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mircea_popescu: moreover, saving stuff to disk is not IN ITSELF
a bad thing.
assbot: Logged on 05-09-2015 19:57:49; btcdrak: <3 that was
a pretty good score considering all the armchair lawyers who came out of the woodwork telling me I was wrong...
mircea_popescu: ing out
a subhuman population. not quite monkey enough to be cute in
a zoo, not quite human enough to be part of the world. uncanny valley all the way.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-09-2015#1263340 << the proposition that the library of alexandria has anything to do with
a bunch of bronze-age derps is ridoinculous. that event was
a clear cut case of the elites of one culture wiping the elites of another culture it had defeated. this happens to be right and proper. the solving of the indian problem is nothing of the kind, but simply the elites of
a culture wip
☝︎☟︎ shinohai: I can see that. Death seems too simple
a solution to deal with enemies, if your desire is to conquer them.
shinohai: I have no clue. usg feels that if
a region is unstable and retarded then 'muricans can swoop in save the day and keep it all under their control?
funkenstein_: but no, nyt won't mention that he is
a cia asset, soa graduate, or name the ixil.
mod6: Well, one thing I don't want is
a persistant store of the parents and children of
a given patch. I want it to read it fresh everytime so ensure things aren't diddled or cosmic-ray'd or just stale or something. Not sure if that's what was changed on punkmans side. But I want the one that I use to do all of this in one shot.
btcdrak: <3 that was
a pretty good score considering all the armchair lawyers who came out of the woodwork telling me I was wrong...
☟︎ punkman: jurov: dunno if I can help, but if you need
a second set of eyes on something, feel free to ask
jurov: sigh. i defo need
a buddy for these times when my brain just shuts down (this time due to allergy)
punkman: it's not
a patch, it's now called vit
ben_vulpes: d'you have
a vpatch for it yet, punkman?
shinohai: Well *you* still have
a trained one ben_vulpes. My gf is coming over to cookout later, though I rather enjoy the BBQ side of cooking.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 21:44:38; mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> great, but why? << this is
a complex point and would require some more indepth discussion to do it justice. in summary to my eyes it is an early attempt by the microsoft citatel to parlay compatibility problems of early linux into
a "here, we've strangled it" usg solution. it failed to work irl, and the failure of java is torvalds' chief merit in this world. using it today is not unlike
mats: jurov: do you have
a new eta for coinbr?
shinohai: Is there
a #bitcoin-assets app? (kek)
fluffypony: you're not
a real company unless you have an app
funkenstein_: perhaps,
a hint for the future of North Tenochtitlan
funkenstein_: I cannot fathom what is meant here with "great" and "scum" and "
a century"
punkman: "Is that
a virus? Who cares. Run it. Let the Russian botmaster watch you dress through your webcam. Make sure your underwear matches. Lenovo."
mircea_popescu:
a sterner indictment of humanity as
a species could scarcely be devised.
mircea_popescu: but honestly, if my choice is between this and nuclear winter im picking nuclear winter right now and everyone can just get
a free tan.
mircea_popescu: and then any reandom schmuck comes around and herp derp, s/x/y/ because hey, i read it in
a coimputing cookbook once
mircea_popescu: at this point in life & time when i am stuck sending an item purporting to be "
a payload" on its own, i've already lost.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and now HOW THE FUCK IS THE PAYLOAD
A THING
pete_dushenski can hear the sweet sounds of keyboards being smashed in
a furious rage all the way from arg.
trinque: in my case
a deedbot- user would notice the rejected: 1 and complain to me
mircea_popescu: gee, i guess all this preoccupation with kids in africa must be pretty fucking novel. they didn't give
a shit about africa throughout.
mircea_popescu: in today's lulz : it turns out that bitcoin-qt interface, if presented with
a malformed value such as 1,275 btc instead of the 1.275 notation,
☟︎ trinque: asciilifeform: jurov gave me
a script to sync
a gpg keychain with assbot's list
punkman: or maybe something wrapped
a line wider than 80 chars
mircea_popescu: and, much like insane notions of agency as defined legally ("guy spreading his legs is DOING something ; gal eating herself into
a bus size is not specifically doing anything"), the quantitative approach favours female dumb.
trinque: ben_vulpes: nah had
a rough week; sleeping in
pete_dushenski: and the comments themselves are exceedingly close to being relevant and don't contain
a single outbound link
trinque: asciilifeform: deeding detached sigs seems
a decent feature in any case
trinque: asciilifeform | <trinque> maybe becomes
a function of the web page viewer for V ? << i am writing one. << cool!
pete_dushenski: shinohai: well no one's born knowing these things, but there are worse places to learn about the world and yourself than b-
a cazalla: pete_dushenski, can't say the same for the brussel sprouts, aphids made
a meal of them all
cazalla: pete_dushenski, they're
a dime
a dozen so i never pursued it further than regging
a domain name
shinohai: I was told I didn't need my physical keyboard either, only
a touchscreen. yeah.
shinohai: I find it rther liberating to know I don't matter and no one gives
a shit what I say.
pete_dushenski: they're not actually heard, of course, no functional system could handle that much noise, but they are lent
a convincing simulacrum of importance
pete_dushenski: the united states of television :
a channel for every star on the flag
assbot: Logged on 05-09-2015 00:45:55; mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> >We are migrating the website to
a new and improved and more dynamic site. Please excuse any broken links or choppy pages as we work! <<< one wonders wtf the progre thinks progress actually is. "new improved more dynamic" = "broken". so whydja want it ?
mircea_popescu: about as unenforceable in
a sane justice system as "employee agrees not to sue employer for any reason" employment contracts in california, but hey.
pete_dushenski: "Under
a plea agreement, Calovskis, who has been in U.S. custody since his extradition, agreed not to appeal any sentence of two years in prison or less." << bizarro condition for
a plea bargain
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> >We are migrating the website to
a new and improved and more dynamic site. Please excuse any broken links or choppy pages as we work! <<< one wonders wtf the progre thinks progress actually is. "new improved more dynamic" = "broken". so whydja want it ?
☟︎ kakobrekla: >We are migrating the website to
a new and improved and more dynamic site. Please excuse any broken links or choppy pages as we work!
trinque: maybe becomes
a function of the web page viewer for V ?
mircea_popescu: ok, for the record : sent it with no body, and with
a clearsigned body ; the latter with .asc armored signature and with .sig binary signature. still nothing there.
mircea_popescu: to doubleckeck here : email to the address, had
a plaintext as 1st attachment and detached sig as 2nd attachment/
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps
a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps
a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry
☟︎ shinohai: I'm quite sad for you trinque because
a similar situation occurred to me. Losing an instrument to someone that loves music as I do is akin to losing
a limb.
trinque: shinohai: yeah I have pictures of the relevant stickers with all that, but don't give
a siht
ascii_modem: in usa - both jail. but there is
a difference.
mircea_popescu: as
a kid, /me fambly had
a neighbour. one day mom's cooking and i'm computing in other room. door was unlocked (most of my life i lived in
a world where locks were not really useful). neighbour blasts in, goes past mom, into room, has
a wrench, approaches heating element decidedly
ascii_modem: note the difference b/w thermiting
a stolen box remotely, and minefield
mircea_popescu: but in the us of today this is not feasible, for the same reason email spam is
a thing
mircea_popescu: and yes, much like the "don't thermite" thing, this worked fine in
a world 1/50 as small and very deeply patriarchical.
trinque: stealing half my posessions seems it oughta come with
a price though
mircea_popescu: owing to
a population 1/20 as large, kept in check by
a deeply patriarchical society.
mircea_popescu: (but in the original context it made
a lot of sense. you really don't want to lose an arm because you innocently wandered into what you thought was
a shop. because the patrimonial dispute thereby ensuing can be fixed, but the arm can not be reattached.)
trinque: reasonable's you smash
a man's car and that's the end of you
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem if they break into his car and thereby lose
a hand in the explosion he's going to jail.
trinque: yeah, clearly had
a truck/van, smashed back window, grabbed all