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mats: BingoBoingo: if you're gonna report on rumors, might as well look over this https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3yktcg/ian_murdock_debian_founder_is_threatening_suicide
cazalla: pete_dushenski, long as they're healthy eh, and this little girl is doing fine so far, all the tests were fine, and we were able to find out the sex at 10 weeks in this time around
punkman: "After his release on November 20, Pollard relocated to an apartment secured for him by his attorneys in New York City. A job offer, as a research analyst at a Manhattan investment firm, was retracted due to the restrictions imposed on his internet access and the inspections to which his employer's computers would be subjected. A bill introduced in the Knesset in November 2015 would, if
shinohai: I set that as my Desktop just to disgust the lady that cleans my apartment
asciilifeform: r the Embassy of Israel in Washington. A U.S. intelligence official familiar with the intercepts said Israel's pitch to undecided lawmakers often included such questions as: "How can we get your vote? What's it going to take?"'
asciilifeform: 'The NSA reports allowed administration officials to peer inside Israeli efforts to turn Congress against the deal. Mr. Dermer was described as coaching unnamed U.S. organizations-which officials could tell from the context were Jewish-American groups-on lines of argument to use with lawmakers, and Israeli officials were reported pressing lawmakers to oppose the deal. "These allegations are total nonsense," said a spokesman fo
pete_dushenski: "All of this adds up to a multifaceted perception problem for those of us who are operating legitimate businesses that are dependent on Bitcoin. Both trustworthiness and terminology matter." << bitcoin clearly needs more marketing from chuck et al., only then can bitcoin truly succeed as a tool for fiat banks to understand how the world works.
mod6: that's root, you techincally can put that after any tld and it will work as long as it conforms to the spec
adlai finds his seventh sense tingling, watching the acceleration of nagant-chewing by formerly-sensible talking heads as the XT timebomb ticks down... hot tip: pop X.CORN and wait for fireworks
thestringpuller: trinque: as was said in the boondocks >> So basically, nigga technology is anything that doesn't plug into a printer. Does that plug into a printer? No? Know why? 'Cause niggas never have anything to print.
adlai: ben_vulpes: i'm fine with staleness as long as it doesn't drop packets... random timing are as bad for snapshotting a shifting web as they are good for batching a racy market
thestringpuller: saw it as a rescue operation from Bitpay.
trinque: ben_vulpes: runs best *as* the windowing system !
mats: >Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the
jurov: but iirc i run in only occassionally as it requires checksum from assbot or such
mod6: was this all part of the same storm system as with the tornadoes in tx?
mircea_popescu: "you're not a real man for as long as you get outwalked by a dog"
mod6: they're bigger than grouse. bout the same size as a chicken, maybe a bit bigger.
mircea_popescu: in other random news, http://trilema.com/2010/retete-de-criza-astazi-pisica/#comment-116110 << guy on the internet has an aneurism over my discussing the cooking of an [rather obvious] rabbit as if it were a cat, cusses me out romanian-style (turns out i'm racist for eating cat!) and then recommends chicken and beef. because hey, eating beef's not racist.
mircea_popescu: in other, related news, apparently the kid fashion these days is to identify as "demisexual". which you all know and love as the old "being a woman", which is to say, not getting turned on by looks, but by "other things". you know...
adlai_pheeld: damn that'd have been funnier as 1234, goota work on my editing
assbot: When Your Fat Pic Goes Viral as a Feminist Cautionary Tale ... ( http://bit.ly/1YNxz9h )
adlai: also he wore a blutoof headset the entire time and that issh is kreepy as balzac
assbot: Some inmates transferred as water rises at Illinois' maximum-security Menard prison : News ... ( http://bit.ly/1krofFh )
BingoBoingo: Water level is spz to get still 9 feet higher in Chester >> "Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Nicole Wilson says the maximum security Menard Correctional Center near Chester has had "minor flooding" in some cells." >> http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/some-inmates-transferred-as-water-rises-at-illinois-maximum-security/article_336fb256-d3b0-535f-b4ed-f7588766dbb1.html
mircea_popescu: is is best described as a national movement. unlike the usg, which IS in fact a criminal organisation.
mats: 'terrorist' is a mangled descriptor -- IS is best described as a transnational criminal organization with statal aspirations
asciilifeform: 'However, the nLockTime field can't prove that it is impossible to spend a transaction output until some time in the future, as there is no way to know if a valid signature for a different transaction spending that output has been created.' (from the horse's mouth)
pete_dushenski: same as reddit : kabillion views, all (meat)robots, all worth approx the toilet paper they were printed on.
assbot: Coinbase Runs Bitcoin XT in Production as Pilot Test ... ( http://bit.ly/1UfFhSY )
pete_dushenski: http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/12/29/coinbase-runs-bitcoin-xt-in-production-as-pilot-test/
pete_dushenski: "However, the proposal to expand the block size at this pace has been heavily criticized by bitcoin experts such as Mircea Popescu and Pete Dushenski with concerns over its technological capability." << hehe. qotd.
mod6: I put all of this in here as I think that this way forward with the new layout generated from vpatches could work.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-12-2015#1355882 << why didn't she re-train ? /me had grandmother who retrained as haemotologist after leaving gheorghiu-dejistan ☝︎
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-12-2015#1355845 << actually re-watched mib recently. will smith still entertains after all these years. theory as to why it didn't take off a la matrix ? i) protagonist is black and therefore != messiah, and ii) it's a... comedy. ☝︎
assbot: Laughter all round as man in low-slung car has epic struggle | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1OWY95i )
mircea_popescu: the moment he purported to make the decision of "where to go", he defined himself as "equivalent to the politburo"
mircea_popescu: which, incidentally, reminds me of an ancient story. long, long ago in a galazy far far away there lived this fellow, who was the best anesthesiologist in town. and consequently, by the meritocratic workings of the "people's equalitarian democracy" he could have had ANYTHING her wanted. literally, you can't imagione this. as the "best of" guy in a socialist state, you can commit a triple rape with murder and arson on t
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: As long as you avoid the statins which engrave a hard expiration date on the liver
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It can help to put the cholesterol in check. For all of the "poor bile bears" in the press it works as actual medicine.
BingoBoingo: As far as I know they aren't supporting and current proposal. It will prolly be at least 2018 before they even consider opening up an rfc on the matter.
punkman: "For example RBF and block size limit. These are two completely unrelated issues yet every single one has the same opinion. This is true for almost everything else as well." op hasn't heard about cults
assbot: State Dept. counts 'bringing peace' to Syria as a 2015 win - POLITICO ... ( http://bit.ly/1kpxtSr )
mod6: <+asciilifeform> in usa - about same as trucker << just heard a commercial; Dominoes is paying $75-$80k for over-the-road CDL drivers day and night routes.
mircea_popescu: average income of us based programmer is ~same as table waitress. $3 an hour + tips.
asciilifeform: in usa - about same as trucker
BingoBoingo: "As far as what I see, according to the candidates that are out there now, Republicans and Democrats, I think he’s head and shoulders right now above the rest. I don’t agree with everything he says, he speaks a little more, actually he speaks a little more, a lot more radically than I talk. And I think that’s a positive and negative." -David Duke
mircea_popescu: as per nubbins rules of engagement, this has resulted in no collegiate sluts doing their job.
asciilifeform: (loads in cache-as-ram mode on intel/amd)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355381 << there's a huge difference between fully financed deficit (such as sae runs) and fully uncovered deficit, such as the us (or argentina) run. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "I'm Roger Ver, long-time Roger Ver advocate and investor. Today, I'm at the Roger Ver world headquarters in Saint Kitts and Nevis. I had a nice chat with Roger Ver CEO, Roger Ver, about their current situation. He showed me multiple bank statements, as well as letters from banks, lawyers and Roger Ver. I'm sure that all the current Roger Ver problems at Roger Ver are being caused by the traditional banking system, not
assbot: Kazonomics - Poses as a rich and successful Bitcoin-Guru but is in fact a dirt poor & notorious criminal who just can´t stay away from trouble. - Welcome to Fyrstikken ... ( http://bit.ly/1mLkdcD )
assbot: Kazonomics - Poses as a rich and successful Bitcoin-Guru but is in fact a dirt poor & notorious criminal who just can´t stay away from trouble. - Welcome to Fyrstikken ... ( http://bit.ly/1me9MON )
BingoBoingo: http://www.fyrstikken.com/blog/kazonomics-poses-as-a-rich-and-successful-bitcoin-guru-but-is-in-fact-a-dirt-poor-notorious-criminal-who-just-cant-stay-away-from-trouble
mircea_popescu: such as you know, fucking underwear.
BingoBoingo: "On Sunday afternoon, as rain continued to pummel much of the St. Louis region, 2015 officially became the wettest year on record. It came amid reports of widespread flooding, a plea by officials in West Alton to evacuate and the closure of Interstate 70 through the heart of St. Charles County. And with rain continuing Monday, river levels throughout the region are expected to hit near-record crests by New Year’s Eve."
BingoBoingo: In other news, SUCK IT CALIFORNIA http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/emergency-declared-as-rain-keeps-falling-concern-turning-to-rising/article_592378ee-58c5-58bf-844f-7192031de91f.html
adlai: "private blockchains are as mortal as CEOs" (also rough translaying)
fluffypony: right after I file to be recognised as a "thought leader"
adlai: "> If the lightning network ends up sucking (let???s hope it doesn???t), then so will bitcoin as we will have no choice but to use it by that point. // Or finally raise the blocksize" who'da guessed, comments better than the article itself
BingoBoingo has already lost a substantial amount of liver weight since the sobriety experiment began as measured by poking the upper right quadrant of my abdomen and contemplating the size of the organ I just pissed off.
mats: the not-usg remora collective that bought into eth ipo is broke as fuck and are incapable of triggering share dump despite sizable payout from bitbet for this service
adlai: ;;later tell ben_vulpes: "Teaching people to look at the world as a malleable thing is one of the foundations of socialist brainrot" << so satoshi was a communist now too? and get a comment section already willya, it's blogging 101
BingoBoingo: "No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all selfsufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark act is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concern is complete." - 12&12 page 21
pete_dushenski: "The philosophical foundation of the Waldorf approach, Anthroposophy, underpins its primary pedagogical goals: to provide an education that enables children to become free human beings, and to help children to incarnate their "unfolding spiritual identity," carried from the preceding spiritual existence, as beings of body, soul, and spirit in this lifetime"
ben_vulpes: nearly as bad
pete_dushenski: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/buy-to-let/11816720/Death-of-buy-to-let-landlords-wake-up-to-Osbornes-150pc-tax.html << "Connie Cheuk (pictured above), a landlord with five properties, will see her tax bill rise by almost 40pc. She is even contemplating giving up her 18-year career as a teacher as a means of reducing the tax impact"
pete_dushenski: not as many fillies at pasture
mircea_popescu: as simple to game."
pete_dushenski: british were in sea war with asia as well around the same time, ya ?
mircea_popescu: same penis is used to make kids as made napoleon, too.
mircea_popescu: ru is not nearly as aerospace capable as the su was when sputnik, but it's certainly not as bad as it had gotten by 1980
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1354741 << it's not "advice" it's "notice", same root as in visa. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: alternatively, P should come in P, P' and P'' flavours as needed.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 00:39:31; asciilifeform: in the sense that presently patch Q is said to have patch P as an antecedent if ~any file~ in Q was modified by P
assbot: Logged on 27-12-2015 23:06:44; kakobrekla: The required equipment was often purchased abroad and presented as someone’s personal design. By the way, it was common practice in industry throughout the history of the Soviet Union. For example, in the 1980s a computer “EC1841” was designed for military purposes. The designers even managed to get the USSR State Award. Later it turned out that Soviet computer chips had never been designed – the
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 00:11:28; kakobrekla: according to them prouds "Tim Mitja Zagar is co-founder of Cashila, first Bitcoin company in Europe registered as financial institution "
asciilifeform: in the sense that presently patch Q is said to have patch P as an antecedent if ~any file~ in Q was modified by P ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i'm no perlspurt but mod6's only appears to press a single head as well punkman
ben_vulpes: has to press the same tree as any other v given the same head
kakobrekla: according to them prouds "Tim Mitja Zagar is co-founder of Cashila, first Bitcoin company in Europe registered as financial institution " ☟︎
kakobrekla: The required equipment was often purchased abroad and presented as someone’s personal design. By the way, it was common practice in industry throughout the history of the Soviet Union. For example, in the 1980s a computer “EC1841” was designed for military purposes. The designers even managed to get the USSR State Award. Later it turned out that Soviet computer chips had never been designed – they were imported from the ☟︎
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: works best as part of a balanced diet, which includes banhammer << by... ip ?
adlai doesn't care, it's not like he needs anything pgp signed from alf. might as well broadcast loper-over-avian-carrier
asciilifeform: adlai: assbot, as i understand, has a manually-curated cache of pubkeys
assbot: How to Use Bitcoin as a Faster Cheaper Easier Western Union - gaysexthailand.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1Jb1QI3 )
asciilifeform: or do they fall off on their own as the engine revvs up ?
asciilifeform: picture, no such thing as a fine restaurant without stinking beggars and screaming welfare kidz represented 'fairly'
asciilifeform: often i picture how horrified even the most hardened liberast would be if he could visit a meatspace universe that is as devoid of healthy meat-flies separation as the net is today
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: works best as part of a balanced diet, which includes banhammer
asciilifeform: the 5 can ride as in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-03-2014#544127 ☝︎
asciilifeform: as i pointed out a year+ ago, a trezor plugged into a specially-instrumented but visually uninteresting pc will give up its key.
asciilifeform: at the very least, he can make use of it using the machine as it was designed to be used
asciilifeform: i suppose i ought to explain dpa as a thing
mircea_popescu: psa : do not use the gpg supplied mechanism for "key expiration", or anything else from there as far as "key management" goes for that matter.
jurov: https://jochen-hoenicke.de/trezor-power-analysis/ as predicted by alf ☟︎
asciilifeform: hey most pc users ~still~ end up with keyboard jitter as entropy source
punkman: asciilifeform: I don't love the tiny keyboards, but as long as it's not on a touchscreen, and I'm not writing novels on it, it seems better than clunky airgapped lenovo
asciilifeform: (it isn't as if the money they spent were their own, or its supply - finite)
asciilifeform: usg 'expertz' have approximately as much to fear from sc4mz0rz as mountain from mosquitoes