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mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-03-2015#1038649 << that's not the sort of principle that gets you to be a fiat baron. ☝︎
mats: dunno, the offensive started this morning
mircea_popescu: i find it kinda funny that they chose to eschew silbert's efforts, but who knows what the fuck's going on in the lizard brain.
assbot: Logged on 02-03-2015 16:57:06; thestringpuller: ;;ticker
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-03-2015#1038626 << here's the scoop on that : the usg agencies have finally gave up on Strategy of Pretense v2.0 and are moving to buy. Which explains why someone figured giving coinbase millions makes sense. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "millers crossing" << ugh man that movie is badddd in places
assbot: Logged on 02-03-2015 13:28:12; danielpbarron: actually scratch that, looks like he's been switching between them
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-03-2015#1038602 << the many ways to fuck up a "voting" process designed by the same idiots that did the scam foundation thing ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i guess that's acceptable.
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2014 13:48:54; mircea_popescu: well sure. i don't propose the chinese are racially ugly.
BingoBoingo: I I recall correctly you azn chick whining happened at least once around the time you elaborated on why Islands suck
mircea_popescu: apparently im on the record whining about azn chicks too
gabriel_laddel: simply on the principle of "fuck the system, it sucks" ☟︎
gabriel_laddel: Anyways, this is what I have in mind when I say "new format" - and no, I don't think the 'adults' would be happy about a program that converts arbitary PDFs into this sort of program, as evidenced by no bezzle barons funding Aaron Swartz's legal defense.
gabriel_laddel: all the data used to perform the computations should have a "warning - unlinked <location of data, who is responsible for it>" unless a human resolved it to the correct source and bundled it along with the paper
gabriel_laddel: I should have better defined what I mean by "useful format": all the citations must be clickable, and when you click on them, they open up the linked paper, or tell you where it is located (i.e., behind a paywall). I don't want plaintext output, but rather a better format with the exact same formatting as the original pdf that allows me to click, drag-and-drop and add new content. The authors etc should all be progr
gabriel_laddel: 14:16:34 BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: the 'adults' are not going to be happy about you writing a program that converts all books in libgen.info + all papers you can get of school networks into a useful format via a combination of OCR and heuristic hackery << Plain OCR is normally sufficient for books without advanced mathematics as long as you are willing to liberate the pages from the spine. Test it with a sheetfed
assbot: "Death Cab For Cutie - No Room In Frame by Death Cab for Cutie - Hear the world’s sounds" ... ( http://bit.ly/1vTLjlh )
mike_c: wow. that's AAA vs college, but still.
assbot: Phillies shut down by University of Tampa in Clearwater, 6-2 ... ( http://bit.ly/1vTwwXv )
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 263.0, Best ask: 263.38, Bid-ask spread: 0.38000, Last trade: 263.19, 24 hour volume: 57880.38141853, 24 hour low: 248.7, 24 hour high: 267.0, 24 hour vwap: None
assbot: Iraq Starts Attack on Tikrit With Help of Iran Commander - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1vT0PgZ )
danielpbarron: https://mining.bitcoinaffiliatenetwork.com/ << these guys were also mining v3 blocks
danielpbarron: actually scratch that, looks like he's been switching between them ☟︎
danielpbarron: looks like he just switched to version 3; all his older blocks are version 2
danielpbarron: the most recent one was this guy: https://blockchain.info/blocks/106.185.33.253
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: us navy... china sea... cheaper rocker << line of thought was about rocket (or equiv.) that the 'next joe stack' can build. rather then chinese navy.
ben_vulpes: now that person's oddsmaking choices are totally obvious
ben_vulpes: why do people do that?
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thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that sposed to make us grape jelly?
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i just ingested a quart of the world's best icecream. BEST you hear me ?
mircea_popescu: certainly not to stalin.
mircea_popescu: up until leningrad it was not at all clear the reich will ever end, especially not from outside.
jurov: Was taken by getapo in '43.
jurov: She was a soothsayer and prophesied a fall of the Third reich
mircea_popescu: i seem to recall granpa churchill spinning some prime yarn bout how "and once england is defeated our realms across the sea will carry on without us"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: it was quite clear in '43 that third reich would fall apart << is this some bit of original research ?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> i don't buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat << more importantly, isis EXISTS because it was born out of the *previous* iteration of "we didn't really get our asses handed to us like little girls, we were really AIMING to be face down, feet in the air"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> us includes pretty much the entire planet outside of ru and cn << this is ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if such a thing were to exist - major problems << sure it exists. it's how the us navy lost china sea.
BingoBoingo: Yubikeys have been used to store fixed long passwords for local use. Just works like a USB keyboard in that case. Just...
BingoBoingo: Perhaps he doesn't trust his brain to "brainwallet" strong passwords
asciilifeform: why would anyone use a device such as 'yubikey' for access to a man-portable machine ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Used to keep lizard in the room from watching him type
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: From film it seems he was worried about "black bag" and in the event wanted martyrdom.
mod6: hows that going anyway?
asciilifeform: mod6: i have one; currently writing a netbsd kernel driv. for the nand flash
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: can you tell me why an actual snowden would have himself filmed ?
mod6: who is testing a pogo currently? asciilifeform, danielpbarron and BingoBoingo?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm telling you the film is a lulzmine
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Appears to indeed be a Yubikey
asciilifeform: is that a mtgox otp generator ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i'm not certain that a worthwhile picture can be obtained solely in english.
ben_vulpes: I need a primer on that period.
asciilifeform: but it was also clear that it would not do so quickly or without damage to surroundings
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: it was quite clear in '43 that third reich would fall apart
gabriel_laddel: why, all of the sudden are they a immediate threat to a hypothetical?
gabriel_laddel: Perhaps I'm missing something, but isn't much of the discussion in this channel based on the assumption that usg is going to fall apart?
ben_vulpes: i don't buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat to the us (and all client states) and they desire desperately to wipe it out.
ben_vulpes: i've yet to see them achieve one thing they set out to, in my entire life of watching them ferry soldiers across the sea.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: objective was controlled chaos. not to remove the particular crop of (not pashtuns)
ben_vulpes: didn't they just retain some 20k unseasoned mercs to go after a mob of kalash-equipped pashtuns?
ben_vulpes: you vastly overestimate their abilities.
asciilifeform: us includes pretty much the entire planet outside of ru and cn
ben_vulpes: and why (why why why?!) must everything be about enraging the insane bear in the room?
ben_vulpes: the rest of the world doth not operate so insanely.
ben_vulpes: this is a strictly us problem, though.
asciilifeform: ^ relevant thread
asciilifeform: by how much, requires a very detailed study of surviving soviet literature. which i presently lack the time for. but might get back to one day
ben_vulpes: i probably didn't know enough to make it work when i attempted it.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that prototype never worked and has long since been consigned to my parents dustbin.
asciilifeform: for batteries which don't need to be 'safe' or reusable or dirt-cheap - this changes.
BingoBoingo: * ben_vulpes giving the whole armsmithing game away for some reason << Railgun?
ben_vulpes: the power to weight ratio just *always* turns me off.
ben_vulpes: maybe the trick is to leverage existing industrial commodity electrical motors and do something clever with the batteries.
ben_vulpes: remember when all the children went out after...yes.
asciilifeform: even the fabled chinese sparrows
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: think this way: what country, on what continent, has sovereignty over... birds ?
ben_vulpes: i still do not see a need for this wacky battery of yours.
ben_vulpes: yes well do away with the $maxint vehicle cert process, $maxint operator training...
asciilifeform: smugglers landing ordinary machines in sparsely-populated desert - century-old state of the art
asciilifeform: aha, was still thinking of automatics
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: toy store range, toy store machine
ben_vulpes: you're familiar i'm sure with the near-disposable cessna's thrown over america's southern border, stuffed to the gills with $substance?
asciilifeform: they pass unmolested - and the cargo travels on, on land - at lizardhitler's pleasure.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'well patrolled' << i'm pretty sure that 50+ sneak through for every single one busted.