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BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i can't help but spot ddos vector - in this case, for the mind << This is why I concern myself with such things while "liver training"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't help but spot ddos vector - in this case, for the mind
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually my first thought, reading the log, is that it'd be something like a lathe dog.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually worked some magic to try scoring a sample board but nothing came of it.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sure the bar is lower for dogs, where's the alf dog ? not meeting a stand-out example allows the others to enjoy their mediocre unexceptionalism
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2015 16:19:17; mircea_popescu: Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich had said Nisman's allegations were "crazy, absurd, illogical, irrational, ridiculous, unconstitutional".
trinque: mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293767 <<< i always thought trinque is a pretty good male stripper name. << bwahahaha, I'd have said web work is a proper whore's job ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am very easily distracted by people talking
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes, better. but outside the budget of a ragged dervish.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's wrong with opl ?
asciilifeform: aha, from mircea_popescu's article. in the abstract.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I remember reading it, and at the time I couldn't tell if you were discussing seriously using V as a basis for academics, or just the general notion of having a explicit academic WoT.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.molboxllc.com/services.html << photoz from my past life
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i used to eat with this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at any rate, 'plausible synthesis' has a rough meaning. ask PeterL perhaps to explain in detail. but yes, synthetic vitamin B was a nobel. beyond a certain point of complexity, one tries to harness living things to crap out the goods
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ran models, churning through astonishing qty of cpu cycle, and sent off db entries to orc lands for synthesis
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a db from u.s. national cancer institute of a few million plausibly-synthesizable compounds, largely of unknown effect (never organizedly fed to any living thing)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suppose i ought to clarify where i learned the figure and how.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you realise i can declare a compound of arbitrary complexity right ? << Declare, yes. Not blow yourself up with, no.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so can i have polymerizable water ? or is this "anything" limited by other criteria than "what you can describe" ? << Violently
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thread was about commercial organic chem
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> so much so high street jewelers were taking full page ads lambasting the hoarding. << ONly happened how many times in actual BTC governance?
trinque: mircea_popescu: if one's considering rules for the masses, probably better to keep a lid on the stuff
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> trinque cocaine is not addictive. << Not even as much as nicotine
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: who smoked pot when ro was 'unaligned' ? << literally nobody. cops had no fucking idea what it smelled like, even. i don't mean "some". i mean you couldn't find a beat cop that did.
trinque: mircea_popescu: doesn't seem to me that it is
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure. usg did not build on empty space
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who smoked pot when ro was 'unaligned' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as a start
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'not sell' != 'shoot people for selling'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: He was/is a white hamplanet with an enabling family. <<< what the fuck, hamplanet robbery ? (We joked before he ran away to Chicago that he robbed the bank with a sandwich, but no. Small town bank with limited highways)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what was his getaway car, the arianne ? << Chrysler PT Cruiser his girlfriend owned (yes owned, evidence)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody sane sells soda pop either
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: which is why i say to mircea_popescu, 'usg is dead when you can tell me what country to visit where cocaine is sold next to soap for a penny a pound'
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 01:38:05; mircea_popescu: and in general, two types of problems. 1. "build me a bridge" ; 2. "find me the leak". 1 is blocking, but 2 isn't - if a baby goat finds the leak the leak's just as found as if jesus had found it.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: the high schoolers usually buy per joint cause they don't know any better
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> can you even get pot in smaller chunks than 5 grams ? << In a collegiate environment last I heard people traded pot in single grams if it did not smell of dogshit.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> sixth of a fucking ounce ? << yes
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, what tower defense did you play? I know of it from starcraft
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 00:35:19; mircea_popescu: nah, it's a minigame see. something like, you build the case for it, place it in the world, then people use it like a sort of arcade.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 00:22:14; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-10-2015#1293144 << i dunno about that, guy's already king of a vast domain.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in fact, i intend to have a td minigame added as an eulora activity eventually. << Before or after Lich's are implemented as a thing to become
asciilifeform: and this is where we learn that mircea_popescu cnc-machines his hangers from beryllium copper
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu aha. neat !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was in egypt iirc ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: with 'bluetooth' receivers even.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: then watch their faces
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: try walking into a room of gadget collectors, and say 'OK google, delete all...'
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: A bit longer http://qntra.net/2015/10/malleability-issues-continue-testing-zero-conf-faithful/
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 05:59:13; assbot: Logged on 04-10-2015 17:49:14; mircea_popescu: check out bizarro tx rewriting. i issued fca843c0b40a1755eee073a719c856baa7fbf5ac28db84804a44a91f52638632 which worked as expected, but apparently there's a 5269a0e862876040db21706a7849ffd1b7d63e72d6dd61b1d2431a51698bb007 restatement of it
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:36:34; mircea_popescu: <Naphex> https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox to give the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika this month.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 20:27:24; mircea_popescu: somehow. dunno how. but gamers and strippers is the winner combo.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:52:02; mircea_popescu: anyway. the advantage of anon & disappeared as opposed to "going to every conference that serves pasta" is that you don't have to face the "i fucking expected better of you" reproach.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 00:23:19; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1292365 << lol. i have yet to meet an argentinian that would be qualified to finish highschool. fortunately, online's a thing.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: http://habrahabr.ru/company/mosigra/blog/268211 << user interfaces in china. interesting enough to be worth the work (googletranslate if you must)
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> say Naphex, wouldn't you want to run a server for s.nsa too ? << ?
Naphex: mircea_popescu: percentage is right about perfect at the moment; performers adjust the price and tipping is completly voluntary
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: is it domain/avatar.png or /avatar.jpg on your blog for avatars?
livegnik: Thnx mircea_popescu.
ascii_field: faced wrath of mircea_popescu ?
assbot: Logged on 07-01-2015 05:29:32; mircea_popescu: this harms because : it gives unknowns a weight they should not have ; it removes the incentive for users to police at their local level ; it allows third parties to construct undeniable chatlogs that they had no business in.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the thing is practically begging to be c++11-ized
ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually got to see an example of my l337 p4ck1ng
ascii_field: how's the wine mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimsUDzOiSM << fun sample
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ever seen "Forbidden Zone"?
assbot: Logged on 03-10-2015 16:11:55; mircea_popescu: psa : brie is THE omlette cheese.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: see also old thread, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=25-09-2015#1285200 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recently popped a crate with 4th ed. stroustrup. it was, to my surprise, proper lay-flat. but the pleasant surprise turned to ick when i saw that it, for no particular reason, had blue as well as black print, and a good fraction of the blue is smudged !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the economics of webprint are not unlike those of circuit board
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: printer tells you what he eats, then you make latex shit it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding is that all self-published items are typeset personally ?
asciilifeform is l0ling over 'norsena corp.' in mircea_popescu's dns
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: resent
punkman: mircea_popescu: no wai, I just did one the other day for $15
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is sop
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/01B20TA.txt << here it is again. and don't forget to check sig inside.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 02:49:33; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you've got mailz!
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 03:02:26; asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu's sometimes-powerful medicine of putting on a blindfold and pretending that nothing happens outside of his wot - will not work here.
assbot: Logged on 30-09-2015 09:29:18; mircea_popescu: i don't want anything specific. but i will be keeping track of a large ammount of tiny indicators, because anything else results in exam-taking-training.
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 01:12:45; asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu wrote something re: how he wants wot as a very fluid and informal animal that can't be 'optimized against'
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu's sometimes-powerful medicine of putting on a blindfold and pretending that nothing happens outside of his wot - will not work here. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 00:17:23; mircea_popescu: You were the only toxic thing in that entire story. Hopefully your failure informs other women, at a young age when they confront the choice of whether to be sarah-sharp-toxic or productive members of society, and they choose to not be sarah-sharp-toxic.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you've got mailz! ☟︎
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu wrote something re: how he wants wot as a very fluid and informal animal that can't be 'optimized against' ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 00:31:17; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1292441 << this is a complex problem. it's unclear why third party should even be able to verify ratings.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 22:19:23; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1292160 << hot damn i have to start doing this. inquiring minds would love a list of List of People Kidnapped By MP This Week And What They Taught Him. also, does argentina actually have a dozen ppl worth mircea_popescu's time ~every~ week ?
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 15:38:06; mircea_popescu: dividing the mkt cap by the mkt volume roughly yields the "empty hopes" factor.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 09:56:10; *: mircea_popescu does a dozen or more of these "so let me run this by you" citizen arrests things.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-10-2015#1292160 << hot damn i have to start doing this. inquiring minds would love a list of List of People Kidnapped By MP This Week And What They Taught Him. also, does argentina actually have a dozen ppl worth mircea_popescu's time ~every~ week ? ☝︎☟︎
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes! when i finally get home. a few hours from now.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for civilians ?!
gabrielradio: mircea_popescu not really. thinking about it, it's kinda the same thing as sdice. choose odds, send btc, roll the dice. only with a much larger -ev
thestringpuller: who need .bait when mircea_popescu is around
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 06:38:13; mircea_popescu: o btw, do you have a reddit acct that's aged enough to make subreddits ?
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 15:55:34; mircea_popescu: http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/10/04/pictorial-essay-18-things-i-did-that-my-grand-kids-cant-do-without-someone-getting-arrested/
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 06:05:19; mircea_popescu: anyway, the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin to me". dude... why the fuck would i be selling anything to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives a shit about your consent, let alone excitement to use bitcoin. you'll use it to survive, and marginally at that.
ascii_field: but unlike mircea_popescu i sometimes have to vivisect it.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 09:18:42; mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and they explain to you it's a heavy fuel oil. do you believe that ?