mircea_popescu: hey DreadKnight am i gonna see you in eulora at some point ?
mircea_popescu: government’s disclosures included information regarding the funding and structure
mircea_popescu: relationship between SEI and DOD, as well as directing the defendant to publicly
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mircea_popescu: "In Forrester, the court clearly enunciated that: “Internet users have no expectation of privacy in …the IP address of the websites they visit because they should know that this information is provided to and used by Internet service providers for the specific purpose of directing the routing of information." <<< except the ip of the "website they used" has exactly nothing to do with anything.
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mircea_popescu: "Again, according to the parties’ submissions, such a submission is made despite the understanding communicated by the Tor Project that the Tor network has vulnerabilities and that users might not remain anonymous." o oops, forgot to say "according to information first, and to date only published on trilema, [...]".
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> well lessee here, one of mod6 ben_vulpes give an opinion on this ? << In relation to the contest? I'm good with Cramer-Shoup.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that i announced a contest, haven't seen much in the way of submissions, ima award the 10 btc prize to alf for an implementation of a c-s derivative.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the idea is to not do this too rushedly, but also to not delay pointlessly.
mod6: I'm kinda torn, I want us to move forward with 'g', so Cramer-Shoup fits the bill for sure. On the other hand, I'd like to think that over a long interval we might see some interesting submissions eventually.
mod6: no, not even. posted feb 4th.
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mod6: Perhaps this: Implement with Cramer-Shoup, and if the implementation is finalized before any worthy submissions come to us, then end the contest and pay the btc to alf?
mod6: That way we don't wait, but we don't slam the door yet either.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:04:27; *: asciilifeform pictures pete_dushenski's postman grunting forth a capsule, with letter
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:18:55; mircea_popescu: "also i want to turn off central heating, your prices suck" "uhh wut ?" "my title!!!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski gotta appreciate, most of these soviet arrangements were built atop "free" waste heat from the heavy industrial plants the dormitory- cities were made to feed anyway.
mircea_popescu: once that went away, "city" took over heat generation. except it's impossible to run a thing made to WASTE HEAT efficiently
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so people weren't too keen to pay the city when there were cheap gas based wall units they could install instead.
pete_dushenski: aha. parents' penthouse has no heating, just waste heat from 19 stories underneath. this is 'innovative' in the usual soviet sense i guess.
BingoBoingo: appologies for spurious IP address, was in the spam filter feed tube
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:40:41; BingoBoingo: Most of the ads I've seen bundle water/sewer into the condo fee, but may be a regional quirk
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Nah, established couple decade old places, but also cheap water
BingoBoingo: Nah water here almost universally tends to be metered on a per building basis
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: you gotta consider at least once, but often several times a year too much water is a problem in this region. Maybe once every 5-10 years driety is problematic.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the botero museum in bogota is mega-recommended if you're ever out exploring the rest of your continent :)
assbot: Throw_it_all_away_99 comments on Redditors who are now married because you didn't know how to break up with your significant other, how is that going for you? ... (
http://bit.ly/1Qfv61C )
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:39:29; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how dja feel about waiting till march 4th ?
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:29:59; mircea_popescu: the idea being that i announced a contest, haven't seen much in the way of submissions, ima award the 10 btc prize to alf for an implementation of a c-s derivative.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:43:43; mircea_popescu: once that went away, "city" took over heat generation. except it's impossible to run a thing made to WASTE HEAT efficiently
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assbot: Logged on 23-02-2016 08:51:15; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-02-2016#1413406 << basically us "college" chumpatron still experimenting with "what's the lowest qty of candy bar we give the cattle to keep getting the sweet sweet usg funds for them. like, out of the 100k per capita we get in fed funny money, what's the least we could dole out to the maggots in whose name the whole scheme is run ? maybe -100`000 in paper and $
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assbot: [MPEX:X.EUR] 1D: 0.00263573 / 0.0026425 / 0.00266872 (405 shares, 1.07 BTC), 7D: 0.00253517 / 0.00260204 / 0.00266872 (4083 shares, 10.62 BTC), 30D: 0.00253517 / 0.00278179 / 0.00332476 (9327 shares, 25.95 BTC)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe this is the slowly stress you into an inclanation towards insanity phase of your DeHarting?
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46400 @ 0.00057726 = 26.7849 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, so s.nsa makes a profit out of your proposal ?
BingoBoingo: S.NSA get revenue BEFORE cardano ships would be a headline
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 23:34:52; asciilifeform: 'no need have i of mercy, / no need have i of laurels, / but let me have a rifle, / and let me have a horse, / and if i chance to perish, / let my red platoonmates, / let my red platoonmates,/ make'em pay, of course.'
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mircea_popescu: in other news, french chief poof is visiting buenos aires
assbot: BitBet - AlphaGo will defeat Lee Sedol overall in March 2016 match :: 37.45 B (50%) on Yes, 37.65 B (50%) on No | closing in 1 week 5 days | weight: 49`852 (100`000 to 1) ... (
http://bit.ly/1QsN9gt )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't get it, derpy windows-based, closed source dvd copy thing ?
BingoBoingo: DVD/bluDVD copy thing drew a bunch of USG aggro. Derpy thorn in copyrasta's sides but still a thorn. One of the longest running "legit" ones.
BingoBoingo: Kim Dotcom sorta situation where until appeals go through it persisted, but suddenly collapsed before appeal
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 03:06:29; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe this is the slowly stress you into an inclanation towards insanity phase of your DeHarting?
mod6: mircea_popescu: thanks Sir. :]
mircea_popescu: “[The Antiguan legal victory] gives us a concrete decision to take to others who facilitate SlySoft and their business. We can say to those who do business with them: ‘This is an illegal activity’,” AACS’s lawyer added.
mircea_popescu: more\s the case - the endless list of us derpage gives us a list of concrete violations to take to those who facilitate the activities of the international crime syndicate. we can say to these people : the us is a rogue state. you further their conspiracies at your personal risk.
mod6: jurov: test worked with just a regular clearsigned message.
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assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 03:34:48; asciilifeform: who the everloving fuck ~buys~ dvdrip proggy?!
punkman: it handled all kinds of DRM and related crapolade
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punkman: no open-source alternatives, and from a quick search, seems like no proprietary alternatives either, unless you only need a subset of the functionality.
punkman: disc pirates can only get around some DRM schemes by finding discs that don't have it.
punkman: maybe S.NSA should sell AlfDVD sometime in the future ;)
punkman: I'd also buy shares in S.SLY if it was a thing
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punkman: oh wait that was last week
ben_vulpes: > 24,733 people around the world have filed bankruptcy claims related to the MtGox exchange
BingoBoingo: punkman: Also they stole hanbot's pirateat40 joke for their exchange name
ben_vulpes: aww i missed the cascadian-hunting ok cupid slut!
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assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 19:50:12; mircea_popescu: well lessee here, one of mod6 ben_vulpes give an opinion on this ?
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> punkman: Also they stole hanbot's pirateat40 joke for their exchange name << 24`733 people around the world tried to run off with shit and it still didn't work for them.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> i am categorically unqualified to opine on this << wasn't a matter of cryptography, merely of you know, "what's reasonable management of contest"
shinohai: "The mircea_popescu school for third-world sluts"
mircea_popescu: more like japanese basic literacy school for islanders.
mircea_popescu: note however the incidence of decent boobs in the population. out of 8 visible, 3 or 4 are miserable, 3 or 4 are acceptable, 2 or 3 pretty good actually.
mircea_popescu: and we know for a fact that the tits ~were~ a major factor in the academic performance of these girls, because the better boobs (with maybe one exception) agglomerate at the front and between the teachers.
mircea_popescu: the temptation to presume this somehow invalidates the curriculum and teachers' approach however is not necessarily warranted. it may be that women with better tits are simply better women overall, which includes both an ability and an interest in learning.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 12:46:13; mircea_popescu: the temptation to presume this somehow invalidates the curriculum and teachers' approach however is not necessarily warranted. it may be that women with better tits are simply better women overall, which includes both an ability and an interest in learning.
mircea_popescu: it's not too hard to discover that small tits and annoying, nagging, deeply insecure personality correlate quite well in practice, and so the historical male preference for big tits that actually drove the monstrous mamomegalia that principally distinguishes us from monkeys could well be rather explainable.
mircea_popescu: (and yes - it's not "the ability to communicate", as early darwinists thought, out of their inclination towards pious frauds to favour socialism, that distinguishes us from animals. nor is it "an ability to make and use tools", as the 50s folk retreated to in desperation. no, none of that - just this, that our females have tits so deeply disproportionate to their bodies it is unseen in nature. CIVILISATION!)
mircea_popescu: but the fact remains that if i am examining the photo data from foreign planet with life on it,
mircea_popescu: ima try to identify the mammaries and pick the species with the largest ones as a candidate for intelligence.
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mircea_popescu: (this, for any deeply insecure personalities that may be reading the logs, does neither say that big is good thus therefore bigger is necessarily better, nor does it propose that there can't be a "big enough". so simmer down.)
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 12:54:31; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-02-2016#1415174. << cracking the disk crypto is 'plugging the wrong end of the funnel'. the hdmi copyprptection key leaked eons ago, just pick the frames up on the other end of the tv cable, emitted by an official player!
mircea_popescu: lulzy bullshit a la cinavia is trivially defeated if you care to, irrespective of how the material was obtained.
mircea_popescu: (prolly not worth caring to, afaik the only utility of "NN"/"AI" image recognition to date is to recognize films)
mircea_popescu: even better : don't use any electronics with closed bullshit. what, can't play on computor ?
mircea_popescu: i've never bought any of the non-computing computer crap since the fucking 90s. which includes no fucking playstation, no "analog video camera" no bs.
punkman: sure, I don't watch dvds or blu-rays. but you were asking who would buy these things
mircea_popescu: (and yes, my despise of laptops and crapple-ade is well grounded in this strategic choice made 25 years ago. if it is not programmable i am not buying it!)
mircea_popescu: punkman he was ? who the fuck cares about the consumer here that i may negrate him!
punkman: no reason you should care. but people that buy these disks cared about anydvd.
punkman: nah fuck fixed size and constant bitrate
mircea_popescu: seriously, if you can't paint a canvas within 10x10, or if you can't tell your story in 700mb, you've got other problems than painting or making movies.
☟︎ punkman: I've started downloading x265 releases when I can find them, they are pretty great
mircea_popescu: punkman do you actually watch these or just collect them ?
mircea_popescu: but, tv format, who cares, you can push it into one cd per season.
mircea_popescu: that's the other thing you know, every other derp here that i ever visit has bought a huge tv, oft times at a cost that compares to that of his car.
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mircea_popescu: and on it... they watch dumbass 2nd hand us sitcoms and mexican tv productions.
mircea_popescu: TOTALLY worth seeing random schmuck doing nothing in 7k px
punkman: I'm fine with 720p or less
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly i think it's nest building. dudes have discovered that the way to attract washed up ex-whores in family mode is to fill the fridge and mega-tv-couch arrangement.
mircea_popescu: WHY thefuck would someone WANT one of these is beyond the scope of this article, or my capacity to reason.
mircea_popescu: but more than on one occasion i could tell the 30-something year old's past by my own cinavia, and the situation was pretty much exactly "i brought her up here after the first date and basically - she never left"
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punkman: there are also licensed software players, that route might be easier
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jurov: will s.nsa develop and sell them?
☟︎ jurov: but not while the chief engineer is usg subject, i guess
jurov: ok, ftfy: but not while the chief engineer thinks himself usg subject, i guess
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mircea_popescu: shinohai mind using direct links rather than that crap ?
mircea_popescu: notice how the mpoe-pr blowing the cover off pirate is on page 41 in 2013, around the middle, but on page 40 right at the top in 2015 ?
mircea_popescu: some people didn't really want to have said what they did in fact say back in 2012! awww!
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assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 14:35:43; jurov: will s.nsa develop and sell them?
jurov: the boxes discussed 3 lines above it
jurov: i don't see where, you mean the "hd fury" box?
mircea_popescu: it's unclear that giving away coca-cola for free specifically hurts the thing coca-cola is a head of.
mircea_popescu: >Existing users, beginning January 1st 2016 you will need to complete a brief installation of a local service in order to continue using this API. Please follow the installation instructions below.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: bitcoin.info tries to hijack everyone's servers by having them run some closed source item.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 16:12:56; mircea_popescu: >Existing users, beginning January 1st 2016 you will need to complete a brief installation of a local service in order to continue using this API. Please follow the installation instructions below.
kakobrekla: i didnt say 'what' is open. could as well be the doors.
mircea_popescu: "The top games on mobile in 2015 are the same games that were at the top of the charts in 2012" << if that pond ain't dead...
mircea_popescu: gaming being 32% of time spent on mobiles in 2014, 15% in 2015.
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assbot: GitHub - sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses: libcurses and dependencies taken from netbsd and brought into a portable (at least to musl) shape ... (
http://bit.ly/1QAhUAm )
phf: it's a bit down the pipeline for me. there were some attempts to make cmucl go entirely syscall, but as it stands it's probably 40% there. i want to link it to musl first, and then play around with control interfaces uses curses/cl-charm, which is when i'll test out this thing
assbot: Linux-Kernel Archive: [PATCH] MPILIB: Provide count_leading/trailing_zeros() based on archfunctions ... (
http://bit.ly/1TB8sBW )
trinque: in semi-related news, sbcl passes its test suite using --with-sb-thread on openbsd
trinque: when I get around to it I'm going to pester the port maintainer to get a flavor going for that
phf: i kind of look at it like version 0.5.3. there's barely any development on it, very little actively harmful code, if you don't count asdf 3.* in contribs. it works, it can be studied and improved upon, as it stands it's utterly ignored by the cool kids. there are also of course technical merits, the compiler is conceptually identical and on average almost as good (there were many micro optimizations done by sbcl team, but even they are
phf: tradeoffs) and much better for floating. there's still a tightly integrated interpreter (i heard sbcl brought that back in recent releases), so doing eval even on early 2000s machines is almost instantaneous for repl work. memory usage is much much better (pretty sure sbcl core policy is "memory is cheap")
phf: raymond toy does, almost exclusively, code cleanup, bug fixes and work on floating point code (i think he maintains fortran to lisp compiler, that i think he used to (?) make big consulting money with)
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phf: no, and while we're on downsides, unicode integration into the rest of the system is dodgy (there's a lot of assumptions in lateral code that chars are 1 byte)
phf: yes. in fact btcbase runs unicode-less instance
mircea_popescu: i'd personally much prefer unicode join the scrap heap with "pki", dns, ntp etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same as what means cleanly in medicine : is it a fistula or a bump.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as long as "unicode was sent" neatly transforms into "we received a broken string of ascii" all is well.
phf: i've been mulling over that question with logs. fwiw, entire log can be kept in memory for analysis, annotation, whatever, 180mb as utf-8 byte arrays. with unicode strings takes up twice the memory on 16-bit cmucl, and ~~4 times on 32-bit sbcl. i'm not yet convinced that transcoding everything you get into string and then transcoding it back to a bytearray onto the wire is the best strategy
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phf: terry davis dat shit, only legitimate encoding is utf-8 :D
phf: freudian typo alright
mircea_popescu: also, i am not in the sliughtest against 16 bit chars.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, you can instruct your fucking display to do any rot-13 you prefer on glyphs and chars.
mircea_popescu: but today machines are 64 bit. for all i care your alphabet can be on 64 bit chars.
mircea_popescu: (it seems perhaps a smart move to actually make it 64 bit - for one thing there will probablyt never be 128 bit machines.
mircea_popescu: the current tech pretty much run its course, wetware or w/e comes next will prolly not do bits)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, im not sure what the benefit from the old machines perspective is for the char to be 16 rather than 64.
mircea_popescu: you'll still going to have to do some porting. just as long as it's not 52 or some other mit-esque idiocy, should really not be a big deal.
mircea_popescu: but the fucking concept of putting a turing complete machine in the bitstream/string mapping has got to fucking burn already. who the fuck even hatched this idiocy.
mircea_popescu: if i take a buffer, split it up in words, and give you some and him some, and you convert them to strings and give them back, i must be able to reconsturct the original buffer without possibility of error.
mircea_popescu: fucking state in the string processor, are you kidding me ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter when it would apply. it turns out, through bitter experience, that c machines and especially the slaves that feed them can NOT live in a world where there's not strict, table-lookup-based, equivalency between words and chars.
mircea_popescu: creatiung the complete tree of all the ways this sad tactical truth has bitten us in practice, and then defending it against broad strategic discussions is beyond sane use of time or resources.
mircea_popescu: fact remains, whenever you break this bijection you get broken stacks and broken-er "communities" around em
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i say this with no prejudice to your fundamentally correct "stop thinking letters are numbers omfg what's wrong with you! are you greek ?! retarded ?!"
mircea_popescu: it'd work splendidly in lispnix, an alt-universe where mit still teaches computing instead of being "the premier science and technology institution in the world"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this should be the millionium, best festival ever.
phf: pretty easy way of preventing it, authenticate at connect, not with /msg nickserv
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 02:05:03; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski ought to have opened up his rental business in fi !
phf: there's a great place for sauna, fi
pete_dushenski: " Double Dick Nightmare - A nightmarish dream involving voluntary double penetration of massive cocks." << i don't care what you say, this is a much funnier ddn
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 18:03:14; ascii_field: 'Korsuissa kamina, / siellä pelataan nakkia, raminaa, / on meillä Fritzit ja Maxit / ja Petropamaxit, juu!' (tm) (r) (1941)
pete_dushenski: blockchain millenium should be sometime in 2026. we'll all be old men by then!
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 13:24:12; assbot: Warner Bros. sues “HD Fury” over boxes that can copy 4k video | Ars Technica ... (
http://bit.ly/1TAMj6C )
phf: (it's zyklon b, for all those like myself who took a while)
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: he's from an older generation than we are, knows what he's doing. believes in legitimacy of copyrasta wholly afaik. can't be far from retirement either, and it's awfully hard to imagine anyone bothering to hang him for his crimes.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 13:21:34; mircea_popescu: seriously, if you can't paint a canvas within 10x10, or if you can't tell your story in 700mb, you've got other problems than painting or making movies.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 07:22:41; ben_vulpes: aww i missed the cascadian-hunting ok cupid slut!
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: perfect in the sense of pleads guilty though admits no wrongdoing, sure.
pete_dushenski: that which can only come from a lifetime of indoctrination via public education and travel only to designated tourist zoos
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 02:36:48; asciilifeform: 'Like other armies the Germans emplaced booby traps to catch unwary souvenir-hunters, but they also used them to cause casualties among Allied small-unit leaders by locating them in possible command post and observation post sites. One example of this was to conceal a booby trap behind a framed picture left hanging crooked on an interior wall of a house: the Germans reasoned that only an officer would
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:26:18; pete_dushenski: that which can only come from a lifetime of indoctrination via public education and travel only to designated tourist zoos
pete_dushenski: o ? and just how well travelled are these 1960ists that you can say 'no amount' will suffice ?
pete_dushenski: i wouldn't send them anywhere. it's not for me to lead their lives. but a couple of years in 2nd-tier city in 80s ru wouldn't have hurt.
pete_dushenski: can't teach old dog new tricks. no sense trying to persuade 60yo that life was wasted in the pursuit of the evil and the wrong.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 13:24:16; asciilifeform: this always melted my brain.
pete_dushenski: ackman just watches charts and reads emails. so, like argentine, 300dpi is 'wasted'
phf: american experience in su was highly mediated. i've had a chance to meet a handful of these "spent some time in su in the 80s" types, and at best their conclusion is "them russkies are no worse then us". not like they would be allowed to spend their leasure time in the company of my grandfather and his friends, etc.
phf: their whole experience of su is through intourist propotainment and politruk control. who's going to let an american nobody in a company of the valuable products of soviet system. it's a needless risk. at best you get invited to some aparatchik family dinner and get to playbelieve "i was even friends with a russian family!"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: phf: that's very much why i specified '2nd-tier' ru city, though i suppose this was based on the presumption that most of the mediation was happening in larger urban centres, which i suppose statistically it must have been, but whether that made it easier or harder to break mediated mold in smaller centres isn't thereby granted as being in any way obvious, admittedly.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: editing text is 99% of what i do as well
phf: you don't seem to grok how "mediated" works in this case, you or your tour is assigned a dedicated kgb handler and a politruk. if you're not part of tour, then you are assigned those. personally. sop for any sort of interaction with outsiders. politruk is ~personally responsible~ for you not doing anything dodgy. your level of artificial integration depends on how important you are and how experienced your handlers are at running this
pete_dushenski: phf: you're right, that's far more 'mediated' than i'd understood to be the case previously.
phf: heh actually some boomer at russian cultural center was once telling me of his adventures, he proudly told me that him and his wife had a friend in russia and it was even! a kgb guy. the implication is that he was so cool, he even got to meet a bonafide kgb, befriend him and that was his best friend. that's your handler, you dumbass.
☟︎ phf: oh man, plenty of these people at russian cultural center in DC, can have a little study roster
phf: yeah, probably on the way out. i was there last about 8 years ago
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> every time blockchain counts a new million blocks. << sounds good!
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 422.89, vol: 5591.59211870 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 423.334, vol: 5796.17642 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 424.28, vol: 13637.03192603 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 405.89, vol: 1.52443611 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 428.92479, vol: 44790.73500000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 421.01601, vol: 780.19886255 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 421.809972, vol: 40.04071369 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
shinohai: srsly gribble? You couldn't have just parsed that in a single statement?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49900 @ 0.00056955 = 28.4205 BTC [-] {4}
danielpbarron: he never does; the final number is always after the ;;more
danielpbarron: funny thing, the number is about as long as the (1 more message)
trinque: max length on IRC messages.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50600 @ 0.00056862 = 28.7722 BTC [-] {2}
kakobrekla: (1 more message) is 16 char, while 426.99973258 is even less, 12.
pete_dushenski: "He said: "Some of the people will be too old or too weak to carry the food to their cars so you will have to carry the food for them". What shocked me was that these people were being given food hampers because they were poor but they drove cars. Some of them had very nice cars too. In Zimbabwe, poor people don't have cars."
pete_dushenski: "Now, in my first week in the states, something got trapped in the earphone jack of my laptop so I went to an Apple store to see if they can fix it. The genius there told me that he would need to first check it in and that I would only be able to come back and pick it up after four working days. I knew there were other computers in line before me and I really didn't think I could survive four days without a laptop an
pete_dushenski: as also used to the methods we use in Zimbabwe when we get in these situations, so I said to him: " Come on Sir, what if I give you something? Will that speed up the process?" I'm sure he could tell from from my accent where I'm from so he looked me in the eye, lowered his voice and said to me softly : "Sir, you have just offered me a bribe. We don't do that around here."
pete_dushenski: bwahaha why doesn't money work in usistan ? it works everywhere else ! reserve currency status seems to have broken the currency's use and meaning.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46979 @ 0.00057872 = 27.1877 BTC [+] {3}
pete_dushenski: "In Minnesota and Vermont, a white supremacist super PAC called the American National Super PAC has begun circulating a robocall in support of Trump. "The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called 'racist,' says William Johnson, the leader of the white nationalist American Freedom Party. He goes on to bemoan "gradual genocide against the white race," and how few "schools anymore
pete_dushenski: beautiful white children as the majority." He signs off by telling recipients, "Don’t vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump." "
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 106079 @ 0.0005717 = 60.6454 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: BitBet - Donald Trump gets Republican Nomination :: 85.12 B (51%) on Yes, 83.19 B (49%) on No | closing in 1 month 2 weeks | weight: 22`962 (100`000 to 1) ... (
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gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 424.52, Best ask: 424.54, Bid-ask spread: 0.02000, Last trade: 424.78, 24 hour volume: 13556.26534589, 24 hour low: 419.5, 24 hour high: 430.0, 24 hour vwap: None
danielpbarron: was considering betting against myself but decided against it because i figured if i was right, there would be a massive bet to follow anyway and it would just knock my percent down anyway; might as well stick with my first bet and hope a miracle happens
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6073 @ 0.00056688 = 3.4427 BTC [-]
pete_dushenski: anyone have any experience with displayport to dvi adapters for ultra-high-res (eg. 4k) monitors ?
pete_dushenski: other way around. computer has no displayport jack. monitor has.
shinohai: did isis make good on their threat to knock twitter offline?
assbot: Domain registration company Rightside tells employees that W2 forms were stolen in phishing attack - GeekWire ... (
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ben_vulpes: "tell us how much you diddled each other so that we may distribute other diddling equitably"
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> other than to help sink the enemy. << Mega reason
thestringpuller: LOL. Blythe Masters is speaking at the consensus coindesk thing?
thestringpuller: "[Blockchain] is the technology beneath the bitcoin cryptography, but it is not bitcoin."
☟︎ shinohai: yup. Brian Armstrong will be there too.
mod6: so, with tinyscheme, there is no 'read-line' -- which we sort of talked about; having to write a bunch of our own procedures.
mod6: and since i have no clue "what lispers typically do", I'll ask: I usually read files one line at a time and then do things accordingly, is this a typical lisp convention? Or do most just read one word at a time and then do stuff?
mod6: in this case, 'read-char'
pete_dushenski: old hostage taker is familiar, friendly, and has a kind face
pete_dushenski: this is already sop for stolen bicycles 'tracked' by local poliezi.
pete_dushenski: there's supposedly a shake down of the odd pawn broker, which can't be more than appropriation of a bicycle for the cop's children, but it's mostly just a list of names of bitches who can't deal with their own problems.