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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the bitwise thing works. i have nfi why not used in the example.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you gotta know what mod means in ada
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a ludicrous analogy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did not say that basic hygiene is a ~stopping~ place, but a starting point.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: basic hygiene.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: generally folks will use simple predicates (e.g., 'not equal to 0')
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why? because it is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wish it weren't the right thing...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider, e.g., naggum's oil/gas exploration proggies
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you'd like ada then
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in that most effective software isn't public.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no threads, no multicpu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is here committing the 'economics is what i see at the grocery counter' fallacy
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of phf from 2 to 3 << Teh desire has been expressed and heard!
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated phf 2 at 3644159832 << Fixed our boxen!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: satoshi
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, not enough content below to have the page scroll to the right spot
phf: mircea_popescu: now that's just crazy talk, the behavior is identical to old log
mircea_popescu: what did you do ? update daniel_posts replace(post_content, bitcoin-assets, btcbase) ?
shinohai: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/06/house-of-horrors-police-find-apparent-sex-slave-chained-to-strippers-pole-in-detroit-home/ <<< Police said mircea_popescu was nowhere to be found. ☟︎
davout: ;;later tell mircea_popescu ^
asciilifeform: i find it difficult to imagine that mircea_popescu would not have known this. ergo on 'day x' he believed that he was connected directly to a mine.
asciilifeform: srsly this is begging for mircea_popescu's article
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah.
adlai doesn't understand what mircea_popescu means by "there's two". is this like "another skywalker"?
asciilifeform: http://www.jeanmariechauvet.com/images/ref_automata.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'dos2unix'
adlai: ben_vulpes: actually i think webapp works just fine: http://i.imgur.com/i0gQuzk.png
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/the-broad-and-the-million-fireants-a-parable/ << lol check out the antique, from back when ben_vulpes was benkay
ben_vulpes: like from:ben_vulpes etc
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes saywut ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: hey!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's much easier than you think, because the rigours of producing explained obliquely somewhere on trilema actually force a very strict and mechanical language.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what, you think i'm so foolish as to try semantic analysis on...all of the scripts?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes is your classifier based on what, the scripts ?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--j_gUUw4a--/18ich0cl88iu7jpg.jpg << shelby billet
mircea_popescu: mike_c> yeah. well, how long could mpoe have survived without mpoe-pr? << in fairness... mpex listed itself by reverse-merger with the then-listed mpoe ; which continued operation as a distinct profit center but that has meanwhile discontinued. it's such a historical layering of evolutions etc that some restructuring years later seems inevitable.
shinohai: what client did you end up with mike_c
mircea_popescu: mike_c lists still being combed, but in principle agreement yes.
trinque: mike_c: couple of days and I'll get ya both dumps and something to poll for realtime data
mircea_popescu: mike_c maybe hourly diffs ? rss updates ?
mircea_popescu: jurov> okay, i can see some tortured logic how diana_coman reds it << what exactly is tortured ? "a is less than b, and b is less than epsilon".
jurov: okay, i can see some tortured logic how diana_coman reds it
jurov: ^ calling our resident conspiration theorist asciilifeform: why mircea_popescu feels necessary to draw parallels with bitbet?
phf: since i fucked up the timezone again, had to refresh the log, so now inaugural first #t-a post belongs to diana_coman
asciilifeform: it is how mircea_popescu came to subj
deedbot: mircea_popescu unrated assbot.
asciilifeform: 13:54 <+mircea_popescu> fuck, or get off the pig. << win!
adlai: mircea_popescu: member of the peanut gallery, warmer of bleachers, leader of cheering squad, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought the moral of that snippet was that the folks somehow believed that they had a ~share~
mircea_popescu: a lot of the bitterness of pioneers, espoused perhaps in its best form by cagney in that film ? ( http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollars-are-not-worth-a-fifth-of-a-bitcent-stop-selling/#footnote_1_55053 )
asciilifeform: i do not know enough to usefully say. but iirc mircea_popescu introduced him as 'fuck-you-moneyed' character.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...in 2016 common people simply can not buy new miners, no matter what happens and how much money they're willing to spend...' << ahahaha precisely what i predicted when i showed up
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i missed the billion mit dollars thing ?
asciilifeform: hey recall, my main criticism of the demo run mircea_popescu gave me in '12 was 'i made too much coin investing in the exchange itself'
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he reads ~half iirc.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: as much congratulations as are due and as many condolences.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting. am i thick or what am i missing, but afaik 0 implications in re the things that i do...
PeterL: mircea_popescu meant to take down bbet and removed mpoe instead?
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls to mpex
asciilifeform: $gettrust ____
asciilifeform: who's ____ ?
deedbot: ____ voiced for 30 minutes.
trinque: $up ____
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c i dun recall what you answered. are you planning to move btcalpha over to deedbot data or ?
deedbot: mircea_popescu updated rating of kakobrekla from 5 to -5 << Cap'n of industree, borrowed my blender, then decided to try and make gravel and... it just didn't work out!
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated kakobrekla 5 at 3571240878 << too much stuff to list. inquire within..
pete_dushenski: in light of the above, this shouldn't be in any way surprising : http://lesswrong.com/lw/ncv/attention_financial_scam_targeting_less_wrong/
mircea_popescu: and in further "holy shit internet weenies are retarded" news, http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/
mircea_popescu: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies << in other lolz of all time, apparently the sort of expired carcasses / h ellison impersonators that go around writing bad genre prose heard about the 4chan time thing a decade later and pulled a moot of their own at hugo
pete_dushenski: i can't help but lol at zaz when compared and contrasted with the lexus lfa mega-manufacturing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A2s61rT_30 (those uninterested in cars, but fascinated by either carbon fibre, circular textile looms(!), or simply obsessive engineering and exactitude will likely find this latter one of interest)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y Officially! shat his pants re alphago even before the lee sedol thing!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because greed
asciilifeform: http://ae-lib.org.ua/texts-c/tolkien__the_silmarillion__en.htm << see for yerself.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how will cat piss on an aerical cable.
asciilifeform: but i see where mircea_popescu is going from.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lotr is circa '40s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in english world, ^ ~the~ orcs.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Why wouldn't it exist?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That list could be interesting if they drop the Putin-Messi sex tape
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think Rush Limbaugh invented the word lamestream
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: massive leak (or burn, as you like) of tax haven docs a few days ago
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/2KWDGFV.txt
mircea_popescu: incidentally, gotta thank pete_d for his guardian link.
mircea_popescu: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/pete_santilli_to_ask_court_to.html << same rag, further driving the alf case that the "freedom fighters" are uniformly retarded.
mircea_popescu: http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/04/david_fry_stands_to_make_unusu.html << in other lulz.
ben_vulpes: mike_c: requires server-side complexity to handle batched ratings
ben_vulpes: mike_c: ssh -t $BOUNCER tmux attach
ben_vulpes: mike_c: a bouncer is ~same work as scripting auth
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: luttwak is known to all, e.g., his 'coup - practical handbook'
trinque: pete_dushenski: that's what I was talking about re: -lows
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski typically crud like that goes for a few hundred bucks, and is a counter-signal.
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trinque: pete_dushenski: whitespace !?!?!?!?
trinque: pete_dushenski: try teh $up again
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: we'll see if this 15 minutes of fame lasts longer than my stint as a lord ;)
deedbot: pete_dushenski voiced for 30 minutes.
trinque: $up pete_dushenski