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ascii_field: there is not an elixir
to make it into anything other
than a scam
ascii_field: if
this is so, it means
that ~everyone who has subscribed
to mpex~ is 'early adopter'
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 05:09:06; mircea_popescu: in other news, review of various wallets etc shows
that most of my bitcoin are over 500 days old. holy shit i need larger blocks imminently!
danielpbarron: i don't recall what I said
to him, but I'm sure I explained
the WoT as I did with most people I met
there
ascii_field: and, dollars
to doughnuts,
that reason is 'that place must be about bitcoin, i don't have any and how
the everliving fuck would i ever get any, what am i
to do
there'
danielpbarron: we also emailed eachother signed keys, and I
told him
to get in
the WoT, but he hasn't replied
to
that
danielpbarron: well I gave him my card with my fingerprint and url
to my website (that links mostly
to b-a stuff)
ascii_field: danielpbarron: he was a relatively early 'computer sucks and must be rebuilt' person. sadly, i've no idea what he is up
to
these days.
☟︎ danielpbarron: i had
tracked one of my
targets down and found him in
the main assembly space, and was prepared
to follow him out (as you cannot kill someone under
the roof of an offical event) but
then I saw Fare walk in and I didn't want him
to see me following
the guy, so I walked up
to him instead, and in so doing, lost my actual
target :/
danielpbarron: oh, on a somewhat related note:
the reason I even met Fare was because I suspected
that he was friends with one of my assassin
targets (turned out
to be false intel) so I struck a conversation with him
to confirm or deny my suspicion
decimation: because apparently
the c++ committee couldn't imagine a use case where you would like
to allocate memory but would rather write
to it yourself
ascii_field: 'In what universe does it make cryptologic sense
to keep an unchanging key around for years (decades? optimistically - centuries?) on end?' >> i said
this
to mr mold and i said it also
to mpex !
ascii_field: which (i learned many years later) was quite like what i want
to do, except
that
they did not (to my knowledge) understand hardware and - it involved a few dozen people (!) who agreed on virtually nothing
ascii_field: from (back in
the stone age!)
the 'tunes' project
jurov: i prefer
to wonder when
they learn
to live in symbiosis with spiders
punkman: how
the fuck do ants cut
through concrete?
punkman: fucking ants everywhere digging holes
through my walls, I
think I need
to call a professional
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2015 16:29:55; mircea_popescu:
they have in common being either dumb per se or else i nthe crosshairs of
the manacling-with-dumb cannon.
ascii_field: 'SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 4.06-pre12 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 H. Peter Anvin et al' << noticed
today
jurov: yes, it's 11220
together
jurov: or, better,
tye report is wrong?
jurov: mircea_popescu: one qntra share is missing, it makes
together 10601, i got 10600
mircea_popescu: i wonder if
this is related
to
the "feelings driven" pseudo cultural economy.
decimation: "More: Understand
that our
teetering, broken, stringy
technology stack was written by Boomers, mostly, and other people who didn't know any better. Charitably,
the
technology wasn't mature,
though
the luminaries and prophets of
the era would vigorously disagree. We're inheriting it, along with
the pride of a lifetime's work; rather
than
take it behind
the barn and shoot it, let's gently put it out
to pasture and ...
ascii_field: i can't
translate, but can offer a barf bag.
mircea_popescu: my usual approach
to reading
text of unknown origin is not so different from
the pagerank algorithm, whereas
the meaning of discourse nodes (words, generally) is narrowed by
the other nodes in
the graph until
the whole
thing collapses into something.
mircea_popescu: it seems more akin
to some sort of performance act
than speech.
decimation: yeah I've read it. I even attempted
to learn urbit, before much good documentation was abvailable
mircea_popescu: us army used
to consist of ... soldiers. now it's mostly acneic
tomboys of indeterminate gender wanting
to play counterstrike
ascii_field: it was never a good candidate for dod sc4m4tr0n because included
too much of mr mold's 'thinking man likes
to use his brain' masturbatronic element
decimation: the problem is
that computers as-existing are in
the same box
decimation: the spirit of
the
thing seems right: let's bail on
the internet as it is a god foresaken hellhole
decimation: he had some hire working in his closet I
thought
ascii_field: (not many flies are fluent with hindley-milner
type system)
mircea_popescu: tbh, it has all
the makings of a great DoD "investment"
ascii_field: (can't be arsed
to read... for a while now)
ascii_field: i get daily crapolade in
the mailbox still
mircea_popescu: so i
take it
the leaky submarine's still being worked on ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: he's part of
the annointed caste now. if
the dough runs out, can dilute
the shares, etc
decimation: well, given
that his project has a gigantic red
target painted on
the side for all amateur-political enforcers
mircea_popescu: those 8 years were started in a much better
time for usg.
ascii_field: the alternative package probably involved feeding his wife and children
to pirannhas
mircea_popescu: i never heard of anyone sleeping as you say
through "Taking what was given"
mircea_popescu: if
that bunch of watsap scammers got 20bn, i have no idea why anyone would
take less
than 10 bn a head from usg.
ascii_field: decimation: we more or less know it was
thiel
decimation: ascii_field: and if b happened it almost certainly was at
the foot of peter
thiel or one of his cronies
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't see anything directly wrong with
that model.
ascii_field will
transmit s.nsa broadcast when he gets home
ascii_field: two basic but imho entirely separate problems with mr mold - a) he wasn't entirely mentally clean of usg
to begin with ( most of mircea_popescu's observations fall into (a)) b) he was approached, as early as 2010, and
told 'your crackpot os will be funded and you can sleep ad libitum, but
there is a price'
decimation: as yarvin wrote: "An Internet server is, above all, a massive fortified castle in alien zombie
territory."
ascii_field: many folks can't be arsed
to administer a box
decimation: in yarvin's case I always
thought it was attaching irony
to google.com
ascii_field: for similar reason as
to why mircea_popescu doesn't want
to buy his isp
trunk line
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, i have
to strike
the foregoing. i never challenged orlov.
mircea_popescu: dear peoiple : seriously, stop with
the google blogs. you're indistinct.
decimation: yeah but his blog was already dead for at least a year or
two
decimation: specifically I'm
thinking of him being booted from
that conference
ascii_field: 'helped' in
the basic sense of 'no more mold buggered'
ascii_field: they started paying yarvin
to shut
the fuck up
mircea_popescu: when we discussed
the "inflation in romania" factual error in one of his articles.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if you recall, i challenged orlov and he came out with "I am a robot doing
the above".
ascii_field: (not
that
they are honest people, necessarily - but not shannonizers)