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a111: Logged on 2017-06-29 22:04 mircea_popescu: now, evidently they have time-locks and other safeguards on the whole bullshit. but as a factual matter average redditard will have wasted no less than 20k in cash by the time he's "established" in "the community".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-29#1676497 << definitely working with old almanacs nao. today 20k dun even buy a toyota. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: now, evidently they have time-locks and other safeguards on the whole bullshit. but as a factual matter average redditard will have wasted no less than 20k in cash by the time he's "established" in "the community". ☟︎
mircea_popescu: not a bad role, either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly i thjink you will be recalled as a sort of st peter-thomas in the eventual church.
asciilifeform: i'm a hill climber, wat
mircea_popescu: as a protection against change, it is a great life. except of course, as a justification of inertia, it is a terrible life. pick and choose, if it's why not move then it's because life is good, if it's why don't you have your boatirigible it's because life's bad.
asciilifeform: aha, prolly not a decade left
mircea_popescu: but then again -- it was "plan for wealth" not "plan for survival". there's no such thing as a wealthy farmed pig. definitionally -- wealth of farm belongs with farmer.
mircea_popescu: if all you can get is a nail, get the nail.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a day, neh ?
mircea_popescu: provided they spend a mon-fri interval applying for all the possible credit cards they can find, and then spending saturday hitting all atms ?
mircea_popescu: 122k comments. that's... kind of a lot.
asciilifeform: now we'd have a turd of #ifdef and asmolade
asciilifeform: but will observe that we can get something like a 8x speedup 'for phree' if use MUL instr. inlike instead of the http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/RSu5T/?raw=true horror show.
mircea_popescu: depends on size. we never had a decent profiling of impls iirc.
mircea_popescu: at least this has a valid reason to symkey.
asciilifeform: but i'll observe that this plane still weights a little much to get off ground
mircea_popescu: and i don't have a slave that eats jam and shits whole prunes. NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE is the controlling bit.
asciilifeform: ( much less a year )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no matter how you cut it, however, i dun have a battery that will power a keygeneratory-capable comp for a month. and neither does anybody else.
asciilifeform: which is quite a way less ghastly
mircea_popescu intends to make this into a noob focus.
asciilifeform: mno, it translates to a 1 / x
asciilifeform: will end up a 100MB turd
asciilifeform: nao where do i get a 470x speedup.
asciilifeform: cars yes. 100%confiscation a la stalin -- not yet, generally
asciilifeform: asciilifeform apparently is not at all a person.
mircea_popescu: if you can't buy btc for cash you aren't a person. that is the minimum bar of personhood.
asciilifeform: this is a point.
asciilifeform: but it is a sad fate to rape an' pillage only to feed a platoon of performancereview.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'better position' i admit is a poor phrasing. moar of 'give arsonist 10x the petrol'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll admit to a complete puzzlement re which 'it' i 'have there' 'and not here'
mircea_popescu: germany -- not a windowpane. uk+us - famine in pairs.
mircea_popescu: which is why break of pact was a stupid move. trade the expensive for the cheap.
mircea_popescu: never take the old woman side, she's a born loser.
asciilifeform: hard to picture them not coming back to a victorious germany
mircea_popescu: petrowells schmetrowells. germany had lost all its human resources throughtout a century and a half of inept management to the us.
asciilifeform: well in a maximally ghastly 'death of btc' scenario, usg slowly alchemates/inflates it
mircea_popescu: even unemployed mouthbreather can get 10-20k. in a decade that'll be enough.
asciilifeform: ( i.e. if 'lafond's mother' could cash in, even at a loss, the house into non-usgolade )
asciilifeform: if ~anyone actually wanted usd enough to pay bitcoin for it en masse, even nickel-on-the-dollar's worth, usg would evaporate in a week.
mircea_popescu: and all that's lefty in place is a stable of needy people with no utility.
mircea_popescu: this is the perpetual bait and switch : "fuck you, be useful" creates a lot of people with repressed needs. it APPEARS that "to everyone according to his needs" will then turn a profit. get themn to vote you, pay their tiny needs, make bank.
phf: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1701068 << "In Ubuntu 17.04 or newer, there is a script at /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news that reads https://motd.ubuntu.com/ and displays that text with the rest of the MOTD. Currently, https://motd.ubuntu.com shows a news item about HBO's Silicon Valley which has a reference to Ubuntu."
mircea_popescu: "drunken tweet" as a single item :p
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it's a whole thing, "oh, PRESERVE HIS DRUNKEN TWEETS" << Herr Tritler doesn't drink
phf: i saw a lot of covfefe signs all over seattle, next to "#blm" etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this'd likely end with a gorbachev-like 'mr. president is not feeling well today, or this week, needs his rest' while pantsuits take the wheel.
mircea_popescu: still, you know. buy a hammer tear down the toilet cameras, anyone who tries to fix is fired.
mircea_popescu: and this was at a time people were actively trying to shoot me.
asciilifeform: d00d prolly at this point has ss cameras filming him taking a shit, from 4 angles.
asciilifeform: yes but mircea_popescu came equipped with a head.
mircea_popescu: it's a whole thing, "oh, PRESERVE HIS DRUNKEN TWEETS"
asciilifeform: '...they gathered eight rods painstakingly crafted out of plutonium, and positioned them side-by-side on a table to photograph how nice they looked.' << lol! slotin spins in his lead coffin
shinohai is amazed how these butterflies are like a coin flip. iridescent on one side, drab brown on reverse ....
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by now that verbiage is as good as a paper comedy gold certificate of deposit.
BingoBoingo somehow picked up a case of acedia this week
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you know some dorks here built a shipping container church ?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 17:55 asciilifeform: ( this was very near the time when FUCKGOATS was beginning to happen , and it took over asciilifeform's head for a long while )
jurov: a parallel with economy struck me. economists invented something they call "value" and are jerking off on it it ever since
BingoBoingo: ^ Pulling over to make phone call like you aren't a suicidal psycho bitch, nao suspicious
BingoBoingo: In other citizen complaints: "Regarding recent posts about a suspicious white panel van that has been spotted ... was contacted by the owner who recognized his vehicle after seeing the posts on social media. He is a local construction worker who had pulled over to take a phone call after leaving a job site near the original complaint location... this was a false alarm."
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> apparently in usg also there are 'untouchable' folx. << Care to do a qntra? Your interpretation seems more interesting than mine.
asciilifeform: ( this was very near the time when FUCKGOATS was beginning to happen , and it took over asciilifeform's head for a long while ) ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 01:32 Framedragger: (ah in fact a bit up the stack, http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-121602)
asciilifeform: 'Around the time of the attack, the pro-government Supreme Court expanded the role of the state ombudsman, a human rights guarantor who is closely allied with Maduro, by giving him powers previously held only by the state prosecutor's office. Tarek Saab, an ardent Maduro ally, can now lead criminal investigations by ordering state officials to conduct autopsies and carry out ballistics tests, powers previously reserved for state pros
asciilifeform: '"It's a terrorist attack that is part of an insurrectional offensive by Venezuelan right-wing extremists with the support of foreign governments and powers," said a Venezuelan government communique on the helicopter raid.' << didjaknow
asciilifeform: i had nfi there were any place to even fit a barrel on these
asciilifeform: further lulz from recent fishwrap, https://archive.is/37eB9 >> 'Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday...'
asciilifeform: ( try running dh on, say, a kByte of anything whatsoever )
mircea_popescu: p-value worship, as such, numerically. i betcha if i told him i have a dentistry certificate he'd be impressed.
asciilifeform: the notion of making a statistical claim about a doubled-tripled-15upled up string, is ????????.
mircea_popescu: then that becomes a pattern when you reuse it
mircea_popescu: fucking stupid camp. there's a guarantee real random stream will vary from 01010101 by some count.
asciilifeform: as i understand it was a statistical ('p value') demand by the author.
mircea_popescu: not unreasonable. let fg run for a while
asciilifeform: all quality hokum has a measure of fact mixed in : e.g. 'dieharder' is in fact extraordinarily 'hungry'
asciilifeform: hey, it's a hose from the stable's piss trough -- but at least it doesn't block !!
mircea_popescu: it's almost just as good, and it smells like roses a donkey shat on
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 01:44 mircea_popescu: ~if i am~ a drug dealer and i burn down your house, you'll what ? file a police report ? go on the local news network with a teary eyed "no one could have predicted that if i get pissy with people who break the law for a living i might end up with a burned down house" ?
mircea_popescu: how, specifically, it goes varies by case. very often, at least in my youth, it was "that mp, he's such a great guy, not like the other vagabonds you keep bringing home!!1". ie, they self-repressed.
mircea_popescu: the charge of the bacteriologist may well be that, but entirely different item, a charge.
asciilifeform pictures a 'партия сказала надо -- комсомол ответил: есть!'
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 14:38 asciilifeform: soooo asciilifeform was taking a morning walk and saw a sight straight out of a mircea_popescu article. teenage chick standing in doorway, her mother (?) packing something into car, in front yard. chick then lifts her shirt and reveals naked cunt, and smiles. mother goes apeshit, screaming in, i think, portuguese, even now, i can almost hear it through open window.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 14:34 sina: I see here everyone seems to know/use lisp and it's a lang I have almost 0 exposure to
asciilifeform: i have not only, believe, a sewing machine here, but other power tools actuated with pedals. but see the thread.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-28#1675869 <<< this is not a bad idea on the face, get an old singer or w/e. i might've even suggested it way back when. they do have a lot of inertia thop ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-06-28 09:12 sina: thanks to clarification from mircea_popescu Framedragger and asciilifeform I have refactored for statelessness, which led to a significant amount of unnecessary code being deleted!
sina: mircea_popescu: mornin. I rejigged the gossipthing. I think what I have now reflects more closely what was discussed earlier. however I also think the spec vastly differs so may be worthwhile adding a disclaimer to the existing one or writing an entirely new one
sina: this is a good read http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861
asciilifeform: certainly a lulzgem, to see creatures step out of the pages of mircea_popescu and into meat
mod6: 've had a splendid morning
mod6: sina: there's a snippet of its use in asciilifeform's V, detailed in ben_vulpes's blog: http://cascadianhacker.com/07_v-tronics-101-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-most-serene-republic-of-bitcoins-cryptographically-backed-version-control-system
sina: you made a friend!
asciilifeform: soooo asciilifeform was taking a morning walk and saw a sight straight out of a mircea_popescu article. teenage chick standing in doorway, her mother (?) packing something into car, in front yard. chick then lifts her shirt and reveals naked cunt, and smiles. mother goes apeshit, screaming in, i think, portuguese, even now, i can almost hear it through open window. ☟︎
mod6: i'm a lisp n00b.
sina: I see here everyone seems to know/use lisp and it's a lang I have almost 0 exposure to ☟︎
sina: I do think it makes a very good prototyping tool
mod6: It's goin, been doing some testing on a experimental vpatch here as of late.