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rithm: if you didn'
t blink an eye and give it two seconds thought, who is to say it happened
mircea_popescu: as in, you know, rather than book a loss, pretend like it never happened. because if you don'
t agree it happened, it didn'
t really happen.
mircea_popescu: then i lent him some btc he couldn'
t repay, specifically for this purpose
adlai: this is true, it's quite distressing, this lack of fungibility... I can pay somebody else for their time, but I can'
t buy mine back
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform << elaborate plz << what's to say really ? brains aren'
t made for thinking specifically anymore than html is made for the web. they just got pressed into this service.
adlai: there are probably better ways to watch that clip/episode, but I definitely can'
t send you a url to an external HD that isn'
t even connected
pete_dushenski: maybe in the sense that brains aren'
t rational computers of ev ?
adlai: I doubt people would be proud of such kickbacks, but shame doesn'
t stop people from peddling shit from carts in malls all over the world... this is just a few steps further, a few degrees further on the frog-boiling scale
ben_vulpes: re qntra advertising: advertising is downright wacky. the numbers say "don'
t do it" and yet people are constantly doing it.
jurov: apparently mpex.ws can'
t be resolved
mircea_popescu: no it doesn'
t. charlemagne wasn'
t a blacksmith, and a thousand years later the orleans that WAS a blacksmith made a shitty king
adlai doesn'
t see "work with computers" as a good candidate for excellent depth
mircea_popescu: yeah but it doesn'
t actually matter which specifically it means.
adlai: my problem with me is that I don'
t know what I want to learn next
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: kakobrekla: no you don'
t understand unless it's a perfect solution it's entirely worthless << lawl.
mircea_popescu: you;'re smart, the problem with you is that you don'
t know much.
mircea_popescu: they didn'
t use to teach monkeys and donkeys letters back then, for one.
mircea_popescu: some esl kid on the fringe of culture nevertheless believes that "as a Category", X "shouldn'
t be fun".
adlai: they don'
t have to cost money if you can dress it up as a service you sell the ISP
adlai imagines that the author is french and forgot the
t adlai: nubbins`: "you can'
t not communicate". that would say that either the owner of that domain is a liar, and said at that time that he hates newfies, or that bot has become unreliable.
mike_c: yes, but qntra posts don'
t have graphs
adlai: so the bot doesn'
t say, "the entire document fetched from <url> hashed to <hash>"
nubbins`: so we trust that the bot fetches text from a website and doesn'
t alter it and hashes it and sends dust to the address
adlai: nubbins`: the bot's signature on a file isn'
t proof-of-existence, it's proof-of-that-server-said-this-to-me-at-that-time
adlai: no, that's "I created some file, and the bot isn'
t agreeing with it"
mircea_popescu: no, because something you can'
t verify isn'
t something, it's chtulhu.
nubbins`: "hey man the bot didn'
t pick up my file"
adlai: don'
t kick the baby
adlai: nubbins`: think what through? you can change whatever you want in your own browser, but you can'
t change the communication between bot and server without compromising somethnig
adlai: that wouldn'
t work unless I could change the document that punkman's bot fetched
punkman: nubbins`: preview before bundling, so you make sure it didn'
t need JS enabled when you only asked for HTML
adlai: how do you know I haven'
t told them about him?
mircea_popescu: adlai what i don'
t get is : some group is trying to do something punkman already did, and we're using.
adlai won'
t look at those until they're on bloomberg (due to customer demand)
adlai: don'
t forget to label your keys too
nubbins` puts on a
t-shirt with his home address and times when he will be away from his house, then goes to buy drugs w/ gold coins
adlai suspected something of the sort, but hasn'
t yet received his jump-to-conclusions mat
mircea_popescu: srsly nao, isn'
t it obvious by now, whenever immutability is achieved without a db, a hash was involved ?
adlai doesn'
t have dementia, yet
adlai: you don'
t need a database to associate pending payments to their dust amount?
mircea_popescu: adlai anything can happen, but if you don'
t need a database you have less exposure to the things that can happen.
adlai: and this can'
t happen with a shitty implementation (or user error) of discrimination based on dust-level change?
adlai refuses to link the site because they don'
t deserve the publicity of getting laughed at
adlai: first time I didn'
t mention it, second time I mentioned it but it was back by the time you asked "wonky how"
adlai: they don'
t all display on the main page, sometimes all do, sometimes one or two missing. sometimes they're missing from the asset page too.
nubbins`: well don'
t ever buy him any silly putty
adlai: well erowid doesn'
t accept btc in the same way as those guys :)
nubbins`: my first time with 5x i had a mental conversation in a language i didn'
t speak with an old woman
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> i didn'
t grok "weird" until i tried salvia
mircea_popescu: "you forgot your panties in my bed" "but i don'
t wear panties ?" "oh shit... um..."
nubbins`: i don'
t want the responsibility
nubbins`: well i guess you don'
t need to smoke salvia
cazalla: i watched some guys have awful trips on salvia on youtube, you couldn'
t pay me to smoke that
nubbins`: mircea_popescu while i can'
t quantify my "impressionability", you're so far off-base here that i don'
t know where to begin
nubbins`: i didn'
t grok "weird" until i tried salvia
adlai: maybe a few don'
t, but nobody listens to them anymore
adlai wouldn'
t be surprised if many americans addicted to oxy, never took a "real drug" before
nubbins`: people will choose filet mignon over a big mac, doesn'
t mean they're not picking up mcd's every day on the ride home
adlai: you don'
t have to own a needle or a crack pipe to be an addict
mircea_popescu: so they even know about, just, won'
t mention the bezzle corps.
mircea_popescu: cazalla ^ perspective for teh next time lol. it didn'
t occur to me back then
mircea_popescu: one shouldn'
t be rejected merely because he is allegedly of the wrong gender.
mircea_popescu: i hope the rainbow party doesn'
t stop with the gay marriage victory and goes to the core of the problem.
mircea_popescu: so i was thinking, aren'
t these dating sites and dating generally completely inequitable ?
cazalla: can'
t remember my tardstalk account pwd
BingoBoingo: Sure in this latest loss, but they can'
t even win against the derps they catch.
cazalla: 6 months in BA and you're singing don'
t cry for me Argentina
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think we even bother selling it until it shows great numbers and they come bangin' on the door.
cazalla: i know but point is, CTR could be 100% but who cares if it didn'
t convert to a paying customer, total revenue this month = 0
decimation: don'
t get me wrong, lee-enfields are fine guns, but canada has the skills and money to invest in a more modern arctic gun, and apparently they can'
t afford it or don'
t want to