304300+ entries in 0.088s
mircea_popescu: "O'Connell went through this process whenever he could, be it while he was watching TV or surfing the internet. He estimates that he's reset the game maybe over 100,000 times, with over five hundred hours dedicated to this single consuming task."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c isn't that "long life and prosperity" in chinese ?
mircea_popescu: ZTV Asphalt-tr 07/ZTV Beton-StB 07 being the relevant standards, if anyone's curious.
mircea_popescu: the way a country of "laws not men" works is by definition that unless it stumbles into sense, it will thread stupidity.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is an unfair observation. who in the us has the authority to actually take these facts in hand and make a decision ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you mean so apache will serve the pages remotely ?
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight php is not too popular here, following a total bashing it got a few months ago over some bizarre design choices and (i suspect) the fact tux loved it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's something for you. who said 'Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.' ?
mircea_popescu: however a half pound glucose crystal is about as perishable as plastic.
mircea_popescu: they have the money to wreck communities, and they do.
mircea_popescu: suppose rich fools (in the shape of oversexed, misguided older us women) show up in africa, with a cohort of young, undersexed male followers
mircea_popescu: (it's not mine, i just put graham's idea in better wording)
mircea_popescu: decimation you familiar with the "the best way to sink a good start-up is a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
mircea_popescu: decimation yes. rich fools are dangerous in the manner of the weak tower discussed earlier.
mircea_popescu: decimation try a mental experiment. consider very insular, outsider-hating middle america community. consider you show up there and lavish new york mannerisms and expectations upon them. lynch mob is unsurprising. consider oppositely you show up there and display an intimate knowledge of the various blood feuds underpinning their social system. suddenly everyone wants you over for sunday dinner.
mircea_popescu: nobody wants those. this is surprising to nobody outside of us folk i would think.
mircea_popescu: you can be a scholar or you can be a merchant. what you can't be is a consumer
mircea_popescu: decimation there's exactly two ways : one's wealth and the ability to select and hire local helpers. the other's deep knowledge and an ability to select and persuade local patrons.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you're talking to the only romanian billionaire. i don't jobs.
mircea_popescu: well, permanent. i don't do permanent, i do a few years.
mircea_popescu: i'd say it's much easier to get japanese citizenship than bitcoin citizenship
mircea_popescu: there's this cracked.com v2.0 set of websites, which pretty much live off internet-hyperbole.
mircea_popescu: the situation in the field has justabout 0 to do with the zerohedge-esque nonsense therein discussed.
mircea_popescu: i know a guy who moved to japan and got citizenship, i know a guy who married a very pretty japanese rosebud and settled in yurp
mircea_popescu: you should be able to reconstruct state on your own from the sea so to speak
mircea_popescu: like all the people falling on a nail gun from the 9th floor
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a valid point. if i hadn't had trilema and all i did was finance i'd probably hang myself
mircea_popescu: ful to the bezzlers, which means IT DOESNT EXIST O NOES
mircea_popescu: “To have a nation, you must have people and you must have young people to be able to drive the economy and young people buy the products — all these gadgets and fine dining — and if you don’t have that, and you refuse migrants as the Japanese do, you will just dissolve into nothingness! I think before that comes, they may change (their) policy.” << a country which doesn't have enough gullible fools is not use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform merely the fact that i reject the message doesn't say nanything about its validity.
mircea_popescu: as women started giving a fuck, fertility melted away.
mircea_popescu: the core reason for it is that the species must perpetuate. this hinges on women not really giving a fuck.
mircea_popescu: also, people not giving a fuck is a major technical proble,
mircea_popescu: if presented with traffic from alleged key, i expect it to be signed by keys i already accepted.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gpg has built in key signing for this reason.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> just doing up the books for july, seems we have a mystery cash surplus of $666 << you have been clearly blessed. now if the lady's late...
mircea_popescu: "but parents don't want to share the ideology xD" <=> "i'm happy with it but i can't get my parents to use it themselves" ?
mircea_popescu: wordpress is fine, i've used it for > 5 years without issue.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight you're prolly not gonna be happy or even willing to hear this, but it sounds like the problem is you.
mircea_popescu: decimation the funny thing about the incident is that everyone happily ignored the "your business part" and took it as gospel. "the importance of brand over quality"
mircea_popescu: the thing is... the country can't pay anyway, so there's not much pork to be had out of "we need better new planes"
mircea_popescu: if it were 1980s the republicans would have been all in favour, because nothing's better for public contracts than a humiliating, public defeat.
mircea_popescu: a no fly zone would allow the russian airforce to showcase it's unmatched superiority by making short work of everything else.
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight there's a reason pros use particular tools rather than any other tools.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform traffic should resemble people exchanging gpg messages maybe ?
mircea_popescu: in principle one shouldn't be able to spot a b2.0 node on the network.
mircea_popescu: also, need much better hidding of the traffix it generates.
mircea_popescu: anyway the hash daisychanin satoshi used was moar like a joke than srs.
mircea_popescu: sort-of where i was seeing the "b-a public registrar" project that nobody wants to do going, in step 2.
mircea_popescu: suppose that anyone can generate txn using gpg, much like mpex works.