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mircea_popescu: (funny shit, too, wasn'
t "medium" gonna be IT last year ? now "steemit" ? next month "wegiveup", the "platform for america" ?)
mircea_popescu:
T.A.O. operators must constantly renew their arsenal to stay abreast of changing software and hardware, examining every Windows update and new iPhone for vulnerabilities. “The nature of the business is to move with the technology,” a former
T.A.O. hacker said.
spyked still doesn'
t get first question.
spyked: mircea_popescu, last line? also, no, haven'
t spoken to him. my idea was to just post this on blog and then ask him if he's willing to translate (refer log and so on). could also do it the other way around, not sure.
mats: mircea_popescu: not in america they don'
t.
mircea_popescu: simple and sweet and i actually can'
t see what possible protestations are available.
spyked: e.g. ada I/O is not especially suited for this task, because it reads either characters or full lines; and reading characters doesn'
t eat newlines, so gotta rely on shell buffering for sane interaction.
spyked: in other news, I've been using most of my spare cycles lisping in ada. should be able to wrap up a blog post sharing a very minimal prototype (sane implem. of repl doing nothing but basic ops) in a few weeks. what I've got now adheres to most of ffa constraints. the current version isn'
t very clean, but getting there...
☟︎ spyked missed quite a lot while in read-only mode. glad to hear you enjoyed bucharest, asciilifeform. unexpected also. fortunately you didn'
t see it on weekdays.
BingoBoingo: lobbes: A box for VPS is very probable, that price point is probably not happening. Then again, this will be a week of much math. On the other hand, wouldn'
t it be nice to have root?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-12 18:02 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that can'
t be the explanation, seeing how everyone's zip unpacked it but yours ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that can'
t be the explanation, seeing how everyone's zip unpacked it but yours ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: holy hell how do they manage to find all these 2 and 3 letter nicks that aren'
t reg'd/enforced ?!
mircea_popescu: wer you can now self-voice, so i don'
t have to up you every half hour. say !!up to deedbot (in private message). it will give you something to decrypt. you decrypt it, then say !!v <string> and you're voiced.
wer: i don'
t think i do no
a111: Logged on 2017-10-13 01:54 mircea_popescu: trinque don'
t sweat it, she'll do it when i tell her to, what. tomorrow, monday, whatever.
wer: oh didn'
t know face was compulsory
a111: Logged on 2017-11-11 16:43 asciilifeform: ( and will perhaps be a good entry for those hypothetical folx who ain'
t here yet, but ought to be . i have no intention of doing the whole thing myself, esp. not in near term, my hands are quite full )
ag3nt_zer0: to be clear i was re-reading pete's article and followed the reddit link to the guy who lost the 4BTC and it was this comment that got me all wound up: "The passphrase has to be random (and necessarily, difficult to memorize). There is no way around this, period. If the prospect of memorizing 12 random words is daunting to you (and it should be - if you forget it, your money is gone), then don'
t use a brain wallet."
a111: Logged on 2017-11-11 06:27 BingoBoingo: Yeah. Anyways, transition from "hero spies at least speak French" to "Don'
t trust them Ruskies, they learn our language!!!"
mircea_popescu: lol this chick is retarded. hopefully lafond bagged her dumb ass, wtf, "he didn'
t say this jokingly". rly bitch, was he really liek some military guy ?
mircea_popescu: which is why and wherefore the whole "not much room in future for united states". there isn'
t.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Anyways, transition from "hero spies at least speak French" to "Don'
t trust them Ruskies, they learn our language!!!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose this is one of those major "there are two kinds of people" things : those who speak languages, and those who don'
t.
mircea_popescu: once-notable empire, meanwhile powerless, saddled with a bunch of nominal allies thatr don'
t like it and readily intervene militarily against it.
mircea_popescu: piddly ass 1817s level tech of single-railtrack doesn'
t reallty expose the power of rail in all its glory.
BingoBoingo: Then there's always going to be some incredibly time insensitive goods needing moving, which will preserve some form of shipping. Hence riverboats still traveling the Mississippi, but rarely with cargo that isn'
t bird attractant.
mircea_popescu: whether the increased precision (no, you don'
t have to have your item lorried to port and then from port to dest) actually gives a 20% shorter distance, or 25 or 15% ; and whether the cost can be kept to 0.02 or even the foreseen 0.014 rather than 0.025 or 0.1 etc...
mircea_popescu: in any case the only viable alternative to "well... let's just have another war, then" i've seen anyone propose. mile-wide highway still costs a billion or two per track mile, making the whole project large enough to give substance to something like us gdp. (that it will pointedly not be in any way related to us, secondary consideration. bitcoin isn'
t either, to its great benefit.)
mircea_popescu: fwis the strategic plan is "one week silk road : car or train, take your pick". IF they do manage to build it, which isn'
t a given even if not necessarily unlikely ; and IF they manage to market it so it reaches their traffic goals (this part, easier), all the "vision 2030" bs by everyone else, from crown prince of saudis to kirschner prince of us to etc fade in a very very distant bokeh.
mircea_popescu: but no, there's no getting out of it : turkey-iran with a russian background much much stronger than usg.israel + usg.saudi-arabia. israel isn'
t coming apart just yet -- therefore the peninsula must.
BingoBoingo: Well, the Saudis aren'
t the Turks. They have oil and their borders are protected by hot sand. Turks are surrounded and have the Mediterranian's back door in their face.
mircea_popescu: as it is, next in the queue is plaintive missive from mohammed bin salman about how "he was tricked" and "teh deliveries didn;
t live up to promises" in a few months/years/whatever.
mircea_popescu: sooner or later the dorks will understand that until/unless burned down us "embassy" / all ustards coming in detained and shot, there won'
t be peace.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's conservation rules afoot in teh universe, and the web isn'
t going to produce an increase of information ; it provides a fraction of what you put in back and no more.
mircea_popescu: the web doesn'
t keep up with pricing issues in this sense.
mircea_popescu: for someone who can'
t even tetris, what's with all the wank anyway ?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 19:17 mircea_popescu: also support is not sought, i don'
t think, if by support you mean manpower as opposed to you know, cooling. (if the latter, there's really 0 interest in a "best effort dc / someone's house".)
mircea_popescu: in other minutia, i'm holding up this well worn pair of cuffs, with red candlewax stains, and i'm thinking.... didn'
t i buy some pink candles too ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, isn'
t that one of the better headers ?
mircea_popescu: understand something : the petty criminal holding you up didn'
t "find it necessary". petty crime comes with built-in, very lowly set high-pass filter. you have to be THIS fucking dumb to think petty crime is a productive use of your time, and consequently the bar for "necessity" isn'
t anywhere close to mathematical rigour.
mircea_popescu: which is why being hated and the force of gravity don'
t elicit the same emotional response in humans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that mysticalname whatsherface chick from tor that trinque has a hard-on on at some point wrote a "scholarly" (in the wikitardia sense of the term) article about how girl armor displayed in mmorpgs and bad hbo franchises "wouldn'
t work".
mircea_popescu: well, good thing the "feminist" retards that don'
t understand anything ABOUT ANYTHING! (paging here Framedragger ) "fixed" the problem of girl armor in cc-mmorpgs!
mircea_popescu: the part that's incomprehensible is why the fuck the content-consumption mmorpg isn'
t all about tits
mircea_popescu: not really becauyse a) user doesn'
t care and b) user with e can'
t get message back anyway
mircea_popescu: in any case : now that we understand the bitcoi nnoide problem, we can'
t be excused from implementing it like satoshi did. so : no arbitrary comment field of unspecified size "everyone has to keep" arbitrary to originator.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-10 14:12 asciilifeform: i can'
t even tetris no moar, diana_coman
mircea_popescu: and the very naive idea that sort of mind comes to is that "if i deny labels to realities i don'
t like they'll not exist".
a111: Logged on 2017-11-10 10:14 diana_coman: for the curious there are in fact 2 prolific-stamped documents describing pl2303 and pl2303x; pl2303x seems to be a sort of upgrade to 64bits but why couldn'
t it be properly identified as distinct I don'
t know
diana_coman: I looked through the relevant mpi part but I can'
t say I get it to that degree to be able to figure this out
diana_coman: asciilifeform, iirc several people exchanged their ecu for btc and cashed out though no idea how much it was exactly (they usually come in with "will make whole coin!!!111 won'
t quit!!!" and then crash out of it a few days later)
a111: Logged on 2017-11-10 08:38 mircea_popescu: whole generation of stupid cunts will have to explain to their granddaughters, "and then in 2017 i was a cretin and missed on the opportunity to make 2 bitcents writing on my ugly ass tits nobody cares about, and that's why you can'
t have your private island. o look, barrista break's over, back to work"\
diana_coman: for the curious there are in fact 2 prolific-stamped documents describing pl2303 and pl2303x; pl2303x seems to be a sort of upgrade to 64bits but why couldn'
t it be properly identified as distinct I don'
t know
☟︎☟︎ diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-10#1735788 <- I don'
t really see how it is linux' fault here; so prolific used to make the pl2303 and old linux worked fine with it and still does; THEN they (or chinese cheap copies dunno) made a DIFFERENT thing pl2303x that has however the same serial id and everything so you can'
t distinguish between them before plugging them in pretty much; and so yes, old linux won'
t work because it sees it as pl2303 whe
☝︎ mircea_popescu: so no, it isn'
t about accusations. it's about the implicit vulnerability of being pantsuit.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 23:07 asciilifeform: it isn'
t about 'accusations', you or i could accuse all day long and they will print 0
mircea_popescu: which of course they'll pretend like they don'
t have to do then, just like they pretended they don'
t have to do now.
mircea_popescu: whole generation of stupid cunts will have to explain to their granddaughters, "and then in 2017 i was a cretin and missed on the opportunity to make 2 bitcents writing on my ugly ass tits nobody cares about, and that's why you can'
t have your private island. o look, barrista break's over, back to work"\
☟︎