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brendafdez: didn't last more than a year in law school either, although it was in fact easier than math
mircea_popescu: someone been playing teh big bad wolf ? i hope i haven't disappointed by not being impressed ?
pete_dushenski: except gov't doesn't do economical things like that
mircea_popescu: you don't seriously imagine the rasbperry pi 150 dollar node a) can achieve critical mass or b) can support gavincoin ?
pete_dushenski: hopefully the front isn't ?
mircea_popescu: well you don't win the lottery each year.
mircea_popescu: 'According to reporting, "1.6 percent of developers earn more than the other 98.4 percent combined. And the bottom 47 percent of engineers earn less than $100 per month." << o chjecxk it out asciilifeform! as jurov sayz, clearly this isn't working o.O
mircea_popescu: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36f7/t/5510d89ce4b0fda1fcf4a144/1427167390317/ << o look, overweight, impotent, irrelvant and fundamentally cowardly white middleaged men clining to the unwarranted pretense of relevance.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the world works.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 17:14:37; pete_dushenski: this is assuming it wasn't hacked, shot down, etc.
pete_dushenski: he has a couple other too, none do quite that well but i was reasonably impressed that he hadn't lost his shirt
brendafdez: I like it when they tell me right away that their security is crap. So I don't have to wonder. Here, hashed what?
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1068081 << this is a discogent antiargument because people here don't generally dig ditches for a living. obviously someone who leverages doesn't revert to data entry as a job.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you wouldn't complain that the strippers don't wait on tables properly, would you ? as a woman ? << Serious labor problem here in the Middle West. Strippers aren't table servers
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't complain that the strippers don't wait on tables properly, would you ? as a woman ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> as in, i don't think so i can go wallow in the mud. i think so the mud can't come wallowing on me. << I wasted years 19 to 27 with the contrapositive here pls don't make the mistake
mircea_popescu: as in, i don't think so i can go wallow in the mud. i think so the mud can't come wallowing on me.
mircea_popescu: the point of a functioning intellect isn't to make one one with the universe. the point of a functioning intellect is to make it impossible for the universe to make itself one with one.
BingoBoingo: Everything about NIST that isn't pure time sucks
mircea_popescu: but for the fate of a random usg muppet ? dude, burn him down, his name won't even be remembered.
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067841 << and more importantly : improductive to try. the guy who we hang if we consider it malice doesn't belong to us anyway. if he were in the wot maybe the point would be remotely worht considering
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 14:51:20; mats: look, i'm putting my skepticism on the record. if there was evidence, it'd look like 'Tor Stinks' or the slides from Der Spiegel's work on the Belgacom pwnage. i'm not saying that Dual_EC_DRBG doesn't have obvious flaws or that anyone should continue using it, but my skepticism regarding it being an intentional backdoor remains
ben_vulpes: no, nodes don't get updated.
ben_vulpes: just had a "don't blame the hackers" conversation.
asciilifeform: won't regret reading.
nubbins`: you can't get enough of me 8)
asciilifeform: and we haven't so many.
asciilifeform: but they aren't
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually he can't
nubbins`: i don't think so
asciilifeform: eh i know it isn't 'sexy' but don't forget the seed list.
asciilifeform hasn't a clue
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes mod6 what do you two figure is a realistic timeline for "bitcoind version that doesn't allocate memory without checks and so doesn't crash in THAT particular way" ? << this actually raises the all-important question of priority list
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> you can't postpone everything until everything else just like you can't have everything louder than everything else. << i think i found where this started
ben_vulpes: i don't understand what's so special about 'tandem operable'
asciilifeform: (i for one will happily jump with the parachute i packed for self. but my carcass isn't worth especially much)
ben_vulpes: don't ask me what everyone doesn't know
asciilifeform: but this wasn't a secret, was it
asciilifeform: little secret re: 'in anger' - ada doesn't need an os...
mod6: <+asciilifeform> and i think mod6 had a bunch << naw, don't even own one yet.
asciilifeform: nothing a 40w laser can't fix
nubbins`: you wouldn't even need to apply the sticker yourself, people like doing that stuff
ben_vulpes: couldn't resist, boss
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didn't say 'like,' l0l
nubbins`: granted, it doesn't *do* anything atm
asciilifeform: but i wasn't even thinking of this.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> 0.5.3.1 is perfect? << C doesn't do perfect
mircea_popescu: linux doesn't come with one ?!
nubbins`: so you didn't need anything from that patch file?
asciilifeform: didn't use any of the weirdo crap from above link
nubbins`: don't mind me
asciilifeform: that isn't why
asciilifeform: we don't use it for anything
asciilifeform: oh, and in case this wasn't clear,
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron there wouldn't normally be huge differences.
mircea_popescu: "teach the faux controversy mayhap people forget shit doesn't have tyo be eaten"
decimation: have none of it. ... Because he wanted to be known as the man who overthrew the gold standard and replaced it with a new, rational, managed international monetary system. So he very much had his own personal legacy at heart here. <http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/benn_steil_on_t.html
asciilifeform: doesn't build
nubbins`: doesn't work!
mircea_popescu: i mean shit, you can't go around conflating everything you don't know about for chrissakes.
mircea_popescu: "here's what i remember of this bad translation of a phenomena by some people who didn't live it, and who are so far from me culturally i in turn have no idea. let's make an infographic and educate reddit."
mircea_popescu: this is why i don't like reading orlov. the propaganda angle doesn't bother me as much, but the millitant, sheer ignorance does.
asciilifeform: (which, naturally, isn't)
BingoBoingo: Science isn't a big ycombinator fan either http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2015/03/24/a_couple_of_ycombinators_startups.php
gribble: Error: You haven't asked me a command; perhaps you want to see someone else's more. To do so, call this command with that person's nick.
decimation: heh I didn't realize there was a book
asciilifeform: can't speak for anything else in there
decimation: "Uh, many. It's currently text-only, its IP stack isn't functionnal and will have to be partly rewritten, privilege-checking isn't implemented, it can't handle more than one hard drive..."
decimation: well, it doesn't short, and has serial-ly output somewhere, these are good things
asciilifeform: Adlai: starting to warm... << one of the two practically-usable programming -systems- (note, i didn't say 'languages') designed by and for thinking people
asciilifeform: <jurov> these scientists need to be funded, and somehow despite mpex, this isn't happening << jurov has it, unfortunately. we are in the jungle still.
asciilifeform: office rats can't really have honor << wtf sure they can
funkenstein_: pete_dushenski, no i hadn't heard of it
trinque: I haven't
trinque: I don't follow
mircea_popescu: jurov i couldn't agree more.
mircea_popescu: suddenly the "don't need to read or write" shoe is on the other, liberal foot.
mircea_popescu: gossip networks and fault tolerant pow. stuff that was there for decades. "we don't understand what matters but we'll stick to clutching at the straws we recognise"
jurov: these scientists need to be funded, and somehow despite mpex, this isn't happening
mircea_popescu: for lolz, contrast this with the entire "we don't understand bitcoin but are excited at the blockchain technology" thingee.
mircea_popescu: since somehow "tradition" was for a while cognate with "don't need to read or write or even know history, tradition is what i say it is", there was a major, multi-secular migration towards "liberalism"
mircea_popescu: truth is scientists can't really be anything but scientists.
BingoBoingo: !t m s.mpoe
jurov: um, i can't put the finger exactly there
mircea_popescu: for that matter - being A DOCTOR is becoming more like this, and wasn't like this before at all - it was the very pinnacle of liberal profession.
mircea_popescu: jurov why couldn't they ?
jurov: actually that is what i meant, office rats can't really have honor. and without honor, also no role
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mircea_popescu: o look, 403 didn't work either.
mircea_popescu: but i wouldn't revisit.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't have a policy to take out libtards and shoot them. so it's doomed.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 13:08:20; nubbins`: a lot of them don't make it to japan
mircea_popescu: http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-03-2015#1067551 << which is why japan even still exists anymore. they made it to california, that imploded, now they're moving to texas and places. i was kinda snickering at trinque's explosion yest, bexause well... texas won't survive the idiots either.
trinque: that will someday be the contracted form of "isn't"
danielpbarron: and no, i haven't tried that
ascii_field: sd card isn't typically built for 100% duty cycle either
nubbins`: oh fuck, why don't i read
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: basic idea is that we mustn't ship with a kernel built by some random bozo
mircea_popescu: DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT firing these in anger. You may lose limbs." << recall that ?
ascii_field: no reason why the latest recipe can't build on my cross-chain