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Adlai: mircea_popescu: why misuse the term
<< the term is misused to shock the audience, a technique you seem to enjoy yourself...
undata: "the dissolution of shared meaning"
<< this is a wonderful description of what's at work here
mircea_popescu: undata: some guy comes along and pledges to slap our oligarchs around; after a bit economic collapse they'd eat that shit up
<<< this is some massively funny shit.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's
<< boss you got a funny memory
mircea_popescu: undata: BingoBoingo: I'll read this but to continue, the Russians sought Putin's strong voice after their collapse.
<< not after, honey. a decade after. that decade is important.
mircea_popescu: undata: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish because the congressmen stop coming to work
<< obviously not. it just starts working for me instead ?
mircea_popescu: undata: the US military is immensely capable of holding cities
<<< should be interesting to hear more of this.
mircea_popescu: undata: more like giant slave and ankle-chain
<< this was recently in full display in the ukraine, and then later in iraq. except both ukrainians and iraquis are, as a stock, more resilient than the us guy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll be looking to grow my farm once qntra takes off
<< lol what a plan for the future.
ben_vulpes:
<kakobrekla> o hey our resident child rapist also keeps charts
<< lulzy, what's the story on this?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: no need for the 74xx to melt - enough to 'get lucky' and reach a metastable state in one or more switching elements
<< for pure wankeriferious interest : wouldn't supercooling it be a pill against all this ?
ben_vulpes: * mircea_popescu kinda likes the smell of gasoline
<< various engineers went on red alert over a faint whiff of gasoline earlier today
kakobrekla: there were to be two machines connected with serial cable
< heh i have such setup with a buffer on the cable
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> connected with serial cable
<< this from reading up on old mpex material ?
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> decimation: bitcoind begs to be split into at least 3 programs
<< of which only 1 is necessary !
<< for the record, what are the three and which the one?
ben_vulpes:
<undata> anyhow, horse is starting to stink
<< what is this a reference to?
mircea_popescu: assbot: Breakout Gaming Fall Short In Attempt To Raise 10,000 BTC | Qntra.net
<<< they shouldn'rt feel bad, minigames didn't manage 10k either.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> forsaking version control systems entirely!
<< i cannot conscience this.
kakobrekla:
<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform: the non-classical version strings are interesting
<< the first time i said ppl alter their strings ppl hgere were "oh, mp is just making shit up to win an internet argument"
< i can see how someone running v0.9 would set the string to 'ducky duck' but not v0.1.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: one can fudge the version string in the proggy, yes, but if you're on the network, folks can presumably connect to your node and test behaviours
<<< miner doesn't have to rely
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the non-classical version strings are interesting
<< the first time i said ppl alter their strings ppl hgere were "oh, mp is just making shit up to win an internet argument"
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge
<< a wedge ?!
kakobrekla: except not
< i think you are the most common in bash say last 5 pages
thestringpuller: cazalla: july being middle of winter here
<< the joys of the southern hemisphere
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> best tomatoes!
<< We still have tomatoes ripening...
joecool:
<cazalla> i think that was phased out mid 90s decimation
< not in planes
mircea_popescu: Opal is a variety of low-aromatic
<< that'd be a problem
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> best take people at their peak
<< Great value of a WoT system as here has is you can know what their bottom is
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: All officers and directors voluntarily agreed to the Company's redemption of an aggregate of 12,750,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate payment of $2,491. In doing so, the Company will have further flexibility in continuing to strengthen its balance sheet and ultimately add shareholder value.
<< could you help me decipher what is going on here accounting wise?
mircea_popescu:
<assbot> Julian Assange: "Bitcoin's Blockchain Most Intellectually Interesting Development In The Last Five Years | Qntra.net
<< for sure.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> instant anti-ddos pill
<< this is like saying that because anyone can wget -m qntra.net that's an anti ddos pill
mircea_popescu:
<jurov> there must be some statistic how price of uprooting increases with age >> it does ? why would it ?
BingoBoingo:
<bounce> qnx was a thing way before blackberry existed
<< Indeed, but way for a decent RTOS to ruin the last Mobile OS
BingoBoingo:
<bounce> for the one floppy trick you'd probably need qnx or so, but not sure if bitcoind would fit with that, even after you kicked out photon and the browser
<< QNX that Blackberry thing?
BingoBoingo:
<jurov> so you say what will be hosted - only list of patches and a script
<< I actually imagined set of books for the core an annumal supplement book of refinemnts
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> mod6: me too, that threw me off. but maybe i did something silly with the install by creating a root account? i'm not super clued on deb... but it asked me to make a root account first, then a user account. so that was kinda bizzare to me.
<< no that's how debian did it for what, 10, 15 years ?
<< I thought it was just Ubuntu that only made a user account they'd turn into a super sudoer
mircea_popescu: mod6: me too, that threw me off. but maybe i did something silly with the install by creating a root account? i'm not super clued on deb... but it asked me to make a root account first, then a user account. so that was kinda bizzare to me.
<< no that's how debian did it for what, 10, 15 years ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu "either you renounce ALL your laws or we burn you to the ground."
<< now here's a radical concept. probably the same one that was invoked at parliament hill today
mircea_popescu: othernubs`: i thought medium was the sort of site where literally anyone can publish?
<<< medium is, essentially, the sort of venue created to give the impression of a #b-a to the 99% idiots who can't tell the difference.
mircea_popescu: "Three Colorado high school students may have been playing hooky so they could run away and join ISIS — apparently seduced by their twisted campaign of terror and hatred. The girls, ages 15, 16 and 17, never showed up to their Denver-area school on Friday because they were en route to Turkey via Germany,"
<<< much better chicks than any "feminist" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: bounce: I don't care if maladjusted angry youths want to run away and make trouble in a war zone. I do care if they come back, recruit some more kids (to do the same), cause trouble, shoot some jews, what have you.
<< how else do you expect the shithole to be fixed ?
mircea_popescu: bounce: announce that loud and clear and everybody knows what the score is. "if you want to go there, you're dead to us."
<< it won't work.
mircea_popescu: jurov: wtf is "individual terrorist undertaking"?
<< basically, what you're doing here.
atcbot: >> No data returned from CoinMiner.net
<< [PityThePool Hashrate]: 1502.67 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.38 TH/s [P2P Hashrate]: 0.00 TH/s
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo MultiBit Version 0.5.11 Changes + Implemented issue 96 - Sign and Verify message.
<< that's it!
pete_dushenski: los_pantalones: just heard these guys closed 50mm
<< inching closer to that magic $bn
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:ditch the fractional versions. 1, 2, 3, infinity. natural numbers.
<< except we use.... roman numerals.
nubbins`:
<+mircea_popescu>
<asciilifeform> my mental concept of freedom is more or less synonymous with never setting an alarm clock again.
<< ha! not even for say, a comet ?
<<< i'm down to one alarm a week
mircea_popescu:
<nubbins`> asciilifeform came to see a sonic youth show and never left
<< lol too funnay.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> you - which you. herr buffett can sleep when he pleases, likewise, i hear.
<< not so. not when the dow is ding ding dinging downwards.