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mircea_popescu: well, not much to see and i didn't want to move it.
BingoBoingo: "Ms Thomson, who is currently unemployed, said she was left heartbroken when one day Holly-Ann came home and asked, 'mum, why did you make me fat?'"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja look in the stereoscope?
shinohai: ;;later tell mod6 experiment was successful
asciilifeform: as then later with pc etc.
asciilifeform: camera, on other hand, ~was~ 'escapist tech', brute brain melted when given his bit of 'dunno how it worx! miracle!111' magic
asciilifeform: dunno what broken pocketwatches have to do with the steam titans of isembard brunel.
asciilifeform: not 'it' but the corpse.
mircea_popescu: things the actual people involved would have never done.
mircea_popescu: but from a cultural (as opposed to a civilisational) perspective, they're doing a (belated) digestion of a large field. ie, they're finally apple-izing it.
asciilifeform: like barbarians gluing pieces of roman mosaic to sword hilts.
asciilifeform: eh the 'steampunk' folk mostly 'work' in broken clocks and epoxy
mircea_popescu: i suspect these actually form a class, something like "escapist technologies". up until recent "steampunk" revival, steam engine and metalworking did not enjoy same position.
mircea_popescu: very much the 1800s computer, really. including apple hipsterism and the whole array of social peribehaviours
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every time i go to a junk shop, the kind with profusion of old photo gear - and that's ~all junk shops, incl. the ones i went to in b-a : i think of how the camera was in some ways the pc of its day : 1,001 vendors cranking out 'us, too'
asciilifeform: i can tell, these also came with fixators for heads
mircea_popescu: prolly took wyat earp's picture
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dude that's an ancient daguerotype thing
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski C17H13ClN4 can be a lot of things, gotta present the atoms in a way the clarifies the structure
thortron: BingoBoingo: in anycase consider the claim retracted, as attempting to prove it with a signed statement saying "I agree" would make any attempt to prove it worthless.
BingoBoingo: thortron: But, you really can't say I used to be X without... supporting the assertion?
thortron: BingoBoingo eh nothing to say just lurking. Will pipe up when I can help on a task.
BingoBoingo: $up thortron
deedbot: [Trilema] Cerrado for duelo, the aliens have landed, the camera bar and other strange - http://trilema.com/2016/cerrado-for-duelo-the-aliens-have-landed-the-camera-bar-and-other-strange/
a111: Logged on 2016-07-23 21:14 a111: Logged on 2015-09-08 03:24 asciilifeform: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/02/william-norman-grigg/lon-horiuchi-american-sniper << for folks unfamiliar with the figure
mircea_popescu: ah then i'm doing that.
mircea_popescu: hey, did i ever publish the pics of that fabulous old cameras and photo gear bar ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-23 22:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-23#1509260 << anything came of that polymorphic zip btw ?
mircea_popescu: and in other "nobody reads trilema" news, http://trilema.com/2016/cargo-cults-a-case-study/#comment-118212
a111: Logged on 2016-07-23 18:44 asciilifeform takes in logz at beach
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-23#1509260 << anything came of that polymorphic zip btw ? ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: $up thortron
a111: Logged on 2015-09-08 03:24 asciilifeform: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/02/william-norman-grigg/lon-horiuchi-american-sniper << for folks unfamiliar with the figure ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-23#1509295 << they break into houses and kill pets for a reason: to remind plebes who is boss. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-23 10:34 deedbot: [Recent Phuctorings.] Phuctored: 12821434770207124962218342772669979580034410699894792217009678098194556802269429235901909465304384529740402801239415068853092063888103297243254641064047113 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '74.45.231.125 (ssh-rsa key from 74.45.231.125 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <sshscan-queries+74.45.231.
ben_vulpes: despite my having to pay for it.
ben_vulpes: despite it being mandated to make payments.
ben_vulpes: my insurance company politely declined to pay for the infant's herd immunity.
shinohai: mircea_popescu: wp isn't so bad once server is tweaked a little
shinohai: ;;later tell thestringpuller http://archive.is/oK8dV
gribble: Error: We broke The Google!
mats: i believe this sorta thing is common for high profile cases
mats: i can think of half a dozen reasons, all to do with publicity, subversion of justice, and embarrassing the court
asciilifeform: mats: why would judge give half a fuck about this?
mats: worried about getting murdered by the folks he stole from, perhaps?
asciilifeform: 'On September 8, 2011, U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn granted the government's motion to prohibit videotaping Rothstein during a scheduled deposition of him, citing “serious harm” and “security reasons that are unusual in nature.” The exact reasons for the judge's decision were sealed. '
asciilifeform: ... or did hitler let him go, for a chunk of the change.
asciilifeform: 'In 2009 Rothstein resided at the Federal Detention Center, Miami in Downtown Miami,[15] but was later moved to an undisclosed location and his inmate number removed from the Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate locator webpage.' << is there a legal logic for this?
asciilifeform: and the obligatory tatooed chix also.
phf: right, lewes vs ocean city is slightly skewed from fat 16 yeard olds to fat 60 yr olds, but it's not as much of shitshow
phf: way classier, if that term applies to the md/de/va beach area, but missing out on throngs of russian work exchange crowd :>
a111: Logged on 2016-07-23 15:43 mircea_popescu: the actual legal standing is not established. it's one of those things that are a huge pile of nonsense a judge will have to cut through.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-23#1508983 << you mean - add to! ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-23 10:34 deedbot: [Recent Phuctorings.] Phuctored: 12821434770207124962218342772669979580034410699894792217009678098194556802269429235901909465304384529740402801239415068853092063888103297243254641064047113 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '74.45.228.159 (ssh-rsa key from 74.45.228.159 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <sshscan-queries+74.45.228.
deedbot: [Qntra] Major Socialist Party Emails Free In Time For Convention - http://qntra.net/2016/07/major-socialist-party-emails-free-in-time-for-convention/
mod6: oh hey, interesting log read this am.
hanbot: well the japanese pop here might make decent oysters, sureh
phf: well, that's what i thought, but trust it to argentinians to fuck it up somehow. ship oysters from boston, because "american" or whatever else
mircea_popescu: nono, the seafood. i mean... the mollusc.
hanbot: mircea_popescu do they look like adriana chechik?
mircea_popescu: well there IS a river right here...
phf: i'd be envious, but after all the other argentina reports, i don't trust that experience to be any good
mircea_popescu: hey, better a delusional "entrepreneur" than a common wino. housewife dun got so many options.
phf: "My husband is my best friend. When I take off all of these “hats”, my most important job is being a mom. We have three kids who are terrific people."
mircea_popescu: ok. this is adriana chechik : http://67.media.tumblr.com/3a1a3b9e1c42d8ba0f166e113b2fbaba/tumblr_niyd7s5Xvj1tkpgw6o3_r1_500.gif
hanbot: ...somebody teach me something quick so i can overwrite that
mircea_popescu: he's the wife of the woman that thinks http://gothamgal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/oysters-450x600.jpg some peak of elegance. notwithstanding the ax-hewn cutlery.
hanbot: who the fuck is fred wilson?!
hanbot gets halfway through mircea_popescu's latest article, still has no cloo
mircea_popescu: and speaking of berger singerman, check out the urgent associate : http://www.bergersingerman.com/people/nicole-s-sohn
mircea_popescu: eh, nobody seriously aims to replace "dbs"
shinohai: someone has to stand up for immutability
interviewee: i am probably unpopular but i put somethign like this out there once and caught some shit for it
shinohai: "mauve has the most ram"
shinohai: What color do you want that blockchain?
interviewee: my boys with Bitcoin Uncensored just did a podcast with some VC guy who was remarkably honest in saying he doesnt know what a Blockchain is and just shills them b/c investors were told to buy them.
mircea_popescu: you should have seen the 2010-2011 interations of pointless&witless in action
interviewee: because the hype cycle spins
shinohai: i dont meet too many tbh
shinohai: Good to see people that understand what utter shit these platforms are though.
interviewee: and as long as people are going to play with these platforms, they might as well not shit it up like the Dao.
interviewee: getting opps to go speak is good for visibility
shinohai: im sure this dao brouhaha will bring lulz for years to come
shinohai: thanks! same here, consider bringing a gpg key to deedbot
interviewee: well, i'm around and happy to join you gents/ladies if other similar issues crop up, so Shinohai, don't be shy if you want to bend my ear.
shinohai: I was curious what legal perspective in US was, thought it might end up as a Qntra
mircea_popescu is kinda curious what qntra comes of this
shinohai: but i thank you for stopping in, this is a very interesting study
shinohai: actually no, you summed up everything i wanted to know pretty well.
interviewee: shit. i guess i'm not on their xmas card list.
interviewee: greed gets the best of em
interviewee: i think still incarcerated
interviewee: he had hsi office across the street
mircea_popescu: guy was pretty epic, in fairness. teh roger stone quotes, nov vs july 2009 totally make the pie.
interviewee: we rep'd his trustee
mircea_popescu: what a crazy world, where idiots have billions to give to scammers.
interviewee: in the billions
interviewee: and rep'd trustees that took over ponzis
interviewee: anyway, i've rep'd receivers tht took over 9 digit scams
mircea_popescu: you seen that one ?