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felipelalli: mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam?
As a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
☟︎ ascii_field recalls learning with alarm
as a little boy that there was ever such a thing
as a reichsmark. 'couldn't hitler simply order shit done?'
ascii_field: it is used
as the real primary taxation mechanism
mircea_popescu: AND this is for the great benefit of everyone else, because nobody is
as poor
as usians.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 19:20:31; ascii_field: and end up with
as many
as you want
trinque:
as much
as that would make one the star of one's own action movie
danielpbarron: oh btw i got my ADA reference manual; things quite nice. it's from a public library and it looks
as though nobody ever checked it out
danielpbarron: i really doubt your secret mountain wallet is
as secure
as you imagine
ascii_field as an amateur scholar of crackpottery and malignant pseudoscience, owns the complete works of mr lysenko
ascii_field: i normally just read that
as a shorthand for 'install on your box...'
pete_dushenski: cazalla: your opa could've come here just
as well and you wouldn't have been necessarily better off
cazalla: anyway going to bed, but i request la serenissima bequeath me the state of Tasmania so
as to use it to grow the best shit
cazalla: and they sure
as fuck are not spending good money on good food
mircea_popescu: cazalla ok, meat comes from butcher, produce from grocer. these you don't buy at the warehouse,
as there's really no need to warehouse them. but what about everything else ?
nubbins`: srsly, 1L for the same price
as the little tiny bottles the groc store sells
mircea_popescu: "Shoehorning is a ploy used by psychics, or religious apologetic or other charlatans,
as a way to make it sound like their prophecies or those of earlier prophets had come true. "
mircea_popescu: brendafdez: The fact that people here see the US
as the land of freedom really boggles the mind.<< they believe teh movies.
cazalla: acutally i quit for years, sober
as a judge
cazalla: lazer illegal, plastic knife illegal (if used
as weapon), baseball bat also illegal if kept in bedroom because no legitimate reason to keep it there, must fetch from car and come back to bedroom to beat off attacker
mircea_popescu:
as far
as weaponry goes, let's look at you know, weaponry.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i suppose he meant bitwise identical star, to be translated
as, same txn
mircea_popescu: this is fine
as far
as the system goes, it's own "democratic" logic, et all.
cazalla: the australian law, at least
as i see it, was more them saying, ok you've had your fun but no more of this please
davout: just like retards flying drones in restricted airspace are dangerous
as well
cazalla: the 2 year retention period is sorta bullshit anyway
as it's the ISPs who need to keep the data for 2 years, but if a gov dept such
as ASIO or the police request that data, they are allowed to keep it forever, so i'm sure they will just request all data so that they can keep it forever (if they aren't already doing it)
cazalla:
as well
as a black list to block sites like thepiratebay.. fraser's death couldn't have been timed better tbh
BingoBoingo: The best way I can explain baseball aesthetically then is
as a dance where every movement holds the entire game at stake
brendafdez: BingoBoingo if much of your feelings of unsafeness stem from local State corruption, you'd like it in Argentina. It's not that there's no corruption over here, on the contrary, but they get to interefere much less with peoples lives. The fact that people here see the US
as the land of freedom really boggles the mind.
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: So you know USia has federalism. The state level (Illinois in this case) defers to the county. In this case corrupt
as St Clair county which contains East StL in its borders.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 00:58:04; asciilifeform: possibly the most dangerous animal to be in the lands of usg (and au,
as i understand, is a kind of target practice range for usg idiocies) is the fella with just enough to be worth skinning, but three or four zeroes short of mircea_popescu-esque atomic dirigible where he can hit back
BingoBoingo so pissed I might have to wander till I find a coyote just to have a fair fight
as I kick its teeth out.
decimation: ben_vulpes:
as I recall the stuff hosted on aws didn't have any problems with mr. ddos
decimation:
as I recall, folks here have had good luck with 'vultr' too
mircea_popescu:
as if old code somehow gets forgotten or something, dunno.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, some state authority or other decided to cut cables. the city hall nearly caught fire
as a result, and the plan was discontinuied.
mircea_popescu: more of a 90s thing, record label
as master of payola.
decimation: how is that not exactly the same
as "oh wow, that's so amazing'
mircea_popescu: decimation i don't think anyone seriously considers that entire "simulation
as life" thing outside of fiction.
mircea_popescu: "It annoys me that idiots continue to use "oh wow, that's so amazing"
as the measure of creative genius. Or even worse, that they rely on society's direction to determine who is a creative genius and who isn't. First of all, creative geniuses are RESPECTED and LOOKED UP TO by society. And any position that is looked up to will be coveted by Narcissists who are driven by Glory, such
as Richard Feynman who all his life w
decimation: I take all of the above writing
as evidence that the authors in question have never tried to create a real simulation on an actual computer
poli_:
As in ask the question here?
poli_: I was curious
as to what kind of political questions are allowed.
mircea_popescu: decimation some other guy got a job
as area supervisor of kfc, you know ? nothing wrong with it.
poli_: Referred to this overflowing channel via bitbet
as well.
decimation: well, insofar
as it acts
as a bezzlar sink, no
mircea_popescu: The concept of the technological singularity, or the ultra-rapid advent of superhuman intelligence, was first proposed by the British cryptologist I. J. Good in 1965: "Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined
as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever."
decimation: of course all of them would dismiss the YHWH worshipping Jews and Christians
as credulous simpletons
mircea_popescu: "Extropy is a proposed opposing concept to entropy.
As entropy decreases , signifying more order, so extropy would increase in the manner of negentropy."
mircea_popescu: "This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism
as a futurist philosophy in 1990 and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement."
mircea_popescu: "The most common thesis put forward is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities
as to merit the label posthuman."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the world works. "nobody's using bitcoin, nobody could have foreseen their using a plane
as a rocket and nobody's doing anything better nor anything better could exist than ... you know, raising awareness"
mircea_popescu: "Transhumanism (abbreviated
as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."
mircea_popescu: for
as long
as bureaucracy = the slaves of peter, or julius, or w/e, that may well work.
trinque: but doing the accumulation
as a good in itself seems to be where the insanity lies?
danielpbarron: n3xtb1gthng,
as long
as MPEx accepts my coin I'm alright with it
PeterL: trinque: the "social contract" of bitcoin is the "spec"
as laid out by satoshi in the white paper
mircea_popescu: <n3xtb1gthng> is there a philosophical reaosn you don't build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (
as some alt's have)? << about the same sort of philosophical reason
as not building a tail into you.
danielpbarron: n3xtb1gthng, spending is literally the opposite of adopting
as you are necessarily getting rid of the thing you are spending
danielpbarron: arguably, bitcoin *is* doing that thought,
as it only costs what? 150 USD worth of electricty to mine 1 bitcoin which should be worth millions of USD
n3xtb1gthng: is there a philosophical reaosn you don't build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (
as some alt's have)?
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin rules are defined by what important people use, and
as it happens gavin & co are unimportant.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1058664 << contrary to what you might have erroneously come to believe a) 0.5.1 version
as printed by the bitcoin foundation is the cannonical version of bitcoin ; b) various groups of scammers trying to attack bitcoin are continuously pushing their own versions of solidcoin, which has all the importance of ms boring's bitcoin chamber of commerce.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i'm sure it'll do just
as well
as all preivious rehashes of this process.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 01:06:01; asciilifeform: how does a db end up thought of
as part of the protocol ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I need working hardware. In the past I've treated such bexen
as too disposable. Ingnored fans cries for help.
mircea_popescu: that's the golden standard
as a field anthropologist : once the gorillas start plucking your lice.
ascii_field: visited
as in, came & took pictures? or more ?
funkenstein_: equally treated
as useless unless evidence is presented otherwise
ascii_field: funkenstein_: but unless i misunderstand, you see the passport
as a dumb, pointless ritual
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i won't say specifically ru, but various aspects like 'children belong to parents
as meat, not to the state' being in their bones