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assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 17:43:46; ascii_field: 'Evasion techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam, the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said they suspected the intentional misspelling was meant to distract the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.'
<< gold
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> it is when it ~began~
<< yes, and engineering in "making real objects" sense is exactly that. but from this it does not follow that the same everywhere!
mircea_popescu: in other news, from #eulora :
<VariaVarietatis> What is the best way to buy and hold a little bit of btc so I can buy copper from jurov ?
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> how do you want it so its not spammin chan?
<< stream as bz2 compressed xml
mats: is there any way to look at the active mpoe order book (ie, the way 'mpexbot' used to spit 'em out with '$depth
<asset>')?
ascii_field: 'Evasion techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam, the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said they suspected the intentional misspelling was meant to distract the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.'
<< gold
☟︎ ascii_field: 'I expected PayPal would have my back and worst case, the whole transaction would be reversed and nobody would be out anything.'
<< gold
kakobrekla: > Paymium Raises 1 Million Euros
< o hey congrats
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else.
<< I was under the impression gamergate happened because d00d published blog about ex-gf cheating on him who works in games. That's at least what personally brought my attention to it.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 11:05:45; kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes
< there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 06:22:52; mircea_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia."
<< romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
punkman: kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes
< there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
<< they even bother to make fake capacitors
kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes
< there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<punkman> seems pretty hopeless
<< actually some derpy "artists" were airing this nonsensical scheme a few years ago. it basically reduces to "isn't it unfair that only some 6/7 chicks get to pretend like they're artists on daddy's dime ? why shouldn't i have a daddy like that!"
mircea_popescu:
<punkman> oh wow ebay now has chinese 420-800mm lens for 50 bucks
<< aha. and for all the pretense of the swiss from 20 years ago, 2015 800mm chinese lens beats 1985 zeiss lens.
mircea_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia."
<< romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:34:43; mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in.
<< i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:33:47; mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy
<<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in.
<< i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy
<<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> then he deleted the whole thing.
<< the truly damning part.
mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward a man-made climate doom, the truth is that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. "
<<< this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. "race relations", "gender issues", you name it.
mod6: (19:17)
<+ben_vulpes> mod6 probably has his own as well.
<< mine is basically a by hand list. it really needs some attention/tlc. I gotta get something more structured.
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2015 21:43:42; asciilifeform: 'but Richard is seemingly frightened about the compiler competition from LLVM that is out under a permissive free software license.'
<< fud artist lies through his teeth. rms is not 'frightened of competition under permissive licenses', but is pointing out that organized attack by shitgnomes flying (as always) flags of convenience, is under way.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: so much of what imho needs to be done, cannot be done.
<< doesn't this technically make it impossible?
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> or, alternatively, failing to do anything on account of waiting
<< i could give some examples of this, but of dubious actual substance.