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decimation: I would think the presumption would be that none of the board members are directors in the sense of holding management positions
decimation: I thought the whole idea of 'boards' in us corporate law is to create a body that is independent of the management
BingoBoingo: I feel comfortable though disclosing 1A8CEYzN75pCztEb9VmZg7ATFTtLmNS3qU was the address for my bet, HI AGENT BROACHWALA!!!11!!
BingoBoingo: I mean they are presenting these people as something they weren't when the bet was opened.
BingoBoingo: The argument I see in favor of no is largely a lack of resignation.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i am actually seeing a lot of merit in your position.
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BingoBoingo: I mean I am no where near as confident on this argument as when I Bitbet lawyered my way to a righteous win on S.DICE vs. S.BBET however this seems to instead harken back to luke-jr's BFL miner.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i find it distinctly riodiculous that nobody pointed this out prior.
BingoBoingo: I mean I'm not correcting attrocious sentences on my blog using the grounds that text is sacred.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: To be fair I have great gains to make if the bet is resolved as yes, but... if such resolution makes muppets begin treating web documents as documents of record when they publich and maintain them... that would be a plus.
gernika: mircea_popescu dead. I mean subsaharan africans though.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo interesting poin tre appleos stuff. i never followed it any so i had no clue.
gernika: I'm not understanding the argument that, shall we say, the less fair skinned would be extinct if not transported to the americas. Seems to me like there are more deadly diseases originating from Africa that kill whites than the other way around. Whites trying to settle Africa near the equator died like tsetse flies.
decimation: I read it as a parable about GPG usability
decimation: When I think of security paranoia among US leaders it reminds me of this story in the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049430/Royal-Navy-turn-guns-pointing-Michelle-Obamas-hotel-room-around.html
decimation: I only know of Cato the Elder
asciilifeform: (broke axle, if i remember)
asciilifeform: if i recall, it was eventually flown (!) back for repairs.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile over here, i ran into a chamber minority leader (they have like six) in a coffee shop by the courthouse.
mircea_popescu: if i were president i'd just walk there.
decimation: hehe yeah. as one commentator put it (on greenspun's site): "I doubt that Obama (or Bush in his day) even thinks about what kind of travel arrangements are being made on his behalf. It’s the lackeys around them who like to be part of a grand spectacle, compounded by unfettered risk aversion in the federal and MA security apparatus."
asciilifeform: re: story with airplanes: i once saw something quite like this in life. was in wash., d.c., and an entire sixteen or so blocks were barricaded off, no one knew why. some days later, newspapers triumphantly described dick cheney's dinner at a certain restaurant in middle of said place.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah when I read your comment it brought to mind my youth: my friend's homes each had a different smell which struck me as I entered
nubbins`: pascale is using some sort of watercolor pastes these days that come in impossibly small tubes, i'll check them out next time i'm upstairs
BingoBoingo: Looking for something that might beat the old standard of India Ink, but as far as I know that is the state of the art
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo oh but i am aware. and the reason i wake up so chipper & cheerful i nthe mornings is quite a large pile of this, where the oppressed have the key to their freedom in their hand and somehow omitted to going to school the day its use was taught.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why people keep thinking of it in terms of a sort of older us without tablets. it's so reactionary in fact it'd put medieval england to shame.
decimation: Yeah I do see how that throws a wrench in the model. Here's a real-world example: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2014/08/09/obama-and-new-england-aviation-businesses-start-their-vacation/ << greenspun details how Obama travels with an enormous entourage, which usg can't afford - this fact doesn't occur to anyone 'in the loop'
mircea_popescu: i think this may be a flaw of modelling. consider this point : one of the ways nero got a bad reputation was through going out at night and assaulting random people in the street.
decimation: I guess I was thinking about where the surveillance state fell on the urban-rural axis - it seems to me that it is ultra-urban (Roman). While it might not be able to process infinite information, what if the level of information it could process is 'good enough' to turn the entire world into Rome?
mircea_popescu: hehe well yeah, here's the problem : nobody;'s written the trilema dictionary yet, and the author itself feels unequal to the task of defining the feminine, which is why i passed above.
mircea_popescu: but you're familiar enough with my thinking to be aware how dimly i view this proposition that kids should be encouraged to "guess" what "the words mean in context" rather than look it up
decimation: I get what you are saying about the cost of information storage and processing being nearly infinite, so it's a foolish idea to begin with. My guess at the "feminine" part was that this bureaucracy imagines it can comprehensively exercise control over the world without a face-to-face confrontation.
BingoBoingo: decimation: I don't remember if I ever knew. You just kind of tune someone out after that.
BingoBoingo: The first giant red flag I experienced about grad school in philosophy was that a classmate existed such that they claimed to be an absolute Berkely/Hume Idealist
decimation: hehe I didn't. but you aren't a fan of Aristotle either?
mircea_popescu: decimation indeed not, how could i ever be ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i'm beinf facetious for the fun of humiliating they absent third parties that believe in form and formalism.
BingoBoingo can tell it is statement season because the logs are so thin. I guess it is a consequence of so many things going on
mircea_popescu: if that isn't a disability, i dunno what is :)
BingoBoingo: xanthyos: That's an interesting take. I didn't really have much background on the stuff when I started sitting on the now apparently defunct #BitcoinBarron chan
mircea_popescu: X-Rob so you take delight in the disabilities of others ? i see how it is.
decimation: I was thinking about your point about how these languages put the programmer in 'jail' by separating 'language' and 'code'
decimation: I was amazed that anyone could think that it's a great idea to give up control over your software using templates written by some committee
decimation: today I was trying to wrap my head around C++ std vector libraries
decimation: somehow there's motivation in the 'linux' world (by that I mean redhat) to make the OS 'go away'
decimation: I think there's also some 'me-too'-ism with secure booting off the tpm module
BingoBoingo: decimation: No I want fucking control over how my system boots! And I don't want fucking dependency hell because I want my system in runlevel 4!
decimation: I'm not sure it's as conspiratorial as you make out, 'people want' to have their systems boot quickly
decimation: asciilifeform: I take it you are not a 'systemd' fan?
asciilifeform: this is about microshit and usg (but i repeat myself) finally making some headway in dealing with the 'final solution' to the escapees from wintel 'problem.'
BingoBoingo: I mean seriously, who wants to run a *nix laptop and not play with runlevels
BingoBoingo: I have to imagine it can't be a non-trivial number
lobbes: "As they watched the bonfire die down, they asked the DEA officials to estimate the value of the marijuana they had just burned. The reply: half a million dollars. The farmers had to laugh. The value of the corn that had been cut down to grow it? $32" << heh, I wonder how many farmers just keep the plants
decimation: asciilifeform: I always wondered about the rather large population of fortune tellers in Maryland. I'm glad that the state is regulating them to make them 'ok for you'.
decimation: asciilifeform: http://amzn.com/354045277X << lol at first I was like huh? then I read comments - hilarious
TheNewDeal: past sober... I like that mentality
tatinportland: dry I'm past sober a couple hrs ago
Apocalyptic: BingoBoingo, I believe so
X-Rob: Apocalyptic: I don't know where that doge came from. I lease my rig for doge, but I normally just convert it straight to btc.
BingoBoingo: Ah, I saw the disabled part, but had no idea wtf the site was
X-Rob: Hah. mircea_popescu you may remember my diatribe about all the stupid design flaws in unattainium. I consider myself vindicated. http://i.imgur.com/HfH3kpV.png
gernika: In China there is also the concept of "face," which I guess is is sort of like a "Web of Shame."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, the chinese 'wot' is their... genealogical tree. and i'm not certain that they'd see out wot as other than noise even were they to get out of that stage. (and why ought they)
mircea_popescu: BigBitz i dunno, you rated him.
mircea_popescu: holy shit look at that crapolade. "problem statement. i nthe current state of social media interaction blablablabla"
thestringpuller: ;;later tell ThickAsThieves What are the prospects of a BTC label? I imgaine if you find a good band before they are signed...
asciilifeform: punkman: don't have the older finds handy, but i'll take a look at some point
punkman: asciilifeform: can you dig a couple more out the logs? I'll give it a go
xanthyos: 29-08-2014 02:21:27 <BingoBoingo> <mircea_popescu> what's this fresh danielpbarron drama BigBitz ? << My best impression is he is trying to WoT up a bunch of local acquaintances and... old tensions and dramas come forth, but I lack context to interpret severity... << it's a good test case for the aphorism "familiarity breeds contempt" when wot ratings are inversely proportional to how well someone is known
mircea_popescu: "I'm running cimplicity on windows server 2008." "Only for "factory is going to blow up" alarms"
RagnarDanneskjol: yes - same with everyone I had used in the past - mostly MIA
RagnarDanneskjol: oh. i thought y'all had a p2pool sorted already. so atc pool still could use some help then
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> i had one for indian candy but she never came back <<< wait for monsoon season ?
cazalla: i had one for indian candy but she never came back
mircea_popescu: There was a young girl from Hong Kong whose cervical cap was a gong. She said with a yell, as a shot rang her bell, "I'll give you a ding for a dong!"
mircea_popescu: cazalla lol i guess so
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Hearn being all butthurt << yeah it'd prolly be good if whoever links to derpchans (-otc, -dev, reddit, tardstalk, what have you) also provides a good executive summary. i dunno who has the energy to go on fishing expeditions in the sewage.
mircea_popescu: now i have something to link to.
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kuzetsa: I think that's what you were trying to explain, was that I said the wrong word and it's not fanfic?
kuzetsa: ... therefore, I stand corrected or whatever.
kuzetsa: well I don't understand fiction very well either, so the idea of fanfic VS fiction writing isn't something that makes a lot of sense
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: "Security exploits: 0.1 BTC" // this is plainly ridiculous << i lolled :D
mircea_popescu: hanbot: "A family of four should be able to survive for a month on a six-roll pack, priced at 460 yen ($4.40) and with a five-year expiration date, said Satoshi Kurosaki" <<< i guess they don't do the entire tping the house of people they don't like in japan.
kuzetsa: though I don't understand fanfic well enough to know if woodchipper is even a real fandom
kuzetsa: I dunno, it looks like woodchipper fanfic to me
mircea_popescu: i think the largest fanfic bit i ever wrote was a complete re-write of de sade, except done properly by someone who can actually write. sadly, in romanian. other bits and pieces in the same vein i guess. some poetry, rewritten, because oa can't write.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa i rarely do and this ain't it ?
kuzetsa: oh, it's on trilema? I didn't know you wrote fanfic. neat.
kuzetsa: I don't understand the reference about hitpoints... is there like a roleplaying game involving alternate universe cities or something? where they have hitpoints and other stats?
mircea_popescu: the infinite hitpoints thing is becoming such a problem i honestly don't see how actual physical testing of the infinity in question will be avoidable on the mid term.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo RagnarDanneskjol i wasn't gonna say anything, but as romanian expression goes, "prostul daca nu-i fudul parca nu e prost destul".
BingoBoingo: Sick burn there. I imagine Obama just about has to give ninjashogun a medal tomorrow for drawing such a rating.
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asciilifeform: re: iPnohe brute force incident << i suppose none of the folks involved remember the days when people lifted 'shadow' file and bruteforced to their heart's delight
hanbot: asciilifeform ty for the note, looks like last time i "fixed" something i borkt instead. commenting should work fine nao!
The20YearIRCloud: can i get money if i'm on a US IP?
ben_vulpes: i'm just a turbine in the breeze