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asciilifeform: plus some discussions held in this channel (log)
asciilifeform: decimation: all of the materials presently available to public are on mp's site (with the exception of several photos that live on mine.)
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: i spent most of the past half day answering questions that ought to be RTFMs.
asciilifeform: damn do i have to hire my own pr girl now?
asciilifeform: in the event of damage, or jettison (using 'zap') one is to retrieve a secreted, more senior key (optionally kept on a cardano, or in some other fashion) and sign message to the effect of 'this newly baked cardano key is my new pubkey'
asciilifeform: i believe this was described in one of mp's articles.
asciilifeform: decimation: cardano is not intended to house your only, 'master' key.
asciilifeform: sure - people do surrender occasionally. esp. if they aren't paid enough to give a damn.
asciilifeform: ianal. but it would surprise me greatly if the matter is settled in such a way as for usg to tell itself to pound sand
asciilifeform: (all in federal law, on the books, plain as daylight)
asciilifeform: or of nuclear weapons
asciilifeform: or the u.s. proclamation of extraterritorial jurisdiction of any submarine not carrying a flag
asciilifeform: and have, since '30s
asciilifeform: not merely of dollar
asciilifeform: these buggers truly imagine themselves masters of the universe
asciilifeform: anyone recall the u.s. supreme court case which proclaimed that barter in grain is taxable?
asciilifeform: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/03/20/sec-gets-on-the-bitcoin-investigation-bandwagon
asciilifeform: mp in washington post!
asciilifeform: dept of software.
asciilifeform: what's it for? propaganda?
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: nubbins`: what is unusual about this printer?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: might want to work on fixing this, if only for practice.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: trapped in u.s. ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you know, there will be generic humans there, not just guest speakers
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: are you coming to mp's party?
asciilifeform: loltron.
asciilifeform: i never understood what problem people have with tables
asciilifeform: (ignore title, talk isn't about usa)
asciilifeform: orlov/ua/etc: http://usawatchdog.com/collapse-and-systemic-failure-at-all-levels-coming-to-us-dmitry-orlov
asciilifeform: computer industry in 1 sentence.
asciilifeform: etc.
asciilifeform: 'lambda'
asciilifeform: dynamic typing
asciilifeform: e.g. garbage collection
asciilifeform: and pitching it as 'new, amazing'
asciilifeform: charlatans have been getting by for decades lifting feature after feature from common lisp
asciilifeform: though the concepts do have a common ancestor (mccarthy, 1958)
asciilifeform: as described in my brick essay
asciilifeform: (it is a pure dynamic compiler - no interpreter at all)
asciilifeform: 'sbcl,' for instance, runs at close to the speed of compiled 'c' when used intelligently
asciilifeform: but usually people are interested in something that is actually usable
asciilifeform: one can sit a minimal, 'academic' lisp on top of virtually anything in 1/2 hr.
asciilifeform: or, if you like commercial support, there are proprietary products like 'Allegro' (franz corp.)
asciilifeform: if you have a x86, x64, ppc, sparc, alpha, mips: http://sbcl.org
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: i'm partial to 'Common Lisp' (ANSI INCITS 226-1994)
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: there is an unimaginable abundance of libraries of every description for various lisps
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: here, for instance, is an example of a minimal lisp in ~500 lines of C: https://github.com/qyqx/small-lisp/blob/master/sl3.c
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: additionally, there exist other 'programmable programming languages' - most famously, 'forth'
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: this is described, somewhat abrasively, here: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: there is not, in fact, a programming language called 'lisp', but a large number of langs with various defining characteristics that put them in the category.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: herr naggum answers from his grave: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3206985430398054@naggum.net.html
asciilifeform: radan: personal friend of mr p ?
asciilifeform: radan: pleased to meet you.
asciilifeform: see also related, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvILGIIVsMU
asciilifeform: double meaning intentional.
asciilifeform: my imagined picture of s.gru involves recruiting moles deep in the enemy's rear, etc.
asciilifeform: could always work as 'prepay' model.
asciilifeform: but, torrents that could only come to exist by a daring act of [censored]
asciilifeform: not just any torrent site
asciilifeform: their main peacetime job was lifting tech
asciilifeform: actually it was pure, obscene profit
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: S.GRU
asciilifeform: http://nypost.com/2014/03/20/teen-sneaks-past-sleeping-wtc-guard-reaches-104th-floor/
asciilifeform: better link:
asciilifeform: if gru still existed, this kid would be happily & productively employed.
asciilifeform: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/20/teen-wtc-ny-arrest/6644121/
asciilifeform: etc
asciilifeform: http://everything2.com/title/Siberia+will+teach
asciilifeform: 'Siperia opettaa.'
asciilifeform: for the connoisseurs among us
asciilifeform: http://everything2.com/title/Finnish+proverbs
asciilifeform: explained here
asciilifeform: http://everything2.com/title/Even+a+pigeon+has+a+pussy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'cum se suge pula' << can't help but associate this in my head with the finnish proverb, 'Pillu se on pulullakin' ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: which wizards would these be ?
asciilifeform: this is not the first time i see 'wizards' mentioned in this context
asciilifeform: ;;google scanners live in vain
asciilifeform: i assume most folks have read, as children, tales of genies and wishes
asciilifeform: ('softwaresucks' tag on me site, http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=23)
asciilifeform: and that things are exactly as they ought to be
asciilifeform: i sorta run a blog about this, 7 yrs. now. and programmers come to tell me that i'm a barking madman
asciilifeform: i don't even code << probably more first-rate heads have been ruined by programming computers than dope
asciilifeform: 'solve the problems of wealth inequality' is usually 'duckspeak' (see orwell)
asciilifeform: or a slug - salt. etc
asciilifeform: journarasts fear real-time net witnesses in exactly the same way that mythological vampire fears sunlight and crucifix
asciilifeform: lol poor receptionist
asciilifeform: the one with brezhnev?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: surely this is not your first encounter with this species.
asciilifeform: haha
asciilifeform: they can't abide the idea of witnesses
asciilifeform: (so they can make up arbitrary turd and attribute it to the victim)
asciilifeform: why journarasts want to talk 'in private' is world's biggest non-mystery
asciilifeform: [insert the obligatory 'idots cannot imagine competence in others' bit here]
asciilifeform: pocket x86. because cell phones don't suck enough.
asciilifeform: lol. intel's porta-turd cancelled?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dude wants to become a fighter << where'd you dig that one up?
asciilifeform: 'here's $100k. lose yer coin'