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mircea_popescu feels compelled to point out re phf's worthy evaluation of topic that a significant part of eliade's said evaluation was drilling a local dude's daughter.
mircea_popescu: (i also do not hold the view that indians EVER made scholarly anything. nor do i believe people like bharara or the raj schmuck recently mentioned are part of the western tradition, in spite of doing a passible job of masquerading it. the DA's office with bharara in it simple ceased to be much akin to the US DA and more like a fetid indian "institution", just like state with rice was more like state hence than like sta
mircea_popescu: te ever was before. ie, incompetent, superficial, a sort of "cosmo does state dept".)
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mircea_popescu: <phf> the translations are universally bad, but gave westerners first glimpses of "eastern thought" << and by westerners we mean, of course, americans.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21900 @ 0.00076433 = 16.7388 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: <phf> talking about it or presenting second hand revelations as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent. <<< it is altogether dubious any original intent even exists, or that "intent" as a category is at all adequate to discuss the matter. perhaps a decent approach towards what "existential" sanely means in the context is provided by the "causes not purposes" dichotomy. there is no inten
mircea_popescu: t, as such, nor any "progress" in the sense of "levelling up to krishna" and supersizing your karma serving.
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mircea_popescu: "satisfied that he understands all the conditions and obligations contained herein, that he is entering into this agreement freely and voluntarily with full knowledge of its contents, that no additional promises have been made regarding his sentence, or potential sentences, and further, that he has read this entire agreement."
mircea_popescu: satisfied that the car is in working condition and also that it has an engine at all!
mircea_popescu: "the other residents of the drab soviet prefab block of flats always envied ivan ivanovich, for this inept pretense of normalcy that he found himself on the receiving end of, even if in all fairness it was not really his fault."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 00:43:00; BingoBoingo: 'Murican problems: "The easiest way to handle an obese funeral is to refer the family to your competitor, but that rarely works, especially if you picked up the body strapped to two hospital mattresses, (oh – the pain!)"
http://www.oversizecasket.com/funeralprofessional.html assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 03:19:21; asciilifeform: main danger, as i understand, is that their combustion will: create a visible plume of smoke. or, the ultimate catastrophe, 'auschwitzy' smell.
mircea_popescu: "a unique celebration of life with honor and dignity. "
mircea_popescu: for fucks sake. funerals should not be fucking celebrations of life. what the fuck do they do at weddings, mourn over the dead ?
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mircea_popescu: good people come from eve and bad people spawned off lillith, but americans all crawled out from between the thighs of one mae pollitt!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wife of "big daddy wanted me to become a lawyer, I became a lawyer. he said get married, I got married. he said have kids and i had kids and now he can't stand them. so he never loved me. fine! but I appeal to your common decency! gimme some money!"
assbot: CNN captures glorious split-screen moment between Donald Trump and Rand Paul - The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1iio1zt )
mircea_popescu: well obviously misrepresentation in commercial matter is the substance of fraud, but so far, not there
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 01:24:38; mircea_popescu: the people in life are people from movies,
kakobrekla: “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.
kakobrekla: “I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
kakobrekla: “He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
kakobrekla: if it looks like a move bomb it must be real!
mircea_popescu: pity kids don't talk back more, you know ? "and you look like a movie idiot to me. where's that leave us."
mircea_popescu: then they wonder why no girls throwing panties. well... this would be it eh.
BingoBoingo: I am ingnoratish in some matters. Also drinking anxiety vodka hoping my horse Rand can get the seven minutes.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is that tonite ? Yeah but I dun have cable, refuse adobeFlasherast, and can't torrent a livestream so must wait.
mircea_popescu: "It is not uncommon for the family to buy two or even three grave plots for burial."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make a shitty lesser something
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 13 yo performance, in the united states of america and the republic of congo, counts as scholarly engineering.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: is this observation qntra-worthy? << If you want to write it up or just drop it as a comment I have no reason to deny you that.
mircea_popescu: Kampfblatt der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung Großdeutschlands!!!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the advent of crt ruined eyes << First summer after high school when exposed to computer monitors daily for extended periods of time first... Eyesight measurably worsened, kept myself to panel display only as much as I can after that
mircea_popescu: i have perfect vision, in spite of being on computers since about age 9. nevertheless, that distance is still uncomfortable for the purpose.
BingoBoingo: Up until that summer I used to be able to get all but the last line on the snell chart without effort. Last line could get about 75% nao cursed with 20/20 ish vision
mircea_popescu: this mention of the snellen chart finally jarred my understanding of the very widespread misconception that closing eye improves aim accuracy
mircea_popescu: this, of course, because he is diagnosing one item at a time
mircea_popescu: but "the intuition" thus formed is that you see better
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BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but somehow i don't think this applies to most folks afflicted with 'one-eyed' aim << The reason for closing one eye is reaction speed and avoiding "noise" that emerges in binocular vision when eyes are disparate in their image quality.
BingoBoingo: it wasn't my node, though it is peering with zoolag instead of Dulap nao
gribble: Current Blocks: 374868 | Current Difficulty: 5.695764845501001E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 374975 | Next Difficulty In: 107 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 18 hours, 5 minutes, and 4 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Depending on how this bet goes I may get planned node Quantrill running sometime next month.
BingoBoingo: Just waiting to see if Apel refreshes the Mac Mini to drop used prices some more
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: machine of equivalent horsepower and physical dimensions costs around a benjie, brand-new. << Not of identical appearance though. Still looking at that model specific colo niche
mircea_popescu: apparently they DIDNT actually pay off all the 10-50mn they owed people for their most recent fraudulent move.
mircea_popescu: the land of fictitious persons is mostly notable in a dire absence of death.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: why does it need to have identical appearance? << Apparently Mac Mini in particular is a colocation niche
mircea_popescu: it's more complicated than that. a very complex balancing act of multiple separate agencies and the overriding consideration of "is the image hit worth it" all evaluated through multiple layers.
mircea_popescu: it's a full time job. of the nature and substance of learning to secure windows installations.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> apparently they DIDNT actually pay off all the 10-50mn they owed people for their most recent fraudulent move. << care to qntra it?
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BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: 'ddos mitigation' is virtually guaranteed not to help you. likely - the opposite. << ANd then move to one of the ten or so other providers
mircea_popescu: The rest of us are busy working, and also a lot of people starting school and stuff so this is a slow period in general."
mircea_popescu: which is why they call them "traveling people" historically, or "conference scum" more recently.
mircea_popescu: "We have plenty of time to see how this debate plays out. There is overwhelming support from the community, the merchant ecosystem and miners for a blocksize increase. If Core fails to sort out its governance issues, then by the time this problem really comes to the fore, XT will be the only solution implemented and readily available,"
mircea_popescu: i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz.
mircea_popescu: and you know, once they get their bad boy issues sorted, he'll be the only one ready, lubed up and with a (6 inch!) erection going!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz. << You forget the FUDA: Fat Usurped Dick Area... Basically when the pubic fat is too much for the dick to be externally visible
mircea_popescu: so basically dudes get so fucking fat there's an ad hoc slit created around their cock
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Lemme dig for a medical photograph
mircea_popescu: which doesn't have any of the antibacterial and drainage benefits of the female version
mircea_popescu: dude no wonder they're misrepresenting themselves as "gay" and "transsexual" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: if you're sufficiently stupid and fat, that really becomes your gender.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a product. 50% stupid 50% fat is more stupidfat than 150% fat 5% stupid.
mod6: put the leafs to the same rank, and added the source file names to the arrows. some of the arrow heads come together, so just zoom in and hover over the line if need be.
mod6: thanks asciilifeform
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:23:59; mircea_popescu: good people come from eve and bad people spawned off lillith, but americans all crawled out from between the thighs of one mae pollitt!
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:42:58; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make a shitty lesser something
assbot: Logged on 15-08-2015 00:12:27; asciilifeform: a versioning system that is merely a few kb of script
assbot: You rated user mod6 on 27-Nov-2014, with a rating of 4, and supplied these additional notes: The cave, age, tace school of thought. Nice work with the Bitcoin Foundation..
mod6: thanks mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i suspect that ~this~ magical apogee is not reached until you get to 'too big for the crematorium' max level. << Apparently not even that big
BingoBoingo: May actually have to use one of those hydraulic log splitters
mod6: easy enough to add that logic in
mod6: (famous last words)
mircea_popescu: there are what, 24 bits of color ? take the 24 signatories most highly ranked by mike and set or unset bytes accordingly.
mod6: im sure something can be done there.
mircea_popescu: well because of the nature of the svg, you actually get very predictablew coloring
mircea_popescu: because you can add your own postprocessing to null out some bytes.
mircea_popescu: ie your green if foundation signed can be interpreted from it if one so wishes in one linbe
mircea_popescu: mod6 ya, RGB: rgb(255,0,128) (0 .. 255, 0 .. 255, 0 .. 255) << so basically its 01010101 10101010 01010101
mircea_popescu: this would indicate that of the collection of people who signed, the 2nd 4th 6th 8th 9th 11th 13th etc signed it
mircea_popescu: i wanna send this guy a cookie or something i like him so much
mod6: yup, now you have descendants
mod6: that part of the code is gnarly. gotta re-work a bunch of this.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i take it that the idea of making V the epicenter of bitcoin releases going further is aprpoved by the foundation ?
mircea_popescu will send 1 btc to the foundation donation nao, because srsly.
mod6: it is by me anyway!
BingoBoingo humbly requests a knowledgeable party write a qntra on the recent v-gasm
mod6: 'V' is beautiful in its simplicity.
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mod6: that's one of the next things i have to tackle, aside from the cleanup of some stuff: press
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assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:19:09; mircea_popescu: "the other residents of the drab soviet prefab block of flats always envied ivan ivanovich, for this inept pretense of normalcy that he found himself on the receiving end of, even if in all fairness it was not really his fault."
pete_dushenski: not that anna karenina lived in a time of soviet flats...
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Or numeric posts are small, quant is prolly inaccurate at this time, but you know how to fix that...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I just rip the lid off and stopped doing that when I cracked the lid
BingoBoingo has tiny wheel of cheddar set out to achieve room temperature last night ready for a celebration. Fuck it V... will wait to see officialish clock on Rand time
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assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:42:46; asciilifeform: he broke apart a perfectly good clock.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 20:54:27; mircea_popescu: go break into their trunk box, cut the connection to home, install your own firmware ?
pete_dushenski: @RealIndyTails24 51m51 minutes ago: @JebBush Sorry George did 9/11 << lulzy reply
pete_dushenski: "t the intracellular level, discoveries now reveal the existence of 'mitochondrial synapses' establishing mitochondrial networks, with defined chromatin-modifying mitochondrial output signals capable of orchestrating gene expression across the genome. These discoveries raise the possibility that in addition to their role as powerhouses and neuromodulators, mitochondria behave as intracellular signal-processing n
pete_dushenski: so much for the second-grade-level 'mitochondria as the cell's powerplant' theory
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: mitochondria are alien in every sense
BingoBoingo: Well most mitochondria are capable of being culutred on their own in the manner of bacteria (what anyone seriously though 'mitochondiral dna' test were for any reason other chan cheaper?)
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 02:29:29; mircea_popescu: if you're sufficiently stupid and fat, that really becomes your gender.
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BingoBoingo: Stupid is prolly more somewhere along the lines of preference. Stupidly obeast though has physiolocical characteristics which necessitate identifying as fat-gendered among the afflicted
BingoBoingo: Reddit is mostly downvotes, it must take admin intervention for anything to appear upvoted prolly
BingoBoingo: Great human moment for Jeb on marijuana. And he invoked America's most popular Bush. Mama! #NBC2016 #CNNDebate
BingoBoingo: — Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) September 17, 2015
BingoBoingo: THrow them all in the fire see which ones aren't too charred
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All in the same fire, add more coal.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Anything with silicon can burn to unreadable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. << cstropes done by naggum. now that'd be a sight.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or merely stupid. <<< it's a product. best results (area) for equal sides. but astounding performance can be obtained even with only one of the two
BingoBoingo now looking for concordant counts of tonight's speaking times
mircea_popescu: no wonder he looks like he sucked down a pickle through a garden hose.
assbot: Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1KrjJ3C )
mircea_popescu: there's really nobody left that both can read and watches daytime tv, is there.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Tis a question, because beople are bopple are coters
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to footballists. << Now that is purely the domain of grad students who know they can starve, not immigrants who could Tanzania
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Teach algebra to Future Farmers of Africa and pay less rent
mircea_popescu: topologist, twerpologist, what the hell's the diffewence.
BingoBoingo: I'm kinda starting to think the more I read that Tanzania might not be joke for too long. Seriously looking like hardware #b-a candidate
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: if you must africa, consider addis ababa << Too USG and Obola was born too near. Now Dar es Salam with 19 HIV free ebony girls for every infected...
mircea_popescu: basically alf wants to live in the asshole of a continent
mircea_popescu: be it wash dc or the "capital of africa", he gotta be next to the fucking un building.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically alf wants to live in the asshole of a continent << He already does
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12900 @ 0.00076592 = 9.8804 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: it has a penis, currently more or less erect towards south africa
BingoBoingo: It's debateable whether DC with the potomac river outflow is more anal than New Orleans with the Mississippi river outflow...
BingoBoingo: Tanzania like Argentian though has day hike-able mountain in kilimanjaro, much like Argentina has Ancongua
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> na the arse of sa is prolly venezuela << Venezuela is more of a fistula
BingoBoingo: May be confused with arse because similar stink and fecal leakage
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 04:06:24; mircea_popescu: be it wash dc or the "capital of africa", he gotta be next to the fucking un building.
mircea_popescu: This is a wake up call to every Bitcoin CEO reading this thread. WE are ALL at risk and we could be next. Use BitGo, Xapo, or Coinbase to lock up large balances of corporate funds
mircea_popescu: the inept handling of coins by bitpay, perhaps the most washed of the entire fiat crowd masquerading around bitcoin
mircea_popescu: is going to make me give coins to some of the worst idiots in that same space
mircea_popescu: i dunno what sort of retards these people are, but it's not naturally orcuring.
mircea_popescu: but like an indian's hands are both tendrils of the same filth,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless the right and the left differ in how often they visit the asshole.
mircea_popescu: eh not even, a whole snakepit of scammers/fraudsters/vcs
mircea_popescu: "You dont need entropy to create an ECDSA signature. You do need it to create an RSA signature, for padding."
copypaste: 11:10:10*+mircea_popescu copypaste who was it again ?
BingoBoingo: copypaste: I love your twitter dispatches from the Islands. Keep on rolling on!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Your brain still makes DMT, try shaking it?
BingoBoingo: I actually would not unexpect that with you
copypaste: AWS is quite expensive, but the great thing about it is you never get down due to DDoS.
☟︎ copypaste: Even if you have to pay $10K for the traffic.
copypaste: Your site will be up the whole time.
copypaste: Someone rich like Mircea could afford it no problem :-)
BingoBoingo: Oh but what if you get DDoS from other AWS instance?
mircea_popescu: no see, i'm rich like mircea not rich like usg. i tend to want to see roi.
copypaste: As in, I think they don't charge traffic if it originates within Amazon's network
BingoBoingo: copypaste: But they would still have to charge CPU
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Everything has a www, too inclusive
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: honestly I would be most surprised if mircea_popescu doesn't have one of those already
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7900 @ 0.00075779 = 5.9865 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I would oil the bricks if I had one of those though
BingoBoingo: Nah, but I dun care about other's fee-fees that much. I want to see the falls
BingoBoingo: The right oil can seem stick until it is slick
BingoBoingo: Also south park season 19 premier not so bad so far
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10893 @ 0.00075779 = 8.2546 BTC [-]
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30050 @ 0.00075752 = 22.7635 BTC [-] {4}
BingoBoingo: Is cuckservative really worth supporting that nappy headed impotent bankruptcy specialist over the younger Dr. Paul???
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18500 @ 0.00076505 = 14.1534 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "here's what good libertards should think happened. it happens to be exactly unrelated to actual events. libertards prevail!"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10453 @ 0.00076591 = 8.0061 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: I might not wish well the USG, but I don't want them to get Trump... Where is the challenge in that
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trinque: was honing my turdstapling of course
BingoBoingo: trinque: If I actually followed through with that in 2010 when I first started following Derpency I'd be much richer, but Tardenssenenene was a huge turnoff.
BingoBoingo is a very visual person, hates hamplanets and bright colors
BingoBoingo remembers first coming to #b-a early 2013 then returning late 2013 and butting heads with benkay
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48256 @ 0.00076532 = 36.9313 BTC [-] {2}
BingoBoingo: Why did benkay and BingoBoingo butt heads? Sport mostly. Also stotting behavior.
BingoBoingo: Three years old and type 2 diabetes, most people with congential type 1 diabetes don't know it at that age
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39150 @ 0.00076122 = 29.8018 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8750 @ 0.00076677 = 6.7092 BTC [+] {3}
BingoBoingo: We have the opposite of survival skills floating around here
gribble: Error: Problem retrieving latest block data.
mircea_popescu: like say 872699895ed8a85560405f63590ff6987f12a76fe25a8edee398451ec6c13a12 : "OP_RETURN j"
mircea_popescu: (inputs dblspent in 6a65aab8f7cc0be8ad03a940f0844b2c127e055749ac5e731faf7b64a1db0b81 )
mats: I put up 2btc on Yes for the eth bet
BingoBoingo: mats: Numbers aren't solidly sourced yet, but looking like "no" on the Paul bet was bank
BingoBoingo: I have yet to find a number that puts him under 9 minutes
mats: I thought you watched the shit tonight
BingoBoingo: mats: Fuck no. I don't have cable or adobeFlash
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20050 @ 0.00076696 = 15.3775 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: So far tonight I watched the South Park premier (great) and the MasterChef finale (hiss), next up is the inside of my eyelids
mats: I watched the directors cut of the movie Kingdom of Heaven tonight
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2400 @ 0.00075892 = 1.8214 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: It is neither Gladiator nor The Waterboy... Just exactly between them
mats: it suffered at the box office, probably because the theatrical cut sucked
BingoBoingo: Yeah, that was closer to The Waterboy and further from Gladiator
BingoBoingo surprised qntra has now topped /r/bitcoin for several consecutive hours nao
assbot: Chile earthquake: one million people evacuated after 8.3 magnitude quake – rolling report | World news | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1OgIiTw )
mats: mods asleep at the wheel
BingoBoingo: Why would it look like anything there compared to complete pipe saturating DDoS
BingoBoingo: Search engine burps prolly make bigger blips on the data transfer graph
mircea_popescu: car alarms were set off in Buenos Aires, << not that i heard.
mircea_popescu: first thing ion your 2nd link, "This hack happened in December 2014."
BingoBoingo: Still less of a thing than their Bowl game loss
BingoBoingo: everythign BitPay is a mess, nothing BitPay makes sense, and the worst damage inflicted upon BitPay still seems explicitly self inflicted
BingoBoingo: Given the lack of WoT for all I know this "hack" was just Tony building up his buget for bricks of cocaine while some for of money was there.
BingoBoingo: ESPN doesn't simply cancel contracts though. To cancel the three game contract BitPay almost certainly had to settle forst just under the cost of the first two games.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13600 @ 0.00075845 = 10.3149 BTC [-] {3}
BingoBoingo: Unless a court gets involved for bankruptcy or some shit, but that would come out too.
BingoBoingo: The Disney empire is viscious, but no arm is a viscious as ESPN
BingoBoingo: I mean ESPN can do more than the Department of Education to make or break bezzle institutions
BingoBoingo: As opaque as BitPay is if we are at this moment ascribing its failures to anything I am still leaning towards its deal with ESPN, Bowl game naming right have slaughtered many a small business
BingoBoingo: There's too many bowl games, only way to win the bowl game naming game is pony up for a January 1st game or have the cash reserves
BingoBoingo: But who am I to know if BitPay sent 100,000 BTC to a 1BitcoinEater address back in 2012?
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 03:00:27; asciilifeform: this will happen, for example, when we finally... add a file
punkman: there's also a slight problem when you have identical files with different filepaths, I was thinking of doing path+sha512 in my mappings
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punkman: shinohai: does that read as nonsense or is it just me?
shinohai: It sound like laziness, but I'm still noob
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shinohai: the argument against plain wot seems silly, the point of it is manual review isn't it?
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assbot: BitBet - Rand Paul will get less than 7 minutes in Sept. 16th Republican debate :: 5.04 B (94%) on Yes, 0.31 B (6%) on No | closed 2 days 9 hours ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1KkQ9bU )
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mircea_popescu: "But if all you have to say is that you think TOFU is a bad idea, please restrain yourself." << all i have to say is not that "i think tofu is a bad idea". all i have to say is that tofu isn't even a bad idea, and Neal H. Walfield is too stupid to even be wrong.
mircea_popescu: "if you think that a standard for wooden cheeses is a bad idea please restrain yourself, herpitty derp"
mircea_popescu: "The first issue is defining an identity. In OpenPGP, the identity is, by convention, an RFC 2822 name-addr, which has the form "John Doe <jdoe at example.com> (comment)" (without the quotes)." << not only is openpgp completely idiotic on this score, but also. wut ?
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assbot: Patent US20150124107 - Associating cameras with users and objects in a social networking system - Google Patents ... (
http://bit.ly/1LizomN )
mircea_popescu: heh. there's not been a jew in nazi germany like the american in china.
mircea_popescu: In a recent speech, Travis Kalanick, chief executive of the ride-hailing company Uber, said that progress brought by his company had to be “in harmony with stability,” words often used by Chinese officials to signal the dangers of social and political unrest. IBM’s China marketing materials use phrases like “building a harmonious society” and “the Chinese dream,” the latter a phrase coined by Xi to signif
mircea_popescu: "Earlier this month, Dell pledged to spend $125 billion in China over the next fiveyears, which is about five times the company’s value when it was taken private in 2013. " ahahaha mkay.
assbot: British Isis member complains of 'rude Arabs' who steal his shoes, eat like children – and won't queue - Middle East - World - The Independent ... (
http://bit.ly/1KiRbWM )
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assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 03:58:56; mircea_popescu: THAT is a debate ?
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mike_c: "Congress approved $500m (£323m) to train and equip around 5,000 rebels as a key plank of US strategy against IS... Asked how many US trained rebels were fighting he said: 'It's a small number... we're talking four or five.'"
mike_c: Only $100m per rebel. Good job.
☟︎ gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'crescendo', with hostmask 'crescendo!~mozart@unaffiliated/crescendo', is identified as user 'martindale', with GPG key id 6D413F92BC7CFDC4, key fingerprint 3A1957775B9D02D35F4D130A6D413F92BC7CFDC4, and bitcoin address 17kMRNtUMqPGj4dfJsCn6yjBn8cQh38A2K
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stripclubmc: next up, no that wasnt tux misusing the prison toilets, staright from some forgotten ward in tokyo, hold on tight, it's yuuuurei
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kakobrekla: > It's up to glibc to return it to the kernel and it is poor at that. < ahhh
jurov: punkman: nondeterministic != biased. the quote i referred to conflated the two, too
jurov: biased randomness sources are perfectly usable. deterministic, not so
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punkman: jurov: it mentioned "weighted dice", but yeah
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mircea_popescu: assbot is on a different wot. they got forked last year.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 04:30:45; copypaste: AWS is quite expensive, but the great thing about it is you never get down due to DDoS.
punkman: " Cross-VM RSA Key Recovery in a Public Cloud"
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mircea_popescu: jurov i don't imagine anyone seriously uses them for ddos mitigation. maybe in obscure corner cases.
jurov: Their caching initially caused so much grief to mod6 that he moved foundation stuff out
jurov: mircea_popescu: i do :)
mircea_popescu: only way that's cost effective is if you're very weird.
kakobrekla: i never used aws so i dunno what they have but aws users usually end up using clouflare or smth (see buttstamp)
jurov: why weird. coinbr had a ddos, so I just fired beefier instance to filter the crud that made through load balancer
jurov: after few days it was over
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jurov: total expense maybe $5
jurov: and coinbr was slower but accessible
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i know i ran the numbers at some point, loled and forgot about it.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 14:48:54; mike_c: Only $100m per rebel. Good job.
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ascii_field: $1 per rebel; $99.999999m per to halliburton...
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 16:46:45; jurov: biased randomness sources are perfectly usable. deterministic, not so
jurov: yes, the argument flied off in bad direction. i found the recommendation(to check for loaded dice or cards) hilarious in that context
jurov: it would be yet more hilarious if it said "loaded coins" as it was demonstrated there's no such thing
punkman: jurov: where was the quote from?
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ben_vulpes: from the lulzmine: "Do specialized systems include enhanced security measures consistent with risk analysis?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and you're not gonna answer "no, they include unenhanced security measures. shithead."
mircea_popescu: herpitty derp we went to community college, and we buy ENHANCED shit.
ascii_field: usg lives & breathes embrace&extenduish via 'STANDARDS!!!111'
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and "fuzzy process" aka "rough consensus" aka democracy facade without representativity (and preferably - without anyone to represent).
mircea_popescu: somehow no political "scientist" of the anglosphere figured out yet that democracy and representativity are sides of a field, and when you increase "participation" you generally degrade representativity.
mircea_popescu: obtaining less democracy to be spread out to more people.
mircea_popescu: (which is why democracy is always born and only ever seems to work in states built atop homogenuous nations. if you have multiple distinct social groups, it is strictly impossible to actually represent them while at the same time having a working democracy. which is why mass murder and ethnic cleansing always appears reasonable to the people doing it : they have to choose between democracy and multiculturalism, and the
mircea_popescu: the alternative being, obviously, usistan. "democracy" if you don't look too closely. such as by living there, or thinking about it any.
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ascii_field: the canonical 'two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: your observation re a failed state a few days ago has bothered me hence.
mircea_popescu: but i know why, now. there IS such a thing as a failed state.
mircea_popescu: the us is one, because it fails to be what it DECLARES it wants to be. so was the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: just like failure works in humans : i can't fly, but i also didn't declare i aim to be a bird.
ascii_field: aha, not a problem until falling from sky sans parachute
mircea_popescu: just as long as i stick to aiming to scatter self around, i will be fine.
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking bitch there. a conflation of aim and desirability.
mircea_popescu: because obviously fucktarded puritans and "all goods are one"
mircea_popescu: it's not even "gotta have happy endings", that's not it. it's "gotta have PLENARY happy endings". as usual the actual disease agent is hidden from examination by the very workings of the disease.
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't that they want the god damned life to be a movie, and movies to have happy endings.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 18:20:32; mircea_popescu: ok, clownflare shall be its name henceforth
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mircea_popescu: "Să fii al propriilor fapte fiu, e un principiu onorant şi viu"
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ascii_field: 'JYA and Cryptome passphrases are secure. Plaintext discovered not related to Cryptome, with alternative to decrypt: original not scrubbed.' << l0l!
mircea_popescu: so the cryptome guy finally went over to the what's his name
mircea_popescu: the fellow with the magical virus, used to run apple hakathon
mircea_popescu: or maybe we are meant to think we are meant to ... hm!
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mircea_popescu: well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign
☟︎ assbot: CFTC Orders Bitcoin Options Trading Platform Operator and its CEO to Cease Illegally Offering Bitcoin Options and to Cease Operating a Facility for Trading or Processing of Swaps without Registering ... (
http://bit.ly/1Kp8zs3 )
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign << Amazing where tiny bits of proto-sanity appear in USG
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Price signal improved, FU USG, or is better price signal impossible without MPEx options?
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mircea_popescu: Rick is a Chinese guy who works in a shitty office in a shitty town. Because the printers suck, occasionally his name is misspelled.
ascii_field: (xerox is the true unsung hero-to-zero story of usa - for fucks sake they had the interactive graphical computer before anyone else)
mircea_popescu: whenever you hear the inept business majors with the "adult supervision" bs, you can kindly remind them that they adult supervised xerox right into the fucking hole.
mircea_popescu: so far the score's preeeeety badly stacked against 'em
mircea_popescu: and yet they manage to delude themselves into this wholly hallucinated alt-reality where they are actually useful,
mircea_popescu: and they didn't just waste their tiome and govt's money in school
mircea_popescu: hey - at least half the trombone & clowning majors can suck cock!
ascii_field: because they get 'gold parachute' and yacht, while engineer works 100 hr/wk and dies of coronary at 39
ascii_field: and i've lost what respect i had remaining for the publisher.
ascii_field: this one actually makes the antonopoulos book look good!
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 19:55:51; mircea_popescu: well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign
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punkman: gernika: strange little film
gernika: punkman: at least she had the opportunity to work in a sweatshop when the startup didn't work out.
punkman: gernika: she was probably getting further into debt to attend sewing machine school
punkman: who knows if she even got a job after
gernika: punkman: hmm yeah good point.
punkman: I think the best moment was when she says "I don't know if it's just me pretending or if everyone is"
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gernika: I missed that part - but my favorite was the discussion of how much people of various races were worth.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3578 @ 0.00075373 = 2.6968 BTC [-]
gernika: the line you quote adds to the eerie similarity to the sillyconvalley vibe I detected though.
gernika: Except here afaik an individual can not get a business loan. Only car and home loans.
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 23:23:53; punkman: I saw a dog steal an unopened bag of cheetos while I was buying some tobacco from a kiosk couple days ago. guy inside shrugs "what am I gonna do, chase the fucking mutt". I wonder if some bum trained the dog, it was wearing a length of string as a collar.
punkman: "Our intelligence unit’s latest estimates are that U.S. companies and the U.S. economy lose approximately $5 trillion each year, or over 30 percent of the U.S. GDP when you factor the full value of the stolen innovation"
trinque: can't lose what you never had
mats: with the familiar garnish of Tiananmen Sq mention, so readers are reminded chinese people also hate freedom
trinque: don't worry, Trump will "negotiate" with those chinese pussies
ascii_field: 'Still, when a complete, condemnable dump is on the market for a third of a million dollars, it’s clear that money has lost all meaning.'
punkman: would probably cost more if the plot was empty
assbot: ′Islamist′ shot dead in Berlin after knife attack on policewoman | Breaking News | DW.COM | 17.09.2015 ... (
http://bit.ly/1LASU9G )
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mod6: gernika: did bitcoind exit cleanly for you, finally?
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gernika: mod6 yes - probably around 30 min
gernika: Yeah syncing again. Sooooo close to being fully synced.
assbot: Forgotten deal means MUN prof doesn't have to accommodate hearing-impaired students - Newfoundland & Labrador - CBC News ... (
http://bit.ly/1KtWAO9 )
nubbins`: "your honour, my client had a forgotten deal. i move to dismiss"
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punkman: "told student she wouldn't wear FM system due to religious reasons" lolwut
nubbins`: "actually we signed a contract saying she didn't have to accommodate deafos"
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