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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: *stronger!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so fridge shelves i guess
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: daily resurfacing of cutting boards ??
nubbins`: mircea_popescu plastic/resin cutting boards are more common here
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: leaves the door open and... rat comes in ?
assbot: Logged on 13-04-2015 13:37:43; mircea_popescu: restaurants are very safe, because if they become infected it's obvious within a day and they get shut down
nubbins`: mircea_popescu it's an article in jacobin, you're not supposed to follow
nubbins`: mircea_popescu >8(
funkenstein_: mircea_popescu have you been approached by publishers for trilemma content yet?
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 21:36:37; mircea_popescu: the city never sleeps
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user mxtm: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/mircea_popescu/mxtm | http://w.b-a.link/user/mxtm
williamdunne: mircea_popescu, that seems to be a relatively common theme in many places, in fairness
adlai: !down mircea_popescu
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 18:33:07; mircea_popescu: inexplicably, i end up with unmanageably lengthy lists.
decimation: mircea_popescu: you see this in the us with the ambiguity usg shows toward spying in general
trinque: mircea_popescu: always a very small number of whichever govt officials compared to the total populatio
decimation: mircea_popescu: yes that seems reasonable
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 05:18:53; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-04-2015#1098008 << yes.
felipelalli: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-04-2015#1098408 << mircea_popescu nice!! Thanks! Great article, congrats. ☝︎
decimation: mircea_popescu: why do the 'natives' there sing low quality us pop music instead of performing their own stuff?
trinque: mircea_popescu: they probably give him pills to help with that
trinque: mircea_popescu: we tell circle to mark a bit to 0 in their db, and they keep our info for all time
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, creative people, entrepreneurs. In my case I've been self-directed for the larger part of the last 5 years, but I wouldn't credit myself with having provided all the motivation to go down that route.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> <chetty> most of the founding fathers were from the north, not many plantation keepers around Boston << at what time, this ?//founding fathers = circa 1770
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only remembered the fl tidbit because paul graham blamed it for 'lack of startup culture in fl'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu probably does not entirely apprehend the degree to which various folks in usa, myself included, are already in a sharashka. we work for scrip, every penny of which is centrally accounted for, incoming and out
decimation: mircea_popescu: I suspect that many usians go their whole life without touching non-usd currency
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> guy declared "golden helicopter" << i bet savages do believe that an airplane flies on account of some compact talisman contained therein
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does not need bank aboard atomic dirigible
decimation: mircea_popescu: fcc can and has send agents to seize your supply of device
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ancient paper
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 03:08:43; asciilifeform: felipelalli: it was unplugged (see mircea_popescu's explanation last night) and evidently not yet rehosted.
assbot: Logged on 12-04-2015 03:07:18; felipelalli: mircea_popescu: I love this article: http://trilema.com/2014/guidance-there-is-no-such-thing-as-bitcoin-taint/ do you keep this opinion?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and this creature is rich, while good men die in butugychag.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: drew this up, in some detail, in '03-04.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: second was thermal
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: first concept was solar, cap, and wall climber / glue.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a largely complete design for this and 5 other similar items, will confess.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can more easily imagine a 'jobs program' where monkeys with triangulolocators climb walls and scrape by hand.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the normal rationale is 'we rob banks because that's where the money is'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where i live, at least to the 'street computer shop' level of apprehension, a whore is an abject and usually physically revolting creature who fellates what may well be gorillas for a hit of 'crack'
asciilifeform: 'whore' means very other thing to mircea_popescu than to the folks back on planet 3
asciilifeform wonders if 'whore' means the customary thing, to mircea_popescu, or if it is a mistranslation of something
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually mit subdivision 'lincoln labs' - and several smaller orgs - serve top tier .mil and intelligence contractors.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or these well-known items, http://world.guns.ru/ammunition/russian-special-cartridges-r.html
asciilifeform: i mean, i grasp that mircea_popescu is referring to cultural death.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's suppose. then, when precisely did the flame go out ?
asciilifeform: if what mircea_popescu is alluding to is that the design of usenet allowed for the possibility of 'parallel universes' where folks carry on a conversation that never reached my server - then yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, there was a pretty useful and fairly complete snapshot in the ice. and now i look in the cryostat and find rotting gibblets and alive with flies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am at this point convinced that google killed it deliberately.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: salvageable in the preserve-in-ice sense
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hybrid of oxcart and airplane, where we progressively remove pieces of the ox yoke - uninteresting to me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which problem
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 11:58:20; mircea_popescu: if i were black in the us i would be fucking worried for my children. being ~10% of the population and >50% of the public discourse is how the hasidim suddenly disappeared from history.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-10-2014#853306 ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and aspires to a job to be obtained through an interview with hr. << i have never once found work through an 'hr'. this is not uncommon among my meatwot. (not a magical feat by any means at any rate.)
asciilifeform: felipelalli: it was unplugged (see mircea_popescu's explanation last night) and evidently not yet rehosted. ☟︎
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: I love this article: http://trilema.com/2014/guidance-there-is-no-such-thing-as-bitcoin-taint/ do you keep this opinion? ☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the most that'll happen is that you'll get patches regendering the codebase. mircea_popescu: and if you don't put them in, hell, you'll sit and wodner why is it eliezer potterboy "gets funding" << a large part of the purpose of current mit is to produce the folks who will produce these patches.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's been introduced to not ever knowing chemistry. << a more or less complete description of most american 'education' on most-any subject today.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu:asciilifeform you gotta have a look at http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-04-2015#1097382 << gabriel_laddel has good summaries of things, but i must confess that i am not particularly interested in 'lispy unix' as i consider it coprophagic pizza. ☝︎
felipelalli: !rate mircea_popescu 2 "his articles are great and fully of truth"
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.williamdunne.1:6f842a3ee562affa0e377e4854d8c2a068b5464a0bb241fec1ff5a28c232aa96
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu, mod6 (others tracking the DNS seed thread as well): i'd like to hear from you all as well
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> well here's to not. << happens to all of us, no sense derping about when or under what conditions.
ben_vulpes: it's the mircea_popescu show!
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: What about using citations found on WikiPedia from somewhat credible sources (post 1980) that lack PGP sigs?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "this" the distro?
trinque: mircea_popescu: my old boss called it the "end-user/developer divide."
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: or seen their completion rates?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: have you tried to use one?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.gabriel_laddel.1:571f1ba6498d6c3fdb57a76a9bceb507251f88ce8977775e25f165ecfb533340
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you seriously thinking of implementing a sane pgp ?
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 15:50:58; mircea_popescu: im so fucking sick of asicminerism i can't even begin to tell it all.
assbot: Logged on 08-04-2015 02:25:15; mircea_popescu: !rate mats 1 Lotta paralegal work on http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/
Chillum: mircea_popescu: I found this: http://tim.jagenberg.info/2015/01/18/low-power-esp8266/ the sleep mode power consumption is 78 microamps and it can wake up and transmit packets in < 2ms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not mystery
asciilifeform tries to recall mircea_popescu's post re: how modern notion of 'chain of command' applied to medieval structures is simplistic; remembers that www is down
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had an eerily 'sovok' experience the other day. went to a shop that sold, among other items, wooden planks. needed one sawed to fit in car. waited for whole hour, while clerk after clerk inquired, where, where is the one and only man authorized to use saw (kept under lock and key)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we - or at least i - knew that you're fond of courtroom challenge. but i can't help but also remember the various folk who tried this in ussr.
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2015 04:54:00; mircea_popescu: Guest64542 you know about the log ?
asciilifeform was kinda surprised, he admits, to learn that mircea_popescu even hosts in a part of the world which even pretends to honour dmca etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is a more or less plain case of 'i have the right to wear this rape dress'
Chillum: mircea_popescu: as usual the conversations here require context that takes time to learn
decimation: mircea_popescu is performing a service for folks too poor to afford a lawyer
decimation: mircea_popescu: true, but I suspect that the dc could 'find you violating' without asserting anything w.r.t. dcma claims
Chillum: mircea_popescu: "chills" is what they called me in high school
Chillum: mircea_popescu: I know I was using it before the web
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'refused to dismiss counter-claim.' but how did the case end?
decimation: mircea_popescu: couldn't the dc simply claim that you were violating their tos?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i predict that the case will hinge on whether 'fetlife' is a tendril of usg in good standing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l, not even copyrasty ?!
assbot: Logged on 27-09-2014 15:41:18; dignork: mircea_popescu: on a concept level lurkmore is a copy of encyclopedia dramatica, but they do much better job imho
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: e2 ?
asciilifeform goes to dig for the trilema summarizing mircea_popescu's conference-ii speech re: this, but remembers that his www is down
Chillum: mircea_popescu: it is nothing more than a starting point for understanding
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this actually is a two-layered shit sandwich
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2015 00:04:38; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ... dude, why so disdainful ? if you don't trust people you don't know on the basis of what they write << because i can see the hallmarks of educated mendacity. the man, whoever he is, knows that i know the history. and pretends otherwise, and that he has some sort of 'lesson' for old ignorant me. i know the type, they infest (or once did) my comments section.
Chillum: mircea_popescu: my spelling is lacking, but I assume you can make out my meaning
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> i wish to see the female alf. and her shoe collection. << lol, 'i wish to meet the female chingis khan and her sheep collection'