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mircea_popescu:
A Person Paper on Purity in Language << i don't grok wtf this is supposed to be.
mod6: one sec, i have
a matrix for what we've tried.
mod6: in
a wide variety of ways, and it's not consistant, we've been having issues getting past the last checkpoint block (more often than not): 168,000
jurov: yes, as
a separate daemon
mircea_popescu: jurov not
a crime. but you could also just 192.0.0.1 and typeadmin admin
jurov: people who know how to open ports either do have
a node or can't be arsed to even for free
mircea_popescu: even Leah McGrath Goodman's poverty will be relatively
a high mark.
mircea_popescu: "This is in turn leading to an (unsustainable) proliferation of cultural commentary, some of it unreadable, but much of it sharp and interesting. Much of this commentary is understandably driven by spleen. Impoverished freelancers and adjunct intellectuals, scraping out
a living from commuter teaching and dead end jobs, are angry when they look at the comfortable positions that
a previous generation of humanities intel
mircea_popescu: i tell you, within twenty years if that as much as having been interested in the left will be
a hanging offense.
mircea_popescu: "The turn of the cultural left to Twitter is
a reflection of its weakness on university campuses, not its strength. Today’s intra-left fights over cultural identity are not the birth pangs of
a dangerous new radical left elite of cultural enforcers. They’re the product of anger and economic powerlessness, the unanticipated result of the hollowing out of humanities on university campuses, and the parlous state of in
mats: get
a cloak, people
mats: guy went to sleep before i got more details, im going to put up
a vulnerable box later and see what happens
mircea_popescu: similarly, in the old days when you were born
a maid, you were going to be
a maid even if you were really pretty.
trinque: today as back then, you can bootstrap yourself so long as you're prepared to lay brick by hand for
a half decade
pete_dushenski: I think that in the old days where the financial system was not too developed, the only way to develop
a new idea was to be born rich, to have resources and use them. Today and increasingly so to the extent the financial system works well, you can start
a company, apply an idea, or even run large companies even if you are not born rich and don't have
a lot of money.
mircea_popescu: if you ever meet
a hungarian speaking foreign languages you just met
a jew.
pete_dushenski: It's quite obvious, for instance, that the chairwhite of the League of Black Voters is going to be
a black, not
a white. Nobody need think twice about it
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that hofstadter fellow has
a decent little sense of humour
mircea_popescu: someting awful. this old comedy board that for
a while was the core of radical libertardism in the us.
mircea_popescu: not exactly unconnected, for sure, but never invited to
a fundraiser either, unless it's for the state capitol and they couldn't fill the seats.
mircea_popescu: it's
a smallish business, think in terms of roger ver's used laptops shop
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know that's just
a general support email, and the connection between fenton and fdvt is about the same as between reddit feminist incel and starbucks
mircea_popescu: in any case, the pogo plugs will be quite welcome. the network's been suffering for
a long time,
mircea_popescu: it was highlighted by intel about two weeks ago, and we're generally tracing it to philippines "top quality" content farms working for
a number of (mostly ct and wash based) pr firms.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the words of one of the numerous us generals remembered for losing
a war, "the unknowns that we know about, we name terrorism. the unknowns we don't know about, we predend don't exist. that and the state department is how we spend
a trillion for the priviledge of spending another trillion."
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> assbot: Exploiting the Robocaller Gap - Global Guerrillas << speaking of this ben_vulpes, how about
a site where people can get bitcoin for reading messages on the screen, then autodial them into say 5k different emergency zones across the us. << sounds great
punkman: maybe have
a list of dnsseeds with signed node lists baked in the source
mircea_popescu: "Show your face. Those who know what you look like can verify that it's actually you, and not
a sockpuppet trolling us all."
trinque: mircea_popescu: each part of it runs separately, different user, in
a different linux container, etc
trinque: mircea_popescu: my evening is free to hack on it; the "keep it running" part got
a lot of attention, which may have expanded scope past "
a few scripts"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing quite like
a camel with dolphin skin.
mircea_popescu: trinque ok, but it was nearly done like
a week ago too ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: with deedbot? got hit with
a bunch of irl work
mircea_popescu: and remove
a lot of dumbass pressure off the blockchain. ("want to talk to people ? talk through the node process not through the tx process)
mircea_popescu: which will make bitcoin full nodes
a much saner thing altogether.
mircea_popescu: irc should probably stay because
a) it doesn't actualy do anything atm and b) it will be an easy upgrade to gossipd
mircea_popescu: "In general I have found so far that the best results in computer security are achieved not by those who are most competent at securing
a system, but by those who are backed by management most inclined to simplify their task. "
mircea_popescu: mike_c
a mechanism made by someone not in wot doesn't really exist.
mircea_popescu: this, in particular, is
a good discussion of macroeconomics, something you rarely see in english
mircea_popescu: sure, that';s the general idea, have all the magic strings in
a file somewhere.
PeterL: How about putting seeds in
a separate file (Foundation can host
a copy that is updated periodically), and add user settable options for whether to download the updated file on program start and from where?
PeterL: asciilifeform: could you have
a separate seed config file?
PeterL: having hardcoded seeds is, in my opnion,
a silly way of doing things
the_scourge: do you have to prove need now? needs-based systems are
a sign of the apocalypse :)
mircea_popescu: i know i want
a new internet too. who knew dilma got it
felipelalli: trinque: thank you! :) Internet in Brazil is not easy. I am installing
a new one, it arrives 14 Feb.
mircea_popescu: there was also
a case in ww1 when the romanian general was put in command of all the german units and so on.
mircea_popescu: (one of the rare cases when
a romanian was supreme commander of the russian troops in any war theater)
mircea_popescu: anyway, the turks mowed them down, and so the commanding officer sent the romanian kind
a "plz save us telegram'. so the romanian army moved in, beat back the turks, took some impossible redoubts, lost like
a third of the men and that was that.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, romania as
a sovereign nation was mostly constructed around this event where the czar declared war on the turks on the fumes of imagining himself like the germans, and buying the british propaganda about the "dead man of europe". the turks were the origina lrhodesia.
thestringpuller: well given my family is on exponential curve in wealth (only
a generation ago we were in the projects), i'd say the karma is coming back around
mircea_popescu: how do you feel about that ? i got
a few ancestors that were killed by teh turks and teh russians.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: one of my ancestors was lynched in mississipi so the family isn't
a lynch virgin
mircea_popescu: assbot: Exploiting the Robocaller Gap - Global Guerrillas << speaking of this ben_vulpes, how about
a site where people can get bitcoin for reading messages on the screen, then autodial them into say 5k different emergency zones across the us.
mircea_popescu: show up with
a blue one then, mess with everyone's head.
mircea_popescu: heh. so bring
a girl, and go "don't lynch me, take her instead" then run.
mircea_popescu: the film's unwatchable except for
a kevin spacey monologue
mircea_popescu: there's
a pretty fucking bad film about three stooges that conspire to kill their bosses.