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trinque: We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider
a boon. Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it the Voice of God. << I suppose the great that'll great again predated Mr Twain.
mircea_popescu: be happy if you get
a credible cardboard model of
a cessna.
mircea_popescu: you keep going "if disney were king of the hill and i had free run of the studios" sorta scenarios. get off it, kenya dun has
a hollywood.
mircea_popescu: hey, you're committed to this "controlled society" model, things are gonna go
a certain way in yer head no matter what happens.
mircea_popescu: sounds
a lot more like the giddy excitement of the vicarious rape victim.
ben_vulpes sheds
a tear for the abandoned creosote factory and the bike jousting of his youth
phf: asciilifeform: i like "urban exploration", so i've been to
a lot of places like that, where america once was and not anymore. entire stretch from philadelphia to trenton is remnants of industrial age
phf: apparently there's
a 2008 movie called "nick and norah's infinite playlist"
ben_vulpes: on
a scale of 1atm to diamond-producing pressures how puckered is your sphincter?
ben_vulpes: semi tempted to spin up
a portland/oregon city water taxi just to crack more hydrocarbons apart.
☟︎ trinque: "unlimited free" was
a temporary loss leader, and if they said otherwise they were lying
phf: "to
a new yorker like you
a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three tigers"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> this notion, that you need multi-$k gpu accelerators, tightly coupled with os voodoo, just to use
a motherfucking TEXT EDITOR, is very 'modern' << Seems to be sorts the thing "Sun" was born out of.
BingoBoingo: Naturally I seem to be. James paid the price for getting his Elliot love and Elliot lived the only natural life he could as
a racially ambiguous kid in the desrt.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-05 10:06 diana_coman: contest anyway; considering however that it was set for Halloween, I guess I'd go with "goriest" and therefore BingoBoingo should win; as
a side, I must say I don't quite follow the point of "all possible positions expressed" since they were quite clear/obvious anyway;
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i r disappoint. that sad, sad moment when you're stuck in
a world where all the best erotic fiction is written by yourself, so the choice is between familiarity and inferior product. << This is leading cause of male orgasm disfunction. Perhaps train girl to unfamiliarize your own text?
mircea_popescu: how about these jezbel idiots actually went and whored out in the hood for
a few months then came back with
a little more piss and vinegar ?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-13 19:47 asciilifeform: 'матчасть' (contraction of, approx, 'material part') is
a military term of art, refers to, e.g., how far
a ru 120mm howitzer shoots when pointed at 45deg, vs 'how do we make
a pincer'
mircea_popescu: i r disappoint. that sad, sad moment when you're stuck in
a world where all the best erotic fiction is written by yourself, so the choice is between familiarity and inferior product.
mircea_popescu: did you run
a lcd off your starvation cheap dell in 2005 ?!
ben_vulpes: somewhere in the back of my head i'm balancing the tradeoffs of continuing to use apple machines as ssh terminals into actually-usable machines vs cutting over to linux or
a bsd wholesale
ben_vulpes: but that box on the table is the thing that produces and signs builds, and when apple says upgrade, it gets upgraded because it's
a day to unfuck the toolchain after they break it and some completely unknowable amount of time to reverse engineer whatever the fuck xcode is doing.
ben_vulpes: and if you think you can do that with not-the-latest-xcode-and-os i have
a build here that needs sucking through apple's garden hose
ben_vulpes: for the reprehensibly obstinate and misc log readers the only reason one could possibly *need* an apple box were if one came from such
a bad life that producing builds for apple's walled garden was
a regular requirement
ben_vulpes: well let's backpedal: why on earth would anyone ever use
a macintosh product?
trinque: ben_vulpes: oh the shit I never hear used in
a sentence living in TX
a111: Logged on 2015-08-13 16:26 asciilifeform: vendors want the 0day market to be
a 'tournament market'
mircea_popescu: (kinda
a large part of what is propelling the idiot parade - by now they've realised that in point of fact
a fork is inevitable, what varies is the when. we can't carry the satoshi warts forward forever.)
mircea_popescu: eventually we'll have
a full spec, at which point we'll be forking anyway.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with making
a general map of ib, discussions here tend to return to it now and again.
mircea_popescu: why ? i'd rather have
a cs-based bicoin with the described node-miner issues resolved (as described)
mircea_popescu: this is connected. simmer down and stop confusing yourself. you said : <asciilifeform> going briefly upstack, my understanding is that this particular batch of forkolade is effectively 'hard', in that no trb-generated tx is likely to be mined. and i said <mircea_popescu> if it is, whatever, we'll release
a proper trb and they can all go hang. im pegging it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to peg as in
a currency, 1 trb = 1 prb to start. may devalue as time goes by of course.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i thought breitbart was << It's
a transitional state, sorta
a turning over of the compost pile this year.
mircea_popescu: if it is, whatever, we'll release
a proper trb and they can all go hang. im pegging it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you were right, dork didn't publish mah racist&divisive comment.
a well!
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
a 51% attack doesn't even have to skin the lamb. it can just fleece it (respend all the segwit coins up to point x, retroactively invalidating any txn that ever rely on their proceeds) AND THEN agree to "never to process counter txn" for the future.
mircea_popescu: im sure nobody had the sense to create
a "total payout to defecting miners" watch, because hey, they're "developers" not thinkers.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the dorks built themselves
a ratchet-charged capacitor. eventually it scintillates.
mircea_popescu: ah yes. if only state had
a dozen whores on the ground in stevastopol in 2006, they wouldn't have been humiliated in 2014. or at any rate wouldn't have wasted bn trying to grow
a child in nine weeks.
mircea_popescu: imagine as he sat in the bunker listening to the first artillery bombardments audible from berlin, hitler got
a wire from bundesbank that the venusians just deposited 11 billiards marks in the eternal reich's account.
mircea_popescu: which goes right back to the issue : they have -2 currency, it's not realised. and it has
a long way to go to +2.
mircea_popescu: this is then
a systematic reason, which
a certain sort of esl anthropologist would call "cultural", but which can be readily brought back to money : because the only dollars they have can be used to pay rents, but they don't have the kind of bill that pays for engineers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's
a complicated point that you bring. just how equal are the 7 77 and 777 ? consider - for all their money, rando "tech start-up" couldn't afford an engineer that didn't suck to do their w/e, database, sysadmining, w/e.
mircea_popescu: and in these terms,
a very simple explanation of why the republic is indefeatable is very simply forthcoming : given two users
a and b who, through division of labour, have expertise in fields f1 and f2, the empire path for
a to access f2 or for b to access f1 is to take some money all the way from -3 to 3 TWICE. whereas the republican model simply has
a talk to b, on the mediation of
a gossipd/wot
a111: Logged on 2015-02-21 01:19 mircea_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's
a wash"
PeterL: Fox News is the biggest "red team" media outlet, nobody from "blue team" is going to give the blowhard
a job
PeterL: mircea_popescu Nobody would pay Hannity more than Fox News, he might get
a tiny gig on
a local place or something
mircea_popescu: company's 50 bux can not buy
a democrat posters, your 50 bux can, but they can't buy you
a goat in afghanistan.
mircea_popescu: yes but i was discussing degrees on one side of 0 and you seem to be discussing degrees on the other side. let's build
a reconciled continuum : speculative gains (-3) -booking-> profits (-2) -realizing-> corporate cash (-1) -donation,salary,etc-> cash(0) -relations-> food (1) -connections-> cunt (2) -expertise-> plutonium (3)
mircea_popescu: obviously it depends what you mean by "actual". if you mean nude object, then sure, any dollars that made their way to venus may be appreciated aesthetically by the venusians, and therefore they weren't really intrinsically chumpatronic. but in the system as it is, defined historically and therefore enclosed, it can be said the zil-buying ability is
a paritcular property of rubles q rubles.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally - the "sterilizing gate" view is
a perfectly fine way to look at bitcoin prices. normal usd-land profits need to shed about half to two thirds before they can enter the economic circuit without blowing things up (too badly) ; meanwhile bitcoin has to expand NO LESS than 700x.)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile dollars as profits... can't be spent. they gotta be "realized" first ; which is
a sterilizing gate (the sterilisation is called taxation for no sane reason, it's not
a tax)
mircea_popescu: he;s got
a thing about why "we" "need" universal basic income too , complete with tedtalk-esque blockletters and whatnot.
PeterL: that Robert Reich looks like
a smug self-righteous bastard.
mircea_popescu: recall the "where are the rembrandts then" argument ? the us fails to produce
a philosopher worth the mention every other decade ; athens managed that much on 1/1000th the population.
☟︎ shinohai: One day jhvh1 will have
a mircea_popescu version of the Bible. It's so much more concise.