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mircea_popescu: every time you leave the us, and continue to extract dollars from the us which however the usg can'
t tax, and spend them in kirgiztan, but so the kirgiztan also cant' tax, both bleed a little.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the difference between "not work for competition" and "capital control" is inexistent - the us is a centrally controlled economy just like the su. and so, the soviets couldn'
t leave because "the state invested in their education", right ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field by the time that's done, my dear alf, everyone who's still asleep ain'
t never waking up again.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here : i'm the only entity that can'
t be held hostage. "oh, we won'
t do X until you Y" works when I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can'
t say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn'
t for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
☟︎ ascii_field: the cheapness of turkeys/whores/petro/etc in shitholistans is a ~natural resource~, like any other thermodynamic gradient. and you don'
t get to ride the gradient just by asking, just like a random schmuck doesn'
t get to ride soviet plutonium just for asking.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: possibly the hidden gotcha is that internet hasn'
t been invented yet on my planet. (i.e. folks offering the sort of work that i do, demand at least occasional physical chair parade)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field again : i expect that all arguments work both sides for me and for me only. you, you don'
t need meatwot can go wherever. the argentine derp, can not use internet, may not leave country.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> meeting them in flesh should overcome their problems with unusuallness or whatevs << not from experience. meeting idiots in the flesh doesn'
t make them less idiotic, just puts them in a better position to waste your time.
ascii_field: and mircea_popescu still wonders how come i haven'
t moved ?
mircea_popescu: particularly because how dares this asshole to discern between useful and useless in the vast world full of possibilities which shouldn'
t be discriminated against or someshit.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> offer comments on why flyers are retarded if you dare << besides the fucking point, really. i don'
t think they're not retarded. nevertheless, to the people who fail to take advantage of this, that failure is just another added failure.
mircea_popescu: i won'
t. because i'm not spending money that way, and i don'
t give a shit what the needs of whatever art derp are.
jurov: hahaha i for one did the effort of pulling game dev/artist to #eulora. he was very weirded out of whole situation and bailed out of the job, i had to compile stuff myself. i can'
t at all imagine him reacting to some pole-stuck pulp
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i don'
t want to work with people who pay "for software" in this sense anyway.
thestringpuller: don'
t think poor people are best adapted for working in 3DS Max/Maya given the time investment, plus the cost of the software.
mircea_popescu: the argument here isn'
t that some unrelated people are poor. the argument here is that the very fucking people in question don'
t have fifty pesos.
nubbins`: i don'
t think you actually understand how many people in seoul make a living picking grubs out of trees, boiling them, and selling them in little paper cups w/ a toothpick
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think you actually understand how poor these people are.
nubbins`: ascii_field mp doesn'
t realize this
mircea_popescu: there exist people in this world who are economically worthless because they are argentines. giving them an opportunity to starve so as to work for me, a guy that isn'
t economically worthless for being argentine, is a -ev play for most and a +ev play for some.
nubbins`: you don'
t get to pretend taping shit to a wall makes sense.
nubbins`: you know mp is running out of patience when he gets to "looky" and "you don'
t get"
mircea_popescu: looky, you don'
t get to misrepresent what you hear on the basis of how stupid the parts of it that you understood seemed to you.
nubbins`: MP punching a loaf of bread with a quarter ham: "these idiot ingredients don'
t make a good sandwich"
mircea_popescu: the bar for "self-aware adult who lives in the world" is so fuycking high i don'
t think i'm necessarily there.
mircea_popescu: don'
t tell me YOU're the one that's fucking argentine art school majors ?
nubbins`: talented people don'
t bother reading wheatpasted "help wanted" ads
ascii_field: also iirc mircea_popescu didn'
t hire people ?
ascii_field: (but new gig is still a bezzlatronic thing that doesn'
t exist in ar)
mircea_popescu: when i want to hire the useless shitsacks perambulating in buenos aires, they don'
t need me. becuase... internet.
mircea_popescu: so wait, let me get this straight. when i want ascii to move here he can'
t because HE needs meatwot.
ascii_field doesn'
t spend much time around the certified economically-dead folk
mircea_popescu: that this shithole doesn'
t admit it's one step away from poland 1985 doesn'
t mean it isn'
t actually one step away from poland 1985
nubbins`: in fairness, taping up a couple photocopies around the city isn'
t a great way to recruit specific talent
mircea_popescu: they simply tend to gravitate to places where their dismal means to life are sufficient to survive. "oh i couldn'
t live in kentucky"
mircea_popescu: the 22 yo beggars are "working hard" at "their social media presence" and don'
t have access to a car.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you don'
t fuck teens alf. you have nfi what your country's like.
mircea_popescu: iirc that ugly fat woman whatever her name is that rules his germans still hasn'
t obtained the slightest satisfaction for being gangraped by the ustards.
mircea_popescu: considering the sad state of ba night life, it'd be a wonder if i didn'
t.
nubbins`: "we want everyone to be homogenous, somehow, even though i'm fucking german and that didn'
t make sense even before this started happening"
nubbins`: he legitimately said "vanilla ice didn'
t write his debut album. nigga named chocolate wrote that album."
nubbins`: Life isn'
t a viable biznis model
thestringpuller: "If every single person withdrew all their coins they would make less than $3500. This isn'
t a viable business model."
mircea_popescu: ated time and again that they don'
t really have the intellectual wherewithal to find their way out of the fiat paper bag.
mircea_popescu: and if the consumer doesn'
t like this situation, that's fine : buy a gun shoot your president.
BingoBoingo: Don'
t think changetip is even that anymore
punkman: maybe trb doesn'
t like compressed pubkeys?
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 22:36:39; jurov: don'
t know. electrum produces P2SH transactions, that's how i found out.
trinque: asciilifeform │ lulzy climatocalypse here in mordor << I'm in the woods in PA visiting; it's
t-shirt weather.
mircea_popescu: the russkis didn'
t have standard barrel size on theior fucking tanks by 1940
mircea_popescu: trings"), and I have a std::vector<char*> object ("a mutable vector of mutable built-in strings"), then I can'
t pass it to your function because the types aren'
t convertible. You have to admit that it doesn'
t make any sense, because your function guarantees that it won'
t change anything, and I guarantee that I don'
t even mind having anything changed, and still the C++ type system gets in the way and the only sane worka
ascii_field: if it can'
t rebootstrap bitcoin on alpha centauri, IT'S NOT A REFERENCE
jurov: electrum should be easy to fix, that's not an issue. i'm just glad i won'
t have to decide this.
jurov: that's easy for you to say, you don'
t touch actual bitcoins
jurov: don'
t know. electrum produces P2SH transactions, that's how i found out.
☟︎ ascii_field: if at first the shit won'
t stick, throw, throw again !
BingoBoingo: "BUS1 isn'
t being developed by just some unknown individuals, but systemd developer David Herrmann and Kay Sievers seem to be the lead (and only) developers working on it thus far."
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Unless we move to PDP-11 and don'
t solve this Bitcoin thing in 20 years we will be out of machines.
ascii_field: 'I think it's unlikely that it will be possible to keep any electronic equipment manufactured after the mid-1990s operating for more than 25-50 years, in part due to the floating gate problem (even in places you don'
t expect it, because *many* chips now contain flash memory even if you don'
t know about it)... ...50 years from now we'll probably still have a working PDP-1, but sadly not too many working HP-35 calculators.'
ascii_field: trinque: i will say that we can'
t even begin to consider 'bad nodes' because nodes today HAVE NO IDENTITY
jurov: i don'
t see any mention of rebinding stuff even there
mircea_popescu: "Worse for the donors, they might even discover they prefer an absentee central government that doesn'
t centrally plan famine."
BingoBoingo: I can'
t from instagram though. Instagram is broken.
Bingoboingo: I am fortunate that Saturn plastic sedan really doesn'
t make such things necessary. Sure it does fine at freeway speeds, but nothing really beyond that. Also clean gray family sedan usually doesn'
t get much attention anyways.
Bingoboingo: Police don'
t really like radar detectors anywhere.
punkman: "€2000 fine, 30 day driver's license suspension, 60 days car registration license suspension and 5 SESO penalty points" << they really don'
t like radar detectors around here
Bingoboingo: Just don'
t touch your dick until yours hands are clean.
punkman: I don'
t know anyone from the philippines tho
Bingoboingo: Grammarizer needs to aspire to creating stego prose leik: "Bob's feet were a horror. Advanced stages of gout had swollen his feet which were covered in sores, growths, and hard scaly patches. I know this because Bob's shoes were improvised flip flops, clearly hand made. I can only imagine normal shoes don'
t come in sizes that would fit over the swollen sacs of disease that passed for his feet. I'm not sure how he walked on these s
PeterL: you don'
t have to look at it, just copy the file of text and point the program at it
mircea_popescu: "MIT's hostile actions towards Bitcoin doesn'
t by any means stop there" << ungrammar