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mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635906 << lebanese iirc expat ; did some research work in the us. not actually stupid but altogether lazy and possessed of a very inflated sense of self-worth and self-importance (it seems to rub off on foreigners faster than on locals, this typical ustardism. i guess it would be because the immigrants self-select for sensitivity to the infection). ☝︎
mircea_popescu: arrogance is a defense mechanism in sexually frustrated males.
asciilifeform: (d00d who thinks that he's a demigod, but i have nfi what he actually accomplished with ~own~ hands other than the tired old trick of 'turning a billion $ into a million')
asciilifeform: if d00d had toiled in a lab for 20 yrs -- that is some, bare, minimal contact with physical reality and cause-effect systems, perhaps comparable with an auto mechanic's 20 yrs in garage. and so i might listen to an experimentalist for ~that~ reason.
shinohai: He replied to me on twitter: "the groupthink, navel-gazing & ritualism can be a little overdone!" ( Asking one to cite sources = ritualism ? )
saifedean: academic disciplines as we know them have degenerated into rituals for exclusivity, not communicating ideas. these papers have been quite helpful to disabuse a lot of people of the retarded notions that altcoins and "blockchain technology" are going to revolutionize all teh thingz
diana_coman: I didn't mean to get involved and do something useful with "blockchain technology"; I meant at the very least running a node, exploring the network
diana_coman: read this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2832751 <- the answer to the title would be "well, how the hell would you know?" ; really, get involved and do something useful with it and then talk about what you did; so far I see only a re-hash a la acm/journalism/whatevers, not-even-proper-systematic-lit-review
diana_coman: might mention that I was a post-doc at some point in life ☟︎
diana_coman: in other unrelated or possibly related happenings, my 4 year old got a book about the iss (int'l space station); he got quite obsessed with it for a week so now he knows it inside out; this morning he came with a construction made out of lego pieces and informs me: THIS is IIISSSIII!
saifedean: it's a good answer when you consider that I have the bullshit mainstream credentials most cattle imagine would qualify one to opine on this topic, and that I did not mention that to answer your question because I know cattle credentials don't mean shit.
diana_coman: that's a very poor answer; people's time is a scarce resource
saifedean: If any of you good folk would like to get a sneak peak at the first draft, I'd appreciate the feedback
saifedean: (also, I've got a good few names happy to blurb it and hawk it to publishers)
saifedean: well, not to blow my book's horn, but this isn't some waiter's novel written out between shifts. I've put a ton of good work into it
saifedean: no, but I wouldn't want that before it's done.Have a few connections to publishers and will ship it off to them when done
mircea_popescu: got a contract and everything ?
saifedean: I'm writing a book explaining the concept of sound money to normies and how bitcoin will restore it
saifedean: more like a late sunday morning, with a baby!
mircea_popescu: (top keks : sysco tried to buy us foods (2nd in the field) a few years ago, it came out the merger'd have controlled 75% of the us food supply)
diana_coman: lobbes, I'll gladly pay for the auction services in Eulora; Foxy's currently in a days-long craft so will have to wait for that to finish first though ☟︎
lobbes: danielpbarron, I'm thinkin' that even monthly billing for the thing is too frequent due to the small sums involved. Gonna just do it on a quarterly cycle
phf: there's a handful of american "restaurants" i've never been to, applebees is one of them. but the list is getting smaller with time, recently i got to experience "cracker barrel"
asciilifeform: '"You have reached the Russian embassy, your call is very important to us. To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1," the recording begins, in Russian and English. "To use the services of Russian hackers, press 2...'
asciilifeform: but, more entertaining, from same rag: 'The Russian Foreign Ministry addressed election interference allegations as an April Fools' Day joke on Saturday. The ministry said on its Facebook page that it had set up an automated telephone switchboard for embassies, offering in a fake voicemail the services of "hackers" and "election interference."'
mircea_popescu: the big secret re rape is that it's a happy occasion. the fundamental state is two bored people watching tv, too lazy for even the copacetic nonsense they call proper. let alone any kind of rape.
mircea_popescu: to think that, much like "tor", those passed for the "forefront of internets" at some point, a decade prior.
asciilifeform: in these sense of, yes, you can take the thing and trivially piss out a usable key
mircea_popescu vaguely recalls some "pirate party" associated dorks producing lame "oh, can't factor a key anyway" verbiage cca 2015 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: lmao 310 + 310 digit factors. this'd be a 2kb key i gather ?
asciilifeform: 'Sort-of like the colonial Europeans' expectation that someone firing a weapon necessarily speaks French, or Spanish, or English, or some sort of civilised language. Because otherwise... where did they get the human weapon! Goblins don't craft weapons. ' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: im not even discussing the substance of his claim. so far we're at the pre-hearing arguments where he learns how to make a cogent statement in the first place.
mircea_popescu: shinohai i had some follow-ups for his benefit, such as you know, "why quora is a piece of shit" http://trilema.com/2017/global-warming-on-triton/#footnote_0_71308 and other "basic combinatorics or why $nobody can't possibly have ideas / be taken seriously."
asciilifeform: reading about mircea_popescu going to a recycledfood 'restaurant' was mindmelting
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 23:35 ben_vulpes: ixodes pacificus may someday be a carrier for babiosis
mircea_popescu: i suppose one shouldn't ask what color scipio had anywhere near a marble bust of same amirite.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 23:21 asciilifeform: in other lulzies, https://archive.is/BQ2cK >> 'University Police conducted a search of the building, which yielded no additional posters ... The situation is being investigated as a hate bias incident, she added, encouraging anyone with more information to contact University Police.'
nacci: it seems to be a catch-all for the aches and pains of middle-aged wisdom
ben_vulpes: ixodes pacificus may someday be a carrier for babiosis ☟︎
danielpbarron: lyme disease? was invented a couple towns over from me :D
ben_vulpes: trinque: mircea_popescu mentioned a tick-borne thing, i pointed out that it's not prevalent anywhere near me
nacci: so I do have a deedbot registration from about 6 months ago when i was checking out the eulora buzz
danielpbarron: ah, i did this a couple years ago
asciilifeform: in other lulzies, https://archive.is/BQ2cK >> 'University Police conducted a search of the building, which yielded no additional posters ... The situation is being investigated as a hate bias incident, she added, encouraging anyone with more information to contact University Police.' ☟︎
danielpbarron: i also got OpenBSD on iMac G3 and G5 but they aren't as nice. the G3 i gave up before getting a windows manager, and the G5 has too-new hardware that assumes you run OSX or whatever, the most annoying of which being the fan that defaults to full-throttle unless told to slow down
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-01#1635614 << yep. I put OpenBSD ~5.6 on a iMac G4 (the one that looks like a pixar lamp-creature) ; very nice machine despite how slow it is and how there doesn't seem to be any support for the platform anymore. ☝︎
nacci: is an airgapped farraday cage a prerequisite for deedbot registration?
a111: Logged on 2014-04-28 10:23 cazalla: moiety: didn't see any male midwives while my wife was in hospital (private), i wouldn't mind being a lactation consultant, it was pretty sweet watching the younger ones caress the missus' tits for milk :P
nacci: seems that would be irrelevant in a meritocracy?
asciilifeform: trinque: now this is a point.
trinque: asciilifeform: anyhow neither portage nor ports is a sane build system so I'm not picking an OS based on it.
asciilifeform: this'ere wad of shit is dry enough to put a primitive hut on top. and it turns over very rarely. would like the same on bsd.
trinque: portage is a wad of shit
nacci: if a node can be run securely, the rest of computing can continue the shit show
asciilifeform: i could use a usable openbsd box, for instance.
nacci: would be a bit of a yak-shaving enterprise
nacci: yeah there are some interesting decisions made along the way, such as over a dozen drupal packages. . .
mircea_popescu: a doomed entreprise, obviously. even the more intelligent among the herd are actively laboring to make themselves intolerable and to undermine any possiblity of even vaguely respectable entities sharing their space.
mircea_popescu: that while not all of the us livestock is fit for either sexual slavery or "our democracy" whatever the fuck they would call their current activities ; "raising awareness and waiting for their day" whatever it may be -- nevertheless sexual slavery is a much more legitimate ASPIRATION than whatever they aspire to, namely "our democracy" or "speaking at a conference" or w/e the shit.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 20:07 mircea_popescu: "Each of HomeShare’s hundreds of tenants gets about 55 square feet along with half a closet, half a bathroom, and a compact common area shared with a roommate and usually two other flatmates, slumbering in the unit’s other divided bedroom." << how's this supposed to be preferable to simple, honest to god sexual slavery is anyone's guess.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-17 17:02 mircea_popescu: Framedragger the reason there's a lot of credence in phf's perhaps harsh criticism is http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-make-money-on-the-internet-while-pretending-you-know-what-youre-talking-about-and-accumulating-a-legion-of-mindless-followers-for-fun-and-profit/
mircea_popescu: in any case, dude droning on about "his ideas re evolution" is going to make a very poor impression. as they aren't his fucking ideas, and an apparent ignorance of the whole darwin thing does not plead in favour of either his intelligence or his culture.
mircea_popescu: that's definitionally a mfa, aka "i pick up rss feeds and wordspin for google". except here it's not for google, but for naive civillians.
mircea_popescu: not necessarily. but "here's a bootstrap website" certainly dun qualify.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 18:43 doppler: https://a.uguu.se/8rfgnpehonaT.png << haha, check out my broken fonts
mircea_popescu: "Each of HomeShare’s hundreds of tenants gets about 55 square feet along with half a closet, half a bathroom, and a compact common area shared with a roommate and usually two other flatmates, slumbering in the unit’s other divided bedroom." << how's this supposed to be preferable to simple, honest to god sexual slavery is anyone's guess. ☟︎
jurov: mod6: the treasurer duty is very light one, so it's not a problem at all
mod6: I have no objections at all. Just curious if 'sabbatical' entailed a long enough absense to warrant someone else taking over as Foundation Treasurer.
diana_coman: my understanding is that a position is a person's to claim whenever he wants to/cares to, so sabbatical is certainly not a problem at all
trinque: ftr I don't see a problem with jurov being on sabbatical if he returns
a111: Logged on 2016-04-03 01:59 mircea_popescu: more like a "people responsible enough to understand the difference between 'people on tilt' and 'voices of reason'". otherwise i enjoy talking with a wide selection of folks. women, even!
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> the one other item is ... jurov fell off as lord treasurer. i dun exactly recall why or wherefore ; but he is STILL holding a considerable sum for the foundation, and moreover why sohuldn't he be a lord ? <- based on the work he did/does as far as I know it, I think he should be on the list; that being said, my understanding was that he got dropped due to http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-03#1444966 ☝︎
trinque: one eyed wotmonster grew a beard
doppler: https://a.uguu.se/8rfgnpehonaT.png << haha, check out my broken fonts ☟︎
mthreat: 25k hours is a lot. the highest columbia probably has under 5k hours even today.
asciilifeform: 'The 400 has a certified airframe maximum life of 25,200 flight hours.' << lol!
mthreat: mircea_popescu: i plan to do a bunch of flying to mexico soon. I flew along the rio grande a few weeks ago and my right wing was practically in mexico
mthreat: asciilifeform: you're probably referring to the brand-new price. the cessna 400 is a "certificated" aircraft, which means it costs more because it had to go through more FAA testing
mthreat: actually it technically is a cessna 400 now, since 2008
mircea_popescu: shinohai no, they just don't belong irl. girl has a point.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck can't they call the cessna a cessna
asciilifeform: mthreat: non-retractable?! what do you have, a sopwith camel ?
mthreat: i wouldn't only pack a life vest, i'd wear it the whole flight!
mthreat: water ditchings are pretty survivable, but on a non-retractable plane like mine, the risk of flipping over is real
mircea_popescu: pack a vest.
mthreat: i would, once I get a life raft :)
mircea_popescu: cr is a tiny nation, doesn't need to do anything in particular to survive. but at least they have the intelligence to produce cash crops like coffee rathert than commodity crops like fucking soy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it HAS!!!11 pretenses of industry. if you ask the average fucktard they think themselves an industrialized nation. irl they farm soy and try to borrow for a living.
mircea_popescu: though in fairness the argentines have been argentining for a whole lot longer than cable tv existed. they're just bad stock.
mircea_popescu: i will not set foot in that accursed shithole without a bunch of people carrying pikes
mircea_popescu: can't really have a fucking code of conduct. beyond "don't be offensively stupid" i can'\t imagine. he might even be gay or not wear a tie!
asciilifeform: can lordly hall be a dumpster in alley ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this can't be a consideration can it ?
asciilifeform: i have nothing against jurov, but do wonder why he does nearly all of his speaking in ye olde #b-a
mircea_popescu: the one other item is ... jurov fell off as lord treasurer. i dun exactly recall why or wherefore ; but he is STILL holding a considerable sum for the foundation, and moreover why sohuldn't he be a lord ?
shinohai: Thought my eyes were playing tricks on me this morning, after a long night staring at tits.
mircea_popescu: a ty
asciilifeform: meanwhile, plagiarism of #trilema logz remains a mega-sport, evidently, https://www.blinklight.io/blog/2017-03-31/
shinohai: "If you prefer a grittier vibe, you can put down roots at Potrero 1010, where you can see (and hear) the traffic on I-280 rattle away beneath your window."
deedbot: lobbes rated danielpbarron 2 << A pillar of the current Euloran economy, and longtime Republican. I also enjoyed his Super Mario Brothers 3 article