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assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 18:48:05;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my pleasure to inform you 256gb. have fun.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 18:45:10;
mircea_popescu: * ben_vulpes was astonished to learn the american legal system runs on word and has ultimate faith in 'track changes' <<< no small part of why it's a joke.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 18:55:33;
mircea_popescu: right off the top of my head : both medical diagnostics and inventory management should be run off v.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 19:41:08;
mircea_popescu: there you go asciilifeform, that's what explains fucking walled ghetos, the app store, word and what have you.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 23:31:53;
mircea_popescu: !up gentoognuhurd
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 19:39:32;
mircea_popescu: i spent all morning going through a line of 1.80 hotties.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 20:48:06;
mircea_popescu: UNTIL THE 18TH!
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: you ever see reddit trying to get girls? it's not pretty.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: You don't understand. For these people a profile visit IS a big deal. It's the closest they'll get to interacting with another person evar.
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: how come every woman on okcupid today is bisexual ? << i thought that every girl born after 1990 was bisexual.
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: but if it's not on the blockchain!!!!11111
punkman:
mircea_popescu: * ben_vulpes was astonished to learn the american legal system runs on word and has ultimate faith in 'track changes' <<< no small part of why it's a joke. << which country does not use Word?
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 16:14:26;
mircea_popescu: and there's a tie-in here about how all systems should fail deadly anyway, and consequently "timestamps" are not even allowed in the design because no way to enforce them.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 14:09:41;
mircea_popescu: the less said, the less possibility of misunderstanding, which is why the main quality of a contract is being brief. the fewer venues communication may occur in, the fewer indecidable problems you'll meet. this rly is not rocket science.
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: re: quests << I think the quests you were thinking of in regards to Eulora logs are grind quests which contribute nothing to the gameplay but dungeon crawling/grinding. Get X something by killing Y something. But complex quests that add story are kinda key to singleplayer games. Be it robbing banks in GTA and listening to characters talk in the car; finding your son in Fallout 4; or finding your family in Red De
ascii_rear: ok so it turns out that
mircea_popescu is simply insisting on 'p' !!
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 14:08:41;
mircea_popescu: this also illustrates the much larger point of the fukctardation of out-of-band communication. it's stupid and dangerous. there should be absolutely no "alternative mechanism" for a key being in any way processed outside of the key itself. timestamp ? fuck that.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 06:09:34; thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: "quests" are what the shitty AAA titles do to sub in for the fact that their games suck, they are poor and stupid, etc. << uh dafuq? guess someone never played DnD as a kid.
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: "quests" are what the shitty AAA titles do to sub in for the fact that their games suck, they are poor and stupid, etc. << uh dafuq? guess someone never played DnD as a kid.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 02:16:31;
mircea_popescu: it fucking boggles me. this city has 10x the population of berlin, 0.1% the entertainment venues and this guy actually thinks there "are many" SADLY.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i don't think my down even took.
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 01:22:43;
mircea_popescu: fundamentally, fiat banking requires the world economy to work as a closed system. once bitcoin's on the table... forget it.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: humans don't balance, "what sufficient ?" ;)
assbot: Logged on 02-01-2016 00:53:49;
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> re: vaccinations as a barrier to entry for government subsidies for children, it seems to me that parents who choose not to vaccinate their children should be on the hook for any adverse eventualities of that decision <<< this stance is nonsensical in that the more notable adverse eventualities are also externalities.
danielpbarron:
mircea_popescu> get it so it pms everyone their hole cards, i'd play. << me too
shinohai: happy new year
mircea_popescu, may 2016 bring more terror to thy enemies.
assbot: Logged on 20-12-2015 19:04:29; asciilifeform: 'every morning, when you wake up, look in the mirror; if you notice that you are not a
mircea_popescu,
ascii_rear: my understanding is that he suffered from general-purpose depression on account of not being
mircea_popescu - something that happens to most folks here periodically
adlai blames it on the parents, because that's what
mircea_popescu said!
ascii_rear:
mircea_popescu had an article about simple text stego
ascii_rear: iirc
mircea_popescu (and damn near everybody) isn't terribly fond of clutter in the logz from depressed folks screaming on the stake
ascii_rear:
mircea_popescu: i'd expect to find it in chinese iron with american firmware (e.g., apple keyboard)
assbot: Logged on 08-05-2015 23:15:54;
mircea_popescu: same reason intel's fundamentally unconcerning : all greedy algorithms are vulnerable to other greedy algorithms. that's what it means.
ascii_rear: nobody other than
mircea_popescu (and napoleon?) ever rode on a horse in egypt ?
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you hafta understand this "X is a scammer" bullshit is pretty much ALWAYS some sort of entrenched structure trying to wash its sins on the cheap. oh, "madoff" scammed ? Really ? HE diod it ? not the 1k+ "experts" that recommended him to his clients etc ? not all the various "supervisors" and "authorities" ? it was... maddof ? << this is why goat et. al pumping pirate have vanished from existence.
adlai:
mircea_popescu: how many times do i have to tell you, dad, stop treating me like a child!
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: i was thinking the other day. bitcoin just has scammers. just as the world is filled with worms. pirateat40 was very low IQ scammer. then mt. gox tried to hide a little better not by alot.
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2015 04:58:44;
mircea_popescu: anyway, for pete_d and anyone else who might have encountered difficulty with trb or fears they might : it's actually rather painless. 1. you create an account on a server ; 2. you cd /home/account_name ; 3. you create a .wot directory (mkdir .wot) ; 4. you put the pubkeys of people you trust in there as name1.asc, name2.asc etc ; 5. you download the rotor script (curl deedbot.org/build-bitcoind-9999
assbot: Logged on 31-12-2015 16:05:45; copypaste: indeed
mircea_popescu, but you're missing the point; it's worth more to USG to have people that run services like Paxful out of the equation than the costs of putting them in jail
copypaste: indeed
mircea_popescu, but you're missing the point; it's worth more to USG to have people that run services like Paxful out of the equation than the costs of putting them in jail
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 31-12-2015 13:25:58;
mircea_popescu: it costs n times the LIFETIME AVERAGE INCOME of the world's poorest billion to keep a dude in jail for a year.
assbot: Logged on 31-12-2015 13:22:20;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, let me know when it'd be a good time to do the 128-256gb ram upgrade.
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mircea_popescu with note: pretty much the only guy who tells me when to shut up
adlai: !v assbot:adlai.rate.
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mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
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ith:
mircea_popescu: why don't you help me out with this
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Don't you know. In WaPo land only 9 year old boys get makeup.
gribble: nubbins` was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 6 days, 4 hours, 57 minutes, and 21 seconds ago: <nubbins`> <+
mircea_popescu> in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano << they say castellano in peru too, but if i'm not mistaken this is not universal in south america?
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2013 17:41:27;
mircea_popescu: fuck, "the end" may be anything over 6
adlai:
mircea_popescu: stop talking to yourselph, it reflects badly on the share price!
assbot: You rated user ben_vulpes on 13-Apr-2015, with a rating of -10, and supplied these additional notes: thinks i'm
mircea_popescu.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 01:03:09;
mircea_popescu: in the sense of, "put on provision slip, sign, costs nothing"
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> hey BingoBoingo ? you recall wheree the link is to that announcvement where they used the novel technique to select bacteria and got a new usuable molecule << Not off the top of my head. Might have tp be more specific.
adlai:
mircea_popescu: stfu
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> <BingoBoingo> Fuck Will Smith. He made President Hussein Bahamas possibru. << aren't you thinking of wesley snipes ? << Wesley Snipes was too black to do this
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 23:43:32;
mircea_popescu: the only actual effect of this particular nonsense will be, to fill the bars with dudes who instead of "baby, i'm a producer" or "baby, zuckerberg stole my idea" will go "baby i have a billion Bit-cions locked in the future."
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: what'd that be then, a third a trilema ? (or just the 'truh' ?)
Azelphur: howdy
mircea_popescu :) don't suppose you know any new people who want me to work for them? :P
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 14:27:09;
mircea_popescu: heck, household went through two pounds of butter for xmas. excessive by any counts and the sluts are all dieting.
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 14:22:55;
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, anyone ever wonder why MiB never took off the way the matrix did ?
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 13:47:33;
mircea_popescu: chick on reddit "what kind of work do you do ?" my answer comes cool-ly : "i manage a terrorist organisation. how about yourself ?"
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Of course. There is no actual antidote to butter.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: As long as you avoid the statins which engrave a hard expiration date on the liver
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: It can help to put the cholesterol in check. For all of the "poor bile bears" in the press it works as actual medicine.
BingoBoingo waits for
mircea_popescu to inevitably start raving about the wonders of bear bile for liver health
mats:
mircea_popescu: meaning of sae?
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 06:59:44;
mircea_popescu: if they're worth a shit they'll find and if not, a well. most stuff developing in an uterus is meant to abort sooner or later anyway.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: old enough to pick, old enough also to have the wot to select from?
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: narrative scrolling through my head is "tbl made htmlz, smart ppl thot waz cool, rest of internet piled on, shartups demanded cc processing over webz, tls/ssl became defacto"
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 22:00:39;
mircea_popescu: Sol Nazerman: You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you... you want to learn the secret of our success, is that right? Alright I'll teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several thousand years, during which you have nothing to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land to call your own, to grow food on or to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2015 14:57:33;
mircea_popescu: it looks like trilema's going to get moved off php at this rate.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 01:36:22;
mircea_popescu: fucktard. i'd be worried about the sms from the bush a lot more if i was dealing billions with this schmuck.
adlai:
mircea_popescu: afaik you haven't learned lisp yet
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 21:46:36;
mircea_popescu: providing public services is not merely a waste
jurov:
mircea_popescu: current price is about right. but there were 2 dips in last few months