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cazalla: pete_dushenski, ya know, i can'
t honestly remember what they're called down under (thanks for other comments too)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu so will all my days, doesn'
t mean i'm not going to milk each and every one of them
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:05:26; BingoBoingo: So far October has been an frustratingly boring part of Bitcoin. I am worried though that Qntra is crossing into its second year and people don'
t want a giftwrapped chance to write a first story. Is qntra insufficiently established or does this seem too much of a trap. I the cost of fucking up in #b-a seeming too high? I am confused.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: can'
t you see where they take the extra money out?!
ascii_field: 1) he wasn'
t paid in genuine money 2) i'm not convinced that he's a cultured man
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: back to the 'poor' thread, i can'
t comment re: your planet, but on mine we have no shortage of imbeciles with fat wallets and penniless erdöses
ascii_field: i didn'
t hang'em up upside-down and connect to the mains to get the truth, no.
ascii_field: well, interestingly, i personally did. the last time i checked out of a flat. but knew others, who rented in same building, who did not, and without any particularly good reason other than 'landlord knew they hadn'
t what to sue with'
mircea_popescu: the REASON you can'
t afford to litigate is THAT you are making bullshit up.
ascii_field: can'
t speak for other side of the atlantic, but over here 'security deposit' is to be returned to the tenant when he leaves, minus repair costs, the latter to be presented in writing and with receipts from repairmen
mircea_popescu: words mean nothing in and of themselves, and the pretense to the contrary is always self-serving bullshit when deployed in such contexts, "oh, i can'
t afford to litigate"
mircea_popescu: we don'
t have the contract before our eyes, but im willing to bet it reads "and renter to return place IN THE SAME CONDITION" which by tradition is interpreted in that locale that you pay for the fumigation after you're done in the shape of an upfront thing.
mircea_popescu: "we don'
t poorly collect because intentionally, it's just hard to do!!1"
mircea_popescu: "psychothis is underdiagnosed" is exactly like the court's idea that the population is juridically underserved. not so - you can'
t have things that are definitionally for the few (because the few don'
t benefit from the banal commonality of the many, soi they need something else to allow society to function).
mircea_popescu: but to say you can'
t afford contracts AND YET you think you were gypped is basically juust to swear and attest you're poor. of course you'd think that, that's why you're poor : cause you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: and this obviously only affects the poor to any degree - if antinous had or hadn'
t a trousseau or if he had to pay some homonymous coins, hadrianus couldn'
t have cared less.
mircea_popescu: so, if here the landlords rent out for 10 a month but you gotta pay 10 in advance "as guarantee" and there they rent out for 11 a month but you don'
t,
mircea_popescu: aka, pay for all our sins, as we can'
t afford to do it. and so you get godfathers, and get to enjoy the movie. that's his role in the community : that he pays your blodgelt for you.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda lulzily parallels the entire "i'm special in my you're special
t shirt"
mircea_popescu: just like, if flies won'
t fuck you, your opinion of what's attractive is wrong. and so on.
mircea_popescu: if you don'
t have money your opinion about what you did is wrong.
mircea_popescu: And so it goes. If you wonder why you seem ADHD or anxious, it may be that you are being told certain things are horribly important, yet you can'
t seem to feel it; meanwhile you are also being told the things you thought were important are trivial. \
mircea_popescu: portance of "gay marriage" in the world is not at all the important question-- it may be extremely relevant, or not at all, but that's irrelevant. Why we're stuck with "bipolar disorder" until, I don'
t know, the neo-analysts return with their talk of "repressed thyroid energy" or something, but emphatically not because we discover anything qualitatively new about bipolar.
mircea_popescu: But having the same guys means that we'll be getting the same philosophies, the same filters, the same phrases. We are guaranteeing not just groupthink, but we're allowing others to decide what we're going to talk about, how we'll talk about it. That's why "gay marriage" will disappear not when gays can marry but when a new set of media people get jobs and "gay marriage" isn'
t as interesting to them. The actual im
mircea_popescu: the name is very vaguely familiar, latapie, but i can'
t place it.
mircea_popescu: (this isn'
t a current file, it is a historical version)
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 10:09:34; kakobrekla: >at least we have bugs because it means that we're doing something, we're actually innovating whereas a lot of our competitors don'
t have bugs because they don'
t change
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2015 09:24:38; cazalla: BingoBoingo, problem is finding people who are passionate about bitcoin and lately for me, i couldn'
t think of anything more boring than bitcoin
mircea_popescu:
t. hire some dudes with guns offer the old style protection if you got what it takes. and if you do not, i'll just talk to the actual dudes in question and you'll eat your own ass so fast you'll be on youtube.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300279 << so a) you'll spend your life driving between bickering nuts. this is a worse deal than what psychs get, at least there you gotta drive to his office. ; b) the blockchain and everything else is entirely superfluous here. your entire idea is "hey, make me the mp of renting in south africa". maybe they will or maybe they won'
t but you really don'
t need the funny ha
☝︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if he doesn'
t, well, twice the deposit worth of damage + whatever it costs him to break in should be just about fair.
☟︎ davout: doesn'
t appear to me it's anyone but his loss
mircea_popescu: perhaps vaguely interesting to asciilifeform : in the comments of the original article (see
http://trilema.com/2011/europa-crestina-si-alte-aberatii/#comment-71835 etc) a very familiar mechanism is at work : christian dude (who is otherwise a very clever, and well respected, commenter there), after exhausting the attempts to plead to authority ("oh you aren'
t qualified to discuss ; oh merkel is from a party called chri
mircea_popescu: as to why not anal, firstly because you're probably too young and you'll move suddenly and jerkily like too young people do and hurt her ; and secondly because you live in the sticks and will give yourself an uti because you can'
t afford condoms ; and thirdly because you'e insane and who the fuck knows what nonsense you'll do with it (the us porn people are a fine example with their anal desinfectants and bleaching and
shinohai: I mean, he's up there where it's boring all the time. Maybe he doesn'
t know what great fun it is to snort heroin off a tranny's cock.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Why does Lucifer run a bar in LA? Some things aren'
t for us mortals to sympathize with.
kakobrekla: >at least we have bugs because it means that we're doing something, we're actually innovating whereas a lot of our competitors don'
t have bugs because they don'
t change
☟︎ cazalla: BingoBoingo, problem is finding people who are passionate about bitcoin and lately for me, i couldn'
t think of anything more boring than bitcoin
☟︎ HeySteve: I don'
t really know the other meaning. people run a pretend league based on real teams and players?
BingoBoingo: pete_duskenski has been great with this as has thestringpuller, this thing is here, for some definitions of queer it is that, and it isn'
t going away anytime soon
BingoBoingo: Qntra is exactly the way people who can'
t speak BTC++ can contribute to understanding the BTC ecosystem and, I would really appreciate more submissions on various fiat brokeness seen.
BingoBoingo: punkman: also weren'
t you going to write something on Greece being a failed state like Ferguson at some point? Or is Greece still catching up?
BingoBoingo: So far October has been an frustratingly boring part of Bitcoin. I am worried though that Qntra is crossing into its second year and people don'
t want a giftwrapped chance to write a first story. Is qntra insufficiently established or does this seem too much of a trap. I the cost of fucking up in #b-a seeming too high? I am confused.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: HeySteve: I don'
t hava a handle on it. I'm not sure it is news at all. It is scam on many levels. My only reservation and the source of my disinterest is... I'm not sure actual people are affected
BingoBoingo: punkman: Because honestly. Actual people aren;
t losing their shirts on this. Great chance though for marginally people to work towards becoming actual people by demonstrating a knowledge of how the scamception works.
HeySteve: Talisman eh? haven'
t met him but berndj is another saffa
HeySteve: didn'
t know that, punkman, there's clearly a need for it in the developing world
punkman: HeySteve: they usually have justification, don'
t they?
BingoBoingo: I don'
t remember you writing for the other place since qntra was born, gotta have that blue balls
trinque is hitting the gym 4 times a week; what's this "can'
t help it"
trinque: bagels7 | I can'
t help being heavy << are you trying to trigger BingoBoingo ?
bagels7: I can'
t help being heavy , also alcoholism is not kool when you get beat up and abused and constantly belittled
BingoBoingo: bagels7: Maybe focus on staying human sized? As a
t-girl that is the bulk of your value proposition, not being an obeast.
BingoBoingo: Having a cock still isn'
t as bad for a girl as being Obeast bagels7
bagels7: well I didn'
t work tonight, girls with cocks are very niche
BingoBoingo: Though hell comes early for them, don'
t have to wait for the next life even.
danielpbarron: i can'
t imagine it gets more stimulating than a real live fertile womb in which you can grow a baby
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> geese don'
t have collar bones. << Surefire sign Geese are all Mayogendered
mircea_popescu: for one thing he doesn'
t even have a conception of work whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: ah, it didn'
t feel out of place. it was just... you know, trying to point out this is a very bad measuring stick. "fish is wet" well... it'd better be.
mircea_popescu: "Reality is too boring, and world events too complex, too overwhelming, and, frankly, too not about me. We want entertainment, diversions, that look enough like social policy analysis that we don'
t feel too guilty discussing them ad nauseum. We want masturbation that looks like work. "
mircea_popescu: its not that i suspect the holy grail is spirited there. i just don'
t grok what it does is all.
mircea_popescu: because i don'
t now, as i didn'
t in 2013, understand this.
mircea_popescu: it'd be nice if that functionality was available. it eminently is not. tough and who doesn'
t like it knows how to get in the wot and start crac kin.
mircea_popescu: but the reaosn they weren'
t is specifically that we knew that it's early.
ascii_field: which afaik is harmless to anyone who isn'
t a moron
BingoBoingo: Power rangers are claiming this wasn'
t introduced until 0.9
mircea_popescu: "I'm putting myself on the record (not that I haven'
t a dozen other times on this site):
mircea_popescu: until the septum ruptures you can'
t really spot the snorter. you really can'
t miss the crackhead.
punkman: well I couldn'
t tell you the difference between powder, crack and freebase
ascii_field: No, it isn'
t, or else they would be using both, wouldn'
t they? << i don'
t follow the logic
mircea_popescu: "Ask a 20 year crack addict when was the last time they used powder cocaine. Do they miss it? Are they in withdrawal? "But crack is cocaine." No, it isn'
t, or else they would be using both, wouldn'
t they? "But crack is more potent and addictive." Then why don'
t cocaine adicts move over to crack? "
mircea_popescu: those guys srsly don'
t get enough credit, everyone stole all their shit.
mircea_popescu: they understandably don'
t wanna be on the hook for every fucktard with a plane ticket.
ascii_field: ianal, but the implication is 'no jail if you come home, but don'
t expect supplies or rescue if you're in a bind, or good pr'
mike_c: i don'
t even think it'll matter much longer. html5 will present all the necessary security holes you need in plain old html
mircea_popescu: "Browsers without javascript aren'
t supported by Foswiki out of the box. We once decided to assume that nowadays everybody should have access to a sufficiantly standard browser that implements javascript. Of course this was different 15 years ago when we still had to deal with IE6 and the like. But as almost all vendors constantly move forward in web standards. So we then decided to strip off the burden of having to su
jurov: after some 10 years.. you don'
t want to know
shinohai: I don'
t doubt that a real FBI agent might say the same.
ascii_field: preferably smaller, cheaper, doesn'
t even need to see in all directions if you have 50 of them in the box.