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mircea_popescu: for
that matter, cca 1890 a japanese invasion of
the entire west coast was regarded moderately likely and entirely feasible in principle.
mircea_popescu: nothing existed
there prior, or in
the words of sinatra (a man
the age of one's grandparents), "this place was sand before i came here and it'll be sand again before i'm done with you!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, people readily forget history. siegel had
to beg and steal new york money
to build, what essentially was,
the first building in
the desert.
mircea_popescu: i doubt
that claim, but it's certainly not impossible.
mircea_popescu: you realise mexico city is larger
than all
texas, right ?
mircea_popescu: it
took 50 years,
that could only be built because of
the previous 50. and so on.
mircea_popescu: you have
to understand in 1890 nobody wanted
to leave new york (where show biz lived)
to go in
tumbleweedland.
mircea_popescu: but with it, "that's california for you", something conceptually entrenched already in
the
times of mark
twain. on
the basis of which, hollywood, and shockley.
mircea_popescu: california minus
the gold rush, and
the resulting adaptaiton, would have been washington with a coastline.
mircea_popescu: (btw...
the reason silicon valley as a marketable product exists
today ?
that.)
mircea_popescu: so much wastage has never seen, not since
the great california gold rush at any rate.
mircea_popescu: "The "Bitcoin Foundation" poured an unforgiveable number of coins into
the market
to feed Gavin Andresen and his family…and for what? 3 years of development
that's just about
to get flushed down
the drain?
The appearance of relevance without any of
the hard work of
thinking and making
things work correctly? [...] Consider
the
tragedy wrought by an internet forum accidentally blessed with untold riches and weep."
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 02:32:39; mircea_popescu: including
the actual bitcoin foundation is
the correct move
there. mod6 ben_vulpes are in charge.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nothing hypocritical about it : if WE fork bitcoin,
then it's ok. if nobody claims
to do it, nobody gets quashed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1 because allowing
two ways
to do
things never killed anyone and 2 probably because i want
to see
the stuff. i suspect it's a derivative of
the general "fits in head" principle.
danielpbarron: "hypocrites!
they forked
the WoT but
they won't fork bitcoin!"
mircea_popescu: hopefully we'll get a way
to automate communication between gribble and assbot once nanotube gets around
to it.
mircea_popescu: (no you don't have
to redo
the history, it was copied over)
bitstein: Do I need
to re-rate everyone using assbot for
the asswot?
bitstein: Cool. I like
the upgrade with
the OTPs for every command.
bitstein: Still !up in a message
to assbot, right?
mircea_popescu: you know how
to voice yourself on
the new model bitstein ?
Nemesis3: mircea_popescu hey
thanks :) came mostly
to keep an eye on
the conversation here, I enjoy your website.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski you know
these log copies where you capitalize
the first letter in a line but not subsequent sentence leads nor 1st person pronouns is very odd looking.
mircea_popescu: "the nonsense we belive in is not really nonsense, which is why we can't hoild a conversation with random people. let's instead
talk of sports!"
mircea_popescu: let
them fucking come and worship instead of going around in circles like headless chickens pretending
the whole world's a chicken and someone severed its head.
mircea_popescu: “The most recent poll showed
that
the majority of Americans no longer believe
the conspiracy
theory
that a species emitting only 3% of
the world’s supply of a poor heat-trapping gas are magically cooling
the planet… I mean heating
the planet…. or wait, I mean causing
the weather
to change now.”
BingoBoingo: I'm adding "Giant Golden
Tiger driven by invisible slaves"
to
the wishlist.
trinque: I
took aikido for a while;
the
teacher always pointed out
that while you were using
their own movements against
them, you could for instance break
their neck here, dislocate shoulder with a push an inch
that way, etc
mircea_popescu: in other words,
there's a lot of value in ~actually being
the nightmare~, on
the side.
mircea_popescu: but yes,
that is unrelatedly
the winning strategy, and sure, it's working splendidly. in spite of sustained pretense of everyone
to you know, "who is mp".
trinque: yeah, I'm not qualified
to understand how
that was perceived internally
trinque: at which point
they attack
themselves (their country)
trinque: this seems a winning strategy, find
the
top, discover
their nightmares, convince
them
that you're it, you're everywhere, and
they're fucked
trinque: mircea_popescu: I remember you
talking about whether Stalins rust; I understand him
to have succumbed
to a great deal of paranoia about underlings coming after him
trinque: trying
to pull it into words... it would seem
to be a sign of institutional illness, autoimmune disorder
trinque: bin laden seemed
to do pretty well in
turning our system inward on itself
trinque: mircea_popescu: is
this
the classic paranoia
that
the underlings are all out
to get
the leadership, as manifested in
tech?
danielpbarron: made it
to 93225 and it seems
to have stopped without producing any errors in either debug.log or nohup.out
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm sure "they" lie, notwithstanding
that "they" doesn't even exist as such outside of
the sufferer's sufferances.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the steve dutch piece is funny because... "i lie" gets
transmorgrified into "they lie" in such a predictable fashion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "yes, as a matter of policy, in
the sense an addict's untimely death is a matter of his own policy"
mircea_popescu: trinque obviously it does not work in
the favour of
the bureaucracy. for
the simple reason
that
the incentives of
the
talented,
the smart and
the valuables never are nor ever could be alligned with socialism.
mircea_popescu: cazalla your pics put
the finger on
the point :
this is why we despise
them.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and
the notion
that it is, is purely a mirage created by
the hairball << bitcoin is certainly simple.
trinque: as you point out,
the
things
that really matter use crypto
that (afaik) works
trinque: seems
to rule out what I said
too.
That
they might have underlings use weakened crypto provides
them greater control over
them, and eh, if
they get intercepted/caught/etc
they were expendable in
the first place.
trinque: damn,
that makes a great deal of sense.
trinque: asciilifeform: I
think I see your point;
the answer is not "yes, oops" but "Yes as a matter of policy."
trinque: put more clearly, does
the
thing committing industrial-scale corruption of software provide
the rest of govt a reliable map of which
things are unsafe
to use. I'd
think not
trinque: asciilifeform: at least one might hope
that even
they've lost
track of which pieces of
tech
they've weakened over
the years, such
that
they've weakened
themselves as well
ben_vulpes: side note:
that's
the informal name for
the infrastructure provisioning
tool i wrote for internal use
cazalla: oh, garza never ceases
to provide
the lulz.. his $20 honour program was
to go live
today.. posts
this a few days back
https://i.imgur.com/1RjXbe4.png and now
the day of launch..
http://blog.paybase.com/status-of-honor-program/ " As previously reported, we are reviewing with counsel
the features of
the Honors Program and what if any aspects of
the program may require regulatory approval. We intend
to proceed based upon advise of counsel and
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 19:52:45; asciilifeform:
the solution
to
turdlangs is,
to crib from clinton era anti-dope slogan, 'be smart - don't start'
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 19:52:18; asciilifeform: and if interests of vendor conflict with yours in any way,
the conflict will be subtly and perfidiously resolved in favour of vendor
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 19:51:38; asciilifeform: 'golang' is in
the same league as apple's 'darwin' unix kernel. a whole zoological kingdom of pseudo-open, where, yes,
theoretically you can read source, but it is not -for you-
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: have some lulz << lol check out all
the disinterested forum experts. ognasty, "Pool your bitcoins with others. Vote on solutions using
the Bitcoin blockchain. " all sorts of laudable.
mircea_popescu: ri really shouldhave all
the magic numbers in a config file.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: "why?" <<
this
thing where you embrace extend and run into
the wall a reasonable idea is for
teh dogs.