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undata: I'm thinking of Oregon's legalization and how its lauded
as some social victory
undata: asciilifeform: I guess I'm speaking
as a guy in his 20s
mircea_popescu: the solution are
as always : either make the senior much richer (which really is not feasible) or break the relationship.
pete_dushenski: not enough art classes for kids so they get all obsessed with rulers and crayons
as adults
jurov: Thus, it is possible to say that the resulting device is at least
as secure
as a CSPRNG, but, since we have a constant stream of new seeds, we can be confident that it is actually a better source of random numbers than a CSPRNG that is seeded less frequently.
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of remarkable (not really) just how self-labeling stupidity actually is. the difference between trying to "explain yourself"
as an idiot and simply wearing a lot of large "hey everyone, i'm the idiot!" signs and tags is hard to notice.
mircea_popescu: "And for three years it worked. But on Thursday the Swiss suddenly gave up. We don’t know exactly why; nobody I know believes the official explanation, that it’s a response to a weakening euro. " << ha-ha. everyone you DON'T know knows the explanation. it was published on fucking trilema for crissakes, not even
as a news item.
mircea_popescu: Testing infrastructure consists of a Mac Mini hosted at MacStadium,
as well
as a beefy testing box hosted at Hetzner in Germany, on which we have a number of VMs for the various operating systems and variants we target. >> much better.
davout: mircea_popescu: maybe in the sense that it was inherited
as a messy bytecoin code base
mircea_popescu: "Expenditure for the year comprised of 3 totals
as some costs could not be settled in BTC or were preferably settled in XMR. Our expenditure was 190.513492 BTC + 1 891.31 XMR + US $5 732.80, which is around the 212 BTC mark. Thus the shortfall of 164.5 BTC was paid out of the Core Team's own pockets in the hopes of recovering the funds later on (ie. just in case anyone was wondering, not only do the core team not get p
fluffypony: yep it doubles up to 6gb when its spooling to disk (every 12 hours),
as it creates a copy of the blockchain object
mircea_popescu: decimation it's
as fucking unbriliant
as a lump of coal. at the end of the week, instead of having a decent steak and a game of bridge with intellgient people,
☟︎ decimation: mircea_popescu: it makes the little people feel like they are getting their money's worth,
as their stock valuation rises, while the management cashes out
mircea_popescu: somehow it seems to me he uses conscript
as transliteration of ciolovek
ben_vulpes: decimation: i don't think it's "leaking" so much
as it's not a traditional "closed" hydraulic system.
decimation: so I interpret 'boosters'
as 'external retro packs'
decimation: from your article: "In September 2013, SpaceX successfully fired boosters
as the rocket fell to Earth, slowing it down so it could land softly."
Apocalyptic: probably a literal translation of "noir sur blanc"
as the idiomatic expression goes
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: seems to work better
as time goes on and more resources are available :P
mircea_popescu: The bubble scarcely left a microscopic moisture behind it. I was an early beggar and a thorough one. My hoarded stocks were not worth the paper they were printed on. I threw them all away. I, the cheerful idiot that had been squandering money like water, and thought myself beyond the reach of misfortune, had not now
as much
as fifty dollars when I gathered together my various debts and paid them. I removed from the hot
Apocalyptic: "Der-Yeghiayan testified that his own investigation had found that Mutum Sigilum, a Karpeles holding company, had registered silkroadmarket.org
as a means to publicize the site further."
mircea_popescu: this day—and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles
as usual, and says "Well, that is California all over."
mircea_popescu: gavin isn't quitting the scam foundation either, and obviously the msm would present it
as "influential". what's it influence, reddit ?
mircea_popescu: consider my alt economy where the currency is teeth. every person can be guaranteed a job
as selftooth extractor, paying 30 teeth over their lifetime.
mircea_popescu: "our plan to drive adoption is twofold : first, make a lot of people off themselves. their thus orphaned offspring, will, necessarily, be adopted. we will endeavour to drive
as many
as possible, but some might have to walk."
ben_vulpes: but
as soon
as i figure out the non profit hustle in the states i'm going to get myself a lobbying job
ben_vulpes: well it's my personal payroll
as opposed to the company payroll, assholes
pete_dushenski: " among other reasons, its fuel efficiency advantage over the competition has shrunk substantially, and Tesla has emerged
as the green car of choice that’s not only environmentally friendly, but stylish and a rip-roaring hoot to drive
as well."
pete_dushenski: "with $2 gas being commonplace, the Prius is only viewed
as a smart financial choice by drivers “who stink at math.”"
pete_dushenski: A man who portrayed himself
as a member of a wealthy Pakistani family and was often seen driving luxury cars including a Ferrari faces sentencing in a multimillion-dollar investment scam involving three former Miami Heat players and the team itself. <<
as if the donald sterling shmozzle wasn't embarrassing enough for the nba
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> i must even make "reasonable precautions" against defacement of the poster. << sign under it that says "Do not deface poster" should both result in defaced posted while still counting
as a reasonable precaution
davout: but then 'Be that
as it may, consider ca am cam obtinut ce am dorit prin comentariile(adevarat, exasperant de incalcite) prin care autorul completeaza sau clarifica unele sectiuni mai gri.'
davout: mircea_popescu: at first i was like 'Be that
as it may'
gabriel_laddel: le here,
as our governing rules generally do not permit deep inspection when the apertuse into our data set widens. Getting this right is paramount: the average NSA mathematician takes fourteen courses each yer to be up-to-date on the procedures that govern these activities."
pete_dushenski: just
as the "oh noes how come the education system never taught us xyz and instead pulled the wool over our eyes" reaction is weakening
mircea_popescu: this was immediately and universally applied to what was perceived
as a silly and pompous notion of the minority in question.
mircea_popescu: "Sometimes, rom and romani are spelled with a double r, i.e., rrom and rromani. In this case rr is used to represent the phoneme /ʀ/ (also written
as ř and rh), which in some Romani dialects has remained different from the one written with a single r. " << actually, this is incorrect.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah. I got that much from the convo. asciilifeform Was totally right about the thing living
as streams of UDP piss
BingoBoingo: Coffee pot works
as well, yes. /. thread proposing new router
as single oard computer for the wrong reasons, mad lulz
assbot: ./helenzaltzman is your dad the Godfather? "But until that day, accept this justice
as a gift on my daughter's wedding day." :-)
BingoBoingo: * nOgAnOo clueless
as to what 20MB blocks would change << would sink tx fees
nOgAnOo clueless
as to what 20MB blocks would change
nOgAnOo: gmaxwell put a very bad taste in my mouth for bitcoin long ago and I turned to altcoin communities
as soon
as they arrived.
BingoBoingo: Well, they understand they can't survive the world
as is, so their reflex is... change the world. So much easier than changing self.
mircea_popescu: etc etc. there's this large pile of mental viral load they're currently carrying, so
as to do essentiually what the power rangers want bitcoin to do : play cozy with TITB.
davout: i guess that anti-semitism was seen
as more of a problem when the law was made
mircea_popescu: me to believe it, with trusting simplicity, just
as he had long ago accepted and believed that other common book-fraud about Indians and lost hunters making a fire by rubbing two dry sticks together."
mike_c: not
as well
as fiat though.
Alrenous: mircea_popescu: Your guess is
as good
as mine.
mircea_popescu: pretty much sure ticket to being remembered forever
as "that black president that killed babies and old people"
mircea_popescu: more like "people on b-a fucking people on reddit.
as always"
mircea_popescu: y back you into a corner and offer
as a favor to you, not to him, to part with just a few feet in the "Golden Age," or the "Sarah Jane," or some other unknown stack of croppings, for money enough to get a "square meal" with,
as the phrase went. And you were never to reveal that he had made you the offer at such a ruinous price, for it was only out of friendship for you that he was willing to make the sacrifice."
mircea_popescu: "I met men at every turn who owned from one thousand to thirty thousand "feet" in undeveloped silver mines, every single foot of which they believed would shortly be worth from fifty to a thousand dollars—and
as often
as any other way they were men who had not twenty-five dollars in the world. Every man you met had his new mine to boast of, and his "specimens" ready; and if the opportunity offered, he would infallibl
mircea_popescu: Columbiana," the "Branch Mint," the "Maria Jane," the "Universe," the "Root-Hog-or- Die," the "Samson and Delilah," the "Treasure Trove," the "Golconda," the "Sultana," the "Boomerang," the "Great Republic," the "Grand Mogul," and fifty other "mines" that had never been molested by a shovel or scratched with a pick. We had not less than thirty thousand "feet" apiece in the "richest mines on earth"
as the frenzied cant
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can't speak
as to the quality of instruction or the milongas, but there's some sort of hustle involving procuring dollars in portland during the rainy season down south and then going down south to dance for the other six months
cazalla: knew
as in barely knew but go around telling people i knew at that age bcuz cool
cazalla: my 77', while useless in bed, is not
as useless
as a post 90's one
mircea_popescu: it's really shocking how stupid/clueless modern teenagers are
as compared to what i used to fuck prior to the berlin wall falling. pretty much every basic point has to be re-established.
cazalla: but then big fall out, he ignores me for 3 years despite my thinking i would die 2 years ago, continued to ignore me and
as a result only finds bitcoin 6 months ago when we start talking again, now only has a few bitcoin to rub together, much satisifaction
mircea_popescu: four dollars and fifty cents, for distinction has its charm in Nevada
as well
as elsewhere, and there were plenty of patriotic souls out of employment; but to get a legislative hall for them to meet in was another matter altogether. Carson blandly declined to give a room rent-free, or let one to the government on credit.
Elian11: I mean up,
as in: level up their skills.
BingoBoingo: Not necessarily
as literature, but
as a replacement for LinkedIN
mircea_popescu: "Mr. [Patient] is a 39 year old gentleman who sustained several anterior dislocations of his right shoulder when he was involved in martial arts
as part of an underground fighting group. He did not seek treatment for these and the problem worsened after he lifted heavy weights while in prison. He presents today with his caretaker, who states that because of his impulsive and self-destructive behavior secondary to bipol
artifexd: <ben_vulpes> so that's two exported versions of the same function that are "polymorphic"
as i understand the term on argument types? << The proper term is "overloaded"
mircea_popescu:
as opposed to misguided efforts at "let's bloat everything with more of the same stupid"
ben_vulpes: so that's two exported versions of the same function that are "polymorphic"
as i understand the term on argument types?
dub: its 26c here, at 18:00. The sea is 22-24c so I try to stay in that
as mush
as possible around this time of year
mircea_popescu recalls going to seaside with fambly
as 5yo, spending whole day (10am to 3-4 pm ?) in sun building castles. turning distinctly indian colored.
mircea_popescu: got here, discovered that the exact thing i knew
as a boy still exists.