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BingoBoingo: nubbins`: But seriously if they ask about your Boss "Dad, he's at the farm with the Vet" "It's looking like we'll have to put them all down"
BingoBoingo: ^ True
mircea_popescu: it might be the one still medical disease left.
mircea_popescu: speaking of skin cancer : did you know that mohs for melanoma works or doesn't work entirely depending on whoever does it ?
nubbins`: in the guy's defense he didn't press further
BingoBoingo: Go into the store with a list. You boss sent you. "Busy Afternoon"
nubbins`: yeah that'd do it
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Well, if you want to seem normal... specimin slides, gauze, various dyes, and yes enema kits
nubbins`: a poop stool isn't gonna make the biopsy pu... oh, hm
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Nah, just other things with them to lower the eyebrows back down.
mircea_popescu: you can get zip ties on a braided steel basis.
nubbins`: you can get some tough zip ties
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BingoBoingo figures La Sernissima is economy oriented by might not want to go zip tie cheap, though "Master"Lock is cheaper than handcuffs
BingoBoingo was thinking of an alternative to hancuffs. Involves padlock, biopsy punch, and two hands
nubbins`: if your vision starts to fade, tell someone
nubbins`: protip: have some fruit juice on hand, you tend to get dizzy
nubbins`: i've done things in the past that involved biopsy punches, but this isn't such an event
nubbins`: i'd like to start by welcoming our distinguished guests
mircea_popescu: easily the most commented on post of that "someone in the blogosphere"'s.
assbot: Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money | Yanis Varoufakis ... ( http://bit.ly/1NNtIQD )
mircea_popescu: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2013/04/22/bitcoin-and-the-dangerous-fantasy-of-apolitical-money/#comment-141726 << "someone in the blogosphere"
nubbins`: ~3.5 hours last time but i think i've got more shit enabled this run
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Isn't that what the designated pr0n computer is for?
mircea_popescu: "must be this dumb to ride!"
mircea_popescu: from the "let's make something stupid and call it our own" department, today the unconnected tap.
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Check the user reviews
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assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 23:18:29; asciilifeform: i most often use 'squirrelmail', a prehistoric www frontend to own mailserv
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-04-2015#1087368 << which makes two of us.
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 22:58:16; asciilifeform: 28. Facial recognition analysis matched Jack Farrel's photograph with a Texas Department of Motor Vehicle photo of RYAN ANDREW GUSTAFSON.
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 22:53:09; assbot: [Seriously] This will most likely hail downvotes, but let me try anyway... I am prostitute, how can I accept Bitcoin? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ic2K4W )
mircea_popescu: so you need seed funding for that ?
mircea_popescu: "ShapeShift was built as a demonstration of this principle: exchanges occur without custodianship of user funds. Indeed, there are no user accounts whatsoever."
mircea_popescu: anyway. i guess coinapult died ? i seem to recall a seed round about that one.
mircea_popescu: jurov: "creator of SatoshiDICE" my ass. << that claim's interesting. i guess double jeopardy brings out the best in people ?
BingoBoingo: Seriously impresive stuff, just why inflate the credentials like a Turk?
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> He bought SatoshiDice and retained the creator for some time, yes? << an' settled with the sec, to boot.
nubbins`: (for those wondering wtfx1000, the saline completely absorbs into your tissue after a few hours)
asciilifeform: for a few things, even 'gmail'
asciilifeform: i most often use 'squirrelmail', a prehistoric www frontend to own mailserv
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i typically compose in emacs but do not use it as a 'client'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you do email in emacs? i've been using mu4e and am about out of patience - coming back around to "show me the ancient tools that handle this ancient problem".
asciilifeform: (mostly self-explanatory without transl.)
asciilifeform: 'icarus and the wise men'
asciilifeform: joy helping people who have nothing, I create jobs.. I do better then [sic] [O]bama creating jobs my employees are all happy now."'
asciilifeform: 'At the time, Clock argued that he was simply a sort of benevolent overlord. "I decided to help other people and give them this opportunity, I see myself as a do gooder, I know many might argue with that, but when you get people coming to you saying they used to have NOTHING and were begging on a street corner looking for $30 and now he's a boss, sure makes me feel good," he added. "I actually feel more of a [R]obinhood and en
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asciilifeform: 28. Facial recognition analysis matched Jack Farrel's photograph with a Texas Department of Motor Vehicle photo of RYAN ANDREW GUSTAFSON.
asciilifeform: 27. A.B. was shown one of the photographs from Jack Farrel's Facebook site. A.B. confirmed that this photograph was the Jack Farrel who provided him with the counterfeit Federal Reserve Notes.
asciilifeform: 26. Secret Service searched Facebook for the name Jack Farrel and discovered a Facebook user site for an individual named Jack Farrel who claimed to live in Uganda. This user's Facebook site also had photographs of Jack Farrel.
assbot: [Seriously] This will most likely hail downvotes, but let me try anyway... I am prostitute, how can I accept Bitcoin? : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ic2K4W )
asciilifeform: for so long as the thing needs changing at all - this is how it is changed.
asciilifeform: <ben_vulpes> i don't like it, it's just the ad-hoc thing that works today << i'm not convinced that there could be any reasonable alternative.
nubbins`: breaking: erik voorhees falsely claims to have created things that he didn't
BingoBoingo: He bought SatoshiDice and retained the creator for some time, yes?
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ben_vulpes: i don't like it, it's just the ad-hoc thing that works today
trinque: I am well convinced that you guys like your process and there's nothing wrong with that.
ben_vulpes: trinque: you and i can collaborate any time that we want, by derping at our respective repos
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trinque: the problem's solved by the wot not diff and patch
trinque: all I'm saying is use tools that don't slow down the work, and have merge nazis using shame and dishonor at the center
mircea_popescu: in fairness this was prolly assembled in canada out of vietnamese parts or some shit. "american" what's that.
mircea_popescu: look a tthat. that's almost like a modern block's worth altogether.
nubbins`: and thus, the analogy complete.
mircea_popescu: the only time i trusted a us pos i had a break plate of a ford explode. just like that.
nubbins`: trinque and is your 300zx for granny smith, or for a driver who knows the risks?
nubbins`: ehh, i once got a chrysler neon up to 205.
mircea_popescu: this is why you like the two ton mercedes.
nubbins`: for the record, your car is almost certainly not "capable" of doing anything at 130mph
nubbins`: y'know, like they have in actual cars in real life
nubbins`: noooooo, the analogy would be a car with a governor that kicks in at 200kph
trinque: by that logic you should never drive, because the machine's capable of 130mph into a brick wall
asciilifeform: the approach does not 'fix' anything, no. but it prevents certain plagues that are otherwise ubiquitous
trinque: everyone who ever poked his dick into the github?
trinque: who is "we" there?
nubbins`: have you LOOKED at the code? :S
nubbins`: <+trinque> if you can't rely on the discipline of the people involved you're already fucked <<< by this metric, /we have been fucked from day one/
asciilifeform: like the orators who were forced to stand on one leg
asciilifeform: trinque: it's a deliberate antiautomation, to keep things short
nubbins`: asciilifeform i used that example because i've seen precisely this sort of bullshit committed to svn
asciilifeform: nubbins`: laugh, but what do you imagine would happen if one of us were to, e.g., reindent it.
trinque: running diff and patch by hand isn't going to fix it
trinque: if you can't rely on the discipline of the people involved you're already fucked
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eventually that list jurov keeps will become unusable as a flat thing, you are aware.
asciilifeform: and this quickly becomes the only kind of patch produced.
asciilifeform: trinque: when you use a version control apparatus, it is very easy to produce patches that cannot be applied using your mind ☟︎
nubbins` snoozes while waiting for bitcoind to find seeds
mircea_popescu: "it rubbed me nicely, same thing"
asciilifeform: (also see the 'what colour are your bits' essay)
nubbins`: the adversarial approach to development
asciilifeform: because they live & die by idempotence of identical bits
asciilifeform: programmers as a class have severe trouble with this concept, in my experience
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> nobody's collaborating on anything man << this is like the first time ever people are seriously using a noncollaborative approach to coding.
trinque: you can easily verify the output of git
asciilifeform: because the -process- provides guarantees of...
asciilifeform: sometimes, the -process- matters.
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 13:37:28; nubbins`: but he fears others will think it sucks, or worse, that his taste is so poor that it *does* suck and he just doesn't see it