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funkenstein_: no public key - can't apply revocation certificate
<--- gpg --import spits this out. what does it mean?
ascii_field: 'Kids need to learn the consequences of embarrassing powerful people. That is one of the golden rules of modern society; thou shalt not embarrass thy superiors. Snowden forgot that, and this little punk forgot that. You respect your betters, or you get tossed in a cage. That's the law. Ingrain that into your kid's brains before puberty hits, or they will wind up in a cage too.'
<< from commentz
funkenstein_: the world that exists after your birth is imaginary
<-- makes more sense
chetty:
<trinque> right so what arrangement produces the longest-term supply of wealthy, educated, cultured patrons?// afaik feudalism
ascii_field: Chillum: not all applications call for security
<< ?!?!!!!
☟︎ mats: 16:04:57
<+Chillum> I just got an ESP8266, a $4 chip that has a microcontroller that can run either C or Lua with 512kb memory 8GPIOs and a wifi card with a high level interface. All the size of a SD card and running off 300ma(peak) at 3.3v
trinque: ascii_field | trinque: are you able to see value in the truth as an abstract ?
<< I had the opportunity to work for a guy that thought the relational database should be central to operating system design
ascii_field: 'that the protection stuff like checking array boundaries and pointer validity can be handled by the compiler just as effectively as it can in hardware, with the running product a lot faster and a lot simpler to build.'
<< imbecilic garbage
ascii_field: trinque: why would any powerful man use himself as another's rocket fuel?
<< in so long as this is phrased this way in his head - never.
☟︎ ascii_field: Even after the fall of the roman empire gold had value
<< aha, very valuable, but nothing in particular attaches it to your earthly carcass.
trinque: funkenstein_ | you might as well ask how you make anyone care about what happens to themselves
<< no, this is automatic for me
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> and i could have easily built all of this by 25 y.o.
<< ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what'd you have it do
<< a number of things, which resolve to 'the contents ending up where needed by dependency-graph without being asked every time'
gabriel_laddel: ascii_field: it is palpable.
<< Yep. Let's say, for example that you learn perl. Nothing you learn has any use outside of... writing perl. If you learn javascript, java, C++, scala etc. idem. The web and these related "technologies" are going away. All of the effort poured into learning them is wasted.
mircea_popescu:
<p data-translate="why_captcha_detail">Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property.
</p>
mircea_popescu:
<h2 data-translate="why_captcha_headline">Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?
</h2>
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can't really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups".
<< hence, >>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-04-2015#1094083 ☝︎ ben_vulpes:
<mike_c> yeah? you claiming to be gandhi now :)
<< mike_c gets it
mircea_popescu: "Upon leaving government service, Pope joined Sunrise Senior Living as Director of Special Needs Assisted Living "
<< i wonder if they make her change adult diapers for the rest of her life now because of that incident.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> it's not heritable but a weak indicator. and one of the prevailing theories is that it's kindled, ie, you could be fine but then you had to go stress it to all shit. 99% get ptsd, 1% actually gets schizo.
<< Kindling is the dominant theory among the credible people.
mike_c:
<+mircea_popescu> you know it's a major sign of early onset schizophrenia among other unsavory things ?
<< unsavory things like parenthood..
decimation: re: TeX discussion
< at least TeX is vastly superior to microsoft word, especially when it comes to collaboration on revision
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform has never heard of either until now
<< Both fighters 5 years past their prime. One Black, one Island folk. Both old enough hard to see this happening without a loss of life.
decimation: yeah for example I have been trying to 'optimize' a std::vector
<std::complex
<float >> turd
ascii_field: 'Colleges need to publicize the employment rates of recent graduates and the percentage of students who complete their degrees so that strapped parents can do cost-benefit analyses like they do with any other major cash investment.'
<< anyone recall the law school debacle ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: who the fuck gets women off a menu
<< the fella with an already-assembled harem, such as mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu:
<mats> conned or what? lent his name for a buck to some trash?
<< intelligent people have a lot of trouble avoiding locklin's mistake.
mircea_popescu:
<mats> such incompetence. how hard is it to use sed?
<< real muppets use excel.
lobbes: 'but evidently its search-and-replace missed many instances where the code still says 'ripple.'
< l0l
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: "books"
<< the ledgers?!
ben_vulpes:
<decimation> [04:16] yeah I don't think they are serious, apparently it partially depends on visitors winding it
<< tbh i find this delightful and entertaining
ben_vulpes:
<nubbins`> [03:53] and i walk around for a half hour... rolling it
<< i chased myself around my brain trying to get a look at myself for an hour or four on acid this one time
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: tenure does not exist in canada?
<< it does. but like a thursday night of caviar and dom p, isn't for everyone.
trinque: +nubbins` | like, say, the lineup at the dick-scissor store.
< ahahha
nubbins`:
<+ben_vulpes> trinque: i had a subcutaneous piercing across the back of my neck
<< hah no wai
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: gawker magazine
<< hawww
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> wai wat is a 'babetop' ?
<< Tits???
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> trinque: gawker and friends are blocked at /etc/hosts on babetops
<< what sort of an abusive relationsheep is this!
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> the guy is proposing to merge the silk road with yahoo! answers
<< well, they already implemented "yahoo finance boards" as "bitcoin finance"
nubbins`:
<+mircea_popescu> nubbins` for my curiosity, when are you gonna get bored with it ?
<<< now-ish
nubbins`:
<+asciilifeform> e.g. amputation fetishist gets amputation, etc.
<<< met a girl once who'd self-amputated her fingertip, doctors didn't think too much of it
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> (for non-u.s. folks - a product consisting of an aerosol tin with a hose and a pull ring. hose attaches to flat tire, pull ring, contents - a sort of rubbery foam - released into tire in lieu of air)
<< Also pretty much guarentees you need a new wheel after use
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> i and everybody else have it in my car, in the box in the back where the fire extinguisher etc. is kept
<< Wait your fire extinguisher isn't under the seat?