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mircea_popescu: "I'm now an HTML coder at a startup in San Francisco. The “World Wide Web” has enabled me to crawl out of my debt-hole and bootstrap myself into the lower middle class. For the first time in my adult life, I can afford to
<b>eat
</b> in restaurants where I don't
<b> work.
</b"
<< if anyone's curious or keeping score, THIS is what impels all the dizzy dorks of today. their very own VHS tapes, if you will.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i'm not convinced that cumulative ( and yes -- mega-seekrit, it is ) damage to nervous system from organophosphates, beats ddt
<< Where do you live that wealth of organophosphates are still available with indoor labeling? Around here store shelves have Malathion - outdoors, Carbaryl - outdoors, and Dichlorvos - unoccupied enclosed spaces and bagged bedding in war on bedbugs
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> i'd much rather eat it, than anything sold nao
<< Any more the only things labeled for indoor use are permethrins
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> no. i recall the faggots, not yet VERY overweight, going to the things that meanwhile got captured by apple, much like coca-cola captured xmas
<< In elementry school historical context for the then present was established to be "on the verge of paradise, if only we stop littering"
☟︎ mod6:
<+asciilifeform> removal of ddt was one of the original triumphs of rampant envirowhinery.
<< "it softens up the eagle eggs!!1"
deedbot: whaack rated shinohai 1
<< qntra writer, helped me a bit with my spanish pronunciation
deedbot: whaack rated BingoBoingo 1
<< qntra editor, adds salt and pepper to my writing
a111: Logged on 2017-07-19 13:44 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in gavinlandia,
https://archive.is/KOhTm >> 'Resolution is to either guarantee there are non-bit1 signaling miners before enforcing (kind of incompatible with the definition of 80% activation), or manually guarantee the the graph of enforcing miners is connected.'
<< d00d realizes that the softshitfork thing won't work without cartel... proceeds to demand one
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated ave1 1 at 2017/05/18 13:08:19
<< slow square!
BingoBoingo:
<trinque> there's going to be no fixing the generation that took psych meds throughout puberty
<< plenty of possible fixing. Back to 'spec' likely never. Into something possibly.
deedbot: trinque rated daffadil -1
<< why do I smell california
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of daffadil from 1 to -1
<< lies conversationally.
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 14:59 asciilifeform: 'Identity-based encryption is a type of public-key encryption in which any arbitrary string (such as a user’s email address) can be used as a public key, enabling data to be protected without the need for long, randomly generated keys or certificates. Today, there are numerous standards for IBE based on Boneh’s work, including IEEE P1363.3 and several IETF RFCs.'
<< from the press release.
deedbot: asciilifeform updated rating of ave1 from 1 to 3
<< gnatronicist
deedbot: asciilifeform rated ave1 1 at 2017/05/18 13:13:06
<< ada lurker
lobbes: BingoBoingo:
<lobbes> damn. looks like my plans for my old craptop being a trb node will have to wait until I secure better iron.
<< Why can old craptop not eat SSD?
<< wtf I didn't even consider this. And yeah, this'll be a great opportunity to clean out the physical crap that's probably choking out the airflow in the thing.
BingoBoingo:
<lobbes> damn. looks like my plans for my old craptop being a trb node will have to wait until I secure better iron.
<< Why can old craptop not eat SSD?
BingoBoingo:
<sina> whenever DPR does a thing, Vizzini is forced to say "Inconceivable"
<< Except irl, mircea_popescu is not short and DPR sits in sodomy box while mircea_popescu's muscle has titties
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-19#1686438 <<< yes, because you're applying the pretense of statics to a dynamic situation. trinque 's metaphore is very much factual : we were paradopped on hot coals, by the FAULT, inexcusable, and indelible, of our parents. they should have taken care that we do not get dropped on hot coals, as children barely able to move. they did not, and derelict in their first and practically speaking on
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: sina> just, hopefully a list of adversary capability mapping to outcomes
<< anyone who can listen in (ie, intercept acoustic band) within a mile or so of your machine, can derive your key that way. anyone who can measure your power draw (say, up to the pole) can derive your key that way. anyone who can route to your box, and measure delays, can idem.
lobbes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-18#1686119 << This was exactly my case. I have same appreciation towards folx here as ag3nt_zer0. I bought first btc at $20 for purposes of silk road back in early 2014. Price quickly shot up. Found tardstalk 'securities'. I thought "Wow, pretty graphs and charts. Lemme try and catch the next boat11!"
☝︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> ^ word. i have seen kids drink these days. a) it's all beer and b) they think slightly buzzed = plastered.
<< Fuckers were also sober when arriving to bar
scriba: Logged on 2017-07-18: [05:45:01]
<mircea_popescu> gotta cut the total male-years somehow, and chem cockcage prolly even cheaper than the steel item.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform>
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170718/#143 << they're already 'eltsining' to death , with the good old bottle, no fancy dope needed necessarily
<< Not really, cars are too safe nowadays. With crumple zones it is hard to die as a drunk driver and the other alcoholic deaths take time. Also many of them ain't wired right to properly drink selves to death. Somehow their brains signal "drunk enough" and then they stop, I have no
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-18#1685822 << i'm not sure what happened. i initially misdiagnosed the issue, and lost the state necessary to figure out alternatives. i'm pretty sure though that the configuration parameters got reset (how??) and the bot was happily sitting on a random test channel
☝︎ scriba: Logged on 2017-07-18: [05:45:01]
<mircea_popescu> gotta cut the total male-years somehow, and chem cockcage prolly even cheaper than the steel item.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> wai would a richd00d take ballshrinkelixir
<< Apparently some users find shrank balls more comfortable, also HCG can be used to preven the shrink
BingoBoingo:
<mod6> some proper anal right there
<< Also great example of the importance of selecting the woman for ergonomics.
BingoBoingo:
<floog> emphasis on 'poor'
<< Next come to believe that a HIGHER POWER (perhaps one your came here to unwrap) can restore you to sanity
BingoBoingo:
<floog> at least it pays for the whale of student debt from the private uni that my parents convinced me was a good investment
<< Get fiat poor, stop paying, admit powerlessness. You are at rock bottom. Your bankruptcy now is not a financial one, but a moral and spiritual one. However THERE IS A SOLUTION!
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> that "abstract art" work we shall call the colors of factorial.
<< this sounds interesting
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> exactly 65536 ascii lines
<< sweet
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: bad noose : 9G
<< heh, ok pr0n dvd
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated floog 1
<< perhaps he's stumbled into the right place
a111: Logged on 2015-12-28 18:09 mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355361 << quite. all this verbiage about how "oh lalala, if miners stop enforcing X fork they will be excluded" fails to account for the fact that unlike the various PRBs, TRB does NOT actually implement any of the soft forks. so no, they won't be "excluded". nobody will notice they stopped.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> very acultural world, this anglotardlandia.
<< AHA, not even AGRIcultural anymore