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ben_vulpes: the interest doesn't sting quite as badly when you've
a plan and wait for the right moment.
ben_vulpes: the prefuckingcise reason i am not making the investment in mp-wp at this moment is because i am paying
a debt on the virtualization tool choise.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but as
a heuristic, "things which will have to be done anyway are best done right now."
mircea_popescu: in this sense tool investment exposes one to
a sort of reverse-interest.
ben_vulpes: dude i'm repouring
a foundation over here.
mircea_popescu: not like it's going anywhere. however, the important point is that absence of tools actually limits your life in
a very drastic manner.
mircea_popescu: but irl it happens because on that bike, there isn't ONE person riding. there's two :
a bodybuilder with no head pedalling and the brainbox+spinal column of
a cubical drone with no flesh.
ben_vulpes: dude the past week has raised my shits given about ethereum from zero to like
a half
mircea_popescu: or if you prefer, take vietnam war, amply studied (in english, i mean) application of the stupidity. grunts that just wanna get out alive and brass that has "political considerations" results in
a resounding military defeat.
mircea_popescu: the intermingling of these results in
a billion dollars in cash misplaced in middle east and
a hundred million misplaced online.
ben_vulpes: but the notion of
a "fits in head" ethereum contract boggles the mind, so.
BingoBoingo: Who even knows anymore. I thought noo rape was refusing to sex
a fat chick because that denies zher sexual agency.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 12:27 mircea_popescu: "If you are white, no positive, active role is left to you. Either you accommodate yourself to the unreasonable, or you play out your life in some futile back alley. You are doomed to this by the disgraceful history of your kind. Maybe it's fair, maybe it's not, but it is the way things are." << from another schmuck with
a nobel prize.
BingoBoingo: Buterin would be
a great fit at OCLC if this MIT thing falls through
mircea_popescu: btw jesus fuck what
a stupid piece of shit ansi.sys wasd.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-31 21:32 asciilifeform: 'Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from
a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. Today’s complaints represent the largest single action ever brought under the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative.'
ben_vulpes: interestingly, veers off into
a discussion of the open season on LEOs.
mod6: i dunno what happened last time. i looked at the code, everything looked ok. i retested with the same code in
a different channel... might have been
a timing thing? have to keep an eye on that one.
tb0t: Project: trb, ID: 29, Type: F, Subject: Redesign Wallet, Antecedents: 30, Notes: The original Reference Implementation wallet needs
a redesign.
thestringpuller: depends. I judge street credit based on who can use that work among
a large group of negros.
ben_vulpes: there's
a pollack joke in there i'm too otherwise occupied to dig out, too
shinohai: I thought that was my bedroom for
a second, I have that exact same stone wall.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell covertress It's been
a while?
BingoBoingo: Anyways re: Palmer's amaranth. Takes
a lot of nutrients (attention) resists pesticides (jokes) and leaves us without
a harvest (ongoing... anything) from the interaction
mircea_popescu: this thing is not only very important, but it has the tmsr-fitting advantage that it's
a very high paygrade item mostly requiring individual study.
shinohai: I have gotten more entertainment out of Ethereum than I have from anything in this space in
a long time
mircea_popescu: so basically, "the business case for ethereum is just as good as for bitcoin" just got kicked
a little in the teeth with
a big fat "DO NOT USE CONTRACTS FOR ANY PURPOSES!!111".
phf: i literally came back to
a hotel from
a beach drinking shit show, because i noticed logs are not updating :>
phf: autoreconnecting log bot is coming this weekend, thanks in great part to trinque. i rewrote
a bunch of stuff last weekend, need to test it and take live somtime in the next few days
mircea_popescu: that moment when you realise that the two funny looking horn items
a foot apart embedded in bathroom wall are NOT actually towel hangers.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ;;later tell BingoBoingo consider qntra-fication for the Mahmood Khadeer find ? << Maybe do
a draft?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thinking about it, dead drop for key factor would in fact produce
a very cheap and effective leak method. someone finding themselves in possession of such data doesn't currently have
a good way to dump it, gotta go through the greenwaldwall at best.
trinque: shared
a vpatch with him to look over the other day
trinque: thought somebody was working on
a replacement for all that
mircea_popescu: why exactly would someone pop
a magic number in there ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 15:18 mod6: <+shinohai> I know you're gonna hate me, but I'm gonna stuff it all in an iso and try
a build later with no internetz again << this /should/ fail. because buildroot won't be able to pull all of its stuff down.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 15:18 mod6: <+shinohai> I know you're gonna hate me, but I'm gonna stuff it all in an iso and try
a build later with no internetz again << this /should/ fail. because buildroot won't be able to pull all of its stuff down.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 15:04 shinohai: I know you're gonna hate me, but I'm gonna stuff it all in an iso and try
a build later with no internetz again
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you do, in
a sense. where's that oglaf...
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 11:59 asciilifeform: which is, that mathematics is ~accessible~ to the determined mind. always, with no exception, WITHOUT demanding
a swallowing of seekrit evidence.
mircea_popescu: it'd have to be
a state the art ownatron. seeing how rusty stoves has small chances of finding squares quite so deliciously.
mircea_popescu: THIS incidentally is
a problem you run into all the time.
mircea_popescu: it is ALSO answerable, except not in certain ways. from
a particular solipsistic position, the "probability" of there existing such
a thing as
a cube of bronze is just as remote as the probability of there existing
a cube of antimatter the same size.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes "made of human fat" is answerable. the problem is - everything's made of human fat. much more important
a question is, to use ballas' exceptionally apt terminology for the matter, "is this an impossible fantasy to be pursued at the expene of your labour and your life" ? the lori gottlieb question.
mircea_popescu: ie, that the cow is the product of someone nursing
a veal ; whereas the rifle wasn't nursed from pistolhood. the joke's
a joke, but "your" car and "your" chunk of copper aren't the same thing.
mircea_popescu: there's
a difference between cow and rifle. other than the objectively obvious and in general.
mircea_popescu: title, as
a convenient fiction in common parlance, nevertheless translates
a deep and important ontological difference.
mircea_popescu: mno. title as understood by idiots is
a convenient fiction, much like santa-the-gift-giver is
a convenient fiction. this fiction does not mean it's
a good idea to be
a bad kiddy, in either case.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 11:48 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article, iirc, where 'when considering avg price of cars, do not also average in the price of stolen cars sold in
a hurry'
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-29#1511434 << this example doesn't work because when valuing "cars" one makes
a deliberate exception of the $15 cost of the raw sheet metal going in. there is no such thing as minerals that aren't also stolen cars. again for the obvious reason - nobody's mommy picks molybden ingots from under her nails as normal part of morning hygiene.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-29#1511429 << not as
a civilian, and for the very obvious reason. (or at least it should be obvious - past
a few hundred or so, adding more "opinion"ators does not improve the overall quality of the resultant opinion, even if it increases the costs of resulting it.which is also why "inclusive" programs always fail. so people trying to figure this shit out really don't need anymore noise. good en
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
a submarine doesn't drive, not like
a car at any rate.
a submarine is
a lot closer to
a plane, ie, "
a dot being moved on
a graph". except the plane has
a much ampler bubble.
mircea_popescu: in places has
a lot in common with "submarine piloting".
mircea_popescu: contrary to what you might think for unclear and i suspect unexamined reasons, finance is actually
a quite sensible, rather complex and definitely satisfying art.
mircea_popescu: but no, the 100 is not
a trend indicator, it's
a situation indicator. long term historical prices indicate the trend, future spot indicates the short term.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-29#1511426 << for ~the same reason you're invited to not value cars by the process of running down the street in
a gaggle of boys this age yelling at times "whoa this is
a good one, 250!" because the car had
a speedometer backing listing that number.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-29#1511423 << this is
a political choice, the matter's discussed pluriously. hitler pays the bill for "what he did" AND for what "he made us do". microshit has no way out of liability for the same reason the conclusion of 390 gaul campaign was not "
a delegation of older women from each side got together to list each side's complaints and sufferances equally and wail together".
☝︎ mod6: But if looking for
a useful task...
mod6: i've done this before, I was saying in here, but.. it's been
a good while since. Might be worth another gathering. If that's
a bit boring or whatever, don't worry, I can tackle this later.
mod6: however, this is
a decent opportunity to go
a head, build with the build script, save all your terminal output to say
a `script` into typescript or whatever bash logging you wanna do, and gather up the list of deps buildroot pulls so I can start to climb that mountain.
mod6: <+shinohai> I know you're gonna hate me, but I'm gonna stuff it all in an iso and try
a build later with no internetz again << this /should/ fail. because buildroot won't be able to pull all of its stuff down.
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