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asciilifeform: 'why do you want to go to the revolution, kid?' 'to save the boy. the hero, about whom the song was.' 'will you fear a bullet?' 'no' 'will you fall for tricks?' 'no!' 'come on in'
asciilifeform once was mindfucked when read 'livejournal' of gurl who confessed to having wanked to this ^
mircea_popescu: im thinking the 70s.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, you're thinking the almost able to stand post-20s.
mircea_popescu: because this happened.
mircea_popescu: with an imaginary black leader dude that caused a countrywide revolt.
mircea_popescu: im looking forward to a remake of spartacus but set in south carolina
mircea_popescu: it's socialist realism i tell you.
mircea_popescu: all the unwatchable crud starting with the alt-gays (brokeback mountain) all through imaginary women that never happened, brave black slaves, what have you
mircea_popescu: well what are they ?
mircea_popescu: it was a holywood "socialist realist" piece tho
asciilifeform: in porn, can cavort with platonic polyhedra if it tickles you. doesn't have to make sense in life...
mircea_popescu: boggles the mind.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's this thing which seriously proposes that a texas ranger who took the trouble to hunt some outlaw all the way into wherever the fuck is even talking to some snotty brat.
mircea_popescu: for the record : no child at that time would have fucking dared to open her stupid mouth for fear of a beating.
BingoBoingo: Eh, she ends up an amputee, there's gotta be a niche for that
mircea_popescu: shit that only happened on planet "i'm a fat fuckhead and i will daydream an alt-history in which women actually did shit" ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, people actually watched that atrocity ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "wtf is cogburn" "it's a reference to a film you stopped because wtf is this stupid shit."
cazalla: mircea_popescu, lol yeah he was in the trilema comments, it's what sprung to mind at the time
assbot: Ok, ok, you had me :D pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ChMUgW )
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 01:31:12; cazalla: going by the article, you hate him because you ain't him
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-04-2015#1085257 << o.O wasn't thestringpuller rapping this like yest ?
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 01:29:27; Cogburn: oh cmon nobody is gonna pop in here and pretend to be me
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-04-2015#1085246 << actually if someone was to pop in here and try to mine some lulz, they'd prolly pretend to be exactly someone like that, ie, marginal twitterhead or w/e. who else would they pretend to be.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Preet Bharara's minions can be seen pleading to Judge Forrest that the terminally corrupted Baltimore investigation so how touches their investigation in no way."
pete_dushenski: i saw it, just saying that i wouldn't make use of that many
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 00:58:09; nubbins`: “It never goes down!” says Bryce, referring to the BTC/UNO exchange rate. “That’s the thing people love about UNO. It never goes down.”
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-04-2015#1085221 dude srsly with this still ?!
mircea_popescu: look in teh log
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: aite well, if they're free to the magick dozen, i'd take mebbe 50 cards ?
asciilifeform: <pete_dushenski> i dunno if my monthly contributions qualify me for << wai wat was this
mircea_popescu: apparently the neobee "brick and mortar" 17 yo financiers.
assbot: These fucktards have to be immortalised, they're worse than Dr. Foreskin even pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ChL53G )
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 00:55:59; BingoBoingo: lol was Garrett Keirns Garr255 or the "Surf Captital Management" douche
asciilifeform: i bet this one'd auger in if i sat on it.
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 00:51:07; cazalla: who would've thought americans sit around drinking coffee discussing how much they dislike mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: and they get lighter, lighter,....
asciilifeform: the funny thing is that i've owned little laser printers since '90s, always almost precisely the same size, breadbox
mircea_popescu: use cockroach parts! they're great for the environment and weigh less!
pete_dushenski: i dunno if my monthly contributions qualify me for 'qntra ppl' but as cool as cards with just email and gpg would be, i'm not sure i'd have much use for them in the space of meat
mircea_popescu: methinks institutionals got told a few words ?
asciilifeform just unpacked a laser printer/scanner/copier thingie and went 'wtf' because it weighs maybe half of what the dearly departed predecessor did. must be 95% corn plastic or sumthing
mircea_popescu: also 104mn s.mpoe shares changed hands this month.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i'll just end up stuck explaining why you shouldn't to angry mobs.
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 22:57:01; nubbins`: i floated a design, nobody was too fussy, nothing else suggested
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-04-2015#1085180 << yeah qntra ppl. do we even care to get these ?
PFate: i stalk persons of interest in my hobbies to see whats up
asciilifeform will probably end up having to seppuku one day because did not specify 'do not use in reactors to power interstellar multigenerational flights' in some patch in '14
PFate: shitty comcast movies are on the other screen
mircea_popescu: who the fuck stalks dudes
PFate: but thats the edge of my desk
mircea_popescu: the tits are that way --->
PFate: since the bryce interview, back traced to this chan
pete_dushenski: PFate: anyhoo so what brings you by this fine evening ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i just replaced one random value with another. my register's wider than his.
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 22:51:59; asciilifeform: i probably should have specified this in the signed text
mircea_popescu: didn't take much pressure, either.
pete_dushenski: matonis was on the edges of the thing back then
pete_dushenski: not that one can't have 20 years of 'digital cash' experience, it's just that... so what ?
pete_dushenski: and when that day comes, i'll learn not to trust anything random websites say
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you know, one day you'll run into one of these claiming 2006.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, author proudly displays his twitter url, but no email address, guess i'll have to dig
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, because magic rays too expensive.
pete_dushenski: PFate: ah nm then!
asciilifeform: won't make the docket much less news
mircea_popescu: lettuce see if forbes getting sued by bitcoin for ip infringement makes the news or not.
mircea_popescu: cazalla write to the author and to forbes editor, tell them they can either publish a fix or else i sue. ☟︎
PFate: ? the .com is not mine
pete_dushenski: PFate: well congrats on "We have proven ourselves: Since our launch in 2012, there was not a single security breach."
mircea_popescu: ahaha im bashing that paste shit. nubbins you should start your own act.
cazalla: wow, that fortune.com article cites btcfeed as the source of the jan bitpay layoffs? fucking cunts
assbot: 1Broker - Bitcoin Forex and CFD Trading ... ( http://bit.ly/1I9heTa )
pete_dushenski: https://1broker.com/ << this yours then ?
pete_dushenski: PFate: that works because i'm pretty sure nowhere here watches the news
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-04-2015#1085111 << sadly. the man very much went by this "engineering" approach.
PFate: pete, right now its not good from watching the news
pete_dushenski: PFate: soooo what's the fate ?
PFate: want twitter handle?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's wrong with config file srsly << nothing wrong with it. but 1) the hardcoded junk needs to go 2) node needs to learn own ip somehow
mircea_popescu: yeah they're not bad.
PFate: hello and thank you
pete_dushenski: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html << recommended reading for log readers out there
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2015 21:54:54; asciilifeform: i never got around to shitting out a patch to remove the hardcoded seedz
pete_dushenski: i'm finally working my way through buffett's annual letters to berkshire shareholders
mircea_popescu: well... the world is supremely fair, in that ignorance is its own reward.
asciilifeform: folks who, to a first approximation, -don't read for pleasure- tend to write rather disconcertingly like a poorer version of what they did read. sorta like vomit looks something like the food at times
pete_dushenski: ^quite the qntra rip-off
pete_dushenski: http://fortune.com/2015/04/02/bitcoin-bowl/ << oh hey look 'daniel roberts' reads the logs
mircea_popescu: it's funny tho, quotations from bad fanfic, the works.
asciilifeform: this is not entirely unlike the 'karate scenes' written by hacks
mircea_popescu: "My, what an effective use of Bayesian evidence that is!"
mircea_popescu: "I know, but I also know that you are only flattering me as an attempt to manipulate me."
mircea_popescu: "My, that is an effective manipulation. You are a dangerous man"
mircea_popescu: conversations between Quirrell/Malfoy/Potter seem to follow scripts of the form
mircea_popescu: basicaly... these are kids whoise main feature is having sat through a bunch of bad marketing seminars.
mircea_popescu: ham fisted, Hariezer is consistently telling us about all the manipulative tricks they are both using. Its less a conversation and more people who just sat through a shitty marketing seminar trying to try out what they learned. WITH RAPE. "
mircea_popescu: "So, Hariezer is joking about the murder (its made clear later), but WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING? These escalating friendship-tests feel contrived, reciprocity is effective when you don’t make demands immediately, which is why when you get a free sample at the grocery store the person at the counter doesn’t say “did you like that? Buy this juice or we won’t be friends anymore.” This whole conversation feels
assbot: Anonymous derpage pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1pBuh84 )
asciilifeform: i think they have naggum's cat.