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mircea_popescu: so
they send another spy, and... well... same deal. and
then more and more. eventually
they ask a defector, and
the guy smikrs and says "perhaps you might
try not sending black people ?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: usa sends spy
to cccp, within a coupla months
they realise he'd been ferreted out and fed misinformation since just about day one
reeses: I
thought it was 'table
tennis'
mircea_popescu: to
the degree
that
there's
this old russian joke, goes like
this :
ozbot: U.S. Open Doubles Paddle
Tennis
Tournament is
this Sat. Sept. 21 : Venice Paparazzi | Venice Beach
benkay: the best part is how all
the women are involved in welfare programs, and all
the men in nominal spycraft
benkay: have
to self-restrain from mocking
the family around said femme
benkay: i pirated one of
their young femmes off in my gypsy joo caravan
mircea_popescu: kinda impossible
to have old money in a crooked place, so yeah.
Bugpowder: which I had never fucking heard of
till going
to my kid's Mommy and Me preschool
mircea_popescu: the notion
that
there'd be a meritocracy in
the us is beyond a simple lol
mircea_popescu: " unless one includes
the entity
that has come
to be known as
the meritocracy—presumably an aristocracy of sheer intelligence, men and women
trained in
the nation's most prestigious schools.
Bugpowder: but if you want
to reappropriate
the
term, using
the W-word as a
term of endearment, go ahead.
Namworld: I have not. Although it seems by
the new definition you gave it, I'm a wasp.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, anything with
that jew bimbo in it, what's his name
mircea_popescu: where real responsibility is
that situation where either choice stinks, you gotta pick one and
then stick with it, without redemption.
mircea_popescu: a wasp is a kid
that grows up principally interracting with his parents, who are overly-intellectual, is never beaten, is carefully kept overclean and never gets
to either injure himself or face any real responsibility
reeses: preppies are
their larval stage
reeses: vestigial ruling class in
the US and UK
Namworld: What's a wasp? My first
thought was "You ain't getting a job with
that."
mircea_popescu: ok, new definition for wasp : person
that reads
the above and does not immediately
think "so
they fuck on campus ?"
reeses: CHID is an undergraduate major and minor
that has been around since 1978.
The participating members (students, staff and faculty) of CHID collectively construct a dynamic, creative learning community
that mobilizes collective and individual passions. We encourage our members
to pursue self-knowledge
through participation in
the changing world in which
their selves are shaped and which
they will shape for
their own and future generations.
reeses: which meant she had
to
take maybe four courses
to satisfy
the department requirement
reeses: yeah, but
this was a school of arts & sciences undergrad
reeses: I
think it was philosophy-lite
reeses: we have funny "you *have*
to have a college degree!" programs here in
the US
ozbot: MIT Course Catalog: Degrees Offered in
the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Bugpowder: Sad
thing,
the Course 21W major...
chetty: these days not
talking
to strangers is wisdom, not repression
reeses: I always wondered about MIT grads with degrees in
the humanities
mircea_popescu: no, i mean people repressed
to
the point
they actually need marketeers
to give
them
topics for conversation.
mircea_popescu: and as
to mit,
the "premier engineering school in
teh werld", all i have
to say is www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ
mircea_popescu: if
the stanford model is exposed
to
the world
the net result is
today's us.
mircea_popescu: only if
the stanford model is applied
to a well controlled environment made out of wasp kids
thoroughly acculturated.
Bugpowder: occasionally MIT model makes a
tech so awesome
that it does change
the market
Bugpowder: this is how startups end up working
tho. Raise a bunch of money before you have a real product, and
try
to assemble one before you can't raise an ever increasing sum of money
benkay: i do so dearly want
to associate my name with publications whose
trade is which american bitcoin company may or may not be raising another pile of idiot cash
this week
Duffer1: dunno if
they pay
though or if
they're
the huffpost of cryptoland
mircea_popescu: i
thought
taking it in
the pooper made you stop shitting for
the dya
mircea_popescu: Duffer1
the helping part is a vanishingly long shot at
this point.
benkay: you'd befoul
the idea marketplace, and defoul
the bitcoinscamosystem
Duffer1: pay x
to shit all over something
that just miiggghhhtt help
the overall bitcoin ecosystem?
mircea_popescu: ya but i do not wish
to befoul
the marketplace of ideas by abusing my financial power.
benkay: but
think you could spend just one bitcoin and get a full report on
the derpage, plus some negotiated amount of additional "hey kid you're stupid and didn't look into
this enough plz foar
to fix"
mircea_popescu: scams are eminently forgettable in all
those specific details
that make discussion possible or worthwhile
mircea_popescu: take it from experience, people ask me about 1year+ oldscams i have
to review writs
benkay: i can always pull out
the dynamics and controls
tomes and implement whatever
thing i forgot
the intricacies of implementing, but i won't always have access
to my memories of why mastercoin is completely stupified.
benkay: right because
there's no
textbook for cryptocurrency idiocy
mircea_popescu: but
that's not why you write. why you write is so
that YOU can re-read it if you ever forget wtf X was
mircea_popescu: you are not writing
to an audience. you are writing
to yourself.
mircea_popescu: i get it, public speaking is
the #1 fear n
the english world. nevertheless, step outside of your culture
benkay: blogging also
turns one into a public persona
mircea_popescu: you just write a report
to yourself, click publish, go on your merry way
benkay: the little i know about myself and men in general is
that we don't
tend
to have a lot
to say on
topics of interest
to large populations until we hit like
thirty five and have a reasonable base of experience from which
to generalize
mircea_popescu: you know it's easier
to do in retrospect
than it looks.
benkay: have no interest in maintaining blog
thing
benkay: would be more
than happy
to parse mastercoin retardities for you for pay
benkay: ya well working with jurov
to recoup
time investment in parsing mpex complexities
mircea_popescu: publishing
the results is really getting mileage out of already sunk in work. otherwise it just rots away
benkay: it's almost as
though willet et al have heard about a
thing called a spec and how some people involved with bitcoin
think
the cryptocurrency might be better off with a spec
than new features, chose
to 'implement' a 'spec'
that's wholly inadequate
to
the
task at hand
mircea_popescu: basically, you folks are doing all
the legwork into figuring
this stuff out anyway
benkay: read: it's non
trivially parsed from
this moronic 'spec'.
benkay: how
to revoke orders once in blockchain is left as an exercise
to
the alert reader
benkay: will gladly fisk
to
the
tune of 1700 words for 1 btc.
benkay: and whichever makes it into
the blockchain is nominally
the official bid
benkay: one changes bids in
this derpstributed marketplace by simply
transmitting another
transaction
that supersedes
the previous bid/ask
Duffer1: but like it
totally works if like market participants act rationally and in good faith
Duffer1: oh lol ya
that came out wrong
Duffer1: i didn't read past
the part where
the ceo introduced himself
Gotchawallet: yea initially it seemed great
to me but
that
turned me off
Bugpowder: different jobs could have different
types of coins serve
them best
Bugpowder: doesn't necessarily mean it's not going
to become useful
Bugpowder: anyone
that participated in
the kickstarter… yep
Gotchawallet: arent most of
the mastercoin owned by
the founders and friends
Bugpowder: OK I know
that is a stupid analysis
Bugpowder: 18 is where
the
total future market cap = BBQcoin's
total future market cap at current valuation.
Bugpowder: I am
talking about MSC not MST by
the way