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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508507 << the problem with americans, by which we denote obscure people from the colonies with no history or identity of their own, is that if something becomes desirable they'll just copy it. "as best they can", "with locally sourced items". hence the mormon shredding of the hebrew texts and jordan pearson.
☝︎ gribble: (later tell
<nick>
<text>) -- Tells
<nick>
<text> the next time
<nick> is in seen.
<nick> can contain wildcard characters, and the first matching nick will be given the note.
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> then he can be 'whole'
<< This actually is a thing. There is 0 lower bound to idiocy.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 21:17 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1508246 << lulzy: 'The deadlock between competing corners of the Bitcoin community when it comes to hard forking, in contrast, spells doom for the currency, according to Tual. “As long as that’s true, Bitcoin will never evolve, and it will die, because what doesn't evolve dies.”'
<< 'we've failed to stick in the proboscis and so let's declare it dead, neverhappened'
mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn't pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is."
<< guy rocks lol
mircea_popescu: rifle of Middle Eastern goat herders, guys named Abdullah, and backwoods militia types who like the fact that it shoots cheap ammo and has ballistics like their familiar .30-30."
<<< amusingly, these are actually quite good points.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:16 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other si
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop, think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change thing that is fine for no reason except to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other side, you put propel
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 03:12 pete_dushenski:
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave them to usg.melania)
ben_vulpes: i am at the very least lucky that emacs will eat CMD-
<anything but tab>
pete_dushenski: "redneck bikes!"
<< rich rednecks too. og 'fat bikes' were >$5k until the last year or two when clunkier steel $2k models starting hitting stores.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 22:20 pete_dushenski: less important than incentives for creativity, flexibility, and the ability to make incremental adjustments that can transform existing technologies into inventions that are appropriate for prevailing domestic conditions."
<< basically get the govn't out of the way and que sera sera, the meat will be what it'll be.
pete_dushenski: "specifically the one who though Mark Karpelès did it."
<< thought.
phf: z
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1507246 << it's a term of art from the 90s, back when malware carried exclusively destructive payload, but since then particular broken latin form morphed into oldfag leet speak for "malware"
☝︎ shinohai: cat article.asc | curl -F 'f:1=
<-' ix.io
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 10:47 Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506544 << i've a $10 vps, no complaints, i did the initial ipv4 probing off of that. didn't run any i/o etc benchmarks tho. any particular questions (i can run some benchmark if you want)
pete_dushenski: less important than incentives for creativity, flexibility, and the ability to make incremental adjustments that can transform existing technologies into inventions that are appropriate for prevailing domestic conditions."
<< basically get the govn't out of the way and que sera sera, the meat will be what it'll be.
☟︎ pete_dushenski:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/economicHistory/workingPapers/2016/WP249.pdf << "The results indicate that scientists, engineers or technicians were not well-represented among the British great inventors, and their contributions remained unspecialized until very late in the nineteenth century. For developing countries today, the implications are that costly investments in specialized human capital resources might be
danielpbarron: and in other channels news >> Clash> I spoof my phone's location to manipulate Pokemon Go.
<< nifty idea huh? I don't know the game well enough but it sounds like someone could rile up a lot of feathers if they took this concept to the extreme
trinque: apt-cache showpkg wordpress
<< should give ya list of packages you'll need
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506525 << it's not fiction, the facts are sourced, the interpretation that bey puts on them is his own though and i feel like he often stretches it to keep the narrative consistent with the "utopias" part of his premise
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> if you heat the thing to 5000K and they come out
<< dude... gohead cancer to 500k. wtf is with you.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1506567 << i've been going through that exercise with code recently, where the original developer abandoned the project and there's a new maintainer. the exercise is to see how much of it is gendered pronouns. not surprisingly in many cases for every 1 bug fixed, there's a dozen entirely inconsequential commits. file shuffles, renames, code removals, README copyright updates, that sort of stuff. it's like nobody's
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i don't want any guy at all. even now i
<em> by hand rather than clicking the fucking buttons
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 10:53 Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505364 << okay; but deciding not to use $tool because it's used by $enemy bloody well sounds like one to me. sure, you can call this a set of (very) useful heuristics. but if this sophistry is accepted, then any ideology is a set of heuristics (usually but not always very bad ones, but the latter is a separate point). ftr though, i'm not saying that sometimes there aren't goo