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a111: Logged on 2014-09-08 22:35 mircea_popescu: "Thank you for this clarification Mr. Nakamoto. It has been an honor to be labeled by my friends as "Satoshi's Drunk Uncle" and it's a moniker I'll wear proudly until the day I retire from Crypto. The Goldcoin (GLD) developers truly admire your work and strive to continue improving upon its design as a tribute to your unparallelled genius. Your admirer and relative in spirit, MicroGuy."
a111: Logged on 2013-03-28 13:15 mircea_popescu: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/28/hundreds-of-armed-vigilantes-seize-mexican-town-arrest-local-police/
a111: Logged on 2015-01-09 07:49 mircea_popescu: "That's quite publicity for MP for a mere 5 BTC (he owns half bitbet), maybe less. (It's obvious that bitcoin will go up faster, so not many will bet no)"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not afaik. and not from lack of try
a111: Logged on 2014-12-10 00:51 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 14:25 mircea_popescu: !~later tell peterl since you're both in the field and unlazy, here's a thought - i would like to see a quantitative history of life in terms of biopumps. i dunno that this was ever done, and it's a crying shame.
deedbot: pete_dushenski voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: !!up pete_dushenski
asciilifeform: at one time i wrote a proggy that generated a few million files every time it ran, for perfectly legitimate reason. it ended up breaking every script i've been habitually using for years, in exactly mircea_popescu's way
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and, apparently, run botched debian.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the pseudoscientific gunk you reviewed does not form part of this discussion though, they're as irrelevant to anything to do with people as the chirping of the birds.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 14:29 mircea_popescu: coal must be taken in the form of live tree, or live leaf, or recently dead tree, or leaf, or bug, or somesuch. not as charcoal.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-13 13:06 mircea_popescu: consider that this is done on the very last limb of a huge apparatus of idle losers, maintained at very great expense by a tooth and claw fight to prevent trump appointments! the spy ustate rebells! etcetera!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Until the water does it's thing, topping and crushing dam with the weight of... mebbe 3 or 4 celestial hamplanets
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: The truly amazing part is that Los Angeles is just going to drink that puddle dry again
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 06:04 mircea_popescu: (guru meditation : whence does a tree's mass come from ?)
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman can't get from point a to point b, what it usually means.
Reuel: mircea_popescu your site seems to be down?
mircea_popescu: and in practice-makes-perfect news, http://68.media.tumblr.com/1173d7ec08795ae5dab49eeb627e39ce/tumblr_ngw5p5YiOd1sldaxio1_400.gif
hanbot: https://www.wdt.edu/ << for mircea_popescu's latest story series
davout: mircea_popescu: what was this article in which i remember you saying that the "super-rich" advocating for higher taxes was in fact a way to hurt the "reasonably-rich"?
mircea_popescu: and in other successful blowjobs, http://68.media.tumblr.com/e397539c09f19b121e357d2890dce6fa/tumblr_nst4f1ydiV1tcimvao1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: and in other shakes, http://68.media.tumblr.com/753256e456f2f4ea72cb4eb7fa893740/tumblr_odd9w7Oe9N1s4dxj3o1_500.gif
BingoBoingo: OMG it's been a few hours since mircea_popescu got fleanoded!
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Mineriad - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineriad>; June 1990 Mineriad - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1990_Mineriad>; Mineriada din iunie 1990 - Wikipedia: <https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineriada_din_iunie_1990>
asciilifeform: i can see how the spreading worx, mircea_popescu --- but how does the eating work
a111: Logged on 2017-01-26 19:28 ben_vulpes: what is this "nixon-shaped box"?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have the bins, with symbols, dwarf debug tags, etc. and this is a transformation i can do by hand in, say, ida. but the only reason i even have to think about it is that gcc is MILITANTLY stupid and gloms in trivially provably unused routines
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is actually how the heavy industrial realtime ada folx do it. fork the standard lib.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-11 00:24 ben_vulpes: ROP?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Other decent substrate is softwood bark composted to consistency of smooshed chocolate cake
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, he's selling it soft. but it's getting bought, in oodles, which ios what matters.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Problem is soil timecube is rounded. For srs. Just get a bunch of peat moss while you can along with composted cow manure, and a few 5 gallon buckets full of generic 10-10-10
asciilifeform: how do you picture this, ben_vulpes ?
jhvh1: asciilifeform: Facts About Retinopathy of Prematurity ( ROP ) | National Eye Institute: <https://nei.nih.gov/health/rop/rop>; Retinopathy of Prematurity | National Eye Institute: <https://nei.nih.gov/health/rop>; Retinopathy of prematurity - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retinopathy_of_prematurity>
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Anyways if you want to promote "the right" bacteria in your dirt just grow legumes and do the whole crop rotation bsns
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you find that they are playable on a box with soft-emulated ('mesa') gpu, i will be pleasantly surprised
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: betcha keeping around 'support' monkey, to answer mail from 'IT DUN WORK!!11' whiners, costs something
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 05:43 mircea_popescu: "Parse did a lot of things right."
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the glibc6 thing was a quite deliberate bomb to lock out users of old debians and similar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: post strace of the silently-die ?
mircea_popescu: because "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found"
mircea_popescu: and in other playstations, http://68.media.tumblr.com/fec1e00357977dc724d9c66ed04b99e5/tumblr_nsy8grDUqy1r2svjro1_500.gif
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 19:36 mircea_popescu: and in other fake news, http://68.media.tumblr.com/831cf472f27f8c52432f08e92c636bf5/tumblr_nqqhafDdQU1qgojnyo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: and in other fake news, http://68.media.tumblr.com/831cf472f27f8c52432f08e92c636bf5/tumblr_nqqhafDdQU1qgojnyo1_500.gif ☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: temper the excitement, it's a parachute, not a plane
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 16:28 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, in a very much unrteported move, frankfurt got 300 tons of gold from new york.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 14:01 mircea_popescu: phf what's the relevancy of the hardware details in the example given ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if mr.t raised the banner, i suspect there would be plenty of folx, in particular army, who would happily string up judges, berkeley 'professors', j00yorktimes journarasts, etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 13:59 mircea_popescu: people's savings through misleading promises and "investment" funds. And so on." part b, which is lulzy.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: No biochar experiments, composting meat breeds clostridium, and the way to dispose of bones is bleaching them in the deser sun and selling to tourists
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 13:59 mircea_popescu: to do that that preserves bitcoin's design goal." (part a, which is correct)
mircea_popescu: and in other news : http://68.media.tumblr.com/8b3c3f5e6a144ce277541b883d67898b/tumblr_ojyu8fjAdU1ui3dbro1_500.gif ; turns out freshly spanked butt fucks better.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 02:09 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: similar (i never used, however) is https://mosh.org
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 05:27 mircea_popescu: "Parse Server •Server was Rails at first (with 24 threads max. concurrency) with very little throughput per server (~15–30 requests per second) •The server was later rewritten in Go. The open-source Parse server is written Node.js and lacks many functionalities of the original Parse server in Go." <<< holy shit, can you believe the idiocy ? "we wasted a bunch of money doing stupid shit because we truly believe"
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Ce este fluierul piciorului Zice-ti-mi si mie repede va rog frumos Cine ...: <https://www.tpu.ro/adolescenti/ce-este-fluierul-piciorului-zice-ti-mi-si-mie-repede-va-rog-frumos-cine-stie-primeste-funda/>; Durere la fluierul piciorului - primul ajutor - ROmedic: <http://www.romedic.ro/durere-la-fluierul-piciorului-primul-ajutor-0P32405>; Fluierul piciorului - Dictionar medical - ROmedic: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: burn'em with leather. --> cyanide.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i doubt you actually get enough bones to make this worthwhile thinking about ; but if you do - make your own bone ash! put in garden!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey i can throw out a concert piano!!1
asciilifeform: does ben_vulpes still live in that shithole where they charge for rubbish pickup by the pound?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes chicken bones are a problem for some (retarded) dogs ; otherwise notrly.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: there is no convenient pill against bones, it is why archaeologists have with what to work.
asciilifeform: (and, as mircea_popescu pointed out, the finalsolutionatron)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you had a defective dog that chokes on bone, wouldn't you rather know early on
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: donthca keep dogz?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even i can only scour so much off the bones
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how about not buying more than you eat.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: consider pig?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes as a rough heuristic for this matter, if you were to be locked in a room, would you prefer the room contain a large lump of cake or a large lump of people ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no. carbon-rich.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes charcoal is coal.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the microbiology involved is anything but settled. from the lengthy human experience on the topic, coal is a miserable substrate for a garden.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you stiumbled on a fine example of "spreading-works". do not add coal to soil you plan to cultivate.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can buy many industrial products, but am not particularly interested in more dependencies on plant-produced amendments
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: oddly enough comes from the "permaculture" wackjobs
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do they sell calcinated bone as a fertilizer where you live ?
mircea_popescu: http://68.media.tumblr.com/093b24e8470460bd1a280961dd3ebc52/tumblr_n4z5z76XCH1tauas6o2_500.gif << dirt is better than stupidity, in that when dirty chicks lick each other it can be kinda-hot.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not according to the DSMIX
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ships still run win98, bit of a lag
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ahaha WHAT
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i think that's indices of just the acl 'tables'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i am not at all convinced that these folx individuated, and able to 'identify'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: proud tradition of penny-in-the-fusebox lives on!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: wait 'till you get to "what it got right"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you want random words in a string, you shoulda seen the guy pitching "a cryptocurrency blockchain signature solution to the marijuana regulatory burden" the other night
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes listen, you're quoting a bullshit mfa trying to product place some inept dork. he did nothing ; is nobody ; random words in a string.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'apps' ain't 'the empire' tho, they're panem et circenses
ben_vulpes: which to quasiquote mircea_popescu "what is even a native mobile developer"
asciilifeform: why am i reading this, ben_vulpes
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: eldritch horror
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wtf is "parse"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes oh you too ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at pussygrabbing ranch, http://68.media.tumblr.com/bdca4e216571d0d234a97d25105b413e/tumblr_okmlsscQFn1v510bao1_500.gif
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: similar (i never used, however) is https://mosh.org ☟︎
asciilifeform: soooo apparently they had fat-reddit back in ye olden dayz: http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/misc/anonymous_porquiera.php
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun see anything 'uci' about it -- looks like a script that serves up a shell? 1990s parlour trick
mircea_popescu: in other somewhat lulz, https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2017/01/25/12/trump-abortion-2.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just when you thought this can't get any lulzier: '...resource exhaustion issues which can be triggered only with crafted patterns (either during compilation or execution) are not treated as security bugs.' ( https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Security%20Exceptions )
asciilifeform: 'We found a few extended regex expressions in GNU libc that will crash or abort the execution of regcomp or regexec. For instance: \a?{1,32767} will immediately exhaust the stack calling calc_eclosure_iter in the compilation. A small variation of this regex is: \a?{0,32767} will consume a very large amount of memory: it seems to eat 16GB in less than a minute. It is also possible to exhaust the stack memory trying to parse...'