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mircea_popescu: Peshawar was known in Sanskrit
as Puruṣapura (पुरूषपुर), literally meaning "city of men".
punkman: "There are the things we need to work on to get more women into bitcoin and then the guys will just come
as iron dust to a magnet... Porn and cam-shows are good to get some men but they are not enough to form relationships. After all we need a bitcoin women finding a bitcoin man, marry eachother and make a baby. That baby will be born in a bitcoin generation with bitcoin knowledge!"
BingoBoingo: adlai: fxd, though I shouldn't have. If he wanted attention paid to his name he should have opted out of government and identified
as a public key.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess maybe ? strikes me
as fucking insane, but then again i guess that's their point
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> irc is a pain. you would not believe what idiocies i had put in assbot to keep it
as stable
as it is. << i have a vague idea.
pete_dushenski: and not sure it's 'lawns' so much
as golf courses that are sucking up cali's water.
kakobrekla: irc is a pain. you would not believe what idiocies i had put in assbot to keep it
as stable
as it is.
mircea_popescu: imo the VERY best story of thanksgiving friends is made by pretty much the only thing worth the mention culturally to come out of the bit of romania currently stranded
as an "independent state" because russians.
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2014 03:08:03; asciilifeform: busy
as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems
pete_dushenski: the vast majority of jooz are seriously braindamaged. tikkun olam is the original papering over of differences between people.
as if looking the other way will finally allow the jooz to 'integrate' because standing out for your successfulness is awkward and shameworthy or something.
punkman: pete_dushenski: not same profits to be made around here, but people do try to pass of shitty imports
as local produce
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ANYTHING would be proof that. anything. just
as long
as done by human.
mircea_popescu: punkman in practical terms ownership of capital goods is very messy. you think gm owns the equipment in gm plant ?
as what, outright ? mno.
punkman: could also read
as "they pretend they have own hardware"
adlai: i'm not sure the thing being fueled here is capitalism. i want to say consumerism, but it seems more towards consumptionism, packaged and sold to the consumer
as consumerism
jurov: i enjoyed the tidbit about coca-cola being a criminal organization since 120 y ago (
as decreed by US judge, it got largely ignored)
mircea_popescu: must be great to inhabit reality-free world.
as alf says, the commonplace, sane constraint of being economically +ev - isn't there.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i hadn't any idea such a thing
as "British Board of Film Certification" existed. amusingly, i still don't. nice reddit name or w/e it was, facebook trademark.
kakobrekla: not really
as they prolly have a coin counting machines.
mircea_popescu:
as it is i have no idea even what your involvement is with hosting. do you own a hosting company ? what's its name ?
mircea_popescu: mno. im looking for someone who is in the wot,
as a primary factor organising their existence, to start a proper hoster, at the colocation level.
mircea_popescu: it is plain
as day to me that there exists no natural occurence of "we'll just on our own power take this from there and this from here".
mircea_popescu: yes. well, if you're curious to know what i know,
as a result of you know, actual immediate interraction with the thing in question,
jurov: i see it
as mp wanting something like thepiratebay
ascii_field: unless i got transported to some magical universe
as i slept
ascii_field: mircea_popescu looked like he was about to have aneurism. please don't! i did not want to piss on his parade, but must point out that if $magichost folks do the same exact thing
as the last 1,001 folks, they will get... same result
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: USia already sells corn and soy
as both wheats
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 18:35:15; mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
as confusing to the wanna-be entrepreneur
as it might be, it's apparently very threatening to the wanna-be "intellectual", or whatever we call this new (hardly, lol) species of human that aims to inhabit a world of ideas.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
as confusing to the wanna-be entrepreneur
as it might be, it's apparently very threatening to the wanna-be "intellectual", or whatever we call this new (hardly, lol) species of human that aims to inhabit a world of ideas.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: 'The rat flea is important
as a vector of bubonic plague and flea-borne typhus.'
pete_dushenski: bed bugs 'possibly play a role
as vectors of hepatitis b virus'
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 22:48:52; 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
pete_dushenski: "“Microsoft sees itself
as a good corporate citizen,” he said. “They don’t want to deliver products that thwart government.”"
punkman: "Microsoft Sheds Reputation
as an Easy Mark for Hackers"
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 13:57:52; mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just
as long
as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.)
mircea_popescu: and honestly, i am not terribly impressed with propaganda of the deed
as a means to enact change.
mircea_popescu: you got about the same chances to get hiv from someone spitting in your eye
as you got from gettign cancer fro msmoking
punkman: asciilifeform: if destroyed, you buy new ones,
as mentioned above
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the way HIV is lionized it probably won't be long before the US FDA approves it
as a treatment for allergies
mircea_popescu: "Individuals born under these circumstances will be so out of touch with reality
as to be incapable even of alienation. " ha!
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 14:12:38; mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not
as a goal-excused means but
as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
trinque: perhaps
as with individual animals, societies have a suicide mechanism which kicks on when things have gone wrong.
trinque: the pervasiveness of marketing and its effect on language, the myth of equality and "my voice matters" politically and also
as a consumer, >3 generations of "what's a book?", the retarding effect of believing you are already special and noteworthy by virtue of simply being here...
mircea_popescu: "PGP is not
as important
as people think.
As long
as both parties use an encrypted email (and connect with a VPN, TOR, TAILS, whatever) you're fine. This is because if they get access to the webmail all information is decrypted either using automatic PGP decryption (eg: Countermail) or locally on their computer (somewhere this information is going to be stored)."
punkman:
as long
as we don't end up with cargo-cult footnoting
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not
as a goal-excused means but
as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there was a high level of pseudointellectual masturbation, sure, much like in today's us. similarly then, mit educated chitlins could not light a lightbulb, but could pseudointelligently discuss "the types" of feminism
as if that were a thing, somehow.
mircea_popescu: in any case, there's no "high level of scientific achievement" in china
as proposed by that wikipedia. because "social sciences" are not sciences.
mircea_popescu: and even today, the only reason they're doing anything is because they're trying to copy what they perceive
as superior. that's it and that's all, without europe around to direly humiliate them, china would still be pretty satisfiedly pulling carts by hand etc.
mircea_popescu: in particular the chinese had sketches of the helicopter in the roman times,
as opposed to da vinci's re-roman times. they had alchemy plain and proper a millenium before the euros. but hey, chinese "gentlemen" are too delicate to touch earths.
mircea_popescu: the principal driver of inequality between europe (not "the west", the us is not included in this discussion
as it doesn't fucking matter or even exist for most of it) is the stupidity of everyone else.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just
as long
as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: apparently they got confused
as to the difference between "datacenter" and "website trying to push a movie someone made in cad3d about a duke nukem modmap."
punkman: "Social game maker Zynga has created BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, which is currently offered for select games such
as Farmville 2 and Castleville. "
mircea_popescu: the usg version of reality works fine for just
as long nobody leans on it. like all cardboard.
BingoBoingo: And it ends with Charlie Sheen coming out
as positive, HIV positive
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: ' 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: "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."
trinque: I didn't hear the dirt saying anything about USA
as I drove across it.
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: "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."
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.
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
☟︎☟︎ 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 16-11-2015 19:25:22; hanbot: <ascii_field> it's approximately
as interesting or laudable
as getting typhus. << the tmsr~ trail: asciilifeform has contracted dysentery!
hanbot: <ascii_field> it's approximately
as interesting or laudable
as getting typhus. << the tmsr~ trail: asciilifeform has contracted dysentery!
☟︎ ascii_field: it's approximately
as interesting or laudable
as getting typhus.
adlai: "You do not need to wait for a block to be mined. Instead,
as soon
as your 21 Chip connects to the 21 Pool we begin streaming you a pro-rata share of your mined bitcoin."
mircea_popescu:
as ascii_field explains. the value to me of the sort of bs it implements is 0.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field oops, apparently having old ideas
as new ones happens