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ascii-bolivia: mircea_popescu: re: the rebecca hiles article
<< mindblowing showcase of 'usa is world' thing
mats: e.g. mp's earlier thing, mv / * {
<<.>>
punkman: 'once on internet, it is forever on internet'
<< not really
mircea_popescu:
<assbot> Ramadi could fall to ISIS offensive, Iraq official says
<< heh.
davout: mircea_popescu: "it's politically impossible. they're more valuable as votes than as parts."
<<< lol nice
ben_vulpes: "used a small drill to drill down to drill down"
<< sigh
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> testnet has diverged so far from mainnet that i don't even really understand the point of it anymore
<< exactly. which is what he was saying.
ben_vulpes: "diverged"
<< the whole block diff=1 thing, f.ex.
ben_vulpes:
<davout> [08:21] so TIL that testnet doesn't behave like main net and will allow blocks of diff 1 to be mined whenever it "has been too long" between two blocks
<< this testnet stuff is bullhockey
lobbes: 'I don't have any solid proof, and even if there was, it would be a matter for the victims and the police only'
< l0l
danielpbarron: What's known as "Internet Brigading" - the situation where a lot of people with no money and no practical importance complain loudly, as if anyone cares what the stupid poor say or think on any topic.
<< I had this happen to me over a particularly offensive tweet that got featured on some blog
BingoBoingo: Could be useful for hosting a qntra BTC price index. I'm thinking a static page
<body>
<h1>$5000/BTC
</h1>
</body>
ascii_field: eye contact
<< because when you make eye contact, folks shoot lasers from their eyes into yours
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: military rations are good ?!
<< nope - very bad, but with minimal effort. like the 'hiring shaman - hire cheapest' theorem.
BingoBoingo:
<ascii_field> nubbins`: if i did not have a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations.
<< Sprats come in can, RATIONS!!!
nubbins`:
<+ascii_field> (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food, a luxury. just as air on a space capsule is not a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth)
<<< i don't fully buy into the "it's cheaper to eat shitty" mentality, but it's my understanding that the dynamics involved therein are vastly different in your country
nubbins`:
<+ascii_field>
<mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena
<< so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no.
<<< the sets of {co-inhabitants} and {dirtbags} don't have as complete an overlap as you'd think
nubbins`:
<+adlai> like satoshi without MSVC
<<< my kingdom for some more sides
nubbins`:
<+ascii_field> nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it
<< what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
<<< not in so many words :P
ascii_field: Chillum: How can people be so clever yet make such dumb mistakes
<< autists like ulbricht/dpr get nailed by trusting in meat. 'eusocial' folks like mr lottery -also- get nailed by trusting in meat. just like when an airplane falls, pilots and passengers get same fate
ascii_field:
<Chillum> his hostile code should have sat dormant for 6 months, then someone with no obvious connection to him should have got the ticket
<< i suppose this is when nubbins` says 'learn the dark marketz, anyone can!' and mircea_popescu tells us about the superiority of human dark org vs relying on machines
mircea_popescu:
<Chillum> How can people be so clever yet make such dumb mistakes
<< whole thing reads to me more like a case of baxies than anything legitimately prosecutable.
mircea_popescu:
<mats> warehouse of computer antiques sounds like a lot of luxuries to me.
<< anything sounds like a luxury to someone somewhere!
ascii_field: 'The former security director "was 'obsessed' with root kits, a type of computer program that can be installed quickly, set to do just about anything, and then self-destruct without a trace," prosecutors wrote. They went on to say a witness would testify at trial that Tipton told him before December 2010 that he had a self-destructing rootkit.'
<< 'hands off the specialist toolz, plebe'
ascii_field: nubbins`: the only thing that'll make alf walk away is alf
<< nubbins` would probably be rather surprised to learn that - other than the physical separation from wildlife (e.g., nubbins`'s roommate) - i have very few luxuries
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but do you know it is in fact a biological answer
<< after a certain amount of exposure, and getting weaker rather than stronger, one leans that - if there was an age where having one's legs pulled on, would have lengthened them - that age is past
ascii_field:
<mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena
<< so i had a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no.
ascii_field: adlai:anthem is precisely the correct dose of ayn rand for a healthy brain
<< i will admit to having read pretty much all of rand
ascii_field: nubbins`: maybe once you get enough toys it'll be a fair trade
<< all the toys i buy put together are dwarfed by the cost of living like a human being (e.g., not having rabid hyenas in my home, nor within 100 metres, etc.)
ascii_field: 'Going Galt'
<< somehow everybody forgets that the character in the book had a fucking -invisibility machine- hiding his fort
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i srsly do not see ANY merit to this "location" bs
<< one of us is carrying suitcase of $gadgets to the other. that's -location-, l0l.
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy a pogo and mess with it
<< what did you buy and play with instead? a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
ascii_field: nubbins`: but i'll note that this is a problem with alf, not with walking away
<< i've noticed that even you have exhausted your patience with the bipedal rabid dog in your home...
nubbins`: i'm serious:
<+nubbins`> lobbes truly foolhardy is the man to whom i serve as an example
nubbins`:
<+nubbins`> now, at this point, i'd like to take the opportunity to inquire as to what the general consensus is, among those present, regarding my intelligence, wisdom, and overall sensibility
nubbins`:
<felipelalli> (general lels)
<<< it's okay, you're still new
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:he wasn't looking for any answer. he was trying to shoehorn disorganised remains of broken history into the future. as he keeps trying to do this he'll figure it out.
<<< "you can't bribe the future with nostalgia"
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:i want to reconsider that about as much as windows user wants to compile from source.
<<< i recall hearty lels when whatever chunk of windows source code came out
nubbins`: asciilifeform:mentioned that 'computers were stolen, no sign of break-in, perhaps insider'
<<< alf, the lizards struck the wrong house! did you replace your locks?
mats: 6:50:29
<+mircea_popescu> since mats brought it up : yeah, currently people can't audit bitbet's reserves. this is unfortunate, but i'm not going to do anything about it.
<< i was going a bit crazy auditing the code, thought id bungled it somehow
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100530 << on which line, trinque you'd seriously shoot a burglar ? and i don't mean shoot them in the head, just, one to the kneecap for good measure. seems to me woefully excessive. the... only time i was in a situation of that nature the dudes beat the shit out of the guy and i thought it was excessive even for the time and place.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100440 << amusingly enough in japan jury trials were (and perhaps still to some degree are) very dimly regarded. people thought that someone willing to cast his fortune on the disinterested call of a dozen uninformed people rather than have a specialist handle it could not possibly have any sort of case.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: " Especially in Brazil where there are many scammers that exposes all of your personal life, and we know their real names, their documents etc."
<< aaaand this isn't indication that it really doesn't work ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2015#1100378 << morally neutral god of all knowledge ? interesting, incidentally, that the price the various jewish groups (including xtians) had to pay for the "church-state" frankenstein was overloading the correct notion of god with the notion of a "correct" god. only once god knew all AND GAVE A SHIT ABOUT THE KING'S WILL was there to be mandatory churchgoing and burning of
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