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pete_dushenski: "The definition of “food insecure” includes anyone who frets about not being able to purchase food at any point. If someone states that they feared running out of food for a single day (but didn’t run out), that is an indicator of being “food insecure” for the entire year — regardless of whether they ever missed a single meal. If someone wants organic kale but can afford only conventional kale, that
pete_dushenski: "“Food insecurity” is a statistic designed to mislead. USDA defines food insecurity as being “uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.”"
pete_dushenski: in other news, "the Agriculture Department announced this morning that 48 million Americans live in “food insecure” households."
pete_dushenski: about seven hundred thousand Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies were killed. Yet a higher number survived. This is a dramatic contrast to the lands where the state was destroyed, where almost all Jews were killed."
pete_dushenski: "Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies lived or died according to certain general rules. Jews who maintained their prewar citizenship usually lived, and those who did not usually died…Jews from territories that changed hands were usually murdered. Jews almost never survived if they remained on territories where the Soviet Union had been exercising power when German or Romanian forces arrived…In all, ☟︎
pete_dushenski: half is better than nothing ?
shinohai: I always got to include travel time in my former employment, but only "to" job site and not the return trip.
pete_dushenski: and this is certainly the way i'm billed whenever i have a contractor fix something on a property. travel time is always included.
pete_dushenski: actually seems like a sane ruling to me.
assbot: Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules - BBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1F1DrTg )
punkman: phf, bringing hookah from other shop down the stree?
assbot: Ask a North Korean: what's life like in the army? | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1F1CeLH )
phf: fingers crossed xt ios app will be ready by the time africa is the last remaining apple market
kakobrekla: need more bumphones in africa so they can use ze blockchain
phf: asciilifeform: this stuff seems more pronounced further away you are from фабрика грез. i'm sure you'd still be the coolest boy on the block with an iphone in kerala
asciilifeform: if there was something 'statusy' about it, this disappeared in 2009 or earlier.
asciilifeform: (boredom lures the pnohes out of pockets and to where you can see them)
asciilifeform: phf: go on train, bus, where everyone is bored, in usa. 9 ipnohe to 1 turdroid, at times.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270419 << this leads to one neglected unix script tool which one could easily implement 'v' in a few lines - 'gnu make' ! ☝︎
phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over a weekend out then in moscow then i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i think 5 to 6 period was the p ☟︎
asciilifeform: (items like $3k laptops where the screen cracks two weeks after purchase, and THEY WON'T TAKE IT BACK, are why. that kind of thing is not forgotten, not forgiven. if the alternative were not microshit, apple would already be dead.)
kakobrekla: in their view.
kakobrekla: the only way you dont have a bumphone is if you have the latest one.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:04:15; mircea_popescu: tim cook is officially retarded.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270279 << but this is not why. ☝︎
kakobrekla: i know its true.
kakobrekla: "i can show you i sleep in a shoebox in the middle of the street on my iphone"
asciilifeform: ~this~ is the racket apple would like to roll up
asciilifeform: but there are folks who know how to change the glass, and it is inexpensive; hell, i did it myself for a few personal friends back in the day
asciilifeform: now, what you often ~will~ see is folks, esp. females, playing with iphone ~with cracked glass~. this tells you that a) almost certainly owner got it 'via contract', which is to say as a slave collar from the telco; and b) cannot remotely afford to pay the thing's retail price to replace it
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:02:44; mircea_popescu: who the fuck commodifies his premium product for boredom o may gawd
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270278 << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. i often go into town on weekends on the train. there is literally no one too ragged, too ethnic, whatever, to be playing with apple gadget, often more than one. literally, stinking bums have'em, and had for years. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:57:40; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1269902 << so then it's the rifht move ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270266 << if you want your employees to fight to the death, yes, throw in the chix ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:41:57; davout: it's an output in the bathroom, it's an input in the bedroom
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270248 << win. needs to be expanded to poem ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:40; mircea_popescu: sorta like the emperor of flies can't happen with an adult present.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270214 << easily, if the adult is a demented bugger goading the idiots on ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:07; mircea_popescu: i doubt it. see, wiemar collapsed because THERE WAS NO currency. at all.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270211 << there was gold, foreign currencies, no ? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ^ aha this was sop ☟︎
phf: my grandmother worked in my grandfather's department, designing analogue circuits, and it wasn't some contrived "women in engineering", simply something she was good enough at to get hired into "оборонка"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:12:18; mircea_popescu: jurov actually the she-programmers of yugo were famous in romania in the 80s
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270183 << and in more or less the whole su colonial world ☝︎
asciilifeform: then again jurov is fortunate in not being personally concerned with this matter, just as eagle does not concern himself with muddy roads... ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: that is, you can still find one with brain installed, but it has to be naturally-occurring. which, sure, go and wait for the natural fission reactor. THERE IS ONE ! geologists found it! somewhere in africa.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:11:26; jurov: lol the programming cheerleaders.. i've heard fantastic tales from bygone era in czechoslovakia about female *system* programmers one would literally go for debugging help in the darkest hours
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:07:45; mircea_popescu: there's an entire ugly unspecified state downstream people keep pushing under the rug
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270170 << there is considerably more ugly in the fact that the actual meaning of the system IS NOT SPECIFIED because NOBODY ACTUALLY KNOWS WHAT the crap does - esp. bdb, openssl, etc ☝︎
asciilifeform: this is rather like supposing that all gold on planet will one day be split into individual atoms on account of its scarcity, no ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: but kinda defeats the purpose of the exercise.
asciilifeform: 'targeting' them as if they were c-machine arch would result in a terrific blob of unreadable shit
asciilifeform: it is important to know why items such as picolisp and mulisp exist - compactness. (and to a lesser extent, 'fits in head'.)
asciilifeform: aha phf has it. but n00bz always assume that lisps are interchangeable
phf: you could target picolisp from sbcl, same way as you're right now targeting the unix to common lisp machine abstraction layer, that's written in c
punkman: ok, on dream or mulisp or other then
asciilifeform: picolisp is less similar to common lisp than 'c' is to 'pascal'
asciilifeform: NOT ALL LISPS ARE THE SAME
punkman: so if I want to bootstrap SBCL on say picolisp, how much of that C do I have to rewrite?
punkman: asciilifeform: I just read that SBCL has 20k lines of C
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:50:47; punkman: not sure if you can bootstrap SBCL without any C though
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:39:23; mircea_popescu: this is more of the "gavin has spoken with experts" / "btcoin business support"/ "xt is going to matter" etc etc verbiage.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270090 << hey, it worked for killing linux! that is, it is alive, but on what, 100 boxes, and the rest happily run shituntu and subscribe to autoupdates, happily run usg binaries, etc. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:36:50; mircea_popescu: they went to work for metansa right alf ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270083 << l0l mircea_popescu, everybody knows (tm) that metansa would never contain something so pedestrian as a report-writer, much less one who interfaced with something as boring as a politician. it is 100% people who break rsa, devise single-transistor backdoors to plant in intel, devise 'natural disease mimicking' poisons, etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: e.g., the very same mulisp discussed in the 'derive.exe' thread; 'dream' (x86 and later x86_64 scheme implementation;) and others
asciilifeform: b) plenty of lisps, of various descriptions, mainly but not exclusively 'scheme' implementations, written in 100% asm from the ground
asciilifeform: 2) sbcl and other adult commonlisps a) use c version for bootstrapping, which is to say, compiling self to a legit 100% self-shat executable --- but they will link with libc for unix terminal i/o, sockets, etc
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:25:38; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267867 <<< haha wut. except any lisp is also implemented atop libc, and half the time atop fucking python and some shit. don't throw stones ye of the glass house.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270064 << dear glub. sorry mircea_popescu, not even sure which part of this fiction to begin with ! ☝︎
PinkPosixPXE: hey mircea_popescu, doing pretty good, been busy with the new job, how are you?
punkman: "This isn’t to say that there aren’t large systems that can be formally specified: Bitcoin is one such example."
assbot: The Tar Pit - The myth of "software engineering" ... ( http://bit.ly/1ULhslr )
shinohai: Guy has fucktons of old servers and equipment. I had him look through his stash for that godsurge chip.
shinohai: I'll take the tradeoff, I have a soft spot for older computers.
mircea_popescu: no backlit tho
shinohai: I miss my thinkpad, trying to get a friend in Indiana to sell me one of his old ones.
mircea_popescu has thinkpads. amd inside.
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BingoBoingo: https://archive.is/C32nz << "Well, since a ton is 2000 pounds and Fat Activists tends to have their mortality increase rapidly after 500 pounds, we can conclude there are 3-6 Fat activists to the ton."
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phf: no, i showed her pictures from consensus though, as a reminder, she double down on her studies of turkish language
mircea_popescu: (who the fuck told those women to wear overknee skirts, srsly now)
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/zfLcA20.jpg << there's something coallescing in my head here. basically, the us bet on india against china. and lost.
phf: plenty of that, also fresh fish. my american girl is finally convinced that there's something fundamentally wrong with u.s. food supply
phf: mircea_popescu: i took your trilema recommendation to visit istanbul, this place is indeed fantastic
shinohai: lol I posted that link last night, such lolz
phf: that looks like a subtle troll, like an updated version of jeff k.
mircea_popescu: "11. Don't know a thing? No worries you are not alone, but that shouldn't stop you from blogging as it doesn't stop others, you can still make money just by blogging on topics that are interesting"
mircea_popescu: http://upalc.com/online-money.php << pretty canonical come to think of it.
phf: with japanese salarimen from the 80s doing company retreats
mircea_popescu: if you're working a boring dayjob and need that fantasy to get out of bed in the morning.
mircea_popescu: phf yeah, they exist like buenos aires night life exists.
mircea_popescu: how can these people be that retarded srsly ? dump random txn ? that's the plan ?
phf: you would know better, are there "bdsm" hotels? in the style of those italian "discipline" comics, with pony waitresses and a strict madame running the place
mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/0TTX2CN << somebody cribbed the wrong part off b-a logs
mircea_popescu: phf you know they supposedly have those torture hotels in tokyo
mircea_popescu: and if he just sat on the silver or w/e it was... but no matter.
mircea_popescu: "I listed my castle for sale. If I manage to flip now, even at a slight fiat loss, I would have gained 3x the bitcoins in a year. Decent trade, huh?"