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mircea_popescu: Shame on me for continually pointing out this community’s obsession over being the “glorious master race” of online discussion whilst poo-pooing the cesspools of “filthy casuals” like Reddit or, god forbid, Slashdot.
mircea_popescu: o wait, because basically both hn and reddit are owned by the same dead media conglomerate is it
mircea_popescu: "I was recently met with a torrent of downvotes –nearly 100, might have actually crossed that– for poking fun at HN’s incessant we’re-not-reddit-we’re-much-more-sophisticated circlejerking"
mircea_popescu: "It was autodeaded, presumably because of my use of the term “circlejerk,” which HN is quite sensitive to."
mircea_popescu: dj fired him last year turns out, he started this recode thing january
mircea_popescu: speech that brings forth the cognitive dissonance one's priors suffer at the hands of reality is trolling
mircea_popescu: speech that conforms to one's priors is freedom of speech
mircea_popescu: "Reddit seems to be one of the only places you can have true freedom of speech on the internet, and it thrives thanks to it. "
mircea_popescu: well, inasmuch as zombie is allowed to continue to exist, zombie is well advised to not be too critical of the decay process.
mircea_popescu: assbot> » Leaving Hacker News ASPENSMONSTER << all these important things i've missed out on while doing other things.
mircea_popescu: i peripherally noticed there's yet another one of these web platform shits.
mircea_popescu: o that's what that recode shit coming out of nowhere is
mircea_popescu: it has disadvantages in place of all the advantages, and no redeeming advantages whatsoever
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, hellbanning is exactly the opposite of this chan's +m
mircea_popescu: "Another common criticism of this practice has been that while in theory, it's a smart and effective way to discourage trolling, in actuality, the trolls and spammers are the first to become wise to this, and instead many innocent users get hurt, being unaware of what's going on."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait, you're NOT ONLY A WIKIPEDIA SPAMMER ARE YOU!!1
mircea_popescu: mike_c he held the thing by the fucking blade, too. a 12 inch knife sharp enough to slice beef on touch
mircea_popescu: at it for 39 years, he said when asked. "and after that long time, you'd better be good at it or else you'd better had quit long ago"
mircea_popescu: and speaking of jewish deli, you should have seen this butcher get the steak off the bone.
mircea_popescu: the outlets can't be similar, because podunk doesn't have jewish delis.
mircea_popescu: i guess you've never lived in san diego, manhattan, downtown dc etc.
mircea_popescu: "This white paper seeks to put forth the economic and technical reasons that the digital tokens known as “AppCoins” can develop a value in the market and maintain their value over the long term, should their associated application gain adoption by users. "
mircea_popescu: the notion that the us has the same prices all around boggles my mind.
mircea_popescu: worchestershire (known here as "salsa inglesa") they were out of
mircea_popescu: no, 15km is the whole round trip. market is like 5ish miles away
mircea_popescu: mike_c: tapes are $20 / TB. can't beat that with a stick. << quite true.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: benkay is a queen << ahahaha they got yo numba nao vulpes.
mircea_popescu: lb ground beef, 2lb nice beef steak, 6lb fresh ripe pineaple, half lb fresh figs, lb plums,1.5lb masdaam, swiss, smoked local cheese, lb cold cuts/fungs sausage,lb spinach, salad, 2lb ripe tomatoes, 1/2lb mushrooms, lb red peppers,4 ears young corn,2 artichokes,100g dry shitake,100g maraschino cherries, lb chickpeas,14oz heinz ketchup, half lb exceptionally grandiose aceitunas verdes, imported dijon 210g, cabfare 15kms
mircea_popescu: gonna paste the list in here, anyone's welcome to guess either us, romania or buenos aires prices for the lot
mircea_popescu: admitting against all evidence that there even exists a distinmction between stupid and poor.
mircea_popescu: we really don't want, need or could use more poorfags/stupidfags involved
mircea_popescu: it just implies "accessibility" is about as dumb a thing to think about re bitcoin as you know, speeding tickets for snails.
mircea_popescu: now, 4k txn / second is nothing if you srsly aspire to be visa.
mircea_popescu: benkay " let me know when it's realistic." << let me explain realistic. if there's 4k txn a second, which weigh a conservative 512 bytes each, at 512 seconds per block you get...
mircea_popescu: the us "scene" is like greenspun's ciclid association. all dorks.
mircea_popescu: and women actually paint walls here, which is refreshing.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> asciilifeform, dub: almost needless to point out by now, but the buenos aires public wall paintings are better than anything the NYC scene has cranked out since...forever. << this is true.
mircea_popescu: btw, "coinbr requires btc addr to sign up i b'leev" << so what if it does ? once you're in you can trade with anyone else in.
mircea_popescu: jurov: lol they will find lung and liver fossilies, bones long gone? << this is likely lol
mircea_popescu: smoking TOBACCO doesn't do you in quite as drastically as smoking contemporary ciggaretts
mircea_popescu: and actually good camels, as opposed to the fire-retardant, chemical blend crap they sell in the us/eu to justify the theory that smoking causes cancer