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mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i have nfi why they don'
t use cocoa powder to disperse crowds.
mircea_popescu: hmm so the ~90 i paid for it isn'
t really THAT outrageous.
mircea_popescu: punkman wasn'
t the "management engine" an intel thing ?
ascii_field: 'oh noez, the chip is auditable when we don'
t want it to be! boobytrap!'
punkman: AMD's "management engine" equivalent is also bad, isn'
t it though
ascii_field: we don'
t even know for a fact what it is the miners use..
ascii_field: didn'
t say that it was (except that it - was, i measured)
mircea_popescu: we don'
t care atm, because we know experimentally the system as deployed is stable.
ascii_field: 'isn'
t a jewel' << mega-understatement of the century
mircea_popescu: and the bitcoind allocation scheme isn'
t a jewel or anything.
jurov: i don'
t see the issue why that would lead to fork per se.
mircea_popescu: that gavin [pretends like he] doesn'
t know such is exactly why the verbiage as to the retarded boy in one of my articles debunking the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: kinda why idiots (and by that i mean satoshi) shouldn'
t be allowed to code in the first place. but hey, we believe in the power of belief...
nubbins`: blockchain analysis says this didn'
t happen, but w/e
nubbins`: so i don'
t know what the guy's bragging about :P
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: The risk associated with doing such a thing isn'
t likely worth it compared to other ventures in BTC which are far nobeler to hang for
mats: im surprised it hasn'
t happened again. short teh DJIA, start shooting up coolant rooms at various plants...
decimation: that part isn'
t clear - it depends where the house is located
mircea_popescu: who wouldn'
t want to try out an orgy with these five ?
mircea_popescu: "I'm calling you out on this one, answer or lose whatever credibility you had because there is 1 MILLION percent no way you have a single shred of proof that i am anyone or anything especially some guy in vietnam who sells wooden shit and if you ain'
t going to back up your BS i will rally every single body that you pulled your fake "probable alt of _____________" and lead a campaign of ensuring you never have the credi
mircea_popescu: this has to be a meme. mats pic and the caption "i don'
t always go on research binges on the internet. but when i do, we're talking 400 hours bish!"
mats: the ones that don'
t, i found on westlaw but not the crawlable internets
mircea_popescu: magical box that breaks secrets, this isn'
t a film about hacking, this is scherezade in a "modern" color scheme.
mats: oh wow these chinese shooters don'
t know how to clear rooms
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
mircea_popescu: it wouldn'
t stick on anyone else, like p, except they keep confessing like the pastiass dickless shitheads they are.
BingoBoingo: firetrucks don'
t have toilets, but they have shovels for digging your own toilets as needed
trinque: punkman: I wouldn'
t mind seeing a non-hippy/burner version of that
trinque: wouldn'
t mind getting one of the vw camper vans at some point
BingoBoingo: And seriously what isn'
t to like about a giant toolbox that just happens to have wheels and a motor
BingoBoingo: Arrest Congress during recess, then don'
t spend... win
mircea_popescu: like "honey, i noticed our credit cards aren'
t even maxed anymore. i thought you promised to go shopping with the girls ? you know what... fuck this, i want a divorce"
trinque: had his father been elected, the whole rest of the govt would've obstructed any substantial changes he'd want to make, so I don'
t know what good would've come of it
pete_dushenski: i can'
t think of anyone else selling desktop hardware for $10k
pete_dushenski: well, the ones who didn'
t are now buying the cars to reimagine themselves as the ones who did!
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the whores that go hoarse don'
t go back, no.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski terribru for them. chinese women that go black definitely won'
t go back.
mircea_popescu: im just proposing that people don'
t cook like they're carving figurines.
ben_vulpes: 1cm doesn'
t make sense in that 1 cm is huge if close and tiny if far away
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes because arc seconds don'
t actually matter in this discussion.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> listen to me, never read text not > 1 cm tall. << why aren'
t you talking about arc-seconds?!
ascii_field: but there are productive approaches that don'
t reduce to pure brute strength
mircea_popescu: the argument i always hear is, "dudes have no focus and can'
t be trusted to pay the fuck attention"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's exactly three things a woman can do with herself that doesn'
t work as the housemaid of a dude.
mircea_popescu: so... now you have to have a pole every 10 meters, and can'
t even turn because LIGHT OMG
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: one thought that i can'
t possibly be the first to think is that miners have a tremendous incentive to get off their government mains grids.
mircea_popescu: so the fact that giancarlo milanese can ask for a 380v line today and have it working in may whereas joe washington can'
t even get it... well...
ascii_field: it is a marvel that they didn'
t stick with edison's direct current grid
mircea_popescu: o wow, fucking sprawl. you probably can'
t just get a huge 100kv - 2kv stepper and feed a whole neighbourhood, must have like 100kv - 12kv - 1,x kv multistep hu
ben_vulpes: dc really is the center of all american rot, isn'
t it?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:hm, when a motherboard comes on when the supply comes on, no buttons or anything, and then won'
t atx powerdown << what did you do to it
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 02:43:33; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ubiquiti example dovetails nicely with the thread re: unemployed reversers. if persians happily buy turdware, they either haven'
t many, or haven'
t any competent ones, or they are all occupied with something else (what ?)
nubbins`: Suddenly, somebody pushed his way through. Margaret turned and said "Oh, hi Mike," and smiled broadly. "This was Misha's birthday," the man said, referring to the Trudeaus' youngest son Michel, who died two years ago. Her face froze and she burst into tears. She turned around and quickly walked away. "It's Michel's birthday today," she said in a strained voice to those around her. "I didn'
t remember." Michel, the youngest of her
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i don'
t get what the issue is. can you summarize ?
mircea_popescu: hm, when a motherboard comes on when the supply comes on, no buttons or anything, and then won'
t atx powerdown
nubbins`: the juxtaposition isn'
t quite clear w/o viewing the videos, unfortunately
nubbins`: just can'
t figure out the BCP options to auto-strip the crud
nubbins`: still can'
t replicate the build
nubbins`: haven'
t had the time to actually diff a .config before and after and turn it into a patch
punkman: maybe the guy didn'
t pay enough taxes?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile you can'
t get a competing quote on your fucking health insurance.
punkman fondly remembers the "by entering this website you promise you aren'
t a USG agent"
mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t you want your tor router quietly on a cable ?
mircea_popescu: dude the way the world spins. the dons of the 50s didn'
t approve of drugs, at all. then in the late 60s it was like, "whatever, sell them to blacks, they don'
t have a soul anwyay". then in the 80s it was "whatever, sell them but don'
t let anyone know". by now it's like... "sell drugs and write opinions for the spectator and send the customer list spam emails to upvote you"
cazalla: wouldn'
t want the missus to actually think i'm enjoying myself while she feeds bubs
cazalla: your jukebox? can'
t play atm
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 01:27:08; asciilifeform: doesn'
t ring a bell
Vexual: why can'
t i trade sundried tomatoe futures? its supposed to be the fooking future
joecool: phison, now that's a name i haven'
t heard in awhile
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu so i finally mod'd your fix_trackbacks.php, uploaded it, and... it doesn'
t even show up. now i'm supposed to call customer support or some shit