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BingoBoingo: Prolly most North American cities have
to look forward
to: "It is
the latest robbery in St. Louis in which
the victim was shot even after complying with a robber's demands."
pete_dushenski: and by 'the future' i don't mean 'the future everywhere' but rather a great many north american cities, particularly
those focused on a single industry.
BingoBoingo: Well,
the problems emerge less from
the
touristing and more from
the activities of daily living necessary as an urban dweller
pete_dushenski: i mean, who wouldn't want
to see a real live honest-to-goodness usian dystopian ghost
town
to see if
the future is really
that shitty or whether it's in fact quite liveable
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo haven't been
to either detroit or stl, but
the former holds some appeal
to me, at least as a
tourist.
pete_dushenski: i still wouldn't want
to live in nyc, but not least of all because it'd make me feel pretty poor. like alf poor.
mircea_popescu: course, not nearly as heroic as "dude
that has a bunch of other altcoins anal rings around his penis said ethereum's no different, and he had an open offer we mostly didn't
take, and now it
turns out it's no different and let's not mention
the bitbet bet on
the matter if possible."
mircea_popescu: Since Ether went live he has disappeared and refused
to discuss
the issue anymore, and it is unlikely anyone could've collected from him at any point.
mircea_popescu: "Short summary from clicking
the link:
this dude claimed
to know Ethereum would fail, so during
the crowd sale he offered Ether at a huge discount
to
the official price. Since nobody
took him up on
this amazing offer of selling something he didn't have at a price cheaper
than
the price people were willing
to pay
to people who actually had Ether
to sell, he declared victory.
pete_dushenski: "Part of
the initiative is
to create around 20 cross-border Special Economic Zones. Khorgos, on
the border with Kazakhstan, serves as a cautionary example:
two years after
the go-ahead China has built a city consisting of a number of multi-story shopping centers in
the desert. In one of
those buildings, for example,
there are roughly one hundred shops, each one of
them selling exactly
the same product: fur coats."
BingoBoingo: Of course.
There may be wankery in some places like California where
the police are enlisted
to pull over and impound such vehicles when spotted driving, but it is retards all
the way down
mircea_popescu: there is no way
to "fix
things" by finding
the right way
to fold
the paper.
mircea_popescu: the overarching point being
that whatever paper dickery
they choose makes exactly 0 difference in
the field.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
the more
they do of
that,
the less rope
they have left. << How
they would do it is probably mandate
the
titles
to
the vehicles be converted
to "salvage
titles" or some other wankery
that would make
the cars illegal
to be registered
to drive on
the road.
assbot: Dunning_Krugerrands comments on New Ethereum blog post from Vitalik Buterin:
The Evolution of Ethereum ... (
http://bit.ly/1OCY5wi )
mircea_popescu: this is
the problem of "regimes", let's call it. a quest for oxigen, underwater.
there's no more oxygen being added.
mircea_popescu: the more
they do of
that,
the less rope
they have left.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no but seriously. at what point does
the idea form
that hey, minuscule "pollutants" out of extant cars aren't
the problem. stop giving so many derps cars! <<
The used car market is finally starting
to regain some price sanity after
the "cash for clunkers" supply contraction.
The confinscatadors may be planning
to do a repeat except with more "fuck you" and less "$5000" rebate
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therealbitcoin contributor.
trinque: chapelle did not deliver in
that skit
btcdrak: the blood moon has come
true for so many assets
today
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller was
that
the black white surpremacist skit or another ?
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: it all falls out of
tvom
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu 0.001 looking more likely by
the minute
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: probably
the same way people reacted
to Dave Chappelle shooting a slave owner on camera in a skit.
pete_dushenski: halfway
through 'django unchained' atm. if
the locals in derptown
texas couldn't imagine 'nigger on a horse', how would
they react
to 'nigger sells your papy's farm
to chinaman' ?
mircea_popescu: to add
to
the -15% yest and
the 10% day before
that and in general...
thestringpuller: the entire point of college
these days is
to get laid it seems, which I dunno why you'd pay 10k a year just
to get laid.
mircea_popescu: but hey,
the party's over. all
that's left of america are
the fly shat pictures of granpa on
the wall.
mircea_popescu: possibly most unamerican
thing ever seen, heard or
thought.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
the epic moment where a kenyan and a chinese agreed
that "the us can't pull itself out of
the shit without chinese support".
thestringpuller: i
think
the kid eating glue is worse off now with
that mantra
mircea_popescu: yeah, by filling
the country with a bunch of retarded assholes you wholeheartedly feel like driving over.
thestringpuller: I blame Obama for all
the "everyone should go
to college" bullshit.
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: only
the stupid have student debt, why pay for something you can't afford, or are not cool enough
to get someone else
to pay for?
pete_dushenski: best
thing
the post-secondary ustardian system ever did. reduce pollution. with debt !
mircea_popescu: how about make being poor very fucking sad, so
they have SOME incentive
to stop lying
to
themnselves about it.
pete_dushenski: this side of
the pollution equation is being helped immensely by
the crushing student debt
that 'social scientards' are coming out of school with. still have
to live at home. ride bike,
take bus. what choice do
they have but make being poor fashionable ?
mircea_popescu: somehow it managed
to be worse off as "existoware"
than it was 6 months ago as 6 months late vaporware.
mircea_popescu: last i heard ethereum is
today in a state
that is generally worse
than not existing at all.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu "Ethereum now actually exists" << what
the fuck does
this even mean ?
mircea_popescu: it's clearly a square. one edge has been optimized pretty well.
tiome
to do
the other one ?
mircea_popescu: no but seriously. at what point does
the idea form
that hey, minuscule "pollutants" out of extant cars aren't
the problem. stop giving so many derps cars!
pete_dushenski: so
they really have no choice but
to hand-wave
the 'problems' away
pete_dushenski: the size of
the vw legal problem is
too obviously
too large for derpy bureaucrats with concrete boots
to handle
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 06:09:56; mircea_popescu: fascinating
that
the author manages
to go
through all
that without at any point rising
to
the very moderate level of awareness
that's included in
the observation
that "all
this retarded pseudo-legalistic bullshit just ate its own
tail, and now ill have
to go. vw shot it in
the head,
thanks god."
mircea_popescu: jewish mothers have a saying, something like, "stick
to being honest, you're
too dumb
to be crooked."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski at least he could have
the commo nfucking decency
to make a new nick, like every dumbass / scammer before him.
mircea_popescu: the budget of
the entire scamolade is ~150 btc, and i doubt
they're actually willing
to burn all of it in support of
this paycoin.
assbot: BitBet -
The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 52.17 B (28%) on Yes, 134.11 B (72%) on No | closing in 2 months 4 days | weight: 84`582 (100`000
to 10`000) ... (
http://bit.ly/1OCUQVB )
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> holy shit it's down
to 1800 btc? what did
they start with, 30k? << "30k".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> anything less
than
that, won't keep vw alive <<< for my political needs a dead vw is much better
than a live one.
mircea_popescu: should be a pretty lulzy showdown, once
they
try and "prosecute" someone who's not hired straight from central casting.
mircea_popescu: but so far
they're in
there with "arkan's
tigers" and whatnot
two bit
thugs.
mircea_popescu: hey, if
the usg "law enforcement" hires some kickass pr it might even catch up
to
the sinaloa cartel by 2016.
mircea_popescu: watching club fed
try
to dig itself out of
the pile of fake bitcoin auction and all
that surrounding fraud, on
top which is piled a layer of lying
to jury every which way
to cover up for actually criminal "investigator", on
top of which is another layer of lying every which way
to protect his co-conspirators, which are now coming
to light...
pete_dushenski: to paraphrase
the simpsons comic book guy : best. fall. ever.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Just
typical fall drama season
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu "Ethereum now actually exists, and
those who were lucky enough
to
take up Mircea Popescu’s offer
to buy ETH from him
that he doesn’t have at a price of $0.12 a piece are welcome
to
try
their best
to collect." << from ethblogthing
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 19:23:52; kakobrekla: how many lamborghinis in
their lamborghini account?
pete_dushenski: ben + pete's skool will most definitely
teach finance ftr
pete_dushenski: lulz. ergo, we're not going
to
teach personal finance in skool because it's unfair !
pete_dushenski: "As society’s average level of sophistication goes up, information-driven inequality may increase.
This will happen if informational advantages build on each other --
the more you know,
the better you understand how
to learn more. If
that’s
the case,
then educating
the general populace about finance might actually exacerbate inequality, instead of correcting it."
pete_dushenski: "Differences in education are dangerous because unsophisticated people generally don’t realize
they’re unsophisticated."
pete_dushenski: "What if
the rich get richer because
they know how
to invest
their money more effectively? New research shows
that
this may be a factor behind
the rise in inequality."
pete_dushenski: noah smith ('noahpinions') continues
to unintentionally entertain :
phf: this goes back
to
tom knight and
the lisp machine koan. you can't substitute understanding, and every piece of your stack where your understanding is limited by "stuff is happening i
think" is going
to bite you in
the ass. specifically you can't
take an opaque blob
that barely runs on dev's machine and expect it
to cleanly deploy, and no amount of container is going
to change
that.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: 'cause i suuuure as shit ain't writing any more code
than is necessary
than
to pry mword open
to execute my "portable code" (as $newclient's IT dept refers
to...everything)
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: but i need
to render
this webview in a microsoft word plugin
gabriel_laddel: Bahaahahah
the 2nd comment is from Joe Armstrong (created Erlang) and reduces
to "yeah, I dunno".
gabriel_laddel: I love
that
these people *never* question
the god-given axiom "all GUI development must be done on 'the web'"
gabriel_laddel: This is
terrible and we should all be ashamed. No wonder PHP is so popular. How am I supposed
to
tell a new web developer
that
this is what
they have
to look forward
to?"