assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:53:24; mircea_popescu: and no stack's not fucking germane. he was trying to insulate HIS INCOME. i was discussing optimizing YOUR EXPENDITURE. not like items.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:50:16; mircea_popescu: i have a mile of logs showing the behaviour without exception.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on your node and each and every other node i know of.
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mircea_popescu: obv govt will try to wiggle out of its own promises, being the government of the united states that's at issue here.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, who the fuck do you think will ever work for them without indemnity ?
mats: whoa, whoa, such cynicism
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tis the truth. i personally wouldn't work with a rogue entity even if it promises "rly for srs" to cover my legal costs.
phf: asciilifeform: yeah, suggestion is not intended as the correct solution. more like send kill -HUP -> system goes into an hour long snapshot state
mircea_popescu: (in kbr's case, it's not that they're stupid, it's that they were raped. the classic "we provide indemnity so now you may not not break the law as we tell you to" trick. "key is in your pocket" in legal parlance)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.VariaVarietatis.1:f7aa6b3fcbc2ebb3075b180556394cded6a0dfe953805ad91bd3adaad4b9156a
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mats: dunno about that. from intel i've gathered, it appears KBR did the raping here
mats: raped DoD, orc locals, just finished raping USG in their own court
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the poor usg how it only wanted to restore peace and democracy to those poor iraquians, beleaguered by corrupt officials and tyrannycal despotism as they were, and then this capitalist concern of evil capital came and abused the entire good will of the people of usia and their elected representatives.
mats: FTR, i do actually believe that Bush et. al were naive enough to believe AFG/IRQ needed and wanted democracy
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it's more like "we've been using temporary shelter in a permanent manner for the past decade and why is this insulation falling off"
mats: funkenstein_: i am having difficulty finding the source of the idiom (and subsequently how it is properly written) but the second half does not parse
mats: it may be that i remembered it incorrectly, i am only partially literate and recall the phrase from a translation of a ming text
mats: the phrase happens to predate 'yi yi zhi yi'
mod6 has one of those summertime colds
mod6: i've sneezed about 34 times today.
mod6: and i'm running a fever now. annoying.
mod6: (19:17) <+ben_vulpes> mod6 probably has his own as well. << mine is basically a by hand list. it really needs some attention/tlc. I gotta get something more structured.
mod6: not sure if I wanna use trac or anything at this point.. but some cosideration is warrented for /something/ resonable for at least personal use.
mod6: I'll add it to my to-do list ;]
mod6: ima go and try to catch up on these logs and get some extra zzzs. have a good evening all!
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assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 00:38:55; mats: raped DoD, orc locals, just finished raping USG in their own court
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mats: it appears ru is now operating a combat outpost in syria
mats: a denial of any troop movements in country, in fact
mats: I suspect daesh anticipated this play (not the first time its been used) and exploited USG willingness to aid
mats: I can't think of anyone capable of opposing them on the field
mircea_popescu: they got a good plane, which keeps the us in check. but infantry wise...
mircea_popescu: they got 5-10k elite, and they're playing heroes of might and magic with them around the map. because even one lost is a horribru disaster. not replenishable.
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mats: I am considering how to word the terms of a bet regarding the fall of Baghdad in a year's time
pete_dushenski: "The hockey stick told us that the recent warming period (1950 to 1998) was unusual in the last thousand years and that this sort of sudden warming had (supposedly) never happened before and that man’s CO2 emissions were (presumably) the cause."
mats: got a suggestion? I'll lay out a couple coins for it
pete_dushenski: "As noted above it was an extraordinary claim, yet it was accepted instantly without checking it. This had the effect of destroying the credibility of the IPCC and the previously respected publication Nature."
pete_dushenski: "Basically, Mann had mined many series of numbers looking for hockey stick shapes and gave each series that had the shape he wanted a much higher weight, up to a weighting factor of 392!"
pete_dushenski: "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward a man-made climate doom, the truth is that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. "
pete_dushenski: sounds like judge who released mass murderer free and clear because cops obtained evidence poorly, only to have murderer continue spree
assbot: A detailed review of the book: ‘A Disgrace to the Profession’, by Mark Steyn | Watts Up With That? ... (
http://bit.ly/1VviPqz )
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pete_dushenski: it's not clear to me that the fedcops are enjoying such a sterling reputation these days
pete_dushenski: bah. the more valuable chain wins. in whose eyes though, i can't say
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the line-up to be a merc ~on us soil~ must be shallower than obama's veil of intelligence
pete_dushenski: except people who actually give a shit have never had better tools at their disposal
Vexual: one eyed fuckin beasts
Vexual: recycling stuff for a purpose
BingoBoingo: Oh, I come back from the baseball game and asciilifeform has some leads for me to qntra mebbe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not replenishable because the natural rate of decay through aging is negative. ie, su shittifies like everything. if in 2000 it could produce 0.0001% of population, in 2020 it can produce only 0.0000965%. as population itself declines, the natural size of the thing shrinks. 10k in 2000, 9972 in 2001 etc.
mircea_popescu: think in terms of "talented soccer players" or anything else, it's the exact same story.
mircea_popescu: "progress" means, smaller contingents of anything useful as time goes by.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "Contrary to the myth that 97% of climate scientists believe we are headed toward a man-made climate doom, the truth is that a very small group of second rate climate scientists have captured the attention of some prominent political and media figures. " <<< this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. "race relations", "gender issues", you name it.
mircea_popescu: a tiny group of second rate twerps THAT KNOW they're second rate band together, and because the world is so sick on this "everyone's equal" jizz, they can't be repressed effectually.
BingoBoingo: Also my team was playing one of asciilifeform's local teams. Washington DC lost.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> then he deleted the whole thing. << the truly damning part.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:14:20; ascii_field: iirc san fran.
mircea_popescu: "Mastering the operating system of the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
☟︎ mircea_popescu would have enjoyed working with stalin on soviet computing
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:38:14; mircea_popescu: "Mastering the operating system of the IBM-360 will require 2200 man-years and 700 workers. "
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:33:47; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> orlov fellates the boston harvaprinceyaleton liberast-wing-usg orthodoxy <<< and moscow does not ? puhleaze.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 05:34:43; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:53:24; mircea_popescu: and no stack's not fucking germane. he was trying to insulate HIS INCOME. i was discussing optimizing YOUR EXPENDITURE. not like items.
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2014 22:19:37; mircea_popescu: matheny needs to be out of a job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform putin's fighting hard with himself to stay away the harvoscow.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo makes 0 sense to me, seeing how you already paid tax on it, but then again i don;t live there
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's part of the US department of words really don't mean anything anymore
mircea_popescu: in that sense might as well just endorse your paycheck to obama and forgetdaboutit
mircea_popescu: i guess that's what half the country tis doing anyway so...myeahk
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally it occurs to me - one theory that'd very well fit the soviet ibm insanity would be, "the captive thief". ie, a guy so enamoured with the idea that "this calculator is hot (ie, stolen)" that he'll gladly expend $1500 to get a shitty pocket calculator, instead of $1100 to get a 10x as powerful desktop.
mircea_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in "random news from stupid island" : xmacro is pretty much the only workable linux keyboard/mouse emulator.
mircea_popescu: it arbitrarily decided to round all delays to the integer second.
mircea_popescu: "who could ever conceivably want microsecond delays!!11"
mircea_popescu: "AutoHotkey: macro and automation Windows scripting language" ?
punkman: hmm, guess I misremember as working on linux
mircea_popescu: "AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks."
mircea_popescu: i forgot this world exists where "download" = "here's a binary"
punkman: that's what most linux distros do, no?
punkman: just because it's called apt-get install doesn't mean it's any different
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as part of the perennial hate of ru in ro, "Shura-Bura" is how you say "utter nonsense"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guarantee you 90% of campus drone usage is to take shower pic of the 3 not-obese females per campus.
mircea_popescu: sane uni admin would just hire a few dozen models to walk around the campus nude all day.
mircea_popescu: cheaper than any initiative to retain athletes they could come up with
BingoBoingo: Really that's what seperates "good" and "bad" schools nowadays
fluffypony: and there's no way I'm spying on anyone's shower
fluffypony: I'd get WAY better shots from a DSLR with a telephoto zoom lens
mats: BingoBoingo: re: bip-101-syndicate-shares-fiat-ties-opposition-to-actual-bitcoin some corrections: '... damning VC behind the [reins]', some commas here: 'Goldman Sachs, purely fiat institution, is a majority shareholder of Moneygram, a cash ...'
mats: er: 'a purely fiat'
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 23:10:57; trinque: tax avoidance is a foolish move if you're dealing in their currency
mats: I think some care should be taken to minimize passive voice usage in future pieces
punkman: fluffypony: big lens is too expensive, better get a small telescope
punkman definitely spent more time looking at windows than space
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punkman: oh wow ebay now has chinese 420-800mm lens for 50 bucks
punkman: "Beginning in 2016, University President Mitch Daniels wants to allow private investors to invest in the success of Purdue students using a new financial model: Income Share Agreements (ISA)."
pete_dushenski: ^sounds like williamdunne's scheme from a few months back
punkman: I worked on a project that involved predicting future student income for such purposes couple years back.
punkman: something like: get average salary stats for (degree, company, job title etc), match those up to resumes, pretend like derp getting degree matches the model
cazalla: pete_dushenski, you snipped? (circumcision questions got the better of my curiosity tbh)
cazalla: or is it the norm for secular jews to maintain their foreskin?
☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 07:15:06; fluffypony: I have a 36x zoom on one of my drones
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fluffypony: cazalla: I work with wildlife fire and rescue and the local anti-poaching groups
mircea_popescu: <punkman> oh wow ebay now has chinese 420-800mm lens for 50 bucks << aha. and for all the pretense of the swiss from 20 years ago, 2015 800mm chinese lens beats 1985 zeiss lens.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> seems pretty hopeless << actually some derpy "artists" were airing this nonsensical scheme a few years ago. it basically reduces to "isn't it unfair that only some 6/7 chicks get to pretend like they're artists on daddy's dime ? why shouldn't i have a daddy like that!"
mircea_popescu: it went nowhere. but i guess if the govt gets involved it'll be a great success.
punkman: mircea_popescu: certainly modern lenses did get better, but the cheap chinese lenses on ebay are rarely better than cheap vintage glass
punkman: I have not measured other than casual use of them
mircea_popescu: obviously cheapest that can be had today is worse than most expensive that could be had 30 years ago.
punkman: you can't really get anything but "cheapest" from china these days
punkman: there's a few soviet factories that still make decent lenses by the way
☟︎ shinohai loves Soviet vaccum tubes in his guitar amp.
punkman: on an interesting note, Zeiss was a pioneer in lithography optics for chip manufacturing
mircea_popescu: pretty much owned optics 100 years ago, moreso than the us or china own computing.
mircea_popescu: "Tolstoy begins by saying that throughout life Shakespeare has aroused in him "an irresistible repulsion and tedium". Conscious that the opinion of the civilized world is against him, he has made one attempt after another on Shakespeare's works, reading and re-reading them in Russian, English and German; but "I invariably underwent the same feelings; repulsion, weariness and bewilderment". Now, at the age of seventy-fi
mircea_popescu: ve, he has once again re-read the entire works of Shakespeare, including the historical plays, and I have felt with an even greater force, the same feelings–this time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent
mircea_popescu: merits–thereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understanding–is a great evil, as is every untruth."
kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
☟︎ shinohai: ik kakobrekla sometimes Chinese vendors try to sell fake Sovtek's xD
kakobrekla: i suspekt there is more fake ones than real one on the market
punkman: kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones. << they even bother to make fake capacitors
kakobrekla: the chinese on the other hand, go as 'low' as faking the current tube production lines.
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davout: shinohai: it's not mine
davout: but it indeed is fucking epic
davout: let me copy it here for greater glory nation kazakhstan
☟︎ davout: with eerie robot cadence
shinohai: Got to run that through espeak just once.
davout: oh god, i'm attratcting teh french
kakobrekla: if im seeing this right, network is still being spammed ?
davout: kakobrekla: what reddit says, might be true, my transactions are going through fine though
davout: said every single serious bitcoin professional at least a few times a year
shinohai: Without espeak, trolling others would be far less fun.
shinohai: lol I was discussing w/ someone the other day hw he is going for that Gavin look in that article.
shinohai: Because the last "young genius" we got out of Ethereum was so talented, especially in the field of security.
fluffypony: what's that phrase Vitalik is so fond of
fluffypony: which is code for "decentralised and secure, but only in the weakest possible sense of the phrase"
fluffypony: What's in a name? that which we call a Foundation
fluffypony: By any other name would smell as rotten;
fluffypony: shinohai: I know, I sometimes read that blog post when I've feeling down and I need to laugh at something
davout: fluffypony: i've recently joined #bitcoinxt for that purpose
davout: they apparently want to admit that "my crowd is behind the XT DDoS"
davout: "aren't you guys based in russia or something, bulgaria wherever it is?"
davout: they clarified with "the mpex crowd specifically"
shinohai: I like that though, "Aren't yu guys based in russia or something"?
shinohai: No, iz GLORIOUS NATION of Kazakhstan
shinohai: Hue, I wish I had been there. "Yeah. Aren't you guys based in Mom's basement?"
davout: i invited the guy over and told him that he'd be fine (unless he's a jew of course)
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shinohai: The scene from that movies where they stay with the older Jewish couple is probably one of the funniest goddamned things I have ever seen.
davout: obligatory we-should-stop-with-the-racist-jokes.jpg
davout: there's a problem when your faq has 463 questions listed
funkenstein_: from punkman's link "The good thing about business is that you don’t have to know any higher math. It may be an advantage not to know it. [CM: Yes, it is. If you know it, you feel the need to use it.] "
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funkenstein_: as I haven't reread any Tolstoy in German or Russian, I must withhold comment
mircea_popescu: certainly a better novelist than literary critic / sociophilosopher / w/e he fancied himself.
mircea_popescu: "Soon after I arrived at Crossgates (not immediately, but after a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so that this was a reversion to a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier.
mircea_popescu: Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is a normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. In those days, however, it was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating."
mircea_popescu: see alf, the crumbling of the empire starts in the craddle.
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assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 06:22:52; mircea_popescu: "despite the objections from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia." << romania ignored the soviets throughout, decided to make its own. they... sucked.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 08:40:37; cazalla: or is it the norm for secular jews to maintain their foreskin?
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 10:10:54; punkman: there's a few soviet factories that still make decent lenses by the way
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 11:05:45; kakobrekla: Soviet vaccum tubes < there is a whole industry dedicated to making fake ones.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 11:55:30; davout: let me copy it here for greater glory nation kazakhstan
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2013 00:07:12; asciilifeform: when i read these pitches, i can't help but recall: "...Filtration System A Marvel to Behold! It Removes Eighty Percent of Human Solid Waste!"
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 13:32:07; mircea_popescu: the pissants have come to expect
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assbot: Refugees Welcome | This is the international website of the berlin-based project ‘Flüchtlinge Willkommen’ ... (
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punkman: yes and the derps buy it from the one ru factory and rebrand it 50 different ways
kakobrekla: convincing fake = looks same on pic as original ?
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:03:35; asciilifeform: i, for one, only have a mechanical vacuum pump. it clatters, spits oil. would have looked at home in edison's house. i know that i will not be making so much as a triode valve with this pump.
shinohai: I tried the Chinese tubes, but seems they don't like the slightest amount of overheating.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:52:56; asciilifeform: the pub is really the property of the freeloaders, or local chieftain, whoever; the 'owner' is simply a clown kept around for entertainment value and while he brings over friends to spend usd
punkman: asciilifeform: who's the arsonist?
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2014 22:18:37; asciilifeform: this was actually a serious leap in vacuum tube tech - they didn't need to be pumped, or made of glass
kakobrekla: early production gz34 tubes from mullard blackburn facotry go for 500 to 1k
kakobrekla: dunno, i havent tested that particular one myself.
kakobrekla: they are supposed to be quite durable tho, 10khrs +
☟︎ kakobrekla: you can hear the difference between solid state rectifier and tube rectifier over youtube.
kakobrekla: they emulate the package but not the full elect characteristics
kakobrekla: (can insert ss rectifier in tube socket, it will not sound like tube)
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: this is how "gamergate" happened too, and everthing else. << I was under the impression gamergate happened because d00d published blog about ex-gf cheating on him who works in games. That's at least what personally brought my attention to it.
kakobrekla: > Paymium Raises 1 Million Euros < o hey congrats
kakobrekla: >BitFury Completes 16NM Bitcoin Mining ASIC Tape-Out
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shinohai: I see coinbase is expanding to Canada and ingapore. Gotta have eyes all over I guess.
mike_c: coinbase is pretty global by now. they're up to 27 countries
shinohai: I guess I misunderstand economics. The shittier your service is and moar closely aligned with usg interests, the moar successful it becomes.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38190 @ 0.00070291 = 26.8441 BTC [+] {3}
mike_c: because some of them aren't really countries or because the service isn't really available?
jurov: mod6 i had "summertime cold" worse every year. it turned out it's actually an allergy
mod6: ahh, i've never had allergies. but.. maybe i guess. feel much better today :]
williamdunne: mike_c: Sorry I meant 16. And because for a whole bunch of the countries they process euros not the national currency
williamdunne: 1% fee + 0-10euro SEPA fee + 0.5-3% currency conversion fee
ascii_field: 'I expected PayPal would have my back and worst case, the whole transaction would be reversed and nobody would be out anything.' << gold
ascii_field: 'Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected PayPal to accept screenshots from the seller, as proof of anything.'
williamdunne: For example at my bank it would cost me 1%, 13 euro, 4% currency conversion fee. But that's because UK banks are particularly terrible with SEPA
ascii_field: also the keeper of that www has paste-polluting js and needs to be strung up with piano wire.
punkman: "I know this is too good to be true but I'll try anyway"
punkman: I wonder if anyone has sold ebay.com on ebay
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu guess what, they're 104's - 'connection reset by peer.' your end hangs up.
ascii_field: 'In this specific case, however, in order to prevent article subjects from continued shakedowns by bad actors who are causing significant harm to the reputation of this project, the articles are all being deleted. It is important to break the cycle of payment demands, and to make it clear that the Wikipedia community, and not a small group of paid editor accounts, controls the content of this project. This mass deletion
ascii_field: is without prejudice to recreation by experienced Wikipedians who believe that the subject is sufficiently notable for an article. We emphasize again that all indications are that the editing was not solicited by the article subjects.'
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punkman: "“Taking a conversation offline provides evidence of intent because if you’re trying to cover your tracks, you probably know what you’re doing is wrong,”"
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 21:04:08; ascii_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidenc
ascii_field: 'Evasion techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam, the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said they suspected the intentional misspelling was meant to distract the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.' << gold
☟︎ ascii_field: '“They use terms to find evidence of whether someone is trying to hide their activities because evidence of a cover-up is frequently more potent than the evidence of the alleged crime,” Brodsky said.'
☟︎ ascii_field: now if only crypto and stego had been invented
ascii_field: but customers'd never have accepted ! (tm) (r)
assbot: hardware - Does a commercially available self destructing HDD (set in BIOS) exist? - Information Security Stack Exchange ... (
http://bit.ly/1NaLKyY )
ascii_field: there is always, always a shitgnome 'you don't need this, move along' commenter.
mike_c: those all seem legit to me
mike_c: "Because I got balls to take care of." nuff said.
punkman: the world doesn't know how the world works
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 18:25:13; mircea_popescu: the fact that most of the world agrees girls can marry once they can walk, that doesn't count.
shinohai: "I'm hoping at this point he muses about it equally ineffectively for the rest of the year." LOLZ
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6400 @ 0.00070294 = 4.4988 BTC [+]
trinque: not seeing much about Russia in Syria aside from on Zero Hedge, InfoWars, etc
trinque: emacs is a giant complex piece of shit. changed nothing, upgraded nothing, yet it hangs at startup
trinque: doesn't seem to be crapping debug info to either the terminal who launched or the emacs window
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12900 @ 0.00070364 = 9.077 BTC [+] {3}
ascii_field: remove .emacs-bufflst, .emacs-places, and, as last resort, remove (after backing up) .emacs
trinque: yeah starts right up without the init.el; I'll have to hack things out and see where it's hanging
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54550 @ 0.0006965 = 37.9941 BTC [-] {3}
trinque: vi init.el # the sadness...
jurov: requires nano ~/.vimrc first
☟︎ trinque: my beautiful unix sandcastle
shinohai: I like your idea better ben_vulpes. Wife implies marriage and I sure as hell have had my lifetime dose of that.
mats: is there any way to look at the active mpoe order book (ie, the way 'mpexbot' used to spit 'em out with '$depth <asset>')?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16900 @ 0.00069497 = 11.745 BTC [-]
mats: kakobrekla: if you would parse that with assbot as 'empyex' and 'mpexbot' are nao defunct i'd be grateful
mats: could i prevail upon you to present that in a human readable manner?
punkman: kakobrekla: I think that means XML instead of json
kakobrekla: how do you want it so its not spammin chan?
mats: its ok with me if it only works in privmsg
BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> how do you want it so its not spammin chan? << stream as bz2 compressed xml
punkman: JBIG2 and send it through snapchat
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: sure, prolly also base256 encode the output
kakobrekla: hm, binary coded decimals would be easier to humanparse.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:15:38; asciilifeform: the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.
mats: i dunno that the feds could even find folks qualified and willing to do a job like that
ascii_field: as for 'willing', no shortage of dea/fbi/dhs/etc. goons today
mats: americans are fat as fuck, barely anyone these days can pass a BMI evaluation and run 2mi in reasonable time
mats: >71% do not qualify for service
☟︎ ascii_field: if they need to recruit mexicans in exchange for citizenship (roman-style) they will
mats: mexicans are even fatter, man
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 04:19:37; asciilifeform: for crushing rebellion, one uses troops from far-off places, rather than sympathetic locals. this was known to romans, persians, everyone.
ascii_field: anyway the 'too fat' thing is utterly irrelevant. they don't need to recruit million men for roman legion. but a few thousand for polizei duty - wacoing defenseless people, machine-gunning women and children, setting up public gallows, the lot
ascii_field: and how athletic does a man need to be to fly a robot bomber ?
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 20:43:53; asciilifeform: one to break doors, gates; one to threaten bystanders, if any, with 'accidental' fire; one to shoot; and perhaps one with a cage that arrestee -might- be permitted to surrender into, if the bot's voice-recognition system works and if orders included a possible live capture
mats: waco victims were hardly defenseless. i follow what you're saying, particularly re: historical context, but i'm not convinced this is practicable in usa
☟︎ ascii_field: whether the 'higher tech north kr' thing is 'practicable' or not, it will be tried. ~is~ being tried.
mats: the population hardly breaks a sweat killing a hundred feds a year in current form, plenty of poor excitable people that'd love to multiply that number 10^4
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ascii_field: mats: hardly defenseless ?! what were they supposed to do, with their pea-shooters, against tanks and planes ?
ascii_field: mats: that number comes from throats cut of informants, stoolies, lone agents on the roadside
ascii_field: i bet many times more of'em die in traffic.
ascii_field: also 'high tech north kr' is often misunderstood concept. there is normally no need for usg to shoot anyone. instead they will cancel your food-and-rent card.
mats: shoot heads and emplace ieds? breaching a building is hard, you know.
ascii_field: so they sit outside and wait for everyone inside to starve.
mats: obviously you'll get trampled either way, but this is far short of defenseless
ascii_field: 'emplace ied' works when you have ten million sympathetic natives for partizans to hide among, be fed and clothed by
ascii_field: or at least a red army 500km away dropping occasional supplies
punkman: surely there are 10 million natives
mats: but when its not just 'waco' folks but a poor populace, suddenly its field offices being seiged by randoms, not 'waco'
mats: svbieds make big bang.
ascii_field: mats: problem is that no one in usa is so poor that he is indifferent to whether the lights stay on and the toilet flushes
ascii_field: things that go away first of all when ied becomes a daily matter
ascii_field: unlike the turd world, in usa the poor folks are the first and instant loosers in any breakdown of civilization
mats: iraq does, to an extent. and yet isis finds bulldozers, scrap metal for diy armor, and fertilizer for container vans readily enough
ascii_field: (ted turner on his ranch doesn't give a fuck if the city burns)
ascii_field: iraq was nicely massaged into the bronze age by usg.
ascii_field: a necessary prerequisite to this kind of thing.
mats: perhaps we both see what we want to see, hear what we want to hear
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jurov: novorussians were expected to rely on light and flush toilets, too
mats: i got a coin for you if this theory pans out
ascii_field: jurov: ru infrastructure was considerably less fragile. yet it, too, deteriorated.
ascii_field: for instance, incidents of folks falling into soft earth around leaking steam pipes, and boiling to death (along with any would-be rescuers) were a regular thing
ascii_field: in usa, there are things you wouldn't believe. the sewer lines are often run up hill, with pumping stations buried underground.
assbot: Logged on 27-06-2014 04:21:13; asciilifeform: that's a 'lift station.' normally sewer is operated by gravity. but often, for reasons of cost, a pipe will be laid uphill.
ascii_field: the basic reason why no one is voluntarily turning usa into iraq, regardless of usg abuses, is something like the english saying 'people in glass houses do not throw stones'
ascii_field: the other detail is probably demographic - iraq median age, according to usg, is ~20; usa - ~40 !
ascii_field: emma goldman supposedly said 'if i can't dance, i want nothing to do with your revolution'
ascii_field: well, in usa, if toilet doesn't flush and facebook doesn't load, they want nothing to do with it, likewise.
☟︎ funkenstein_: re: waco, it's hard to get more helpless than kids trapped in buried school bus
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:13:30; ascii_field: well, in usa, if toilet doesn't flush and facebook doesn't load, they want nothing to do with it, likewise.
ascii_field: camping is a sport, there is neither the permanence of the situation nor the hordes of crazed sheeple and their more-cannibalistic upper crust
shinohai: I love my tech, don't get me wrong. But a few nights in the desert or mountains does wonders for clearing away the clutter amongst the little grey bits.
ascii_field: shinohai: this is like comparing jumping from plane with and without parachute.
ben_vulpes: regarding that ancient optimization of expenditures thread, in america the ceo will have to report his place of residence if purchased/rented by the company as income, correct asciilifeform, mircea_popescu?
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: if title is in company's name, the income - theoretically - is only the market value of leasing the property
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: but more generally, you don't get to play tax games in usa if you are small change.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for what it's worth, dc swears up and down and has under grilling for the past coupla days that, in its own english, "By the way, our admin monitors said that no unplanned reboots were not."
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: log in and see for yourself.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i do not know why the man lied.
ascii_field: ftr i didn't expect him to say anything but precisely this
ascii_field: what, thought he would confess, 'gnomes ordered me to pull the cord' ?
ascii_field: oh and is the man in wot ? 'cause i got a very special gift for him, if he is..
mircea_popescu is too lazy to log etc, but... did he also helpfully edit the history ?
ascii_field: and afaik only we have the legit login to the box
ascii_field: so it would have had to be via backdoor installed when disk was removed, during power off
ascii_field: but no, logs are consistent with yanked mains.
ascii_field: each and every time since the first one at end of may
ascii_field: but bombed every day, and the frag never hits diametric's box, only mine.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo when you're done with that i got a bit of malbolge needs reversing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Now that monero is off the table, may have time for that. Just trying to shave a few unecessary bytes here and there out of the Qntra
mircea_popescu: in other news, from #eulora : <VariaVarietatis> What is the best way to buy and hold a little bit of btc so I can buy copper from jurov ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i will have you know that i combed ~5GB of packet dump and found not a trace of your magic tx.
ascii_field: which was astonishing, because debug.log ~does~ mention it (as linked earlier) - though it is not correlated temporally with your node's disconnects as seen on my end
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field thanks. alrighty, leave this for now until i can have something more sensible to say from this end.
ascii_field: this drew my attention to the asinine tcp socket handling in therealbitcoin
ascii_field: what the fuck is sender-side flood control for ?!!
mircea_popescu: atm the explanations are, bad tcp/ip implementation on the machine running it in a very subtle way, or some issue in the firewalls downstream
ascii_field: the error msg most closely corresponds to the line in therealbitcoin linked last night. but i do not know what mircea_popescu has there, and won't know unless he shares the snippet. so it gets left here.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23155 @ 0.00068275 = 15.8091 BTC [-] {3}
ascii_field: incidentally, sending a spurious rst is time-honoured mega-classic tool for isp diddling of 'undesirable' pipe
mircea_popescu curses the poor, informal quality of his own previous approach to the problem V solves
mircea_popescu: dude what do you want from me ;/ i had nfi what to do with things.
ascii_field: lemme guess, sitting on a disk with 100 versions of mircea_popescucoin ?
mircea_popescu: not quite, but the "what does this knob do" investigations are starting to run into human memory failures.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin is, as is, both needlessly and too fucking complex.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i have a running mmorpg that's simpler. gimme a fucking break. bitcoin is not part of the os-mmorpg-bitcoin trinity.
mircea_popescu: "Imagine you get pulled over for speeding once and they smell the meth or weed then search your shit, your fucked."
mircea_popescu: is reddit anything more than usg employees talking to spammers ?
shinohai: That whole subreddit is comedy gold.
jurov: mircea_popescu: you don't forget you also run a boiler room
jurov: were my yest mpex problems substantiated anyhow?
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as you made some irc comments, no. i did look to see if your balance had magically vanished, which it had not.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:51:18; mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin is, as is, both needlessly and too fucking complex.
jurov: isee.. still putting it slowly together
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: concerning the RSTs: know that it is not difficult for these to be sent via spoofed packet
ascii_field: that would be a pretty lulzy way to screw with bitcoin folks, wouldnnit
mircea_popescu: the only reasonable conclusion here, from an outside eye, is that too much complexity is the problem. throughout.
mircea_popescu: i think a lot of computing continued unchecked on a paradigm of "mom, look what ~I~ can do!!11"
ascii_field was informed, by a phriend, regarding ~why~ orc world often willingly routes blatantly spoofed packetz. it is uncommon, outside of usa and eu, for network peers to specify whether they are transit peering or just peering. and thereby cannot readily distinguish spoofed vs not.
mircea_popescu: it should be "mom, look what i don't need to do. chief among which, i don't need to go "mom, look what ican do.""
ascii_field: it is retarded. but sane folks, when haunted by the danger of 'wanna standardize things, have good engineering! here comes microshit, with standardz!' chose the retardation.
mircea_popescu: the notion that good engineering = standards, by the way, is a specific bit of fucktardation not unlike "good flying machines have moving parts".
mircea_popescu: i get it, your only experience with movement comes from observing nature.
mircea_popescu: but as far as software, and computer programming generally, standards are actually the proof positive engineering failed.
ascii_field: engineering failed when standard, e.g., screw pitches appeared ?!
ascii_field: maths folks have the luxury of inescapable truths
mircea_popescu: "we are the best practices body for functional analysis"
ascii_field: incidentally there ~was~ a time when mathematical notations duked it out (newton's, if you recall, lost)
mircea_popescu: the things they have to pick in nature ARE AN IMPOSITION OF NATURE. the reason you need to pick screw sizes is because "your screw" shares its physical attributes with a different item of the same shape in the same place.
ascii_field: or, more recently, quaternions lost to matrices
mircea_popescu: there is clearly a problem here. ideal objects (such as software) are not comensurate with physical objects. this attempt to "engineer programs like screws" was a reasonable first hack at the novel an dunexpected problem,
☟︎ ascii_field: (note that i would not write this piece today, in the same way; not sure if type 5 exists in real life at all)
mircea_popescu: yes, it's true that irl if i misplace the screw and then sit on it it'll puncture my ass.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> it is when it ~began~ << yes, and engineering in "making real objects" sense is exactly that. but from this it does not follow that the same everywhere!
ascii_field: they are 'like screws' in the sense that two programs can only communicate if some provision for this was foreseen
mircea_popescu: it still doesn't follow that you should treat them like a nut and a bolt.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if anything, there is ~less~ slack than with any physical screw
ascii_field: precisely ~because~ program is an ideal object, it is so unforgiving.
mircea_popescu: so i'll condense this yet vague and uncoallesced and thus impractical notion in my head by saying : that a body of standards is where engineering starts with physical objects ; and the proof engineering failed with ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think that's an undefined result of an out of domain operation you're choosing to interpret a certain way.
ascii_field: i wrote more or less this, long ago, in a different formulation :
mircea_popescu: like, ask engineer "what's the result of dividing apple by orange ?" "zero" sort of thing
ascii_field: 'if there appears to be more than one way to solve programmatic problem, your priors are crap'
ascii_field: just like there is not, rightfully, more than one correct way to subtract 1 from an integer of a known size.
mircea_popescu: exactly this is at issue. what "competing language spaces" for crying out loud. explain to me the "competition" to be had between waveform and heisenberg notation already.
mircea_popescu: tbh the standard is : if you want to make a "new language" and you don't have written code that transforms WITHOUT ERROR all other programs in all other languages to yours, you do not have a lnaguage.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the above is kinda why i laugh at all the non-sexpr languages.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see basically, standard AS A THING even exist because
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24731 @ 0.00067788 = 16.7647 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: there was the need to interpose an ideal layer between actual items and human industry.
mircea_popescu: which then had to interface with reality, and the whole subject of "ecology" is essentially trying to deal with one particular suite of bugs in this interfacing. which, incidentally, we know on good authority will NEVER be perfect.
mircea_popescu: but then to go on the strength of this and interpose "an ideal layer" between ideal objects an human industry is simply runaway complexity. because zero one infinity, once you got two you got an infinity and in practice everyone seems to end up trying to juggle an ever-approaching infinity number of balls.
mircea_popescu: the obviousness of all this is inescapable if one actually has at the same time the intellectual werewithal to regard the matter and the emotional disinterest of not giving a shit about the whole lot of it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this stupidraven has come back to roost, where brainfried derps without a working interposed ideal layer are claiming the ideal object they fail to interfacr with is "really a real object nao".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24900 @ 0.00069632 = 17.3384 BTC [+] {3}
jurov: (relay computer cuz vacuum tubes were hard to get, with built in fault tolerance)
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 08:40:37; cazalla: or is it the norm for secular jews to maintain their foreskin?
pete_dushenski: a cord, which, yes, i would pull if needed. there are better causes to die for. better causes to be a martyr for.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude. by the time being romanian's a crime in itself i have very little interest left in doing anything but killing people indiscriminately.
pete_dushenski: which makes one wonder why ~more~ americans aren't killing people indiscriminately.
mats: lol, dong inspection as proof of jewry
mircea_popescu: mats you are perhaps too young to remember, but this is STILL DONE
mats: the indignity of an old cardinal inspecting your cock.
mircea_popescu: by the time yoiu're that old, more women held your cock to pee than to suck it anyway
mircea_popescu: brought to you by the "she's a whore anyway, what rape" department of legal thinking.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: 'right to farm' recalls 'right to repair' (cars)
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Last election cycle it joined the Missouri state consitution's bill of rights
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how exactly can judge go "wait it doesn't include x" ?
pete_dushenski: to which vw/audi famously responded "ok fuck you amerikans zen, ve vill not pahblish ze manuels for AYNEEBODY"
pete_dushenski: so dealers would look at obd-ii codes and have nfi what they meant
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21050 @ 0.00070084 = 14.7527 BTC [+] {3}
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Because words don't mean anything in 'Murica
mircea_popescu: "missouri constitution includes right to farm - this right doesn't include any actual activities ftr"
shinohai: So people in Missouri are basically just serfs.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 17:43:46; ascii_field: 'Evasion techniques can get creative. Raj Rajaratnam, the fund manager convicted in 2011 of insider trading, would write “fon” instead of “phone.” Prosecutors said they suspected the intentional misspelling was meant to distract the all-seeing electronic Javert of Control-F.' << gold
mircea_popescu: dude check it out, next year's crop of "evasion technisuke crrrrreativity" will be rot13
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:15:06; asciilifeform: ^ lulzy. arsonist sets fire, buys up assets at fire sale, then complains when folks whack him over the head to take back the stolen goods
pete_dushenski: also, alf should send usgavin invoice for beefier bandwidth line. because 'bitcoin needs business services nao'
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell jurov any daily update for coinbr ? inquiring minds and all that
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:36:08; kakobrekla: they are supposed to be quite durable tho, 10khrs +
mircea_popescu: if the alternative costs $19 but breaks down once a day, the 1k one is cheaper.
mircea_popescu: "UPDATE! PayPal has reversed their decision!" was the best part.
mircea_popescu: "Now I happen to have a large enough domain portfolio that I have my own personal rep at Godaddy"
assbot: You have not rated pete_dushenski.
shinohai: !rate pete_dushenski 1 Author of contravex, one of my favorite blogs.
shinohai: !v assbot:shinohai.rate.pete_dushenski.1:da8a7593454219e9202301e85f30fa13fa6578f82140f30e805bd03d632c2280
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for pete_dushenski with note: Author of contravex, one of my favorite blogs.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: you have other favourites ?! what is this, democristan where you can dabble a bit here and a bit there and figure that all's well ?!!
mircea_popescu is glad to see the downward spiral activated, will welcome a world with that excrement pile relegated to its proper corner.
shinohai: I can't just read contravex alone. I read constantly.
pete_dushenski: that's a point, i don't even have 5 years of archives in an obscure latin language for you to toil in until the end of your days
shinohai: I have yet to find a decent bitcoin-related blog in Spanish.
mircea_popescu: i have yet to find anything intellectually stimulating in spanish. the thing's incredibly dead, last noteworthy anything happened apparently in the 1800s
pete_dushenski: shinohai: because as stupid as english-speakers are today, this hasn't always been the case. whereas spanish, as mircea_popescu points out, has always been the language of slaves.
shinohai: I had yet to read him opine on Spanish.
pete_dushenski: as to spain proper, well, they still have a few museums of note, but other than that it's just doner kebab stands and beaches
mircea_popescu: ftr i dun hold the "always language of slaves" thing and omg if you're going to say what i said link to sauce!
mircea_popescu: odds are you'll remember it ever-so-slighty wrong and piss me off
mircea_popescu: no, seriously, it's a cornerstone of a functioning internal life : always have the source material at the ready.
shinohai: When I quote mircea_popescu on twitter, I generally always link here or to trilema.
shinohai: I will paraphrase on occasion though.
shinohai: I used to have that exact tile pattern in my bathroom.
ag3nt_zer0: anyone have an opinion on paul craig roberts writings?
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 17:44:35; ascii_field: '“They use terms to find evidence of whether someone is trying to hide their activities because evidence of a cover-up is frequently more potent than the evidence of the alleged crime,” Brodsky said.'
mircea_popescu: "He denied having the drive which means he knew he shouldn't have it here then it was found in his bag so I feel the punishment is suitable."
mircea_popescu: or it could mean he fucvking forgot, or that he finds my body odour objectionable and wants to get out already
assbot: Logged on 21-09-2014 16:33:51; mircea_popescu: and spanish is like alien, can't be learned by humans, unlike lisp and scheme
assbot: Logged on 15-08-2014 04:13:32; mircea_popescu: i only talk spanish to my horse
mircea_popescu: the fundamental driver being the stupid woman in question's inferiority complex. she knows she's filth and she knows actual people wouldn't give her idiocy the time of day. which is "resolved" in her mind as "of course what everyone spends ever ymoment doing is thinking about my stupid shit. yes that's right i'm that central"
assbot: Logged on 02-04-2014 20:35:41; mircea_popescu: whoa check that out, apparently you can say intelligent things in spanish!
mircea_popescu: try telling the us tax man that "you just never gave a shit about irs stuff"
mircea_popescu: you readily see how the first one was being sarcastic, re alf's complaints right ?
mircea_popescu: the second is a tongue in cheek reference to a famous quote
mircea_popescu: charles 5th, hre, said I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse.
mircea_popescu: the spanish/german substitution was intended to be funny, to they familair with the classics.
pete_dushenski: totally, but within that must lie a grain of truth, or it wouldn't be funny !
mircea_popescu: (this , incidentally, is a large reason why classic texts are so commonly misunderstood by the layman - such as for instance shakespeare by tolstoy. there exists this device where a is replaced by b with the expectation on the part of the writer that the reader notices the substitution and holds it meaningful
shinohai: Now I am forlorn pete_dushenski because on more thought my housecleaner speaks Spanish. xD
mircea_popescu: a degradation of that expectation under the blessings of mass educationm is visible for instance in the very vulgar but sadly necessary habit of peppering ^H^H^H^H in the logs.
assbot: How I Joined Teach for America--and Got Sued for $20 Million by Joshua Kaplowitz, City Journal Winter 2003 ... (
http://bit.ly/1Uo1OBs )
mircea_popescu: im not making any claims as to value or quality, mind.
mircea_popescu: it was actually in part based on stolen us ip throughout the mid 60s, and in part on actually refined tube techs
mircea_popescu: but the romanians didn't much like the soviets. (if you recall, nixon visited in 69 etc)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40500 @ 0.0007022 = 28.4391 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: dawg im not reading that idiot yale grad's bland prose.
mircea_popescu: whats the executive summary, girl wanted to fuck him, he said no, girls brother killed him ?
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 18:15:54; punkman: the world doesn't know how the world works
ag3nt_zer0: asciilifeform: ok thx... I was speaking generally to the atmosphere of the degenerate adult-fail of the contemporary populace in failing to take on their roles as mentors and superiors of the children, combined with these wretched inner-city armed guard metal detector ghetto schools...
assbot: Logged on 03-12-2014 23:20:00; asciilifeform: crank bait is normally factual material that blows 'official truth' out of the water, placed deliberately in the public domain.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 19:48:07; jurov: requires nano ~/.vimrc first
ag3nt_zer0: just hard to imagine it being so bad sinc eus is lawsuit culture and leadingthis equality/entitlement movement
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dawg im not reading that idiot yale grad's bland prose. << It's from their forum. User asks why upgrade left them with a bunch of .js and Derpomatic says if you don't like it install a plugin
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no i meant ag3nt_zer0 s crop. i don't read the other fucktard but i know what he'sa saying anywa
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 19:55:25; shinohai: We can't all have Stepford wives.
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: hahah ok understandable
mircea_popescu: you could run the entire "vc software industry" off of half a brain
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, if i were to say "the appearance of best business practices is proof positive business as a going concern is dead" you'd see what i mean
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does anyone need "best business practices" ? and what do they need them FOR ?
mircea_popescu: let me put this question in its proper framing, harking back to the scholastic disputes of a millenium ago.
mircea_popescu: who made the standard ? how did they know what to put into it ?
mircea_popescu: if you also know, the same way, why do you want it ? if you do not, why do you aim to be involved in this ?
mircea_popescu: reality may surprise and remain valid. thoughts may not. surprising thoughts are ipso facto invalid. which is why the destruction of engineering as an intellectual activity is covered in "creativity"
mircea_popescu: therre is no such thing as "creativity" in tech, and there's certainly no place for "women in tech" understood as monkeys.
mircea_popescu: and i don't care how "raceis", "rapey" or whatever else the understanding of women as people is.
mircea_popescu: i am unconvinced by any explanation of decline that reads different from "success brought abundance which made people complacent. the end."
mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that
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assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 20:52:46; mats: waco victims were hardly defenseless. i follow what you're saying, particularly re: historical context, but i'm not convinced this is practicable in usa