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asciilifeform: turd-art as a bezzle altcoin
asciilifeform: and that woman is probably planted on a solid gold toilet as we speak
asciilifeform: cazalla: posted as comment.
cazalla: asciilifeform, maybe post it as a comment then you can get credit for pointing it out
cazalla: <asciilifeform> cazalla: ^ consider for 'qntra' <<< amusing now that i've googled what a solder bridge is, i wouldn't want to add it and act smug as if i knew prior though
mats_cd03: as a young man i ruined the interior of a rival's BMW with durian extract i bought on the internets
undata: I like eating fermented rot as much as the next guy, but come on people, standards!
asciilifeform: ^ suggested as name for next big silicon valley chumpfest
mircea_popescu: as it happens, i've been saying exactly that. course, the honest libertarian apparently doesn't personally use the terminology of some random polis to describe himself, nor does the random polis readily recognize him, and so... seth's safe.
thestringpuller: serve as good baseline methinks
cazalla: asciilifeform: i propose that pseudo-bitcoin scamatrons be known as 'mockchains' <<< why you gotta try oneup my brockchain :(
asciilifeform: i propose that pseudo-bitcoin scamatrons be known as 'mockchains'
cazalla: mircea_popescu, never played pokemon? so you catch them as you would say find an item in an mmorpg, you train em, level em up, you can trade them as you would an item in an mmorpg to other players
mircea_popescu: (but seriously, if you, like me are a fan of the old amiga stuff, with HARD mobs and tough as nail bosses etc ? try it.)
adlai: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5#Schizophrenia_spectrum_and_other_psychotic_disorders << ok, they didn't officially delete it, but have been revising the definition to the point where it's about as precise as "batshit fucking crazy"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: this raises a question, can schizophrenic even use pgp as intended? <<< well if he has split personality, then they won't know about each other's keys.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i trust myself only with a 9 << just as long as you find a kim to trust you with her 6.
mircea_popescu: chumpatronics at its finest, "we would like a list of rich people interested in bitcoin, mind sending us a signed form ?" / "hey, USMS can implement tardstalk scam actions too! We even hired Garr as an expert consultant"
gernika: There must be some convoluted explanation as to why that's OK though
kakobrekla: this raises a question, can schizophrenic even use pgp as intended?
xanthyos: so then i guess just as ratings can't be moved accounts probably can't be renamed
xanthyos: well if it's someone i can authenticate as the same person
nubbins`: BingoBoingo it's only like 10% as big, not so fun
mircea_popescu: and in spite of all that painstaking effort ? still crazy as fuck, the canucks.
mircea_popescu: "also i doubt anyone using women to farm milk is concerned about cost effectiveness" << maybe we're not on the same page as to what farm means, here.
xanthyos: mircea_popescu: once a woman starts producing milk she'll keep producing it until she stops nursing. there are some children who nurse way too long and as long as they keep suckling, the milk will flow. also i doubt anyone using women to farm milk is concerned about cost effectiveness or has the moral concern to worry about his cows continually giving birth. their young might be inserted into the food chain that eventually becomes the moth
nubbins`: my admittedly inconsequential vote is for including it in ;;ident, as it's potentially useful
mircea_popescu: as always, the security/sanity balance is unobvious.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: ruminated a bit on the imagery of human women being milked as cows when i woke up. the creepy part is that it's not just hentai, and that given the population of the earth, there are surely women that are being dairy farmed somewhere. << nope. if you think about it, mammals are only productive after foaling. what would you do with all the babies ? this and numerous other considerations make dairy-female a hig
mircea_popescu tries to follow in Adlai's footsteps reading that "accelerating change" piece, gets as far as "The goal of this chapter is to trace the general implications of what are identified as the two central characteristics of the future: accelerating change and intensifying complexity.", first line in abstract, and fails.
xanthyos: ruminated a bit on the imagery of human women being milked as cows when i woke up. the creepy part is that it's not just hentai, and that given the population of the earth, there are surely women that are being dairy farmed somewhere. the writers of walking dead missed an opportunity to have some surprise cheese or yogurt in the cannibal camp episodes.
gribble: Nick 'adlai', with hostmask 'Adlai!~Adlai@gateway/tor-sasl/adlai', is identified as user 'Adlai', with GPG key id 4D88596A7CDA03F9, key fingerprint FCBC64EFDF1D6C1E4E964AEE4D88596A7CDA03F9, and bitcoin address 13dkw1PtojBW74FN7ERbHqoEvgsTmtARuj
mircea_popescu: seems this filter of yours is doing exactly as much useful work as every filter ever.
saifedean: trilema is classified as games by my university, MP!
gribble: (gettrust [<sourcenick>] <destnick>) -- Get trust paths for <destnick>, starting from <sourcenick>. If <sourcenick> is not supplied, your own nick is used as the source. See http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/OTC_Rating_System#Notes_about_gettrust
kakobrekla: they as well dont see dns
TheNewDeal: best material wipes as well
RagnarDanneskjol: most people are struck once they take the time to learn it. its a damn figure of speech -as in contacting all those I know who are squarely qualified to do this work AND meet said expectations
asciilifeform: being the first step of a recipe for convincing folks of something that would otherwise be readily apparent as lunacy
asciilifeform: as such, you have to surgically remove its metastases even from a fresh 'gentoo'
decimation: do something else < which is why debian is now dead, as ascii wrote
mircea_popescu: There isn't a right answer. As Russ has explained a number of times in the TC, on debian-vote and on his blog, this is about tradeoffs. I'm sure some people will be happy if the project's values are aligned with theirs. When they take that as far as saying the project made the "right decision" or rejected "bad options," they are not valuing the contributions of those who disagreed with them.
mircea_popescu: im completely unclear as to why the fuck usg wants the "one computer system" so badly anyway.
decimation: in fact one of the supposed prime 'benefits' of redhat enterprise is that it can 'hook up to' a windows active directory server which acts as an ldap/krb ticket server
mircea_popescu: then a few years later windows migrated to "kerberos" as its primary security protocol
mircea_popescu: decimation kerberos was developed by mit in the 80s. a gutted export version was created. as the usg was going to (again) change its export restriction in 2000,
mircea_popescu: perhaps an instructive case study as to how usg protocol confiscation works in the field.
mircea_popescu: technologically it's about as notable as windows notepad, but sociologically... wow, ze goldmine.
mircea_popescu: decimation one of the most interesting aspects of systemd is the irrationality of the proponents. it's almost as if you're discussing theology with the flat earth society or geophysics with the global warming cult of washington dc.
asciilifeform: decimation: in wwii << after invention of nuke, they realized that much as they would love to repeat the performance again and again as necessary, might put their own arses in peril. so - settled for a slow and continuous version of this.
asciilifeform: actually they all entered 'public life' long ago, as the most loathesomely loyal cocksuckers imaginable.
asciilifeform: 'resistance through culture' as described in mircea_popescu's articles
asciilifeform: was more or less exactly as i imagined.
asciilifeform: what must it be like to be, literally, employed as human tape deck ?
decimation: at least not as an employee
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:54:02; assbot: Logged on 14-11-2014 22:24:42; asciilifeform: (for n00bs only: who is 'lizard hitler' ? a character approximately as real as magnetic field lines were to michael faraday. don't look for magnetic field lines, they aren't there. physically. or as far as we can tell, anyway.)
mircea_popescu: sudenly the entire polling thing won't be as legitimate.
decimation: although to be fair, I'm sure in his world as long as he has some poll that implies that 50% of usian support whatever he is planning to do, he would consider it 'legitimate'
decimation: as a gradually larger portion of the 'sane class' in the us begins to perceive usg as more of an enemy than a friend, I suspect the quality of 'chicken' will degrade further.
asciilifeform: (for folks who want a more 'upbeat' figure as an example for a leaf of living matter inside bureaucratic garbage compactor - try korolev.)
nubbins`: same outlook as social insurance (social security for yanqis), but from a different angle
nubbins`: govt coffers in a bad way as well: http://themuse.ca/2014/04/02/debt-and-unfunded-pension-liabilities-threaten-provinces-finances/
mircea_popescu: for as long as no fires.
mircea_popescu: well they're only hanging by the thread of pretense as it is.
nubbins`: i expect to see them vanish as a concern in my lifetime
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget' <<< what else is the 80/20 software engineering approach than "build 80% of a functional program out of 20% of the budget and then try to pretend like we're selling it for "half price" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation: "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming" <<< im not even sure anyone groks the botomless pit of lulz this otherwise truthful statement contains.
mircea_popescu: i guess we get to know what solipsism really is. turns out mp really doesn't give a shit as long as he himself can see his website.
nubbins`: incidentally, korg released the schematics for the synth as well as a couple others
nubbins`: ben_vulpes i think the round ones look indexed as well
Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, I was as surprised
asciilifeform: well, the real boojum (as described, for example, by mircea_popescu) is that the optimization folks did not put the task as 'build $widget using less steel, rubber, hours of slave' but 'build $widget more bezzleprofitably' which usually leads to 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget'
decimation: "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming"
asciilifeform: well, they also tend to use their barbershops as homes. in the sense that many academics keep personal blog-type material on the same site.
asciilifeform: often, even now, as 'postscript' turds
asciilifeform: (an internal report marked 'confidential' should be regarded as a public document for the purpose of this statement.)
asciilifeform: at any rate, i can imagine only with great difficulty that a usg cryptologist of any actual stature (that is, creator of, or even privy to, a 'crown jewel') would be permitted to make public so much as a newspaper ad for a dog walker, much less a document pertaining to his profession.
asciilifeform: as in, actual (former) friends who took up the cloak of the beast, and their patterns of speech actually changed.
asciilifeform: 'Desmedt referred to a letter written by Marty Hellman criticizing NIST. I had all but forgotten about Hellman; he has not been active on cryptologic scene in many years, and I've always had doubts about his moral principles (by contrast, I regard Rivest as being above all this dirt).'
assbot: Actual Bitcoin corporations (ABCs) versus fiat-based frauds trying to masquerade as Bitcoin companies (while masquerading as companies in the first place) on the solid theory that the general public is too stupid to make any difference, this one included, and on the flimsy theory that the general public matters in Bitcoin (FBF-TTMABC-WMACITFP-OTSTTTGPITSTMAD-TOI-AOTFTTTGPMIBs, alphabets for short). pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/actual-bitcoin-corporations-abcs-versus-fiat-based-frauds-trying-to-masquerade-as-bitcoin-companies-while-masquerading-as-companies-in-the-first-place-on-the-solid-theory-that-the-general-public-i/
jurov: okay i did not mean lisp as such, but the architecture as a whole
asciilifeform: bidirectional as in, e.g., arabic?
asciilifeform: well, if you are thinking of the ones you just stated, as opposed to everything listed in pike's talk,
asciilifeform: so, as described in my 'going nowhere' article, the modern winblows pc is in fact less efficient for virtually any practical purpose than its predecessors two decades earlier, despite a titanic amount of effort poured into the cpu micro-optimizations ☟︎
asciilifeform: one of the things i often, usually to no avail, try to explain to people, is that there is no such thing as 'efficiency.' there is only efficiency -at- something.
kakobrekla: isnt x86 branded as cisc ?
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: but if you're thinking about the ancient 'risc vs cisc' debate, it isn't really any kind of contest today, as there is no architecture of past 20 yrs. or so design that could really be classified as a 'cisc'
ben_vulpes: if as you suspect it has to do with the cooccurrence of running out of memory and writing to bdb, i'll have to let it run for a while
bitbethelp: when operating a website you need to consider advanced persistent threats, such as yours truly
cazalla: rare here as well, when i was around, my parents each lost a brother within 6 months so that opened the door for the jws to get their hooks in with the paradise earth bullshit
assbot: As Developers Depart, Google Glass Is Ready To Become This Era’s Segway | TechCrunch
punkman: http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/15/as-developers-depart-google-glass-is-ready-to-become-this-eras-segway/
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ever considered releasing asylum as a pay-per-dl?
mircea_popescu: decimation for the record, as one coming from an actually multicultural world, i am both offended at the misuse of the term and would pray you don't discard an actually superior mode of human life
decimation: as asciilifeform mentioned in the past the operative effect is to filter for 'cold' psychopaths
asciilifeform: the 'polygraph', as the name implies, combines several instruments (eeg, ekg, conductometer)
asciilifeform: late 19th c. physiologists discovered skin conductance meter (as sanctified by 'scientology')
mircea_popescu: cazalla as per usual.... i see it jus' fine.
mircea_popescu: cause nothing is so fucking evil as you know, someone digging up on trilema, coming up with meni rosenfeld's name, now the scumwipe can't go around pretending like you know