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nubbins`: see, the problem is the comments
Vexual: you wont get a review in the new yorker
nubbins`: maybe start off with a few anthologies to catch up
nubbins`: it'd have to be a serial
mircea_popescu: printed trilema would be something like 5k pages.
Vexual: is there a book?
pankkake: well, I'd probably enjoy Trilema as a book
pankkake: the best animal to eat would probably be a rabbit/duck hybrid
pankkake: most of the English article already give a desire to TL;DR them
pankkake: I've tried googletranslating some trilema article, not good results
benkay: crazy how closely the wordform looks like terse
mircea_popescu: it's a concept from text analysis, roughly equivalent to "the length in lines of the code that can parse this"
Vexual: i don't know if i can concentrate, now im thinking of rabbit for dinner
mircea_popescu: my english is fucking tense. my romanian is a lot tenser than that, and it throws it for an infinity of loops.
mircea_popescu: Vexual i think most of trilema is worth google translating because of the sheer humor value of the results.
Vexual: worth translating? any recipies?
benkay: the entire american left doesn't get two fundamental things about how the world is structured: people are animals too, and all must be "husbanded" in the classic sense of the term.
mircea_popescu: Vexual they're at least in part fucking weirdos who oppose animal ownership out of some sort of fury mental issues.
Duffer1: i support topless actresses
mircea_popescu: so earlier i was with some amazing chicks and i thought they were pretty good company.
Vexual: peta is one of those charities that only exists to provide work for themselves?
Duffer1: they're really good at getting actresses topless
kanzure: saving them as much as the fund i guess
mircea_popescu: i was mocking the peta org, which pretends to be saving animals.
Vexual: ben10, you can get audio thru jaw
kanzure: huh? you were being ironic about peta the fund and compared it to peta the org, but the org doesn't save animals
benkay: i'm not interested in phone technology any more until you bolt it into my aural nerves and optical nerves or give me an aux display channel irectly into my brain
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nubbins`: vexual is thinking
mircea_popescu: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362400 << this shit's too good.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if it also vibrates it's almost like the penis phone.
nubbins`: i was looking forward to having a hand-warmer app
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i wouldn't really hold it against them, buncha people find out about bitcoin 3 years later, figure they're hot shit, jump in both feet
nubbins`: hm, you've got a point there
nubbins`: so... they invented a way to make your phone really really hot all the time?
pankkake: actually I saw another thread get deleted at OP request
pankkake: mircea_popescu: this one ended well at least…
Duffer1: how very optimistic dub, sounds like a nice dream to have
benkay: fartups and their crapps.
mircea_popescu: i mean yea he doesn't know it, but then again when do they ever.
mircea_popescu: that guy's a total dork.
pankkake: oh the link? cause it was about icbit
KRS|Gotyawallet: hand to the mothafuckn fap
benkay: benkay to the pad thai shop
benkay: mpoe to the moon
mike_c: of course you don't see it, that's what makes it a secret wall
BingoBoingo: Actually benkay I don't really see a sell wall looking at the orderbook, there is a substantial bid wall at 0.00077250 though
benkay: when did people start asking my opinion about things wtf
BingoBoingo: benkay: Is a huge Popescu sell wall a bad thing if he wants to constrain the price MPOE shares trade at to reflect the relative value of MPOE and not possess the volatility of whatever the week's altcoin is?
benkay: mpoe bouncing hard off that 8700 line
benkay: ya heard, mircea_popescu? wot is not the endgame of reputation.
benkay: in the republic of cryptopia
benkay: it has a truly immemorable name :(
kanzure: benkay: sorry, i mean the bitcoin forex fund
kanzure: heh their assets are 63858 btc i wonder when they acquired that
asciilifeform: but at least they don't pollute academia with pixie dust and lead netgeeks on with nonsense science...
benkay: i really want to pop down several MM for a parabolic whee
asciilifeform: the folks selling literal golden toilets to arabian royalty make the same kind of money
kanzure: oh nevermind, i guess that's a regular accredited investor definition
kanzure: wow the lower limit is only $200k on http://bitcointrust.co/
asciilifeform: rich americans must be parted from their dough, so bright chaps line up
asciilifeform: sometimes the whole thing catches fire in a glorious inferno
asciilifeform: (they of course remember to bring augers, if it doesn't 'accident' that day)
asciilifeform: villagers line up, with buckets, and collect oil that 'accidentally' leaks
asciilifeform: in the 3rd world, they 'know what to do' with oil pipelines
asciilifeform: re: nanotech, the whole story:
kanzure: asciilifeform: well, there's zyvex if that counts?
asciilifeform: dyson, then tesla... when do we get 'heaviside corp.' and what will it make? high-tech nano fridge magnets?
kanzure: but the different toolsets (like for hydrogen removal or addition) don't work yet
kanzure: not all of it is impossible, atomic force microscopes can definitely tap single atoms in certain situations
asciilifeform: kanzure: wake us up when there's something to attach it to
kanzure: what a coincidence, i can sell you that
benkay: well gosh as soon as we have nano fabbers we'll all be able to fart around in vr porn jungles all day!
truffles: ya some take lots more than others
benkay: others scramble up the huge-manatee pile
benkay: some people mourn the downtrodden
benkay: all wealth is extraction from others, truffles.
truffles: if ure rich its off the backs of some1 else imo
benkay: oh no, i typically actually use question marks to indicate that sort of thing.
kanzure: is that a question?
kanzure: benkay: a mix of a lot of stupid things out of my control, but also i do software contracting
truffles: ud be greed or lazi at that point
mike_c: hah. that is true.
kakobrekla: but it takes precious bits to make up the line where the path to css to be ignored is defined
mike_c: bandwith, telex, bullshit! if those are in short supply you can just download the homepage html. you don't need to download the css if you don't want. the browser just chooses to.
benkay: well are we trying to get rich or be entertained?
kanzure: i'm sure there's more entertaining things to spend my time on
benkay: acquire all the satoshi.
kanzure: there should be a bot that dumps neobee every time cryptocyprus posts on reddit or bitcointalk, then buys after a few hours
asciilifeform: perhaps this wasn't mp's motivation in making the choice, but it is a fact nonetheless
benkay: we're just putting on a show for the newcomer, asciilifeform
kakobrekla: asciilifeform it will be pigeons by then
benkay: he takes the sub to work!?
kanzure: you know that copenhagen suborbitals guy goes to work every day in a submarine, so it probably happens
asciilifeform: you'll be thankful for the absent css, when you're driving your mpex via telex, from submarine.
benkay: someone go get the css jug and pour some on mpex
benkay: havelock is channeling mpex on the 'design', but must make concessions to appease the investing masses.
ThickAsThieves: you ar ein the right place
kanzure: don't take this away from me
kanzure: but complaining is like the one thing i do best