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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by and large, nothing interesting (not even new poison!) happens if you mutate at random.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: http://40.media.tumblr.com/9af3649f763191c778bc1eee6fbf4909/tumblr_ngzbtp8QvJ1trst71o1_400.jpg << hood nigga's dream
asciilifeform: battery and a capacitor << mircea_popescu has it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos << hmm perhaps American media just blinds one to the broader cultural spectrum
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: although it is the most common item on the menu, there is still some "allure" as a minority "banging one out"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: over there with all the brazillian hotties.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: good for her?
jurov: mircea_popescu: with due respect, are you sure asciilifeform can attract any federal-level whore?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: just appreciating the pun
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] it's really not hard to block. but domestic isps = blockheads. << hurr durr
asciilifeform: and then mircea_popescu asks why these folks don't buy one way tickets and join 'isis'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu, et al ^^^
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you probably knew this, but large (how large is 'large' varies based on the day's 'terrorism thermometer') cash tx in u.s. banks require id and are reported
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every problem is a triviality to folks who can't even conceive of having it
Adlai: +mircea_popescu | talkin' in verses n speakin' in rhymes << it's just https://xkcd.com/312/
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: you gotta remember Australia is a pioneer is "social sciences" ESL retardations. They pioneer these things for USia and Lower Britain.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Seriously
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> think about it. GREEN mercenaries vs allah's host. << Don't forget the mercenaries that aren't green in the peshmerga who want their own state carved out of Turkey
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu> "everyone" knows academi has been hiring overtime. << these are all noobs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: theory goes that no well-fed u.s. 400k-usd/yr academi demolitions expert or whatnot has the slightest desire to be king of the orcs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: simpler than that.
punkman: mircea_popescu: (the guy fatass kim is trying to immitate, basically. paid $$ to be adopted by some ex german prince) << lol! Prince Frederic (Gabor's current husband) paid some old lady to adopt him too, rest of family doesn't recognize him.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gotta appreciate that this is about as real to me as a $500M synchrophasotron. i.e., i get the basic principle involved, but have never seen with own eyes nor know in person anyone who has
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i'm not paying 4+k for 1...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the countermeasures aren't usually something a clever person can learn from reading books
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: gotta be born to it
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i wonder just how much the cops would be willing to pay if ransomware maker crafted it specifically for gov depts and not at home users
ascii_field: re: earlier thread: somewhat reminiscent of the 'sling dope' thread on mircea_popescu's www
dignork: mircea_popescu: wawert is the guy I mentioned to you earlier
ascii_field: (previous thread) if mircea_popescu seriously applied his criteria re: who is 'marginal', #b-a would likely be the #mircea_popescu-kakobrekla-jurov channel instead
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, that's kind of the problem with literature by committee. At some point someone's going to make the thing suck.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i never followed that franchise, but did batman have a vallet / << He did indeed
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: where does the dead usg sysadmin come in? somehow missing it
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: which difference ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: seems only way to avoid gasenwagen in this sense is to become BTC version of pablo escobar...
ascii_field: ty mircea_popescu
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: aren't there still political factors involved calling up senator to deliver shipping container of benjies to you?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes. and this one of the very few reliable auto-tipoffs available to the gasenwagen
ascii_field: mircea_popescu is approximately correct
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: yes exactly! which goes to point mircea_popescu just brought up
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then << the general concept being that people will find themselves under so much pressure as the thing advances, that marginals (ie, people who depend on paychecks etc) are prolly in a very weak position to participate anyway.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring << simply wanted to point out that all of the #b-a projects (with possible exception of kakobrekla's work) are powered a hundred percent by the fiat economy's surplus - that is, free hours of various folks involved - and to some extent are at the mercy of their day job fortunes (see, e.g., the demise of moiety)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: perhaps not in nyc, or at least not manhattan
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: scoopbot does seem to be working fine...for nao ;)
mike_c: mircea_popescu: not teleology, I just don't see how a poker site gets enough traffic if the only problem it solves is "we'll host your weekly poker game".
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: gladly suck our cock if only we a) didn't bang hotties and b) validated their self-hottie delusions. << These are usually the girls who start false accusing despite being squelched.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the idea had crossed my mind
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or do your pets get sent out to work day jobs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you feed'em dontcha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know why it's there
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: o i believe!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so anyone wants to make a poker site ? << actually yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja watch them do it?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: He won the first one.
dignork: mircea_popescu: I can't currently handle it myself, but I can bring a friend and we'll split the work, would you be interested to cooperate? ☟︎
dignork: mircea_popescu: collusion is discovered in the long run, afer the fact, f you can't ban/punish the player, code quality won't help :(
dignork: mircea_popescu: I'd love to, but currently I fail to see how to handle collusion, if player's identity is not WoT based
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: http://www.aholme.co.uk/Mk1/Architecture.htm << ah goodness hardware implementations of forth and lisp make me wish for a fueled rocket
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dairy farm ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah I figured you would like that
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.aholme.co.uk/Mk1/Architecture.htm << example of modern discrete logic machine. (there are many. common amateur project. but, afaik, nothing remotely large enough for, e.g., a bitcoin node.)
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> so sure, w/e your microbrewing friend gave you << or my brother :D he even makes his own yeast cultures
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> jesus this free speech thing i can't even force a point beyond all reason without you people oppressing my metaphordisphoria << it's for the logs :P
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: dunno about 'all'.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] there is the occasional shop that's competent, but by and large the label offers no protection. << nice thing about growing up proximate to actual farm land worked by actual humans is the learned skill of being able to nix Cisco-vendors after a single visit.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] pollution is my guess. << "you don't need to make up and over fit models to convince me that the silicon fabrication process is realrealreal bad for life on planet earth"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whatever it is, u.s. folks from 'high society' obsessed with 'natural product' are getting their fair share of it - or more.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where i live, the synthetic food is conveniently shelved in another (by far largest) section of the store than the mostly-correct (to look, feel, and taste) variant
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it's a pollutant, it'd have to be one that usa takes in more or less evenly...?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: more along the lines of 'folks shouldn't stay and be sane back on the farm, there's a war on, go to the front'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: wanna-be girlfriends << you mean groupie who false accusing it?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just as long as people act sanely, they're good enough << if they have no concept of the enemy, the latter can persuade them to 'act sanely' in a harmless - to him - direction, when it suits him
Apocalyptic: not bad mircea_popescu, what about you ?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: "made to fail once it no longer can work" << these are not binary
cazalla: mircea_popescu, ever come across gender dysphoria or same story as autism?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.NewLiberty.1:d474b38b053519963da0f65ad11375e48102693cf7ec5b41086343c6b4263e41
PeterL: after mircea_popescu left, in #debianfork: tmyklebu: he's not weird enough to be a billionaire.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2015/02/vermont-bitcoin-atm-cease-and-desist-requested/#comment-10900 << I don't think that will work. Cause you are exchanging government scrip for Bitcoin so it involves transfer of that...
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, seems there are no other acts of god that could delay it
thestringpuller: read that as if mircea_popescu was german from lebowski
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: can't layer dram
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the one utterly unsolved problem is ram
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i wonder how much money that nets them << You probably missed this because winblows free, but for the longest time it was impossible to get computer with winblows that did not have factory installed malware. Popular advice of the time was "reinstall winblows onto new computer"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: related dan mocsny - http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=VKvDDSaH
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i sat down originally to write the piece specifically about that
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: arbitrarily fine placement is mainly a question of the guidance optics
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well die transistors autoplaced is prolly about on par with making yourself a 3d gun that works. << Mosin, never lost to itself
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one can get bare-die transistors
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is thinking of soviet-style metal 'tin can' transistor as being used in the pdp, and is correct
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what transistor are you thinking of ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who are you to say what drunken future brings! << I'll volunteer to take point on this
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily: diametric, i think, might be making a pcb this way as we speak
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah it would be depressing either way
mike_c: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you might as well put my name on the wot job. looks like i'm doing it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it's bs like zona zooster and flu "vaccine" that ruin the otherwise reasonable shit for everyone. << That
BingoBoingo: ;; later tell PeterL : <mircea_popescu> PeterL: and I hate the question "how much did your last job pay, and what do you expect to get paid"? << "A lot of money, and I am open for an excellent offer." << Sigma charges $336/gram for blow... get in on that shit.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Plenty of chicks for 4 of six years.
BingoBoingo: OMG mircea_popescu and chomsky sitting in a tree s-o-d-o M I E
decimation: mircea_popescu: "what he is saying is, "you can not give me an unbounded task and then expect me to reason about it. you already set the tone as metaphysical by your task description"" < aye, and he should have said "I cannot accomplish that which you desire"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and who among us (other than possibly mircea_popescu) would not rather do something involving a pdp-8 than what they did today. << I was more concerned with the 'actual' smells.