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mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski: but parents who found out that their kids had been disciplined at school often disciplined the kid again at home << pretty much yes.
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> ben
_vulpes: translate the significance of this for the aerodynamically innocent ? << less about the aerodynamic stuff; glider guys are wealthy business owners in yacht/building fabrication (among others businesses) and they're complaining about 5% increase in cost of materials everywhere
adlai: blocks=230000 is a little worrying >
_>
fluffypony: mircea
_popescu: a street criminal can be smart, not the same as being visionary or being clever :)
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: gossip from the glider club: guys in construction (yachts etc) are talking about 5% cogs increases every month for the past 3 << translate the significance of this for the aerodynamically innocent ?
kakobrekla: <mircea
_popescu> asciilifeform: kakobrekla: b/c man living as man was meant to << seriously, man was meant to live like that ?! i dunno... < prolly seeing different things in the pic
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu> BingoBoingo incidentally, qntra ever cover the btcexchange thing ? << In a couple shorter bits. Waiting for another point of lulz inflection to do much more.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu> BingoBoingo lol gaw thing has its own forum ? what is this, like ognasty redone ? << Pretty much except redone by seasoned rural telecom bezzel turdmeisters. 3 Years experience or some shit. OgNasty down to the fan club.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: just because its old news doesn't mean there still isn't exclusive content to pull from
mircea_popescu: Pierre
_Rochard: Hi, I was starting to miss this place << preach it sistar!
adlai: mircea
_popescu: you may be overestimating the maturity of my project... it's existed outside my head, as running code, for under 9 months; and has only turned profitable during the latter half
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu should donate 10% of the MPOE profits to charity
adlai: why not? i've written something useful, i'm trying to make it more useful, and i
_believe
_ (ie, an opinion more grounded in emotion than evidence) that the right thing to do is share this
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, but would the son that inherits them be just as capable as the father who accumulated them?
ascii_modem: ben
_vulpes: heavy not merely in the machine footprint sense, but conceptually. i like wm with ridiculously predictable behaviours and minimal state, like kalash
ascii_modem: ben
_vulpes:oh! and subject of ratpoison, did you evaluate and reject stumpwm at some point? << yes. rejected because heavy.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem that one thing making all the dumbass "we're a ceo" "companies" look alike.
BingoBoingo: <ascii
_modem> cut-throats from a mythical (but loosely - nk) land are sent to usa. they look young and always masquerade as schoolchildren in the later grades. << I've never really trusted Children
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: ministry of torrents?!
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well, either way he goes in the agent pile
decimation: mircea
_popescu: once folks have eliminated all possibility of the supernatural, they gotta worship something, why not the local market?
Apocalyptic: mircea
_popescu, I see, so not the very sort graham would like to hire
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: the notion that an order once placed must live on until filled is pretty lulzy <<< that's not what's going on there.
ascii_modem: ben
_vulpes: if you were thinking of physical glass tty - sadly i no longer own one
ben_vulpes: <ascii
_modem> perl and the like cannot really die; the human folly that makes them irresistible for some folks - is immortal << not to mention at the heart of so many terminals.
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, dja mean qntra or gaw has been largely ignored ? <<< i meant qntra but it was like the 2nd post i made so sorta makes sense not many people read it
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem much like pestilence is a hygiene problem. sure, it is. doesn't hurt having smooth surfaces tho.
assbot: Logged on 26-12-2014 19:57:06; ben
_vulpes: a philosophical question
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: what does it mean to bitcoinate? << download and verify blocks, create and broadcast blocks which are in turn verified.
mircea_popescu: hm, from asciilifeform's naggum link. "The moralist would not
_be
_ a moralist if he were willing to abide by and obey the rules he thinks that other people should follow."
assbot: Logged on 26-12-2014 19:20:38; ben
_vulpes: if only tiberius were still with us. now *that* was some trolling.
decimation: ascii
_modem: lol he was too much for the SS colonels
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem i've not seen many exterminators scurrying to scuttle their embassy or anything like that.
decimation: ascii
_modem: true. that's why ideally your robot plane ought to be able to operate without comms to the greatest extent possible
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem well, maybe they make the fighter-bombers of the future work on love.
t: ben
_vulpes: oh, who does that?
t: ben
_vulpes: so what's the channel for?
decimation: ascii
_modem: ephialtes doesnt care abou straightening own back - knows it's a fantasy - but happy to turn everyone else into hunchback. << "There is, in fact, a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honoured. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to
kakobrekla: [22:04:12] * assbot gives voice to ben
_vulpes
kakobrekla: [22:04:05] <ben
_vulpes> !up ben
_vulpes
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: hm mebbe i'm not seeing mode changes.
ben_vulpes: <ascii
_modem> [19:31:50] these are not convertible to btc except via humiliating pederast temples << lol i love this routine
BingoBoingo: <ben
_vulpes> "that 2x2 thing up at 30kft moving at mach 1.8 couldn't *possibly* be an airplane!" << I though it couldn't get anywhere near that fast because it is too fat.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes the discussion can't possibly reach those merits,
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, ascii
_modem: i'll get to know it eventually. only now beginning to dabble with McCLIM at gabriel
_laddel's suggestion.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes: has anyone ever messed around with sighash
_anyonecanpay? <<< not afaik.
BingoBoingo: <ascii
_modem> these are not convertible to btc except via humiliating pederast temples << Local "Rent to Own" Chumpatron reportedly sells BTC via something called LibertyX Seems to fit the definition of Pederast temple
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem looky, the 12 btc or w/e random reddit noob threw under the bus in that scam does not to any degree figure.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Well, earlier they needed discipline to avoid starving.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> still a horrible use of dollars. apple got to be apple by paying about 2-5% of that, over a decade. << It's a fake money problem really. Too many VC dollars that can't actually buy things so they go marketing pissing matches.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> how is it a win lol. << If USG accepts it can't have nice things it can try to still be kind of the dump
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> [02:37:56] kakobrekla: he is just caught in a local pain minimum. <<< kako is like our blind slovenly prophet. he knows teh truths! << blind somalian i thot ;)
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> BUT I WORK REALLY HARD! << But it stabilized S.MPOE
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2014 08:40:19; jurov: <mircea
_popescu> somehow nobody goes "o look, mp paid 100s of btc so bitcoin financial space may exist" << you know, that space practically does not exist for them
mircea_popescu: by the way ascii
_modem! teh world eagerly awaits a letter from you. seeing how we missed the previous opportunity
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes "To some extent, yes. I spent almost a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have to do to succeed as a startup investor." << yes, you miss the part where he never succeeded as a start-up investor.
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, i can't discount the chance you served that up specifically to my ip, who knows eh
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: But this way they win the SEO
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2014 15:23:38; mircea
_popescu: next step : Bitcoin regulates the USG.
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2014 18:37:28; mircea
_popescu: o.O check itout, new names ?
cazalla: coinfire, bitcointalk, bitcoin forum all get garza legal threats.. qntra? nothing, anything pop up in your inbox mircea
_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: mike
_c: that sucks << there's a lot more depth to this point than meets the eye. us children are inept these days first and foremost because they have been removed from the workplace in the 50s and 60s, under the guise of "safety" and the general nonsense where "Everything must be separated" that also yielded zoning laws etc.
mircea_popescu: mike
_c: the solution being, we lock them out. << "if we kill all the babies, we will in fact have reduced infant mortality to an unmatchable 0 in subsequent years"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mike
_c: sure. <<< tis melting like april snow, the case.
mod6: <+ascii
_modem> bdb begs for the axe << yes. it's awful.
mod6: feel free to hit either ben
_vulpes or me anytime if you wanna collaborate on that.