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wilbns: it does seem
the dollar is someone in store for a beating, perhaps
that is what will stop interest rates from rising or enable more QE
to continue
phf: first
thing she asked what's up with russians and schwarzenegger
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mats: usg, like wheat (the latter as described in mircea_popescu's essay 'when you become wheat')
thrives in a half-destroyed world << Corn loves raw manure, but wheat demand you first light
the manure and
then
till it into
the field
mats: i am still unprepared
to flee
to .cn
phf: asciilifeform: yeah, gave
the english version
to my girl
to read
mats: welp, i like a game of 'catch
the falling knife' as well as anybody
BingoBoingo: Last week I read a lot of "California beat
the drought" stories based on more people in Compton working at McDonalds
wilbns: ah
that's a good quote, so
true
wilbns: mats: maybe.
there was an interesting quote you just made me
think of - "a recession is when your neighbor loses his or her job. a depression is when you lose yours"
BingoBoingo: Welcome
to
the
Terror Dome, er...
Terra Foam
mats: the rest of
the world failing around you is
the early warning system
trinque: asciilifeform |
trinque: which is a catgurl or
the like. << LOL
wilbns: mats: agreed,
that is
the challenge - what exactly is happening in
the status quo. food shortages, never before seen droughts,
threat of a credit bubble collapsing,
the middle easten on
the verge and russia/china moving further away in
their relations w/ europe and
the us each new day. what is next.
phf: what was
that bad russian scifi dood, who did sort of like a hodgepodge of cyberpunk literature
wilbns: asciilifeform:
thanks for
the
tip!
trinque: imagine
that's your cousin, and now your brain implant means you have
to see
that all day
mats: i imagine modern civilization will decay
too quickly for wilbns universe
to materialize
trinque: specifically, seeing your meatwot at all
times on some device...
trinque: the only
thing I do via social media is barf articles at family in
the hopes
that
they read
wilbns: mats: people will be employed
to execute roles in cyberspace.
telecommuting and working from home is
the first step.
☟︎ mats: sure, for people
that don't need
to work
to live
wilbns: mats:
thinking it is going
to be
three-dimensional, where you interact w/ your social network wearing some sort of oculus rift-themed devise in an alternate reality. people will choose
that over
this one. and
then many will
truly become ambivalent
to
things
that are happening in "real" life
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 02:35:23; phf: used it
to cheat in games heh (i
think
there were a dozen of variations of
that idea)
mats: if social networks as
they exist nao are still a
thing i will eat a bullet
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 02:39:32; mats: >When an individual applies for a loan,
the lender examines
the credit ratings of members of
the individual’s social network who are connected
to
the individual
through authorized nodes. If
the average credit rating of
these members is at least a minimum credit score,
the lender continues
to process
the loan application. Otherwise,
the loan application is
wilbns: ...and what other
things will be derived from social networks.
wilbns: 25 years ago
there was no Facebook and a fledgling Internet - many people were still using a BBS or interacting with one another using AOL, CompuServe or Prodigy. A smartphone did not exist. It will be interesting in another 25 years
to see
the path of where
things will go. I wonder if we were
teleported
there
tomorrow if we would recognize it.
wilbns: ah,
the grey area of profiling.
mats: >When an individual applies for a loan,
the lender examines
the credit ratings of members of
the individual’s social network who are connected
to
the individual
through authorized nodes. If
the average credit rating of
these members is at least a minimum credit score,
the lender continues
to process
the loan application. Otherwise,
the loan application is
☟︎ phf: used it
to cheat in games heh (i
think
there were a dozen of variations of
that idea)
☟︎ phf: it's probably same year,
that i was switched
to freebsd, so never actually programmed for dos. i did write a
tsr
to do a memory dump on a keypress few years later
phf: asciilifeform: i know right. none of us used it before, and really were so cocky we durped
till last moment. it's my only and very vivid memory of
turbopascal
trinque: I was utterly ignorant of lisp at
the
time
trinque: because
the python was getting in
the way of how I wanted
to express it in language, of course
BingoBoingo: The only piece of "music software" I
truly liked was "Noteworthy Composer"
trinque: for example I commonly want
to
take a lick and move it around a scale some
trinque: I'm starting
to lean
towards wanting a programming language for
this (yes lisp)
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell btcdrak you disconnected so actually will have
to revoice self when
this message is recieved
trinque: well fuck you renoise, I want just
the drums and bass in
this part
trinque: I've never killed renoise, but anyhow, my actual complaint is
that I can't call arbitrary chunks of noise a function and reuse
them
trinque: anybody ever use an oldschool
tracker for music production?
imsaguy: Its amazing
the amount of vitriol
that is out
there amongst people
that probably don't even know
the real difference between
the
two forks.
BingoBoingo: Not bad. Just stuffing cotton
towels in social media
toilets,
taking a shit, and flushing
them.
phf: ha, i remember we opted
to use
turbopascal for some programming olympiada and made a
terrible mess out of it. basically were expect
to come in some place, but we couldn't even finish
the program
phf: being able
to write pascal in delphi was like
the right of passage for moscows programmer boys. i
thought i was
the shit with my dozen of delphi programmers until good folk at msu cmc unix room gently explained
to me
that i'm an idiot,
told me
to install freebsd and gave a copy of "programming in c language" by podbelsky and fomin. probably one
the earliest books i've purchased still on my bookshelf
BingoBoingo still has machines somewhere vulnerable
to N.vir
mircea_popescu: im going
to end up
the english language's foremost hack.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: (nothing at all
to do with 'delphi') <<
this didn't stop me from looking up delphi of
the 90's lol
BingoBoingo: He was in a physics phd program at one of
the St Louis universities before he went
to BitPay. At
the
time he contacted me I
think he was still using a slave name.
BingoBoingo: One
time Ryan X Charles before he adopted
that name approached my IRL name
to set up St Louis Bitcoin meetup and I
told him I don't want
to meet
the sort of people
that would live in St Louis an share his kind of interest in Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: no reprieve. nic carey used
to be a good guy, he's as scummy as any scumbag now.
this is his doing, and not my problem.
mircea_popescu: i do not credit
this "nice people working for scammers"
theory.
wilbns: growth rate as being something even more rapid and promising
than PayPal
total payments volume. It was
then
that I realized
there were instances where people were potentially being mislead
that
the Blockchain
total payments volume was actually Blockchain.info
total payments volume.
wilbns: One
time I was asked by Peter Smith
to find early charts of PayPal
total payments volume
to compare
to Blockchain
Total Payments volume. Was
told by Peter Smith
that him and Nic Cary were in Silicon Valley meeting with former PayPal executives and venture capitalists (this was before
they secured
their raise),
to whom
they were comparing early Blockchain