mircea_popescu: in other lulz, as part of a vast "argentina night life" programme, these nuts banned alcohol on the beaches, and are going around making kids open up their bags and shit.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: nothing speshul about the chart. just centre-aligned, single-spaced(shift-enter), and used the 'special character' directional arrows. bout it.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: glad you liked the piece! always happy to elucidate the strange in the four-wheeled world. but what's the 'c*' thing ?
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, fucking terribad roads today. made me yearn for g-wagen.
pete_dushenski: whoever the fuck thought that an open rear diff could be compensated for by electronic nagging should spend the rest of their lives in noyabrsk
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: beeping and flashing orange dash light every time traction control activates, which in rwd car with 275 rear section tires on freshly snowed roads is... constant.
pete_dushenski: the beeping only comes on when tc is REALLY going hard, but flashing dash light flickers with the mildest invocation
ben_vulpes: "fuel economy" is the argument, right?
pete_dushenski: it's goddam inexcusable. i think 'progress' is the going claim for open diff v rear locking diff
pete_dushenski: 'saddam' my 27yo merc WITH LOCKING DIFF will be taking over dd duty, despite having a much shitter heater, until the roads are cleaned up.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: what i really want is a transmission that directs all power to the spinning wheel. it's spinning, that's how you know it's the one that needs the power!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so basically emacs telnets into the server or wut ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: user ssh's into server, opens running emacs with `emacsclient -nw`
ben_vulpes: yeah, i've heard you object to that before.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i want one that's 10 years old with plenty of dinged up body panels
mircea_popescu: "i want to buy a c classe from a real used up hooker with real cum stains on the interior"
ben_vulpes: mid-nineties suburbans are more my style. the 3/4 ton body...
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: when buying snake oil...
BingoBoingo: Anyways bad winter weather demands Saturn plasticar. Body panels self undent!
mircea_popescu: "why did you break up with josh ?" "his one eyed snake was a one oil snake"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: stop trying to hawk your electric toothbrush wouldja
ben_vulpes: "my snake only works with coconut oil"
mircea_popescu: no it's really good, he mounted blades on it, can now mow the sidewalk
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well gotta keep the record of excellence in the log so we can point gabriel to a minimum viable residence
☟︎ ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aight, i'll see about this eval-ing of text from mp-supplied urls
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: you could surely get a deal on a dirty, beat-to-shit g-wagen. from what i hear they're not cheap to maintain
ben_vulpes: handcrafted benzo, cheap to maintain fuckinlol
ben_vulpes: yeah, not particularly interested in snowflakes of ~any variety.
BingoBoingo: In other news, adventures in furniture making have begun. Bookshelf started and completed in ~2.5 hours. 47" tall 23" shelves, plantation raised monterey pine, held with 2-1/2" construction screws.
BingoBoingo: pics coming after sobertime. This was the teaser.
pete_dushenski: inb4 'birdbrain' becomes a compliment in the 4th reich
pete_dushenski: "My overall conclusion is that chickens are just as cognitively, emotionally and socially complex as most other birds and mammals in many areas, and that there is a need for further noninvasive comparative behavioral research with chickens as well as a re-framing of current views about their intelligence."
☟︎ ben_vulpes: animal rights has been the funniest joke about progressivism since before women were even up for the franchise
pete_dushenski: "In particular, the avian forebrain (the part of the brain involved in problem-solving and other higher-order cognitive capacities) is actually derived from the same neuroanatomical substrate as the mammalian forebrain, providing more potential evidence for similar cognitive capacities in the two groups (Jarvis et al. 2005)." << see ? just like you and me.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i can't remember who it was (byron? meep, no clue), but held that "before long, they'll be wanting rights for cats and dogs, cows and hogs"
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: and somehow the conclusion that "most humans are barely over the cognitive threshold of a farm animal" never presents itself
ben_vulpes: the one, but that's probably not right.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: that conclusion only lives here, ie. between the lines.
ben_vulpes: the memory fabricator is in full swing over here. wants to say that it was a tome that fell out of a moldbug piece but i really have nfi.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: eh theory prolly wasn't unique to byron anyways. greeks likely had it.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i'll save that story for another time. it's a gooder.
mircea_popescu: lol "same neuroanatomical substrate". nobody knows anything anymore do they. "cpu and beach are made of the same granularoabrasive substrate so there may be a secret place to plug in every beach. more non-invasive searching for the beach power cord is in order."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 13:58 asciilifeform: y begin to understand that a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond. Dave Winer has recently and mercifully moved his essays off to audio, but you can still hear him snorfling cashew nuts and talking at length about what it means to be a blogger[7] . These essays and this writing style are tempting to people outside the subculture at hand because of their engaging personal tone and idiosyncratic, insider's view. But after a whi
mircea_popescu: but the piece says "dumbass does NOT have a say in how her daughter is used."
mircea_popescu: just, he doesn't know how to speak, because not educated [in this field] and consequently trades the offending of the many for the offending of the few. obviously a bad deal.
mircea_popescu: now this said, more in the general he does have a tedious self-promoting tone. i expect it's scar tissue from years spent in us corps, among idiots disinclined to naturally bow to their betters.
phf: seems like a math grad thing. i know a handful of people who do shit like that
phf: "... есть истории, как И. В. Курчатова звали при отказе установки, он приходил, обнимал ее, и она начинала работать ..."
phf: (this is totally unrelated, i just don't feel one way or another about subj. when i was in my early twenties i also adopted mannerisms. i agree though, is not becoming of ~adult~)
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 00:44 BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well gotta keep the record of excellence in the log so we can point gabriel to a minimum viable residence
gabriel_laddel_p: !!v 7C35852065204B6A39F4EA153F9FE5A72C757681210572333C60460DCE525E87
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 01:08 pete_dushenski: "My overall conclusion is that chickens are just as cognitively, emotionally and socially complex as most other birds and mammals in many areas, and that there is a need for further noninvasive comparative behavioral research with chickens as well as a re-framing of current views about their intelligence."
mircea_popescu: i cant readily think of any less interesting subject of a biography than a mathematician. if the dude spent his life in solitary confinment with pen and paper it'd make nary a difference.
gabriel_laddel_p: find me an engaging shopping list of "great writers" and I'll read it.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 02:34 mircea_popescu: who the fuck reads biographies of mathematicians.
phf: i once read grothendieck's récoltes et semailles, which is a kind of an autobiography
☟︎ trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: the crying/flailing has gotten old by now.
trinque: !!v 72F868B95E14F160E81EA75C021FF45D12A9C771040BE809B7F1442835DD19C6
deedbot: trinque unrated gabriel_laddel_p.
trinque: you should feel honored that folks spent as much time as they did trying to right your ship.
gabriel_laddel_p: you programmed atop these machines for how many years before discovering lisp?
phf: though apparently it's been gone from the web for a while now
trinque: gabriel_laddel_p: I didn't say a thing about lisp.
gabriel_laddel_p: trinque: I see no one could interpret my rating of BingoBoingo as crying/flailing, and the only "ship" of mine people here have attempted to right is Masamune.
gabriel_laddel_p: As such, I concluded that my rating was (in your view) "teh last straw!111!
gabriel_laddel_p: -10 magicaltux -0.5 49 7,566 Feb 26, 2014 pathetic Judas Goat.
gabriel_laddel_p: if you don't want to hear what I've got to say, just negrate me, !!down and be done with it.
trinque: the saner and more beneficial path is to learn.
gabriel_laddel_p: trinque: what _exactly_ have you done with your life that makes your advice so worthwhile?
trinque: I am not the one begging with hat in hand.
trinque: the unrate indicates my level of interest in subj
mircea_popescu: yeah this is not particularly useful. gabriel_laddel_p you're in no position to a) challenge anyone here ; b) hurr durr about what you've done. you've done nothing, outside of being yet another of california's loud bums.
mircea_popescu: now stfu of your own accord before you have to be stfu'd through even more effort from people who, unlike you, do things.
gabriel_laddel_p: mircea_popescu: am I allowed to respond to people who reference me in the logs?
gabriel_laddel_p: and can I substitute it with working out the ternary circuts I asked adlai to do?
mircea_popescu: and ftr, a somebody who is or is suspected to be smart enough to have done stuff and hasn't isn't thereby above someone who is too dumb to have done anything. on the contrary, and deeply so.
mircea_popescu: you can train a bright monkey to do plenty of the things off that list ; but the intelligent can not be helped.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: does the igloo2 product line have something hilariously wrong with it a la apu2?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: half the time i bounce through cliki i end up in a loop of this pointing to that pointing to some Person page pointing back to the totally uninformative original page
mircea_popescu: dude they have a "person" page, "superintelligent shades of color blue" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 03:30 mircea_popescu: i'd rather try to rescue drunks.
mircea_popescu: what, everyone wants to write the bootlegger's guide to $object, because it's such a funny recipe, you just add water in the shape of own drool and presto, another cracked.com article ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "put this OVER THERE" except over there 519s
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 03:44 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: does the igloo2 product line have something hilariously wrong with it a la apu2?
ben_vulpes: and in other NICs: "A software-defined full duplex 10baseT Network Interface Controller is implemented as a team of nodes controlling transmit and receive signal pins directly. The signals are conditioned by minimal electrical interface circuitry. External transmit timing is used. The team is designed to function as a memory-mapped device but may be stripped down for direct use by other node teams."
ben_vulpes: well i read it as "forth chip by chuck moore" and that's more appealing than anything else i've seen.
phf: man built own xanadu, and moved in
ben_vulpes: you've even said that chip speed is trumped by coherent semantics to the bedrock.
ben_vulpes: fwiw, intel holds that several 'important' (i cannot evaluate that) forth greybeards have been distracted by very strange flugencraft
trinque: ah, thought ya meant they were eaten by fighter manufacturers.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-20 03:44 asciilifeform had 'tricks of the unix masters', old maculature crud, on his shelf as a student, and an actual greybeard saw, asked 'where is your 'tricks of the doom masters' to go next to this'
ben_vulpes: sounded complex and unlikely to find a home between traditional turbine and rel-style multimodal rockets
ben_vulpes: i suppose that i mean "men who have built their own shops out of forth"
ben_vulpes: did not realize that greybeard meant "master of arcana", was using it to mean "wizards of great power"
a111: Logged on 2015-01-10 01:30 asciilifeform: PeterL: at the time, various folks (including mr. t) were experimenting with electron tubes of various descriptions. t claimed to have one 'open to the air' on one end (!)
ben_vulpes: but the memory fabricator insists it was derived from ice-likes
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 16:29 asciilifeform: fundamental reason being, a gigantic machine employs and merit-washes 1,000,001 mediocrities
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'internal combusion engine'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i'd rather try to rescue drunks. << Is there any better way to stay sober?
phf pours some vodka into a походный алюминиевый стакан for asciilifeform
BingoBoingo: !!v F9AD9B2D545BDFB82E410F2A9B1A5591ADE8C0A48B56BE9F1DC4DBB9678E2335
deedbot: BingoBoingo rated gabriel_laddel_p -1 << Alleged Cali bum boi, Powerless and his life is unmanageable. Refuses submission to powers greater than himself.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-22 06:44 ben_vulpes: lol yes, most boys
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not bad. so everyone's agreed, taiwan's a lost cause huh.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the style is borne of living in middleclassistan. please excuse its regular recurrence. still working on growing out of this shadow.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in that sense you can initiate with prayer.
mircea_popescu: heck, you can "initiate" pair generation if you loosen it enough
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: tw is at least going out with a party.
BingoBoingo: turns out making square cuts with handsaw is more of a challenge than I thought
BingoBoingo: hence 23 inch shelves instead of 24 inch as was planned
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, why no pair generation ? 1MeV photons, thin layer of heavy atoms to support the phenomena, strong magnetic field to separate the end products...
pete_dushenski: has many of the elements of a proper tool but isn't quite all the way there, even if it's a sterling example of its kind.
BingoBoingo: Nah, there's a substantial difference. A windows computer is an active evil. A bookshelf is a functional item that trades dust protection for not spending a second and a third day making doors and hinges
BingoBoingo: Anyways doors would have require 1x12 lumber instead of 1x8 lumber for the sides making the shelf heavier and less portable when loaded
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: you know i think my girl finally wrapped her head around that particular fabrication challenge in 2016
ben_vulpes: "...and the wisdom to know the difference"
pete_dushenski presently updating bash reel for first time since october. needs more nominations u guise!
pete_dushenski: speaking of lulz, carlos ghosn seen here lying through his teeth about how 'relaxing' driving his infiniti autonomous car is while he nervously hovers his hands over around the steering wheel while in motion lest the robot steer him into incoming traffic at any moment :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOGZX6_WVc ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: that's just how he holds his hands!
ben_vulpes: look at him talk with them, same thing
mircea_popescu: anyway, he's required to do that, evidently not his idea.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: maybe that's how all successful ceo's hold their hands while driving. now watch wannabes copy this move like girl who can't use canopener.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: speaking of car entertainment, you been keeping up with grand tour ? i have to say that i've regretted watching everything i have above and beyond episodes 1, 3, and 4.
ben_vulpes: the tedium of episode 2 was enough for me.
ben_vulpes: r kelly's trapped in the closet on the other hand, i watched over twenty episodes of.
ben_vulpes: utterly. fucking. hysterical. mostly because it's not ever clear how funny the script is on purpose and how funny on accident.
ben_vulpes: also features omar from the wire playing a cop.
pete_dushenski: i think i've narrowed down the issue with grand tour to the singular : jeremy clarkson, james may, and richard hammond are too fucking old to be interesting or relevant.
ben_vulpes: too much talking, not enough hooning about.
mircea_popescu: anything but sitting and talking is expensive. this is the fundamental mantra organising all tv.
mircea_popescu: gotta fill the air ; everything but talk is expensive. so "news" and "talkshows" and "reality tv" and anything. it'll be talking.
ben_vulpes: wasted the lavish budget they squeezed out of uncle jeff on such fucking retarded hijinks in e2 i could not continue
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: the truly sad thing about the show is that they have the budget to hoon in style but choose instead retarded fucking tricks
ben_vulpes: remember when the jackass boys sawed a sun roof into a murcielago or whatever?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ftr grand tour has budget of 160mn british pounds for 36 episodes
ben_vulpes: NOW THAT'S USING A BUDGET TO GOOD EFFECT
pete_dushenski: i could use to rewatch some jackass movies, or was there only the one in theatres ?
ben_vulpes: ah and apparently the sunroof was from viva la bam
mircea_popescu: what'd you have them do, put old steam/electric engine on truck bed, declare it hybrid ?
ben_vulpes: a runaway diesel would have been better than what i saw.
ben_vulpes: now mind you, runaway diesels are fucking metal
mircea_popescu: iirc chem plants pop from this failure mode quite often
mircea_popescu: hydrocarbon leak -> feeds into air intake -> engine cycles -> more leak -> boom
ben_vulpes: while we're on the topic, guess how i hunt for leaks in the corvette's vacuum system
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: aight here's what i have so far
ben_vulpes: definitely operating at the edge of my knowledge here what with running code from the web; a fair amount inside is a little shaky/shabby; and i have nfi what exciting attack vectors the system may present
davout: was more about increased potential for weaponized usb rapesticks
davout: s/o noes/who could have predictioneered/ would have been more apt i guess
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 00:23 pete_dushenski: Framedragger: how did you reach out to taleb ? twitter ?
mircea_popescu: what the fuck must be going on in a 33 yo dork's head to agree not to appeal a prison sentence of 12 years ?
mircea_popescu: what's his endgame, he comes out aged 40something and... ? what, enjoys medicare ?
mircea_popescu: spends most of his productive years filling in for all the black slave jobs abraham lincoln disappeared out of the south to recreate in the north ?
mircea_popescu: ustards are worse than ww2 jews i swear, "oh, dug own grave". dude, what ?
mircea_popescu: there's a humongo vein of "couldn't happen to me" middle class morality.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 01:44 mircea_popescu: ~if i am~ a drug dealer and i burn down your house, you'll what ? file a police report ? go on the local news network with a teary eyed "no one could have predicted that if i get pissy with people who break the law for a living i might end up with a burned down house" ?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what they're thinking ; but it certainly isn't vitalism per se. at least that's respectable in a wild-eye delirious sort of way, like good cinema.
mircea_popescu: this is a backdoor premature ejaculator's construct, i've nfi. the hope that doth not dare speak its proper name.
mircea_popescu: but this entire "qualia" business is absolutely the crowning moment for "american philosophy", in the sense that the crown is made out of turds and the crowning solemnity is undistinguishable from giving whirlies.
mircea_popescu: basically they've taken any 13yo favela living chick's fantasy of "maybe i'm secretly a princess" and rewrote it with a thesaurus at hand. seriously, this is the us contribution of the respectable discipline, a rewrite of old televisa scripts ?
mircea_popescu: you should read the wiki page on it, too. "schroedinger maybe said something sometime about colors -- and here's a bunch of corn fed fucktards droning about nothing in particular".
mircea_popescu: great thing this, the satisfaction of the wilfully deaf&dumb.
mircea_popescu: phuctor ends up with 1/3 of all moduli ever seen or some shit.
mircea_popescu: this has been in my living memory the strongest case of "impossible -- o wait"
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
davout: of course, what were we thinking
trinque: guy took a lot of characters to say "this is good for ethereum"
ben_vulpes: “There was no evidence of how the contraband got onto Dr. Rettenmaier’s hard drive,†Riddet wrote, “and it could have gotten there before he possessed the computer or against his will.â€
ben_vulpes: someone finally makes the obvious defense
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: mine runs in very strict ascii mode
ben_vulpes: oh wait until you get to the pedofunnel
mircea_popescu: (when preparing to read the beobachter, pick up the closest. it doesn't matter if it's the newest.)
jurov: mircea_popescu: ty for quick mpex service!
☟︎ Framedragger: as mcconaughey says in that heavy southern accent in dazed and confused, 'alright, alright, alright.'
deedbot: aquentson voiced for 30 minutes.
aquentson: can I gain some sort of understanding regarding the position of you guys on scalability?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: increasing the block size breaks the schelling point.
ben_vulpes: "scalability" is shorthand for "make bitcon == visa", with all of the chargebacks and fiat braindamage that entails.
aquentson: you must forgive me for being utterly stupid, but do you guys believe in the free market?
aquentson: yes, this idea that individuals have more information and are better placed to make a decision regarding matters that concern them rather than some central authority
☟︎ ben_vulpes: that is not necessarily the same as "the free market".
ben_vulpes: moreover, anyone can go mine blocks over 1mb at their own discretion.
ben_vulpes: no, "belief" in "the free market" is wildly unspecific.
aquentson: do you think what I defined as the free market is good or not
ben_vulpes: rigorous discussion is tough, it's nothing personal.
aquentson: expand on your view, ideology, philosophy
ben_vulpes: there is no "you guys". individuals exist.
aquentson: there are individuals, in short, and "you" guys
ben_vulpes: so you want to ask a cell what the human thinks?
ben_vulpes: and i'm not here for retarded questions.
aquentson: im here to understand your "philosophy"
ben_vulpes: are you familiar with the socratic method?
ben_vulpes: it's got a long history of teaching philosophy.
ben_vulpes: well quickest way possible isn't going to get you anywhere.
ben_vulpes: aquentson: the quickest way to get a handle on the various philosophies floating around is to read at least a year's worth of
http://btcbase.org/log ben_vulpes: "im not here for retarded lectures" << candidate for top self-crit of 2017
ben_vulpes: interviews performed on casting couch!
trinque: pls I just need moneys for my public relations degree
phf: well, i'm kind of curious where he was going with that "do you believe in free market" leading question. guy, you don't open like that unless you have a standing, nobody's going to wait for you to do your cornering move, if you can't even fucking stay on point
ben_vulpes: that was a weak distraction from this java.
phf: oh a journalist. ffs "hello, i'm such and such, would like to ask you all some questions for such and such magazine"
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: Normally that species would produce scrubby crap full of knots.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-09 23:44 mircea_popescu: will have to be done eventually.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 22:13 asciilifeform: !!down aquentson
Framedragger: phf: ah, incorrect match on b-a log link, should be " 22:05:13 kakobrekla: !down aquentson "
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 21:17 jurov: mircea_popescu: ty for quick mpex service!
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 21:15 asciilifeform:
https://archive.is/7OhDY << from same rag, '“We will cut so much, your head will spin,” Trump promised. Plenty of people will cheer him on despite the fact that federal workers are a bulwark of the country’s middle class. Remember, that middle class everyone was talking about during the campaign? Federal workforce jobs are relatively stable in a disrupted economy. And although the most highly educated could earn more in the pri
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 22:07 aquentson: can I gain some sort of understanding regarding the position of you guys on scalability?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-09 15:06 mircea_popescu: and before anyone asks : the advantage of this is that this solution scales. ACTUALLY scales. specifically, if at any point in his own time and for any reason in ~his own domain~ taleb wants to get more control, he can. he actually can. you explain to him, when he asks, HOW to be more in control of his mp-wp install. in terms of configuring the php script, or in terms of configuring the apache server, or in terms of configuri
a111: Logged on 2017-01-10 22:09 aquentson: yes, this idea that individuals have more information and are better placed to make a decision regarding matters that concern them rather than some central authority
deedbot: aquentson voiced for 30 minutes.
aquentson: you might be king maker mircea_popescu
aquentson: does that give you a sufficient boner?
mircea_popescu: i'm easily satisfied. prolly because i don't take so much cock, so.
aquentson: blockstream of course is not pleased
aquentson: r/btc is sort of tearing its hair out
aquentson: your majesty, lead us to the light
aquentson: your word our command, just utter it
aquentson: lest you wish to see burning skies
mircea_popescu: in other news, allow me to heartily recommend #chainstate. ben_vulpes 's humble abode, and the home of <mimisbrunnr> block 447563: 1`241 txns, 998`190 bytes
mircea_popescu: i think the notification's kinda cool, though prolly not for here.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes worth your time to make a ! lb 3 so it says id, txn count byte count ?
aquentson: as you know bitcoin's transaction capacity is currently limited, there have been many proposals
aquentson: many believe you indirectly have stopped some of them
aquentson: im not gone read rubbish, I asked a question, give an answer
mircea_popescu: yes but questions can be answered only if they're meaningful ; so far we're working to create some common basis.
aquentson: are you suggesting you are open to persuasion?
mircea_popescu: well, so far my solution to whatever your problem might be is to try and state it comprehensibly. what are you looking to solve ?
aquentson: <aquentson> as you know bitcoin's transaction capacity is currently limited, there have been many proposals
aquentson: <aquentson> many believe you indirectly have stopped some of them
mircea_popescu: bitcoin's transaction capacity is always going to be limited.
mircea_popescu: ok, well, the problem is a lot more fundamental than originally thought.
mircea_popescu: how about this solution : you spend the next six months to a year reading you know, rubbish like the log and stuff linked above and so on, then maybe.
aquentson: then maybe you appreciate I have a restriction on my time too?
mircea_popescu: other than that, today there's absolutely nothing you can either do or say that'd be of consequence.
aquentson: what am I, a bot, to read all trillion words here and quadrillion other shit
mircea_popescu: well, if you have a restriction on your time, that automatically translates into a restriction in your participation -- both in terms of defining problems and in terms of finding solutions for them.
aquentson: act as a leader you proclaim to be
aquentson: there came king maker mircea_popescu and when all seemed desperate up the hill on sunny uplands
mircea_popescu: lol history books. in chinese maybe, esltards dun read because too busy "solving problems".
mircea_popescu: aquentson can you appreciate the ridiculousness of your position, you refused to read history and proposed history as an exchange token within the same five minutes. how is this supposed to work, iyo ?
ben_vulpes: imagine all the rubbish history books i can't be arsed to read
aquentson: a bit like kings comming from other citadels
aquentson: they dont care about your internal rubish
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes basically it directly transates to a very racist "i am great roman citizen and you are barbarian have these beads". wtf, really ?
aquentson: they care about bigger stuff than your whatever you do here
mircea_popescu: aquentson once they manage to win an election, i might believe that. so far -- no hillary. so, no.
ben_vulpes: aquentson: the notion that someone writing for cointelgraph is a king is absurd on its face
aquentson: how about, your majesty, you provide a solution to what you have so galvenisingly opposed?
aquentson: or should all here think you have no wisdom your highness?
aquentson: its not an easy problem, ney, the opposite, two years of civil war, devastation all around, bickering
aquentson: and you have influenced part of it
aquentson: now, looking at this desolate field
mircea_popescu: have a glass of water ; go do something useful with your time, restricted as it may be.
aquentson: of how the unrest in his kingdom can be solved