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a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 12:17 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-17#1504193 << there is no $ideology per se ; tmsr is principally characterized by lack of ideology. everyone else has one, however, and they're often patently insane and amazingly complex.
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505364 << okay; but deciding not to use $tool because it's used by $enemy bloody well sounds like one to me. sure, you can call this a set of (very) useful heuristics. but if this sophistry is accepted, then any ideology is a set of heuristics (usually but not always very bad ones, but the latter is a separate point). ftr though, i'm not saying that sometimes there aren't good reasons for avoiding somet
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:45 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506249 << 20 year only takes us to 96, which isn't really that far behind. i'd wager about 50% of c code currently doing anything useful was written in the 90s.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 23:42 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506210 << i have no idea why "scientific computing" on the c machine would use anything but c slowly mutating into asm, but then again that's me.
gribble: vc was last seen in #trilema 5 weeks, 2 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes, and 51 seconds ago:
<vc> Framedragger: I'm cool with port scans, neither me nor my parent host cares
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 19:15 pete_dushenski: "“I am looking to weed out police and crazies,” she said. She estimates that only one in four potential customers ultimately passes. Those who do win some time with a professional escort/dominatrix, but it comes at a hefty price: Each hour can cost up to $800, and Rita’s cut is 30%."
<< steep!
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505981 << but this thing where "build in environment with large cost" is not a solution, because the enemy incurs the cost only when visiting whereas you incur the cost permanently. so this is, strategically, a nonstarter, whether the medium is mars or ocean or w/e.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: "In Austin, Minnesota, another Kmart was turned into offices for Hormel, as well as a giant Spam Museum."
<< lol!
pete_dushenski: "“I am looking to weed out police and crazies,” she said. She estimates that only one in four potential customers ultimately passes. Those who do win some time with a professional escort/dominatrix, but it comes at a hefty price: Each hour can cost up to $800, and Rita’s cut is 30%."
<< steep!
☟︎ pete_dushenski: m your work email, and require a scan of either your passport or driver’s license. And you will comply."
<< y u no pgp rita ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505518 << strangely enough, none of the kids playing history (with the abundance their forefathers so imprudently assured them) realise that "hey, things are linked, a boat like this means i gotta sleep with a schmitar under pillow!"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> possibly answer is, be small king. far away
<<< this is quite lulzy, you know. "i want a center of a circle that's squarer and closer to the margin"
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as "why is e
< 3??" "no reason" in nature, and from there in engineering. there isn't really such a thing in society, and from there in culture.
shinohai: Logged 7-19-2016 08:39 +thestringpuller shinohai: they added steem to poloniex. shit is bubbling. i wish there was enough liquidity to go short. this is the ultimate bubble.
<<<only teh American exchanges I see
mod6:
<+shinohai> It's like a colossal shit that won't flush.
<< haha
Framedragger: yeah i have this stupid nostalgia for things of that kind even though i haven't experienced them myself >.
< Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-18#1505268 << realistically i'll prolly end up waiting to see what you come up with, to steal good ideas off of you :) ; meanwhile i'll be scripting something more generic, vaporware-y, and less productive (something something federated e2e encrypted forum thing)
☝︎ BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> 'the meaning DAO's contract' --> 'the meaning of DAO's contract' ??
<< fxd