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mircea_popescu: we find from
a commenter : TheyFit have developed 95 different sizes of custom fit condom [and] hope to revolutionise the industry.
mod6: mthreat: Currently, we're about to head out to an ice-cream shop -- we'll be walking there. If you hvae hanbot's number, give her
a ring. :]
funkenstein_: meanwhile the people who actually know how to do it are quietly putting
a bird in the sky every two weeks
mod6: ascii, davout and I are going to walk around and get
a cup of coffee. will be back to redacted hotel lobby by 2pm for sure.
davout: mod6: i'll be down in
a minute
mod6: Buneos dias, #b-
a :]
ben_vulpes: side note: your darpa shit is
a *liability*.
ben_vulpes: until someone from rocket lab usa shows up here, keys up here, and answers grilling asynchronously i claim this no more impressive than
a bitcointalk forum scam. hashtag electron rocket lab usa
ben_vulpes: aside from this not being
a thing historically, how does "no mixing in combustion chamber" work with "lol checkout our sweet CF LOX tanks bru"
ben_vulpes: man i am
a) not sober enough for this shit that appears to be really dumb without supporting evidence and b) what the shit
assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 14:35:10; davout: they're looking for
a remote senior rails dev
mircea_popescu: and has been going around ever since prtetendinglike it's "
a company" and "tech"
mircea_popescu: from what i hear this thing exists in the terms that the derp "in charge" hired some indians off fiverr to make him
a fb clone, paid fiddy bucks
davout: they're looking for
a remote senior rails dev
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 10:29:40; mircea_popescu: dun think
a half-marketable chick exists west-side that doesn't have her little court all through hs.
BingoBoingo: The way
a drug like this get priced is $maxint
BingoBoingo: Basically
a type of lung cancer... pretty well beaten and whay has computer science done this decade?
mircea_popescu: <yang> maybe
a short intro/description wouldn't hurt on the website... < notrly open to the general public.
yang: maybe
a short intro/description wouldn't hurt on the website...
fluffypony: yang: it's
a chat room, initially the purpose was to discuss Bitcoin-based assets (eg. stocks and securities)
mircea_popescu: lol naw. tho stan doth have
a way with the gypsy girls.
davout: "doctor, my wife takes herself for
a fridge, it's very problematic!"
davout: mod6: but, what was your first thought when not seeing
a light switch in the closet?
assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 05:20:33; ascii_lander: ben_vulpes: 'Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strong, / Fareweel, Fareweel tae thee. / MacPherson's time will nae be lang / On yonder gallows tree. / Sae rantin'ly, sae wantonly / Sae dauntin'ly gaed he / He played
a sprig and danced
a jig / Below the gallows tree.' (™) (R)
mircea_popescu: dun think
a half-marketable chick exists west-side that doesn't have her little court all through hs.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 03:58:19; assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 02:31:01; Citizenfive: It's not
a grand conspiracy of course; there are no reptilian overlords, but the state of things is curiously perplexing.
ascii_lander: 'I've liv'd
a life of sturt and strife; / I die by treacherie: / It burns my heart I must depart, / And not avenged be. / There's some come here tae see me hanged / And some to buy my fiddle. / But before I do part wi' her / I'll brak her thro' the middle./ He took the fiddle in both of his hands/ And he broke it o'er
a stone./ Says,"There's nae ither hand shall play on thee/ When I am dead and gone."'
Citizenfive: hang on, I'm gen'ing
a keypair so I don't contribute to you fags' carpal tunnel every 30 minutes
ascii_lander: ^ there is
a top-octane ru translation of this i was taught as
a boy
ascii_lander: ben_vulpes: 'Fareweel, ye dungeons dark and strong, / Fareweel, Fareweel tae thee. / MacPherson's time will nae be lang / On yonder gallows tree. / Sae rantin'ly, sae wantonly / Sae dauntin'ly gaed he / He played
a sprig and danced
a jig / Below the gallows tree.' (™) (R)
☟︎ ascii_lander: mircea_popescu: … asks what happens if there's nothing in
a box. "well... there'd be air" "no, not even air"…. "so then
a vacuum" "no, not even vacuum" << my brother tormented me with this 'what-if' when was
a boy
Citizenfive: if the threat model includes USG, at the DPR-severity level (Senators declaring war on you — see Schumer etc
a couple years ago), only compartmentation will save you (maybe)
Citizenfive: Bitcoin is small, but due to financial incentives is highly scrutinized. That's
a good way to do it, but no one does
Citizenfive: Well those are among the most widely used and studied things in all of cryptoland. Vs. everything else, i.e. some arbitrary piece of FOSS something. Stuff like Tor is what gives everyone
a false sense that everyone is all over everything in FOSSland
ben_vulpes: "Open Source" as
a measure of quality is bullshit. Many eyes don't see squat. It's orthogonal AT BEST to quality ( probably actually negatively correlated ) << tell
a kid about it
ben_vulpes: i'm too much of
a derp to really grok the implication of the statement, though, having failed all of my tradecraft classes.
Citizenfive: williamdunne: It's not described shortly, really...
a handful of generalists, and some unusually useful specialists.
williamdunne: ben_vulpes: It was
a joke re:
a comment on Qntra
ben_vulpes: <williamdunne> [02:56] mircea_popescu: This is trial by
a jury of your peers in the WoT << o.O
ben_vulpes: <Citizenfive> ... whatever system of governance the US has ... isn't
a good system << awh but i love it it's going to burn itself out so much more quickly than other more reasonable alternatives
ben_vulpes: Citizenfive: consider me
a rube, please, open to enlightenment. how does PFS protect you from false accusations?
ben_vulpes: you really think lizard hitler gives
a whit about what you actually say?
Citizenfive: williamdunne: of
a thing called FNXGRU. It's not clearnet.
Citizenfive: I like PFS by default, and OTR makes that happen in
a fairly frictionless way. You are of course welcome to use whatever cryptosuites you feel work best for you.
assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 02:31:01; Citizenfive: It's not
a grand conspiracy of course; there are no reptilian overlords, but the state of things is curiously perplexing.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 01:54:00; williamdunne: Citizenfive: Mircea just offered you
a rating, and
a compliment to go with it.
assbot: Logged on 17-04-2015 20:27:29; pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes but what if i wanna advertise my pgp version and its implied affiliations ? also, sorry for skipping your scoop mention in the cavirtex article, it just seemed
a little tardy to have mentioned it.
williamdunne: It was based off of the Qntra comment, although apparently the trial is based upon these characteristics: >> What do you say, Mircea? Are you
a narcissist? "Narcissist" means egotistical, self-focused, and vain.
mircea_popescu: anyway, more about this tomorro i guess, it's been
a long day. tada.
williamdunne: True, seems like
a lack of care for many could be easily misinterpreted as narcissism
mircea_popescu: Citizenfive i was just discussing
a snipped from the thing he linked
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: This is trial by
a jury of your peers in the WoT
mircea_popescu: What do you say, Mircea? Are you
a narcissist? "Narcissist" means egotistical, self-focused, and vain.
mircea_popescu: you can't seriously contemplate
a system so easy t oattack. i will attack it.
mircea_popescu: this is
a rehash of "socialism will come once people are generous", which was
a rehash of "christ will come once people are good".
mircea_popescu: nigga... say wut ?! what "lack of governance" wonder be this, of the box so empty it doesn't even contain
a vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne suppose you have
a five year old kid on your knees and she asks what happens if there's nothing in
a box. "well... there'd be air" "no, not even air"
Citizenfive: What I'm saying, if I'm saying *anything*, is that the words don't matter. And as
a word, democracy seems to have too many contradictory definitions to be especially useful as
a descriptor. If US = democracy, well, that's not good. If Switzerland = democracy, that's
a bit better, though the consensus is that beast is
a "DIRECT democracy".
mircea_popescu: there's really no alternative : either one or the other. republics fail because not enough spartans, democracies are all one because idiots are all one. cccp was
a democracy too.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne anyway, to do some positive work : democracy is the notion that what people think matters. the exact opposite of alf's favourite, "the cold equations" (which'd describe
a republic).
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: My particular complaint is that while we can evaluate who has more value in this particular system, the people with value's opinions have no more weight in process than those without. Hence
a large number of welfare whores/elderly having
a lot of influence
assbot: Logged on 18-04-2015 01:00:47; trinque: williamdunne: I think the idea is eventually to have
a full stack within the WoT
Citizenfive: literally or as
a joke ref to Bill Clinton re: "IS"
Citizenfive: Right. And so long as people accept that God wrote the Bible because the Bible says so, or
a democracy is good because
a "democracy" says so, will miss questioning what any of those things ARE.
mircea_popescu: which value you can only evaluate in
a system that's actually open to idiots.
williamdunne: Citizenfive: Any system that provides people with the ability to voice and attempt to enact opinions they are not qualified to have is
a bad idea in my books. The crowd has no wisdom, select actors with value behind them do.
mircea_popescu: well you're right in that it would try and to thew same degree succeed to masquerade as anything else, including
a teosophy.
Citizenfive: anyway I don't want to get lost into semantics; I think most here understand whatever system of governance the US has, it manages to masquerade as
a democracy, and isn't
a good system. Whatever that says about the word is less important to me.
Citizenfive: williamdunne: See! DIRECT democracy. Also an actual thing, and
a meaningful phrase. "Democracy" in REAL english just means "good" or something.
mircea_popescu: eh, democracy is
a thing, even if derpy iliterate muricans never bother to learn what the words mean. it's not gonna change what it is just because
a bunch of people have nfi.
Citizenfive: DEMOCRACY isn't actually
a thing. Not in
a meaningful sense. Hence every country is
a democracy.
A well-architected democratic republic has some neat features, for example. But democracy is kinda like an adjective.
Citizenfive: Those who notice the re-runs and recycled plots eventually wind up here, and
a few other places where such minds go
Citizenfive: Anyway I might as well register
a key so you can quit voicing me manually.
Citizenfive: It's not
a grand conspiracy of course; there are no reptilian overlords, but the state of things is curiously perplexing.
☟︎ Citizenfive: I believe there are few good English-speaking minds; those countries do too thorough
a job of taking children with potential and delivering batteries (as in, the Matrix sort) into adulthood. There are few Ender Wiggin minds left by the age of 18.
williamdunne: Citizenfive: So how was it that you found #b-
a?
assbot: Logged on 17-04-2015 23:32:14; Citizenfive: Yeah. Seemed to have
a specific reason, too. I don't expect I'm
a regular conversation topic.