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assbot: Fiddler on the roof tradition - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1hDppwX )
asciilifeform: ;;later tell felipelalli you sent the thing to ~me~ instead of the ml
pete_dushenski: well, that's tradition for ya
pete_dushenski: keeping me in the stone age eh ?
mircea_popescu: got traditions to upkeep :D
mircea_popescu: a which reminds me, trinque make sure pete_dushenski blog is only rss'd like randopmly one in 5
asciilifeform: 'Indeed imagine a world where messages broadcasted publicly could be recorded. A world where screen shots and web archiving tools can preserve the content of broadcasted messages indefinitely, and where comparing the publication medium to an archived record can reveal otherwise unannounced retractions. In short imagine the real world as it actually is.' << gold
deedbot-: [Qntra] Twitter Forbids Monitoring Politician's Deleted Tweets - http://qntra.net/2015/08/twitter-forbids-monitoring-politicians-deleted-tweets/
asciilifeform: i fully expect to eat every penny i ever saved, at some point, and then starve.
punkman: asciilifeform: not like there's much left in the retirement funds here, but this is not possible
asciilifeform: it's the one where plantation owner doesn't see any logical reason to give the slave anything to store up
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: there's precisely one that this doesn't work for
pete_dushenski: and it requires no special training
pete_dushenski: anyone in a similar position is henceforth advised that, yes, it's possible to become unstuck from retirement scams that you will never see the proceeds from
pete_dushenski: i had the same 'stuck' in 2013 and i can tell you that it's not the end of the world to unjam
pete_dushenski: sure, there are rules, regs, penalties, and whatever nonsense between you and your 401k bezzlars, but it's not like a little pain and a little friction now isn't a damned reasonable price to pay to avoid a lot of pain and an impossible amount of friction later
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-08-2015#1250150 << what sort of stuck is this ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'millenials' enlisting in some crackpot 'boot camp' and paying for the privilege of receiving the whippings father never gave'em, etc
asciilifeform: i admit that i kinda half expect this sort of thing to catch on
mats: paying 1k/mo to share a room in this place
asciilifeform: 'This place is a prison. It’s like living in the Hotel California, except we can’t even drink wine here.'
asciilifeform: 'Imagine one day having your bed converted into a bunk bed without your consent. Being promised food to be included in the fee you pay only to be yelled at when the food runs out. Witnessing an ex-military dude marching around the house yelling at people who didn’t “keep their shit clean enough”. '
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes you catch this http://www.contravex.com/2015/08/19/loon/#identifier_0_5010 ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes true, but same for qntra
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo rss likes trilema well enough. and i'll be damned if it's smart enough to tell the difference between mp's jooiness and mine
ben_vulpes: wordpress ca. 2014 iirc when you set your thing up
pete_dushenski: what is this, the future ?
pete_dushenski: why should i expect anything to work out of the box ?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo not impossibru, but i really haven't diddled with it. then again, perhaps that's the issue
BingoBoingo: Well pete_dushenski Your blog is the one that tends to send RSS botmakers running screaming
trinque: keeping things alive is the hardest problem
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 20:24:27; mircea_popescu: trinque one of the best parts of this entire open experiment thingee is how the rss bot was by far the MOST redone part of all of b-a
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-08-2015#1250681 << truly the darndest thing. ☝︎
trinque: it only listens to me at the moment
pete_dushenski: trinque guess i coulda done that too eh. but thx!
punkman: trinque: you gotta make the thing not post the backlog
assbot: Silicon Valley's 'Startup Castle' is looking for roommates, and the requirements are completely bonkers | Fusion ... ( http://bit.ly/1hDnsAx )
danielpbarron: especially nice considering that i'm using one of my old 5400 IDE-cable hard drives, and not even in a mirroring raid!
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] So what’s a “client” in the Roman sense of the term ? - http://www.contravex.com/2015/08/23/so-whats-a-client-in-the-roman-sense-of-the-term/
asciilifeform: re: the evicted 'castle': 'Do you have a fancy college degree or a job in a STEM field? Do you have fewer than two tattoos? Do you avoid Tinder dates and songs with explicit lyrics? Do you spend more than two hours a day exercising? Then you may be qualified to live at the Startup Castle, a self-proclaimed “community of excellence” located in a 17,000-square foot mansion in Woodside, California, just minutes from Stanford
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell trinque http://www.contravex.com/feed/rss
BingoBoingo: 43 is teal
asciilifeform: i mean, this is 'tungsten melts in your mouth'-grade tardation
punkman: asciilifeform: he even has an app that uses OTPs
asciilifeform: i can't tell
asciilifeform: was that thing even serious?
punkman: not sure why, but I love this composition http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjYzMTkyOTMwMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjYyNzA5NDE@._V1__SX1857_SY851_.jpg
danielpbarron: my 0.5.4-beta node is up to height=231807 and syncing much faster than any machine i've ever maintained (due in part to the wonderful DISCARD BASTARD BLOCK feature, and in part to this particular machine having 8 gigs of ram)
asciilifeform: this is almost as good as the 'monty hall problem' tard-sauce
punkman: just saw the trailer for this http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTc4MzIzNTk3Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTYyNzA5NDE@._V1__SX1857_SY851_.jpg
danielpbarron: yeah that one time and yeah it was a webchat link naming the victim "from_vice"
mats: now just how this is gonna play will be amusing to watch
mats: >the three-judge panel upheld U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’ ruling that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the authority under the “unfairness” prong of Section 5 of the FTC Act to bring suit against companies over data security practices.
ben_vulpes: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/55617 << product of the local 'feel good and have bad ideas' woodchipper
punkman: ^special kind of tard?
assbot: An (Important) Disproof Of The One-Time Pad | TechCrunch ... ( http://bit.ly/1Eg4CcV )
mats: passed by many times, had no idea
mats: TIL kink.com bought The Armory on Mission St
mircea_popescu: mats cool, it could join the armory ?
mats: Starcraft REd to run on ARM
mats: by no means do I think this is safe, but hey, risk taking is for the young
mats: am no longer unsure about my decision last month to empty my retirement savings plan and buy buttcoins
mircea_popescu: wtf am i gonna do tho, make it multiple choice ?!
mircea_popescu: dja promise to lol at it ?
mircea_popescu is half tempted to write this.
asciilifeform: imho 'had x coin last year, still have it now' is a pretty good test
mircea_popescu: same thing as the color test was. or should have been,
asciilifeform: what'd that be
mircea_popescu: so random person can score their own proficiency.
mircea_popescu: you know this occurs to me - it WOULD be helpful if we had an actual "Bitcoin Basics Qualification" thing.
asciilifeform: yeah that one
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2015 23:29:43; thestringpuller: asciilifeform: random question. If someone paid for you to take Buterin's C4 (Certified Bitcoin Professional) exam, would you do it?
mircea_popescu: "A Certified Bitcoin Professional is knowledgeable about the Bitcoin blockchain, Bitcoin transactions, and how the Bitcoin network operates. CBPs are able to apply Bitcoin technology to their professional area of expertise"
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin Professionals - Looking For Bitcoin Talent? Ad www.cryptoconsortium.org <<< someone got so many "bitcoin professionals" they're paying google to help give them away.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: altimeter solves that one, no?
mircea_popescu: and im very fond of the sea for just as long as the distance between us is my decision.
mircea_popescu: "we found some old tigers and we made them boats!"
mircea_popescu: btw you ever seen their formidable class ?
asciilifeform: not overly fond of the sea, i take it ?
mircea_popescu: still with the fucking islands ?
mircea_popescu: as if they ate your dog or something
mircea_popescu: not hot at all. i just picked a random name, cuz some interwebs chick was from there. then you got all immuno-responsive on me.
asciilifeform: or hk for that matter..
asciilifeform: (where they make spiffy pcb !)
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: the clockwork orange method i see.
mircea_popescu: so asciilifeform shit thinner, faster, be a shenzen-er today!
mircea_popescu: "1.8 seconds faster than"
mircea_popescu: anyone remember that retarded chinese satellite launch thing where all the hopped up boys had to report PLAN OVERDELIVERED!!!
mircea_popescu: come to shenzen, we make 10k fit.
trinque: not with that attitude
asciilifeform: nor my toilet can accomodate 10,000 shits per day ☟︎
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: will the eyes scale? if a lot of cipher text turds are being thrown around you'd have to have a lot of eyes, as I can't imagine this scaling very well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these guys. they don't think themselves spammers.
thestringpuller: trinque: ah. I remember that scene.
mircea_popescu: and prepare "rteports" and their granny on a stick.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is certain they don't see articles? what kinda spammer uses anything but a fresh ip ?
mircea_popescu: because srsly, trilema paid content thing "is just not done"
mircea_popescu: ironically enough, i serve millions of pages/day to various of these idiots, and none yet has managed to observe that they do not get articles.
asciilifeform: nah. trying to figure out whence other people get their meta.
mircea_popescu: people trying to figure out whence other people get traffic.