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mod6: If all goes well with BingoBoingo's adventures, we may have
a reoccurring infrastructure expense to manage. Should be very manageable.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-16 02:46 mircea_popescu: !rate TheNewDeal 2 Put
a decent chunk of change into the Bitcoin Foundation back when it wasn't fashionable yet.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The paranoid one who wanted to put coins somewhere safer than he could keep them started with
a t, will dig
mod6: mircea_popescu started us off with 10, some guy threw in 10, I threw in 10 +
a bunch of change while testing
mircea_popescu: anyway, in other advantages of living in tiny spec of
a country : i went for that steak i was considering yest. across from my table, laura chincilla (ex president)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 22:22 mod6: diana_coman: there is
a 'mirror' feature in my V. But there is
a limitation, it has
a URL to the root mirror baked in. Perhaps next release this will be fixed and can take
a root mirror as
a parameter. This way, you could set up your own root mirror/mirrors for eucrypt or for stan's ffa.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o yeah, through careful management the foundation ended up with like
a quarter million dollars in its coffers or some shit ? << Careful management that further attracted an especially large donation from whatshisname
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o yeah, through careful management the foundation ended up with like
a quarter million dollars in its coffers or some shit ?
☟︎ mod6: diana_coman: there is
a 'mirror' feature in my V. But there is
a limitation, it has
a URL to the root mirror baked in. Perhaps next release this will be fixed and can take
a root mirror as
a parameter. This way, you could set up your own root mirror/mirrors for eucrypt or for stan's ffa.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-05-29 18:25 mircea_popescu: do you recall that ridiculous "bunker" with 30% dedicated to "motorcycles" and
a few fish tanks "For food" ? that sort of cvasi-religious nonsense is the end result -- resources are diverted towards making
a show of compliance with designs that are dysfunctional by their very nature.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 16:53 mircea_popescu: i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have
a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am.
mod6: There've been
a few small adjustments to the code since then.
mod6: I also want to spend
a few minutes here soon and adapt my FFA unit tests to the vpatches that stan has released thus far.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> phunphakt : in american schools, there are power tools. but children are not permitted near them. they may only draw
a cut, and beg teacher to make it. << In highschool we had "forestry" class that consisted of maintaining walkable path near edge of school grounds. Got to fell smaller weedy trees with reciprocating saw (i.e. sharp fucksaw)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> as
a kid what i did with my time was that i ran up three flights of stairs to drink (straight from the faucet, who the everloving fuck has the time or the patience for glasses!)
a stomachfull of water, then run back down and keep fucking running. << Since arriving I have been primarily drinking faucet water and coffees with occasial forays into the local bottled water and juices.
mircea_popescu: the action is "
a strunji" ; the g to j morph is very indicative of it having been imported from dalmatia
ben_vulpes: good luck cutting drivescrews on
a mill lol
mircea_popescu: and with
a well compressed, angry item like the z80, there's plenty of such "accidentally caught glimpse of santa naked" events
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 19:30 mircea_popescu: (z80 thing when reset will munge the "videocard" such as it is, resulting in
a pattern brieflydisplaying)
a111: Logged on 2017-06-30 16:48 asciilifeform: there exists ( in the sense where asciilifeform thought of it, but then went to dig in the dusty libraries and discovered ancient tomes )
a thing called 'tta'
mircea_popescu: (z80 thing when reset will munge the "videocard" such as it is, resulting in
a pattern brieflydisplaying)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that is after all the point, neh, to somehow get as large
a headcount as possible through the various gates (born, college, credit cards, mortgage, retirement hgome etc) WITHOUT "harming the environment" which in any practical sesne means... without changing anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for the pantsuit, the fact that it will soak up with no change or other effect all the time/effort/cyckles etc you put into it IS
A SELLING POINT.
mircea_popescu: consider : what makes
a bad penis ? that you can rub it all you want and STILL it won't spit out. but what makes
a good cunt ? that you can pound it all you want and STILL it won't in any way change.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at some point they came out with
a 90minute tape, kicked all ass.
mircea_popescu: well i think i'd have scrounged together the two bux for
a RAKS blank before i spent two days typing in
mircea_popescu: you also had to buy the casette tapes, so often we didn't bother, just kept trading like
a sort of library service.
mircea_popescu: the notion that they ALSO do butt things came as
a much later discovery, and unsurprising! and not even germane. the core still remained the "wtf is this dumb shit" musical taste.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:32 asciilifeform: if you can find
a working one
phf: it is possible that in those situations they deemed it safer to pacify me with
a video game, than to let me roam free. although the thinking was probably more
a long the lines of "let this young kinder experience this thing that he won't normally, because the computer he's playing on is otherwise used to design important shit and was smuggled through border by tov. popov on his recent trip to CERN" or somesuch
mircea_popescu: it got my mom off gaming for life ; at first she was kinda into it, but then lost track and burned
a steak. got so pissed off she swore off gaminf forever! and stuck to it.
phf: there's actually
a bunch of games that i only have
a vague awareness of that i only spent an hour or two playing at various research facilities and construction sites
phf: well, winamp had
a visualizer plugin for it, written by
a democoder guy who went into gaming (he did, for example, the visualizer for the original xbox). it was
a kind of visuals construction kit
phf: there was for example the game of life editor/simulator and at the same time winamp with
a bunch of plugins bundled
mircea_popescu: there was
a mp3 player that ran on the 286, i played clayderman on it while the dots moved. i guess it was kinda cool, or at least teh girls liked it lots.\
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:30 phf: asciilifeform: i actually bought, at some point, at "garbushka" bazaar,
a cd with
a psychedelic design, that had an entire collection of all kinds of "computernarcotic" softwares
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lift discussion notwithstanding, ~best possible thing that can happen to
a girl is to spend her 6 to 16 decade going up and down 12 flights of stairs 12+ times each day.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, myeah; worked as long as there was electricity; and if you lived in
a town with any big industry,there would be random blackouts meaning you'd get stuck in the lift between floors
phf: i don't think i've ever seen
a non-working lift in moscow! certainly never two (and there's always two in those 15s) at the same time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there isn't ; chiefly because the old folk didn't want to think about it and the kids such as me had no idea it even existed. "suspicious of trad houses" hides
a lot of meaning.
phf: i suspect downtown, where they had "early 1900s flat"s, it was
a bit different, but on the periphery of the city, where they had "sleeping neighborhoods" it was pretty much the same as described. (we had 15 storied buildings with
a slightly more space in between instead)
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of idle and stupid pompousness "traditional" society still clinged to after ww2 in europe.
mircea_popescu: taller item on down right is
a hospital actually. the rest, typical ro 4+1 double-sided apt buildings, 3 rooms and 4 rooms, for 2 parents + 2 kids.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i lived (with 10`000 other kids all my exact age) in
a purely hruscheba neighbourhood ; to the point i was SUSPICIOUS of traditional houses.
mircea_popescu: as
a kid what i did with my time was that i ran up three flights of stairs to drink (straight from the faucet, who the everloving fuck has the time or the patience for glasses!)
a stomachfull of water, then run back down and keep fucking running.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:29 phf: apropos, i was always curious if that old school binaural sound generator program from the late 90s could be used to pacify children, but never had
a chance to try
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750661 a better question is why exactly does one want to pacify them. god knows the erect penis is the only item in short supply, why fuck with it. how about instead of spedning
a dime to "pacify", spend the dime to buy more acreage ; get them
a dog and don't let them back in the house until the dog's not so exhausted it can't stand up.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: affiliate. "Hi, this is Bill from Cleveland, and I blame liberals." Son of
a bitch, why didn't I think of that. The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is
a good thing, or
a desirable thing, I am simply stating
a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're
a psychiatrist
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:29 ben_vulpes: some yes! monetization algorithms get the humans to do
a lot of the work as well, which helps the whole 'ecosystem' escape local minima
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750659 << word! the WHOLE schtick with the "monetization" nonsense is 100% "hey kid... wanna take
a job with no security, no insurance and subminimum wage ?" ; ie "This is the system. If you think you can effect
a huge social overhaul then feel free to vote for Hope And Change and ongoing Afghanistan deployments, otherwise understand how it works before you spew nonsense to your local Fox
☝︎ mircea_popescu: doesn't pay as much as... BingoBoingo you know that line, "it doesn't profit
a man nothing to lose his soul for the whole world... but for Wales ??!"
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, the "balabusta" concept, which is used in romanian to denote
a fat GYPSY woman, but actually is
a jewish word denoting
a comme il faut (ie, fat) housewife is proof positive thjat the jews were in fact even more traditional than the peasants that hated them)_
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. but i sure as fuck am not contemplating "
a woman for every man and who cares what she looks like" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: the propagandistic aim of the film is to propose that the agent of this dissolution was the ethnic jew. which... well, it's
a dubious point like all truths of propaganda. but the thing it DISTRACTS from is that... without women market there's no modernity, which is to say no "progress" or steam engine.
a point poorly diggested by the councilmen of the peasantry,
mircea_popescu: (the film is exceptional in that it summarily but correctly renders the early capitalism dissolution of traditional feudalism : the lord wants
a "ballet" so as to line up the nubile daughters of the land for feeling up ; the councilmen do not wish to give him ~the money~ to make one because it's their fucking daughters. capital exists, in the early modern phase, to dissolve the traditional family, in the strict sense of liber
phf: american "founding fathers" in
a lot of ways remind me of the three musketeers" "i sold this ring from
a countess that i fuck, let's go have some proper food"
mircea_popescu: so -- yes washington was mega plantor ; yes this is respectable ; no it wouldn't have bought him
a set of dandy shirts.