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a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 06:05
mircea_popescu: the reason is obvious, they start at more millions than he has. not more millions than he;d have had the cardano shipped on schedule and we all make it rich off the exploding share price, but neways.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 06:04
mircea_popescu: no fucking way he gets a cheaper seaworthy platform.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:50
mircea_popescu: honestly, the age never existed. i've seen such ages, up close and personal. but the composition of this particular version was exceedingly weak. not even teracotta soldiers, more like pillsbury doughmen.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:45
mircea_popescu: he fucking admits deleting emails. what archive is this ?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: 30-35 is when the women should be independent and wealthy after having finished basking in the glory of
mircea_popescu and learning
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: whut? 30-35 is prime wimminzing?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> small tanker, best possibru vessel. << Can even build properly plumbed ark inside!!!
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 14:38
mircea_popescu: nobody ever told 20 yo girly, in her 16 or so years of active intellectual life to date, that she's fucking untalented and needs to go do something she can actually do.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: works good! followed the guide pretty much exactly. just the version numbers need to be updated in the wiki, and the link to the binary.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 13:57
mircea_popescu can't think of any valid excuse anyone involved in os design could possibly have not to already be in wot.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 06:15
mircea_popescu: and speaking of gpg deplorable state asciilifeform can you think of any possible reason the damned thing doesn't come a) bundled with ent and b) with ready implemented tests of local entropy while c) key generation is a subset of entropy testing in all cases ?
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> more practical would be to force the code to make a pile of say 64 byte keys and sieve them. << this would be interesting.
a111: Logged on 2015-05-20 15:03
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-05-2015#1139680 << speaking of this, am I the only one nonplussed by all this "we use <<best practices>> fixed exponent" bs ? it's an unavoidalbe magic number , okay, but it's tyhe sort that should eminently be a knob for the user. a proper gpg would have e user-settable at the key generation phase (with 65536+1 as a default, sure)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 02:58
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the curious amateur historian may be well served by a review of the 2nd anglo-dutch war. some underlined parts : the anglos were deeply overextended politically - their crummy country consisting of one single town and a bunch of retarded peasants ; while the republic had many more merchants, with lots more money. in practice this meant that the english could pay for one ship where the dutch could afford seven ;
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> openssh is a scandalous piece of trojan work, on the other hand. << OpenSSL is, OpenSSH is collateral damage
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> incidentally BingoBoingo : it ~would~ be fair to say that the bitfinex failure as presented by bitfinex amounts exactly to a major failure of the dao as meagrely implemented in bitcoin. << Indeed, as presented
shinohai:
mircea_popescu: maybe they use the same metrics counter as twitter does.
shinohai: I read that sign as "Spammed Travel"
mircea_popescu phf:
mircea_popescu: "рубить", "топор" has a very nice sound to it in russian, which is that of something crude, rough, but also to the point. can string a few of those together with a lot of breaks and pauses to get a feeling of "honest" crudeness or somesuch
trinque:
mircea_popescu │ ah sweet it puts the deed bundles in here now ? << sho nuff
gribble: [17:56:55] <
mircea_popescu> ;;lastblock
diana_coman: phf, in that case basically
mircea_popescu has a point anyway and there isn't anywhere to go otherwise; I read it to mean what I said above (so no, not the best etc) - maybe I was just so tolerant as to miss the bullshit entirely
phf: i think that if you approach jrrt as literature and worse start applying literary analysis to it, then
mircea_popescu wins in the first round. if you start looking for life lessons and values in jrrt books it's a lot of really dodgy shit
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu, hm, as far as I recall they are not great fighters at all for one thing
diana_coman: <
mircea_popescu> really, byzantine fiction (currently known as the vulgate) is much better. but i don't think much more of the people who regard the bible as "great writing" than of the tolkien fans. <- fans, lol; out of curiosity: an example as to "much better"?
phf: asciilifeform: luddism point is aligned with what
mircea_popescu is saying, so nobody's really interested in shooting own foot :>
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: ty, thing we discussed is nearing publication
hanbot:
mircea_popescu wow wtf.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-02 16:18
mircea_popescu: diana_coman you know that medieval "for lack of a nail" thing ?
hanbot: well there's an interesting cleavage. it's probably a stretch but i might suggest that tolkein's bit with gollum shares the sensual/sexual/at any rate internal-and-external, physical change via subjugation of self that appears in say alice's "eat me" wafers, if that does anything for you
mircea_popescu hanbot: <phf>
mircea_popescu: what about stevenson, doyle, dumas, kipling, they also all fall into that category? << and what of verne & carroll?
phf:
mircea_popescu: what about stevenson, doyle, dumas, kipling, they also all fall into that category?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Seriously. In the interim the butthurt is a lot of win.
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu> this activity, not just "tolkien" but generally "reading", is very much subverted in the anglotard world. have yo useen this, whole carloads of white, quiet, mousy people "reading a book" on their commute <- actually I saw this in FRANCE
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu, "there's no errect penis in tolkien's book" - is this a correct description of the main fault you find?
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu, absolutely; I can't compute it atm at all, not even enough to spit out something meaningful on it
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> nothing wrong with this, EXCEPT it comes with instructions, and the instructions include "how to castrate yourself with your new lego set" << This does seem like Tolkien/Lewis/Rowling et al. Pretty much made to turn people into apies with "worlds where people are special but fucking doesn't exist"
diana_coman:
mircea_popescu, thing is that what people can or cannot be bothered to read has to do with them, not with what is written really; so it's kind of circular: he writes "crud" because I can't be bothered to read it
a111: Logged on 2016-08-02 15:30
mircea_popescu: iirc the army training is more along the lines of "if your mate looks like he's going to become a prisoner, shoot them"
diana_coman: asciilifeform was faster than me on tolkien; it sounds to me that
mircea_popescu's objection to Tolkien is that he did not tackle the right problem(s)
a111: Logged on 2016-04-05 03:04
mircea_popescu: ok, point taken, the guy is good.
shinohai: Good lolz you posted earlier re: Tual
mircea_popescu a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 17:51
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the eth "rednecks" are "acting against their own interest". as per usg verbiage now current.
phf: i guess goes to
mircea_popescu's often repeated points about a difference between king and bureaucrat
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 21:46
mircea_popescu: "ferari better than maserati because 350 vs 320 written on odometer"
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 21:09
mircea_popescu: if the trend of "smart phones for stupid people" continues a few years, banning mobiles from one's site will become a very respectable heuristic to ensure quality discussion.
hanbot:
mircea_popescu is faking user agent beyond the ken of "stupid people"? moreover, there'll just be a mobile app for "not being mobile", what's this banning gonna achieve.
phf: trinque: it's truncated from the original, so i agree with asciilifeform or
mircea_popescu it's either a very very lame hacking "attempt" or a troll
phf:
mircea_popescu: a lot of xss detection "solutions" rely on grepping for known bad input, like "script" or whatever. and there are ways to sidestep that, like '<scr' + 'ipt>' or a='ipt>';'<scr'+a. in this case whoever is fucking with detection by using this truly wtf feature i've never heard of, <meta charset="a">b</meta> that apparently parses b according to charset a rules
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