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mircea_popescu: mats and cats have had millions of years
to develop fishing implements.
☟︎ mats: chinese folks have had
thousands of years of recorded history
to develop recipes
mircea_popescu: the entire "consensus" bullshit collapsed because i said back in january exactly what
the plan is.
mats: im inclined
to say you've rarely had legit chinese cuisine, and if you did and still feel
that way... you have an unrefined palette
mircea_popescu: this shit redditards pull where
they go about blathering for
three months and
then pretend like nothing happened and questions can be asked as if just discovered may work on reddit, but it'll give all of
them a busted lip irl.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 10:54:47; wyrdmantis: I was asked if
there is a "defense" plan
to "isolate"
the Bitcoin XT nodes or something similar. I
thought
this is a non-issue for you guys...
mircea_popescu: cazalla
that said, a chinese guy had a decent restaurant a mile from my place in ro (actually, conference went
there). guy made some incredible baked eggplant
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 08:59:21; mats: msg presents differently in various
things
cazalla: agreed, but i didn't want
to offend him so i did not mention
this heh
mircea_popescu: in
truth i don't care much about most chinese cuisine either, but not because it'd be bland. because
they can't cook. some stuff is actually excellent, but plenty of stuff is "hey, let's
throw everything in
the kitchen in
the same pot. vinegar, oil, sugar, what
the hell."
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 08:51:42; mats:
tofu is kind of an analogue for real chinese cuisine
mircea_popescu: somehow "if you made a business you don't own
that business", yet "if you have a pair of
tits it's your pair of
tits"
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 08:06:30; copypaste:
they flipped
their shit when i
told
them in
the US
that if
their boyfriends
took
the pictures
that means
the boyfriends own
the pictures and only
they can write DMCAs
mircea_popescu: btw, did we discuss
the dude
that drove an armored vehicle into some
texas something or
the other ?
ascii_field: i put on a 30k set of electrostatic phones in a linguistics lab. air piles
to ears instead of wires. still meh.
mircea_popescu: the only way for
the hundred million idiots
to not impose
their britney spears over anything and everything else is for
the hundred million
to not have as much as a single cent disposable income.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 04:28:39; decimation: funkenstein_: yeah I know, people here bitch about
the lack of 'adult' products. glitzy candy beats serious in
the market every
time
ben_vulpes: oh because a wallet is really a collection of
the inputs
that a key or set of keys can sign on and so a 'wallet' in
the satoshi client parlance is actually not back=up-able if in use?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i agree
they're stupid. originally it was "they must go out because
they break backups".
turned out
they don't. now it's "they should go out because
they're stupid", which is valid, but also an aesthetic judgement. we're not at aesthetics yet. but eventually, whole wallet scheme needs
to be made by someone who's not retarded in
the fucking head.
ben_vulpes: moreover, what all is in
this list of 'must be done'?
ascii_field: but is
there an argument actually in favour of
the mechanism ?
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 04:19:54; decimation: mats:
the beats
thing still pisses me off
mircea_popescu: the argument was presented last we discussed
this. "you can do
the
things you want
to do once you've done
the
things
that must be done and
the result works"
ben_vulpes: i suppose you'd have us leave
testnet in as well
ascii_field: i'd like
to see someone present a coherent argument for
the negative here
ascii_field: personally i see
the random-change-addr
thing
to be as screamingly retarded as memory leak
mircea_popescu: "some reason" => "let's keep changes
to a needed minimum"
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i could shoot
the change-addr
thing in
the head in
ten minutes, but mircea_popescu wants
to keep it for some reason
ben_vulpes: re: accounts
thread and data structures,
this imho is why
the change addr behavior mneeds a zappin
ascii_field: 'A lot more men
than women choose
to do seemingly irrational
things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep
tropical fish as pets (98 percent of
the attendees at
the American Cichlid Association convention
that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised
that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging
their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of
mircea_popescu: lack of women in
tech is not a problem of women or of
tech, but merely of a bunch of dorks going around looking for women in
tech in
the garbage. well duh, why'd
they be in
the garbage ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: speaking of, notice
that 2014 medalist is (nominally) chick
mircea_popescu: and what a chicklet does is "piuie", ie, "makes
the piu sound"
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 02:03:34; asciilifeform: 'The PiuPiu oversharing site allows users
to create PiuPiu accounts and post 140-character messages.
The federal government wants PiuPiu
to surveil user activity on
the site, by archiving any posts
that match certain patterns outlined in a national security letter. Subject
to
the nondisclosure constraints of
the letter, PiuPiu may not inform anyone of
the surveillance request.'
assbot: Our provider, hosteurope.de shut down our servers due
to "political incorrectness" | announcements ... (
http://bit.ly/1QHfaXT )
mircea_popescu: and bad software, and everyone wanting
to make
their own web app and so on
mircea_popescu: generally, most infrastructure in all
times and places operates at a loss, which is why commodification is not particularly welcomed by business people, which is how you get apple.
ascii_field: and it is not hard
to establish
that a heavy share of miners operates at a loss
mircea_popescu: yes, for
the special case where you're running a ponzi equal
to
the monetary mass.
mircea_popescu: because at
that
time, had he not also run a "buy new coinbases from miners at 110% "business" on
the side, people would have noticed
they're being paid with
their own coins.
mircea_popescu: so is
the idea something like "it costs 10x more
to move
this one guy
than
to move
these 450 other guys" ?
decimation: who knows how
that cost is calculated, because an arbitrary number of usg
throne-keepers could be bundled
decimation: it might be confusing, but he points out
that a 747 costs about $25k per hour for everything
decimation: Greenspun was just making
the side point
that
the aircraft is relatively expensive
to operate compared
to others in its class
mircea_popescu: decimation
then it's a not very well written/researched article ?
decimation: well, you also gotta realize
that when air force one is flying,
there is usually a fleet of other aircraft for car, plane, etc
mircea_popescu: maybe double, but certainly not
the 10
to 100x
the article would need it
to be
trinque: I'm not a rich guy or head of state, but seems either merits better shuffling around
than what I use
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: add another zero and you can lounge in
the entire plane
mircea_popescu: trinque im still in shock someone proposed 7k a seat as outrageous. i must be buying in all
the wrong places.
trinque: and look what happened
to him
trinque: among
the waste in usg, air force one is way in
the long
tail
decimation: ascii_field:
the best part of
that 20 juli movie with
tom cruise were
the scenes with hitler's planes
mircea_popescu: i
think modern eyes still understand bulgaria's a shithole.
ascii_field: i've been reading an autobiography of hans baur, best known as hitler's pilot. he spoke of various folks he had flown, and described how king of bulgaria flew part of a
trip with him,
then caught an ordinary
train
trinque: hell, sounds kinda fun
though
decimation was unaware
that svelte
transport on grand air-sedan (powered by pure slave money) was needed for greatness
decimation: I
think
the uk prime minister flys on british airways
mircea_popescu: you don't actually want
the president
to
travel with
the immigrands ?
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 22:36:07; mats: casual racism is
the norm here
decimation: actual round
trip
ticket
to london is like $1k
decimation: no his point is
that obama's airplane is
mircea_popescu: sooo... ? his point being
that airlines are robbing us blind ?