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Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, I guess there's no much use to it nowadays
asciilifeform: nubbins`: key for the mechanism which enabled bitcoind to nag users with warning text
nubbins`: which key is this
mircea_popescu: no_imagination oversimplified. i mean... it's in the stuff you read, as short as it gets.
no_imagination: mircea_popescu: read some of your stuff. is it fair to say you value BTC as a store of value and the rest is secondary?
asciilifeform: alternative can only be if someone (mircea_popescu ?) is willing to sit on a new key!
asciilifeform: re: bitcoind liposuction: who's for nixing the 'alert' gizmo?
mircea_popescu: this is the imagination institute. welcome.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "i choked on a particularly rapid tachyon" should be standard blonde answer.
asciilifeform: eh, the photon that broke the camel's back?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: jurov: quantum tunnelling doesn't and can't happen for macroscopic objects like that. <<< well they call anything "quantum" these days.
mircea_popescu: neither of these crossed it for me.
asciilifeform: and before that, 'i'm apolitical, don't care what happens etc'
mircea_popescu: and holy shit, this linux thing is really not used by anyone, is it ? took until 2014 for someone to mash the prtscr key ?
mircea_popescu: why was that ?
asciilifeform: *not tempted
asciilifeform: (apologies to vysotsky)
asciilifeform buried herr torvalds in his head long ago, 'and ordered cement poured to be tempted to dig up'
asciilifeform somehow did not know this.
assbot: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America: Albert Fried: 9780231096836: Books - Amazon.ca
pete_dushenski: just ordered this: http://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Fall-Jewish-Gangster-America/dp/0231096836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414111566&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Rise+and+Fall+of+the+Jewish+Gangster+in+America
assbot: Just remembered this /ioerror statement, after hearing one of the Ottawa shooting suspects was designated "high risk" http://t.co/9ULzZ3tm1E
mircea_popescu: wow look at that, jurov's blog is not vulnerable to the wp reflected ddos thing
asciilifeform: nubbins`: ty
joecool: "thinking of samsung" or "think samsung" i think it translated into
joecool: oh book on mobsters, i haven't managed to find a copy of the book that came out a couple years ago about samsung
asciilifeform: anyone have a preference for which 'libboost' is to be used?
asciilifeform checks grinding wheel on which current turd is being polished;
pete_dushenski: i'm out for this one.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu speaking of travel plans, some close friends decided to GET MARRIED on the same weekend as the third conference. so ya.
pete_dushenski: maybe india'll be on the 2015 list
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu quite possibly. haven't been there yet to see
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: The bathrooms.
pete_dushenski: i wonder where in the world bums shack up in public schools, hospitals, and other public buildings.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:i kinda suspect where bums sleep is indicative of societal notions << ya the libraries vs. banks discrepancy is telling.
joecool: artifexd: hm? i had used ibm and then lenovo thinkpads exclusively, up until today
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave. << beauty.
MosesEX: LIKE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T TAX IT
midnightmagic: jurov: quantum tunnelling doesn't and can't happen for macroscopic objects like that. quantum wave functions are sometimes bounded asymptotically in position. ☟︎
MosesEX: DOES THE IRS OR FERDERAL GOVERNMENT HATE BITCOIN
MosesEX: does the irc hate bitcoin yes or no
MosesEX: does the irc hate bitcoin?
BingoBoingo: MosesEX: You said you had questions. Ask or you get the !down again.
BingoBoingo: MosesEX: They both suck.
MosesEX: obama is destroying this country
MosesEX: those who die from ebola is because they were ordained to die from it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: iBola isn't a thing yet. Maybe next month?
BingoBoingo: MosesEX: What are your thoughts on Obola
assbot: Potential NYC Ebola Patient Took An Uber - Business Insider
kakobrekla: dunno not the vagina expert and lampelina is in bed.
asciilifeform: though i'm told that once in a while, when the planets align, an actual product is made on 'kickstarter'
gribble: kGoal Smart Kegel Trainer by Minna Life — Kickstarter: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/892018590/kgoal-smart-kegel-trainer>; Skea - Smart Kegel Exercise Aid by Linkcube Studio — Kickstarter: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2091647642/skea-smart-kegel-exercise-aid>; The Kegel Bear by Natalie Bayne — Kickstarter: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871901583/the- (1 more message)
artifexd: I haven't settled on a distro yet though.
pete_dushenski: ^must be the same raymond from that trilema comment. everyone loved him too!
kakobrekla: or just turn it off
BingoBoingo: <artifexd> kakobrekla: If you find a way to get the mbp to not sound like it's overheating while using a non-mac os, I'd love to hear about it. << apmd -C
kakobrekla: colors, the root of all evil.
artifexd: Ah no. That was joecool. Same color as you.
artifexd: I thought I just read that you got a mbp...
pete_dushenski: jurov lol tis a theory.
artifexd: kakobrekla: If you find a way to get the mbp to not sound like it's overheating while using a non-mac os, I'd love to hear about it.
assbot: The Trade-Offs of Feminism | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
pete_dushenski: first things first: http://www.contravex.com/2014/10/23/the-trade-offs-of-feminism/
midnightmagic: "It's about the same likelihood as that you would get spontaneously quantum teleported by tunnelling through solid wall, that's why such things just don't happen." <-- this is incorrect
assbot: Everybody loves Eric Raymond » The RedHat Package Mangler
assbot: Everybody loves Eric Raymond » The washing up
asciilifeform just got back from fruit&veggie market, got a number of possible things to choke on, that were still in season
asciilifeform is hoping that this kind of thing will become an everyday event
asciilifeform: 'FTDI's own web site says their chips are used in medical...'
BingoBoingo: Skipped those after first one broke in hours. The tiny trackpad used as a micro trackball was very functional though
asciilifeform never understood the appeal of the microscopic trackball on those things
asciilifeform does not own one, but recalls seeing photos, there's a normal 'blackberry' and an nsa board sandwiched under the battery
BingoBoingo: Well this is the new one they are proposing
asciilifeform: afaik the only 'top seekreet'-approved Pnohe is 'blackberry sektera' (sp?)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No, this is the one NSA approves of for gubmint work
asciilifeform: 'all but the laziest man' are now making 'avoid 3v1l surv31l4nc3111!' turdicles.
asciilifeform: there's what, 17 of them now?
assbot: “Proof of reserves,” born out of tragedy, will slowly become the global gold standard for financial auditing. « Real Virtual Currency
kakobrekla: anyone want these atc i have ? maybe mpif takes em?
dignork: BingoBoingo: RE: USB turd - it was pbbly a joke, Russ Dill works for Texas Instruments
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obola | Oct 13, 2014 ... Obola. (noun) the result of a completely incompetent democratic administration that cares more about open borders with no enforcement of ...
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama | An acronym standing for. One Big Ass Mistake, America! Q: What was the result of the 2008 election? A: OBAMA. by ferrgus February 23, 2009. 22182 13448.
MosesEX: homosexuals should be put to death
kakobrekla: those were already stoned to death
BingoBoingo: Oh not too much
BingoBoingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/23/151 << RE: USB turd
BingoBoingo: Eh, bike's more likely to get stolen
mircea_popescu: xinxi: one of them used to say: I would like to cry in a bmw instead of lauching on a bike. <<< that's a whole new dimension to the entire "fuck you rich" discussion.
ben_vulpes: just what i need while watching this ftp dump scroll by
assbot: New Paper: Bitcoin over Tor a Bad Idea, Especially bad for SPV | Qntra.net
ben_vulpes: oh god those jokes
undata: I will have to read those logs.
mircea_popescu: undata we had limmerick day a few months ago too.
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> wow, building bitcoin on osx is actually a bit tangly << i for one gave up
undata: mircea_popescu: the puns! THE PUNS!
mircea_popescu: lmao these logs... nubbins` using cohen as an argument ?!
assbot: What do you call… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
gribble: Electrolux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux>; Brand blunder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_blunder>; VAX - Catb.org: <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/V/VAX.html>
mircea_popescu: nubbins` did you do all that on an osx ?
IHB_: thanks for the mircea. last time i was in here was when i living in bangalore. you just published your response to the SEC and it was great.