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coderwill: i was reading about qntra, btw, that sounds really cool - i like the idea behind it. definitely would love to submit some material, it's going to take me
a while to read 6 months of the logs though. :)
decimation: I suppose mircea has already described why
a 'global namespace' is
a poor fit for chat
decimation: asciilifeform: what about the dream of
a persistent global namespace?
decimation: yeah but in exchange you can use
a full-broadcast model
decimation: yeah but you would want
a block cipher that could tolerate lost packets
decimation: you would want enough of
a protocol to identify 'possible traffic'
decimation: it struck me that you could probably use one of those edgerouter lites to make
a cheap version
decimation: yeah you would just need
a little reprogramming to change the serial output/input state machines
decimation: I wouldn't mind having
a device that interfaces to arbitrary serial ports at reasonable rates
decimation: asciilifeform: you earlier mentioned using
a 'bus pirate' for spi connections
mircea_popescu: <decimation> why would some four star usg general spend time to send 300 emails to some lebanese groupie chick? << i wrote like
a billion lines in here. why not ?
decimation: is that
a flash card? can you boot off that?
decimation: then I heard this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been
a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that everybody just loved the job. And
☟︎☟︎ decimation: "Nor has anyone fully explained why Allen, while busy overseeing the war in Afghanistan, exchanged
a blizzard of correspondence with Kelley — between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of e-mails, according to some senior defense officials. Other officials have said that figure includes many duplicate notes and exaggerates the extent of their communications, adding that there were only about 300 total e-mails."
assbot: Jill Kelley e-mails depict
a striving Tampa socialite and
a smitten military brass - The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1AubAI0 )
adlai: technically speaking, wouldn't this be simplest accomplished by having you provide me with api keys to an account on, say, btce, and us both publishing
a readonly key to that account?
mircea_popescu: well, if you make
a f.mpif pc and report your trades, say daily, and submit monthly sum reports, i dunno, 10 ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> adlai: why does it have to test on actual live-fire btc anyway? << so he can make
a buck ?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 04:33:41; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'Явка с повинной облегчает совесть и удлиняет срок.' (ru. jailhouse proverb: '
a guilty plea lightens your conscience and lengthens your sentence.')
adlai: decimation: i'm not
a lawyer, but i gather from conversations with them that it's
a matter of *precisely* documenting the net p/l and paying tax on that
decimation: I wouldn't mind trying to run
a trade bot but it would involve much tax paperwork in the us
mod6: not sure exactly what to be looking for... but turning over
a few 'stones' might find something.
mircea_popescu: erryone lemme know if you like / want more icecream
a la mode.
ben_vulpes: Disclosure: Although the event was closed to the media, I was invited by the founders of Nexus, Jonah Wittkamper and Rachel Cohen Gerrol, to report on the conference as
a member of the family that started the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company. << woo hoo hoo
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> let's ask BingoBoingo how sport aficionados feel re: 'fixed' matches in sports where this is not customary << Actual fraud. One the other hand horrifically mismatched team (happens
a lot in college where small schools will get paid by larger schools to play
a game the larger school anticipates winning) can be loads of fun. Especially when the school paid to play wins.
mircea_popescu: The well-heeled group seemed receptive. “I think it’s fantastic,” said Patrick Gage,
a 19-year-old heir to the multibillion-dollar Carlson hotel and hospitality fortune. “I’ve never seen anything like this before.” Mr. Gage is an industry leader in enforcing measures to combat trafficking and involuntary prostitution.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: phillipsjk you know you might be the first guy of your kind i ever met. so, you're on some isp's forum because... it's your isp ? and i suppose on the mazda forum if/when driving
a mazda and so on ? <<< popular thing in australia, or at least was back in 90s, early 2000s
mircea_popescu: if oyu don't know what the center of the town is or that you live in
a shithole, you should go back to highschool.
pete_dushenski: similar to who wants to be
a millionaire? or the same ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: the part of the world where i live is plagued with, among other insects,
a type of caterpillar that devours trees wholesale. every spring, gigantic hives (?) - nests with webbing - appear, and when they're full, you can almost see them pulsate, pulsate << Used to be bigger problem here. Then they were largely defeated
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> today, sent responses to ~300 of them, that were inquiring to know
a) where is the center of buenos aires and b) whether argentines are poor. << why were they asking if argentines are poor?
the_scourge: the desperate wannabe? i think i remember
a few of those
pete_dushenski: see, the nerd has
a good chance of growing up to be someone someday, so google can't very well be that
the_scourge: so what does that make google? the monitor or
a nerd?
cazalla: it's not
a big deal but would not want to see it become
a habit
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I may not have built
a userland or drivers
BingoBoingo: Last night I got stressed an make
a Minix, today...
punkman: Ulbricht: "On Wednesday,
a jury took about three hours to find him guilty on all seven counts."
mircea_popescu: today, sent responses to ~300 of them, that were inquiring to know
a) where is the center of buenos aires and b) whether argentines are poor.
trinque: you take what used to be
a predator, add captivity and asinine breeding habits, boom
cjc: There was
a pretty good deal on lifetime 2600 subscriptions last year.
the_scourge: i'm just happy when i get
a client where the head engineer is capable of having slightly technical discussions... staves off the cabin fever (which is possible, even in london)
the_scourge: asciilifeform: that's
a little low, but i'll freely admit i don't hang around with the right people
the_scourge: ben_vulpes: it should respect what xrandr tells it to do, regardless. i've used tiling window managers with
a retina laptop in 9 different shops in the last 18 months, sometimes changing desks throughout the week. just turn everything off and use xrandr, i'm sure your wm will respect it
the_scourge: "StumpWM is
a tiling window manager that was created when developer Shawn Betts found ratpoison growing increasingly large and "lispy"."
ben_vulpes: i guess this is the curse of
a shop with > 8 monitors
ben_vulpes: x and my wm collectively shit themselves when i switch to
a monitor theyve never seen before.
phillipsjk: I used
a search engine, not wikipedia directly. I was checking form more than like 3 uses.