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pete_dushenski: a precedent's only a precedent if two things are comparable.
asciilifeform: d immediately and held incommunicado, under house arrest at a minimum. No doubt foreign special services would have run rampant, looking for ways to undermine the revolutionary government. This would have called for drastic preemptive measures to physically eliminate foreign spies and agents before they could have had a chance to act. And so on. This wouldn't have been a job for fluffy mini-poodles. '
asciilifeform: 'Could this have been done without any “red terror”? I doubt it. Greece is very much oligarch-ridden; even the celebrated former Syriza FM Yanis Varoufakis is the son an industrial magnate. The Greek oligarchs and the rich would have had to be rounded up and held as hostages. Numerous people in the government and in the military have a split allegiance—they work for Europe, not for Greece. They would have had to be sacke
decimation: asciilifeform: I see a pretty direct route from nazis -> baathists -> isis
asciilifeform: 'if you give Stalin a memorandum recommending that 500 priests get shot, and Stalin crosses out 500 and pencils in 1000 in red pencil, then you better find 500 more priests to shoot, or the number becomes 1001 and includes you.'
pete_dushenski: that's a bonkers number of episodes
decimation: yeah. the revolutions guy also did a 300 episode 'history of rome', he's pretty good for amateur historian
assbot: ClubOrlov: So you say you don't want a revolution? ... ( http://bit.ly/1KiMDBn )
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208512 << mircea_popescu will be pleased to learn that this part of the program has been accomplished! i, for instance, have no idea what serious disposable money even smells like from a cannon's shot away ! ☝︎
decimation: or use a credit card to buy anything
decimation: or drive anywhere with a license plate
assbot: 17 results for 'yi yi zhi yi' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=yi+yi+zhi+yi
decimation: yeah probably, not gonna happen for such a cheap board
asciilifeform: (and, iirc, a few passives)
decimation: "Check out this clip from “CBS Saturday Morning” to see how the team digitizes everything from the Spirit of St. Louis to a sitting American president." < tele-dildonics?
decimation: " "The Smithsonian receives 70 percent of its appropriations from the federal government and that amount covers staff salaries, building support and maintenance, and not much more" said Lewis. "It has been a very long time since we have been able to use the appropriations for programming, exhibits and special projects.""
decimation: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-072015a-smithsonian-kickstarter-armstrong-spacesuit.html < a new low for usg - begging for money on kickstarter
decimation: http://thepointstraveler.com/an-introduction-to-the-basics-of-manufactured-spending/ < lol there's a big subculture devoted to ripping off idiotic marketing schemes (credit card points, etc)
nubbins`: say, i'm sure someone here would know: what's the smallest amount of btc i can send to each of ~6,000 addresses in a single tx and expect to get it relayed?
assbot: A peek inside North Korea's intranet ... ( http://bit.ly/1IbaEXb )
BingoBoingo: No Cloudflare or DNS for Best Korea https://www.northkoreatech.org/2015/07/06/a-peek-inside-north-koreas-intranet/
assbot: The best auction. Ever. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1HO3vwJ )
shinohai: A bunch of old shit i guess, i dunno. I was peeking about trying to find where they keep shit.
assbot: [WTS]Bitcoin Trade Bot Website - Business-in-a-Box (10 BTC) : BitMarket ... ( http://bit.ly/1HNXCQj )
BingoBoingo: Of course, because the internet is retarded to the point "usage" numbers can't at all relate to the actual use of a thing by persons.
mircea_popescu: is there a non-fucktarded img host ?
shinohai: Hmmm....someone needs a hobby.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Most of last week actually wasn't so bad, at least 8 hours of availability a day. This weekend though
mircea_popescu: only been a week or so ?
BingoBoingo: "You've requested a page on a website (qntra.net) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, it is resolving to an IP address that is creating a conflict within CloudFlare's system."
mircea_popescu: heh it was up a moment ago.
decimation: yeah gonna have to clear a beachhead
asciilifeform: also the box is a seriously cut-down thing
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for diana_coman with note: fellow Eulorian; knows her way around a samovar
decimation: asciilifeform: have you used a markup format for directed graphs?
decimation: interesting, would be useful as a 'internet of things' device
decimation: probably less than a few hundred ma then
asciilifeform: haven't formally measured, but it worked fine from an unpowered hub with a rat's nest of crud hanging off it
asciilifeform: the hw is a bog-standard cheapo arm
asciilifeform: one can get a picture going, yes.
asciilifeform: (to be replaced with a civilized 'buildroot', naturally)
asciilifeform: decimation: it's a cut-down 'android'
asciilifeform: that ain't a 150 die on the pcb - no such animal
asciilifeform: presently wondering whether the '256M' of ram was a lie, and if so, how the thing ended up with 150
decimation: is it a 'spi' or 'rs-232 low voltage' bus?
asciilifeform: so use a reasonably young iron tip
asciilifeform: each is around the size of a printed full stop
danielpbarron: i tried a bunch, nothing worked
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 03:17:50; danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-07-2015#1207730 << i copied a few blk files over to my gentoo laptop and tried blkcut and it just failed instantly so I figured I did something wrong
asciilifeform: (i.e. there is not a 74xxxx containing six of'em)
assbot: Logged on 20-07-2015 15:05:16; asciilifeform: somebody found a bug in 'blkcut' but did not follow up re: replicating
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-07-2015#1207730 << i copied a few blk files over to my gentoo laptop and tried blkcut and it just failed instantly so I figured I did something wrong ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: and for some more lulz. tried to find some material re: 'non-outsourceable puzzles', vaguely recalled that it was an idea whereby mining pool is made impossible on account of any participant being able to undetectably claim the entire reward for himself. then learned that there is no such field, properly speaking, as 'non-outsourceable puzzles', and that it was a crackpot creation of miller (the one featured in http://trilema.
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2013 17:13:53; asciilifeform: the clockless ARM (pretty braindamaged idea, to take a classical cpu and make it clockless, but anyway) had to be designed ad hoc, avoiding industry-standard toolchains.
trinque: someone give me a shout if he disappears again
mircea_popescu: for that matter, spinoza was a lens polisher by trade. his profession wasn't "philosopher". that was his hobby.
mircea_popescu: "physical scientist" was never a profession.
mircea_popescu: like a wife and a whore : both sore in the cunt, yet not the same deal.
trinque: asciilifeform: hell I've learned a great deal being *here*
mircea_popescu: a profession's different from a fucking secret society yo.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i took this as far as i care to. gotta admit it's a fine if unpleasant argument
mircea_popescu: a profession's not an osuary.
mircea_popescu: this isn't going towards a meta-programmersclub thing is it ?
BingoBoingo: Lock kids in a room, let out once two have switched kidneys
asciilifeform: e.g., 'lock the kidz in a room and let'em out once some of them compose a passable symphony'
asciilifeform: e.g., 'lock the kidz in a room and let'em out once some of them build a plane'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: substitute in a different profession and see if the above still appears to make sense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a hackathon is actually a brilliant idea : take a bunch of kids with cs airs, strip them naked, chain them to desks and let them come out once they did something worthwhile.
punkman: "The vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits an untrusted webpage that contains embedded OpenType fonts. "
mircea_popescu: "the sample is small and not much to be said" is after all statistical analysis, perfectly adequate for a sample that is small and not much to be said.
mircea_popescu: im not looking for anything too elaborate. do a formal "here's everything" bit and i'll call it good.
mats: mircea_popescu: i can build a table for 4 (total score, number of cases), but what sort of statistical data are you looking for? the set is small and idk how you'd judge the quality of the data
assbot: So who's running the Courts circus ? on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( https://archive.is/http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/#comment-113478 )
asciilifeform: the miracast almost makes me wish i had a tv set. would plug it in, watch blockchain go
mircea_popescu: is that a def lepard album ?
mircea_popescu: i think the banana peels thing was a different one.
asciilifeform: (definitely there was a few storiez on usenet/asstr)
assbot: Logged on 15-05-2015 03:32:27; mircea_popescu: mats went to check out the courts article, seems there's quite a bit left to go before i can close & award it. http://trilema.com/2013/so-whos-running-the-courts-circus/#selection-317.0-325.66
trinque: sure, throw competent people into a room, give 'em toys, sounds great
gabriel_laddel: IMHO, hackathons are at their core a good thing - all implementations thus far have been terrible.
asciilifeform: the last time i plugged the thing into a display, i configured it to sit down on a wireless lan
asciilifeform: it's a serial port
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, mircea_popescu, jurov, et al: soldered pogo-style ttl serial probe to the 'miracast'. this yielded a straight root shell in ~5 seconds after powerup.
phf: that's an old school notion, trickster as a hero and all that, but i don't think this is that. these people are not even hustlers, i don't think there's any awareness there.
trinque: the greatest thing you can be is a 20 year old billionaire that blasted off doing something pedestrian
phf: trinque: i was at one "interview" with a guy with zero programmer experience, straight from "you can do anything!" video, we're talking "dropped out of art degree to become a waiter, but hours were brutal, so i want to become a programmer"
trinque: the concept was obviously shat by marketing people who believed in the myth of "the weekend app that made a million bezzlars"
phf: we had a better thing than hackathon. a small group of junior developers were tasked with designing a curriculum and writing tutorials for training people with zero computer skills to become rails developers. to, i shit you not, "help disadvantaged peoples".
asciilifeform: dafuq is a 'hackathon' ?
phf: it took me a while to even realize that the majority of employees had less then 3 years of programming experience, majority of managers had no software project experiences, etc. i didn't really understand until experiencing it first hand, that a large software company can be so utterly dysfunctional. and yet "we're all winners!"
gernika: phf Did you have to endure a hackathon?
gernika: That's the reason I can't work as a startup employee anymore: they want you to *believe*
phf: <mircea_popescu> fascinating what derps actually sell themselves into. gawker editorial actually thinks it's more than a branded chicken coop << from a limited experience, that seems like a sop in certain kind of sillicon-valley inspired u.s. company. a combination of "you can do anything!" with worst sort of delusions of grandeur.
BingoBoingo: Also a journey to the mind of a Windows User https://archive.is/Kq7JT
BingoBoingo: Apparently doom3.x86 is a good one
mircea_popescu: gawker does "radical transparency" don't you know. when you fuck with me you can read all about it on trilema, but it's gawker that's radically transparent. a bunch of twerps whose names nobody even happens to know. paragons in their own minds of things they don't understand, nor would understand even if they actually tried thinking about 'em.
mircea_popescu: "oh here's a backroom napkin scribbled with my protest over the culture of backroom dealing these people imported into our fine organisation of delusions of transparency. i am too stupid to understand how ridiculous i'm being. NEOTENY FOR THE VICTORY!!11"
mircea_popescu: fascinating what derps actually sell themselves into. gawker editorial actually thinks it's more than a branded chicken coop
asciilifeform: one (optional...!) to set a version string that actually displays to folks like 'bitnodes'
BingoBoingo: Not even a year and thing's now something to stand up on boxes