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mircea_popescu: <assbot> ~44% of Bitcoin mining hash power is currently voting to support 8 MB blocks. << jesus fuck look at these idiots, didn't skip a beat
mircea_popescu: not entirely inconceivable. and if you take the other half and pretend materials are free and you get billed for construction work at 50 an hour, that's about six weeks worth of a 12 man team's work.
mircea_popescu: something like half a mw, give or take.
asciilifeform: not to mention the fact that au is a kind of proving ground for fresh usg idiocies, with simplified bureaucracy, desaparecido without so much as a squeak
Adlai: at least it's not a brainwallet
williamdunne: If you're gonna be into crapcoins, might as well do it on a simple platform like shapeshift
williamdunne: Eh, shapeshift seems pretty well executed from a customer perspective
williamdunne: Use a bank statement with the other bank, to open account with the bank who wants to work with us
williamdunne: "You need proof of address, like a utility bill or bank statement to open an account in the company name"
williamdunne: "It's a new company"
williamdunne: Recently I had the pleasure of having a legalized translation done
williamdunne: shinohai: corporate stamps are still a thing
williamdunne: bank has notarized + apostilled documents certifying GPG key owned by me. bank uses GPG. bank requires documents to be signed in front of a notary and apostilled and won't accept GPG signatures. wao. fiat word sux
punkman: I've never seen such a thing before
punkman: went to the bakery, was thinking about buying a donut, then a cockroach looked at me through the donut hole
fluffypony: that's a loooot of money
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1235195 *yawn* just how do you enforce a judgement on a degenerate like garza? ☝︎
punkman: "Lipkin also agreed to give up a vacation home in Delray Beach, Florida as part of his plea deal, but he was allowed to keep another home in New Jersey, his stamp collection and another Red Skelton painting."
punkman: "Irwin Lipkin, 77, agreed he owes the government a Rolex watch, a well-known painting by Red Skelton and $170 billion cash on Monday, and was sentenced to six months in jail Wednesday"
asciilifeform: (one can debate whether it is proper to speak of a millikan in a subject without experimentals, like mathematics. but overall anybody who fogs brains with his auctoritas while even in the grave, is a millikan)
asciilifeform: almost a pons asinorum for basic literacy in $subject - 'name the millikans.'
asciilifeform: 'One of the juicier scientific scandals of recent times involves Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel, who admitted to fabricating many of his research results. A full list of Stapel's falsified articles hasn't been published, but the titles of some of his articles (some of which may not be tainted) offer insights. The article that outed him was "Coping with Chaos: How Disordered Contexts Promote Stereotyping and Discrimination.
assbot: Spargatorii si curva on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UBZaVo )
mircea_popescu: or at least a story on my blog tends to support this theory.
asciilifeform once visited a shop, not far from home, which sold gigantic safes. most of the pre-owned units were from pharmacies, and some had catalogues of the contents still glued to inside of door
mircea_popescu: you'l lhave to get it at a major hospital.
mircea_popescu: (if anyone is curious - yes the pharmacist tested me. he asked "what dosage ?" and i said uh... 100... maybe 50, no, not really. 80 ? turns out he had 60, 90 and 120. because 50 is not really quite enough and 100 is maybe a little too much, but if those are the options go for 100
mircea_popescu: for their effectual purpose, good for a decade or more.
asciilifeform: the FBI has caught you downloading illegal material, you don't have a clue what to do. ... ... Most Americans are like that, kept alive and prosperous only through the exertions of people more productive, inventive and generous than they are. The productive view them not so much as loathsome insects, as puppies who will eventually go to the pound if they pee on the rug too often.'
asciilifeform: r people. Your illnesses are treated by people who speak a language you don't understand and who give you little nondescript pills containing who knows what? Everything in your house connects to outlets in the wall that supply electricity created by processes you don't understand. You are reading this on a device that might as well be populated by fairies for all you know. And when something pops up saying you have a virus or
asciilifeform: 'You eat food you didn't grow and in many cases have no idea where it came from or what it looks like in nature. You rely on elaborate machines to get you places, but have no idea how they work. If your car stops, you have no idea what went wrong or what to do to fix it. In many cases, there is nothing you personally can do. To travel long distances you get into a big flying tube that leaves you completely at the mercy of othe
mircea_popescu: maybe that's a giveaway
mircea_popescu: it makes no sense outside of "a collection of fetishes liable to drive a 60 yo protestant dude with money"
mircea_popescu: (housewife wants money to get sex change operation to earn money to start a business)
mircea_popescu: definitely a new one.
mircea_popescu: "hola nos quedamos sin trabajo mi esposo y yo y busco ayuda economica a cambio de sex para asi poder ahorrar algo y poner un negocio soy ama de casa no modelo ni profecional en esto soy bajita 36 años"
mircea_popescu: "More specifically, nobody wants a meritocracy based on actual accomplishment. What both camps really want is a meritocracy of values, that is, an aristocracy in which position is dictated by attitude and conduct."
mod6: where i live these things are not just a nuisance like in .ar, but ubiquitous
nubbins`: i think that was a lens flare
mod6: <+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes ? mod6 ? any of you went home with mosquito bite ? << heheh. i might have gotten a bite or two. i paid them back ~10x iirc.
asciilifeform is reading these words to the tune of a million actual mosquitoes. somehow appropriate
asciilifeform: then to herr dutch you are a dragon and don't exist
mircea_popescu: i am not a person in the sense of this rootless, hopeless lotus floating on a sea that somehow is owned byu "the state".
assbot: Steve Dutch: Forget Third Parties: We Need a Fourth Party, (And Why We Won't Get One) ... ( http://bit.ly/1JTpDdY )
asciilifeform not a shrink. but, on reflection, has seen this before.
mircea_popescu: also a few jews with the same odd behaviour.
mircea_popescu: but i mean... sure, he's uppity. i have yet to see a sign of intelligence.
asciilifeform: but apparently he's somewhat of a... catholic apologist, in the old school.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you dig, dig, turns out herr dutch has a little seekrit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i rarely get to read folk who at the same time seem able to find their way out of a paper bag and actually believe obama similarly could.
pete_dushenski: "Out there in the real world, none of the disasters their party predicted have actually come to pass. President Obama just keeps failing to fail. And that’s a big problem for the G.O.P. — even bigger than Donald Trump."
pete_dushenski: sounds like a krugman term
mircea_popescu: strangely enough, the dsm-ud did not have a heading for "bush-reactive psychopathy"
assbot: Steve Dutch: Too Dumb to Run a Lemonade Stand ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXHmM5 )
mircea_popescu: nm back now. i swear it was dead for a coupl;a minutes
asciilifeform: [insert the take about a girl walking by plumber in geyser of shit]
mircea_popescu: not even a weapon. they also don't craft houses, or water pipes.
mircea_popescu: "Mostly it's laziness (or shallowness) and an attempt to seize the moral high ground. It's hard to defend specific issues when you're confronted by someone who simply rejects your basic premises. How do you find out what lines of argument they would find persuasive? (Hint: ask them. Say "what exactly would you accept as proof that I'm right?" Most of the time they don't have a clue, because most people only think about
mircea_popescu: "In fact, most people are out of their depth in a mud puddle."
asciilifeform: mats: iirc inria had a cycle-and-cache-accurate x86 emulator. might be up your alley. ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'SABR is seeking engineers with deep interest and experience in blockchain-based technologies who are prepared to devote their career to making a positive impact while being continuously intellectually challenged.' << am i the only one who sees a second parse for this sentence ??
asciilifeform: (or is it a 'little fleas' situation?)
asciilifeform: in other non-news, steve dutch (of 'anti-intellectualism' and madagascar essay, etc) is back. with a couplea new lulz, e.g., https://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/IssueNeverIssue.HTM ; and even a blog of sorts, http://stevedutch.blogspot.com
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the magic moment is the part where you go "and yet unlike every other bucket of lick-a-squid shit, the maker of this one was clearly aware. wtf ?!?!"
asciilifeform: where you realize 'this is a bucket of liquid shit'
asciilifeform: phf is in for a treat
pete_dushenski: i just might have to take a crack at brazil myself then
Naphex: mike_c: i was just about to go to sleep but shoot me a privmsg tomorrow
phf: according to bitcoin script documentation "Some of the more complicated opcodes are disabled out of concern that the client might have a bug in their implementation" (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script). an example of disabled script OP_CAT, Concatenates two strings
pete_dushenski: o good god hal looks like a street corner fallel stand operator
Apocalyptic: kakobrekla, thanks, can you provide a sha256sum of the file ?
nubbins`: while i do own a full-body wolf suit, i've never had sex or masturbated while wearing it
trinque: your client's a furry, dude
nubbins`: so i had to download a font yesterday for a client project. txt file in folder says "this font was created for the first ever european furry convention"
nubbins`: it's nice to exercise the fiber, even if it seems a bit slow
nubbins`: been a while since i tried a mystery-viewing
gribble: The Fetlife Meatlist - Volume I on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2015/the-fetlife-meatlist-volume-i/>; Further Argentine weird. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2014/further-argentine-weird/>; The Fetlife Meatlist - Volume VI on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2015/the-fetlife-meatlist-volume-vi/>
pete_dushenski: wonder if mp's done a review
pete_dushenski: .mkv eh. now to find a player for this guy.
assbot: Official: Ex-Top Gear team sign a deal with Amazon Video | Autocar ... ( http://bit.ly/1JTgGl5 )
trinque: lol @ moore having a home gym
pete_dushenski: liking the gym space but junky equipment needs a refresh
assbot: 121 results for 'moore' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=moore
kakobrekla: ill move to another boxen and leave link in public for a short while.
kakobrekla just saw a 1990 movie 'Hardware', subtitled 'you can't stop pr0gr355'
shinohai: And I just got delivered a fifth of some kind of brandy.
trinque goes to code in a van down by the river
mircea_popescu: there was also a circassian one presumably.
gernika: BingoBoingo was there not a Nubian dynasty that ruled Egypt at some point? Apparently lasted 75 years?
mircea_popescu: more like making them come out to him being a parasite.
shinohai: It's a broad statement.
mircea_popescu: they even had statal support for a while.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, thjere's a contingent of deranged romanians who believe zamolxis taught the romans to read.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> mircea_popescu: this particular delusion is known to have originated with a particular academitard, but his name escapes me << Actually harder to pin down. Variations had been going on in Black Christian circles since the early 1800's at least, but Nation of Islam really brought this crazy to the mainstream
mircea_popescu: anyway. a truly very liberal gent.
mircea_popescu: the island 50 miles off the coast which you can see on a clear day, but which the mud packing philosophers and astrologo-mathematicians of a certain complexion failed to find,
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this particular delusion is known to have originated with a particular academitard, but his name escapes me
trinque: doesn't sound like a very sharp guy if you ask me
trinque: I can feel a consensus building already
mircea_popescu: anyone care to appreciate my validation so we can make it a social media ?