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mircea_popescu: it's actually a good deal, there.
mircea_popescu: (business closes as acceptance of tender - so between a tenderer and an acceptor)
asciilifeform: the folks who carried on the college racket, if the godz gave them half a brain, know that the money ain't coming back
mircea_popescu: the woman is trying to convert bondholders on a lossy entreprise into shareholders, because of course she would.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to bridge this to finance : this is the fundamental difference between shares and bonds. a bond is owed on irrespective of how the business does ; shares only fraction of what the business did.
mircea_popescu: she was more than likely offered life insurance for the kid, declined it to save 25 bux a month or w/e
mircea_popescu: anyway, sane people, which is to say business people, take insurance in such a deal. whether the principal is a dumb kid or a warehouse, you insure against it's destruction specifically so you don'tend up in this "guarantor pays through no fault".
asciilifeform: appears to be a recurring theme in 'hyoooman interest' pieces from the volkischer beobachter
mircea_popescu: that's what a guarantoor does : "give x this much, and if he won't pay, i will". it's an ancient institution, the piece of shakespeare i butchered revolves around it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not remarkable, woman cosigned on a loan. this is the point of cosignature.
asciilifeform: '...after her son’s unsolved murder... “Please accept our condolences on your loss,” a letter from that agency, the Higher Education Student Assistance Authority, said. “After careful consideration of the information you provided, the authority has determined that your request does not meet the threshold for loan forgiveness. Monthly bill statements will continue to be sent to you.”'
asciilifeform: from same rag, hilarious, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/nyregion/in-new-jersey-student-loan-program-even-death-may-not-bring-a-reprieve.html
mircea_popescu: nicely mirroring the situation a year+ ago, when i couldn't find any owners to borrow from for the life of me.
asciilifeform: lel the linked nyt article is actually a massive ad for 'chainalysis', umpteenth attempt at taintatron
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you mean poloniex, it's been in wash trading mode for a week +
asciilifeform: buterin: 'Remove the signature from a transaction (ie. set the field to the empty string) before computing its hash for the purposes of future transactions consuming that UTXO [alternatively, I like the idea of adding new OP_CHECKSIG-like opcodes that do this so that this new transaction type can be made backward-compatible]'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-04 12:45 mircea_popescu: but anyway, asciilifeform 's prediction proceeding right on schedule. the "indepedndent" usg tool and "ethereum developer" finds time to discuss bitcoin as that "innovative project" burns to the ground. because truly it wasn't all about trying to fuck up bitcoin all along. nothing of the sort, ethereum was a serious effort by serious people with their own heads and etc.
mircea_popescu: the young ones, i guess. but in principle, the definition of a whore is exactly that : woman that's fine naked.
mircea_popescu: in other cvasi-lulz, ro whore, ex wife & baby's momma of ro footballer, discussing their split-up : "you can't make a whore into a housewife ; nor an athlete into a respectable man"
mircea_popescu: but anyway, asciilifeform 's prediction proceeding right on schedule. the "indepedndent" usg tool and "ethereum developer" finds time to discuss bitcoin as that "innovative project" burns to the ground. because truly it wasn't all about trying to fuck up bitcoin all along. nothing of the sort, ethereum was a serious effort by serious people with their own heads and etc. ☟︎
shinohai: So if I understand correctly, you want a single page, e.g. wordpress.php that does almost everything.
shinohai: I have a script that auto posts Qntra stories, and occasionally use twitter to troll. But I have less and less time for that anymore.
shinohai: BingoBoingo: I probably get 4-5 nasty DM's a day on twitter calling me the same thing xD
shinohai: Yeah makes sense, sounds like a plan.
mircea_popescu: once you get that you genesis it as a V tree, and then patching can begin.
mircea_popescu: uling a sec.
mircea_popescu: aha a sec.
shinohai: mircea_popescu: you need someone to maintain a vanilla wp setup?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 19:40 mircea_popescu: also - if anyone feels like undertaking maintenance for this, on like a V tree and everything, i wouldn't be at all against.
mircea_popescu: everywhere you turn with this already. a sickening display.
mircea_popescu: yet again there was a right thing to do (network of blogs) and a fucktardedly wrong thing to do (www-"forum") and the shithead community chose to do the wrong one. for obvious social reasons, it's way the fuck harder to write a blog than to "participate" in a "consensus".
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-04#1496683 << i'm not even sure that's true, ftr. php is actually a fine language FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE. hypertext preprocessor ffs! it's not even a language, as such! just a preprocessor, like an early scripting language. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 02:19 mircea_popescu: lol thestringpuller been a busy little blogger lately has he
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495490 << I'm trying to blog everyday. It's hard, I'm not a writer by trade, although people keep cheering me on, so for the readers out there thanks for that. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: " revealed to much lulz that many miners were using a simplified form of verification when they were selecting blocks to build off of which lead to splits when it turned out "soft" forks aren't so soft." << " revealed that many miners were using simplified (and dysfunctional) chain verification, to abundant lols and chain splits. Turns out "soft" forks aren't all that soft!" ?
mircea_popescu: and i think i was a lot more verbose back then, too.
asciilifeform: 1/7th of a 'Doom'
mircea_popescu: you're such a hater you know.
BingoBoingo: 100% upvoted! https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4r5ax7/another_attempt_to_socially_engineer_a_fork/
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i got a thing from the realtor with bigger, thicker house, in what looks like perfect condition, for ~half the price of the ruin. picture in what kind of kandahar it must be
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o btw, got a gpgram for me ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "what started as a channel dedicated to lisp and assorted snobbery totally devolved into apache and php club"
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how you imagine making a monkey out of the reader's acceptable or anything.
asciilifeform: even though it is a 1.
phf: asciilifeform: you mind commenting on http://107.170.141.103/2016/wp-content-for-a/ for me to try it out
asciilifeform: phf: does yours also show a non-zeroable spam counter ?
mircea_popescu: seems more like a passive "bury this shit" measure than anything else. who's to trust js.
mircea_popescu: gotta appreciate, you just made this, so everyone's yet a stranger.
mircea_popescu: shut up gentoo boy! unlike that pos, this actually works for a decade once settled down. and the settling down is a few hours not a few weeks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno ; seems to me like a theme issue. this isn't phf's theme, actually, is it ?
mircea_popescu: and also do me a favour and delete my spam comment ; now it doesn't let me comment anymoar :)
phf: asciilifeform: i also made a patch, but sounds like you don't need it anymore http://107.170.141.103/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-comments.diff ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i still can't send you a comment fwiw.
mircea_popescu: re "paginated comments" : http://trilema.com/2011/concurs-de-injurat-blogari-editia-a-ii-a/ ~700, loads just fine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he crafitily discovered there's a missing bit.
mircea_popescu: get the two hashes to line up, ima make a comment on article with update. it has been 7 years huh.
mircea_popescu: well, when this engages what it does is, "Looks like you tried to comment off a stale page. Reload the article, count to three and try again."
asciilifeform: i HAVE a theme
asciilifeform: i still get a 0 byte page when commenting.
mircea_popescu: ie, this specific bit is a load control measure more than actually spam-killing per se.
asciilifeform: i don't even HAVE a comments.php
asciilifeform: literally a 0 byte page.
asciilifeform: well i get a blank page when commenting.
mircea_popescu: well, at least barking at a camel's feet.
phf: and a picture of myself on a camel
mircea_popescu: phf you'll also need a favicon.ico that's not a T lol
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you want to debug, you can just make a 2nd install. can share db, even, it has this table-prefix scheme baked in. that one you can restrict to yourself and use for hacking upon.
mircea_popescu: next time that guy comes in that was trying to fix qntra, i guess we get him to make you a special wp 2.7 theme to spec ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a blessing, of course. you want 2015 theme like you want karachi street whore.
mircea_popescu: phf http://trilema.com/2009/trilema-anti-spam/ << see the part going "si respectiv in comments.php a temei," aka "in the comments.php file in your theme"
mircea_popescu: phf hey, you gotta fix the antispam bit, which prolly has a fixed path in it or something ? currently not letting me comment.
phf: yeah, http://107.170.141.103/?p=7 has a media uploaded file
mircea_popescu: seeing how you'll have to come up with something EACH DAY, soon enough the broken state of the world becomes a revelry.
mircea_popescu: you could put it in a blog post.
asciilifeform: i don't even HAVE a wp-content
phf: asciilifeform: it's a widget you need to enable in settings
asciilifeform: but because the LAST time i did this, i had ~0 standards and didn't give a fuck
asciilifeform: this has been a VERY depressing exercise.
asciilifeform: holy SHIT a theme called 'simple skeleton' is 400+KB.
mircea_popescu: which is why originally you'll get some spam quarantined, but after a while it goes away. i see ~1-2 pieces / week atm.
mircea_popescu: phf it has a pretty powerful antispam mechanism. it spits on people who try to send pingbacks from other ips than the blog in question ; it quarantines people who try to add posts with links to anything other than your own blog ; and it auto-spams people it recognizes on the basis of the already marked as spam.
asciilifeform: and what about when viewed on a 4000x6000 display ?
asciilifeform: they all have half a meg of css etc.
asciilifeform: and apparently now i have to write a motherfucking theme ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently this is not possible, to be in a situation where the right php.ini contains a display_errors off switch and yet the page barfs warnings.
mircea_popescu: gimem a minute here, this is a little odd.
mircea_popescu: well wtf you're gonna make a blog with my face on it ?!@
mircea_popescu: that's what i said @phf. you'll need a theme.
mircea_popescu: did you get a theme ?
mircea_popescu: make a call to phpinfo() grep for "display_errors". should e Off Off.
asciilifeform: and a bunch moar.
asciilifeform: hah i thought it was in a piano
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, http://67.media.tumblr.com/37905f5f3ad030995ecd4893d1589546/tumblr_nrc05kjNv61uy0bt6o1_500.gif << linked mostly for the amusing circumstance where the penis resembles a lengthy stick with a ballsac-bow at middle, and it's unclear to which of the two it's actually attached. such social commentary.
mircea_popescu: there's a setting in php.ini, "shut the fuck up".
asciilifeform: i don't consider a project v-able unless it is 100% ascii text.
mircea_popescu: s a v item
mircea_popescu: i could keep blockchain a
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) which and b) why would binary be un-v-able i dun get it ?
mircea_popescu: also - if anyone feels like undertaking maintenance for this, on like a V tree and everything, i wouldn't be at all against. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: phf http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/wp-mptargz.gpg << it's all there ; run a grep over the files for "fill your own" to see what you need to add ; you'll also need a theme (goes in /wp-content ) and obviously a mysql db. ☟︎