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asciilifeform: like the barbarians decorating sword hilts with pieces of roman mosaic in 500 ad
asciilifeform: i suspect there will be folks worshipping '80s detritus for many, many years
asciilifeform: like the beos folks, yes
nubbins`: apparently there's a band of weirdos still polishing it
asciilifeform: msdos-era thingie, with graphics and cooperative multitasking
nubbins`: asciilifeform heh, it's available for raspi. got me reading. a true anomaly
asciilifeform: (what's a 'zebra hitler' ? it is this kind of 'historical' work. as exemplified by http://www.pbfcomics.com/209 )
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> jurov that piece is, roughly speaking, the result of a cat reading a mayan calendar and inputting the result into google translate. << it's actually a -double- ripoff. actually a condensed plagiarism of 'the roman guide to slave management' (j. toner) - an equally 'zebra hitler'-y work
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assbot: I’ve joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service | Nacin ... ( http://bit.ly/1DiMduX )
decimation: http://nacin.com/2015/03/29/us-digital-service/ < lol now you can volunteer to help usg
Vexual: hey if i fit all four of general vont kuntzs decriptors, does that neccessitate my immediate removal TO the highest command?
mats: did the original thing pass orders? or just report the book?
mats: i wonder how much demand there is for another mpexbot
ben_vulpes: goal is to make more plebs dependent on the state, not a greater army.
mats: lotta mustangs (enlisted-to-officer types) get fucked monetarily and often don't pass major/LTC because of the way officers are compelled to go "up or out"
mats: i rather like the way de officer training works
nubbins`: black, white, hot, cold. pick three :D
nubbins`: Adlai (clever/stupid), (lazy/industrious) but he says all his officers had /at least/ two of the qualities
ben_vulpes: clever, industrious, (???) - pick two
ben_vulpes: surely there's a tripartate tradeoff to be made here
nubbins`: at least two? o.O
Adlai: cf "I divide officers into four classes -- the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands. He has the temperament and the requisite nerves to
Adlai: aha, "The Romans thought clever slaves were troublesome and a threat"
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nubbins`: should read "Neither party to the lawsuit is a part of the government or a contractor"
nubbins`: BingoBoingo "Neither party to the lawsuit a part of the government or a contractor"
nubbins`: now that's a headline
nubbins`: Man Attempts to Purchase Private Key for $2,000 Above Value of BTC Contained Therein
BingoBoingo: It's a bigger subreddit. Will prolly disappear because qntra is not whitelisted through their payola system
jurov: and additionally if qntra will get added to /r/politics banned list :D
jurov: we can bet if this will get "downvoted" or disappeared straight
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << tellingly, this is not the front page of the nyt, wapo adn every single other usg propaganda leaflet. << It made the front page of qntra
jurov: and bitcoin trading signals, too, i guess
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ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: where can one turn for a better reading on slave treatment in the period?
mircea_popescu: jurov that piece is, roughly speaking, the result of a cat reading a mayan calendar and inputting the result into google translate.
mircea_popescu: http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11424037 << tellingly, this is not the front page of the nyt, wapo adn every single other usg propaganda leaflet.
mircea_popescu: punkman ozzie govt only needs courts if it needs them.
jurov: "Buying any old slave risked contaminating the morale of the whole household."
assbot: Management theories from Roman slave-owners – Jerry Toner – Aeon ... ( http://bit.ly/1He56g3 )
nubbins`: jurov this is like coming across mustard-flavored jellybeans
jurov: and i don't get why flavored doritos are O.o ... at first glance i was thinking it has something with blood
nubbins`: there's a couple living on the other side of the harbour that owns goats and taps maple trees
Adlai imitates dr seuss re: land of the moose
Adlai: do you set the table
jurov: jurov i'm canadian << ha i was waiting for this
nubbins`: they taste very strange, ketchup-flavored corn chips.
jurov: care to explain to nonmuricans?
nubbins`: sooo, just went to corner store.
Adlai: doesn't reduce the total number, but fuck using decimal for sha256
Adlai: jurov: makes it easier to deal with bit/byte-based operations
jurov: Adlai: how does tonal slleviate the need to do hundreds of thousands of steps computing EC sigs?
Adlai: if we're talking about practical ideas :P
Adlai: tbh it's probably easier to have an artist address registry, and lookup the artist using some shazaam-ish thingy
Adlai: ahhh so you're talking about watermarking an address into audio
funkenstein_: if your recorded music is playing, my phone will be like "shall we send a millie to Adlai?"
Adlai: all music is folk music, i ain't never seen a horse in the wot
funkenstein_: even if they are in WOT?
Adlai: speciesism, i don't trust cells that have fewer than nine nines of dna in common with me
Adlai: the first step is obviously relearning all of mathematics in tonal
Adlai: well, it's useless without mental hashing, but together they are unstoppable
Adlai was thinking of learning to do EC math in his head, which at least has practical use
funkenstein_: speaking of music i was thinking of writing an encoding embedding a bitcoin address in audio
Adlai: hmm i guess this word is overloaded now
Adlai: what's up with logs, have we built the moon cabin yet?
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ was the alt coin for a while.
jurov 's looking forward to exchange named "turdatron" or "orphanburner"
Adlai: coinbase, blockchain, next up they'll just use magic numbers. oh wait
Adlai: well one of them at least invented its own name
Adlai: jurov: doesn't blockr belong to d.cbse?
jurov: was fun till it lasted
jurov: !s therealaltcoin
funkenstein_: what is this ATC stuff
jurov: nah that was blockr
thestringpuller: blockexplorer is Thermos's thing
mircea_popescu: people wanna explore an address or block, let them do it themselves.
mircea_popescu: for this exact reason.
mircea_popescu: who is blockexplorer.com anyway, your thing ?
mircea_popescu: shit. i was just trying to look at a bundle
trinque: mircea_popescu: ah that's not my site; have a blockchain viewer site that you like?
trinque: +mircea_popescu | trinque ERROR: unknown (Most likely my bitcoind stopped working or this page is too large/complex.) < ? < what did that come from?
jurov: and 1000 lines adding abi_x86_32 to everything
jurov: wtf "The following USE changes are necessary to proceed:"
mircea_popescu: ie, every false prophet to date is looking upon the same sky, and will readily interpret whatever happens there in whatever terms they figure would make them look least like an idiot.
mircea_popescu: are we just replaying the october revolution over here, that's the vision ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform, what would you say is the difference between orlov as quoted and the fiction of the "imperialist burgeois" as classically described (1890s, even) ?
mod6: is mpexbot still a thing?
nubbins`: can't test patch just yet but new turdel_latest boots a-ok here
asciilifeform off to meatspace for a spell. wants to hear if anyone tests v2 patch.
nubbins`: butchered the poor enclosure, but hey.
nubbins`: dat torque
nubbins`: mircea_popescu HEH. the first and last time i used test-lead wires for a permanent project.
mircea_popescu: not likely start up tho.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` going for that entire asic miner look ?
mircea_popescu: which is why the original "get in the wot" discussion with the sec.
assbot: Logged on 29-03-2015 17:03:51; chetty: <Chillum> the whole hierarchy of trust used to issue certs is of course bunk// for some reason when I read that I wondered if anyone would trust a cert issued by Obama? If not why would you accept one from any 'lesser' authority in the same chain?
mircea_popescu: btw, speaking of guilds : they actually survive to an amazing extent. outfitters in canada for a very good example.
nubbins`: ^ look how clearly they marked the pads
asciilifeform: when i ran across the 2MB linksys, my thought was 'linux is obese if can't fit in 2MB'