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mircea_popescu: in any consumer driven market,
the price is
the only signal of everything. and you do not give as much as a faint whiff of selling
the 1k item for ~20 bux. not ever.
ascii_field: in usa, almost all iphonistas were getting
the
things via
their
telco already
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 20:45:57; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears
to have slept
through
the
total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in
the price, see ?
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 03:58:42; mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at
that
time. and by virtue of being head rabi,
the young man also had an ex officio seat in
the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as
the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from
the high chamber of cas
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:49:33; pete_dushenski: "Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies lived or died according
to certain general rules. Jews who maintained
their prewar citizenship usually lived, and
those who did not usually died…Jews from
territories
that changed hands were usually murdered. Jews almost never survived if
they remained on
territories where
the Soviet Union had been exercising power when German or Romanian forces arriv
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:20:34; phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones
to pretense
that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on
tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over a weekend out
then in moscow
then i've ever in
the states. nothing like
that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i
mircea_popescu: chumpatronics is its own science, with its own measures scl, you can't just replace
them for gonzo values
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears
to have slept
through
the
total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in
the price, see ?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:57:52; asciilifeform: ^ aha
this was sop
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:56:45; asciilifeform:
then again jurov is fortunate in not being personally concerned with
this matter, just as eagle does not concern himself with muddy roads...
trinque: want
to send a real message, send it
through a better
tube
trinque: because it's
their problem
to keep up, and
the idea
that any email is beyond prying eyes is long since passed
trinque: I have no interest in continuing
this postfix hobby
ascii_field: e.g., go and get
the indium back out of
the junkyard, for new lcd glass
ascii_field: overall
this is a kind of inevitable entropic heat death and applies
to everything.
mircea_popescu: this has nothing
to do with wealth (in fact it decreases more in wealthy systems
than in poorer ones)
mircea_popescu: anyway : yes as adoption grows (the real kind, not verbal),
the average size of
the unspent will decrease.
ascii_field: (beautifully fictionalized but afaik pretty accurate depiction of 'trial of
the pyx' in n. stephenson's 'baroque cycle' - recommended)
mircea_popescu: because
that introduces a border and borders must be policed which costs EVEN MORE money
mircea_popescu: the choice is
to either make it microscopic or dilute it with base metal
mircea_popescu: once
the empire grows,
the size of
the coin has
to diminish
mircea_popescu: if money were still linked
to gold, seeing how
there's not
that much gold around, you'd be dealing in sub-miligram units.
mircea_popescu: i refer you
to your classical history studies. why do you suppose
the atom count of gold per monetary item kept decreasing ?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:52:21; asciilifeform:
this is rather like supposing
that all gold on planet will one day be split into individual atoms on account of its scarcity, no ?
ascii_field: hey, 'better for
the buses, closer
to
the shops' or how'd it go
mircea_popescu: and
the next day after i start making obscure chinese statements on
trilema you run off from home
to live in xiang-fuck or some shit
ascii_field: i know strictly enough of it
to not crash an elevator
ascii_field: learn cn, might
take us a little while
to catch up
mircea_popescu: i suspect
the deep driver
there is "idiots" vs "enemies"
ascii_field: unfortunately doesn't work in english, but i'll
try:
ascii_field: reminds me of my brother's Unified
Theory of Linguistics
mircea_popescu: so listen ascii_field is it
true sexpr were mostly copied from regexp ?
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE i'm fine now! weren't you going
to do a dc at some point ? :D
ascii_field: ;;later
tell jurov last night i saw operetta version of 'r.u.r.' at czech embassy. it was spiffy
mats: graphic
t shirts, bowties, hoodies, suits
trinque: "They will
train
to repulse an attack from
the air and
to defend
the coast, which means firing artillery and
testing short-range air defense systems, "
the source said, adding
that
the exercise had been agreed with
the Syrian government. << might as well have said "against US airstrikes"
fluffypony: those were
the ones I
took on my phone, I have other pics (somewhere) I
took with my camera
shinohai: Have been for a few months I
think.
trinque: they
taught us
the quadratic formula in middle school using a goddamn nursery song
tune
trinque: doesn't make sense
to me
to add special logic for a single RSS feed
trinque: pete_dushenski: where's
the >1BTC bet feed?
ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr.
Toom about
the grading system and instruction methods of
THIS country.:.. I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and
trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me
to be doing so poorly in
this course. Please straighten
this man out.'
☟︎ shinohai: Nor did
they make
that conference by using actual bitcoin.
ascii_field: just pointing out
that
the people pictured in BingoBoingo's links did not get
the way
they are by eating actual food
pete_dushenski: well, no one's buying planets now are
they, not even mr. musk
ascii_field: difficult
to become 'planet' on actual food
ascii_field: vast exaggeration - no one would buy pork of
this quality, not for a penny a pound
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:55:23; pete_dushenski: gotta love
those statist stats. what would we do if we knew
that poor people were fat and poor because we were redistributing wealth so as
to ensure
that
they stay
that way in perpetuity ?
shinohai: That we should mirror ancient Rome, suspend democracy and give Obama sole power
to defend our borders.
punkman: why haven't
they made
the emergency permanent yet?
shinohai: pete_dushenski: my mind instantly
thought of
that
trilema article lol
assbot: Crystal meth: 'Walk a little way in any direction and buy it for a
trifle' | World news |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1ULZorm )
ascii_field: l
trays. Lethal, yes, but slow and relaxed – almost spiritual.'
ascii_field: 'Yes, opium was a murderous agent in our blood streams. Yes, we were addicted. But we gained a gravelly
tone
that made friends’ poetry recitations bearable. If we expired bit by bit, we were comfortable in our growing numbness. Opium eased away frustrations and failings.
This was a
traditional addiction respectful of our history, of
traditions
that allowed us
to go with
the flow as we socialised around glowing charcoa
pete_dushenski: looks
to be ~$1/lb as a going rate, shockingly, exactly like in
that
trilema article
shinohai: Unless I make
them red in
the face, where's
the fun?
pete_dushenski: shinohai: not like she'll ever read
the logs. have at 'er :)
shinohai: I wonder if
the author of
that article would be mad if I made a masturbation pun on her name.
shinohai: Step 1. Sign up for Reddit and
tumblr
pete_dushenski: "James Clapper,
the director of national intelligence, is said
to
talk nearly every day with
the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Brigadier General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according
to a former intelligence official." << it brings a
tear
to mine eye
to see
these bureaucrats breaking down barriers like
this. *sniff*
assbot: US spy chief's 'highly unusual' reported contact with military official raises concerns | US news |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1ULW0gb )
funkenstein_: 6bdr_2IAJWU <-- mos def, immortal
technique, eminem
phf: punkman: yes, not for purchase
though,
to smoke. he ran
to a different location, packed it
there, brought here, and
then proceeded
to refresh coals by repeating
the process
pete_dushenski: gotta love
those statist stats. what would we do if we knew
that poor people were fat and poor because we were redistributing wealth so as
to ensure
that
they stay
that way in perpetuity ?
☟︎