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phf: ag3nt_zer0: theosophy does completely fanciful free interpretation based on amateur translations by various aristocrats gone native. any sane person will look at it and go "wtf" upon closer inspection, but you're still left with amateur translations. not to mention that you need representatives of traditions to interpret those esoteric texts (what i mean by locals)
ag3nt_zer0: phf: interesting. becauseas I understand it guenon used to travel in the theosophist circles in france until he rejected them in favor of a more rigorous "traditionalism" - he even wrote a book about it - Theosophy: history of a pseudo religion - I think it was called... so i guess it could be asserted that he was still "unconsciously" operating under some of their errors but 1) it seems odd to think that a person with an
phf: ag3nt_zer0: i couldn't get past his west vs. east chapter, or slightly after. his understanding of eastern tradition is dodgy (i see same issue with evola by the way), since he exists in the time after theosophists's liberal translations of sacred texts, but before people like mircea eliade or theos bernard had a chance to verify with the locals whether or the understanding was correct. (and long before easterners themselves started making
ag3nt_zer0: I wholeheartily recommend the entire production, but if strapped for time, to me the other outstanding example of this tech is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3sp6Hwp3nk
jurov: "In cases where keys or seeds are created without the use of software (e.g. dice, a deck of cards, or other non-digital source of entropy), the creation methodology should be validated to ensure determinism is not present (i.e. there are no weighted dice, each card in the deck is unique, etc.)."
ag3nt_zer0: and if there is another plzce that is as primed as this room to offer valuable critique I know not where it is to be found
ag3nt_zer0: btw if anyone can prove the "assertions" in that book (crisis of the modern world - rene guenon) false, useless, or shitty in another way... I would love it because I read it as truth...
thestringpuller: They only accept bitcoin, and I'm certain it goes straight into the waterfall.
thestringpuller: i didn't put that Buterin's crew is who runs C4. Seems like a scam for a piece of paper worth less than today's MIT degree.
ag3nt_zer0: I am lusting to hear your dismissals
trinque: I take it back.
ag3nt_zer0: for today's speculative waste: I think it would be great if this room had an educational manifest in the meatspace... sort of like an intellectual spartan boot camp
phf: ascii_field: the way i see mp's point is that tito, capone and random schmuck all have same options. random schmuck is that way for never acting on those options. capone is a schmuck for only sometimes not acting on his options. etc.
thestringpuller: one of the two bands I've seen in my life that made me straight up weep.
ag3nt_zer0: salival i think
shinohai: I wish I still knew someone good at remixing. I like some songs but they are overproduced.
ag3nt_zer0: yeah I prefer lateralus as well but there are some great extended areas of aenima
ag3nt_zer0: thestringpuller: yeah I believe they use the same artists for lots of stuff... for instance alex grey for their album artwork and others for the stop motion videos
thestringpuller: I think Lateralus is a more philosophically compelling album, but Aenema is better received.
ag3nt_zer0: shinohai: goes alright I am able to work so that's good... but counting the days until next summer to go on 2 year fuck all backpacking trip into the unknown
phf: what i was trying to say re capone vs tito, is that capone was a hood rat, with the operational scope of village vs village, for him fbi involvement was perhaps the leviathan. where's tito was successful tactician and strategist in war and later a national leader. i suspect that allowed him to operate on the sufficiently high level to resist governmental intervention on equal terms
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: hmmm, perhaps not, but I would argue the the new post psychedelic controls are much more insidious
mircea_popescu: i would propose this is an exceptionally apt comparison, incidentally. the relative economic might of chicago of the 30s as part of the us of the 30s is about where the economic might of the yugoslavia of the 50s as part of the eu+ru of the 50s stands ; the stalin-hoover equality is not particularly inept, on many scores (and the ones where it isn't, it advantages stalin)
phf: i don't know anything about mafioso in america beyond disnified, "you gonna like this guy, he's all right, he's a good fella", so i would believe about capone. but then he was a brooklyn hood rad, where's tito was a man
assbot: Fuck! I just send all my ether to a new contract instead of to my brain wallet. Is there any way to reclaim it? : ethereum ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fh49av )
shinohai: More ether keks: https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3l6b6b/fuck_i_just_send_all_my_ether_to_a_new_contract/
mircea_popescu: then again i suppose that's domestic terrorism, hm.
ascii_field: perhaps i will have it activated.
mircea_popescu: i guess researching net providers counts as research.
ascii_field: i have no intention of voluntarily curtailing my research and defaulting on my wot obligations. they will have to come and put that bullet in my head.
ascii_field: i can afford plane ticket. ☟︎
ascii_field: i'd even move to shenzhen
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i would happily move to antarctica if i knew of some way to get food and net access there.
ascii_field: shinohai: comcast exists here, i am not even considering it as an option
shinohai: I still pay an extra $8 for cable modem rental fee, even tho I don't use it.
ascii_field: shinohai: i do not use their idiot modem or router
ascii_field: shinohai: the only equipment of theirs i have is the optical terminal
mircea_popescu: i thought they got a monopoly. how else would you do it ?
ascii_field: i'm at $plant
ascii_field: where am i supposed to go?
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: i am a serf and can go nowhere.
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shinohai: I almost got that whittled down to a science with genkernel nau trinque
trinque: in fact, let me run this sometime today, then I'll provide another link.
trinque: I can modify it for you if you'd like it to write to a block device; it requires changing a variable at the top and altering the lilo config
trinque: mircea_popescu: I briefly began explaining what a port is, then gave up.
mircea_popescu: trinque> I was amazed to find I was not allowed to have an open port 25 on comcast residential. <<< i'm amazed at the notion of a "not allowed" port in general.
BingoBoingo: My stator (DB patched) is finally up to July 5th fork, sped up considerably since I had it -connect to local sync'd node (moved to this arrangement to open 8333)
shinohai: I seem to be stuck on height 314526 for the moment.
phf: i think main value of business account with us telco, they actually show you how short the leash is. instead of "unlimited everything!!1" you get an equivalent of 90s dialup, but you're free to use it at saturation levels
ascii_field: but i will note that they cut off EVERYTHING
ascii_field: i suspect that 8333 is considered a 'funny' port
trinque: I was amazed to find I was not allowed to have an open port 25 on comcast residential.
shinohai: comcast used to do that, but i have business class nau
shinohai: i suppose this is why i found your node unreachable
trinque: shinohai: I ain't mad at it.
shinohai: Anyone alive? https://i.imgur.com/aC3J19m.jpg
mircea_popescu: i really should set up a hotline for these chicks.
mod6: i recently shutdown my fully sync'd openbsd node a week or two ago -- took quite a wait for it to finally exit. but i didn't keep close track of the time. could have easily been an hour though.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall it ever taking that long, but, as the man says. give it a bit.
mod6: <+gernika> ran bitcoind stop << this method that i use
mircea_popescu: in other news, ""Greetings for the day! Hope you are doing great! My name is Letha Lozano and I am a Website Consultant. I found your email account online and would like to discuss some business opportunities with you""
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: i've heard stories of atl's traffic shmozzle
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 09:00:07; thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: honestly, how fucking smart and alert do you have to be to drive a car ? << I have always had sleep problems. As a kid would always fall asleep on car rides. And as an adult I seem to regularly fall asleep at the wheel and still get home. But this is super dangerous. I really need to just pull over and nap for a second or red bull it up like a trucker would do...
gernika: grepping the source of stator I see no references to "detach." Seems like versions prior to .6 automatically detach on shutdown (from google results). Only relevant ba discussion I can find is here: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=06-08-2015#1227642 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: oh damn, i'm seeing the bytecount
punkman: I don't think it's something
mircea_popescu: punkman i know, i meant about it being =9 specifically.
gernika: mod6 so I've finally rebuilt my blkindex.dat after probably corrupting it last time I shutdown bitcoind. I need to shut it down again. Is there a way to safely shutdown bitcoind? Or at a minimum, back up the blkindex.dat of a running node?
VariaVarietatis: mircea_popescu: I got sort of an odd question asked you before but got side tracked why one wot for eulora and b-a and shouldn't a game have its own wot to allow eve online style play?
shinohai: I liked this a lot http://qntra.net/2014/11/buterins-waterfall-a-likbez/
mircea_popescu: alrighty then, i got nothing.
asciilifeform: if someone were to pay for it, yes, i could say what the payload is.
asciilifeform: later i got hold of the actual binaries.
asciilifeform: one of the very few articles i wrote personally
mircea_popescu: did i miss a memo ?
asciilifeform: if i were in the service of hitler, that is how ~i~ would have written it.
mircea_popescu: but i was asking, what'd be the point for nsa to make something classier.
asciilifeform: https://i.imgur.com/XI9wDA9.png << as in them
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i presently have a ev2736w, two sx2462w, and a l885. (all but the last stand vertically.)
kakobrekla: U2713HM is what i run.
kakobrekla: it bothers me in general, when i see it at others.
kakobrekla: note i do not have a bothering problem now, for my setup it is solved
asciilifeform: though i am not an artist, and do not deal in precise gammas, and do not personally notice.
kakobrekla: i bet even 'eizo' drift over time
pete_dushenski: https://luminous-landscape.com/eizo-coloredge-cg301w-vs-the-apple-30/ << "And I cannot emphasize enough what a difference it makes to be able to sit in front of a display for many hours without experiencing the typical eye strain and user fatigue." << hm. photographer/phd physicist who switched from acd to eizo.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i'm speaking of the entire projector
thestringpuller: i thought TI also had a market in DLP too
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and last i checked, there is precisely one maker of usable (solid-state light source) large dlp machines, also.
kakobrekla: im happy with my dells. as for the button, its so dim i cant tell if its painted or lit
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 14:06:07; kakobrekla: i have a color calibrator and i couldnt get these to sync color no matter what i did
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: every single one i ever saw in person was terrible
mircea_popescu: i guess it's because you can't turn that off huh.
mircea_popescu: right, those i tape.
mircea_popescu: i do not believe in cosmetic interventions to remedy defects. i'd much rather take out a bad led like that with a red hot poker
kakobrekla: i taped them over for the few days i had those things installed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i turned some off with a clipper also.
mircea_popescu: they got those things to where they came right off a tanning bed by now, i gotta run around with ductape and put TWELVE LAYERS on everything
asciilifeform: i turn mine off.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 14:04:04; kakobrekla: here i was doing a comparison for korean cockroaches - bleeding fail: http://i.imgur.com/82Z88Nv.jpg