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Framedragger: mircea_popescu is this the link in question? http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1683142 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 23:51 mircea_popescu: Framedragger do me the favour and check if scriba has somewhere on disk a copy of the above tardstalk link content saved ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-14 06:26 mircea_popescu: oh isn't it british assrape something ? my bad then!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform but it IS cluelessness. << AHA, and it transforms it to more finessed cluelessness with actual education and practice. "Is this fasterner best attacked with ratchet, breaker bar, or impact gun"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> there have been a lot of "tape painting by fake news" events like that. mtgox printing 0's, pirate going on about how "he's going to crash btc", etc. << AHA, environment easier to evaluate back then. Time from "herd u leik BTC" to MP IS RIGHT took little time to discover. Now with all the noise discovery could probably not be made blackout drunk anymore.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i think BingoBoingo might have been ; and had his private chuckles hence. << Was waking up into personhood. Started exploring active involvement in BTC out of hunger around time of GLBSE explosion. Found fledgling TMSR early 2013, in time to use BitBet on SuperBowl.
asciilifeform: i never saw the total blindkitten helplessness described by mircea_popescu in $thread, in a male
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can even say right nao how long N! will run.
mod6: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform, tmsr~: http://www.mod6.net/ffa/from_thinair.html
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 6.023 * 10**23 * 5.3 * 10**6 * 1.6 * 10 ** -19 / 84 = 6.080361904761904E9
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 20:00 asciilifeform: oh btw mircea_popescu , a mol of k40 :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had the betavoltaic thread not long ago
asciilifeform: 2nd law, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a 400kg or so rtg, gives 100w or so.
trinque: mircea_popescu:
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no rtg will lift itself in atmosphere. for same reason as steam engine will not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's for stationary antenna
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 18:23 mircea_popescu: i am also suspicious of the 1 max 5 common best fix.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: clouds dun exist at the rocket's march height
shinohai: Certainly not thermos, champion of tardstalk free speech! (unless you are friends w/ mircea_popescu )
andreicon: hanbot: thank you. mircea_popescu: oh, it is. especially if they're yours.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-30 06:31 mircea_popescu: like the stuff discussed above re usg agency redhat, fuycking up linux. EXACTLY the stiuation of the giant ruining a chair.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform aaaand if you wish to be REALLY rattled in that vein, compare and contrast with mp giving random "bitcoin banker" wanna-bes coupla HUNDRED btc just so they can't keep the pretense up any further. << aha. scammers abound.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, mircea_popescu is good at what he does ; wheres the oposition, not.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu has more btc than sense.
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu knew that the btc would go into the hands of a monkey?! before sending?!
asciilifeform: betcha if you had him airlifted and put in a room and asked, he genuinely never heard of mircea_popescu , or bitcoin, or news from past decade.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc theo de raadt turned to rms-like 'human mushroom' thing looong ago
andreicon: mircea_popescu: had he exchanged donated btc, he did so to pay older debt
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who ? << The sciencehatesyou chick
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Your biggest fan girl is missing https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/6n3h78/tantrum_v_tantrum_opposition_to_lukejrxt_coin/
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 18:40 mircea_popescu: http://68.media.tumblr.com/2fc0db5e94b5ec60a1a6cf24f2b64ae7/tumblr_o5k91cVFvc1tgs3fno1_1280.png << this incidentally is a fine example of what i mean by http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-02#1664458 : bed-door clearance ? exactly enough to fit a standing chick, if were thin, AND NO MORE.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mine is, theoretically, also, shit dun go uphill either.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 19:00 mircea_popescu: there's a dazzling depth to these pointless shits, which is why the whole "oh i wonder why ancient people didn't spend more time thinking -- i could derive all of euclid in an evening" is so amusing.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-02 00:20 mircea_popescu: no power, no pumps (i live up on a hillside) and so i had the girls... fery water. from the pool, with ex-paper baskets repurposed as sacas, up the fucking stairs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno that anybody actually, in earnest, sits and 'learns to empathy', it's a signalling scamola
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aka bonsaikitten
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 21:07 mircea_popescu: phf "they made it an error to locally shadow cl package symbols," is this direct centralism then, "we own the names in your machine -- not you" ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 20:41 mircea_popescu: and yet i'll remember the djb urchin cocksucker long after i've forgotten the djb mathematician. for that matter petain was a very respectable military officer. in world war i. possibly a higher caliber than anyone else in the ifeld then. and ?
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, re core: disease/old age can eat out a person's core in more than geometrical sense; do you mean that any person who didn't die core-intact basically had no proper core to speak of?
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, myeah; thing is rust eats out core until there's nothing left but that's not to say there was just powder to start with; or in any case, not in any other sense than "it's all powder"
phf: mircea_popescu: considering that i oversee a handful of web developers, while barely working myself, the joke about "he fell from the guard tower" is very apropos :o
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it's anything like aws, it gives you 2 ( and external ip for ssh only if you ask nicely )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and certainly not on the classic port.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it's a microshit vm it won't answer to ssh , now would it.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated andreicon 1 << believe it or not, " do php development for an insurance company in eastern europe" is a direct quote.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it ain't as if modern people spend moartime thinking..
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Cicisbeo - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicisbeo>; Cicisbeo | Define Cicisbeo at Dictionary.com: <http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cicisbeo>; Cicisbeo | Definition of Cicisbeo by Merriam-Webster: <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cicisbeo>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's a cicisbeo xn ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do use search engine
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo "which they suppose will resort from their latest" << resort dun work that way. << ty fxd
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: believe or not, there are ok cn knives
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure ipnoje ships with these
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 02:06 mircea_popescu: and speaking of the "новые высоты прогресса и цивилизации", it can't quite escape one's notice that EVERY SINGLE FEMALE of reproductive age without exception lives in this thing where the bed is always within physical reach.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: an 'oven' crystal is about a hundy.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 14:25 mircea_popescu: Framedragger so if it does not make that statement, it imports, like any research paper EVER, the following "the authors have conducted a full review of extant literature relevant to their topic, and swear that the following list is complete and correct :"
a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 15:58 mircea_popescu: i can teach sanity to rabid street urchin within months and to rachel from jewish middle class home within years.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sorta what 'fud' means neh
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 18:24 mircea_popescu: no, let's also de-equivocate think. there's two kinds of think, one's a forge/reflow/examination of trees resulting in analytical consumption of inputs with actionable outputs guaranteed ; the other is a neurotic behaviour perhaps best described as spinning, whereby specific emotional triggers / detriggers are visited in succession. the prussian model was never concerned with the former in any sense, but merely aimed to elimi
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated luke-jr -10 at 2014/07/24 17:24:17 << VERY old history of being untrustworthy. See http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2014#767750 or inquire within
deedbot: mircea_popescu has not rated lukejr.
asciilifeform much liked mircea_popescu tzuica from c2
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu's jerry can of rum
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i had an open rum bottle in the fucking back seat tho! << Bless federalism. That's some sort of attempted murder in Illinois, but "Cool, have fun kids" in Missouri
hanbot: mircea_popescu also helps that you're able to talk to cops. most people do some combo of flipping out n' whining
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> motorized dumpster! << so recently i was told a story about how this guy in ohio borrowed this car that was a dumpster on wheels -- i'll spare you all the details, but the long of the short of it is; this guy's life was saved when he was t-boned by a dumptruck on the freeway because of all the garbage in the car.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: picture, when i go fishing i dun even eat the worms along the way
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> anyway, if they found you woithj two nazi cans of fuel they'd prolly hang you. wrecking through petrol stockpiliong or w/e. << yeah, you'd think that they'd encourage people to not run out of gas, but nope. in fact, it is highly illegal to run out of gas on the freeway.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> very. << indeed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: vintage wank
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mnemonists, various stage magicians, computed respectably long arithmetizations in heads. but this d00d seems to concern with 'people'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: subj is about 'compute in their heads'
a111: Logged on 2017-07-11 22:02 mircea_popescu: every stroke is precious, every stroke is good
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 03:15 mod6: mircea_popescu: thanks for the suggestion, I shall think on it.
asciilifeform: heya mod6 mircea_popescu
sina: mircea_popescu: you made me feel better
a111: Logged on 2017-06-22 07:44 mircea_popescu: to satisfy http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-20#1672531 -- try and fuck with btc price, discover eth "price" was a joke all along.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: right but they sell it at, what , 1000x margin.
mod6: mircea_popescu: thanks for the suggestion, I shall think on it. ☟︎
trinque: mircea_popescu: meant that turning the foundation into a tax man with income tax records seems wrong-headed
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 02:34 mircea_popescu: they only get nsa-approved diddleware from privateinternetaccess.com
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 02:36 mircea_popescu: ideally it could take anonymous donations.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 02:41 mircea_popescu: yeah, i don't have an obvious pill either. but for instance for running nodes ? what do you care if it's evil. doesn't pay to evil.
mod6: mircea_popescu: aha, i see.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dba variously as usg's very own honeypot for cypher-dorks. << AHA, dedicated Thermos sodomizer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for just about any statistical test ( other than von neumann in/out proportion ) you need a buffer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: b, as i understand, isn't even physically possible without a buffer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i actually considered something that is arguably a variant of your test, when designing FG,
shinohai likes mircea_popescu 's barium enema analogy
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wtf, newswriting not dictionary boating accident << Cleanup ongoing. Probably ought to write before baking brain in heat or sleep and proofread before publishing. /me resets "Days since linguistic boating accident" sign back to 0 days
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd like to see an expanded algo for ^
a111: Logged on 2017-07-10 19:50 mircea_popescu: which incidentally brings us to a very workable and very useful tmsr definition of entropy quality : take a FG string. flip a number of consecutive bits to 1. the result is your entropy quality, such as 100/1mb if you flipped 100 bits.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: slowlybut surely, expanding the horizon of things i understand, taking the time to make sure i understand each part.
a111: Logged on 2015-01-10 05:46 mircea_popescu: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00205.html
mod6: mircea_popescu: my eyyyes
a111: Logged on 2017-07-07 18:01 mircea_popescu: if they did that sort of shit, i could almost respect artists.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aka 'path dependent'
a111: Logged on 2017-07-04 15:06 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-04#1679054 << this is a fine approach. "here's the per spec impl, here's the optimized impl. you can verify they agree wrt results ; and you can trivially verify the former is spec-accurate."