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gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: yes. you've written about the game of 'balance' wrt fucking. when playing this game you /know/ somehow that you're doing it correctly, via various signals.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu: they're part of the "pat-on-the-back" crowd that constantly need to be told what a good job they're doing else their paltry raison d'être will crumble
decimation:
mircea_popescu: in the us, I'm pretty sure that the manufacturers (who have an oligopoly) cheapen shit up so that it 'breaks' and requires replacement at a rate they select
decimation:
mircea_popescu: it's considered normal for the entire system to break every year or two, typically requiring a specially licensed repairman to come out and replace the freon lines
decimation:
mircea_popescu: the irony is that for many us citizens, their house is their biggest 'savings account', yet very few consider any other option than what the builder 'decided'
bitcoinquestinos:
mircea_popescu: What do you mean? Is this a place where people find the best way to spend their bitcoins so they can hold tighter?
bitcoinquestinos:
mircea_popescu: I know I'm asking what is the purpose of this IRC?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: yeah can't run a/c but you could run fridge
trinque:
mircea_popescu: maybe they'll crowdsource a sweet name for wwiii from reddit this time
adlai: i'm not set on a specific configuration for how such terms would look; i'm interested to see what works for them.
mircea_popescu outlined the terms he offers people who manage profit centers, and it seems that he's not willing at this stage to risk an amount which is worth my time to manage, and this is understandable
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2014 01:18:27;
mircea_popescu: there is exactly one avenue to do that : make it so good some actual trader starts using it, after which go work for him.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu originally contested the difficulty of importing heavy things, saying it was a problem of the poorly networked
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 06:26:04;
mircea_popescu: i live in the sticks.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 06:06:39;
mircea_popescu: ironically, irc was a big thing when i was a teen. then pretty much forgot about it. only rediscovered it in a frustrated attempt to make sense of the ever mounting idiocy that bitcoin appeared to be.
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> [] like, the node, which is an always on demon, and then various things connecting to it : such as other nodes, on the eth card, or the user, always on the specifically delegated interface, etc ? << working towards this is the root my plaintive cries about what it means to "bitcoinate"
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> [] how do you plan to use it w/o a wallet ? << gotta move all the transaction generation logic out of the turd. implies a database replacement using something that can actually be queried, not a braindamaged k/v store.
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> [] actually i'm kinda half curious how many us based conf attendants discover at the border that the newly expanded tsa doth not agree their passport holds any value. << me too.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 20:09:21;
mircea_popescu: adlai i think pretty much the entirety of the problem stems from your outright bizarre expectation that bitcoin will somehow suit you. the correct approach is exactly the opposite : change yourself to suit exactly.
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:19:42;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> adlai: why does it have to test on actual live-fire btc anyway? << so he can make a buck ?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu which is precisely what the male protagonist bemoans in the opening scene of the play
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:27:14;
mircea_popescu: well, if you make a f.mpif pc and report your trades, say daily, and submit monthly sum reports, i dunno, 10 ?
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: nah, I'm writing something now for other reasons, will link when finished if you've not.
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: have you grokked the "why" of lisp yet?
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 21:22:05;
mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 03:18:43;
mircea_popescu: sooooo... on account of bitcoind recompiled with new openssl, actual bitcoind compiled with actual openssl as of 2009 does not pass blocks in 2011
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: heh i do. i actually made a buck on that scam.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2014 18:09:12;
mircea_popescu: "So above you see pankkake continue to smear the company ActiveMining (by calling it an investment scam, associating it with the known 'LabCoin scam', saying the CEO is facing jail and accusing me of being a scammer (!)) after Ken publicly refused to pay pankkake's blackmail money demand."
mod6:
mircea_popescu: haha.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2014 05:07:32;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> connected with serial cable << this from reading up on old mpex material ?
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> this is pretty massive if true. mod6 do you feel like testing for this insanity specifically ? << yes, im sure that i'll dig into this further
trinque:
mircea_popescu: hard to get taught anything if you're fighting the teacher
trinque:
mircea_popescu: right, I was saying the "visa is so speed" argument is bullshit
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, it's old as in there was a photo of the psu dump out last year and it was filmed last year but new as in full clip released today
the_scourge:
mircea_popescu: where did you get the idea for mpoe?
phillipsjk:
mircea_popescu: well, you may not believe this or like this, but... my banking depends on my gpg signature o.O < I wish the banks around here knew what GPG/PGP was. The card-holder agreements universally say: "You acknowledge that e-mail is not secure..."
phillipsjk: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu I enjoyed your latest blog post.
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 21:53:25;
mircea_popescu: this "'KGB: the Inside Story' by Christopher Andrew" string reminds me of the "stop sending niggers then" joke.
decimation: lol
mircea_popescu no one types on the kindle
decimation:
mircea_popescu: it's a lulzy recycling program - in the past, us ssn's were assigned by geographical region
decimation:
mircea_popescu: lol anthem is my health insurance
trinque:
mircea_popescu: yeh need the confirmation though to publish
mod6:
mircea_popescu: correct.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: the man's talking about btcd, not bitcoind
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform>
mircea_popescu: water works surprisingly well << oh let us not get ben_vulpes started on the wonders of steam
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 23:51:15;
mircea_popescu: "The one great example is IBM, which faced disruption and existential threat from PCs in the early 1990s and emerged stronger and is still a thriving company. "
decimation:
mircea_popescu: lol he goes on: "It's probably unnecessary to point out that this increase in lifestyle is built on the increased work product of whoever will do it for 30 cents an hour, and anyway it is a red herring. The real attraction for us isn't just the lifestyle, but that it systematizes-- it makes normal-- not ever wondering: how come we have more lifestyle when we didn't do more work? "
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: weren't you killing people and building criminal empires then?