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nubbins`: nobody wants to pay me to typeset
a piece of shit for 20 hours 8)
danielpbarron: did that 0.5.3 source ever become
a book? maybe put that on the list of things I'd buy if enough people in pool
nubbins`: 5th image shows the kind of corners
a thousand-dollar book plough makes.
ascii_field: nubbins`: i routinely use 'print on demand' houses when i feel like getting xxxx in dead tree, but the result is invariably just
a little better than what i can do at home
nubbins`: if you wanted, say, even
a half-dozen copies, different story
nubbins`: truthfully it's the fact that all the setup work is being done for
a single book
danielpbarron: Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is
a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such
a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
ascii_field: it was worth
a shot. thx for the phree quote, nubbins`
felipelalli: he said they have
a "learning machine" to determine the correct interest rate, but it is
a joke don't let the free market decide its own rates.
nubbins`: ascii_field say around
a hundred bucks for issues 00-07, 8.5x11" footprint, staple-bound
danielpbarron: well it's an obvious path for them to take considering the thing is
a scam attractor
felipelalli: I was trying to convince him that don't let the users choose the interest rate is not
a good idea.
felipelalli: I said to BTCJam CEO: "mircea said BTCJam is not even
a service" he said "who is this?" and then tried to convince me "other people disagree with him"
nubbins`: let me get
a full page count here
nubbins`: sorry, just grabbed
a random issue
nubbins`: sounds like "it is worthless" is
a pretty big con.
felipelalli: nubbins`: but I would like to collect the cons arguments. I was using the service for
a while and it was nice, except the reputation system. But yes, without
a good reputation system, it is worthless. :/
nubbins`: asciilifeform you'd be looking at around $10-15 for
a softcover / staple-bound issue of this sent to your door
nubbins`: danielpbarron if you guys figure somethin out between yourselves, i can print
a batch all at once to save on setup
danielpbarron: well i don't necessarily want to design one, but if that sounds like something the other qntra writers would want, I'd like
a stack of them with my name on it if that's ok
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As
a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
☟︎ ascii_field recalls learning with alarm as
a little boy that there was ever such
a thing as
a reichsmark. 'couldn't hitler simply order shit done?'
mircea_popescu: imagine your daughter fails exams, now can't go to school. so what, you make her
a mini university out of cardboard, and while the other girls to go school
mircea_popescu: derp fucked up on bitbet, it turns out bitbet is not
a consumer venue, sales doubled that quarter.
ascii_field: 'It will be
a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold
a bake sale to buy
a bomber.' (some american derpmeister in the '60s)
mircea_popescu: the plan is of course to use it extensively on anyone related to usg, starting with the press, starting with idiot whores
a la leah goodman and idiot venues
a la newsweek
mircea_popescu: trinque hastings was born before me wtf. this is
a long life now ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: hm is this where the declining soviet population went?
a different x% croaking on the street per year?
ascii_field: Adlai: in usa, if your income nulls out you turn into
a bum generally within one business quarter
mircea_popescu: think of it in terms of particles : if muons live
a second and meons an hour, and at all times 10% of particle population is muons, then what changes does
a meon to turn into
a muon during its lifetime ?
Adlai: or is the theory that homelessness is
a stage just before death
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i had an article about how all us citizens should have
a solid expectation of being homeless eventually
ascii_field: i have
a fairly solid expectation of starving eventually
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 19:25:24; felipelalli: Depends on situation. For example: I had to spend some unforeseen money and I didn't want to climb
a mountain to get my bitcoins, so I got
a loan with
a very low interest rate.
mircea_popescu: expectations coming to allign with reality is
a measure of emerging sanity
trinque: nobody under 30 expects to own
a house anymore
ascii_field: schmuck wants to live in
a house, owes $maxint, pays interest until dies
mircea_popescu: "get an education get
a house get insurance get
a wife" etc. sure.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, everyone thinks they're speshul. but if i were
a natl bank governor i wouldn't allow the derps to borrow either.
ascii_field: (at extortionate interest, but that's
a separate question)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: speaking from the chumpatronic jail here, just about any schmuck can get at least 5 digits of loansharkamatic without breaking
a sweat
ascii_field: trinque: rng in ic is
a dead concept right off the bat
trinque: seems I'd sooner airgap
a bsd or something, but if it works it works
mircea_popescu: it is sort-of
a feature, you only get to see the noobish beginnings of people newer than you.
danielpbarron: that's
a feature! nobody wants their first words to be seen again :p
mircea_popescu: yeah i think you found
a problem that can't actually be resolved with currently available tools.
brendafdez: I was trying to see the first messages in the chan by each user. If
a user has say 50000 messages, I can't find
a way to see the pages with the earliest 45000.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2013 00:01:30; pgp3: just looked at chart... shit...
a couple hours can be an eternity in bitcoin land...
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 19:13:49; felipelalli: But it is
a nice and useful service.
brendafdez: I was searching the logs and couldn't find
a way to sort by date ascending. Tried setting the start parameter to
a value close to the total number of results, but it won't take values greater than 5000. :( Is there
a way to do it?
trinque: anybody know punkman's status? wanted to get the bot squared away with
a proper nick, then get that autovoiced
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 03:30:16; asciilifeform: also claimed to be working on
a 'military' path to sovereign moldbuggistan, which screams 'provocateur'
ascii_field: and slowly, meticulously form
a picture of who gets the red carpet to the gasenwagen and when
trinque: ascii_field: well I think I'm echoing
a sentiment I've heard from you; I wont be grabbing my rifle any time soon
trinque: michael hastings had what seems to me
a long life by most measures of govt oppression
chetty: <trinque> I'll go out on
a limb and say they're not rounding up people for derping on IRC//yet
trinque: I'll go out on
a limb and say they're not rounding up people for derping on IRC
trinque: danielpbarron: order
a nodejs book and throw them off
danielpbarron: someone pointed out to me that if i wasn't already
a terrorist suspect, buying the reference manual to the language for airplanes isn't going to help that image
danielpbarron: oh btw i got my ADA reference manual; things quite nice. it's from
a public library and it looks as though nobody ever checked it out
danielpbarron: i doubt 1) your entropy generating abilities 2) your not telling
a secret when
a hot iron is inserted into your body abilities
felipelalli: danielpbarron: but I am
a geocaching player and yes, it is very secure.
felipelalli: Depends on situation. For example: I had to spend some unforeseen money and I didn't want to climb
a mountain to get my bitcoins, so I got
a loan with
a very low interest rate.
☟︎ danielpbarron: felipelalli, like what ascii said, if that were profitable you should already have
a stash with which to work
danielpbarron: i know
a guy (Birdman) who borrows it to play poker
felipelalli: danielpbarron: but do you think BTCJam was
a crap from the start to end?
danielpbarron: and people were using piratat40's "service" for
a while too
felipelalli: danielpbarron: I'm sad. They killed
a service that I was using for years. It isn't that good, but...
danielpbarron slaps felipelalli around
a bit with
a large default
gribble: Error: "They" is not
a valid command.
ascii_field: trinque: not any more so than, say,
a pope.
trinque: ascii_field:
a quick google suggest this guy was off his rocker
ascii_field: 'He passed away in 2008,
a paragon of sticking to just the prescribed amount of murderous blood-thirstiness at any given time,
a true knight of the Party Line -- and, if there is ever
a Hell, doubtlessly sticking Hell's engineers with the problem of how to reward such
a sterling life achievement of toeing it ever so precisely. There are many shitty jobs in this world and the one beyond, but, believe in Hell or not, that
ascii_field: i normally just read that as
a shorthand for 'install on your box...'
danielpbarron: the "print instructions" assume you're on
a debian variant (most likely for ubuntu users)
chetty: hahahah someone was
a zork fan;You happen to see
a note on the ground,
a splotchy Hilbert curve napkin sketch followed by
a handwritten
ascii_field: if you don't have
a machine that can show 'pdf', find one just for this occasion.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> this is more real than most of the stuff people say "in person" << well yeah but that's more
a function of how boring most people are.