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mircea_popescu: i didn't get too far with my bloodlust in the romanian collapse,
mircea_popescu: the important point here isn't that such plans exist, as they always do.
undata: I don't deny that there could be foreign interest in stirring this up, but there's plenty of homegrown entitlement and idiocy to go around too
asciilifeform: people aren't fundamentally evil, people are fundamentally stupid << is the desire of homo redditicus to be 'relevant!1!!' - at any and all cost to his betters - 'evil' or 'stupid' ? and how does the difference matter?
undata: I don't see why the Russians have to be involved as boogeyman
mircea_popescu: <BlueMeanie4> in engineering these problems << the agenda is, "send nuland to dance naked in teh lubyanka. we didn't think the ukraine posturing was funny."
mircea_popescu: people aren't fundamentally evil, people are fundamentally stupid.
BingoBoingo: Ah, New York isn't a serious place like St Louis is.
asciilifeform: or which mathemagicians, from what nations, went desaparecido for refusing an offer you can't refuse
undata: asciilifeform: so someone can surely be beaten into this state; what I'm asking is whether they don't become useless as a tool in that state
undata: doesn't this suggest followers which are too sure of "what is" are not good slaves at all?
mircea_popescu: the only reason obama doesn't get a glass shard through the eye is that nobody gives a shit about him and his eye
asciilifeform: walked in. didn't walk out with anyone's head.
mircea_popescu: anyway, didn't some dude just walk into wh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't find it hard to believe us security sucks.
mircea_popescu: tits aren't really required.
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 08:57:03; mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison <<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of those spammy "toolbars" they had for netscape that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
undata: "if works" << that's the whole point, isn't it?
undata: there's a distinction there between one who can lie, and one who doesn't know it's a lie
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't download a car
mircea_popescu: but i don't happen to favour that sort of standard of evidence.
adlai: mircea_popescu: facts don't check out, but 'the story is true': "Chloroform was discovered by accident in 1831 when eccentric American chemist Dr Samuel Guthrie mixed hen house disinfectant with whisky." - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20050728.shtml
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'Thank you folks for your work and I do apologize for the likely barrage of angry and childish emails I suspect you may already be receiving. The concept has attracted a couple of groups who can't accept playing by anyone's rules but their own.' << exactly fucking right.
asciilifeform: can't speak for others, but the thing i personally lack is - elementarily - time.
mike_c: don't get too excited. gribble's a little dumb with the estimates
assbot: The Future of the LispM · f $ [T, T] → T ... ( http://bit.ly/1ygzCFa )
undata: I suppose, though the DOM isn't relevant within it
BingoBoingo: No, you don't
undata: I'm over here hacking clojurescript pretending my hardest that there isn't a browser underneath
undata: burn it to the ground; this field can't be saved
TomServo: I seem to recall someone publishing a form letter to be sent to Lawlsky; I wouldn't be surprised by tons of dupes.
asciilifeform: 'Thank you folks for your work and I do apologize for the likely barrage of angry and childish emails I suspect you may already be receiving. The concept has attracted a couple of groups who can't accept playing by anyone's rules but their own.'
nubbins`: !t m s.mpoe
mircea_popescu: you weren't in any sense and at any point trying to "take over bitcoin", or anything else for that matter.
mircea_popescu: here's a newsflash : idiots defrauded by garza haven't "lost their money trying to take over bitcoin" anymore than the idiots defrauded by buterin & the us propaganda machine through the etherium scam have lost their money "trying to take over bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: it's like the good days of the 90s all over again. "oh, you don't have a computer at home ? THEN YOU CANT PLAY WITH US!"
mod6: *nod* sorry, forgot that the orig wasn't wrapped.
mircea_popescu: all email gets 80 col wrapped, if the original isn't so wrapped you can't get it to ever verify.
mod6: is it because it wasn't wrapped at 80 cols or whatever?
mod6: I sent it... hmm isn't showing up for me in the archive yet
mircea_popescu: looky here : i can't pay teh foundation its tax because i can't link to a justificative document. wtf do i do now ?
jurov: anyone who has a registrar who doesn't give a fuck about trademarks, go ahead
jurov: ben_vulpes mod6 http://thebitcoin.foundation (but the dns didn't propagate yet)
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu "<davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future that has no future date ?" <<< didn't say there shouldn't be a maturity date, i said trading should be continuous
asciilifeform: http://youtu.be/kvm5c1dMmFo?t=4m42s
mircea_popescu: but it won't be this magical laser thing
mircea_popescu: death rays aren't really going anywhere, but anyway
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have to be anymore.
mircea_popescu: "need" doesn't work in this ethereal, abstract way you use it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform food hasn't been a serious geopolitical issue since about 1600.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down. << I embrace it. If the gasenwagen need to burn moar wood to collect me...
decimation: yeah but the us between the coasts (especially east of the mississippi) isn't exactly rural
asciilifeform: homo redditicus has no idea what keeps his habitat habitable until - isn't
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down.
BingoBoingo still amazed white StL people don't realize that bosnians are what keep south city habitable
decimation: asciilifeform: us chechens probably aren't a fan of usg either
BingoBoingo: decimation: The fear that people who aren't white are so pissed at whites they are targeting people most whites don't consider white in spite of optics
decimation: BingoBoingo: the fear being that the Bosnians didn't get the memo that they supposed to do whatever usg or the local thugs demand?
BingoBoingo: A lot of people in the region won't admit it, but yes Bosnians are very white and this worries them.
Vexual: but you don't get to pretend
mircea_popescu: decimation like one did when patriot didn't sunset, right ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> difficulty drops << expect others, as usg torches miner farm after farm. << USG dealing with CHina and Russia, won't seize but torch. Owner torches.
asciilifeform: didn't see it, but read in local rag.
Vexual: don't see much japanese here
mircea_popescu: "Yes, I2P or Tor would work for such a website. Freenet is probably more secure because there are no entry/exit nodes to monitor, but Freesites can only serve static content, and anonymous Bitcoin payments don't have a way to include a message with them."
mircea_popescu: "we know you must convict this guy and won't tell you why or how we found out. sign here."
cazalla: didn't occur to me despite logs earlier
mircea_popescu: yeah srsly, wasn't the bitbet bet here earlier ?
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 19:37:58; asciilifeform: now, if you're willing to live like a feral dog, it isn't even necessary to leave the country. i recall, a few years ago, an article about one fellow who lived in a dugout in a u.s. national park. for ~30 years. he was caught by pure chance.
BingoBoingo: I don't get paid.
asciilifeform: can't help but wonder if tale is allegorical.
asciilifeform: 'My dick piece never came off, but I didn't want it to, either. I found a black boyfriend that year, and so I discovered that the cause of my orgasm wasn't actually Tyrone's pee.'
Vexual: you ain't gonna sell no icecreams
Vexual: I cream truck don't need no windsheild wipers
cazalla: <mike_c> this is what you get for complaining around here. work! <<< there are plenty of bids for s.qntra shares on MPEx. BingoBoingo and I can't cover every single story, I have no intention to sell my own shares so anyone with the inclination to earn a bit of btc can cover what we miss and sell their shares if so desired
mike_c: huh? I don't want to read reddit and other btc news sites. i thought this was whole point of qntra.
BingoBoingo: ALright I've set my timer. If someone else volunteers to do a COinbase has a USD wallet too nao, I won't give it a one sentence writeup.
cazalla: and i don't want to be seen to promote the idea that holding usd on coinbase is a good idea either
mike_c: *no. you couldn't hold USD on coinbase. now you can.
mike_c: now, it wasn't
decimation: I don't think what we do here is 'moldbug studies' but I think the channel is at friendly to some of his conclusions
adlai: guessing here: you don't need a subpoena to browse the internet during an investigation, but you do need it to take that same internet page to court as evidence?
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mircea_popescu: "Hello, sorry if there is another thread for this kind of post, but I couldn't find one. I'm looking for the best and brightest IT pro in the bitcoin community to be the lead developer in a venture backed bitcoin startup company. The ideal candidate would have at least several years of web application development experience, having built applications from the ground up. A solid understanding of oop and software arch
mircea_popescu: it's good he didn't spend all those donations on "forum software" then
asciilifeform: however i can't promise that i'll be there, in that after, the war.
asciilifeform: i can't look at the phoundation figures without spitting with rage.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some reason nobody else wants to. or can. or some combination of these. i can't say.
mircea_popescu: so now since the b-a notary system is down, i can't check on wtf taxes mpoe has to pay
mircea_popescu: which can't happen because hey! where is my nsa letter ?
mircea_popescu: lol stan doesn't want to dream
mircea_popescu: that's clunk, sure, but it wouldn't ever know
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: science died. << "and yet we can't conserve tech in amber".
mircea_popescu: wasn't it reram or something ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus << because ice cream truck does not bring in the income to convert it to galactic ice cream empire.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus.
mircea_popescu: but 31 bit doesn't work anyway. it's either 32 or 16. that's it. you don't get "closer"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't a broom to me, but the 'rifle' i carry every day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know what you're saying, but i think it's much rarer than you make it look, a problem that doesn't take well to chickens.
mircea_popescu: this hasn't somehow magicked away just because whoever likes to sell to the gubmint