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undata:
mircea_popescu: at a previous gig in a consulting shop, we encountered a (subsequently rejected) potential client which did exactly this
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: p. sure i know that company
mircea_popescu: jurov:
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know who ? linus. << actually he was so disgusted to unity he switched back to kde <<< he kept switching between gnome and kde, at least two or three back and forths.
jurov:
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know who ? linus. << actually he was so disgusted to unity he switched back to kde
jurov:
mircea_popescu: jurov's blog is not vulnerable to the wp reflected ddos thing << cuz it's not wp
BingoBoingo: ^
mircea_popescu contemplating Usian contempt for fertile women
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> yeah but the woman was slowly going insane. and really, today's poor aren't actually worth it. << Also the part where you stick by saying cares about that venue are over has its own value
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Well it was still around 10kiloBTC pizza time
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: it was the sort of mandate that only Satoshi or what USgavin wishes he was could push
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The story if I recall correctly was Satoshi said upgrade nao, and then later told everyone the patched vulnerability in pay to ip
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu> oh, also i nthe stupid pile : there used to exist a way to send coins by ip. it was a no-verification "tell me an address" special message. << killed in 0.3.x series. one of Satoshis later acts
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> also, was there a special command line thing to add ips ? connect and addnode persist in newer iterations
no_imagination:
mircea_popescu: read some of your stuff. is it fair to say you value BTC as a store of value and the rest is secondary?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu speaking of travel plans, some close friends decided to GET MARRIED on the same weekend as the third conference. so ya.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu quite possibly. haven't been there yet to see
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu:i kinda suspect where bums sleep is indicative of societal notions << ya the libraries vs. banks discrepancy is telling.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu:meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave. << beauty.
undata:
mircea_popescu: the puns! THE PUNS!
undata:
mircea_popescu: I think in english "gratuitous" means something far off from what you're aiming at.
The20YearIRCloud:
mircea_popescu: are banks over there open 24/7, or access to parts?
undata:
mircea_popescu: again, anyone speaking about anything intends for the listener to be influenced by the content.
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu since when do appearances matter?
undata:
mircea_popescu: doesn't everyone presume his way of living best, or he'd do otherwise?
undata:
mircea_popescu: how does that describe what I've said, in your view?
undata:
mircea_popescu: I would never force anyone to live a certain way (provided it didn't encroach on my own) but I think it's essential to discuss ways to improve the art of living.
undata:
mircea_popescu: everyone says that to everyone with every sentence.
undata:
mircea_popescu: you seem to have many projects.
undata:
mircea_popescu: why live if you're a cheap copy of the "rich" guy next to you. Life is about projects, not piling up Hummers. Wealth fuels projects.
undata:
mircea_popescu: it's hardly that.
undata:
mircea_popescu: his dad backed off after one fake swing at him
wywialm:
mircea_popescu, did you consider calculating a stock index for MPEx?
wywialm:
mircea_popescu - but that's not static. do i miss anything?
wywialm:
mircea_popescu did you mean any static replication?
wywialm:
mircea_popescu, quite well, but i don't see how can i use two linear instruments to obtain nonlinear payoff
wywialm:
mircea_popescu, good question. As you have not heard much from me, you can deduce that the repo otc business did not do well
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu:
mircea_popescu You may want to consult someone who actually follows soccer though. I'll look into the stuff later, but I think actually playing in that league this year would have been possible
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: My gut says it resolves at yes if he actually... starts playing
TomServo:
mircea_popescu: Which radio show was that in reference to?
danielpbarron: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu re: radio, he avoids talking about bitcoin with me and sticks to getting me to say politically incorrect things about the Bible
xinxi:
mircea_popescu - let me check the public offering first.
xinxi:
mircea_popescu - did you watch breaking bad?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Anyways with the dependopatomus I don't think the jealousy comes from them resenting what their actual highschool classmates had when they weren't in the service, but jealousy of what the hollywood version of the rest of their high school class ahd.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I think you wrote on geek wanting to be gifted a woman in his closet who doesn't need for anything. Dependopotamus trope is the inverse of that.
undata:
mircea_popescu: this is the insecurity of many men, that if they can't keep their woman, it must be the wretched whore's fault.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Homo redditicus has trouble accepting it has an origin story
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Or merely a lubricated slope
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: oh come on, your blog is full of metaphors that shock the average netizen encountering it for the first time
Adlai:
mircea_popescu: why misuse the term << the term is misused to shock the audience, a technique you seem to enjoy yourself...
undata:
mircea_popescu: oh, and florida is in the american south.
undata:
mircea_popescu: I see your point; my parents have a farm in rural PA. It would take about three weeks for the more dangerous (meth-addled) neighbors to be quiet.
undata:
mircea_popescu: what about hungry ignorance?
undata:
mircea_popescu: chicago gangs could at least hope to establish some kind of crude order
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: The more I read on Argentina, the more it seems like what the US said it was going to be
undata:
mircea_popescu: ah, not revenge, just a return to function?
undata:
mircea_popescu: correct me. I'd like to know.
decimation:
mircea_popescu: this is regularlly the case in us mil
ben_vulpes: <
mircea_popescu> kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's << boss you got a funny memory
undata:
mircea_popescu: I think we agree then.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: qntra grows, I buy chickens and strange hardware. Nothing wrong with that.
joecool:
mircea_popescu: opposite side, very strong heat, assuming the diesel is what caught
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Apparelty people don't trust that it apperently comes in different qualities
ben_vulpes: *
mircea_popescu kinda likes the smell of gasoline << various engineers went on red alert over a faint whiff of gasoline earlier today
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, where the facebook page and mockups for that?!?
undata:
mircea_popescu: interesting, a fork could emerge due to a breakdown of trust