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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't help but wonder where this one stood
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did anyone ever step up to your 'judge biography' challenge?
asciilifeform: btw this kind of thing is a schoolbook example of what 'xxxx can also have problems' means.
asciilifeform: what kind of trouble warranted his removal - and by whom, in actuality, he was removed - we (or at least i) do not know
chetty: bing0! asciilifeform you got it, they are indeed a whole different species
pankkake: sure, but the prison sentence isn't useful in that way. will this teach other bureaucrats?
asciilifeform: pankkake: it 'worked' in this case - for removal of troublesome bureaucrat by another of his species
chetty: depends what they are supposed to do
pankkake: the general thinking is "I'll get away with it"
asciilifeform: want public firing squad, gotta go to cn, just like for cheap pcbs.
TomServo: right. And the guy with 15 years gets no reprieve?
chetty: 4 years in fed country club at that
asciilifeform: chicoms cornered the market
mircea_popescu: what happened to death ?
mircea_popescu: TomServo the best part is where they discuss how "a stiff sentence was appropriate" and then the sentence is... 4 years.
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benkay: ;;google trilema assets +m
asciilifeform: a lizard goes to the clink when a fatter, more senior lizard wishes it, and not at any other time
chetty: sigh, prolly true - charge should read, fails to play ball
asciilifeform: the others remain on their thrones, on account of their 'playing ball'
asciilifeform: chetty: what i'm suggesting is that this particular specimen 'needed to have problems' - for some reason obviously not stated in the gov. press release.
TomServo: The sentence comes after Thornsbury admitted his role in a conspiracy to coerce a local drug defendant, George White, into firing his defense counsel.
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asciilifeform: chetty: i'd be surprised if every judge in usa weren't guilty of these and other crimes. but this one is removed. --> for reasons.
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benkay: i understand now, thank you.
benkay: ah that's what you mean by draw things.
asciilifeform: benkay: perhaps i did not explain well. most wm actually draw something of their own on the screen - window boundaries, toggles, clocks, etc.
asciilifeform: there are other tiling wm, but they all seem to insist on being 'better' - i.e. actually outputting something extra
benkay: what's the difference between drawing on the screen and giving things a place to live?
asciilifeform: only this
benkay: sure but what does rp do that's so different?
asciilifeform: it only gives other things a place to live
benkay: have you tried xmonad?
asciilifeform: 'ratpoison' doesn't - but if it did, all you'd have to do is change its own bindings (they're all configurable)
benkay: granted this pernicious notion was planted in my head by the notorious lee, so i don't know if it carries any water.
benkay: i've been concerned about a wm stomping on my emacs bindings, and losing a week to fixing it.
asciilifeform: benkay: think emacs but for all x11 progs
benkay: i have to admin, i tend to eschew the window mgr in favor of...emacs. app-tab over to...browsers.
asciilifeform: benkay: the wm 'ratpoison', imho, looks better than osx. i.e., it doesn't draw extraneous crud on the display at all...
benkay: <BingoBoingo> fluffypony: Done right XFCE looks much better than OSx // care to share shots of your setup?
benkay: <BingoBoingo> asciilifeform: That explains the problem historically, but not why it persists. // see also smbx
mircea_popescu: who's that ?
davout: jborkl: dotcoin is the same
chetty: jborkl> he is too good at playing idiot to tell// obama?
jborkl: he is too good at playing idiot to tell
jborkl: I still do not know if he is the biggest idiot on the planet or just a scammer playing idiot
fluffypony: jborkl: to quote usagi - "You guys have no idea how badly you've screwed up trying to troll people to get ahead, and all the junk lies that you are telling."
mircea_popescu: princessnell "Visions receive more attention than game plans. We know we want to “decentralize,” at least. Growing pains notwithstanding, the old ways simply will not do. Power corrupts, we are reminded from birth. The worst get on top, fewer learn later. Men are not angels but too many of them still run the world. No, our doomed synthetic seraphocracy must go." your prose needs better ligature.
jborkl: maybe he can sell his skateboard this time
mircea_popescu: much like amir taaki
mircea_popescu: sure, he's inventing the future of crypto
jborkl: wait Usagi lost access to his wallet ? he is still around?
mircea_popescu: now if only he liked himself, he could be done with all that.
mircea_popescu: i like him too, and feel thesame way
fluffypony: I like Peter Todd, I feel like his efforts are wasted / stymied by many others around him
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well left todd a tell, curious what'll come of that.
thestringpuller: lol deprived, whatever happened to him?
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fluffypony: asciilifeform: thanks for the updated defective bird pic, it has come in handy - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=631605.msg7234573#msg7234573
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mircea_popescu: course in my mind it's more like bitcoin-dev's johhny come lately attempt at making a bitcoin-assets without the ass in it
fluffypony: only the cool kids are there
fluffypony: it's the /r/BitcoinSerious version of #bitcoin-dev
chetty: save screen time and line the bird cage :)
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mike_c: those of you who wanted trilema book: https://www.paperlater.com/
mircea_popescu: reading is not just techne is the problem. which is why there exists such a thing as the educated idiot.
chetty: people can't be bothered to read mostly, much less evaluate the content in any reasonable manner
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, not anyone could read anymore than anyone could magic.,
mircea_popescu: people derping about how "we" should live in a world without rape conveniently tend to not mention that rape is in fact the only cure to the particular mental disease that constitutes their powerbase.
mircea_popescu: and the prescription for this disease is... rape.
mircea_popescu: '...what I find among the modern novices is that they do not feel the same way about the experts -- they want an expert-free world where their ignorance is not painful, where their inexperience is not used against them, where they get all the jokes, where nobody uses literary references that elude them, where every one of their ideas is accepted by their peers as just as novel as they think it is...' <<< quite exactly.
asciilifeform: better - sure. but when you come across a lamer - he's already paying what a very reasonable education would cost - the price of his net connection.
chetty: nah the travel is better, earn your audience with an expert
asciilifeform: chetty: somehow people once imagined that not having to travel over sea and through jungle to visit the experts - would solve this.
chetty: asciilifeform, a lot of that problem might actually be there are so few real experts
asciilifeform: '...what I find among the modern novices is that they do not feel the same way about the experts -- they want an expert-free world where their ignorance is not painful, where their inexperience is not used against them, where they get all the jokes, where nobody uses literary references that elude them, where every one of their ideas is accepted by their peers as just as novel as they think it is...'
mircea_popescu: which is why isortedin tht order :p
asciilifeform poor with good tools. not impossible.
mircea_popescu: noobs and poor people are not allowed to have good tools.
ThickAsThieves: Then, Shared Send was discontinued. Even the old URL for Shared Send (https://blockchain.info/wallet/send-shared) redirects to their SharedCoin page now."
ThickAsThieves: For a while, Shared Send was the only option. Then SharedCoin was introduced and for a while they were both available in the blockchain.info wallet.
ThickAsThieves: "There used to be something called Shared Send, which was an actual taintless bitcoin mixer and not just a CoinJoin plausible-deniability transaction obfuscator.
asciilifeform: i knew i could rely on that particular cat
jurov: btw, how it went with the robin?
asciilifeform killed the last two mice in old flat with own hands, still had to... clean after
mircea_popescu: the only way to establish which of the three is to be abundant with the last two
mircea_popescu: i ordinarily punish people for things they perceive are "well outside their control"
mircea_popescu: it encourages the mice to organise and clean up your kitchen
mircea_popescu: blaming the mice is an excellent strategy.
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asciilifeform: ;;google don't blame the mice
asciilifeform: mice belong in mousetrap, yes. but the kitchen remains filthy.
mircea_popescu: i will blame the mice.
mircea_popescu: mike_c mind making the columns on your splendid tracker red and green ?
asciilifeform: TLS/SSL bug... hasn?t been found for over 16 years << don't blame the fscking mice...
mircea_popescu: did panacea take it in teh butts ?
mike_c: eurusd is a tough market.
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