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ben_vulpes: dilution of the dollar to pay for encampment of takers i'm hedged against
CompanionCube: because I was saying that it either was or is a deliberate clone
phf: i suspect back in the day it allowed vendors to optimize for usage patterns. "unlimited traffic vpn" vs running it on a tightly metered box
asciilifeform: i did, actually, it was a misery
CompanionCube: nope, but from their perspective it may as well be. Not that I'd agree though.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i never understood 'vpn service' -- why not hire a cheapo commercial linux box and route whateverses through it.
asciilifeform: i have said this before, but everyday life in usa makes the good doktor mengele's stitch-his-head-to-his-arse look like harmless hobby
asciilifeform: i did not put hand in, no.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i dunno, you implied the stink came from the synthetics alone!
asciilifeform: not long ago i walked to post office along different, for no good reason, path, to mail a FG, and saw the largest and most impressive dog i ever saw
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i don't follow the connection between the 'stinky' synthetic fabrics and the bacteria
ben_vulpes: trinque: oh boy i gotta show you "Master Vulpes and His Hound" some day
trinque: also http://i.imgur.com/LaG8aNd.gif vs https://thesciencedog.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/baby-sitting-on-dog.jpg
ben_vulpes: i don't find any of you funny either
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes notrly. i mean i dunno, to my eyes the whole "dog as pet" thing is kinda inept. get a hunting dog, go hunting with it, suddenly it's a lot more respectable an animal.
phf: i think "sit" and "shut up" is aspirational. when you're at that point, you kind of want something practical out
mircea_popescu: and in fairness i dun think i have to bid anyoine shut up once a week.
mircea_popescu: i much prefer fetch.
ben_vulpes: shinohai: honestly the only canine behaviors i really want are "sit" and "shut up"
phf: i sort of assume that people who quit job to be with family look and act like derek ireland at the end of one of his yoga videos
ben_vulpes: hey just because i fired everyone doesn't mean i'm not wandering around naked in the cavernous echo chamber of my own delusion every day
phf: i thought you need an office for an office slut
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 00:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633429 << we did https://68.media.tumblr.com/fa9a2501411802f10f1ddcaf88a17b7f/tumblr_o218aqlfjI1sk3xdpo1_500.gif I take it ?
mircea_popescu: i thought we're pretty much aware it's 1000000, but anytway
asciilifeform: the other constants, i looked up, but this one, naively memorized as 'megabyte'...
asciilifeform: (i.e. demonstrably nonoverflowable, nonhangable.)
asciilifeform: currently i suspect that a complete btctron can fit in 10k-line of ada.
asciilifeform: but no, i have not done this.
ben_vulpes: perhaps i am thinking of isMine?
ben_vulpes: ah, i must misremember.
mircea_popescu: ah i c.
mircea_popescu: i had the idea it actually does verify sigs just not scripts.
ben_vulpes: this is what i am asking
mircea_popescu: i would much prefer an empty kingdom. i utterly have no use of these softie surogate idiot-usian parenting types.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile poettering, i wasn't going to miss.
mircea_popescu: i will certainly hang the "nice people" in preference of the poetterings. just like trump does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not of the persuasion that poettering, ie, out and out wrecker, is in any sane sense worse than jwz, ie, "i'm just going to silently and passively enable the valence idiots".
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't give a shit about answers. i perceive i must send him a one liner "you should be ashamed of yourself", because HE SHOULD FUCKING BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.
mircea_popescu: not for a fucking second. he is enabling the misbehaviour of 30yo children. i gotta do more work bitchlapping these idiot cunts into the ground because he buys them food and doesn't makle them pay for the shiot they break. ☟︎
asciilifeform: fwiw i wrote to him after i deployed phuctor-cum-bernsteintron. 0 answer.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i thought he was being a bit satirical and snarky in that particular passage you quote (those two paras), from when i read it first. not that his general pose of presenting an excuse (if diligently detailed) of this kind of a good sign, of course. just that the tone is not *that* bad. (but, okay, perhaps bad enough when the piece is considered in whole.)
asciilifeform: i have nothing with which to explain it. or, e.g., taleb.
mircea_popescu: i'm fucking pissed off.
mircea_popescu: defend this, i wish to hear it.
mircea_popescu: i am very offended by the behavious.
mircea_popescu: bing his floor. I want to be perfectly clear that there was nothing fun or kinky about this. I don't enjoy humiliation, and it was not a consensual part of our sex life."
mircea_popescu: "During these discussions there was a lot of gaslighting. One discussion in particular, he claimed that I had somehow deeply injured him (I don't remember what I did) and was inconsolable. I kept asking him what I could do, and finally he insisted that for him to feel better I needed to clean his floors naked. And I did it. I cried the whole time, in surreal horror. He cheered up and took photos of me, crying and naked, scrub
mircea_popescu: "I was in an abusive relationship with Jake for six months in 2009. We parted on ostensibly amicable terms and have had little contact since then. When the accusations of professional misconduct and predatory sexual behavior were made public, I believed them, not just because I value and respect the men and women who made these accusations, but also because they sounded just like him. I saw him use those same strategies years
mircea_popescu: i don't explain the weird.
mircea_popescu: and plastic spoons are pretty bad. imagine -- i got silver silverware here!
asciilifeform: i dun think the pestle is immune to friction
phf: asciilifeform: why'd you say this. now i won't be able to make spices until i check. not like it would've killed me otherwise (tm)!
mircea_popescu: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/ad%20hominem << lol at the "i write my text on windows" part ; but that aside the dude has a point.
mircea_popescu: i thought it was just a specially treated waste disposal method
asciilifeform: i thought faux-granite were a bakelite-like substance.
asciilifeform: dunno if i want alpha emitters in my phood.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i were actually doing > 2 tons or so i'd have bothered. but really didn't have enough to juysrtify actual shipping
phf: oh yeah i have those two, i bought one in india last time, and it's as close as you can get to "rock with hole, another rock for mashing"
mircea_popescu: i have nfi wtf scam this is, but it makes entirely no sense whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: but aside from a whole crate with like 50 pogos in their original packaging, i carried over two granite mortar&pestle arrangements. because fu, i gotta have my pie spices hand ground.
asciilifeform: i still have several here, am quite fond of them.
asciilifeform: btw they'll run 'nqb' pretty well, i suspect.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i didn't perjure you, they didn't get sold or left in argentina, so. all good.
mircea_popescu: i don't give a shit about any excuses. this is the first, and the most important criterion of any place. no airport coolies, not civilised.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did get that trunk of pogos through .ar customs. though it made for interesting conversation
mircea_popescu: though i did give a fiddy to the porter who handled all of it, dude earned it. also made his day quite evidently.
asciilifeform: phf: i am fairly certain the post clerk thought i was sending $contraband
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess. sucks to live in a shitty jurisdiction huh.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually tricky bit, say btc goes to 5k, then buyer may well be rather pissed, rather than 'oh i'll reorder'
Framedragger: (i also called them to inquire but teh law is that they can't tell me more than on a postcard (which gives amount to pay, basically, i mean for srs). i may have gleaned something more by showing up at relevant delivery office (not the closest one) but i didn't bother (paid online and got it posted to my door))
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've had parcels marked 'gifts' disappear mysteriously
Framedragger: i can post it later but need to finish a thing tonight
asciilifeform: iirc i declared it as '50 usd'
Framedragger: it *could* be that it's because asciilifeform nicely noted down a dollar value on the parcel but then if he didn't he'd technically be breaking some law or another i'm sure
Framedragger: re. FUCKGOATS customs hold-up in UK: according to their story the hold-up with uk customs was due to them having to apply import duty (had to pay a bit) from u.s., *even though* i've had plenty of shit sent in from u.s. of a. before, so who knows (they wouldn't tell me more) :D ☟︎☟︎
phf: i vaguely suspect japan is actively shedding u.s. assets, so all these "investigations" might be u.s. attempt to extract whatever they can still extract
mircea_popescu: kinda why i didn't like it. made all these bs lower market tvs.
asciilifeform: i liked toshiba.
mircea_popescu: whatever, i never liked toshiba.
asciilifeform: phf: i definitely know the ~type~ aha
phf: i met fare at one of international lisp conference's and i thought he was kind of off, but the kind of work he did on asdf3 precisely corresponds to his personal and writing styles. sort of like a dirty kid that you have to constantly remind to like fucking go wash yourself dude, omg ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i thought that guy with the failed lcd restaurant would have been.
asciilifeform: and various others ( i think some of them are still linked from my www, they were 'in the birdlessness, my arse is a nightingale' )
mircea_popescu: i know plenty of 15yos who could recite factoids about fast cars i would nevertheless not permit to drive my fast car.
phf: i don't think fare was ever sane, but he at some point existed in similar space to asciilifeform, so people would mix the two together. i don't think anything he ever wrote was as lucid as "seven laws of sane computing", but a lot of highly abstract verbiage on imaginary systems designs
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, twitter is not a platform. anyone can say whatever the fuyck they want 140 chars at a time and i'll ignore it just like i ignore smsn
mircea_popescu: i'm supposed to give a shit what tweets some dood tweeted ?
mircea_popescu: i thought i had
mircea_popescu: show me similar heartfelt idiocy, and i will, yes.
mircea_popescu: i do not believe this.
mircea_popescu: any evolution whatsoever means i don't want to touch that item.
mircea_popescu: omfg this is the dumbest thing i read all week! and i read beginner's essays penned by 20yo sluts!!
diana_coman: it can and will be overrun from what I can see
diana_coman: I read there "kick him out" for "exposing"
mircea_popescu: i don't need five minutes to expose a bad collegiate paper, what's the exposure do ?
phf: asciilifeform: i actually tried replacing my asdf with asdf1 and the failure is that of thousand cuts. small, completely inconsequential additions to asdf file or some pointless uiop:foo-bar somewhere deep in code. some asdf files have hardcoded #-asdf3(error "asdf3 required") but then still work, etc.
mircea_popescu: i know from experience.
phf: yeah, i was about to *, but i keep doing this, where i type equivalent sounding words all over the place
asciilifeform: phf: i saw this, it was quite sad