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mircea_popescu: anyway. bitcoin's elitism and the horde's pretentiousness is setting the stage for some pretty hardcore raping and pillaging down the road.
mats: that feeling when you sit down and the seat is still warm
mircea_popescu: it's worse, because a) every party participant is stuck b) keeping ~complete~ records of the whole thing c) forever. it's not just a process thing like the party. it's that you have to write their noiise down, and pay for warehouses.
ascii_panama: and no one has ever been turned down by a lisp mach.
Adlai: !down Adlai
Adlai: !down oldsk00l
liquidassets: I can't remember when or where you said it, but it seems like you're pretty down on bitcoin being used for retail purchases
ascii_lander: (one appeared to go 4 stories down, and then to water)
ben_vulpes: trinque: you should bring the thinger down south
assbot: Michele Leonhart resigns: DEA head steps down after prostitution scandal, disagreement over marijuana. ... ( http://bit.ly/1aQncK7 )
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/21/michele_leonhart_resigns_dea_head_steps_down_after_prostitution_scandal.html << Mega lol, leaving when the opportunity for side income dries
ascii_lander: hence the importance, to the buggers, of nailing down 'no, you don't get to examine or change the fw'
ascii_lander: the basic precedent is nailed down long ago.
pete_dushenski: Pierre_Rochard: i'll fly you down for one of my seders one of these fine years.
ben_vulpes: i'm going to grab some coffee down at the cafe on the plaza
mircea_popescu: but then again, i also just pass the phone to girlie to extract number and write it down rather than go without dinner.
gribble: www.therealbitcoin.org is down
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> [15:17] How are the hangovers down there? << we're not really drinking that much. talking, though...
mod6: I'm gonna head down to the lobby. Might venture out for a quick bite/coffee & shopping trip if anyone else wants to join me.
ascii_lander: i'll be down shortly
BingoBoingo: How are the hangovers down there?
davout: mod6: i'll be down in a minute
trinque: mircea_popescu: must order someone to copy it down for it << in 3 ring binders with those fancy tab-stickers
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-04-2015#1103677 << it's entirely a legalistic gimmick. somehow court manages to convince itself it's too good to just go read the forum, must order someone to copy it down for it. sorta like ottoman turks. ☝︎
Citizenfive: The visual breaks down, but I'm amenable to a solution that uses both pegs in some way.
davout: mod6: yep, heading down there now
mod6: aight, im just gonna head down there. c-ya in a bit.
mod6: should I head down to the lobby?
mats: Bloomberg down, finance workers shit themselves
liquidassets: did you opt for pat down ascii?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-04-2015#1102971 << s.mpoe is down what, 50% ? ☝︎
sickboy: what's goin down Dan? u trading well tonite
davout: scoopbot down as well?
mats: nominally so -- 'corporal' til busted down
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: they relaunched on april 8, i submitted this article to wrap up the loose end i created in saying 'they shut down' more than to be the first.
ascii-bolivia: 'If he were posting anything that wasn’t publicly viewable on the site then he could be brought in on other charges... The court would order him to take it down... '
ascii_bolivia: so i get to kill some hours in this rathole, and sit down, order caek
ben_vulpes: ahhh i fell down a tweethole
ben_vulpes: "used a small drill to drill down to drill down" << sigh
assbot: ‘Vampire-fanged’ trucker who held women as sex slaves and drilled down their teeth 'had four more victims' - Americas - World - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1H86sL4 )
mircea_popescu: in related news, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/vampirefanged-trucker-who-held-women-as-sex-slaves-and-drilled-down-their-teeth-had-four-more-victims-9860620.html
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl if i recall corectly and you have hosting on the blogs.polimedia.us server with me, please change the ns to ns1.trilema.com ns2.trilema.com the old server is going down. the account has been already moved.
TheNewDeal: !down TheNewDeal
TheNewDeal: !down
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
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)
nubbins`: 5-year term's up next summer so i'll prolly pop a couple tens of k down on the principal then
nubbins`: adlai break it down into one-syllable words for dumb ol' me.
mircea_popescu: "nobody on easter island realised that if we cut down all the trees on easter island there won't be anyting left, on easter island".
ben_vulpes: felipelalli: i'll gladly shoot you down for the pleasure of it
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ... i thought you didn't like perl. << i dislike many things. but ripping out the perl won't put me any closer to victory, so it is $maxint down on the list of things-to-do...
lobbes: Of course they don't tell you this when you move into these municipalities, thus leaving many fucked a few years down the line with interest, et al
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-04-2015#1099877 << nothing quite beats washing down 20 dollar potato salad and 40 dollar "chunk of parmesan" with 10k magnum cristal. ☝︎
TheNewDeal: !down TheNewDeal
gribble: trilema.com is down
nubbins` wanders off to calm down
pete_dushenski: and rose failing to get up and down on 18 cost him what... $300k ?
Vexual: 1 week? down low too slow
Vexual: 2 floors down
pete_dushenski: ya, it's almost impossible to be shut down on the spot
nubbins`: if you shut 'em down within a day of them failing inspection, you're the 1%
assbot: Logged on 13-04-2015 13:37:43; mircea_popescu: restaurants are very safe, because if they become infected it's obvious within a day and they get shut down
mircea_popescu: you get shut down within days.
mircea_popescu: restaurants are very safe, because if they become infected it's obvious within a day and they get shut down ☟︎
ben_vulpes: a vile beast is slowing my mental procs down i think
adlai: maybe !up and !down should rely on blockchain consensus instead
mircea_popescu: !down 8dl8ee
adlai: !down mircea_popescu
Adlai: i mean, we should have the same abilities; yet i could down them, but you couldn't.
Adlai: !down williamdunne
williamdunne: Do you need to be in ring 1 to !down?
Adlai: !down ufoirotffffp
Adlai: !down mxtm
Adlai: !down ufnfnf
Adlai: !down BIoodyRoockie
williamdunne: !down BloodyRoockie
Adlai: no it's going down, shit.
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, creative people, entrepreneurs. In my case I've been self-directed for the larger part of the last 5 years, but I wouldn't credit myself with having provided all the motivation to go down that route.
mircea_popescu: basically it means that if old bitty runs down your new car with her beater,
decimation: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-d-chalmers/the-great-american-passpo_b_1920287.html < "The real story is that when broken down, those 25.8 million trips overseas were taken by approximately just 13.3 million American residents. And that means that in total, the real number of Americans that actually traveled (took trips) overseas in 2009 for either business or leisure, was about 15.5 million --o r just five percent of our
asciilifeform: just like -someone- knows who owns that house down the street from where i sit
decimation: "In To Teach, Ayers recounts the story of an ambitious teacher who takes her students out to the streets of New York to learn about its culture and history. These students ask to see the nearby Hudson River. When they get to the river's edge, one student says, " Look, the river is flowing up." A second student says, "No, it has to flow south-down." Upon further research, the teacher discovers "that the Hudson River is a tidal river,
assbot: Capitol Hill locked down as gunman shoots himself - BBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1JBn6Cu )
felipelalli: it's not just you! http://trilema.com looks down from here.
gribble: trilema.com is down
asciilifeform: trimming down a unixlike to run therealbitcoin and other traditional proggies that we're stuck with - is one thing
mircea_popescu: irl, there exists such a thing as gravity. you can't float broadly over a path. gravity pushes you down into it.
mircea_popescu: becoming something in the style of wikipedia : a great way to batten down the ignorance of users. after a mooc they're just as ignorant as before, but now it's much harder to fix.
gabriel_laddel: "A single procedure call being all that is necessary to bundle the entirety of the (possibly heavily modified) sources into a redistributable bootable USB stick installer or network download. Coupled with meaningful extensibility, the unsophisticated interests that have taken ahold of the bureaucratic process of all linux distributions are bypassed. Imagine hunting down 1000s of individuals distributing a less crapp
Apocalyptic: Michail1, yeah same here, looks like the server is down
gabriel_laddel: !down the_scourge
gabriel_laddel: !down Vexual
menahem: off to bed.. wanted to say: with no trilema, it feels like the net is down. dunno where to surf.
asciilifeform tries to recall mircea_popescu's post re: how modern notion of 'chain of command' applied to medieval structures is simplistic; remembers that www is down
mircea_popescu: "uh... we just ... didn't wanna do it anymore your honor." "shut up. sit down. "
asciilifeform: which boils down to: imagine there is a derelict house occupied by alcoholic bomzhes. the city condemned it, but the occupants refuse to leave.
menahem: sorry to interrupt, is trilema down for you ?
asciilifeform: decimation: up/down, variably
asciilifeform goes to dig for the trilema summarizing mircea_popescu's conference-ii speech re: this, but remembers that his www is down
mircea_popescu: no, iut's a tool for laymen to bolt down their ignorance in such a way that they'll never ever become good, at anything.