mircea_popescu: nubbins`: why do i get the impression [...] << because you're an asshole. just like me.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: just appreciating the pun
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what's the equivalent of the 'stop gluttony and exercise' here << start dating whores.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: now *that*s tears. << i met a chick that quit her previous job, is learning to program in html nao.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?!
jurov: mircea_popescu: with due respect, are you sure asciilifeform can attract any federal-level whore?
mircea_popescu: but this is a quantitative discussion and he was making a qualitative challenge
jurov: you too mentioned obama daughters and so explicitly
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as i understand it, his chief complaint was, "no criminal empire footprint". easiest way to get into that, from memory, is dating the whores.
mircea_popescu: most common, of course, is spending some time in jail, but hey.
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jurov just remembered how it woks among fags. yes, mircea is right
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing.
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mircea_popescu: you know, for a cult this chan is one of the most diverse places in the world.
mircea_popescu: i explained a little about the difference between imperative and notation, i think she got the gist.
ben_vulpes: hah yeah i mean you have to learn 3 different chodes at the same time
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mircea_popescu: but otherwise the css/html difference is not unlike the "food division" and "detergent division" difference at unilever.
mats adds cattle prod to purchase list
mats: as a boy i found a guide for modifying a disposable camera into a single-use taser
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: this actually explains quite a bit << why did you think the pentagon spends so much.
mats: i used it on my buddy and he shit himself. one of my fonder memories of childhood.
mats: ever since, i've wanted to buy a taser, but modern things have tags now
mircea_popescu: you can basically build a taser out of a battery and a capacitor
ben_vulpes: conveniently packaged in disposable cameras!
mats: i've never given any thought to building one
mircea_popescu: mats: folks are encouraged to get married so they can eat fo free << which is how the dependopopotami are born. "i don't care about the chick but i gotta be married for money so w/e"
mats: although its a reasonable segue into building other toys ... like shock gloves for bum fights
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mats: i'm yellow on the outside and black on the inside
mats: i've been on the search my whole life for a proper descriptor
mircea_popescu: do you agree with that fat fag's evaluation that no women ever date azns ?
mats: certainly, asians are undersexualized in e.g. US media, but i haven't had problems picking up white women
thestringpuller: what's with the US and the pursuit of bwg (basic white girl)?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if you look at the demos, it's the most common item on menu.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: over there with all the brazillian hotties.
thestringpuller: most highly sexual girls I've met spoke portuguese as a first language
mats: i prefer 'bwg' over 'abg' (asian baby girl)
mats: thestringpuller: hows that?
mats: maybe we're exposed to different media, but i don't see it
thestringpuller: ah, always thinking of the ABG's in high school/early college who would hang out with negros
mircea_popescu: aren't skimpy/no clothes mandatory in college anyway ?
mats: i mean, asian women are hypersexualized in p much the same way as black dudes in media
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: although it is the most common item on the menu, there is still some "allure" as a minority "banging one out"
mats: i've read a few things here and there about 'the white man's asian fetish' and 'the hyper-femininity of the asian woman'
mircea_popescu: i dunno... i kinda aren't attracted to other types, by and large. i assume it's similar across cultures.
thestringpuller: i guess the media portrayal of the sorority bwg places a false imagination
mircea_popescu: but this is specific softcore/exploitation. in comes in all color schemes neh ?
mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos and derivative material.
mircea_popescu: grossed 30mn over a 5mn budget. not exactly a killer anyway.
mircea_popescu: "I cannot speak to the contents," he told Ars via online chat. "Except that they are mine. This is the only salient detail as far as I'm concerned. I am not on trial, nor is my data, and I am under no obligation to speak for it. But my property is being withheld from me, and that must be justified. The current justification is due to the inability of the NCA to understand certain data. It remains for them to establish
mircea_popescu: why this is my problem and for the court to decide if this gives them authority to convert chattel."
mircea_popescu: "As a matter of policy, we generally do not comment on extradition-related matters."
mircea_popescu: "as a matter of policy, we don't comment on rape cases" should be the new rape trial defense.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i guess for black girls it's mostly rap videos << hmm perhaps American media just blinds one to the broader cultural spectrum
mircea_popescu: "You have no idea how much we can fuck with the US government if we wanted to," Love told a hacking colleague in one exchange over Internet relay chat, prosecutors alleged. "This... stuff is really sensitive. It's basically every piece of information you'd need to do full identity theft on any employee or contractor" for the hacked agency.
mircea_popescu: any single usg employee's security, in all respects, continues at the MERCY of unidentified party. in no sense and in no manner does it flow from usg-anything.
mircea_popescu: you're still there, your house is still there, your family is still there because we can't be bothered to take them away. that's all.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: Frankly, handing off to a reference counting system <<< "One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day a student came to Moon and said: I understand how to make a better garbage collector..."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: now, i get it, damn-near everybody is stuck in his particular gulag. << hey, you made your bed for yourself here :D lie in it! he can't get out because he can't get out, what more do you want ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but how often linus commands 'shit' << an argument of an entirely different consistency hehehe
mircea_popescu: decimation: he's getting kinda old and tired frankly << yeah we should have a linus retierment betting pool
mircea_popescu: only if you go there lawfully. otherwise you have to pay.
mircea_popescu: no i don't. i used to, but then my mother threw a shitfit once she realised why her aunt's entire chicken population was dizzy
mircea_popescu: so they BURIED IT. somewhere. i was in the fucking sticks. couldn't get another one for coupla weeks, until back to town, at which point...
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mircea_popescu: decimation: out, that we should think very carefully about eliminating or demonizing genetic engineering." << to a large degree, the debate is sorely misstated. nobody is seriously discussing "genetic engineering". what's being discussed is, "let's make random combinations of genetic material we do not at all understand and see what happens. this will necessarily result in novel/ununderstood proteins and other hydrocar
mircea_popescu: bons being synthetised. the plan kingdom is, historically, the largest producer of poisons on the planet and to a large degree a controller of animal population counts and animal species survival rates, which is why you even need a liver in the first place - notice that your imune system doens't REALLY have an organ (thymus, w/e)." this is not "genetic engineering", this is chromogambling.
mircea_popescu: i can readily live with a complete demonization of chromogambling. it would not do anything, in my head, to either engineering or genetics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the substantial difference between ENGINEERING and GAMBLING is important here
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mircea_popescu: how do you think the gmo stuff is made ? same principle, different lego blocks
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller why ? and if so, join some swinger's club.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: why? << Maybe subconciously I fetishize white girls? I honestly don't know.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller move to wash dc, put up craigslist "Black man looking to humiliate married white women. Husband may be included.". watch how you make more money than alf.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suppose a better framed debate would then be this exactly, as above. "is this engineering or is it just dumbery"
mircea_popescu: at least software has the excuse it takes any retarded kid.
mircea_popescu: you know you WILL end up having to come up with "the only reason sun raises in the morning is usg" at some point
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assbot: Logged on 06-02-2015 03:02:19; *: asciilifeform once worked with a nearly-penniless foreign postdoc whose departure from usa was hastened by some bureaucrat (who handled his papers) deciding to... buy a house in his name
mircea_popescu: it holds the same logical strength as "the very reason why 'identity theft' is a real problem for anybody is that women are whores"
mircea_popescu: there may be some relation even, and some factuality to the claim and existence to the group. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of romanian kids claim to know me for their own circle ?
mircea_popescu: im sure all sorts of adults tell stories that happened to me as if - them.
mircea_popescu: could the roman empire have mandated its legions wear the fucking scutum, pilum and thorax ?
mircea_popescu: i merely am pointing out that your jumps go over lenghty stretches of weak bridging
mircea_popescu: wer sind sie eigentlich, dass sie einen befehl, den ich gebe, zu missachten wagen!!??!?!!!?! etc
☟︎ thestringpuller: "U.S. NIH spends ~30b annually to found research. However, many resulting papers are NOT repeatable In my merely 8 years experience in academia, I believe >50% papers are not repeatable especially those claiming therapeutic effects.
thestringpuller: We all know the reason : Disproving or confirming others finding won't get you very far in a scientific career. One needs to have novel finding to get published in Nature , Cell or Science, which are powerful tickets for next round of NIH funding. Because research resources are scarce, no scientists can survive by examining others papers. Therefore, faking a cute and novel discovery is effective to survive the academia with min
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller incidentally, exactly how teh neanderthal got wiped out.
mircea_popescu: "There are no homeopathic automobile repair shops, that try to repair your car by putting infinitesimal dilutions of rust in the gas tank. There are no automotive faith healers, who lay their hands on the hood and pray."
mircea_popescu: this, fwiw, is patently false. even now is being advertised a device which, iof placed on tank, will make the car not use fuel.
mircea_popescu: cazalla fwiw, exactly nothing in ro press re voxility srl.
cazalla: seems a bit suss he would say he is unsure what happened with the servers but is already moving forward to relaunch
cazalla: prob has an idea but he didn't speculate further anyway
mircea_popescu: The entire spirit of the book can be summarized by Dean's words: "Sal, think of it, we'll dig Denver together...!" That's what a man who is trying to con a woman into running off with him would say. Denver, really?? Really? Why? Because it starts with D? I'd at least momentarily entertain the theory that D cities are great places to get to, but the real reason he wants to get to Denver, or anywhere else, is preci
mircea_popescu: sely because the longer he stays in any one place, the better chance he'll be discovered to be a loser. Time to go where the grass is greener, somewhere people don't know you're there to crap on it.
trinque: I might've gotten past the first chapter of that book
cazalla: mike_c, did you transcribe that?
decimation: asciilifeform: so you are still using the u-boot copy-to-ramdisk method if you don't have a driver for the eeprom?
decimation: ah, still it's neat that you got it working
decimation find this to be a good reason to buy a pogo and play along
danielpbarron: how can i repeat this? i'm stuck on your last tip about something in a TOOLS directory
danielpbarron: is halting uboot something i'd need the serial thing for?
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decimation: asciilifeform: it would go nicely with an old-timey ibm serial terminal :)
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mike_c: cazalla: yeah. i hate watching videos. figured i'd spare others the pain.
cazalla: mike_c, k thanks, i tossed it into the article in blockquotes
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danielpbarron: ordering a few of these things now; i needed to get some other stuff anyway / added to order
danielpbarron: and nice job already getting in the WoT before joining :D
danielpbarron: or rather, registering with assbot / you're not in the WoT yet
decimation: asciilifeform: apparently the CIA has infinite leeway to do whatever it wants, as long is it can claim that some kind of secret is at stake
adam_obrien: Thats right. A friend of mine will up me later.
adam_obrien: Not sure his username. He is the one that got me on here
decimation: nah, the whole 'd1scr1m1n4t10n!!!111!!' has everything to do with the general divide & conqueror the kulaks program, and nothing to do with the exercise of actual power
☟︎ adam_obrien: Glad everything is set up and verified! I had a whale of a time doing so
adam_obrien: Hhaha, I wish. Unfortunately I wasn't around then so it couldn't have been me
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mike_c: i made it unlisted, but it will get the link from b-a log..
decimation: adam_obrien: do you work for those bitcoin atm folks?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this one might not need soldering? << really, it doesn't NEED soldering, you can just glue it in contact, with conductive paste, whatever.
adam_obrien: I own bitcoin solutions (www.btcsolutions.ca) we operate some Bitcoin ATMs as well as a margin trading platform
danielpbarron: i can get it soldered, i just thought that unit might have been a good fit for people without access to one
mircea_popescu: didn't the atms recently get shut down or is that a different country ?
adam_obrien: Hmmm. I haven't heard that. I think they are having issues in Russia. But in Canada everything is all good :)
decimation: do you have a relationship with those cavirtex guys?
adam_obrien: Ah - Quebec is on it's own. They operate by their own rules for some strange reason
adam_obrien: We are fully compliant with Fintrac (Canada's Fincen) and are operating under MSB license rules
adam_obrien: I don't. I have never liked cavirtex and haven't used them since there was other options
adam_obrien: I have to run here, if any of you need Bitcoin give me a ping adam@btcsolutions.ca
decimation: unfortunately it seems that here in the us there is much less clarity about how to be 'fully legal'
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mod6: <+asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << great work! & thanks for posting a tarball.
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mike_c: i'm a fan, but that stock price! idk.
thestringpuller: funny what a little demand will do to the price of something
mike_c: what, write another article saying what the price should be? I already did that.
mike_c: but i was more thinking i should borrow shares from a founder and short it.
mike_c: maybe a bitbet would be interesting.
mike_c: I don't think we'd have the same quantity or timeframe in mind.
thestringpuller: mike_c: you realize there aren't enough shares to push down the bids right now?
mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares?
mircea_popescu: mike_c 158k includes whole shebang, 50% are issued, i'd guess 20-30k more likely for either cazalla or bingo
mike_c: ^ that should just be what they have from being owners, no?
mircea_popescu: however, betting against qntra being worth w/e, 5 btc ? seems insanity.
mike_c: plus whatever they get for being authors
mike_c: ah, yeah. i'm not saying qntra is currently worth more than 45 btc.
mircea_popescu: anyway jurov may be able to write you a contract, seeing how he probably has a large chunk
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mike_c: i'm saying the stock price is too high, not the market cap.
mike_c: it gets weird with qntra.
mircea_popescu: it's a nonsense statement, "mkt cap is fine, stock price too high"
mike_c: too high as compared to the discounted future cash flow.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspek jurov is perhaps in the best position to write you a short of some kind.
thestringpuller: mike_c: do you not see stock price as measurement of "value of eyeballs watching"
mike_c: i see the stock price right now as one of two things.
mike_c: nevermind, i don't even want to get into it.
mike_c: obviously, since you can't buy the company for 8k.
mike_c: all you can buy is a few shares. at an inflated price.
mike_c: geezus, my fucking blood pressure today.
mike_c: who knows. lots of straws on the camel back today.
cazalla: mircea_popescu is right on that ball park figure
danielpbarron: i thought it seemed high too, but i'm not in a rush to sell my 204 shares, so...
mike_c: in a lot of public companies the market cap is related to what you could acquire the whole company for.
mircea_popescu: i think you at least theoreitcally could make a buyout offer.
mike_c: this is more and less true for different companies, but generally it's the ballpark.
mike_c: yeah, but, buyer would have to hire bingo & cazalla to keep running it
mircea_popescu: conceivably they could run it as it runs now, which brings us to the point :
mike_c: it's like a very early stage startup, you really can't just buy the whole thing yet because the founders are so critical
mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it
mircea_popescu: ie, control and ownership are really separate concerns.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you wouldn't need to hire them specifically, but you would need someone. and as there's very few people outside of b-a with brains working worth two shits...
mike_c: this is the whole point, right? people tried to make news sites and they sucked.
mike_c: it's not like the domain is worth anything. so it is unbuyable, and the market cap is not related to its worth yet.
mircea_popescu: but your point seems self contradictory to me. on one hand, oh, this is irreplaceable, on the other, oh, this is not worth its market value
decimation: eh, something is worth exactly what its mutually agreed purchase price is
mike_c: mircea_popescu: it's because you are thinking of what the company is worth, not a share. For many companies this is a simple calculation. not so for qntra.
mike_c: because dilution. for the next year, massive dilution.
decimation: mike_c: how would you evaluate the 'worth' of a company? ben graham?
decimation: well, I would assume that the policy of share dilution would end at some point, and would not approach infinity
mike_c: it doesn't approach infinity
mike_c: dilution drops off as a matter of %
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thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: so I was getting beer with Pierre_Rochard the other night, and got on the topic of off "blockchain solutions" in relation to derps wanting to buy coffee on blockchain. so eventually came to realization MPEx can do what Coinbase does but better. PUSH is free of charge, so in theory persons with MPEX accounts could make payment processing network with various bank thingies. they take derps money, put in mpex, and
thestringpuller: MPEx may one day allow redditards to buy coffee (and yes one day also pigs may fly)
mike_c: anyway, i'm a qntra fanboy for the record. g'nite all!
danielpbarron: and with cardano, they can do it safely from any internet cafe
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decimation: I bought my ttl-level serial/usb converter on ebay
mircea_popescu: ;;LATER TELL mike_c but logically a share can not be differently worth from mktcap/sharecount.
mircea_popescu: this is like telling me that a dollar's not worth 1/100 of a hundred dollars.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter... a) in fact qntra is set to have MUCH LESS dilution than absolutely ANY start-up.
decimation: the 'proper' solution would probably be to solder the 1mm pin headers you mention in your photos and then use a ribbon cable with pin-header plugs
mircea_popescu: the qntra dilution argument is similar to the bitcoin inflation argument, saying something like "bitcoin is set to inflate at a fixed rate, fiat currenciesa are not"
mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric.
decimation: re: qntra > I guess my thinking is that he is using pretty speculative thinking about the rate of dilution, who knows how management is going to act in the future
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this theory is in fact long standing practice, it's just that the derps filling up the www with their words don't know what they don't know
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's making a poc, for himself, as the first thing. he can solder later if he can't solder now
decimation: asciilifeform: are the pogo serial port 'holes' filled with solder?
mircea_popescu: for this application! not for treating his blepharospasm
decimation: yeah soldering really isn't that hard, and this is good practice
decimation: speaking of which, did you see the apple macbookpro recall ascii?
thestringpuller: "/u/thestringpuller has helped pay for 216.25 minutes of reddit server time." << badges now cause reddit can't pay the bills. derped into socialism...
decimation: the lawsuit alleges (based on what evidence?) that the gpus on the macbook pros would heat too rapidly for the lead-free solder, and would thermally shock it, causing cracks
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jurov: thestringpuller: MPEx may one day allow redditards to buy coffee << lawl
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jurov: ;;later tell mike_c most qntra shares in coinbr custody was claimed and afaik sold already. And I promised 14 day delivery of the rest on request, so prolly not what you want
jurov: i once won a free ipod mini from ibm...that thing recharged longer than played
thestringpuller: makes me think of high school. charging that thing each night
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: are you familiar with giant douche vs turd sandwich?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have no idea what that is. what's a reddit gold ? a dollar ? 2 ? 10 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you dunno to begin with wtf data strcutres its gonna have.
chatquack: *pours mircea_popescu some honey mead*
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> to avoid winblows. << it could be because they don't givew so much of a shit about the money. if he/she could afford a pointless masters,
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller reddit runs out of 6k a month worth of servers ? impressive if true.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I wouln'dt be surprised cause shits always going down.
mircea_popescu: chatquack i just went through home made cherry brandy, im full up on sweet liquor
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i fail to see how "reference counting" is any sort of anything resembling a solution nor c etc demented for not having it.
mircea_popescu: i can follow that logic there. "for ten cents we can't be bothered, write your own damned card"
mircea_popescu: i think you see my point. well "my". porobably the oldest point in computing.
mircea_popescu: everything should be dereferenced every 1337th instruction
mircea_popescu: "how long is a program ?" "that depends. on 64 bit registers, roughly 21kb
mircea_popescu: mebbe we should ask adlai to pay him a visit ? do an interview for qntra
mircea_popescu: In my humble opinion, we are heading toward a disaster, and I have heard many people, among them our top scientists, saying that they are not willing anymore to visit the US, and collaborate with American scientists, because of the difficulties.
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mircea_popescu: "As a friend of the US I am deeply worried that if you continue to delay visas in such a way, the only thing you will achieve is to alienate many world-famous foreign scientists, forcing them to increase their cooperation with European or Chinese scientists whose countries roll the red carpet for such visits. "
mircea_popescu: "why get now for free what you won't be able to afford later on ?!?!?!!?"
mircea_popescu tries real hard to imagine the next generation shamir putting to paper the 'friend of the us' string.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:it's about the get-the-microshit-out-of-my-fucking-face-i-dont-care-what << now, as ever
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pete_dushenski: and while the new stuff is faster, it certainly isn't built to last
pete_dushenski: the screen on this 'air' is already mroe borked than us science
pete_dushenski: 6 year old al macbook is slow, but a bit weighed down with junk, still mechanically solid
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pete_dushenski: asciilifeform ok, so here's the air display situation: if you have the 1280x800 screen, i'm out of luck, if you have the 1440x900 then we're good!
thestringpuller: d00d was telling me about forrester he sold that had 400k miles on it
thestringpuller: and was still running, had been driven all over the country
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: saving the volvo idea for later << can't find one that's bene taken care of
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell kakobrekla please to add !translate function to assbot wish list.
pete_dushenski: !rate adam_obrien 3 the kid can hustle. cad-btc broker.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform sorta like taxi drivers aren't "car guys"
pete_dushenski: i should say, one of the only that i'd live in and not have need for car
pete_dushenski: so it's 1) real city, 2) pleasant (for me), 3) doesn't require car
pete_dushenski: !v assbot:pete_dushenski.rate.adam_obrien.3:2dcac74653866d7b577b42d50842fd1c1258e54ebd97872ccff075cdfb32fb26
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 3 for adam_obrien with note: the kid can hustle. cad-btc broker.
pete_dushenski: heh i somehow imagined that you had all this time as a youf to diddle computers because you were an only child!
pete_dushenski: how is ignoring the best first largest cult 'more clever' ?
pete_dushenski: he won't have a chance to be teh gwagon driver though!
thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;)
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller lol except that was from this morning!
pete_dushenski: but yes, the routine is something like 1) publish, 2) self-scoop, 3) catch-up
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: your stories make me never want to go to jail.
thestringpuller: i mean no one wants to go to jail. but your stories REALLY make me not want to go to jail
pete_dushenski: you have a lot less time to fuck around worry about someone else's problems in a country where there's not 50x more wealth than needed for sustenance.
pete_dushenski: yet less productive output than the northern tip of israel
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pete_dushenski guesses that asciilifeform isn't much for aesthetic diamonds
pete_dushenski: africa: come for the adventure, leave with the roadkill
pete_dushenski: if you're traveling to africa, you can probably afford to stay out of the anonymous ditch
assbot: Why Are You In Such A Huff? All I Said Was “We Should Think About Quarantining Africa” | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
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pete_dushenski: eh if news is leaking out of ukraine, it can find its way out of midwestia
pete_dushenski did more digging on foxnews.com, came up utterly blank trying to find anything of value. retracts earlier statement.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform either way, i figure the burden is on you to prove air tightness, not me to disprove
pete_dushenski: if 'cover up' were in effect, no one would've ever heard of ferguson mo
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jurov: ^ lol asciilifeform can ask them for stuff and pay in bitcoin... but quite bezzle rates
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: so far i don't disagree - the problem i described could indeed be magicked away entirely and semi-permanently by judicious application of ~100k usd << 100k usd seems to be "magic number" in USia's /etc/moduli
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build. << Beautiful, but there's going to be some very sad japs who still can't netbsd up their pogo next to their toaster because nand
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: nubbins`: elementary fact is that i can only keep my wot obligations (s.nsa) if i have present level of equipment and time << When BTC funded taxi leaves USia, maybe missile takes it down in interesting place and we all meet the "boys from brazil"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, decimation: the point that i was trying - and failing - to make, was that a fundamentally fiat-based business arrangement like renting a house from a fella on opposite end of continent who you've never met and never expect to meet, cannot be 'bitcoinized' in the sense of turning you loose from usg financial jail << Even when "fiat poor" developing "escape WoT" is obstacle
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: this doesn't include private 'consulting' gigs, also, which many of these folks take part in << Seriously perverts rents. All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius
chetty: All around the country bubbles aroud various installations push rent up $BigInt for $ConvenientInt radius// which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous
[]bot: Bet placed: 12 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under $1000 before April 2015"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1119/ Odds: 7(Y):93(N) by coin, 8(Y):92(N) by weight. Total bet: 25.4954 BTC. Current weight: 78,985.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29022 @ 0.00037316 = 10.8298 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: decimation: fluffypony: what about rhodesia? << meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well
BingoBoingo: 0 fluffypony: that's not been done, right? << Should be done to death by now, unfortunately undeath and zombies
BingoBoingo: Nice boobie trap trigger too, no nipple will not engorge when the capacitor shorts
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BingoBoingo: "I HAVE OUTLINED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SLAVES; AND I TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND MAKE THEM BIGGER. I USE FEAR, DISTRUST AND ENVY FOR CONTROL PURPOSES." How the British controlled hundreds of millions in india with hundreds of their own
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 03:06:06; decimation: nah, the whole 'd1scr1m1n4t10n!!!111!!' has everything to do with the general divide & conqueror the kulaks program, and nothing to do with the exercise of actual power
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BingoBoingo: mike_c: a lot can change in a year. but i don't think there are enough shares in existence to make it worth it anyway. i mean, what, bingo maybe has 50k shares? << Beauty of MPEx is neither you nor the pederasts can truly be sure.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it << ALso can't seriously discount the glory of major sharholders split across 3 continents. GAW could prebtebd to sue coinfire, Qntra???
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric. << Scary thing is the longer this goes on and the harder we look for news, the less news words there seem to be to write in my observation. As time goes on I hope pieces like 'Your Disk Controller and You" Take an
☟︎ BingoBoingo also offer that the qntra principles could likely drink any other "BTC News" venture under any table.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: decimation: re: qntra > I guess my thinking is that he is using pretty speculative thinking about the rate of dilution, who knows how management is going to act in the future << So far surprisingly predictable
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: and yes, it started with eu 'rohs' mandate for lead-free. << Amazing how much civilization depends on this humble metal
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 05:32:09; asciilifeform: 'My wife got through her Master's on a G3 iBook, and we paid to have its motherboard replaced twice for the same graphics issue, a little over a year apart. Having to pay for the first repair sucked, but sometimes those are the odds. Having to pay to repair it a second time due to identical symptoms a couple of months after the initial repair warranty was up was a kick in the teeth, and was a good ind
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BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: 6 year old al macbook is slow, but a bit weighed down with junk, still mechanically solid << loving cheapest thinkpad of 2011 still. working on hoarding fans for it and learning enough hardware diddling to do cell replacement in battery apparatus
[]bot: Bet placed: 4 BTC for No on "Bitcoin to drop under $100 before April"
http://bitbet.us/bet/1108/ Odds: 8(Y):92(N) by coin, 11(Y):89(N) by weight. Total bet: 24.43457636 BTC. Current weight: 41,533.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: for all i know, it rages still somewhere in midwest << Maybe in Ohio? Biggest Illinois news is pro-Austerity governor proposing operation as advertized
BingoBoingo: ;; later tell pete_dushenski How do you know the ferguson drama wasn't to keep Africans from wanting to go to Middle West?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago? << you actually made money at some point ?! <<< i actually make money *now*, just... less 8)
nubbins`: mircea_popescu:nubbins`: what's a young anti-consumerist to do ;/ << shit look at that, "mother earth news" is actually a thing. <<< print issues are a bit lacking these days, but for the $20/yr or w/e...
nubbins`: website + backlogs are literally a trove tho
nubbins`: you can get every back issue to the 70s on dvd for <sale of the month price>
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nubbins`: i probably have coupon codes somewhere if you actually want it
jurov: you know, it may easily be scanned turds
nubbins`: "The Multiplatform Edition contains files for each year of the magazine in a format that can be transferred for viewing and searching on multiple devices. The content can only be viewed and searched year by year. • The Classic Edition provides a browser-based interface for accessing the archive on your desktop computer or laptop. You can do advanced searches and view content from the entire 44-year archive, all at once!"
nubbins`: they really do put a fair amount of effort into what they do
nubbins`: ^ some of the homesteading blogs are rad too
nubbins`: neat seeing how people do things
jurov: looks good, you can look up the coupons someday
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform scoopbot's down, deedbot not here, it's like microsoft over here.
mircea_popescu: about as much as they know about psychiatry : everyone has his own story.
fluffypony: further to asciilifeform's point, containment is critical
gribble: Error: The "Later" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "peterl" in it. Try "list Later" to see the commands in the "Later" plugin.
fluffypony: most buyers prefer it to be kept as cooled specimens / samples
fluffypony: not just on some petri dish or something
mircea_popescu: jurov "Behind the scenes, however, some new that peace was definitely not secured."
mircea_popescu: it looks like a pretty good attempt at being the onion
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate << it's not russian ye kook, it's the hammer and sickle sign
jurov: asciilifeform: dat clearsigned tftp vomit /o\
jurov: it's kilometer line. we already had this discussion
jurov: that stmp just won't do kilometer lines
jurov: Pogov4> tftp 0x800000 netbsd.ub Using egiga0 device TFTP from server [censored]; our IP address is [censored] Filename 'netbsd.ub'. Load address: 0x800000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# #############################################################
jurov: ################################################################# ################################################################# #################################################################
mircea_popescu: stupidest protocol in common use since the bretton woods agreements
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;) << ha.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (why piano keys - story for another day) << im pretty sure those are illegal in your jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: and i'm pretty sure africa's heard of ferguson mo << at least the part that can read. although... it seems improbable that if they did we don't see the output.
mircea_popescu: "i represent the family of a rich ferguson, mo merchant who has died in the recent troubles..."
mircea_popescu: chetty: [...] which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous << there's simply no way to avoid it. it IS a stupid idea, of course, but in an inflation driven economy everyone just keeps trying to climb on everyone else.
mircea_popescu: inflation economy is basically the cheapest most reliable implementation of "crabs in the pot" to human society.
mircea_popescu: nothing ever gets done anymore because everyone's energy is spent dragging everyone else down.
mircea_popescu: and if in a scored sport, say baseball or soccer, they started messing with the scoreboard, the game'd stop right then and all the players etc would just move to working teh board.
mircea_popescu: "come watch a bunch of folks sit at desks on a green field, make numbers go up."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well << wtf, these are books or more like photo albums ?
mircea_popescu: he sounds exactly like a better read joseph smith. substantially the same inclination to pass counterfactuality for fact "because who's to say it didn't happen" and "it damned well serves the purpose of making my understanding of the world more palatable ot others".
mircea_popescu: kinda lends a lot of substance to a notion that usians are actually broken in the head structurally, rather than accidentally. at least the usians of the time.
mircea_popescu: i never read anything important he wrote. he did a lot of abolitionist propaganda, for which his party attached titles to him.
mircea_popescu: this makes him no more a philosopher than the soviets.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently. it's kind-of strange that this shared psychosis was never investigated.
mircea_popescu: then people jump at the fundamentally antiscientific restructuring of science the americans did (and many places copied) after 1950 as a sort of noivel phenomena
mircea_popescu: fucking bs, there's nothing novel about it, they just did to science what they had been doing all through 1800s. which apparently is, for unclear reasons, all the ycan intellectually do ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and you obviously notice that after the "god spoke to me through stones in hat" west of the early 1800 and the "god spoke to me re black people" of the mid 1800s, they moved on to "god spoke to me re rhodesia" almost seamlessly. and before that it was...
mircea_popescu: basically, THIS if anything is the red thread of a putative "american nation". religious obscurantism divorced from religion per se.
mircea_popescu: the only other people i know about this stupid and stupid in this manner are the sicilians, and they are fucking fixated on the holy cunt.
mircea_popescu: (sicilians more in the "kingdom of two sicilies" than in the island of ~ sense)
mircea_popescu: the payload is, amusdingly enough, a very primitive answer to the same problem.
mircea_popescu: they STILL deal with their own fear of death, just, not iun the very refined jewish manner.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re "piece of shit" neat stuff
mircea_popescu: much more brusquely, as if a cowboy in dirty footwraps at a bar somewhere decided to cut it short and end with a joke.
ben_vulpes: somewhere deep in the stack, something insisted on saying it. same way the rest of my puns happen.
mircea_popescu pictures legion of corporals going "omfg end of fucking world igmme a drink"
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assbot: Правда ли, что в российской армии отменили портянки? | Вечные вопросы | Вопрос-Ответ | Аргументы и Факты ... (
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mircea_popescu: "Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish"
mircea_popescu: no, and i do mean NO english speaker of 1712 would have come up with that string.
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ben_vulpes: i'm beginning to think that each and every ruby developer's computer is configured to work on exactly one project, and they have no idea how they made it work in the first place.
ben_vulpes: this leads to such inane babble like "oh rbenv and rvm are neither any better nor any worse than each other, they do different things differently"
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ben_vulpes: a) whenever i hear "neither better nor worse" i actually parse "i cannot evaluate things and exist in a perpetual fog of 'oh iono'"
ben_vulpes: b) EVERYONE HACKING ON RUBY IS FAKING COMPETENCE
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "computers are not about hurtful things like math but more like about feelings and so the fact that there exist unevaluable statements does not worry me, but on the contrary"
mircea_popescu: the wayback machine thing reminds me of one of the lulziest things ever drug up in my nets :
mircea_popescu: "The problem is the people cannot fit the behaviour into any customary category. It does not look like usual editor's behaviour, does not look as usual spammer's behaviour, etc. They do not know what expect from it. They still cannot stop the bot fixing the dead links. They have angst.
mircea_popescu: And as it is something unusual, the usual verbs cannot be applied to it. Can the ants from the outer space be "forgiven"? No. They can be only wiped out. It is an existential issue, not a technical one. That's why your brilliant arguments won't work"
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : someone came in and fixed linkrot for wikipedia without bothering to ask the "anyone can edit" powers whether they aprove.
mircea_popescu: probably best argument ever in that entirely nonsensical "anyone can edit" line of conmanship.
punkman: archive.is (now archive.today) is ran by single russian dude using his own money
decimation: 1880s and the LCMS took measures to keep its German heritage, such as parochial schools in the German language. Such was broadly the case until World War I, which was the most-decisive occurrence Americanizing the LCMS. It was then we could no longer deny that we were Americans, since being German in America was then disdained. It was then that the American flag began to adorn God’s house, His Church, intermingling Church and
decimation: State. It was then we self-consciously began to relate ourselves to American Protestantism, and so patterned our public worship and viewed ourselves on that basis. "
chetty: <mircea_popescu> otherwise most men can actually break the shit off.// not usains
ben_vulpes: i'm fucking chowning /Library/Ruby to my user
ben_vulpes: ran into a smart cookie of a babe last night
punkman: ben_vulpes: is that why rubyists love docker?
ben_vulpes: when i explained to her why software as a career might be worse than working in a woodshop with limb loss risks etc, given the decades of shit and bad decisions i have to deal with on a daily basis
ben_vulpes: she said "ah like city planning in europe. this road goes off at 12 degrees because fuck you?"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes lol didja bring her here for us to scare her off ?
ben_vulpes: nah i keep the girls away from you terrists.
punkman: ben_vulpes: road goes off at 12 degrees because not city plan at all
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes punkman road goes off at 12 degrees because FUCK YOU YOU WORK FOR US so you adapt to us. not the other way around. god dang it.
mircea_popescu: this is like the complaint of hairdressers about unspherical heads.
ben_vulpes: punkman: i could not tell you why rubyists like anything.
mircea_popescu: "Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also."
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mircea_popescu: check it out! jesus! orwell understands this much, but does not make the step to grasp that socialism is somethin you want when you're stupid, because you're stupid, and as your brain starts working you stop wanting it./
jurov: nothing sturdy enough for hangings available.. truly a demise of civilization
jurov: btw, i doubt they can get more effete than today
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ratcheting wire decapitator, slung around target's neck
punkman: asciilifeform: stupid movie called "The Counselor"
punkman: I was wondering if anyone ever built multi-seat guillotine few days ago
ben_vulpes: punkman: yeah i guess now i try to docker this thing
assbot: Found, guillotine used to kill Hitler's enemies: But will device that executed heroine, 21, go on show? | Daily Mail Online ... (
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assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 14:12:37; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric. << Scary thing is the longer this goes on and the harder we look for news, the less news words there seem to be to write in my observation. As time goes on I hope pieces like 'Your Disk
mircea_popescu: it would seem that a correctly run news outlet turns more into rotten.com's library than the gawker empire of shit.
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 14:13:45; *: BingoBoingo also offer that the qntra principles could likely drink any other "BTC News" venture under any table.
mircea_popescu: "Articulate" has a certain meaning, look in the dictionary; it is fairly consistent throughout all settings except one: when it is used by a white guy to describe a black guy. In that case, the word suddenly means something completely different than it ordinarily does: it means "not hung up about race." Here's the point: the black guy may actually be articulate, or not be articulate-- who knows? But white people kno
mircea_popescu: uh... has this usage gone out of fashion in the past five years ? i'm completely unfamiliar with it.
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mircea_popescu: and for that matter, articulate does not mean a vague "able to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech or writing" a la webster. what it means is, "all words used according to their definition, so that the receptor does not have to make ANY adjustments to the text to turn it into 'probable' meaning".
mircea_popescu: generally, being articulate is the opposite of thinking there's such a thing as synonymy
decimation: asciilifeform: does u-boot support tftp?
decimation: ah yes, that's sop in datacenters with pxe
mats:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089549 << luls. 'idk nething about security but i wanna create a security startup' and "I think that is an awesome idea. I am currently a Business student with a computer science minor so I consider myself very technical." (real quote)
mats: i wonder sometimes.
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decimation: mats: if you are on an intel cpu, that's the book to use to optimize your warez
mats: why you gotta rain on my parade.
decimation: if you are gonna be on the intel wagon, might as well use their tools
decimation: I get your point, but what if you are already on a closed-source microarchitecture?
decimation: but asciilifeform, if you sell out to intel, your warez can go %x faster!
decimation: my understanding is that intel actually hires skilled folks from ru to hand-optimize their libraries
mircea_popescu: "In 1994, there were 20,000 visits for pediatric (under age 19) bipolar disorder. In 2003, the number was... 800,000. The diagnosis, therefore, was 25/100,000 in 1994, and now it's 1000/100,000. In other words, 1% of the population. "
mircea_popescu: check it out, bipolar is a virus inf% more effective than ebola, nobody noticed.
mircea_popescu: sure, but the advantage of "Science" and "facts" is that, you can build on their solid footing anything you wish.
mircea_popescu: the us MD crackpots are held to explain why the CDC is not going crazy over the bipolar virus yet.
mircea_popescu: such an increase can ONLY be viral. not even a bacteria can do that.
assbot: JAMA Network | JAMA | Interaction Between the Serotonin Transporter Gene (5-HTTLPR), Stressful Life Events, and Risk of Depression: A Meta-analysis ... (
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mircea_popescu: first they gotta fail. then internalise it. then despair.
mircea_popescu: it's bad policy to kill people before they're completely squeezed of any possible anguish they could provide for themsleves.
decimation: ^above paper implies that treating depression by attempting to inhibit serotonin is useless
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 00:36:44; asciilifeform: interestingly, sometimes the pharma folks fail: they spent some years trying to cough up a dopamine reuptake inhibitor that doesn't reduce to a synthetic cocaine, and, afaik, gave up
decimation: asciilifeform: maybe they read #b-a for research 'ideas'
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2014 22:56:07; asciilifeform: you can get 'real' dopamine reuptake inhibitors - but in dark alley, not pharmacy.
decimation: and yet, tomorrow millions of us inhabitants will be dispensed their placebos
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nah, caffeine works as a general stimulant
decimation: if caffeine were unknown and sudden discovered yesterday, it would be banned by the fda
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty much the best way to indict anything in the anglotard space is 'but it's enjoyable"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10758 @ 0.00037076 = 3.9886 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 114842 @ 0.0003776 = 43.3643 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: "the approved method of installing rvm simply causes too many issues"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you're familiar with the "hot" "trend" of "containerization" in the linux space?
ben_vulpes: i honestly don't know what the technical difference between VMs and containerization is.
ben_vulpes: anyways, best as I can tell, the thing forgoes the entire ruby "version management" stack and installs some version of ruby.
ben_vulpes: there are various and sundry privilege escalations and container escapes available, however.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all the drama of divource court, now for internet consumption.
mircea_popescu: only funny thing to me is that the anal children (they self identify as "radical" something or the other) actually have the unmitigated audacity to challenge the old ny jew.
decimation: asciilifeform: every time I went into the botanical garden I got terrible allergies
mircea_popescu: at least it's rather clear how exactly they plan to organise the exchange of power.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what do you think this is other than politburo change of guard ?
mircea_popescu: decimation unless they come out with "poor young girls are for the fucking', it does NOT have a strategy.
mircea_popescu: the only correct strategy in this situation is what the chinese did : round all the opposition up, shave their heads, parade them naked with legends.
decimation: what about 'we can raise $x bil from old men in the UAE
mircea_popescu: this is why we regularly succeed where cardboard fiat "billionaires" fail.
mircea_popescu: apparently there were no hookers "anywhere in sight" and the blow was from a sandblaster.
mircea_popescu: i have declaration at the ready : "In a statement accompanying the court filing, Mr. Dershowitz said the encounters could not have occurred for several reasons, including the one time he had visited Mr. Epstein’s house in New Mexico. The house was still under construction, and Mr. Dershowitz said he had stayed for about an hour. He was accompanied, he said, by his wife and daughter and another couple."
mircea_popescu: depends. if you don't discuss anything related to cocks, it doesn't matter. you don't know anything, but you also don't care.
mircea_popescu: would you hire them for your gay porn studio, sight unseen ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: are you asserting that these islands and castles don't exist? or that they are ultimately worthless baubles?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15400 @ 0.00037784 = 5.8187 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: i am asserting that they're for actually powerful men (such as, russian billionaires) not for american aparatards.
mircea_popescu: when someone as high up as a four star general dares do as much as get a meaningless title for an old ugly she-horse, he gets beheaded for it.
mircea_popescu: you think there exists a meta-usg that enjoys life like there exists a meta-nsa that enjoys thinking ?
mircea_popescu: it's a bureaucracy, not a fucking world. they don't have most things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that woman doesn't look like what the average brothel goer would consider.
decimation: heh. well, the world of official usg is quite different from the world of finance for which usg provides a krysha
mircea_popescu: he only went with her for EXACTLY the same problem you were describing for yourself earlier,
mircea_popescu: but somehow magically are unaware it's not limited to you.
mircea_popescu: where the fuck is he going to find the wot that'll get him the 19 yo hussies that love being fucked in public ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25630 @ 0.00036989 = 9.4803 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, they pull on their own cock. what do you do with your own time ? blow much ?
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decimation: he paid a couple $k per night apparently
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 175070 @ 0.00035994 = 63.0147 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: or what, we suddenly have memory hole effect, we forgot about all the lies in filings, starting with the "confiscated btc" that never existed ?
thestringpuller: "Meet 'Kristen,' the 22-year-old woman who brought down the governor" << LOL so dramatic
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37560 @ 0.00037784 = 14.1917 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: the important point is that should anyone have had as much as anything at all to say about it, he'd be cutting ice in front of the lenin icebreaker
jurov: apparently tsar nicholas arranged a business with lincoln
jurov: and borrowed 1000 tons of gold to that purpose
decimation: jurov: is that why the tsar sold alaska for a pittance?
jurov: but rothshilds stole it and caused general havoc
jurov: alaska is not mentioned
ben_vulpes: he also ran his personal emails through state servers.
decimation: or they were disappeared from pictures right
jurov: i keep getting fed them via facebook
decimation: jurov clicked "like" on "putin please don't invade slovenia"?
jurov: it's starry eyed putinjugend
decimation: asciilifeform: I never figured out why these went out of fashion
decimation: actually usa has plenty of railroads, but none of them are open for usg to roam freely
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45100 @ 0.00039549 = 17.8366 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> decimation: they didn't. usa spent $maxint trying to copy, but then changed their mind when realized they have scarcely any railroads << so lulzy this.
mircea_popescu: "most civilised country in the civilised world, has no railroads and most of demographics replenishment comes out of cosanguine marriages"
decimation: if you look at any map of the us circa 1880 or earlier all you see are railroads
decimation: then if you look at maps over time, the railroads disappear roughly 1940, to be replaced with national highways
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68713 @ 0.00039558 = 27.1815 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8287 @ 0.00040197 = 3.3311 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: the train around where i live only exists because of subsidies; it's stupidly inexpensive to ride, and yet most people still prefer their cars
danielpbarron: when i had an office job, i used the train to commute; the monthly pass cost ~120 USD and I didn't even have to pay this; my employer got money from the state for covering this cost -- probably some misguided attempt to protect the environment or cut down on traffic
chetty: US transport is horridly set up, people prefer cars cause train and bus stations are in bad locations with no useful taxi service
ben_vulpes: i do love the pubtrans in my socialist paradise.
danielpbarron: i was within biking distance at both ends -- luck i guess
danielpbarron: it was actually a 10 to 20 minute walk on one of the ends
chetty: oh and us has lack of sidewalks too, half the time you cant walk without risking life on roadsides
danielpbarron: in CT you run the risk of getting harassed by COPS for daring to take a walk somewhere
danielpbarron: if you want to avoid suspicion, wear yoga pants and jog
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 122485 @ 0.00040282 = 49.3394 BTC [+] {3}
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: Only the homeless would be willing to brave the snow to walk somewhere...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3000 @ 0.00040641 = 1.2192 BTC [+]
mats: not so big a deal since Windows Defender is now taking care of it, but nonetheless
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 143200 @ 0.00040675 = 58.2466 BTC [+] {2}
danielpbarron: in the same process, I got it to boot from a memory card
danielpbarron: and i'd like to now try using a USB3 flash drive as the datadir
danielpbarron: the memory card is required in combination with USB3 because the thing cannot have a root filesystem on drives attached to the ports on the rear, and the usb on the top (next to the sata port) is USB2
danielpbarron: but when the netbsd thing is ready to go, the memory card should not be necessary
danielpbarron: and if anyone has a pogo already and doesn't want to wait, i'd say go with debian over arch; right off the bat it looks like there's no systemd with debian
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42815 @ 0.00040641 = 17.4004 BTC [-]
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu it's not russian ye kook, it's the hammer and sickle sign << i meant this! комсомольская правда!
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: re:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-06-2014#735984 << from front page of bitcoin-tardland: "This project is completely open-source and I take 0 profit from it. Please note that there are more cost-effective ways of deploying full nodes and I mention that in the FAQs. This website is an experiment and an excersize on automatically deploying nodes when a certain balance is reached"
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punkman: thestringpuller: when did assbot start ignoring your links
punkman: kinda confusing to see log link without assbot spitting out the line
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform ya, he didn't like the flavour of punch we were serving
punkman: pseudonode also useful for DoS experiments and such
pete_dushenski: are there non-naive node counters ? or a way to count nodes non-naively ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39150 @ 0.0004039 = 15.8127 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28190 @ 0.00040818 = 11.5066 BTC [+]
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu socialism is somethin you want when you're stupid, because you're stupid, and as your brain starts working you stop wanting it./ << lol so money.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> may as well run one node and give it 10,000 spam ip addrs << you wrecker, you!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> may as well run one node and give it 10,000 spam ip addrs << this is part of the problem, and why the 61 figure is an upper bound
mircea_popescu: plenty of perfectly legitimately netops reasons to show the same server on multiple - and perhaps changing - ips
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I guess if the boys still play with Cartman, despite...
mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with people, bowdlerisation of everytrhing everywhere all the fucking time.
mircea_popescu: obscure grunge-pop band from wisconsin, they re-release their pre 2000 songs to sound like shit. and not sort-of like shit. actually fucking shit, audibly so. you don't even have to be an opera critic with 20 different mezzo and coloratura sopranos under your belt.