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mircea_popescu: except he doesn't think he can do this, because, essentially, he does not think he can be an adult. he is
a child, and his name for daddy is "mit".
mircea_popescu: now then, once they already told him they were lying to him, through having made
a "consensus", it was his fucking job to decide which way they're lying. if they're overvaluing he should have sold ; if not he should have shown all of them the door.
mircea_popescu: there are two ways in which polling agents results in the same string. the first is, if the item considered is banal, you show
a cup to three people and get "it is
a cup" back. the second is, when they have agreed among themselves to, basically, lie to you. "we call this rape", and the subtle difference already says it. "it's sex, the kind we call rape, much like if it were
a cup the kind we call grail"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-03 13:25 mircea_popescu: (the difference between mp and pg being that mp is not
a dodo bird. pg meanwhile -- deleted the item from his own site. how about that, to lose
a company is one thing, but to lose THE HAVING LOST IT ?!?! the actual part of your own personal history ? fuck me sideways, these idiots.)
jhvh1: Framedragger: Error: "s" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: phf eh, the whole satanism thing is all about mock-catolicism. "oh, it's
a cross, but it's BLACK!!1 oh it's
a mass but it's DARK!111".
jhvh1: Framedragger: ue :: Term denoting [Urban Exploration]. Used as both
a noun and
a verb. The idea of urban adventure is also expressed via [URBEX] and [URBANEX]. [ex:] Let's UE the derelict old warehouse on Fifth Street tonight.I'm acquainted with the tenets of UE. Today, I document for posterity what will vanish tomorrow. [/ex] | User Error, from WikiPedia:The phrase User Error or USR error, is
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Framedragger: (we also snorted some adderall (the crudeness of this was offset by popping
a bottle of decent wine open, it's all good))
Framedragger: one of our party took part of
a skull that was embedded in some wall. maybe that counts?..
Framedragger: in our group there was
a kid who took
a laptop and
a camera. there were places where water level reached crotch. ... computer kids
Framedragger: no :( wrong wording. i sat down with him for
a chat. did not record. because daft kid << sorry
phf: lol, helmet, barbour jacket, dress shoes, heels "we took
a wrong turn somewhere"
phf: i also haven't packed any exploration clothes. but i have one more day, which is otherwise entirely free, so it's possible that we'll end up dropping on
a whim
phf: we've made friends with
a "cataphilie", but we will probably have to take him up on his offer next trip (as much as it pains us, we do ue stuff wherever we go)
Framedragger: (then again, when i boarded
a 1st class train to berlin in the morning after ~6h overnight crawl with no time to change clothes, i was seen as
a wildman (unkempt beard at the time, too), scared some old german ladies. "megafun" for certain definitions lol)
phf cue
a guy with an accordion
mircea_popescu: (yes yes the actual paris is
a smelly boil. but how's
a girl to know ?)
mircea_popescu: paris in may though... i guess if i were
a girl i'd be trying to suck up to you right about now.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, it's really fucking simple : standard bitcoin node either has
a transaction in its mempool or does not have it in its mempool. if it has it then it can't keep it secret from you, which in standard bitcoin is anyone. if it does not have it then it does not have it. that's the whole story of mempools.
mircea_popescu: not like said relativism CAN have
a footing anyway, so the whole difference is moot in any sense.
mircea_popescu: what he's saying reduces to "the bitcoin nodes run non standard code which keeps two mempools - one to tell you,
a different one to use for their own, not transparent reasons". this is exactly what i was saying also, but restated in such
a way to give some appearance of footing to the usual tardstalk "oh, guise, you can't know for sure" nonsense.
Framedragger: (on cursory re-glance, it's less clear, cached picture in my head was too "strong". interested to hear opinions anyway, unless too much of
a beaten dead horse smell)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i will give one example. about
a year ago, there was
a discussion with sturles about mempool and the whole zero fee tx clusterfuck. at some point later on, you said that (can't find quote, paraphrasing) on scrutiny, sturles' account broke apart. whereas i read it as "discussion was ongoing, then mp changed topic".
mircea_popescu: (the difference between mp and pg being that mp is not
a dodo bird. pg meanwhile -- deleted the item from his own site. how about that, to lose
a company is one thing, but to lose THE HAVING LOST IT ?!?! the actual part of your own personal history ? fuck me sideways, these idiots.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the point is that this nonsensical construct where "oh, we'll avoid having our balloon worldview pricked by not doing anything -- hey, this guy is doing something, how come he can't give less of
a shit about all the pricks we fear ?!?!" is wholly psychogenic. i get that the man-child abomination really truly fears the imaginary pricks he perceives to exist. but it can't be allowed to stand, this notion, that his nonsense is s
Framedragger: yes, infantilism, and
a general pattern, but it wasn't just "accounting" back then, it was mp billing multiple spends as "cartel research", and other shareholder disagreeing with this. but anyway, after actually reviewing logs, my interim conclusion is "forest is deep, and don't sign
a zero asset contract framedragger"
mircea_popescu: to quote the true avatars of this "our democracy" retardation, "we could build
a cabin like that!" "well... not us. but two men could."
mircea_popescu: and if mp organises
a conference there's going to be
a conference and if he does not there's not going to be one and if we need an isp how about mp makes it and so on and so forth up the fucking wall.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mp then told them where to stick it, they're STILL struggling to digest the matter,
a year later.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger bitbet ended up short ~same btc, idiot chorus went "well since mp happens to be doing the accounting for it, and he's rich anyway, he should make whole our delusions as how the world works. because we have parenting issues from
a bad childhood and also are so fucking speshul."
mircea_popescu: he's going to tell you if your bits are random!!! because randomnesity is
a property of the actual bits. this is sanity nao.
mircea_popescu: o look, " luke macken has created
a systemd startup script"
mircea_popescu: "Get an array of 64 bytes from whatever source of cryptographically-secure randomness you are using. Encode them as hex, and make
a REST query to the randomsanity service. The service will return ‘true’ if it those bytes look random and nobody else has submitted the same stream of bytes; otherwise it will return ‘false’."
mircea_popescu: could be just some random env stupidity, which from experience can eat
a dozen dev hours for entirely n ogood reason. "nobody'd have thought of that"
mircea_popescu: mod6 try on
a vps or something standard ? just to get
a comparison point ?
mod6: anyway, seems
a common theme with me and ada. starting to wonder if my compiler version is fubar or someweird shit.
mod6: im starting to get into ada things... but i have
a lot of problems with `gnatmake`, not sure exactly why.
mircea_popescu: it's
a very good catechism of the thing, really. honest toil and honest cunning. very square jawed.
mircea_popescu: the mockery itself was not bad, notwithstanding the sad situation of the dorks somewhat in the vein of you know, that fat annoying kid with
a hot older sister. "why should i wash, have you seen the boobs on Jane ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger
a decade ago, some dorks got some money together paid some english speakers to mock romanians' efforts at translating shakespeare, and everything else.
Framedragger: wait what is this? :D also '
A Hoax of Hate: Henry Ford and "The International Jew"' ahaha
BingoBoingo: In other recent events: "On Sunday morning,
a culvert collapsed underneath the front parking lot of Dunkin’ Donuts and Subway on Rendleman Road in Carbondale, causing the entire lot to sink."
ben_vulpes: this'd have been
a few tens of thousands of years ago but yes
BingoBoingo: "
A bookstore owner, self-identified queer person and single mom with
a disabled son, Eudaly campaigned heavily on better protections for renters and some form of rent control. The 46-year-old gained momentum as months went on, striking
a chord..." << With the City's many other femayo lardbarges on the wrong side of the tracks
BingoBoingo: "especially in light of what’s going on politically across the nation under President Trump." << Then why is the boss hogplanet standing in front on the Trump train? They don't call it
a "cattle catcher" without reason
BingoBoingo: "Long considered the pillar of citizen input for city policy-making, neighborhood associations now seem to take
a back seat to groups based on racial and cultural identity, as well as to issue-based groups." << Nice, Portland is inviting the Klan back to the table
mircea_popescu: so you take hot girl out for coffee every few weeks. that such
a horrid fate ?
Framedragger:
a friend needed bank account for
a french job. got assigned "personal assistant" at bank. now assistant asks to meet every $x weeks, they go for coffee or something. which is maybe great in HNWI world, but she's not "HNW" and just has
a normal not-high-paying job. ahh the french
Framedragger: i wonder how exact those revenue figures are, if it's
a "simplified corp" (and not publicly traded it seems), but yeah guess so
Framedragger: nb if revenue steadily rising (they're opening
a dc in .uk and
a dc in .pl, lotsa investment)? :)
mircea_popescu: look at that, simplified corporation with
a quarter billion in debts at
a 1bn valuation and 300mn revenue.
shinohai: I'm unsure why I even started using the place, besides knowing
a person or two there. I always liked sdf better for my shell needs. They only recently started accepting Bitcoin for memberships so I need to renew again, for life this time.
shinohai: (
A long time ago, hashbang was actually
a gentoo thing but was then debianized by powers that be )
shinohai: jhvh1 almost didn't live there because they did python "upgrade" to 3 and removed 2.7 .... after much bitching and
a few bitcents of admin greasing I got it back.
trinque: either user separation exists or doesn't, and if doesn't, explain to me how "but yeah and then we take
a massive dump where had tiny dried turd" and this is better
Framedragger: trinque: i'm not constructing
a technological argument. i'm saying, actual cost would be dirt cheap, hence for customer it would be dirt cheap.
trinque: gonna have to explain to me wtf conflates "I get
a weechat and shell" with "need massive shitstack of xen/kvm/strange"
Framedragger: it's ~petty in terms of business/margin/etc., but as
a tmsr service, it may be useful to have, for some people. can you see how vps (in this fashion) may remain part of world for at least i dunno several more years? apologies if this line of reasoning totes ruins your day.
Framedragger: you may not use it yourself because, barf, (1) "just get
a real thing already", and (2) "i have more things to host, so why should i pay for this AND that, separately". but for someone who only needs bouncer and maybe-sometimes-ssh (writing small bot in vim, connecting it to irc, etc.), it makes sense to pay very-little for
a very-little-thing.
Framedragger: trinque et al.: thanks for (as always) righting me. i have
a shitty follow-up that is still bugging me. here it is, condensed: i think there is
a service niche (again: i am in no way vested/involved as of now) for offering
a shell with limited resources and (say)
a bouncer (like hashbang.sh), for "dirt cheap".
mircea_popescu: hence all the ~beat them~ references. the only way for it to be more efficient is shedding
a healthy 99.9% of the inflation of self worth going around.
mircea_popescu: if they actually understood their place in the world somewhat closer to reality, there could be. but as it is they overvalue themselves to such
a degree, people are stuck paying for it with pretense.
Framedragger: there must be
a more efficient means of doing that... but i guess it needs to sell them the story of "one with the universe" and ecology, too, due to self-deception
Framedragger: so the films tell me! but this particular description is nostalgia-inducing (where nostalgia may not even have
a reference, in my case/context). sounds amazing.
ben_vulpes: Framedragger: my parents packed the children of my generation off to desolate islands during the summer to kill things, camp, boat around the archipelago, climb mountains, break each other's fingers etc under the supervision of other, slightly older children and
a smattering of 'adults' responsible for taxes and calling medevac from time to time
ben_vulpes: but shit damn some day i am going to get back behind the wheel of
a unimog
ben_vulpes: where having
a penis does not make you male either
ben_vulpes: everyone knows how to work
a manual transmission too.
trinque: making
a repeatable gentoo recipe for the fucker
trinque: it'd be worthwhile to reflect on why "no really what I have to do to pay rent has
a future"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger how do you go from "
a grand total of 32 bezzlebucks" to "e i'm not convinced just *how* much actual +ev does
a "non-nato" provider give" ?
trinque: go
a couple generations of hardware back and should be cheap cheap
trinque: Framedragger: the datapoint I gave is in re: "VPS is
a thing" not "here host in usglandia"
Framedragger: i'd rather not host in the u.s., but at the same time i'm not convinced just *how* much actual +ev does
a "non-nato" provider give
trinque: I am currently paying some guy in the midwest
a grand total of 32 bezzlebucks
a month for two boxes that would trounce any VM
Framedragger: trinque: does not require
a full machine, cheaper. just that. unless there is an expectation that not only should multiple mirrors of same tarball be on different machines, but that also no two different (from different users, say) tarballs should be hosted on same machine.
trinque: sounds like
a wget -R and perhaps rsync job, at the most
Framedragger: i thought there may be
a demand for vps. multiple parties indicated such, including mircea_popescu.
trinque: "no really VPS is
a thing"
Framedragger: actually, their airport hotels should have this. "bob, file
a patent!"
mircea_popescu: i bet you right now there's thousands of depressed dudes in ugly tshirts scattered all over silicon valley who would call
a hooker if only
a) half hour weren't the shortest quanta available and b) they were petrified they've got no way to amuse
a girl for
a WHOLE half hour, even if she were slightly retarded.\
mircea_popescu: ideally the way this goes, you call the agency, girl shows up, you spend ten minutes going through legal red tape / reading paperwork boilerplate / filling consent forms whatever. then you pump her
a little, there's various gizmos and gadgets measuring things, then you play
a little board game on the basis of the measurements for say 20 minutes or so.
mircea_popescu: but it occurs to me cs weenie oriented hookers totally should have
a per-second fee scheme.