mircea_popescu: when you peer into the b-a, the b-a peers back into you.
cazalla: bah, that pdf to text converter butchered a bunch of paragraphs
mircea_popescu: "Thompson was faced with a hardware environment cramped and spartan even for the time: the DEC PDP-7 on which he started in 1968 was a machine with 8K 18-bit words of memory and no software useful to him."
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cazalla: i take it noone here got an invite to evoorhee's wedding lol
mircea_popescu: well if you're going to write asm you'd better know the opcodes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you said write, not you know, make useful stuff :D
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nfi, just saw an image posted a few hours ago, assumed it was from today, guess not
cazalla: wow, some tumblr pics that aren't 320x480 for once
mircea_popescu: really, bitcoin is quite aptly "a microscope". specifically, in this case : the sort of bs idiocy we deride used to pass for "business" and "entrepreneurship" as a regular thing. sop.
mircea_popescu: those dudes find themselves in the position where atrocities that were just fine suddenly are viewed as atrocities by a cohesive group.
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, I've been running the uploader by hand; I'm around to do so
trinque: sometime this weekend I'm going to make some improvements to the thing, including uploading via cronjob
trinque: I've had a highlight on deedbot- in the meantime
mircea_popescu: i think "isis" is really the only available symbol to describe chtulhu, the borg, entity q and so forth.
mircea_popescu: also no cc debt, not caring about college, no idea what a quarterpounder with cheese is, completely dissinterested in police sirens in traffic etc.
mircea_popescu: isis the symbol, not isis the real item it purports to stand for.
mircea_popescu: average usian has never traveled, never read a book in a foreign language, never fucked a woman he didn't know etc. his ideas of "isis" are necessarily a reflection of his own pen, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: heck, even something as banal as jurisdiction limits or alternative currencies are "confusing" and uncomfortable.
mircea_popescu: half the usian literature (which is 2/3s cinematographic) revolves around the shock and horror of... BORDERS!111
mircea_popescu: that's the main epic device : he crossed the state line!111
mircea_popescu: i doubt they generally comprehend there is such a thing.
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cazalla: everyone will be talking about for weeks, months, probably even years to come
cazalla: Pierre_Rochard, i think they're going to put it on display at the airport museum or something
cazalla: when we use to wag school to go to the beach, we'd cut across the tarmac at that airport to get to the train station quicker (they put up fencing after 9/11, you could basically wander across it prior to that)
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whaack: does the MIT btc conference fall in the category of shit you guys give interest to?
adlai guesses that the burden of relevance proving is on the messenger
adlai: you have a voice, use it!
cazalla: not really whaack, same speakers, same sponsors, same shit
adlai: from what i've heard, they want to form a Third Foundation. this is getting even thicker than asimov
whaack: Joi was saying that yeah he wanted an organization that worked on hardware wallets
whaack: devoid of interests in profit or political affairs, but merely the ideals of bitcoin
danielpbarron: i feel like this relates to the conversation not too long ago about buying hardware for specific purposes, and how it tells your enemy exactly how he can screw you
☟︎ whaack: adlai: ah yes I've read this, I like it a lot. I'm currently taking the task of building my own hardware and writing my own transaction signing tool. It's difficult though and pushing the limits of my feeble brain
adlai: what hardware are you building?
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whaack: adlai: Haha I guess I should say I've mentally told myself I'm going to do the task - no work has been put in yet. But I just want to build my own bitcoin tool. I probably won't wind up using it but I want to prove to myself that I'm able to do it.
adlai: if you have those abilities, why not put them to use building something useful?
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mircea_popescu: adlai from what i've heard, they want to form a Third Foundation. this is getting even thicker than asimov << lolz. the part where they carefully avoid the why of it, and how exactly the old one died is also the part that ensures they stay irrelevant.
adlai: armed insurrection, like suicide, is only punishable when failed
mircea_popescu: but nuland's ukraine coup failed so spectacularly it's contending with the iran contra affair.
adlai: well the us plays the role of global policeman, and suicide-by-cop is not punishable (except for maybe retiring the individual cop early, since he won't make a good public face for the department)
mircea_popescu: anyway, those fucking idiots. just how hard is it to mine a coupla guard towers.
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mircea_popescu: took me like five minutes to figure out wtf happened with that one hour gap.
adlai: eastern standard siesta
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mircea_popescu: "The most important of these has been the tolerance of C compilers to errors in type. As should be clear from the history above, C evolved from typeless languages. It did not suddenly appear to its earliest users and developers as an entirely new language with its own rules; instead we continually had to adapt existing programs as the language developed, and make allowance for an existing body of code. (Later, the ANSI
mircea_popescu: X3J11 committee standardizing C would face the same problem.)"
mircea_popescu: "Nevertheless, C's approach to strings works well." :D
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ben_vulpes: golang json parser barfs on quoted empty arrays.
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ben_vulpes: (although who knows - maybe i'm a moron for trying to pass it quoted empty arrays)
punkman: so I just got a call from the Congo, didn't have enough time to pick it up. wonder what kind of scam it was
adlai: good thing you didn't answer, might have been implicated in a coup
kakobrekla: i got one from azerbaijan last friday evening.
cazalla: and i got one from all your mums
cazalla: and now i'm going to bed! zzz
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assbot: /hashtag/AggressiveCleavage?src=hash- the /hashtag/GamerGate?src=hash OP I've been in training for my entire life... they pay me for this, y'all...
http://t.co/fSEA2kheDL assbot: Logged on 27-07-2014 02:14:01; asciilifeform:
http://kyristor.com << dumped my ancient derpage in there for archaeologists to derp on.
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 05:40:23; danielpbarron: i feel like this relates to the conversation not too long ago about buying hardware for specific purposes, and how it tells your enemy exactly how he can screw you
danielpbarron: height=261137 vs height=202574 (usb3: height=235199)
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punkman: lol, antonopoulos telling people "blockchains without bitcoin is lightbulb without electricity"
punkman: probably not the best analogy for people that don't understand lightbulbs
punkman: your IP leaks because your client autojoins channel before cloak is activated
punkman: either configure "SASL" login, or disable autojoin
punkman: so did you get DoS'd the other day?
punkman: well some people report their internet/router going down for short periods
ecstaticpessimst: Oh, I wasn't browsing from my home network. maybe I caused some problems for some other people....that would be exciting
punkman: I enjoyed the maritime story btw ;)
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Pierre_Rochard: ;;later tell pete_dushenski my compliments to the chef for the latest contravex post, all of the ingredients were perfectly cooked
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jurov: what's the problem with firefox?
ben_vulpes: what's the graphical www browser story over on le bsds?
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punkman: I don't mind the CSS, but the javascript situation is ridiculous
thestringpuller: how about we store private GPG keys in the javascript portion of the browser!
thestringpuller: i thought keybase held your keys for you cause people are stupid
punkman: btw remember Shrem signing with openpgpjs, didn't even validate
punkman: thestringpuller: they more wanted to make a "better" keyserver, that linked to your twitter/github/whatever.
ben_vulpes: punkman, thestringpuller: a "better keyserver"'d not be a bad thing to do.
thestringpuller: punkman: keybase is forcing users to trust in central authority rather than forcing users to learn "their lessons"
☟︎ punkman: thestringpuller: no the encrypted key backup thing is optional
punkman: but it's an option that shouldn't exist
ben_vulpes: key backup as a service is downright braindamaged.
thestringpuller: which causes more braindamages cause "consumer has come to expect"
ben_vulpes: "please compromise and brute force this juicy target."
punkman: I think they had openpgp.js before
thestringpuller: why run GPG on node.js when you can just you know use GPG....
ben_vulpes halfway expects 'node' 'gpg' to shell out to platform bins
thestringpuller: "Yes, it is as safe as generating your keys using a local application. The key generation on our website is done client-side only. This means the key pairs are generated entirely in your web browser and they never leave your computer. Our website never sees any key related data or the key itself."
thestringpuller: 10 years from now when phuctor starts detecting broken entropy systems
thestringpuller: I will be interested in seeing what happens when you throw a key generator from here into the mix
thestringpuller: only LISP use in my undergrad program is in the AI courses
thestringpuller: i don't think the undergrads are smart enough to implement lisp
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i think brainfuck was the only thing that fits that criteria during my undergrad at least
thestringpuller: most of the undergrads coming in had never seen a programming language in their lives so...
thestringpuller: "OMG I can make money programming compooters, i'd better jump on the CS bandwagon"
ben_vulpes: i still think CS is the worst way to make money programmering.
punkman: thestringpuller: everyone knows autocad, doesn't need to be in list
thestringpuller: it's the first cad software I used so I guess it's kinda "mainstream" now
ben_vulpes: avoid "baccalaureate" bezzle, hack js and css.
ben_vulpes: that is, if you really lack the kind of mind that hungers for something beyond "money".
thestringpuller: now people drop out in 1st year and go to SF and work for start up after start up
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: "OMG I can make money programming compooters, i'd better jump on the CS bandwagon" << you tell me
BingoBoingo: Studying CS would be a fine path if only the studiers would accept being deprived of computers until their 30's
punkman: decimation: plenty of hierarchy, just not very coherent when observed from distance
decimation: punkman: yeah that's a good point. the outside visibility on a superficial level is somewhat obscure
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo> Studying CS would be a fine path if only the studiers would accept being deprived of computers until their 30's < hehe my old man was writing code years before he first saw a computer.
ben_vulpes: decimation: all i know is how to google shit.
decimation: I suppose that part of the problem really is that humans need a few more generations to sort out how to have a 'status hierarchy' for programmers
ben_vulpes: i don't know about that. generally working with any given individual for a few months is enough to suss out their competence.
ben_vulpes: this also entails delegating projects of various scope in different domains to them and then carefully reviewing delivered code and user-facing features.
mircea_popescu: "You beast! You will pay hand over fist, you and the [Romanian political party]'s newspaper The Power that allows you to shit your dirty shit! This time you're fucked! See you in court garbage!"
mircea_popescu: ironically, those people like me about as much as us democrats like ron paul.
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/02/michael_munger_1.html < "Guest: And that--I do want to keep defending Buchanan. What Buchanan's worried about is a monolithic Leviathan. Because he thought, once you have a state, it will just eat all of the other choices. It will pull all of them inside, like a sort of great vortex. All of the choices will become public because that's the way that states work. That's the logic, is to expand.
decimation: Which is why he wanted private groups."
mircea_popescu: heh if only. in fact, the state doesn't pull all choice into becoming public. that's an insanely optimistic view of the process. the state pulls public choice into meaninglessness, and then ruins all alternative.
cazalla: pete_dushenski, not sure my comment went through but fyi, the bitcoin center ny is getting into incubating startups if you didn't know already :)
pete_dushenski: cazalla not only did i not realise that, but your comment was definitely caught up on the spamhole so thx for the heads up !
cazalla: prolly because i included a link
cazalla: your spambot clearly works if it labels pivoting to incubating startups as spam
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assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 15:47:58; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not ethyl ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i'm guessing that's 'daddy' and not 'daniel' ;)
mircea_popescu: such a perfect mirror for the peak of l'aile ou la cuisse
pete_dushenski: looking forward to finding a story worth exploring therein
decimation: pete_dushenski: did you see the top gear where they review the 'dictator class' mercs?
decimation: it was an older one, clarkson claimed he owned it
pete_dushenski: ya, jeremy has/had one, often whined that new window switches were $5k or something
decimation: hehe yeah, well it's pretty much a museum piece
decimation: there's a somewhat similar market for 'restored' wwii aircraft
pete_dushenski: well, old men have little else to occupy themselves with so they're always in search of projects
decimation: asciilifeform: the thing that gets me, is that what percentage of the 'car' was actually original?
decimation: at some point, are you just driving a replica?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: original or hand-made, either or a combination of the two are desirable.
pete_dushenski: and cubans could desire authenticity all they want and it still won't happen
pete_dushenski: for usians, authentic parts are available, if expensive or just plain hard to find
decimation: I recently toured a 'restoration' shop where they rebuild wrecks from wwii
decimation: old men pay top dollar for these things, some of which were found as a wreck in the jungle. the end result has maybe 30% 'original' parts
pete_dushenski: there are barn-find ferrari *shells* that go for millions
decimation: interestingly, for the aircraft they pound out the frame using hammer press machines
decimation: I asked 'why don't you just use a cnc mill to shape the parts'. the answer: 1.) they apparently don't 'do' computers and 2.) the aircraft were all half-ass made to the blueprints anyway, often with 'by hand' adjustments
pete_dushenski: and today boeing outsources its parts to asia and... gets fucked.
pete_dushenski: there's much to be said for controlling your supply chain and having it in your backyard/garage/basement
decimation: pete_dushenski: it's hard for the 'capitalists' to refuse china's offer to 100% subsidize their manufacturing business
ben_vulpes: <decimation> I asked 'why don't you just use a cnc mill to shape the parts'. the answer: 1.) they apparently don't 'do' computers and 2.) the aircraft were all half-ass made to the blueprints anyway, often with 'by hand' adjustments << uh yeah that's how hand machining worked
pete_dushenski: fluffypony lol which is stocked by your better half, i imagine ?
decimation: ben_vulpes: yes, and granted many of these parts had complex curve shapes
decimation: pete_dushenski: yeah that's why I put the scare quotes :)
decimation: boeing is in the business of being various state's bitch
pete_dushenski: unless of course this is a case of, like mp's observation on the decline of the british empire, there being no good men left to do what has to be done
pete_dushenski: no men of morals left in the states, work gets shipped abroad
decimation: I think there might be some of that, but I also doubt that britian's 'good men' could get much done trapped in the crazy monkey house of a modern us bureaucracy
pete_dushenski: sure, i'm not saying it's entirely the fault of the men in the context of their work, but it is their fault in the context of the systems of governance they support
pete_dushenski: so americans support welfare and free shit, so no one bothers to get up for work.
decimation: yes. for instance, the fact that the bond market in the us freaked out because a semi-good jobs report might imply that the fed might begin 'targeting' higher rates
pete_dushenski: to the extent that they don't have to, that no one is holding a gun to their head and they aren't starving, why bother ?
decimation: of course not, but direct government interventions do
decimation: the amusing bit is that folks think they are trading in a 'free market', but then actually act like they are scared government lackeys
decimation: well, when you are trading on the wholly-owned 'usd-coin' platform, it's easy to be scared when usg decides to tinker with various model parameters mid-flight
pete_dushenski: it seems to me that, at this point certainly, there's more general fear when there *isn't* tinkering
decimation: well, the other part of this issue is that the fed isn't tinkering alone, you also have the euros doing what they do
decimation: the idea that anyone could 'consider the implications' of whatever decision they make in the matter of bank interest rates, money supply, etc is pretty lulzy
pete_dushenski: "because history never happened and things are different now"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu jesus christ on a cross you're fast. like seriously.
pete_dushenski: so -assettes, anyone have any restaurant recommendations for jamaica ?
pete_dushenski: feel free to pgp-gram or ;;later tell if you've been to the home of usain bolt and.... other fast runners.
decimation: pete_dushenski: I presume you aren't going to one of those 'all-inclusive' resorts populated by the usian middle class?
pete_dushenski: not until one of them makes food that isn't better used on livestock
pete_dushenski: if i'm going to do that to myself, i'll hop on a cruise ship
decimation: yeah I did that once, the scant few hours at port makes it difficult to see anything other than the usual tourist garbage
decimation: and the food was mediocre in quality, but great in quantity
pete_dushenski: mostly, yes, but it depends both on the size of the ship and where the ports are.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or cultivate a relationship with an actual machine shop << this is how itworked in the 80s too lol. a guy had to have relatiuons with mechanics.
mircea_popescu: just like a woman had to have relations with beauticians.
decimation: mircea_popescu:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm " When she first recorded a deer eating nestlings, she wondered if they would eat eggs, too. She incorporated the help of a captive deer at the research center to find out. "We presented it [captive deer] with a few quail eggs -- just to see what it would do -- and it munched them right up."
decimation: apparently 'herbivores' are more than happy to eat little packages marked 'free protein'
pete_dushenski: decimation sounds like a normal cruise experience ! some islands are built up exclusively for tourists, but in real cities, whether shanghai or split, you can at least walk for a few hours in one direction and still have room to explore
decimation: pete_dushenski: yeah but 'real places' generally cost $$$, which is why cruises avoid them
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu sorta the best way to not get anally gaped by mech/beautician.
decimation: for instance, my cruise ship also had a port of call on "Hispaniola"
pete_dushenski: no relationship (dealership): $225/hr, relationship (small shop): $110/hr.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the end result has maybe 30% 'original' parts << old men don't want the original parts of their wife, they just want a construct that looks like the wife did, in 72.
decimation: turns out, this is a private peninsula of hati, wholly owned by royal caribbean. since it would be far too dangerous for the locals to serve up the vittles, the entire crew disembarked to operate the various bars and amusements on the 'beach'
pete_dushenski: i went on a cruise of se asia in 2002 when the post-9/11 deals made it... affordable.
decimation: meanwhile the surrounding seas were littered with shipwrecks
decimation: mircea_popescu: re: old parts < yeah, especially since this particular shop specialized in making 'flyable' aircraft
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> my supply chain is in my fridge << you eat molds ?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I think there might be some of that, but I also doubt that britian's 'good men' could get much done trapped in the crazy monkey house of a modern us bureaucracy << no, but they wouldn't be, see ? that's the very definition. "good men" is, obama comes and derps, they point and laugh, obama calls the national guard, they shoot it dead.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the amusing bit is that folks think they are trading in a 'free market', but then actually act like they are scared government lackeys << quite!
mircea_popescu: dude pete_dushenski's cruizin' all over the world, buyin' cars and shit, but not conference ?!
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mircea_popescu: i guess mike gets it at 275, there being no average o.O
mircea_popescu: lol you're at the wrong age tho. prolly get 12-20 ppl marry a year.
pete_dushenski: although jeez, after ditching facebook and a smartphone, i seem to be moving in that direction.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> and the food was mediocre in quality, but great in quantity << in the 90s it was the best thing for avg romanian chick, work the cruise ships.
pete_dushenski: i've met one or two romanian dudes working on cruises, ex-gynmast or w/e cum 'fitness trainers'
decimation: mircea_popescu: the one I was on was crewed mostly by filipinos. I think the different cruise lines 'specialize' in different 'third world' recruitment
decimation: at any rate, a shapely young lady could probably make decent money working the bar on a cruise ship
pete_dushenski: i sweat the young attractive men do better on those ships
mircea_popescu: outright prostitution is contentious, but then again this was pre viagra. couldn't get it up anyway.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski of course. women 3x, and they CAN get it up.
pete_dushenski: older husbands have long since lost interest, spend the day at port on the golf course.
pete_dushenski: young romanian fitness trainer or whatever is the perfect match.
decimation: pretty much the same model as the 'luxor centre for internet businessmen'
mircea_popescu: well no. romanians don't wanna marry, arabs don't wanna fuck.
mircea_popescu: "I’d honestly thought that such derpage was dead and buried"
mircea_popescu: dude... it'll be 2050, wot long in firm control, random nobody at the fringe of the world will STILL be starting webwallets / writing bitcoin hate pieces.
pete_dushenski: no one i talk to irl would dare be so derpy to my face.
mircea_popescu: and it will still all be stolfi level. and they will STILL not know how fucking old the stolfi bs is.
pete_dushenski: eh, let me add my quarterly nail to the coffin wouldja ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fact that it's changing from "o bitcoin will never succeed" to "o we missed the boat so unfair" is quite pleasant.
mircea_popescu: is Nick Spanos the figurehead for the kenna scammer or am i confused ?
pete_dushenski: he's known merely as "mr. i know everything there is to know about bitcoin" henceforth and forever more.
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mircea_popescu: derps ran off with the tradehill customer funds, bought some office space.
mircea_popescu: “I feel like a martyr—a Bitcoin martyr,” he told me. “We’re bleeding out.”
mircea_popescu: not the danny guy, the other one, the greek who was behind it all.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski they claimed circle defrauded them, threatened to sue. never sued, disappeared.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no no. there was this pic at some conference. the fall guy (denny idiot), the sucker (some local professor) and the actual scammer
pete_dushenski: "Ex-marine Jered Kenna has to be one of the most perseverant entrepreneurs in bitcoin. After his exchange TradeHill fell apart not once but twice, he also lost bitcoin.com – the flagship domain for the digital currency." << perseverant and retarded.
pete_dushenski: like the seagull that keeps flying into the window of the skyscraper
pete_dushenski: wasn't it that argentinian guy's and he sold the domain to gox ?
mircea_popescu: dude impressive, that guy managed to get the pic supressed ?
ben_vulpes: hey does anyone have a link to a multisignature transaction in the main chain?
pete_dushenski: just found the business card for the bitcoins.com guy, rodolfo andragnes. he claimed to have sold the domain to mt gox in 2011 for $100k, half cash, half btc.
pete_dushenski: now, he's "founding member of fundacion bitcoin argentina"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6900 @ 0.00033737 = 2.3279 BTC [-]
jurov stares incredulously
jurov: well... and papua tribes should start regulating it, too
jurov: that's remarkable pic
mircea_popescu: jurov they're not racist, they just don't like that kinda people.
mircea_popescu: when niggers do it, it's suddenly obvious how unsufferable it is.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53950 @ 0.00032612 = 17.5942 BTC [-] {2}
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Pierre_Rochard: On the subject of french movies, mircea_popescu & pete_dushenski have you seen jean reno’s les visisteurs?
pete_dushenski: because if we want things that don't make sense, they'll happen.
pete_dushenski: ya, not a thing as much as a ripple in the ocean, as it were
Pierre_Rochard: I highly recommend it, I don’t doubt you’ll find the bourgeoisie vs aristocracy commentary amusing, and christian clavier is hysterical
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