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mircea_popescu: publish a prototype, im sure alf will be more than happy to look through it, plenty other people will test it etc.
mircea_popescu: phf no big deal, s'just a game
mod6: might be worth a look to see what's what there.
phf: support of gpgme. the bindings come standard with gpgme release, but what's there was not updated since 2008. officially artifex is still working on that, but i take it nobody's heard from him in a while?
phf: i have some code for gossipd, i'm going to by the spec that's published on trilema, rather then follow up conversation about udp and first packet validation. i wrote enough in c to be able to prime gpg machinery and send packets over the wire (which basically coveres things that i wasn't sure how to do before i started), then i switched to common lisp to get a prototype up. what came out of that so far is updated bindings for lisp
phf: which brings me to the point that i have folders for all but "make new hardware" item in that list of b-a scope in various states of disarray, and it would be great if there was some prioritization, like it was the case with eulora "oh we need this done, you do it". ☟︎
phf: mircea_popescu: sorry about not picking up mushrooms, right after i finished the port, i did a move to DC area, and then, after few days, left for a trade show, which i just came back from. i started working on a text only client for eulora, but i didn't get far enough to claim my items with it.
BingoBoingo: Though the US Presidency hasn't been a win in a long time
BingoBoingo: It's looking like the only way the 'Murican left survives to 2020 is a Ben Carson or Ted Cruz win.
assbot: A Case for Shaming Obese People, Tastefully - The Atlantic ... ( http://bit.ly/1MRhM3F )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ergo usa sport folks have a long way to go.
assbot: Logged on 09-11-2015 02:40:47; BingoBoingo: A lotta bipeds take the sports thing pretty srs in spite of alf's protests
BingoBoingo: The University system is probably going to get a black president, drunk white kids will keep being drunk white kids, and that's that
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: movie43 has a bit on that as well.
BingoBoingo: Classes weren't happening? Eh, no big deal. Having to field a white football team? Holy shit the sky is falling!
BingoBoingo: A lotta bipeds take the sports thing pretty srs in spite of alf's protests ☟︎
shinohai: I'm fairly certain that in my quest for anal penetration I could find a device decidely less splintery, but to each their own.
hanbot: ben_vulpes so it's a coo-op? i'm dandy, rehydrating after last night's clubbing marathon.
mircea_popescu: posting a tracepath in a sec
ben_vulpes: hanbot: quite well; got some 4 hours of solid work done this am with a snoozing and cooing baby upon my chest. yourself?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dossiers, dossiers, but once they start coming out you know there's at least a guard change afoot
mircea_popescu: and asciilifeform has a point.
asciilifeform: here's an idea for a possible student project,
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-11-2015#1320288 << author forgot to have a thesis ? ☝︎
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] It takes more than time. It takes generations. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/08/it-takes-more-than-time-it-takes-generations/
assbot: It's been a year : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1XYgBRO )
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3s20zy/its_been_a_year/
shinohai: I had a bottle of Mogen David sitting around. I drank that.
mircea_popescu: the problem is they've lost control, the orcs are running amok, and as a result there's not going to be any donations, there's not going to be any electoral support and moreover the opposition can mop up the entire democrat tammany hall machine.
BingoBoingo: Because when the coach signs off on it who is some $400k a year president compared to a $2mil+ coach
BingoBoingo: I fully expect to see a lot more Universities go through this over the next year or two as crazy realizes the football time striking trick works.
BingoBoingo: What is the US coming to though when a well scaled lizard like Wolfe can't use a university gig as a more relaxing way to keep drawing a paycheck in effective retirement.
mircea_popescu: since they can't manage their own shit worth a damn ? the united failed states ?
mircea_popescu: "In the dying days of April 2015, the student body of a City High school picked a fight with the entire Baltimore City Police department, and, as the world watched, won. In the meantime, as these kids basically tried out for membership in the three drug gangs that conspired to set the city on fire while they trucked in unprecedented weight of dope, and gangs of armed black man fanned out across north, northeast, and ea
mircea_popescu: anyway, gotta try. one of these days you're gonna manage to connect a mad dog, and it might even do some damage.
mircea_popescu: roughly in the position of that fucktard shrem, "has a lawyer"
mircea_popescu: has a press office and exactly 0 pull
BingoBoingo: Right now the Wolfe guy has a press office.
mircea_popescu: (should prolly be standing policy - whenever the horde picks a scapegoat, give the scapegoat a forum. if for nothing else then to bother the machine.)
mircea_popescu: offer the guy a honest chance to tell his story plain. im pretty sure he has no offers. get qntra to break the libtard media embargo.
hdbuck: am all ears for a btcdrak qntra article regarding the latest xt comedy
BingoBoingo: <btcdrak> was going to use Medium, but :)) << You know I've seen a lot of stuff mysteriously vanish from Medium
BingoBoingo: "The verified Twitter account for Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel has posted a picture of the team and coaches locking arms." << I am more certain Wolfe is out this week, probably Monday, than I am Bitcoin is crossing $400 again this month.
mircea_popescu: you gonna do a qntra piece sometime ?
mircea_popescu: o wait, i know now! random guy who joined github in 2015, has absolutely no interests outside of bitcoinxt and totally absolutely is not a transparent front for any institutional player, 100% sure.
mircea_popescu: imagine that XT had "consensus" and "expert support" a year before any sort of testing was done whatsoever.
asciilifeform: yes, you can desolder the rom and rewrite, and have something like a normal box
asciilifeform: the extant version is a kind of draft
mircea_popescu: this would be a clarification. usg depends on fog.
asciilifeform: and the items which work, or appear to, are hanging on by a thread
asciilifeform: and just about every time i try to plug in a piece of hardware too young for the white plastic to have turned a deep spittoon yellow, i encounter them.
asciilifeform: it isn't a linux drv. it's a closed blob. and works ONLY with ubuntu kernels.
mircea_popescu: so he makes a new email.
asciilifeform: 'featuritis' is an inevitable outgrowth of this particular flavour of insanity, where the sufferer believes that adding anything whatsoever, so long as his 'intentions were pure' or whatnot, is a 'contribution'
asciilifeform: yes but there was a particular exposition
mircea_popescu: calling this mp is a gross misattribution, the idea's old and well discussed/accepted
asciilifeform: where was that mircea_popescu (?) article re: how a child learns that 'i can create!!1111!!' when he takes his first self-aware shit, and that many people wedge at this blockheight ?
mircea_popescu: basically the problem of all these idiots stems from the twin grasp of a) design is not a deliberate activity but "should arise naturally", like their delusional view of identity, love, hapiness et all ; b) 0 actual experience, entire life lived in the narrow constraints of for-play reality.
mircea_popescu: "why is this a good function ?" "because for hiding" "why is something good is not accepting something exists and seeking the ex post facto rationalization of that existence, this isn't fucking school." "oh"
mircea_popescu: "This is a good function for hiding information from someone who doesn’t want to see it or doesn’t want to see it very much. "
mircea_popescu: for the same reason old tripod web pages got a "guestbook"
asciilifeform: this salvage op is not raising a fishing trawler that went down last business quarter. it is not raising 'kursk' submarine. it is not raising 'titanic', even. it is raising the empty treasure chest on a spanish galleon that sank in 1600s and colonized by little fish.
mircea_popescu: "Here's a transcript of an illegal recording not done by the NSA that therefore everyone is ok with, consistent with our new standard of conduct: it is not illegal to make an illegal recording as long as it is given to the media and they profit from it and we can use it to rationalize our lives. Got it."
mircea_popescu: this is a great fucking article.
asciilifeform: ants in a circle.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, that's exactly the problem : slavery without a master is hollow. hence all the matrix stuff.
mircea_popescu: liably oppresses another; but that the entire system is based on creating a lack. This lack is not a bottomless hole that nothing could ever fill, but a tiny, strangely shaped divot in your soul into which nothing could ever fit: not money, not sex, not stuff, not relationships. Nothing "takes." Nothing counts. Nothing is ever right. Only novelty works, until it wears off."
mircea_popescu: "Hess yells about a world of masculine power because she has the power to yell at it. But of course her power is limited only to yelling, she is impotent against a troll who yells at her. But her mistake is in thinking he has the power. No one has it, the system doesn't allow it. Even the mighty Economist demo feels impotent. Are they all delusional? This is the true critique of the system, not simply that one group re
mircea_popescu: " A former night-club dancer tells dirty stories about her ex-colleagues to the refined Orthodox language teacher, who does not know whether to block her ears or to laugh." << this is the gain.
assbot: Adnotated words of wisdom on the topic of online fraud on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OxEu17 )
mircea_popescu: just like if you get the wrong 10% of the rent market you're out of busienss as a landlord ; or if you get the wrong 10% of patrons your pizzeria's dead etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's not much substance there. not only is only 10% of the money in alts, and not only does this mean a billion alts, but the important point is that it's a selected 10%, and selected badly/for stupidity.
asciilifeform: rs there is never a minute's silence...'
asciilifeform: boy begs his mother not to beat him because in his sleep he wet the bunk he shares with her. She does and he squeals. A former night-club dancer tells dirty stories about her ex-colleagues to the refined Orthodox language teacher, who does not know whether to block her ears or to laugh. A spoilt rich wife has hung her clothes on all available nails, leaving no room for anybody else. The passage ends with: "In 24 out of 24 hou
asciilifeform: 'The rabbi's wife tries in vain to stop her children, aged four and eight, fighting in her bunk. Her neighbours, kept awake by the din, swear at them. A woman screams because a mouse has run over her face. Bedbugs drop from the higher bunks onto the lower. Another woman screams because the little boy in the bunk above her has spilled the jam jar he uses as a chamber pot all over her. Somebody has whooping cough. Another little
mod6: haha, i just fixed a bug in the old perl 5.005_04 makedepend.SH script.
mircea_popescu: "Why would the The Economist's rich and powerful demo want to be ruled? Because they aren't powerful, only rich, all that time getting rich did not translate to any power, only the trappings of power. So they've postulated a fantasy power structure/NBA owners that explains why they can't enjoy their lives as they think they should-- to absolve themselves of the guilt they feel for having money/intellect/opportunities a
asciilifeform: 'theymos and whoever else opposes the upgrade to make a last-ditch effort to destroy bitcoin by taking 33% of XT pools offline so that 50% would be running the old code. I wouldn't be surprised to see the largest DDoS attacks in the history of the Internet when the network commits to the upgrade two weeks later.' << wut
thestringpuller: I hope I don't have a stroke.
mircea_popescu: You&#8217;ve taken the bait and put all your <a id="itxthook2" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/05/cyberbll.html#" rel="nofollow"><span id="itxthook2w" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap">energy</span></a> into accepting the form of the argument.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, somewhere deep in the african savanna, a hyena stole a piece of a dead lion verbatim.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile she stole a tlp piece verbatim,
mircea_popescu: I'm a writer based out of East Village, Manhattan. I work from my condo and local coffee shops (and a few restaurants with menus that are more unhealthy than licking a subway railing), meeting friends who have boats or boat access, touring the zoo for the zoo to visit my ex-boyfriends, and forcing my political beliefs on others at social events (kidding, don't be one of those people."
asciilifeform: phun phakt, most of my searches end up returning b-a log and little else
kakobrekla: wait tomorrow, you will also get b-a log
kakobrekla: just a charade
mircea_popescu: the gas chambers, Kastner had sacrificed the mass of Jewry for a chosen few, the judge said. The verdict triggered the fall of the Israeli Cabinet.
mircea_popescu: other SS officers, thus allowing Becher to escape prosecution for war crimes. The Israeli government sued Gruenwald for libel on Kastner's behalf, resulting in a trial that lasted 18 months, and a ruling in 1955 that Kastner had, in the words of Judge Benjamin Halevy, "sold his soul to the devil". By saving the Jews on the Kastner train, while failing to warn others that their "resettlement" was in fact deportation to
mircea_popescu: Kastner moved to Israel after the war, becoming a spokesman for the Ministry of Trade and Industry in 1952. In 1953 he was accused of having been a Nazi collaborator in a pamphlet self-published by Malchiel Gruenwald, a freelance writer. The allegation stemmed from his relationship with Eichmann and another SS officer, Kurt Becher, and from his having given positive character references after the war for Becher and two
asciilifeform: for a feed-a-family salary
asciilifeform: they think 'ooh a job opening, i can pay rentz'
mircea_popescu: but i am pretty blown away that they really think this is a sane approach. either unemployment/hunger/despair is a lot higher than i thought
mircea_popescu: a "secret service" whose name is in the press ? seriously ?
asciilifeform: the other prong is that 'black' work has a distinct upside of 'i don't have to write on my cv that i played 'doom' for five years'
asciilifeform: one is that a tour of duty in the dungeons is good for a few 100k in a mega-zaibatsu (e.g., 'raytheon') later
mircea_popescu: nobody makes a lot of money working for fucking nsa, it's worse than civil service for chrissakles, you'll end up married to a "social worker" and she'll pull more than your weight on the single room mortgage.
mircea_popescu: i don't really follow the appeal of this tho. so you get a nsa job, what's the value ? i mean, top quant uni, top high street lawyers uni, i can see, the idea is "go here maybe you get a golden ticket - make a lot of money"
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 09:41:44; BingoBoingo: "Together, the 100 schools that made the list "produce the greatest number of students who are employed by the Intelligence Community (IC), have the closest relationships with the national security state and profit the most from American war-waging," according to Vice. The rankings only report three traditionally conservative universities, indicating that more liberal schools play a larger role in what
mircea_popescu: but yeah, obviously. there was a ghetto before the ghetto in berlin, too.
mircea_popescu: only gender. nigglet = diminutive thereof, a two bit player in niggerdom.)