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mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`>
<+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing
<<< i came for the btc, stayed for the lels
<< hey, if obama can save the economy...
nubbins`:
<+asciilifeform> (tenure does not exist in canada?)
<<< canada's like a miniature version of usa set back a few years.
nubbins`:
<+ben_vulpes> boss your penchant for recasting everything as a result of your own actions is endlessly amusing
<<< i came for the btc, stayed for the lels
nubbins`:
<+mircea_popescu> right. and brokeback mountain isn't an endless piece of meaningless cheese. because polarities.
<<< in fairness, the book was under 100 pages
mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> entirely transparent project to reduce hiring costs
<< moar like, entirely transparent admission that "well, mp said he's killing us, we're as good as dead, might as well give up"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, decimation: 'cixi'
<< a reference to the dowager empress?
BingoBoingo: "Shockingly, only 27 percent of doctors could correctly diagnosis malaria with anemia, and 29 percent could correctly diagnose diarrhea with severe dehydration"
<< WTF
danielpbarron: Please note: Initial deposit amounts exceeding +30 bitcoin will qualify your membership for a 2nd level upgrade.
<< MPEx sets the standard
TomServo: cazalla: should've suggested swordfish if ya gonna troll :P
<< shit, I was serious. I must be using my rose-tinted glasses on this one. I'mma have to rewatch this now.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo nah, you ever seen what happens if you accidentally a bag ?
<< I get the most delicous coffing fits.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> speaking of which, i have nfi why they don't use cocoa powder to disperse crowds.
<< You just end up with a different crowd with a heavier category of people
ascii_field: 'isn't a jewel'
<< mega-understatement of the century
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> who's on the qntra /reddit as usg mouthpiece/ beat?
<< There is a trilema post tracking this phenomenon, but if you want to elevate it to a sustained operation go for it.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> dude i swear there was a different coinsetter that was trying to be a sort of coindeks
<< I constantly run into new ventures that imagine they are qntra competitors
punkman: "How many pizzas do you think i can have delivered to you at home and work, how long do you think i can tie up your phone with robo dial, ever heard of swatting? "
<< this guy...
lobbes: i wonder if he's a licensed breeder for those purebred cats he's selling?
<< prolly just uses lathe on cats he finds on the street
lobbes:
<nubbins'> lobbes guy threatened to do unspecified things to me
<< O.o Link in the logs? This guy sounds like a full-time scammzor (with the 'miner group buy' scam, et al). Plenty of sustenance in that forum, too
lobbes:
<nubbins'> okay, and now i've got his name, his wife's name, and his company's name
<< once you chomp down on a scammer, you don't let go, do you? ;/
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> practice was in 2013.
<< Regional differences in the US electric grid are extreme
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> actually I think the end result is going to be a mass migration away from centralized power to solar
<< local hillbill town is about to add solar farm on abandoned manufactering ground to supplement diesel, on coop's dime
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> the 'one wire,' even if true, can only be the 'straw that broke camel's back'
<< It was August during peak consumption. Amren stopped delivering anything through the town's 5 MW backup line so the 30 MW transmission line failed at 38.5 MW and started a small swiftly contained brush fire. (/me thinks he got the units right)
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> recall the case of the "forum banker" dude ?
<< Kludge!!!
mircea_popescu: "Tyjuziana, Tykeria, Tynijuzia, TyNiah and Tybreyia."
<< ;/
mircea_popescu: 0 In U.S. v. Friedman (No. 95–CR–192 (S–3)(ARR),
< etc. but they do have the indexes so that's pretty good
mircea_popescu: 0 In U.S. v. Scarfo (Criminal Action No. 00–404 (NHP)), Politan denied
<< that one has nothing for instance.
hanbot:
<mircea_popescu> i never saw a good "hacking" film.
<< for prime cheese: WarGames, 83
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> i thought the civilized way was with frag
<< With flash and bang unless you know walls actually protect yourself
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> ...
<< not to mention you wouldn't be stuck with the impotent sort of potheads that crowd a "orgy rv" to the point of total cockblockage.
<< But... Firetruck. They put the lotion on the skin, or they get the hose again
punkman: "continue helping on a volunteer basis to help the Foundation during this financially austere time."
<< austerity strikes again
BingoBoingo:
<ascii_field> what will a muscle computer be ..?
<< DEC Alpha overclocked and cooled by Olympian means
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: foreign aid article
<< it's a surplus-burner
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> listen to me, never read text not > 1 cm tall.
<< why aren't you talking about arc-seconds?!
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 19:00:57; ascii_field: mats: ... similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such.
<< believe or not, i was never in this business. not even from ethical considerations, but starting with the fact that it is a -terrifyingly- dreary kind of work, carried out largely with brute force 'fuzzing' by gigantic stables of fungible slaves.
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> the loss in physical plant would be comparable to a world war
<< actually, not anymore. the us has already lost so much physical plant since the 50s it might have been through half a dozen world wars.
funkenstein_: think of their peculiar system of weights and measures
<-- nasa made official call to move to metric system once
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> ben_vulpes: not only do they happen where i live, but with sufficient frequency that i'm stuck using very elaborate power conditioning gear
<< you and fucking indians, i swear.
ascii_field: mats: ... similar gig as you, i imagine: working for 'the man' in compartmentalized ops, churning out weaponized exploits and such.
<< believe or not, i was never in this business. not even from ethical considerations, but starting with the fact that it is a -terrifyingly- dreary kind of work, carried out largely with brute force 'fuzzing' by gigantic stables of fungible slaves.
☟︎ lobbes: 'The power went out during the daily State Department briefing, with Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf using a phone light to continue taking questions from reporters.'
<< heh