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BingoBoingo: Fuck, has Bitcoin been around long enough for PTSD flashbacks
to set in
ben_vulpes: not
to be confused with
the "hubculture" "ven"
mircea_popescu: but hopefully isis reformats
their dumb ass in short order.
mircea_popescu: there are of course
the sort of fucktards like for instance came out of
the woodwork with
the blender foundation debacle who are so invested in making
the world suck
that
they're natural allies for shit like paypal.
jurov: must be some kind of waterfall going
there,
too
jurov: they ask 2x more fees
than credit card companies, yet looks like accepting money
through
them is much more dangerous
jurov: at least
that blacksmith does not go mtgox
mircea_popescu: it all comes down
to
that ancient "could you buy all of russia by selling apple stock".
mircea_popescu: the only difference is
that in 1415 his workproduct could buy you
the world, and in 2015 it's at best a curio.
mircea_popescu: just like
the blacksmith
that made
the "best steel" of 1415 is for all anyone knows/cares still in
the same smoky shed down
the same muddy road doing
the same grumbly job of it.
mircea_popescu: neither carry any cultural importance, and so in
this sense paypal was broken.
mircea_popescu: the point is
that
the paypal power of
the 2005s was broken, and now
they're reduced
to being a sort of etsy beenz, except for a slightly larger etsy called ebay.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: did i somehow sleep
through a death of
the ebay monopoly ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or is
this merely another army of
the undead
thing << it is. bitcoin killed paypal, maggots
trying
to get a piece.
phf: knowing
that venmo is in or
that paypal is out has no
technical merit
to it, it's only worthwhile if you're working in fashion industry. continuing
that analogy you're building space suits, it's entirely irrelevant
to you what sort of pants 20 year olds are wearing.
phf: venmo is "big" with college crowd, on account of having better "apps" support. if you're building anything for
that crowd, you would carefully consider using venmo as an alternative
to paypal
☟︎ ascii_field: that doesn't need chumps in
the usual sense
ascii_field: or is
this merely another army of
the undead
thing
ascii_field: who
the everliving fuck uses
them, and for what
ascii_field: i still don't grasp
the proliferation of spampaypals
mircea_popescu: every hipster doofus with his made up shit,
trying
t oget me
to look it up.
ascii_field: ' It’s $2.99 on Kindle, if you’d like me
to Venmo you
the money. As a person who not all
that long ago walked away from Gawker Media, and who also grew up reading Gawker, Jezebel, and Deadspin,
the little Kindle Single can actually be a delight...' << at
this point my gas mask clogged and i can read no moar
mircea_popescu: 13yo whiteboy doesn't agree
to mommy getting remarried!
mircea_popescu: "Now,
this is not really a reason
to admire
them;
they should be rightly condemned as
the callous killers
that
they are. But what we need
to set in opposition
to
them is not a further erosion of our already crumbling sacred
traditions, but a redoubling of our efforts
to resanctify our own dormant
traditions and, perhaps even more urgently,
to create new ones."
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the writhing of
the castrato bois notwithstanding, europe's doing its cycle.
trinque: I didn't hear
the dirt saying anything about USA as I drove across it.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that "the usa" is anything but an obscure, inferiority-complex-ridden province of europe is laughable.
ascii_field was under
the impression
that 'syrians' were already unloading in usa by
the boatload
mircea_popescu: "europe" such as
this exists does
the same
thing for
three millenia straight : once it peaks, it regresses
to an infantilized state.
mircea_popescu: "Europe has invited within its borders a very large number of people who have every intention of carrying out further atrocities, and decadent whining only serves
to strengthen
their purpose. Because
their purpose is
transcendent, it is
to do
the will of God and
they are entirely willing
to die in
this purpose."
mircea_popescu: "This presumably goes some way
towards explaining why
the response
to
this atrocity consists largely of people declaring
that
they will continue with
their way of life/values as an act of defiance against
the killers.
The hope being
that shopping and consuming junk culture will somehow magic away
the enmity of
the invaders. Or at least it might stop us from having
to
think about it."
mircea_popescu: so basically
they don't want
to load
the page until
thje script is loaded and i've nullrouted google analytics.
shinohai: k
thx mircea_popescu, ascii_field
ascii_field: on
the off chance anyone gives half a fuck
mircea_popescu: so i somehow suspect perhaps
this is not a simple matter of js-and-the-browser
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
the archive.ius version i can see just fgine\
ascii_field: '11/13/2015 Multiple buffer overflows in
the (1) png_set_PLTE and (2) png_get_PLTE functions in libpng before 1.0.64, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.54, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.17, 1.5.x before 1.5.24, and 1.6.x before 1.6.19 allow remote attackers
to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image.'
mircea_popescu: the blacks have nowhere
to go. besides, you don't see
tumblrs dedicated
to "mexicans fucked my wife"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
there was a minority of french in germany in 1930, you never heard anything about
those./
mircea_popescu: check it out, ascii_field 's link doesn't load in
the same manner
the other sites discussed
today don't load.
mircea_popescu: at first,
the failure is going
to be
the fault "of racists", like you see in missouri. like "foreign agencies" in early soviet
times.
mircea_popescu: that frustration, being on a social rather
than individuyal scale, and coherent, will find
the usual debouchees.
mircea_popescu: the problem with cargo cultism being, of course,
that
the only
thing it produces is frustration.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the derpage started in "design" and "pr". by now oil is falling, and oil is really
the highest capital investment industry out
ther.e
mircea_popescu: nothing is immune from
thios brain rot, but
the capital investment requirements provide protection.
mircea_popescu: it used
to be "fakle it
till you make it", which is how
this always starts. now
there's nothing
to make, on account of everyone doing
the same faking.
mircea_popescu: it is,
to
them,
the reality of
the daytime
tv drama.
the scholarly
term for
this is, "cargo cult".
mircea_popescu: these are some women
that are doing no work, but going
through
THE MOTIONS of doing work.
trinque: I've looked at a few places in downtown Houston as well, but I hear
the crime situation down
there has gotten a bit worse since I lived
there last.
trinque: not yet, staying with family and planning on doing some
traveling soon, so I'll settle around here after
the new year
pete_dushenski: trinque: v. good
to hear. didja end up in one of
those apartments on
the water you posted a while back ?
trinque: can't say
that I've seen a girl with stretched out earlobes since I've been back, either
trinque: phf: also
that, love
the food
trinque: and I arrived for
the nicest part of
the year
phf: also best burritos in
the country
trinque: I've always preferred
the people here, being
that
they're capable of eye contact and conversation
trinque: I'm putting my wager on
TheEarthVolta being some 20s
Texan guy with a big beard and short attention span.
ascii_field: e from concluding
that Germany had gone insane.'
ascii_field: would let you wander off
to wherever spies go when a war is over. You know why?' he said. 'No,' I said. 'Because you could never have served
the enemy as well as you served us,' he said. 'I realized
that almost all
the ideas
that I hold now,
that make me unashamed of anything I may have felt or done as a Nazi, came not from Hitler, not from Goebbels, not from Himmler — but from you.' He
took my hand. 'You alone kept m
☟︎☟︎☟︎ ascii_field: BingoBoingo: 'I didn't know
that,' I said. 'No one knows everything,' he said. 'Did you know,' he said, 'that until almost
this very moment nothing would have delighted me more
than
to prove
that you were a spy,
to see you shot?' 'No,' I said. 'And do you know why I don't care now if you were a spy or not?' he said. 'You could
tell me now
that you were a spy, and we would go on
talking calmly, just as we're
talking now. I
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: TheEarthVolta: What assurances do we have
that you are not a cop?
pete_dushenski: are
those unable
to effectively scavenge reduced
to cargo cultism ? is
that
the divide going forward ?
pete_dushenski: i see
the future as fundamentally subtractive -
that is, wiping off
the shit in
the eyes of physical and digital environments, curating only for
the useful and productive aspects, which'd certainly be
the "scavenger" element.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 23:53:26; mircea_popescu: ving away from a "frontier" worldwiew and
toward a "cargo cult"/scavenger world view. consequently
the notion
that new
things can be made is being gradually abandoned.