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mircea_popescu: hint : dude travels ON THE TRAIN with
a pile of luggage. he tells the porter to take it all and put it in
a cab and send it at so and so hotel. because he's
a dude in the suit traveling solo and can't be bothered to lift anything heavier than his hat
mircea_popescu: whatch five fucking minutes from the beginning "Band wagon" with fred astaire to get
a fucking idea of what life in america still was, in the 50s.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For
a portion of the market, but like many other things at some point they will probably die suddenly
BingoBoingo: mike_c: The republican nominee field this year is awfully noisy. Rand is falling into his father's pattern, Lizards love Fiorina, and Trump is just
a protest vote.
trinque: it will be
a fascinating thing if the US attempt to align the Middle East with itself - via some naive "we'll make them all South Korea and Japan!" notion - results in alignment with Russia, and even more amusing if the thing actually results in some semblance of "peace in the Middle East" down the road
BingoBoingo: trinque: Reports are the UK has
a still worse Obeast infestation than the US
BingoBoingo in
a time before Bitcoin resorted to truecrypt as
a "don't you dare spy on my Win Box Dorm neighbors" measure.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well there's
a popular and derpy for and than... just kinda forgot that niche existed
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 00:43:28; BingoBoingo: jurov: ty for the Truecrypt link. I almost forgot that was ever
a thing.
BingoBoingo: jurov: ty for the Truecrypt link. I almost forgot that was ever
a thing.
☟︎ trinque: nmap says there's
a box there
ascii_field: (as i understand, anyone who so much as touched bitcoind since $10 or so is guilty until proven innocent of being
a gavin)
ascii_field: it is more or less the only path from
a known-genuine, pre-valuablebtc bitcoin client to something demonstrably degavinized
ascii_field: 'eatblock' does exactly one shot of eating
a block.
ascii_field: phf: i never saw
a reason to put the iteration of blocks in the cpp. really it is
a job for scripting lang from outside
ascii_field: ' It's still hiring like crazy, with nearly 10,000 open jobs listed on its website, for instance, and it has ratcheted up research and development
a bit, spending $8.7 billion in its last fiscal year — which ended in August — compared to $8.6 billion in fiscal 2014.' << does anyone else feel brain melting from the sheer density of flimflam packed into this paragraph ?
thestringpuller: The LA Riots saw the unification of the Bloods and Cryps for
a short time in similar spirit described in the warriors
thestringpuller: well criminals willing to kill police officers (not
a lot of people are willing to go that far)
thestringpuller: "You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over
a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town." << I would think if gangs outnumber the police the last thing you want is an escalation of war. I.e. national guard/army
ascii_field: not hard to see the up-sides. by the time corpse turns up, it is in
a condition where - even if someone were inclined to investigate (and who wants to be next corpse?) nothing could be said.
ascii_field: '...he went inside his brother’s apartment and saw Costas hanging from
a rope tied to pipes above the lintel of his bathroom door, an old wooden chair nearby. He and his mother cut the rope and laid Costas down on the bed. The day before his death, Costas’ boss at Vodafone had ordered that
a newly discovered code —
a powerful and sophisticated bug — be deactivated and removed from its systems. The wiretap,
ascii_field: 'We leave the big piano shut and do not strike
a note; / the doctor's been here seven times since father rode the goat.'
phf: ^ i think it's such an exquisite stab at freemasonry.
a brief fictional exchange reveals the absurdity of the entire "pretense"
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 21:34:31; phf: "You? Impossible!
A mason?" "
A mason," I replied. "
A sign," he said, "
a sign." "It is this," I answered, producing from beneath the folds of my roquelaire
a trowel.
trinque: I recall my grandfather saying they weren't much more than
a social club at the time I was asking
ascii_field: i knew
a fella who signed up. he brewed beer.
trinque: I have
a grandfather's freemason pin on
a jacket; he was about that age when he passed away
mircea_popescu: then the whole echafaudage collapses ion
a cloud of wtf and wchp
ascii_field: phf: iirc they closed the kernel source
a while ago.
phf: there was
a period when apple was not this outright hostile to hackers. around 10.4-10.5 you could still rebuild darwin (i did it for
a bit to work around the retarded execl argument list length limitations) or bsd user space from apple hosted source. even cocoa userspace had all kinds of hooks that you could use to customize the os, like inputmanager bundles
phf: yes, but this is somehow
a freudian slip
ascii_field: 'the car bomb exploded. the mechanic cursed and pulled on another wire. the car bomb exploded again, with greater violence. windows rattled, dogs barked. 'you definitely have
a car bomb, sir, i can tell you that now!' he muttered.'
☟︎ ascii_field: it is quite analogous to
a nintendo or playstation etc.
mircea_popescu: it's
a fucking processor on
a board with
a disk and
a ram stick innit ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: these are
a very funny joke on their own. WITHOUT EXCEPTION all 'rooters' are closed-source gigantic blobs that do fuck-knows-what to the pnohe
phf: "Attempting to inject libraries into system binaries will result in an error. Even trying to poke into
a protected process with DTRACE will fail—probes that try to target protected processes will fail to match, and no interaction with the kernel will be visible, and protected memory space will be simply inaccessible. Not even LLDB will be useful. You won’t be able to invoke it on system processes, regardless of root privilege."
phf: Protected system processes cannot be attached to with
a debugger and cannot be subject to code injection.
mircea_popescu: the us army and south vietnamese were at first inept but then regrouped and turned it into
a disaster for the northeners
mircea_popescu: no it wasn't. dude, srsly... they had
a fucking draft for vietnam.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> iirc you could get hard time for that. << Only if you are
a licensed contractor.
ascii_field: more commonly,
a splitter of one mains socket into 3+
ascii_field: to ~this day~ we call it
a жулик (fraudster)
ascii_field:
a device which screwed in place of
a light bulb, circa 1920s
ascii_field: 'Generally speaking, any authentic-looking towelhead who is able to intelligibly pronounce the word "democracy" has
a chance to receive financing and weapons. But nobody has any control over where he will then go with these weapons. By the way, Soviet intelligence services of the Brezhnev era had the same problem, latching onto any tribal chieftain who knew how to pronounce words like "Marx" and "Lenin."'
mircea_popescu: in fact the smoothness comparison is
a decent indication of the entropy involved.
funkenstein_: kinda like
a bandpass filter of sorts to get rid of high frequency stuff
funkenstein_: "Just like every moral-panic flavoured intellectual fashion of
a mostly idle and broadly useless population, this nonsense is not here to stay." <-- nice :)
mircea_popescu: hint :
a world without complex systems IS
a realistic goal. in point of fact, it is the baseline in realism.
mircea_popescu: what would you say the "intuitive meaning" of
A'j is ?
mircea_popescu: let there be
a monotonous measurable system S. let Mi be measurements made at moments-in-time Ti. let average-per-unit-time delta values be reported for each Ti as Ai = (Mi - Mi-1) / (Ti - Ti-1). let an arbitrary "reporting unit" R be defined so that
a finite count of Ti fit in each such unit Rj. Let Ais be plainly averaged so that
A' = (Ak +...+ Am) / (m-k) where k, m are the first and last i's for Tis fitting in Rj.
mircea_popescu:
a question for the mathematically inclined practical minds in the audience :
HeySteve: hmm. well it's looking like you called another one. what do you think about BitShares? it looks like it can do what I want but seems
a little too good to be true
mircea_popescu: altogether
a marginally better showing than garza's "buyout at $20" plan.
mircea_popescu: the whole "ethereum" story is, mr alienface and some junior profs at umaryland scammed that university for
a little space and morning coffees ; he lied about the few hundred BTC available as being tens of thousands, and did some fraudulent moves to "prove" this ; he lied about "expenses" to explain why the capital he claimed to have doesn't in fact exist (but hey, he "spent it" for ethereum, which is good and builds ma
HeySteve: I was looking for
a way to do multi-sig with coins pegged to fiat or PM, so investigated Ethereum
HeySteve: in
a nasty war situation for eg. all that education and child-rearing effort is likely to come to nothing on the battlefield
mircea_popescu: which is perhaps why it's
a big idea to stop pestering people.
HeySteve: of course, state has gotten into the parenting and schooling game in
a big way, so things are distorted there
mircea_popescu: it's not clear that "they're more about education" , or that their cunts just don't work worth
a crap.
mircea_popescu: there's even
a line delineating the "poorly productive females" half of europe, and it was drawn in the 1800s
mircea_popescu: well then i dunno what you mean. the us has had low birth rate since before it was "developed", ie
a century ago. england has had low birth rate throughout it's four centuries of being developed. china had lower birth rate in its undeveloped 80s than it does today.
mircea_popescu: and she BECAME
a free woman. in her lifetime. which is barely lowest -1.
mircea_popescu: reproduction and class are strictly unrelated considerations. in fact, they do not even share any common space at all - there isn't
a way to define "class" so that reproduction can be made meaningful or vice-versa.
HeySteve: I guess you can bring in waves of immigrants too and hope they take out
a load of home and car loans
mircea_popescu: in
a world of
a billion, you will never ever reach the end of breathtaking.
mircea_popescu: if you live in
a country of 1mn, you'll see some passible ass.
mircea_popescu: to put that objection in more practically comprehensible terms : if you live in
a village of 100, the prettiest girl you ever see in your life will be ugly.
mircea_popescu: those women on welfare, with
a dozen kids, ARE doing their job, right ? and splendidly at that, natality ain't easy.
HeySteve:
a good example is welfare for single mothers, previously spawning bastards was socially-discouraged for good reason
mircea_popescu: it is an astonishingly beautiful point. it generally takes
a ~bright~ and very talented slavegirl 18 months or more before her desires go from more chocolate and less beatings to being given harder tasks. and she finds herself in an incredibly powerful, carefully engineered self-improvement-atron.
HeySteve: ah Fred on everything, he's
a very enjoyable read
mircea_popescu: "Men use the night to erase us...The annihilation of
a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality, and so the night is the sacred time of male sexual celebration, because it is dark and in the dark it is easier not to see: not to see who she is. Male sexuality, drunk on its intrinsic contempt for all life, but especially for women's lives, can run wild, hunt down random victi
mircea_popescu: The following, which gives the flavor, is from Andrea Dworkin, who I gather is
a sort of museum-piece siege howitzer for feminism. It's pretty much how they all talk. Listen:
mircea_popescu: looking through that site - seems the average lifetime of
a "serious" blog is in the hundreds. i would guess from my own experience less than 1% of
a personal attempt survives the 1k articles mark.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, i know ya got
a big stockpile of liquor
mircea_popescu: which is amusingly biographical : fighter circuit consists of groups of
a few hundred people (the boxer, his team, people at his club, his social acquaintances etc) that come together under very strictly controlled setting (matches) and otherwise are very strictly separated.
mircea_popescu: his method works for any arbitrary number, providerd of course they never exist in groups larger than
a few hundred and those groups are strictly separated.
mircea_popescu: heck, i could do without needing
a spylist longer than most serial monogamists' ex-fucks list just to keep things slightly above water.
mircea_popescu: da fuck would i need bitcoin for, in
a world where the win criteria is "work out
a little".