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gribble: Error: 'ben_vuples' is not a valid integer.
Vexual: do I need a rating to rate?
Vexual: I knew it was a little naughty, I wasn't expecting that
mircea_popescu fears fcntl is a bit bondogley
mircea_popescu: The World Started A Day Before I Was Born (tm)
mircea_popescu: "Both sides of the war are better off if a cooperate/cooperate equilibrium is coercively imposed." oooo....rly ?!
mircea_popescu: "Women want to have sex with the highest status men available (as women perceive male status, which is similar to the way a small evil child raised by cannibal head hunters perceives status) and be supported by men."
ben_vulpes: although hey popehat that's a grand resource
mircea_popescu: lol a captain on his shipp
ben_vulpes: well this'd be the difference between a spec and an implementation, non?
ben_vulpes: "when i was your age, i got to work at 8, got off at 5, drank a beer, got on the train, went home and was at home. you poor fool answer emails lo unto 10pm"
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's intended as a two week mindfuck.
ben_vulpes: oh god a giant trilema linking to other giant trilemas
ben_vulpes: "inside voice" is one of the more useful things to teach a dog: http://videos-f-16.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-xfa1/10745249_1722322861325716_1685564917_n.mp4
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> who hasn't seen a sign, marked, 'notausgang' - emergency exit << read as "not a us gang"
asciilifeform: gang aft a'gley.
decimation: gang (n.) from Old English gang "a going, journey, way, passage," and Old Norse gangr "a group of men, a set," both from Proto-Germanic *gangaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Danish, Dutch, Old High German, German gang, Old Norse gangr, Gothic gagg "act of going"), from PIE root *ghengh- "to step" (cognates: Sanskrit jangha "shank," Avestan zanga- "ankle," Lithuanian zengiu "I stride"). Thus not considered to be related to go.
mircea_popescu: speaking of romanians raping words (which is what they do) : patent in romanian means a type of pliers.
asciilifeform: who hasn't seen a sign, marked, 'notausgang' - emergency exit
mircea_popescu: only after a while it occurred to me that wait a second, not like these people could know that ?! wtf ?!
mircea_popescu: in romanian, gang means, "underpass". and for a while i thought that's what it meant, rape occuring in such a place
decimation: ghengis kahn wouldn't bother with a contract either
decimation: at least then you would be signing a contract rather than just paying thieves
mircea_popescu: bezzle influence. they will charge a derpy usg bureaucrat 2k for an hour, and then take three dudes at some party
decimation: when one signs up for a 30 year mortgage it's pretty easy to imagine death coming first
mircea_popescu: "and this, my dear girls, is how you make a cnc mill out of menstrual blood"
decimation: once in my youth I intercepted a business deal between a hooker and a john using a scanner in the portable-phone frequency range
mircea_popescu: you'd make them a cardano ?
kakobrekla not a gentleman.
mircea_popescu: it's the duty of any gentleman to fuck a whore at least yearly.
mircea_popescu: listen, if smart people don't fuck whores, the poor girls are left with a very poor impression of maledom
undata: better stated, the only owned information is a secret
undata: in my case, I will never file a software patent.
decimation: that would make it difficult to take a shit
mircea_popescu: and suppose i have a toilet in my house that instead of the usual seat has a penis shaped stick to sit on ?
decimation: it's not really a logic puzzle
kakobrekla: this is a rehash of dignity of downed pilots
decimation: If there's a bridge that you voted against and the gov't built anyway, would you use it?
mircea_popescu: and i mostly don't give a shit, either.
asciilifeform: why would some nitwit ddos the #b-a log.
mircea_popescu: but your point doesn't work, seeing how... there isn't a way.
undata: my point is there's always a way, and that fact doesn't necessarily stop good content
mircea_popescu: here's a good one : it'll never happen that they'll send people to prison for fixing software.
undata: mircea_popescu: by causing a "no p2p app x" law?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that being the only reason it still survives as a going concern.
asciilifeform: it's already a mostly null set
asciilifeform: the copyrasty problem will find its 'final solution' in a rather elegant, if traumatic, way. the various american 'industries' that form the brain & body of copyrasty (film, music, dead tree publishing) will be done in by the banal fact of their customers having nothing to spend.
undata: right now there is a nonzero risk (in the US) that you get outed by your ISP and end up paying loads
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2014 19:19:31; asciilifeform: 'Learn not to participate - to the point of utter impossibility of meeting the enemy 'half-way' - and you will see that inside there lay a very useful mindfuck: in learning to 'nonparticipate,' in fact you drew out your *will* from its scabbard - to which it seemed so securely riveted by your upbringing. The appearance of *your will* changes everything and forever. With your own will slipped into your
decimation: it's a weird quirk of their particular abbatoir
mircea_popescu: don't try to buy a special, "private" hammer.
mircea_popescu: you want private use of a hammer, wear gloves.
mircea_popescu: you want privacy, get a vm.
asciilifeform: 'property rights' of the pissants << gotta understand the inevitable reaction when people move a property boundary. and especially when they move it, as if they owned the universe, straight through your brain, wishing to cut off half
undata: I guess tribler's working on a tor fork
asciilifeform: and of pragmatic. never know when might need to make a trade.
asciilifeform: ru folks (the thinking kind) collect warez as a matter of principle.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I feel the compulsion to collect them in case 1984 << you are doing a good thing.
asciilifeform: templeos << terry davis is a 'stainless steel rat.' just, a more skilled one than i am
asciilifeform: or rather, a set.
asciilifeform: even if a figure like jamie dimon is more analogous to an insect queen than to a 'secret hitler' -
mircea_popescu: but this is evolving towards a rehash of the meta-nsa discussion we've really done to death
asciilifeform: pruning << the shitgnomes don't dare a hardfork. so they'll happily try a 'lossy softfork' - see how much functionality can be degraded (in this case, how much of the blockchain can be alzheimered) without hardforking.
decimation: the assertions he makes neglect a large pile of real-world costs
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: do messages of less than 32 MB transmit regularly? are you aware of a discernable phase boundary for transmission reliability?
mircea_popescu: but as a general moral of the thing, one's best be careful to post on their blog trashing idiots like us* or else they risk appearing in victorious tweets like "oh noes, 5 economists reviewed this!!!", which is exactly how the empire works.
decimation: well to be fair she was just a reviewer
gribble: You rated user princessnell on Thu Jun 12 00:45:23 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: She's smart..
ben_vulpes: side note about the 32mb number: andresen claims that as the largest message that can be sent in a single bitcoin p2p message.
assbot: A Package in a league of its own: <code>Helm</code>
ben_vulpes: hang on a sec
assbot: Add a switch to allow running in a pruned state by rdponticelli Pull Request #4481 bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub
decimation: yeah I always liked konqueror becuase it would just open a file as an arg
assbot: Add a switch to allow running in a pruned state by rdponticelli Pull Request #4481 bitcoin/bitcoin GitHub
ben_vulpes: pardon sir, a typo
mircea_popescu: quite a soviet moment.
ben_vulpes: can't run with a wallet in pruned mode?
mircea_popescu: i mean it's ridoinculous, a five year old can smell the shit, yet supposedly pointing it out is somehow controversial and wildly speculative
decimation: I like how on one had the sky is falling so we need bigger blocks, but on the other hand the sky is falling so we need a smaller blockchain
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's a lousy fix for a serious problem that "doesn't exist" because logics
ben_vulpes: bad search as a service
decimation: he has a complete version of openssl that will work with bitcoin, you can download the src.rpm and build for arbitrary unix
undata: ben_vulpes: I tried earlier on gentoo; it wanted a different openssl than ssh did, so I gave up.
decimation: I think asciilifeform is right, better to run on a real os
ben_vulpes: <decimation> ben_vulpes: did you manage to compile your package on osx? << not even trying. i set up a virtualized debian toolchain.
decimation: mr. yarvin had a post where he hypothesized that if there were a credible alternative to usg it would immediately crumble
decimation: might as well wear a boot on your head and shout at strangers
asciilifeform: in usa we had a version of this. vermin supreme.
decimation: this is a healthy development for their democracy, satan's world is on display
decimation: I'm sure compiling that shit from scratch would be a nightmare
decimation: asciilifeform: is there a 'port' package for boost?
decimation: yeah maybe openbsd is a good idea
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, im not sure she knows what a shoehorn is,
mircea_popescu: here's a funny story : i have a maid here. as maids do, she has decided on a sorting of items in my place and is enforcing it unless one tells her better. which is the great unknown and unsung power of the default.
asciilifeform: how many usaschwitz inmates even own a shoehorn.
asciilifeform: shoehorns are a neglected but important piece of infrastructure!
mircea_popescu: thinks people ask about porn. "is that a shoehorn ?"
asciilifeform: is that a shoehorn?
asciilifeform: i suggested a qemu image earlier, if anyone recalls.
mircea_popescu: a vm generally is possibly the way out.