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assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 20:35:08; mircea_popescu: but seriously, wikipedia is returned because "fact:wikipedia is what we promote" rather than any "algorithmics"
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: with respect to the claim that console gaming is 'dead' - yes.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> haha fawks was evil. << The phoenix, no. Chaotic neutral
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There were people inquiring about qntra submisisons on the firstness of that, but when pressed to source... saw necessary hedges unnews'd it
decimation: mircea_popescu: it's an implementation of cifs, which is the standard windows network filesystem
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Windows NFS substitute
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'widely' is mostly uni students
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neh those use proprietary adas
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: obscure fucking sides of an obscure place << widely used gizmo. but apparently everybody but me just takes the binary
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wtf it's supposed to be << it's precisely what it looks like to the unarmed eye: a perfectly good symbol that a shitgnome whose arsehole pines for the stake decided to zap to boost his feeling of relevance and be '1337 contributor'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this "private language" thing is a lot easier said than done. << Is any truly dark art otherwise? When you surrender the truth of mathematics to language?
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, i can do that
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: They keep getting voiced, bumped to guest*** and rejoining
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think whoever they are is in the DoS loop
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2015 08:58:24; mircea_popescu: " They also remember the high-tech crash of 1984, and the screams of pain up and down Wall Street." << heh it nearly killed gaming altogether, and is responsible for killing consoles. (yes they still exist, but gaming is essentially a pc item)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: beria actually picked up women... << based on the sources, i don't regard it as a solid historical fact ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they have nothing. this is proof positive that the cia is as worthless as the vassar feminist book club; think about hassling beria in that manner << to be fair, p. was no longer heading anything when he was 'flushed'.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: ewww
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.vhost-.1:f73baccc083341a1a24cc121f1ec7c3c2618b1e9b182f84511e1dc2924f9d213
lobbes: mircea_popescu: You mean a physical server in my own abode? or just leasing a 'dedicated server' somewhere?
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2015 16:25:01; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you don't pay free men what you want to pay them. you pay half of what you make or you die at their hands. << l0l, why only half? why not 100% plus one's saleable organs? and who are 'free men' ?
ascii_field: and using vintage netbsd or whatever mircea_popescu does, is not a magic pill against this
ascii_field: and esp. mircea_popescu's article on 'plea bargains'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you don't pay free men what you want to pay them. you pay half of what you make or you die at their hands. << l0l, why only half? why not 100% plus one's saleable organs? and who are 'free men' ? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> dude, i have nfi << me neither, i'm just a millwright trying to not starve this decade.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: dude on one hand i constantly bemoan this: 'oh if only i were just freelancing i'd be rolling in the dough'
cazalla: mircea_popescu, lol nothing i say here would surprise the missus sharing pics of her friends would be one step too far, even for me
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: btw, many SK girls get plastic surgery to look more western. If you ever spend enough time with them you'll start to see the differences between koreans and 'koreans'
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: those girls were south korean iirc
cazalla: mircea_popescu, that is ofn and yahoo paid a pretty penny from memory
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/infinitum.gif
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is not thinking of the rest of anatomy
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this raises and interesting question, hypothetically TurboSquid is WoT endorsed company. Would the artists be required to be WoT endorsed too?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: well that doesn't sound like any fun now
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: pretty sure you've described the bitcoin version of it here: http://trilema.com/2014/smg-april-2014-statement/
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: now for to find some time to 'play' 'games'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you ever heard of TurboSquid?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'eulora accounts' << "isambard vulpes" sil vous plait
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what about the future assets pipeline? that going to be rolled straight into beta server?
thestringpuller: lol mircea_popescu there is not going to be a test server for experimental anymore?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, others: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/03/financial-collapse-leads-to-war.html << on the subject of usg's habit of losing wars
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno how i missed that
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: b-n should be c-n in turdogram
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: turdogram sent
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu> trinque register it so it can selfvoice. < normally chanserv ops bots
trinque: mircea_popescu: ah so publish as a bundle, but then upload the parts separate?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I mean, Germans are "generally stupid" too, but when compared to e.g. disabled people.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: definitely letter
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes! soon as i get back home
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: have the pets learn ada
trinque: mircea_popescu: seems backwards, haw
davout: mircea_popescu: lol, great success
trinque: mircea_popescu: sure thing
trinque: mircea_popescu: it's criminal
trinque: mircea_popescu: punkman sent me all the old deeds
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeh, these pastebins aren't a great place for history
davout: mircea_popescu: prolly not having to regex a gpg signed message out of a webpage
trinque: mircea_popescu: it just doesn't trust that domain
davout: mircea_popescu: haha you suck at deedbotting
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: making a human do grep's job. i iz disappoint.
trinque: mircea_popescu: will do
trinque: mircea_popescu: not hard to make that easier to use
trinque: mircea_popescu: has to be dpaste, pastebin or one other, lemme look
trinque: mircea_popescu: yo
chetty: <mircea_popescu> i don't think even reagan would have considered - considered! mind you - trying for a free market in army services.// its not a free market he is trying its a crony market
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the point I originally made is that they're not funding people to convert .pdfs etc. becuase thats not the kind of people they are. I shouldn't have sent 19:04, it adds nothing to the conversation.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "millers crossing" << ugh man that movie is badddd in places
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2014 13:48:54; mircea_popescu: well sure. i don't propose the chinese are racially ugly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: us navy... china sea... cheaper rocker << line of thought was about rocket (or equiv.) that the 'next joe stack' can build. rather then chinese navy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '43: stalingrad
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that sposed to make us grape jelly?
assbot: Logged on 17-02-2015 18:16:06; mircea_popescu: in any case, strategically speaking, it will be a lot easier, cheaper and blood-economical to unseat the fiat atrocity supporting the welfare state by destroying the "industrial" paradigm.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, for sake of thestringpuller and mine private conversation, have you ever bedded a north korean woman?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because that's SOP !
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i have nfi why you imagine the userbase is important << I don't but the inevitabilibty of such an endeavor (i.e. http://qntra.net/2015/02/us-political-crisis-may-impoverish-homeland-security-department/#comment-11399), doesn't seem like a good thing
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: they're trying for a usg mpex. << More like Reddit MPEX
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah i think it was bb that said we'd be lucky to turn 1% of it into reg readers
asciilifeform: (yes, mircea_popescu would probably point out that it is not a cannon, but a heavy machine-gun.)
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 15:38:39; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu with regard to the 'abuse of statistical devices' outlined in note iii, the accomplished master of the art is a fellow named yudkowsky (search #b-a log). he isn't an idiot, bastard knows exactly what he's doing, and his cult is a veritable vacuum trap for thinking folks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's bait
chetty: <mircea_popescu> chetty this has been going on for a while actually.//it just sounds worse when the internet is a public utility
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i read the foibles of al slightly differently. more as a failure to intellectually detach from usg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: related field - stage magic
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's a spin off of a spin off of a spin off, because when people develop a taste for a particular shit, why not enlist more orfices to produce it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "pay everyone pretend money" << reminds me of http://americandad.wikia.com/wiki/Red_October_Sky from american dad
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 01:32:37; mircea_popescu: @ BingoBoingo : http://oglaf.com/rally/
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: and what IS burning man but fuck club ? << not entirely this is about 1/3 of it. Another 1/3 is "Holy shit I'm on so many drugs what's even going on, how do I survive, OMG this is so fucking awesome I wanna run around and do nothing cause I have no obligations or worries at the moment." Another 1/3 is "Holy fuck that giant thing is burning holy fuck holy fuck that is fucking awesome." IMO Burns are probably the
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the only place the required - non-negotiably - tech exists - is in my skullcase.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doing any of it with mechanical articulation is a sad joke
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm actually pretty disgusted with "modern" "robotics"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc the way it worked (works? i think, still exists?) is via a kind of secret wot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no objection as such, aside from 'gimme'
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: is that *your* harem's burn rate?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had to refuse the client
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: sets the tone, you know?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: everyone.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: know what in particular?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> and blondy in black dress over there's almost hawt. << reminds me of the intro line newcomers to pdx-burningman were subjected to without fail for years, presumably if the political correctness mob hasn't gotten to them yet still are: "are you hot?"