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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Homo redditicus has trouble accepting it has an origin story
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Or merely a lubricated slope
Adlai: mircea_popescu: oh come on, your blog is full of metaphors that shock the average netizen encountering it for the first time
Adlai: mircea_popescu: why misuse the term << the term is misused to shock the audience, a technique you seem to enjoy yourself...
undata: mircea_popescu: oh, and florida is in the american south.
undata: mircea_popescu: I see your point; my parents have a farm in rural PA. It would take about three weeks for the more dangerous (meth-addled) neighbors to be quiet.
undata: mircea_popescu: what about hungry ignorance?
undata: mircea_popescu: chicago gangs could at least hope to establish some kind of crude order
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The more I read on Argentina, the more it seems like what the US said it was going to be
BingoBoingo: http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com/2010/05/macy-from-maize-on-adult-ifying-power_1666.html
undata: mircea_popescu: ah, not revenge, just a return to function?
undata: mircea_popescu: correct me. I'd like to know.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, its commisioned
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes with attention! these are actually the good ones!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ah go fuck yourselves
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes we're writing for when you get up!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: himmler?
decimation: mircea_popescu: this is regularlly the case in us mil
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just a picture read from the faces of actual living specimens i saw alive
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes my memory's my best part!
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's << boss you got a funny memory
undata: mircea_popescu: I think we agree then.
decimation: re: metastability https://filebox.ece.vt.edu/~athanas/4514/ledadoc/html/pol_cdc.html
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: qntra grows, I buy chickens and strange hardware. Nothing wrong with that.
joecool: mircea_popescu: opposite side, very strong heat, assuming the diesel is what caught
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparelty people don't trust that it apperently comes in different qualities
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes lol
ben_vulpes: * mircea_popescu kinda likes the smell of gasoline << various engineers went on red alert over a faint whiff of gasoline earlier today
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had a nice script to ignore youtube << that one's worth it. but you probably saw it. about same age as i did...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ok, suppose the chicks ake you ojo de bife, but as an insurance policy they mix cheesekace in there.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ojo de bife y vino
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what's your favourite meal ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you're going to do that why bother with m/n
gribble: Ultimatum game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game>; What's the ultimatum game? - HowStuffWorks: <http://money.howstuffworks.com/ultimatum-game.htm>; Game Theory: The Ultimatum Game: <http://gametheory101.com/The_Ultimatum_Game.html>
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes exactly.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, n = 2 if there's no third.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes seems dubious to me.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually yes
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes cause normally i'm like, oh, logs, fancy that. but past few days it's been... omfg help me.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: welcome to my hell.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the part that actually enables the things we like to do with the damn thing
cazalla: mircea_popescu, where the facebook page and mockups for that?!?
undata: ben_vulpes: piles of ascii no, never, please no
undata: mircea_popescu: interesting, a fork could emerge due to a breakdown of trust
undata: ben_vulpes: dead horse, beaten
undata: mircea_popescu: I use the same for code review, even if it's a matter of emailing myself
undata: ben_vulpes: sure, that's a fine value, but every time someone tries to reinvent VCS, they either produce something terrible or git
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: conventional version control - for private dildonic pleasure. for project like bitcoin where any change whatsoever might sink a galaxy - no.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: read why and then think again. ten times.
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu is that verboten here?
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.
decimation: mircea_popescu: it appeals to the un crapolade
gribble: Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn : “And how we burned - Goodreads: <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34738-and-how-we-burned-in-the-camps-later-thinking-what>; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes (Author of One Day in the Life of ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10420.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>; The Gulag Archipelago - Wikiquote: (1 more message)
gribble: WASP - Lone Wolf (122 pages) - White Aryan Resistance: <http://www.resist.com/WASP.pdf>; Wasp (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp_(novel)>; One man against a whole planet: Eric Frank Russell's Wasp | Tor.com: <http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/one-man-against-a-whole-planet-eric-frank-russells-wasp>
asciilifeform: http://conelrad.com/godfrey_2.html << entirely unrelated to anything. except perhaps the 'satoshi warning' feature of bitcoind.
BingoBoingo: !up bitspill_
gribble: Derek Jeter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jeter>; World Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series>; Boston Red Sox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Red_Sox>
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> best tomatoes! << We still have tomatoes ripening...
decimation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#100LL_.28blue.29
cazalla: mircea_popescu, here ya go, much safer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_%28fuel%29
kakobrekla: as promised i have setup a mirror for ze logs - http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com - hosting for the mirror gratuitously provided by mircea_popescu
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that's what I thought but based on these numbers...($2491 for ~13mn shares doesn't add up to the published market value as it looks like the ask value is ~ 8 cents a share)
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?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, the reminder emails will probably get bitpay flagged for spam too
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Cazalla as head of qntra was a gift that keeps giving. Dude knows tone.
decimation: heh http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.3.0SP3/neutrino/sys_arch/smp.html#SMP " Symmetric multiprocessing addresses the issue by running only one copy of Neutrino on all of the system's CPUs."
BingoBoingo: The New Reno region mircea_popescu wants to playground eventually as new world hantaviruses, keep your distance from the mice...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it would be, if it were simple to mirror. and every post signed.
undata: mircea_popescu: haaaa
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
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: congrats
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naive idea. they unplugged this, to avoid ru proper being swamped with the entire contents of kazahstan, ua, baltics, all the provinces
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you were born there. what more << ussr kaput
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski I think the game was postponed
jurov: mircea_popescu: odessa changed country meanwhile
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
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but you were born in odessa ? then you do have ru citizenship no? << lol! the whole city would've emptied in '92 or even earlier, if this were so.
undata: mircea_popescu: that's that suicidal streak I was talking about
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: White kids from ladue studying with Black kids from Ferguson and North City?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well, if you can.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i'd be highly surprised.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes therealbitcoin.org
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu did you see piketty's letter about gw?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Sort of thing you might use on a netbook with just enough BTC to pay your own ransom
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: It's a java turd. I holds keys with decreasing amounts of funds and handles a few adresses funds might still come to.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: And after that I wanted for nothing more from an SPV client
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Qntra already has n=1 bikeshed http://qntra.net/2014/10/cryptocoinsnews-is-anything-but/#comment-120
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well I use 0.5.11 because it is what still lets me use higher than pennies tx fees
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Older version of Multibit don't need bloom filters...
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: That is the literal reading of the Thermos bitcoin wiki definition of softfork
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No, that they prevent people using newer software from making or recognizing certain transactions.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Do you know what the truly beautiful thing about softforks is?
pete_dushenski: los_pantalones: just heard these guys closed 50mm << inching closer to that magic $bn
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's Just a Q and an n
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: yes
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes rite.
nubbins`: ben_vulpes 8)
mircea_popescu: "The engineNextBytes function in classlib/modules/security/src/main/java/common/org/apache/harmony/security/provider/crypto/SHA1PRNG_SecureRandomImpl.java in the SecureRandom implementation in Apache Harmony through 6.0M3, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) in Android before 4.4 and other products, when no seed is provided by the user, uses an incorrect offset value, which makes it easier for attackers
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Looks like the Seargent at Arms