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pankkake: just ignore any labcoin line - I did it from
the start :)
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, perhaps if dudes learned what
to say
to cleavage
then cleavage wouldn't feel
the need
to abstract itself eh.
mircea_popescu: ya srsly, at
this rate assbot is getting banned for spam
mircea_popescu: next
time some goof with no history of accomplishment says big
things i'd better pay more attention.
mircea_popescu: "OCCUPY WALL STREET and its allied movements around
the country are more
than a walk in
the park.
They are most likely
the start of a new era in America." Jeffrey Sachs
thestringpuller: the model itself should be straight forward
to bring up I just don't know about how animation is gonna come into play
thestringpuller: cause, yea, he can just dump all
the data
to a .3DS file including animation
thestringpuller: kay he's still riggin
the face I'll have him comment on
Trilema and Chett can feed him some info as
to how she wants
to import
the files
mircea_popescu: well i guess it's a great
time
to
try it out, have him dump
the files and we'll figure it out.
thestringpuller: it's fine,
the modeller has like 10 years or more experience with max
mircea_popescu: basically,
the entire
thing revolves around blender, which has built in support
to export as what's needed (cal3d)
ozbot: It’s called Eulora pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
thestringpuller: just waiting for chett
to give him plugins
to export for
the game format
mircea_popescu: anyway :
the work of
the intellect is
to make
the world intelligible. not necessarily
to make it something else.
to some degree it could be argued making it something else is proof of not having understood in
the first place, which is why
technology alone is a hard argument
to bring.
mircea_popescu: no, my critique was levelled at
the sad pretense at universities
the american colleges are.
mircea_popescu: far as anyone can
tell, america's contribution
to human understanding is some sort of variation of "special-subgroup-studies"
Kleeck__: Which is, and continues
to breed,
the anti-intellectual.
Kleeck__: I
think your critique was point at
the American media machine.
mircea_popescu: Kleeck__ you'll be hard pressed arguing
technology is an intellectual pursuit of such central relevance as
to excuse
the problems
tho.
Kleeck__: But, dub may have a good point, in
that
these American companies are good at recruiting foreigners. :)
Kleeck__: And many fields of science are necessary
to make
these companies as successful as
they are.
dub: google - lets help americans look smart by putting all
the knowledge we want
teh world
to have at
their finger
tips
Kleeck__: After all,
the sciences are intellectual persuits.
mircea_popescu: yeah, apple is basically
the idea
that wires are
too hard.
Kleeck__: While
technology, and
the fields of study necessary
to do what
the American
technology companies do, is not
the end-all of intellectual persuits it certainl does make up a good portion.
dub: apple - no wait, we need somethign even simpler, windows was
too hard
dub: microsoft - makes something easy enough
that even americans can use it
dub: please
to be
trying again over
there
dub: also, indians do
the work for all
those companies
mircea_popescu: after all,
the objection wasn't
that
the paint on
the cover of
times is flaking or anything of
the sort.
mircea_popescu: and no,
technology is not
the premier
thing one has in mind when
they discuss
the intellectual.
Kleeck__: Would
the preemenance of American
technology on a global scale not not indicate an "intellectual relevence"?
mircea_popescu: Kleeck__ if you
think microsoft is somehow intellectually relevant we have a problem.
Kleeck__: I could've assumed
that was
the intended meaning, but I wanted
to make sure. What do you have
to say about world-leading operations like Microsoft, Apple, Google,
to name a few. Would
the preemenance of American
technology on a global scale not not indicate an "intellectual relevence"?
mircea_popescu: i for one am kind of curious what he misunderstood/misraprehended
this
time
to great concern.
dub: or are we supposed
to be reading something into
this dexX7?
dub: in news
this our, bitcoin
mircea_popescu: kleeck_ relevance is
the property of a construct of holding interest in a particular context.
mircea_popescu: i mean
they never had it, but at least back when
they were
trying it was funnier.
mircea_popescu: kinda sad
to have
the americans completely surrender any attempt at intellectual relevance
tho.
Namworld: "the chance
to indulge in
trite self-absorption."
Namworld: "This is not an isolated incident, for perusing
TIME's covers reveals countless examples of
the publication
tempting
the world with critical events, ideas or figures, while dangling before Americans
the chance
to indulge in
trite self-absorption."
ozbot: Daily Kos: STUNNING: Comparing U.S. & World Covers for
TIME Magazine
ThickAsThieves: like dread pirate roberts and his poison
taking, you'll maybe be okay
mircea_popescu: if i surivive
through 2014 without
turning permanently sour i
think i'm immune
to it.
dexX7: i will start a share
transfer
to
teh litecoin exchange
mircea_popescu: meanwhile scam exchange decides
to implement signature authentification, sort-of.
pankkake: their chips, if
they eventually have some, will be
too late
ThickAsThieves: like we haz chips! oh wait
they dont hash! we haz hashes, oh wait it
takes jet fuel and nuclear reactor for energy!
dexX7: oh dispite
the "here is a random address, we don't have proof
that we are
the owner" card
pankkake: labcoin's only interest was
to have chips soon
dexX7: well
the latest news was pretty clear: mining address on wed,
there is not much room for fuzzy stuff
they could pull
mircea_popescu: well fi nobody buys into it much it will continue
to pretend indefinitely on no volumne, sorta like icbit.se
ThickAsThieves: where
they eek out developments about 50x slower
than
they predict
mircea_popescu: which means it has a finite lifespan as
they don't have infinite bankroll.
mircea_popescu: but any way you figure it,
the
team is currently in
the red.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 as you buy in
the likeliness of it actually going up goes down, you're basically ballast for its dreams.
mircea_popescu: course,
things change, not least of all because i keep
talking here :D
ThickAsThieves: that
thread still gets like 30 pages of posts a day or somesuch no?
mircea_popescu: so basically
they have a 99.9x% househeld asset now, which can in principle go
to any price, like .1
mircea_popescu: as very few people are left in you can put
the price way up, because
there's nobody
to sell
dexX7: yup
true. everyone who's
trading
this knows what he is doing. or let's say at least aware of what's happening on
the forums
mircea_popescu: well let's
think about it.
the down pressure recently was people going out, right ? it wasn't
the
team shittuing its own scam.
ThickAsThieves: its not like we get
tons of new coins put into
the market
pankkake: there's also
the guys who invest without looking into what
they invest
ThickAsThieves: are
they assembling a chorus of day
traders
to leave holding
the bag someday?
Duffer1: i
think
that's a reasonable conclusion pankkake
pankkake: not with
their shares necessarily
pankkake: labcoin
team might be a big part of
the
traders?
ThickAsThieves: i dont even really understand how so much labcoin can be
traded every day
pankkake: sure… but with ripple-like systems you can
trade "gold in XX's vault" for "gold in YY's vault"
mircea_popescu: labcoin is
the funniest exercise in pushing
the shit uphill
this chan has yet witnessed.