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undata: I dated a black virologist for a time; her prescription for Africa was 30 years of quarantine
BingoBoingo: I dunno why if init is the problem the solution also replaces console kit and everything else
undata: I tried systemd and bizarre breakage occurred which I couldn't be bothered to debug
undata: that's what I'm using locally
undata: I like the idea of declarative config, knowing dependencies and whatnot; upstart doesn't seem too onerous to me
undata: I've been doing some reading on systemd; I had no idea just how many services it ate
punkman: "google @ 40,000 searches per second, 144m/hour, 3.456b/day, 1.2t/year" << lower than I imagined
bagels7: I always off by some factor
nubbins`: am i not allowed to down him becaause assbot hasn't refreshed the trust list?
bagels7: i must preach to the 144 corners of the internet
bagels7: i would just like to point out what a burden it would be to marry a crazy woman in today's politically correct world where the woman can do no wrong.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i thought the immortal words of the dude were: the dude abides
mircea_popescu: i liek nubbins` french.
mircea_popescu: davout: cazalla: i don't even get why they feel the need to talk about bitcoin << virgins also feel a need to talk about the cock.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: I can't believe in 2014 we have GoDaddy leading the way in managed DNSSEC and Facebook leading the way in correct Tor hosting for clearnet sites <<< bwahaaha this IS a fucking point. and it goes on : microsoft leading the way for linux, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: that fuckwit infosec "expert" that's helping them irritates me <<< i don't recall an infosec expert of the webz that wasn't a sort of "assigned female at birth genderqueer individual".
mircea_popescu: decimation: eh, flat makes those famed 'afraid of volatility' types happy <<< yet for every 500 guys that went "o bitcoin i can not use it is too volatile" for 3 years going, you don't hear as many as .5 guys today "o, now i can use it"
mircea_popescu: i cnat spael.
mircea_popescu: why am i even reading this crap.
davout: i should put my blockchain.io to use for lulz & phishing
cazalla: davout, first time i've come across this punani code for domains
cazalla: fuckem anyway, i use visa
davout: cazalla: i don't even get why they feel the need to talk about bitcoin
fluffypony: I can't believe in 2014 we have GoDaddy leading the way in managed DNSSEC and Facebook leading the way in correct Tor hosting for clearnet sites
BingoBoingo: mats_cd03: If I recall correctly its cheapest.
mats_cd03: i sold ma shares after it crashed and temporarily recovered to ~0.00075, then bought back at 0.0005 thinking it was the bottom ;_;
mats_cd03: how am i gonna accumulate 1000btc if it goes up again?
BingoBoingo: If Mizzou beats Bamma Saturday and I have much profit.
BingoBoingo: Eh, I'll point it at some pool or p2pool
BingoBoingo: I have to admit I've been eyeing the pretty Bitcrane machine as a spaceheater++
punkman: I liked the "personal lottery machine" angle
asciilifeform: i don't even grasp why a wireless to ethernet bridge needs to be a computer, with stateful memory and an os
asciilifeform: decimation: i don't run an isp, or a dc, don't care one whit for optimizations
asciilifeform: i don't even know what is more enraging - the sc4mz0r manufacturer, or all the shitmonkeys who claim to have 'fixed'
asciilifeform: i bet - no.
asciilifeform: https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6754 << what should i buy after i set fire to this ?
decimation: louis xvi was 'in power' in the same way I guess
mircea_popescu: fucking ironic, i thought.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the examplke i was waiting for was the iranian, what's his name
mircea_popescu: there's one trend that unites all us presidents that i've ever seen. that trend is, that going in they look above average health for their age,
decimation: I guess it's power in the restricted sense that they are only allowed to act in one direction
mircea_popescu: i never saw one.
decimation: yeah, I agree that's the effect. furthermore, those in real power use the process as cover for their own agendas
decimation: malaysia is kinda like their ozarks I guess
xinxiwang: given that the majority are chinese people. I don’t think people from other races can be neutral here.
xinxiwang: uha, I even don’t know this.
assbot: I prepared your canoe with cedar boughs.
decimation: I guess I take it by your questions that the answer is 'no'
xinxiwang: i don’t have a car here.
joecool: mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter too much though, i like this channel
asciilifeform: satan preserve us, i can hear that thing's cpu load through inductor whine from across a table.
joecool: mircea_popescu: sry, thought you maintained assbot... i'll bug kakobrekla when he's around
mircea_popescu: joecool i dun has anything to do with it, but kakobrekla might be able to help.
joecool: hey mp, can you make assbot only use notices instead of msg? I know the ddos is a pain in the ass but if someone is unlikely to respond to notice, they are unlikely to respond to privmsg as well
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was cancerous/amputated colon, if i recall, and this novel rerouting was tried.
decimation: well, I'm certain that some organ of usg would claim victory under such conditions
mircea_popescu: this is like the dumbest thing i ever heard lol.
asciilifeform: i mean, back to the story, all i had to do is reach across desk and grab a ttl serial octopus. but what are folks supposed to do who don't have one?
mircea_popescu: i unscrewed so many antennae off wired-only "wireless-capable" routers...
asciilifeform: funnily, i have a circa-1998 wireless router, that has precisely this form
asciilifeform: one of these days i buy something that doesn't have to be vivisected to make it go.
asciilifeform: decimation: i can't possibly guess
asciilifeform: lol. i suppose my site can't get any more off topic than already is.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather read it on your platform than on some bezzlatron platform. is that so bad ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, you just gave imgur some money. why ?
BingoBoingo: I guess it has.
mircea_popescu: gernika not just, but sure. also, i don't care about form. if meditation works all the better.
gernika: mircea_popescu are you referring to logical fallacies by 'modes of logical failure'? Also, by learning to control your emtions, I assume you don't mean learning to meditate.
asciilifeform: 'What this means in practice, for me at least, is that as soon as it starts looking like I am heading in the direction of acquiring a specific job title or job description, or getting involved in something that might require registration, certification or licensing, then I need to backtrack or head in a different direction for a bit, until everybody loses interest. In doing so I sometimes forgo some opportunities for an increa
mircea_popescu: honestly, i dun see how it's even a kilo-lol.
mircea_popescu: i guess we progressed past the classical philosophy of either rome or the east. a well.
mircea_popescu: mkay, i'll pass.
mircea_popescu: "I seem to be doing a lot of hyperproductive things lately: explaining to people how to kill the foul beast of Empire, revolutionizing the way English literacy is taught to both native English speakers and the rest"
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
asciilifeform: did establish that we're gnawing on the leather straps of english, i think.
mircea_popescu: i think this pejorative usage is novel, and not really all that standard yet.
decimation: asciilifeform: what I find amusing is the common practice is us business to use the word 'training' when they mean 'education'
asciilifeform: incidentally, the word 'trained' - i found - means something quite else to english speakers than for folks from the sov blok
mircea_popescu: but i did say that's not what's meant.
assbot: Logged on 02-12-2014 15:10:06; asciilifeform: this is a subject that i have a little personal connection with. at one point, i spent almost two years of spare time working on what turned out to be 'fried ice'
asciilifeform: i worked with a whole mess of folks who could solve this one, for some value of 'solved'
mircea_popescu: well done lol. do i win yet ?
asciilifeform: not sure what, if anything, i might be surprised by (on this subject) if my bubble were larger.
asciilifeform: i may even have been to that circus.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll bet you you couldn't discern between a well trained and an intelligent creature.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should say "through the carrot", for elegance of form :D
asciilifeform: i'll volunteer that i can't easily lust over any creature detectably stupider than self.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i srsly doubt iq points measure anything useful.
mircea_popescu: but no, the definition is i imagine quite ordinary.
mircea_popescu: lol i guess you're stuck looking at pictures ?
asciilifeform: i suspect there is great variation
TomServo: I apologize.
TomServo: mircea_popescu: Due to a lack of beatings, I haven't yet learned Romanian.
TomServo: Is there some definition of beating I'm unaware of?
undata: I think this is predicated on "beat everyone"
asciilifeform: as i understand, same idea here.
mircea_popescu: i shall review your question.
decimation: "The way you talk about superintelligence reminds me a lot about how medieval theologians talked about God. It's unbounded. It can do anything. Except maybe created a rock so heavy it can't move it. Has anyone ever made that observation to you, and what's your reaction to that? Guest: I think you might be the first, at least that I can remember. Russ: Hmmm."
decimation: I have an AI cult to sell
TomServo: I guess I don't understand why a beating is necessary when you have a sufficiently advanced human capable of reasoning. Help me out?