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ben_vulpes: and so everyone quakes in
their boots and lines up
to pay or report
their neighbors or whatever it is
that
they want
today
ben_vulpes: and perhaps
this is
the hallmark of fascist states - how would I know, only recently having started
to crawl out from under my brainwashing -
that
they can't possibly deliver on
their promises of complete surveillance (let's just
take
tax collection for one
tiny slice of
the
thing), but
they freeze any individuals assets on a whim
to prevent
their fighting back on
tax charges.
decimation: not
to mention
the vast unofficial government
decimation: no human could possibly manage
the official federal government
ben_vulpes: its
this
terrifying beast
that in
the large is incapable of changing anything, but should its eye orient
towards any individual woe unto
them.
ben_vulpes: how else
to maintain
the illusion
that
the whole
thing matters.
decimation: not obama, but
the gang of federal civil servants who actually make employment defacto employment law
decimation: he can also receives
the benefits of appearing
to be rich and powerful, and gets an army of people who are interested in making him seem powerful
decimation: the president's main power is
to appear before
the press and say
things
that are unsurprising
ben_vulpes: in
that sense obab (as proxy for
the usg) does in fact own my company
to a far greater degree
than i ever can
ben_vulpes: obligatory reference
to "owning a
thing means being able
to destroy it"
decimation: he has less power
than
the average mcdonald's night shift manager
ben_vulpes: no man you just don't understand how
the world works
decimation: note
that
the primary job of president
these days is
to fail
to excercise your
theoretically vast but practically nearly nonexistant power
ben_vulpes: having
trouble understanding why big money would put him on
the
throne
decimation: he would
try
to eliminate
the dept of education or whatever, and he would quickly find himself 'nixoned'
decimation: this echo's yarvin's "what if ron paul won
the presidency" gedankenexperiment
ben_vulpes: only solution is
to burn everything in sight
that pisses one off.
☟︎ decimation: "The outsiders can see
these patterns, but don?t understand
the details, so come across as cranks when
trying
to do analysis. Should
the outsiders gain authority,
they have no real power, because
they do not know how
to work
the levers
to operate
the machine.
They don?t even know where
the levers are. When
they
try
to fix
the machine,
they get duped, get discredited, and end up out of power again."
ben_vulpes has binaries
to copy between wordprexen
decimation: I read it as he was using
the
third-party language intentionally -
to sympathize with
the reader's point of view
ben_vulpes: didja read
the most recent orlol asciilifeform posted?
decimation: I'm sure
that if you met
the leaders of
the average usg institution
they would strike you as nice people
trying
to do
the right
thing.
they are just imprisoned by
their choices, making
them into figureheads
☟︎ ben_vulpes: decimation: i'm just looking at
the we/i
thing
decimation: ben_vulpes: who knows, he might be claiming shit
that isn't
true, but it does strike me as fairly reasonable
decimation: here's a conspiracy: why were
the german journalists so quick
to discredit phuctor's work, when
the majority of
the
targeted keys appear
to be
the pirate party
ben_vulpes: "These statements strike us as being crazy and misguided. And for good reason. I have met some of
these elites." << is dood schizo or am i reading
too much into
things
decimation:
https://devinhelton.com/2015-06-25/meme-theory < "Thus, outsiders discredit
themselves when
they make accusations of conscious conspiracy. Any person of even mid-level status knows
that
the statement is flatly false.
They know
that
the accused elites genuinely do seem
to care about helping people.
They know
there is no conspiracy.
Thus
they discount
the self-interest
theory and pay no further attention."
☟︎ ben_vulpes: actually imagining
that is probably what got
them all het up in
the first place
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: you pissed
them off just by being seen with chicka? imagine
their rage if you'd /slept/ with her!
kakobrekla: lobbes
the last link in
that lobbesbot msg is broked
☟︎ shinohai: If mircea_popescu changes
the
trilema background
to
that flag, I'll do it.
danielpbarron: I usually don't go along with
those "change your profile pic
to show support"
things, but when I saw
the qntra bunny...
shinohai: epic
twitter avatar you are using now
punkman: don't
tell me you are brokering bitcents
punkman: not involved in any bitcoin business for
the
time being
punkman: oh so you only handle
the bitcoins for a short period?
ronaz: one is
to avoid providing a wallet service
punkman: is
this
to get around regulation related
to exchanges?
ronaz: we do match orders and sells according
to spot on exchange
ronaz: creater order at website, pay
through bank account
transfer, and we check accounts
three
times pee day and run a batch for paid orders
ronaz: punkman: on brolering side we have had over 30 000 individual clients and
thus can claim
to be a key player in Nordic BTC brokering
punkman: you will need a GPG key
to register with assbot
ronaz: i wonder if i would find
the key
to sign myself in
ronaz: ahh. i have
the wot account from 2012
ronaz: physical Bitcoins, lile Casascius sold back in
the days
ronaz: we are also shipping first patch of Denarium coins in a weeks
time
ronaz: not sure I deserve
that!
cazalla: shinohai, bit rich
that 4chan has a no faggots
thread when it is full of
them
shinohai: What
the hell happened in Alemania ?
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> bonus points for
testing on heathen compilers << rather
ben_vulpes: fun with coordinate system
transforms!
ben_vulpes: i never had
to drop
the switch, but it did
take a couple of swipes at me
ben_vulpes: only way
to get work done with *that* kind of robot is
to put it into slow mode and hold dead-man switch
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 23:49:23; *: asciilifeform fwiw, when worked with robot, had all
the 'safety' interlocks disabled.
they make it damn-near impossible
to get real work done
shinohai`: The lolz were
thick on
twitter. Every shitty altcoin was
tweeting "Welcoming our Greek friends" and such.
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the result options is given, returns only
that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns
ticker for
that
three-letter currency code. It is up
to you
to make sure
the code (1 more message)
ben_vulpes: * ascii_field mentally blows dust off his unwritten magnum opus re:
ternary computing, 'tertium datur' << never have i been so hooked on so much promiseware
assbot: Logged on 01-07-2015 19:10:02; assbot: Successfully updated
the rating for juliatourianski_ from -2
to 3 with note: met at porcfest; a fantastic escort
ben_vulpes: neat parallels
to parasitism in nature.
ben_vulpes: <ascii_field> (thing stows blocks in real
time, never erases. see src) << i missed
this, somehow. link me?
ben_vulpes: <decimation> ascii_field: shit, you are right,
the amazon s2d is just a pretty
TLS wrapper around
the openssl crypto
turd << one stops being surprised eventually
decimation: actually
the
thing you really need is just a cheap net of wireless sensors so you can experiment with hand-operated vents
decimation: which is a band-aid on
the retardation of forced-air systems
decimation: it will control per-room
temps on demand.
decimation: ^ startups are feasting on
the corpse of old-fashioned bezzletron
decimation: I imagine it needs
to be exotic
to hold up
to
that kind of energy
decimation: so
the idea is
that it oxidizes as it cuts?