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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The problem I when he presents it is that not everyone wants to marry a large SJW, even if it means the dog you get in exchange is adorable
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> nobody ever goes "you shitfaces, THIS opportunity you missed. all of you." << My brother the dentist does if you get him drunk.
decimation: mircea_popescu: what stripped down version of wordpress do you use?
PeterL: mircea_popescu: I am grabbing the summary, most of them are pretty short
decimation: mircea_popescu: I would agree with the 'idiot' label - but you realize that this 'catches' at least 95% of humanity - who generally refuse to consider their position w.r.t. the entire world's (and history's) context
decimation: mircea_popescu: there are genuine people with genuine skills who spend their entire lives attempting to make usg better
decimation: mircea_popescu: you mean that julia character
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Means old clients accept giberish, but miners actually hardfork if a "time locked" signature is mined early
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> unless you actually self publish. <<< preach it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: found it!! >> https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00184.html
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: 20 or so I believe. I think on ebooks I got 30%. "Self" publishing is a racket
cazalla: mircea_popescu: icecream has been a part of rations since vietnam <<< lt dan, icecream!
undata: mircea_popescu: certainly not. neither is the current circumstance though
undata: mircea_popescu: they didn't even have enough armor, etc., last time
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not the first. i vaguely recall '1 flak jacket for 3 men' in the last one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remaining u.s. physical industry is 99% iraq-based (that is, hardware whose inventory must be churned in some iraq or other.)
cazalla: mircea_popescu, prolly a fake name, i've searched and searched and there is nothing on this guy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also in the permanent deformations of the respective organs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: misprint. they fired the monkey.
jurov: mircea_popescu: gpg --clearsign | mailx btc-dev@therealbitcoin.org
asciilifeform: this was actually a point i brought up when mircea_popescu said 'one day you shall earn bread by signing code' or something to that effect
jurov: mircea_popescu: if stan is dead you'll split it yourself and resend with your sigs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have an idea here. if this actually plays out, you would say to me: 'i will not sign X. because i grok X.a but not X.b. please split into two, and i shall sign X.a, or go on to explain to me precisely how X.b works.'
asciilifeform: (who was it who had a piece on how supposed 'enemies of usa' are required, by the laws of god himself, to use idiotically childlike crypto? was it mircea_popescu ?)
gernika: mircea_popescu you're right - the claim is that it *could* be used by them I suppose.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, they kicked down the door of one muslim family for having a plastic sword so yeah
undata: mircea_popescu: representative of opinions you hear in Portland quite often
joecool: mircea_popescu: not thinking it was socialism, I just didn't consider it anarchism
joecool: mircea_popescu: ah so personally he ran his life as such is what you mean, not his government so much?
joecool: <mircea_popescu> even stalin was (and roughly stayed) an anarchist. < would you expound on this a bit? I have never seen that viewpoint expressed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mahno's or more generally?
undata: mircea_popescu: a religious notion that anarchists suppose would bring about peace on earth and good will towards men
JuliaTourianski: mircea_popescu so did u
berndj: mircea_popescu, presumably on a road, the owner of the road might require you to sign a contract that forbids beating your kids
JuliaTourianski: mircea_popescu did you run a porn site
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'В мире есть царь: этот царь беспощаден, Голод названье ему.' ( http://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Nekrasov/30.htm )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i can't dispute the poverty bit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neh, i actually was hoping to hear moar.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the definition of poverty! << say moar <<< sarcasm, the lowest form of wit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone took the trouble to make a trojan that works on all windowses to date ? << this is very easy given a purely-userland turd.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the argument i was trying to make is that, when grunting on a prison asteroid, a liter of rocket fuel makes very little difference. only L liters - sufficient for liftoff - will.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the definition of poverty! << say moar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: use a rechargeable prepaid card << the day of 'thumbprint please sir' or at least 'show id' is not far.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^^^^^ < at this level it is difficult to distinguish simple idiocy riding on featuritis (because nobodies wish to get a place in the sun, and absent actual skils what better avenue trhan the pretense of adding value ?) and actual malice as oyu describe.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> this "innovation" is the fucking thing bitcoin was made to kill.//so they make a lot of messes, thats how kiddies learn and once in a while something useful actually gets invented
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: picture a zoologist encountering an alien equivalent of the scorpion for the first time. what will his most important, though scientifically 'fuzziest' observations be? that the animal is - venomous.
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: who are the three this time?
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2014 18:24:33; mircea_popescu: "those people's laws aren't really laws, our laws are really laws".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^^^^^
xanthyos: mircea_popescu: is 440 a good buy price now?
bagels7: <+mircea_popescu>I'm so poor I can't afford your articles yet
Adlai: mircea_popescu: this is true
Adlai: mircea_popescu: i make no judgements, just throwing out ideas
Adlai: mircea_popescu: how do i figure using darcs superior to patches-by-mail, or working off libccoin superior to working off 0.5.3?
punkman: mircea_popescu: was first run, fat-fingered some sql
Adlai: mircea_popescu: under 50 what?
decimation: mircea_popescu: as a student of french history, how do you think the revolution could have been reversed?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or present.
undata: mircea_popescu: http://www.papermag.com/2014/11/kim_kardashian.php seems like a thing
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah that formula 'fits' - culture is derived in a convergence of circumstances + time
ben_vulpes: market hates you mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: ask mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/Bn88rOZ << ahaha i remember fucking with solenoids
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah, but there's something lacking in the us - they can't seem to believe that they have their own culture and avoid trying to make one
decimation: mircea_popescu: usians hate the idea of paying for roads
decimation: mircea_popescu: in the us it is customary to label any policy whatsoever as 'reform'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from delano to obama << 'от ильича до ильича'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on their side - presumably, the turd.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/Bn88rOZ
notary: mircea_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course all of those agents were found because after seeing folate's role in cell synthesis, feeding a bunch of leukemias high dose folate was assumed to be the way. It helped the cancer so much!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and the remaining lesson, possibly, is that we are still without a general-purpose btc-powered hoster.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one could also hypothesize again about 'married men' and who can or cannot afford to take what risk, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if there's a psychiatric lesson here, it is that resisting crud is not necessarily from cleverness, but could also be on account of being a goat herder in afghanistan and what even is all this recycled food.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't really argue that 'no we won't even talk' was a correct answer. but i do understand how a n00b might associate bitcoin as-a-concept with the derps and sp4mz0rs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moving a functioning usd-fueled business to btc - other matter. especially if you're sensitive about not wishing to fatten vultures.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, i and the other jugglers - find ways to hoover up enough usd to pay the usd-eaters in.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i weigh less than an isp/hoster/restaurant/etc. yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: death is a hard boundary for experiments. once dead, no 'let's try this differently'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but brings back to the fact that usaschwitz is a thing. if i presently had to rely on btc for anything life-sustaining, i'd be quite dead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my reaction just now was 'why won't they show up and at least talk' but then realized that this may be the flip side of the medal, so to speak, of the same conservative thinking that ultimately made n.f.s. co. even interesting in the first place (they've resisted every known variety of crud)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is still not how i read that one. it was more of a 'what is this martian trinary computer, where can i plug it in? with what sauce can i eat it'. and iirc that was your own initial reaction in '11.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: physics student turned electrician (experimental physics) turned 'quant' aha.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: seems the only option is the swap coins with someone who isn't going to put them in the waterfall :P
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tesla?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to draw a simple picture of what you'd do in their place ?
cazalla: Apocalyptic, mircea_popescu, i will go cry in the corner and rethink my approach
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no one was asked to care, but trying to explain here that folks are sizzling in an electric chair not necessarily of their own making, rather than simple death through individual folly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this death is a collective one. or, go try to tell the nearly free speech folks how to get their upstream isp to take btc, and where to get spare disks and pizza for it, and in such a way that it doesn't immediately end up in the waterfall, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol. why the emotion. the article told the sad truth: 'We have nothing to spend bitcoins on...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mango happily pays. that's what digestion is all about.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sad part is, they have a point. they can't eat it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/bQyAKJqY << here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XwwiZPPa
Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu, that's a much better formulation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/belief2002
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have some notion of how to transmute that into a solution to yesterday's conundrum - i'm all ears.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what i meant was, that it offers no useful mechanisms for anything other than, well, making ordinary backups for own use.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tarsnap isn't really a public access gizmo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wrote letter.