mircea_popescu: what sort of an example are you setting for business people such as myself!@
Pierre_Rochard: haha, well, some random categorizations will be in the next iteration of the test data generation script
Pierre_Rochard: the core accounting part is stable at this point, the treasury part needs a major overhaul, and documentation / source code access will be in place before the next halving
Pierre_Rochard: in fact the database tables and query structures are as close to perfect accounting theory as you’ll get
Pierre_Rochard: but most of gaap is about how to book specific transactions (for example expense vs capitalize)
Pierre_Rochard: so it’s gaap if a good accountant is using pacioli, it’s some non-gaap thing otherwise
Pierre_Rochard: I don’t… gaap or non-gaap depends 90% on the user, 10% on the software - the software is at 11%
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mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard a large chunk of the utility here is education, seeing how a bunch of people are going to get involved in a sort of you know, de novo, revolutionary economic process.
mircea_popescu: so giving them stuff like - well documented drop lists ? huge win.
mircea_popescu: sorta funel the process of selection towards gaap/sanity
mircea_popescu: but the good sort of work, the sort that creates a barrier to entry.
mircea_popescu: myeah. it WILL help if it leverages the power of html to literally funel people into sense.
Pierre_Rochard: that’s a great approach, I was stuck in the mindset of “I’m coding this for accountants”, rather than “I’m coding this to create accountants”
mircea_popescu: and even if the resulting "accountants" won't be very good by the way this is measured today (a "stickler" approach - great emphasis on detail)
mircea_popescu: if they have ~fundamental~ understanding as a result of interacting with your thing, you scored major points.
mircea_popescu: hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,
mircea_popescu: applies to accounting just as well, except even fewer people know.
mircea_popescu: and i don't even mean it in the made-for-tv "tax dodge11!1!" sense.
mircea_popescu: i mean it in the bluntest "make sense of reality" sense.
Pierre_Rochard: indeed, though I think the gems will become apparent as pacioli becomes integrated with a wallet and the WoT. writing the core accounting part was necessary because of all the crufted OSS gnucash/openerp monoliths
Pierre_Rochard: the end goal is to have a currency -> payments -> accounting -> finance process that is well oiled and a joy to use
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decimation: this is a feature - not a bug - if we agree with the notion that anything that keeps the masses of cool kids away is a good thing
decimation: there are a couple of those on the list, but mostly it's made up of small private schools and vocational schools
decimation: well, mit is probably the most notable school in the list
mircea_popescu: or you mean popular as in, sought after. not as in, where commoners gather
decimation: I think mit actually has a significant percentage of high school valedictorians
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decimation: mircea_popescu: so have you been poking around centos or scientific linux?
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assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 18:06:30; mircea_popescu: 2.x immune.
decimation: yes indeed. which is why most 'serious business' uses old redhat
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decimation: yeah I'm not sure if the guy is joking or not
mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
☟︎ gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115832 << We're discussing the same thing. If the program has "marked" all instances of $WHATEVER I can trivally add "Would you like me to a) check all places where it's called and report what I can figure out about the context ? b) iterate you through all locations ? c) change it back ? d) run a trace see what happens ?" on top of it.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:29:15; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to a) check all places where
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:31:02; Adlai: aha, the good old C-c C-w C-c
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115871 << If the "rules" of human language are formalized it becomes much easier to break them in interesting ways. One could use the output of a shannonizer to inform word choice for his story, enforcing that each word is followed by one of the top 10 least likely words in the whole of the language up to this point. I suspect that such a tale would be great fun to re
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
gabriel_laddel: ad, as most people would immediately recoil in horror, seeing something so very different what they're used to.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:00:28; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:12:02; mircea_popescu: and why the fuck am i referencing pastebins.
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mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel natural languages are not formalizable.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:11:55; mircea_popescu: "The studious will note that this is a completely solved problem that no machine learning algorithm will be able to approximate anytime soon." i'm sorry...what ? solved how ?
gabriel_laddel: apart from this, I have written Emacs Lisp functions to make a statement into a question and vice versa, to join and split sentences (not quite as trivial as it sounds), to upgrade from singular to plural and vice versa, to change the person from second to third and vice versa, et cetera. significant parts of grammar is the way it is to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and sin
gabriel_laddel: ce this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated. this is stuff that takes just a bit of time to do, but when a whole paragraph of text needs to be changed from second person singular or from third person singular to third person plural, it's nice to do that with a couple keystrokes. it's also nice to see that the pronouns are easily traceable to their origins, and don't get messed up in several layers of refer
gabriel_laddel: ences. if my code can't figure it out, chances are so won't anybody else, at least not easily.
gabriel_laddel: Would you agree that a shannonizer is a formalization?
mircea_popescu: i would agree that the counting horse is a remarkable horse,
mircea_popescu: a shannonizer is a formalisation, but not of natural language.
decimation: all models are wrong - some are useful
mircea_popescu: "I have typed an average of 21.3 keystrokes per second" eh gtfo.
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mircea_popescu: "to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and since this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated. this is stuff that takes just a bit of time to do, but when a whole paragraph of text " << such nonsense.
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assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 03:33:07; mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
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davout: ;;later tell Pierre_Rochard do you have some background to share regarding your accounting software? probably missed it if it has already been discussed
davout: ;;later tell Pierre_Rochard /me is pretty interested
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Pierre_Rochard: davout: I floated the idea last year - I’ve used a lot of different accounting software and never been satisfied - none of them use acccounting theory as the spec
Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: or at least make reasonable bookkeepers out of you, I couldn’t call someone an accountant if they don’t know how to do a multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation
pete_dushenski: multi-currency i understand, but what do you mean by 'multi-entity' ?
Pierre_Rochard: for example you’re a 90% owner of a subsidiary in mexico, etc
Pierre_Rochard: the sub has its own set of books, you need to roll them up into the parent company’s, there are adjustments to made (like of the parent is lending money to the sub)
Pierre_Rochard: that is the current state-of-the-art in bitcoin accounting
pete_dushenski: sort of like how a pointy rock was state-of-the-art tribal warfare 50,000 years ago.
pete_dushenski: "look how much more effective the pointy rock is than the blunt round rock!"
Pierre_Rochard: exactly, and I’m assembling an abrams tank, now I need to write up the user manual
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pete_dushenski: we need the "explain it to me like i'm 5 years old" approach
Pierre_Rochard: agreed, building something to explain was the first step, now the real work begins
Pierre_Rochard: thanks, will do! I’m getting surgery on my right shoulder in a week, so I need to get some dictation software haha
Pierre_Rochard: originally dislocated while mountain biking, then again from skipping rope
pete_dushenski: "A man embarrassed in his circumstances, and conducting them imprudently, likes best to continue in the dark; he will not gladly reckon up the debtor entries he is charged with. But on the other hand, there is nothing to a prudent manager more pleasant than daily to set before himself the sums of his growing fortune. -J.W. von Goethe" << lovely quote btw.
pete_dushenski: i e-mailed him, he recommended using the blackberry 9900 (2011 vintage) or earlier
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pete_dushenski: apparently he has some large contracts already, something in the order of $6mn per year and no employees.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "For maximum security, our BlackBerry PGP encryption service utilizes AES 256 bit PGP encryption with a 4096 bit RSA key format." << also uses session keys, but these are presumably generated on the phone, so...
pete_dushenski: though the private master key is generated on a desktop.
mats: 'Custom encrypted domains' what
mircea_popescu: do they do the "rsa encryption of an aes symmetric key" thing ?
pete_dushenski: i dun follow that part at all. the pgp/rsa makes sense but where aes comes in is anyone's guess.
jurov: iirc pgp/rsa is computationally expensive, so it's only used to establish rsa keys
jurov: ssh does it same way
jurov: *establish aes keys
mircea_popescu: jurov gpg does the same thing, yeah, but then again that was the 80s.
mircea_popescu: funny how moore law is always there to justify doing something stupid, never to justify doing things like "rsa all the way - we can afford it now"
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jurov: in this case it's not moore's law but bandwidth. you can't have megabytes/second with rsa, or if you do, battery dies
mircea_popescu: naggum, through the magic of shoving lisp up his ass, types 180wpm
mircea_popescu: but obama and the rest of the blackberry users type... 500k wpm ?
jurov: butbutbutmultimedia!
jurov: well, you live on the sane planet where people send only typed text by email and other things by other channels
jurov: and? so the optimal thing would be to parse the email and encrypt some parts by rsa and some by aes or what?
mircea_popescu: iirc blackberry was positioning itself as "text only. for important folk".
mircea_popescu: anyway, optimal thing would be user specified, and full rsa option.
jurov: explain that as an admin to your CEO what that stuff means and why
jurov: one of my first job as admin were email servers. and from the beginning it was like "plz to raise limit on attachments" "plz why the email did not arrive yet" "plz why is the internet slow cant you, you know set some priorities for traffic"
jurov: now go explain encryption options
mircea_popescu: "rsa. use for text. rsa/aes. use for anything that's not text."
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 04:41:10; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ah, installed nginx, yeah << on top of apache again ?
Pierre_Rochard: “For people to say black lives matter, and for the crowd to shout back ‘U.S.A.,’ which is upholding a system that is oppressing black people, I think that that is problematic,”
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 13:00:33; pete_dushenski: apparently he has some large contracts already, something in the order of $6mn per year and no employees.
mats: sounds like an excellent scam
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the impressive and simultaneously worrying aspect of the bb-pgp biz is that the owner was a former tradesman who apparently thought to himself "hey, you know what the market needs, properly encrypted messaging!"
pete_dushenski: i want to say... plumbing. but i'll confirm. i know someone who knows him.
mircea_popescu: "This, mystical domination, is easily the prettiest girl in school. She’s the most unattainable, the most lust-worthy, the most drool-inducing" << you know what veblen goods are ?
mircea_popescu: because that's what #5 does, practically : it offers a model to explain and understand the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that it explains it does NOT reduce the insanity of it however.
mircea_popescu: veblen goods are goods which exhibit reverse price relation (demand increases as price increases, as opposed to how it normally goes).
pete_dushenski: agreed about the insanity of pursuing #5, no matter how useful of a model its pursuit may prove in hindsight.
mircea_popescu: right, just because prayer worked in the past is no reason to pray.
pete_dushenski: ah so veblen goods would be like that dentist's services i was mentioning the other day.
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 16:32:38; pete_dushenski: like the dentist who's busy when priced competitively, wants to be less busy, jacks up his prices to the highest in town, and then has his doors beaten down with customers like never before.
pete_dushenski: re: prayer, not like i'm going to go eat a loaf of bread now either just because a pizza pinged off my immunoarmour
mircea_popescu: the thng with allergies, and especiaslly in young people, is that they do go away.
mircea_popescu: that's treatment : remove the allergen, give it a few years, try a minute dose.
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pete_dushenski: i tried a corona a few months, which are supposedly as low on the gluten scale as they come for normal beers, and i puked my guts out.
mircea_popescu: (they go away for the same reason vaccine-acquired immunity goes away, ftr)
mircea_popescu: "When To Tell A Guy You Are Transgender by Whitey Niggerson -
mircea_popescu: I agree. If you tell them upfront, they'll be weirded out. If you tell them in person, they might try to physically hurt you."
mircea_popescu: clearly, there's nothing wrong with this. everyone (else) is just mean evil and weird.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: plz foar to nuke gravatar
ben_vulpes: pahahaha yeah okay i'll just ask you to do that every time i comment on contravex
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Scoop was down for a while, I committed an upgrade too early
mircea_popescu: does it keep a list of what it last posted so when it comes back up it can see if there's anything new ?
ben_vulpes: young man, you have committed an outrageous upgrade for the most serene republic!
mod6: Well, the lordship updates seem to be in place nicely.
mircea_popescu: mike_c q : how hard would it be to enforce fixed placement on the inner circle ? i dunno how they're placed now, but how about just divide 2pi to however many people and each gets that much sector
mircea_popescu: as opposed to now where 1.05-1.1 is five people from cazalla to mats.
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mircea_popescu: hm, that might not be so clever, ends up crunching the lines instead of crunching the nodes by outside exposure.
mod6: I love this chart as well; are there any plans to make the name's in the graph link to the corresponding page for that user/keyid?
mike_c: mod6: maybe yes, I'm exploring that.
mod6: Sorry, I don't wanna make more work for ya. It's p. awesome as is.
mike_c: not at all, suggestions and feedback are welcome
mod6: sweet, the sorting of ratings data looks great
mod6: got a link to phuctor too. \o/
mod6: i just realized i can zoom out on this... looking more and more areodynamic every day.
mod6: haha re: "assorted domestic animals"
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bagels7: As someone who is transgender I stay away from men in general. I make men angry that would rather kill me than to deal with their faggot insecurity
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lobbes: <bagels7> I stay away from men in general. << you spend time in this channel though. About 95% men from what I guess
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the original (mostly politically driven) explanation for violence against homosexuals - some sort of "homophobia" suffers a lot seeing how ALL SORTS of other sexual behaviours elicit the same violent response. such as transsexualism, or pedophilia.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obviously sexual normativity is enforced on some sort of level irrespectively of the type.
mircea_popescu: while it's true that it probably shares that source with all sorts of nuttery (religious fervor, for instance), i very much doubt the actual motivator is what's proposed, ie, "dude is secretly gay and fighting it overtly"
mircea_popescu: or else why do [mostly old women] go to church ? because they're affraid they're secretly god ?
williamdunne: Isn't violence against transsexualism also generally considered homophobia, or at least some sort of xenophobia
lobbes: probably lumped under 'hate crimes'
bagels7: [11:38] <+mircea_popescu> how do you know it's faggot insecurity ? << When I am waiting at a bus stop at 2 in the morning and a guy walks by and pretends to be waiting for the bus as an excuse to talk to me while I am merely being polite then after 15 minutes has the nerve to tell me that I deceived him when he was only being nice to get laid
mircea_popescu: williamdunne by now they've completely lost any sort of relation between words. it's just... word word word word.
bagels7: mad at himself because he couldnt tell what I was
lobbes: bagels7, that is ultimately his problem though, no? Why change your lifestyle based on others?
lobbes: in terms of avoiding people
bagels7: where as a man that was secure could admit that a trans woman is hot despite not wanting to sleep with her
mircea_popescu: lobbes let me tell you why. because if servers introduce a new response code, you're stuck either making your browser aware of it, or else put up with the constant bitching.
bagels7: I don't see how I changed my lifestyle lobbes
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:11:30; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu forgot e) sane person adds kludge to enable some semblance of civilization to function, creating schizoid split and opening would that bleeds complexity
mircea_popescu: and this is why the traditional statement of the objection among the wrong side of kink high is "i don't want them imposing their stuff on me".
bagels7: "sexual normativity" just comes of as heterosexual / vanilla propaganda
mircea_popescu: obviously the correct reaction would just be what i did on the meat list, ie, group all weird under a single "Weird" heading. but then obviously this irks the delusions of individuality of the individual weird involved, so there's that line of bitching.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the broad conflict. "being special" having been promulgated as a social good, and smashing the classification being a bona fide way to manufacture specialness, you now have the conflict of the boring who aspire to hack their way to attention vs the people who don't care about them and wish to remain able to not care about them.
mats: ;;isup nosuchlabs.com
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's irresolvable, for as long as a) "being special" is valued formally rather than substantially, and b) people get to make choice on the mere grounds of existing.
mircea_popescu: the good news being that neither a or b are actual things, or have any sort of hope of long term survival. just the froth of our days, soon to be gone back into the darkness that spawned them.
mircea_popescu: mats it recently changed ip, you seeing 195.211.154.159 ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: The museum of the National Bank of Argentina << mega-article.
ascii_field: every country should have an exhibit of its 'zimbabwean' currencies
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well not many countries have this much experience with it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the gold balance suggests that they had something like engl. 'trial of the pyx'. did they ?
mircea_popescu: i think there are some such, mostly with confederate dollars, in the us
mats: mircea_popescu: nope
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lobbes: 'The Bush administration relied more heavily on psychologists than psychiatrists or other health professionals to monitor many interrogations'
lobbes: ~6,800 added on one day O.o
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mod6: Lady quasi-butt, depicted with all the skill and guile of somebody that's never seen one. << lol
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mod6: <+ascii_field> every country should have an exhibit of its 'zimbabwean' currencies << agreed.
mod6: mircea_popescu: lot of nice pics in there thx!
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mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think it's because for a while they added new keys in batches ?
mircea_popescu: and re the pyx thing : argentina had a very aspirational relationship with england. kinda why the faulkland war was such a big deal, sort-of like rambunctious kid going after dad, in a sense.
assbot: Sumptuous Capital: Blog » Blog Archive » How Microsoft once again demonstrates not caring about security ... (
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mircea_popescu: "To add insult to injury, despite the emails containing references to the aforementioned website and key, the following Microsoft announcements on July 10 and 11 were actually signed by the key 0xF0B7406D which is not referenced as a key used for current Microsoft announcements. This key actually does contain a small number of signatures from external users, but as with 0xA92965F2 none from any Microsoft employee. As t
mircea_popescu: o whether the key is authentic your guess is still as good as mine."
trinque: mircea_popescu: ran into your hierarchy of needs article by way of pete. interesting to note that at the top of maslow's was this vaguely communist "self transcendence" idea, whereas at the top of yours, the man's concept of self seems to engulf others.
trinque: what struck me is how on-point maslow's propaganda is, the exact opposite of what it should be, not some arbitrary other thing
trinque: yeah, not at all suprising
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jurov: so must have highligh off :D
WolfGoethe: anyone think bitcoin peer to peer trading has alot of room for growth?
trinque: WolfGoethe: seems you do, so how?
jurov: WolfGoethe for me it's much better to trade on davout's exchange
WolfGoethe: for example. taking localbitcoin.com to the next level. like grubhub for money
jurov: i'm not very keen on exchanging bitcoins on streets with anyone
jurov: and exposing my personal data/location to snatchers
trinque: WolfGoethe: what would the next level be?
WolfGoethe: proper peer to peer is online only. using bitcoin as the lubricant between fiancial instruments like bank deposits, wire, paypal my cash, prepaid cards, western union , domestic intnational methods etc.. and all currencies
WolfGoethe: an escrow service dressed up for the mainstream so people can hustle with their financial tools and make money trading bitcoins etc..
jurov: that usually makes the second problem worse
WolfGoethe: not really. i do it pretty anon right now... as opposed to coinbase and circle who know everything about me, other traders don;t care
WolfGoethe: should give folks the option to verify if they really want to for trust's sake etc.. i am sure pro traders won't mind
trinque: you have to clearly define your proposal before anyone can be "into it"
jurov: WolfGoethe how do you decide if counterparty is legit?
WolfGoethe: one based on positive volume and not negative. just like ebay
WolfGoethe: such a market should take care to put out video guides for each payment method trade
WolfGoethe: essentially crowd sourcing the swift network to the people. let them be the on and off ramps
WolfGoethe: my bros r working on such a project and I have really been thinking about it
trinque: reputation system should be distinct from any particular application
trinque: this is why we have the WoT
WolfGoethe: trinque that's not realsitic, decentralizing things like that is another huge project, cannot mvp such a thing. ebay has their own internal system for 20 years, works
jurov: it's completely unrealistic or just huge? can't be both
trinque: this design-by-condescension thing isn't something I get behind; that "the people" can't understand a WoT... who cares
trinque: either they can and therefore could use one distinct from an applcation, or they can't and neither works
trinque: this pressuposes that you want everyone at the table, which I don't.
mircea_popescu: WolfGoethe it's kinda funny that someone feels compelled to pitch this sort of retardation here about every quarter.
mircea_popescu: in any case, a) ebay hasn't been around for 20 years, b) 20 years is only a long time because you're too young to be "thinking about things" and c) the notion that ebay's abomination works... AAA plus would do thinks again.
ascii_field: before that - as a boy - was buying/selling junk on usenet
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mircea_popescu: afaik they only got out of the mtgox business ("collectibles") cca 2005 or someshit.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the payment thing was the mega-feature
ascii_field: not having to go to shops, get 'money orders' cut, and have some semblance of insurance - appealed to people
ascii_field only ever used it for (usually, rare) electronics
ascii_field: ebay works well for getting 'golden toilets' for their actual market price vs the usg tentacular price
ascii_field: e.g., lightly used 'eizo' lcd for 500 instead of 1500
ascii_field: virtually all of my hardware was purchased through ebay.
ascii_field: more or less a total monopoly with respect to what i use it for.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c yo, want a fiverr acct ? prolly got a coupla hundred bucks in it.
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ascii_field: incidentally, this is why i hoard hardware - because supply chain is so hit-and-miss
chetty: the issue with ebay,paypal etc. is they can and do close and freeze accounts anytime they feel like it
chetty: much like banks these days :P
ascii_field: chetty: this typically happens only to interesting people.
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mircea_popescu: ascii_field similarly, the "reputation system" works perfectly for anyone not using it.
ascii_field: the 'buy and sell only rare things' heuristic - perhaps accidentally - more or less eliminates scammers, in my experience
ascii_field: esp. when the rare things in question are not 'collectible' idiocies but obscure components
ascii_field: from my point of view, the whole rest of ebay is dross
mircea_popescu: which is why from my point of view the whole thing is dross. i don't buy the stuff you're talking about and why wouldn't i want to be in a shop.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: afaik you do buy it (pre-08 pc parts, etc) but through meatwot suppliers
mircea_popescu: it all flows from the whole "we can't ~private~ message if we don't have a private relationship" thing. da fuck would i be doing on "online marketplace", dunno anyone there.
ascii_field: but, for example, ebay may well become the only practical source for amd cpu where i live, once amd finally sinks
ascii_field: recall my experience trying to buy items on otc ?
mircea_popescu: amusingly : the normal cellphone "sunk". in the us. it's amply abundant and vastlyt supplied in the real world tho.
ascii_field: there is not sufficient 'mass' there for the kind of things i buy.
mircea_popescu: samsung makes some pretty excellent ones, recent model too
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they are not entirely unobtainable in usa. just, again, have to buy online.
ascii_field: the shops only supply items 'for the cattle' - that is, most common-as-dirt and aggressively spamvertized
ascii_field: virtually all of my tools, incidentally, come from ebay and for most of my life i could not have obtained them anywhere else.
ascii_field: (by 'from ebay' meaning, of course, brokered by ebay.)
ascii_field: my fave abuse: самшит (Buxus sempervirens) ~= 'someshit'
jurov: what's jit? just in time?
mod6: i think the only thing I've ever gotten off ebay was an UltraSPARC II box
mircea_popescu: and now we understand alf's real tether to the mordor lands.
ascii_field: i even bought items from ru, they came in wooden crates
mod6: haha. wow, did you ever actually try to get used to using that alf?
jurov: yea, nobody ships to mongolia
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it works FROM mongolia. << I've had to use my USian powers to ask sellers questions potential buyers could not ask because they were outside USia
ascii_field saw a 747 marked 'ups' in b-ar airport. so perhaps even there.
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mircea_popescu: by the way, lemme recount the fourth crusade for the benefit of the awareness-raising crowd-sourced crowd.
jurov: ascii_field: UPS ships everywere, but the vendors don't want to
ascii_field: jurov: most vendors will work with you if you're willing to pay the actual cost
mod6: the thing is pretty neat
ascii_field: as far as i'm concerned, historically, ebay is just this gizmo that shaves a zero off the price of the costliest things i buy. so i was never moved to care whether it is run by hitler or fueled with baby seal juice etc.
☟︎ chetty: UPS ships to very happy customs agents in many places
ascii_field: i still don't understand why molestation in the post but not in the airport
ascii_field: where ups plane unloads - not lazy? but where human plane - lazy ?
mod6: To read about all those other people you’ve got to buy the Professional version or even the Enterprise Edition. << lol
chetty: walking out of work with a box or two is a lot easier than a yard of paperwork in an airport
chetty: and you dont even have to process a box you never saw :P
jurov: i have long time ago won an ipod mini from ibm. ofc they sent it by post and it was clear case for customs how much such ipod costs and asked a tax
jurov: if i imported it on my bosy, what are they to do?
mircea_popescu: chetty> UPS ships to very happy customs agents in many places << heh very much that
mircea_popescu: and this is set to aggravate, by the way. physical presence becoming rarer and rarer and expensiver and expensiver, the necessary result of the interplay of its rarity with the above mental condition is that
mircea_popescu: well... in effect we'll all get super powers. like literal gods of mythology. "if im here everything works"
ascii_field: going to a shop merely to get a piece of paper is dumb, period
mircea_popescu: "my being here is more expensive than the whole fucking shop would cost to build"
ascii_field doesn't (as far as knows) have super power. possibly one has to be mircea_popescu weight class to notice this effect.
mircea_popescu: so, I. a bunch of militarily powerful, intellectually naive westerners made an army to go beat up the muslims and take jerusalem.
mircea_popescu: II.a. random byzantine (militarily worthless, intellectually overpowering) entity convinces them to help him "recover" his "stolen" throne, as if the byzantines ever did anything else or anyone had a valid claim, or the possibility of a valid claim even existed in their world.
mircea_popescu: II.b. and further promised them the "pearl in heavens", a very classical device in greek gay drama (since at least the days of darius, this empty promises as a path to military glory. the greeks invented "fake it till you make it")
mircea_popescu: III. they take adrianople, and their presence alters "reality" as the greeks perceive it. so their guy is named co-emperor.
mircea_popescu: IV. the "crowdsource" revolts. this alters "reality" once more, their guy is promptly poisoned.
mircea_popescu: V. they decide to conquer the fucking city. because by now they've got an inkling of the pure filth the greeks are. so they do, and burn it, and cauterize the place.
mircea_popescu: moral : democracy is for the mentally ill ; the rewards of democracy are rape and arson, often enough delivered with the same stick.
ascii_field: promised them the "pearl in heavens" << aka 'jam tomorrow'
mircea_popescu: if dandolo had any sense they'd have plowed and salted constantinople, and sold all the women to the turks.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there was this mildly famous gay boy of athens whose name escapes me at the moment, literally got a whole trireme detachment on unbacked promises of great pay (from persia iirc ?) and well... there they sat.
☟︎ ascii_field: eco had a pretty good piece set in 4th crusade
mircea_popescu: antonio doria, before being cut down by the french at crecy, was a rather successful genoese pirate. the pirate captain's regime collapsed over his (and others) failure to pay.
mircea_popescu: (well, he tried to pay in debased coinage, anyway. caused a revolt)
mircea_popescu: if i were younger and more bored (really, less involved with actual things) i might consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective : as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill.
mircea_popescu: the former try to make things, the latter try to pass of their pretenses.
mircea_popescu: well... you know, the junkie is also imperceptibly addicted.
ascii_field: to a sane future folk, he would seem as frothingly-mad as chingis khan seems to today's liberasts
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mircea_popescu: in short : those who do are dull. "i do not wish to think about these things, i have better stuff to do!!1". those who don't are insane. but who's to notice ? they themselves can't, the others can't be bothered. so... imperceptibly insane.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ... consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective : as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill << nietzsche, or, far better, limonov
ascii_field: would need serious mad hermit, to pull this one off
mircea_popescu: actually, hopefully we end up in prison, like the early soviet leadership. i'm gonna write a dictionary and a history of the world.
mircea_popescu: by the time i'm done, it's time to start butchering the powers that used to be.
ascii_field doesn't expect to be taken prisoner alive, but wishes mircea_popescu a jolly good meinkampfing
mircea_popescu: tell you what, there's not going to be any "anastasias" out of the current imperial family.
mircea_popescu: i fully intent to ejaculate down the cut throat of every single female involved.
ascii_field: the alt.tasteless term of art, iirc, was 'to squick'
mircea_popescu: honestly, my greatest regret in this life so far is that ~100k romanian ex-various state things survived the year 1990.
ascii_field: it's rather like cutting up enemy cannon after a war, no ?
mircea_popescu: women off to tadjikistan, milk goats in chains for the rest of their lives
mircea_popescu: i should prolly have one made, come to think about it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, watching the derp go about how "we need regulation" suddenly made me comprehend why exactly von meck actually belonged beheaded.
mircea_popescu: brilliant guy, inescapably stupid. what are you gonna do ? can't empower stupid. off to the gulag with him.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you know, the "wrecker" who was "trying to make the train tracks run down faster"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: framing the discussion in terms of intellectual ability is completely missing the salient points. nobody ever gets offed for being either academically smart or stupid, it's orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: the insane can either live in the camps nor not live at all, that's the problem there. sanity, not intelligence.
ascii_field: except - sometimes, the sane - to the camps.
ascii_field: pretty much everyone interesting minus epsilon in su
mircea_popescu: doing what, sanely waiting for the messiah ? (the real one this time!)
mircea_popescu: the sane were pretty much either dead under the white flag, or else involved in subverting the red.
ascii_field: describe hypothetical mechanism whereby he could have hughesed.
mircea_popescu: there is no requirement that graph be arbitrarily traversable.
mircea_popescu: i'm really not enough of an expert in the field to be all that confident.
ascii_field: my observation is that escape artistry and, e.g., rocketry, are - at best - orthogonal abilities
ascii_field: unrelated: that sks key mega-dump is in a ludicrous format - .gpg binary turds with 10,000s of pubkeys in each
☟︎ ascii_field: will have to write something to cut this up
ascii_field: unless someone has just such a thing handy
jurov: gpg cannot use/export it directly?
jurov: also unrelated: today was btrfs day (drive with few subvolumes times tens of snapshots filled, i have embarked on some cleanup)
jurov: kernel oopses are apparently completely sop
jurov: and atime/relatime + periodic snapshotting (like suse does by default) causes metadata to grow out of any bounds
jurov: hahaha i got this idea you know
jurov: to make fuse filesystem to track atimes so that brtfs needs not to bother
jurov: indeed making a record of it
jurov: btrfs docs all but say that it obsoletes partition tables
jurov: you're supposed to have One pool with One filesystem
jurov: so if something happens to it, system does not deserve to go on anymore
jurov: more like... if it commits suicide, better take everything with it
jurov: loks like hans reiser should be released and properly armed
jurov: just to be fair, all was resolved without data loss
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williamdunne: Must've accidentally trashed the email alerting me of it