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mircea_popescu:
<yang> maybe a short intro/description wouldn't hurt on the website...
< notrly open to the general public.
assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 05:12:49; ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: ;;google ender wiggin
<< mega-b00k by o. s. card
ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: dude just how influential WAs that book.
<< to the point that it became among the only 'science fictional' yarns elevated to 'classic' and made mandatory in schools, etc, in usa
ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: ;;google ender wiggin
<< mega-b00k by o. s. card
☟︎ ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: … asks what happens if there's nothing in a box. "well... there'd be air" "no, not even air"…. "so then a vacuum" "no, not even vacuum"
<< my brother tormented me with this 'what-if' when was a boy
ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: as oft said here, the situation is so soviet it bleeds.
<< ahahaha guess what.
ben_vulpes: are stellar
<< wuttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ben_vulpes: pgp: * Signed message? More like “cryptographic proof that I wrote this incriminating statement”
<< myeah
ben_vulpes: tor: Quality: C code. One implementation, but well funded dev and lots of scrutiny. Good.
<< such kek
ben_vulpes: "Open Source" as a measure of quality is bullshit. Many eyes don't see squat. It's orthogonal AT BEST to quality ( probably actually negatively correlated )
<< tell a kid about it
ben_vulpes: As I write this, the prosecution has showed that DPR’s private PGP key was on Ross Ulbricht’s laptop. How’s that strong proof of identity looking now?
<< funnily, it's more or less common knowledge that they shared the key around
ben_vulpes: So the moral, if anything, is “run slowly and learn to speak bear”
<< hyu
ben_vulpes:
<williamdunne> [02:56] mircea_popescu: This is trial by a jury of your peers in the WoT
<< o.O
ben_vulpes:
<Citizenfive> ... whatever system of governance the US has ... isn't a good system
<< awh but i love it it's going to burn itself out so much more quickly than other more reasonable alternatives
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [01:57] we actually ran out of dock, five miles later.
<< i whet their appetite for you
ben_vulpes: "and that nobody's going to be able to tell him which is right at that level, but he keeps them in his head, hoping that they'll give him different ideas"
<< story of my NPC-dom in le cultissima
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [01:55] heck, portland levies "art taxes" nao.
<< swear jar
williamdunne: pff and who are you again?
<< not clear who addressed at
trinque: Citizenfive | What I'm saying, if I'm saying *anything*, is that the words don't matter.
<< I used to think this; lately I consider it an autoimmune disorder caused by lifetime immersion in symbolic shit
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Over drinks last night, one of the beautiful young ladies in attendance brought up the question of ‘free will’ with me. "
<< eh petey...
trinque: mircea_popescu: must order someone to copy it down for it
<< in 3 ring binders with those fancy tab-stickers
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ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [09:26] and whether ben_vulpes objects or not, i can only see it in terms of "qntra model ruined gawker, because bitcoin is the world eater"
<< suppose i'll ask over afternoon coffees
funkenstein_: in name value pair like "/k funkenstein","
<pubkey>"
funkenstein_:
<mircea_popescu> tl;dr : gawker is sinking, people desperate, fighting over carcass begun.
<-- and so it begins
ascii_orc:
http://trilema.com/2015/random-weird-shit-2/ << obligatory su lul: '— one day, shell landed in a trench. all the men went up. at the end of the day, we turned up an arse and a set of limbs, no head, no torso. — what did you do? — if the head had turned up, it could be a man again. but naturally - it is top brass now. what else.'
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_on_tour> ergo if i give the launch codes now - take a minute to think
<< you don't understand how launching works.
assbot: Key 84D27F50 / "Jeremy Koski (If I'm Not Me I'd Sure Like To Know Who The Hell Is!)
<jsk1978@gmail.com>" successfully imported.
ascii_c3: ascii_on_tour left the room (quit: Ping timeout: 272 seconds).
<< wai wut
mats: 13:05:02
<+ascii_c3> the 'wifi' is MITMing ssh.
<< hue
ben_vulpes:
<mats> [04:32] anyways good chat. sleepy time.
<< reassuring
ben_vulpes:
<mike_c> [03:55] pop by c3 for a demo. or wait til next week.
<< huzzah
pete_dushenski: "Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi this week became the first Indian head of state to visit Canada in 42 years and promptly sealed a $700-million deal to buy uranium from a Saskatoon-based firm."
<< that's a lotta nukeage
gribble: BingoBoingo was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 hours, 25 minutes, and 37 seconds ago:
<BingoBoingo> !up chiral