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mircea_popescu: i have like eight dozen cousins, and this is counting just the ones i shouldn't be fucking.
punkman: I'm picturing a bum shouting "EDWARD SNOWDEN IS MARK ZUCKERBERG’S COUSIN" at people in a park
mircea_popescu: so i guess they dropped it to 5% more recently ?
asciilifeform: 'There are three forms of employee commitment that may apply to commitment to country as well: affective (emotional: ― I feel good when I see the flag), normative (obligation: ― I belong here) and instrumental (no other option: ― I’m here because I have no choice).' << l0ltr0nic
asciilifeform: or, hm, first chart is 'issues' and second 'serious' (i.e., disqualifying) issues.
asciilifeform: everybody i've ever met who had been forced into this miserable ritual, ended up in.
danielpbarron: i think the trick with coinbase is a weekly small amount; the guy linked above was talking about several orders pending at once
danielpbarron: i mean i wasn't gonna buy elsewhere, and it wasn't the last of my cash
danielpbarron: heh i assumed the order i placed at 380 was gonna get cancled, but nope : got that coin in my own address today :D
BingoBoingo: https://i.imgur.com/c03vz3B.jpg
shinohai: It works, I am having a few latency issues, gonna recompile soon.
shinohai: I am planning to attend in observer status
mircea_popescu: 90% of usage in romanian is in the expression "iti scot eu tie gargaunii din cap" ie, "i'm going to take the ~ out of your head", universally administered before the first in a series of beatings to last qs.
punkman: I made a giant burrito (2lb or so), ate less than half. I think I like looking at big portions more than eating them.
asciilifeform: i thought they ~did~
mircea_popescu: EVERY SINGLE, i don't mean just the fat/ugly, EVERY SINGLE female's FAVOURITE past time is watching netflix.
mircea_popescu: i know.
mod6: i'll be starting the bundling up of V v99995 tonight. will be out tomorrow sometime.
mircea_popescu: it's my tough luck that in this country i'm being entertained in other ways than i'd prefer, but what's to do.
mircea_popescu: but generally - i go to bars to be entertained.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i also use the internet!
danielpbarron: i'm planning on going out tonight too, and lacking a harem to compile a list of spots for me, i will be using foursquare
danielpbarron: but i can be a bit of a shut in, and I like going to a bar on occasion to refresh my spirit
danielpbarron: well i don't care for getting wasted regardless of the enviornment, so i guess i can't speak to that
asciilifeform: mr mold, even, wrote 'i wish only to live to see the 20th c. end' and he meant this specifically.
asciilifeform: i watched with my own eyes groups of 'national student leadership' whateverthefuck marching to audience with obama's reichsminister of whatever (or possibly the fuhrer himself)
asciilifeform: my understanding is that 'this is allt here is, i am as human as every great man' thing was not yet developed.
asciilifeform: the engl translation is new to me, i had nfi that anyone gave a shit
mircea_popescu: "I hope, Comrade Stalin, that you will grant my request and reply to the Manturovsk District, Kursk Region, First Zasemsky Village Soviet, Ivan Philipovich Ivanov."
asciilifeform: gonna be a contest where i'm the only runner ?!
asciilifeform: the more i look, the more clear to me that crypto is this radioactive wasteland where even birds no longer sing
asciilifeform: 'block cipher' was a pixie dust creation from day 1. relic from pre-scientific age of cryptoastrology. i think we had this thread..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is of course free do define my questions, such as 'do they have the rsa pill', as uninteresting. but i find this position too martian to fully grasp with my puny earthling brain.
asciilifeform: note that i did not say 'the pill for rsa' but a specific archival document that is referred to in 10,001 places in the open usg literature
asciilifeform: my point was that the available evidence (i can name 1,01+ tantalizing s33kr1ts That Make A Difference) that ~never~ have leaked and are guarded by - apparently - incorruptible aryan ss core.
asciilifeform: i promise.
asciilifeform: if you can find me how aes leaks key bits, or the spec document for 'Joseki' cipher, i'll wake up permanently.
mircea_popescu: i put a filter in, brings you straight back to humanity.
mircea_popescu: sorry, what am i to do. you're a pretty reasonable chap with the nutty habit of spitting out 5/0=0!!1 5/0 = 0!!! at intervals.
mircea_popescu: i've not even read that last line, for the record.
mircea_popescu: i don't dislike IT.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, their retarded plum book index
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, i have that in my mental list of "already folded parachutes"
mircea_popescu: i dunno it's anything but low level autism by now.
asciilifeform: jurov: possibly i was misinformed ? nfi
jurov: asciilifeform: sauce? iirc i did buy vitamin c in gernamy fine
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-02-2016#1410165 << i have a bank of sealed 'gel-cel' indoors. as do many many folks. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2016 15:24:52; mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> so now with https://blog.freenode.net/2016/02/recent-events-and-future-changes/ it is probably a good time to point out that i've been trying to get you people a server for maybe three years now. are you still unable to be helped or has that bad habit of the past changed also ? kloeri ? mist ? or who do i talk to.
mircea_popescu: well fuck it, i can't be arsed to debug this.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> so now with https://blog.freenode.net/2016/02/recent-events-and-future-changes/ it is probably a good time to point out that i've been trying to get you people a server for maybe three years now. are you still unable to be helped or has that bad habit of the past changed also ? kloeri ? mist ? or who do i talk to. ☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: AND i have a good chunk of bubble wrap!
mircea_popescu: it's inside somewhere, i've never seen them.
jurov: ok, i was talking about batteries
mircea_popescu: i'm busy an' it's raining, just try to imagine 40 truck batteries stacked or something.
jurov: phf i'm getting such docs all the time. and requests for missing bitcoins with screenshot.scr or paypal funds with attached paypal.rar
mircea_popescu: but considering i own computers that have less hdd...
pete_dushenski: then i'm already aware of the specs and that it costs ~1btc/mo ;/
pete_dushenski: i didn't realise that they were one and the same
mircea_popescu: phf> fwiw when i posted patches url here, had googbot crawling the pages within ~minutes~ << yeah, trilema is well loved, by now rubbed off on qntra and b-a log, if you keep quality venue (by text and frequency, i dun think i have to explain what is machine-quality, just watch the go player thing) it'll rub off further, guaranteed.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: do you mind if i ask what you pay for your baltic dedi box and what its specs are ?
assbot: Logged on 18-02-2016 22:50:46; phf: the thing that was in few years back-- vw type 2 conversions for road life, i.e. gutting insides, putting offroad suspension. i know at least two people who's been living like that past few years
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: http://fullerdomehome.org/about << I have no idea if they actually got Bucky's house out of crates and reassembled it yet.
phf: at some point, when i have something to write about. i would've liked to do minsky eulogy for example, but i knew very little about the guy
phf: BingoBoingo: i think that's johnny ryan, he just generally does shock comics
phf: fwiw when i posted patches url here, had googbot crawling the pages within ~minutes~
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> among the folks i work with is a fella who sat in, i believe, a genuine trench << Decline was from double digit portion of the poplution to low single digits
phf: i just got a word document with a virus in it. i didn't know this was still a thing
gabrielradio: then again, i should probably wander a bit more irl too. maybe to buenos aires for some mp mentoring :D
gabrielradio: yea, i should probably wander a bit more there too
cazalla: yeah, hence waking up thinking what did i say lol
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm kinda curious to see how long until a brave psychologist comes up with the interesting theory that overmotivation produces more stress than anything else, and overselfconfidence produces derealization more than anything else. "i know how to resolve the epidemic of stress+derealization! demotivate and undermine confidence in people!!1"
asciilifeform: among the folks i work with is a fella who sat in, i believe, a genuine trench
asciilifeform: incidentally when i unearthed a pile of '30s-'50s american popular whatever-the-fuck-mechanics american magazines, they were full of ads for same
asciilifeform: i thought it was nobody does anything but pasture and a couplea pederasts rhetorize
mircea_popescu: i wonder if it can also play go with the ceo.
phf: i don't know what to think about it. my reaction every time is exactly "huh"
phf: actually one van dweller i knew was this nasty, 60 year old hippie dude, sort of ram das like character. i think all he did was cruise from one west coast hot spring to another. he would always have an utterly zonkered, 20 year old, supermodel looking girl in his van, every time i'd run into him, a different one.
asciilifeform: i dun get it still.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i dun think so much enchained by thinking car is necessary as fully aware that without a car she has to know how to do a whole raft of things.
asciilifeform: i still want to know why torvalds refuses to enforce his trademark
phf: the thing that was in few years back-- vw type 2 conversions for road life, i.e. gutting insides, putting offroad suspension. i know at least two people who's been living like that past few years ☟︎
ben_vulpes: no i do not
ben_vulpes: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eufFSpXNfQs/maxresdefault.jpg << assault caravan
phf: i was at a "van life" talk at burning man, and womens there were certainly selected for their fertility
ben_vulpes: i've just come to terms with the inevitable future
mircea_popescu: then again i'm merely an apprentice gypsy.
mircea_popescu: course i have nfi why anyone involved in that would select women by other criteria than fertility.
ben_vulpes: mod6: i mean caravan figuratively
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: because i can't stand many others?
mircea_popescu: one of the guys i was working with had made his original capital selling plastic toys in the street.
gabriel_laddel: I could have sworn you had a post in which the conclusion was "bring them along".
gabriel_laddel: I have a few obligations to take care of here in the US first. ☟︎
asciilifeform: and i presume that if he could leave au, he would.
shinohai: https://i.imgur.com/CgtUsq8.jpg
assbot: McAfee: I Will Decrypt Information on the San Bernardino Phone For Free ... ( http://bit.ly/1SCGE11 )
mircea_popescu: "back when i was you8nger and i put out valid results i made aneffort, but now that i'm old and publishing rank nonsense anyway, why bother ? i just copy it!"
asciilifeform: i have the complete works of lysenko on my shelf.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dug for more detail, but the written material on the subj as such appears to be very scarce.
asciilifeform: i recall this magic moment also.
assbot: Logged on 23-07-2015 04:01:30; mircea_popescu: trinque as a boy, i was very distraught to find from my mother that if one invents something, he doesn't merely have to say what it should be