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mp_en_viaje: i'll be exploring nis today ; and will be in sofia sometime tomorrow so we can have a proceeding on all these interesting topics no earlier than then.
mp_en_viaje: i get we're basically getting scammed by the duplicitous nature of the lazy, and will be, forever. cuz that's how the world goes, that's how laziness survives as a survival mechanism in the first place. but i'd much rather we understand each other on the topic, than it just proceed on my authority and then whatever, ten years later it'll be "mp just shouldn't have paid all these asshats" or who the fuck knows what (priorly seen) nonsense.
mp_en_viaje: so... i think it's high time we have a conversation about it, and a l1 consultus on the topic, and so forth. what, exactly, is the negrated to get from the republic ? and why ? and wherefore ?
ossabot: Logged on 2018-06-27 12:30:52 mircea_popescu: as far as anyone knows, usg is still churning the same bitcoin dust it got by clicking on faucets back in 2012. first it "sold it" via the usms scam, now it "captured" it and so following.
a111: Logged on 2013-11-13 21:06 Bugpowder: I lost enough for a few teslas on JD though
mp_en_viaje: then he picks up the coin mpex, and the republic, made him, and kept safe for him, and dumps it on the dumbest scam du jour he can find. that'll show everyone! and boy-howdy does it show... ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: whereas the 10`000 the republic made him in the same fucking interval out of a piddly 1 he accidentallied in there is... you know, not enough. too much trouble. and also blablabla yadda yadda & "people themselves".
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-16 05:51:56 snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-15 21:06:04 lobbes: indeed, is a scam. I fell for the 'well, my mortgage will be a fixed cost vs rising rents' thinking, but neglected to factor in cost of maintenance, rising property taxes, whathaveyou
mp_en_viaje: for that he'll get 100 just as soon as he spends 105 and no sooner -- but he'll gladly count that as "getting 100", because pantsuitlogic ;
mp_en_viaje: until that time comes, it's the optionality show on days of his lives channel, no problemo. like for instance he could... what could he do ? he could never miss a day of tv, or jury duty, or sucking dick at the airport, or whatever the fuck else (by which "else" i do mean ~same~) they do in the zone.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-07 03:28:41 mircea_popescu: the matter SIMPLY CAN NOT BE IGNORED : if back in 2017, ie the very month that article came out, joe bloe took out the 20-50k in debt he could and liquidated the 20-50k in assets that he could, converting it to bitcoin at a monthly average $1k, he'd be looking now at either 400k to 1mn in cold hard cash, or else something like 1-1.5mn worth of liquidated assets, if he sold during the peak. (and not AT the peak,
mp_en_viaje: years later, when it turns out they really weren't, as it happens ALL THE FUCKING TIME, with ornery regularity... then it's suddenly weasel time. we were good friends all along, right ? he just took a nap while we carried, what's the problem.
mp_en_viaje: don't you know, all that is ain't good enough for him, he has all these many other imaginary options that aren't, and in not being "are" all so much better, important, whatever. truly, the republic's like bounty bar wrappers, who even cares, hallucinaria's where it's at.
mp_en_viaje: however i'm also getting prety sick of all this self-uppity cuntery whereby douche "gets upset" at mpex/republic/the world. as if there even CAN BE such a thing as "upset at the totality of existence".
mp_en_viaje: now back on the record here : i have absolutely no intention of reinstating his mpex account. that ain't happening ; but that aside i also have no problem paying, in principle. god knows i've been paying loads of these, and what's a hundred btc or whatever, who even cares about pennies like that (right ?).
mp_en_viaje: i suggest you find a lord willing to speak for you, because i'm not interested in hearing what else you have to say. pick a limber one, too, you sure can use the help (and whoever you are -- make sure you get paid well, and in advance. pantsuits love their zone so much, let them have what they like, it's the least you could do for them).
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-13 21:59:09 mp_en_viaje: trinque, it's not an emegency, it's end of december. by spring or whatever will be fine.
mp_en_viaje: you shouldn't even be able to speak here ; coincidentally nobody could be arsed to plug the particular hole, it wasn't deemed that high a priorty, but that doesn't mean you have thereby acquired some kinda license to abuse.
mp_en_viaje: mike_c yeah, as it happens i can tell you what got "gummed up" : you got negrated meanwhile. what, this escaped your notice ?
mike_c: mp_en_viage: thanks, no rush.
feedbot: http://thetarpit.org/2019/sunt-un-orb << The Tar Pit -- Sunt un orb, a piece by Horaiu Mlele
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/12/node-js-garbage-dump-npm-admits-to-malware-enabling-pheature/ << Qntra -- Node.js Garbage Dump NPM Admits To Malware Enabling Pheature
mp_en_viaje shall bbl. take it easy all!
mp_en_viaje: uuu, the laksa's here.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-16#1955487 << tis the season to be jolly, tanananana nana na na.
mp_en_viaje: then again, there's other povs readily available.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-15 23:17:48 mike_c: I've been following the snsa wind down recently. Makes sense at this point, and I'm sorry it didn't work out!
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-15#1955478 << kinda disappointing i suppose, from the pov of "well, we invested, were patient for years, y bupkiss!"
mp_en_viaje: !Qlater tell mike_c on the road right now, i'ma look at it tonght/tomorrow morning depending on traffics
mp_en_viaje: !Q later tell mike_c on the road right now, i'ma look at it tonght/tomorrow morning depending on traffics
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-15 17:44:10 mp_en_viaje: pretty fucking lulzy. the only ~actual~ measure that could conceivably work, ie the olde "we select the top 100 hottest athenian maidens every year and send them over as tribute" not yet occuring to them, huh.
BingoBoingo: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-15#1955471 << The export tax seems to be a supreme admission of poverty. If they don't do it all of the garbage they produce will leave. ANd they they will have none
mp_en_viaje: o look who the cat dragged in!
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-10 12:10:44 BingoBoingo: Reading the ongoing conversations in the forums and castles, I get a building suspicion that further cutting on Gentoo is going to start looking like cutting on CrystalSpace
spyked: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-10#1954760 <-- certainly looks like a spin on greenspun's rule: any system that amasses enough complexity (for some values of "enough", at least) becomes a contender for the "operating system" label. imho emacs, wp, cltrons all fit in there.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-09 11:54:20 dorion_road: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-07#1954458 << I'd tend to agree with the suspicion. First I think it'd be helpful to know the cost of acquiring TMSR bootbable hardware. Defining was TMSR bootbale hardware means and listing the 'known good' board that are already supported by coreboot or similar would be a good start.
spyked: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-09#1954632 <-- I'm certainly looking at that, wanna sample some items for both daily use and testing. the apu1 seems like a good candidate
spyked: got other write-ups piled in addition to that, they'll slowly get done this week
spyked: !Qlater tell dorion_road in UEFI study/review news, I'm behind with all my tasks on the subject. I'm slowly getting back on track this week, aiming to have a report published by monday the 23rd
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-10 00:11:17 mp_en_viaje: yo spyked, how's the vomit business thsee days ?
spyked: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-10#1954731 <-- I've been all good for the last week, but I got caught up in meat works (finding new apartment and starting to move, mostly) just when I was about to catch a breath. unfortunately breathing's gonna have to wait until the end of the month.
mike_c: Thought I'd ask if anything changed with the proxies or other mechanisms in the last couple of weeks that might have gummed things up.
mike_c: I pulled a MPEX statement in november, but post-dividend I have not been able to (getting the 'Unrecognized signature. Please email your public key first.')
mike_c: As an ex-shareholder, I was not surprised but still impressed at the orderly liquidation.
mike_c: having been there a couple of times myself, I empathize.
mike_c: I've been following the snsa wind down recently. Makes sense at this point, and I'm sorry it didn't work out!
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/messrs-doo-i-sprat-international-communications-partners/ << Trilema -- Messrs. D.O.O. & I. Sprat, International Communications Partners.
mp_en_viaje: in other lulz, holy shit "red 2" is a crappy movie. what the fuck were these people even smoking, you wanna talk of deplorables, this set of singer-songwriter vhs-america hanger ons is the stiffest contender. who the fuck is dean parisot even, wtf.
mp_en_viaje: this is kinda why i say, the numbers are bullshit, what billions, 1 mn is factually exaggerate : IF they actually had some exports of any consequence, taxing them would be too stupid to try. the only way to do this sort of dumb shit is if the base is 0 anyway ; then you can tax it, triple it, whatever -- it all comes out same (=0) in the end
mp_en_viaje: i suppose the argentine team shows up at the boxing olympics, lines up and starts punching out its own face, too ?
mp_en_viaje: who the fuck taxes ~exports~ anyway ?! this might be the dumbest thing i ever heard, everyone's ~subsidizing~ exports, the euros give a >20% tax break with their whole vat scam, the chinos prolly more though it's byzantine, these idiots actually TAX it ?
mp_en_viaje: pretty fucking lulzy. the only ~actual~ measure that could conceivably work, ie the olde "we select the top 100 hottest athenian maidens every year and send them over as tribute" not yet occuring to them, huh.
BingoBoingo: North and South american hallucinationeering seems to be approaching convergence
BingoBoingo: They are also pushing their retarded export tax up because "el campo tiene que pagar también.
BingoBoingo: In other news, the Argentines went from proposing the tourist dollar to finalizing their rate for it. 30% over official. I suspect the blue is going to have to beat 30% over official
mp_en_viaje: i think trump should be impeached for this totally blatant abuse of his office and meddling in congress pipedreaming where everyday hardworking americans' right to hallucination is cruelly mocked and manipulated by cynical foreigners.
mp_en_viaje: meanwhile in russki attacks upon the aspietards' worldview, http://archive.is/MGIUx
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/the-orc-in-miami/ << Trilema -- The orc in Miami.
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/minutes-of-their-lives/ << Trilema -- Minutes of their lives
mp_en_viaje: meanwhike in dead things, http://vagendamagazine.com/2015/07/we-need-a-lie-down-2/
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-14 15:04:52 trinque: back to the subj, what does a europac bank need, in your experience?
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-14#1955410 << it's surfing, exactly. without an actual navy ready to bombard, 1800s gunboat diplomacy style, a bank's as meaningless as "a jet engine", or "a liver". they don't do anything by themselves.
mp_en_viaje: ple routinely fall in love with smart girls to the tune of 1 in 10mn because of their ass, that's ok-ish, but ok-ish to the tune of 1 in 500.
mp_en_viaje: and so on in this vein, yes us is confronting a "crisis of confidence" in the sense of complede decredibilization -- but it's purely political, not monetary ; and its underlying is mindblowing military weakness, not industrial inefficiency. not that the latter's absent, but phenomena are driven by what they happen to be driven, not by the larger or most visible element. peo
mp_en_viaje: but schiff dun know about that, because i guess scott locklin mental issues.
mp_en_viaje: he only entity that can afford the fiats crashing against its currency, and lo that it has.
mp_en_viaje: the same sort of naivity permeates throughout, "oh, the dollar will crash". doesn't enter his mind to wonder "against what". it's been sorta-kinda crashing against the euro, i guess, but i mean look at the fucking euro. the whole fucking concept of the dubaloo is that "it hasn't what to crash against" ; and everyone's complicit -- the chinese sure as fuck don't want it crashing against themselves, for instance. the republic's pretty much t
ossabot: Logged on 2017-08-16 15:28:19 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect the gold people are very subjectively hurt by bitcoin doing what gold "Was supposed to do" and haet.
mp_en_viaje: otherwise, items like eg http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2017-08-16#1699371 very much speak to him. dude had the general idea, but then it turned out it wasn't gold, it was something entirely else. was he "right" ? or was he "wrong" ?
mp_en_viaje: the principal problem with the approach is that the guy is a radio personality, his statements are never that i've seen structured enough to constitute meaningful prediction. they're closer to statements of sentiment, and the value of sentiments depends chiefly on what your sentiments for the sentiment-er are. if it turned out nancy pelosi loved you deeply what'd it pay ?
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-14 15:05:33 trinque: schiff's an interesting guy, has some of the right ideas, but it almost seems an accident from the outside.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-14#1955411 << there's been some casual effort put into quantifying that accident question.
mp_en_viaje: most beings an engineer produce useful things only as an unintentional / coincidental byproduct of an internal cycle of self-assuaging that's broadly unrelated to anything else.
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-14 15:01:02 trinque: most of these failures in my own life amounted to mp_en_viaje's "toward purpose", i.e. they were narcissists reaching for objects conjured in their own imaginations, primarily to create the feedback necessary to sustain said narcissism.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-14#1955407 << this is actually a pretty accomplished description of the problem.
mp_en_viaje: xz AND zlib lol ok, this discussio ncan continue later.
mp_en_viaje: jfw, more's the point, why the fuck import git at all ?
mp_en_viaje: i expect there's shit that still requires the same re-read and re-write it did back before the berlin wall.
mp_en_viaje: diana_coman, truth be told there's this immense, but i do mean IMMENSE pile of accumulated tech debt via "i'll do it tomorrow" device
mp_en_viaje: there's some slow migration from 2 to 1, like eg dns. but by and large...
mp_en_viaje: basically software that's not outright banned falls either in the gpg category, like bison etc above, "barely working, extremely bloated, would greatly benefit from rewrite" ; or else in utf category, "massively fucking stupid implementation, would love nothing more than the right surgical silk to suture the wound with correctly".
diana_coman: so you have to flex the bison, no other reason that I can see.
mp_en_viaje: nfi why they're even separate.
diana_coman: ahahaha; that reminds me of the "compilers" course at uni where ...
mp_en_viaje: in the same vein i suspect bison is massively suboptimal wrt algorithms chosen, elegance of implementation, length, pretty much everything. would prolly greatly beenfit from a rewrite.
mp_en_viaje: i get it, thing comes with supposed full sources that supposedly build ; i don't know that anyone worth any confidence even tried to in the past however many years. it's still building the wrong way, what the fuck os-awareness of power button. whole fucking point of even having a power butto nin the first place is to have an ALTERNATIVE control mechanism to the operating system.
diana_coman: I don't really have anything to offer as a counterargument to that.
mp_en_viaje: i can't think of any desirable element in it whatsoever.
mp_en_viaje: nothing to do with him at all, this is re the gales prereq pile
diana_coman: well yes; and there are also C-specific annoyances but I don't think *those* are his fault now either.
mp_en_viaje is annoyed by reference @acpica intelshit, but there's ~nothing he can do about it atm
diana_coman: he'll end up doing a 3rd regrind of that genesis but once he does it, I'll sign and mirror it.
ossabot: (ossasepia) 2019-12-14 diana_coman: jfw: I went through your keksum proggy and it's been quite a pleasure really; a few nitpicks on top of those: 1. why default/fallthrough on "bad option" instead of the more useful help option? 2. you have nicely \t everywhere except in usage_err in main.c where it's \s 3. just out of curiosity re
ossabot: Logged on 2019-12-14 14:01:10 trinque: totally solvable problem, and I expect what you'd do ends up looking what I've been working on.
mp_en_viaje: ey work towards properly genesis-ing the thing, whichever points of resistence they end up encountering are bound to be quite informative.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-14#1955358 << i don't think they've been thinking about it before in these terms ; but yes solvable. what's more : not only solvable, but beneficially solvable. it's one thing when cleaning up the place is approachable ; it's another thing when cleaning up the place not only is approachable, but actually approaching it necessarily provides an answer to why your scissors kept disappearing. as th
dorion_road: trinque I'll circle back to that in a bit, talking with diana_coman in #o
trinque: i.e. "if we just let markets work" etc., the libertarian thing where the forces that aggregate into govt "just" wise up.
trinque: schiff's an interesting guy, has some of the right ideas, but it almost seems an accident from the outside.
trinque: back to the subj, what does a europac bank need, in your experience?