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assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:33:08; mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems to suggest that the enemy will be pushing a fork before the decade's out. whether we at that time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides the fate of the free world.
jurov: mircea_popescu: they accept orders and cancellation, but don't execute them
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Garden variety cold it appears, but started in the lungs.
punkman: mircea_popescu: you're there anyway. << yeah but they'd normally just pass through, unless stuck in traffic, in which case nowhere near the guards to interact with
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 18:44:19; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143203 << lettuce re-introduce this into the record. One Robert J. Hansen goes to california to help some derp make drm for the palm pilot ; gets scammed and ass raped. while this is exactly what he deserves, the story of his suffering is nevertheless instructive.
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333221 << were you ever able to find the 'US v. Trafford' case mentioned in the tale ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-05-2015 04:03:08; mircea_popescu: http://sixdemonbag.org/yomu.html << the sad story about how some schmuck got scammed by the schmuck he was doing drm for.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what was 'the lose half your money thing' ?
ascii_field: well we currently have one engineer who works infamously slowly between death marches of day job. mircea_popescu thinks that two or more would work faster ?
ascii_field: the 20x20x20 metre one from mircea_popescu's essay
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 17:21:16; mircea_popescu: ascii_field you misunderstand the "play with pebbles". it's doing stuff like playing angry birds on iphone.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-11-2015#1333095 << but recently mircea_popescu opened my eyes and i learned that my desire to spend life investigating crypto and proving mathematical facts is entirely same as wanting to play 'birds' ? ☝︎
ascii_field: mircea_popescu just described traditional malloc
ascii_field: well if mircea_popescu can locate another me but one that doesn't work a day job, he can ask for one
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: l0l, think the thing is a hog now ? try with shoup
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the 'encrypted connection' item necessarily reduces to gossipd
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: enemy has pushed fork after fork, no ?
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:30:41; mircea_popescu: of course, back illo tempore any class on crypto necessarily begun with a "data structures" prior years earlier.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in what way is the rotten mess 'easier to believe' ?
ascii_field wanted to suggest it originally but mircea_popescu was on a long 'this is your motherfucking grandfather's pistol and hands off' kick
ascii_field: and, as mircea_popescu mentioned earlier, there is also the problem of fragging, which none of this even begins to deal with, nor is anything like a clean/simple solution to it known to me
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 00:10:35; mircea_popescu: anyway, point remains, if someone [such as jurov] decides to spend a day on this he should have to use as little as possible hunting the history as that leaves as much as possible to actually doing work.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> like dioxin-free tomatoes. << or dioxin free roads/parks
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 22:29:08; mircea_popescu: why are usians dumb ?
CheckDavid: thanks mircea_popescu
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2015 16:39:23; mircea_popescu: this insanity is STILL with us, still "works" ?
felipelalli: mircea_popescu, Thank you for encouraging! But I feel I have read / study more the logs before feel comfortable to write to Qntra. Qntra.net is like my oracle!
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2015 04:57:01; mircea_popescu: da fuck it's qntra.net not circumlocutory-phraseology.website-name
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu does! which is cool.
asciilifeform: hence the link to mircea_popescu's 'tallest building' essay
asciilifeform: see, back to what mircea_popescu referred to as my 'temple of nonsense', intellectualism is this thing where some folk devote their whole lives to -ev folly like writing poetry or proving theorems
asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's mega-article on subj, http://trilema.com/2014/un-prophete
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty much everything i give half a fuck about, in that case, is a direct product of 'insanity'
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:41:44; mircea_popescu: the russians got steel plants faster with stalin then they'd have without.
asciilifeform: but then again mircea_popescu personally burned library of alexandria so go figure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu inhabits this peculiar mental universe where everybody (with possible exception of himself) is a malleable chick
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu does not appear to actually disagree?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i did not say 'wot is useless' but that i in particular do not - as demonstrated experimentally not long ago - command particularly much market value there. << the idea is not that you command anything. the conversion from postmodern derp to feudal subject is not done under the control of the derp.
asciilifeform: now let's suppose that mircea_popescu is ultimately right about 'ride horses, throw out computer' and folks like me are not at all needed in the future. but let's try to imagine, e.g., a surgeon, trying to keep himself fed and clothed using b-a wot...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did not say 'wot is useless' but that i in particular do not - as demonstrated experimentally not long ago - command particularly much market value there.
asciilifeform: because - what was the term mircea_popescu used - ...
asciilifeform suddenly grasps where mircea_popescu was going
mircea_popescu: in that <mircea_popescu> at some certain future point it becomes more lucrative for the owner of mining gear to "start a new bitcoin" than to continue adding to this chain.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and what of the asymptote ?
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2015 14:15:09; mircea_popescu: PeterL you could prolly make a killing doing analysis for teh "darknet" pillheads.
assbot: Logged on 26-11-2015 15:00:55; mircea_popescu: (bitcoin unintelligently transformed its already minor cost into a disasters of commons situation, due to the fact that satoshi had about as much financial experience as a holywood star. but anyway.)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-11-2015#1331873 << what did mircea_popescu mean by this? i bet there is a whole article buried in this observation, and i would like to read it ☝︎
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman you know how bond yields work right ? << not really
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: current base 'pro' model ships with 128 gb unreplaceable persistent storage
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly allowed but место у параши
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presently this is only in their 'budget' models
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: cannot even replace persistent storage devices in 'crapple' portables of late
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, though it has permanently soldered ram. it is simply that crapple refuses to support the gpu
BingoBoingo: ^ For mircea_popescu
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2015 01:05:54; mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
assbot: Logged on 25-11-2015 01:05:54; mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
asciilifeform: didja know ~that~, mircea_popescu ?
adlai: mircea_popescu: dunno, does recombinatory fucking count as prior art?
asciilifeform: adlai: my guess would be that mircea_popescu regards machine-signing, even with a key kept around solely for that purpose, as a gravely sinful thing. but you might want to actually ask ~him~ when he wakes up
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59; mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insani
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:25:24; BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:04:25; mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:17:26; mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
kakobrekla: how long can mircea_popescu go without looking at his main computer once ?
asciilifeform: look for hg in the traditional fluorescent lamp, incl. the 'craplamp' mircea_popescu was probably thinking of earlier
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what would hg be doing in a halogen lamp ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: oh you mean teh cock?
punkman: mircea_popescu: which
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits the game of chicken first wi ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: halogen lamps routinely pop, for same reason as the fact that you can cut a glass bottle with a rope, some petrol, and a match
punkman: mircea_popescu: what's the cycle?
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 08:47:46; mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums. << Such deal are typically "term" policies expiring in 5 years
pete_dushenski: "why is it that you expect your boyfriend introduce you to his friends ?" << missing a 'to', mircea_popescu ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the top girl's calfs will cramp in no time in that position
gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 34 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds ago: <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: she kept mentioning bitcoin-assets, I assumed she was in this channel.
hanbot: mircea_popescu you forgot a step for pufuleti i mean profit
hanbot: mircea_popescu are they still opining about how you're "illegal"?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: diggers
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 20:26:41; mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most of the vt links are 'android' turds, vs winblowz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to post the payload ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pwned router ?
mod6: Hi mircea_popescu
assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 02:58:44; mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ? << I knew I picked a good time to try sobriety
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view. << Truefax. There's even a tiny tram you can ride to the top of the Arch for more view
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just so
asciilifeform: it's a short & very lulzy yarn and none of the psychiatric weird mircea_popescu mentioned was in it...
asciilifeform wonders if mircea_popescu read the book in a language he actually speaks
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i have nfi what you are no matter how hard i try.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you gotta be thinking of some other fella
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu would enjoy 'hall of the singing caryatids' by v. pelevin
wyrdmantis: mircea_popescu can i have eulora login?
trinque: mircea_popescu: the mismatch I was referring to was the object-relational-mapper; it cannot for example (easily, or usably) create a new object which is the synthesis of n other objects done by inner join
trinque: mircea_popescu │ kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example. << this I think calls for careful steps and a machete
asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's 'this is a spiffy rifle, i'll take it fishing and to bed'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu probably also knows how to change a crankshaft. but does he ~want~ to.