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mircea_popescu: if you take the 94 million kulaks, capitalists, dissidents and other groups of people that socialists murdered in the twentieth century, and punch the numbers into a calculator, the average number of victims per hour equals almost exactly the one-hour kill count of Anders Breivik. Just imagine how absurd it would be if, instead of being captured and neutralized, Anders were simply allowed to keep killing people day and
asciilifeform: herr kokkarinen made a point never to write an essay more than 1 paragraph or so in length.
asciilifeform: incidentally this is why a correctly-implemented blockchain db is isomorphic to a 'journalling' file system.
mircea_popescu: didn't you shut yours down a number of times ?
asciilifeform: how often does a sane person shut down 'bitcoind' anyway?
assbot: I wrote a book… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/i-wrote-a-book/ << click 1st link.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ever considered releasing asylum as a pay-per-dl?
asciilifeform: this is the book, which was a 'best of' (in his view) of his last site, 'fourth checkraise.'
mircea_popescu: turns out this is a moot consideration in your case.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : "Explanation of -detachdb (and the new “stop true” RPC command): The Berkeley DB database library stores data in both “.dat” and “log” files, so the database is always in a consistent state, even in case of power failure or other sudden shutdown. The format of the “.dat” files is portable between different versions of Berkeley DB, but the “log” files are not– even minor version differ
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cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/11/coinbase-seeking-a-risk-investigator/
mircea_popescu: and the folk that muck a hand the moment it can't win don't tend to end up in the bottom half of the poker tourney either.
mircea_popescu: in some circumstances, listening to the women is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: fuck that. the freedom you like is built on a certain kind of disinterest in effects.
mircea_popescu: just because some fucktarded barbarians in a colony think that cowboys in sheets = latins.
asciilifeform: (it being a kind of property right, traditionally - fat surprise.)
decimation: well that's a good point, he probably didn't
mircea_popescu: and i dare think if he had a tenured position this would have been a non issue
decimation: mircea_popescu: to be fair, you didn't have a tenured position in a nato colony
mircea_popescu: wait. how does a computing dept accept or not accept views in other fields ?
asciilifeform: there is a mostly full one. somewhere.
asciilifeform: decimation: there are folks who do it for a hobby.
asciilifeform: fiddybucks buys you all the components, in a manageable pocket size.
mircea_popescu: joecool this is my broader point. a stupid language deserves its own stupidity.
asciilifeform: and in general for folks who don't give a flying fuck
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is a standard usg 'lie detector.' << the funny thing is, i dunno if the scientologists copied the ohmmeter after the usg "lie detector", or vice-versa, the fbi is tring to find yout tethans
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: possibly even fewer. <<< he likes a short thing lol.
mircea_popescu: i was mostly giving you a hard time :D
decimation: re: gavin's 40 hr week << I was merely pointing out that if ascii's formula is (freedom hrs)/(work hrs), then gavin might have a good score
joecool: i just went to groups.google.com and ran a search and it popped up a few usenet newsgroups and some results mostly from usenet
mircea_popescu: and they're like, you know, a buncha barbarians confronting microorganisms.
mircea_popescu: coburn actually has to TELL people, that attribution is a thing.
asciilifeform: but anyone who thought that a 'library of alexandria' was safe in the hands of the likes of 'google' - was a fool from the start.
mircea_popescu: and it's vastly pervasive. average us politician will not understand that his voting record is a matter of... record!
mircea_popescu: for a while i used to say it (back when i was dealing with romanians). it did... exactly zero difference.
mircea_popescu: somehow this is not a possible concept.
mircea_popescu: and this chan is called a cult, or anything else bad!111 for that reason.
asciilifeform: one day we produce a koraktor, wrapped in sc4mz0r pelt cover, 'the art and science of hunting shitgnome'
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:27:45; asciilifeform: there was a three-man system
asciilifeform: a year ago.
mircea_popescu: which is why career anlysis is such a powerful tool,
asciilifeform: and the printed one was a 'print on demand', there was no actual reason to zap it
asciilifeform: also a very decent mathematics handler.
asciilifeform: he was a die-hard poker player and loved applying the metaphors to, well, relevant things.
asciilifeform: foseti and a few other guys have warez scans
asciilifeform: i have the dead tree book, it's a 'best of' his blog
decimation: foesti has a review http://foseti.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/review-of-the-wingnut-musings-by-ilkka-kokkarinen/
asciilifeform: he is/was a finnish emigre, working as a comp sci prof in canada. was hounded off the net by 'outraged mass' for moldbuggery.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i know of no setup where it is possible to set up even a very decent 486 in such a way that it can be used for serious work today. <<< sarge ?
decimation: lol he has a book http://www.amazon.com/The-Wingnut-Musings-Ilkka-Kokkarinen/dp/1468166816
asciilifeform: i think ilkka kokkarinen had a colachobot
decimation is dreaming of building a colacho-bot which attempts to provide the appropriate aphorism for the conversational mood
asciilifeform: but also a region.
undata: that even sounds like a soviet labor camp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: teenager would run and hide in a corner << puzzling over this. why would this happen ?
asciilifeform: don't advertise for a 'stierlitz' in a public channel...
cazalla: any takers for http://www.findbitcoinjobs.com/jobs/20347-risk-investigator-at-coinbase ? can double as a mole for qntra
asciilifeform: undata: a fellow i work with spent his childhood (india) in cow shit detail. fuel for the local cremation pyre.
undata: asciilifeform: hey man, I shoveled actual cow shit as a summer gig long ago
asciilifeform: folks who have not boiled in the cauldron cannot fathom the kind of hells that exist. i once worked in a salt mine where scores of people dredged 'reddit', illicitly, all day.
decimation: asciilifeform: for myself, I find working with an engage colleague to be much more motivating than a boss yelling
mircea_popescu: should that actually happen, teenager would run and hide in a corner.
mircea_popescu: laziness is a virtue of the well provisioned.
mircea_popescu: even today i have plenty of handcrankled tasks for the aspiring slavegirl. never a shortage of that. what's of shortage is teh ppl to disciplinedly work, erry day, hour after hour.
mircea_popescu: many people are used to micromanagement, under relentless pressure from a pointless class that wants to justify its existence
asciilifeform unaware of this being a thing for any of the people still here
mircea_popescu: some guys work three jobs to try and get the kid in school where he can work in a sv startup. this is a degree of improvement.
undata: this is such a strangely wonderful place
mircea_popescu: for some chicks, the fact that how the shot does a cheese dispenser work ?! is a more pressing question.
asciilifeform: if a successful las vegas roll - less so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied << well, i know you self-motivate by refusing to see some degrees, but there are some degrees.
mircea_popescu: no no, bitcoin itself can close in such a way so as to not leave its own state crud crudely saved
decimation: mircea_popescu: you mean running bdb as a separate process?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even if the work of a policeman consisted solely in going to a doughnut shop and eating a kg of garbage every day, so long as he -must- -- that is still work.
asciilifeform: or, almost exclusively (got a few bsd boxen around)
asciilifeform: although destroying sole means of network connectivity and ending up snaking a ppp link across room, is good times
asciilifeform: one can always get a text tty
asciilifeform: at any rate, no box i ever owned was rendered entirely unbootable by a braindamaged gentoo
asciilifeform: now, anyone with access to a skip owns arbitrarily many
mircea_popescu: but i mean... rendered unusalbe as in you can't get a terminal on your monitor
decimation: but for that reason most contractors are reluctant to 'donate' their hardware in such a way
asciilifeform: a number of them.
decimation: do you have a favorite 'junk dealer' in the dc area?
decimation: yeah only someone attending to 'serious business' would have a setup like that
decimation: asciilifeform: you could probably get grant money from usg if you were a scamademic
asciilifeform: someone who wants to make a spy drama film, will buy it.
decimation: lol that would be amusing as a party trick
asciilifeform: this is a standard usg 'lie detector.'
asciilifeform: ^ saw this alive in a university surplus shop last week.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: He was the sportsman in the 1990's shot his finger off a few weeks ago. Reattached. "Modern Medicine" has problems.
assbot: Doug Williams Indicted for Teaching How to Pass a Polygraph Test | AntiPolygraph.org News
decimation: asciilifeform: I found some amusing info: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2014/11/15/doug-williams-indicted-for-teaching-how-to-pass-a-polygraph-test/
decimation: a portion of them are doing exactly that every year
asciilifeform: decimation: however, there is perhaps a million people in usa who, if they were to suffer some form of 'brain parasite', could easily jump the border and live this way on the capital they could smuggle out.
decimation: at any rate, I get you point, but you realize that the number of folks who are 'free' by your definition are probably less than a few thousand in the us
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: So there's a media narrative when team A is having a horrible year that supposed they were good enough to win if only the competition wasn't so strong. But the narrative for Team B is that they are so miserable and wouldn't be winning if only their competition wasn't so weak. And then teams A and B finally meet and in the game B actually maintains a position of superiority.
decimation: so while he might be able to skate for a few years, later he's a pauper in retirement living on government cheese
asciilifeform: decimation: but that he is not actually free to, for example, do a 'decent' bitcoind