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asciilifeform: 'not a bug, but a feature!1111'
asciilifeform: so it is rather like asking why a prison latrine sucks
asciilifeform: the mega-insight here is that laptops suck ~because~ they are part and parcel of a kind of life that sucks
deedbot-: [Trilema] The muchass of the day, a triptych - http://trilema.com/2015/the-muchass-of-the-day-a-triptych/
trinque: yep, failed miserably; it has a broken lcd hinge atm
trinque: I've fine-tuned gentoo on both this and a macbook pro previously, as perhaps some kind of pain fetish
trinque: I run a shit-tacular lenovo x1 carbon
asciilifeform: also will note that the portable i actually use for work, cost no less than the maximal mac, relies on blobs, and a good number of peripherals simply do not work, blob or no blob
asciilifeform: if i didn't already have one, for the (fortunately) rare times that i need such a thing - would buy.
mircea_popescu: so the box you'd buy is putative, as you didn't buy it, and as far as the rest of the quoted is concerned ima go on a limb and guess thye had other reasons.
asciilifeform: and a buncha folks i know in meat life
asciilifeform: and yes, if you want a unix box with 300 dpi screen and where the MOTHERFUCKING PERIPHERALS WORK (suspend lid, etc) - you buy this.
asciilifeform: (the box ben_vulpes was thinking of doesn't have a sata jack, so you're stuck with what's soldered on)
asciilifeform: so crapple's is perhaps a 200-300% markup.
ben_vulpes: oh wait dig it you can get a whole 1.5 tb for A WHOLE GRAND
ben_vulpes idly pulls up the apple checkout flow in a text only browser, laughs
mircea_popescu: i don't think you're allowed in b-a if you do.
mircea_popescu: seriously, you'd buy some toy with a single port ?
asciilifeform: but if i needed a portable unix box today, i would be forced to buy a crapple machine.
ben_vulpes: enough hot air to float a vax
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: isn't it a marvelous thing
ben_vulpes: isn't it a delightful little hell?
asciilifeform: but at one point i needed to run a java turd for some teleconference thing and it worked.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what a blessing
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2015 02:46:43; ben_vulpes: el capitan quest, day three: os x still refuses to upgrade xcode 6 to xcode 7.1, a prerequisite for el capitan (or is it the other way around? once i run all of these permutations i'll have to check that set).
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-11-2015#1331631 << phun phakt, i have a mac here, but can't build anything for current macs because... it was made in '09 ☝︎
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Well, you could work your way up starting with an apple newton, and maybe someday achive an IBM AS/400 ans still further in the future a system/360 "box"
ben_vulpes: el capitan quest, day three: os x still refuses to upgrade xcode 6 to xcode 7.1, a prerequisite for el capitan (or is it the other way around? once i run all of these permutations i'll have to check that set). ☟︎
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that is a good book
pete_dushenski: well, i'm out like a trout. laters!
mod6: but I think this update will be a full-everything-signed distribution again. and if this version is acceptable, maybe I'll publish the genesis of it sometime later.
mod6: i actually have a v-genesis.vpatch for this new v99997 version as well.
mod6: here's a vdiff of the changes (for now): http://dpaste.com/0NHDQBG.txt
mod6: oh and removed two spots where there was a trailing space at the end of a line.
mod6: When pressing, if you name your output directory starting with a 'v', it gets confused and names the output press directory the name of the HEAD vpatch given.
mod6: I found a bug in v99998 K of my v.pl.
pete_dushenski: what's needed to obtain one's 'certified ethical hacker' license ? a hand-written note to hitler ?
pete_dushenski: to celebrate the belated arrival of winter today, some photos of nature (that i didn't take) from my neck of the woods http://www.hecktictravels.com/rocky-mountains-alberta-canada and some rather charming urban shots of winter a few provinces over http://www.hecktictravels.com/winter-in-quebec ☟︎
pete_dushenski: "Jewish individuals were overrepresented by a factor of about 234. Today, the typical UHNW individual profile includes U.S. married (Christian and Jewish) men who are largely Chairman and CEO, Republican, and earned their money in finance, banking and investments."
pete_dushenski: "The extent to which people in the right tail of wealth are highly educated and cognitively able was examined in a sample of 18,245 ultra high net worth (UHNW) individuals with net worth's of USD $30 million plus."
pete_dushenski: "Coley is quoted in police documents as saying “You bumbaclot Muslim,” a phrase containing a Jamaican expletive. “I’m going to burn your Muslim temple down,” he added, before spitting on the woman several times."
pete_dushenski: " A postal worker in New York City has been accused of a hate crime after harassing a Muslim woman with an infant in a stroller. He was arrested by Brooklyn police after launching an anti-Muslim tirade and reportedly spitting at the woman."
mircea_popescu: you know, i suppose i'd like the us a lot more if the people running the private "scam the suckers" entreprises there were literate and spoke enlish
mircea_popescu: immanence is a kantian concept ; imminence is the state of proximity in time of a future item to the present.
deedbot-: [Trilema] A modern lovestory : Ioan Niculaie & Diana Guresoaie. - http://trilema.com/2015/a-modern-lovestory-ioan-niculaie-diana-guresoaie/
asciilifeform: continually developing and testing new product experiences,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. “This is a test we're running for a small number of Yahoo Mail users.”'
asciilifeform: 'Yahoo! confirmed reports that it is preventing some Yahoo Mail users from seeing their e-mails until they turn off their ad-blocking software. Users started complaining late last week on social media and ad-blocking forums that a message prompting them to disable ad-blocking software appeared when they tried to view their e-mail. On Monday, a company spokeswoman said the notices were a limited experiment. “At Yahoo, we are
mircea_popescu: A LOT.
mircea_popescu: business will have to learn that it has to do a lot of cocksucking of btc folks.
mircea_popescu: "Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2tn (£1.3tn) of investors’ money in the next decade on projects left worthless by global action on climate change and the surge in clean energy, according to a new report."
mircea_popescu: this guy should stick to cleaning floors or w/e he does for a living, exterminate rodents.
punkman: it's from a pep talk
mircea_popescu: can't write on any topic without channeling one's 7th grade football coach doing a pep talk ?
mircea_popescu: "But if you’re in Walnut Canyon in 1150 A.D., these guys are totally amazing! They’ve got canals, stone buildings, and advanced ceramics. They were so far ahead of everybody they knew, that they are absolutely the smartest guys anybody has ever heard of. They’re the pinnacle of human achievement. They’re the Stone-Age Stanford. They’re the MIT of black and white pottery."
davout: pretty unsurprisingly bitcoin is sold there at a 5 to 10% premium (in my experience)
thestringpuller: davout: but in your case you can at least give your customers a chance to clean the stench off of them.
thestringpuller: It's a scam.
thestringpuller: Coinbase is clearly ill conceived then, if the end user has to obey banking regulations but cannot talk to the financial institution. And of course CBSE being a middleman plays dumb "We're just following orders."
davout: thestringpuller: yes, that's correct, they actually have someone to talk to at an institution that's regulated, they are legally a direct customer of the financial institution
davout: i don't think we were ever requested to freeze a bitcoin balance
thestringpuller: davout: per our interview. i think there is a bug in coinbase's model that paymium solved already. seems that if underlying banking partners integrated with Coinbase have a problem with a Coinbase account they tell coinbase "Shut this guy of completely or we stop letting you integrate with us."
punkman: a story about a congo http://dpaste.com/0YYERDW.txt
assbot: Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade ... ( http://bit.ly/1lIQqAR )
ben_vulpes: that's...a lot of people?
felipelalli: thank you guys. I was looking in the #b-a history and thinking: "what the hell..."
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: It's a speculative synthetic asset, with only synthetic actual connection to Bitgo. It's basically betting.
assbot: 2 results for 'cabergoline' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=cabergoline
adlai: aahaahaha "Romania is a large country, populated by a lot of distinct Internet users. Comparatively, wikipedia is a small shithole populated by a lot of indistinguishable idiots."
asciilifeform: (unrelated) 'Our general approach is to introduce enough randomness into each hardware unit that a backdoor trigger cannot be reliably recognized by malicious circuitry.' << evidently my 'specificity law' is at least a shared hallucination
asciilifeform: and can we revoke 2nd law of thermo and 3rd law of newton! i'd like to fly around on a reactionless perpetuum mobile fart pack
adlai: is this a word in english vernacular? lit. trans to hebrew means what you think it does
gribble: Error: "tickler" is not a valid command.
phf: ^- see it's safe, if you're not a criminal you've got nothing to worry about
adlai: hmm "This means you can restrict access to your site based on traits including sex, ancestry, disease susceptability, and arbitrary characteristics associated with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a person's genotype." https://github.com/offapi/rbac-23andme-oauth2
asciilifeform: adlai: my guess would be that mircea_popescu regards machine-signing, even with a key kept around solely for that purpose, as a gravely sinful thing. but you might want to actually ask ~him~ when he wakes up
asciilifeform: (wu was a chick, incidentally)
mircea_popescu: well, cobalt decay convincingly proves "nature" has a handedness
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 23:57:51; pete_dushenski: "Gambetta and Hertog painstakingly gather together data on individuals belonging to a variety of terrorist groups in the Muslim world. Where they are able to get the data, it displays a compelling pattern – engineers are much more prone to become members of violent terrorist organizations."
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of clark gable, "a good whipping would benefit oyu immensely my dear"
assbot: A simple example as to why fiat institutions can't stand on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1N6W1H1 )
mircea_popescu: jurov i'll remind you of "Three woodcutters in the nation of Georgia found two warm canisters near their camp and spent the night beside them. The canisters were discarded and unshielded heat sources from Soviet radioisotope thermoelectric generators, containing 30 kCi (1.1 PBq) of 90Sr each" not to mention http://trilema.com/2013/a-simple-example-as-to-why-fiat-institutions-cant-stand/
pete_dushenski: "Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, who began compiling data on manufacturing world-wide a few years ago, says he is seeing growing evidence of what he calls “premature deindustrialization”—the idling or shrinking of manufacturing sectors as a share of the economy in poor countries like India that never industrialized very much in the first place." << in other not-nyooz where idjits with 'pc' blinders don't want to
pete_dushenski: "The team trades securities to keep rates in line with Fed policy decisions. At 12:45 p.m., a window pops open on a system called FedTrade and plays a sequence of musical notes—F-E-D—to open trading, traders said. A clock counts down the remaining time, turning from green to yellow in the final three minutes and then to red as the last 30 seconds tick off. The music plays again when the operations’ results are
pete_dushenski: "Engineers are more likely to become terrorists because of mindset and lack of opportunity" and "engineers combine these political predilections with a marked preference towards finding clearcut answers."
pete_dushenski: "Gambetta and Hertog painstakingly gather together data on individuals belonging to a variety of terrorist groups in the Muslim world. Where they are able to get the data, it displays a compelling pattern – engineers are much more prone to become members of violent terrorist organizations." ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:53:01; adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE" than "we are still in the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
pete_dushenski: i guess 'semi-circular' is really more of a hemispherical eh.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59; mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insani
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330859 << i was laughed at last night for telling door installer, who was trying to adjust semi-circular halogens in kitchen so that he could find a screw or bit or something, NOT TO TOUCH THE BULBS WHILE THEY WERE ON AND HOT. ☝︎
phf: BingoBoingo: you can get a custom first part, if you represent a sufficiently large organization
jurov: we have got a visi from fsf?
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1331086 << elemental Hg is not ~acutely~ poisonous - people have survived eating tremendous quantities in a sitting (more or less as much as would fit inside) ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:41:30; punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not the looming threat of war with Russia."
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The clever gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha and his trusty sidekick Andrei Pippidi, translated. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/24/the-clever-gentleman-don-quixote-de-la-mancha-and-his-trusty-sidekick-andrei-pippidi-translated/
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330846 omg, i broke mercury thermometer near bed over a table, with drops likely fell to a carpet ☝︎
adlai: this isn't even worth a whole qntreatment, the headline says it all: "Zapchain Growth Proves Bitcoin Tipping Viable Social Media Model"
BingoBoingo: I don't think they mine fast enough to fund such a bounty
kakobrekla: there should be a bounty on the breaking of their auth system
phf: kesey couldn't care less about plight of the mentally disabled, or helping you relate to a mental patient or anything like that. it's kind of obvious from reading about him. guy was just having interesting experiences at a mental ward, writing them down, and selling the result on a threadbare socially conscious theme.