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mircea_popescu: Trace Mayer is an entrepreneur, investor, journalist, monetary scientist and ardent defender of the freedom of speech.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i recall the meanwhile defunct first processor they used and the horror it caused
mircea_popescu: i was able to recover a missing article by asking the internets.
mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much fun it is to just splatter named variables all over the place, use them in expressions in whatever order you want, and have the compiler schedule things. Although you do it all day. And that was pretty much the end of Forth on that machine; we wrote everything in C."
mircea_popescu: certainly all the greeks, most of the latins, you'll never run out.
mircea_popescu: pretty much all the germans, once one's old enough. frege. husserls. kant. heidegger
mircea_popescu: bitesak any non-socialist before 1950 or so. gibbon. twain. kuhn. russel. bacon. voltaire. swift.
mircea_popescu: it actually comes from a treatise on religion of all things.
mircea_popescu: It is in literature as in life: wherever you turn, you stumble at once upon the incorrigible mob of humanity, swarming in all directions, crowding and soiling everything, like flies in summer. Hence the number, which no man can count, of bad books, those rank weeds of literature, which draw nourishment from the corn and choke it.
mircea_popescu: Herodotus relates that Xerxes wept at the sight of his army, which stretched further than the eye could reach, in the thought that of all these, after a hundred years, not one would be alive. And in looking over a huge catalogue of new books, one might weep at thinking that, when ten years have passed, not one of them will be heard of.
mircea_popescu: The strata of the earth preserve in rows the creatures which lived in former ages; and the array of books on the shelves of a library stores up in like manner the errors of the past and the way in which they have been exposed. Like those creatures, they too were full of life in their time, and made a great deal of noise; but now they are stiff and fossilized, and an object of curiosity to the literary palaeontologist a
mircea_popescu: it's one of those narcisiac cases where a lot of shit gets made up and mixed up into the message.
mircea_popescu: back a year ago he was supposedly running a mining operation for about a year during which time he never found a moment to document it,
mircea_popescu: in practice it's a good idea to take what the goat says at about half mast.
mircea_popescu: anyway, being in some random azn country and not a national prolly insulates him
mircea_popescu: lol i guess you could read it that way if you wanted to.
mircea_popescu: why do you think activeminer exists in the first place ?
mircea_popescu: the "exchange" got ot pretend like it exists and it matters.
mircea_popescu: the "random user" got to pretend like "everyone's investing in pirate" as a sell point.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` glbse worked with goat and "the bankers" to fake volumes.
mircea_popescu: secure they can't be. run by experts they are not. what is left ?
mircea_popescu: how would you expect three websites posing as exchanges to differentiate ?
mircea_popescu: that you then can claim that your broken insecure piee of crud is "betteR" than any other random broken insecure piece of crud
mircea_popescu: o look, asicminer beat on dividend and so activeminer surges. LOGC!!
mircea_popescu: someone should invite rms, then feed him parrot stu for breakfast
mircea_popescu: Sep 16 01:12:28 <mircea_popescu>Diablo-D3 because by now not that many people can be bothered to invite him anywhere.
mircea_popescu: well i have no way of knowing wtf you're doing lol. anyway.
mircea_popescu: fact : 50% of people on skype are naked from the waist down.
mircea_popescu: the op takes it as a signal to give the couch audition,
mircea_popescu: this is how ThickAsThieves gets laid all the time. he asks the op what they want,
mircea_popescu: doesn't make much difference, i recall people were like staying up for the bitbet one
mircea_popescu: i am known for two things : being an arrogant mysoginistic asshole pig
mircea_popescu: well, it's a novelty item, but not fundamentally useful.
mircea_popescu: wasting the time of restaurant owners with trying to handle in-store btc payments as if those have a future opr even make sense