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assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 12:53:43; mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 13:57:52; mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy has a point, and szabo's theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just as long as it doesn't come to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with this racism bullcrap like the rest of the anglos.)
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: cheers :)
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:52:49; mircea_popescu: in this : just god damned colo some boxes already.
jurov: effectively using class B is very different thing from "just get me a box somewhere".. if mircea_popescu specifies the latter, then no wonder time is wasted
shinohai: This guy caused a flood, for entirely different reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Scott_(criminal)
jurov: mircea_popescu: anyone. i just want to inllustrate your poor analogies
jurov: mircea_popescu: age you going to insure me for ddos if rent a box?
jurov: landlords nor water have ddos potential. try harder, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: so the client list would be: mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: i mean i get it, mircea_popescu is stalin and не шагу назад and human wave attacks do have merit and occasionally do the job. but the kind of thing proposed here is inherently not a 'mass' product.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, mircea_popescu: right now it looks rather like a 'die for the motherland!' sorta investment. hence no takerz.
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shinohai: mircea_popescu: I live in Atlanta.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 13:50:54; mircea_popescu: just colocate some god damned boxes already.
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2015 12:53:43; mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
asciilifeform: but the basic boojum is described in one of mircea_popescu's own articles: a datacenter is 'a fortress'
asciilifeform: waitasec, i thought mircea_popescu was building the 'useful host' thing
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues. << starts in school when talking about STDs or disease transmission in general
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski clever turn with "black organics"
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Living in Washington Park, its pretty ghetto. Like Mayor gets shot up at a stop sign ghetto.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: mno
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.loper-os.org/pub/wunderwaffen.txt
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but i'm developing overexposure allergy to this "i don't understand anything so therefore here's my expert opinion on things" << I kinda handle it the same way one handles lower animals acting in ignorance of the futility of their efforts. Birds hitting windows, dogs barking at trains, rabbits fleeing pedestrians into traffic...
asciilifeform: !up linton_s_dawson
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 18:54:11; ascii_field: adlai: see also thread http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-11-2014#920116
adlai: ascii_field: you pointed me earlier to a discussion of locktimes... i assume you meant BIP65, not 64? the latter being mike hearn's utxo shenanigans
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 14:12:38; mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no because it doesn't matter anyway because reasons.
adlai: !up ascii_field
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 22:38:39; ascii_field: (is a specially crafter derplinux pre-impregnated with tor, faux pgp, etc)
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 21:15:51; ascii_field: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php << obligatory
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: from lead pipes..?
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
shinohai: Sure to be a hit at my Festivus party: http://boingboing.net/2015/11/13/menorah-bong-makes-hanukkah-a.html?fk_bb
jurov: lmao got a spam with following URL: https://www.bitstamp.net/s/email_images/moro-web-bitcoin-2015-04.png
BingoBoingo: From the other side http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/taser-barb-fired-by-st-louis-county-officer-damaged-attack/article_a58a5c20-903f-5349-8bc9-87607fa7762b.html
BingoBoingo: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/st-louis-county-man-gets-probation-for-looting-kmart-during/article_eb7b05f5-ec62-56e9-957d-64ea048eebd7.html
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i thought this was already a thing?
punkman: ascii_field: hmm that does ring a bell
ascii_field: or the usgization of mircea_popescu's esp8266 thing
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-11-2015#1325859 << there are miscreants who fart without written authorization from hitler! me, for instance. while mircea_popescu takes entire shits without so much as oral permission from His Reptilian Majesty... ☝︎
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 13:58:55; mircea_popescu: the chinese, like all of asia, like all of the arab world, like fucking oceania and all the "nation of africa" assorted nobodies were, and have been forever happy to sit around and contemplate the immortality of laziness.
adlai hands mircea_popescu a copy of Infinite Jest
punkman: mircea_popescu: I thought so, but I get information overload trying to read some of those posts. maybe footnotes would make it flow better.
punkman: "contemplate the immortality of laziness." << relevant bit from some other comment thread on that blog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_equilibrium_trap
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.naphex.-1:958c6f38e082e9a15f842d84de6ebdde3ccb9d67e9272b3e1e8f75007262228f
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu where did you unearth this zoo ?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:24:21; mircea_popescu: there is ~no relation between numbers on websites and bitcoin price.
asciilifeform: if the mircea_popescu-price were so much higher than the 300 plebe-price, one would see orgies of sybilling ?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:31:54; mircea_popescu: ru carder with 10 mn is not getting 3k btc, that's for sure. nor does he want it.
mircea_popescu: https://reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/3swirx/ach_payments_payee_able_to_have_last_3_payments/ << pretty lulzy stuff, at that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know that the 'official' price is a fiction. but this was not the evidence for my hypothesis.
asciilifeform: for mircea_popescu buying 100,000 btc for swiss franks - price is something else, yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: price isn't a scalar
jurov: mircea_popescu: can i exchange you 1 btc for 1k eur next time then?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:16:02; mircea_popescu: https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3sy7vg/buying_100000_in_btc_with_credit_cards_fleeing/ << meanwhile the sheeple are even starting to figure it out.
mircea_popescu: https://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3sy7vg/buying_100000_in_btc_with_credit_cards_fleeing/ << meanwhile the sheeple are even starting to figure it out. ☟︎
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: did i somehow sleep through a death of the ebay monopoly ?
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or is this merely another army of the undead thing << it is. bitcoin killed paypal, maggots trying to get a piece.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6acpVU_KqY
shinohai: k thx mircea_popescu, ascii_field
mircea_popescu: ascii_field looks like a buggy google analytics script ?
shinohai: mircea_popescu: your node down ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/1B66XYC << deobfuscated turd from same
ascii_field: '11/13/2015 Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) png_set_PLTE and (2) png_get_PLTE functions in libpng before 1.0.64, 1.1.x and 1.2.x before 1.2.54, 1.3.x and 1.4.x before 1.4.17, 1.5.x before 1.5.24, and 1.6.x before 1.6.19 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk in a PNG image.'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: you mean pete_dushenski's link ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski there was a minority of french in germany in 1930, you never heard anything about those./
mircea_popescu: check it out, ascii_field 's link doesn't load in the same manner the other sites discussed today don't load.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: what about mexicans ? ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 21:04:39; pete_dushenski: in other news, https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8126#VulnChangeHistoryDiv
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 20:28:32; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324951 << i'm sure i'm not the only one who appreciate and benefit from an expansion of this point. for myself, particularly the "cargo cult" element is one that's not immediately apparent.
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: lol
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 23:53:26; mircea_popescu: ving away from a "frontier" worldwiew and toward a "cargo cult"/scavenger world view. consequently the notion that new things can be made is being gradually abandoned.
BingoBoingo: !up ascii_field
TheEarthVolta: pete_dushenski: My bad, I misread what it was.
TheEarthVolta: Thanks, pete_dushenski
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assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 19:25:22; hanbot: <ascii_field> it's approximately as interesting or laudable as getting typhus. << the tmsr~ trail: asciilifeform has contracted dysentery!
thestringpuller: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3t15vm/the_21_bitcoin_computer_now_shipping/cx2b8af << d00d makes me feel ashamed we graduated from the same university at times.
BingoBoingo: !Up ascii_field
hanbot: <ascii_field> it's approximately as interesting or laudable as getting typhus. << the tmsr~ trail: asciilifeform has contracted dysentery! ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 17:24:50; ben_vulpes: leakin again
shinohai: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: iirc in his selling the thing letter he mentioned intending to start a general technology news thing, but I haven't seen anything out of that yet
ascii_field: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu: not only do we not have them, but i haven't been touching either for weeks, instead breaking my back to pay rent.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how do you figure?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes prolly premature.
ascii_field: i can introduce ben_vulpes to the joys of starving
ben_vulpes: the engineering constraint is not "webshites that mircea_popescu can use" but "velocity at which bezzlebuxx are burned"
mircea_popescu: as ascii_field explains. the value to me of the sort of bs it implements is 0.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the problem with it is that it does not work.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field here's a thought : trilema looks good at all proportions while client resizes browser window. in ie5, and in anything else.