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trinque: had a thread with gabriel
_laddel recently on whether hypertext was even valuable; I hold that it is
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 23:06:04; mircea
_popescu: "american" is not a thing, to begin with. he just lives there.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:47:27; mircea
_popescu: trinque well, i see merit in it. the presumption you can enforce borders comes from what ?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 23:38:34; diana
_coman: gotta say though that I can (and did) get him to freeze by using a certain tone
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:42:29; anton
_osika: But I will go on in my venture to find a way to verify my identity.
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika i don't understand what you think pgp sigs have to do with phuctor ?
trinque: mircea
_popescu: hm yeah, even that is euphemistically skirting the issue of "was commanded A, did B"
mircea_popescu: <diana
_coman> you mean you get a teaspoon of honey whenever he has a tantrum ? :))) << ehehehe see, this is why women are stuck with raising kids.
trinque: mircea
_popescu: looked up the levels; I must've stopped at 29, as I recall the water
trinque: anton
_osika: see that EMP isn't gonna be so bad
trinque: mircea
_popescu: as the concept of the WoT sunk in it occurred to me that we have very weak social connections here in american meatspace too
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika better go on a venture to find a way to protect your next one.
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika a) gpg contracts are already defined, cuz that article ; b) we don't agree.
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: Where is it that I wan't to go you say?
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu since when is "space" the primary consideration?
nubbins`: anton
_osika fwiw if mp pays out, it would wreck his credibility
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu do you suppose they'd still be holding the sign if tanzania was a first-world country that also happened to carpet bomb syria?
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika the main intellectual pivot here is the notion that "everyone must make it". this is what informs your "what if there's a solar flare" thing.
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu well ya know. if i'm on fire, i'm heading for the water, not the gas station
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika selection events are selection events. when the waters go out you see who had been swimming naked.
trinque: anton
_osika: hold onto a key and you might keep it!
trinque: anton
_osika: or should I still be drinking over the not-millions I made from that not-company
trinque: anton
_osika: it's not that much money; you're just young. and mistakes you make in youth that you survive will remind you later never again to be so foolish.
nubbins`: anton
_osika i could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that i am who i say i am, and everyone in here would be convinced, but i'm still not executing that SSW without a key
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: That is one lesson learned, from all this agony.
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika really, figure out how to keep a safe key. it's not that hard, and it IS the only actual underpinning of humanity these days.
nubbins`: anton
_osika plenty have lost their keys. they all weep together now.
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu that's a succinct explanation
trinque: anton
_osika: supposedly gox "owes me" several btc to this day. and guess what, there's even a "legal system" invovled with that case. what do you think my odds are on receiving the btc back?
nubbins`: anton
_osika please understand that none of this is malicious, and at least some people here probably feel bad for you
trinque: anton
_osika: the lesson here is worth far more than a student's 600-700 bucks
nubbins`: anton
_osika all forms of physical identification can be forged
nubbins`: anton
_osika it's the same thing i've been saying all along, just in reverse.
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu "good faith" &c.
cazalla: i think anton
_osika actually understands but hopes to wear mircea
_popescu down
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika just, irl, because irl is dedicated to the survival of the least fit, if you lose your id there's a mechanism to get another one.
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: Thats a very valid comparison.
trinque: anton
_osika: you might as well be my buddy pleading with his corrupted LUKS header
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: => BTC fork worries = irrelevant?
trinque: anton
_osika: losing is good for you
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: I have to say that I do agree with you regarding ETH not being the best of bets though.
trinque: anton
_osika: so you're out what, 700 bucks?
mircea_popescu: anton
_osika i would propose you're not experienced enough to crypto to make it the repository of your life savings.
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu i'm not 100% sure that our contract allows such
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: Well my situation is regarding my life savings so it does matter a bit less as of now.
mircea_popescu: don';t get the wrong idea, anton
_osika : i actually like you.
nubbins`: mircea
_popescu and fwiw "world of nubbins" is a world in which contracts are entered and people retain their keys
nubbins`: anton
_osika you're asking me if i would reach the same conclusion if the situation were entirely different?
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: How do you mean clearly defined underpinning?
phf: asciilifeform: ben
_vulpes: that could easily be the last remaining such machine, the nvidia ball grid plague killed them all, i thought. << have one of those, you can manually switch with some hacks which video card is used at all times, i have it running on integrated, which prevents real 3d from happening, but hopefully extends life
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: I see it as encouraging for new users to use WoT without being afraid.
mircea_popescu: mnop. cuz i don't want to encourage the world of nubins and anton
_osika. i want to encourage the world of wot and signatures.
anton_osika: mircea
_popescu: Hey since I read your first draft of the contract between you and me I have learnt a lot.
nubbins`: anton
_osika not my contract so i have NFI. but i don't see anything in there that requires you to take any further action
trinque: anton
_osika: it specifies your key fingerprints right there
BingoBoingo: anton
_osika: There really anything I can advise other than working to develop a time machine so you could have made better backups.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete
_dushenski remarkably few, actually. i have one 15" mbp from ~08 i think that's holding up remarkably well.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 07:35:35; mircea
_popescu: What the reformers promote, that is open-ended problems, real-world problems with clouds of answers, activities instead of problems, create a fuzzy world, ~~~in which students always have to guess the teachers mind and can not learn to discriminate between right and wrong by their own means. ~~~
assbot: Logged on 03-01-2015 20:01:05; ascii
_modem: for the record, 'clos' is, as of today, the only non-retarded incarnation of that concept yet built
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 09:38:51; mircea
_popescu: i don't really see oo bullshit as anything more than wank, but then again that's me.
phf: ben
_vulpes: also it was 90s russia, lots of people did "revenue numbers are none of your goddamn concern", and it mostly looked like playing lottery. shipping european clothing from turkey, or driving bmw's from germany for resale, all the while hoping that your criminal "roof" was stronger then the neighbor's
Naphex: mircea
_popescu: it's a full blown cult, and the programs are extended with training and all other social bullshit that will cost everyone
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: and how many macbooks have you burnt through in past 5-7 years ?
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: i'm similarly skeptical but there's been nary a hiccup in the first season at least. it'll take another few before i can say much more than that.
ben_vulpes: pete
_dushenski: i am suspicious of these internally geared thingers
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:56:30; asciilifeform: ben
_vulpes: update me, what are they worth today
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:39:19; mircea
_popescu: clearly the internet has so much helped