BingoBoingo: In USia schedule III controlled, but because hippies dun like them rarely prosecuted outside of sports
BingoBoingo: Also Maybe VW really was evil: "If you're concerned about such estrogens, you may want to maintain a safe distance from trucks on the highway. That's because of research findings that diesel-fuel exhaust contains chemicals called alkylphenols, which interact with cellular estrogen receptors to exert potent estrogenic activity.3 Diesel exhaust particles have previously been linked to lung cancer, allergic rhinitis and asthma."
BingoBoingo: Basically one of those US laws that helps Mexico's economy at the expense of its own
BingoBoingo: Pharma mostly is, bu someone's gotta get the money at retail
BingoBoingo: Steroids are the one US controlled class of drugs safer to get off of derpy website than derpy darknet market in the popular opinion
pete_dushenski: and yes, diesel exhaust fumes are gnarly. long reported to diminish quality of urban air quality. but reports were dismissed as not being 'politically correct' so not really that true. like led lightbulbs.
pete_dushenski: are bankers and their dark derivative pools evil for doing the same ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No, VW is evil for pumping estrogenic chemicals in the air and cultivating SJWhales
mircea_popescu: yes, not doing what fucktard club expects you to do = individuality = evil.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo which they couldn't have done if 'carbon' wasn't the only thing idjits cared about
mircea_popescu: is it actually carbon dioxide and they just dunno what side their ass is buttered on ?
pete_dushenski: it's this metric and this alone that allowed diesels into the 21st century. outside of farms.
BingoBoingo: Diesel's kinda always been one of those things that's cool when you have it and sucks when other people do
mircea_popescu: i mean, not disputing for a second it seems like a reasonable interpretation of their verbiage. the problem is that it's the verbiage of patently insae folk.
mircea_popescu: maybe they mean "any gas with specific gravity over 28"
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Sure it is. Diesel 1977 Hilux with half the body rusted off > Aluminum gasoline F-150 King Ranch
mircea_popescu: no srsly, all cars i owed back when i owed any were pretty much diesel.
punkman: mircea_popescu: well sure, the derps might not know what "carbon" actually refers to
mircea_popescu: 90s is what made the diesel possible. meanwhile oil refineries kicked it out
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Fine, Diesel Chevy Kodiak dressed like a car is cooler than gasoline truck, even when diesel truck dressed liek a car carries Obola
mircea_popescu: yeah. ok. all fuel is produced through fractional distillation of oil.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly what it sounds like : oil is a mix of carbohydrates, you sort this by mass and cut it into slices.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: specific technological considerations i am not prepared to discuss in detail made so there was a huge and apparently stable glut of diesel fuel on the market.
mircea_popescu: it's gone now, mostly because newer refineries slice the column differently
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (basically, you're burnhing the diesel as gasoline and have no fucking idea)\
mircea_popescu: so really, it's a case of derps follow technology while pretending to lend it.
mircea_popescu: if the glut continued, it'd be "fuck you and sniff diesel".
mircea_popescu: once the thing resolved they can hate diesel or beg for it, it's done.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, retarded buffalo survival hunters imagined trhey're "directing" the herds.
mircea_popescu: and dune is chock full of "worm riding". because yeah, totally.
pete_dushenski: then vw's (and several other, mostly german, automakers') pivot to electric propulsion seems like a way to absorb the laptop battery capacity that's in excess from kids buying smartphones and only smartphones.
pete_dushenski: maybe that's a stretch given that i'm unsure how many laptops + spare batteries were sold 'at peak' vs. now
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (basically, you're burnhing the diesel as gasoline and have no fucking idea)\ << You break it into smaller gasoline hydrocarbons with heat and pressure
BingoBoingo: Still fractions the same way, but diesel and even tar fractions get cooked into gasoline
mircea_popescu: it's totally not a case of "if you're willing to put 15% ethanol in there anyway, like fucking hruschov wanted, fuck you and shut up, we'll paint it blue and you can pretend it's fine"
BingoBoingo: Long haul trucks here often get pulled over by the "Secretary of State (of Illinois)" police to check for the dye.
mircea_popescu: aha. i just meant, whatever, stick a label on it call it good.
BingoBoingo: lol, Nah. Real bueracracy is way ahead of you
punkman: BingoBoingo: what other diesel colors do you have?
BingoBoingo: Well, there's the standard clear to yellow-ish. Some tanks produce a bit a blue-green tinge because infected...
BingoBoingo: The pink dye though is because it is exempt from the highway fund taxes
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 23:46:07; gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: are you aware of any molecules with symmetries like [6,6] chiralane?
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 23:42:57; mircea_popescu: who the fuck gives a shit about "sourcing" of diamonds outside a very cultish narrow segment of bored middle class art majors/social scientards ?
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 22:24:39; mircea_popescu: 30k is not really notable. that's about 6 months pay (taxes apply to severance too you know)
mircea_popescu: so go into drugs, you'll get so fucking tired of shoveling the crap...
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 00:13:36; mircea_popescu: i thought pharma was mostly india
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 00:24:55; mircea_popescu: it's gone now, mostly because newer refineries slice the column differently
BingoBoingo: Officially unemployed too comes with an expiration date
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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> steroids are still legal otc right ? << Reason why not in the US is starting to look more like no because, lol feminism
BingoBoingo: Apparently male birth control has been a thing longer than women's birth control, but the gubmint has just been depriving people of it
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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently male bc, is just liek woman bc, up the hormones
☟︎ Duffer1: there's a conspiracy afoot
Duffer1: nah i don't know what to write about
Duffer1: my iguanas are doing great, but it turns out they're both male so i'll have to re home one :(
Duffer1: might work if there were a lot more of them, but with just two they'll kill eachother
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the gold standard for male birth control nao is called Trenbolone
Duffer1: the glue developed to be injected into the vas deferens and dissolved when reversal is wanted/needed
BingoBoingo: <Duffer1> the glue developed to be injected into the vas deferens and dissolved when reversal is wanted/needed << Defo not that
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> y no bone ? << Apparently boners are a major side effect
BingoBoingo: Just, why was this nevar discussed in pharmacy school even though all of its neighbors were
Duffer1: anyone watch the first dem debate?
BingoBoingo: But Webb is a much better sysadmin than Clitler
Duffer1: ha that's not a high bar :P
BingoBoingo: But she went to an "elite" school and married a future president!!!!!
Duffer1: ^ what I'm currently chilling to vex
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the freaks with super natural muscle were on to something, and that something was male birth control. I feel lied and cheated to.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Men had hormonal birth control first and the 1960's were a lie
BingoBoingo now wonders if all the real roid freaks jsut get neuticals and do their hormones IM
Duffer1: glad i remember how to do that
BingoBoingo: Even if you lost money you will be remembered for that gut wrenching and emotionally moving takedown of Labcoin.
BingoBoingo: This is like I'd like you to with you experience spot and write up some shit for qntra. You have the history to carry it
Duffer1: alright, if i can think of an angle i'll submit something
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Cool, keep a look out. Gotta make those losses up somewhere.
Duffer1: ah ya man that would be nice hehe
BingoBoingo: May take a while, but do you really want anyone trying to outdo your baptism by fire narrative?
Duffer1: i'd be impressed if they could find a way, who wants to read the story of the games losers?
BingoBoingo: Who doesn't, far more to be learned than from the winners?
Duffer1: i dunno maybe you're right
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Try his older shit. Up until a couple weeks ago he wrote as though he were some sort of white ape from the Congo. This is a precipitous decline
Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
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BingoBoingo: Duffer1: He has a long chronicle of past injuries. This sudden decline is new though and he ofers no new injury. I may be a combination of age and the past injuries.
BingoBoingo: There are pieces he has where he chronicals getting hit in the nuts more than any person should.
BingoBoingo: Also, qntra has been at 800 posts for a few hours nao
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jurov: wyrdmantis hw do you mean correctly? if you want hardened gentoo, this one is right
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 14:16:05; thestringpuller: for people with anxiety disorders: what works for you other than drugz?
funkenstein_: if you understand this you'll see there's no time to be anxious
funkenstein_: re: diesel thread, at one point i drove a friends retro-fitted diesel. retrofit consisted of an extra tank and a switch to select fuel line
funkenstein_: this enables one to get free fuel behind any chinese restaurant
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 01:49:22; mircea_popescu: the notion that people may read "newpspaers" made by people they don't know.
funkenstein_: a good old lecture on the topic is "Dead doctors don't lie" - joel wallach
funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
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punkman: "French governt endorses #Blockchain tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's this prize davout?
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davout: punkman: a lot of people wonder what she does :D
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nubbins`: ^ in which a single photograph and a facebook event allowed nubs to spread his views on civil liberties from one coast of this fine country to the other two
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nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
☟︎ nubbins`: only media outlet that actually bothered to publish my thoughts beyond the superficial ones
nubbins`: this election is seriously the most fun i've had since i don't know when
davout: "Sucks, but I don't want to sterilize perfectly good satire just so people don't have to worry or think." <<< the world would be a much better place if this stance was more common
nubbins`: i could kiss drew brown for including that paragraph verbatim
gabrielradio: If you're a native Romanian speaker with a very good grasp of English, I am interested to work out an arrangement for your translation of my older Romanian articles. Don't hesitate to make contact for this purpose. << mircea_popescu , is this still of interest to you?
TheNewDeal: Just wanted to say that I am revoking my license as of today. I was a little sloppy with my key. I'll be back later
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jurov: diana_coman: ^ see gabrielradio
jurov: i doubt very much mircea_popescu will translate someone else's articles
diana_coman: jurov, I think gabrielradio means that he is interested in doing the translation
diana_coman: I must admit that I kind of hate doing translation work as I find it horribly time consuming
davout: diana_coman: that's a problem with work in general
diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
☟︎ diana_coman: alternatively it might simply be that I just hate translating - I'd much rather rewrite the thing in my own words as an exercise in understanding it
diana_coman: fwiw I have been following Trilema from pretty much its beginning so I'm quite familiar with most of it (not that I wouldn't benefit from re-reading a lot of it) and I think there are many articles that would be worth translating
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assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 05:29:18; Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 11:25:15; funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
punkman: one case it doesn't mention is that clueless client demands to use AWS and mongodb and hadoop, because "I heard these were popular and next week when I am a big multinational I'll need to hire 10k developers and they'll only know how to use those"
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 04:06:28; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently male bc, is just liek woman bc, up the hormones
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 04:36:41; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the freaks with super natural muscle were on to something, and that something was male birth control. I feel lied and cheated to.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 05:57:35; BingoBoingo: Just remember everyone, if you sell out to Gawker Media they will treat you like trash until and past your natural death
https://archive.is/wvcwZ assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 12:13:40; punkman: "French governt endorses #Blockchain tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's this prize davout?
davout: asciilifeform: is it really that noteworthy that a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
☟︎ davout: or "opining on"? (folks who actually speak english are more than welcome to correct me!)
punkman: not rly, I was just wondering about the prize
davout: yeah, the whole thing materializes a government grant
davout: plus a small paper diploma :D
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is a "hedge fund" issuing stock and who the fuck heard of a 10 mn "hedge fund"
mircea_popescu: are these people off their rocker ? you can't name yourself a hedge fund with under 1 bn just like you can't call a thing a car if it's under 1 meter long.
mircea_popescu: "this 10 milimetre long car got great fuel economy and runs on someone's halitosis".
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 22:07:28; mircea_popescu: i never knew i could equally hate both sides of a "debate" to the degree.
mircea_popescu: WHAE THINGS DUN JUS WORK I WAS BORN OF WHYTE CUNT IN AMUYRKA
mircea_popescu: it's like "radical left" arguing with obama voters. "WE NEED TO MOVE AWAY FROM PROPUDCERIST DARAPIGM!!1" "WHERE IS MY MORE FOOTSTAMPS!!!1"
mircea_popescu: "One of the most ridiculous nonsense passed with pious self-importance by the neophytes and likewise unwarranted people"
mircea_popescu: this is broken in at least two places. one of the most x nonsense is bad grammar. the X and otherwyse Y z's is bad style
mircea_popescu: your ennumerations must be balanced, either ennumerate nouns or adjectives.
mircea_popescu: gabrielradio trilema text is very fucking tense, so it needs this intensive approach to work. ya know ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only problem is that it takes me ~20 minutes to translate one. it maybe takes me 15 minutes to read and fix his, except i'll also get angry. so it's a sort of economical problem.
mircea_popescu: in order to work, it DEPENDS on it. better dakka just guarantees more of the same.
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trinque: ben_vulpes: my brother yesterday was telling me about this "autistic" kid that punches teachers at his high school
trinque: me: "And what if they could punch him back? Do you think he'd continue?" him: "hmmmmmm"
trinque: a "counselor" comes running every time this kid lashes out. I say he wins
punkman: "After his death, Carter became a self-proclaimed advocate for mental health. She organized a fundraising tournament in Roy’s memory and posted on Facebook and Twitter about her attempts to save her boyfriend’s life."
punkman: attempts such as: “I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car” because the carbon monoxide was working, she said. She added that she “told him to get back in.”
mircea_popescu: so basically the girl's plan was to be an activist, and she figured since all the verbiage is "you can't discuss X because you don't KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having a bf off himself.
mircea_popescu: at any rate a damn sight better plan than "i'll go to college and become carrie bradshaw"
shinohai: Well, she got valuable experience in little time, sure beats going to school and studying that shit.
mircea_popescu: she'll get the even more valuable experience of impunity, IN SPITE of a lot of verbiage and to and fro from the soi dissant "legal system", "community" etc.
mircea_popescu: in other words, america is building its leaders of tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: they just don't happen to be the sort of leaders it [thinks it] wants.
mircea_popescu: just like dumbass chick with "i want people to like me for me" and no nudies on facebook IS selecting for her future husband.
mircea_popescu: just, not for the future husband she [thinks she] wants. certainly for the one she deserves
shinohai: yay assbot is back. I had forgotten until I already sent command.
mod6: Alright, wot-sync removed, some other minor changes. Everything resigned and posted for review, enjoy!
mircea_popescu: shinohai it has a point, too. reddit is fundamentally this, pretending moos are speech.
mircea_popescu: "James LaFond—a little prick I never much cared for anyhow—is dead, and I am the ghost animating his tottering corpse." << you know, this is pretty typical schizo stuff and im willing to bet the guy kills someone.
mircea_popescu: strangely, somehow, no one seems to notice THAT is the premier, perhaps the only appeal of crypto.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 12:13:40; punkman: "French governt endorses #Blockchain tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's this prize davout?
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 13:30:20; nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
phf: (gabrielradio is presumably gabriel_laddel in mobile mode)
mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has to decide whether he goes to nobel ceremony for b-a person or oscar prize for b-a person because hey, assholes don't understand they gotta deconflict schedules for b-a.
mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what the everliving fuck. closing down "status of women" offices is a fucking must for women's rights.
mircea_popescu: and capitalizing that shit is a lot more fucking bigoted than saying obama is just a slave put there to do his white master's bidding.
mircea_popescu: ". There's a legitimate concern that sauntering into a polling booth dressed like something out a low-budget nightmare might actually be trivializing or mocking the experience of those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse) as part of their religious devotion"
mircea_popescu: no there fucking isn't. "trivialization" is never a legitimate concern.
mircea_popescu: the people pretending otherwise are also not legitimate people. ask for their fucking legitimations, the matter's not resolved by simply being there.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 14:19:04; diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:05:20; davout: asciilifeform: is it really that noteworthy that a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
mircea_popescu: "Most of that development is iterative rehashes of what everyone else has already done, though. This is a red flag to me. Social networks, messaging systems, click analytics, GIS frameworks for click analytics, and lots of other things called "analytics" but really boil down to adtech, adtech, adtech, adtech, and some more adtech, and marketing campaigns about campaigns about adtech."
mircea_popescu: so unless one';s willing to go "timecube is astrotech astrotech and some more astrotech", one shouldn't so refer to "click analytics" and the rest of that shit.
mircea_popescu: "The elephant in the room being that the ad market is falling apart because it isn't worth anything near like what we imagined. If views were what mattered it would be impossible for Twitter to be in such trouble, Arstechnica be struggling to maintain its editorial standards, or sites like Huffington Post and Forbes to be forced to display clickbait panels and load 40 ~ 70 third party plants per page load."
mircea_popescu: A hilariously low percentage of tech investment targets the SMB market (aiming instead at huge business, the web, and the consumer electronics tie-in (the only interesting part of the list)) <<< yeah, it's not JUST bitcoin that the VC circus misdirected the usg into losing out of.
mircea_popescu: this one will kill it, of course, but even if it didn't, even without it : usg had been tricked by usg.vc into missing out on pretty much everything. even fucking obvious things like small biz.
shinohai: I'm going to paint "Dumb ideas and bankrupt companies" onto a briefcase and dress up as a VC for Halloween.
shinohai: At first I though of making a giant paper-machie forhead and going as Vitalik Buterin, but it kept collapsing. :/
mircea_popescu: papier-mache does not make a suitable replacement for pressed shit.
shinohai: I'm certainly nowhere near fat enough to be Gavin.
phf: last year i did travis bickle for halloween, complete with haircut, which had a nice bonus of being a big fuck you to the firm i was working for. apparently it's fine to have purple hair if you're an agile manager, but not so much a "warhawk" for a project architect.
mircea_popescu: i dun get why you'd want to big fuck you the firm you work for.
shinohai: lmao phf .... makes me actually want to make a Buterin costume.
mircea_popescu: "To illustrate this, consider the latest issue containing an article, "Power Hour." It describes an impromptu experiment on the world's powerful (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz) that unfortunately failed to show the intended result, namely, that he's a jerk.
mircea_popescu: The fact that the experiment failed didn't stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz as a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
mircea_popescu: what has changed in 7 years ? oh... the new yorker went out of business.
mircea_popescu: and whoever took over's paying less for the copywriting and even less for the artwork.
mircea_popescu: and otherwise... let's do a test to see if it comes out the way we want it to here it is it did!!11
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> << who is this and why would anyone care..? << Person who sold out to Denton for minimal cash and a life time of being trolled by his media child
phf: mircea_popescu: i was being childish, but also under a lot of stress. at that point they didn't quite believe me that i really am only staying on long enough to wrap up the projects i was responsible for. the haircut cut off any attempts to bring me into meetings with new clients. in any case not my proudest moment, but it was my best halloween costume so far.
mircea_popescu: "not my proudest moment in retrospect, but hot damned that time i stripped naked and jumped in the pool was the greatest party ever!" said many a tall beauties.
phf: helping out a friend on his project ~3 days a week or so in a last authority on technical decisions role.
phf: that's one way of putting it, except i don't have enough leverage to last me to the end, so technically no
mircea_popescu: so you're basically a nigger in prison (ie, timed out by the failures of this world!!1) except not actually black.
phf: that's a much better way of putting it, yes
mircea_popescu: so why don't you do something ? here's alf bending over the task of routing circuits in the blockchain implemented in ada
mircea_popescu: and here's phf sitting around wondering what's for dinner.
phf: well, this is eye of sauron kind of operation
phf: whenever mp notices a problem, there's a active search for a solution
phf: i'm basically following along the logs, looking for things i can pick up and work on. last one i saw was memory limits in nursery
mircea_popescu: not that the strategy per se is bad, following the log.
mircea_popescu: but i am positive that either mod6 or alf could give you huge chunks to do, if you're mostly into that. prolly mod6 more swamped tghan alf atm, even.
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
mircea_popescu: which is why i dun wanna encourage your heretic renaissance-orchestra-man ways by attaching more talented young folk to your crazylab.
mircea_popescu: fits in head, i suspect, is just your bait and switch to make the world "fits in ass".
mircea_popescu: why do you want to rectally insert the creation, alf ?
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 24 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved. << the only problem that EVEN BENEFITS from a different approach is childbearing.
mircea_popescu: and the different apporoach is not on the part of the buggerers either, they still work nights and weekends with bare...
mircea_popescu: sometimes i think b-a is really the mental process of a nutty old guy
mircea_popescu: call me crazy, but the most often heard HONEST response to "would you like to cum ?" is no.
mircea_popescu: women, sane women in sane situations, don't generally want another orgasm.
phf: so gossipd is "in progress", but fella's not been heard from in a very long time. gpg has not been started, but ascii presumably has a lot of ideas about it. then there's pie in the sky projects, like fabricating own cpus or rsa over udp routers.
mircea_popescu: phf notice that the gossipd thing was specced, the pgp one has not.
mircea_popescu: and i am pretty certain the specwork for it will involve fireworks.
shinohai: If help is still needed cleaning or writing some crap for the wiki I may can help.
mircea_popescu: shinohai A LOT of that is needed on teh eulora wiki, at that.
phf: and then there's always bitcoind source, which is infinite rabbit hole. i'm studying the source by rewriting chunks in cl, and the more i learn, the more i know i don't know
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking point nsa even sponsored his nonsense is that it might perhaps prevent this manner of looking on asym crypto.
shinohai: keep forgetting to rejoin #eulora, never added to autojoin
phf: g is presumably ascii's gossipd version
shinohai: Any news on when our friend phuctor might return asciilifeform ?
gribble: naphex was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 35 seconds ago: <Naphex> mircea_popescu: yep; i'm waiting for a mail from him should come later on today
mircea_popescu: im still hopeful might manage to get a colo'd box there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can touch it just as soon as you get out of nazi state.
shinohai: I can't offer any such help as I too am under the thumb of the SS.
trinque: ship shinohai out on the barge
mircea_popescu: zxq9@zxq9.com host mx10.mailspamprotection.com [184.154.208.34] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data
shinohai: Jeezus mircea_popescu you weren't kidding about the eulora wiki.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13439 @ 0.00047733 = 6.4148 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 00:23:57; mircea_popescu: this is exactly what it sounds like : oil is a mix of carbohydrates, you sort this by mass and cut it into slices.
PeterL: unless your "oil" comes from a US gas pump and is filled with oxygenates like ethanol
brg444: did bitderp story get pulled from Qntra?
trinque: was absentee due to some freenode fart; just brought it back
Duffer1: brand new AAA games at 80% off day of release
brg444: my bad the recent one, would be bitreserve/uphold
brg444: their fiat "rebranding"
brg444: veteran scammer Halsey Minor sells 5000 BTC worth of IOUs into his fiat bank, today claims one of "Bitcoin's biggest company"
☟︎ brg444: Minor, too, predicts that bitcoin as a currency “will get destroyed.” He likens the coin’s current market cap—about $3.7 billion—to “an accounting mistake or rounding error that Bank of America makes.”
brg444: "22% of the world's publicly traded bitcoin has been transacted on our platform in less than 11 months"
brg444: what the fuck does that even mean
assbot: NYSDFS - Banking - September 14, 2015: NYDFS Reaches Agreements With 4 Major Banks on New Symphony Chat & Messaging Platform ... (
http://bit.ly/1NdsePI )
pete_dushenski: "The four banks will store duplicate copies of the decryption keys for their messages with independent custodians (i.e., custodians not controlled by the banks)."
pete_dushenski: if you're just going to hand the unencrypted emails over the second the nydfs comes aknockin'
shinohai: They like making you *feel* secure.
pete_dushenski: how in the fuck did the nydfs even manage to negotiate this ?
pete_dushenski: actually, if i were goldman, i'd use 'symphony chat' for 'clean tawk' and pgp for 'dirty tawk'.
pete_dushenski: "here you are officer, i think you'll find this correspondance regarding the weather in peru to be in order"
pete_dushenski: see, without good ol' deedbot- i'd have forgotten entirely about that eth bet.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 21:56:25; Duffer1: g2a is the sketchiest bullshit
brg444: people throwing beers on the field and stuff
brg444: refs made a terrible call on awarding a free run to the plate on a botched pitch back to the pitcher
brg444: appeared to have called the play off then awarded the point on review. now checking out the replay, again.
brg444: someone's getting ejected soon
brg444: BingoBoingo about STL sports team, Gurley is entertaining
BingoBoingo: Tre Mason can eat a dick though. Wasn't for that asshole Mizzou would have had an SEC Championship.
pete_dushenski: @GreggZaun: Try to keep it classy Toronto. The WORLD is watching << bahaha. shut the fuck up zaun. you're a has-been and your little world and everyone you know doth not make up any ~useful~ fraction of the world extant. but whatever, enjoy your time in the sun, however brief it may be.
pete_dushenski: that's it. not the olympics, not the 'world' series, nothing else. football.
BingoBoingo: The card's elimination from the playoff wouldn't be so bad if it came at the hands of any team other than Shitcago
pete_dushenski: ahh chicago. i remember the days of frank thomas like they were yesterday.
pete_dushenski: now ~that~ man could hit a ball, pre-juice too (or before widespread use at least)
BingoBoingo: Frank Thomas was with the OK Chicago team.
BingoBoingo: There was probably juice around then too, I mean Jose Canseco. Thomas though was a genetic freak.
brg444: i get the same feelings watching Odell Beckham launch 45 inches in the hair grabbing footballs one handed during pre-game
brg444: lebron the most impressive specimen I've seen
pete_dushenski: brg444 i remember watching him for the first time, while in a hotel room in mexico as it happens, during his senior year (of high school!) in the slam dunk competition. he was simply monumental. and i remember saying "watch out for this kid" without really knowing jack shit about pro bball
brg444: yep. was unheard of. kid was probably pulling more ratings on ESPN then this baseball game on now as a senior.
brg444: it's a shame he's such a doofus though. mentality he is amateur at best. doesn't understand how to be great
BingoBoingo remembers when MJ was my favorite minor league baseball player
☟︎ brg444: that speaks to why he was so great though: dude had such an ego he thought there was nothing he couldn't do.
pete_dushenski: baseball update: so weird rangers run counted. jays look to come back in bottom of 7th, bases loaded, 1 out.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13000 @ 0.00047463 = 6.1702 BTC [-] {2}
brg444: na, was actually 2 people on bases
brg444: people in toronto going nuts
pete_dushenski: Frank Thomas @TheBigHurt_35 This is the craziest inning of baseball I've ever seen!! <<
brg444: I've lost track of time but it seems this one inning has been going on for the last hour
pete_dushenski: "The relationship of intelligence and intelligent behavior has been the topic of recent debates, yet understanding why we call certain actions stupid irrespective of their cognitive abilities requires the understanding of what people mean when they call an action stupid. To study these questions empirically, we analyzed real-life examples where people called an action stupid."
pete_dushenski: while i could think of worse and less hilarious topics for one's phd...
pete_dushenski: wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ? as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: while pretty much everyone is stupid is ~some~ ways, this doesn't imply that there aren't vast disparities between the shades of gray.
pete_dushenski: yes, tlp is a smart dude, but no, he couldn't wrap his head around the concept of independence.
pete_dushenski: likewise, obama is smarter than your average nignog, but he can't negotiate himself out of a paper bag, much less prevent his 'country' from spiralling from despondency on downwards. in fact, if he were smarter, he'd be accelerating the process at every opportunity. instead, he just drags his dumb heels in the sand his father was born in.
pete_dushenski: might as well get it over with, burn the mess down already. but no, too stupid. too much 'hope'.
ben_vulpes: obama doesn't actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: it's just the wwe yearly belt competition
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose they could bid for a eulora copper merchant position like anyone else.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 22:10:00; brg444: veteran scammer Halsey Minor sells 5000 BTC worth of IOUs into his fiat bank, today claims one of "Bitcoin's biggest company"
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 22:45:37; *: BingoBoingo remembers when MJ was my favorite minor league baseball player
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:10:19; pete_dushenski: wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ? as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Jordan. During those two years he had to leave Basketball over those gambling debts
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:12:54; pete_dushenski: for his daughter, at least.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:25:18; ben_vulpes: obama doesn't actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
mircea_popescu: reagan didn't have the mandate to send the airline union packing. it went packing. roosevelt had no mandate to confiscate people's currency, or to redefine currency, or to fuck up the justice system.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter he had as much mandate to start a war as lincoln did.
mircea_popescu: it specifically says "you don't have mandate to start wars, unless you do."