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mircea_popescu: and my idea, somewhat in the vein of http://trilema.com/2017/time-to-get-out-by-the-way/ and more generally bitcoin, is that if you stick to it, corporations wil lwither and die. they're one of those evils which can only breathe for as long as good men do nothing.
mircea_popescu: between these two, you've covered the (imo) proper and useful homemade substitution in the food chain. nothing wrong with buying meat from the butcher -- tho it helps immensely if he's an actual butcher, as opposed to an employee of some franchise.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-25#1661612 << depends. a pig sty is no one's idea of a good time (well, with exceptions i think we have illustrated in the logs) ; but something like your own orchard is very strictly speaking land improvement, about same value as a pool (larger footprint though). they were used as such by the romans in their estate retreats, there's extant manuals, this is a well documented concept. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you gotta have a talk with your client, it's not ok to cut your overlong sentences, must send as multiline. ☟︎
asciilifeform: microshit's rng has (as of xp3) 0 hardware component.
asciilifeform: i've been exploring subj as part of the shitoshi question.
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, the cucumber plant was actually quite a hero: made dozens of cucumbers BUT it grew them to full size/ripened them *one at a time*; not an easy task apparently to make wholesome things even under rather favourable conditions as it were ☟︎
asciilifeform: this even with not having to use x configs for anything, as i have custom micro in there with custom fw
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack : imho naggum's mega-insight was that the hands have 0 business being so close together as they typically are, and that the space ~between~ them oughta contain specials
asciilifeform: as it is, sounds like worst of both worlds.
mod6: phf: aha. even with qwerty on the kinesis, it still messes me up a bit now on regular staggard row layouts. i never tried alt layouts such as dvorak since a friend went through the same thing. always found himself having to switch everyone elses keyboard to dvorak just to "use" their keyboard for a minute.
asciilifeform: ( because it is intrinsically 'antisheep' item and will NEVER exist as industrial output )
mircea_popescu: phf the "constraint" resultant strictly determines the item as a psychological rather than physical constructy.
asciilifeform: incidentally this here is another possible minus of 'old tanker as houseboat' idea. picture the pirates. they might shoot you out of sheer frustration...
phf: i don't have enough experience with open ocean sailing, but the ocean is not as big as you think, as far as pirate avoidance is concerned, because of the currents. you have stable streams, that are essentially mandatory for long distance travel. piracy has been traditionally carried out at various locations where these currents terminate or switch. if you're primarily relying on wind (and there's only so much gas your little boat will carry), you will
mircea_popescu: mp was born in a country where 20 dollars was a monthly salary. leverage is not so simple as all that.
mircea_popescu: the correct approach to "live rent free" is to work it as a business. the rest is poppycock.
mircea_popescu: nevermind that. consider this : my living arrangements, were they to be separated as an independent profit center, were in the green pretty much every year for the past 20.
asciilifeform: fwiw i'd like to solve what i see as the solvable problem, of minimizing living expense without having to live among scum
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu doesn't even consider introversion as anything other than insanity, does he.
asciilifeform: but not nearly as fun
mircea_popescu: this makes as much sense as any hobbyst discussion. ima check out.
mircea_popescu: and i fully expect that as he drowns you'll find some other equivalent nonsense to fully expect will work.
mircea_popescu: it was, then you just raise it six months later as if it hasn't.
asciilifeform: this could very well be true, but imho oughta be approached as ~technical~ question
asciilifeform: cheap + as close to 0 recurring cost as possible.
asciilifeform: afaik it was not released as of yet
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-25#1661225 << has approx same to do with modern rent racket, as with mars ☝︎
mircea_popescu: oh, in other lulz : laura codruta kovesi, ro axe handle and for ~decade very insistently presented by usg media as a sort of hero of the fight against "corruption" (aka, non-usg capital) is now sought by police because "somehow" disappeared just as various legal proceedings started.
mircea_popescu: or is that just more of "he robbed me of the glamour of yachting as seen by a cat inside a cardboard box" ?
mircea_popescu: but it can also be used in private practice, such as the obligation of guy who owns the gate to give you a key because you have a right of egress, or w/e such.
Framedragger: asciilifeform: this'll sound stupid, but have you checked whether mail from your mail server does not get marked as spam by various heathen systems (gmail e.g.)?
asciilifeform: fwiw d00d actually works (as academic) on optical rng
mircea_popescu: as per teh "whisperers" discussion : after you write, it's his problem. before you do, however, murkier.
asciilifeform: incidentally, if there were such a thing as an honest ic fab, the scintillator-cum-photodiode-cum-debiaser could easily be an ic
mircea_popescu: the item smells like the end of them. which it is. so... scary as all shit, yes.
asciilifeform: i dunno that i personally could buy so much as doghouse. outside of perhaps namibia.
asciilifeform: which is what happened , as i understand, to most of the 'believer' folx.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the hawaii "judge" lulz, /me is already preparing the popcorn for when the shoe will be on the other foot and libertards will be frothing at the mouth as to how THIS IS NOT ALLOWABLE!!! only democratic when does it for democratic party!!!1
mircea_popescu: fox could have run the whole story as martha stewart 2 and that's it.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if the same people made both. which... they have.
asciilifeform: sometimes i gotta wonder why i even bother to do experiments, when we could just write down mircea_popescu's hypothesis as result.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check out the dividends of intelligence. discussion with random brat was not worth having, until i had it, and then recounted it, and now it's worth it -- plenty of people who want to be writers or bloggers or whatever but the head doesn't help them would gladly pay moneyz for such "Content" as idle chatter hath produced.
mircea_popescu: but the big deal is that it's not just bitcoin which, even in its sad prototype form, is a much better alternative to "currency" as understood currently ; it's that tmsr is actually a much better replacement for the united nations.
mircea_popescu: but, the reason i'm not nearly as "entomology"-inclined as moist folks here is because i have a very heavy undercurrent of "hey mr p! you gotta talk to his one."
mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/j2mgG/?raw=true << this chick seriously imagines ima... actually let's take it by parts. this chick imagines that the fact she's not held an actual conversation ~is someone else's fault!~. she imagines someone's going to cut his beard for her dumb ass, not even as a hope but as an expectation, and she imagines she'll get free tickets.
mircea_popescu: 18 years is excessive, yet they regard it as nearly criminally short. 25 more the norm.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing specific. just likew "Karpeles is working on a solution!". what, i can run for miss dumbland just as well as a fat fuck.
mircea_popescu: and as far as these idiots are concerned, 100% of "life" experience comes from tv and such stories, and therefore it logically follows that yes, pretty good ods heel to face turn etc.
mircea_popescu: basically, what's going on here is, the STORY of life wouldn't make sense, ~as a story~, ie it wouldn't be put on tv, if there wasn't a twist here.
mircea_popescu: that silbert schmuck is on his what, 5th "oh, i will change the world" hear him roar only to be used as a cum rag ?
asciilifeform: the key insight, to use water as the SOLE moving part inside the shit-contacting subunit of the device, took ~200y from the first 'water closets' of modern europe...
asciilifeform finds the history of the shitter a fascinating thing, in that it followed in same pattern as, e.g., small arms -- i.e. went through a peak of RIDICULOUS complexity before finally simplified into modern form.
ben_vulpes: and insofar as the restrooms have keys, they are not public
ben_vulpes: as in "child, the might blaster is for lubricating and unfreezing bolts, not eating"
asciilifeform: ( it has this flexible throat thing so as to fit every possible tank arse )
asciilifeform: it comes with a bowden cable as actuator
asciilifeform: hanbot: this is still lulzy given as i was quite certain that all foreign rat shacks used the brand 'tandy' and vanished in late '80s
a111: Logged on 2017-05-20 19:16 mircea_popescu: Framedragger come to think about it, the logic actually follows. nature is red in tooth and claw. the hysteria of "removing the red from nature's tooth and claw", usually sold by the "our democracy" lunatics as "rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all the way to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
mircea_popescu: but as it is, the problem'd be that their mental object for a toilet does NOT EVEN FUCKING HAVE THE OPENABLE PROPERTY.
asciilifeform: and take upper half of THAT, as carry.
diana_coman: they were distributing some staff from canada's travel recommendations re "stay safe in argentina" for some reason; apparently some "laptop-stealing exercises" were quite well-planned as in 2-3 people, goop on the target's backpack, "helping" etc
trinque: I can also see the wisdom in seeing oneself as by nature, a lying sack of shit, requiring discipline to forge a human from the clay.
mircea_popescu: but just as whiskey was indian's bible, so was bible imigrants' whiskey.
trinque: were anyway, no such thing as italians here now
trinque: maybe why I give too much weight to the biological; italians are racist as hell after all
mircea_popescu: im not sure there is such a thing as a tribal type. basically any group of hucows has some humans and some cows mixed in. what you call "tribal types" is where cows are biologically dominant. cultivate the population for a few generations, it's just as capable to northern italy 15cento as northern italy itself. which, if you decultivate for a few generations...etc.
diana_coman: quite well,thanks; fighting the swamps of planeshit as usual these days
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> for as long as your antecessors accumulated fat lasts, you can pretend. after which, welcome to jobbagy, and complain to my asshole about "the unfairness of it all". <- well, fat of ancestors can only be eaten/spent, but not sustained without own muscle; so basically it makes sense: they are searching for their own *real* level/position as downwards as that might be; not as if they are aware of it or need be, bu
diana_coman: ah yes; and fwiw it's anyway still live and well in Ro as well
mircea_popescu: for as long as your antecessors accumulated fat lasts, you can pretend. after which, welcome to jobbagy, and complain to my asshole about "the unfairness of it all".
diana_coman: lol, it's ok; argentinians are/have been -happily! - waiting as well and they will keep at it indefinitely, what
jhvh1: 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
pete_dushenski: as an aside, this mircea_popescu retelling blows my feeble canadian mind no matter how many times i read it. i'm not sure there's been a single person in the history of this great arable land that's had an impromptu motorcade like that.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 03:32 mircea_popescu: the stopping of talking in the tardsgroup is never suspicious. they talk at the margins, as per the "gotta say unsaid things" heuristic.
mircea_popescu: the stopping of talking in the tardsgroup is never suspicious. they talk at the margins, as per the "gotta say unsaid things" heuristic. ☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'formulate as predictor' came from asciilifeform's ongoing regular stabs at breaking shitoshi's rng. ☟︎
asciilifeform: tests as we have them now are useful because they can reveal 'organic' damage or misdesign, e.g. stuck bits. rather than malfeasance.
mircea_popescu: i suppose distributions is the sane way to go about this. study if taking byte as 3 gives uneven distribution as opposed to taking byte as 8, say.
asciilifeform: this can be restated as a better-than-chance predictor of n-th bit of stream.
mircea_popescu: as per goedel.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-23 01:33 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is insoluble and dieharder/ent/etc are fundamentally braindamaged. there's no way to avoid the "give it a large enough sample it'll show 100%" problem specifically because there's no such thing as random bitstream.
mircea_popescu: moreover, even something as simple as "discern if bitstream X is a linear function with an irrational parameter" is beyond what can be established.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is insoluble and dieharder/ent/etc are fundamentally braindamaged. there's no way to avoid the "give it a large enough sample it'll show 100%" problem specifically because there's no such thing as random bitstream. ☟︎
shinohai: `t` has proved useful as well, just for personal recor-keeping
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/05/impeachment-fantasy-of-us-socialist-party-begins-collapsing-as-infighting-resumes/ << Qntra - Impeachment Fantasy Of US Socialist Party Begins Collapsing As Infighting Resumes
shinohai: Only after rigorous testing, such as shown above, do the finest fuckgoats units leave the lab.
mircea_popescu: but as far as alternative fuckgoats testing goes, http://collarspace.com/cdn/cinema/queensnake/computer-love-ad1.mp4
ben_vulpes: you know what i need, a software as a service thinger that spins forever before delivering a 504
scriba: ssh banner of 38.96.45.137 as seen on 2016-06-13: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-9
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is the town where a tattered rope from old toy balloon turned into a 'noose' and worked as pretext for butthurt 'commisions', 'diveristy ralleys', doubled funding for 'victim advocates', candlelight vigils, etc
mircea_popescu: “The parents are totally devastated that their young son, that was at the peak of his career about to take off, and his life was taken away senselessly,” said Godlock, who is serving as a family spokesman.
asciilifeform: just happened to be in same fishwrap as the knifey
scriba: Logged on 2017-05-20: [19:16:12] <mircea_popescu> Framedragger come to think about it, the logic actually follows. nature is red in tooth and claw. the hysteria of "removing the red from nature's tooth and claw", usually sold by the "our democracy" lunatics as "rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all the way to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
mircea_popescu picked up aspiring slave/slut at airpot. as per instruction she wore heels an a light dress, no more. dress came off right then and there, into the garbage bin. walked to car, got in... people tried not to notice as is customary...
BingoBoingo: Kid maybe even was bragging. Just forgot to frame walk as "football training"
mircea_popescu: cryingly obvious that the only correct solution is ask "social worker" dork for his name, paying him a visit, beating him until he swears he will never as long as he lives call anyone with that bullshit ever again.
ben_vulpes: last time i checked, forty weeks was also square in the middle of "yeah, that's as normal as we have data to back up calling anything about birth normal"
mircea_popescu: you'll have to source that claim from an actual doctor, as opposed to a drunkard / exile.
ben_vulpes: and mine that ten month terms uncontroversial as the precarity of life as far back as the greeks