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assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 15:40:28;
mircea_popescu: nah, all children are born with flat feet among numerous other diformities. some never grow out of it
ascii_field: funkenstein_:
mircea_popescu and the little birds who whisper in his ear say 'yes'
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 16:01:16;
mircea_popescu: and consequently this whole story is moot other than for the similarity with the past. it took the magical box allowing you to talk to people over the ethers a few decades to arrive starting in the 70s, or a few millenia to arrive starting pre caesar. in the interval, cellphones were mostly magic rings.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 16:02:50;
mircea_popescu: so, im sure he has it. patience.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 16:02:44;
mircea_popescu: yes they understood that you can send communication over wires or over waves. but they did not understand what they were doing was "sending communication" in these terms, or in short they were speaking in prose but unaware of what prose is.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 15:52:09;
mircea_popescu: (and similarly prop delays are an empirical phenomenon, cheaper to measure than to make a new chip)
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:28:48; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu ^
jurov:
mircea_popescu: it comes out that if you ever decide to relocate alf, will need to manage it and provide usg-level amenities
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 09:10:49;
mircea_popescu: only thing another hundred twerps does for you is more inane demands.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 02:47:35;
mircea_popescu: trinque i think the concern is to be approached on two lines, empirically. line 1) what % of queries constitute powerplays and b) what % of queries result in interesting education that a noob reading logs would benefit from.
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 17:27:26;
mircea_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 08:46:04;
mircea_popescu: give it a little, all ohio girls be dancin' in shanghai
copypaste: but anyway
mircea_popescu not sure why you're mad. We agreed to one month. The month ended, things went back to how they were before.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
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cazalla:
mircea_popescu, i'll hold you to that!
decimation:
mircea_popescu: 'has physical consequences' seems like a solid criteria, not 'no true scotsman'
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Sure, but you have to consider Denton only does Bezzel, Blow Jobs, and Loss leading social engineering. From what I understand he hit his peak wealth before Gawker got close to popular. Much like i hit peak fitness a decade ago befor I had internet connected terminal at "werk"
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 23:52:10;
mircea_popescu: * ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg << and if i serve it cooked you still wouldn't be. it's like a religion with you :D
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: 9's hundred million? But yeah couple mill per year. Even the first years Gawker cost a few million a year when it was one hired girl and the celebrity stalker because "viral" cost millions paid to Newsweek and other dead trees to get any attention at all.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> * ascii_field still not convinced that this is any kind of actual defeat for usg << and if i serve it cooked you still wouldn't be. it's like a religion with you :D << USG atm is in its "Opium Wars" phase except it is both Britain and China.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Anyways from what I understand Nick Denton's peak wealth was right around 8-9 figure sum of dollars and he sunk nearly all of it on Gawker Media liberalizing everything. This is likely a move to justify outside investors covering his loss and letting USG propaganda outlet pass to other hands.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: You know like the assholes who keep music from playing on music stations in the morning so instead you set the car's radio to less shitty talk radio all day
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> so let me get this straight, usg is trying its damndest to sink bitcoin by sending every washed up child pr0n dude this way ; meanwhile we're just sitting pretty while the flagship usg propaganda tool self-sinks under the weight of washed up wrestlers ? << Yes
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Indeed it was the dude who lifted Andre the Giant
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, that's him and he stretched as far as down under back then
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, $14.5 USD / 1K impressions for top 728x90 and 300x250 $9 / 1K impressions on the lower end
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 20:30:24;
mircea_popescu: nuts dude, by now people are actually trying to impersonate the b-a dom ?!
jurov:
mircea_popescu: you got the preport from people who used it on linux?
ascii_field: this too presumably lives somewhere. but i will have to take
mircea_popescu's word for it
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 02:24:53; ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a talmudic scholar to boot
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 02:21:13; ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> when an otherwise smart guy is too stupid to get out of the rain. << or insists, operating under a complete lack of evidence that "it can't possibly keep going on like this much longer!"
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 13:45:36;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-06-2015#1164751 << i think you broadly miss the point there. it doesn't matter what it ACTUALLY asks. what matters is that once you sign and serve it, they will pretend it had asked whatever it is they wish it were the case it had asked at any later point, which is how "it doesn't ask about fucktoys" turned into "paetreus broke the law by visiting a local social
davout:
mircea_popescu: ^ 218 EUR/BTC
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: as it's entirely up to you how long you feel like steering this ship. except you're, what, half putin's age.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: well, not like pricing sovereign risk for usa is easy
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 02:24:53; ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a talmudic scholar to boot
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> esp in odessa << ehe late as always, i am
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a talmudic scholar to boot
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> when an otherwise smart guy is too stupid to get out of the rain. << or insists, operating under a complete lack of evidence that "it can't possibly keep going on like this much longer!"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> how is "working undercover" what you do when you << couldn't possibly be real. lulzy satire of the state of the state tho
trinque:
mircea_popescu: maybe, how so?
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 19:22:29;
mircea_popescu: if the state went away tomorrow nobody'd even notice.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Russian are prettty well culturally jewish.
ag3nt_zer0: ok ty
mircea_popescu I am pretty confused... I have been following contravex guide - so is that preparing me to run locally? Or is utilizing enigmail through thunderbird attached to a gmail account no longer local? And is it just more secure to use plaintext over html? So much to learn...
davout: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu pls to x.eur
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:31:18;
mircea_popescu: moreover, there are hard to miss parallels between this entire "saving the state" interventionism of the us coallition
assbot: Logged on 14-06-2015 17:37:25;
mircea_popescu: the same problem existed with the blips.
assbot: Logged on 23-06-2014 00:11:01;
mircea_popescu: After seven years of the new regime, I had the opportunity to compare the class of 1999 with the class of 1992. In 1992 I set an course in Artificial Intelligence requiring students to solve six exercises, including building a Prolog interpreter. In 1999, six exercises had shrunk to one; which was a 12 line Prolog program for which eight weeks were allotted for students to write it. A special class
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: try chrome, only tested in chrome atm
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: a lot more to clean up and annoying js bugs around but yeha went fine:D
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: the first link went in pause try the browse channel
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: javascript and flash required so fire up the lowly ones:P
assbot: Logged on 26-10-2014 05:49:56;
mircea_popescu: i suppose that's the ultimate girl toilet, what is all this "lift the seat, lower the seat" bs.
menahem: hey
mircea_popescu, what is your backup plan? in the event someone like the USG ..tries.. to pwn you? mpex, coins, etc?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: how do you think they will be described by chinese historians 1000 years from now?