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adlai: but
they can work fairly well for storing it
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform
to
the extent
that
the vast majority fall into one of
those
two camps, maybe
that'd be
the defective element
mod6: No problem.
Thank /you/ for putting
that
together. :]
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pete_dushenski: maybe in
the sense
that brains aren't rational computers of ev ?
PinkPosixPXE: 17:31 #bitcoin-assets: <+ben_vulpes> PinkPosixPXE's downright neat <<<
Thanks! You are awesome as well, and
thank you for
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time :)
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adlai: I doubt people would be proud of such kickbacks, but shame doesn't stop people from peddling shit from carts in malls all over
the world...
this is just a few steps further, a few degrees further on
the frog-boiling scale
mircea_popescu: "tell your friends about budweiser's greatness in narrative form for a chance
to win a can of beer"
mircea_popescu: adlai anyway, it's bnot going
to be run as an actual market, because cattle. so it will be run as a star market.
adlai: they "pay"
them by letting
them associate with
the brande
nubbins`: was lacoste's inevitable endgame paying people
to wear shirts with little alligators?
adlai: we've got quite a bit of escalation
to go in
this arms race
adlai: fb's "Promoted Stories" are but a step
towarsd
the inevitable endgame: kickbacks for product placement in casual conversation
ben_vulpes: re qntra advertising: advertising is downright wacky.
the numbers say "don't do it" and yet people are constantly doing it.
adlai: !s
TSLA from:adlai
pete_dushenski: right. just a new update and all
that goodness is out
the window or what?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lulzy
the confused reaction of a social media dude
taken out of
the eco chamber.
pete_dushenski: and after seeing what it's done
to
the rest of
the world,
they kinda have
to strike
nubbins`: wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
that anyone can edit, says 9-35%
pete_dushenski: so argentina has never in its long history had an income
tax eh?
mircea_popescu: the arabs have an equivalent of
the serenissima
tax
tho
mircea_popescu: argentines are striking against
the INTRODUCTION of income
tax.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: decimation show me a country with no income
tax
that's not in affrica <<< easy,
that.
mircea_popescu: cazalla:
there is
talk of raising it due
to budget shortfalls despite
the government
that brough it in promising
the legislation would never allow for such a
thing
to occur <<
typical of ALL
TAXES EVER
mats_cd03: seems
two days ago musk announced
tesla "will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants
to use our
technology."
mircea_popescu: Headlines
Tesla Stock
To Lift Off After Battery Rechargeat Forbes(Mon 1:05AM EST) Demand For
Tesla Is Not
The Problem, Switching
The World
To Electric Cars Isat Forbes(Sun, Nov 30)
TeslaInvestor's Business Daily(Fri, Nov 28) NVIDIA wants
to increase its presence in big data
through
TeslaMarket Realist(Fri, Nov 28)
Tesla Is On
The Right
Track
To Doubleat Forbes(Fri, Nov 28)
jurov: dunno if
there's bip32/trezor support in any noobish standalone client.. last i checked electrum was under development
jurov: mytrezor.com under linux got broken so i filed it under "fuck
that"
assbot: Logged on 30-11-2014 20:23:56; nubbins`: but FYI, i'm negotiating a price with a buyer now for my genesis block newspaper (the
times jan 3 2009)
adlai slinks off
to splash about in
the depthless swamp of website construction
mircea_popescu: very much like bitcoin stuff,
there's a 7-10 space where
the
thing's useful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, other users of 'opera' - which one do you use?
the 1990s close-source
turd? or
the 'new, impr0v3d' idiocy
that uses 'webkit' (chrome) rendering engine ? <<<
they only moved
to webkit last year, version 15 or something. afaik
the last usable versions are 10 something.
adlai: math is more of a
thing
than most other
things
adlai: math is
totally a
thing!
adlai: all
this
talk is silly,
though.
the simple answer is
to study math, and
the real problem is lazyness, rack of dishiprin, etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
the 'do-ocracy' does what it does best: does. << haha buncha progres.
mircea_popescu: adlai go read say 1700s
treatises on music for a while. either french, italian or german, whatever you speak.
adlai has been
thinking a lot lately about generative music
mircea_popescu: no fancier
than dung, at any rate, and
the results of
the same biology.
mircea_popescu: has nothing
to do with fancy. contrary
to what
the uncultured imagine,
there's nothing fancy about
the products of
the spirit.
adlai: and
the second level -
this is a song about a lawnmower who gets pushed
to do fancier
things, but he just likes pushing a lawnmower around
adlai: this is an answer on several levels... music plays a rather large role in my life, although
the ratio of consumption/production has been
too high lately;
jurov: asciilifeform's argument fits better when it's about wielding
the sword, not forging it
adlai: well, any advice on how
to pick a field is welcome. picture a highschool dropout with centipede's dilemma about where
to start fixing his ignorance
mircea_popescu: no it doesn't. charlemagne wasn't a blacksmith, and a
thousand years later
the orleans
that WAS a blacksmith made a shitty king
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
the beautifully dark cream-your-pants future of 'shall be delivered' is not attainable until folks learn
to remember serious keys (yes, remember. with head.) <<
this is like saying
the frankish empire has
to wait for people who can make swords. by hand!
adlai: seems more of a
tool for digging into other fields, whether a "hard" science, or just making impossible
things hard in other endeavors
mircea_popescu: no, but any of
the
toipics
that often come up here could make it up.
adlai: excellent depth in physics can mean so many
totally different
things
mircea_popescu: "Les deux pieds contre la mureille et la
tete sous le robinet." << :D
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: <asciilifeform> if you are pwned while using 'brainwallets', simply shows
that your brain is defective < no need
to
test
this hypothesis
the result is known << all brains are defective, is
the
thing.
mircea_popescu: the only way a good intellect can be used is
through achieving excellent depth in one field,
that can
then be leveraged in all fields. otherwise, if you never anchor, it'll just mush around
adlai: so I flutter about, dabbling in
this and
that, and never really going anywhere
adlai: my problem with me is
that I don't know what I want
to learn next
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform keeping
the old MIT spirit alive. "what's
the most important
thing
to remember about
this great achievement ?"
adlai: iirc it was Dennett who said
that ignorance should not be seen as an insult
mircea_popescu: you;'re smart,
the problem with you is
that you don't know much.
adlai: so
THAT'S why you brought me in here!
kakobrekla: i'd loive
to hear your
take on
that ? < well my
take is
that i used
to be one of
the smart people on
the chan and now im one of
the stupid
mircea_popescu: they didn't use
to
teach monkeys and donkeys letters back
then, for one.
adlai is not enough of a classics scholar
to debate
this much further
mircea_popescu: moar like "taking away from
teaching". apodidactic, "which is away"
adlai: apodidaction = away/apart from
the process of
teaching
mircea_popescu: adlai speaking of which, i wonder how many people who use "i have no words" in
their apology realise
the irony.