75900+ entries in 1.839s

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
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.
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
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don'
t find it hard to believe us security sucks.
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: but i don'
t happen to favour that sort of standard of evidence.
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.
mike_c: don'
t get too excited. gribble's a little dumb with the estimates
undata: I suppose, though the DOM isn'
t relevant within it
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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
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: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: science died. << "and yet we can'
t conserve tech in amber".
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"
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