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gernika:
mircea_popescu: "When given the choice between temporary centralization and guaranteeing the security of the protocol and therefore user funds, the choice is obvious. Once the new consensus algorithm is complete, it will be safe to run with more than one node again."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709514 gernika:
mircea_popescu actually yes, that looks familiar
gernika:
mircea_popescu I have not heard of Room77 - google tells me it's some sort of hotel site.
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: if starbucks coffee is any measure of inflation, it's been 60% from 1 year ago. My coffee went from 30 pesos to 48 since 1 year ago.
undata:
mircea_popescu: ungendered << made me think of some sort of feminist reparations tax
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, imagine if someone really was sent to do an interview lol
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, i dunno, he's in BA, perhaps you can do an interview with the foundation's latest hire
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, yeah, see mats_cd03 link
undata:
mircea_popescu: "pool's closed due to aids"
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, but they came to a consensus so who are we to disagree?
undata:
mircea_popescu: did you see that some derps are forking openbsd?
undata:
mircea_popescu: someone needs to tell the js horde
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> <
mircea_popescu> "retail" integrations aside, i found the actual buy/sell market totally functional. << cristina's been cracking down.
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> but ba bitcoin market is in complete shambles and im getting sick of it. << "retail" integrations aside, i found the actual buy/sell market totally functional.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: i actually met him once.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: "dragonflies" << well who doesn't love excellent cruising performance *and* agility?!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Comming from Transylvania I'm sure
mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight << actually vampires are your friends.
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2014 00:37:16; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: because the whole disk-ram dichotomy is predicated on volatile ram.
BingoBoingo: Comming from Transylvania I'm sure
mircea_popescu has experience slaughtering vampires with sunlight
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> i only played civ 1, but nukes were a splendid tool to destory ships << This, in civ2 I loaded aircraft carriers with nuclear missiles
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu> i dunno that there's something chilling me on bitcoin as much as all these idiots "driving adoption" in their idiotarian ways. << OMG SELL
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: I wonder if Buterin has an assistant who just helps him spout derpage. "Paid Derpage Roller", much like Snoop Dogg (Lion?)'s "Blunt Roller".
undata:
mircea_popescu: does the disease reduce to "can't tell the difference between imagined and perceived"
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu cute! that's pretty much what the non-migratory fauna look like here atm. twas -35C last week, though a blessed -10C today
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, is isk created in same fashion as wow gold?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, ya, i know of eve but who wants to fuck about with fiat to isk to bitcoin, y u nao use bitcoin itself already
undata:
mircea_popescu: maybe the poor fucks were trying to commit suicide
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Because not everyone can Tyrone. link came to you from lulzmines
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: i thought the immortal words of the dude were: the dude abides
joecool:
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter too much though, i like this channel
joecool:
mircea_popescu: sry, thought you maintained assbot... i'll bug kakobrekla when he's around
decimation:
mircea_popescu: of course, one can buy such connectors
gernika:
mircea_popescu ah so also cognitive biases.
gernika:
mircea_popescu are you referring to logical fallacies by 'modes of logical failure'? Also, by learning to control your emtions, I assume you don't mean learning to meditate.
decimation:
mircea_popescu: perhaps not, but one can still measure them, and find that measures correlate
TomServo:
mircea_popescu: Due to a lack of beatings, I haven't yet learned Romanian.
TomServo:
mircea_popescu: no matter the level of advancement, always beat?
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2014 11:50:51;
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic men.
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2014 11:50:41; Apocalyptic:
mircea_popescu would retort with "who the fuck wants to fuck stupid people"
decimation:
mircea_popescu: nah, just been following his writings
undata:
mircea_popescu: he's so far unknown
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Not yet. But he is getting more and more dejected in appearances.
undata:
mircea_popescu: the enemy which is opening the orifices through which our other enemies are barging in
undata:
mircea_popescu: strategy being to have us strangle ourselves?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I'm thinking something like "Do the right thing" trashcan through windows... prolly at least one good fire.
undata:
mircea_popescu: dunno, I've met plenty without tits
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 08:57:03;
mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison <<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of those spammy "toolbars" they had for netscape that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 16:46:43;
mircea_popescu: logo could be one of those mechanical vaginal pears they had cca 1600
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Challenge Preet in single's combat to take over as Bezzel Arbiter for Manhattan
mats_cd03:
mircea_popescu: looks like you're planning future work for ro translations of trilema stuff huh?
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2014 22:56:56;
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> greer's article is not entirely wrong that ancient egyptian tinsmith could have built it, if he knew how and had a reason. <<< electroplating was the reason, and the tech was in fact used in all likelihood in the golden crescent cca 1500bc.
Anduck: i'd guess
mircea_popescu mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> jurov
http://thebitcoin.foundation/ << got a signed copy of teh declaration thingee you can put up there ? << i've got a copy of mine with SHA512
punkman:
mircea_popescu: hoping to get it back up by end of week
jurov:
mircea_popescu knows when to walk on us in
davout: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu "<davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?" <<< didn't say there shouldn't be a maturity date, i said trading should be continuous
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release <<< plowman has ample room for gardening, perhaps rabbits and even other livestock.. plowman is actually plowking!
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release. << Come one, goats!!!
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down. << I embrace it. If the gasenwagen need to burn moar wood to collect me...
decimation:
mircea_popescu: that facebook post above demonstrates there are those who fantasize about doing exactly that I think
decimation:
mircea_popescu: tally how many dogs killed?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: re:
http://www.xenosystems.net/chaos-patch-38/ << a comment at the bottom: "Frog Do Says: IMO, “Moldbug studies” remain one of the more fertile areas of research for the American Outer Right. More interesting info in that “Trilema” piece than anything on Ferguson."
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Either one. Given the CIA's history of applying diverse hires I would expect thestringpuller to be assigned to somewhere lilly white or otherwise homogenous. Probably in a deep cover role