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nubbins`: because
they're supplied externally by
teat
nubbins`: asciilifeform
this is like saying kittens don't need
to learn how
to kill
mircea_popescu: i recall
this point where some derpy agent swore before
the court he used excel spreadsheets
to rape a db
adlai: "These
techniques were developed around
the principle of using an attacker's energy against him, rather
than directly opposing it."
nubbins`: (s.korean soldiers -- all of
them -- have blackbelt in
taekwondo.
to what end?)
adlai: well,
there's defending
the self, and
there's defending increasingly expanded notions of "self", until it morphes into yet another "sovereign"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's
that azn fighting style where you don't particularly give a shit ?
adlai: yet you'd disperse
the red army? sure, disperse
the offense, but how do you defend geography with individual saboteurs everywhere?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im quite unconvinced of
the latter. and
the former reduces
to... what exactly, "not everyone has
the biography and
talents of a computer user, windows plox" ?
adlai: leading
to boom-and-bust cycles of patriotism... clearly, we need
to regulate statism.
adlai: the
trouble
there is
that you need
to first have & enter
trenches, for such chatter
to happen
adlai: oh, i'm pretty sure
that
trench chatter was blowing gaping holes in patriotism for longer
than
trenches have been cool
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, 4chan and
the internets have blown what looks like a permanent hole in
the sort of deffective mental processes
that are required for "patriotism" or whatever
the pink-bellied shit involved in wwX was.
mircea_popescu: i personally can't quite see how i'd manage
to motivate myself
to participate in yet another "we good
they bad fight for great justic!!1" conflict.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you appreciate how
the
task
to defeat germany3 is quite different from what we're doing here ?
adlai: "uses simple analogue circuits, such as comparators, instead of a microprocessor in order
to produce an unusually simple design"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well in
the abstract it is dificult
to evaluate. what exactly would be
the
task fo
this red army ?
mircea_popescu: o no wait it wasn't you, some other guy was making dire warnings about how
teligent mit is
mats: i didn't deny
that
there are showmen, or even hordes of
them,
there
mats: fwiw
the MIT undergrad exhibit was horrible
nubbins`: like,
they just got
their knee kicked out by an angry horse, but if a lens swivelled
their way,
they'd muster up a winning smile?
nubbins`: still not sure i can pinpoint it... but have you ever met someone for whom photographs exist outside of
time and space?
nubbins`: i came across
this website while
trying
to figure out why Ploshay's appearance is somewhat unsettling
to me
mircea_popescu: low level scamming, "i'ma call
this empty jar MONEY and wait for idiots
to deposit".
nubbins`: "Her latest projects consist of
the creation of
Tatiana Coin,
the first ever artist cryptocurrency" WHAT ABOUT COINYE WEST?!
nubbins`: i had
to make sure i wasn't on womensguitarassociation.com
nubbins`: i clicked on
that one so i could chuckle about why she's randomly holding a guitar
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`: 30 years in
the wild and
the source code says "should
this bit be here?"
nubbins`: there was one comment in
the code for notepad.exe: /* is
this even supposed
to be here? */
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
nubbins`: asciilifeform:mentioned
that 'computers were stolen, no sign of break-in, perhaps insider' <<< alf,
the lizards struck
the wrong house! did you replace your locks?
mats: 6:50:29 <+mircea_popescu> since mats brought it up : yeah, currently people can't audit bitbet's reserves.
this is unfortunate, but i'm not going
to do anything about it. << i was going a bit crazy auditing
the code,
thought id bungled it somehow
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 05:24:05; pete_dushenski: no more does
the
term mean 'cultured' or 'worldly' it seems
mircea_popescu: alf : he just wants
to hook up with local whores from
the convenience of his own home. internets ftw!
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 04:08:26; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: confirmed for imaginationless except in regards
to his own means of death
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 04:06:20; ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell chetty i'd be much obliged if you could procure me a phone and a sim -
the cheapest
that makes and receives calls will be more
than adequate
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 03:54:56; asciilifeform:
trinque: we have (for
the most part) burglars here, rather
than robbers.
they wait until owner is out.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100530 << on which line,
trinque you'd seriously shoot a burglar ? and i don't mean shoot
them in
the head, just, one
to
the kneecap for good measure. seems
to me woefully excessive.
the... only
time i was in a situation of
that nature
the dudes beat
the shit out of
the guy and i
thought it was excessive even for
the
time and place.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: since mats brought it up : yeah, currently people can't audit bitbet's reserves.
this is unfortunate, but i'm not going
to do anything about it.
mircea_popescu: yes, i may consider young females for education, but
that is neither here nor
there. i did
that before bitcoin, for
that matter.
mircea_popescu: i am simply not interested in
that sort of centralisation. i also
think it's stupid, and self-defeating, and in no way different from you know, making gossipd on windows vista.
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 03:41:48; asciilifeform: (if you want
to be considered, my understanding is - be young and female)
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 03:39:56; asciilifeform: methinks felipelalli is expressing
the
traditional frustration of
the 3
to 6 month n00b
to #b-a:
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 03:37:34; felipelalli: decimation: you're right. But would be so cool and useful if I really could use WoT
to
things in day
to day and not only in dreams.
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 03:29:48; felipelalli:
trinque: I know
that. I am
trying
to convince
the Brazilian community move
to here, but it is being hard.
The main community is still on Facebook.
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.
williamdunne: It would be
tragic if
they had
to do some
thinking
williamdunne: not
to mention
that
the jury almost always considers law over morality
mircea_popescu: "tax
the rich so you can clean up
the mess we made! of
this sidewalk and of our lives!"
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter, imagine how
the place looked after ows was done with it ? all
the discarded packaging etc ?
this was supposedly a group of civically-minded folks.
mircea_popescu: but see,
the same people who can't be bothered
to crypto anything... can't be bothered
to nullify anything either.
too much work.
mircea_popescu: actually
the only useful function of a jury
these days.
chetty: one of
the good reasons for jury hasn't really been used ...nullification of bad law
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:57:55; asciilifeform: medieval juries also did not concern
themselves with day-to-day idiocies.
mircea_popescu: "the only reason you want
the jury is because you hope
to
trick it with
things a judge wouldn't fall for."
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100440 << amusingly enough in japan jury
trials were (and perhaps still
to some degree are) very dimly regarded. people
thought
that someone willing
to cast his fortune on
the disinterested call of a dozen uninformed people rather
than have a specialist handle it could not possibly have any sort of case.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:48:26; decimation: what's a jury
trial other
than having your wot judge your actions?
mircea_popescu: in fact,
the ability of a user
to create pseudo-trust out of nothing, just like
the "ability" of a perpetuum mobile
to extract energy out of
the void, just like
the "ability" of a government
to print money are
the same
thing, really :
the degrading macula of subhumanity.
assbot: Logged on 14-04-2015 02:46:21; asciilifeform: in much
the same way, you cannot extract
trustworthiness from
the aether