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assbot: Logged on 06-04-2014 05:30:22; asciilifeform: one man's 300k is not the same as another's
asciilifeform: outfits such as 'google', i'm told, are experimenting with bringing back the factory dormitory. which would have a bright future in usa, if there were any factories
asciilifeform: just a few hrs ago i drove past a street where they were knocking down, as we speak, sixteen or so blocks of rental houses
ben_vulpes: does the political power du jour really go so far as to entirely alienate the rentiers?
asciilifeform: just as you might think, while driving car, that you might run out of fuel, but not out of air
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: may as well ask, why tax
asciilifeform: ^ funnily enough, after being let go from gulag, he earned his living for many years as a translator.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [04:32] what does ben_vulpes do with his apple boxen? just throws them out when disk fills ? << generally, backup disk, format, give to pets and or repurpose as misc. computing devices around the house/office.
assbot: Australian killed in Thailand identified as Independent Reserve CEO ... ( http://bit.ly/1vKTqjT )
cazalla: maybe it's an aussie thing to use killed for violent deaths, i am not the only one.. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-28/bitcoin-ceo-adam-tepper-killed-in-thailand/6271440 http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-killed-in-thailand-identified-as-independent-reserve-ceo-20150228-13rmqe.html
cazalla: <BingoBoingo> a) For violent accidents that lead to death killed is used frequently <<< that was my thinking, was not an intentional click bait title as some alleged
asciilifeform: And as old age draws near, will I remain strong,
asciilifeform: As betwixt our friends did our foes scurry in.
asciilifeform: as insinuated in that cryptome thing (pretty good yarn, recommended)
asciilifeform: what'd count as a -real, indisputable- usg leak? example: info leading to perma-pwn of a whole constellation (hell, why not all of them) of usg orbiting junk
asciilifeform never sure if ever to believe these figures as they are traditionally ultra-lowballed for tax purposes
asciilifeform - as ben_vulpes will be entertained to learn - just opened a 'macbook air' in dire need of a modern-sized drive to discover that said box made use of an obscure type of disk interface previously unknown to him, with aftermarket units only available from cn
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would guess that the successful instances of actual merit wash, as opposed to usg being straight scammed, to be under 10%.
asciilifeform: as a logical entity - sure
trinque: I tend to pine for some period of harsh weather and natural disasters as yeah, training wheels
asciilifeform: as in, how would you engineer if, were your creations to fail, everything you have ever loved will be tortured and killed by nazi cannibals for the rest of eternity; every truth you hold dear will be buried and never seen again, etc, etc
BingoBoingo: Hour 45 in Snowden iitator is described as hanging self
asciilifeform: but something that looks more like a programming lang you might've learned as a kid.
asciilifeform: but still light-years ahead of just-winging-it-in-c, so long as the required 'furniture' isn't fifty pounds of fetid haskellian squigglies printed on telephone book paper
asciilifeform: this naturally rests on the 'turtles' and 'elephants' of your priors, e.g. hardware functioning as printed on the box, and so on
asciilifeform: but so long as your expectations are realistic, something like what's described in earlier link (an excruciatingly-fascist subset of ada) doesn't hurt
asciilifeform: as if one can't get arbitrarily clumsy theatre student
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The part where snowden seems aspie clumsie as opposed to trained actor clumsy suggests this just might be historical snowden
trinque: just curious as to what you think greenwald's upt o
BingoBoingo: trinque: Not snowden, watching film as presented Greenwald probably an act
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Pins snowden as suspected well before unveilling
Stunna: as you gain levels
Stunna: as an anti-bot measure, then it steps up quite considerably
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: With your standards for blog text probably would be hard to stretch it into something satisfying you as an author.
gabriel_laddel is confused as to why anyone would play dice online
Stunna: and it progresses as a user wagers more and gains levels
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: As I understand it now you are totally requesting and escrow service where I would have to recieve BTC on your behalf
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: The thing is I don't like doing the escrow thing. To discourage that I charge too much to make the choice of myself as an escrow economical
assbot: GPG Criticism Reaches New Low As Use Cases Expand | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1DhVIEE )
BingoBoingo: lol mircea_popescu http://qntra.net/2015/02/gpg-criticism-reaches-new-low-as-use-cases-expand/#comment-11779
BingoBoingo was going to refer to it as a bounder
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> benkay (~benkay@unaffiliated/benkay) has joined #bitcoin-assets << divorced ? << Could also be some old resurfacing as he dicks around with his bouncer
asciilifeform finds himself writing a netbsd kernel mod, has approximately same thoughts as fella who wakes up in 'dumpster' in a back alley, 'how i came to this sort of life' ?
asciilifeform: 'Due to the well-known fact that all compilers have bugs, it is the conventional wisdom of the safety critical community to avoid assuming that the generated object code is automatically correct. For instance, the approach taken in the avionics standard DO-178B is one of Design, Review and Test [DO-178B]. As far as practical, the review and test activities are undertaken at the object code level. Indeed, if the reliability req
BingoBoingo: Could also be something as stupid as "Chromium there would be shiny" when spotted de sodomizing gun
asciilifeform: as described in mircea_popescu's 'nobody could have foreseen' essay;
asciilifeform: i, for one, will be quite disappointed to hang on the same gallows as these disgraceful excuses for 'public enemy'
asciilifeform: every time i read a document like this (and they're all quite the same, as mircea_popescu observed all clinical material re: the criminally insane being much alike - or was that tlp?)
asciilifeform: as in most such cases
asciilifeform: it's pretty standard in that the 'dangerous terrorists' are just as obviously one or two notches above the iq level where one needs institutional care
BingoBoingo: Megalol, snowdenites as new "NRA" http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/edward_snowden_citizenfour_the_former_contractor_sparked_a_movement_that.html
mircea_popescu: a, i was starting to think my accounting's as tight as the dod's.
nubbins`: for that matter, you do as well
asciilifeform: elf and reality, able to keep up an attitude of the completest indifference, no matter what happens. A storm that would sink all the battleships in the world would hardly reach you as an echo. Even the whale's own movements would probably be imperceptible to you. He might be wallowing among the surface waves or shooting down into the blackness of the middle seas (a mile deep, according to Herman Melville), but you would never
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: His one primary opponent as of yesterday was marginal "christian 1st" tea party kook of marginal interest
asciilifeform: as in 'microshit is private industry'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as in, "private svejk" ?
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2015 20:54:13; asciilifeform: merely suggesting that an official statement from usg has the same credibility as the testimony of a habitual mugger who's been in and out of jails since he was 8 y.o., given upon apprehension at 4am in an alley
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: gotta love how 'force everyone to buy crippleware' is listed as an 'option'
asciilifeform: not that backport should be used as is! but why piss away time on a turd ?
BingoBoingo: nubbins`: Thing of it as argueing against a laser dude
nubbins`: things that shine the light, as it were
nubbins`: asciilifeform: ...rubes misquoting poor translations as literal truths...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is actually the reason why my first suggestion was to merely rip out the relevant parts of openssl (pick a version) so as the build ends up - 1) self-contained 2) bitwise identical binary
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i meant actual tandem, as in 'every sig ever checked/generated from both interfaces, and all the world's bells will surely ring if the answer ever differs'
asciilifeform: until such a day as folks with 'skin in game' no longer think it necessary.
mircea_popescu: well, no, but the openssl code as-was.
asciilifeform: how this strikes anyone as an optional frill, is beyond me
asciilifeform: fact is, i can run a graphical proggy on machine at other side of my house, or other side of the planet, and have the output - regardless of where in my display devices i shove it - look -exactly- the same as if it were local
nubbins`: offer it as "mystery poster" for the cost of s&h
asciilifeform: merely suggesting that an official statement from usg has the same credibility as the testimony of a habitual mugger who's been in and out of jails since he was 8 y.o., given upon apprehension at 4am in an alley ☟︎
thestringpuller: as it stands this is probably best way to disappear completely without actual death.
BingoBoingo: Schweich was notorious for breaking up all kinds of small bezzels in his first terms as State Auditor, announced candidacy for governor a few weeks ago, would have probably won. Then last night panicked phone calls and forever silence.
asciilifeform: https://github.com/kmackay/micro-ecc/blob/master/uECC.c << ends up ~half again as long if you snip out the ifdefs for unreasonably small (8, 16-bit) machines
BingoBoingo: as far as user interface and "armored text block" goes, looks about right reop looks about right. Just needs to dump the part where done in go and depends on external google library
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i've always wondered why internal mechanicals (trigger mechanisms, bolt, receiver) aren't chromium plated as modern (post '44 or so) barrels are
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as far as i understand, usg's refusal to adopt the correct solution, the gas piston, was pure nationalistic lunacy and little else
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: may as well suggest arbalest
chetty: As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
mircea_popescu: if the chem lobby seriously wants to strangle the pretty farm girl, that's one thing. but framing that discussion in terms of "rich" is about as helpful as proposing beer is better than wine because it bubbles.
BingoBoingo: Or they've surrendered in some cases to being a form of sharecropper. Depends on what and where they farm as well as how daddy ran the business
lobbes: 'x as a service'
BingoBoingo was expecting it last month, Waterfall wasn't as strong as my gut feared.
nubbins`: which, if it didn't accompany a pay raise, would engender the same line of questioning as a dismissal
pete_dushenski: "The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) today announced that Pay.gov, the government’s secure web based collection portal for payments to federal agencies, now offers both PayPal and Dwolla as payment options." << from a few days ago.
assbot: GPG Criticism Reaches New Low As Use Cases Expand | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1JQExCW )
BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/02/gpg-criticism-reaches-new-low-as-use-cases-expand/
nubbins`: it was at this job that i realized just because you work as a computer programmer, doesn't mean you know even the basics of what computers are and how they work
nubbins`: turned on, as in i wanna hear the angry birds smash the pigs
mircea_popescu: nubbins` turned on as in, sexually ?
PeterL: but scoopbot was not looking at the titles, so I am kinda at a loss as to why it doesn't like contravex
lobbes: ave let a landline on their desk go unanswered during a meeting, so different were the expectations for reachability." << Heh, I've seen people do this.. still strikes me as rude
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.15 B (20%) on Yes, 4393.47 B (80%) on No | closed 1 week 4 days ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1DcnimO )
mircea_popescu: https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/#c4617
asciilifeform: 'Because we have got to be willing as a nation to have a dialogue. This simplistic characterization of one-side-is-good and one-side-is-bad is a terrible place for us to be as a nation. We have got to come to grips with some really hard, fundamental questions. I’m watching risk and threat do this, while trust has done that. No matter what your view on the issue is [... snipped crapolade]'
decimation: "AS: So you do believe then, that we should build those for other countries [Russia, China] if they pass laws? MR: I think we can work our way through this."
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: as if 'nonspookware' is a thing in the store
decimation: "AS: No, I think Bruce Schneier and Ed Felton and all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can’t really build backdoors in crypto. That it’s like drilling a hole in the windshield.
decimation: maybe we can be in the same 'meat van' as asciilifeform when we are being taking the the sharashka
asciilifeform: and -lost- as in smoked?