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asciilifeform: 'Could this have been done without any “red terror”? I doubt it. Greece is very much oligarch-ridden; even the celebrated former Syriza FM Yanis Varoufakis is the son an industrial magnate. The Greek oligarchs and the rich would have had to be rounded up and held as hostages. Numerous people in the government and in the military have a split allegiance—they work for Europe, not for Greece. They would have had to be sacke
pete_dushenski: listened to it back in 2013. carlin is pretty masterful at bringing political and war stories to life.
asciilifeform: 'if you give Stalin a memorandum recommending that 500 priests get shot, and Stalin crosses out 500 and pencils in 1000 in red pencil, then you better find 500 more priests to shoot, or the number becomes 1001 and includes you.'
assbot: Hardcore History - Death Throes of the Republic Series - Dan Carlin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ki3IhC )
decimation puts it on the list
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, carlin's death throes of the republic is mega-recommended.
decimation: yeah, but he goes into pretty deep detail. he's 44 episodes into the french revolution
pete_dushenski: makes dan carlin seem tame.
decimation: yeah. the revolutions guy also did a 300 episode 'history of rome', he's pretty good for amateur historian
pete_dushenski: i dun think russ does donations other than those from stanford directly
decimation: no this guy: http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
decimation: heh no I'm getting through my weekly dose of the french revolution
pete_dushenski: decimation: i'm assuming you caught this week's episode of econtalk ? re ^^
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 11:49:06; mircea_popescu: and if he doesn, the end result is "supersized beverages" and "britney spears, best singer ever"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208513 << actually the result is automagically doubled rent/mortgage ☝︎
decimation: if you are the right kind of person
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 11:48:18; mircea_popescu: of course the proper node is "why should us resident derp have any money whatsoever", which obviously he shouldn't. disposable income belongs to the sort of people who think about the world, usian maggots really have no busienss holding any money whatsoever.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208512 << mircea_popescu will be pleased to learn that this part of the program has been accomplished! i, for instance, have no idea what serious disposable money even smells like from a cannon's shot away ! ☝︎
decimation: asciilifeform: I think you can just buy them from visa, amex, etc
assbot: Chicago's Regional Housing Initiative - The Atlantic ... ( http://bit.ly/1KiMjml )
decimation: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/chicago-regional-housing-section-eight/398798/ < "en the state of Illinois distributes low-income housing tax credits, which are essential for developers who want to build affordable housing without losing money, it favors projects that have Section 8 units, so these units are also more likely to get funded than, for example, affordable units in struggling neighborhoods with no ...
asciilifeform: ^ this one is even more interesting than commonly supposed: one needn't even be usg to access purchase records! they are, i learned, routinely subpoenaed in civil cases
decimation: or use a credit card to buy anything
asciilifeform: but true patriot (tm) carries iPnohe, cache the gps stream, save the crown the disk space
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 11:40:52; mircea_popescu: so random schmuck today finds himself in the following situation : if he goes anywhere, taking uber, all his travel is in usg db.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208502 << no need to ride 'uber', just walk around carrying ipNohe ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 11:13:08; mircea_popescu: apparently there doesn't exist ANYTHING on the internet that doesn't use cloudflare.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208469 << 'good cop / bad cop' - what do you suppose the maxint porous routers and miscellaneous ddosatrons are for, if not for herding folks onto 'cloud' ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208443 << realize that if even one such chip is publicly available, this is trivial to test: put it in ln2, if it automagically runs faster, without any extra manipulations - it is clockless logic ☝︎
asciilifeform: i explained many times.
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 05:17:35; decimation: asciilifeform: according to datasheet, it has rtc? but it needs 32.678khz crystal (and power)
decimation: "Check out this clip from “CBS Saturday Morning” to see how the team digitizes everything from the Spirit of St. Louis to a sitting American president." < tele-dildonics?
decimation: ^ usg should raise all its money this way, voluntary taxes: "Funding the $1e9 joint strike fighter: at the $1e7 level:recieve turd hand-polished to the same specifications as the canopy"
decimation: " "The Smithsonian receives 70 percent of its appropriations from the federal government and that amount covers staff salaries, building support and maintenance, and not much more" said Lewis. "It has been a very long time since we have been able to use the appropriations for programming, exhibits and special projects.""
assbot: Smithsonian launches Kickstarter to 'reboot' Neil Armstrong spacesuit display | collectSPACE ... ( http://bit.ly/1KiKHcd )
assbot: An Introduction to the Basics of Manufactured Spending - The Points Traveler ... ( http://bit.ly/1KiKCFA )
decimation: http://thepointstraveler.com/an-introduction-to-the-basics-of-manufactured-spending/ < lol there's a big subculture devoted to ripping off idiotic marketing schemes (credit card points, etc)
nubbins`: say, i'm sure someone here would know: what's the smallest amount of btc i can send to each of ~6,000 addresses in a single tx and expect to get it relayed?
nubbins`: and almost 27btc in the pot! will be interesting to see how it's sliced up
nubbins`: going on two years now :0
mats: striped reads at 4GB/s with two 'SM951'
mats: traded ma two SSDs in for pcie SSDs
assbot: The best auction. Ever. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1HO3vwJ )
shinohai: A bunch of old shit i guess, i dunno. I was peeking about trying to find where they keep shit.
shinohai: /icons/ lists directory contents, tsk tsk
assbot: [WTS]Bitcoin Trade Bot Website - Business-in-a-Box (10 BTC) : BitMarket ... ( http://bit.ly/1HNXCQj )
mircea_popescu: and if he doesn, the end result is "supersized beverages" and "britney spears, best singer ever" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: of course the proper node is "why should us resident derp have any money whatsoever", which obviously he shouldn't. disposable income belongs to the sort of people who think about the world, usian maggots really have no busienss holding any money whatsoever. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: why waste all the fucking cycles to do visa poorly ?
mircea_popescu: then when i say bitcoin is not for the poor, people are liek o noes.
mircea_popescu: might as well use fucking visa rather than all this wastage.
chetty: given the latest revelations that stuss is almost at the noise level
mircea_popescu: obviously if he pays anyone anything that's tracked. and in his dumbass case, this includes bitcoin
mircea_popescu: if he visits any website, both amazon and cloudflare have records, which can even be compared. how's that for ECC asciilifeform !
mircea_popescu: so random schmuck today finds himself in the following situation : if he goes anywhere, taking uber, all his travel is in usg db. ☟︎
shinohai: SO important that too < 10 minutes to find.
mircea_popescu: YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US. nom nom nom
mircea_popescu: this has all the makings of drama. lesee
BingoBoingo: Keep debugging. Thankfully nothing too burning is in queue at the moment.
mircea_popescu: also if you have burning articles, i can arrange for it to be visible selectively so you can make archive prints
mircea_popescu: neways. i'd much rather debug this than move, so your patience's appreciated.
BingoBoingo: Ones who read. USG department of internet says that no. Bandwidth usage must never correlate with actual readership. So packet inflation.
BingoBoingo: Of course, because the internet is retarded to the point "usage" numbers can't at all relate to the actual use of a thing by persons.
BingoBoingo: And the BW usage has no correlation at all with the quantcast stats
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bw-qntra-year.png << there. THAT is independent journalism.
mircea_popescu: eh nm, wtf am i asking. for the internet to be useful, i must be from the past.
mircea_popescu: is there a non-fucktarded img host ?
BingoBoingo: Yeah. Most of last week actually wasn't so bad, at least 8 hours of availability a day. This weekend though
mircea_popescu: well not counting the 20gbps oct spike and the 15gbps june spike o.O
mircea_popescu: and then im supposed to not suspect usg is out there ddosing everything.
mircea_popescu: apparently there doesn't exist ANYTHING on the internet that doesn't use cloudflare. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: DNS points to prohibited IP
BingoBoingo: "You've requested a page on a website (qntra.net) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, it is resolving to an IP address that is creating a conflict within CloudFlare's system."
BingoBoingo took advantage of this Qntra downtime to update OpenBSD to 5.7 release and then compile/install 5.7 stable
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208376 << top kek. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: users by lines, last 7 days 1.) assbot 1151 2.) mircea_popescu 1111 3.) asciilifeform 1087 << the closest it's been!
mircea_popescu: and hanbot and whoever else took an interest in this.
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 10:55:19; mircea_popescu: so i really like the stuff mats put in there, going to keep it open till friday and then award it. if anyone objects or wants to comment or w/e speak out.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208447 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: so i really like the stuff mats put in there, going to keep it open till friday and then award it. if anyone objects or wants to comment or w/e speak out. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 01:56:22; *: asciilifeform sits and thinks, wondering whether anyone has produced clockless (muller gate) miner
assbot: Logged on 21-07-2015 01:35:44; *: asciilifeform wonders if anyone has carried out any serious public work whatsoever re: mempool tx propagation
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-07-2015#1208225 << no. because everyone that starts an attempt gets spooked by the results. ☝︎
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 29.26357267 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 5 satoshi per share
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 280.11, Best ask: 280.15, Bid-ask spread: 0.04000, Last trade: 280.15, 24 hour volume: 10999.12117073, 24 hour low: 277.0, 24 hour high: 282.1, 24 hour vwap: None
assbot: Logged on 20-07-2015 02:36:12; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, phf, Adlai, gabriel_laddel: still curious about deploying CL code to running instances
trinque: guess it passed though
trinque: cannot get to it from here
BingoBoingo: Fuck it. I spent all of this time syncing with the CVS tree. I'm compiling this bitch.
assbot: Many Livers 'Too Fat' For Transplant | Medpage Today ... ( http://bit.ly/1SyNhwH )
assbot: Study finds increase in unused transplant livers | Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1SyNbVX )
BingoBoingo: Snacky Cakes now ruining more livers than booze https://archive.is/PY1kW
decimation: asciilifeform: according to datasheet, it has rtc? but it needs 32.678khz crystal (and power) ☟︎
decimation: has link to specsheet
decimation: asciilifeform: I assume you saw this http://linux-rockchip.info/mw/index.php?title=Category:List_of_Rockchip_SoCs
decimation: can download turds here it appears http://www.rockchipfirmware.com/firmware-downloads
asciilifeform: it'll have to be put in 'recovery mode' and the whole turd overwritten with something reasonable.
decimation: yeah gonna have to clear a beachhead
asciilifeform: also the box is a seriously cut-down thing
asciilifeform: decimation: in the log