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mircea_popescu: there's ~500 mn idiots without anything to do with themselves. finding a few hundred a year to do this is no particularly notable feat.
asciilifeform: somehow this did not damper the recruitment of new ones, every year, to shoot the crowd in new cities
mircea_popescu: i doubt any of them was ever heard from again. but hey, sikrits.
mircea_popescu: cuz they came in, with ~exact knowledge of who's who, and rolled up just about all of em.
asciilifeform: how's that
mircea_popescu: dun worry about it too much though, the russian assraped the us undercover folks something fierce.
mircea_popescu: the press said at the time
asciilifeform: no word re the american snipers in bucharest '89, or moscow '93, or venezuela '02, ...., ... ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy's dead so now they can convict him, i guess.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't mean whatever random crap google returns. invidious is the opposite of pious : when one who is inferior, instead of worshipping his superior, instead fancies himself his superior's equal.
asciilifeform: 'BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian court has ruled that an investigation into the 1989 revolution where 1,104 people died can be reopened. Romania has been criticized for failing to investigate the revolution, where mainly unarmed demonstrators were shot dead around Romania from Dec. 17-30 as they protested against Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu.'
mircea_popescu: and add "invidious" to the list of terms the web can't define.
phf: i'm massaging them, i should be done within a month or so
phf: half of the symbolics schematics are signed off by "v. popescu"
BingoBoingo: Que the shitgnomes https://archive.is/tqDVv
BingoBoingo: Kohler seems to do a decent job making toilets, motors, and all sorts of other tub based products.
BingoBoingo kind of surprised Kohler doesn't to his knowledge make rifles
BingoBoingo: Not like a rifle you can just stuff full of cosmoline. Car has more tubes to get cosmoline out of later.
mircea_popescu: quite. and the pampa is very windy.
BingoBoingo: seriously, storing cars in a way that they don't rot and can run when you take them out of storage is a challenge
mircea_popescu: imagine the sort of imbecile orc ruler that "saves" in fucking cars.
mircea_popescu: was a thing before where they stole ~200 cars some dude was keeping in storage on his own farm in the deserted inner argentina, because "obviously" they didn't belong to him "really".
mircea_popescu: shinohai the socialists (partido justicialista, kirschner's people) had been i npower for decades. the change to other group of thieves (the us-soviets, macri & co) was full of animosity as you'd expect, and now that they're in power the looting proceeds at a feverish pace.
asciilifeform: i remember when the ~whole www looked like this.
phf: asciilifeform: that's a beautiful page
asciilifeform: '"He later told the nuns that police had tried to steal the money that he was trying to donate," Ritondo said. "There are dollars, yen, euros and a currency from Qatar ... It's a lot of money." He did not give an exact amount because the money was still being counted.' << l0l
BingoBoingo: From the mines: "I manage 2nd level escalations for a call center. I've trained my team to identify this type of person, and intentionally give them an inconsequential fight before agreeing. It actually leads to faster time to resolution and something like a 10% reduction in overall handle time."
mircea_popescu: that's the plan.
asciilifeform: 888888, if they could.
mircea_popescu: anyway, nobody cares what the woman thinks. she's not liable to touch it either way, 8 more years of obama.
mircea_popescu: he seems the favourite actually.
asciilifeform: i dun see the man as having even vague chance
mircea_popescu: much more interesting is what weird marine lepen-like notions re bitcoin float about under the trump rug.
asciilifeform: of the US government invited "senior administration officials" and "stakeholders" from financial institutions, startups and academia for the half-day event, called the White House Fintech Summit, according to the invitation.'
asciilifeform: 'On Friday, Secretary Penny Pritzker of the US Department of Commerce joined special assistant to the president for economic policy Adrienne Harris and other top White House officials for an event featuring a lecture from Brian Forde, director of digital currency initiative a the MIT Media Lab, and multiple panels on financial technology more generally speaking. Hosted at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the executive branch ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'McAfee was appointed as chairman and CEO of MGT Capital in May, causing a brief 1,000% surge in the publicly traded company’s stocks. Formerly a fantasy sports enterprise, the firm is in the process of being rebranded as John McAfee Global Technologies, Inc following McAfee's addition to the team.' << wat.
thestringpuller: ;;later tell mod6 node is still stuck even after restart. it's wedged at 414073
trinque: the govt must be able to break any rules if it means "just one person" (TM) (R) avoids discomfort
BingoBoingo: Also the American right was half right. Sanctity of marrirage attacked, BUT from the legal side.
trinque: watching the "love will overcome" rhetoric flow in reaction to this, it boggles that gays are literally spouting christianity.
BingoBoingo: ty trinque
pete_dushenski: http://fooledbyrandomness.com/AUBCommencement.pdf << one for fellow taleb fans : american university in beirut commencement speech
phf: bitcoin loan for tits
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://pp.vk.me/c636216/v636216329/1018c/a3teM2ELOb8.jpg << supposedly, the hole blown by police at orlando postal. notice the police bullet marks. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: funny, my son does the same thing with mushed banana
mircea_popescu: fuck i searched for the wrong thing o.O
a111: Logged on 2016-04-23 02:06 mircea_popescu: update posts set post_content = REPLACE(post_content, 'a href="http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/','a href="http://btcbase.org/log/'); will go from http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2015#986007 to http://btcbase.org/log/?date=21-01-2015#986007
mircea_popescu: make sure you touch all variants. http/https etc.
mircea_popescu: this is in the logs :)
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: trilema q : how in the hell is every old log.b-a link now a btcbase.org link ?
pete_dushenski: there is such a thing as dumb money
mircea_popescu: ftr those cakes look fucking miserable.
pete_dushenski: philg even includes nod to BingoBoingo's anti-mayobeetus campaign
pete_dushenski: http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2016/06/11/safe-spaces-at-harvard/ << in other lelz, 'cardboard on the floor' levels of retardation could just as well be in ba as ma.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-14#1481878 << 'what is wot' is as common a question as any for noobs. might be worth adding to the list. ☝︎
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, http://www.changedetection.com is apparently a thing.
mod6: this is a temporary fix, and it's still on the agenda to get this resolved so we don't rely on remotely pulling down deps. stay tuned.
mod6: everything else stays the same.
mod6: so looks like openssl did change to https, and if you want to build with 'http://deedbot.org/build-bitcoind-V99995.sh', for the time being simply update the script by changing line 63 from: ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: yeah but why mircea_popescuine fatwa against this dude
mircea_popescu: http://i0.1616.ro/media/441/2681/33707/15026388/1/61523906.jpg there.
mircea_popescu: "Cu o cariera de peste 15 ani in industria filmelor porno, Titus Steel este, fara dar si poate, cel mai cunoscut actor roman din aceasta bransa"
asciilifeform: nothing in the l0gz
asciilifeform: who the hell is that
asciilifeform: $s titus steel
mircea_popescu: mcaffee today, titus steel tomorrow...
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 17:27 mircea_popescu: "She does stink and she should quit. But I don't want it to be because of me. It should be the traditional route; years of rejections and failures till she's spit out the bottom of the porn industry."
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474747 << nice to watch the experts and whatnot slowly finding their way through the world's digestive apparatus. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: where's that porn industry quote ?
mircea_popescu: this is notably a dude that was wanted on a list of shit longer than my arm.
asciilifeform: i can picture the letter, 'dear mr mcafee, would you rather be bound and gagged on next plane for orcland, or be TECH CEO!1111111111111'
BingoBoingo: Gotta do something after losing the libertarian party nomination to the Johnson-Weld ticket
asciilifeform: 'Cybersecurity expert, libertarian presidential candidate, and founder of McAfee antivirus, John McAfee is taking over as CEO at publicly-traded MGT Capital Investments, Inc., (NYSE MKT: MGT). Fresh at the helm, McAfee is already charting a new course for the company, focusing on how to secure cryptocurrencies. The company previously invested in and developed a wide array of intellectual property.'
deedbot: [Qntra] "Reverse Feeding Tube" Latest Luxury Developed For Mayogendered Lifestyle - http://qntra.net/2016/06/reverse-feeding-tube-latest-luxury-developed-for-mayogendered-lifestyle/
deedbot: [Qntra] Remembering The Deadliest Spree Killing In US History - http://qntra.net/2016/06/remembering-the-deadliest-spree-killing-in-us-history/
BingoBoingo: Other tools have different maths. For grass cutting deck size is king because more grass is cut for every unit of forward movement. For mowing without getting into the lowest bidder market of everyone with mowers you instead mow with https://archive.is/8sZ7i and instead bid on mowing more interesting things.
BingoBoingo: For tools that require carrying.
BingoBoingo: I need to accomplish X. Tool Y weights Z and offers A mass of utility B and C mass of utility D.
BingoBoingo: That's kinda how I evaluate tools
mircea_popescu: "a kilogram of hammer is composed by taking half a kilogram of hardness and half a kilogram of smashing"
a111: Logged on 2016-06-14 05:37 trinque tries to imagine what a hammer would look like if it were composed of orthogonal categories of "lets make everything to do with hardness" and "everything to do with smashing"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-14#1482531 << this, unaccidentally, is a very platonic ideal. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: lotta interesting stuff to do inside.
Framedragger: lol, contactless cards. it's such a stupidly bad idea. reminds me of some hack0rz stealing us passport info because us passports used to have (or maybe still have dunno) *active* rfid chips. yes, active
Framedragger: always wanted to experiment more with artificial life a la karl sims virtual creatures but in larger mmorpg world
Framedragger: unrelated, allele set usage in eulora? damn, looks like i *may* have to give that gay game a try
asciilifeform: the one bottleneck is: getting them in there.
asciilifeform: (at which point i will set it to, what, 3h.)
asciilifeform: and would have to have about 100x moar moduli in it before it couldn't
asciilifeform: phuctor processes ALL keys in the system every 2h.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: there is no backlog
Framedragger: asciilifeform: incidentally how's the backlog of phuctor? i expect it's rather busy as it is..
BingoBoingo: Need more grinding to feed the phuctor sausage!
Framedragger: "And we shall have our pound of flesh, of thy fair flesh, from closest to thy heart." << hah i like casual quotes of mr william
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between buying products of engineering and buying products of the theatrical arts. sure, they'll drink, let 'em.
asciilifeform: and not terrorjuice.
asciilifeform: which is to say, not at all.
asciilifeform: will 'burn down their farms' like gpg burned down microshit crypto.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it - this is historically accurate, also.
mircea_popescu: which is the one thing the republic can do real well - burn down the farms of the empire. thoroughly.