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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 cassation. and was sea
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (also let me mention here,
as this may come
as a suprirse to my western friends - that in romanian classical society,
as well
as for that matter most of eastern europe,
as well
as for that matter all of europe in an earlier, simpler time - it was the height of poor taste for a woman to refuse sexual congress, and a pointed declaration of personal infirmity. sort-of like saying you can't read without your glasses
phf: that's fair, though i think the approach can still take you far,
as long
as you assume that there's someone with better knowledge and taste then yourself, always
mircea_popescu: "On older terminals, the underscore code is displayed
as a left arrow, called backarrow, the caret is displayed
as an up-arrow and the vertical bar has a hole in the middle."
mircea_popescu: it's fucking incredible the serendipity of this shit
as overlapped on that convo.
mircea_popescu: no but really -
as far
as animalia is concerned, humans have HUMONGOUS penises.
trinque:
as per that thread, nobody's going to fuck him for it
trinque: asciilifeform | jurov: why long, set up a dos box, enjoy the maxint games which were maxint times better than anything available today. << /me wishes to see asciilifeform's DOS game list,
as I was too young to truly appreciate the era
jurov: "What kind of terrible offense must one commit in their past life to be reborn
as a trickster god's cruel experiment: a living work of sadistic irony possessing the visual acuity of a hawk, the palate of a dung beetle, and the agency of a mollusk."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> talk about fucking bit rot. << 8 way RAID 1 mirrors are starting to get really appearing just
as Bitrot prevention
mircea_popescu: it's
as if bitcoin suddenly raised the bar for programming computers and now most everyone's too short to play.
mircea_popescu: dude it's almost
as if everyone using computers before was just you know, playing.
mircea_popescu: they'll just sue the chinese in a chinese court protesting that the chinese arew forcing them to pay bonds
as they promised to pay,
punkman: it'd have worked with dashes just
as well
mircea_popescu: well, no. it works
as intended : if you extract all the prefixed lines and wipe the prefix, you get the original text.
mircea_popescu: the text reads "append
as many trailing spaces/tabs/CRs
as you like to the clearsigned text"
ascii_field: mike_c: could easily push same button
as mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: christianity took over the decaying roman empire
as the most concise, most popular embodiment of their hope and aspiration. the only such remaining - that even
as they've failed, they still must survive "for there's nothing else".
felipelalli: punkman, this is true, and this is my main use of Bitcoin. I wouldn't be affected. Good point. But this is a little contradictory with the article "there is no such thing
as cryptocurrencies". The idea is "There Can Be Only One"
trinque: hm, this brings to mind monotheism,
as perhaps the source of this delusion of a singular agency over reality
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing
as "cryptocurrencies" on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsGWG5 )
felipelalli: idea of that other article of yours "The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing
as "cryptocurrencies"")
ascii_field: trinque: for so long
as it is displacing 'optional' items, rather than air, food (and can take considerable liberties with the latter!) - it lasts
mircea_popescu: " What neither side seems to grasp is this:
as the virtualized realm of cyberreality and social networking takes over daily life, the actual physical economy will matter less and less"
trinque: heh, I've hoped for this
as well. wishful thinking.
mircea_popescu: "With each passing week more and more of us become ready to concede that economic growth is no longer possible. Economic development, on the old model, which UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon recently characterized
as a “global suicide pact,” is becoming constrained by the limits of natural resources of the finite planet, energy, arable land and fresh water foremost among them, and stressed further by extreme weather
mircea_popescu: "go hang out on a website or whatever it is your kind does",
as it were.
mircea_popescu: they pretend like they're advertising, but aren't actually reaching anyone. they pretend like they're socializing, but they're socialising with perl scripts (
as per
http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ ). they pretend like they're doing banking except they aren't actually, and "cheating" on their wife with gif-provided motion and indian call center provided voice.
mircea_popescu: then there's a secopnd web, to use its own terminology web2.0. this is composed of ALL the sites that uses
https, for any purpose. such
as "logins"
as if that makes any sense.
mircea_popescu: or
as that works out in bitcoin, from "developers" to "XT team"
mircea_popescu: hearn was added to support gavin almost
as soon
as gavin did his "presentation" at cia.
trinque: at least
as long
as the life of the chain
trinque: ascii_field: yeah, I'm having a hell of a time finding the sources that linked the above plane to flights to guantanamo now, and recall in the past *not* relying on such filth
as "infowars"
mod6: <+mike_c> we = mod6 + mod6 << lol! in all seriousness, i think that ben supports us working on obsd
as well; however, yes, his enthusiasm might be more tempered then my own. He does review all of these SoBA's before they get signed & sent out to ML
ascii_field: mod6: i viewed the diffs in 'meld', came to same conclusion
as you: 1) timestamps 2) ordering of files
mike_c: "He also agreed to pay federal authorities another $50,000 so that they wouldn't seize vehicles he used
as part of his illegal activities."
thestringpuller: "The Blockchain is may play a key role in the Music Industry. Revelator builds software that allows artists and record labels to manage, track and market their music all from one application. The company sees the blockchain
as an opportunity to simplify music rights, which remain complicated and difficult to verify, with a new Intellectual Property (IP) management system that will allow artists to register their works on an imm
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 08:23:38; punkman: "He began tapping on the wall between our stalls, asking why I wouldn’t respond,
as if inter-stall conversation should be a totally normal, not disgusting means of communication."
punkman: (exercise for students: clearsign a piece of text. append
as many trailing spaces/tabs/CRs
as you like to the clearsigned text. check if it's still valid. repeat process with detached signature, see what happens)
☟︎ punkman: "He began tapping on the wall between our stalls, asking why I wouldn’t respond,
as if inter-stall conversation should be a totally normal, not disgusting means of communication."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, another batch of tests returns. the chain
as currently seen longest, 370657 tall does in fact verify throughout in all presentations.
mircea_popescu: which is why the breach is particularly ruinous to them.
as seinfeld said, "that's why divorce is so traumatic : you've been impeached, and i wasn't even the president!"
hanbot: "orchestra" supercedes "rotor" which supercedes "stator", and the v versioning system is usable (
as-is) for "orchestra" only, correct?
BingoBoingo: Problem seems to be they used plan9 userland
as a path to saving linux when the linux part could have been flushed
mircea_popescu: "There's absolutely no difference between Keiser's scamcoin and Gavin's scam coin
as far
as the network is concerned : while one's a scammer that I humiliatingly defeated in the past whereas the other a scammer that I humiliatingly defeat in the future, this makes no difference for Bitcoin."
mircea_popescu:
as the romanian expression goes, "sa increstam in grinda".
mircea_popescu: otherwise, i'm about
as biased in favour of an empire of china
as i'm biased in favour of an empire of grasshoppers.
mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat <<< you don't understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more than the us can afford, and
as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its own, private local
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque you know, the austro-hungarians had much better call to think of their alcatuire
as "a singular thing"
trinque: my perspective came from thinking of the country
as a singular thing.
mircea_popescu: you can't build yourself a rich house
as a fiftene year old stealing from your father and fencing the stuff.
mircea_popescu: it had plenty of other choices, such
as for instance, sitting around.
BingoBoingo: I have
as many connections form "subver" : "/Atdollar:0.10.2/"
as XT nao
mircea_popescu: <trinque>and I would expect a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg << IF you can find a certain corporal in the army that will get badly defeated and who resents the coupla decades of peace which consist mostly of american teenagers being used
as public toilets from rashapur to ankara, then yes, maybe, dictatorship.
mircea_popescu: neone's welcome to furnish his own skull
as he sees fit.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>we'll lose ground but there's a vast difference there << nobody has any incentive whatsoever to be "american". it's not even vaguely an identity. you might wish to be texan, maybe, liek some soviets wished to be russian. but otherwiose, being an iowan or a californian or a wisconsinian or generally an american is the epitome of fair weather friends : for
as long
as it pays to do so and no longer.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>seems about the same size << the chechens are about the same size. the us is in no sense the same size
as the su when it fell. this theory can be readily verified putting the country through the equivalent of the 90s, which is coming regardless.
punkman: "Truth is, this service never quite delivered on their promise. When my last two startups closed shop, it took shutdownify over 3 days to process the first one, and the second was still a full two days to get up and running. At that point I could have just put together a page myself. It didn't help that they rewrote their tech stack from Ruby to Node even
as they were trying to find customers. "
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they'll frame it
as 'just like mining!' too. 'why did you expect to be able to use 2009 pc for a node!111 you wouldn't try to cpu-mine,' aha
ascii_field: i suspect it's coming off conveyor
as we speak.
wilbns: mircea_popescu: agree w/ what you are saying and would also add it's difficult to have for-profit healthcare
as well
chetty: sure it does, it still has $$$ (
as many
as they can print)
ascii_field: chetty: the libertards are properly the 'repentance' arm of usg. what mr mold referred to
as 'the cathedral'
trinque: it depends on whether the command structure in the militaristic side is decaying
as badly
as the civilian side
trinque: and
as far
as that goes, indonesians didn't fight it off, so life goes
as it does
chetty: dont think it was really resources acquisition
as it was expenditure, keep making war toys
trinque: whether or not ISIS controls Iraq is not the same question
as whether they can destroy the United States
trinque: I would really like to understand this logic by which the entire US military vanishes, rather than at worst being handed down
as an heirloom