47900+ entries in 0.623s
mircea_popescu: you could just
as well hire indonesians to write random shit. there's a bunch of "reviews" sites spamming this crap, there was one even discussed in the logs, made an entry about "the bitbet casino"
adlai: "english
as we mangle it in assetistan"
mircea_popescu: felipelalli the funny thing about english
as used here is that it's not really familiar to about 90% of native english speakers either.
assbot: Logged on 15-04-2015 00:51:45; williamdunne: mircea, you said I should ask
as to why options are no longer issued on MPEX when trilema is back up
BingoBoingo: adlai: Isn't the dead sea at historic low levels? Canaan is just
as much shitty desert
as California except it's been abused much longer.
BingoBoingo also thinks Prussia should have been surrendered
as reparations for the purposes of Establishing a Jewish state after WWII
felipelalli: thanks BingoBoingo! I'd like to read more the logs, it is my TODO list, I just can't priorize too much it in this moment of my life. Also my English is not good
as I wish so it is a little hard to me understand everything in full and because that I became a little hesitant to participate.
williamdunne: mircea, you said I should ask
as to why options are no longer issued on MPEX when trilema is back up
☟︎ danielpbarron: What's known
as "Internet Brigading" - the situation where a lot of people with no money and no practical importance complain loudly,
as if anyone cares what the stupid poor say or think on any topic. << I had this happen to me over a particularly offensive tweet that got featured on some blog
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food, a luxury. just
as air on a space capsule is not a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth) <<< i don't fully buy into the "it's cheaper to eat shitty" mentality, but it's my understanding that the dynamics involved therein are vastly different in your country
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no. <<< the sets of {co-inhabitants} and {dirtbags} don't have
as complete an overlap
as you'd think
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth,
as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ? <<< not in so many words :P
mats: rent is not nearly
as usurious,
as, say, DC, but a space like mine (own room, roommates adjacent) costs... $1k/mo
ascii_field: (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food, a luxury. just
as air on a space capsule is not a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth)
adlai: mircea_popescu: so are the average price diamonds in mpex thumbnails intentionally so dark
as to cause the bewildered visitor to question his eyesight or sanity, until he confirms that they are in fact of different hue?
pete_dushenski: mats: ascii_field this is the city of edmonton's "we improved our asphalt technologee in the 1990s but it turned out to last 1/4
as long
as the stuff from the 1960s"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but to answer question, my meatspace idiocy filter is simply not
as strong
as the conceptual one. to ask 'why' is like asking why my legs are not
as long
as mircea_popescu's
ascii_field: e.g., why did hanbot work well
as a forum demolitions expert, but isn't (afaik!) a soldier in meatspace ?
mircea_popescu: just observing that the writing it produces doesn't seem to bother
as much ? how come ?
ascii_field: and this ^ is not a toy, it is
as essential
as clothes to me.
adlai: "Also, a kosher variant of Spam, known
as Loof (Hebrew: לוף, a Hebrew linguistic play on meatloaf), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used
as part of field rations by the Israel Defense Forces."
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth,
as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
ascii_field:
as does every goatfuckistan still extant on planet 3
pete_dushenski: but i'm not
as cultured and worldly
as i think i am. just a soap opera star!
nubbins`: pete_dushenski inorite? sold
as "used", guessing they're either (a) returns or (b) just damaged packaging and unsuitable for shelf
mircea_popescu: adlai i always understood it
as the much more subtle "well im on the football team now, why hassle to score goals. hassle to prevent anyone from scoring more than me".
adlai: aiui, which is only from the internet
as i don't physically live in libertardia, this meme was mainly coined by/for business owners reducing their business's "salary"
adlai: productivity
as measured by the collector
nubbins`: i'm serious: <+nubbins`> lobbes truly foolhardy is the man to whom i serve
as an example
nubbins`: lobbes truly foolhardy is the man to whom i serve
as an example
mircea_popescu: "my own evaluation of variable x has changed
as my measurement standards changed"
adlai: and includes reducing your quality of life, since you reach diminishing returns
as you try to increase it
nubbins`: (
as if there's a better man than me out there)
nubbins`: "The need to assemble is
as constant among humans
as the necessity of making decisions is rare. Assembling corresponds to the joy of feeling a common power. Decisions are vital only in emergency situations, where the exercise of democracy is already compromised. The rest of the time, “the democratic character of decision making” is only a problem for the fanatics of process. It’s not a matter of critiquing assemblies or abandoning them,
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> now, at this point, i'd like to take the opportunity to inquire
as to what the general consensus is, among those present, regarding my intelligence, wisdom, and overall sensibility
nubbins`: now, at this point, i'd like to take the opportunity to inquire
as to what the general consensus is, among those present, regarding my intelligence, wisdom, and overall sensibility
adlai: water dissolves glue (at least, the cheap icky "white glue" stuff); ie, say asciilifeform is part of the glued idiot mass...
as it begins to implode/dissolve/etc, folks find themselves increasingly less glued
adlai:
as stupid
as possible, but no stupider
adlai: "uses simple analogue circuits, such
as comparators, instead of a microprocessor in order to produce an unusually simple design"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:he wasn't looking for any answer. he was trying to shoehorn disorganised remains of broken history into the future.
as he keeps trying to do this he'll figure it out. <<< "you can't bribe the future with nostalgia"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:i want to reconsider that about
as much
as windows user wants to compile from source. <<< i recall hearty lels when whatever chunk of windows source code came out
mircea_popescu: williamdunne yes, it would be. it'd make it possible to be wrong, and then guilty. which is the main reason the law
as a construct even exists : save people that.
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:45:01; williamdunne: I'm not saying its a good idea, I just think its interesting
as an idea
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:33:44; asciilifeform: felipelalli: one not-inaccurate way to think about 'cipherpunkian' systems such
as bitcoin or wot is
as attempts to emulate a kind of incorruptible god
mircea_popescu: i want to reconsider that about
as much
as windows user wants to compile from source.
mircea_popescu: he wasn't looking for any answer. he was trying to shoehorn disorganised remains of broken history into the future.
as he keeps trying to do this he'll figure it out.
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:18:16; asciilifeform:
as the 'ban' thing unfolds, honeypots like zimmerman's which specifically sell on the point of 'l337 d00dz against nsa' will either a) quietly fade away b) somehow continue in what they presently are, in spite of supposed 'bans'
mircea_popescu: it can make all the passports it wants, ima credit someone on the basis of that
as much
as i'd credit someone presenting a reader's digest letter.
mircea_popescu: the problem with this is that
as the socialism progresses, the middle class dies out. because socialism is societal cancer, it just burns the fat and dies.
felipelalli: but it would be at least funny. I'd rate the president of Brazil, the "mirror" user "twitter-dilmabr"
as -10
as "scammer!" for example.
decimation: nope.
as the magna carta says: "For a trivial offence, a free man shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily
as to deprive him of his livelihood. In the same way, a merchant shall be spared his merchandise, and a husbandman the implements of his husbandry, if they fall upon the mercy of a royal court. None of these fines shall be imposed except by the
trinque: and
as they are found out they are buried in negrate
williamdunne: I'm not saying its a good idea, I just think its interesting
as an idea
☟︎ trinque: ^ what I put
as the headful of shit
felipelalli: trinque: a "mirror derivated user" like br-8d255152 (deriveted from my doc) would be useful only
as "INPUT". There is no output from br-8d255152. This is useful for make a blacklist of scammers that don't use OTC. It could be derivated from my full name, for example: "Felipe Micaroni Lalli"= br-89402f8d
trinque: felipelalli: what's wrong with gpg key
as identity?
felipelalli: ben_vulpes: so, supose you are a usg agent and everybody knows your ability, you rate 10 the user br-8d255152, even if that user had 20x -10, I'd trust in your rate. The point is just the standard. The WoT serves
as a natural filter.
decimation: compromised
as they are by conflicting interests to sell their customers
decimation: in the case of apple, I think it's quite likely they are honestly trying to make things secure, but are about
as successful
as all other 'tech' firms have been
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:04:53; asciilifeform: algo went
as follows: 1) snowden releases (whether one believes they were controlled or spontaneous does not matter for this recipe)
felipelalli: ok, I'll try: I'd like to use OTC
as a global "blacklist". But it is bad for that because a scammer won't create an account on OTC, or if his reputation is bad, he'll erase it. So we could create a "standard" like for example: br-8d255152 where "br" is the country code ISO and 8d255152 is the first 8 chars of SHA256 of user country document (in Brazil we call CPF and in Australia ID)
trinque: asciilifeform: at the very least passing something like that legitimizes surveillance
as a means to verify compliance with the escrow system