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mats: mircea_popescu: bare metal as in, a server intended for a single tenant, in contrast to 'cloud'
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: my style of remodeling is to install the range and hood and for baby doll to apply finish and molding as nursing cooking laundry and meal planning afford time
mircea_popescu: ftr : to force google to use the fucking sane index as opposed to "localized" and other bullshit, google.com/ncr
asciilifeform: life as anthill.
asciilifeform: whole thing is maybe as tall as a chair's seat ! ☟︎
asciilifeform: and pretty much everything he wrote, as far as i could discern, was true.
asciilifeform: anyway this ought to suffice as a general picture.
mircea_popescu: gaw veterans no doubt remember the same "1.oh we're taking over the world 2.no nevermind, tiny road bump ; 3. o wait we got a fix ; 4. crap the fix don't work but we'll pull together as a assburger community ; 5. omfg the trolls!!!!"
asciilifeform: as it is, i bleed megatonnes of money
mircea_popescu: looking forward to your first loperos article as a real estate mog-owl.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-02 20:49 BingoBoingo: But as qntra's been around a while now also gotta maintain brand identity, which means current color scheme
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-02#1495319 <<< this I agree with. The current scheme is instantly identifiable as Qntra, beyond shadow of a doubt. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: But as qntra's been around a while now also gotta maintain brand identity, which means current color scheme ☟︎
BingoBoingo: xcfw748: As we are strangers pls keep conversation in channel
asciilifeform: but typically the armoured thing is not used as cruiser
mircea_popescu: no mobility, deeply useless as police vehicle. that's an army truck.
phf: i used to live in dodgy part of west philadelphia, and as i would make my way to civilization you'd start encountering campus police on patrol, which i realized is exactly like medieval sentries. these chubby, mostly ineffective guys and girls doing their rounds at 2am. "2 PAST MIIIDNIGHT. ALL IS SAFE"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel legal immunity. as they say in civ, "our words are backed with nuclear weapons".
mircea_popescu: phf yeah. "sacate la mochilla", which ll = y they mispronounce as sh because mountaineous gits, means "take off your backpack"
mircea_popescu: they don't understand words, in the sense that the meaning may form but the idea that there's a relation between action and meaning is as foreign to them as tentacles are to mammal reproductory system.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel computers do not cost 2x, except hte locals are 2x as idiotic. the home shopping network demographic pays 20 bux for a plastic "earring organizer", but this is not because "plastic is expensive in the us".
mircea_popescu: women are by their nature stupid, there's no way to argue with the data. they'll do great on confucian-style government exams and nowhere else. especially nowhere it matters, such as you know, "the carpet has just been pulled from under clinton and it's not coming back, you know who pulled it ?"
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, considerations of powers that wanna be, who really aren't, such as cixi wanting it to be "quiter than x" or hilary clinton wanting it to "not destroy usg because the us understood as usg was always great" will also not be considered.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, considerations of "abstract thinkers" who are really metaphysicians, such as "will people be able to breathe ???" are not to be considered. if they are they live if they are not they die. nobody cares. whether leika comes back down or not is not a point of consideration in the soviet space programme.
mircea_popescu: that's it. it exists BECAUSE you could add a rail to a steam engine. it doesn't exist TO anything, for all anyone cares it could be to go to the moon or washington as well as better circle the wagons or hunt mountain goats.
mircea_popescu: this is neither here nor there, inconvenient as it may be, it has no more bearing on uci than it has on hypocaloric diets.
mircea_popescu: but i do not propose it's usable as is by any means.
mircea_popescu: i don't care what comes out of it. just as long as the process is correct, come what may will be fine.
mircea_popescu: you've not defined "involuntary participation" in such a way as to put it in this soup and prove anything.
mircea_popescu: if it's right it's right and if it's wrong it's wrong. a statistical argument may not decide this. it'll be just as wrong with 3 billion and just as right with 0.
asciilifeform: as we have it, 99%+ of chump boxes can't get inbound ~anything.
mircea_popescu: the failure of single men to matter is not to be construed as saying anything about the abilities and capacities of hordes with herds in tow.
mircea_popescu: they're going about it wrong. as usual.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the ipad as such doesn't exist and never worked
mircea_popescu: let's try a comparison, to clear this up. so : capacitive display, as seen in ipad, is inherently cool. the capacitive display would be the "can't phyisically identify box running server".
mircea_popescu: you can't convict without body BECAUSE the "this hammer points at you, mr alf" is a sham ; and known as such, and for a long time.
asciilifeform: it isn't as if the random rubytardation was connected to a reactor that will melt down now.
mircea_popescu: that's one level. and it informs the practical definition of uci, an implementation thereof, as you quote it.
mircea_popescu: so, strategically, we (as in, humans, people, we) are confronted with an adversary (ie, socialist state, usg, aliens, the devil incarnate, pure evil, etc) that predicates its relevancy upon targeted computing denial (see http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-enforcement/ ; and also http://trilema.com/2015/mika-epstein-aka-ipstenu-is-a-thoroughly-clueless-poser/ re the ddos "we won't fix" and so on ) ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'The goal of TMSR as far as computing is concerned is to deploy a cheap, effectual, networked computing interface that can not be disrupted significantly under any circumstances by any adversary for whatever reason.'
ben_vulpes: and then as cold
ben_vulpes: trilema is as swampy as any russian battlefield
mircea_popescu: of course, if you read the java-esque nightmare that "solidity" is, reimplementing eth as a small emu thing would benefit it immensely.
asciilifeform: and - ideally - succumb to doing some useful work on their own as well.
phf: asciilifeform: same way as you do with wot folks. you state who you are, then prove it with a sig
asciilifeform: aha, as in v.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it dun matter where it comes from, so long as valid sig
ben_vulpes: noxious as it is, linux containerization and 'docker' in particular might be a good foundation for a 'cheap, angry' prototype
mircea_popescu: yeah but we don't have that cheat as of yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm thinking a "independent nodes" sort of botnet, as opposed to the zombie windowze thing usually run
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: as i understand: by signing and broadcasting a message.
mircea_popescu: it's really a draft of a spec as it is.
jurov: there seems to be some snag with coinbr or mpex, as every month recently, looking into it
mircea_popescu: or if you mean the other thing, eu, good, krama, alloy. same linguistic principle as eutectic, (teksis = melting).
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494324 << i had carbide-oxygen blowtorch, blew own glass for my private chemistry lab as a 12yo! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1494310 << no because progress. tempered lime crapola is "just as good". PARETO SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVE!!11 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: as it is...
a111: Logged on 2016-07-01 16:31 asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires
asciilifeform: and if you ask mircea_popescu it is difficult to get so much as a stapler in buenos aires ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am quite familiar with this strategy, given as it was the u.s. army's unofficial doctrine for chemical warfare (eat butyrylcholinesterase 'bioscavenger' antidote, then release sarin)
mircea_popescu: there's a humongo strategic difference between "no alternative exists" and "we don't like the alternative as it contradicts our ideology". bitcoin is the ur-example of how to drive this through.
mircea_popescu: doing some research in the bowels of trilema i fell upon http://trilema.com/2014/the-internet-race-gap/ "So to sum up : the average number of black people on the Internet is, on average, about 15% lower than the average numer of black people on the Internet as far as we can see - and it's probably even worse as far as we can't see."
asciilifeform: pulls ~= same wattage as a large vacuum cleaner, and sounds also very much like one when operating.
mircea_popescu: phf you laugh at him all you want, but his mental process is sensible, or at least common. if you think about it, why exactly is it that most wives aren't being turned out as we speak ?
mircea_popescu: and as a general fucking principle : make girlfriends, yo, don't figure out how to all be buttbudies.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as economic inefficiencies, yeah.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know there is such a thing in business as "FOB"
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1493962 << while that true, not applicable here. you should see what a standard office drone does with a large csv in his excel. 8 hour work day so as to avoid 20 minutes' worth of awk, and that includes the time reading docs. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1493863 << the concept of "free" as used here is unsound. there is such a thing as technological cost. linux is free, it can bash, derps whine about "firefox automation tools". hurr. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: of course, as the legendary fool who's shown the moon and looks at the finger, people will then debate "what did it", in terms of, you know, if only we flavoured communism shit with THIS vanilla bean!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 23:59 phf: asciilifeform: but to get back to my point, the fact that local-time as implemented by kommmuniti is shit doesn't have to affect ~me~. i know what the right way (or a better one) of doing things is, but if naggum didn't write his paper, i wouldn't. i thought that's kind of the WoT approach
mircea_popescu: but yes, you're entirely correct in that there's no such thing as "scientific knowledge", in the sense of a sort of secret football team in the sky that plays and wins for the average derp, once each day and twice on sunday.
phf: asciilifeform: but to get back to my point, the fact that local-time as implemented by kommmuniti is shit doesn't have to affect ~me~. i know what the right way (or a better one) of doing things is, but if naggum didn't write his paper, i wouldn't. i thought that's kind of the WoT approach ☟︎
phf: i got exposed to library as part of my attempt to revive cl-ledger, that actually doesn't need time component at all. as an accounting tool it almost entirely deals with dates (except in its timetracking functionality)
adlai has treated it as a black box of Just Fucking Works... what went wrong for you?
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-30#1493744 << i think of these projects in the same terms i think of "knowledge" in general. same way as there's no abstract scientific knowledge that's somehow "accessible" to "society", there isn't universal good value to naggum's emacs, but there would've been value in naggum's ~to me~ as a kind of abstract node in what i'm hoping is a graph of sane people. same way as "scientific knowledge" is only a kind of comm ☝︎
asciilifeform: the SANE way to transport audio is ALSO as a compactified lisp proggy, which takes time T and returns a rational multiplicand for the maximum DAC voltage to be present at that time !
asciilifeform: the 'army boot' quandry comes from having to standardize the glyph as a bitmap.
mircea_popescu: fact is, when as much as a vague hint of the flavour of the possibility of a stable base is presented, people go nuts working hands to bone to build it up
phf: like i'm not convinced that cyrillic, greek etc. should be implemented on cl's character level, as opposed to something like ccl's concept of Rune
asciilifeform: as soon as somebody supplies these - game.
phf: i'm pretty sure that's the one with genera heritage, so as close to the mothership
gabriel_laddel: gentoo with CLIM as the default graphics library, conkeror (emacs style browser) and a bunch of math goodies more or less
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i suggest taking my buildroot configs as example
phf: oh she played in death in venice, and weirdly enough in Dune (as the reverend mother)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 16:12 mircea_popescu: "did you as much as re-read this shit ?" "ain't nobody got time for that ??"
ben_vulpes: gf walking with wot material is just as catastrophic as usg walking with wot material. 'walked' being only detail of note.
mircea_popescu: "did you as much as re-read this shit ?" "ain't nobody got time for that ??" ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2014-10-21 01:30 asciilifeform: 'As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at getting the government to do their bidding. Thus I predict that one day Disney will have a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies. Because
mircea_popescu: nce of the regulation they emitted as to how women may be used and may not be used and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - the woman in question. Particularly "criminal" at the time - using a woman in the manner she herself wishes to be used.
mircea_popescu: the book sez : "A parallel with human sexuality is not unwarranted here. At a past time when the ownership of female humans was the principal method to control capital formation and the political process, the same sort of dead hand fictions proposed that they in fact control the usage of women, that anyone owning a woman does so only as a sublicense from their sovereign ownership of all women, and may proceed only in furthera
trinque: as is generally *enforcing* moral behavior
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, there's a difference between secrecy AS A STATE and code sharing AS A PROCESS.
mircea_popescu: so in general, i expect the notion of "code secrecy" to be as nonsensical today as when stallman was a wee tyke getting started on other people's emacs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i supppse maybe as a black box item, i dunno.
mircea_popescu: (yes, we use constructive intent all the time, such as for instance in discussions of usg - the sort of thing where they end up responsible both ways.)
asciilifeform: there sure as fuck is inferrable intent.
asciilifeform: which is why i see deliberate obfuscation as an admission of guilt
mircea_popescu: sure, i run coherence checks on all data, such as recent trilema article is testament.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if said data is obfuscated against me, i regard it as an attack.