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pete_dushenski: i suppose there are less useful uses for us military training than caramel frappuccinos
cazalla: unless i'm confusing him with someone else, i remember the name from an aussie forum 15 years back where one could learn to use a mcdonald's straw to get free phone calls from payphones.. amongst other things lol
pete_dushenski: decimation:re: federal employees overpaid < I suspect the whole system operates as a net with a hole - all the talent get sucked in and immediately leaves, but the bottom suckers end up 'caught' << their getting caught is like a lottery winner getting caught
pete_dushenski: then again, i'd never heard of moxie until he decided to be a retard so i dunno if he really had that much cred to begin with. i assume he was small but not insignificant
cazalla: yeah, i read the twitter discussion too
assbot: I used to dream of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I dream of a world where I can uninstall it: http://t.co/eRZ0hdlmgx
pete_dushenski: o ya, i called his ass out yesterday
trinque: my identity is as imagined as the god I used to believe in
trinque: mircea_popescu: when I became disillusioned with god and state, that involved a realization that I could feel towards myself any way I saw fit
trinque: mircea_popescu: that's an exceptionally clarifying statement, and one which I think helps me articulate the identity thing
trinque: his note got a little slogan laden, but I unerstand the grief
ascii_field: doing my job << 'i wüz ünly föllöwing ürderz'
trinque: friends and I had a little celebration that day
mircea_popescu: identity is the result of action. action requires agency. a perverse system (such as any high density population will always create) separates action from agency. ("i'm only doing my job").
trinque: seems having a name creates this bundle of "I am" in the head, which people protect as they do their own bodies
mircea_popescu: hey, you're a big player, right ? not doing anything is the default, i'm sure caesar could sit on his ass in the castrum and play dice with the centurions for three straight winters if he so wanted.
mircea_popescu: The real money, the real problem that goes unmentioned is the money that goes to universities, in the form of research grants. Biederman may have pocketed $1M, but I'm sure he was awarded much, much more for clinical trials-- money which he didn't get any of, which went to Harvard.
mircea_popescu: Believe me, I am no friend of Biederman's. But the money is a red herring. If you want to be angry about the specific ethics of a psychiatrist receiving Pharma money, fine, but I am telling you it is not worth the Senate time, not worth press space.
trinque: mircea_popescu: heh, I've always figured I'd be dragging myself out of rubble at some point
danielpbarron: I joined his google hangout one time; the guy was so flabbergasted with my position that he kept repeating explitives relating to how unbelievable it was
danielpbarron: https://twitter.com/flibbr/status/570684349152165888 @danielpbarron I have insiders in #bitcoin-assets now. I am inviting you onto the teamspeak. It'd be rude not to show your face :)
trinque: I feel like I'm going to get my startup profitable just as the roof caves in
trinque: not to derail current convos, but I finally caught up on the current events blockchain as well
jux: they just mentioned this place on teamspeak so i am checking it out
mircea_popescu: i thought they're single use ?
mircea_popescu: but i don't have a facebook account ;/
BayAreaCoins: MP do you plan on pulling the CLAM bet on BitBet or is it going to run its course? If you do cancel it I assume the coins will just be sent to the payment addresses?
ascii_field: (e.g. i get ~100 megabaud and can get 500 if paid a little more)
chetty: well I guess the usaians need to learn from the greeks how make mesh nets
chetty: well I guess they still sorta respect the 5th amendment, might be the only one left
mircea_popescu: "o hey, i refuse to testify. fu."
thestringpuller: "I want to go to the strip club" "Cannot drive to that destination"
PeterL: heh, I like that name, because when you say it MP-car sounds alot like empty-car
mircea_popescu: i should probably ycombinate a start-up to deploy tons of these in old warehouses across the us
mircea_popescu: i wonder if i could sell some cars to these idiots that are really wooden crates with lcd screen inside.
mircea_popescu: Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a very dangerous technology that really has to go away if we're serious about making it impossible for journalists, their sources, activists and other enemies of the state to survive in a NSA/TSA/ETC-only world."
mircea_popescu: "There just seems to be something particular about people who try GPG and conclude that it’s a realistic path to introducing private communication in their lives for casual correspondence with strangers. Increasingly, it’s a club that I don’t want to belong to anymore." << well... granted, eh.
nubbins`: today i learned it is legal to sell and serve dog meat in canada
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 14:39:34; lobbes: "Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a glorious experiment that has run its course. The journalists who depend on it struggle with it and often mess up (“I send you the private key to communicate privately, right?”)" << lol, this doesn't sound like a problem with gpg. I'll never understand this 'hard-to-use' argument. Just take an afternoon and learn the fundamentals!
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2015 15:20:03; mircea_popescu: the ONLY way i'd have them fighting overseas is if congress approves this plan whereby a) all territory we step on gets granted territory status ; b) soldiers once veteranized are rewarded in homesteads there, and HAVE TO marry local
NewLiberty: I don't want to know what they did to the tiger to encourage that kind of fortifying
PeterL: my brother works in the Detroit Public Schools, from his anecdotes I have little hope things will change there.
PeterL: "I have big plans, BIG PLANS!, as mayor I will accomplish AMAZING things, with your help!"
PeterL: nubbins`: I am not saying self-sufficiency, I am saying rivaling china for output. I also have no idea how one would go about doing it, just saying there are lots of people in Africa which could be used as a resource for the right person
asciilifeform: the carrot, as far as i understand, is that it looks like a great deal next to your grandfather's rotting in rice paddy
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i don't specialize in that shit.
asciilifeform: so i'd know something about.
asciilifeform: zek sharashkas is essentially the same thing as where i live now
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think this difference is spurious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is simply what usg... is << i actually have a more psychotropic theory. basically, on some subconscious level, us knows it's become uss. and what it wants is, the validation of "well i didn't do anything useful, but at least the stupid thing i did i did WELL". this to be obtained, in the way such nonsense works, by confronting the symbolic representative thereof and "winning".
jurov: but some day i can see them going "financial service? yea we got some regulation for you"
jurov: so that i don't need to mess with eu vat
jurov: i can see them trying to. only by sheer luck is what i'm doing covered as "financial service" atm
jurov: lol, like one can speculate i have created coinbr to preemptively get down on nsa or some such
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "diddlematics" << i never figured kako for a collaborator...
danielpbarron: i think my comment was something like "It's possible to achieve 'Perfect forward secrecy' with GPG; you're just retarded. And if it isn't brain damage, I can only assume you have been enlisted on to lizard hitler's payroll"
asciilifeform: again, i'm 'selling this for same price as bought'
PeterL: "The best way to go is probably fixed fee + per line fee or something." I like this, encourages less LoC bloat
danielpbarron: huh, i think he deleted my comment
asciilifeform: i suggest that everyone check their server logs for these clowns
asciilifeform: ot about Convergence. Years later, I had to abandon DoNotTrackMe (by a Moxie-run company, Abine) nee 'Blur' for Ghostery instead when the former got an update that kept hogging the CPU. An email to Abine just yielded a response to keep updating Blur, but the problem never went away.'
asciilifeform: 'I simply asked him -- in a private email -- if there was a signature for Convergence someplace because I didn't see any online. He accused me of being "inflammatory" and stated it was necessary to "take a leap of faith" (i.e. download and run it without verification). This was back in 2012, mind you. He appeared to be oddly anti-PGP back then, too. Frankly, after that I had no appetite for any more of his, erm, style and forg
mike_c: fine. i will deduct two points from his wot rating in my head. that's too bad.
mircea_popescu: why would anyone still receive him after something like this i dun understand ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun see it.
mircea_popescu: were i putin i'd put something in pravda.us "Kerry is so inept I would fire him if I ran the US."
mircea_popescu: decimation: "Oh I'm totally an awesome diplomat, look at my years of usg experience!" << this lol.
mircea_popescu: actually, i recall mentioning here that "wtf, this guy publicly takes pride in having lost his gpg key ?" a while back
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: cement << the relevant line is from ru poet vysotsky, 'Я тебя не трону, а душе зарою. И прикажу в залить цементом, чтобы не разрыть.' -- 'i won't touch you, but in my soul i'll bury you, and order cement poured so as not to ever dig up'
bitstein: asciilifeform: What I posted was the important part.
mike_c: asciilifeform, why have you always had slight revulsion? I used to think better of him, but this article is useless. poorly written rant with no suggestions.
bitstein: thestringpuller: I liked Pierre's comment: "Everything must be candy crush UX with JavaScript." https://twitter.com/Pierre_Rochard/status/570412801908477952
asciilifeform: i've had a mild revulsion for him for as long as known about him
thestringpuller: bitstein: re: gpg << "GPG is not what consumers have come to expect" is what I'm seeing here.
assbot: Bitcoin Foundation run-off voting - I just went through the process and here to help : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/17Xy5sj )
jurov: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2x3s8h/bitcoin_foundation_runoff_voting_i_just_went/
bitstein: ^ That was the tweet I was responding to, not my own.
assbot: I used to dream of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I dream of a world where I can uninstall it: http://t.co/eRZ0hdlmgx
bitstein: I got into it with moxie on twitter: https://twitter.com/Bitstein/status/570366873633566720
lobbes: "Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a glorious experiment that has run its course. The journalists who depend on it struggle with it and often mess up (“I send you the private key to communicate privately, right?”)" << lol, this doesn't sound like a problem with gpg. I'll never understand this 'hard-to-use' argument. Just take an afternoon and learn the fundamentals! ☟︎
mats: i am really disappointed in moxie
danielpbarron: lol i just sent some MEAT to that address
danielpbarron: gmaxwell> So if you want to block Olivier Janssens from getting approved; for example get miners to just block payments to 1MG6SSwK2qSASM2QgBez2g4YFe3ib4d2eL. << ah that's why i saw so many doublespends in my debug.log
Vexual: Free passage for the masses I say
fluffypony: I had to use gpg2 to recv-keys today, because gpg refused to (import filter bug)
BingoBoingo: gmaxwell: I'm just inclined towards giant RSA keys and presenting a hard problem. It's just I'd like the option. That and ECC is already keeping the money safe...
gmaxwell: BingoBoingo: not sure why you'd fault that. Any _general_ improvement in ECC pretty much directly translates into an improvement for factoring; the converse is not true. And all the alternative schemes for _encryption_ have high overheads and complex security stories (though one could use two cryptosystems in parallel intelligently for long term security; I tried arguing for that w/ openpgp years
gmaxwell: yea, well, I've given up yelling "get off my lawn" at people, seems the whole world wants to eat suppositories and other such acts of brillance; my patience in telling other people that they're wrong mostly ran out years ago.
fluffypony: I like GA for the interwebs, it's easy to block if you don't want to be spotted by it
gmaxwell: I like how this ubersecure voting application embeds third party JS in every page (google analyitics); thats exactly how you go about building secure election and finance software. yup.
gmaxwell: This channel isn't usually to my taste, but I knew some here would appricate this latest BCF lolspectacular.
thestringpuller: gmaxwell: now that is a name I have not seen in a long long time.
gmaxwell: looks like for each voter they fund them with 0.0021 BTC (and some amount of 'counterparty' altcoin, I dunno how to tell how much)
gmaxwell: yea, I actually thought there work there more or less made sense; it had some liability (since they couldn't seem to resist letting people think they 'spoke for bitcoin') but it generally seemed to be going okay. Mostly burning pointless peoples pointless time, sure; but it was nice having _someone_ in combatting all the really agressive fud that some 'bitcoin alternatives' are slinging.
BingoBoingo: I mean they were not doing too bad when they were just burning various agencies' time, but then they just pivoted and stopped doing that
gmaxwell: I also like that contacting Jinyoung Englund to report how buste things are, gets me a "I am out of the office Weds, February 25 through Sunday, March 1, 2015"
gmaxwell: At the moment it seems all you can do is vote in favor of Olivier Janssens (thats why I'm able to see the address there), the rest of the options are coming up as "not available yet"
BingoBoingo: I am astounded at all of the ways they manage to keep screwing this election.
gmaxwell: (the site is so broken that I'm having a hard time extracting addresses for the other options)
ben_vulpes: i