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mircea_popescu: ascii_field btw, am i getting a letter here ?
gabriel_laddel: outside of the communism thing, I'm unaware of them being generally stupid, failing to create and maintain civilization etc.
gabriel_laddel: I flipped through an ACM mag that was lying around the house and see an employment advertisement for the NSA on the back - "The NSA is an equal opportunity employer", and it names some specializations they're interested in, including "quantum computing" and "discrete mathematics". I visit the websitef, because lolwtf and find this:
trinque: I considered things like "key/deed pulling guy can't see btcd's RPC"
trinque: dunno, is this going to be the target of hax at some point? I wrote it as though it would be
trinque: I wanted to write this in part to see that I could accomplish the "keeping it online" bit
trinque: I was thinking it'd be appropriate for it to announce when the tank's getting low
trinque: I'm gonna make this thing real nice; I have more time this evening available for it
trinque: ah I meant in regards to the domain limiting
trinque: I can get behind that
mircea_popescu: and here i thought he was dead
gabriel_laddel: I was doing some work, came across a video of derps derping at Von N. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLbllFHBQM4
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: making a human do grep's job. i iz disappoint.
trinque: I have gone ahead and published that first one
mircea_popescu: oh i c.
mircea_popescu: so i wanna put this thing into deedbot
mircea_popescu: in the "double take of today" revue, i hire lawyer, he invites me by his office, sends address, it's on... Pringles Street.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> i don't think even reagan would have considered - considered! mind you - trying for a free market in army services.// its not a free market he is trying its a crony market
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel yeh, i see it.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the point I originally made is that they're not funding people to convert .pdfs etc. becuase thats not the kind of people they are. I shouldn't have sent 19:04, it adds nothing to the conversation.
mircea_popescu: i don't think even reagan would have considered - considered! mind you - trying for a free market in army services.
mircea_popescu: but as a side point : for all the fixed ideas in the electoral population about what the labels "republican" or "democrat" mean, i would like to point out obama is by far the strongest believer in free markets the white house has had in a long time.
mircea_popescu: "you see this supermodel/actress/whatever ? i fucked her for dinner when she was 15. think i should go talk to her ?"
mircea_popescu: i suppose we should start selling subrsciptions to the logs for the join chiefs of staff
mats: i suspect they couldn't amass enough willing troops
mircea_popescu: seeing how there's nothing in the past six hours... yeah, i guess they got raped.
mircea_popescu: i find it kinda funny that they chose to eschew silbert's efforts, but who knows what the fuck's going on in the lizard brain.
gabriel_laddel: lol I dunno
mircea_popescu: i guess that's acceptable.
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2014 13:48:54; mircea_popescu: well sure. i don't propose the chinese are racially ugly.
BingoBoingo: I I recall correctly you azn chick whining happened at least once around the time you elaborated on why Islands suck
gabriel_laddel: Anyways, this is what I have in mind when I say "new format" - and no, I don't think the 'adults' would be happy about a program that converts arbitary PDFs into this sort of program, as evidenced by no bezzle barons funding Aaron Swartz's legal defense.
gabriel_laddel: ammatically accessible "new content" should be anything I wish - 3D etc.
gabriel_laddel: I should have better defined what I mean by "useful format": all the citations must be clickable, and when you click on them, they open up the linked paper, or tell you where it is located (i.e., behind a paywall). I don't want plaintext output, but rather a better format with the exact same formatting as the original pdf that allows me to click, drag-and-drop and add new content. The authors etc should all be progr
mircea_popescu: i'm burping deliciousness now.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i just ingested a quart of the world's best icecream. BEST you hear me ?
jurov: lol i remembered one denizen of Golden Lane in Prague Castle.
mircea_popescu: i seem to recall granpa churchill spinning some prime yarn bout how "and once england is defeated our realms across the sea will carry on without us"
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> i don't buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat << more importantly, isis EXISTS because it was born out of the *previous* iteration of "we didn't really get our asses handed to us like little girls, we were really AIMING to be face down, feet in the air"
asciilifeform: mod6: i have one; currently writing a netbsd kernel driv. for the nand flash
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm telling you the film is a lulzmine
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm not certain that a worthwhile picture can be obtained solely in english.
ben_vulpes: I need a primer on that period.
gabriel_laddel: Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't much of the discussion in this channel based on the assumption that usg is going to fall apart?
ben_vulpes: i don't buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat to the us (and all client states) and they desire desperately to wipe it out.
ben_vulpes: i've yet to see them achieve one thing they set out to, in my entire life of watching them ferry soldiers across the sea.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd rather leverage my wot for landing sites and refuelers.
asciilifeform: by how much, requires a very detailed study of surviving soviet literature. which i presently lack the time for. but might get back to one day
ben_vulpes: i probably didn't know enough to make it work when i attempted it.
ben_vulpes: or maybe not! maybe i'm crazy.
ben_vulpes: i still do not see a need for this wacky battery of yours.
ben_vulpes: you're familiar i'm sure with the near-disposable cessna's thrown over america's southern border, stuffed to the gills with $substance?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'well patrolled' << i'm pretty sure that 50+ sneak through for every single one busted.
ben_vulpes: but do share your design envelope, i'm very curious what sorts of requirements you're considering that require some crazy one-shot battery.
ben_vulpes: i'm more interested in single-shot and extremely cheap.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i actually found the 'igla' article while looking for... the battery.
asciilifeform: but in both cases entirely not what i was speaking of
thestringpuller: i thought other big cost in rocket was d00ds in black suits showin' up and shuttin down the studio
ben_vulpes: anyways, armsmithing for the next engagements is terribly interesting and entirely impossible to do from where i am.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the rocket described in the book is older than i am
ben_vulpes: i could make these things.
ben_vulpes: there is a reason i call this kind of document torture.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> very basic maths << so much so that even i did them in 'uni'
asciilifeform: chinese school, i see.
mircea_popescu: i eat them.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i have nfi why you imagine the userbase is important << I don't but the inevitabilibty of such an endeavor (i.e. http://qntra.net/2015/02/us-political-crisis-may-impoverish-homeland-security-department/#comment-11399), doesn't seem like a good thing
mircea_popescu: but in other news, http://i.imgur.com/kqxF9Mo.jpg
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why you imagine the userbase is important in this discussion.
cazalla: i thought it was a cardinal sin for it to be called anything other than MPEx? :P
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah i think it was bb that said we'd be lucky to turn 1% of it into reg readers
jurov: i see
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'll add that the document is in fact a textbook for detachment commanders operating the rocket
thestringpuller: if company is run into ruins (i.e. MtGox)...it is moot issue
jurov: i dunno, just asking. and don't want to tie more bitcoins for indeterminate time in D.CBSE, either.
jurov: and i'm curious why mircea thinks that won't ever happen
cazalla: i think BingoBoingo wrote that up if memory serves
jurov: maybe i miss something but D.CBSE looks attractive
thestringpuller: i see "You have 1 new twitter mention" on my phone
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: homo redditicus << can I use this in future qntra articles?
thestringpuller: CLOUD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk << at least I'm not him
mircea_popescu: i see the guy's been pouring out a coupla million words, which is more than moldbug, but i won't be bothering to actually read the shit, it's too stale.
mircea_popescu: imagine the horror of this. "i invented a machine which lets you live on for a billion years, so you can write stupid shit so that stupid people keep on powering it"
mircea_popescu: "why are you spending your time with cockroaches ?" "i kill them" "yes. but you're still spending time with them."
mircea_popescu: al ability to see through time. But death is a great evil, and I will oppose it whenever I can. If I could create a world where people lived forever, or at the very least a few billion years, I would do so."
mircea_popescu: Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death. Death is an extremely difficult technical problem, to be attacked with biotech and nanotech and other technological means. I do not tell a tale of the land called Future, nor state as a fact that humanity will someday be free of death - I have no magic
cazalla: it's one thing they did really well but i think poe made it more noob friendly
cazalla: i tried to sell orbs for btc in poe 2 years ago but noone had heard of bitcoin except 1 guy
cazalla: i didn't play much lod which from memory brought runes
cazalla: punkman: re: path of exile, i like that the economy is based around orbs (at least it was when i was playing) but i quit after my hardcore char died in lower 90s
mircea_popescu: and once i get my hands around their throats, the "facts" will be slightly divers.
asciilifeform: i did emphatically did -not- invent or design the calorimetric test
asciilifeform: incidentally, upon rereading last night's log, i must publish a correction
mircea_popescu: i have no guarantee that this goes into the... canon, or w/e, fanon-type-45345
mircea_popescu: but have i just forked "the world" ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i read the foibles of al slightly differently. more as a failure to intellectually detach from usg
mircea_popescu: oh oh i c.
mircea_popescu: i dun get it.
mircea_popescu: jurov what is this anyway ? i thought some woman wrote harry potter ?
thestringpuller: I do wonder if we'll ever be able to print IC's without being millionaires or wholesalers.
thestringpuller: i have pondered the same thing myself