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decimation: pete_dushenski: aren't you a fan of
the econtalk podcast?
mircea_popescu: decimation i never heard of anyone complain
that
their 16yo cocksucker costs money
to upkeep.
decimation: and of course it is politically impossible
to admit 'we are
too poor
to have nice roads'
decimation: the problem with a fancy interstate is
that it costs a shitton of $$$ for upkeep
mircea_popescu: had bush spent ALL
the stimulus on making internet connecxtions of 1tbps universally available, i wouldn't be here snubbing my nose at horowitz
pete_dushenski: they've used more concrete in
the past 3 years
than usa in
the past century
mircea_popescu: when it's fucking clear what
to spen
the money on, so clear even a govt could figure it out, keynesianism works.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah,
they were, back when
the interstates were built.
that's perhaps
the shiniest example opf "govt investment in slump" mantra.
mircea_popescu: (not for fucking, mind you. so give
them a work at home job where no woman can ever come and a way
to score nude
tumblrs and
that's
the new economic model)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: weren't
they a grand investment for
that generation?
pete_dushenski: which would be why average joe can't wait
to get a self-driving car
mircea_popescu: people don't want
to spend an hour driving,
they want
to spend
that hour derping on a dating app
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski notrly, because it's not really about
the gas. it's about
the inconvenience.
mircea_popescu: it's only expensive because we're really done with
them. otherwise,
they'd be a "great investment".
ben_vulpes: us road infrastructure is falling apart due
to expense of maintenance.
mircea_popescu: and of commutes and of
the right of "governments"
to decide land use.
mircea_popescu: and it's killed and dead and not coming back and everyone and everything will change
to get rid of cars, and of
the sprawl
mircea_popescu: well
that's one
thinmg, but specifically as
to
the car,
this entire car-and-zoning-laws-and-sprawl-and-commute model got killed by
the internet
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: you're right,
the identity crisis is
that of americans as a whole
mircea_popescu: merely disguises itself as "because X", like a domestic argument. in fact, it's becaue
there's going
to be a divorce.
mircea_popescu: it's because in
the change in
the future prospects of
the whole activity.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski but
the "idnetity crisis" is not because of
the change in car noise.
pete_dushenski: and
the engines are all
turbo because "fuel-efficiency"
pete_dushenski: the fake car noises are because
the cars are so well insulated now
mircea_popescu: look, it's dying, what do you want from it. cars are pretty fucking stupid.
they had an economic niche which made us forget
temporarily, but it's closed up.
mircea_popescu: "Among purists,
the
trickery has inspired an identity crisis and cut
to
the heart of American auto legend. "
ben_vulpes: i've always wanted
to crush some diamonds.
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 01:41:29; asciilifeform: speaking of diamonds (specifically of
the synthetic variety), one possible observation here - not concerning
the idiocy of
the wood
thing as such - is
that anyone demanding a specific 'colour' (as per
the 'monolith' essay) - i.e. provenance - of object, is begging
to be chumped
assbot: America’s best-selling cars and
trucks are built on lies:
The rise of fake engine noise -
The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1Ekyinh )
mircea_popescu: dude paul anka is fucking retarded. how
the fuck would a hatred of nosewoman be irrational ?
mircea_popescu: "Frank Sinatra had a
terrible
temper, as shown by his irrational hatred of Barbara Streisand"
ben_vulpes ponders
the notion of a self-leveling woman
ben_vulpes: kinda looks like
the self-leveling stuff
coderwill: what does la boca have
to do w/
the nisman situation?
ben_vulpes: the cars were at
the guggenheim in nyc
coderwill: just reading about
this nisman story, bizarre
mircea_popescu: eyah but you're basically assking someone in manhattan if
they saw whatever cars in astoria.
ben_vulpes: he did
the beijing olympics firework show iirc
ben_vulpes: well not
the static piece in
the middle of
the goog lol no
ben_vulpes: suspended a bunch of cars right down
the center of
the place with flourescent
tubes
to evoke a fireworks show
ben_vulpes: saw a scad of his stuff at
the guggenheim when i lived in nyc. rather fun.
mircea_popescu: dat dangling minipenis, a foot under
the all consuming hole...
mircea_popescu: i dun
think
there's anything more adorkably pathetic
than academics aiming for political power. sort-of like
the bichon frizee
trying
to mount a german shepherd in heat.
mircea_popescu: so apparently
this stolfi brazilian derp figures himself some sort of stragetist or something ?
mircea_popescu: It looks like he made his goal in life
to be
the most detestable person in
the internet. (Methinks he is still nowhere near
that rank,
though.) However he is a precious resource, as an expert bitcoiner who enjoys kicking some of
the most sacred cows in bitcoinland.
davout: as
the classical french wisdom goes: "on est
tous le connard de quelqu'un d'autre"
mircea_popescu: davout well geneally yes, but some voices in particular seem
to hate you personally.
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davout: fluffypony:
the saivann guy is obviously some sort of
topological equivalent of a feminist,
tries
to push irrelevant shit
to feel like he, in some way, matters
davout: seems
to me
that folks from /r/buttcoin are an order of magnitude less retarded
than
those in /r/bitcoin
davout: "If Bitcoiners could ever get decent adoption and max out
that 7
transactions per second
the fees wouldn't even have
to be
that bad. Just make every
transaction cost 0.006 BTC and
that's just $1.50.
That would be
the equivalent of
the current block reward. But
the problem is
they've all decided
that microtransactions while having an expensive Bitcoin is
the killer feature."
davout: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu: looks like /r/buttcoin folks are actually agreeing
decimation: I didn't realize
that
the Crimea was filled with
Tartars
assbot: Logged on 25-06-2014 15:27:40;
ThickAsThieves: "bitcoin.org's content is managed by Saïvann Carignan, who is somewhat associated with
the Foundation (though not an employee AFAIK), but
the bitcoin.org domain name is jointly owned by me, Sirius, and an anonymous person. We will
take action if bitcoin.org is being used inappropriately or
the development group does something crazy." ~Theymos
punkman: coderwill: iirc bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org are owned by some dude
that for some reason lets various derps use
them
coderwill: punkman: BF just pays a sponsorship fee
to help cover
the hosting costs, and
to support saivann helping maintain it and a few other projects on
there,
they don't own it
coderwill: punkman: i can understand
the foundation, but i wonder why
the website?
punkman: coderwill, nobody will want anything
to do with bitcoin.org or
the foundation, sooner or later
assbot: Add long
time duration HSTS as a requirement for wallets by saivann · Pull Request #700 · bitcoin/bitcoin.org · GitHub ... (
http://bit.ly/1yGUhkX )
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.
fluffypony: oh, and
the daemon is also
the
thing
that does / can do solo mining
fluffypony: even if
they're on separate computers and
talk over your LAN
to
the daemon
fluffypony: and
then you can run as many wallet clients as you want
fluffypony: relays blocks /
transactions, stores
the blockchain, etc.
fluffypony: the daemon maintains
the connection
to
the network
fluffypony: ben_vulpes:
that's precisely
the current Monero architecture