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a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 16:43 mircea_popescu: much like you know, all sorts of "rng experts" not merely do not wish, but specifically wish NOT TO examine FG. andf so on.
asciilifeform: incidentally, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-08#1667388 >> recall harrison, inventor of temperature-compensated chronometer, per http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-10#1429335 ; in other contexts mircea_popescu does not even seem to find this kind of thing objectionable, e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-06#1044115 ☝︎☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: link to 1 other than mircea_popescu's php ?
asciilifeform: ( unless mircea_popescu already has )
asciilifeform: btw, lulzily, if mircea_popescu makes the prize ~11 btc, it will be moar than the eu thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's is actually the slightly more complicated one.
asciilifeform: ( i was half-convinced that mircea_popescu did this exercise as a response to the dieharder thread )
asciilifeform: reading mircea_popescu's recipe, asciilifeform begins to suspect -- but cannot yet prove -- that no better-than-chance strategy exists for this game .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how many bits of space do you want ?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 04:22 mircea_popescu: btw @all, lemme know if you have complaints/comments re the whole b itcoin learning thing before it gets drywalled.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you'd be amazed at what gets written on the cup.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't obvious, at least to asciilifeform , that having worked as a legit surgeon for 30yrs, say, in orcland, is a serious advantage to starting illustrious butt-silicone-injections-in-back-of-truck career in oakland
phf: mircea_popescu: i thought "elites" were under the discussion, but yeah, we went in the direction of females
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: per the su pov, the stuff inside the head of, e.g., serious physicist, is 'actual goods'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't comment on ro emigres, but with su world there was a lulzy twist : 1st wave (1970s -- largely j000z!11) wrote home, 'i'ma full professor and it rocks, come on over', 2nd wave went, to discover that market -- glut, and hello cab ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-06-08 03:56 mircea_popescu: you know ? dumbass soviets were like this, and then once the 80s were over and shitholistan moved to arab world, they were like that in the 90s.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu | ooo and in other news, turkish parliament approves turkish army depoloyment in qatar. << at least someone in fiat isn't afraid to get their hands dirty.
ben_vulpes: i still gotta read through that, mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> speaking of old hardware, /me just bought a bmw 320i from 2005. << Oh my, A German!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're driving it yourself?!
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated juantelez 1 << stahp join/parting omygerd.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: neato. manual ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu collects vintage autos nao ??
whaack: and mircea_popescu if you have any advice on colón/btc interfaces or renting it would be very much appreciated
trinque: whaack: as it happens mircea_popescu lives there now.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, mama lu' stefan cel mare? lmao
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, not sure I'd have less trouble finding a man really; I get what you mean though
a111: Logged on 2015-09-14 00:35 mircea_popescu: * trinque [...] a very angry man about why what I did was below what was expected of me << for the record, i don't think very much of this entire "expectations" verbiage/bs. if you think a little about it, so would you. a) what sort of fucking powerless vulnerable schmuck lets himself get into the position of DEPENDING on a kid ? that's what you're saying. don't say that, not only is it not true it's also very stupid.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/the-failure-mode-of-abundance/#comment-122188
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you missed 0 useful
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most 'intelligence komyooniti' folx slave for a nominally 'private' org, rather than for usg in the proper sense
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if it ever were to change, ~100% of the contents of your box would barf
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'mosul' in the sense of "we're totally about to win! it's going to happen! any day!"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu is suggesting this could be another 'mosul'?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: no deepwater ports make it difficult to deliver food directly, neighbors have said "no stopping at qatar after with us"
a111: Logged on 2017-04-02 15:46 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-02#1635918 << i suspect alf has a very strong bias pro algae and anti bacteria. i'm not altogether convinced the view has any merit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: best analogy i can think of -- 'xerocopy of xerocopy...'
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu knows very well that puritan reich does not 'supply whores in paris', or even in bmore. instead it sacks inconvenient presidents, generals, etc. under the guise of 'immoral conduct unbefitting officer' for simply having been seen to fuck something
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last i heard, ideological purity was the #1 thing there. and something like 10-20% of admissions were reserved for the Officially Sad, and similar number -- for heirs of previous generation of mandarins
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik 4.x never wernered
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 16:18 mircea_popescu: lobbes what's thjat mean, they match up to 1% of your income ?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 01:27 mircea_popescu: dos is probably the last capsulable item. and it has no broadband.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-06 01:23 mircea_popescu: trinque kinda my thinking. gentoo === ubuntu, and for that matter === windows. not really better, just "different".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say moar?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 3d gpu on linux is lost cause ages ago
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you've had this tried?
a111: Logged on 2016-03-03 17:24 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/3YZ2895.txt << preliminary crib sheet
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 19:13 mircea_popescu: yeah. they got a dictionary of "+ev words", whereby if you say $word it creates +value in the mind of specific sort of imbecile.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article re this very thing
a111: Logged on 2017-06-04 17:40 mircea_popescu: bunch of old women are supposed to manage to misrepresent their trite idiocies as hip and "universal consensus", though the unlikely venue of marking reddit user groups as spam and deleting shit people said on twitter.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu wants photodocumentary, i could possibly even make one. though phf is better qualified, he goes deeper into subj iirc
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 8.5 * 10**6 / 2513.24281176 = 3382.084675713259
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: eighties/nineties pulp series; did a take on magic driven by a sugar->'power' conversion in the mitochondria; arc revolves around a few rebels who piece it together and tilt at toppling the gods; rereading to see if the genre spoof held up at all
asciilifeform: erlehmann: ftr mircea_popescu named that one
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated erlehmann 1 << new blood
sina: mircea_popescu: something dumb like "what's openbsd"
sina: mircea_popescu: do you knnow why I am here today? because earlier this week I was telling a friend about this time a crazy Romanian saved OpenBSD with a bitcoin donation
deedbot: sina rated mircea_popescu 1 << gentleman and scholar
sina: !!rate mircea_popescu 1 gentleman and scholar
sina: !!rate mircea_popescu gentleman and scholar
sina: how the fuck is it possible mircea_popescu can encrypt a msg against that key and I can successfully Hurr durr, but the OTP won't?
sina: mircea_popescu: I know I am pestering, sorry. any chance you can encrypt a doc against my key
sina: mircea_popescu: I can do a detached signature and verify the sig, yes
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated sina 1 << missed on all the things!
erlehmann: mircea_popescu also i prefer the ones that have interesting stuff to say.
sina: mircea_popescu: yeah I use it and it has proper backups
erlehmann: mircea_popescu sounds depressingly heterosexual
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i once was in a channel where the rule was that new members would only be full members if they are in the local hookup graph
asciilifeform: it's the umpteenth 'let's bolt safety to c machine by compartmentalizing processes REALLY!!11 well with proprietary iron' attempt, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chuck moore's, say.
herbijudlestoids: mircea_popescu: I believe something has been designed around this ...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated herbijudlestoids 1 << missed on all the things.
deedbot: mircea_popescu has not rated herbijudlestoids.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i think she thinks herself to be too modest. on the other hand, she has repeatedly told me she will not fuck me without me stating sexual interest, which in my experience people only do if they actually do think about fucking.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i even linked the sharpie in pooper incident to convince her of your generosity.
herbijudlestoids: hiya mircea_popescu :)
erlehmann: mircea_popescu indeed i did.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 19:23 mircea_popescu: which i suppose warrants a general warning : DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR GCC TO 5.0! SAVE YOUR COPIES OF 4.X AND PRIOR!
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 14:12 mircea_popescu: i suspect the idea is that systems which require something like make are broken anyway.
mod6: mircea_popescu: just kinda takin a look at things, nothing in particular. educational.
asciilifeform: i suppose mircea_popescu is posting from parallel universe where 1917 didn't happen
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja ever determine why in cr 'naive', but in ar 'militant idiotic' ? is the idiocy-ray emitter in antarctica, or wat
asciilifeform: i'd suppose that mircea_popescu is there for the good weather, not for the company of tree-dwellers
asciilifeform: looks like mircea_popescu's intel is a little out of date..
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 02:15 mircea_popescu: his answer ? exito. (success).
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> whole piece needs a re-read, lotta e2l weird in there. << re-read v1
a111: Logged on 2017-06-02 03:26 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whatddayamean 'bed always within physical reach'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whatddayamean 'bed always within physical reach' ☟︎
BingoBoingo: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/3x8Or/?raw=true
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linux seems to have a problem with >7 usb-tty devices -- but this ain't asciilifeform's fault
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:36 mircea_popescu: this i suspect is generally the case, if an item doesn't contain deadly possible states it is more properly a toy than a tool.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:43 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663769 << yet procreation works whether you wash your dick or don't. scandalously, it seems it actually works better if you don't.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:37 mircea_popescu: in any case, the problem of the 110/220 swich is not, to this day, solved.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-31 15:36 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-31#1663763 << this i'm affraid is wishful thinking. consider the simple case of the 110/220 volt switch on most desktop power supplies. it... does contain such a state, as part and parcel of why it even exists in the first place.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu certainly, i was referring to a different person that claimed a computer can not work with “a → b … and also, a is false” or something like that
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, after writing that i recalled gossipd design and intentions (need to generate a lot of keys, and if it takes a month - so fucking be it)...
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i believe linley is creative and knows his theory. but no one ever asked him to clean up his code.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu i never heard of eulora. earn BTC for playing games?