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assbot: It’s time for Tor activists to stop acting like the spies they claim to hate | PandoDaily ... ( http://bit.ly/1IOcMrD )
BingoBoingo: This is why if you ever trade BTC for fiat value you never trade it for less than cash in a bag.
undata: I slapped my phone on the card reader twice, nothing, gave up never to try again
BingoBoingo: I know people who use it, but I don't know people who know they use google wallet.
undata: cazalla: I tried it once for the hell of it; didn't work
cazalla: google wallet is much like google + in that i have never used nor know anyone that has used it
BingoBoingo: Neither of the latter two can fell a tree or remove a foot.
BingoBoingo: I can endorse Топор as the bitcoin movie though
BingoBoingo: Burn the axe, it is the Axe's fault!!!
BingoBoingo: OMG the laptop stays cool for youtube movies!!!
asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCKg1lURSvg << bitcoin the movie !
assbot: Clearing the air around Tor | PandoDaily ... ( http://bit.ly/1sqWr1R )
asciilifeform: try to recall the old life. with physics.
asciilifeform: surely mircea_popescu knew that one
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ^ no citations. << ok that's something else.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You loved too much?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just as 'armed bear lisp' was the original commonlisp-on-jvm
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Another "LISP" in jvm turd runtime
cazalla: "your kind", what exactly is that suppose to mean? mmhmmmmmm *black lady*
BingoBoingo: cazalla: At some point your kind will learn to distinguish between flora and fauna
assbot: Kawa: The Kawa Scheme language ... ( http://bit.ly/1w4NwZ6 )
BingoBoingo just finished surgery on the laptop. Took forever for a replacement fan to arrive from china that wasn't counterfiet.
assbot: “Well, that was unexpected…”: The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator | We Saw a Chicken … ... ( http://bit.ly/1w4Lfgx )
kakobrekla: stumbled upon this by accident, sorta funny. http://scruss.com/blog/2013/06/07/well-that-was-unexpected-the-raspberry-pis-hardware-random-number-generator/
asciilifeform: and treated with much the same reaction as the 'financial academia' reserves for taleb or mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: but it is not the case that academia rejected schwartz without reading. they read, all right.
asciilifeform: because in order to distinguish the work from 'timecube', you need a) at least a year or two of undergrad physics b) a week or so of sweat
decimation: he would have had to submit it to some crackpot journal that nobody reads
asciilifeform: the point is that no such thing is printable today.
decimation: well, einstein was working in the swiss patent office at the time, he wasn't looking to leech a grant
asciilifeform: the translator did not lose them. they weren't there.
assbot: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies ... ( http://bit.ly/1vMCtyA )
asciilifeform: take, in contrast, this well-known item: http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www
decimation: of course, how else are you going to hobnob at the conferences?
asciilifeform: muppets walk in, in search of muppetry (it is an iron law that a work of muppetry must reference other such works)
asciilifeform: academic librarians, incidentally, are merely doing their jobs. they keep things around which are often-requested, and tend to slowly discard what remains.
asciilifeform: when i came to this place, the latter were perhaps 1 in 20. now they're around half.
asciilifeform: in any academic library, there are books which are actually about something, and there are also those that were printed to pad a muppet career
asciilifeform: even with respect to the 'dead trees', the decay is rapid enough to be seen with naked eye
decimation: djb has a rant on ieee's policy w.r.t. works of the federal government: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html
asciilifeform: every other major discipline has its own version thereof.
decimation: 90% of their egg is rotten, maybe 5% is worthwhile, but you must either have the all-access subscription or pay princely fees for the journal subscriptions
decimation: IEEE for instance, is the mother of all academic scams
asciilifeform: less than one tenth of the subscription cost of one (!) typical journal.
decimation: I'm sure they would charge a hefty fee for the audit
asciilifeform: but moral principles against giving a scammer what he wants, won the day.
decimation: so they give you slightly more access than the bums
asciilifeform: i briefly considered subscribing to an 'audited' class (no grade) just to count as undergrad, to score the goods
decimation: I'm sure the taxpayers of the state of maryland will be pleased with the decisions of their servants working in the state
asciilifeform: my 'industrial' library subscription merits checking out of books, but not interlibrary loan nor access to anything requiring a password
asciilifeform: decimation: they were recently made login-only
decimation: don't they have terminals in the library?
asciilifeform: not much of a loss, however. the good stuff is usually decades-old and findable either in the (shrinking...) dead tree collections, or w4r3z
asciilifeform: speaking of my rotten old uni, i'm no longer permitted to read the electronic journals for any amount of money ☟︎
decimation: I assure you that parts [of the egg] are quite excellent!
asciilifeform: not even to mention the uranium in sea water.
asciilifeform: decimation: deep in the sewage beneath the city streets, there is almost certainly a golden ring. or dozen.
decimation: it's possible that a few speakers might be non-grantsmen
asciilifeform: decimation: i've 'eaten quite enough of the egg to know that it is rotten.'
decimation: asciilifeform: you might be interested in this symposium near you http://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT/2015/schedule.html
asciilifeform: incidentally, folks tend to forget that perelman refused -two- medals
asciilifeform just came back from an all-day trip to maths library and is brain-addled
assbot: America and intellectual relevance pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1vMzKoM )
mircea_popescu: where was that thing about time
asciilifeform: 'western media' is a steady diet of the archetypical 'honey don't forget to refuel the reactor, milk the bear, and turn us in to the kgb.'
mircea_popescu: im surprised they use all the letters.
mircea_popescu: western media is written for the use of 5 yos with mongoloidism.
decimation: somehow this is never mentioned on western media
decimation: one thing that strikes me about russia is all the little enclaves with turkic/mongol ethnicity
mircea_popescu: i just thought who knows, maybe guy favoured large udders from the caucasus in bed.
asciilifeform: there's a crackpot 'he's really from xxx' thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: georgia proper << iirc this is debated
decimation: is that a mockery of stalin's 'cult of personality'?
asciilifeform: 'conan the barbarian'
mircea_popescu: but teh dood was from georgia proper neh ?
asciilifeform: think 'he-man' rather than 'tits'
asciilifeform: 'broad chest of the ossetian'
mircea_popescu: is И широкая грудь осетина something about tits btw ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lol asciilifeform is the guy who shows up to work to push the right button << if you're thinking of my day job (vs moonlight gig, where i also push a button) - that firm folded. i do something quite like actual work now.
mircea_popescu: http://wikilivres.ca/wiki/Stalin_Epigram << check out this bs.
mircea_popescu: !up turntogodnow
ben_vulpes: but hey this donovan character's pretty amusing
assbot: Jack Donovan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/131c0Xp )
ben_vulpes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Donovan#Blood-Brotherhood_and_Other_Rites_of_Male_Alliance << i suspect the shartup circus is driven in no small part by young guys seeking blood rites or a war of the small band against the world. a hilarious quest for "honorable" victories.
cazalla: Namworld, what site is that?
Namworld: Well just the odds of it happening I estimate around 1/20 million, not counting wether you see people's cards or not. Although if it was also all consecutive seats, the odds for that would be 1 in ~200 million I think.
mircea_popescu: Subject: Congratulations from the Staffs & Members of Google Board Commission.
Namworld: Considering the odds of getting a specific pocket pair, that's pretty impressive.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i imagine it's a way to pay slightlymore for the same junk
mats: well, that was the enemy composition back when the insurgency was still an insurgency
mats: the enemy is mostly educated ppls, through madrasas n what not
mats: see, iraqi national army (and ANA, too) is mostly composed of peasants
mats: o, well what im talking about is ongoing
ben_vulpes: it's in the logs somewhere
ben_vulpes: <mats> a clever manager and the same budget could fund a brigade of farmer warriors indefinitely << you're starting to sound like undata
Namworld: Mircea, an interesting note about Facebook ads. I think now you can target users by habit, such as people spending money on Facebook credit to buy stuff. So I guess you can filter out bots/junk traffic and target paying gamers who have money to waste and access to credit cards and so on. Although the use for that is limited I suppose to games, mostly.
assbot: 49th parallel north - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1wN68yX )
mircea_popescu: or to have the right button pushed.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> or the hell where you're responsible for (and are the only available set of hands) for a missing magic ingredient in six different angry kitchens << lol asciilifeform is the guy who shows up to work to push the right button
fluffypony: yeah probably that