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mircea_popescu: "this is the code i'ma run, see how much of the world i can despoil on its basis"
mircea_popescu: anyway, to formalize this, i figure there's people who're looking to take ; and people who're looking to give themselves away asciilifeform . tmsr is entirely and to some degree by design inadherent to the former. it may, maybe, work for short intervals, but not too likely, and certainly less likely over time. this results in a lot of butthurt, calling it a cult, whatever.
mircea_popescu: i could think of a more ridoinculous proposition but not readily.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder how much he makes out of selling books in 2016 for the love of lols.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: re 'institutional' - every other year or so i visit the headquarters of the dept i graduated from, on foot, just because i live nearby and why the hell not. but lately it is almost a challenge to avoid barfing
mircea_popescu: which is fine and all, i mean waste of his life but what's that to me.
mircea_popescu: iirc it was more a case of "hey, i'm here to promote ; oh you're not really an audience ? ok, ima go promote down the street"
asciilifeform: but i'm not certain i would come back if i were him
mircea_popescu: nobody can know everything an' i dun know azns.
asciilifeform: this is why i was sad to see spandrel drummed out, he was potentially a window into the other things.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: the same rationale behind why there is no "sane computer" thread. i.e. dumbness is institutionalized. so wouldn't useless students be merely a symptom of this?
mircea_popescu: what can i say. perhaps.
mircea_popescu: i mean zen-dao, whatevers
asciilifeform: i suspect that the good teachers have been driven into drink, and retirement
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i can't seem to find it in search
mircea_popescu: i have nfi about china. who knows, maybe.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: not sure where that abroad would be. << the ones I would trust with money usually studied in China.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i've never met a 'study abroad' type in usa who wasn't prestige-farming 'future student leaders!111' apparatchik candidate
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: a classics education always beats a stem << this doesn't get undergrad children jobs in the US. interesting though, that having gotten a stem education, i feel extremely deprived of not having studied as many classics
mircea_popescu: but whatever, i have no expectation to explain to ustards that a classics education always beats a stem education. not in this life. the contrary nonsense's been derped too much, and they've never seen anyone with a classical education anyway.
mircea_popescu: think about it alfie, if i want to buy a thousand votes i'm going to say so and pay a million, rather than talk to a thousand derps and pay them a cent each.
asciilifeform: 'One thing a lot of pro-fork people don't realize is that they're basically encouraging a very damaging form of speculation on the value of ETH. Because a hard fork promises to return ETH at a rate of < 100 DAO per ETH, it encourages people to buy up large amounts of DAO tokens at their current rates (> 100 DAO per ETH), and then actively advocate for the fork to happen. Last time I checked, this guarantees them a profit of > 30% (in
mircea_popescu: "This is why I love Ethereum. The main net is live for less than a year, yet tthis is the third big convention. " to quote the locals.
mircea_popescu: i don';t recall when that was, they had like a week maybe ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, drama fountain, we kinda covered the basics, they just rehash, shanonize and markov the same stuff endlessly.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, https://i.imgur.com/SDrJZ6n.jpg
mircea_popescu: i see no other possible explanation.
mircea_popescu: notrly greek in that sense. onassis is greek like i'm romanian.
asciilifeform: i wasn't speaking of tonnage as such
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly why i don't argue for "make america great again" but "burn it all down"
asciilifeform: actually i was thinking of geographical features.
mircea_popescu: i think the poles prolly won by point count.
asciilifeform: i only recall 1 where there was a proper ro army
shinohai: i was thinking of writing a piece on welfarecoin, but it is in recycle bin atm
shinohai: I forgot to tweet it at victoria
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun get it, doesn't paypal charge like a buck or so fixed fee ?
mircea_popescu: sure nadja can keep up with me, but that's only because i suck ; she can't keep up with boris from her hometown.
thestringpuller: Man thinking about all the parties I've been to where there was some girl puking her brains out in her "night gear" (the kinda clothes you wear to work the corner), crying their eyes out with someone annoyed holding their hair back.
thestringpuller: Funny story. My last semester in school, I was walking to my goto pub. These chicks are crossing the street right? One of them pukes on the light post. Her friends help her stand a little. Then after the light changes she continues walking as if nothing ever happened.
thestringpuller: and this is why the current game I'm playing is 20 years old...
thestringpuller: Hmm. I'll ask her about that.
mircea_popescu: nah. the way this works is you open a 10k seater club, have 50-100 girls to go to all the CEO types in that city, tell them "if you agree to come to X club this weekend i'll take all my clothes off and you can fingerfuck me right here on yoru desk"
thestringpuller: Yea. I used to work that scene. Honestly the club scene in america is very much turning into "the pimp scene" or maybe it always was taht.
thestringpuller: Aha. I was talking more about the pub-esque "regulars". You know the drunk who spends 2k a month on booze.
mircea_popescu: i never made a reservation, never waited for a table.
thestringpuller: although i think the campaign was yanked prematurely @_@
BingoBoingo: If I'm not mistaken qntra has a small if not entirely different kind of conversion rate
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell Joshua-I how do you know this ?
Joshua-I: Well I'd say it touches on a few more things than merely being some political indirection
mircea_popescu: Joshua-I nor of modern, for that matter. it's time-invariant, yes ?
Joshua-I: I see no mention of ancient art in your post, what's up with that?
Joshua-I: I rewatched True Romance the other day (thanks to you) and now I must have those rad sunglasses Clarence wears at some point
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 03:26 Joshua-I: Art is the most supreme, most divine of instructions
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gotta admit the "democracy" drivel is nothing if not incredibly flexible. can be spread on bread as "science not cults!!11", can be spread on bread as "say no to silly (orly?) power games and ~~~sycophancy~~~" because if you call male independence the bad word it'll totally stick, men are really just a bunch of women that deeply care about labels like that. can obviously be spread as "the people of libya want the fr
mircea_popescu: what am i going to hear next, that the people of libya want "freedom" ?
mircea_popescu: "Because I mean WOT is not too revolutionary when it is just another name for a bunch of peoples' non-interoperable personal black books between which information can be exchanged only by explicitly manual means." << da fuck, "your working thing's no good!"
Joshua-I: I've found it.. the one important trilema post: http://trilema.com/2014/what-interests-me-in-a-project/ ;P
Joshua-I: Yet still sexually attracted to things I imagine
mats: so i need an art history education
mats: i just dun find myself capable of looking at most pieces for more than a dozen seconds or so
mats: not sure if i'm broken or the art.
mats: no endorphins moving around, no sense of the thing inspires a sense of awe or beauty in me, i literally don't feel anything
mats: i dunno man. the vast majority of all art i have ever seen exhibited in museums and galleries or whut not do absolutely nothing for me
mod6: I think it was just one season. was funny tho
phf: i bring peeeace
mats: wtf am i looking at
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 01:20 phf: there used to be a generation of 70s anthropologists in u.s. who read gary snyder and did things with their hands, they would teach all these interesting retro technology classes. they are mostly gone now, i've managed to catch their last wave and got a distinct feel from them "kids these days fucking suck"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'm all set for a second expedition! this weekend.
mircea_popescu: i dun think it's the age. might well be a cultural thing. they're pretty white.
mats: i never understood the humor in 'beavis and butt-head'
mircea_popescu: i keep hoping the great cornholio shows up in comment section one day
mod6: i like the corn related stories on qntra
mircea_popescu: a day i mean
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-08#1499183 << crapcoin mining, i would hope! ☝︎
Joshua-I: So I think it might be a kind of obtuse joke
Joshua-I: Well I'm not willing to bother running it again, but from what I can deduce it checks whether you're running certain browsers then fucks your browser accordingly with nasty js
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ask Joshua-I
ben_vulpes: Joshua-I: btw, d'you plan to negrate pankkake for the malicious js?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i am surprised that it does not come with jsxploits
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes oh was it ? i forget.
mircea_popescu: i suspect she's not quite together.
mod6: i lul'd earlier when i read that thread shinohai. funny stuff.
mod6: hm. i got nothin.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i had my fair share of them the oast few weeks
phf: thanks, BingoBoingo, i'd be sitting there waiting for the rest of the joke otherwise
asciilifeform: normally i got for a quarter with 0.
BingoBoingo: I mean seriously the people derping about STEM, access, and MOOC have to be actually taking about something other than what they say those things expand to
hanbot: shelters of the world! i'd take a yurt class fo' sho'
hanbot: BingoBoingo not a bad idea. how 'bout i keep it and its wretched brothers aside as i go and write a roundup thingie when done? to go with the "peace studies" one and whatever other horrors await.
phf: there was a guy at local community college who taught "shelters of the world" class, which started with "build a log cabin for a grade" some time in the 80s and ended with "design shelter on paper, bring me something, i will make curve"
phf: there used to be a generation of 70s anthropologists in u.s. who read gary snyder and did things with their hands, they would teach all these interesting retro technology classes. they are mostly gone now, i've managed to catch their last wave and got a distinct feel from them "kids these days fucking suck" ☟︎
phf: maaan, i read that as "greek technology" and got really excited
a111: Logged on 2016-07-07 23:27 Joshua-I: True BingoBoingo last time I had to do that it was at least 15mins signing the thing not to mention the pointless talk before hand
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-07#1498984 << back in romania i had to spend ~2 hours each year signing the yearly reports of corps. i am not kidding, a literal two hours. thousands of signatures. ☝︎
asciilifeform: unless i missed something
asciilifeform: i was looking at baltimore crime data and it more or less tapers off around that time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i mean from 17yo to 18yo when dudes want car and bitches need prom dress + abortion.
asciilifeform: i worked in a corp where the doors were run by a winblows ME box.
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you. i dun think it's sensible, but seen with own eyes hard to go away.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, i've seen the item i describe!