben_vulpes: distance is not especially good metric. ever been
to baltimore?
ben_vulpes: current enclave is not particularly monied.
there is a
trailer park less
than a quarter mile away.
ben_vulpes: but i suppose
this falls under "where you live, color of skin"
mircea_popescu: depends, what's legal and illegal in
the states varies a lot by where you live,
the color of your skin, whether you're married
to one woman or just live with half a dozen etc.
diana_coman: I
think it might even be illegal in
the US if I'm not mistaking? (kid alone in
the street coming/going
to school)
mircea_popescu: of course i've not seen any kids with
the
threaded key around neck here yet.
ascii_deadfiber: i had a gigantic bag full of such keys as a boy
to play with.
mircea_popescu: possibly made by
the exact same machines,
too, i routinely find ancient euro machinery at work here.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman
the little bitches here are whining
that "costs - by
the sky, presupuestos (ie, "conditii"), under
the floors". you should see
the fucking place, i nearly wept for 1970s nostalgia.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> lol. "on
the plus side, i have my own kitchen. on
the minus side, let's go eat out." <-
that's
the full story of uni dorms really
diana_coman: I
take
the carpet away
to discover
that
they had put it on
top of all
the bits and pieces of walls and whatnot
they had gotten down
to change
the window frames
mircea_popescu: diana_coman
that's good in case your high heels aren't even.
diana_coman: oh, and on
the first day after
the renovation
thing I get into
the room by pushing on
the door with all my might and
then I notice
that
the floor is bulging all over
the place
ascii_deadfiber: but
they would have 1 bathroom per 2 rooms
there, and railway-style doors with 'semaphore' lock
mircea_popescu: lol. "on
the plus side, i have my own kitchen. on
the minus side, let's go eat out."
diana_coman: so on
the plus side we had our "own" bathroom, on
the minus side it had no door
diana_coman: more like stall door - we lived in a kind of 2 rooms/2 bathrooms
thing (4 girls in each room)
mircea_popescu: i suspect it was one of
those prison showers & shittery combos.
ascii_deadfiber: diana_coman: 'toilet door' being
the front door? or
the stall doors
diana_coman: we even lived at some point without a
toilet door for about 2-3 months (they were renovating
the faculty dorm building and somehow
the start of
the uni year had
taken
them by surprise) but
there would have been a riot if
there was no net for 1 day
ascii_deadfiber: folks went over
to coffee shops
to
teleconference with clients, etc.
mircea_popescu: the many republics before
the republic.
they all worked.
ascii_deadfiber: net pipe situation in usa is astonishing. when i was at $rupturefarm...
this was a 'beltway bandit', usg contracting shop with princely budget, building had gilded doorknobs and other nonsense, but net was 'comcast' gas modem.
diana_coman: ascii_deadfiber> (heat in
the winter, water,
toilets, etc. - failed. net - never.) <- same in my uni dorms for
the very simple reason
that
the network was made and maintained by us, students living
there
ascii_deadfiber: (heat in
the winter, water,
toilets, etc. - failed. net - never.)
ascii_deadfiber: incidentally, when i lived in uni dorm
the net pipe rocked and never failed.
mircea_popescu: maybe
tomorrow municipality decides
there's
too many people and you have
to share living quarters, like
the NY derps occasionally decide people gotta share cabs.
ascii_deadfiber: i'd bridge
the 2 lans and avoid
the ascii_misc_rubbish gymnastics but will need mechanism
to switch off zoolag so as not
to exhaust
the gsm bw quota
ascii_deadfiber: (would buy something else, but i am not giving a penny
to shitcast ever again)
ascii_deadfiber 's hovel came with a large 2-horn dish. considered connecting it, subscribing
to something
mircea_popescu: well,
this is
the
true problem of political decay : society decays
too, and in
this precise manner. what used
to be an ideologically-mediated disconnect between action and representation ("if you see a fire don't jump into it, call
the FD, it's better
that way) becomes a fully separated disconnect, mediated by nothing.
ben_vulpes: i have removed side view mirrors for
that offense.
ascii_deadfiber: iirc maryland state road law doesn't even require it, other
than on federal highway
ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu would be delighted
to learn
that americans (at least around here) also aren't especially fond of signalling
turns.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i was
thinking about
this
too. so now we're going
to saddle him with protecting
the idiots. what is
this, minidao ?
mircea_popescu: they can't even signal
turns. NOT for any other reason
than
THIS.
they have no relation between action and representation whatsoever.
ascii_deadfiber: jurov: i find it at least as sinful
to ~eat~ an 'i agree, signed - X' as
to ~shit~ it.
mircea_popescu: argentines are entirely unrelated,
there is NO relation between what
they hear/say and what
they do.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber well,
the muricans are behaving stupidly, yes, but at least
there's some relation, however contorted out of shape, between ear and head.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so between a misbehaving slavegirl and an idiot slavegirl your preference's for
the idiot ?
mircea_popescu: well, so far
they have enough
trouble
trying
to
track bitcoin.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-28 15:41 asciilifeform: y'know, as a boy, i was playing with other boyz in
the yard and mentioned съезд кпсс , and
they laughed. i learned lesson - for life.
thestringpuller: There will be a lot of butthurt during
the halvening.
The halvening may also mark
the destruction Buterin's waterfall (in
this incarnation).
thestringpuller: All
the attacker has
to do is
take a very fine pin and pop
the balloon at any
time.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller history is not a
thing,
they got social sciences
to make it all right!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 16:00 mircea_popescu: consequently,
the
troop
that got fucked (mit) is in favour of "defend
this perimeter at all costs!111" attitude. whereas
the rest of
them (ie, cornell, stanford, etc etc) are more of a "this perimeter is not defensible, retreat and create a new one".
thestringpuller:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1487034 << both options will result in heavy casualties. i
think
this is what
the attacker wants. Everytime he makes a move on
the chess board
the price hits massive volatility. Now
the bulls are emotional and pumping
the price like back in early 2013 when MtGox became a victim of its own success and you warned everyone
to stop buying.
☝︎ ascii_deadfiber: solely from
this description, i have actually more respect for
these folk
than for
the americans, who obsess over
their muppets
mircea_popescu: which is
the point here :
they're not people.
they're a herd.
ascii_deadfiber: they had selection of N idiots
to vote for, doesn't mean
they want
to read
their spew ?
mircea_popescu: it
takes one fucking click
to add it. it
takes actual walking and QUEUING
to vote. it's
two hours.
mircea_popescu: this, as
the foreign women stuck helping me out here readily confirm, is just about representative of
the derpitude of
the local mind.
mircea_popescu: out of an estimated 30
to 40k
twentysomethings
THAT VOTED for
this entity, a little over 1% BOTHERED
TO FOLLOW IT ON
TWITTER. notwithstanding
that ALL
THEY EVER DO is fuck around on
their phones.
mircea_popescu: a
total of ~500 people FOLLOW it, which brings us home :
mircea_popescu: these are
the people with
the "a pili la indigna la pobreza" bullshit
that i mocked. more importantly,
they also have a
twitter handle, which
they promote insistently.
mircea_popescu: there were elections for
the student representative body recently, and an entity called "FADU SUR" whatever
trhe shit
that is "won
them", with a shattering 45%.
this means many many
tens of
thousands of votes.
mircea_popescu: so,
the architecture design and practically & indumentaria (which is how you say "dumb etsy shit" in spanish) is one of
the largest and most populous colleges in
this 10-20mn strong
town.
this, obviously, because
the stupid girlies "must get a degree" and
they're not going
to go into law,
too much reading.
mircea_popescu: in other news, perhaps a most interesting datapoint
to help foreign mind comprehend local bovinity.
ascii_deadfiber: ultimately a dead or crippled bitcoin is
the only hope
the shitstains have.
ascii_deadfiber: i expect a shift of resources back
to
the 'corrode bitcoin' stratagem, vs
the 'pump shitcoin'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's obviously no stable solution for
this problem, inasmuch as it's
the nonsensical issues of a bunch of parochical derps. nevertheless, i wouldn't properly call it "corewars" either,
there's no core involved. periphery wars ?
mircea_popescu: consequently,
the
troop
that got fucked (mit) is in favour of "defend
this perimeter at all costs!111" attitude. whereas
the rest of
them (ie, cornell, stanford, etc etc) are more of a "this perimeter is not defensible, retreat and create a new one".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's no "corewars" per se.
there's
the bloodied remains of
the imperial hopes and aspirations.
the problem with
this empire being
that it's not unified under a strong crown, but run around blindly by a crowd of decerbrated bureaucrats.
ascii_deadfiber: ty mircea_popescu. which butthurt in particular? i've not been
taking in
the shithose wholesale
mircea_popescu: damn
the language support for
this
thing is apalingly poor!
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber isn't
teh butthurt lulzy
to watch
tho ?
thestringpuller: ethereum price is now whether you
think
the hacker will win or buterin will win
shinohai: Someone likes pouring money into
the dao, back up 30.15 %