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ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: are you thick? it comes with instructions
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes i ordered a kubinetes book but got instead an ikea box.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-05 15:14 trinque: mircea
_popescu: wget -R will suck down every URL it finds, js included
trinque: mircea
_popescu: wget -R will suck down every URL it finds, js included
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> standard kerosene is 46MJ/kg. the boeing carries about 63k liters, and kerosene density is about .82 << Aha, this seems to be a source of common misunderstanding. That Jet fuel is a kerosene "heating oil" and not a gasoline exploding oil
jhvh1: mircea
_popescu: 46 * 63 * .82 = 2376.3599999999997
a111: Logged on 2017-03-17 04:04 mircea
_popescu: eh ffs, what sustained. pulse.
danielpbarron: mircea
_popescu, no. did you do the math on jet fuel?
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> auditions for his exclusive rave / festival. << ha
a111: Logged on 2017-05-04 02:05 mod6: ben
_vulpes: thoughts?
mod6: <+ben
_vulpes> mod6: i think it's grand << aha. ok sounds good then.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> why would you give 50yo kid trying to make a life/career out of singing into mom's hairspray tube in his underwear opiates ? << Because muh hips, muh knees, muh condishuns!
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> you'd expect pop icon of the 80s can afford nuclear grade pure samples. << Nah, they all hired fiduciaries who told them to "invest" in building their own "Neverland Ranch" by 1990
a111: Logged on 2017-05-04 13:18 mircea
_popescu: anyone got a theory ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> wtf is with all these obnoxious 80s media items doing heroin anyway ? << Their doctors have been scared by the DEA gang into not giving them pharmaceutical opiates
a111: Logged on 2017-05-04 13:18 mircea
_popescu: anyone got a theory ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 23:16 mircea
_popescu: "passions" for you know, "technology", "the ocean" and "music". because that's how this fucking works, there's a large jar called "passions" and you pick m&m's from there. they're all the fucking same.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 21:26 mircea
_popescu: soooo... the unconfirmed rumour is that the chinese govt is drawing up plans to make bitcoin a strategic commodity, making it illegal for private citizens to hold it / buy their holdings at the "prevailing market rates" (ie, 1kish
_ a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 23:04 ben
_vulpes: heh it'd be funny if a) the fiduciary rule had stuck and b) if someone had brought suit against coinbase/kraken for pushing penny stocks
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 19:43 mircea
_popescu: (andpool, as usual, the worst offender.)
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 19:41 mircea
_popescu: meanwhile the chinos seem to have completely given up on tx priority by fee. there's 20 sat/B items included, there's 200 sat/B item waiting for hours in the pool, it's a complete, ridiculous mess.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-04 05:41 ben
_vulpes: "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing" has some gems
a111: Logged on 2017-05-04 02:05 mod6: ben
_vulpes: thoughts?
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> o hey, foundation owning shares, too ? << at first I was thinking that these might need to be realised into btc and sent to the addy... but i don't see any restrictions on asset ownership. as long as jurov writes in a line item in the report at least.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes one day ima put one of these fucks in stocks and whip them until they either die or meaningfully explain what "take full responsibility" is supposed to FUCKING EVEN BE!
ben_vulpes: well no mircea
_popescu also security couldn't cope! they worried! how can you calculate the security numbers, you dragon you?
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes i knew a cat that couldn't take people hyperventilating.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes and the idiotic, illiterate shamanism of it all. "we chartered 737 planes to shuttle guests from miami". wtf, that many ? oh no wait, it's not a number, IT IS A NAME.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes at some point someone gave $chinese ruler half dozen fruit. he didn't want them, donated them to local chapter of party.
mircea_popescu: soooo... the unconfirmed rumour is that the chinese govt is drawing up plans to make bitcoin a strategic commodity, making it illegal for private citizens to hold it / buy their holdings at the "prevailing market rates" (ie, 1kish
_ ☟︎ Framedragger: anarcho
_capitalism, such subreddit. on the other hand top comment *is* "Have you tried NOT wanting to fuck your daughter?"
shinohai: ty. Would likely have never gotten addicted but BB and mircea
_popescu kept goading me to.
jurov: i'll just keep them and gleefully report them monthly until mod6 and ben
_vulpes move
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 13:25 mircea
_popescu: (the difference between mp and pg being that mp is not a dodo bird. pg meanwhile -- deleted the item from his own site. how about that, to lose a company is one thing, but to lose THE HAVING LOST IT ?!?! the actual part of your own personal history ? fuck me sideways, these idiots.)
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 13:26 mircea
_popescu: somehow even more credible in having been disavowed by its original author. people with constructed negative credibility, how about that!
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: i will give one example. about a year ago, there was a discussion with sturles about mempool and the whole zero fee tx clusterfuck. at some point later on, you said that (can't find quote, paraphrasing) on scrutiny, sturles' account broke apart. whereas i read it as "discussion was ongoing, then mp changed topic".
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 13:19 mircea
_popescu: but that something else is always going to be the same exact thing -- the realisation that the world as dreamed is not the world as is, and the incapacity of the child to metabolize this fact.
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: just curious, how are there "parallels with BitBet's misadventures last year about this time"? the "dead recokining" accounting standard?
mod6: mircea
_popescu: yah, will report back after i try some diff envs. etc. thx!
a111: Logged on 2017-04-21 17:32 mircea
_popescu: last i checked ovh did not own the dcs.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 02:45 mircea
_popescu: BingoBoingo it is, the problem with it is that 10% or less of the payola is paid out as bezzle usd ; the remaineder 90% or more is paid out as pats on the back, empty and baseless congratulatory verbiage and generally speaking psychotronic noise.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes how many trips in two seater does it take to evacuate fambly ?
Framedragger: !~later tell gabriel
_laddel
_p ^ hooker for geeks in lisp, biznis idea
Framedragger: i thought there may be a demand for vps. multiple parties indicated such, including mircea
_popescu.
jhvh1: mircea
_popescu: 24 * 60 = 1440
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: i mean, when you're thinking of spinning up those mirrors, you (i now suppose) think in terms of months/weeks, not days or hours or minutes, hm. yeah, i see.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-02 15:50 mircea
_popescu: btw, that separate means ~separate~. it's ok to advertise a max you can supply, 3 or 15 or w/e it is.
a111: Logged on 2015-08-12 21:41 ascii
_field: 'nstead, a file called "wpbbin.exe" was placed in C:\windows\system32 and executed. That turns out to be a method Microsoft introduced with Windows 8 to allow the BIOS to execute code on boot up (!?!) called "Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT)". I can find almost NOTHING about this anywhere on the internet except a single document on Microsoft's website (link to the Google Cache since it's a .docx file) and in a random
Framedragger: interested to hear what mircea
_popescu thinks re latter, tho ^
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: well, while i of course agree in general, i don't agree in particular: i'd certainly find it useful to be able to supply a "curl phuctor stats every 24h, serve here" instruction. or, you know, "submit key", or "comments", or anything else of the sorts.
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: so the url would contain what, static contents for web serving?
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: yes, something like that. same !!v principle. user gets ssh login. billed (if at all) by the minute, or the likes.
Framedragger: mircea
_popescu: only in the form of air being in the middle between antenna and shitty access point in cafe, in this case heh.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 12:43 mircea
_popescu: aaand in not-really-news : avalance in retezat (romanian mountain) killed a few kids that were european and world record holders in mountain-related items. ro "our democracy" media railing about how the trainer (also father of one of the victims) "forced his two daughters to break record after record while training in EXTREME CONDITIONS!!!1 ONLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGOTISM!!1111"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-01 18:41 mircea
_popescu: count for 100% just as soon as they stop telling themselves the 0% story to get to the slop like the rest of the pigs.
BingoBoingo: <pete
_dushenski> BingoBoingo: so powerboats don't seize up or what ? << Yes