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Wed Mar 09 14:39:08 UTC 2016 <nubbins`> mircea_popescu this infatuation of yours is bordering on obsessive
Wed Mar 09 14:03:08 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> bbl, redoing this wake-up thing, apparently it didn't happen fully.
Wed Mar 09 14:02:32 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> space flight means chimps with monkeys << ie, chimps with rocks.
Wed Mar 09 13:57:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> whereas before it "didn't".
Wed Mar 09 13:57:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mircea_popescu> and more importantly, because once expressed the current situation becomes tolerable << INtolerable, obviously. and in all fields. much like a smoky kitchen wall is tolerable for just as long as you don't see any actual white stuff for contrast. but bring in a new stove, suddenly the wall needs a paintjob too.
Wed Mar 09 13:53:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> satisfactory ?
Wed Mar 09 13:53:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform exactly so.
Wed Mar 09 13:53:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform it is deeply satisfying to beat idiots to death. you should try it sometime.
Wed Mar 09 13:53:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> desires are no basis. "cryptography" does not stem from pgp-zimmerman, but from pgp-ba.
Wed Mar 09 13:52:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> bitcoin, in any proper sense, means the republic, and the wot, and the forum, and so on. and similarly "cryptography" means "a bunch of derps on usenet" much in the same way space flight means chimps with monkeys. yes, the inclination to see inanimate objects fly is the same in both animals.
Wed Mar 09 13:51:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "bitcoin" in the sense of a collection of (whitepaper by satoshi, 2-3 shitty mutually exclusive prototypes by satoshi, even shittier code in prb) is much like "russia" in the sense of "the kiev kingdom".
Wed Mar 09 13:50:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> now, as to 2 :
Wed Mar 09 13:50:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (en passant : solution 3 is readily apparent, and it begins with selectively beating your children - the runts to death ; and then continuing in this manner. and there's plenty more.)
Wed Mar 09 13:50:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the statement was as to the problem and its expression.
Wed Mar 09 13:49:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform i am not discussing solutions, and plox not to mix it in we'll never end.
Wed Mar 09 13:49:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and more importantly, because once expressed the current situation becomes tolerable, or the statal / feminine definition of intelligence is "measure of capacity to adapt to environment [that we designed to suit ourselves]".
Wed Mar 09 13:49:36 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> there are strictly two 'solutions' i know of, 1) get born as mircea_popescu and stay on dirigible as much as possible 2) go perelman and live in the forest with bears and lynx
Wed Mar 09 13:49:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the list is more or less endless. the problem, more or less felt by everyone (ie, by all persons) and not expressed clearly and rigurously by anyone, because dunno how.
Wed Mar 09 13:48:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> whose city ?
Wed Mar 09 13:48:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> oh, more radio stations ? great, now the cars are all designed by imbeciles for imbeciles. let's make more houses in autocad! this is how a city looks!