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mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, what remains on the other head of this two-headed economy besides driving to-and-from the Walmart? Pornography? The tattoo industry? Meth and narcotics? Prostitution? Professional sports on the flat screen? Kim and Kanye? Grand theft auto? Do you really think Donald Trump can fix this?"
<< prostitution.
davout: 'Siri has not informed them about this'
<<< kek
mircea_popescu: "Link your 21 box to your Twitter account, and any paywall website lets you read anything you want without popups, ads, or subscriptions."
<< except 90% of all paywall usage in bitcoin is to read trilema. which isn't in on this plan.
punkman: mircea_popescu:
https://i.imgur.com/pe5i8Mb.jpg << you'd think the us would catch up with the arab world in terms of civilisation already and introduce the water jets.
<< "if you can't afford a shitspoon, public shitspoon will be provided"
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 16:54:58; ascii_field: 'galaxy, star, planet, moon, comet'
<< glorious. they retired the naval org chart (before that, prior to mr mold selling out to usg, it was feudal titles of nobility - as in my former 'dukedom')
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 16:52:26; ascii_field: to recognize the standard ++dec.'
<< ahahahahaha.
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2015 16:49:58; ascii_field: '%g is the application system, currently %gall (1300 lines) %gall is half process table and half systemd, sort of.'
<< satan preserve us.
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> I see that point; in this case I think it reflects the actual twisted beliefs of the population
<< in all cases. that's how witchhunts work, and why they exist.
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> maybe the cops just enjoy their fap material young.
<< everybody does. prime fuckmeat = nude teen chained to the wall.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> but in the willingness to pluck out the exceptional and hand'em over to apprentice under masters.
<< kinda like outcast behaviour.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: [...] it isn't. but it doesn't help that my translation efforts are ~starting~ with post-phd-level writings THAT DON'T EVEN HAVE ACCENTS
<< he has a point there lol.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> it would be a devastating - if expensive - weapon, with armour being of little to no use - provided that you could find a way to avoid incinerating own barrel.
<< Probably ought to be dropped
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform except they're not low tech at all. heck, fuel bombs are today state of the art even.
<< Only because enviro-frauds keep nuclear shaming
mircea_popescu: "the amount of engineering effort that went into these machines far outweighs what you might get in a modern computer, and thats something i dont think the world will ever see again"
<< he's wrong, fwiw. the amount of competent work that went into art as the empire got fucked in the ass exceeded the amount before.
mircea_popescu: " there was also a demand for systems that could be easily introspected, debugged, and changed by individual engineers, which was something mainframes couldnt easily do as one mistake by one engineer could bring down a system serving dozens"
<<< since we're doing the entire underappreciated point thing.
BingoBoingo:
<phf> for effective flame thrower you really want a gelling agent
<< polystyrene
mircea_popescu:
<mircea_popescu> those fuckers. NOBODY FUCKING QUIERES.
BingoBoingo:
<punkman> why don't they have a piss-funnel for the driver? fill it up during the 8 hours of commuting.
<< Biologic piss isn't good enough. Need special monsanto pure piss.
lobbes: 'I'm going to try this. I've been pooping in the shower for years...'
<< lmao. I don't envy the plumber that finally gets called to snake that drain
ascii_field: 'Yes, you can indeed make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. However, you would do so not by directly selling bitcoin, but by selling digital goods for bitcoin. That is, you are not going to get rich by immediately selling the bitcoin mined by the device for offline currency, but you can potentially do very well by selling digital goods and services to others for their bitcoin. '
<< hilarious. worth a read, for the lulz
thestringpuller: ascii_field: take compulsory remote updates from usg ?
<< srsly. it's backed by Cisco aka Spookware Incorporated.
BingoBoingo:
<HeySteve> BingoBoingo, you're going to make Gavin and Mike cry with articles like that
<< Thank you
lobbes: jurov throws ein kaiser mit schinke
<< kein Käse?
ascii_field: 'galaxy, star, planet, moon, comet'
<< glorious. they retired the naval org chart (before that, prior to mr mold selling out to usg, it was feudal titles of nobility - as in my former 'dukedom')
☟︎ ascii_field: to recognize the standard ++dec.'
<< ahahahahaha.
☟︎ ascii_field: 'With this mechanism, Urbit can update a distributed system (such as our own :talk network), upgrading both applications and protocols, silently without user intervention or notification. '
<< itching to try this yet ?
ascii_field: '%g is the application system, currently %gall (1300 lines) %gall is half process table and half systemd, sort of.'
<< satan preserve us.
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