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a111: Logged on 2018-05-05 00:25 mircea_popescu: if i were you folk i would very seriously be looking at geting refinanced, taking ~300 rockchips there and filling
a dozen us with them.
ben_vulpes: i crunched some numbers, and i think it's going to cost around 3 btc to put the production rockchip plant together and get it down south, all based on 4 2U's with 24 rockchippen each, transpo of ~2.5kusd and per-chassis fab costs of ~800usd. i think with the outrageous success of the rockchip pilot plant pizarro's in
a *great* spot to refinance per mircea_popescu's suggestion, to provide for the production
mircea_popescu: why did you think the usg bitcoin-ersatz is
a good thing ?
mircea_popescu: exactly as stated : that some of the usable bipedal mammals will get
a serial id ; the unusable will get nothing. there's no birthright to the lordship.
mircea_popescu: everyone gets
a tit string ; not everyone gets to be in the wot.
fromdeedbot: if www addresses have tumbleweeds rolling by because most businesses have moved to
a new more secure web
fromdeedbot: if
a new internet is built and
a pgp key is mandatory, and everyone is on the new internet..
mircea_popescu: if by globally you mean "we throw darts at
a earth globe", then yes, you're that late. if by globally you mean "every last idiot on two legs" you're way the fuck early, in the sense that such miracle's never gonna happen.
fromdeedbot: lol.. I have looked
a lot into estomia e-citizen program as well
fromdeedbot: like to get
a loan or
a lease on
a place to live
fromdeedbot: so that peoples online identity has
a “fingerprint"
fromdeedbot: Requirment of
a pgp key to become
a part of
a new web built on trust and accountability
mircea_popescu: reminds me of this chick on fetlife, "So you don't want to have
a smart discuss, you're here for what ? What do you research here ? Because I'm agree with your description."
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
https://gitter.im/ << gotta archive this lulzgem. "Where communities thrive Gitter is
a chat and networking platform that helps to manage, grow and connect communities through messaging, content and discovery."
fromdeedbot: that is exactly I why I read them… you guys have came up with
a really cool thing
mircea_popescu: not so much as
a prerequisite as
a filter. reading helps you figure out if it's for you.
fromdeedbot: 1I have read
a fair bit from here, and
a lot of gitter.im logs from web3 and go-ethereum
fromdeedbot: I have to admit I have not read them in full, and if that is
a pre req, I will.
fromdeedbot: its
a new way to set in stone, amongst many oother imagined, and not imagined yet things
fromdeedbot: buliding smart contrct’ish programs would be
a short term goal
mircea_popescu: hey, i don't mind. but understand that avoiding bad habits is
a lifelong uncompletable task, there's no magic pill that'll keep you safe from such. certainly contemplation from outside isn't much of one.
mircea_popescu: well, this overanxious approach is
a bad habit all of itself.
fromdeedbot: because I have been into computers for
a long time and I feel like I could contribute productive elements to the community if i knew how to exoress my ideas in the right languge
fromdeedbot: I want to learn to code/program. I am looking for sound advice on what to learn first. php? oop? python? I have looked all over the web and it seems everyone has
a different opinion. any advice would be appredciated
mircea_popescu: since we're discussing "retards are retarded", here's
a fine example :
https://archive.is/RbD9o ; it consists of
a) let's leak through the inept choice of "pad by the value of padding, so if you need 5 bytes of padding pad with 5 bytes each = 5" (and then pretend this is not to be reviewed "because popular" and also do every other elbow trick in the book to stick it past) followed unneringly by... b) construct elaborate ritua
mircea_popescu:
a better example of what exactly it means to be
a monkey, with these inane expectations of wysiwyg-ism and gui-ism and rtfm-is-racist and nobody-will-ever-expect-you-to-think-if-they-truly-love-you and on AND ON...
a111: Logged on 2018-05-12 02:00 mircea_popescu: turn
a tv on if you can find one, and tune it to mtv, which still exist. compare/contrast to 1988 mtv, it'll illustrate the matter perfectly.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 23:19 asciilifeform: kurchatov being
a great demo case; he had the authority to behead. laboratory -- worked. ( and not merely via 'copy leaked design', the ~indigenous~ nuke was crafted in parallel with the copied 'rds-1' , and subsequently went to production )
a111: Logged on 2017-09-13 19:34 mircea_popescu: so : the faberge egg, the original, was made in 1885 ; but it was the continuation and in
a sense the crowing of
a current of thought (ie, culture) and proper civilisation that reached back over
a centry.
mircea_popescu: and hence the 1990s, and the "information superhighway" bs. they were going to, poor darlings, subvert the morloch, with
a very naive, all-inclusive, republic v0.1, built out of "net neutrality" and wikipedia. except of course for the part where it didn't work, it was
a splendid plan.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with
a nobel prize.
danielpbarron: hanbot, i didn't start with the official v wp-wp. i had
a very old original .tar.gz
mircea_popescu: ll be
a condensate of hot topic and assorted politrucking, but it will be there, as
a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: the fact of the matter is people will express their better nature if there's
a space where they can do it ~meaningfully~.
mircea_popescu: turn
a tv on if you can find one, and tune it to mtv, which still exist. compare/contrast to 1988 mtv, it'll illustrate the matter perfectly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, slashdot was once the flagship of
a mighty youth movement. so was woodstock, at one time. slashdot failed on its own power and found out what it's worth these days for
a fucking reason -- the party moved, and it moved years ago.
mircea_popescu: ie, it makes exactly 0 difference to its might whether the web even exists tomorrow or not. but even in this very constrained field, btcbase is
a larger source than twitter, or facebook, or ycombinator, or you name it (and yes, any and all of the pantsuit platforms are vying for relevancy in my referral log, month after month after month, they just don't get to actually raise to importance on the merits of their own inconsequ
mircea_popescu: observation that the ~ONLY~ reason the empire of stupid puts forth that pretense has nothing to do with them and everything to do with the few remaining intelligent people that even speak the language / bother to tune in (
a fine example being the recent "triggering" nonsense re the abort() manual : the pretense the neets matter is SO THAT RMS BELIEVES, not so that anything to do with the neets themselves ; yet somehow this te
mircea_popescu: hey, my recipe for apricot jam has half
a dozen cracked seeds in there per jar.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 21:31 mircea_popescu: but this is
a little like saying "kid pretending to be holding breath is lying". duh. how the fuck is socialism, or however you call the attempt to embody idiocy, supposed to survive in the strictly non-socialist reality ?
mircea_popescu: but this is
a little like saying "kid pretending to be holding breath is lying". duh. how the fuck is socialism, or however you call the attempt to embody idiocy, supposed to survive in the strictly non-socialist reality ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this no-left-in-socialism point is particularly visible if you look at the case of the republica "socialista" romania. from the 60s onwards it was run VERY MUCH on capitalist basis, accumulating wealth, if undistributed, and ekeing itself
a tiny colonial empire in the arab lands etc.
mircea_popescu: i guess. though i suspect it's
a sad life to play the transvestite as only avenue to getting laid.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental pretense of the ~soviet~, in the original sense of the term, is that
a group of imbeciles can nevertheless make decisions on the basis of their misapprehension of the environment.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there was ever
a system "dedicated to man" that managed to get man to think, though. man will not think, would rather take rape than math questions.
mircea_popescu: the soviets of russia, much like the soviets of america, very insistently alfabetized the herd ; but lacked the electronic means to plug them in, all they had was electric. and as
a result, "people's radio theatre"
ben_vulpes: perhaps i misconcieve of the industrial processes, and could benefit from experience, but i labor under the apprehension that there was "teh one su car, designed by su factory" whereas american product is "ten stanford cucks who think the exact same way writing the exact same banking app that chase will release as
a feature in two years, written by their peers who took salaries instead of grahams
mircea_popescu: they seem indistinguishable to me, "marxism-leninism" or "awareness, eco-friendliness, blabla" serving as
a specific sort of distance-only schelling points -- ie they only work at
a distance.
ben_vulpes: grand network of corporations and wall street will ensure that americans are "stepped down gently"
a la the photosynthesis process, with maximum $anything extracted over the long term
ben_vulpes: last time i could be assured of walking out the door and getting
a tool (not part!) that i needed was in nyc
lobbes: It took some explaining to Best Buy lady on the phone that I
a) was not looking for laptop power cord and b) I didn't need the whole power supply, just the cord
ben_vulpes: be damned if i'm going to drive around all day on the offchance they have
a thing
mircea_popescu: lobbes, incidentally, i've noticed the people's subjective reported dissatisfaction is one of the best proxies for local suckitude. ~100% of romanians agreed that romania sucks, 1988, and as
a result romania went from ~gabon to ~austria in 30 years. meanwhile columbia people agreed with themselves "they love their country", and columbia went from columbia to columbia in the interval. nicaragua idem.
lobbes: I will say, I've lived in New England, Ohio, and now here. And, believe it or not, imo the people of Ohio trump the usefulness of people here by
a large margin
mircea_popescu: heh. it occurs to me i've not lived in
a city smaller than 1mn in YEARS
lobbes: "Charlotte's got
a lot" my foot
lobbes: Looks like there's
a fry's in Raleigh, roughly three hours from me o.0
lobbes: Few weeks ago I was trying to buy
a power supply cable and didn't want to wait for lulazon to ship. Tried half-dozen local shops, both "big box retailers" and "mom n pop computer stores"; -none- had any in stock >>
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-11#1812272 ☝︎ a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 16:25 mircea_popescu: in strict, physical terms. i can peel
a coupla bills off the roll way before anyone can
a) take the card b) orient it to machine slit ; c) slide it through ; d) wait for data to run back and forth to visa servers (include here the pro-rated delay of "servers down" shenanigans) ; e) get me to "sign" like 1100 period barbarians the f) slip of paper it printed and spit out etc.
hanbot:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-11#1812288 << yeah, YOU can. way before pretty much anyone else, and certainly way the fuck before the masses can
a) be told that yes, in fact, the act of purchasing something involves them paying! b) thereby realize they will have to retrieve monies c) emit
a mournful moo d) reach into bottomless purse/euromanpurse/dip hoof into each of eleventeen pockets e) find
a button! f) remember that bunion/ill aunt/weather s
☝︎ hanbot: hey danielpbarron (or any other mp-wp users with 'classic' theme goin'), assuming you're using mp's antispam, wouldja mind pasting your themes/classic/comments.php for me so i can see how you're handling the $suffix? differs from the 'default' i'm using, but i'd like to include
a fix for it in
a comments patch.
BingoBoingo: What is Africa but
a European playground where the toys took over the playing?
phf: yeah, dakar rally for trucks is
a european take on monster truck rally thing, not as larger than life over the top, but taps the same kind of feelings
ben_vulpes: take me out to the deeesert/romp around on the flaaaats/burning oil and lighting off guns/fuck all the liberals i'm gonna have fun/cause it's root root root for the germans/if the diesels get neutered it's
a shaaaaaame/cause it's one! two! three! strikes you're out in the us! penitentiary! game!
a111: Logged on 2018-05-11 17:05 asciilifeform: kamaz. ( to be fair, they make
a buncha different ones )
mircea_popescu: also very large cacti count as "wooden" in this sense. but i mean gimme
a break, yes wood is supposed to float, but not in acetone ffs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, anyway, yeah, the "wood"... i mean they have all these overgrown grasses which to ~them~ appear woody, but taking an axe to
a palm is not so unlike taking down
a movie set in anger.