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ben_vulpes: because github is a thing sillyconvalley bizwrapper around a versoncontrolatroncumhoster for people who don'
t actually want to or know how to use computers
mircea_popescu: Intended to be portable to any system with a C89 compiler and uint64_t support. << a large part of why it'd be large.
mircea_popescu: now look : you can'
t dismiss that thing just because it exists.
mircea_popescu: once it starts liquidating privilege, it can'
t practically be stopped. network effects.
mircea_popescu: similarly, the 9th earl of dumbass couldn'
t readily say "so what if the marquis of idiot has six horses pulling his cart ?"
mircea_popescu: "listen you dumb cunt, who the fuck told you must deserve a roof over your head, can'
t just wash stuff by hand in the river ?"
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Also still on OpenBSD 5.7 don'
t know if 5.8's introduced new weird
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform slowly. just like the contradiction between "don'
t hurt the woman" and "she bleeds" is resolved in practice3.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is an infelicity of puberty. we can'
t do anything about that yet.
jurov: even a filesystem won'
t get much better
mircea_popescu: and odds are std::map is not even correctly implemented, and we don'
t even know exactly where.
jurov: they are deallocated. but malloc won'
t give it back to teh system
mircea_popescu: this is not a sprint. it's not even a marathon. the most important thing, by a large margin, is plox don'
t kill yourselves fighting with it. if anyone goes "i'll tend to my ulcer once i sorted out THIS thing", that someone's going to be remembered as naggum 2.
mircea_popescu: they don'
t want that part of bitcoin anymore. it's "blockchain technologies" now as far as reddit is concered, with spv mining, 0tx fees and hopefully increasing block subsidies in the future.
pete_dushenski: american flats don'
t come with mattresses omfg << even if they did, no one would use them.
pete_dushenski: the level of graphicness of that depiction makes me think it wasn'
t even in engligh
mircea_popescu: nobody said the life on the farm ain'
t easier, prikoke.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-12-2015#1347332 << not quite the same. for weed, sellers just have to be 'licensed' ; whereas with drivers ed, sounds like dutch are putting the teacher in control and letting him separate the lemma from the palea so that he's not forced to bang mayo-gendered just because girl can'
t pay any other way
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 17:11:24; liquidassets: Pete, you're like a hero to me, please don'
t make me call you a punk again.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t fight power. you can think you do. and then fail and wonder where you went wrong.
mircea_popescu: "here's where we stand : until and unless you burn down the entire politico-juridistical establishment of the entire faux-free world, i ain'
t signing any paper with you."
mircea_popescu is a firm believer in "scream at the market until it alligns. and if it doesn'
t, burn it down."
mircea_popescu: and if you aren'
t poor why are you renting in the poor section ?
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 16:19:23; PeterL: would have worked if housing prices hadn'
t dropped 75% where I lived
mircea_popescu: and if you can'
t pick a coupla decent ones from a coupla dozen, your women picking skills suck.
mircea_popescu: then i tell them about how if i wanted to buy real estate i'd buy a ranch in montana for the same money, they go all incredulous. because yeah they do nothing but watch us exports on the tube all day, but they don'
t have either the unlazy intensity to try and get complete data or the mental acuity to understand how that's done.
adlai: liquidassets: good noise cancellation doesn'
t boost white noise once human speech cuts off
mircea_popescu: you don'
t understand how the internet works foxperson. minutia is all it's got.
renart doesn'
t think the offhand comment bears such close scrutiny
renart: mircea_popescu: aw man then it won'
t be funny
mircea_popescu: these two aren'
t even related, notwithstanding they're not in any sense true.
mircea_popescu: it IS getting tedious, but it isn'
t getting any closer to acceptance.
liquidassets: Pete, you're like a hero to me, please don'
t make me call you a punk again.
☟︎ liquidassets: You're all sorts of filled with assumptions now aren'
t you?
PeterL: any financial advice I give should be taken with a grain of salt, as exemplified by my horrible mortgage investment I don'
t have alot of good marks on my record
PeterL: I don'
t think it will take a long time, I currently live rent free. Before you ask why not just stay, it is a bit small for my family
liquidassets: Look, with interest rates on 30 year mort as low as they have been, why aren'
t you leveraging?
liquidassets: most people just want to be comfortable and not have to worry so much...most people isn'
t the group you want to be in
PeterL: would have worked if housing prices hadn'
t dropped 75% where I lived
☟︎ PeterL: The bank didn'
t lose any of that 75k, they had insurance (which was tacked onto my bill every month) to cover such a loss. Insurance didn'
t help me any, even though I was the one paying for it.
liquidassets: And don'
t think the bank is going to actually realize that 40,000 paper loss. Most of that loss was subsidized further by YOUR tax dollars
PeterL: he can buy, but she can'
t sell? wtf how does that work?
PeterL: I don'
t understand how the plastic is hygroscopic?
mircea_popescu: suppose you buy a house, take a 100k loan from the bank on the understanding that if you don'
t pay they can have the house and that's it. suppose the market goes to shit, and you walk. suppose the bank takes your house and sells it for 60k.
mircea_popescu: (this isn'
t, as the retail bankers got the retail suckers to think, a case of "you can'
t takle anything other than my house".
mircea_popescu: punkman> I quite like not being in debt << as usual, retail is for suckers. consumer debt's just about the dumbest proposition i ever heard. nevertheless, nrl isn'
t that bad.
liquidassets: In other news,, I haven'
t jerked off for 3 days, MP you got anything for me?
liquidassets: but seriously don'
t give me money, I"m not even close lawyer wise yet
punkman: well yes, as long as the megatons money you print doesn'
t really circulate
liquidassets: It's like 20s 20s 20s 20s everywhere a 20. Ok Maybe a 50....Oh well hold on, I can'
t really break 100
mircea_popescu can'
t remember the last time he has encountered a perfect product, but it wasn'
t this decade.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> entirely dead here. << didn'
t we already discuss this ?
adlai: BingoBoingo: i'll be rooting for it... but i can'
t load qntra now, DNS is up to its usual reliability standards
CoraCrisT: i just need to study it a bit. won'
t take long tho
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell adlai But don'
t worry too much there could still be another diff increase this year
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell adlai too late. If you want a beat you can'
t just mention diff increase in chan without dropping an encrypted dpaste full of qntra submission.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 14:26:51; mircea_popescu: "However, our growth rate did not meet our expectations, and the service does not scale as we would have expected to." aka "trying to leech of bitcoin while doing the usual fiat bullshit doesn'
t work."
liquidassets: To all current and prospective USAsseters out there, true greatness can ever rarely be punished, much less so in the US, which makes its history something to be proud of. Don'
t forget that
ascii_field: something that doesn'
t mostly pick up ~its own heterodyne~
mircea_popescu: "during a recent random walk through the codebase in a desperate but doomed attempt to fix or at least paper over bugs we have no idea about to any degree, we discovered that our code repository is so broken half the shit in there wasn'
t even written by anyone we know. we'll keep pretending like we're a thing tho, because seriously, what the hells the difference anymore ? considering all the lies we've told to date, it
mircea_popescu: i had never met someone up to that point who didn'
t longhand.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 16:28:25; mircea_popescu: and no, there isn'
t a local equivalent. they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
ascii_field: funkenstein_: i haven'
t started yet, only signed