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asciilifeform: this. is precisely what i meant by 'i refuse to live as a rat'
asciilifeform: tell american about that he should generate wealth, and as likely as not, he'll fear being sent to uranium mines
undata: the american idea that the highest good is "eat as much as possible" whether the thing eaten is food, cars, etc.
wywialm: the warsaw stock exchange begun with 5 stocks listed as well, and calculated the WIG
wywialm: isn't it only for binary trades? that appplies to bitbet as well
wywialm: i will definitely consider that as soon as i will have anything valuable to say
wywialm: mircea_popescu, good question. As you have not heard much from me, you can deduce that the repo otc business did not do well
mircea_popescu: i thought eucalyptus sucked, as a five year old. and alcohol. and so on.
mircea_popescu: just as well, maybe. the same way, i think not.
asciilifeform: i understood that arbeit macht frei sucks as a five year old, just as well as now.
asciilifeform: unlike columbus/indies, just about all people have experienced freedom (in the sense of not having to work) - as children
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> to abuse mathematical parlance, bumhood is a 'degenerate case' << but inasmuch as your argument rests on the "mental space" of the user, then therefore my observation IS satisfied, and indeed it's not a thing, but merely a figment of imagination.
asciilifeform: 'fuck you money,' if i recall, has the following etymology. the idea that if you came into $fuckyou, you could utter 'fuck you' to the boss at the plant tomorrow, and continue to live at least as well (consumption) as presently, indefinitely
asciilifeform: not as such, but at least suggest how the apparent unicorns are simply goats with horn glued on
bounce: the pill against people establishing themselves as god-kings is you establishing yourself as a god-king, while making fun of the others?
Vexual: and im sure as fuck not gonna register #qntra
mircea_popescu: the pill against this, of course, is mp on rape, all that discussion about how the ignorant don't know what they're ignorant of and therefore can't make choices as to what to learn and how to learn it. which is why mp is so unpopular with this particular crowd of retards.
mircea_popescu: "i think lots of people confuse good hierarchy with bad hierarchy" to be followed by a) i am the one to establish which is good and which is bad, b) it's okay for me to use "does it recognise me as god-king" as a criteria of whether it's good or bad, c) the fact that i can and do argue against ANY hierarchy does not invalidate my methods.
kakobrekla: old as fuck, i missed it.
kakobrekla: >In Slovenia the name Ded Moroz was translated from Russian as Dedek Mraz
nubbins`: "i'm a useless sack of camo shit who married the first woman who showed a passing interest, because my relationship choices are about as logically sound as my career choices. somehow, this is my new shitty wife's fault and not my own shitty fault"
nubbins`: each dependopotamus husband sowed the seeds of his own misfortune, yet presents his life as something that "happened" "to" him, rather than it being a direct consequence of his poor choices
jurov: currently he's involved in "on-going détente with various counterparts from other cultures, such as the Estonian Santa Claus (Jõuluvana or "Old man of Christmas"), the Finnish Santa Claus (Joulupukki or "Yule Goat"), and other Santa Claus, Father Christmas, and Saint Nicholas figures"
mircea_popescu: sure, the female can be seen as a preditor. in that it ingests and keeps the sperm, sure.
mircea_popescu: "While dimwitted, the Dependopotamus is a shrewd beast who knows that there is one surefire way to trap a man: Bear as many of his offspring as possible. Since having a baby in the military is free thanks to the dependency benefits, she’ll be in a constant state of hosting and developing new fetuses that she isn’t certain are from her husband or one of her many lovers."
Adlai recalls a calculation in Collapse that egyptian pharoes had at their disposal approximately the same level of manpower as a single piece of modern construction equipment (eg bulldozer)
mircea_popescu: seeing how for same most of the history man was the engine, it's technically using women as fuel.
Adlai: ok, so what's wrong with looking at farming individuals of your own species as a form of cannibalism?
mircea_popescu: as in, don't shoot to have shot, shoot to have killed.
asciilifeform: Adlai: afaik, as with most soviet crackpots, no translation to english exists
mircea_popescu: as a result, when the flock went over a cliff... romania was still way behind.
mircea_popescu: Adlai detroit is stable as is. in fact if it does collapse, detroit will be the new capital.
mircea_popescu: if you recall, back when the us functioned people went to see wtf jefferson said as their evening's entertainment
asciilifeform: decimation: i once learned, to great surprise, that as late as '70s i'd quality for an instant lieutenant if joined american army - all you needed was an ordinary uni degree (4 yrs.)
BingoBoingo: Well in Usia Colonels usually start as Lou-Tenants
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's << boss you got a funny memory
mircea_popescu: because if you don't charge might as well shave, oil up and go to the harem.
mircea_popescu: sure. so they do today. business as usual.
asciilifeform: harem as in physical structure
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cousin spent 2005 - 2009 as an active duty Marine. Spent two years on a boat in blue water, "just in case"
mircea_popescu: yugoslav army was not 1/6 as effectual as the same god damned units, except now commanded by the war criminals.
mircea_popescu: undata: more like giant slave and ankle-chain << this was recently in full display in the ukraine, and then later in iraq. except both ukrainians and iraquis are, as a stock, more resilient than the us guy.
decimation: pumping gas is the same as borrowing about 2% of a reasonable nuclear generator
asciilifeform: hey about as good as mine.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had a nice script to ignore youtube << that one's worth it. but you probably saw it. about same age as i did...
mircea_popescu: just in case you don't like it, as it were.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ok, suppose the chicks ake you ojo de bife, but as an insurance policy they mix cheesekace in there.
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDESvyj1qo <<<< mechanized orchestra. required as that's my metaphor.
asciilifeform: i asked my father as a boy
decimation: asciilifeform: wouldn't it be a good idea for the privkey need not live in the same memory space as the rest of the code, for instance
asciilifeform: as in, 7 days a week.
asciilifeform: comes from, as i understand, 'xml' and other pseudo-humanreadable abominations
decimation: folks are welcome to publish, index as they see fit
decimation: asciilifeform: right, I envision it more as the collected correspondence of gentlemen scholars, rather than a profitable venture
mircea_popescu: no such thing as "official" "because we say so". who;'s we.
asciilifeform realizes that he is not very good at curing people of addiction to what feels to them as 'modernity'
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's
asciilifeform: as in, published
decimation: turns out they were calling the buggy-as-hell bash then too
asciilifeform: patterns as first-class data type
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge << a wedge ?!
asciilifeform: ^ from dream as a kid
decimation: I guess php has had a 'trial by fire' as the lingua franca of web devel
undata: look, if you're going to present it as a given that the most effectively oppressive military complex on earth is about to disappear, you're going to have to justify that.
asciilifeform: chinese << forget chinese. nothing i - a peasant - so much as breathed on - will ever be crowned 'eal'.
asciilifeform: just as intended.
decimation: As I understand, the 'common criteria' eal levels are going away, in favor of even less objective scam-criteria
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By refering to Kimbrel as Sirian I mean as in from the Wasp, bowlegged with inhuman movements. Only way to describe the fucker.
asciilifeform confesses that he doesn't see anything whatsoever that may happen in a gladiatorial arena as 'silicon valley fucked'
thickasthieves: i think i might be same age as mp
decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge
kakobrekla: well i can see how mp would argue that one as yes
decimation: canada counts as a country sorta
cazalla: rugby? it's league! that would be like me saying softball is the same as baseball
BingoBoingo: It is just hard thought to explain how perfect Kaufman is as a baseball stadium
kakobrekla: as promised i have setup a mirror for ze logs - http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com - hosting for the mirror gratuitously provided by mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: this idea that what people want matters as a universal...
cazalla: decimation, they're not all bad, i had a good abo mate through school but once they hit 13, they just want to go lighting fires and breaking into corner shops etc etc sniffing a bit of 98 octane as well
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that's what I thought but based on these numbers...($2491 for ~13mn shares doesn't add up to the published market value as it looks like the ask value is ~ 8 cents a share)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> best take people at their peak << Great value of a WoT system as here has is you can know what their bottom is
decimation: assange and his crew struck me as a naive bunch whose position is "we want a loving mommy state"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Cazalla as head of qntra was a gift that keeps giving. Dude knows tone.
mircea_popescu: cazalla the sorrow in that "That's about as close as you can get with BitCoin." is delicious.
BingoBoingo: The New Reno region mircea_popescu wants to playground eventually as new world hantaviruses, keep your distance from the mice...
BingoBoingo: bounce: Many of those abandoned, poor rng and gcc as FreeBSD derivatives
thestringpuller: a writer buddy of mine does bookbinding of journals as one of his fanatical things
asciilifeform: the somewhere, incidentally, is a stable satoshi-based gizmo worth using as a base for rewrite (idk about other folks, i shall rewrite for my own pleasure if no one wants, once finished with current affairs) - and perhaps worth printing!
jurov: yes, i just wanted to test, as it says
asciilifeform: at any rate, even if herr putin mailed me a ru passport as perverse birthday present, fat lot of good that would do. need a lot more than a passport to leave the 'big zone.'
mircea_popescu: so as to create the illusion that there's no actual support for simple stuff like "either you renounce ALL your laws or we burn you to the ground."
undata: US culture is as ready to kill itself as the rest of the world is to help it do so.
BingoBoingo: Paying one's own ransom as a protocol probably won't be perfected though until assbot's level 1 consists entirely of nuclear powers.
mircea_popescu: leveldb in and of itself is whatever, maybe not the first choice for a db. leveldb as implemented by hearn was an attack on bitcoin.
BingoBoingo: jurov: At least as far as concretes can be found
BingoBoingo: Also as I said last night, running the occasional 0.8.x node is polite...
mircea_popescu: to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging the resulting PRNG predictability, as exploited in the wild against Bitcoin wallet applications in August 2013."
mircea_popescu: "The engineNextBytes function in classlib/modules/security/src/main/java/common/org/apache/harmony/security/provider/crypto/SHA1PRNG_SecureRandomImpl.java in the SecureRandom implementation in Apache Harmony through 6.0M3, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) in Android before 4.4 and other products, when no seed is provided by the user, uses an incorrect offset value, which makes it easier for attackers
asciilifeform: came to see a sonic << if only. brought as a boy and ended up with no other citizenship just like parents (no automagic su->ru citizenship for folks who packed up prior to '94, if i recall)
undata: bounce: as long as we're all covered in shit.
undata: as long as you're somewhere where the sun will wake you up