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Adlai: tl;dr of chomsky's interview: Had
the people in
the 1950s had been asked, "Do you want your
taxes
to go
to development of
the kind of
technology
that will allow your grandchildren
to have iPads or do you want your
taxes
to go into a livable society? Health care, education, places where people can have decent lives? And so on. What would people have decided? Well, whatever
the answer was,
they didn't
gribble: moiety was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 hours, 40 minutes, and 13 seconds ago: <moiety> i have
to go, it was nice
to see yous
Adlai is only here for
the hookers and blow
mircea_popescu: yeah well i have scant few of
those and nobody seems
to like 'em.
Adlai can't handle
the
truth
tho
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves do you dispuite
the ethereum "money" is already stolen at
this point ?
ThickAsThieves: sorry mp, just cuz you haz confidence in your ability
to predict what predictable will do, doesnt make your predictions news or fact
Adlai: prophletizing = making up prophecies for
the purpose of prosletizing
mircea_popescu: how is something
that's a fact
that idiots don't know anything but news ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai if you review
the log,
there was ev en a contract drawn for
the purpose. and a bunch of people were gonna participate.
mircea_popescu: no, it would actually be news. inasmuch as we KNOW
that's what's going
to happen.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you can write
their next update yourself. so can i. if either of us do and we send it
to qntra,
mircea_popescu: o, shit, i forgot. all
their "investors" never actually existed. ooops.
mircea_popescu: where are all
the people "interested" in lending me some
to short ?
ThickAsThieves: Ethereum announced
they hired new people
to make a new website and new 'brand'
mircea_popescu: and
the
typefaces are from
the cheapo bin at
the print shop
mircea_popescu: usg: "you have
the right
to blablabla" cartman: "fuck you, i do what i want"
mircea_popescu: but seriously :
this machine which purports
to remove freedoms, as if, and replace
them with "rights", as if.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ironically,
that's
the one
thing where it does work.
Adlai: it's amazing how
the same remedies cure both aids and ebola
mircea_popescu: there are so many ways
to resolve problems now
that we have
the social media.
mircea_popescu: ah don't worry about
that
tat. you can always fuck a virgin and you'll be cured. or if not, one can make a proposal and publish it on
tumblr.
Adlai: "the only
thing we have
to fear is fear itself", but sadly
that includes other people's fear
ThickAsThieves: i mean i'm worried
this will
turn into a whole new CDC
that operates like Homeland Security
mircea_popescu: well, unless
there's a refugee camp with hot sexy 12 year old locals.
then all bets are off. Standard UN policy in
the matter, as seen in Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Sudan, Burundi etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i
think going awol is probably more of a risk
than ebola.
ThickAsThieves: i'm worried
this will
turn into
the
thing
that
traps me in
the US forever
ThickAsThieves: “I’ll be honest with you,” one soldier
told
the newspaper. “I’m kind of scared.”
mircea_popescu: dude i just did 30 seconds ebola
training for intelligent people.
mircea_popescu: "wear
this gear. wash your hands. don't put stuff in your eyes, mouth, asshole"
assbot: U.S. Soldiers Get Just Four Hours of Ebola
Training -
The Daily Beast
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mircea_popescu: course
the antioficialismo newspapers are nao calling her paranoid over
that impermissible holistic approach.
mircea_popescu: to quote
the cristina chick, "todo hace juego con
todo"
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Adlai: oh, i
thought you were
talking about
the chomsky article
assbot: Logged on 16-10-2014 16:13:23; mircea_popescu: anyway, if it's anything like
this dude, it'd basically lesswrong/meatballswiki/somethingawful hivemind. unemployable graduates with fixed if erroneous ideas "about
the world"
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mircea_popescu: Adlai you readily ignored
the (previously discussed) reference and now are making a soup of
the statement ?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: so you mean
that
the failure mode of contemporary youth is
that
they pray with
their hands instead of
their feet?
ThickAsThieves: i have peterl a list of blawgs
to make a new aggregator, i *think* i got everyone
Adlai: "One reason we don't hear anything about [5M killed in
the Congo] is because
there's very limited official US involvement of
the press corps."
bounce: mod a robocoin for bitcoin-paid confession
taking or something
mircea_popescu: bounce yeah, just make sure you have a wallet inspector made out of
two cans and a string or something.
bounce starts
the church of bitcoin. you know, like scientology, only with bitcoin instead of bad sf.
mircea_popescu: "mother mary who
thoust be in heavens in all glory and power, ready my letter of what i would like
to see and DO IT"
Adlai: mircea_popescu: he's paraphrasing a book, i don't
think he agrees with
that statement himself
mircea_popescu: you know it's startying
to wear on me
this.
there's a currently-in-the-process-of-universalizing-itself mode of behaviour of
the principal mode of failure of contemporary youth (previously discussed) which consists in essentially... prayer.
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ThickAsThieves: "You have
to improve
the institutions responsible for indoctrination of
the young. You have
to control children. You have
to make sure
that
they're not
too free and creative and independent, and it shows up in all sorts of ways."
assbot: Democracy and Education in
the 21st Century and Beyond: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
ThickAsThieves: "...there have been fewer
than 10 confirmed cases in
the country.
Today President Obama named an “Ebola czar”
to help coordinate
the federal response
to
the outbreak
threat."
assbot: BREAKING: Ebola Scare at
the Pentagon | ARLnow.com
Pierre_Rochard: ben_vulpes: is
there a clojure or lisp web framework you would recommend?
ThickAsThieves: <+mats_cd03> 'pink eye print' really? /// hey, i remembered it cuz
the name!
diametric: nubbins makes
tshirts and stuff right?
ThickAsThieves: <+TomServo>
ThickAsThieves: Great post. /// Hey,
thanks!
ben_vulpes: PE will want
to see revenues
tho, unless
the IPO is a juggernaut and
the public markets are going
to get
taken hard.
ben_vulpes: and contracts are structured in equity-holders benefit, and not as a raping
tool for VCs.
ben_vulpes: "also, i got
tired of being asked what color my lamborghini was."
ben_vulpes: "well you can
take your dollar down
the 7-11 and buy a Keno
ticket, or you can
take your LIFE SAVINGS/4 of your best-performing years
to
the startup roulette wheel..."
Adlai: easier
to gamble btc
than equity!
Adlai: it's
the backbone of
the bitconomy!
kakobrekla: <Adlai> ben_vulpes: webdev
thingies < btc related?
ben_vulpes: various API's,
toy BTC
tools for myself, a webapp here and
there
Adlai: and how do you feel about
the fact
that your language guru is called "rich hickey"
Adlai prefers common lisp but just because
that's what he has most experience with
ben_vulpes: i
think
the switching costs from py/whatever -> clojure are a little lower
than
to
the common lisp families
Adlai: the problem with "lisp" is
that it's a platonic ideal, but each implementation of
this ideal falls short in various ways once you hit
the real world
peterl: is
there a list of all
the blogs
that were on
the blogroll?
Adlai: db.py:# or i'm fucking switching
to lisp
Adlai: db.py-#
TODO:
there has
to be a better way of writing
this
Adlai: and
there's a comment in
the source code
that i've been handed:
Adlai: eh
the guy said
that he likes "more functional stuff
than python"
ben_vulpes: i suspect pythongs are going
to resist a cl