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mircea_popescu: "If the Treasury were forced to convert the $1.4 trillion in short-term bills (on which it now pays an average interest rate of 0.056 percent) into 30-year bonds at the average rate it is now paying on such bonds (4.919 percent) the interest on that $1.4 trillion in debt would increase 88-fold."
<<< this is wreaking untold havoc on the entire known world, incidentally .it's not just the disruption it WILL cause as it u
gribble: asciilifeform was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 days, 7 hours, 55 minutes, and 32 seconds ago:
<asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i never understood the 'happy hacking keyboard' and imitators. being as i live and die by function keys, the more the merrier. why voluntarily have fewer?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: yes because even more pretending will save the world
<< my fucking thoughts exactly.
mircea_popescu: undata: please take my course on the above for only 10 BTC
<< too cheap to work.
mircea_popescu: jurov: this is the undoing of C.. due to its memory unsafety they must decide to either bloat the kernel or suffer the overhead
<<< out of the 10`000 billion lines of commentary written on the "usg is making up money and giving it to redhat to implement its policies ; whereby control economy is now called "do-ocracy" topic the past year or so, yours is the first one to actually be fucking sensible.
decimation:
http://oldurbanist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/ever-since-euclid.html << " But their view seems to be that so long as the owner remains clothed with the legal title thereto and is not ousted from the physical possession thereof, his property is not taken, no matter to what extent his right to use it is invaded or destroyed or its present or prospective value is depreciated."
<< progressives have been grinding down the US for a long time
jurov: I don't see how shoving the entire protocol in the kernel makes sense
<< they don't want unnecessary context switches
kuzetsa: [23:00:00]
<+mircea_popescu>
<kuzetsa> assbot: you're a bad idea
<< if you'd have read the logs you'd know there was some derp in chan earlier dropping links to leech ips to ddos people.
<< mmm, yeah. I barely even notice if someone directly mentions my own nick.
mats_cd03: 02:48:14asciilifeform:usg choppers were supposedly fired upon during 'katrina'
<< yep, i can confirm this second hand -- i know a few L.A. guardsmen that engaged in firefights with looters
thestringpuller: mirc but then again, they never wanted to make a good game ; they just wanted to make a game everyone plays
<< except that was never the original plan until activision took over
mircea_popescu: decimation> it's 'dead' in the sense that there's apparently no serious alternative to redhat-salaried developers who 'maintain' the core of userspace
<<< history is the alternative.
mircea_popescu:
<kuzetsa> assbot: you're a bad idea
<< if you'd have read the logs you'd know there was some derp in chan earlier dropping links to leech ips to ddos people.
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> opera is a vastly superior browser
<<< i been sayin'.
gribble: ben_vulpes was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 37 seconds ago:
<ben_vulpes> yeah. puh-the-tic
mircea_popescu: adlai: "He is also in possession of personal bitcoins of two employees (~50 bitcoins)" how do things go this far wrong?
<< it's called "shut up and take my money". aka, people are uncannily inept.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: i wonder if im the youngest asset-er
<< how old are you ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: the tricky part is speaking it, i often sub in canto words by abusing tones and i don't realize im doing it
<< dude's got some problems i can scarcely imagine.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: imma buy some buttcoins
<< a man with a plan.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: well. i mean, you can pickle and ferment anything, but i doubt regular cabbage would be any good
<<< are you fucking kidding me ? regular cabbage, without none of this fish sauce crap, is THE THING.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Fuck your superfood shit. You know what's a read superfood? Lard. Much energy to mass ratio.
<< every cockroach's favorite food, too.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i wonder if it walks like as well
<< now we know how slovenia makes its politicians. people just take walking, talking shits.
gribble: thickasthieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 weeks, 3 days, 22 hours, 33 minutes, and 52 seconds ago:
<ThickAsThieves> but you da boss
cazalla: BingoBoingo dunno how he feels about contracting Lou Gehrig's disease...
<<< that's your guess eh
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 23:46:41; mircea_popescu: adlai: you don't need every transaction
<< you're an expert now ?
mats_cd03: 17:43:31
<@assbot> [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42300 @ 0.00030027 = 12.7014 BTC [-]
<< whoever's dumping shares can't possibly be running a profit ... the mystery continues
mircea_popescu:
<mike_c> turkey was good, especially since i didn't have to cook it.
<< best turkey.
kakobrekla:
<fivezerotwo> now I am going to ddos targets I actually give a fuck about. but don't worry, you can have you fun with bitbet afterwards with the same qntra/trilema-down flood
mircea_popescu: diametric: anyone have a recommendation on a vps provider that accepts bitcoin and isn't a scam?
<< nope. this is an oft recurring problem, nobody wants to make one already. for what, a year ? three ?
mircea_popescu: diametric: decimation: pretty much whats been happening for the last few days
<< freenode (and irc generally) isn't exactly a paragon of predictable behaviour
mircea_popescu: adlai: you don't need every transaction
<< you're an expert now ?
☟︎ adlai: "I would like to claim as my own… the theory of comparative superpower collapse" - dmitri orlov
<< I get that he's perceptive about the present, but has he not read any history from more than 100 years ago!?
nubbins`:
<+ben_vulpes> amusingly, it's faster and more robust to tail ~/.bitcoin/debug.log than it is to actually query getblockcount on 0.5.3
<<< +1
mircea_popescu: "Godaddy sucks and it is a nightmare to register and transfer names using them."
<< doh.
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> that;s right : i have more empathy for the god damned coins than for the derps involved.
<< this.
mircea_popescu: "Cyber Security Specialist"
<< note how it's all round numbers ?
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> i guess now that i've got a cloak, maybe i'll find out if these random power-downs are due to bad RAM or a 0-day
<< 99% they're due to transients from your power source.
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> anyway looks like that did it punkman, it's checkin em pretty quickly now
<< yeah needed a reindex.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:well if he did nubbins has some 'splainin' to do lol.
<<< nope, in fact, i am also mildly perturbed by the fact that i mailed over $4,000 of goods to the guy and we didn't even get a couple measly pictures out of it
☟︎☟︎ cazalla: mircea_popescu> cazalla heh ok but listen, gotta proof these better somehow or something
<<< i have the proof, source didn't make clear what he was comfortable with what was published as does not want to be identified
gribble: bgupta was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours, 44 minutes, and 44 seconds ago:
<bgupta> gobimint making ti really hard to know where to show up and say "I am sparticus!"
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mircea_popescu: decimation: sign, google or apple, pick your poison
<<< yeah, isn't chrome basically one of those spammy "toolbars" they had for netscape that sort-of mutated into being its own browser ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation: unfortunately firefox is kind of a defacto standard
<< o srsly ? check it out, and i never used it! ima go to hipster heaven now.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: hate to pedant at you but that one gets up my nose decimation
<<< i kinds feel responsible for the dilligence bs.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: because if people know you can't even secure a domain, pretty unlikely to then give you bitcoins in the wallet you're about to launch eh
<<< don't be ridiculous. "people" would give bitcoin to a boy with no arms that'll hate you if you don't please forward this email to all your fb friends,
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: cazalla: this got you kicked from twitter?
<< twitter is broken in that if you spam it with "complaints" it will autolock accounts. trivial to hassle anyone you feel like, and the powerless generally revel in this sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: my social media is being polluted by social justice warriors
<< the welfare state has succeeded in breeding a new type of cockroach.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: that said i can construct like 5 narratives to support it
<< hey, me too!
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: mp noted once that share price correlates with fiat price of btc
<< actually the private joke at the time was that it doesn't seem to correlate at all (it didn't move during the early mtgox induced runup to 1.2k). so i was kinda tongue-in-cheek referencing that "public knowledge" as it became apparently contradicted by the otherwise who the fuck knows what it's doing s.mpoe
mircea_popescu:
<decimation> mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin."
<< no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement'
<< the problem there is that they actually DID work, and should have some money. problem is, in typical tardstalk fashion, they got scammed and having nothing left, are now siding with the scammer.
decimation: mircea_popescu: "all through 2015 we will be seeing a shitton of 50-somethings with so-so credentrials going all weirdo on bitcoin."
<< no they just realize that bitcoin == no free money for 'retirement'
☟︎ decimation: ;;later tell ben_vulpes re: explain "usg has generally used the power of printed dollars to make it such that most people don't pay taxes"
<< Well, I was thinking of the very straightforward sense in which the majority of humans on us territory receive more dollars from usg than give to usg.
mircea_popescu: Apr 05 22:50:39 {Cusipzzz} i, for one, welcome our stable bitcoin overlords
<< from the logs ben_vulpes never saw
xanthyos:
<+TomServo> heh, first enterprise captain?
<< first enterprise captain was jonathan archer
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Hello ratpoison, is your nick in honor of the excellet window manager of the same name?
<< it's the andi-flood noobs pill kako made
xanthyos:
<gribble> Sent 10 hours ago:
<ben_vulpes> until you share those photos you're a goddamn scammer
<< i haven't asked for any money. the pictures are aplenty on my twitter account. you need +3 trust in my L1 to read my tweets