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BingoBoingo: Seriously
though you feed
the homeless in someone else's city so
they all go
there. Pied Piper and shit.
nubbins`: LOOK AT ME I'M DONATING
TO SEAN'S OUTPOST
nubbins`: i never got
the "feed
the homeless in
this guy's city instead of in your own city"
thing
assbot: SeansOutpost comments on An open letter
to Jason King of Sean's Outpost
nubbins`: <mircea_popescu> <undata> if I were russia, I'd wait for
the US
to go balls deep into
the middle east again, and
then I'd grab some of
the north pole's oil, <<< obviously, you're not russia. <<< dat unfamilairity with arctic sovereignty claims
Vexual: the sd one is cool, i dont undertand
the other
thing
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 07:32:47; asciilifeform: ultimately,
there is no factory
that churns out pilot plants
Adlai: you wouldn't say
that militaries are still churning out pilot plants, but
the automation/control balance of piloting itself has shifted?
cazalla: RagnarDanneskjol, meh not promoting something
that
thinks "When a user wants
to create an address,
the user provides her identity
to an IVS.
The IVS checks
that
the provided identity is
the identity of a real person who can be located and be accountable if illegal activity is detected, similar
to existing Bitcoin payment systems such as Coinbase." is a good idea
mircea_popescu: nevertheless academia would STILL be fundamentally broken
to
the point of complete dysfunction.
mircea_popescu: this is actually
the fundamental problem with western academia.
the self-licking icecreamcones problem is just a convenient frosting over
this, but
the point remains
that even should
that matter be solved, as it
trivially would be solved - by say a stalin, which is always cheap
mircea_popescu: "This muddle finally hurts
those following in
the researcher's path. Long after he has his Ph.D. or his
tenure, inquiring students will be put off by
the document he has left behind. He seems
to have solved everything already, so
the report says, yet
there is no
tangible evidence of it besides
the report itself."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: From
the gif where it did
the salt licking
punkman: RagnarDanneskjol: oh deedbot1.0
tried
to use electrum?
RagnarDanneskjol: punkman i
think eventually you're gonna ahve
to ditch electrum and run a daemon -
these issues are somewhat known and why deedbot 1.0 replaced it w/ api
mircea_popescu: nah, more like a retarded athlete who, after a majorly incredible game where his
team won very closely or lost very closely is like
punkman: so electrum is blocking forever when I
try
to send a
tx,
then
the
tx sending
thread gets stuck
decimation: but
the idea of 'mass production software' is nonsensical
decimation: one can imagine
the software craftsman being aided by
tools (likely of his own making)
decimation: it seems
to come down
to a question of economics, it's generally cheaper
to pay a master craftsman
to labor over one item, but if one is building
thousands it is worth
the start-up cost of
the robots
punkman: speaking of shitty code,
thing's stuck again
mircea_popescu: the fact
that bitcoin .5.3 is full of spot welds is not a quality.
mircea_popescu: whosoever programs
the robots doesn't have
to do so with chewing gum however.
decimation: someone has
to program
the robots after all
mircea_popescu: we need
to bully
these autistic savants a whole of a lot more, can't be letting
the libtards having all
the fun.
mircea_popescu: basically matt
taylor is personally responsible for a few violent gangrrapes now.
mircea_popescu: had he just pointed and laughed at
the "offended" idiots we could have just moved on.
mircea_popescu: see, it's imbeciles like
this
that cause
trouble. now
the point will have
to be carved out of some innocent women's skin
that nobody gives a shit.
cazalla: something
to do with looms is,
that i know
cazalla: mircea_popescu, sounds familiar,
this story on
trilema?
decimation: asciilifeform: of course stalin's agents were all over
the us bomb as it was being made
mircea_popescu: to me
this is much worse news
than
the extinction of whatever stupid fish or crap
mircea_popescu: the world has physically lost
the capacity
to produce
top hats.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i know specifically what im
talking about, because
the last looms capable of making
the required felt were destroyed a decade ago as part of a family feud.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: certainly not a
top hat. <<< maybe akubra? nfi on
top hats but
they have a solid rep
mircea_popescu: state
that can't build a pot is one
thing. state
that can't keep a secret however, deserves
to die.
decimation: sorting out u235 from
the other neutron spewing isotopes isn't
trivial
mircea_popescu: the fact
that
the iranians don't manage just shows how fucktarded htey are. it's by now a one man job.
mircea_popescu: i can centrifuge my own uranium,
there's plenty of places where it's directly exploitable etc.
mircea_popescu: the sad
truth of
the matter is
that with
the current state of manufacturing, i could build my own nuke. wouldn't even
take a decade.
decimation: although
thorium is a fissile material
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this curren state will collapse regardless. not a
technical, but a policital problem. it just sucks.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, see
the experiences of
the various members of
the
tsar's fambly with artisanal bombs
mircea_popescu: well, let's ut it
this way :
the reason
the state does not collapse in a
tsunami of violence is not now nor was it ever historically
that such would be physically impossible.