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mircea_popescu: it doesn't work, but then again neither did whatever the "hacker team" was doing, so...
mircea_popescu: but hey, italy isn't a part of africa, populated by first-generation-in-shoes subhuman horde. they got like technologees and shit. can spam like teh pros!
mircea_popescu: in other lolz : 164.132.48.48 is at ~70k loads of trilema.com/xmlrpc.php over the past 3 days. comes to twenty a minute or some shit.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i thought they moved to some uk incubeator ?
mircea_popescu: * NejcKodric (54ffd749@gateway/web/freenode/ip.84.255.215.73) has joined #bitcoin-assets << was that the bitstamp dood ?
mircea_popescu: "oh im here at the bottom of an ocean of air exerting 100kpa on my every limb, i can scarcely move!!1"
mircea_popescu: once you accept that human life is definitionalyl worthless, and ESPECIALLY that of those people you care about (chiefly - your own), uncertainity is no more threatening than atmosphere is overpowering.
mircea_popescu: this, for the record my dear lord mats , is entirely a constructed, deliberate neurosis. there is nothing paralyzing about uncertainity in se. the paralizing bit, much like the horse's bit, or the nail in the grenade, is the expectation of maximal outcome, often doublespoken as "responsibility", and generally internalized as "self respect" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: Mircea Mircescu paid for Mircea Popescu's coffee this morn!
mircea_popescu is really digging this virtual employee thing. leave the poor player overnight, come back to more riches!
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : i just used ~4mn satoshi worth of Eulora stuff to dig up ~7mn worth of Eulora stuff. I just earned 3 bitcents off virtual mmorpg economy this morning, on top of everything else!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> the 'if we close our eyes, mircea_popescu won't exist!' orchestra is a fountain of lulz <<< i'm totally making cocktails with water from there. makes the girls all giddy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm a promiscuous sort what can i tell you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a system catching up with it, too.
mircea_popescu: the 1/2 figure is more 2000era tho. they're better now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's been a lot of progress with fine meshes or w/e, but i'm pretty sure they still didn't manage to catch up to li ion
mircea_popescu: that's what makes these things iffy. gotta let the proponent state it whenever it's such a case.
mircea_popescu: i'd like to read how the lower bound claim is constructed.
mircea_popescu: you hate with an enduring passion rare in humans, mr alf.
mircea_popescu: let's leave it at "property is a complicated thing" then.
mircea_popescu: that's how malta was originally acquired from the monarch of sicily.
mircea_popescu: under the sole payment of a falcon; which every year, on the Feast of All Saints, shall be presented by the person or persons duly authorised for that purpose, into the hands of the Viceroy or President, who may at that time be administering the government, in sign and recognition of feudal tenure; and having made that payment, they shall remain exempt and free from all other service claimable by law, and by custom per
mircea_popescu: wer of life and death over males and females residing within their limits, and with the laws, constitutions, and rights now existing amongst the inhabitants; together with all other laws and rights, exemptions, privileges, revenues and other immunities whatsoever; so that they may hereafter hold them in feudal tenure from us, as Kings of both Sicilies, and from our successors in the same kingdom, reigning at the time,
mircea_popescu: "we grant, and of our liberality we bountifully bestow upon the aforesaid Very Reverend Grand Master of the Religion and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, in feudal perpetuity, noble, free and unencumbered, our cities, castles, places and islands of Tripoli, Malta and Gozo, with all their cities, castles, places and island territories; with pure and mixed jurisdiction, right, and property of useful government; with po
mircea_popescu: let them use it for as long as they pay you the rent ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, currently afaik most of the us runs on the barbaric title-deed mechanism anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's not yet established that "land ownership" by the torens method has any room in the future.
mircea_popescu: not a matter of word picking, i'm just making the point that there's no benefit for the new lord importing the old gunk.
mircea_popescu: it's more obsolete than democracy / marriage / working the fields with your hands.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in fairness he prolly never actually met something like this yet.
mircea_popescu: make clean is what you do when you dunno wtf went wrong.
mircea_popescu: no mains current in this part of town since midday, kako
mircea_popescu: massive lightning strike bout quarter mile away, took my inverter clean off.
mircea_popescu: i'd guess about 100mm fallen so far, 5ish per minute or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, it's been raining like the end of the world in buenos aires, i fully expect the downtown to be under water in the morning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'make clean' should not delete motherfucking tarballs of deps THAT WILL NEVER CHANGE EVER <<< make clean should wipe the whole thing, that's the idea
☟︎ mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform wonders if the buildscript could become a makefile one day << afaik this was broadly tyhe plan, at least at first
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, THAT machine igot a sighup 10 minutes ago, and bitcoind is still running on it. so... wtf.)
mircea_popescu: and i sure as fuck ain't doing basic science for the sake of science on it.
mircea_popescu: do not expect me to know how unix runs. the authors gave up.
mircea_popescu: and to round up : the other one, testing a (slightly older) 99996 keeps dying like a little bitch, so it's behind
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking exercise is precisely and strictly ABOUT taking all the sexy out of programming. ALL OF IT. forevert.
mircea_popescu: rebase until your finger bleed. i don't give a shit how hard it is, or how you think there's more productive uses of your time.