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mircea_popescu: yeah, but that doesn't mean anything in context -- there's a "nimblest dancer" at the retirement home, also.
mircea_popescu: remarkably how little press these guys get, considering how much traffic they buy.
mircea_popescu: in other quite abstract lulz : there apparently exists a "cryptocurrency payment processor" (aka,
https://probiller.com/ ) that takes one of "Horizen", "Tron" or "VERGE".
mircea_popescu: so the obvious idea was, "well, produce the seed, ready for next time".
mircea_popescu: perfect opportunity to invent a whole new "fest". but -- need the seed.
mircea_popescu: if anyone recalls, at that time the intended republic-sponsored kegger party at the site of some anti-usg rebellion died over portland's apparent failure to produce beer & sluts under ben_vulpes 's direction.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (in fact, for the sake of transparency, the idea i quoted on dpb's blog, from 2016, came exactly as a "hmm, i wonder why foundation is stuck, could alternative path be explored maybe ?".)
mircea_popescu: so it didn't seem, to period mp, that far fetched a notion.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the correct way to get one of those is to press into service a 60yo lawyer rather than a 30yo computer guy. but in the early stages of bitcoin there was an all-pervasive notion that "we can do anything just because we wanna, we got the range, and the machinery for change, we're uprooting banks and governments and everything in path!!!"
mircea_popescu: the foundation as such would have been, in its functional extension, a sort of secular trishop.church -- exactly like a foundation works, get people to give you money, build a golf course, that sort of anchoring.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, sure, "dark age minimization" is a legitimate way to look at republic (though not necessarily at foundation) from a historian-of-culture perspevtive.
mircea_popescu: mostly cvasi-nonfiction, "here's new paint on arab conflict" etc.
mircea_popescu: to the concrete part : i don't expect your ratings are in any kind of danger, chiefly because i don't know that anyone expects anything specific of you as it is. the original "so take some time off" can still stand as such, and next april you can come off the lordship and all that.
mircea_popescu: some certainly do not. it's not THAT big of a deal ; but i also don't think time per se has anything whatever to do with it, or ever could.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to come the length of this circle : the point of the republic, as an intelectual construct, more generally than mere ideology, is that it'll slowly but surely ratchet into view any one participant's vulnerability. some people find this extremely interesting, perhaps as interesting as to fundamentally change the meaning of life, "i could never live without this".
mircea_popescu: but in terms of substance, rather than representation.
mircea_popescu: well, so what'd be the significant difference between "i ran a foundation doing no outreach by means of this publishing now and again on this obscure cvasi-blog" and "i aim to run an irc network doing no outreach by means of running this ircd here" ?
mircea_popescu: because it is perhaps the case that the point of that discussion (and, concidentally, the reason it discussed percents rather than scalars) was that dedication, rather than actual amounts, were at issue.
mircea_popescu: did you take some time off to change, or did you give us some time off maybe we come to our senses ?
mircea_popescu: well yes, but if you want the conversation format this is the venue ; would you rather article-format ?
mircea_popescu: "different streams", one monitor, ambiguous keyboard focus, etc.
mircea_popescu: i have little faith in the separation, and especially seeing how widespread &2> inanities are.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, there's no tools to be tolerant here, even if there were room for it ideologically. halt it is.
mircea_popescu: something like "The file a is not 7-bit clean. Bytes [line, offset]:content. Continue diffing ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i reckon you're rtight, vdiff should check and report.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about esier, but more productive, you get indices too.
mircea_popescu: easy to make : take file as is, hash, put file through force-8bit-unsetter, hash again. compare and report.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform where the fuck are you pissing unicode quotes into your text!
mircea_popescu: amusinglyt enough, irregardless is bona fide english word.
mircea_popescu: can much readily answer "am i a good lord or not really" now as compardd to 2014. and so it goes.
mircea_popescu: much like the original lords had relatively little to check their work against, but by now there's a decent pile.
mircea_popescu: fg is exactly what diana_coman 's origina keccak was : the FIRST. obviously the 2nd suffers from only having 1 predecesor. but its sufferance is part of the solution : by the time 3rd rolls around there's 2, and so following.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you nuts or what ? can't have "rng with entirely known characteristics"
mircea_popescu: (which, incidentally, is one of the largest fucking pleasures of working with republican material -- not ~only~ do you have to test an item against an ad-hoc test suite, but ~you can also test it against other known artefacts~. it's like wot for objects.)
mircea_popescu: one can throw away a good chunk of the domestic budget just dirtying all the pans, not quite enough material to make a meal but plenty enough to require a washing.
mircea_popescu: the whole impediment to the republic is this slack -- that guy over there has a wheel, this guy over here has an engine, if the wheel met engine you'd have something, however... as it is you have a rotting wheel and an idling engine.
mircea_popescu: be it called "foundation" or "pizarro" or "irc server" or anything the fuck you call it, it'd better not include talking to others, and that's such fundamentally intrinsic braindamage it ain't even getting looked at, let alone addressed. if you merged them, you'd have something again, but they're separate, and well... separately waste.
mircea_popescu: and on in that vein -- that dood has absolutely no compunction spending all of his time talking to the lowest possible crop of nobody on a stick ; meanwhile mod6 wants to spend all his time doing the same thing over and over again -- a little whittling of soap under the covers.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile this dood can't afford to do useful work. if you somehow merged them, you'd have something, but separate they waste separately.
mircea_popescu: "contending for the faith", amirite. that dood could afford to do useful work, but with the affordability comes idiocy, and so he hallucinates nonsensical options for himself. which he'll regret, like any wastrel lives to regret -- but what's the use of regrets, neither do they turn back time nor inform the new crop of youthful wastrels everflowing from the evercunt.
mircea_popescu: every pagliacci feels deep down a burning urge -- HE IS INVENTING CUCKOLDRY!!!! MAKE ROOM!!!
mircea_popescu: kinda the lulzy thing about "popular feeling", that it is at the same time tediously trite in the objective, and then burningly personal in the subjective.
mircea_popescu: there was a bunch of them, the lulziest characters. ex port-worker (not even fucking kidding), and then ~completely ignorant~
of history, too!
mircea_popescu: this particular schmuck kept a little corner kiosk sellign chewing gum & such. you've seen the manner in paraguay i imagine. then went bankrupt, and "rediscovered" himself as a public speaker.
mircea_popescu: romania had a bunch of ~same suddenly become "bloggers" and whatnot, "influencers" cca 2007 or so.
mircea_popescu: you recall how bitcoin had a buncha ex-lumberjacks / drunks / vagrants etc suddenly become "respectable businessmen" cca 2012 ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno abgout that, i never felt like blogging on pico.
mircea_popescu: "I say GENEVA, and you hear HELSINKI?!? YOU'RE FIRED BOB!!!!"