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mircea_popescu: generally, the sort of overgrown boy that doesn'
t shoot his own horse is in no position to pick anything. woman picks like at the fair.
mircea_popescu: "So it is inevitable that a deal will be struck by August 2, because that deal doesn'
t actually mean anything. This a is husband and wife arguing about rebalancing the household budget, each pretending they aren'
t going to pay the electric until he's agreed to cut back on beer and she's agreed not to be such a bitch. Whether they do it or not is irrelevant, the electric's still getting paid. The electric always gets
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal most of what the man ever writes is golden. and unlike derps like moldbug or orlov, he a) isn'
t putting annoyingly self-advertising and b) doesn'
t actually have a pro-state agenda
decimation: m. danton's sans-culottes didn'
t need laws or instructions to know who their enemies were and what to do
mircea_popescu: he Man (but with no pension.) That's the system. Cut SSI payments and those docs-- and nurses and etc-- don'
t get paid."
mircea_popescu: "The system not only pays poor people, it employs lots and lots of almost poor people. I'm not saying this is a good thing, or a desirable thing, I am simply stating a fact. Some of these are direct government jobs (e.g. staff down at the SSI office) and some are pretend private sector jobs. If you're a psychiatrist at an inner city clinic, you may think you're an independent contractor, but you're really working for
T ☟︎ decimation: similarly, usg civil servants don'
t find much reason to bother with actual work, when coolies will do - often for free
decimation: asciilifeform: I suppose just setting the clock based on the timestamp of the last block seen on bootup isn'
t such a bad idea
decimation: asciilifeform: doesn'
t bitcoind occasionally need wallclock time for its orphan & 'peak' algorithms?
mats: I'm disappointed that The Imitation Game didn'
t go with the murder theory
TheNewDeal: didn'
t realize it, but apparently it's possible to declare a snow emergency in the euniched states and make it illegal for anyone other than police and medical personell to use the streets
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> can'
t say as i get it. either one owns btc or one doesn'
t. << one either owns real estate or doesn'
t. where does that leave the teenagers, inhabiting comfortable middle class homes they can'
t afford, and not even having to suck cock for it, like they will a decade down the road ?
mod6: and im wondering, if we use kalvin, and start at 9000 (it'll result in v0.0.90-beta) how we can ensure that other nodes won'
t think we're on < 0.8
ben_vulpes: can'
t say as i get it. either one owns btc or one doesn'
t.
mircea_popescu: moar like, "welcome to we also use windows, because stupidity doesn'
t stink, nor hurt."
ben_vulpes: oh the board doesn'
t have their shit together with regards to the employee pool?
mircea_popescu: you can'
t find five argentines to rob a bank with, let alone do actual work.
ben_vulpes: i suppose you people also don'
t ask to see the cap table, and when told "that's privileged" don'
t turn around and walk out.
mircea_popescu: whether the woman was involved or wasn'
t, the ss should get beheaded and well shook up after this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy wasn'
t some sort of bright young thing
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> can'
t use time of last block then << that's where i caught
ben_vulpes: mkay, well i published a patch that bumps to 0.5.3.1, don'
t know if you saw that
mod6: that shouldn'
t be a huge problem. bbiab -- we can talk about that part a bit more.
nubbins`: oddly, i haven'
t received any more PMs since casually mentioning WC's actual job in a post
mircea_popescu: but who knows, right ? it's "not decided yet". he's not come here to have his construction taken apart ; the fork's not actually been destroyed in the field, and "we don'
t know for sure it's a scam" etc.
mircea_popescu: "Your statement that the new fork won'
t succeed is nothing but speculation, your guess is only worth as much as anyone else's. No one can claim with any certainty that they know what's going to happen." << late to that party.
thestringpuller: "Don'
t you know? Human beings become omniscient, infallible gods the moment they begin accepting a paycheck from the state."
pete_dushenski: anyways gang, i'm off. don'
t wear out those keyboards while i'm gone!
danielpbarron: too expensive to run a full node? aren'
t you one of the ones trying to make the blocks bigger?
mircea_popescu: somehow the obvious "bitch, if you piss in the bed you will be digging ditches naked 18 hours a day for the next five years." isn'
t quite obvious to gchq angry children.
mircea_popescu: mats: former-head-gchq-warns-ethically-worse-kinds-spying-if-unbreakable-encryption-is-allowed << asswipes in temper tantrum mode. "if we don'
t get chocolate we will piss in the bet"
thestringpuller: hanbot: this reminds me of my college where guise didn'
t know anything about this socializing thing.
davout: hanbot: i agree, the rectangles have merely made shy people more visible where shyness doesn'
t actually matter
mircea_popescu: scalpl's irrelevant in this discussion, people don'
t care about it, people just care "i'm investing with adlai and he keeps the thing going"
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin's thought-leader hangs out with people who pay underage girls for sex?" wut exactly is this ? i don'
t hang out with reddit...
Adlai: it shouldn'
t *need* anything beyond the current full node. if some fancier spv node wants bloom filters, put 0.9.bloom on its box and have it just listen to the safe node
Adlai: which is exactly why spying shouldn'
t be automated. maybe there's a situation where a person feels justified listening in on a conversation without explicit permission, but that call shouldn'
t be made in advance by a bureaucrat for every single conversation unto eternity
Apocalyptic: I don'
t know there is such a thing as "ethical spying", the whole formula must be a joke
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 16:38:23; asciilifeform: Adlai: darcs << as a military man, perhaps you are familiar with systems that could be automated easily, but aren'
t? e.g., ru nuke sub controls
Adlai: also, i'm not yet a Serenissima Accreddited™ Investor, and that kind of coin isn'
t exactly burning holes in my wallet; so if this is to happen before the next major fiat devaluation...
Adlai: right. you need an exchange to scalp, but you don'
t *need* to trade the bonds
Adlai: you don'
t even need the exchange!
Adlai: i guess you don'
t even need shares if it's bonded in this manner, it can just be a bond directly between the exchange owner and depositors
Adlai: the eradication of a disease doesn'
t signal the end of medicine, just a change of "tastes". same for art's prescriptions
Adlai: yeah it doesn'
t make much sense because it's a stupid pursuit, i'm hunting out floating point arithmetic now that scalpl needs to quack a little less like a prototype
Adlai: i wasn'
t bringing this up as "look at coinbase, they're doing something!", but as "maybe i can help your thing do its stuff better" (setting aside the bit about deedbot doubling as a faucet, which works fine in the current method)
mircea_popescu: unsigned code doesn'
t exist. "ideas" never happened. etc.
mircea_popescu: i simply don'
t care what some derps not in the wot think they have to say.
mircea_popescu: it's not how to do deeds efficiently, it's how to include people you don'
t know. i am not interested.
hanbot: i'm only surprised it wasn'
t another "child pornography" circus
coderwill: people may have some type of vesting now that they announced they had that 30 million raise, i don'
t know though
coderwill: i don'
t think so, it appears they are hiring after closing the round
mircea_popescu: basically, they wish to be one of those vc scams where "it can'
t be proven they have no market share" and so... safe investment.
punkman: yeah I can'
t disagree with that
ben_vulpes: seriously though, sounds great. can'
t wait to give it a whirl.
gabriel_laddel: though from a rating perspective, I don'
t think it matters if I wait until I release the distro
mircea_popescu: mats> whoa, xanga. i haven'
t seen that name in almost a decade. << that azn chick still blogs on it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski> mp can'
t, gotta have twitter << twitter, this single shot rifle
thestringpuller: didn'
t know you were the channel car guy, but again guess I haven'
t done my reading
thestringpuller: rap couldn'
t truly save the maybach, but it's one of those dream cars that actually fulfills the dream from my limited experience at least.
pete_dushenski: the tesla model s couldn'
t have been anything other than "the best piece of engineering since apollo 11"
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: Yah! Because of people like Dylan, we can'
t have nice things.
mats: whoa, xanga. i haven'
t seen that name in almost a decade.
mircea_popescu: the usg is not going to like people fucking up its shit. that's not changing. google isn'
t going to start acting like anything but a usg agent. that's also not changing. what are teh staffers in question expect will happen, or expected will have happened ?
CoraCrisT: and don`
t forget "the marketing plan" . they have all figured out it seems
mircea_popescu: can'
t fucking find well known sets that are all over the interwebs.
decimation: mircea_popescu: one wonders why newspapers haven'
t caught onto this idea
mircea_popescu: this is why you don'
t want "universal suffrage" : it makes politics a matter of emo manipulation, like marketing.