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mircea_popescu: the number 4 in there isn'
t comparable to the number 4 as you compared it ; they're different things.
mircea_popescu: but yes, upon examination it's obvious we don'
t agree on "the definition of poverty". you apparently imagine it is a boolean ; and idiocy also.
mircea_popescu: if she doesn'
t, you've got a sort of place. if she does, you've got another sort of place.
mircea_popescu: why ? if "i'd love to chat you up but i gotta hurry back to work" applies, boy's poor, and girl either moves on or doesn'
t.
mircea_popescu: ie specifically the sort of arrangement you don'
t seem to like.
mircea_popescu: i didn'
t witness it per se, it was just "the talk fo the town" so to speak. at least among a certain set.
mircea_popescu: out of 9 "top critics" in syndication, two pass the blurb test : village voice's atkinson and slant magazine's dillard. this is the fucking bar, "write one sentence that doesn'
t mark you for idiocy", 2/9 specialists pass.
mircea_popescu: James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk "Adriana's essential vacuity, central as it is the film's point, doesn'
t give us enough to hold onto, so by the time the narrative is winding its way to its climax, everything has blurred into one long rush of nothing."
mats: i put a few coins down for a bet, sure hope the operator doesn'
t fly away
a111: I haven'
t seen onefixt
phf: man, that shotgun to the head is nasty. i wouldn'
t want confederate rabbit to get replaced by it
ben_vulpes: hasn'
t been an interesting hustle for over half a decade now.
danielpbarron: wish I bought a silkroad
t-shirt on the original silkroad. prolly the one interesting thing for sale on the whole lot of them
danielpbarron: I once went to the trouble of creating an account on either silkroad or one of the things that came after in order to buy twatter followers for an ex-friend of mine (he thought he was really good at social media, obsessed over follower/following ratio, yet only had 50 followers) -- he didn'
t ask for this; I thought it would be funny to freak him out. Anyway, stupid vendor I contacted via GPG-gram replies in plaintext that he can'
t mircea_popescu: mats "was struggling to move one kilogram" ie, "this inept prude is struggling to take a 7 inch cock up her ass" not "the total volume of shit she ever shat to become the 29 yo loser she is doesn'
t ammount to the volume of a 7 inch penis"
mircea_popescu: this wasn'
t a deliberate thing. it just never happened. i fully intend to do it once, if i have occasion.
mircea_popescu: sorry, i couldn'
t hear you over the moans. then there's what ?
mircea_popescu: there is that. but then again - we don'
t care about results, purpose or consequence here at tmsr.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t see at this point what exactly could happen to graham that'd be on the strength of his public record unwarranted.
mircea_popescu: it is ; but this isn'
t the problem. the problem is that he's proceeded in the "Scientific American" manner of contemporary MIT engineering. he created a "hockey stick pattern" out of putting some data through a process that always yields a hockey stick pattern ; data that he's obtained from extrapolating a tiny dataset of dubious relevancy (ie, last week's tv guide contents).
mircea_popescu: that evidence doesn'
t meet your standard is irrelevant - stuff like "ship across atlantic" very neatly met theirs.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-10 17:48 mircea_popescu: "here's the laws and and if you don'
t like it, you can leave" "i'll go join the people that'll fuck you up" "o wait you can'
t leave" "does that mean you admit your laws are dumb ?" "nope" "does that make you a hypocritical idiot ? " "no it doesnt!!1"
mircea_popescu: go, take whatever voodoo water you will ; and don'
t ask me to sign off on it.
mircea_popescu: if there existed good physical models for bitcoin we wouldn'
t have either the problems or the interest.
mircea_popescu: may doesn'
t rescue you from the fact that you're purporting to compare the results of two functions that may never return at the same time.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing here ; your presupositions can'
t be admitted. there's no way to do science o nthis.
mircea_popescu: there is no such proof to be had ; you are simply pretending to glue together things that don'
t exist in the same domain.
mircea_popescu: burden of proof applies to meaningful statements. there's no burden of proof here, as this inference isn'
t even wrong.
mircea_popescu: if you don'
t catch fdmjkrlehkjer now, shall a dead genoan send you the bill ?
mircea_popescu: mno. "i don'
t see how they did" and "i see how they didn'
t" are quite widely spaced apart.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:45 mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don'
t have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not, as a factual matter, as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think i ever spoke against a hanging, maybe if nice tits invovled or something, but rare enough.
mircea_popescu: not even a temptation. the ECONOMIC DRIVE! if he doesn'
t - another will. and neither he nor the other are mp, to obliterate any conceivable competition by simple fucking logos like a thing out of the sacred texts. so what's he to do ?
mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don'
t have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not, as a factual matter, as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: some fish might be too big to care ; but in general fish that aren'
t too big to care are required, economically, to maximize the usage of resources.
mircea_popescu: anyway, don'
t misunderstand the "not to make money" bit, it's in my case a coincidence not a virtue. go, make money, absolutely no shame in it. a lot of shame in luchamos juntos blablala, so there's that.
mircea_popescu: it wasn'
t a significant sum - think, i threw away 1k btc to humiliate buffett, i threw away 5 fucking btc for stuff like the contest that produced "shall be delivered" ; etc. moreover, to correctly account for it would have likely cost more.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-14 16:33 phf: nubbins`: it's a shame that you chose this approach for your denouncement. some people are here (myself, maybe ascii) not to make money, but to fuck around with novel ways of doing things. it would've been nifty if, as a "lord" if you will, you picked up the game and made your accusations formal, maybe solicited a judge from the wot, made it interesting somehow! you don'
t have to obviously, but the approach that you chose was basic and
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:19 mircea_popescu: this is just another of those "sunk costs of mp's that we don'
t recognize nor compensate him for - just expect bitbet to magically work for free"
mircea_popescu: covertress as we don'
t know each other, we have nothing to discuss "in private". public will work jus' fine.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t expect ~anyone else would afford to do this. period.
mircea_popescu: this is just another of those "sunk costs of mp's that we don'
t recognize nor compensate him for - just expect bitbet to magically work for free"
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519996 << this is altogether unclear. this "the people have the right to trace the coins" is a) still nonsense, bitcoin is not traceable ; b) still nonsense, forget the "dao" bullshit ; c) still nonsense, you trust the operator or you don'
t trust the operator.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i dunno the missionary, and don'
t care to remedy this.
mircea_popescu: dudes gotta learn, you don'
t visit barbarfic lands without proper bonds.
mircea_popescu: doesn'
t seem like the uk is declaring anything but "i'll hold her for you"
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Maybe if they didn'
t want oppressed they would have kept the Ras Tafari Haille Sellaise alive?
mircea_popescu: kinda why the clinton ticket is such nonsense to anyone not-a-pleb. the one thing obvious is things can'
t continue - how to let steam out, where etc are debatable, but her utterly mccain-ish notion of "all is well" smacks of such senile delusion as can scarcely be put into words.
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, ah, so i shouldn'
t even publish it myself?
shinohai: I haven'
t found *a single thing* to qntra this week
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think i've ever seen this in romania. or for that matter the states.
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, i should run an ad campaign here. "Be smart, don'
t fuck Argentines."
mircea_popescu: which is precisely why, widely speaking, economic progress happened in the west, with the sandyvagina'd women that didn'
t marry and didn'
t have kids, rather than i nthe east, or in china, with the loving and tolerant she-rabbits.
danielpbarron: lol i can'
t even load the b-a logs. I guess i'm blacklisted
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: you don'
t know him, but know me. so you come to me
danielpbarron: trinque, I don'
t think there is any mention of bigfoot in The Bible
trinque: in this case the average consumer isn'
t saving shit. they're paying on house loans, student loans, so on.
trinque: why can'
t both cause the other
mircea_popescu: apparently these aren'
t ACTUALLY worth money after all ?
mircea_popescu: i suspect this may be a case of "you may not use that tool here" being taken for "i don'
t like that tool". it was a domain problem most likely, but do link ?
mircea_popescu: it's true foss died ; for which reason it carries little water here. but the frustration is a) the inability of foss to maintain strong immutability in front of organised crime, be it usg or otherwise ; b) the part where it can'
t actually move is valid, but not exactly for the reason he describes.
mircea_popescu: "I think Free Software and Open Source addicts will get down from their current high and become tremendously frustrated when the obvious problem of having millions of pieces of source code available and they actually can'
t move in any direction because the ability to make modifications that they have so lauded in the past turn into a very serious problem when much bigger problems require modifications to much larger systems
t mircea_popescu: sanity in engineering includes confiscation of codebases. something he didn'
t do with mule.
mircea_popescu: "|I don'
t see why anyone would insist on a way to do things that does not solves the real problem, but rather solve an ancilliary problem that is a problem only because someone is very stubborn." << the political ineptidude of these people.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the incomprehensible mists were him, not you. who the hell knows what's in the box of a guy who does such contradictory things as alf pointed out. i wouldn'
t risk much on the theory we share any mythology, and it's not even directly evident gabriel_laddel actually lives meaningfully related to the human condition.
phf: mircea_popescu: that point is consistently being driven home. in fact i got to talk lisp to a bunch of random people and had a very visceral experience of the gap. hathayogapradipika says to keep your yoga secret, i.e. don'
t be a incomprehensible myst. but sometimes i still get carried away. ~some~ people grok me though, even when i start speaking internal experiences.
phf: mircea_popescu: i don'
t take it all the way to the cave, i believe that one can tap into shared mythic space which has more to do with human condition than it does with humanless abstract. but for how often i'm misunderstood, i suspect that socratic method is much more effective.
phf: mircea_popescu: i think asciilifeform and gabriel_laddel goals are very similar, combined together they'll produce an easy low complexity (but perhaps less glamorous) design space traversal path. gabriel_laddel doesn'
t see it, because he thinks that a certain stop on his path is "dirty" or somesuch, so he wants to avoid it altogether