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BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No,
the rest of you can divorce if you want.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sure, but
that way
there's less yelling at people.
undata: quick update before I dive into bezzeland biz, I bought deedbot.org for deed bundles, and
the
thing's
two cron jobs and some code cleanup from being ready
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you want advice,
the best advice is, use curl
to pull up a shiotton of feeds, create a script
that greps it by keywords with weight, create another
that searches for rare words, and sort
the whole
thing in
that order.
davout: i should make a bot
that moderates randomly so i get paid from
the forum chest until
they notice XD
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I'm prolly going
to be stuck
there because of
this media startup and a need
to follow RSS for dummies
davout: kakobrekla: i got some other french dude mod, so i can just pop in
there from
time
to
time and nuke
the occasional noobie
mircea_popescu: but a) it doesn't work in english and b) it doesn't work
this decade.
Pierre_Rochard: like any bad habit, you hit rock bottom at some point and rethink
tings
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now, in honesty,
there WAS a
time, in 2010, when pretty much all
the good
tail in romania was
there.
mircea_popescu: this is really stupid central and wtf am i doing
there!
mircea_popescu: once
they decided i killed poor anton (god rest his stupid, scammy soul), i discovered... whoa.
mircea_popescu: davout you know, here's
the
thing with
twitter : back when i had an account, i kept
thinking all sorts of in retrospect bizarre nonsensical, fatlogic-y rationalisations for why i'm spending
time
there.
chetty: indeed, but
the floods a comin for sure
mircea_popescu: kinda like
trying
to guess what parts will stay dry after a flood. hard job.
mircea_popescu: chetty yeah but in fdr's
time
the situation was, weak govenrment and strong population.
today it's exactly
the opposite.
mircea_popescu: chetty ironically ppl like danielpbarron are doing fine. i dunno
that one's religious belief is an impediment. course
this may really be a religion vs
theology
thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: "collectible" gold coins instead of... "Fuck you
this is gold" scam.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah it smelled funny
that bit but i never really looked into it.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
To an extent. His relationship with particular gold vendors
though apes Keiser's relationship with Aurora coin
though.
The "pay premium for particular coins" sort of scam
chetty: yeah if he could get off
the god wagon he would make a lot of sense actually
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wasn't
this
the guy
that did a lot of gold and guns advertising, and pretty much sounds like a b-a alumni ?
chetty: yes
the blaze radio posts podcasts of all
their shows
BingoBoingo: chetty: Lizard Hitler doesn't need him
to say anything stupid on Bitcoin. Other people will
tell his audience stupid
things and reasonable
things abot Bitcoin might seem sstupid
to other uninitiated people via naive association with him.
mircea_popescu: punkman right ? it's just... dude we did so very much
to fuck up africa already
punkman: mircea_popescu: driving adoption in africa and central asia, god help you. < imagining asian version of
tips from husband now, scary
chetty: so on
this mornings glenn beck show he went on at some length about how people would be
turning
to bitcoin as a way
to protect idenity from all
the hacking, he has big audience ..and he didnt say anything
that was actually stuipd, for a change
assbot: Central banks have no more control over
their economies
than gnats have over elephants. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1Cj6Q72 )
mircea_popescu: and
this only speaks
to whitey, people who have somehow fallen
through
the cracks of a lentghy history of literacy.
mircea_popescu: having people who aren't really intellectually capable
to handle email involved in bitcoin ? why ? "because
they're people
too" ? no,
they're not people
too.
they're cattle
too.
mircea_popescu: ironically, in spite of pierce's much more factually sensible
theory, somehow saussure's seems more useful in practice.
mircea_popescu: these are
terms of art, you go read up on language
theoree :)
thestringpuller: given
to a business
that burns it all in
the form of salaries
mircea_popescu: only if
the something concrete like say a house is also something abstract like
the meaning of a house.
mircea_popescu: yeah. but
the something in question chiefly is "social and economic preeminence"
thestringpuller: yea. not many people are going
to "front"
the pacific islanders dreams with drugs, sex and rock & roll in
the same way US-ians do with Sillycon Valley
mircea_popescu: and when it pops, it will be JUST AS destructive
to economy & society, according
to how close
to
the absolute maximum it got.
mircea_popescu: in principle, some pacific islanders with
their six acres of unarable land and fifty coconuts can make a bubble just as well as new york can.
mircea_popescu: bubbles are built not out of money but out of dreams, hopes and assorted verbiage. which is why money is such an approximative approach
to attack
them.
assbot: Man 'sold' Facebook IPO shares, gets 46 months in
the federal slammer | VentureBeat | Business | by Daniel
Terdiman ... (
http://bit.ly/1Cj3xge )
mircea_popescu: moreover,
there's a maximal value of a bubble, when it pops.
this is driven by
the headcount and so forth, nothing else.
thestringpuller: this is good point,
the idiots will be left holding
the bag.
thestringpuller: if
that strategy succeeds,
the bubble
that is facebook maybe unprecedented upon collapse.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yes, actually, in a backwards sort of way it's exactly
that. google can't afford
to have zuck pretend like oh, "we're better
than google". so if he
tries
they can go "heh, we're fb plus other
things".
thestringpuller: maybe
the entire point of G+ is
to prove Facebook isn't worth anything?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well santa clause is allowed
to BNE on
the 25th me
thoughts
mircea_popescu: because
that's how proof works :
that you didn't break into any houses all
through
the day of
the 29th doesn't help you in court.
that you did on
the 25th, sinks you.
mircea_popescu: that watsapp no users claimed as however many seemed
to be worth something when fb paid for
them is no support of
the
theory.
that g+ isn't worth anything IS counterproof.
mircea_popescu: if
there's a better example as
to why
the "grow big fast" so-called strategy doiesn't work, here it is. google's own g+ is not worth naything in spite of 3bn users.
mircea_popescu: decimation: punkman:
that's 2-3 billion signups <<< and yet, in spite of
that claim (probably unsubstantiated, as all of
these, but certainly more defensible in VC
terms
than anyone else's), g+ isn't worht anything.
mircea_popescu: the fact
that !unrate !rate cycle wipes it, but simple !rate update doesn't is actually
the best of both worlds.
kakobrekla: just
thought date is worth something and shouldnt be destroyed
kakobrekla: [note] => I was hesitant
to replace a 2011 rating before, however : Sturles is and has since
the beginning been a pillar of
the community.
Apocalyptic: gribble just overwrites
the rating date everytime
kakobrekla: idk if gribble works
that way but iirc i made
that call here
kakobrekla: actually, here is
the
thing. if you just !rate over existing rating,
the old date should stay. if you !unrate and !rate, it will put up a new one.
assbot: Successfully updated
the rating for sturles from 2
to 4 with note: I was hesitant
to replace a 2011 rating before, however : Sturles is and has since
the beginning been a pillar of
the community.
mircea_popescu: !rate sturles 4 I was hesitant
to replace a 2011 rating before, however : Sturles is and has since
the beginning been a pillar of
the community.
assbot: You rated user sturles on 29-Oct-2011, with a rating of 2, and supplied
these additional notes: coupla deals over pp.
jurov: thestringpuller
the conscious mind needs
to be
there
to say what's next. many people struggled with it
kakobrekla: well
the machine says "no hdd found" and he is sure
there were present before.
thestringpuller: jurov: yes. when it all becomes fluid like water I guess
the conscious mind is not really present?
jurov: imo only
the latter helps
to focus appreciably
lobbes: thestringpuller davout: yes, and I would agree
that I have reached
this 'realization' more
than once
thestringpuller: lobbes: re: ignorance <<
The first step is admitting
to knowing nothing.
thestringpuller: like if you do a repetitive
task
that require repetition, it may also require focus
BingoBoingo: lobbes: Well Maybe
there's a hazard. It isn't ideal, but I don't know of a great version of bitcoin yet.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 23:07:34; kakobrekla: i guess misconception add up over
the years
thestringpuller: jurov:
the interesting facet of
that kind of memory "working memory", is it requires some effort of concentration
to operate
jurov: but on other side, we were supposed
to learn choreography and i was
too lazy
to force myself
to remember it whole properly
lobbes: I remember reading something a bit ago
that hit home; a lot of people make
the mistake of 'reasoning from
their own mind' without really checking external sources of information. Which is deadly if you are ignorant such as myself