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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's somewhat like saying that 'engineers hate friction'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm sure the denizens liked it also. but as al said, 'first ecstasy, then laundry.' we're living with the results of '90s sv.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: almost all american programmers of a certain age once wrote lisp of some description
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this ancient fallacy has a name: 'dwim'
decimation: mircea_popescu I thought you were just making a point about "I use this thing and it works" is so 90's
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> which is why the democrats have alternatives. because she's not running. << implying she might run in 8 years?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu and i'd still bet a nickel on the republicans
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu repblicans don't exactly 'have alternative', much less plural
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu except she's not running... yet.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i seem to recall you saying something to the effect of 'old women in power are the fucking worst'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's rich if it's denominated in plutonium!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or they were trying to solve a different problem:
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i'm slow..
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu asciilifeform could also be variable taper
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if can vary taper between min and max of what opponent could have used - then yes
cazalla: mircea_popescu, aren't the us lefties the type of lefties behind bitcoin wimminz day anyway
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu aha you're quite right about the scytales. a variable diameter stick is really a fascinating way of graphing cryptographic curves.
asciilifeform: (n00bs can read my original article reviewing mpex, containing summary of mircea_popescu's material on above subject - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1108 )
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: afaik the only source of this hypothesis is mircea_popescu, who presumably has a clue, but understandably won't reveal source of said clue
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: o.O havelock returns ? << we are dealing with undead. it is to be expected...
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> [05:31] mircea_popescu: Has #b-a actually banned ever? << tiberius.
punkman: mircea_popescu: criticized ending the dam project to protect the lousewort; << who the fuck cares about the lousewort
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 09:09:14; mircea_popescu: or whatever, the bruhaha makes me want to send usd to isis now. how do i go about it ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, big brother
fluffypony: [11:05:44] <+mircea_popescu>lol twitter murdered bryce weiner ? ahaha <- lol, anyone know what the story is?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, seems an opportunity for them to stick their dcc branded shit next to an even bigger shittier brand, that being international wimminz day
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider - how did you even discover that page
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's 100% free online, too
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's alive for the purpose of usg stooges being able to 'talk about bitcoin' without mentioning #b-a ever
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 05:30:37; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2015#1041914 << lol this dood's something else. who the fuck was banned, even ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nothing malicious about the poor bugger, just the fact of having all of the traditional misconceptions ('i'll use my phone', 'let's try the Cloud', etc.)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: best I can tell they were anb honest n00b
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Has #b-a actually banned ever?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Over time total new s.qntr per month is on a downward trend becasuse refinement
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: qntra shares face scarcity necessarily
decimation: mircea_popescu: didn't you make the point about how the guns we are allowed to keep are of little threat to usg anyway?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-03-2015#1040458 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would need a sabot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have them machined grossly then electrofined << nonono - whole point is to make'em in a cup in kitchen, jungle conditions
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we already have this. in slow motion
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe not, but having your product obstructed by every domestic shipping company... maybe?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '3d printed gun' fella
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a beautiful treatise, 'art of the sniper' ('искусство снайпера') - ru of course - highly recommended if aficionado or even mild interest in the history. describes precisely what modern designers changed
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure, but at the point barrels make a difference operator makes a far greater difference
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: moder sniper rifle has bullets of similar power to mosin, simply smaller case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: largely a third-world (afghanistan, africa) item currently, afaik
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Mac10's caliber is recognized now as sub pistol, .380 ACP isn't beating a single sheet of kevlar
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, not for the whole club, but if you have people designated to hit marks at a distance...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Equivalent to US .30-06 caliber. Beats any man wearable armour
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: full-sized rifle cartridge, one of the 'hottest' still made (7,62x54r)
asciilifeform goes further than mircea_popescu, dispenses with 'machine word' concept. want bits, say how many.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: long story : traditionally, "int" means a word... << obtain, from purely historical interest, if you don't already own it, k&r 1st ed. good tour of the weirdo word (and byte!) sizes on the archs of the day. predecessor 'B' was 'typeless' (all things are machine-word width) and this was not uncommon then
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i curious about the no-recourse mortgages as well. lender returns payment stream, keeps asset?
ryan-c: mircea_popescu: probably at least 50,000 in the US
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what is that trilema address?
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: you lose due to recency bias! I’ll extend the thanks to you regardless haha
cazalla: mircea_popescu, fixed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik 100% of mortgage deals in usa do
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu is right re: earlier observation that the mega-bubble didn't seem to kill anyone
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is your explanation essentially that exchange value of btc (in the secular world at large, not speaking of usd in particular) and the btc income of a well-organized business are tightly coupled and the 'rope never breaks' ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i would say this is true for the zero asset corporations. the non-zero asset corporations seem to be holdling their own, but too early to tell.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mpex, as i understand, consists of ultra-long-haul folks
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: but what if your revenue stream is no longer a stream but a trickle like man with swollen protrate trying to pee?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem is that most sources of bitcoin revenue are made of flesh and likely to suffer damage on hypothetical 'day x'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i don't have credit cards << do you deal with credit at all (i.e. loc)?
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu appears to get exactly the same spam as my spam-magnet, turd for turd
PeterL: mircea_popescu:asciilifeform http://i.imgur.com/nnJLHk9.jpg << I don't know why, but this made me laugh until my eyes waterred
cazalla: ;;later tell mircea_popescu did ya see kruger of kruger industrial smoothing died?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the photo in question was the famous 'goatse'
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Why did you choose to name the #b-a lordship as such? Is there a historical system of governance you are drawing inspiration from in particular?
trinque: mircea_popescu: the thing does seem to have an "accepting" mode
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good candidate for smuggling 'mule'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe yoy are being singled out
trinque: mircea_popescu: found this http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=13d_1318607927
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: works as usual here
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'google images' ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're not the poor sod who'd starve without coding either.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu is colorblind, that's a kind of crippled
decimation: mircea_popescu: if one day you have a stroke and could only blink one eye, you might find the skill useful
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's like asking a shoe fetishist, why shoes, why not socks, hats
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I live on th other side of Illinois North/South Axis, still more lawless, especially if diversity is invoked
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ check out the gurl
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's the direct effect of shitgnomism where 'the doctor healed the patient's ear, but did poke out an eye, i fear'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not equality
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just proving membership in ring!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Actual line from text you though worthy of offering a solution to: "Currently she was being referred to as the Sparkly Unicorn Princess of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Sparklypoo."
adlai: mircea_popescu: it gets better when you realize that even everypair's a number
decimation: mircea_popescu: the meating of usary has changed over the ages
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thar she does, but snowden was compelled to "prison rules"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But you haven't even heard the loving narration.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: schwartz summed it up as 'More Studies Needed! (tm)'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: much too charitable a reading
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: WOuld explain alot about Omi*'s reported media empire failure method
decimation: mircea_popescu: satans invisible world revealed?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe have one of the more socially perceptive girls screen the citizenfour thing to see if it is worthy of your eyes. Nothing about it suggest weakening opsec in the slightest. Just do they get the same Greenwald was the snitch vibe that I did.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a bureaucrat
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: But on what? (easier to answer for what I am drunk on than the others)
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: kk.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I watched citizenfour at my drunk and most socially aware BAC. They talked about the shortlived Snowden2.0 in Russia. His opsec failure was making any contact with Greenhole.