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ben_vulpes: what was mr brown engaged in that required a nailfun deployment?

BingoBoingo: "The new information that was disclosed Monday was that someone wrote a threatening message on the car that the victim, Howard Brown, was washing with a hose when the vehicle suddenly exploded and the gas tank caught on fire."

linton_s_dawson: asciilifeform: borrowed it from a song

asciilifeform: adlai: aha it was a reply to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-11-2015#1325263 ☝︎

adlai: good thing you're not a frog!

ascii_field: will look when i get home, right now boiling in a cauldron

adlai: ascii_field: you pointed me earlier to a discussion of locktimes... i assume you meant BIP65, not 64? the latter being mike hearn's utxo shenanigans

assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 14:12:38; mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.

assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 22:38:39; ascii_field: (is a specially crafter derplinux pre-impregnated with tor, faux pgp, etc)

trinque: perhaps as with individual animals, societies have a suicide mechanism which kicks on when things have gone wrong.

punkman: assbot: Groom discovers bride isn't a virgin, eats genitals of her rapist << I imagine guy's last thoughts were "who are these people, and why is he stabbing me"

trinque: it's a toxic blend one might want to believe was concocted by some evil force

trinque: the pervasiveness of marketing and its effect on language, the myth of equality and "my voice matters" politically and also as a consumer, >3 generations of "what's a book?", the retarding effect of believing you are already special and noteworthy by virtue of simply being here...

ascii_field: (is a specially crafter derplinux pre-impregnated with tor, faux pgp, etc) ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "PGP is not as important as people think. As long as both parties use an encrypted email (and connect with a VPN, TOR, TAILS, whatever) you're fine. This is because if they get access to the webmail all information is decrypted either using automatic PGP decryption (eg: Countermail) or locally on their computer (somewhere this information is going to be stored)."

BingoBoingo: Followup to a drama that started yesterday https://archive.is/BByaP

assbot: Menorah bong makes Hanukkah a "high holiday" / Boing Boing ... ( http://bit.ly/1MQDkeU )

shinohai: Sure to be a hit at my Festivus party: http://boingboing.net/2015/11/13/menorah-bong-makes-hanukkah-a.html?fk_bb

jurov: lmao got a spam with following URL: https://www.bitstamp.net/s/email_images/moro-web-bitcoin-2015-04.png

davout: enitals to cure a heartache

assbot: Groom discovers bride isn't a virgin, eats genitals of her rapist | New York Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1N9BBDC )

thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i thought this was already a thing?

mircea_popescu: whenever you peel garments off a bosomy beauty it's 50-50 you'll see some sort of textile pattern embedded in the tender flesh.

punkman: ascii_field: hmm that does ring a bell

ascii_field: 'The Times later posted a second article citing an anonymous “European counterterrorism official” who was quoted saying authorities’ “working assumption is that these guys were very security aware,” but clarified officials “offered no evidence.”'

ascii_field: (speaking of which, i have a crate of esp8266 here gathering dust)

ascii_field: or a rerun of 'fon' ?

punkman: plane going down is closer to "act of god" and less scary, compared to a person that hates you and will shoot you in the face while you are having coffee at starbucks

shinohai: gm #b-a

asciilifeform: ch, so you did. You were not told to grieve for the Russians, and so you didn't. Don't feel bad; you are just following orders. The reasoning behind these orders is transparent: the French, along with the rest of the EU, are Washington's willing puppets; therefore, they are innocent, and when they get killed, it's a tragedy. But the Russians are not Washington's willing puppet, and are not innocent, and so when they get killed

asciilifeform: 'Note that after the Russian jet crashed in the Sinai there weren't all that many Facebook avatars with the Russian flag pasted over them, and hardly any candlelight vigils or piles of wreaths and flowers in various Western capitals. I even detected a whiff of smug satisfaction that the Russians got their comeuppance for stepping out of line in Syria. Why the difference in reaction? Simple: you were told to grieve for the Fren

assbot: ClubOrlov: A Most Convenient Massacre ... ( http://bit.ly/1X4LOAm )

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/11/a-most-convenient-massacre.html << mega-orlol

adlai: while trying to finish a book about IRS workers

adlai hands mircea_popescu a copy of Infinite Jest

mircea_popescu: anyway gotta say that was a pretty good blog earlier punkman

mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: another path into this issue would be the concept of "adversarial individuality". hola davout. to support a large empire (large defined in the sense of, stretched at the seams of communication abilities, to the point it struggles to maintain itself, a la romans) you require a certain mentality in the subjects. let's call it, in modern terminology, "inclusive", "cooperative" and whatnot other "good" feelers.

mircea_popescu: there was a high level of pseudointellectual masturbation, sure, much like in today's us. similarly then, mit educated chitlins could not light a lightbulb, but could pseudointelligently discuss "the types" of feminism as if that were a thing, somehow.

mircea_popescu: just like a society that makes "the elimination of all inconvenience, from murder to doctor telling you you're fat" its goal will negessarily get raped.

mircea_popescu: yeah, a society that makes "balance" its goal will necessarily stagnate.

mircea_popescu: in particular the chinese had sketches of the helicopter in the roman times, as opposed to da vinci's re-roman times. they had alchemy plain and proper a millenium before the euros. but hey, chinese "gentlemen" are too delicate to touch earths.

mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just as long as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.) ☟︎

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assbot: You rated user naphex on 16-May-2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: btcxchange.ro.

mircea_popescu: apparently they got confused as to the difference between "datacenter" and "website trying to push a movie someone made in cad3d about a duke nukem modmap."

mircea_popescu: and for our Idiots Galore rubric, here's a "datacenter" : http://www.abdatacenter.com/

punkman: lol right "A 1.5% fee applies to payments you accept from customers outside of X"

mircea_popescu: i guess maybe you're right, wannabe-paypal. unless this is this a case of hidden fees

punkman: "Social game maker Zynga has created BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, which is currently offered for select games such as Farmville 2 and Castleville. "

mircea_popescu: they own a chunk of the fed, do nightly settlement or what do you mean "themselves"

BingoBoingo: punkman: A not doctor who does doctor work

trinque: your IP already connected, not much point in using a vpn... lol

liquidassets: Ever feel a heartbeat in your spine MP?

mircea_popescu: 1k is a cessna ; 10k is a coupla of good condition yugo jets.

kakobrekla: the diff between 1k and 10k would be the diff between buying chinese crap and buying a plane, if you dont like numbers.

asciilifeform: iirc the game theory folks bashed their heads raw against this for half a century

mircea_popescu: actually, this would be useful for a change economics research. obviously lice agreement on lice-ing only works provided the largest lice is cutting his own throat. but by what factor ?

mircea_popescu: im not doing a numeric discussion.

asciilifeform: you poked a hole, they plugged it.

assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 19:06:33; asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-11-2015#1325602 << incidentally what's to stop the fella with the 10m from sybilling into a herd of 1,001 schmucks who buy at 300 ? ☝︎

adlai: they let me withdraw fiat to a bank account, chargeback happened, i tried topping up the account with cc because aforementioned bank account was unavailable... and once the last cc charge went through, they locked the account

adlai: it's fine, irl plastic works like a champ. makes me feel part of the printing press itself

asciilifeform: as a student i once tried to put tuition on a cc (to claim the 'reward pts' naturally) and even this caused grumbling

assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:37:25; asciilifeform: 'ach' is a kind of faux 'wire' we have in usaschwitz

mircea_popescu: back in 1985 you could open a store with the stock on credit.

mircea_popescu: headed that way for a whiole now, EXACTLY under the pressure of "worthless dollars"

mircea_popescu: myahap we see a redefinition of "consumer credit" to "only real estates and worthless chinese crap. you can't buy a plane, or a shipment of cocoa"

asciilifeform: netting a few 100k usd each.

asciilifeform: so a few schmucks bought'em, then deposited, paid the cc bill, and pocketed the 1-5% 'reward points'

asciilifeform thought that sucking ~in~ the car, literally, was a thing impoverished usians did

mircea_popescu: i think by 95 every russian chick under 20 with boobs bigger than her mom and standing above 1.80 naked had sucked at least one cock in a mercedes that was acquired in just this way.

asciilifeform: 'ach' is a kind of faux 'wire' we have in usaschwitz ☟︎

asciilifeform: (which would in effect be a zero-interest loan and 'nobody wants this!!1111')

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know that the 'official' price is a fiction. but this was not the evidence for my hypothesis.

asciilifeform: 'Mike Morell, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, opened the door for more fighting about encryption by stating that a public debate was needed. "We have in a sense had a public debate. That -- that debate was defined by Edward Snowden, right, and the concern about privacy. I think we're now going to have another debate about that. It's going to be defined by what happened in Paris," he said.' <<< ahahah

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: price isn't a scalar

asciilifeform: if indeed this is so, buterin must have one hell of a waterfall to keep the price three figures

mircea_popescu: if you can do a wire you can buy bitcoin.

mircea_popescu: if you have a cc you can do a wire.

asciilifeform: that wasn't a straight rip of qntra, was it

mircea_popescu: check it out alf, you were here for three years, will be left holding the abandoned pieces of a usg that even the last of the class of public highschool long leeched.

asciilifeform: 'In a story by the New York Times, later removed without explanation [archive], the situation in Paris was used to reignite the encryption debate.' << l0lz

mircea_popescu: "a result" that's not used is not actually a result.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-11-2015#1325506 << classic 'theft of theft'. search in ciphered text is a 1990s result. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: length is a good nick to have.

BingoBoingo: Then Obama makes a poop swastika in the whitehouse and cries racism

BingoBoingo: That's probably been a headline

assbot: 25 results for 'ven' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ven

mircea_popescu: the only difference is that in 1415 his workproduct could buy you the world, and in 2015 it's at best a curio.

mircea_popescu: the point is that the paypal power of the 2005s was broken, and now they're reduced to being a sort of etsy beenz, except for a slightly larger etsy called ebay.

ascii_field: mircea_popescu: did i somehow sleep through a death of the ebay monopoly ?

mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or is this merely another army of the undead thing << it is. bitcoin killed paypal, maggots trying to get a piece.

ascii_field: dont bother , it's a snore

ascii_field: it's a spampaypal

ascii_field: ' It’s $2.99 on Kindle, if you’d like me to Venmo you the money. As a person who not all that long ago walked away from Gawker Media, and who also grew up reading Gawker, Jezebel, and Deadspin, the little Kindle Single can actually be a delight...' << at this point my gas mask clogged and i can read no moar

mircea_popescu: "Now, this is not really a reason to admire them; they should be rightly condemned as the callous killers that they are. But what we need to set in opposition to them is not a further erosion of our already crumbling sacred traditions, but a redoubling of our efforts to resanctify our own dormant traditions and, perhaps even more urgently, to create new ones."

mircea_popescu: yes, she'll get hoisted on a fucking pole. of course.

mircea_popescu: europe is currently a 12yo girly playing idly with her cullotes.