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trinque: inflation is the govt figure published for inflation
trinque: ben_vulpes: I think obedience runs (and mustn't it run) far deeper than reason
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.vivid.ro/vivid65/pages65/feature65.htm << not entirely unknown in english world
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Miscellany:Confession_to_the_F%C3%BChrer << schrödinger's shameful letter. english. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: "One thing it has done, however, is put a renewed rocket under asset prices. From fine art and metropolitan property prices, to bond markets and equities, seemingly everything has gone through the roof."
ben_vulpes: "It is also true that contrary to much prediction at the time, it has not proved particularly inflationary."
ben_vulpes: <cazalla> which is why i stay and suffer << bail with the bairn?
ben_vulpes: <cazalla> fwiw i dont think anyone needs to be taught to cook << nah man it's applied thermo, it must needs be taught or learned through experience
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the schrodinger letter to the adolf hitler university senate is not to be found in english
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't let him marry my daughter on the account.
asciilifeform: not to do this
mircea_popescu: note that im not proposing he's any worse a physicist for it.
asciilifeform: where he wrote a similar letter to hitler
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you know the story of schrodinger's public pant-shitting ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, no find me the "Dear judge fuckwit" bit.
mircea_popescu: everything else, including dance, is performance. this is merely being.
asciilifeform: according to the link, did surrender eventually
mircea_popescu: and i will point out that this is not performance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how did the mountain episode end ?
asciilifeform: e. coli has us beat hands down, at that
mircea_popescu: culture is merely the byproduct.
mircea_popescu: culture, no. but culture is not the goal.
asciilifeform: i do not look up to afghanistan as peak of human culture. but that's just imho.
asciilifeform: this one alone sums up to afghanistan.
asciilifeform: all of them? lsd.
asciilifeform: what's of it is that you can't be on the edge of every single human performance envelope
mircea_popescu: everything of it. what of the rest ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and rogozov performed a self-appendectomy in the antarctic.
mircea_popescu: with her own gun. two winters up there, with her guy. who, also arrested.
mircea_popescu: cazalla doesn't think much of his wife, but this woman raised a child while hiding in the mountains
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, there's this woman, who was arrested in '52 alongisde her two year old daughter.
asciilifeform: interestingly, it is a well-documented fact that when ivan iv sat his courtiers down on stakes, a very common (if not most common) last few hours was shouting 'god save the king'
mircea_popescu: weird notion, that somehow "justice" creates a responsibility vacuum.
mircea_popescu: to me, it stands, as what they said.
mircea_popescu: i never bought into the trotskist explainatorism.
mircea_popescu: "If I had realized the impact my creation of Silk Road would ultimately have on the people I care about most, I never would have created Silk Road."
asciilifeform: what next, link to confessions from the trials of '37 ?
mircea_popescu: I am writing you this letter in anticipation of my upcoming sentencing. This is a challenging letter to write because, as one who faces punishment, I have a strong incentive to say anything I think might result in leniency. But I have endeavored to be honest and forthright throughout this process, and so I will be in this letter as well.
mircea_popescu: is that a quote ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they came to terms with their life. << did i forget to take my morning lsd today, or what? who and where ever 'came to terms with their life' ?
davout: danielpbarron asciilifeform re mircea_popescu's comments earlier regarding bitcoind's pogo, is there any way that i can get it running on the buildroot install before we actually manage to pull-off a static build?
mircea_popescu: why perpetuate the delusion, at great cost and for no benefit ?
mircea_popescu: no, implication was that they came to terms with their life.
asciilifeform: (implication was - that they died. unless i misread)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so what cut down the superfluous males ?
mircea_popescu: idem in the army (not that i went, but i can count as well as anyone)
mircea_popescu: nobody died when/where i went to schoo, contrary to whining to the contrary.
asciilifeform: but outside of quasi-mythical sparta, the winnowing in the past was worked by 'four horsemen' rather than specially-designed school
asciilifeform: the basic observation is sound, in that we have a 'mouse experiment' situation where men (specifically) are built considerably in excess of how many 'places' are to be had for them
assbot: Logged on 26-05-2015 12:44:32; mircea_popescu: rather than grow up to be 30 and THEN discover he really has no place in the world.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-05-2015#1145303 << mircea_popescu went to school with built-in graveyard ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: i get this.
mircea_popescu: it's insanely hard to translate, because as written it's nearly pure poetry.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that article is a tough cookie for my puny brain
mod6: ah, well, at first there was only 2 in Moduli Remaining, but that number has been climbing.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i think they're behind not in front
mod6: i should have waited on my key-retest. lol, got 119764 infront of it in the queue now.
asciilifeform: which thing is for everyone? only death, afaik, is definitely 'for everyone.'
mircea_popescu: actually... there's that chinese dizident
asciilifeform: btw that cazalla thread would make for great reading alongside of the 'why not have children' thread from during c3 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: what's whis by now, phuctor three major and twelve minor revisiona later
asciilifeform: possibly tonight will write a civilized loader which forgoes the idiocy of setting up http connection for each key submitted and pumps straight into the db
asciilifeform: still not caught up yet though
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope. last night when got home, turned on experiment where it snarfs from pre-filtered (i.e. having rsa moduli) keys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://nosuchlabs.com/stats < did the loader script die or something /
cazalla: better people too
cazalla: shitty 320*200 jpg got me more exicted than the 4k porn of today
cazalla: fuck this gay earth
cazalla: maybe a bit of lipstick on the pig that is hte internet
cazalla: i specifically remember this point in high school thinking about the future
cazalla: compy 386 to grab some files for some reading
mircea_popescu: from experience, this retirement thing lasts about a year
cazalla: no www shit is worth a shit at this point or has been for years, gaming is dead for at least a decade
cazalla: maybe login, download logs/emails and that be that
cazalla: be happy to ditch it at this point tbh
cazalla: if it wasnt for the fact he looks like a carbon copy
cazalla: want to fuck and part ways
cazalla: because no woman i met was really like that
cazalla: an ex gf wanted to get amrried and have kids
mircea_popescu: here's one for you : the only she-assassin i ever met actually proposed to me.
cazalla: and she does to this day
cazalla: what a fucking con that was
cazalla: should've gone to the locale catholic or even mormon church to find a woman
cazalla: would ya believe though it was nothing less than a mexican negro half caste which convinced me about this woman
cazalla: anyway just as my wife is, youare the exception to the rule so futile to compare
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb8zahcz491rsv2j1o1_1280.png << i wonder why these never caught on.
cazalla: no better way to go
cazalla: it'd be nice to just lay down, sleep and that's that
cazalla: i mean tbh sometimes i regret even waking up
cazalla: no-one puts the drink to my mouth mind you
cazalla: already aged 10 years in the past 16 months
mircea_popescu: i somehow dun think it'll kill ya
cazalla: rahter off myself than leave him alone with her
cazalla: and that is that and if it kills me so be it, he'll have a father to do things with and so it goes
mircea_popescu: who fucking knew, before today, this is a problem o.O
cazalla: would be easy to leave if i ascribed 100% of the blame to her
mircea_popescu: and in the latest eulora news : today's bug is, "mp just got a large mining find, so large in fact that it didn't fit in his mining claim, so it got truncated."
mircea_popescu: it is, notably, not the woman's fault that you got yourself a conflict.
cazalla: won't leave him without a father though
cazalla: if i drop dead at 50 and he takes the lot so be it