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gabriel_laddel: they don't have the same sensibilities, being a different people (*gasp*).
asciilifeform: recently there was a widely-copied newspaper piece re: tiger farms
chetty: put a big fence around Detroit and come back in a hundred years
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: back to the cn phactory gurlz, it's an open economic question whether a particular one can physically generate enough wealth to pay for 'carroting' it
PeterL: you want me to go over to Detroit and organize the populace into something not a worthless mess?
nubbins`: PeterL no doubt. worth noting that "rivaling china for output" is not necessarily a positive
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
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punkman: PeterL: somebody just has to get the Africans organized and industrialized << China's all over it, but they might have to import a billion chinese workers
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
asciilifeform: this is, by some indications, a non-renewable resource that's getting burned up rather quickly ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: folks who are still willing to assemble machinery for a penny a day
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 07:05:44; cazalla: mmm home made potato gnocchi with muh tomato/chilli sauce (both from garden) and chorizo.. just missing a beer :\
asciilifeform: china isn't in a deathcage match against rest of the planet trying for 200 yrs. to render its population for fat and to more easily get at the minerals
mircea_popescu: chinese politburo isn't going around publicly and internationally humiliating us president with a monthly frequency.
nubbins`: PeterL they knew about the intrusion a year or two ago
mircea_popescu: notice that the us diplomacy is nowhere nearly as inept handling china. arguably russia is more of a threat tho, at least immediately.
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".
nubbins`: incidentally, was there ever a qntra article about cavirtex shutting down?
asciilifeform: this is how you tell the difference. but this is elementary alphabet to #b-a folks
ben_vulpes: it's a pun.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "diddlematics" << i never figured kako for a collaborator...
asciilifeform: but a fella with 'loose lips' fingered them as where-nsa-actually-has-the-work-done.
asciilifeform: PeterL: the notion that the folks paying are getting -anything- other than lighter wallet - is a laugh
mircea_popescu: they do a lot of contractor work crawling thre web
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asciilifeform: had various mildly smoking guns for this in stash for a while, now add the fact of them crawling specific pages on me site
asciilifeform: because gigglets like this have a way of 'disappearing' from forums
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
mircea_popescu: next he shows up have him detained at border for 36 hours, let him go with a 10 year interdict.
mircea_popescu: but he's a LOSER.
mircea_popescu: same al gore schtick. "what's at state in a us presidential election is who gets rome and who gets constantinople"
asciilifeform: instead of derping like headless chicken for decades, publicly dump out guts - if can make a statement with it, so much the better
thestringpuller: dat balmer syndrome...one day you're just "Developer developer developers" sweating profusely on a stage and you don't know why.
mircea_popescu: actually, i recall mentioning here that "wtf, this guy publicly takes pride in having lost his gpg key ?" a while back
mircea_popescu: my heart was the size of a rice grain when djikstra got linked yest.
mike_c: phil zimmerman is a bad guy?
thestringpuller: reminds me of my current CEO, "Blah blah blah ENCRYPTION AS A SERVICE, blah blah blah. THE FUTURE." *applause from dumb audience here*
mircea_popescu: in a dick tracy sort of way
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: but now can finally pour flondor cement << brutal. you sure you don't want to be a mobster? :D
asciilifeform: i've had a mild revulsion for him for as long as known about him
jurov: "After confirming your yes/no choice you will be looking for a way to get back to the other candidates to vote for them."
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
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: as if Text Secure is usable, has a spec or docs like opengpg, as if mailpile doesn't shell out to a gpg binary
mats: gpg does suck in a buncha usability ways, but then he goes on to address exactly zero actual problems
Vexual: Next thing u know im not allowed to catch a train to turkey
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...
punkman: https://github.com/tedu/reop "a simple, semi-modern wannabe PGP clone"
BingoBoingo: The entire AJAX bullshit is a scam. All of that user facing javascript is just there to same them on the server bills
cazalla: gmaxwell, what about #b-a is not to your liking?
thestringpuller: gmaxwell: now that is a name I have not seen in a long long time.
gmaxwell: BingoBoingo: nah, it seperately tracks 'counterparty' value, like a colored coin, the bitcoin is irrelevant, and just gets around the fact that bitcoin core won't relay 0 value txouts and miners are lazy and don't change defaults.
gmaxwell: sadly they didn't use this in round 1 where a real statement could be made by buying all the votes and assigning them to a joke candidate.
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: (the site is so broken that I'm having a hard time extracting addresses for the other options)
gmaxwell: man y'all will get a kick out of the latest foundation lol-event. They have some _utterly_ braindead 'blockchain voting' scheme for their board vote run off (gotta love changing voting infrastructure mid election for election integrity) ☟︎
ben_vulpes: if it's not one thing it's a dang nother.
ben_vulpes: decimation, lmk if you need a hand with erc and sasl.
cazalla: mmm home made potato gnocchi with muh tomato/chilli sauce (both from garden) and chorizo.. just missing a beer :\ ☟︎
decimation: asciilifeform: how can any kind of signal magically compromise a stu?
asciilifeform: ' If you have a powered up NEXTEL on your belt and you walk within 12 feet of a STU-III in secure mode you have just compromised the classified key.'
decimation: I assumed it was a language 'feature' like matlab
decimation: all the examples I've found start with a 1
asciilifeform: this is simply what usg... is. at least since it was grown enough to even -have- a foreign policy.
asciilifeform: why does a pyro burn houses?
decimation: who is accountable to a chain of bosses who ultimately account to themselves
decimation: actually there's a deeper problem. When you 'work' for a 'democracy', your boss is 'the people'
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'
mircea_popescu: no, im a realist.
ben_vulpes: "boring, world's going to hell in a handbasket."
mircea_popescu: “It’s sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make police station visits, this place – if you can’t find a client in the system, odds are they’re there,” said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.
mircea_popescu: <mats> i'm not certain that submission as evidence nullifies IP rights << it's a right nightmare.
Vexual: Only took a week and everyone happy
Vexual: New rules for foreign investors buying real estate in oz. You pay a small lubrication fee to the firb and despite any n shell companies you are liable for theoretical noncompliance fines.
mats: er, that's a terrible construction, but anyway http://cryptome.org/Citizenfour-HD.7z
mats: hm, 'Citizenfour' is public domain due to being used as evidence in a suit
TheNewDeal: Acting like a pouty bitch
cazalla: actually there is a new report.. may as well write it up
thestringpuller: microsoft can't get a break (ms owns skype now rite?)
cazalla: it's old news btw, for some reason they dug up a report from last year and ran it today as new
thestringpuller: Adlai: drafting them to spec is difficult sometimes. Like coming up with a good statement of work, or an SLA
mats: turns out hes as retarded on a blog as he is on irc and twitter
mats: i wanted to see if he had anything useful to say in a long form medium
mats: what a mistake
thestringpuller: the rails generate command is abused a bit too much
lobbes: <ben_vulpes> mostly, because it's so damn easy. << I played with lisp for a second, and even I felt like seemed way more 'intuitive'
ben_vulpes: and i speak not as a veteran here.
ben_vulpes: there's something about working in lisp that seems to reduce the speed at which entropy chews apart a webdev project.
mike_c: ok, but i'm not going to judge by how easy it is to un-fuck a particular framework done poorly.
ben_vulpes: a sword still cuts.
mike_c: i don't get it. you're saying a novice can use cojure ring and not hurt himself?
jurov: you mean people who have a clue what happens on wire/in browser?
mike_c: not with a 10ft pole
ben_vulpes: mike_c: ever touched a clojure ring app?
mike_c: and the alternative is they build from a microframework and fuck up even more?
mats: a buddy of mine uses it only the daily. moans constantly.
mike_c: what's wrong with django? i bit bloated, but there's a lot of good code in there.
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