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mircea_popescu: the discussion wasn'
t if this is annoying or not, but whether the drone droning about weapons had a point. at least in my head.
Adlai: why aren'
t the terrorists yelling fire in crowded theatresL
davout: that's kind of like saying "if banana peels are dangerous, why don'
t the US marines carry them around" :D
mircea_popescu: davout but it turns out, stuff like aegis cruisers don'
t have lasers installed to blind enemy pilots, dropped chaff isn'
t tiny shining laser pointers etc.
mircea_popescu: but those facts don'
t make derpy lasers "weapons" and etc etc.
mircea_popescu: no, you don'
t. so don'
t miss shit on your fucking checklist.
davout: you don'
t want to miss shit on your checklist
mircea_popescu: davout and your windows won'
t protect you, because... antiglare's not been invented.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, the pollie that said that got busted for gay sex like a year later, clearly didn'
t want to play ball anymore (or did)
mircea_popescu: davout but then again, they don'
t have to be FOR something. they may well just be BECAUSE of something, that something being "we got a helicopter"
cazalla: the 2 year retention period is sorta bullshit anyway as it's the ISPs who need to keep the data for 2 years, but if a gov dept such as ASIO or the police request that data, they are allowed to keep it forever, so i'm sure they will just request all data so that they can keep it forever (if they aren'
t already doing it)
cazalla: as well as a black list to block sites like thepiratebay.. fraser's death couldn'
t have been timed better tbh
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 20:22:56; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057738 << it is. people (especially people kinda too lazy to study things in depth) have all sorts of theories about privacy and keep pestering me for special addresses etc. it's a fashion is what it is, one i don'
t aim to encourage, and i'm stuck because w/e, serving teh customer.
cazalla: scary? i won'
t give him that :)
cazalla: brendafdez, you don'
t care about the price?
fluffypony: bought a Pujols
t-shirt and everything
trinque: other than that, I don'
t know that the US is producing a lot of worthwhile art
brendafdez: art is in the eye of the beholder, so I won'
t dispute that. I would however find it hard to see art in sport. It must be there, but generally I just couldn'
t care less. When there's a major sports event here, it means 'good time to go outside and take pictures of the empty streets and such'
brendafdez: I need to find a foreign-speaking gf/bf/whatever soon, being with the locals doesn'
t compare
brendafdez: I was still a teenager, so you can'
t blame me ;)
BingoBoingo: <brendafdez> BingoBoingo over here in brendaland utc -3 is a good time for stories :P also i hate that it's too hot and can'
t sleep. I was trying to avoid selling more btc to get a/c considering winter is supposed to be coming << Bingo is not all powerful like MP, but for the right price could correct all of these problems
brendafdez: BingoBoingo over here in brendaland utc -3 is a good time for stories :P also i hate that it's too hot and can'
t sleep. I was trying to avoid selling more btc to get a/c considering winter is supposed to be coming
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: I'm of dutch and not sicilian ancestry so I can'
t make strong promises of vengance based on besmirching the family name.
BingoBoingo: Hatorade isn'
t even a charitable description of my current beverage.
decimation: ben_vulpes: as I recall the stuff hosted on aws didn'
t have any problems with mr. ddos
decimation: doesn'
t need to be trusted if nothing secret is on it
mircea_popescu: point being, the trillions needed for 10nm and beyond aren'
t forthcoming and that's the end of this run.
mircea_popescu: decimation no idea who'd build on land he didn'
t own, but hey.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "It's wise to keep track of what your mortal enemies do, and there's little that more exemplifies Pure Evil in this world than Eliezer Yudkowsky." << Dude is harmless can'
t even kill the little girl without a troll
mircea_popescu: decimation i don'
t think anyone seriously considers that entire "simulation as life" thing outside of fiction.
mircea_popescu: "It annoys me that idiots continue to use "oh wow, that's so amazing" as the measure of creative genius. Or even worse, that they rely on society's direction to determine who is a creative genius and who isn'
t. First of all, creative geniuses are RESPECTED and LOOKED UP TO by society. And any position that is looked up to will be coveted by Narcissists who are driven by Glory, such as Richard Feynman who all his life w
mircea_popescu: can'
t figure out how to thank that physics dude that read what seems like > 500 pages of shit.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i got to ask lesswrong, they seem to know all sortsa shit about how shit that doesn'
t exist works.
poli_: Plus, I didn'
t think the Roko's Basilisk scenario was all that likely.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get the argument tho, why is superai of the future influenced by ruminations of humans today
poli_: I figured you wouldn'
t be allowed to bet on overtly non-legal happenings. Thanks for the help Mircea
poli_: and I don'
t mean 'impeached', I mean 'cease beingr president', but whatever means fate happens to employ.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get it. why would anyone care about some simulation ?!
mircea_popescu: seriously eliezer baby : first off we know you're stupid, and second off it really doesn'
t make much difference. okay ?
mircea_popescu: i love these scientists that don'
t even bother putting magic numbers in the code anymore.
mircea_popescu: "Max More (born Max
T. O'Connor, January 1964) is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging technologies."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don'
t understand how the world works. "nobody's using bitcoin, nobody could have foreseen their using a plane as a rocket and nobody's doing anything better nor anything better could exist than ... you know, raising awareness"
decimation: voltaire, et al weren'
t exactly fans of the ancien regime
trinque: I don'
t know much about rousseau, except that I recall him being mentioned by someone who was arguing bureaucracy was the greatest of all human inventions, and this with utter seriousness
mircea_popescu: god isn'
t the first warrior anymore, which all other warriors owe fealty too, god is now the first contract which all contracts are derived fro
cazalla: anyway i don'
t need this aggravation, had enough of it today
n3xtb1gthng: If someone isn'
t receiving hundreds of bitcoins per day from any other source, how do you know they will accept yours? And if you don'
t know they will accept yours, how do you know that you hold money? adoption = acceptance and usage
n3xtb1gthng: cazalla - I mean if you didn'
t want the possibility of spending it, how is it even money? It's only money because you know people will accept it :) :) And that comes from the fact that they accept everyone else's - i.e. high adoption.
mircea_popescu: <n3xtb1gthng> is there a philosophical reaosn you don'
t build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (as some alt's have)? << about the same sort of philosophical reason as not building a tail into you.
Luke-Jr: n3xtb1gthng: such a thing would violate the social contract; altcoins don'
t have a preexisting social contract to adhere to
danielpbarron: and why would we want to incentivize spending?? doesn'
t that goal contradict "mass adoption" ?
n3xtb1gthng: is there a philosophical reaosn you don'
t build some level of seigniorage into bitcoin? (as some alt's have)?
Luke-Jr: I'd like to investigate why my crawler isn'
t picking it up
brendafdez: Don'
t be so mean, they are busy looking for the spy chips
mircea_popescu: i wouldn'
t ask cisco for their own heads on a platter.
mircea_popescu: and the second time it won'
t, if that happens, its chain will be also abandoned.
mircea_popescu: but the first time it didn'
t submit its chain was abandoned
mircea_popescu: you don'
t have support, principally because you were not good enough, and failed to grasp this in time.
mircea_popescu: same dope that they weren'
t smart tosling in the first place.
mircea_popescu: through a bunch of ignorant twerps using words they don'
t understand the meaning of, in the context of their self-allocated importance ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You don'
t ger such sound it corresponds to choking on saliva
midnightmagic: Also, I don'
t know much about FreeBSD except they caught their shitty /dev/random mistake before it was released to production
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic i don'
t think anyoine's using them anymore seriously.
Luke-Jr: asciilifeform: if we knew about it, it wouldn'
t exist anymore ;)
BingoBoingo: Luke-Jr: Well for openbsd builds fired live the big change isn'
t db at all, but in wallet.cpp changing the random call to a better one (should not be necessary in -current or 5.7)
BingoBoingo: Luke-Jr: LevelDB bitcoin doesn'
t build on my favored *nix at all.
BingoBoingo: Maybe here the rats know to stay in the farm fields, but... They don'
t seem endemic here like the mice do.
BingoBoingo: At night walking I see plenty of cats, coons, groundhogs, foxes, and coyotes. Haven'
t ever identified a rat
BingoBoingo: Maybe here there just isn'
t enough of a niche for them between mice and racoons
danielpbarron: "OK, here's the plan. Our evacuation tactic is to lock everyone in this room. They should all be extremely safe there. Except we haven'
t secured the vent OR fire escape... Oh well, I'm sure they'll be fine." They must have been evacuated for maybe TEN MINUTES before the zombie breaks into the fire escape door. Wow, that is a fantastic "safe zone".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if cn sat next to europe there wouldn'
t be a europe.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i won'
t say specifically ru, but various aspects like 'children belong to parents as meat, not to the state' being in their bones
mircea_popescu: neither has russia, but then again it can be granted it doesn'
t need to, having been so recently gutted entirely.