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BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> thestringpuller prolly best to imgmagik it into a png or jp
<< Actually used imagemagick 20 minutes ago assembling a document package for qntra post in progress
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> why would some four star usg general spend time to send 300 emails to some lebanese groupie chick?
<< i wrote like a billion lines in here. why not ?
decimation: then I heard this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that everybody just loved the job. And
☟︎☟︎ decimation: re: meritwashing
< I think the way this plays out in actual us business is that you are friends with someone who controls bezzlars
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> adlai: why does it have to test on actual live-fire btc anyway?
<< so he can make a buck ?
☟︎ kakobrekla:
<adlai> depends what's at hand
< anyway not helping, ofc you will take whats at hand. if not there, not even the army can take.
ben_vulpes: Disclosure: Although the event was closed to the media, I was invited by the founders of Nexus, Jonah Wittkamper and Rachel Cohen Gerrol, to report on the conference as a member of the family that started the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical company.
<< woo hoo hoo
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> cazalla: re: pastebin submissions, can we please use email? google snatches these up quick and pastebin gets the credit for the content
<< oops sorry bout that.
< dpaste btw
mircea_popescu: "when the FBI tackled Ulbricht in the Library with the Laptop Forensics Toolkit"
<< also, partition encryption werks!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> let's ask BingoBoingo how sport aficionados feel re: 'fixed' matches in sports where this is not customary
<< Actual fraud. One the other hand horrifically mismatched team (happens a lot in college where small schools will get paid by larger schools to play a game the larger school anticipates winning) can be loads of fun. Especially when the school paid to play wins.
cazalla: mircea_popescu: phillipsjk you know you might be the first guy of your kind i ever met. so, you're on some isp's forum because... it's your isp ? and i suppose on the mazda forum if/when driving a mazda and so on ?
<<< popular thing in australia, or at least was back in 90s, early 2000s
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> phillipsjk: the birds here - not very enthusiastically. hence the infestation
<< New birds essentially. Also Replacing favorable trees with less so. Liberal amounts of poisoin too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (why? ask them)
<< usg looking for zero days as well :)
mircea_popescu: cazalla: re: pastebin submissions, can we please use email? google snatches these up quick and pastebin gets the credit for the content
<< oops sorry bout that.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: the part of the world where i live is plagued with, among other insects, a type of caterpillar that devours trees wholesale. every spring, gigantic hives (?) - nests with webbing - appear, and when they're full, you can almost see them pulsate, pulsate
<< Used to be bigger problem here. Then they were largely defeated
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> today, sent responses to ~300 of them, that were inquiring to know a) where is the center of buenos aires and b) whether argentines are poor.
<< why were they asking if argentines are poor?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: in criminal trials, iirc
<< In capital (death penalty) trials, probably other yes.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> for folks unfamiliar with u.s. jurisprudence, verdict has to be unanimous
<< Not in every kind of case actually
ben_vulpes:
<trinque> pretty easy to bitch about how everyone's terrible in the US too if one allows himself
<< stupidity and malice are the *defaults*, guys. people who aren't either stupid or malicious are *not* to be expected.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: im not signing it.
<< could you make a csv ? or a json ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: c'est mieu ?
<< mieux. the x, like the h, and the e, and everything else in French including the French themselves, is silent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: maslow's thing had 'cooperation'? wat?
<< it keeps getting revised, it's a bona fide "golf club patter" that thing. always in step with the emotional needs of a new generation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ^ from the run-moar-winblows department
<< how the hell does one check for backdoors. submerge in water an' blow ?
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: let me ask you guys another thing
<<< when using a broker, you necessarily undertake that risk. the way to not undertake the risk is to have your own account.
jurov: Please prove you are not an bot. How many cores RK3188 have?:
<< ahahaha olimex forums rule
chetty:
<mircea_popescu> this is such a brilliant approach to "user has no control of their computer"//won't be long till the computer controls the user
nubbins`: [14:44:17]
<+nubbins`> maybe the "dockstar"?
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> yelling on the street corner != rape
<<< seems exactly what it come to mean these days.
thestringpuller: "Getting fired from reddit sucks, but the support I've received from the bitcoin community is incredible. Free market social safety net."
<< "Why work when you can get donations for being a 'victim'."
mthreat:
<+mircea_popescu> ...
<< yeh but how are we to verify!
<< I actually got pics of me holding up the blockchain iPhone app transaction, in front of the Port Lockroy building with a sign visible!
mircea_popescu: invalid block=0000000000000a40136b
<< can oyu dig this thing up and post it please ?
mod6: mircea_popescu: mod6 persuing your error log : it would seem to me that for some reason your peers keep pumping you with blocks height=168002 and over, whereas yotu never get height=168001.
<< see line 40 of this paste:
http://pastebin.com/iweEQCpu mod6:
<< completely misunderstanding that.
<< ok gotcha.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> there's cpu to spare
<< funnily enough, what the power rangers wish to fix is... cpu speed.
PeterL: mircea_popescu:the plan is to put wot-member signed nodes in and nothing else.
<< add another command to assbot to collect ip addrs?
mircea_popescu: mthreat: Here's exactly where I am, for the details
<< yeh but how are we to verify!
mircea_popescu: punkman: "There’s a distinction between the Internet and IRL for a reason. We are here in IRL, and we have to make judgements in IRL." - Ulbricht's lawyer
<< did he actually point to the distinction or merely presume it ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i think it is interesting to note that qntra has surpassed a competing site, founded in april 2014
<< i have never heard of it, but mebbe ask em if they want to join in ?
mircea_popescu: mod6: it seems like the growing thought seems to be to get a list of 50300 active nodes and seed those directly into the R.I., or am I misunderstanding that??
<< completely misunderstanding that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: bitcoin could handily run under 100MB constant if the whole bastards thing were somehow bulldozed
<< yeah it's one of those serious issues that should have been on teh priority list of actual core devs. in 2012.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: swapping is the more or less one guaranteed way to ruin an arbitrarily good ssd.
<< while the principle is correct, in point of fact i would like this experimentally tried in our current case.
mircea_popescu: decimation: from $67,300 in 2014 to $61,287 this
<< remember the lulzy "need immigration to maintain geniusness of industree" paul graham nonsense ?
danielpbarron: ;;later tell LainZ gribble> New rating | LainZ > 1 > pankkake | bitcoin enthusiast, miss his trolling on #b-a
<< wrong WoT -- assbot forked it
punkman: asciilifeform: punkman: is that a total de-wxcrudification i see ?
<< I think so
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> sure one can't apprehend reality in some objective way
<< if this is true, how come gavin's not getting what he wants ?
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> well, first hoover, then fdr
<< the pissing on veterans is a universal sport. this is why being a soldier is dumb, being a mercenary is better.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> which is, as good as any, a demarcation point for the birth of modern usg
<< more like the birthplace of the central planning element thereof. "we affirm congress has the authority to central plan economic activity"
pete_dushenski: trinque: there was a moment where I realized my whole model of my life, experience, etc was that, a model
<< curious, when ?