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punkman: mircea_popescu: so what's your favorite pizza?
phf: mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html‎ A fractal is an object or quantity that displays " << wolfram's "new kind of science" is all about "this one thing i generated kind of looks like this complicated process, maybe they are related? i feel like they are!"
cazalla: what is your position on pepperoni on pizza mircea_popescu ?
phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that maybe you guys are just arguin ☟︎
phf: mircea_popescu: iirc that was before ukraine. << that was indeed before ukraine. i saw a few of my well trained, but otherwise bummy friends with "business" go oh well party is over and switch to sberbank financial analyst positions or somesuch.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 03:24:57; pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you around ? can you educate me on what the nytimes is referring to here : "The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed the design of a device known as a pocket heater. The equipment is used in semiconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising to keep its design a secret."
mircea_popescu: https://secure.img-cdn.mediaplex.com/0/3484/177243/300x250_paypal_core_safer_faster_en_acq_v2.jpg << holy shit paypal is actually buying advertising now!
cazalla: pete_dushenski, done
pete_dushenski: !up Bingo_VACAY
pete_dushenski: Bingo_VACAY: i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you're away atm and that there's no point in sending you the same piece
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 22:04:14; mircea_popescu: you know, the "wrecker" who was "trying to make the train tracks run down faster"
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the overall moral of the story is more interesting - expect a generalized 'spymania' in usa; accusations of 'wrecking' will become a regular thing.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: niche thing.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy article btw
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you've got mailz
shinohai adds pete_dushenski to the sponsors of terrorism list.
shinohai: That's a lot of cloth, pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> phun phakt: most american 'home insurance' co. will specifically ~not~ insure any item you built yourself << of course they will.
ascii_field: maybe(p.gender==male && p.orentation==het_cis_scum) {
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wut ?! bathroom was the size of that room o.O
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: tiled, iirc
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the "apparently care" you propose has a name.
shinohai: ^_____________^
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 17:44:23; shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3kiv90/eth_is_dumping_hard_why_whats_the_bad_news/cuxs1qd
ascii_field: hell, some perfectly literate folks, ben_vulpes, trinque, et al, care.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nobody cares.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 17:28:23; ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:.. I earned a grade of A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
ascii_field: ben_vulpes can prolly explain much better than i can
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for so long as you think this, you will catastrophically misunderstand why apple remains a thing
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dunno, women i know hate the inept cocksure ones more than the neurotic pay-for-it ones
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's more like ibm. "great american industree - does nothing really"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 20:45:57; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ?
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 03:58:42; mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained, a special derrogation from the high chamber of cas
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:49:33; pete_dushenski: "Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies lived or died according to certain general rules. Jews who maintained their prewar citizenship usually lived, and those who did not usually died…Jews from territories that changed hands were usually murdered. Jews almost never survived if they remained on territories where the Soviet Union had been exercising power when German or Romanian forces arriv
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:45:37; pete_dushenski: for contractors, certainly.
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. << it's in the price, see ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: so listen ascii_field is it true sexpr were mostly copied from regexp ?
mircea_popescu trolls ascii_field more.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
shinohai: !up ascii_field
shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3kiv90/eth_is_dumping_hard_why_whats_the_bad_news/cuxs1qd ☟︎
trinque: in re: ascii_field's 0HCN3ZM
shinohai: Very apt comic ascii_field
trinque: pete_dushenski: where's the >1BTC bet feed?
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://www.toomandre.com << toom of toom-cook algo. teaches in brazil.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
shinohai: thx pete_dushenski
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 15:12:19; punkman: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/10/north_korea_exploits_zero_day_in_seouls_favourite_word_doc/
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:55:23; pete_dushenski: gotta love those statist stats. what would we do if we knew that poor people were fat and poor because we were redistributing wealth so as to ensure that they stay that way in perpetuity ?
shinohai: lol ascii_field so I guess I can't let my guard down.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
shinohai: pete_dushenski: my mind instantly thought of that trilema article lol
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
funkenstein_: !v assbot:funkenstein_.rate.cazalla.1:d6f88d117ed5e7419069c6ff29c24135b96e84b6f151a4abd7a0327d177968c6
funkenstein_: 6bdr_2IAJWU <-- mos def, immortal technique, eminem
punkman: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/10/north_korea_exploits_zero_day_in_seouls_favourite_word_doc/ ☟︎
shinohai: o/ pete_dushenski
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 13:01:25; mircea_popescu: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y02/03c-the-myth-of-software-engineering.html
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:04:15; mircea_popescu: tim cook is officially retarded.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 10:02:44; mircea_popescu: who the fuck commodifies his premium product for boredom o may gawd
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270278 << mircea_popescu appears to have slept through the total obliteration of whatever 'premium' status ipNohe had. i often go into town on weekends on the train. there is literally no one too ragged, too ethnic, whatever, to be playing with apple gadget, often more than one. literally, stinking bums have'em, and had for years. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:57:40; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1269902 << so then it's the rifht move ?
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:40; mircea_popescu: sorta like the emperor of flies can't happen with an adult present.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:25:07; mircea_popescu: i doubt it. see, wiemar collapsed because THERE WAS NO currency. at all.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:12:18; mircea_popescu: jurov actually the she-programmers of yugo were famous in romania in the 80s
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:07:45; mircea_popescu: there's an entire ugly unspecified state downstream people keep pushing under the rug
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 09:04:07; mircea_popescu: if we actually get maximal utilization, which means every single unit of account is independent,
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:39:23; mircea_popescu: this is more of the "gavin has spoken with experts" / "btcoin business support"/ "xt is going to matter" etc etc verbiage.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:36:50; mircea_popescu: they went to work for metansa right alf ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270083 << l0l mircea_popescu, everybody knows (tm) that metansa would never contain something so pedestrian as a report-writer, much less one who interfaced with something as boring as a politician. it is 100% people who break rsa, devise single-transistor backdoors to plant in intel, devise 'natural disease mimicking' poisons, etc. ☝︎
asciilifeform: e.g., the very same mulisp discussed in the 'derive.exe' thread; 'dream' (x86 and later x86_64 scheme implementation;) and others
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:25:38; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267867 <<< haha wut. except any lisp is also implemented atop libc, and half the time atop fucking python and some shit. don't throw stones ye of the glass house.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-09-2015#1270064 << dear glub. sorry mircea_popescu, not even sure which part of this fiction to begin with ! ☝︎
asciilifeform: wb mircea_popescu
PinkPosixPXE: hey mircea_popescu, doing pretty good, been busy with the new job, how are you?
phf: mircea_popescu: i took your trilema recommendation to visit istanbul, this place is indeed fantastic
mircea_popescu: http://www.mois.ee/pic_viru/malla_tag.jpg moarlike
shinohai: Related to mircea_popescu 's article: http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11
BingoBoingo: http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/relationships-and-special-occasions/columns/dear-abby/teen-too-busy-with-college-ignores-dangers-of-diabetes/article_e96d42bd-f13f-5585-ab5e-318ed83c06ae.html << 19 year old Obeast with the Beetus
shinohai: morning, mircea_popescu feeling better today?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You just don't understand how real 'Murican women look
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:58:53; pete_dushenski: ya, ~$30 per month ad infinitum gets you the latest greatest iphone
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:47:45; pete_dushenski: ^ from a study of southern italy over past 40 years
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:40:23; pete_dushenski: with the cold sandwiches on PAPER plates at 'consensus'.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:38:05; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc it was priced, to a penny, to match mircea_popescu conf
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:24:17; pete_dushenski: "internet companies "across China" are hiring "pretty, talented girls that help create a fun work environment. Dubbed "programming cheerleaders," these young women serve to chit-chat and play Ping-Pong with employees as part of their role."
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 03:16:09; pete_dushenski: "Gun control advocates in Tacoma, Wash., are thinking inside the box -- literally -- with a controversial proposal to set up a gun "drop box" to encourage residents to turn in firearms, no questions asked." << "we also advise residents to wipe their guns clean of fingerprints and bodily fluids because we WILL be inspecting each and every firearms for evidence that may be used in any ongoing investiga
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 02:58:51; assbot: Logged on 28-03-2015 16:35:32; mircea_popescu: mod6 ben_vulpes you think some warnings should be brewed maybe ?
mircea_popescu: https://blockchain.info/tx/9231f2c2f189cfda4b8e7fa0d16b16a22b9e8da04b8f542cd787116dbefaa450?show_adv=true << BIP100/Mined by haobtckds3
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's leik the new bronies
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 08:46:17; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267867 <<< haha wut. except any lisp is also implemented atop libc << I think there's more than a handful that don't need to touch C at all ☝︎
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QyYaPWasos ? ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> who the fuck is jameson lopp ? << 'statoshi' on other forms some herpity derp creature working for BitGo, some wallet thing
davout: mircea_popescu: "If you impaled it's perfect." <<< kek'd
mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/lopp/status/642001050564698112?replies_view=true&cursor=APDW4mDZ6Ag << o hey, check you peoples out!