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mircea_popescu: "we wouldn't feed
the shit you eat
to fucking wild hogs already!"
mircea_popescu: "Never feed animals. Feeding wildlife damages
their health, alters natural behaviors, and exposes
them
to predators and other dangers."
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: it's a pretty wacky
thing
ben_vulpes: once upon a
time you could bring a
truck-mounted m16
mircea_popescu: do you understand
the breathtakingly astounding achievement
to get a bunch of
teenaged idiots on drugs
think "it's not in
the spirit" ?>
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> b) not really in
the spirit of
the party <<<
THIS.
ben_vulpes: ever heard of
the "drive by shooting gallery"?
ben_vulpes: i'd suggest you consider
the immense feat of reigning in
the firearm use.
ben_vulpes: b) not really in
the spirit of
the party - messy, dangerous
to bystanders
mircea_popescu: no no, listen, i mean my words. fireworks.
that
the stuff available isn't fireworks,
that's fine. still social engineering
ben_vulpes: maybe an eye or a finger here or
there.
ben_vulpes: are you familiar with
the "leave no
trace" paradigm?
mircea_popescu: if
they didn't
there'd be 3-5% casualty rates each year
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck do
they manage
to keep fireworks off
the grounds ?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> " it's amazing
the mortality rate's
that low" << im still wondering at
the following social engineering feat :
mircea_popescu: well, if something holds itself
to be a power, it'd really have
to be independent, n'est pas ?
mircea_popescu: lizard empire very large, very porous, generally i get
the good bits before
they fully propagated even.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm curious what
the gossipd "counter" strategy is going
to be. 've not had
the pleasure of finding anything yet.
mircea_popescu: apparently in
this case shit burial wasn't deemd good enough.
ben_vulpes: "it's a
tragedy!" "no,
there are 80K drug-addled party monsters running around in
the desert around giant machines built with nary much of a care for safety. it's amazing
the mortality rate's
that low"
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ben_vulpes: whoa reddit actually deleted
the missile crisis
thread?
thestringpuller: "Unless
that's what you want, who am I
to
tell you how
to live your life."
mircea_popescu: there is going
to be a
transfer of power, and
the only
thing demuring can possibly accomplish is make it bloody. which i don't mind, because old people are
too old as it is. even
them out a little.
mircea_popescu: twitter, reddit and
the rest of
the social media crapolade aren't powerful enough.
they work, for as long as
they suck my cock. otherwise...
they're about as useful as homework, who
the fuck wants
to bother
themselves in a playpen designed by adults for "safety".
mircea_popescu: anyway.
there IS going
to be a
transfer of power, and all
the bs "let's ban mp on
twitter because he stands for priviledge and against our impotent, nonsensical brand of socialism", "let's delete reddit articles because
they humiliate our houseboys" etc won't do jack shit.
hanbot: well, ought
to be for someone more alert
than i
hanbot: aha, i see.
those are some highly meaningful quotation marks, around "life"
then.
mircea_popescu: Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want
to do a
thing like
that? I chose not
to choose life."
mircea_popescu: it on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who
the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on
that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at
the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more
than an embarrassment
to
the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned
to replace yourselves.
mircea_popescu: hanbot
the monologue in question is, "Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big
television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical
tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a
three-piece su
hanbot: mircea_popescu perhaps i'm reading poorly, but not sure i grok
the foreboding re choosing life: "But if you choose "life", remember one important point from Shrem's misadventure :" --if
the dead are
the old reptiles a la newhouse, clinging
to relevancy, wouldn't choosing life be
the sane, independent choice?
thestringpuller: "Mircea got banned from
twitter because he was
threatening
to kill Andreas Antonopoulos" << LOL
thestringpuller: i guess his point was
too many idiots in one place means statistically someone is bound
to do something stupid
thestringpuller: an old high school buddy of mine once said
to me, "Some of
the worst
things in history have occurred when
too many are in one place at once"
mircea_popescu: anyway, by
the
time
they're resorting
to such
things,
they're clearly desperate.
the matter must be pressed relentlessly.
mircea_popescu: the one
that's still
there, andwhich somehow displays
thew comments made on
the other one, never had more
than a few votes
mircea_popescu: the one
that's missing had 100s of votes and like 300 comments
mircea_popescu: no, see.
there were
two reddit submissions, exact same
title.
mircea_popescu: read mah piece on
the
topic, write your own
take, see what qntra editorial board policy is
to react
to censorship etc.
mircea_popescu: well hey, you're
the one
that got censured by reddit right ?
assbot: "These fools have been handed a
technology so clever, so disruptive and revolutionary,
that
the rulers of
the world would have
to fully unmask
themselves as ruthless
tyrants in order
to suppress it, — or give up
their
thrones on
their own free will — if it were used correctly,
that is." pe
Trile ... (
http://bit.ly/1wb65X4 )
thestringpuller: blacklisting web sites is eerily familiar
to burning books
davout: "you know
this voice shortage
turns out
to be kinda useful" <<< remove mircea_popescu's +v when log.bitcoin-assets.com starts
to be short on disk space :D
mircea_popescu: you know
this voice shortage
turns out
to be kinda useful.
thanks for
teh love!
thestringpuller: I don't even
tweet but I know shits going down when you do mention on me.
thestringpuller: danielpbarron all my
twitter notifications come from you. weird how it kinda does what it's supposed
to.
kakobrekla: should have got doge, doze
trailing zeros make for
that feeling.
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't be able
to read all
that stuff, as far as reddit's concerned.
mircea_popescu: and
the db just moved all
the comments
to
the other, identically named, article.
mircea_popescu: but
there existed another insertion, same article, by a diff person
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah, see, bob allison had put
the
thing in
too,
thestringpuller: all
the comments are still
there and stuff. And i'm sure bob alison still has his karma
mircea_popescu: "reddit will actually delete
the vote count and comment count of popular
threads if subversive."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, how's
that for "unmask itself" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno why
they persist in
thinking
that it actually matters how it LOOKS, but hey.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: never bought
that line, worked on assumption if it's plastic, it is shit regardless of label << a wise man is you.
mircea_popescu: yes, he was. do you know who else is just as stupid ? oh... everyone in america ?
the smartest lawyers and
the smartest businessmen, graduating at
the absolute
top of
the absolute best classes in
the absolute best universities ?
mircea_popescu: then people say
that pirate roberts character was stupid.
mircea_popescu: that's what
they say, and
they say it over plaintext channels held by
their enemy.
mircea_popescu: these are, it should be noted,
the ivy league's best and brigtest
mircea_popescu: "Canellas wrote
to defendant Warren, “Great job dude. We kicked ass!
Time
to get paid.” About
ten minutes later, defendant Warren responded, “Hey man, I don’t know where you come up with some of
this stuff, but you saved
the day. It’s been a rough year but it’s been damn good. Nice work dude. Let’s get paid!” Canellas and defendant Warren
then left
the office
to enjoy New Year’s Eve."
mircea_popescu: heh at
that link. "replace bisphenol-a with bisphenol-s. be surprised
that s stands for shittier."
mircea_popescu: bitcoin holders may put up more rigs
to protect hteir holdings, and
they may or may not also be miners, but
that's coincidental.
mircea_popescu: seriously and why miners actually aren't given
that much of a voice in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash: you'd essentially have a narrow window where you could have an easier
time manipulating
things, but
the
technicals of mining and others miners would catch up. << "other mienrs will catch up" is so much nonsense. other miners are
turning down
their rigs as it is with
the price
today. if diff suddenly jumped 100%, "other miners" will give up and go home. which is why
the other miners are not
to be
taken
too
mircea_popescu: that's why
the article says
the only stable solution is once 50%+ of
the earth available energy is used
to mine.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter WHAT
the other, larger altcoin is. even if it is "nothing at all" : for as long as most miners are mining "nothing at all"
then
the altcoin Bitcoin is in danger of being stomped.
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why
there is no such
thing as "cryptocurrencies" pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1IGVwSi )
mircea_popescu: yeah,
there's a 15-25% ish chance by now
they actually did and it's just being noised out.
tough chance.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash:so watch for a noticeable permanenent 40 petahash drop over
the next few difffchanges << it's pretty noticeable
they DIDN'T have 40 ph.
assbot: In
this moment of loss I would like
to stand in solidarity with my people by saying "Je suis Karpeles". : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/17DLBSc )
mircea_popescu: just waiting for kako
to put finishes
touches on assbot wot.
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