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mircea_popescu: please do. homm2/3 were like... the best games ever made.
mircea_popescu: well there have been like 500 remakes, i recall playing a pretty good one back in 2007ish.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is deliberate. if people wanted interactive they wouldn't do online porn, they'd get a gf.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve you can prolly set your client not to auto-reconnect
mircea_popescu: people can want to minimize delays if they're trying to log a chan, but here the logs are published anyway.
mircea_popescu: as a rule of thumb, i would say it's a great idea that if one's using a bouncer, that one sets the bouncer up so if it fails three times in five minutes it stops trying and shoots the owner an email or something. join/part spam is definitely annoying in all channels, even if most won't do anything about it.
mircea_popescu: moreover, buterin in particular is very very guilty, because he knew what he should have done, and he's known it for a long fucking time.
mircea_popescu: is also to blame, by any conceivable definition of blame.
mircea_popescu: Rassah: p.s. I'm not saying their etherium deal is a good one. I don't think investing in ether can in any way give a better return than investing in bitcoin... I don't think vitalik is much of a finance guy, either, so I'm not sure if this "ipo" ca be blamed on him << what the fuck sense does this make ? some guy that's not a finance guy involving himself in finance things is stupid by any conceivable definition of th
mircea_popescu: Rassah: My tribe consists of Tsiolkovsky and Tozoni, so I've been surrounded by extremely intimidating levels of inteligence... < if that means konstantin, wasn't the guy dead before the war ?
mircea_popescu: there's a whole discussion of the statement of these views as put forward by franco's republic a week or two ago in the logs.
mircea_popescu: "bolshevism is that jew-sponsored form of satanism that alters the moral fiber of good law abiding men making them beasts"
mircea_popescu: “UNDER capitalism”, ran the old Soviet-era joke, “man exploits man. Under communism it is just the opposite.” In fact new research suggests that the Soviet system inspired not just sarcasm but cheating too: in East Germany, at least, communism appears to have inculcated moral laxity. << for the record, this is older than electricity.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell midnightmagic i dun see a problem in principle either, but i was trying to examine this "salt is hard to mine" theory. anyway.
mircea_popescu: mutate_ well, you could start working on crumbling that pile of impactions resulting from being bulied ? learn to linux ?
mircea_popescu: well cause it ain't making any sense. why do you chew the scenery ?
mircea_popescu: this is going well. can you point to such an instance ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 ideally you should seed from proxybot. if not you can hardwire whichever active domain you like.
mircea_popescu: "omg ew this is totally different than all the things going into other things i've seen today!" << lol
mircea_popescu: not like there's any sort of talent pool involved, or like they'd ever run out.
mircea_popescu: if anyone can be bothered to shoot them, they should be able to
mircea_popescu: i don't get this whole "security detail" bullshit for politicians and bureaucrats.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony sounds to me like someone just got told "you can't be mp, stop trying"
mircea_popescu: o wait, one of the shits im selling short and nobody's buying
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "we made the country suck how dare you leave now" is how it works
mircea_popescu: but anyway, time for me to get my toes suckled. tomorro.
mircea_popescu: perhaps you'd be well served by reading the discussion on the topic. the wot dun work as you may imagine it do\es.
mircea_popescu: you're on the thin ice of presumption. what makes you think people on the wot don';t kn ow each other in person ?
mircea_popescu: think of it as "not being in the communist party" in moscow cca 1952.
mircea_popescu: Rassah: I thought he was? Etherium is run by a large group of people, including finance guys << none of which in the wot ? catperson, puhlease.
mircea_popescu: decimation: web 2.0 is so poorly designed that this barely exists, instead of being a first class featue << muff said.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform generally such detectors are valuable to embarass.
mircea_popescu: decimation: everyone knows that eastern europeans are going to cheat and steal the carp << i can attest, carp is huge in eeu
mircea_popescu: decimation: I thought it was always native << you were right, it was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know making a hit is not as trivial as it sounds.