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ben_vulpes: "don'
t put yr pennies down, kid. you'll just lose 'em".
decimation: so my question is: why doesn'
t this happen in the us - all sorts of crazy 'reforms' are pushed down by the center
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: well that doesn'
t sound like any fun now
mircea_popescu: "Now, supposing a financial oligarchy has seized control of the country, and, since it can'
t control its own appetites" such nonsense. what appetites ?
decimation: yeah but I don'
t think it 'wants to fail' because of a secret cabal of financiers
cazalla: just because you missed some earlier, doesn'
t mean you can repeat newer ones to make up for it scoopbot
mike_c: maybe i won'
t get the worst price of everyone for the conference.
trinque: doesn'
t seem like the cold war ever ended
ascii_field: didn'
t happen with chechen because they look (to americans - of course) like ordinary europeans
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you're starting to understand why the us can'
t win.
trinque: I considered things like "key/deed pulling guy can'
t see btcd's RPC"
BingoBoingo: If it wasn'
t going to be targeted it wouldn'
t be much of a registrar
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeh, these pastebins aren'
t a great place for history
mircea_popescu: well in this case it's plaintext. but srsly, we have no good reason nor a standing policy to force everyone to use pastebins we don'
t own.
thestringpuller: haven'
t seen you in awhile davout. how's things on the other side of the pond?
trinque: mircea_popescu: it just doesn'
t trust that domain
davout: doesn'
t it have to be clearsigned?
chetty: <mircea_popescu> i don'
t think even reagan would have considered - considered! mind you - trying for a free market in army services.// its not a free market he is trying its a crony market
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the point I originally made is that they're not funding people to convert .pdfs etc. becuase thats not the kind of people they are. I shouldn'
t have sent 19:04, it adds nothing to the conversation.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think even reagan would have considered - considered! mind you - trying for a free market in army services.
mircea_popescu: well, the principle of x isn'
t conducive of the situation of y.
gabriel_laddel: 19:01 << you don'
t have to /say/ that. "We think this is a serious overreach of federal power, and ..."
mats: i suspect they couldn'
t amass enough willing troops
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2014 13:48:54; mircea_popescu: well sure. i don'
t propose the chinese are racially ugly.
gabriel_laddel: Anyways, this is what I have in mind when I say "new format" - and no, I don'
t think the 'adults' would be happy about a program that converts arbitary PDFs into this sort of program, as evidenced by no bezzle barons funding Aaron Swartz's legal defense.
gabriel_laddel: I should have better defined what I mean by "useful format": all the citations must be clickable, and when you click on them, they open up the linked paper, or tell you where it is located (i.e., behind a paywall). I don'
t want plaintext output, but rather a better format with the exact same formatting as the original pdf that allows me to click, drag-and-drop and add new content. The authors etc should all be progr
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> i don'
t buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat << more importantly, isis EXISTS because it was born out of the *previous* iteration of "we didn'
t really get our asses handed to us like little girls, we were really AIMING to be face down, feet in the air"
BingoBoingo: Perhaps he doesn'
t trust his brain to "brainwallet" strong passwords
gabriel_laddel: Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn'
t much of the discussion in this channel based on the assumption that usg is going to fall apart?
ben_vulpes: i don'
t buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat to the us (and all client states) and they desire desperately to wipe it out.
ben_vulpes: didn'
t they just retain some 20k unseasoned mercs to go after a mob of kalash-equipped pashtuns?
ben_vulpes: i probably didn'
t know enough to make it work when i attempted it.
ben_vulpes: those who do in these parts - aren'
t interested in novel strategies or applications of commodity technology
mircea_popescu: kinda win-win situation, if they try to rescue the scam foundation they will fail, if they don'
t you know we scare them.
thestringpuller: this doesn'
t mean the customer base is anything other than homo redditicus
jurov: they can'
t sell for over 350k btc.. << or else? you'll keep selling as many D.CBSE as necessary?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> that's what D.CBSE price implies << actually, no, the price implies they can'
t sell for over 350k btc at the time they sell.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don'
t believe they can IPO it at > 46 million? << you realise this round was utterly dillutive right ?
jurov: i dunno, just asking. and don'
t want to tie more bitcoins for indeterminate time in D.CBSE, either.
jurov: imo they can'
t afford to wait either
jurov: and i'm curious why mircea thinks that won'
t ever happen
jurov: you don'
t believe they can IPO it at > 46 million?
jurov: haven'
t seen it discussed here
mircea_popescu: i see the guy's been pouring out a coupla million words, which is more than moldbug, but i won'
t be bothering to actually read the shit, it's too stale.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 15:38:39; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu with regard to the 'abuse of statistical devices' outlined in note iii, the accomplished master of the art is a fellow named yudkowsky (search #b-a log). he isn'
t an idiot, bastard knows exactly what he's doing, and his cult is a veritable vacuum trap for thinking folks
thestringpuller: D2 was kinda like crack. You played it, didn'
t know why, and before you knew it you were hooked.
cazalla: i didn'
t play much lod which from memory brought runes
mircea_popescu: and so are plenty of other things. the guardian and washpo and the rest of the buzzfeed carrion crawlers aren'
t up there because they favorably compete with qntra on some sort of machine basis
thestringpuller: ^- didn'
t he end up eating green eggs and ham at the end of the book?
mircea_popescu: anyway, some comments in the general, for the aspiring writer : a) the most important weapon in the quiver of the scammer, which is what all fiction is, is misdirection. you were being misdirected into thinking harry potter should have agency by all the insistence on how he doesn'
t. (look up chekov's gun, while at it). the correct solution of a problem of agency is to attack the agent.
thestringpuller: "When Francine tells Stan she wishes he hadn'
t spent all their savings, he says he needed to spend money to make money. Francine then says that Stan didn'
t make any money, which Stan says implies that he didn'
t spend any money either"
BingoBoingo: I dunno that hadoop does anything that can'
t be doen better with key value stores
fluffypony: Hadoop doesn'
t have anything remotely resembling a blockchain
ben_vulpes: we don'
t even have computers that cooperate.
gabriel_laddel: ^ ascii, I've mentioned this idea to 3 people - all reject it on grounds of "it can'
t be that easy, my school had all sorts people working on these problems and they never thought of it"
mircea_popescu: afaik the woman's idea was "hey, what if we made robots capable of altering their own geometry, that way they won'
t have to be pre-programmed"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you didn'
t end up beaten as a result of this ?
gabriel_laddel: He presented someone else's program as his own. They didn'
t check, being fuckwits, but eventually found out.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> and blondy in black dress over there's almost hawt. << reminds me of the intro line newcomers to pdx-burningman were subjected to without fail for years, presumably if the political correctness mob hasn'
t gotten to them yet still are: "are you hot?"
mircea_popescu: omg you buncha antisocial haters. you can'
t have a mentor or anything ?
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: they don'
t want them to e.g., make a napster
gabriel_laddel: well, in truth the Thiel fellowship doesn'
t even give it all away at once
mircea_popescu: ah, i a) didn'
t actually need the money ; b) wasn'
t really about the money per se anyway