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ben_vulpes: i also saw a van with outriggers packed with riot-geared cops
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: this afternoon i saw a jeep 'truck' and chrysler 'minivan' block traffic on burnside for no reason. two vehicles, completely unmarked, pulled out into traffic, turned on head/taillight mars signallers, blocked the street for two full minutes, then turned said lights off and peeled off
asciilifeform: where's that mircea_popescu article re: how the average plebe has no business pretending to run a computer.
undata: if the boss has to check off every single decision she's going to make, why doesn't he just move her out of the way? at that point she's just a really slow intermediary
undata: I have a hard time processing how telling your underling to maximize thinking for him/herself is suppression
decimation: "The seductive appeal of such things was nearly irresistible, for each of these items can make a quantum improvement in a sylvan lifestyle. Acquisition of several or all of these goods is a transformative experience that makes contact essentially irreversible."
decimation: well, so when it's 'easier' to sit down and eat a tv movie while having your brain manipulated by the tv, it's good to know why
decimation: in the comments he makes a useful summary: "Control toward reduction of violence, protection of property rights, etc. is good, because the consequences are good on net; you can’t have a civilized society when everyone is killing each other and looting the corpses. Progressive control is bad, because civilization is incompatible with progressivism, so folk culture should be protected against mass culture."
decimation: yeah she has an interesting post related to this point: http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/06/04/fireandforget/ << "When pressed for details, this individual thought for a while and then said that he expects such people to be "fire and forget". In other words, you send them off and they get stuff done."
asciilifeform: it was a good book.
asciilifeform: (not a misprint! there were once intelligent, educated woman programmers in usa. but when the profession became 'blue collar' - akin to, e.g., cement mixer operator - they mostly disappeared.)
decimation: apparently they implemented the 'tdma' version too, which allows a single 12 khz channel to be timeshared with two radios
decimation: I think the 200lx had a similar 'chiclet' keyboard
undata: dub: I know it's a thing
assbot: Do I Have a Broken Penis? ... ( http://bit.ly/1zsgErV )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: odd little bugger. the usual nice 'thinkpad' keyboard, but inside - a 'mips' cpu. normally ran embedded winblows (yes, for mips!) from 16m rom. but easily hackable to use netbsd or linux.
dub: danielpbarron: never torn a uscle?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: historic hardware: ever own a 'ibm workpad z50' ?
danielpbarron: he put the pics on twitter, but it's a private account
BingoBoingo: It's in the log, he did a persian penis trick compulsively to quash his boners, and this time it went wrong
asciilifeform: ink about how to get out of problems like that. Outside the poker table, consider any problem that starts with the words “So, I have been having a steamy secret affair with the wife of this violent mob boss, and now she...”'
asciilifeform: ace, because it can only have resulted from you having made choices that are obviously wrong and easily avoidable. At the poker table, the description of an alien problem might begin “So I called a raise and re-raise preflop from the small blind with my jack-three offsuit...” Say no more. Don’t call a raise and re-raise from the small blind when you have nothing but a measly jack-three offsuit, and you won’t have to th
undata: asciilifeform: or people that think positions seen in porn are enjoyable for anyone who isn't a camera
dub: dick break is apparently not that uncommon but limited to a subset of men
undata: "xanthyos: they won't even see me because i called the dr a faggot" << winrar right here
BingoBoingo: Honestly after last week's broken dick hard to farm pity for health reasons for a while
dub: from #b-a
dub was in a rather large room full of taps this morning
asciilifeform: interceptors and fighting jets in general are a special case of 'cold war' hardware, in that they were never expected to last.
asciilifeform: if this is not yet, then only a matter of time.
asciilifeform: think of a taxi or bus park. there's usually a handful of disabled vehicles, but they either await the scrapyard or a shipment of parts, given as the latter can be had
asciilifeform: a greybeard and squad of monkeys parts them out, maintaining the handful in some semblance of working order.
asciilifeform: as i understand, this is why countries that inherited, bought, stole, etc. some xxx quantity of soviet aircraft yy years ago, tend to fly some small handful z of them at a time
asciilifeform: have to understand, jet fighter is not really a complete machine. it is a tentacle of the larger industrial slave empire which produced and employed it. ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: Also might be fun to rent a hangar and extract them of their own power.
BingoBoingo: I might have to make a trip there when I can convert BTC to pallets of local scrip
asciilifeform: there is a titanic pile of them at the little airport there.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Yes,a tv show. Reptilians in government was actual US pop culture artifact
gernika: Seemed to have a lot of references to the Nazis. 80s made for TV series in which lizards disguised as humanoids invade the planet.
asciilifeform: comes from an infamous crackpot whose name i've forgotten, who wrote a lengthy treatise on how planet has been secretly ruled by lizard-like aliens since time immemorial
gernika: May I ask where the reptilian reference comes from? (lizard hitler, et. al) I see some references to Hitler being a Lizard Alien Being on google, but nothing beyond a literal interpretation of that.
asciilifeform: this is a top reptilian priority.
asciilifeform: at no point may the orcs have a leader who is not an active muppet.
asciilifeform: fought a war partly to make this easier.
asciilifeform: then rebranded as a u.s. dept. of state 'dissidents need to plan their glorious democratic multi-coloured revolutions without interference from cruel orcish gestapos' gizmo.
asciilifeform: it was (originally - and semi-publicly) spun as a 'our spies need to do their thing under the cloak of a river of shit traffic so here's this free service' gizmo
kakobrekla: ill tell you for a buttcoin.
babbys_first_bit: how many bitcoins will i need today to be a millionaire in 10 yrs
mats_cd03: a dubious claim
BingoBoingo: They insert soldering iron into a convenient opening and wait for it to heat up
BingoBoingo: But with yourself and a soldering iron someone might extract the paper's location
babbys_first_bit: i've hidden in a pretty gud place
babbys_first_bit: I suppose unless I go around telling people IRL i've got a paper backup with my bitcoin wealth tied to it, nobody who happened to find it would even know what it meant. It's not like i wrote "ARMORY BACKUP FOR EXTREME BITCOIN WEALTH" on the backup
babbys_first_bit: I find it kind of odd how I'd need to use a USB stick combined with accessing my offline laptop with the password before I can send coins, yet if someone were to get my paper wallet and knew what those four letter words meant, they suddenly have the keys to the kingdom
BingoBoingo: I instead [censored] my [censored][censored] with [censored][censored][censored] under a [censored] mountain
BingoBoingo: That's a very good queston. Haven't used Armory in years
babbys_first_bit: Those paper wallet backups I made, if someone were to get a hold of them , and somehow know what they meant, could they steal my coins, or would they need my password?
babbys_first_bit: i have a shitty laptop that I've devoted to my cold storage, disabled wifi etc
The20YearIRCloud: Well, today we closed on another loan, putting the company back to a state with plenty o extra cash laying around.
assbot: I mortgaged my future with a Mac ... ( http://bit.ly/1yTADjh )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: My take on it is if you connect to enough nodes, you can probably tell which one prodcasted a transaction first, sometimes.
mircea_popescu: "a method for revealing IP addresses of Bitcoin wallet owners with success rate between 11\% and 60\%." ugh. my interest died.
mircea_popescu: NAT. We also show that a natural countermeasure of using Tor or other anonymity services can be cut-off by abusing anti-DoS countermeasures of the bitcoin network. Our attacks require only a few machines and have been experimentally verified. We propose several countermeasures to mitigate these new attacks.
mircea_popescu: We present an efficient method to deanonymize Bitcoin users, which allows to link user pseudonyms to the IP addresses where the transactions are generated. Our techniques work for the most common and the most challenging scenario when users are behind NATs or firewalls of their ISPs. They allow to link transactions of a user behind a NAT and to distinguish connections and transactions of different users behind the same
fluffypony: cazalla: it just looks like a rehash of the first movie but with better CGI
mircea_popescu: outside of biochemistry and perhaps some aeronautics, i struggle to think of a field where research is done in english
asciilifeform: 'Of course, this already happened: someone wrote a patch... in 2011... That said, the patch was rejected, and that's that. The bug lives on.'
assbot: Kill init by touching a bunch of files ... ( http://bit.ly/1vjWL7d )
fluffypony: I'm like a ghost
thestringpuller: Haven't seen fluffypony in a while
assbot: An Ode To My Tygers | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1vJCCtk )
assbot: Bitcoin Year-In-Review: The Price Went Down, So We Prepared For War | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1vJCE4q )
mats_cd03: more likely the driver got into an accident while attempting to kill a nuisance.
ben_vulpes: plus, i'd like host client meetings somewhere that isn't a noisy-as-fuck coffee shop.
ben_vulpes: mats_cd03: i run a consulting shop. far easier to get contributors to contribute/consult when there's an actual place to go.
ben_vulpes: 'Children’s need to be “stimulated, pushed and encouraged to take risks is as great as their need for stability and security,”' << merry go-rounds aren't a thing in the states any more, because children might get scraped up.
ben_vulpes puts fuel in the product arm of the biz in a vain attempt to survive the music stopping
cazalla: not usually something i worry about but i am sure there will be a long line of people handing over coins for useless shit on black friday
mircea_popescu: all the scams with "margin" and 90% fake trade volume get to report a "price".
mircea_popescu: by now "price" as reported by "exchanges" is pretty much a random value.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> and im pretty sure isis is the first place with a serenissima embassy, for that matter. << this exists in point of fact? <<< not quite, no.
mircea_popescu: <undata> mircea_popescu: I have no philosophical objection to burning gas <<< sure, but if you're on a barge you can't conceivably drill for oil. so ethanol's left.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> yeah Jim has a point << it was actually one Bill Frezza. jad just reprinted it.
Vexual: Jou Ma Se poes in a fish paste jar.
Vexual: but with a loss like that, id recommend less
Vexual: if hes worth a mil pa id be 200k
Vexual: id guess he cares more about mining his own tx's than a domain name
Vexual: anyway, that cunt can just hop n his aero and take a few more bitmain to iceland
cazalla: Vexual, perhaps new owner just uses it for email, there is no criteria stating he has to have a webpage
cazalla: auDA won't force new owner to return simply because of a mistake
Vexual: leaving 36k on the table might be a thing
cazalla: nah, new owner will prob want a pay day
Vexual: anyway zt doesn't mean zou tung anymore, this guy could buy his debt like me buying a cornetto
Vexual: i thought they were supposed to float a few weeks back?
cazalla: bitcoin group? that guy who is trying to float got social engineered lol and lost like 100 btc and he wants to run a company when he is so stupid to click emails
cazalla: Vexual, yeah yeah :P it was a joke
Vexual: hes not a mate or an associate
Vexual: i'd eat a galah
Vexual: ive been vego for a while
ben_vulpes: the RT iPhone app is a million times better than the WSJ's