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BingoBoingo: I will in a couple hours, gotta get a string trimmer and re-piece. Or you know you could do the tie ins from Argentina bsns perspective.
mircea_popescu: or maybe save for a later re-piece, if it sells or something. eitherway.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess we retrospectively discovered what a major point of discussion in the recent bahamas-macri meeting was. and the local socialist fucktards thought they ran off and hid in the countryside because of them. lelz. "reddit we diddit!!1"
BingoBoingo: Right, kinda the pharma model where having a pipeline of things to pattent matters more than anything else.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo bacteria are a whole other game.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, monsanto is very much apple'd. the original idea seemed promising, in the 90s. sometime years ago, dunno exactly when cuz they've been keeping it secret and i never cared that much, they found out it's a doomed entreprise. ever since then... MON's been pretty much a stock scam.
BingoBoingo still wonders why Monsanto hasn't been digging for Diquat decomposing bacteria to make a wunderwaffen
mircea_popescu: med. 3. keep doing this, depending on life form, MANY times. at least a dozen for plants, for instance, they express fast. mammals, 100s.
mircea_popescu: but yes, for any republican bioscientists in the making : the scientific way to study something like plant resistance to X is to : 1. create the first generation test environment. this means a witness, and a number of exposures (maybe dosed variously, with other substances too, etc). 2. create next generation environment. this means, your experiment now subdivides into as many experiments equal to 1 as there were tests perfor
BingoBoingo: Dicamba's bundled into a bunch of other commercial off the shelf consumer herbicide products already.
mircea_popescu: shows teh sort of "scientific research" that happens in the us based labs for the lulzy sham it is. "oh, we treated a crop of grass with this vial and the grass died. ERGO IT WORKS!!! we studied genetics under lamarck et all, don't understand much of anything. what do you mean, cultivate the survivors and see, what do you mean need a chain of witness blocks going down many generations ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: toxic either because it is a grass < toxic, either - being a grass and all.
mircea_popescu: nice qntra btw. and yes monsanto is fucked - the projections were for weed resistance to appear in centuries. it showed up within a coupla short decades. this puts the practical utility of their "genetic research" in serious doubt. in fact they've closed down most "general" projects, focusing on a coupla more promising line, after which it's ~the end.
mircea_popescu: you know thinking about it... each irc channel is like whatever, a guy walking down the street. maybe carrying a bag of groceries or a skateboard or w/e.
mircea_popescu: actually come to think of it, someone should write code to turn standard base64 (like comes out of pgp armor etc) into text. have a nice markov-based state machine with a large-ish dictionary and a syntax/grammar checker.
shinohai: Radio was like the first thing I was interested in as a child.
mircea_popescu: for the record : all the various german terms, funkmeister, funkspielen, etc, are derived off how you say radioing in german, ie, funk (hence telefunken). the reason it's called "spark" is because they needed a name back when sparkgap was the way. and so...
mircea_popescu: it's a sad day in any man's life, when he's squeezed into admitting that personal connection be damned, incompetence and malice aren't usefully distinguishable.
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danielpbarron: it's been tweeting for a week or two
shinohai: HehnI actually saw a BitBet tweet this morning, is finally working?
shinohai: Nice fph archive there BingoBoingo ... I'd love to see a 450 lb sloth attempting to pedal a bike.
deedbot: [» Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] A lolz a day keeps the doctor away : CRA edition - http://www.contravex.com/2016/05/18/a-lolz-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away-cra-edition/
mircea_popescu: "Why did it all turn out like this for me? I had so much promise. I was personable, I was bright. Oh, maybe not academically speaking, but ... I was perceptive. I always know when someone's uncomfortable at a party. It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I've ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be. Every instinct I have, in every fac
asciilifeform: note, microshit never achieved the marvel of a programming language where machine ints cannot be relied upon as arithmetic field
a111: Logged on 2016-05-19 01:40 mircea_popescu: oh ok, so changed 16^64 to 10^64 and the "generate entropy in the shape of floating point number" thing clearly indicate these fellows are windows programmers with a strong javascript focus.
mircea_popescu: oh ok, so changed 16^64 to 10^64 and the "generate entropy in the shape of floating point number" thing clearly indicate these fellows are windows programmers with a strong javascript focus. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "The bug that lasted 347 days was the confusion between a string and an array of integers. This made the ECC private keys ridiculously small because they passed a string of decimal digits into a function expecting an array of 17, 15 bit integers." ahaha ok that's pretty good.
Framedragger: every time a re-read.. "The bug that lasted 347 days was the confusion between a string and an array of integers." 'nuff said. it's just good entertainment value
mircea_popescu: no, profs with a penchant for getting their penis and gullet well oiled.
mircea_popescu: stay a week or two, come back.
mircea_popescu: what escape dood. go visit paris 7-8 times a decade.
asciilifeform: and yes, you had folks like gamow, who supposedly first tried to escape in a rowboat, then via eu
mircea_popescu: i suspect this interpolation is correct only up to a point, and what;s interesting happens long after that inflexion.
mircea_popescu: rank being muchly a matter of temperament.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a matter of temperament, matter of rank
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: not unless he were 'royalty' or in a profession that requires travel to human landz
asciilifeform: you wouldn't be giving back ~100% of yer pay just for having a roof.
asciilifeform: and a lead engineer at boeing may well get 300k.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-18#1468267 << hilariously, i never saw a vysotsky VINYL until a family phriend gave me his massive set as a gift in usa! most folks heard him on bootleg tape. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: they did have a law re "illicit profits" on the books tho did they
mircea_popescu: phf how much was a vinyl record ?
mircea_popescu: place made a killingoff that cachet.
mircea_popescu: actually a major passtime for locals post 1989 was to go check it out, for first time in life.
mircea_popescu: there was also "belvedere", rather scenic up on a hill. available for upper class wedding receptions, otherwise open for... well not the public.
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only restaurant doing decent aspics in the whole country for a decade + was inside the ro capitol building. meal there less than what happy meal cost.
phf: given that u.s. entry level engineer is somewhere in the 60k, that's like paying $1200 for a cup of coffee with pastry. and i realize that it's a totally meaningless analogy
phf: i think restaurants in su were still question of money. grandpa designed rockets, so my mom would go to restaurants with girlfriends growing up (later she worked at Sovicenter, which is a whole different level of access), and she would quote prices like 2.30 for a coffee and eclair. i think junior engineer salaries were somewhere around 90, a well to do pleb's end-of-career would be around 140, grandpa was making somewhere in upper
mircea_popescu: anyway. waitstaff in the us etc is miserable for turnover anyway. mostly because it's almost entirely manned by out of work strippers and other college students. who stick for a job on a project-base, she needs an abortion, works three weeks
pete_dushenski: perhaps too expensive to enforce against such a transient population
pete_dushenski: i never could quite understand the 'no tipping' blather. never seemed like much of a trend. turns out, i was right!
pete_dushenski: e set of skills necessary, and they would generally give notice and move to other restaurants in our community who were still on a traditional tip economy."
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: do you know for a fact that khodorkovsky didn't stock tp up to the rafters ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-11 19:33 mircea_popescu: fwiw, young males that aren't entirely dumb go almost universally through this phase of "fantasy busienss" where they keep doing various coups in their heads, start a carwash then buy a shoestore with the proceeds then trade that in for a chain fo restaurants etc etc etc.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski did you also read the stories about how you needed a sniper assassination squad just to visit your own outhouse ?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you give beebs too much credit. a warehouse full of tp will go unmolested for maybe a decade or two, then ya, when push comes to shove you get some security
asciilifeform: or yer gonna dig a mine field around it.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> amazon is an actual store. << More a vehicle for various LLC's incorporated at a single home in Wyoming to play store
mircea_popescu: "iaurt", which is not merely yoghurt, but a very speciffic thing ; sana ; lapte batut (sort of like buttermilk) etc
asciilifeform: i even have a notion that something like it once existed in usa but i suspect that everyone who remembered it is dead by now
asciilifeform: because nobody had any fucking idea how to use a cigar.
mircea_popescu: dough. wtf dough. commie restaurant meals were ~ the price of a loaf of bread
asciilifeform: i recall my father recently told a tale, when he met with several phriendz some time in '70s who were reunited after long dispersal in army
mircea_popescu: no wai. every derpy graduating hs class gets 30 virginal kid asses on a rented limo.
pete_dushenski: speaking of ebay, i always thought pitney bowes (oft forced upon shipping intermediary) was a subsidiary. looks like not.
asciilifeform: i.e. something typical folks could afford to do once in a spell, but usually would do 'when occasion merits'
asciilifeform: roughly analogous to renting a limo in usa
asciilifeform: i prolly ought to point out for pete_dushenski's enlightenment that going to restaurant was a quite uncommon thing in su
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform crediting linkedin for finding work is like crediting the toilet stall for finding a new future ex wife.
asciilifeform: it exists purely as a sort of ebay, in the sense of 'this is the official pile of shit'
mircea_popescu: "imagine - if we put a garbage can in every campus, people could throw GOLD BARS!! and FAST CARS! in there".
asciilifeform: linkedin is a kind of arsebook for wurk
mircea_popescu: linkedin and the rest of the post-senility berkshire investments are all a "here's where you can give us stuff".
mircea_popescu: cocacola does not propoise that the reason it somehow has value (notwithstanding it exists as a rented office with five derps in it) is its "market share"
a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 16:04 Framedragger: i just think someone may have a hard on for hating X (for good reasons) but not dismiss things produced by X prima facie. then again, i suppose it's a useful heuristic in resource/time scarce universes to do just that :)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-12 15:47 mircea_popescu: also, please don't refer to tmsr as "a community". it is not "a community", it is your liege.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 15:22 Framedragger: ^ that's a bit incorrect, she's already been living in berlin, but had to visit family etc in US; so not really "on the run"
mircea_popescu: seems like a nice fellow
mircea_popescu: 1 is something you must do yourself, ideally asap. 2 and 3 is something others can do and therefore should. 4 is not urgent. so therefore : do 1 and move on to other things for a while.
mircea_popescu: 4. convert the phuctor key db into a sks as per republican spec. the strategy being that we will confiscate all public key crypto just like we confiscated bitcoin from the fucktarded zombie horde.
mircea_popescu: 1. make the 8ball auto-update on a reasonable server load, fully automated. this will provide nice passive gains. also have it published somewhere.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say that in the interest of conserving manpower, the realtime leeching should not be a priority (honestly, it wasn't in my mind anyway, giving the ease with which hitler'd have turned it off anyway). instead the priorities for phuctor are :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wanted a leechatron
mircea_popescu: and why'd you install "a server" as distinct from just merging phuctor db ? wtf is this, since when do we credit sks-pr ?
deedbot hands you a broomstick.
shinohai: http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/142314152-story <<< Middle-schooler hacks teacher's email - naturally this is a job for the FBI
asciilifeform: but recently i understood the ~reason~ why it is a waste of time
Framedragger: i just think someone may have a hard on for hating X (for good reasons) but not dismiss things produced by X prima facie. then again, i suppose it's a useful heuristic in resource/time scarce universes to do just that :) ☟︎
asciilifeform: and gossipd is considerably more general than a chat, it is to be a complete replacement for tcp/ip and packet switching as ordinarily understood.
asciilifeform: i found that it is a 100% perfect litmus for shitware.
Framedragger: gossipd is more of a federated social chat system i guess
asciilifeform: where two sides exchange, a:'i have x,y,z' b:'i have p,q,y' ..... and a sends b 'x,z', b sends a 'p,q'
asciilifeform: Framedragger: more generally, 'gossip protocol' is a standard term for a particular type of synchronization, as used in, e.g., sks
Framedragger: ^ that's a bit incorrect, she's already been living in berlin, but had to visit family etc in US; so not really "on the run" ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 14:47 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, by all appearances, seems to live in a peculiar reaganite fantasy planet where su refugees cream their pants upon tasting delicious american mickeydee, and wax ecstatic while kissing bald eagle in the beak without having to watch out for kgb and no longer having to feed the bear or adjust the vodka level in the house reactor.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, by all appearances, seems to live in a peculiar reaganite fantasy planet where su refugees cream their pants upon tasting delicious american mickeydee, and wax ecstatic while kissing bald eagle in the beak without having to watch out for kgb and no longer having to feed the bear or adjust the vodka level in the house reactor. ☟︎
Framedragger: i wasn't sure whether you intended for there to be a facility to post unencrypted public texts, for example (that is, that there would be a way to not only encrypt text to recipient key or set of keys corresponding to, say, a particular group - but also to post plaintext for meet-and-greet, whatnot).
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: fwiw, posted as comment on your article, and paste here: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/516b9972-337a-4b88-ba48-711af84dc281/ - easiest format of responding is probably as a follow-up comment on blog, though.. anyway. i liked the overall idea.
mircea_popescu: and the reason i had to have it fucking machined is exactly this, "oh sounds like hammock stand we got that" "bitch, did i say this pos ?!" "oh, it's just as good!" "go make a fucking website somewhere".