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dub: two places that have taken
a different approach to rolling out cognitave dissonance than the US
mircea_popescu: who was saying to me japan's going to shit
a few days back and i said i've not much clue on the topic ?
mircea_popescu: the enemy got pissed off, took another 10 trn worth of their own gear and destroyed
a further 10k worth of arab shit.
Namworld: The US got hit by
a FEW terrorist attacks (something something about US' foreign policies) and now they spend god knows how much of the budget on counter-terrorism. With programs that pisses off everyone, citizens, enemies and allies alike. While keeping the foreign military actions of course.
pankkake: the criteria for not being
a scam is "well, they tried to do something at some point"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just as long as it stays in the generally-unverifiable format of "not being
a scam" right ?
ThickAsThieves: "I am willing to take side bets on Labcoin not being
a scam. Please PM me if interested."
mircea_popescu: basically at the very best and under ideal circumstances the CA system is equal to
a algorithmic WoT tranversal.
pankkake: how to authentify
a certificate
pankkake: funny how I mentioned here that CAs sucked
a few days ago, and that namecoin could be an answer!
pankkake: it's
a sensational title. actually, I take it as good news because of "They're doing it primarily by cheating, not by mathematics."
dub: seems like they would want to be some way towards
a working design before being so specific
dub: an AIP,
a PO, check cashed?
gecko_x2: it's like
a bunch of 5 year old got together to decide on them
jcpham: i saw
a post on google+ yesterday
Rulother: Everything is
a scam until proven otherwise
Rulother: It will surge
a bit then drop and once they start hashing,
a bit of
a surge again
gecko_x2: even if all this goes away tomorrow it's been
a hell of
a ride :p
kleeck: Vbs noted that they took their single chip simulation and then multiplied it by 16 to get
a "simulation" of what
a full device would pull.
kleeck: Build
a device, plug it in, start hashing, repeat.
kleeck: I'm midly interested in having divs for the next couple months, but I'm not about to drop coin on
a venture that can't tell me specs days before they're going "live".
gecko_x2: not
a single piece of data about the chips?
gecko_x2: not
a single photo or any data of the boards?
mircea_popescu: until now various other assholes did
a very bad job of it.
mircea_popescu: wikipedia "Only in recent decades have historians made progress towards
a dispassionate, scholarly assessment of the battle reconciling the previous narratives, which differed widely by nation."
ThickAsThieves: i just assume something ive listened to
a bajillion times is
a top 10
kleeck: He'd much rather sit and have
a beer with you.
kleeck: Ive had
a few friends meet Chapelle around Columbus Oh area. He is just
a regular dude. He gets pissed when people just come up and sneak
a photo.
thestringpuller: That's the exact reason Chappelle quit Hollywood. He didn't want to be
a whore anymore.
mircea_popescu: it dun work. you want to make it as
a whore the first thing is dropping your idiotic preconceived notions
mircea_popescu: i'm discrediting the false beliefthat you can make it as
a whore through the oblique way of "singing"
ThickAsThieves: can we put that on your grave? "Was
a Hard-Working Whore"
pankkake: being discovered is having
a marketable identity and accepting to autotune everything
thestringpuller: Don't discredit whore-dom, it's
a good line of work. The whores work hard for their money too.
thestringpuller: I was just saying that's another option of success for
a musician
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller being "discovered" is strictly
a license to suck some dudes cock for free if you're so inclined.
thestringpuller: you're at
a party with Jay-Z and you compliment his baby through song, and he decides to pick you up as an artist
thestringpuller: it's better for
a label to just own
a studio instead of forking out money for studio time
mircea_popescu: of the five doods running studios in the 90s i knew, 0 still run
a studio.
pankkake: I like the model of only selling
a few records, but selling high quality expensive ones
thestringpuller: that's why being an up and coming rapper is
a shitty lifestyle
mircea_popescu: im too lazy, and i prefer bitching anyway. but there was
a link right up there.
mircea_popescu: and
a shortage of bitches and chains. i know, my basement is overflowing.
Rulother: You should just go after your dreams of becoming
a baseketball star instead
ThickAsThieves: the biggest problem with rap, is the audience is even less likely to pay for your music if you arent on
a major label
mircea_popescu: pankkake that calls for
a chop of
a chihuahua with
a golden chain in
a motorized cart.
pankkake: well it's
a pretty cool life. bitches, cars, gold chains
thestringpuller: you guys are making me want to pursue my dream of being
a rap musician
ThickAsThieves: the original bass player left to start
a very good emo indie band called The Weakerthans
pankkake: underground bands on facebook is
a common sight now
mircea_popescu: the best approximation to
a functioning economy is me to hunt for people i know in bitcoin that live close and insist they help me.
thestringpuller: you're rich what is 50 grand to
a muthafucka like you could you please remind me?
ThickAsThieves: i bet if you went to their town you could look em up and have
a beer
ThickAsThieves: they are not mega huge as
a label, you'll likely get
a mail order guy on the phone
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the idea of an economy is that active and productive members of society don't need to make themselves
a facrtory for everything
ThickAsThieves: dont you think theyd say fuck you if offered to be paid to write
a song?
mircea_popescu: t be bothered to send the girls on
a six-woman forty week mission of finding me
a link.
mircea_popescu: romanian dood wants canadian band to make
a single on the grandeur of the independent state of Bitcoin, someone somewhere needs to be able to verify his credentials and contact them.
mircea_popescu: hey, i see they're still active actually. i wonder how much
a mpex song would cost me.
ozbot: ...And We Thought That Nation-States Were
A Bad Idea by Propagandhi on Spotify
kakobrekla: take
a 200$ latex pillow and you should be fine
Rulother: So I'm in the market for
a damn good gel memory foam pillow, any suggestions?
ThickAsThieves: "LG went to great lengths to research the average hand size in Korea, and has come up with the biggest possible screen size for what it believes is the maximum width (127.29mm) for
a single-hand device. "
mircea_popescu: Tired of insecurity and violence produced by
a local drug sale, the neighborhood decided to take action and overthrow the actual space.
Urushiol: (joking - I'm not that much of
a baller)