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hanbot: oh i know how
to undo stanford university, ya just walk around campus in a Cal sweatshirt.
mircea_popescu: make
the foundation undo stanford university, i'll be happy.
hanbot: i mean, is it meant
to be a chute-to-l1 or simply doesn't get enough lifeform contact?
hanbot: how much does
the "person-ness" of
those "people interact(ing) with it" matter, if at all?
mircea_popescu: (and, amusingly enough,
the founding donation was a whole of a lot less
than 10 bitcoin, also.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this means,
to live. if stanford university
today were nothing more
than an entry in
the rich guy's lawyer's workledger, it'd not live. as it is, it lives.
mircea_popescu: however, it ~actually exists~,
today. plenty of people interact with it
that might not even have heard of
the douche in question or his insufferable drowned son
mircea_popescu: stanford university exists because a rich dood
took some money out of his pocket, stuffed it in a bag and wrote "Stanford university" on it.
hanbot: asciilifeform actually in principle i very much am interested. i'm not sure i fully grasp what it's supposed
to do beyond making
trb available
tho'...if "fruit"'s so far unsatisfactory, what's good fruit look like?
☟︎ mats: openstreetmap with predownloaded locality maps on android
tablet works well
mod6: I will do so formally after
the Pizarro report is complete. We will be needing
to find a replacement for myself as Co-Chair.
mod6: After a lot of consideration
this weekend, I'm still interested in stepping down as Foundation Co-Chair.
mod6: I'll be working on
the Pizarro report over
the next few days. After which
time, I'll start looking into creating a keccak version of
the
TRB
tree.
BingoBoingo: Because
the locals are shit at giving directions
mircea_popescu: if you don't know how
to get
to
toilet, you have problems gizmos won't fix ; and if going anywhere else why
the fuck are you by yourself.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 22:49 asciilifeform: paper map worx best if you have a fulltime navigator
tho, in my experience.
mircea_popescu: eh, van schman. but yes, sitting down and
thinking about it it became obvious enough
that it's not all
that clear
to me neither what problem i'm supposedly solving nor why exactly what i'm doing is a solution. suddenly looked like so much wasted effort.
mircea_popescu: not necessarily a matter of client being porous,
though it ~is~ freenode.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, seems a great way
to go about
things,
theoretically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz it was becoming a pain in
the ass. always
this work/reward paradigm, i
tried it out for a while but eventually seemed meh.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 21:22 mircea_popescu: "i didn't really pay for
this book" is symmetrical with "amazon stole
the item i bought out of my '''shelf'''", provided you use pantsuit definitions of
the
terms. since when
the fuck is random usg asignee getting "paid" for shit some unrelated
third party meanwhile deceased did ?
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 20:46 mircea_popescu: can't see
the former as anything but "i stupidly gave my data away
to some schmuckfarm which now owns me", but
then again i don't solobike nor have any interest in navigating-by-map, either i know where i'm going or i'm exploring. but anyways, we don't have
to copy each other.
Mocky: can-am's,
trikes for old bikers who can't balance on
two wheels anymore with bertha on
the back
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 21:23 Mocky: at&t.
they gave me
the phone and I pay monthly. interest free loan basically
Mocky: driving down
the street in
the middle of austin like he owned
the place
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2018-09-30 19:20 mircea_popescu:
the us is still very much a rural item, most dwellers
tend
to spread out roots like
that. consider ben_vulpes 's been working for MONTHS at disentangling a household
that includes no acres of 100 x 100 missile launch
tubes, no
train of slavegirls, nothing much more
than
the migration unit of great depression period.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 20:08 Mocky: I saw
there's a harley store in Montevideo. one in Doha as well
Mocky: made me
think of 'British PM fucks pig on live
TV' from black mirror
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 19:44 mircea_popescu: Mocky he means
that he's
too loose and fat
to be able
to
take off for qatar on any budget he can conceive of.
mircea_popescu: the usg
that "is" gotta pay
to continue
to somewhat-get
to claim it exists.
mircea_popescu: we're not discussing an imaginary alt-usg "as it could have been". we are discussing
the usg
that is.
Mocky: it does break
the comparison. but I still don't see it
Mocky: but i imagine few who go into brothel and get paid by
the whores
mircea_popescu: there are also folk
to go
to
the brothel
to please
the whores. it's not forbidden.
Mocky: it's been a hell of a lot of me paying
them and scant
them paying me
mircea_popescu: at&t, like any other usg agency, is not a business in any sense. it is a conduit whereby
the usg pays people
the rent it owes for
the continuance of its (otherwise baseless) pretense
to existence.
Mocky: at&t.
they gave me
the phone and I pay monthly. interest free loan basically
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's no fucking symmetry. only subjects capable of ownership are in
the wot.
there is no franchise, meaning no voice and no ~capacity of ownership~ outside of wort.
mircea_popescu: "i didn't really pay for
this book" is symmetrical with "amazon stole
the item i bought out of my '''shelf'''", provided you use pantsuit definitions of
the
terms. since when
the fuck is random usg asignee getting "paid" for shit some unrelated
third party meanwhile deceased did ?
☟︎ Mocky: re unlocking phone, hey if
there was a reliable unlock procedure for my phone model I'd
take it, but I've failed
to find one. 'I don't really own it' is symmetrical with 'I haven't really paid for it'
mircea_popescu: anyway, airbnb not necessarily bad, might be able
to meet useful people
too.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 17:54 Mocky: anyway I decided
to skip
the hostel cuz 100% indian laborer gulag barracks, and went for air bnb room with door lock and kitchen/laundry access
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-30#1856041 << me (&chet) stopped overnight into one such item, on
the mexico-guatemala border. endless halls of clean but modest beds, dozen or so
to
the room. place could've prolly quartered a whole regiment, but not
the right agricultural moment so we were alone in
the whole
thing. it was pretty eerie anyways.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 15:19 Mocky: asciilifeform, diana_coman: my phone's not paid off so can't unlock. maybe
those hundies
that could pay it off will find a better use in
the short
term, so
that's why cheap second phone. and yeah, roaming
turned off.
mircea_popescu: can't see
the former as anything but "i stupidly gave my data away
to some schmuckfarm which now owns me", but
then again i don't solobike nor have any interest in navigating-by-map, either i know where i'm going or i'm exploring. but anyways, we don't have
to copy each other.
☟︎ Mocky: and maps with
turn by
turn directions while on bike and can't handle a map...
Mocky: computing on phone for me has a couple of big wins. one is my workout app with 5 years of weight lifting logs useful while in
the gym ~every day.
the other is weather app
that shows rainfall prediction graph at your location by
the minute for next hour. priceless info for biker
mircea_popescu: a waffle maker
that can add is an unremarkable waffle maker and a very bad mathematician.
mircea_popescu: stop
trying
to compute on phone, folks, seriously now. it's bad for your wrists and bad for your sanity. make waffles in waffle maker, phone on phone, computer on computer.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-30 14:39 BingoBoingo:
That works
too. Just
try
to price phones
there, it will likely be cheaper
to pick up
the cheap unlocked deal before you depart