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mircea_popescu: it did end up put in there in response to events though, it's not deductively derived from qntra substance
mircea_popescu: up to you.
mircea_popescu: wait, so like the us ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kinda got nixed ; but if there's an artist in audience, mebbe i can get bb to reconsider. << Would also break Qntra's branding history. Perhaps if someone wanted to start an "Online Culture Magazine" it may have a place in the header of that as per http://trilema.com/the-boy-blog-network
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> who, i wonder, was the lucky dude << some guy caught in isis-land writing anti-isis graffiti
mircea_popescu: tbh they're more pernicious and a larger threat to sugar, spice and everything nice than bumbling "law enforcement" could ever hope to be.
mircea_popescu: and i'd just as well like to have it well exposed and catalogued to bitchslap the gwern-ish wikipedia/lesswrong/niceonline beta bois and assorted imbeciles.
shinohai: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://ix.io/1dSF
mircea_popescu: mats seriously, the pile of unexploited comedy gold in that "community driven" "dao-based security" thing is staggering.
mats: and discovered comments and reviews from individuals claiming to have ordered marijuana from a dark-web vendor going by the online username "caliconnect."
mats: "On June 3,2015 I learned that publicly available information indicated David BURCHARD, **** Duke Ct, Merced, California 95340, had registered or attempted to register and trademark the phrase "caliconnect." After obtaining this information, HSI Fresno investigators began to search Reddit and other publicly available websites for the username "caliconnect"
asciilifeform: lel, did they write back to israel, 'stop sending niggerz with non-rusting staples' etc ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: who, i wonder, was the lucky dude
mircea_popescu: and badly encoded - all those ugly artefacts.
mircea_popescu: i kinda like the idea of that thing as an icon.
mircea_popescu: kinda got nixed ; but if there's an artist in audience, mebbe i can get bb to reconsider.
asciilifeform: (compress in the time sense, not the usual)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try compress the gif, it takes eons to load
mircea_popescu: mats "was struggling to move one kilogram" ie, "this inept prude is struggling to take a 7 inch cock up her ass" not "the total volume of shit she ever shat to become the 29 yo loser she is doesn't ammount to the volume of a 7 inch penis"
mats starts slogging through 'U.S. v. Burchard'
mats: the post was informative, no doubt about the fundamentals being correct -- readers, see http://trilema.com/2013/what-the-drug-trade-is-how-the-drug-trade-works-and-why-silk-road-didnt-work-and-didnt-matter
mats: just making a dig. specifically, in reference to 'This is why two years later the famous marketplace was struggling to move one kilogram of cocaine, and this is why it took them three weeks to make the sale, and this is why it actually had to be the owner buying it on his own account : because SR makes no economic sense whatsoever.'
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo http://im.ezgif.com/tmp/032a1ec2ab.gif to replace http://qntra.net/qntra.jpg ?
mircea_popescu: after dea took it over ?
mats: it appears that more than a kg of cocaine was sold on teh sr!
mircea_popescu: the ENTIRE FUCKING POINT of the tango is the sharp end of measures. you have a fuzzy exp that concentrates in a glowing hot tip. that's a tango.
mircea_popescu: fucking argentines and their "lyrical" tango. god damned. these people have no idea.
BingoBoingo: kinda the whole problem with extant fiat/Bitcoin interfaces on a more familiar scale
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima add it to translaqueue.
BingoBoingo: Because how the fuck do you price milk if only one buyer from dairies and seller to consumers exists?
BingoBoingo: bits and pieces, but the gist I get is pseudo-mantadory middlemen break markets
mircea_popescu: o hey, you can read that ?
BingoBoingo: In old trilema http://trilema.com/2009/de-ce-nu-mi-place-capitalismul/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'cleaving' did not start, and won't end, with asciilifeform , or even with engineers, folks cleaved dry from green wood to burn in fire, and tasty from rotten parts of mammonth, etc. and will cleave in future.
asciilifeform: and i only even remembered this because it was my first encounter of this being described as a particular thing.
asciilifeform: al schwartz, iirc, did indeed fuck twins
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/two-theoretical-alternatives/ << Trilema - Two theoretical alternatives
mircea_popescu: another heuristic ruined, "so you shot a guy in the face ?" "oh yeah" "describe how it looks" is no longer an absolute bar to redditards.
asciilifeform: prolly just the eyeball pop.
asciilifeform: ^ fella has this... surprised! look.
danielpbarron: http://i.imgur.com/e0WAb5G.jpg >> Shotgun to the face, slow motion.
asciilifeform: and it isn't the piece of lead.
asciilifeform: ~someone~ has to ~give a fuck~
asciilifeform: one of the numerous things seals do not do, is to sneak into violator's bed at night and remove his balls.
mircea_popescu: as proven by the quotes.
mircea_popescu: in and of themselves, seals are just another religious artefact
mircea_popescu: the one thing the us certainly is not.
mircea_popescu: ie, a bunch of "garage chemists" grown up, so to speak.
asciilifeform: well then noshit.jpg.
mircea_popescu: yes, technically and scientifically literate.
mircea_popescu: problem is the seal relies on a certain environment. to work it requires a population of mit engineers "as they pretend to be" rather than "as they are"
a111: Logged on 2015-03-28 03:15 Adlai: some of the devices shipped with teh sticker glued to the wrong side
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-28#1076117 << canonical, i think, 'seals' thread. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( the humble seal is one of the most, imho, under-rated pieces of crypto tech. at least the 'otp' variant, where it is made from a shattered rod, is 'unbreakable' in any direct sense. as discussed in at least one old thread. )
asciilifeform: i find linked item a bit of a puzzler, even sov-era electronics had screw seals, that were at least an honest try against quiet defloration, if not serious challenge
shinohai: Quite possibly a superior use of the hardware
asciilifeform: https://jhalderm.com/pacman << in other nooze: 'It's a touch-screen DRE (direct-recording electronic) voting machine. ... We received the machine with the original tamper-evident seals intact. The software can be replaced without breaking any of these seals, simply by removing screws and opening the case. ... In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the iconic arcade game, we reprogrammed the AVC Edge to run Pac-Man.'
mircea_popescu: men are creatures of habit, there's i'm told "de facto designated areas" anyway.
asciilifeform: in as far as dirigiblisms go, this is the mildest yet, i can throw down my shirt also and it will also get washed.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this sounds closer to parody than anything by now huh ? a well.
mircea_popescu: i literally throw my clothes around the house, yes.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu , what, throws it in the air, the gurlz catch ?
mircea_popescu: you still gotta put it in the basket...
asciilifeform: dunno, at one point, in civilized cities, ~only specially-grown laundry nuns did laundry, everybody else just dropped coin in the basked and off it went
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is what folks have in mind that go livid just after muttering "privilege" with clenched fists.
mircea_popescu: very similarly to how i fully intend to jack off once. just as soon as i have occasion.
asciilifeform: it will likely surprise no one if mircea_popescu tells also that he has never tied own shoes with own hands.
mircea_popescu: this wasn't a deliberate thing. it just never happened. i fully intend to do it once, if i have occasion.
mircea_popescu: it may surprise the esteemed audience to find that i have never ever done laundry, in any capacity. not as much as load a load into a machine.
mircea_popescu: sorry, i couldn't hear you over the moans. then there's what ?
asciilifeform: there is 'proceed from cause, damn the torpedoes' but there is also 'first ecstasy, then laundry.'
mircea_popescu: there is that. but then again - we don't care about results, purpose or consequence here at tmsr.
asciilifeform: the problem, possibly, is that we get a multitude of fat, emboldened weevils.
mircea_popescu: i don't see at this point what exactly could happen to graham that'd be on the strength of his public record unwarranted.
mircea_popescu: moreover, his notions of paul graham as the victim scarcely meet yours. for that matter mine - it is rare to see a confessed ponzi fraudster go free to "advise" young people on "their careers".
asciilifeform: whole piece was a reaction to gawker successfully raping paul graham.
asciilifeform: less than this.
mircea_popescu: his results don't enter into this discussion.
mircea_popescu: the objection is methodological. i am saying yarvin is not a thinker.
mircea_popescu: it is ; but this isn't the problem. the problem is that he's proceeded in the "Scientific American" manner of contemporary MIT engineering. he created a "hockey stick pattern" out of putting some data through a process that always yields a hockey stick pattern ; data that he's obtained from extrapolating a tiny dataset of dubious relevancy (ie, last week's tv guide contents).
asciilifeform: ght with his head shrunk to the size of a baseball, we won't see a lot of witch-hunting and we know there's a serious witch problem. In a country where witch-hunting is a stable and lucrative career, and also an amateur pastime enjoyed by millions of hobbyists on the weekend, we know there are no real witches worth a damn.' << this struck me as reasonable observation.
asciilifeform: 'Obviously, if the witches had any power whatsoever, they wouldn't waste their time gallivanting around on broomsticks, fellating Satan and cursing cows with sour milk. They're getting burned right and left, for Christ's sake! Priorities! No, they'd turn the tables and lay some serious voodoo on the witch-hunters. In a country where anyone who speaks out against the witches is soon found dangling by his heels from an oak at midni
mircea_popescu: somewhere in the foundations of his "unitarian church" series.
mircea_popescu: unawareness of such "invisible" subtleties then lead one on wild goose chases of theoretical constructs with little basis in anything but tobacco he smoked.
mircea_popescu: "we are living in a time of witchdom, how else did the ocean get bridged"
mircea_popescu: that evidence doesn't meet your standard is irrelevant - stuff like "ship across atlantic" very neatly met theirs.
mircea_popescu: moreover this is the answer an actually competent scholar would give to amateur efforts a la yarvin's "oh, how could these people believe such nonsense WITHOIUT EVIDENCE".
mircea_popescu: besides the navigators were italian dutch and portuguese, not really spanish.
asciilifeform: well magnetism is sorcery no less than pyrotechnics, neh?
asciilifeform: incidentally, mircea_popescu's article with the 'brujula' (compass), i could not help but wonder, is this same root as 'bruja' (witch) ?
asciilifeform: or was that in some other time or place.
mircea_popescu: "hey, you got bitcoin now, time to end this nonsensical abomination" "okaY"
asciilifeform: in even lulzier noose, http://thefactcoalition.org/worlds-largest-banks-endorse-ending-anonymous-shell-companies <<< does this mean that Crypto Ag will be unmasked??!1111
a111: Logged on 2016-08-13 12:54 mircea_popescu: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/student-takes-porn-star-cherry-7445540 << anyone know this dude ? should totally be in teh wot.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-13#1520430 << complementing this, >> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/secret-porn-star-professor-suspended-7542679 ☝︎
asciilifeform: when i was a boy, mother went, briefly, to finland, and came back with tales of unfathomable civilization, with megatechnological wonders such as clean streets, japanese cars, and tv sets with REMOTES
mircea_popescu: yugo - gone ; egypt - gone ; worth looking through the list, it's pretty much the dod blueprint.
mircea_popescu: just like the us carefully popped each and every single bulb in the previous "club of unalligned nations", russia fucked around with its better neighbours.
mircea_popescu: yeah. one of those times since putin.
asciilifeform: (prior to all of which, there were, of course, no finns as such, but buncha backwater swedes...)