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mircea_popescu: decimation the magical mental needs of the feeble minded don't go away simply because they are surrounded by / live in a society based on more advanced thoughts.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i write on a platform that doesn't run grep o.O
mircea_popescu: all the bad things teh french revolution hated, like you know, lord X who owns property but "doesn't give anything back to society"
mircea_popescu: never been near one that wasn't ventilated.
mircea_popescu: yeah but you wouldn't try to get head in it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't imagine a home chip fab would smell much better.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i wouldn't mind a car that runs on farts, if it were possible at home. << can you imagine hpow that'd go ? how it'd smell ? how uncomfortable the gas pipe'd get ?
asciilifeform: a language that i don't even care to discuss because it cannot be meaningfully executed on existing hardware.
asciilifeform: undata: i can't even begin to say, because the expense involved is literally astronomical.
asciilifeform: i wouldn't mind a car that runs on farts, if it were possible at home.
decimation: asciilifeform: I wouldn't mind a 500 micrometer fab if it were possible at home
decimation: and it isn't 'movable type' in the sense that someone with a brain can arrange the internals to serve his needs
asciilifeform: wasn't speaking of fpga specifically
decimation: there aren't many fpgas in consumer chips in general
asciilifeform: doesn't do much good
asciilifeform: don't wait for the chinese to copy fpga. they have no reason whatsoever to.
asciilifeform: will poke until it bursts. and it doesn't take much.
decimation: and one couldn't bake a meatloaf with particles of linux and call it 'linux'
decimation: but in the case it wouldn't openbsd anymore
asciilifeform: but this tale was not about a 'proper' laptop, but attempt to glue together a portable-with-keyboard that isn't x86 and therefore can actually achieve some serious runtime on battery
asciilifeform: except it wouldn't
mircea_popescu: jesus the fruits in this country, i can't get over it.
mats: their characters are shallow, and apparently don't pass the Bechdel test.
mats: they do alright, generally, but chicks i talk to about it aren't happy with how women are portrayed in the show
mats: i lost the battle in giving up TV. i haven't picked up anything new though, so thats a win, i guess
BingoBoingo: The UFC sucks because the matchups aren't competative.
mats: meh. i don't watch sports on television.
undata: like child beauty pagents *certainly aren't* weird quasi-child-porn
undata: football *certainly isn't* about watching idiots injure each other
BingoBoingo: Even though the players aren't allowed to do that anymore because it is "Targeting" and justifies suspending the SEC sacks leader mid game so Alabama won't have to suffer the possibility of a close game.
BingoBoingo: Well, the university training wasn't much other than social justice derping as a minority.
undata: I was working on my own crypto-only exchange for a bit, then thought better of it since I don't have piles of money for lawyers
mircea_popescu: it's like nigeria, except in nigeria you can't find dentists. in the us you can't find lawyers.
BingoBoingo: Here's the defendan't blog http://sharethezing.blogspot.com/
mircea_popescu: i didn't pick it either, and i am thankful for not having had to.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, i didn't pick the 7! but i dare to guess that it was chosen out of spite.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (incidentally, coppersmith didn't think much of the xsl thing)
mircea_popescu: i wonder, if i say Dr. Nicolas T. Courtois will this then be the first hit on his name tomorrow or something ?
cazalla: wonder why they didn't mention drugs in the news article
nubbins`: and didn't even bind it himself!
thestringpuller: !t h AMHASH3
thestringpuller: !t h AMHASH2
thestringpuller: !t h AMHASH1
decimation: I think "don't grab the princess" is on the list
nubbins`: well i guess assbot doesn't issue ;;rate commands in-chan
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 06:35:49; ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen?
ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen? ☟︎
assbot: I hope he comes here to tell us how "gpg is not user friendly and too hard." /jyap http://t.co/w1PgofiYzc /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets /ElectrumWallet
mircea_popescu: he didn't seem to want to personally do anything past telling the others what they should be doing
BingoBoingo: But now Watson can surmise he will be saved by stotting behavior until the one time he isn't
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> and his (alleged) plan to buy back 'respectability' with money is uncharacteristically foolish << i didn't read any such plan in there. just, "i want money" "what for ?" "fuck you lol:
mircea_popescu: <decimation> eh? weren't nearly all the 'returning jews' from german backgrounds? << yep.
assbot: Transportation chief: $1 billion surplus can't fix road problems | Minnesota Public Radio News ... ( http://bit.ly/1uiAhi0 )
decimation: eh? weren't nearly all the 'returning jews' from german backgrounds?
Vexual: t-shirts are a recent invention
asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/79DTA7H << 'no parking' sign outside of that post office. (i don't presently have a photo of the inside.)
mircea_popescu: you can't argue with that part. they got really good at printing them.
decimation: orlov is right that wages haven't increased, but prices have fallen
mircea_popescu: eh i don't have a lien on that.
TomServo: know, but there is no limit at all to how much you don't know but think you do!
mircea_popescu: ecdsa alone isn't enough to breach it.
mircea_popescu: but there's also some scienfitic doubt. you really don't know a) how good a "random curve" is n the generla case ; b) you don't really know how to calculate the quality of a good curve.
thestringpuller: !t m s.qntr
danielpbarron: you've got quite a few positive ratings from users i don't trust
danielpbarron: well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord
thestringpuller: that is a name I haven't seen in sometime
undata: I don't feel a burning urge to attract the attention of that govt
undata: I think you're right; it won't be a great thing abroad to be or have been an american
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so. ☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: undata: i haven't the faintest clue about where you went (or will go) but most u.s. expats may as well be living back home, where they are.
undata: +asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: most u.s. subjects don't have an obvious rational action to follow the awakening of 'aha so i'm living in a zoo run by demented vivisectionists, now i need to...' << make money and gtfo in my case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most u.s. subjects don't have an obvious rational action to follow the awakening of 'aha so i'm living in a zoo run by demented vivisectionists, now i need to...'
mircea_popescu: <mats> in my opinion, this is a fundamentally irreconcilable difference between govt agents and intel agents << idealised intel agents. like idealised doctors or lawyers, doing "liberal professions". like naggum's idealised "real programmers". problem is, these people don't exist in the counts you might wish to employ. they exist in short supply.
mircea_popescu: <mats> i get the impression that most americans accept as fact that torture is ineffective << for sure. do you know what else they accept ? that "free markets don't work" and that "socialism is democracy" and all sorts of similar things. do you know why they accept them ? because they want to believe. 16 yo 7/10 valley girl also believes she's "beautiful" and that "she really has a chance". why wouldn't she, as far as
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'The CIA did not hold any detainees after April 2008.' <<< "the fed won't monetise the debt"
mats: its actually a humorous indictment of the CIAs HUMINT operations, that they weren't able to get useful information from the rendered
BingoBoingo: It wouldn't end with "win" another criminal enterprise would emerge. better win is probably stalemate
mats: and you can't do dick about it.
danielpbarron: i don't know anyone who saw it happen
danielpbarron: i don't listen to alex jones
thestringpuller: I can't take them seriously.
danielpbarron: sonething tells me you aren't here to tell us how gpg isn't user friendly enough
assbot: I hope he comes here to tell us how "gpg is not user friendly and too hard." /jyap http://t.co/w1PgofiYzc /hashtag/bitcoin?src=hash-assets /ElectrumWallet
mircea_popescu: dilutes and doesn't thermally shock the gut ?
punkman: can't just stick a banana up your ass though
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: don't be a dick about us Riccardo's << what do you use him for ?
fluffypony: of course, those that aren't in that trust group can be given the privilege of temporary voice (30 minutes) by anyone within the trust group
fluffypony: isn't OpenBizarre (pun) supposed to add support for Ricardian Contracts eventually?
fluffypony: don't be a dick about us Riccardo's
assbot: At the corner of University Ave. and Eighth. /hashtag/berkeleyprotests?src=hash http://t.co/5MoNmviExN
BingoBoingo: I don't understand the nerve of people who won't contest shit at all.
undata: that's probably what Eve is going to end up being as well, though I wouldn't mind being proved wrong
asciilifeform: 'it wasn't bad as far as jobs go, but eventually the goats got too tight'
undata: it wasn't bad as far as jobs go, but in the end we invented a shitty version of emacs in the browser in JS
undata: asciilifeform: I don't have any screenshots, but things like two boxes representing tables, each having things you can tap to select columns
undata: I haven't seen them release much else yet
asciilifeform: http://freak.no/forum/showthread.php?t=262603 << lol3
undata: and uh, by god don't make the thing out of the web
asciilifeform: https://forum.bitcoin.pl/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9987 << lol2
devthedev: I can't join OTC, strange