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mircea_popescu: "ciggs are bad for you" "no,
they're bad FOR PEOPLE. mine are great for me" "kids suck" "maybe yours" etc.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not
that bios are my
thing, so i really have little
to compare it
to. so
take
the recommendation with a grain of salt.
ben_vulpes: i don't know what line of mine you're responding
to.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: speaking of
that golden era, you'd probably enjoy 'titan'
the jdr bio.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
the fact
that chicago hasn't been able
to muster so much as a sneezing fit since
then is what's allowed it
to be embalmed so well. not all cities are so fortunate as
to have only ONE boom.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you understand, statistics says exactly nothing about
the individual case.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you're seeing
the beauty of
that city now. it's really rather well preserved as a whole. a gleaming
testament
to
the glory days 1870-1930
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: whole
thing reads like 'slave, but only one' << ah
to you
too huh ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-25 22:30 ben_vulpes: "children are a misery, women are a misery, work is a misery,
taxes are a misery,
the only
things
to live for are
theorems and killing hitler"
mircea_popescu: funny
that
the author carefully
tries
to invent domestic-slavery-without-the-slavery
though. oh, really, SHE CUTS HIS HAIR ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: "What is almost nonexistent is
the childfree housewife - a woman who does not do market labor, is supported by her husband, but does not have children." << bullshit ; slavegirl counts here.
mircea_popescu: heck, it's amply documented how britain
throughout its rise and preeminence
treaded middle class children as exactly war captives, even going so far as
to switch
them around so natural affection won't entice
the female
to get in
the way of mistreatment.
mircea_popescu: and even
then
they barely bothered ; and generally
the children lived as slaves / war captives. (see
the duke of perigord's adventures for a fine example of
this)
mircea_popescu: even someone as clueless as a medieval noble needed
the entire arbitrary structure of male inheritance
to be marginally bothered with it,
pete_dushenski: my little bruiser is... still a bruiser. no convergence
to
the mean just yet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wasn't aware
the notion of children = unwanted pests is at all controversial. pretty much
the only mammals
that engage in it do so when
they have absolutely no other option, much like poor working classes hitting
the gin.
ben_vulpes: sat up under his own steam
the other day, entirely on accident i'm sure.
pete_dushenski: speaking of sarcasm, how goes
the little fam, ben_vulpes ? sleeping
through
the night ?
pete_dushenski: eh children aren't so bad. hell, i don't even mind work
these days.
taxes and women ? let's just call
them a challenge
to be risen
to.
ben_vulpes: "children are a misery, women are a misery, work is a misery,
taxes are a misery,
the only
things
to live for are
theorems and killing hitler"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: whole
thing reads like 'slave, but only one'
ben_vulpes: but yes celebrate
the no children lifestyle,
the 'mgtow' lifestyle,
the hairshirt environmentalism
pete_dushenski: all men everywhere ever have been 'generally'
too broke
to maintain woman,
thus polygyny, neh ?
ben_vulpes: usians are generally
too broke
to maintain a woman much less a family, news at eleven?
Framedragger: The Web
trivialized
this original Xanadu model, vastly but incorrectly simplifying
these problems
to a world of fragile ever-breaking one-way links, with no recognition of change or copyright, and no support for multiple versions or principled re-use. Fonts and glitz, rather
than content connective structure, prevail.""" <- sorry i get sentimental easily :/
☟︎ Framedragger: """It has always been much more ambitious, proposing an entire form of literature where links do not break as versions change; where documents may be closely compared side by side and closely annotated; where it is possible
to see
the origins of every quotation; and in which
there is a valid copyright system-- a literary, legal and business arrangement-- for frictionless, non-negotiated quotation at any
time and in any amount.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-19 15:14 mircea_popescu: Framedragger doesn't mean much more
than, "the correct path is
to
take a decent crypto lib, a distributed-hashtable-storage
thing from one of
the p2p
torrent
tools, and make a real social media app"
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: re.
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-19#1468545 i spoke with smart folk and i'll consider writing a short design document of some kind, for general and specific criticism. fair warning, will also use
that opportunity
to
to enquire how it can be funded by
tmsr / whateva. because can't hurt.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: dayum. one of
the best parts of not sending girls out
to gym is
that you can generally
take a break and watch one
torture herself.
Framedragger: vc: it's cool
that you don't preemptively block
tor. (on
that note, fuck cloudflare with a
thousand rakes).
vc: ok sure, I will stay in
this channel and I will let you know
mircea_popescu: vc
take your
time. im mostrly
trying
to support initiative here.
vc: right now
the site just filled up a few minutes ago,
there is still space left for memory and everything, but
the storage is already sold
vc: ok sure, mircea_popescu is
this a
time-sensitive request? I would prefer
to wait until I get all
the other services running and analyze
the storage situation before I commit
to another 120GB of storage
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: actual zoo ? couldn't say if
there even is one. aquarium on
the lake, indeed!
vc: (I'm
trying
to figure out whether your bitcoin network is
the most popular bitcoin network or a hard fork of another network)
vc: hm, I feel I may be missing some details. If you pay me 1.07 BTC will
that BTC be usable with services connected
to
the BTC network such as Coinbase or Newegg?
mircea_popescu: didn't keep him from being
the most prolific father in
the history of humanity.
mircea_popescu: hey,
they ran away screaming when
they saw
the diminutive khan, also
mircea_popescu: mno,
this is
the main bitcoin network. but
there are various other forks.
vc: I understand
that
this is a branch of some
type from
the
typical doings of what I know as
the bitcoin foundation
vc: ok is
this like a fork of
the main bitcoin network?
mircea_popescu: vc it's
the original bitcoin yes. it's been modified hence.
vc: is
this just a modified bitcoind instance? or something else?
vc: let me do a bit more research first before I accept your money, want
to be sure everything will be fine
vc: ok sure, I can do
that
vc: ok yeah cool, so are you asking me
to run something independently while you do X on your server? or are you asking me
to configure your server myself, setting up
the daemon? or are you instead asking me
to do nothing except give you your server
mircea_popescu: but at any rate
this conversation definitely lays bare just how badly we've missed
the boat by not increasing blocksize when usgavin wanted
to.
mircea_popescu: not
terribly much ; i've never measured
to average > 1mbps.
vc: how much bandwidth would something like
this use monthly?
vc: oh I see, I found
thebitcoin.foundation
mircea_popescu: basically some usg assholes
tried
to hijack
the bitcoin.
trb aka
the real bitcoin is
the... well,
the real bitcoin.
vc: I do not know what a
trb node is
mircea_popescu: tell you what : i'll buy
that, and pay it in advance for a year, provided you install and manage a
trb node
there.
vc: also as of
this moment 4 units of space are not currently available on cock box, sadly :(
vc: though I
think I should be able
to offer expansions
to disk space, not sure about
that yet
vc: oh, well
then
the 4GB server should do it, at least until
the blockchain outgrows
that :@)
vc: meaning you may be able
to get a better deal elsewhere
vc: only
the 4GB server with 120GB storage would be able
to store
that,
though if running a bitcoind node is your intention
then using pure SSD storage may be wasted potential
vc: oh, how large is
the blockchain nowadays?
mircea_popescu: i am asking you, if i intend
to run a btc node, ie, a blockchain's worth of gb etc, what's
the solution cock.li offers
vc: I'm not sure what you're referring
to. Are you asking me how I'm doing btc payments?
Framedragger: vc: paid for a vps, lemme know if box 'hivc' becomes a nuisance in
terms abuse complaints, willya :)
mircea_popescu: so you're an adult, get some contacts in
the
trade an' ask around. odds being in your favour.
vc: haven't found
the video of
that interview but she was pretty qt
vc: I'd pay $500
to fuck
the journalist at antena 1
that interviewed me
tbh
mircea_popescu: though credit where credit's due,
the italian
tv invented
the method.
mircea_popescu: as
they say in poker,
the reason IS obvious, just maybe not
to you.
mircea_popescu: well no, but any female in
the age range with no obvious reason of being
there.
vc: what like any female on
TV?
mircea_popescu: you see
that she is on
tv, and know what
that means, pretty much.
vc: so how do
these chicks advertise
themselves? from
TV shows, or adverts?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-25 20:41 vc: phf:
the hardware is set
to get here friday, so it will launch saturday