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Diablo-D3: BingoBoingo: truffles runs
a large company and writes foss in his spare time?
mircea_popescu: nothing has
a negative effect on your health in moderate amts.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, as kman says, props for not being
a butthurt bitch.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: Btc jam had the option, I figured it wasn't unheard of for loans with
a term of more than like 2 weeks
keonne: ok, off for
a bit, cheers
mircea_popescu: i did notice it. i discarded it, too, cause who the hell is giving you
a fiat loan.
fluffypony: keonne: Meh, it was
a year ago, and I can understand mircea_popescu not noticing the USD linked loan
keonne: fluffypony: props to not being
a butthurt bitch in the comments
mircea_popescu: he did not, no. mostly because nobody in btc would accept such
a deal.
mircea_popescu: you know there's
a guy who tried this in 2012 for similar reasons ?
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: ok but as mentioned in the original post, the issue was not solvency or collateral - it was
a brief experiment to see if I could get
a secured loan at
a better rate than I could locally
BingoBoingo: This transition in the US really was
a big thing between Pershing and Lyndon Johnson
BingoBoingo: The Robert Hansen puritain to
a fault type though at the higher levels of government security organizations is not that rare in the US though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In the US in any niche there is always
a puritain contingent of some pretending to bees. Generally the higher in any gov niche the more they dominate.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it was obviously
a jab at
a roomfull of potheads telling the sober guy that "he doesn't understand how the pretty colors work"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder what % of the us agency agents are actually drug free. not pretend-free, not pass the test free, but actually, as
a lifestyle.
BingoBoingo: But nao that Ibuprofen has been
a drug for so long
mircea_popescu: "it was found" derp. i dunno wtf land of the free you live in, i went to scvhool in communist romania. yet
a teacher'd not have dared go through your bag.
BingoBoingo: Maybe we can improve on
a topic raised on Goat's forum?
mircea_popescu: "We would never strike
a student and whether the software is pirated or not is not the issue. He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable."
BingoBoingo: I liek how allegedly the msot illegal thing I have done in my like was supposedly making
a fucking phone call
mircea_popescu: then the people who think try and insulate themselves, and this is how thinking became
a crime in the us
BingoBoingo: Really, I mean I can literally order
a liter of vancomycin concentrate on the jsutification that I have an itch. Fuck the man.
mircea_popescu: sadly these idiots have gotten it to where i can't send you
a bottle.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i should send you
a bottle of this here cognac
BingoBoingo: I want to do
a post on Donnie Darko and Popular American Calvinism, but I just can't get myself drunk enough to write it.
mircea_popescu: it's
a thing tho. your average "man's rights" dood on
a forum somewhere is only happy in an "unhappy" marriage.
bounce: heh. derpage in
a can.
BingoBoingo: Prolly fails the most in one of my favorite James Bond flicks when Felix Ligheter for Lighter's sake gets chewed by
a shark
bounce: the "TL;DR" thing is
a nice misunderstanding, by the by. don't put summaries at the bottom, where I find'em after I read the article.
bounce: s/incentive/rationale/ really, the incentive is
a bit lacking
bounce: hmm. well, there is
a good incentive to conciseness (see EWD1300, at least first two paragraphs) but "the GUI beliefs" overshot it in
a grand way, sort-of coming out the other way
mircea_popescu: yet i suspect we're getting to
a point where it's actually becoming false, and nobody has the oversight to call it.
mircea_popescu: bounce the traditional wisdom used to be that (booklength spec + half line user manual) beats (one page spc + one page user manual), because you do the book once and then the millions of users are saved
a million pages.
bounce:
a WoT thingy makes more sense, but is harder to work with and harder to understand
BingoBoingo: Really
a Python, LISP or C for retards readable imlementation
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: So... what Open source alternatives are there to OpenSSL which aren't as much of
a bitch to read? << this is actually
a very large, and very open problem.
keonne: /r/dirtysmall being
a personal favourite
bounce: don't link me, and no I don't have
a twittar
mircea_popescu: i mean, sure slashdot sucks today, but one day it was
a big thing. meanwhile 9gag or baumwhatever never were big things
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ted Turner did those things for what he imagined was
a reason. I imagine you would have
a better reason, butthurt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform punkman that is
a car that was sideswiped into
a pole by
a large truck.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic at the very least as an interim install
a gpg-based method for peole to verify your certs.
Apocalyptic: i have
a plan to switch to
a full mpex-like model
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: there should be
a gpg encrypted bitcoin illuminati forum<< once this chan goes +m it'll pretty much be it i guess.
keonne: maybe I just liked him outright because he was
a megasmoker
mircea_popescu: i knew
a guy like this, was hysterical. had
a bookie biz, old skinny guy, megasmoker, huge glasses
mircea_popescu: he probably paid some debts, got
a coupla girls for
a long weekend and that was it.
fluffypony: The internet was
a different place then, everyone trusted each other with no real basis for it
keonne: lol like i said,
a good lesson early on
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually, i suspect you're right. there may be two of them, an old sculptor guy and
a teeny pictor.
keonne: Its okay though. I appreciated that possibly fake mircea popescu - he taught me
a good lesson
keonne: but I could throw together
a quick python script probably
mircea_popescu: anyone feeling like building
a db of name frequency in romania can simply wget and grep and awk that.
mircea_popescu: romania uses
a bacalaureat thing, you're not an adult until you pass this exam,. coupla years ago the romanian ed ministry refused (cause inept) to publish the list of results online. and so some people hacked their db and i published the results.
mircea_popescu: keonne actually, here's
a story followed by fun trick :
keonne: When I was 14, I got scammed so hard, trying to buy 100 Motorolla RAZRs from
a Mircea Popescu in Romania
mircea_popescu: the first name isn't quite keonne, but it's
a sort of hm.
keonne: It is
a common name in Romania?
mircea_popescu: tbh im kinda surprised teh tradepress isn't howling all about "in january, 'Bitcoin Baron Keeps
a Secretive Open Source OS Alive' ; in april, nsa's crown jool is thrown in the dirt of the public space."
☟︎ fluffypony: keonne: Yeah that's the most worrying part. I know that reproducing the issue is hard, but they have
a vested interest in figuring it out
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I know an East StL math teacher that lost half
a BTC of mine last year. In short time you can learn
a new language.
bounce: apropos bank accounts, plenty places it's not
a privilege since the government pretty much if not outright requires everyone to receive the bezzle through one of those. easier on the tax man, see.
mircea_popescu: so talk to whoever's in charge of doing these things there, and have him give you something that's both
a)
a good answer and b) that they can make public.
keonne: "No this blogger is known for being
a bigot psychopath
mircea_popescu: it got
a few people, myself included, raising eyebrows
keonne: mircea_popescu: regarding the database thing
a couple weeks ago?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Matonis is stooge in the original sense, where
a stooge is incapable of knowing they are.
mircea_popescu: also in the news, matonis "definitely not
a stooge", as per matonis.
keonne: BingoBoingo: I keep my spending BTC in blockchain wallet, the rest is on
a paper wallet printed at home with
a piper wallet
BingoBoingo: numerisTrade: Recurring abscess with sinus in
a thick fatty piece of skin
BingoBoingo: keonne: Do you use
a blockchain.info wallet yourself?
keonne: mirecea_popescu: I don't know the details precisely, If you want I can ask someone for you. I'm not in
a very technical position, and my understanding of these things doesn't go very deep
BingoBoingo: Too deep, Naproxen generally handles the inflamation on this one. but for
a few years this has been
a perenial seasonal annoyance.
keonne: I learned it because the idea of
a constructed language intrigued me
BingoBoingo: Anyone know
a good way to crush
a boil real fast?
keonne: Nothing like fucking
a fat chick while blasting Joy Division anyway
keonne: mircea_popescu: I didnt realize there was
a correlation between dyslexics and esperanto. Maybe something about the rigid structure that appeals. IDK, thats cool though.
keonne: which is extra important for
a nerd like me
keonne: it was
a rhetorical request anyhow