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mircea_popescu: xanthyos: i don't use keybase but my key was generated there
<<< "your".
mircea_popescu: jurov: coinbr is getting 30k pingbacks/minute
<< did it do anything ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so anyone know this Khalahan Henkh fellow ?
<< anyone respond to this?
undata: "Potter says he is still deciding if he will press charges for assault."
<< this is weak
mircea_popescu: "from the small fraction of the population that has this romantic attachment to absolute transparency at all costs."
< < the sweetest sugar of etatism,
decimation: asciilifeform: "supply chicken"
<< I get the general impression that the 'chicken' volunteers
hanbot: mircea_popescu: hanbot mail the man would you.
<< so emailed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'build $widget-prime and try to pass off to chumpers as genuine $widget'
<<< what else is the 80/20 software engineering approach than "build 80% of a functional program out of 20% of the budget and then try to pretend like we're selling it for "half price" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation: "NSA as an institution, however has become a TQM believer, born again in the gospel of Deming"
<<< im not even sure anyone groks the botomless pit of lulz this otherwise truthful statement contains.
nubbins`:
<+ben_vulpes> dots for laffs
<<< wouldn't be the first time
kakobrekla: someone actually uses 'keybase' ?!?!
< no surprise there
gribble: (echangekey
<keyid>) -- Changes your GPG registered key to
<keyid>.
<keyid> is a 16 digit key id, with or without the '0x' prefix. We look on servers listed in 'plugins.GPG.keyservers' config. You will be given a link to a page which contains a one time password encrypted with your key. Decrypt, and use the 'everify' command with it. You must be authenticated in order to use this (1 more message)
undata: "within 24 hours of acquiring funds for repayment"
<< so, like, whenever?
punkbot: ben_vulpes: Error: '
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http url.
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2014 21:05:38; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: heh
<<< i like the guy's specifications skills tho.
mircea_popescu: manamex: got worned by bitbethelp everyone on this channel gets dosed
<< lol we're speshul.
Apocalyptic:
<thomas_d> Do you usually need to wait a little while after exporting cert to server? // yes you do
mircea_popescu: bitbethelp> cazalla, nor did I lose anything. it's not about the attempts where you don't get anything, but the attempts you succeed.
<< what is this fucktardry, srsly.
ben_vulpes: "versions prior to 0.6.0 detached all databases at shutdown."
<< explains hilariously slow shutdowns
mircea_popescu: Clearly, Professor Kokkarinen was naive to use his own name when he switched his blog from Finnish to English
<<< mp considers just how great his power is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this is a standard usg 'lie detector.'
<< the funny thing is, i dunno if the scientologists copied the ohmmeter after the usg "lie detector", or vice-versa, the fbi is tring to find yout tethans
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: possibly even fewer.
<<< he likes a short thing lol.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> and the destroyers - will pay. one day.
<< aite!
decimation: re: gavin's 40 hr week
<< I was merely pointing out that if ascii's formula is (freedom hrs)/(work hrs), then gavin might have a good score
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if it were to implode, the shills will be placed into similar roles elsewhere
<<< pretty miuch this.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: do you think gavin works 40 hours per week on the git repo?
<< do you suppose captive whore in thai illegal brothel works 40 hours per week ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and that's more or less it.
<< notice that bitbet, mpex, trilema, qntra, logs etc all work on lynx.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i know of no setup where it is possible to set up even a very decent 486 in such a way that it can be used for serious work today.
<<< sarge ?
gribble: sdffsd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 hours, 19 minutes, and 32 seconds ago:
<sdffsd> Mircea, I can't access mpex.co, what's going on?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people.
<< do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied
<< well, i know you self-motivate by refusing to see some degrees, but there are some degrees.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: but at one point exhausted ram, but blockchain remained wedged upon restart
<<< speaking of this, there's an option to close with detached bdb
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: as in, physically go places and do things
<< dunkin donuts ?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> unfortunately BingoBoingo may be the only man alive who can see this similarity
<< So the most superficial similarity is the media narrative. A&M is perenial legit title contender while MIZ accidentallied the SEC east championship last year and accidentally is in the lead to win it again this year.
decimation:
http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ << "Part of the distinctiveness of Funtoo Linux is its dependency-based OpenRC init system, so changing this would make it something other than Funtoo Linux. So we do not support systemd as part of Funtoo Linux. "
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people.
<< do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied
<< I believe for the rest #b-a is Frankenstein's attic laboratory
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> decimation: i don't think anyone here has trouble getting money by working.
<< I was not able to secure seasonal retail work again this year. I suspect I'm already on a list to "have problems"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: getting tired of the bellicose rhetoric
<< "why can't we all just get along" ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: did not feel the need to argue the point that no on in their right mind wants to stock shelves at the Canadian superstore at 2am
<<< why should they get a choice ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: wage labour is wage labour, whether for usd, btc, or gold dubloons
<<< this is an iffy proposition.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or needing money.
<<< this is nonsense anyway. money is always needed, this is a scaling problem. average rat living in a hole in the middle east linking his pretenses to humanity to his possesion of an old cellphone someone lost may think ben_vulpes' l
punkman: a bunch of conceptual difficulties about how exactly to handle the job descriptions/contractual enforcement
<< interesting in hearing some of those
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this may also explain the disappearance of moiety and a few other folks.
<<< it's not a bad theory in any sense. got any policy proposals based on it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: is there, somewhere, a smoky bar where they down hard drinks and tell anyone who'll listen how 'it was all a sham11!1!' ?
<< not afaik, tho i'd like to have a hard drink myself. tho i imagine that'd ruin it huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what was his project (mentioned in the comment) ?
<<< you perhaps recall i said at conference i want two things made, an advertising service and a jobs board. we had some initial discussions about it, we ran into a bunch of conceptual difficulties about how exactly to handle the job descriptions/contractual enforcement, which turned out a much more complex task than originally imagined, last was "we
mircea_popescu: - Expenses: 1505 (1257 Slickage, the rest mostly mods)
<< according to theymos, tardstalk has spent half a million dollars to one million this year.
mircea_popescu: | 34 | Gavin Andresen | 0 |
<< not in forum trust list ; | 33 | OgNasty | 1 |
<< in forum default trust list.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski:"where's the $1.5mn funding for nanotube's WoT"
<< perhaps you don';t understand what "a protocol for decentralized and password-less authentication" means.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: modesty the likes of which would shock a johnny come lately reader
<< But within that basic framework there are many subtle variations, only discernable to an acute observer, that reflect the many moods, the many shades, the many sides of MP!