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BingoBoingo: I'm adding "Giant Golden Tiger driven by invisible slaves" to the wishlist.
trinque: I took aikido for a while; the teacher always pointed out that while you were using their own movements against them, you could for instance break their neck here, dislocate shoulder with a push an inch that way, etc
trinque: yeah, I'm not qualified to understand how that was perceived internally
trinque: mircea_popescu: I remember you talking about whether Stalins rust; I understand him to have succumbed to a great deal of paranoia about underlings coming after him
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm sure "they" lie, notwithstanding that "they" doesn't even exist as such outside of the sufferer's sufferances.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the steve dutch piece is funny because... "i lie" gets transmorgrified into "they lie" in such a predictable fashion.
assbot: Why I Don't Believe in Conspiracy Theories ... ( http://bit.ly/1HH7gcr )
trinque: seems to rule out what I said too. That they might have underlings use weakened crypto provides them greater control over them, and eh, if they get intercepted/caught/etc they were expendable in the first place.
trinque: asciilifeform: I think I see your point; the answer is not "yes, oops" but "Yes as a matter of policy."
trinque: put more clearly, does the thing committing industrial-scale corruption of software provide the rest of govt a reliable map of which things are unsafe to use. I'd think not
ben_vulpes: side note: that's the informal name for the infrastructure provisioning tool i wrote for internal use
ben_vulpes: man i wrote hairball a lot last night
cazalla: oh, garza never ceases to provide the lulz.. his $20 honour program was to go live today.. posts this a few days back https://i.imgur.com/1RjXbe4.png and now the day of launch.. http://blog.paybase.com/status-of-honor-program/ " As previously reported, we are reviewing with counsel the features of the Honors Program and what if any aspects of the program may require regulatory approval. We intend to proceed based upon advise of counsel and
asciilifeform: and i will say that none of the items i have worked with (and they were samples of malware, in some cases elaborately obfuscated) remotely approached the ugliness and gnarliness of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: for some years i earned bread as a 'reverse engineer'
asciilifeform: since this place is quiet, i will take the liberty to blather at length;
asciilifeform: i've been meaning to write an article on the subject of 'pseudo-open' for... ~5 yrs now
assbot: Maximilian I of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1yqXO3d )
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_I_of_Mexico#mediaviewer/File:The_Last_moments_of_Maximilian.jpg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, re maximillian : he hung of his own hand, basically. man lands in mexico at the invitation of the elite, sees the conditions of the poor and figures "hey, this shocking difference i perceive from the situation in europe is in no sense and to no degree a warning to me! the right thing to do is obviously ignoring reality and behaving according to imagination!!!"
mircea_popescu: a distinction i see no problem with. amanda hess in chains is not a women's issue, it's a stupid women's issue.
mircea_popescu: aka "i'm one of about two hundred or so otherwise unemployable idiots my age that have made a confederacy and are trying to monopolize uninteresting but cheap media writing"
mircea_popescu: "I'm a Slate staff writer. I've reported on sex, Hollywood, teenagers, media, technology, and the ladies for places like WIRED, ESPN The Magazine, NYMag. com"
asciilifeform: i could have sworn we had other folks in here who can/willing-to program....
asciilifeform: a substantially more compact but logically-equivalent mechanism is possible, i dare say
asciilifeform: i did not backport it, because didn't even think this would fly
mircea_popescu: which is why i say.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather have an oral specification to go with the codical specification.
BingoBoingo: I imagine it as a sort of Byzantium, well placed, but not really loved by anyone.
BingoBoingo: trinque: I think the Chicagoland Duchy may at sometimes though claim influence as far south as Peoria, might raid as far south as Kentucky, but doubt they wil get to St Louis with regularity seeing the problem the river represents
trinque: mircea_popescu | that place where you hear things that then restructure your perception. << I went to a shitty public institution, found it a waste of my time, departed early. I would've loved to experience such a place, glad I stumbled in here.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I was mostly interested in linking the zombie's name to the NeoBee thing yet again. There's little left in the Ulbricht case capable of being interesting until appeals are filed.
cazalla: i don't think they have for a long time xanthyos, which is why 18f_tits.jpg.exe worked so well lol
xanthyos: i don't like the concept of "apps"
xanthyos: i wonder how much the hardware itself is compromised regardless of the OS i use
xanthyos: i miss the mechanical red switch on my 286
xanthyos: got a new windows 8 machine and i really don't like what computers have become
danielpbarron: ah i see
danielpbarron: i did lol
trinque: after reading that article which mentioned the coy response I see it *everywhere*
xanthyos: http://i.gyazo.com/6c04a4bb024f02eb0cbb9f5a72f94700.png
danielpbarron: i was watching debug.log
mircea_popescu: i had hoped it may pull through, but...
mircea_popescu: i think traditional's dead.
danielpbarron: well i got asciilifeform's bastard binary working (or would anyone prefer i try traditional) on my pogoplug; still setting up an environment to build it myself (sorry i'm kinda rusty at all this)
mircea_popescu: i'd have been inaugurated president like yesterday.
mircea_popescu: trinque dude, if i could find a hundred people willing to beat up anyone in an alley on the basis of their accent in this country
decimation: I'm not implying that eastern europe sucks, what I meant was that their fortunes have changed such that they are no longer a proud empire, but instead a collection of wayward sheep
mircea_popescu: i tell you something else : teh muslims are reasonably fun to be around.
mats: i'm kidding. but no, i haven't been to south america yet
mircea_popescu: i don't hate you lol.
mats: i dun really wanna go back to asia and i worry about being able to fit in, in sudamerica
trinque: ah I misunderstood
mircea_popescu: and by east of the danube i mean west of the danube, of course
mats: i didn't mean to venture that he wanted to own more of europe
mircea_popescu: i'll bet you as a for instance that the way he sees it, the muslims taking over europe east of the danube is perfect, inasmuch as they'll do away with the feminists, transsexuals, redditards etceteras on their own dime.
decimation: mats: yeah I think we are on the same page
mircea_popescu: "i signed it, but i TOLD MOM I DUN LIKLE IT!!11"
mircea_popescu: me to jail for seven or eight years if I didn’t sign the plea agreement. The judge responded that that was not what he was asking about, so I replied that I must not understand what it means to be threatened or coerced. The judge then proceeded to lecture me extensively on politics. He carried on about why government is so important and how “taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society” and that government
mircea_popescu: After being told by the US attorney that I would be sent to jail for seven or eight years if I took my case to trial I signed a plea agreement. At the sentencing the judge asked me if anyone threatened or coerced me in any way to sign the plea agreement. When I said “Yes, absolutely,” the judge’s eyes became very wide and he asked “what do you mean?” I explained that the US attorney told me that he would send
decimation: I guess. Like, if there were anti-us rebels in mexico, I think usg would be seriously pissed if russia sent troops to support them
mats: i seriously doubt there's an actual end game, but they'll keep playing anyways
decimation: I would like someone in usg to explain to little people like me why 1) poking russia with a stick is a good idea and 2.) what possible good could come from it
jurov: i never thought it will become channel for binaries distribution
ben_vulpes: mnah i don't think that's actually going to work so well
ben_vulpes: i guess i gotta, huh
mats: but i suppose it'd be relevant to americans, today being the Superb Owl
mats: kakobrekla: whoops, i copied that message wholesale from another window. meant to share just the link.
TheNewDeal: I guess Conan has a recurring bit called "Clueless Gamer"
BingoBoingo: I haven't
mats: guess i should watch sports so i can relate to peasants...
ben_vulpes: i'll go further, PeterL, $myStatism is actually discouraged by *all* political groups.
ben_vulpes: gets blocks, barfs blocks, relays transactions. i've not heard any serious arguments for inclusion of additional functionality beyond that.
PeterL: small molecule synthesis is what I've been doing the past 3 years
PeterL: by the way, if anybody needs a chemist, I'm looking for work now
ben_vulpes: (i roast none better than myself. it's a...skill.)
ben_vulpes: who said i wanted to wade hip deep into cpp or straighten out everyones mental models
ben_vulpes: who said i wanted to!
mircea_popescu: by which i mean the rabbit.
ben_vulpes: i'm not really that bright it turns out
mircea_popescu: i took it for intentional.
mircea_popescu: you will find that cusp can be quite wide. it's like an untrained orgasmer going "i'm almost there".
ben_vulpes: the "objectification is part and parcel of having a cunt" line takes more delicacy and subtlety than i've yet cultivated.
ben_vulpes: i've been considering how to present this to the "feminists" in my vicinity
decimation: with that, I bid good evening.
mircea_popescu: i dunno who would buy a nominal cd anyway.
decimation: I would still be trading an asset for something valued in loaned-bezzlars
mircea_popescu: am i reading this right ? it's like 3 bux ?
decimation: the problem is, even if I were to purchase a house with say, gold or bitcoin
mircea_popescu: decimation the difference is negligible from where i'm sitting!!!1
decimation: i think mcd has raised their prices somewhat, not sure
decimation: no, it's like having usg pay 70 bucks for a happy mean I 'get' to eat
decimation: eh, I can borrow usg's bezzlars for 3.5
mircea_popescu: iirc that's the structure i used last time i did something like this.
decimation: I can't find good data, but it is pretty well known that usg entities purchase 30 year fixed loans
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: this humble channel. << i never thought i'd live to hear that one.
mircea_popescu: i duin recall this.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: having now sent kill $(cat bitcoind.pid) several times, i'm no longer so certain that the damn thing obeys SIGTERM.
pete_dushenski: i'm more interested in how long you can negotiate as far as a fixed rate term goes
pete_dushenski: there's no way you can get under 2% is all i'm saying