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mod6: what's up thestringpuller
decimation: "But as the campaign has gained national popularity, its detractors have bristled at the effort, calling it a politically correct war on words that will stifle free speech and suggesting its true aim is to redefine terms to control public opinion and ? ultimately ? public policy."
mircea_popescu: (.) and (|) will be the new digits.
mircea_popescu: balanced ternary. because lezzies are 10x more likely to live threesomes than heterosexual scum
asciilifeform: these folks have sailed over the 'parody horizon' long ago - anything's possible.
mircea_popescu: by the way, did you hear about the renaming of semesters at mit ?
asciilifeform: mr m & co got a few $mil from vc. i admit that i check back on these folks only in hope of being the first to see when they get sued by a 'diversity' werker for strong typing systems being sexist or whatnot.
mircea_popescu: i recall this exact derpage published by... whatever, some libertard legal blog.
mircea_popescu: "When people’s lives and careers are subject to litmus tests, and fired if they do not publicly renounce what may well be their sincere conviction, we have crossed a line. This is McCarthyism applied by civil actors. "
mircea_popescu: it's only the insufferably devilish nature of the mothers that ruined it, otherwise being cool is straightforward.
asciilifeform: 'immutable data,' 'strong typing,' etc. - all crud invented by mathemasturbators in their efforts to pretend that they are proving theorems
mircea_popescu: which was, obviously, quite an easy task, too.
mircea_popescu: and, of course, swearing to do so much better.
mircea_popescu: were daughters hating their mothers for being insufferable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, all women currently hated by their daughters for being insufferable
asciilifeform: at any rate, the hilariously funny bit about urbit is that mr. m wrote volumes condemning american academia, pseudo-mathematics in algorithmics, etc. - and then proceeded to crap out a widget emblematic of same.
decimation: I guess it's better to have learned and lost than never to have known at all
mircea_popescu: hehe i'm grateful for not having to explain it.
decimation: except, there are only so many minutes in one's life
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a soviet variant, where the 'horned man', an old army officer, answers 'better to eat honey in company than - shit, by one's lonesome'
mircea_popescu: provided the stuff finds its way out too.
mircea_popescu: heads are cunts, swallowing shit whole doesn't hurt them any,
mircea_popescu: the old man is a little amused. "so what of it ? you think cunt is made of soap, to run out with use ?"
mircea_popescu: one day the rancher takes the old guy aside and points out to him that the woman is a paragon of indiscretion, with all the discretion and awkward shyness you'd expect out of a true blue american.
mircea_popescu: everyone fucked her, all the cowboys, all the farm hands...
decimation: yeah one of the unfortunate features of modern electrical engineering is that you find you often invest your soul only to get chickenfeed in return
mircea_popescu: at this ranch in new mexico, a very old mexican man with a very young and incredibly slutty wife lived.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the story of the woman and the soap ?
asciilifeform: i swallowed all of that crud whole, as it came out of the arse! who's gonna pay that back.
decimation: I realized that learning emacs/lisp/forth would be much more profitable
decimation: for a few days I entertained the idea of learning his crazy rune language
decimation: yeah I saw that. I think you profited on the deal
peterl: mircea_popescu: having somebody actively market making for the fund should also encourage lively trading, I think
asciilifeform: i sold me moldboat for scrap iron, but still check on them occasionally.
asciilifeform: it's still there, pumping valiantly to stay above waterline.
artifexd: mircea_popescu: Do you expect to increase the fee again?
peterl: mpex fee startd at free, then it was 20, now 30. coinbr used to cost more per month
asciilifeform: decimation: mr. m sold his arse to the vc circus
mircea_popescu: peterl given that theres so much info available about how the various pcs are doing, i imagine there should be some lively trading going on
artifexd: peterl How does that work? The MPEx fee is/was/will be 30btc, right? Has the coinbr fee changed over time?
decimation: as you have found, moldbug himself is extremely reluctant to take any action that might have second or third-order effects that displease USG
asciilifeform: 'if not you then who, if not now, then when...' etc
asciilifeform: decimation: i'm a believer in 'propaganda by the deed'
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mircea_popescu: !up toddf
peterl: artifexed: and the mpex entry fee trends upward, while the coinbr fee trends downward
decimation: I think you are doing more about the situation than most
mircea_popescu: decimation the way it works, as far as the orthodox tradition is concerned, catholicism is a bunch of ridiculous simplifications and barbaric nonsense.
asciilifeform: what a thrill.
asciilifeform: decimation: they remind me of the soviet-era 'kitchen dissidents.' yeah, let's sit around and chat about how much brezhnev sucks.
decimation: yeah, but he's among the few of them that has original thoughts
artifexd: The monthly fee bothered me until I realized that it would take over 130 years for that fee to equal the MPEx entry fee.
asciilifeform: decimation: i sorta got bored with the moldbugista folks
decimation: he is among the most impressive bloggers I have read
decimation: ascii did you evern meet that "nydwracu" guy in your DC travels? I think he went to college park
BingoBoingo: artifexd: It's a nice thing for using MPEx as a consumer
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask peterl!~peterl@108-204-237-26.lightspeed.sgnwmi.sbcglobal.net. Trust relationship from user artifexd to user peterl: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=artifexd&dest=peterl | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=peterl | Rated since: Wed Apr 16 17:10:12 2014
peterl: seems to work nicely
decimation: One could argue that they are mostly in the "big tent (john 3:16)" but any of the ancient fathers would have turned them over to be flogged
mircea_popescu: these are christians in the sense penguins are awks.
decimation: and the dispensationalists
decimation: Yes, read about the postmillenals some time
mircea_popescu: and the silliest sects too.
mircea_popescu: how is "christians" a thing even. the us is mostly neoprotestants,
decimation: It's not going to happen, and when it does, you people will deserve it.
asciilifeform: his tale, people were always saying to him 'get a fscking handle'
decimation: The Law Of Merited Impossibility is an epistemological construct governing the paradoxical way overclass opinion makers frame the discourse about the clash between religious liberty and gay civil rights. It is best summed up by the phrase, ?It?s a complete absurdity to believe that Christians will suffer a single thing from the expansion of gay rights, and boy, do they deserve what they?re going to get.?
asciilifeform: recently had occasion to meet herr handle, who wore his medals
decimation: http://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/liberalism-schafft-sich-ab/ handle explains this stuff pretty well here
decimation: DId you ever read Asimov's Foundation? The part about the tech-men?
decimation: even the supposed security priests tell the people this
peterl: anybody want to speculate: will MPIF be actively traded like MPOE, or will it be a snoozer like the other stocks on mpex?
asciilifeform: eat the heart of a lion for courage, of hyena for endurance, etc.
asciilifeform: if you want a quasi-rational understanding of this crap, realize that rsa corp. actually sells
decimation: still; why would someone like yubikey watch bob and say "I want me some of that?"
decimation: apparently most folks can't tell the difference between a bridge and a pile of raped goats anyway
asciilifeform: bridges still need to be built << nah, we can cross the water on dead goats.
decimation: I guess if bob can convince people that his goat orgy is a secure bridge, then he's good to go
asciilifeform: if you can understand how this works, you understand usa.
decimation: right, but bridges still need to be built
asciilifeform: decimation: bob can fuck ten thousand goats, and he's still bob the bridge-builder.
decimation: how is that possibly in their interests?
mike_c: ah, the forum is just not worth reading without mpoe-pr. "On average your investment of one BTC on that platform will have yielded about 0 BTC (dividends included) by Autumn."
asciilifeform: decimation: wanna try a real mindfuck?
decimation: asciilifeform: I think the RSA keyfob hack demonstrates your point about yubikey perfectly
mike_c: this will in no way create a black hole that takes all ur coinz.
mike_c: there is going to be a stock that tracks the fund that tracks the bitcoin economy as a whole.
peterl: mircea_popescu: mpex.co still lists S.MPIF as upcoming, shouldn't that be removed now that there is a link to F.MPIF in the "funds" section?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla this.
pankkake: while I should know that simple rule, it just doesn't stick
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu what is this even
mircea_popescu: if subject is singular verb takes s. if plural, not.
pankkake: yes, better. the second consists should have a s though?
mircea_popescu: i like the part where you actually use the rfc ~may~ etc conventions
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, the ny mayor is now communist, that guy is teaparty.
benkay: mircea_popescu: why chase pennies from paupers when there are guys out there willing to spend single-digit integer fractions of btc for tits?
gribble: What do you think I am, a shell?
moiety: paper wallets would come pre-shredded tho