mod6: i felt like it could add flavor or meaning to some of these structured or arragned tickets.
mod6: so far, nothing entirely meaningful there, although later could do reporting or something based on code, or sorting, something. gives it a "flavor" if you will.
mircea_popescu: mod6 what are the types ? d ? f ?
mod6: if you click on the vertex, it takes you to the anchored ticket in the corresponding ticket list.
mod6: the mouse over on the arrows show the relationships, the mouse over on the vertex shows the id.
mod6: There could be some labels made or something in the ascii graph to make it a bit more readable though, i agree with that.
mircea_popescu: mod6 oh there is that huh.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/trb_ascii_graph.txt << ideally numbers should be hooverable, ie show ticket content if you put mouse on it. title="$ticket" iirc. << sure. the ascii ticket graph is just ascii. not sure of any way to "mark up" the text without turning into something that's not text.
mircea_popescu: fucking turdeaters, they piled everything else in there, except the ~single nonverbal glyph anyone actually wants.
mircea_popescu can't believe there isn't a html bird flipping glyph
mircea_popescu: being part of a usg "protected class" is insta-outlawry. everyone may take your shit, rape you and kill you, and nobody cares. serves you fucking right, shithead.
mircea_popescu: there is no obligation on the part of anyone to ensure "safe and comfortable" anything for anyone else. and fuck "protected classes" with a barbed fence.
mircea_popescu: the what ?!
asciilifeform: ioned work session which you took part in leading. The very statement that the inception of a working relationship was in any way influenced by sexual conduct or even innuendo is offensive...'
asciilifeform: choice lulz, '...The other incident raises more serious concerns regarding Tor Project’s obligation to ensure a safe and comfortable work environment, especially as regards an environment that is unwelcoming or hostile to protected classes of community members. In this case, you made statements that implied that new community members were recruited in a sexually charged manner. This was made during the course of a Tor Project-sanct
a111: Logged on 2016-06-06 22:04 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-06#1477600 << not altogether an idle question.
mircea_popescu: eh i can't be arsed ; working on ticketizing and who the fuck is this jwz.
asciilifeform: dun actually work off the asphalt.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479258 << i don't get this. isn't the FUCKING POINT ofspending extra for "SUV" that you can drive in any direction from any point within the state of ok ? << Possibru if weather cooperates. If raining (rare) the clay soil turns into some nasty mud.
asciilifeform: 'there is a first time for everything'
asciilifeform: anyway pre-allocated-buffers-for-motherfucking-everything is sop in 'this must work' (e.g., avionics) world.
mircea_popescu: tbh, the heap should go away entirely.
asciilifeform: i discovered that mainstream finite field libs are as complicated as they are largely because they insist on growable - and, ergo, heap-allocated - nums.
asciilifeform: sooooooo in other nyooz here's a small preview of things to come:
BingoBoingo: $google "many have tried to find an easier softer way but they could not"
BingoBoingo: Chapter 5 of the Big Book.
mircea_popescu: all i get is qntra :) what's the reference BingoBoingo ?
mircea_popescu: $google "many have tried to find an easier softer way than" "but they could not"
asciilifeform: 'Why would a Bitcoin payment processor fail to fix an error that prevents them from processing Bitcoin payments for nearly a month?' << l0l!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "Many have tried to find an easier softer way than the WoT, but they could not." < "Many have tried to find an easier softer way than the WoT ; and just as many have failed to date." << Present phrasing is a literary reference. Evaluating submission nao
mircea_popescu: mod6 http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/trb_ascii_graph.txt << ideally numbers should be hooverable, ie show ticket content if you put mouse on it. title="$ticket" iirc.
asciilifeform: ~bleeding~ was the issue.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 20:43 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479266 << mno. it bonds well the skin, and ftr cutman (boxing item) actually had a very duct-tape-y thing before ducttape, and used cyanoacrylate early also. but no such things as "cut liver", infection is the larger problem there.
mircea_popescu: they're definitely asking for it.
mircea_popescu: heh. these stupid shits, seriously. all coy and like... "please fuck with hollow copyright claims". where the fuck is the mockery of "rights" and assorted bullshit ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 19:06 shinohai: Most other Bitcoin related news sites are exact clones of each other, the ones I know of anyway. Bitcoinist is probably the worst.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479356 << juyst like most anglo derps are exact clones of each other. then they wanna compete for mates and money and whatnot, in their trite identity.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Many have tried to find an easier softer way than the WoT, but they could not." < "Many have tried to find an easier softer way than the WoT ; and just as many have failed to date."
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 18:07 asciilifeform: unless, of course, they have exception hardcoded for autoplunderator co.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 16:29 phf: philadelphia is all led pipes so they just give you a little paper that lets you test the water for free, and then presumably move "elsewhere"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479286 << not the worst of ideas ; i had them in my mercs also. depends a lot on engine, but the water pump conveyor belt was by far the largest vulnerability of the thing. have belt, 300% better reliability, need roadside servicing never as opposed to maybe once every other year.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:46 trinque: or leaving with a failing liver after you succumb to their pill pushing
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479270 <<< this is a much more serious problem than anyone commonly realises. us "psych" quackery diagnosis ~= death sentence. works faster than the judicial one too, less than a decade.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:45 asciilifeform: (cyanoacrylate - 'super' - glue - is quite possibly the single greatest advance in wound suturing ever to happen, works great on everything from paper cut to 7.62x39-through-the-liver)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479266 << mno. it bonds well the skin, and ftr cutman (boxing item) actually had a very duct-tape-y thing before ducttape, and used cyanoacrylate early also. but no such things as "cut liver", infection is the larger problem there.
shinohai: Sad I know all these commands by heart already lol
mod6: logging feature still needs a bit of rounding-out to implement the format we discussed before. and the help thing, which im going to tweak now actually.
mod6: they deliniate the start and end of the subject and notes fields. if you want to add a blocking ticket (antecedent) you just tack that on the end like so:
mod6: those quotes are needed for the above. so i still need to update the help message. sorry about that.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479258 << i don't get this. isn't the FUCKING POINT ofspending extra for "SUV" that you can drive in any direction from any point within the state of ok ?
trinque: ft meade was restarting their MITMtron to diddle tickets
mod6: the graphs and charts are generated 4 times per hour and pushed into: http://thebitcoin.foundation/tickets/
mod6: but yeah deedbot needs to be up in order for commands to function properly since it checks if someone has the proper auth/level.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, https://attimpurislam.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/11146489_468251810017437_1327205877618895494_n.jpg
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 32, Type: T, Subject: Test funk's import/dump priv key vpatch, Antecedents: 2, Notes: Use mod6's rebased vpatch, apply to latest vpatches in thebitcoin.foundation mirror. Test import/export of private keys. Should use both valid and invalid keys here. Also test send/recieve; leave no stone unturned. http://www.mod6.net/btcf/test/mod6_funken_prikey_tools.vpatch
mod6: yeah. i did all the work to get it into the wot, plus a L1 from me, plus code to auth/voice itself.
mircea_popescu: recall the classical period ?
asciilifeform: but why they feel safest in ok ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because plunder is where robber barons feel safe, not where the scania sounds are fulla fish.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 20:06 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479199 << oklahoma is not rural, it is central. bandits favour notthingham forest for a reason, which isn't that "it's impenetrable", but rather that it is semi-permeable and oft permeated.
asciilifeform: re this, and http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479380 , i am left to wonder why the plunder is not carried out in or near, e.g., airports, train stations.
mircea_popescu: ~only way to make yourself rich in the socialist empire, be it of the "egalite fraternite humanatee" revolution or of the "faggotry, equality, poverty" revolution, is through taking up a tax farm.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:28 asciilifeform: that brings us back to 18th c. french state of the art re tax collection
mircea_popescu: teh teens tend to want 14 if possibru! then a decade later, they're back to maybe 8.
mircea_popescu: you can keep your motherfucking meth.
mircea_popescu: speaking of side effects : this morn i woke up, executed a bottle of champagne with homemade apple pie and scantily clad damsels to the backing of 70s/80s italian made-for-tv comedies (atti impuri, anyone ever seen ? THAT is how you make shit for the tv!).
asciilifeform: where i'm from, the dope used to make intolerable - tolerable - is vodka
asciilifeform: you could make argument that the dope makes the intolerable - tolerable. as the spanish eventually permitted the inca silver miners their coca again.
mircea_popescu: cheaper to not do stupid thing than to find ways to "do it 3% better". for the obvious reason - you're doing stupid thing because of state, which means it'll immediately self-level.
asciilifeform: but point being that folks aren't doing stupid thing ~because~ of the dope.
mircea_popescu: the only thing it's good for is for better satisfaction of "publish or perish"
mircea_popescu: "let's all stand on tiptoes we'll see the game better"
a111: 1 results for "mathematics lost a month", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mathematics%20lost%20a%20month
asciilifeform: $s mathematics lost a month
asciilifeform: there is a time and a place for it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the brain is economical ; only has one inhibition.
mircea_popescu: second off, "10x" bull. it's an unmeasurable 9.9x vs allegedly 10.1x, except so deep under the random variation sea it's not worth investigating.
mircea_popescu: first off, "losens inhibitions", tell you what, igot plenty of inhibited derps drunk when i was a teen. best sex was still in between the thighs of the sluts.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:26 asciilifeform: the 'sex is the devil's temptation' idiots have easy pickings in that climate.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 19:26 mircea_popescu: "Empirically the most attractive man in our community including for purposes of casual sex is Mike Blume, who (Ive asked a woman or two) achieves this by being extremely polite, reliable, and generating a feeling of being very safe to be around or date (contrary to a number of people whod allege that this is beta-male behavior who Im beginning to suspect are just sheerly empirically wrong)." << aha
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479240 <<< aaaaand yet, even with "free" "love" and plenty of virgins, the kids that 3 centuries ago'd have been sailors STILL prefer not to fuck ; but instead http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-07#1478315
asciilifeform: imho the powerz of dope are overblown. vodka will loosen inhibitions but nobody gets the basic idea of cracking a skull from it. ditto meth, stupid man will be 10x more vigorous in his idiocy, erdos - 10x theorems.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:20 asciilifeform: i'm still quite unconvinced that empire is better off selling, e.g., the usual vodka, in shops, than meth.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:16 BingoBoingo: The Mexican meth largely serves to keep anyone from quietly becoming mega drug kingpin
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479224 << BingoBoingo has it. the entirety of the us "drug on wars" thing reduces to "we gotta keep police largest street gang ~everywhere". it ~works.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:12 asciilifeform: who takes it? and why? and why it and not some other dope.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:10 trinque: myup, the grandchildren of the generation that knew how to do that spends their time getting fat on walmart groceries and posting on facebook about "freedom ain't free"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479211 << importantly, all this out of money they never earned.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 15:01 asciilifeform: ^ soooo it appears that the process is farther along in rural shitholes like oklahoma, than in the inhabited usa
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-09#1479199 << oklahoma is not rural, it is central. bandits favour notthingham forest for a reason, which isn't that "it's impenetrable", but rather that it is semi-permeable and oft permeated.
trinque: shinohai: no, the two candidates for president are having a slap fight on twitter while the audience posts gifs
shinohai: In other news, has Hillary fallen victim to said hack? https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/740973710593654784
BingoBoingo: That and they are wrong.
BingoBoingo: Right, the reason they all suck is they recycle press releases or all share the same stable of Buttnixen Who write the same text for different stories which obliterates any chance for contrast.
shinohai: Most other Bitcoin related news sites are exact clones of each other, the ones I know of anyway. Bitcoinist is probably the worst.
BingoBoingo: Gotta understand how the enemy works. Especially when it has ossified itself into committee driven beast.
BingoBoingo: If you add being insufferable pricks to the second part while overdoing it on memes (i.e. you don't have content because everything is a forced meme) you end up with the Gawker media formula.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: See here all future production of these information products is covered in the cases where actual hack seems unlikely, and we continue the "Him in our time" meme.
shinohai: I suspect there was no hack, it is merely cross-ref'd data from the other 3 hacks by peace.
BingoBoingo: Someone got crazy loading up hamlet.stanford.edu with vietnamese spam links and putting them in spam comments to qntra, so blacklisted
asciilifeform: so the gadget may well include this function.
asciilifeform: trinque: not necessarily - if the card is prepaid, as these were, you can normally call the # on the back of the card (and often there is even a www form) and determine the balance
asciilifeform: unless, of course, they have exception hardcoded for autoplunderator co.
asciilifeform: trinque: i'd imagine this would trigger the standard fraud freeze
trinque: asciilifeform: those card drainers might be doing a succession of rapid "auth" transactions against the card searching for the limit, then settling the transaction for the highest amount it can find that works
phf: philadelphia is all led pipes so they just give you a little paper that lets you test the water for free, and then presumably move "elsewhere"
asciilifeform: pipes dun replace themselves.
trinque: and of course they're arguing for more govt mandated medical screening rather than y'know, how bout we learn the millenia old magick of water piping and not shitting where we eat
asciilifeform: pretty sure that darkest africa is ~ahead~ on the not-eating-lead score.
phf: a range of Pre✓™ branded experiences. Taxes Pre✓™ where you fill out one form and pay slightly below average (but still not as much as an accountant would save you), Building Pre✓™ where you fill out one form and can build a mcmanshion on your property (but not any other kind of building), etc.
asciilifeform: i imagine in 20 yrs we'll be payin' for 'Police Pre✓™ Experience" where if you have membership card, they probe yer rectum with velvet, instead of hedgehog, gloves...
phf: "Includes the TSA Pre✓™ Experience"
asciilifeform: then works
asciilifeform: when i came back from mircea_popescu's c3, they let me in past customs via the door the pilots use.
asciilifeform: the global entry thing was spiffy
asciilifeform: the part that gets you out of inspections when traveling inside usa
phf: there's also "global entry" which i haven't looked into
asciilifeform: the most expensive ones.
phf: i'm not sure how these kinds of liquids interact with tsa
asciilifeform: ^ afaik these come with car
asciilifeform: i imagine trinque spends much time in the desert
trinque: I have a station wagon so I have room for shit in the back
trinque: sure, they're small
trinque: might need others
asciilifeform: or what does BingoBoingo have in there.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the kind that removes wheels, comes with car
trinque: and other toolz
BingoBoingo: No socket set either!
trinque: that's too independently-minded; they'll 'just call 911'
asciilifeform: i always found it interesting how most american folk don't keep first aid kit, of even the most spartan sort, in their car
trinque: or leaving with a failing liver after you succumb to their pill pushing
asciilifeform: (cyanoacrylate - 'super' - glue - is quite possibly the single greatest advance in wound suturing ever to happen, works great on everything from paper cut to 7.62x39-through-the-liver)
phf: or that loratadine is available in 50 different branded variations, but its metabolite desloratadine you need a prescription for. every time i'd ask an allergist for one he'll say "just buy <loratadine brand> it's the same thing"
asciilifeform: (incidentally, didn't i predict the return of door-to-door tax collector ?! a few yrs ago.)
asciilifeform: that brings us back to 18th c. french state of the art re tax collection
asciilifeform: y'know, the 7+% thing
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: oughta mention the royalty
asciilifeform: not convincing, naturally, any sailors, but ~others~, into tolerating the protestant bullshit instead of burning with hot irons.
asciilifeform: today's dope situation is quite analogous to, e.g., 18th c. english sailor's sex life - where the ~only kind of (straight!) sex you can have is, approx., with syphilitic whores, condomless
asciilifeform: ... or blow caustic smoke across them every day.
asciilifeform: (e.g., your teeth will look ~precisely~ like 'methhead teeth' if... you stop brushing them.)
asciilifeform: this is on account of the well-known sequelae being largely effects of impurities, and secondarily - of lack of sleep, vs meth per se.
asciilifeform: i'm still quite unconvinced that empire is better off selling, e.g., the usual vodka, in shops, than meth.
BingoBoingo: Surplus meth also had to compete at phamacy/soda shop against midler stimulants like Benzedrine. Stimulants were the polite national obsession at the time.
BingoBoingo: Anyways in the 40's all the drug products weren't on the counter next to the bubble gum. You had to talk to the pharmacist because otherwise he got lonely.
BingoBoingo: you can say nobody stole, but there's always kids shoplifting
BingoBoingo: The Mexican meth largely serves to keep anyone from quietly becoming mega drug kingpin
asciilifeform: eh nobody stole it in 1940s when it was sold at the bubble gum counter.
BingoBoingo: But when inputs are available methfolk tend to steal them because Phree drugz
asciilifeform: but my understanding is that there was NO 'market' in the usual sense of the word. you wanted some - you made some.
asciilifeform: meth was discovered by ru underground folk in the late '80s. on account of being quickly and easily made from materials commonly sold at the time.
BingoBoingo: It plays the same role heroin does on the coasts. Turns potential redditors into creatures out of "James Lafond Presents"
asciilifeform: who takes it? and why? and why it and not some other dope.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i am curious re the role meth plays.
trinque: myup, the grandchildren of the generation that knew how to do that spends their time getting fat on walmart groceries and posting on facebook about "freedom ain't free"
asciilifeform: ~actual~ rural folk, who grow own food, make own tools, and don't need the mega-state for anything, were recognized as a thread and mostly bugsprayed eons ago.
asciilifeform: the sovietization, in the most comical sense of the word, is nearly total, complete with hruschev's corn.
asciilifeform: consider, in coastal usa you can still go to a few dozen kinds of shop, but in the flyoverlands you're stuck with универмаг^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hlolmart
asciilifeform: 'rural shithole' is simply shithole that is dark from the satellite camera.
BingoBoingo: Even the ozarks have tourism, Oklohomo lacks a Branson.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Oklahomo isn't even rural. Rural has farms and the pastoral life. Oklohomo is just a drive thru obstacle with its fucking toll roads and meth heads.
asciilifeform: ^ soooo it appears that the process is farther along in rural shitholes like oklahoma, than in the inhabited usa
asciilifeform: ( megaclassic, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071805_soviet_lessons_part3.shtml )
asciilifeform: '...there are many, many people whose stock in trade is their use of violence, in offense or defense. No matter what else happens, they will be employed, or self-employed... In Russia, there was a period of years during which the police was basically not functioning: they had no equipment, no budget, and their salaries were not sufficient for survival. Murders went unsolved, muggings and burglaries were not even investigated. The pol
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 mircea_popescu: how is this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as they used to, so therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
asciilifeform: so it stands to reason that it probably recogizes major brands of card and dials in to determine the balance
asciilifeform: it would be interesting imho to learn how the credit card automatic plunderator works:
a111: Logged on 2016-06-09 14:09 mircea_popescu: not their money anyway.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-22 22:07 mircea_popescu: for the record, it's not even clear moving from bearer to certified insturment is anti-liberty. for insmtance - hansa used the certifierd instrument greatly, because as a merchant, giving your son a plain "pay the bearer so much silver upon presentation of this note in such town" was merely an invitation to any highwayman on route to "please fuck this young man in the ass and here's the pay for your trouble"
shinohai: In other not-news, this new "Ubuntu inside Winblowze" thing automatically sets all your file permissions to 777
asciilifeform: ah and there he is!
asciilifeform: usg is just finding the ~new~ laffer curve!11111111111
mircea_popescu: not their money anyway.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he would probably describe the process as 'what the fuck is so surprising, gas let into an empty container will fill it' or similar. nobody is blowing up the police stations in response, so there is no back-pressure and usg can do whatever.
shinohai: That's always been the case with asset forfeiture laws though.
asciilifeform: the peculiar, imho, thing, is that somehow tradition requires american police to actually charge folks who are taken to a police station. and so it is now important to rob them ~without~ arresting.
asciilifeform: http://oklahomawatch.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/files/2016/06/ERADContractBid.pdf << what appears to be the contract.
asciilifeform: 'News 9 obtained a copy of the contract with the state. It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.'
asciilifeform: ' If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money. "We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo et al: http://www.news9.com/story/32168555/ohp-uses-new-device-to-seize-money-used-during-the-commission-of-a-crime << lulzy
BingoBoingo: Hence the referral to phf who mentioned earlier wanting people present in a "nowhere"
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the motor thing sounded appealing until it mentioned other people being present
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: And like in africa they are actually organizing a militia this time!
mircea_popescu: trinque so basically this is the cheap bullshit neoprotestand idiots have been inflicting upon africa for a few decades, come home to roost.
shinohai: The dindu security job however, not so good.
trinque: NUBIAN SUFI.COM is your Global E-Commerce Genies and 24/ 7 IT Magi for small business upgrades! We are also bringing Entrepreneur programs for the financial upliftment of the people through Global Income attainment and new age technological enlightenment for the Enrichment of the People. To put it simple,....The People's Wish is our Digital Command!
gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: There seems to be a sample that was leaked, could easily be faked however.
BingoBoingo: And if the leak is legit.
BingoBoingo: I guess it's worth a mention if you keep it short and end it with "Was this yet another social media liberation by Peace? Him in our time."
shinohai: I personally don't know anyone there.
BingoBoingo: *anyone with such a vehicle that isn't making better money burning down houses to steal the brick*
BingoBoingo: ~225 usd and I'd turn it into grass this fall when its planting time ~350 usd I'd even return in the spring to make sure it is still grass over summer 2017
mircea_popescu: maybe the windows reboots.
mircea_popescu: the jack off tabernacle. rub for jesus!
mircea_popescu: pro memoria : if she's even marginally worth fucking, there's going to be 40+ inches which is more than 1 meter around various points.
mircea_popescu: in other happy news, industrial strength and size tin foil here (1km) comes wrapped around this lovely hard cardboard roll that actually makes a fucking great beating implement!
asciilifeform: whereas buying and snorting the coke - is unambiguous spend
asciilifeform: the way i read pg's thing, it was reasonably sane, hypothesis being that bad investment is more like pouring petron into a leaky tank, you don't ~think~ you've destroyed it
asciilifeform: 'In most people's minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that making investments doesn't. Luxuries seem self-indulgent. And unless you got the money by inheriting it or winning a lottery, you've already been thoroughly trained that self-indulgence leads to trouble. Investing bypasses those alarms. You're not spending the money; you're just moving it from one asset to another. Which is why
mircea_popescu: "i thought she meant she's affraid for the world on my account! honest i did! but no, turns out..."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they're all poor like church mice, and somehow they can't afford the paper to publish the retraction.
mircea_popescu: hey, paul graham was harping about how "that's important" and "the core of america's prosperity", that he and the rest of his inept friends, govt lottery winners, "invest" and so cause economic growth
asciilifeform: and iirc many (most?) lottery winners go broke precisely from inept attempts to attach wings and engine to their rock.
mircea_popescu: and let us laugh together for a moment : http://buenosaires.backpage.com/Events/ http://buenosaires.backpage.com/Bars/
asciilifeform: as in the threads re lottery winners.
asciilifeform: the 'thrown rock' is a good point.
asciilifeform: where he grabs a bunch and can't get hand out, and then hunter comes
mircea_popescu: most women sexually active in the 70s had a very similar looking piece. for curving eyelashes.
asciilifeform: for some reason, whenever i think of 'early adopters' and voorheeses who 'lost it all', i think of the proverbial monkey trap with the gourd full of goodies
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mircea_popescu: should prolly have googled for "anal retractor", they're pretty... elaborate.
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mircea_popescu: the difference between theory and practice is that in practice theory wears anal retractors.
asciilifeform: it must have come up in another piece
mircea_popescu: companion piece to http://trilema.com/2010/moartea-ca-o-veste-buna/ which is the exact same story in the other perspective.
mircea_popescu: haha nah, the one with this guy's daughter.
asciilifeform: the one where 'and then the stone convinced the animals of the forest to throw him up into the air' ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, losts of people started with very promising qualities ended up making all the wrong choices.
asciilifeform: wtf did the man do with his mountain of coin?
asciilifeform: imho that's the peculiar thing
shinohai: And playing the victim to anyone that will listen, ala Roger Ver.
asciilifeform: sdice was a pretty good 'torture test' of the network tho!
asciilifeform: iciently many layers of isolation between him and the chumps.'
asciilifeform: ftr, what i said re voorhees's dice in feb. '13: 'Satoshi Dice is a can of worms which almost deserves its own discussion. It is, at its core, a simple “numbers game.” That is to say, an industrial-strength harvester of chump money, precisely the kind of thing which Popescu expresses his disdain for at every opportunity. But listing its stock on MPEx does not bother him, because there are suff
BingoBoingo: Sometimes stupid takes time to reveal itself if the package is polished and the rest of the crowd is covered in shit it can be hard to discern the smell of shit inside the box.