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mircea_popescu: well, "the west" in
the sense of, "west of ozarks" are people who live in states bordered by straight lines.
decimation: putin's landgrab of crimea has a great deal of historical and cultural importance, of which
the west is almost completely ignorant
mircea_popescu: you could in fact pretend like wait, "give russia back
to
the
tatars"
thestringpuller: what happens when all
these VC fueled comapnies fail? Do we just go in an plunder
them and shit?
decimation: yeah I knew
tartars/turkic peoples were scattered around
the middle and eastern parts of asiatic ru, but I didn't realize
they had
taken up around Sevastopol
mircea_popescu: but
this because of what /r/ is, not because of what bitcoin is.
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that you can't be smarter
than Y, but you also can't be stupider
than Y, and so
the average will always be over Y which is not an average /r/bitcoin looks likely
to reach.
mircea_popescu: one group is motivated by greed, which brings all
the idiots out of
the woodwork.
the other group is motivated by broken ideology, which HAS a barrier
to entry, because you can't adhere
to an ideology and act on
that basis if you're arbitrarily stupid.
mircea_popescu: davout: seems
to me
that folks from /r/buttcoin are an order of magnitude less retarded
than
those in /r/bitcoin <<
this is
true.
mircea_popescu: decimation: I didn't realize
that
the Crimea was filled with
Tartars << golden horde sez nothing
to you ?
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mircea_popescu: coderwill: I was following a conversation on GitHub for Bitcoin.org, and found it interesting
that Circle has explicitly requested
to be removed from
the site because it
targets a different demographic from what
they are searching for. << yeah., circle is looking for suckers / idiots / people who refuse
to
think.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: ben_vulpes:
that's precisely
the current Monero architecture << heh. apparently sanity is not a luxury product.
mircea_popescu: and he's going
to
try an' broadcast a btc
txn from down
there.
mircea_popescu: assbot:
Tinder Makes Its First Match in Antarctica --
The Cut << speaking oif which :
the brave mthreat amongst us is going on a south pole expedition like next week
mircea_popescu: hm.... i never knew an "artisan"
that works wood by
the
truckload ?
this is akin
to someone claiming
to be dali explaining how he gets a
truckload of paint a week...'
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i suspect smoothie from
the forums is kinda stupid << generally known as such. his behaviour
throughout was,
to quote hanbot "nothing short of bizarre"
decimation: this robert moses guy singlehandedly paved over many minority communities all around
the northeast
mircea_popescu: well yes. politics doesn't work, we know
that going in.
decimation: mircea_popescu: although in
this particular case,
the neighborhoods were saved and
they ended up full of broken families anyway
mircea_popescu: decimation sure, but on
the other hand
the job of politics is
to avoid placing
the
table on
the
toes.
nubbins`: "Professional carpenters never, ever, EVER smoke in
the shop. It's an incredible fire hazard as well as a personal danger since stimulants can increase
the risk of slippage on a power
tool. My father was an avid chain smoker and would never allow
tobacco in his work area."
decimation: the problem is
that in democracy, it's really easy
to kill off projects, so nothing is built
mircea_popescu: decimation i mean, if
the entire objection
to
the mores of
the black ghetto is
that men don't live with
the women
they impregnate, and
then you go demolish
the one place for 500 miles where
they actually do...
thestringpuller: nubbins`:
this saga reminds me of some
trailer park boys shit.
ben_vulpes: perhaps better would be a
thing
that connects
to
the network, slurps out unconfirmed
transactions and poops
that back out as
the mining input...
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah I
think you have a good point
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i guess not in
the spirit of modular design.
mircea_popescu: not as
to racism in any sense, but as
to why it's a bad idea
mircea_popescu: decimation you know i can actually see
that argument ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
that's a great way
to end up in 20 years surrounded by junk
nubbins`: i probably would actually pay upwards of $100 for
that piece, as-is.
mircea_popescu: "To most,
the fact
that Lila called Mitch a hero for killing himself is strange. "
decimation: another obstacle, like a hill
to be leveled or a valley
to be bridged.”"
decimation: re: baltimore: www.prrac.org/pdf/mohl.pdf "Over
the next few years, RAM continued
to protest
the "victimization" of black communities in
the path of
the interstate, which purposefully seemed designed
to
take "the heart out of one of
the most stable communities in Baltimore." Facing
the removal of 10,000 blacks who lived in
the path of
the east-west expressway, RAM activists challenged
the highway engineers who “view people as just
mircea_popescu: "Preference will be given
to
those who provide video of
them damaging
the finished piece with a dremel
tool." lol ok
ben_vulpes: entirely unrelated, it strikes me
that a full node should probably provide "getwork"
type commands for miners
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I can submit writeup if deemed worthy otherwise It'll stay in
the vim buffer
mircea_popescu: i recall
this grandiose commie romanian cinema
thing, where "so what do we do ?! " "well... he can jump on some ears of corn" "but
the camera will pick
them up". pause. "not if you cover
them in a brick painted sheet"
nubbins`: then an unrelated scuffle on
the bridge led
to a man being
thrown off, landing on me and killing me
nubbins`: completely by accident, no way
to remove it. we deemed it fitting and didn't re-shoot.
nubbins`: CONTRAGULATIONS in glorious chunky white vhs-c lettering superimposed on
the bottom
nubbins`: frame changes
to view from bottom of bridge
nubbins`: reminds me of
the
time i filmed my death & had it played for my school lit class while i
took
the final week off
thestringpuller: nubbins`: I guess
their mommy's
told
them playing with
their weewee is bad.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you should fish out
the shows
tho,
they're great. derp has
the camera filming in demo mode
mircea_popescu: in his defense,
this later one was
the saner of
the bunch
mircea_popescu: was also one of
the guys involved in "banker cartel" pirate bs.
thestringpuller: usually BB
tells me if subject matter is "worthy" or not of qntra
thestringpuller: I was gonna do some weekend snippet posts
to help lighten
the load.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> because usg is
too stupid
to move
to somewhere cheaper <>< nah, not how it works. wherever it moves,
the bedbugs move
there
too. it won't stay cheaper.
mircea_popescu: of course
the lord's slave mistress is what passes for upper class among
the slaves. nevertheless,
the actual upper class regards
the favored equal
to
the common slave.
decimation: because usg is
too stupid
to move
to somewhere cheaper
decimation: I suspect wash dc is one of
the few cities with a major upper class commuting culture
decimation: in fact,
the sitting senator for maryland, mikulski, was personally involved in leading
the riot
to stop
the connection of I-70
to downtown
mircea_popescu: i've seen pics
these days. half as full, everyone on gadget.
mircea_popescu: boston actually had excellent rail system. perhaps
the best in
the us.
decimation: around
the same
time, passenger rail went
tits up, so
there's little choice except shitty driving
decimation: mircea_popescu: actually much of
the worst road 'infrastructure' in
the northeast are in cities where people stopped highways from being built
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well you should have seen
town meetings in
the 60s. "FIFTY LANES WE MUST HAS! EACH WAY!"
thestringpuller: After reading all of MPOE-PR's post, I have realized MP has done
the greatest public service
to
this community.
thestringpuller: I nominate mircea_popescu for
the bitcoin public service award!
mircea_popescu: who here is on an economy internet package ? everyone just "give me
the fattest pipe you got" "oh only
that ? INTRODUCE LARGER ONES!"
mircea_popescu: we would, of course. so what
the driveway cost would not be a
topic of conversation.
mircea_popescu: what if we had
to phisically drive
to vegas, like kennedy HAD
TO in
the 50s ?
mircea_popescu: we meet irl once a year, and even
that's extravagant for like half
the people.
decimation: mmorpgs and other like games probably 'employ' much 'excess' capacity in
the us
mircea_popescu: "it's certainly uncontaminated by any cheese",
to quote cleese.
mircea_popescu: work and pleasure. solved, and much safer
than actually going
there.
mircea_popescu: decimation no. "working at home" , "jacking off
to porn and looking at sights on pinterest"
decimation: 'other side' being more or less 'private'
transport and land use planning?
mircea_popescu: decimation all of
that used
to not matter when one considered on
the other side
the even greater expenses of
the available alternatives.
decimation: "But, when you sum
these
things up in
terms of what consumers spend in
terms of getting
to work, various pleasure
trips and non-work
trips, and
then you look at what shippers spend on shipping freight and so on and so forth, and
then what
the government spends building infrastructure, we're
talking shares of GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
that approach
the amount
that we are spending on health care. ... And
that's just out of pocket