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adlai: mircea_popescu: honestly, i don't think further details beyond what i just deeded is relevant for this forum, or any other, except perhaps a court convened in my honor by the relevant mob.
mircea_popescu: ok, ok. i take it back.
asciilifeform: (but unfortunately not usable for this experiment, lacks support for i/o 'ports' and, more importantly, arrays)
asciilifeform: i've carried a copy around with me for most of a decade.
asciilifeform: if you really want to know how this thing works, i recommend reading minischeme (the smaller item this was based on)
mircea_popescu: i wonder what happened
mircea_popescu: ok, this i gotta quote.
felipelalli: But I loved the idea to integrate WoT on it!
felipelalli: asciilifeform, I am trying to learn the whole thing yet. But I had to pause it.
felipelalli: asciilifeform, I didn't have too much time yet to explore this project and your work but I follow far with twinkle in my eyes. Congrats!
asciilifeform: i forgot to put the skull and crossbones in there
felipelalli: like the session in gribble, I guess.
mircea_popescu: decent to learn on, i suppose.
mircea_popescu: there are specific choices in how gribble handles security that were expedient for a long time, but no longer acceptable, so it'd have to be rewritten. until it isn't, i would think it more like a play sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: there was some talk about harmonizing the two, but i don't think the guy has any time to be doing maintenance, or any interest for that matter, so...
danielpbarron: something like that; and I personally prefer assbot's authentication method to gribble's
felipelalli: thank you mircea_popescu! danielpbarron, yes, I remember, I was here when this fork was made. I remember some conversation about gribble being too much offline and another bot was necessary. Am I wrong?
mircea_popescu: felipelalli i do think it's very important, yes.
mircea_popescu: well, i like this one better, what can i say.
felipelalli: mircea_popescu, that's why I asked you. But why?
mircea_popescu: i don't really use it.
srijan: what should I search for deletion of rating?
srijan: ah i see
mircea_popescu: i would expect so. see also http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/
srijan: hi everyone, I am a PhD student and I am looking for some help regarding the WoT network used here. Who should I be talking to ?
jurov: should i leave it overnight?
polarbeard: neat, I'm using 'relativistic objectivity' in my next discussion for sure.
BingoBoingo: Cambodia seemed interesting, but dunno how I feel about multidrug resistant P. Falciprum
BingoBoingo: For serious. I should totally move there. Would be great for de-USing my brain all of this other stupidity.
ascii_butugychag: i thought adlai ~had~ a trade - tank mechanic ☟︎
adlai: lol i don't think kako invited me here until months later
adlai: early january 2014. i don't remember the exact date and frankly don't feel like trying to recall it.
adlai is "in the logs" describing the full episode, it's too long to fit in the margins of these. tl;dr: police visited, invited me along so nicely i couldn't refuse, but went home the next day. as danielpbarron pointed out, jail /= prison
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 23:24:47; adlai: although "in" is a suggestive word, here. I wasn't "in" anything, my acquaintance with the jail/prison/dungeon/etc system is tangential, academic, etc
adlai: it's a reference to 'et omnia ex machina', if i may (deus ex machina meets vanitas vanitatis)
ascii_butugychag: because i would like to request this.
ascii_butugychag: adlai: is this a reference to how i'd like my lisp machine to be brought as weight to me peine forte et dure ?
adlai: and here by "Bitcoin" i mean b,tmsr~, along with all the human rabble trailing along its fringes,and their fringes, and theirs, all the way out to the eight billionth... one giant wetware cokemachine.
adlai: fwiw original quote is s/you/$0 or i/
adlai: so the only way i see this being a +EV sustainable enterprise, rather than a "let's hope the next one is hal finney's long-lost grandson", is if you entrap dearly beloved members of families/clans prepared to enter indentured servitude to keep the inmate alive
polarbeard: I like how cube's cover spoils all the movie in four words: 'fear paranoia suspicion desesperation'
adlai: hmm,i'm not sure i like that connotation. can't lotteries be 0EV, zero-sum games?
ascii_butugychag: if adlai knows how to rigorously prove the 'coke machine' to be -EV, i would like to hear.
adlai: all i'm saying is that this is not a sustainable business model
ascii_butugychag: how to price the meals, as i said, is a case-by-case matter, it will depend on the suspected net worth of the inmate, whether he has someone on the outside to supply ransom, etc.
adlai: not that i'm much of an expert on torture, but my guess is that you want to "break" the victim as quickly as possible, get as many high-value keys in one messy week, then release spent shell as positive example for next victim
BingoBoingo: <PeterL> I got my tax form from my previous emplyer yesterday, realized they had me down for 11 exemptions and withheld no fed taxes. << Shoulda made more children
ascii_butugychag: i predicted that in the near future, some people (possibly including some of the folks here) may find themselves inside a kind of pit prison
adlai: (rings a bell but i'll have to verify)
adlai: although "in" is a suggestive word, here. I wasn't "in" anything, my acquaintance with the jail/prison/dungeon/etc system is tangential, academic, etc ☟︎
adlai must confess that the first reassuring thought that crossed his mind post-arrest was, after the initial shock wore off, "at least I get what Socrates was killed for deserving"
trinque: one switched payroll companies midway through the year, and somehow they both ended up filing a w2 on my behalf, roughly doubling the amount the feds expected to receive until I persuaded them otherwise
trinque: PeterL: it doesn't hurt to keep your own calculations on hand; I've had employers screw up in all directions
PeterL: might actually end up owing fed taxes, usually i get several $k back at tax time from the feds
PeterL: I got my tax form from my previous emplyer yesterday, realized they had me down for 11 exemptions and withheld no fed taxes.
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-01-2016#1386041 << not just logical. That is the official policy of the IRS according to their own documentation. That's why I stopped filing. ☝︎
ascii_butugychag: the only comparable monument to scientific honesty i know of was the fella on the other side of the ocean, in su, with polywater
mircea_popescu: "oh i like the fact that no one man decides what is in the lawbook"
ascii_butugychag: and i like the fact that no one hdd gets to decide what is in my boot sector.
mircea_popescu: what can i tell ya.
mircea_popescu: a reflection of my i don't like or trust raid controllers earlier stance
mircea_popescu: i don't like or trust fancy parity schemes.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever used anything other than 1+0 combos.
ascii_butugychag: (it instead introduced boobytrapped raid card, but i can deal with those more easily)
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: i like raid5, among other reasons, because it makes life very painful for boobytrapped hdd supplier ☟︎
hanbot: i was, yeah. and i used to, thestringpuller, sure.
hanbot: i admit nothing! (yes)
mircea_popescu: i suppose in pre-postindustrial world, only the heros would havge been shipped, but what can you do.
ascii_butugychag: (as far as i'm concerned, there is ONE manufacturer of raid cards) ☟︎
ascii_butugychag: i've been running sets of 4 in raid5 (parity, lose-1) for about a decade
mircea_popescu: oh, it was empirically obtained, i didn't theoretically determine it.
kakobrekla: i have ssds in raid but no deaths, just poor performance
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu yeah i sent the guy to your logline.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag this is true. i suppose the matter is open to your evaluation, if he was actually driving the matchbox aroundf or not.
ascii_butugychag: maybe i am already in the insane asylum
ascii_butugychag: i shit thee not
ascii_butugychag: in not entirely unrelated news, i'm reading mailz from world-phamous crypto guy and it is signed with 'android privary guard'
mircea_popescu: i meant of the specific "i'll wait for a better deal" process.
ascii_butugychag: on mircea_popescu's planet of immortal titans it might be different, but where i live there is ~always~ a funeral and a rehash of the process with younger derp
mircea_popescu: and yes, i get it, everyone everywhere is holding their precious self in dear esteem and waiting for a better deal.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: ok i'll bite. where do i apply.
mircea_popescu: hm, i can't find the one where i said that the only way to have "justice" is to oppress some derps, but anyway.
ascii_butugychag: i'd trade it for furnace stoking, also
ascii_butugychag: i actually prefer shoveling snow to work.
mircea_popescu: it's not a la mode because i didn't want to trigger you.
PeterL: "I'm just trying to ..."
mircea_popescu: so far i'm having pie.
ascii_butugychag: last i checked, it was usg beating the shit out of derps pretending to sovereign
mircea_popescu: at least, that's how i do it.
assbot: In atentia I.G.P.P.A. - Autodenunt on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OW6QgZ )
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not the one living there. tell it to each other.
mircea_popescu: i think there's fewer people paying their own bloomberg terminal than there's people with a legitimate research interest in ai.
pete_dushenski: ascii_butugychag: i'll pass that along to my phriends at goldman
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: you're not italian enough i guess
mircea_popescu: " Asking Price: $18,500" da fuck alfie, i had no idea you hold musical instruments in quite such low esteem.
mircea_popescu: hey, i regularly order the slavegirls draped when friends visit
pete_dushenski: "In occasione della visita del presidente iraniano Hassan Rohani in Campidoglio sono state coperte da pannelli bianchi su tutti e quattro i lati alcune statue di nudi dei Musei Capitolini. La copertura sarebbe stata decisa come forma di rispetto alla cultura e sensibilità iraniana. Tanto che durante le cerimonie istituzionali non è stato servito nemmeno il vino." << "bow to your betters!" (tm) (r)
mircea_popescu: i can tell this by constructing a humorous equivalent ot his "mpex should", except mine is both actually funny and to a much larger degree defensible.
PeterL: no, I am immune to subtext
PeterL: I keep trying to do this, but for some reason my wife shot that one down