mircea_popescu: aaand in other trumpreich, looks like the "consumer financial protection bureau" is going away entirely.
mircea_popescu: (invented in 2010 among the boatload of dc-insider-centric pork dodd-frank introduced)
mircea_popescu: pretty fine example of exactly why warren was so vocal (item was strictly a barony created so elizabeth warren could be barron OF SOMETHING). this cfpb item spent 55mn on "renovations" of its hq, ie more than the gsa spent that year on everything the usg owns ; spent immensely on travel (which is not something they do). the chairman is supposed to not be removable by the president except "for cause" (meanwhile that got strick
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: en) and, lulzily, they came up with a system to "guess" based on reasons (such as zip codes and last names) who is a black applicant for loans, and then fined various usg agencies masquerading as banks by the 100s of millions for these alleged abuses. and they got it too, because settlement culture. and they didn't, of course, pay as much as a dime to the "estimated" victims, they being you know, "estimated" aka hallucinated,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the SOPS have been adamant in rejecting lawsuits against them.
mircea_popescu: how exactly elizabeth warren isn't in jail atm is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: (the people pushing for the dissolution of the thing are just as unprincipled, ftr. mostly a coalition of "payday lenders" ie 2nd generation loan sharks.)
mircea_popescu: guy pretty much explains it all, merkle tree is a poor hashing scheme by itself.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz caer i mean eu is actually splitting up huh.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mod6: Update from yesterday: The necessary change has been made to the forthcoming version of V (99994); if when pressing, the given output directory already exists, it will be removed, then will proceed to press new vtree.
mod6: There has been an automated test added for this as well.
mod6: yup, still on target for this weekend.
mircea_popescu: the significant point, of course, being that the female state DOESNT EVEN DARE ADMIT IT. just like working class mom not buying kid shoes because $reasons, rather than because "i was too dumb when i was 20 to not be poor now that i'm 35 and look like 49, honey."
BingoBoingo: For serious. Loving this submissions from other people business.
BingoBoingo contrary to popular belief not an all seeing eye.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I am not welcome in that heathen pit
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Apparently we were not first on the heathenwebz, but first outlet of note.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Some shittty censorship subreddit
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1246.54, vol: 5263.87284892 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1231.999, vol: 5886.66739 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1245.9, vol: 17236.09760773 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1163.594754, vol: 1985.67870000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1246.828, vol: 1890.30479738 | Volume-weighted last average: 1238.45673452
BingoBoingo: On that note Imma sleep. Good night my fellow butt trusted servants of the Republic
davout: my trb node is finally synced up, took approx ~2.5 months on a smallish server without an SSD
☟︎ davout: how does asciilifeform check his nodes' connected peers?
☟︎ davout: is the 'wires' patch still considered useful?
☟︎ jurov: re: mircea_popescu 's constellation: since fuckoff.c never reads, it is possible for pipe to get clogged if the other side is sending anything
☟︎ jurov: and i doubt very much openssh has any extra code to avoid this situation
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 06:46 davout: how does asciilifeform check his nodes' connected peers?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 06:47 davout: is the 'wires' patch still considered useful?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 07:51 jurov: re: mircea_popescu 's constellation: since fuckoff.c never reads, it is possible for pipe to get clogged if the other side is sending anything
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 06:46 davout: my trb node is finally synced up, took approx ~2.5 months on a smallish server without an SSD
mircea_popescu: davout somehow the retard's excuse always is "i'm not the only retard btw". which is a shockingly safe bet not to mention kinda begging the question... OF FUCKING COURSE pointless & witless demographically dominate. but somehow this seems novel and refreshing to them.
mircea_popescu: pushing dat female alt-reality hard to dat twit audience.
mircea_popescu: and they never fucking remember the previous set of перерасход план!!111 headlines
mircea_popescu: that was teh problem of the pcus, see, they kept trying to social media at the elite. they should have social media'd at the shrimps.
deedbot: b41e209ccc264812 voiced for 30 minutes.
b41e209ccc264812: I have been reading your site/blog too, but will for the time being concentrate on trilema. and worke my way from there
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform whassat ? "being what we'd have called nazi and a threat to our democracy had trump lost" ?
mircea_popescu: well, just as long as they don't have to do what they don't wanna do, i guess.
b41e209ccc264812: no particular field. I am interested in general as what might be on your reading lists. Some of the concepts and topics you discuss are very interesting. But sometimes I find myself lacking background information and decided to start from somewhere
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you remember me translating the "feminine exceptionalism" article recently ? i can't fucking find it but im pretty sure i did
mircea_popescu: i'm like "i know i fucking read this in english! WTF WHERE IS IT!!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, working on "how to be a pimp" guide, secrets revealed.
pete_dushenski: this was in ro, yes ? (i seem to recall poorly translating it at one point)
mircea_popescu: you get bonus comparison then. not to mention the end product is half notes (i think this is one of the "absolutely hardest to translate that can still be translated" category)
deedbot: b41e209ccc264812 voiced for 30 minutes.
davout: you don't mean reads? when verifying individual txes?
davout: yeah i followed all that, didn't realize it was the ~writes~ clogging up everything
davout: seems quite curious, it'd intuitively seem like the block would be written in one single pass, and then the db might spend time on reads to connect transactions to their parents, but writes... wtf
davout: we'll see how that goes i guess, i was kinda wondering whether i should get a ssd-equipped server anyway
davout: du -sh ~/.trb reports 131gb
davout: can live on /dev/null for all i care, unless i'm specifically looking into something
davout: so far it blocks for a while on the 'getinfo' call, but seems to still be up to date
davout: aha, thanks for the tip, i do have 16gb on the hdd-only box
mircea_popescu: honestly, it should just be a patch. there's no serious reason to allow the usage of trb on tiny boxes
Framedragger: yeah i wanted to ask how you managed to implement script stuff in this amount of time but i guess no need to parse scripts to have definitive view of all tx
Framedragger: yeah! i imagine it's gonna be tremendous and yuge :) (but seriously, compared to userspace fs....)
Framedragger: did you already have a chance to check if there are any tx collisions in the 32 bit address scheme? just curious
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's not a minor point given that no bitcoin implementation is currently known that DOES in fact run within a defined memory footprint.
Framedragger: (also recursion forbidden, too, e.g. (in jpl c handbook) - all about predictable execution..)
Framedragger: nice. so you have local pointers within given data structure (e.g. block) referring to starts of whatever-relevant-stuff? (i didn't even know that satoshi's code used variable length ints)
Framedragger: at first i thought "well for small ints it's just an additional nSize check which is retarted but whatever", but he writes the bytes himself regardless of int size and i'm sure compiler etc. won't be able to optimise much there
Framedragger: wait he uses boost right, doesn't boost have its own 'multiprecision' thingie a la bignum?
Framedragger: (hm, 'cpp_int' (part of boost's multiprecision module) is allegedly an arbitrary precision int lib, but whatever / maybe not applicable)
Framedragger: oh hah ok.. and he felt compelled to use his custom thing for those, too. ok lol
Framedragger: myeah you can't randomly access things in the middle, etc. lol.
mircea_popescu: it's basically a hobble. from which we discern satoshi, whether married or not, certainly saw no fundamental problem with marriage as a mental construction / social narrative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform danielpbarron the arrangement a) between one man and one woman which b) presumes to be wilfully entered by both and c) claims to resolve all the possible problems they may encounter is, necessarily, a casette tape.
mircea_popescu: well the biblical interpretation is neither clear nor practically relevant, seeing how heathens exist but biblical marriages are necessarily livresque.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, my point was that there's actual effectual activity, and then there's the specific sort of pointless makework which self-referentially tends to capture people.
mircea_popescu: ie, man enjoys a woman specifically ; satoshi wishes to make bitcoin. that's all well and good. then man proceeds to marry her and satoshi proceeds to design a scheme whereby everyhing's suddenly and for no reason o(n).
mircea_popescu: the resemblance is striking, to me. but then again mebbe im weird.
danielpbarron: if a man enjoys a woman he absolutely should marry her
trinque always wonders why people want to involve the govt in the thing
☟︎ trinque: danielpbarron: towards purpose?
mircea_popescu: if she knows she can't be cast away that fucks up her incentive structure.
danielpbarron: it is not casting away if you give an order and she refuses to follow. can still beat her/ restrain etc
mircea_popescu: teh cast away device is immensely valuable : to the loving woman it is truly the bottom, worst possible penalty ; to the unloving a welcome release.
trinque: man, if I think back on all the women I cast away, and they were all in this room
☟︎ mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well cast away dun mean you also take her back does it.
danielpbarron: it would be better she die than lie with another for sure
mircea_popescu: suppose you're born and a perfect and ideal bride is destined to you. suppose 15 years later a black immigrant from the arab nation of africa gets her drunk at a party and fucks her. is it now too late for you ?
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Matthew 19:6 :: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
danielpbarron: all that matters is women not be passed around like harlots
mircea_popescu: suppose you meet this girl that loves you and get married and then have sex on wedding night and she's allergic to your sperm (this happens, yes), goes into anaphylactic shock an' dies. was this pre-ordained ?
danielpbarron: and lucky her she's not going to hell because i wouldn't have married a heathen
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Isaiah 45:7 :: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem to me that in the continuum between "whenever a man is born a woman is allocated him, soulmate" and "let them be passed around and let the dogs fuck them too, what, it's a muscle. not like they're made of soap" the specific "there's no soulmate but there shouldn't be gynorgies either" spot you select is hard to support in any fundamental way.
danielpbarron: wha? i'm not saying a man can't have multiple wives. if the first sucks get another, just don't ditch the first
danielpbarron: and this is a better incetive structure for preventing the bad relationship in the first place
danielpbarron: ie: careful who you humble, you'll be stuck with her
trinque: sounds more like it causes timidity in the male, than building judgment
trinque: most basic drive there is, ever present, DO NOT FUCK IT UP EVER NOT ONCE
trinque: while they haven't yet, they're a nuisance to the living
mircea_popescu: i dunno, why would the woman be a drag in the first place ? old loves dun bother mp any. heck, they're a substantial part of his imperial majesty.
danielpbarron: can be a drag if one believes Bible and other doesn't
mircea_popescu: only if one believes and is wrong while the other doesn't and is right. otherwise... what's the problem, truth prevails eventually.
danielpbarron: sure, if he was saved after the marriage. otherwise it's dubious to say he believes if he was willing to lay with a heathen
trinque: what if he only does it standing up?
danielpbarron: i'm not convinced it's possible to convert girls with cock
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's one of the weirdest things. they mostly did it standing (like, for the record, it's normal!) and yet the expressions all reference the decaying mores of the empire.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 17:46 trinque always wonders why people want to involve the govt in the thing
trinque: "eye-poppingly sexist" << wtf I am not reading this
Framedragger: like any other place, this one's got their trigger words, too. careful not to read too much literature in case you segfault, trinque
Framedragger: like, that *the* thing you picked out. great, success
Framedragger: spoiler, it gets into nice examples of graph theory. but yeah, not the $badword!!1
trinque: what, we jettisoned a quip guy and now you're it?
danielpbarron: he's on the right track with the eye-poppingly sexist scheme. it should, however, be the woman who stores the husband id, that way many women can be paired to one man
trinque: the article signs off with a turd about open minds and flexible worldviews and so on
Framedragger: danielpbarron: iirc there's a scheme down there which allows for this, etc.
trinque: rejecting something on the basis of politics is entirely reasonable
Framedragger: you do understand that you can use words descriptively and not normatively, right?
Framedragger: anyway, it's true, not the most interesting piece; was relevant and lulzy enough for me; guess i'm timid
trinque: I'm not engaging in the sidestepping game with you.
Framedragger secretly likes the guy's scifi. but, yah, point taken
trinque: anyhow the 2% in there about "you will have to edit your schema" sure
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why the muricans imagine "everything" is up for their review.
mircea_popescu: not the meaning of words, not all, not any ; not the substance of human relations nor the organising of human activity nor anything else.
mircea_popescu: that died at a time orwell was a young man. this dude's murican from the island.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what do you do when women start declaring your id ? note that this isn't an idle consideration, but quite the fundamental problem of harem societies. clemens has some notes about it re life in the mormon lands, for instance. it's everywhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cog wants to be cog, cockroach thinks "o, man doesn't feel interchangeable, how sad!!1". pretty lulzy.
danielpbarron: heh if we're gonna get technical, perhaps she declares instead a signed thing produced by me
mircea_popescu: but as a general principle of db design : the property is stored with its creator, not with its object.
mircea_popescu: thus, if you decide which women are your wives, "wife" is a field of you-entry in db.
danielpbarron: what would that be? a concatonated string of woman ids?
mircea_popescu: i guess ? no good way to apply the eyepoppingly socialist db model to the fundamentally republican reality of domestic disturbances.
danielpbarron: hey i agree. i don't think it needs to be a database or state issue. can be between husband and father of girl. if there's a dispute later, let them testify accordingly
mircea_popescu: suppose #dbp ends up with a million souls hanging off it. are you going to now hear all this crap ? 100/day ? really ?
trinque: old men are bad enough without turning them into grandmothers-to-all
mircea_popescu: perhaps because you've never had it. but from experience, being the judge of a troop of idiots is the worst fucking horror of a turd to fall on your head. and this holds even if you have life and death powers and the ability to construct the law andf its application however you wish through simple declaration.
danielpbarron: i doubt grandmothers would rule that adulterers should be stoned to death
trinque: man old women love nothing more than gossiping about so and so's young whore daughter
mircea_popescu: it may even be the original driver of language, the old women's need to do something aboutthe young sluts.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the overarching concern isn't so much what to do about x as what to do so all the fanciule don't start pressuring them out of society.
danielpbarron: according to the Bible, we get just as you describe. this world is no good and everyone seeks evil continuously
mircea_popescu: in other utter lulz : Books by Proust, Marcel (sorted by popularity) Swann's Way Marcel Proust 1002 downloads ; Du côté de chez Swann (French) Marcel Proust 400 downloads ; A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - Première partie (French) Marcel Proust 97 downloads ; Sodome et Gomorrhe - Première partie (French) Marcel Proust 71 downloads ; A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Troisième partie (French) Marcel Pro
mircea_popescu: ust 62 downloads ; Le Côté de Guermantes - Première partie (French) Marcel Proust 59 downloads ; A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Deuxième partie (French) Marcel Proust 52 downloads ; Sodome et Gomorrhe - Deuxième partie (French) Marcel Proust 48 downloads ; Le Côté de Guermantes - Deuxième partie (French) Marcel Proust 44 downloads ; Le Côté de Guermantes - Troisième partie (French) Marcel Proust 35 downl
danielpbarron: so what happens? we get exactly what can be seen all around today
mircea_popescu: this, from gutenberg. poor guy can't match trilema's day with his opera omnia.
danielpbarron: on this topic i side with the muslims. not the so-called christians
mircea_popescu: about what, judges ? closeted homosexuals ? old books ?
danielpbarron: one man, multiple women ; execute adulterers and homosexuals
mircea_popescu: why do you care enough about what other people do to want to kill them anyway. you mean like, adulterers you find in your own closet ?
danielpbarron: i don't want to go looking for them but they certainly shouldn't be permitted to flaunt it in public
trinque: "shouldn't be permitted" is what everybody asking somebody else for a mega-state says
trinque: whether the mega-state religion is communism or this
mircea_popescu: wait, so they actually befouling land and country you want to punish only if they do it in your sight ; but the fuckers you want to punish in principle ?
mircea_popescu: maybe they do it in their own closed and ain't botherin' you none.
trinque: thought jesus was supposed to have hung out with whores and so on, wasn't apparently befouled by the act
trinque: this sounds more like fundamentalist judiasm
danielpbarron: the Bible says it defiles. i doubt they could do it in private for long without it somehow manifesting in public
ben_vulpes mutters something about join table for wives and husbands
trinque: many to many eh? gettin wild
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes laugh if you will but the issue is not entirely uninteresting... working on marriage for eulora. though there - one will only be able top marry npcs. even if they start as pcs - fine method for a player to suicide an avatar, this.
danielpbarron: Jesus died for the sins of everyone. that doesn't mean sin isn't sin anymore
mircea_popescu: trinque predictably, that objection runs into the son of god doctrine. dood also went to hell, and crashed the gates.
ben_vulpes: trinque: could enforce uniqueness in the second column
trinque: something something "he who is blameless cast the first stone"
trinque: anyhow the whole thing's inconsistent so anybody can pluck anything
trinque: doesn't the guy or one of his progeny also say "wages of sin is death"
trinque: so I can see where danielpbarron would say kill 'em
trinque: or I can decide I'm a softy and "turn the other cheek"
danielpbarron: it may be the case that nobody is qualified to do the execution, but execution is still the right thing. Jesus told that whore to "sin no more"
danielpbarron: i don't know if this one was named. the thing to which trinque is referring "cast first stone"
mircea_popescu: ah yes. but i'd rather discuss the whore he wilfully or accidentally omitted to address as such.
mircea_popescu: you know, exactly in the manner of tolerating whorishness generally.
trinque: ah I just didn't remember her name
mircea_popescu: yes, but would you propose "she sucked the judges off, all of them" as a fine defense in your above case for whoredom ?
danielpbarron: eh it may be the case she didn't believe. i don't suppose it matters. the fact remains a whore generally may repent and no longer be a whore, although it would still be appropriate to execute her
mircea_popescu: but apparently a whore may also ambiguously pass for random follower and it wouldn't matter.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Matthew 7:21 :: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
mircea_popescu: ah, mind that the eventual fate of all these is of no interest in this discussion. we were just going on about the "should be" and "shouldn't be". if mary doesn't have to publicly admit she was a whore, and if nobody has to point out to her, and if she may vaguely repent without mentioning, or maybe not, and it makes no difference, then why not random hussy aged 17 in 2017.
mircea_popescu: i will excuse carol of "cool it, carol" fame with the exact same rod.
mircea_popescu: (note that she also does repent, in the same approximate manner.)
danielpbarron: what matters is that if she repents she will stop doing the bad thing! this can be plainly observed
mircea_popescu: well i how can it be plainly observed when you didn't observe the other deeds any ; nor did the observation get recorded.
danielpbarron: ask her! everyone i talk to here in connecticut freely admits they are a whore/adulterer
danielpbarron: how could she unless she knew the penalty was death? they freely admit this because there is no consequence.
mircea_popescu: might also be because they're utterly unsophisticated.
mircea_popescu: incidentally dorky black men get sent up for "drugs" now. it could readily be dorky white girls for "whoredom".
mircea_popescu: but not so far off from how the conversation goes with me ; after all i taught most of them har har.
danielpbarron: i don't know any apparently. or rather i haven't met a whore i couldn't get to admit it
mircea_popescu: how much is the business hotel only call girl in connecticut ? 1k a night by now ? 2 ?
mircea_popescu: so identify one, run into her "accidentally" in town, ask her out and then ask her what she does for a living.
mircea_popescu: (and if she says "i'm a high end whore" fucking marry her, because srsly.)
danielpbarron: i don't follow. because she was honest? perhaps i should clarify, i use whore to mean a woman who has sex with multiple men. harlot is a better word (friend of the world) but both are bad things: whether she is paid is irrelevant
mircea_popescu: pretty much. she was honest ~with you~. dun expect she does this generally, was the subtext.
mircea_popescu: ie, the portion of the observation germane to the topic.
danielpbarron: if she repented of being a whore and really came to be saved then yeah i could see marrying her, maybe. but the onus would be on her to do that. I'm better off single, it's her best interest to marry
danielpbarron: in eulora terms this would be something like "oh hey this is really profitable to do but then my whole account gets nuked"
mircea_popescu: well, she can repent if you want her to, but she still has a town house, eighty lbs of jewelry and about half a million in cash in strongboxes all over mexico.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Mark 10:25 :: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
mircea_popescu: yes, but the discussion was who's better off how / interests etc.
danielpbarron: ah i see what you mean, suppose despite all that comfort she still repents, and now she also has all this stuff. so she dosen't need me in the financial sense. but maybe she wants kids
mircea_popescu: well, maybe she can't find any proper men, so she just picks up an orphan kid and raises that.
danielpbarron: hey if she's saved i don't care what else she does. adopts a bunch of orphans, wonderful!
mircea_popescu: but the point remains, notwithstanding how poorly it worked for that particular idiot, that there's a lot worse fates than being a 30something successful repented whore.
danielpbarron: a repented whore would be ahead of 99.9999% of the world that's for sure
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Isaiah 64:6 :: But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
danielpbarron: "filthy rags" better translated as "rags of menstruation"
danielpbarron: ie: good deeds done by people who don't believe is seen as disgusting to God
mircea_popescu: as per aquinas, "let me repent and let it be tomorrow", she'll do jus' fine.
jhvh1: trinque: [KJV] Mark 7:15 :: There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
trinque: I guess that checks out lol
danielpbarron: could die at any moment. i'd say it's not worth the risk, but most people go to hell so it's anybody's guess
mircea_popescu: i wonder if "things which come out of him" includes spit.
danielpbarron: it means the things he says because they come from the heart
danielpbarron: the things you eat get destroyed in the stomach, but the things you say, they come from you, and if they are bad things that you say, it means there is something bad in you
mircea_popescu: better hope people use proper languages rather than whatever barbar.jpg to speak.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron that theory suffers from not having ever eaten corn kernels neh ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, am i the only one wondering why the everloving fuck the ustards keep pretending sex is something dubious and hard to distinguish etc, when every single fucking cell of the organism carries, very strictly, the code on it ? it's either xx or xy, stop bitching and whining, there's NO ambiguity. none.
diana_coman: everything is hard to distinguish when one has only vague approximations instead of definitions (because clear definitions are too harsh; and not inclusive enough! etc)
deedbot: BU_lulz voiced for 30 minutes.
trinque: what lulz do you bring, BU_lulz ?
BU_lulz: just getting lots of lulz from the BU community lately
BU_lulz: just the fact that their was a bug in their protocol that brought down 90% of their nodes
BU_lulz: i know it's petty, but I do love seeing shillz get rekt
BU_lulz: not to say there aren't segwit shillz
BU_lulz: but it is def a different calliber of insanity
BU_lulz: really just wanted to listen to what the trilema folks were talking about
BU_lulz: easier to connect and eavesdrop then click through the logs
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin Unlimited is a full Bitcoin client and is an alternative to the original Bitcoin Core client. It offers high levels of security, privacy, and stability." quoth the roger ver mfa.
BU_lulz: i really want roger ver to go away like gavin
BU_lulz: each statement he makes outcringes the last
BU_lulz: u guys think the usg is pumping alt coins lately?
BU_lulz: like I have no faith in ethereum, dash, etc but I can't help but feel printed money is being thrown at them
BU_lulz: i've been tempted to try to make a penny off the pumps, but the principled side of me has kept me from stooping to that level of derp
trinque: the printed money can dribble from whichever tentacle, eh?
BU_lulz: good point, that's probably mostly what is giving BTC it's current market cap
trinque: anyhow, who are you, BU_lulz ?
BU_lulz: meh, just some dude who knows one of the regulars here through a friend
BU_lulz: not trying to get deep into the WOT or anything
BU_lulz: just felt like dropping in
ben_vulpes: get in the wot or get right the fuck out
ben_vulpes: has the stones to "make a vpn" whatever that means to the average bu tard, but not to make a key and get in the wot
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you mean robert viragh ?
mircea_popescu: Jan 25 02:21:50 * novusordo (~wut@dns.mullvad.net) has joined #bitcoin-otc << that's feb 2012.
mircea_popescu: i just thought it was one dude with an obscure web service. who knows.
mircea_popescu: the allotment of identity to the peons is a largely irrelevant if entirely complex business.
ben_vulpes: reject the wot, even humorously, at your own risk.
ben_vulpes: question will now float, "which 'regular' didn't beat elementary manners into his wannabe vassals?"
danielpbarron: hah i was thinking "hope it's not me he's referring to"
ben_vulpes: next time someone says "i know a feller", next question is "which feller?"
ben_vulpes: i know in point of fact that i've demonstrated how candidates for voice are to introduce themselves before.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dunno bout you, but erry time i went after hours to nominally girls only student whore warehouse facilities i was there to "visit my cousin" and when crashing a party it'd be a case of "you've got my sister in there, now do i have to get a cop."
ben_vulpes: columns variously ionic and dorian, made of ebony
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's a reference ot that most best read trilema piece, teh la zuleika
mircea_popescu: which incidentally - has been read TODAY by more people than read ALL of marcel proust's works since the making of gutenberg.org
☟︎ ben_vulpes: epic pile btw, i don't believe for a second 4chan has worked through it yet.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if author of finnigan's wake inquires, i've never read it now.
mircea_popescu is taking a grim sort of pleasure in the observation that it takes about as long to read as it took to write.