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mircea_popescu is kinda amused at all the "oh noes, nuclear war destroys planet as we know it". go for it boys, really.
mircea_popescu: it's gonna be funny as we age, and all sorts of infantile derps are the #78589 satoshi
asciilifeform: well i already did the job. right here, for phreeeeee.... it isn't as if hitler doesn't read the l0gz
asciilifeform: hey it isn't as if i worked in hitler's bunker, my approach is necessarily indirect
asciilifeform: literate folx are every bit as whore as the imbeciles, merely cost moar
shinohai: Coinbase is rebranding their exchange as well -added ETH like all the other hippies lately.
mircea_popescu: recall, the usg & friends, as well as any and all other wanna-be, pretended or otherwise power centers have been regularly humiliated.
trinque: just whatever's passed to the search page as data
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'vox' article linked because it is a handy illustration of how usg 't-cells' attack whatever foreign object. mr mold is getting same treatment, for nth year in a row now, as phuctor for past yr. i.e. sprayed in coating of 'pre-discredited, move along' claptrap
PeterL: depends on other factors as well
asciilifeform: 'I find it very disturbing that there seems to be very little response from popular OS distributions to this issue. Most do not appear to have issued any package updates to close the shell exploit. Perhaps the opinion is that major new versions will be introduced as part of major distribution releases and it is ok for users to exposed to problems for two or three years.'
mircea_popescu: acetone, barely 20, also rather volatile if not as toxic.
mircea_popescu: acetone just as aprotic. or thf.
asciilifeform: whole thing was intended as ~anti-theft~ measure, against 'indian who found the rifle on dead english'
asciilifeform: same mornald as in intro of my old article ( http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1323 ) incidentally.
asciilifeform: Errata, which I dubbed "exploding styrofoam," the corresponding phrase would be "a gas of electrons." The implosion of the secondary is driven by matter pressure, not radiation pressure. Incidentally, Dow Chemical complained that Styrofoam is a trademark, like Xerox, and that nuclear weapons do not contain Styrofoam. Point conceded; the foam is generic. ... I like the idea of a nuisance material, plastic foam, as the real secret of
asciilifeform: 'In the one-page Errata in the December 1979 issue, I explained that the turkey in the oven is a plastic "channel filler" which captures x-ray energy and explodes with enormous force, purely as the result of getting very hot very fast (ten million degrees in half a microsecond). In the original H-bomb article, I had described the conditions inside the radiation channel in terms of "a gas of photons." For my revised explanation in the
mircea_popescu: but if the "purpose" of the axe (as you imagine it) is unspoken part of the design,
mircea_popescu: even your "primitive man won't stray" argument is broken, as you stop midway. a) the point of his following your recipe is that he got off lazy butt ; if he doesn't, he doesn't AT ALL. why would he get off lazy butt JUST AS FAR as you imagine he would and no further ?
asciilifeform: as it turned out to have a hidden dependence on an impurity which was present in the feedstock at the time
asciilifeform: in that sense, much of what we think of as technology, has not in fact yet been technologized.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, there's not so much difference between what we're saying. "make it repeatable" as you say is part of parcel of "economy of scale" as i say.
mircea_popescu: in fact, a useful heuristic to distinguish magic and technology, is that as the stakes increase, magic gets harder and technology easier to do.
mircea_popescu: and who promised you such barrier as "a jungle far away" ?
asciilifeform: as in, sitting right there.
mircea_popescu: this "is_technology" function is never as usefully decidable as schoolteachers like to pretend.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as it allowed the swedes to pretend to being a nation for absolutely no other discerinble reason,
mircea_popescu: tell you what, something as finely technical as, the lorenz contraction, still is not "universally accessible". in fact, it is outside of the purview of ~all us schoolchildren.
mircea_popescu: because, as per the discussion of "ideas" : in my hand it's an idea, in derp'\s hand is nothing, for derp may not have ideas.
mircea_popescu: just as long as you admit to an increase of maximal-possible-mojo per capita, and to a decrease in marginal utility per capita, you're basically admitting the premises.
asciilifeform: bulldozer is not universally accessible, as it is costly, but its DESCRIPTION is.
mircea_popescu: i don't give the first inkliong of a shit as to whether it could "rightfully" be called technical, inovation, or pornography. that's a concern for kids debating superman-vs-spiderman encounters.
asciilifeform: yeah but it is also possible that mircea_popescu benefits from scratching his toes just-so when he wakes up. this is not a technical advance as generally understood, because the recipe is useless to anybody else.
asciilifeform: but the reason i dun see the 'let's 3% tax' as a technical advance, is that it was not a deliberate act, but a concession to collapse of inca empire. it was done ~to~ the folks who did it, like an earthquake.
mircea_popescu: but as per our discussion of monsanto, if your idea of "innovation" in humanities is alligned with "absolute first", you can't even PERCEIVE humanities, let alone meaningfully interact with em.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in life he was ~same as all the other greyhairs in the room
mircea_popescu: for instance, i'm deliberately keeping my ongoing "war on the web" as far as attacking forums goes on a very low roar. not that i couldn't scale it up and end ~any web-based forum, owing to the incredible incompetence of the scammers involved. but then, millions of derps would in a voice go "ok so these are bad, what should we do ?"
mircea_popescu: this is where one writes code as a young man that then makes them famous for rest of life, the c and whatnot of our time. you see what i mean ?
mircea_popescu: plenty of other good ones ( asciilifeform you recall reporting on that group pushing 20 year old schweizer as "wai of footure" at some conference ? ), but the more important point is, that this is a fine field for innovation as it stands. it's very far from "settled science", where the logical move is to simply import the universally accepted library and move on.
mircea_popescu: that aside, the IDEA of ipfs, as far as can be distinguished, is not necessarily bad.
mircea_popescu: anyway, Framedragger golang is not liked here because we don't own it, and we don't like usg.google more than we like usg.anything, and because it seems quite well engineered to work as a baited hook for the usg chump works. ☟︎
asciilifeform: finance as 'improved since 1980' is precisely chumpatronics.
Framedragger: > There's just no life in this idea as originally thought out, a browser thing.
mircea_popescu: by 1160, which catches us in paris, we're up to a leverage of maybe as high as twenty, and so "most men" is good enough an approximation. about 60-70% really.
mircea_popescu: as the bar to the individuation is fixed ~the mean of the leverage, so obviously as that increases the sigma-ness associated increases also (by about the square root ?)
mircea_popescu: as the maximal leverage avaialble to the individual increases, the % of things crawling out of cunts (which, recall, run perl) that may ever individuate decreases. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: nah. i disagree. usa was first to pretend like underage male fuckwards are "worker bees", which only can be meaningfully attempted for ~a certain kind~ of software. what we reference here as the web.
mircea_popescu: the very deeply ignorant approach is rather notable, to my eyes. derps seriously think that's how genetics works, much like a baby perceiving his environment as a photographic still rather than a dynamic equilibrium and so faceplanting self once an hour
asciilifeform: BUT was restructured as a chumpatron some time quite recently (90s?)
mircea_popescu: but yes, for any republican bioscientists in the making : the scientific way to study something like plant resistance to X is to : 1. create the first generation test environment. this means a witness, and a number of exposures (maybe dosed variously, with other substances too, etc). 2. create next generation environment. this means, your experiment now subdivides into as many experiments equal to 1 as there were tests perfor
mircea_popescu: by the time this is actually needed, all that'll be about as interesting as soviet rubles.
shinohai: Radio was like the first thing I was interested in as a child.
shinohai: I grudgingly admit that mircea_popescu was right as always, that I would enjoy it if I got off my ass and did it.
shinohai: http://www.zdnet.com//article/new-android-malware-poses-as-app-joins-device-to-botnet/ <<< kek. waste more time on useless games and apps ppl
asciilifeform: note, microshit never achieved the marvel of a programming language where machine ints cannot be relied upon as arithmetic field
asciilifeform: if, say, spy - as described in mega-b0000k 'aquarium' - then yes, 'bigger man' more likely to be let outside of the reservation.
mircea_popescu: i took "temperament" to stand as proxy of general human quality.
mircea_popescu: about as successful as their homologues over at chernobyl
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-18#1468267 << hilariously, i never saw a vysotsky VINYL until a family phriend gave me his massive set as a gift in usa! most folks heard him on bootleg tape. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: who the fuck hires noobs as free agents. if you train them, they either pay or indenture wtf.
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: should prolly brand it as such, "Bob and Joe's Lewd and Lascivious Carwash"
mircea_popescu: pretty much the same effect on my hindbrain as i suppose the "NUDE GIRLS" shows for vegas habituals
asciilifeform: it exists purely as a sort of ebay, in the sense of 'this is the official pile of shit'
mircea_popescu: cocacola does not propoise that the reason it somehow has value (notwithstanding it exists as a rented office with five derps in it) is its "market share"
a111: Logged on 2016-05-12 15:47 mircea_popescu: also, please don't refer to tmsr as "a community". it is not "a community", it is your liege.
mircea_popescu: 4. convert the phuctor key db into a sks as per republican spec. the strategy being that we will confiscate all public key crypto just like we confiscated bitcoin from the fucktarded zombie horde.
mircea_popescu: and why'd you install "a server" as distinct from just merging phuctor db ? wtf is this, since when do we credit sks-pr ?
asciilifeform: and gossipd is considerably more general than a chat, it is to be a complete replacement for tcp/ip and packet switching as ordinarily understood.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: more generally, 'gossip protocol' is a standard term for a particular type of synchronization, as used in, e.g., sks
Framedragger: this is confusing as it's also some kind of pubsub (http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/webservices/ws-mqtt/mqtt-v3r1.html)
Framedragger: is this https://github.com/luanjunyi/gossipd at all related to the gossipd as proposed on trilema?
asciilifeform: (there is, hilariously, another fantasy planet on which su soon-to-be-emigres lived, the one in the '80s vhs tapes. as described in l0gz)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: fwiw, posted as comment on your article, and paste here: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/516b9972-337a-4b88-ba48-711af84dc281/ - easiest format of responding is probably as a follow-up comment on blog, though.. anyway. i liked the overall idea.
mircea_popescu: and the reason i had to have it fucking machined is exactly this, "oh sounds like hammock stand we got that" "bitch, did i say this pos ?!" "oh, it's just as good!" "go make a fucking website somewhere".
Framedragger: i guess i can post that text as comment on original blog post
mircea_popescu: weight in plutonium for this item is hereby defined as "in excess of 1mn usd / kg".
mircea_popescu: (ftr, while "internet brands" is exactly the same shit as interactive corp, it's patently untrue vbulletin was ever anything but a steaming pile of shit.)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 16:02 BingoBoingo: Anyways, prolly ought to convert as many appliances as you can from electric to 2-cycle gas motors because Hitler hates their farts.
mircea_popescu: but no, generally no such thing. note that the breast we all know and love is clinically known as the immature breast
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 16:02 BingoBoingo: Anyways, prolly ought to convert as many appliances as you can from electric to 2-cycle gas motors because Hitler hates their farts.
asciilifeform: nor have any intention of ever so much as chancing to.
asciilifeform: as some folks in the good ol' days found out when they tried to do the 'acclimate to strychnine' thing with cumulative poisons, e.g, arsenic
asciilifeform: works just as well, just with different, slower kinetics
asciilifeform: (as the facility wasn't usg-blessed for the Real Deal)
asciilifeform: when i worked in the outfit that did antidotes for organophosphate poisons ('nerve' gases) we used these common pesticides as a substitute for the real thing
asciilifeform: not entirely unrelatedly, as a young man i kept 'bug spray' around, habitually, as my ancestors did; but then learned that wet/dry vac works 100% as well and doesn't create cloud of poisonous crud to breathe the rest of the day
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: so what do you see as the opposing sides here
asciilifeform: typically they have an actual writer as guest of honor, and a hundred or so pathetic 'wannabees'
asciilifeform: as i understood it, the entire 2bathroom thing is slowly being repealed
BingoBoingo: And Bahamas insisting people allow transgenders to use the bathrooms they identify as, even if they are mayogender but still identify as their former gender
BingoBoingo: Anyways, prolly ought to convert as many appliances as you can from electric to 2-cycle gas motors because Hitler hates their farts. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: it isn't as if i found a magic well of dough, i still (imagine) do wurk
BingoBoingo: In other news, Imgur.com is the latest popular shitsite whose urls will lead to a Qntra comment being auto ignored as spam.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 08:01 mircea_popescu: honestly, it's a surprise to me they haven't introduced cockcaging for us kids as of yet. for one thing, they're doing the entire fucktarded "can't drink till 21", so they definitely could. for the other thing, it'd make so much fucking sense, in the twisted psychopathy that passes for sense in the us world : kid gets a nice cage around the age of 3 or so. prevents penis from growing, which is +++. mom gives the key to a well
asciilifeform: may as well invest in cement ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-17#1467579 << 91* actually appears on that site's list (as of today), the other two do not - but i can't connect to them either. blackholed. ☝︎
phf: http://www.wsj.com/articles/buffetts-berkshire-takes-1-billion-position-in-apple-1463400389 << "just didn’t seem like a move Mr. Buffett would make. It wasn’t, as it turns out. Instead, it was among the largest investments yet by the two former hedge-fund managers that Mr. Buffett brought on board as potential successors to run his company’s $129 billion stock portfolio."
mircea_popescu: anyone has any argument as to how exactly the "computer security" people aren't EXACTLY scammers ?
asciilifeform: ults in a remote heap overflow as root in the Symantec or Norton process. On Windows, this results in kernel memory corruption, as the scan engine is loaded into the kernel (wtf!!!), making this a remote ring0 memory corruption vulnerability - this is about as bad as it can possibly get.'