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cruciform: just about finished up with 6 months of logs; turns out I've a LOT of work to do! :-)
cruciform: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20171210/#52 they charged me import duty a fortnight after arrival!
asciilifeform realized not long ago that he's quite ready to pay considerably 'more' in fiatola for a hypothetical item that is also-sold for btc , on account of the difficulty of replenishing the latter
izabera: a ps4
mircea_popescu: within a degree of magnitude, sorta thing
asciilifeform: ohai izabera . are you a customer ?
trinque: I dunno; I would've taken the comparison to Terry Davis as a compliment!
asciilifeform: this time took a peek after all, to see 'are the hannoboecks still on duty'. answ: they are.
mircea_popescu: a year or so ?
asciilifeform: clambodile: there is no substitute for reading the log, if you want to have even half a clue. but lurk all you like, nobody's stopping anyone from lurking.
clambodile: I would describe myself as "a rando". I found this channel by chance, thought it seemed interesting.
asciilifeform: d00d is, as i understand, a 'pillar-of-the-komyoonity', i.e. full-time politruk.
asciilifeform: ty TomServo , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887475 has a little ball of lulz already, complete with card-carrying ninjashotgunner,
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:54 asciilifeform: at some point one will need a sort of proxy simply to read heathenwww on anything like human os/iron
asciilifeform: what exactly is a 'cowork'
BigTexasBingo: Sobriety still intact. Still only met un gringa, though have now encountered a Brazilian born in Nueva York
asciilifeform: for mul, pretty simple, time the interval needed for e.g. million 0x0 mulls vs million maxint x maxint ( and a few other patterns )
asciilifeform: and i'ma have to write a detector for this kind of idiocy, because anything at all can be expected from intel et al.
asciilifeform: btw here's a phunphakt for ben_vulpes : ffa cannot be used as-is on ppc. ibm in infinite whizzdom made their mul instruction nonconstanttime.
asciilifeform: of course W_ZeroP only works the way it does because compilers are sad , in turn because people were idiots in 1970s and did not shoot the wreckers who so much as suggested to call a thing without overlow and zero flags, a cpu
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 07:44 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: W_ZeroP is pretty nifty; this is a the great and legible approach to numulating with computers i've been missing my whole life
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-09#1749053 << yer in for a treat, ben_vulpes , whole thing is made of this ☝︎
mircea_popescu: if you're wondering WHY the fuck would anyone buy singles, your mind is working correctly and you're on the way to explaining the mystery : imbecile orcmind DOES NOT PROVISION! DOES NOT MAINTENANCE! and generally has a very peculiar relartionship with the future, as discussed eg in http://trilema.com/2017/this-blog-is-now-about-bticino-and-other-coinsiderations/#footnote_0_75919 ; or http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1735612 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in other you-can't-imagine-what-decivilization-is : abs wheel sensors here, $130. each. in sanelands, $30, a set of 4.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: W_ZeroP is pretty nifty; this is a the great and legible approach to numulating with computers i've been missing my whole life ☟︎
asciilifeform: !~later tell phf consider sharing your ada parser, i'd like to make a clickable-keywords hyperlinked thing at some point
BingoBoingo: Hopefully by Monday some recommendations on abagados will have rolled in, but... not yet. Last one cold contacted offered a shelf corp for $4800, gringo rate (para tax shelter) appear to hover around $5000 mas o menos. Still trying to find srs businessman rate.
BingoBoingo: Lol, the weather today muy bien, Felt around 27 at 2 pm then cooling ocean breeze and clouds. Sun went down and it warmed back up a bit.
asciilifeform: fwiw i bought a coin there once to see what would happen. ( but earlier i also did this at... mtgox . worked there also! )
asciilifeform: i'd pay easily a few hundy, say, for a good one. but it's a mythical beast.
mircea_popescu: which was the point : remember when a hugo meant something.
mircea_popescu: they are not a thing though. airport bathrooms also well attended, and yet no glory holes counterculture.
asciilifeform: i cannot answer whether they're a ~profitable~ racket in usa. but they ~are~ well-attended.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point being, there is also a castrated employed hipster crowd, and every other combinatoric arrangement of these also.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-18 18:36 ascii_butugychag: on account of that schmuck at shmoocon who was peddling a group-theoretical crypto algo, quasi-proprietary and patentalicious, that was more or less stolen verbatim from maslennikov's book...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's a corp racket. they're disguised pep rallies.
mircea_popescu: there;s a humongous difference between crowd driving and crowd following. which is why cowboys (traditional herd drivers) think very little of shephers (traditional herd followers)
asciilifeform: really it is not difficult to find a few thou idjits to sell tickets to. witness the 'seekoority' cons, with 10s of thou warm bodies, coupla hundy ea.
mircea_popescu: much like if hillary stands her pantsuit on a rock and gestures wildly, she's not making the sun come out "from hiding"
asciilifeform: why they are there, is a quite orthogonal q, and not an easy one.
mircea_popescu: mall, also has a few thou. they just walked in to get out of the rain.
asciilifeform never been to 'worldcon'. but even the nearest imitation , in baltimore, md, typically has a few thou .
mircea_popescu: irl, there's a long abandoned locked door.
mircea_popescu: i would be surprised if they can get enough people together to interest a cheap restaurant.
asciilifeform: in a... but who cares
mircea_popescu: well the fact that the whole thing is ten anon schmucks in a foodcourt somewhere dun help any.
mircea_popescu: man, remember the times a hugo meant somenthing ?
jhvh1: asciilifeform: Farnham's Freehold - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnham%2527s_Freehold>; Farnham's Freehold : Robert A. Heinlein: 9780671722067: Amazon ...: <https://www.amazon.com/Farnhams-Freehold-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0671722069>; Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein - Goodreads: <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50840.Farnham_s_Freehold>
mircea_popescu: this would be why allowing the lower classes outside of the whip-and-yoke combo is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: 5. the white man gets really fucking pissy about it, and like, does really mean things to the blacks. 6. the ~millitant~ black secret police uses this to provove a war between the "racist" and "non-racist" whites, which are conveniently dumb and also evenly matched.
mircea_popescu: the manson apocalypse goes as follows : 1. he makes a really happenin' record. 2. all the she-sluts of california swarm him. 3. all the black dudes who used to fuck these bunnies get really pissed off upon coming home and discovering the cumdumpster's ran off. 4. so pissed off they get, they riot and burn down some of the white man's shit.
asciilifeform: at some point one will need a sort of proxy simply to read heathenwww on anything like human os/iron ☟︎
asciilifeform: pretty soon, actually. iirc google et al had a 'replacement for html' in the works, with various novel idiocies baked in
mircea_popescu: in other news : if you run a piece of shit firefox on a dirty box somewhere, and if you never upgraded it as you don't intend to upgrade it ; and if the ever-creeping idiocy of the world puts you in this situaiton where various ssl-"protected" sites are no longer loading :
mircea_popescu: they melded together, because they're such a grandiose summation of the "Achievements" of common postmodern man.
asciilifeform: i dare say that dice players have a more accurate picture of reality than typical orlolist
mircea_popescu: anyway. so there's two relevant episodes of seinfeld. in one, the resident imbeciles (the fat lazy one, postman, and the hipster doofus) engage in a VERY IMPORTANT game of nothing in particular. in the other, elaine's tasked to review a book about this cockeyed optimist.
asciilifeform: a yea saw.
asciilifeform: pretty sure i saw this. there was also a more interesting variant with bluffing and under-the-table note-passing deals etc.
asciilifeform: it's apparently a phrase, but i only know it from mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: i laughed the first time, years ago , when i first read mircea_popescu said this on trilema; but since then met whole horde of usa folx who never even had a загранпаспорт
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:13 asciilifeform: 'Cryptocurrency’s rise not a serious risk, Trump adviser says' << lol!!
BingoBoingo: It's been a surprisingly long while. Stimulants and wound healing typically don't play well together
asciilifeform: [Global Notice] Hi all, we will be migrating services (NickServ, ChanServ and friends) to a new server in roughly half an hour. << >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-23#1702605 ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Cryptocurrency’s rise not a serious risk, Trump adviser says' << lol!! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "going to regulate" it, check that out, as if anyone asked the dumb sons of a whore anything.
mircea_popescu: ands in other lulz, every time there's a major usd devaluation event, a new crop of http://trilema.com/2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/ "joins" in the sense of "flips a bit inside own head from self-importantly ''ignoring'' bitcoin to just as self-importantly ''being involved'' in bitcoin, as if either bit state or the act of flipping can possibly matter in any manner" and then set to "fixing" their manifest inadequac
mircea_popescu: now, do you have a stat showing you are in fact liquid for the amt ?
kjj: I had put in another request on mpex a little more than 2 days ago
kjj: well, technically, the UPS my router is plugged into shut down because it thinks it has a bad battery, but the end result is the same
BingoBoingo: ?me contemplating taking up leather craft as a hobby in ~1-3 years if still here and business goes well in a way that allows some time for hobbying
BingoBoingo: I suspect the clarity of the Brazilian spanish accent is related to my own previous aural experience. When I studied a bit of portugues the accent was far easier for me to produce myself.
BingoBoingo: After retiring from la oficina last night mananged to socialize a bit
BingoBoingo: In other news yesterday's 7 argentine roommates were replaced by a smaller crowd of Brazilians
mircea_popescu: anyway, getting together the material for a reshoot of ye olde http://trilema.com/2011/nsfw-gradina-edenului/ ; in which sense your garden of eden reference is quite lulzily apt.
mircea_popescu: seems a little far fetched.
mircea_popescu: how would i go about knowing what squirrels know ? i am not a squirrel myself.
mircea_popescu: my implementation involves jet flight and goes for a week at a time, but otherwise...
asciilifeform has never lived in a perpetual spring. but pictures, possibly naively, that if he were to, would have to take occasional break and go on trip to the arctic, say. just for contrast.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't dispute that part. sure, necessity is the mother of invention, a proper beating whenever needed the cornerstone of domestic bliss, and so following.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform had a relative recently go to the ruins of the old world, and came back with photos of korean air conditioners installed on ~every wall. no such item existed even in early post-sov 1990s, and not strictly from the cost.
mircea_popescu: costa rica never yet managed such a wonder.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> meanwhile there's a reason the population of eskimo lands was a) never large and b) always selected for suckitude. << Lack of healthful medicinal sweat. Essentially homosapiens are a sort of cabbage, need a bit of frost but also time not froze.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile there's a reason the population of eskimo lands was a) never large and b) always selected for suckitude.
asciilifeform: room temp is very muchly a subject of taste, neh
mircea_popescu: and so following. human life is not this novel and fascinating item. war planners have been circumscribing it for a century+.
mircea_popescu: no. the technological standard for "temperature in a human habitat" is 20.5
asciilifeform: what means 'standard human temp' ? 36.6 ? if mircea_popescu walked into a room at 36.6 he would say 'sauna', betcha
mircea_popescu: apparently there was a glaciation in europe while i was not paying attention.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, if 'null crypt' ( make noises, exhaust gasses, but dun actually do any crypto ) remains a valid mode in 100% of usgcryptocrapolade -- why not also md5.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the verification fails "for unknown reasons" tho, and it's at least nominally a comodo issued item
asciilifeform: what's the even nominal justification. it's a public toilet.
asciilifeform: long ago asciilifeform worked on just such a contract, for many years.
BingoBoingo: AHA, but yeah. Historically google had done this quietly. Then sometime earlier this year a pansuit rag did "expose" on practice which simply removed google's shame about the whole thing.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "a maximum of impact with a minimum of effort" as far as the usg is concerned : trades in a worthless dead elephant for the continued attention of 10k useless schmucks it for some reason decided to put on the rolls. << From what I understand when Google hires the 10's of thousands in batches they do so through "Manpower" and other contract work agencies for nominally 12-15 usd/hr (usually less than $fedminwage
mircea_popescu: "a maximum of impact with a minimum of effort" as far as the usg is concerned : trades in a worthless dead elephant for the continued attention of 10k useless schmucks it for some reason decided to put on the rolls.
mircea_popescu: there's a large contingent of useless neets who can be "hired" (job creation! yay!) and who for the past decade had it hammered into them at the thanksgiving table that "why don't you work for google! that's where the smart kids and all the money is! check out their playroom!!!1"
mircea_popescu: ie, the fundamental problem of the worthlessness of ugc is being plumbed by usg at the wrong end : by abusing the power of the state to create imaginary value (a "creator" on etsy/patreon/etc might just be ye olde myspace band worth 0.00 ; but a "moderator" on reddit/youtube/etc is DOING GODS WORK and therefore how do you dare say priest time is worth 0 terrorist!!!)
mircea_popescu: in which context, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748557 is not at all coincidental. google isn't worth anything in any proper sense ; but it has a brand, which is now being "monetized" in the classic IAB sense of the term (spamola for the rest of the world). ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of derpfunders, https://archive.is/grrrK << 'Patreon lets creators hide the amount of money they are actually making, although the number of patrons is still public. Boruta’s numbers are based on the roughly 80 percent of creators who publicly share what they earn. Of those creators, only 1,393 — 2 percent — make the equivalent of federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or $1,160 a month, in October 2017'