assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 04:02:53; mircea_popescu: do they take it with tylenol ?
BingoBoingo: And I thought my drinking was really testing the liver's hitpoints
BingoBoingo: shinohai: You've never seen a powered pepper grinder?
shinohai: I have a powered pepper grinder, just not of the drill attachment sort
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ben_vulpes: i thought bitwise dumps went out forever ago.
ben_vulpes: when you say 'latter' do you mean the raw or the jpeg produced by the camera?
ben_vulpes: ah, i thought you meant the jpegs were some simple transform from ccd to jpeg
kakobrekla: reality is shit therefore your pics must be shit as well.
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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll likely produce one in the morning. Got some scribbles of directions to wake up to.
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 23:48:20; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform does "Hasna" mean anything in russian ?
mircea_popescu: because lo and behold! romanians invented coke machine before you did.
mircea_popescu: it survives in romanian as a flavourful reflexive verb. to belabour oneself.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what that reuters retardation is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: so if i have footage that's valuable reuters aims not to buy it because of bureaucratic considerations ?
mircea_popescu: or is this a tacit admission that they don't have any valuable footage anyway.
mircea_popescu: seems more likely they want to be able to identify people/cameras , which raw does not allow
mircea_popescu: (as the processing is usally done in gimp on a linux box)
mircea_popescu: whereas if done on camera, much less rng, much less variation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can already fingerprint "smart"phones by the grav detector things
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not after it's been put through the blender.
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 20:16:50; asciilifeform: it was, iirc, 'innocence is not a constitutional bar to punishment'
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:05:11; asciilifeform: 'american does not believe the man in the uniform to be a bandit, with whom one can come to an understanding. he believes him to be a robot, who must be feared. american law enforcers are able to, by pressing on the keyboard of a multitude of laws and regulations, 'transmute' the most insignificant peccadillo into a monstrous deed. FBI did not need to beat up Monica or toss into her purse heroin or am
mircea_popescu: (for the curious minds reading logs : the reason innocence CAN NOT, in any system, no matter how devised, ever be a bar to punishment is that innocence is a metaphysical concept, whereas punishment is physical. no matter what happens, the former will have to be processed, which is the name for moving across realms. no matters what happens this process will be lossy.)
mircea_popescu: at some point the question moves from "whether this man ought to be punished" to "whether this man will be punished".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31350 @ 0.00052521 = 16.4653 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: (it's deeper : that any sort of process is broken if it has to be constantly revised by "emerging" metaphysical considerations. basically he ruled that yes, we do release freeze.)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27900 @ 0.000526 = 14.6754 BTC [+] {2}
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is exactly how bitbet works : once a bet has been resolved,
kakobrekla: apart from a few cases where bb fucked up.
mircea_popescu: not thast it never happened : it is not possible for it to have happened.
mircea_popescu: this is the absolute requisite for men to live in a world "as they wish it to be".
kakobrekla: iirc there was a case or two when the payment went to both sies
mircea_popescu: the alternative is exactly one, and it's known as "chaos" or generally other-bad-things.
ben_vulpes: kakobrekla is pope, mircea_popescu is god, cult transformation is complete
mircea_popescu: afaik kakobrekla has 0 involvement with resolutions on bitbet
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu << lol it tab completes
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mircea_popescu: if i ever meet his grandkids that;s what ima tell them to call him!
mircea_popescu: in other news, argentina has "many con chocolate", peanuts in black chocolate. fucking superb.
mircea_popescu: thye also have "higos con almendras", a cube of fig guts with an almond on top
mircea_popescu: i'll end up mayogendered and then everyone will hate me ;/
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, all my suits were 48 for 20 years, now i'm doing 52.
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assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 01:27:23; asciilifeform: seems like reuters bought into some idiocy where a huckster promised to distinguish one stream of bits, having the correct 'colour' (as in the essay, nothing to do with optics, but politics) from another, identical stream, having undesirable colour.
ben_vulpes: no lizard hitler in that interpretation, punkman
Naphex: mircea_popescu: i haven't disappeared anywhere.. got a bad case of pneumonia; Working on setting things back on track
☟︎ punkman: now tell me that between "ethics and speed", reuters cares about ethics first
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mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.unrate.Naphex:9e4f9cfd95defb9dc76ce1349ebd1fad72a49ef0d1d24bbb7f22bb7cfd34bbfd
assbot: Successfully unrated Naphex
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Naphex: mircea_popescu: have a nasty ass cold which turned into pneumonia, had to reboot my servers and take my keys out of the cold. had a bit of downtime.
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punkman: looking forward to the day buzzfeed acquires AP and their "big stories"
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punkman: "Potential for more efficient SPV output creation proofs (used by lightweight clients), as the signatures can be omitted from the transaction data without breaking the Merkle tree structure. Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures, to remove the witness data from disk or not transfer it at all even, reducing blockchain storage/bandwidth amounts by a large factor"
☟︎ punkman: the latest pill against malleability
punkman: "Commits on Nov 20, 2015 "
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11468 @ 0.00051822 = 5.9429 BTC [+] {3}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15300 @ 0.00051781 = 7.9225 BTC [+] {2}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15100 @ 0.0005221 = 7.8837 BTC [+] {2}
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8300 @ 0.00051323 = 4.2598 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16650 @ 0.00051798 = 8.6244 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [FT] [X.EUR] 478 @ 0.00313073 = 1.4965 BTC [+] {7}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31716 @ 0.00051821 = 16.4355 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: [MPEX:X.EUR] 1D: 0.00311983 / 0.00312828 / 0.00324912 (627 shares, 1.96 BTC), 7D: 0.00311983 / 0.0031757 / 0.00333647 (1393 shares, 4.42 BTC), 30D: 0.00286166 / 0.00366047 / 0.00430867 (6913 shares, 25.30 BTC)
jurov: ;;calc 1/0.00312828
jurov: ;;ticker --currency eur --market bitcoincentral
gribble: Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR ticker | Best bid: 300.0, Best ask: 304.5, Bid-ask spread: 4.50000, Last trade: 302.0, 24 hour volume: 105.5782488, 24 hour low: 298.7, 24 hour high: 314.98999999, 24 hour vwap: 304.33510007
mircea_popescu enters into the record that had naphex moved to argentina last year he wouldn't have had pneumonia this year.
jurov: here in balkans it wasn't under 10 in last half year, either
mircea_popescu: what's half year do for you, you're not moth-lived are you.
punkman is wearing shorts and has all the windows open
punkman: (there are people walking around with coats outside)
mircea_popescu: <punkman> looking forward to the day buzzfeed acquires AP and their "big stories" << won't be long now. then they can all sell to some derpy "we make money while sleeping" spam outfit that slashdot got sold to.
mircea_popescu: and don't even get me started on the topic of the spanish rohohoyals. they have magazines here, it's all the chickies read, they keep going on and on about the noblesse refinement and you know, bla bla of the juan carlos clan. and the pictures... my god, the pictures.
punkman: didn't know spanish royalty fans existed until today
mircea_popescu: but what difference does it make, right ? let the squaw chew her squaw candy thinking it's ambrosia, who cares what happens in the colonies and territories at the ends of the earth.
mircea_popescu: he has a certificate of unexpertise duly issued like last year.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> the latest pill against malleability << no, the latest in "gotta serve the customer" because "customer has come to expect" that "he just wants to".
mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i wish to know, what qualifies Giuseppe Destefanis, Marco Ortu, Steve Counsell, Michele Marchesi or Roberto Tonelli to discuss the matter, at all.
mircea_popescu: what makes they believe they understand enough of anything to trust themselves to make a decent model of the thing they purport to study, so as to measure something meaningful and construct conclusions worth considering.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i wish to know, what qualifies Giuseppe Destefanis, Marco Ortu, Steve Counsell, Michele Marchesi or Roberto Tonelli to discuss the matter, at all. << Their open sore ass
mircea_popescu: i do not seem to remember any name associated in a managerial capacity with any successful project ever.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck told twentysomething derps that they can create pseudoscience out of their ass, i wish to know.
punkman: how long until someone quotes this to Linus
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 12:48:07; mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time."
mircea_popescu: punkman someone, never will, by definition of someone.
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assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 09:19:46; punkman: "Potential for more efficient SPV output creation proofs (used by lightweight clients), as the signatures can be omitted from the transaction data without breaking the Merkle tree structure. Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures, to remove the witness data from disk or not transfer it at all even, reducing blockchain storage/bandwidth amounts by a large fact
mircea_popescu: afrikaans reads exactly like crazy fucking idish on pcp
mircea_popescu: almost like some baltic fishermen read a book of jokes (soory i mean joeks) and went "what the fuck is this platdeustch bs! HERE IS HOW REAL MEN SAY IT!"
mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> prolly it would be for the best to track those numbers down too , but really the list is already longer than my both arms :p
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66200 @ 0.00051318 = 33.9725 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: why do you need bitcoin anyway ? we're here in bitcoin to barnacle innovation into the same old soup! hear us roar!
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is how it works. extend the franchise, import the poor, pretend it's just as much x as the real x, on it goes.
gribble: Current Blocks: 384468 | Current Difficulty: 6.5848255179702614E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 385055 | Next Difficulty In: 587 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 3 days, 17 hours, 43 minutes, and 56 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 14:24:14; mircea_popescu: <DianaComan> prolly it would be for the best to track those numbers down too , but really the list is already longer than my both arms :p
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> isn't he a bootlick of hitler's ? << He seems exceedingly comfortable consorting with confirmed bootlickers
mircea_popescu: seems everyone's trying to get himself a spot in the consideration line by the quality and quantity of tears they dispensed, all of a sudden.
mircea_popescu: as if THAT is the relevant thing, that o mai gawd someone cried.
mircea_popescu: ridoinculous. all the tears you can muster and five dollars buys you a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: no, they give you a special plate for tears. don't have to cry straight in the cup like fucking savages.
mircea_popescu: now i can't write the article i was gonna write because i gotta read the article he actually wrote
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Derp outlets were running pieces on this.
mircea_popescu: "In the United States where mass shootings are far more common knee jerk reactions typically consist of proposals for new restrictions on firearms, though in Paris, France, and much of the EU more stringent firearms regulations are practically impossible due to the existing draconian restrictions" loller
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> why isn't it crackup anyway ? << Crackup happens after crackdown. Tears feed laughter.
mircea_popescu: poor davout is probably glaring down more and more little karpeleses
davout: what coke machine which karpelii?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You prolly still oughtta write. You anger levels still seem awfully high after those days without Trilema for venting your ragehol.
mircea_popescu: davout the coke machine is this putative alf-proposed torturing device to extract bitcoin out of people. he's twisted like that.
davout: i only remember asciilifeform's rectal heater thing
mircea_popescu: and continuig thing, "fuckurmommatron", which delivers gaoler's mother when idem, and so on.
mircea_popescu: as the wise jew once noted, "there's a blessing for anything". ie, there's always a good something to say.
jurov: what's the advantage over waterboarding?
punkman: horses are cheaper than machine
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68815 @ 0.00051421 = 35.3854 BTC [+] {3}
BingoBoingo hates to pay holiday rates for seekrits extraction mechanic
davout: asciilifeform: robots can be ssh'd into
jurov: "robot can't be bribed or bought, nor 'leaks'" << the waterboarding stage is just one stage of whole scheme
jurov: you'd need robots to autonomously hunt and extract suspects, etc.
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mircea_popescu: that was originally one of the boring disney chicks neh ?
punkman: he's the bad guy in beauty and the beast
mircea_popescu: they got an eastern chick in salvari, a redhead which i dun recall what she was
BingoBoingo: "for white students of University of Illinois to be able to form a community and discuss our own issues as well as be able to organize against the terrorism we have been facing from Black Lives Matter activists on campus,"
trinque: let the record state that the white students can piss their pants better, longer, wetter than the black students, lest anyone be confused.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Now'd probably be a safe time to move to Argentina
mircea_popescu: some orc screamed at some prof something to the effect of "this is not about intellectual freedom, this is about making a home, do you get that"
mircea_popescu: in the recent missouri rebellion of the lazy and the stupid against work.
BingoBoingo: Should be able to dig it up soon. The prof's name was "Click"
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pete_dushenski: "We are supposed to feel encouraged to go to our Master and Associate Master with our concerns and feel that our opinions will be respected and heard."
pete_dushenski: "But, in his ten weeks as a leader of the college, Master Christakis has not fostered this sense of community. He seems to lack the ability, quite frankly, to put aside his opinions long enough to listen to the very real hurt that the community feels. He doesn’t get it. And I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain."
pete_dushenski: "They have failed to acknowledge the hurt and pain that such a large part of our community feel. They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community."
mircea_popescu: "This is not about creating an intellectual space! Do you get that ? It’s about creating a home here!"
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Yale can start mattering when it plays in an actual footbal conference instead of that bullshit poof Ivy League shit
pete_dushenski: why would softies want to bash heads with tried and true orcs again ?
BingoBoingo: To prove that they really aren't scared of those "urban" kids who go to state schools
BingoBoingo: And to prove that their use of "summer" as a verb doesn't make them idiots
pete_dushenski: but yale kidz ARE scared, they ARE idiots. but even still, even if they weren't, why does the (slightly retarded) hawk have to prove anything to the fox ?
BingoBoingo: The truth of the matter is that the Yale kids wish they were cool enough to go to LSU or Alabama
BingoBoingo: hotter tail, better parties, and less crushing pressure to be their own grandparents a few decades too early
BingoBoingo: Because why live in a residence hall called a "college" with a surgeon calling himself "master" when you can go to West Fucking Virginia and burn couches?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: ;;google west fucking virginia couch burning
BingoBoingo: "West Virginia has become infamous for couch burning. The Morgantown City Council is attempting to put a stop to it. A new city ordinance will ban upholstered furniture from being kept outdoors. The city claims there have been more than 3,000 such fires in the last decade."
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You can't count every day though. Just the six fall days with home games.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 05:41:35; Naphex: mircea_popescu: i haven't disappeared anywhere.. got a bad case of pneumonia; Working on setting things back on track
BingoBoingo: comes out to 50 per home football game, excluding that ones that don't get caught
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: and these couch fires make non-yale skools more attractive how again ?
phf: if i were to take an issuing certificate (say, google's GIAG2), convert it from der to pem, and then feed the pem to openssl s_client -CAfile, then assuming that whatever i'm connecting to has been issued by the ca, everything should just work?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Because you aren't fucking lighting a couch on fire UNLESS you are partying hard
phf: pete_dushenski: you don't get it, it's real life, man, not those yale faggits
pete_dushenski: or because you get to hang out with a buncha other 20 yo who are also 12 yo boys who think fire is "neat" and "dangerous" ?
BingoBoingo: It's because the lower party members at Yale can and MUST envy the relative freedom of the proles
BingoBoingo: Necessary. Being beyond that resentment if for upper party members who pointedly do not go to Yale
pete_dushenski: being an idiot slave to what you perceive is a worthwhile master can perfectly compensate for the lack of freedom.
pete_dushenski: these 'lower party members' know not where else to look for 'social mobility'
BingoBoingo: Then why do so many want to leave their rat maze to "become writers" or "urban homestead"
BingoBoingo: The Yale strata of the USian population wants exactly the life of being poor, but without the continentcy of actually being poor
BingoBoingo: Because they already think themselves rich and not very good at it
pete_dushenski: why do so many want to leave their rat maze to "become writers" << because kool kids flirt with writers and lend them the air of importance they so desperately desire
pete_dushenski: yale strata are middle class, yes, imprisoned, yes, but look upwards and behave as they THINK they would if they were upper classmen
pete_dushenski: (who knew this was becoming my area of anthropological expertise)
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> hotter tail, better parties, and less crushing pressure to be their own grandparents a few decades too early << the latter. yes. they're regressed to mean and expected to outperform exceptional talent selected by exceptional luck.
BingoBoingo: The look at Arizona State students and are totes jelly that they can't bikini spring break at the lake every weekend.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: perhaps, but still, never the twain shall meet. they're different sorts of kidz. yale kidz might want to party hard, but they'll do m/blow/raves, not couch burning and fist-fighting.
mircea_popescu: (ftr, me went to a highschool that had a spa across the road. summertime, the better tail was across teh street)
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 16:01:25; BingoBoingo: Because why live in a residence hall called a "college" with a surgeon calling himself "master" when you can go to West Fucking Virginia and burn couches?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: But they will KNOW that they aren't partying very hard
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Nah, but neither have Yale kids. Only one letter away from rape, much triggers.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: very few rapes at raves. mucho amor para todos. easy lovin'.
shinohai: pete_dushenski: ever seen that film Go ?
pete_dushenski: don't think 'ghb' (aka. date rape drug, but taken voluntarily!!!!) has same flaccidifying effect
BingoBoingo: Isn't this what easy internet viagra is for?
shinohai: Very much worth a view if drug-induced boredom strikes you.
mircea_popescu: check it out, next thing you know "hogwash" is going to turn into the sound of a cane, and "You, on the other hand, come to my classes fresh from a culture with different values, one that finds academic ways strange and hard to understand." is going to become "drop the stupid, this isn't the place for it".
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: adorable watching them grow up, isn't it !
mircea_popescu: especially the most endearing part of it all, their deeply imprinted conviction that they're special, different, experiencing the world privately and personally.
phf: that's just silly, wealthy people by definition have an easy access to a wider range of experiences. i'm sure there are pathological cases of "mother would be displeased", but in my experience downward mobile ivy have easy time integrating themselves into whatever cultures.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: btw i checked the golf course irrigation math and did some more data digging : 1.2 metres of 'rainfall' is simulated in the ~average~ southwest u.s. golf course. so 2.0 metres+ in, say, palm springs is well within reason.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68200 @ 0.00051797 = 35.3256 BTC [+] {5}
mircea_popescu: myeah. i come from a place where irrigation is measured in added cm. crops requiring 20 or more are seen as uneconomical.
phf: it's poor turn of phrase, but in this case i meant that wealth lets you find solutions to logistical problems
mircea_popescu: you haven't just said "by definition" without actually having a definition in mind have you ? tsk tsk.
mircea_popescu: anyway : you can only solve problems you perceive as problems.
mircea_popescu: wealth insulates from the perception of problems, which is how you end up with the jewish princess.
mircea_popescu: she wouldn't be, ironically, if anyone had told her off when she was 12 and it was easy to change
mircea_popescu: now she's 25 and it takes a shitload of beatings and tears to achieve the same effect.
pete_dushenski: and the jap's parents smile to themselves knowingly as a result
pete_dushenski: comforted by the knowledge that they COULDN'T HAVE DONE BETTER
mircea_popescu: everything that doesn't put your own ass on the line is reasonably adaptive, sure.
phf: well, wealth eliminates problems, higher up the scale you go, less things are problems, with some maximums like the jewish princess, or other stereotypes like a completely out of teach rich person. my point is there is long tale of sufficiently wealthy people who can hang out with rednecks, and then hop on a plane to goa for a month
thestringpuller: <+BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: Now'd probably be a safe time to move to Argentina << I wanted to check out japan first where they adore the negros for some reason or another. Or at least from what I can gather from Kareem Abdul Jabars auto biographical works of living there on stints with Bruce Lee.
assbot: [MPEX] [FT] [X.EUR] 310 @ 0.00330629 = 1.0249 BTC [+]
thestringpuller: <+mircea_popescu> mo money mo problems. << didn't take mp for a biggie fan
phf: only so many bugatti rims one can buy
phf: i'm going to stick to my cultural heritage, gold chains, rolex and adidas
ascii_field: 'In a terse statement Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder. But it instead implied that the research may have been accessed by law enforcement through the use of a subpoena. “In the course of its work, the university from time to time is served with subpoenas requesting informat
ascii_field: ion about research it has performed,” the statement reads. “The university abides by the rule of law, complies with lawfully issued subpoenas and receives no funding for its compliance.”'
trinque: phf │ i'm going to stick to my cultural heritage, gold chains, rolex and adidas << I hereby invoke "pix or didn't happen"
trinque: it'll be some kind of ru thug quinceanera
jurov: phf forgot gold teeth
phf: ствол is the most important part of course
ascii_field always found this interesting, how you shoot from a 'barrel' in engl, but from ствол -- 'trunk' (as in tree) in ru
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12320 @ 0.0005221 = 6.4323 BTC [+] {2}
jurov: "hlaveň" - "head part" in slovak
gabrielradio: !rate kakobrekla 3 everything went smooth on bit4x
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assbot: dpaste: 1H2Q7YJ: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha and mister Andrei Pippidi, by gabrielradio ... (
http://bit.ly/1OVQ6Ls )
ascii_field: ;;later tell mircea_popescu '20GB with 2x 1000 GB non-SATA HDD' << ??? >> didja mean it? really, PATA ? or meant to say 'ssd' ?
punkman actually had a cocker-spaniel named alfie
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BingoBoingo: From the mines: "There's actually only a finite amount of olive oil in the world. All the natural stuff was used up by the late 1700's. The stuff you're eating now has actually been recycled from obese Greek fishermen. There island of Naxos holds a festival every year wherein fishermen with a BMI over 40 are rolled into huge presses called 'Obesitinia' and then slowly crushed, releasing their fragrant oils. "
mircea_popescu: ascii_field meant to say ssd. he wtfs me on it later on.
punkman: BingoBoingo: plausible, if you are familiar with the fragrance of the olive oil mill
thestringpuller: wow reading the footnotes on the new trilema took me straight into idiocracy
mircea_popescu: in other news : no fisherman ever, in the lengthy history of htat trade, was obese.
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mircea_popescu: that was the objection to spencery tracy in old man and the sea : too plump
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trinque: thestringpuller: reminded me of the rabbi and the ewe too; that was a good footnote.
phf: i like to do overnight trips with local fishermen at whatever exotic locations i go to, and i can say that most of the time you burn calories by simply sitting in the cold (not to mention stabilization, or actual work)
punkman: isn't that what buttfinex does
jurov: "Even distant relatives—like people and pigeons—are adept at perceiving and categorizing the complex visual patterns that are presented in pathology and radiology images,
jurov: surely a task for which nature has not specifically prepared us."
jurov: no complex visual pattern recognition for ya!!!1
jurov: medicine already prepping for the day most of the population will be diabetes-blind
mircea_popescu: other things "surely nature has not specifically prepared us" for : movement detection, gradient orientation and other bacteria-level tech.
mircea_popescu: it's just accidentally a feature of life ever singe octopi came about a bazillion years ago, with their barely functional eye.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, obama invented perceiving and categorizing complex visual patterns
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gabrielradio: 'the colorblind can see through many kinds of camouflage. Because they’re not distracted by colors, they can often see the contours of a thing—it’s outline—with unusual clarity. Even so, despite this upside, being colorblind is, on balance, a net handicap to the colorblind individual. They’re missing out on a great deal.'
gabrielradio: 'Cynics (...) who are especially good at seeing through bullshit pay dearly for their gift. I suspect that being able to see past nuance comes at a cost. The ability to rapidly reduce complicated moral questions into simple either/or propositions is probably a function of an absence. To wit: the moral clarity of most cynics is probably a function of some sort of emotional colorblindness.'
thestringpuller: buddy just called me up and said police confiscated 500 bucks cash he was holding to spend during the weekend since he doesn't like using debit cards.
thestringpuller: "this is going to be used for a crime we need to take this"
trinque: lol it's not a war on cash; he got robbed!
thestringpuller: i mean it's his fault for keeping it in the open so cop was like "what's with that roll of 20's there"
thestringpuller: i kno right. and if he goes to court to try and get the money back they'll be like "nope."
mircea_popescu: next time, bust a cap in cop's ass before gets chance to open mouth.
thestringpuller: When I get pulled over tends to go like, "You were speeding." "Sure" "Okay here's ticket. Uh you have dreads are you high." "Uh no." "Okay have fun be safe."
punkman: "In early November, a customer sitting in the front passenger seat turned to speak with occupants in the rear and the seat belt became disconnected"
punkman: "but we estimate the cost is not material and shows Tesla’s heightened focus on safety,” said Ben Kallo"
punkman: yes you recall all your cars, but cost not material
jurov: i guess they can drive themselves to service
BingoBoingo: Sure just put the destination in the autopilot, set a brick on the prissy pedal and wait for it to come home.
jurov: lol actually that's the future. cars will come barely working with obligation to leave them every other night go for "bugfixes"
ben_vulpes imagines what it must be like to go from software to safety-critical hardware
assbot: Spooking cats with cucumbers could cause 'psychological problems,' says Calgary vet technician - Calgary - CBC News ... (
http://bit.ly/1SMVyyd )
BingoBoingo: ""What I actually worry about is long-term psychological problems. Some cats are quite delicate," said Lara Chan with the Calgary Cat Clinic."
BingoBoingo: "If you've already played this prank on your cat, Chan said, you may have inadvertently made them afraid of cucumbers — forever."
BingoBoingo: "If your cat has a high exposure rate to cucumbers, it's probably not going to turn around and think it was anything other than a cucumber. We worry about the ones that have never, ever seen a cucumber before."
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BingoBoingo unsure if cat safe space need is worth a qntra. Maybe some wordsmith can give it an adequate take
mircea_popescu: <jurov> lol actually that's the future. cars will come barely working with obligation to leave them every other night go for "bugfixes" <<< good god he's right.
ben_vulpes: it's not scavenger culture, it's webdev culture.
mircea_popescu: kinda reminds me of academia catavencu, this 1990s romanian rendition of le canard enchanee
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mircea_popescu: btw, i humbly submit for your consideration that for the future qntra does s/Obama/President <a href=qntra.net/president-bahamas.jpg>Bahamas</a>/
mircea_popescu: ascii_field was having a private lulz earlier at the "strong condemnation" of the aziz fellow in mauretania.
mircea_popescu: he's been strongly condemned since about the time saddam had wmds.
mircea_popescu: in other news : what you do in your house has no correlation with the police knocking on your door. the only criterion is, whether they want to move in or not, is all.
mircea_popescu: if they do want to move in, you sure as fuck musta have been doing something.
mircea_popescu: i sitll have nfi why all these dubious regimes don't go on a shoot first policy.
mircea_popescu: i can see why individual cowards don't shoot cop first, ask questions after.
mircea_popescu: but states ? the only fucking reason the concept even exists is that it should be fearless.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the concept mostly went away in 1865
mircea_popescu: what exactly is keeping everyone from goiing somalia ?
mircea_popescu: kidnap the fucking uss cole crew, sell them back for a suv a head.
ascii_field: iirc it's standard british method - the chieftains have childrenz at princeton who could 'have problems'
mircea_popescu: the country formerly known as the country to be in the future known as myanmar has been in exactly the same situation of mauretania / ukraine / iraq / what have you for what, 20 years now ?
mircea_popescu: why aren't they out there shooting bazookas at us shipping from fishing boatds.
ascii_field: the bazooka suppliers have childrenz at princeton?
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assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 21:29:53; mircea_popescu: what the fuck, the 150.
mircea_popescu: and no, there would be NO reprecussions. those have been out on order for 30 years now.
ascii_field: i suspect that the standard alpha orc still wants to 'make it in the west in the end' (tm)
mircea_popescu: he's more in a swiss chalet in orclandia than anyone, including Pres. Bahamas, ever has or could have.
ascii_field: y'know, the classical 'london exit' of a ru oligarch
adlai: berezovsky seems happy enough
mircea_popescu: pig squealing last words of berlusconi were "fuck this stupid shit, i wish i was younger so i could just go kidnap nato troops at sea"
ascii_field: it's a religion, the worship-the-west thing, and doesn't die easily
jurov: mircea_popescu has ever shot any officer himself?
BingoBoingo: He has that story about taking that police lady's gun.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell gabrielradio fantastique ! i'll take a look over the weekend and whip it up into a piece for contravex.
mircea_popescu: ask me that once i run a military coup in fucking mauretania
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mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe the answer actually has little to do with a "west worship" thing, and simply is that the sort of people who have goals and set about to pursue them simply no longer exists. for all i know the problem of mauretania is exactly the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires to sit down in front a tv.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for all we know a & b are ACTUALLY happy doing nothing worth the mention in their london cell.
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adlai: uh, 'b' is no longer caged in any cell... he at least seems to have made the best of the west
mircea_popescu: um... why is president bahamas refered to as "obama" ?
BingoBoingo: And I haven't figured out a way to make it flash between the two
BingoBoingo: At least I included the Hussein so everyone knows he birthed ISIS
BingoBoingo: I guess I should figure out a way to help the imageblind get the joke
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: necessary for scansion
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 21:54:18; mircea_popescu: but anyway, maybe the answer actually has little to do with a "west worship" thing, and simply is that the sort of people who have goals and set about to pursue them simply no longer exists. for all i know the problem of mauretania is exactly the problem of missouri : everyone in sight principally desires to sit down in front a tv.
ascii_field: if you wanna equate this to 'watch tv' - whatever.
ascii_field: but there's a reason why it was kalash in paris, and not nuke at davos.
ascii_field: the reason is that the world of goatfuckistan has precious little to offer the kind of people who could arrange for the latter
mircea_popescu: did they not kidnap and ransom that inept us soldier, what's his name ?
mircea_popescu: just shoot the cops / kidnap the "soldiers" and sell them back.
ascii_field: y'know, the sorta thing you need to not be entirely transparent to usg microscope at all times...
adlai: fwiw, idf policy post-shalit is that, if you're witnessing the kidnapping as it happens, you shoot to kill nappers and/or nappee alike
adlai: but this policy has yet to prove itself anything beyond rote words repeated from sergeant to recruit
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 22:25:29; ascii_field: wherever lizard eggs are hatched
mircea_popescu: but anyway, random chick that got insulted cause they asked her where's her bf
mircea_popescu: from the actual data i've seen, about a third of us "forces" are not actually psychologically capable of using their weapons.
ascii_field: ~90%+ wouldn't pull the trigger in ww2, a few % in vietnam
mircea_popescu: add to that the endless piles of wags, whornalists, "agents" and other useless bs, you have better chances to get shot by shooting yourself.
ascii_field: i hear plenty of u.s. folk have problems with aim when shooting self, for some reason
ascii_field: is it because they were trying 'ironically' ?
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> is it because they were trying 'ironically' ? << likely
mircea_popescu: (really, the reason is the reptile brain also has a say)
ascii_field: possibly the only uniquely usian aspect of this is the eagerness of the medics to stitch'em back up (as described in mircea_popescu's suicide how-to)
BingoBoingo: Most US docs not very fond of the Beetus and fold mold
ascii_field: just like in last night's thread where mircea_popescu explains how nobody asks the motherfucking programmers anything
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Just over half the sponsors. Other nearly half is disappoint because they tend to dislike the medicaid rates
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pete_dushenski: "Arguably the least appreciated resource for Islamic State is its fertile farms. Before even starting the engine of a single tractor, the group is believed to have grabbed as much as $200 million in wheat from Iraqi silos alone."
pete_dushenski: "ts fields could yield $200 million per year if those crops are sold, even at the cut rates paid on black markets. And how do you conduct airstrikes on farm fields?"
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> "ts fields could yield $200 million per year if those crops are sold, even at the cut rates paid on black markets. And how do you conduct airstrikes on farm fields?" << easily, call monsanto
pete_dushenski: 'agent orange' is off the shelf and u.s. has planes ready and waiting for this ?
BingoBoingo: Imazapyr is sold in any casual gardening store.
BingoBoingo: "Ground Clear" concentrate contains only 0.08% Imazapyr 5.0% Glyphosate as the concentrate. Works for most of a year after application.
BingoBoingo: Frankly there are far more effective herbicides now than there were in the agent orange days
trinque: this notion they have that ISIS is something to be surgically removed from otherwise neutral "occupied" people, it's cute.
trinque: that's of course why they will never go after the food production.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 00:37:36; mats: nobody has the stomach to detonate a nuke over al-raqqah
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i must say, as someone whose education such as it was happened on old style, film x rays
BingoBoingo: And no amount of Monsanto has yet produced glyphosate resistant wheat to my knowledge
pete_dushenski: also, iraq seems to have something like 3.75 mn hectares (9.27 mn acres) of agricultural land for wheat production
BingoBoingo: Also picloram and "Agent White" are still commercially available
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it's all idle masturbation. the usg can do about as much there as it can do against martians.
pete_dushenski: apparently mircea_popescu hasn't seen 'mars attacks' where eiffel tower is lasered in half
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BingoBoingo: Inducing famine is about all USia can seriously try and even then ISIS is prolly sitting on a decent stockpile of US MREs
mircea_popescu: this is about as bright as "here's an oil fire in my kitchen, i know, splash water!"
BingoBoingo: Still safer than doing the same with a magnesium fire
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: speaking of idle masturbation, i tried sifting my way through a few of 'pseudoerasmus' ' other blogs posts and pretty much choked to death on that inanity and pointlessness
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> also, iraq seems to have something like 3.75 mn hectares (9.27 mn acres) of agricultural land for wheat production << Nothing compared to the soy fields USia already sprays with glyphosate.
pete_dushenski: the main thing running through my head while TRYING to read about ancient greek economics, what that point mircea_popescu made in a footnote recently about 'economists need businessmen but not vice versa'
mircea_popescu: i've not got around to reading anything else of the guy's.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: well, domestic is domestic. no implementation constraints with captive audience.
BingoBoingo: Still the glyphosate in sufficient quantity exists
BingoBoingo: US will prolly do an Assad and drop barrel bombs of it
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mircea_popescu: of course, chemical warfare is still forbidden as per teh various conventions
mircea_popescu: you know, the stuff the us has been pushing as replacement for local governments.
pete_dushenski: pseudoerasmus reminds me a bit of vlaclav smil with a bit more focus on history and (obviously, given format) a bit less thoroughness
ben_vulpes: re: "ed", a nurse was over last night, lamenting the shift from "emergency room, you know, a big room with sheets, "emergency department" with individually nicely fitted out, warm rooms with room service that someone other than $invalid is paying for"
ben_vulpes: "to improve the quality of care!" mno. to increase the cost of care.
pete_dushenski: "They may have a reputation for being bird-brained, but pigeons have found to be as adept as humans when it comes to spotting cancerous tissue in mammograms."
pete_dushenski: "Experts trained a group of the birds to tell the difference between benign and malignant human breast tissue using food reinforcement techniques."
pete_dushenski: "Over the course of two weeks, the birds' accuracy at studying the slides improved from 50 per cent up to 85 per cent - and in one instance this rose as high as 90 per cent."
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pete_dushenski: top kek. 'radiologist' goes to 'skool' for 10 years+ of post-secondary, spends $bezzle in tuition, and is still no better than a garbage-eating pigeon
☟︎ jurov: surely, nature had not imbued him
ben_vulpes: no better than random selection, really.
ben_vulpes: which should be entirely unsurprising, as most doctors i've met can't do odds for poker in their heads much less the odds for human ailments.
jurov: um...can be pigeons learned poker?
ben_vulpes: the question to ask is "can oncologists beat a coin toss?"
adlai: how about "all neural networks can be trained by the sufficiently smart dataset, not only ANNs"
pete_dushenski: "The [British] Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new $115million gunship after a pilot accidentally flew it upside down, according to a report. The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship was taking part in a training mission over the Gulf of Mexico in April this year having taken off from Elgin Air Force Base, officials said. The pilot, from 413th Flight Test Squadron, was taking part in a 'sideslip' maneuver when h
pete_dushenski: st control of the 132ft-wide aircraft before it turned upside down."
pete_dushenski: apparently flying upside-down "exceeded manufacturer's stress limits"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: despite there being no accident or injury or malfunction
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pete_dushenski: imagine head of isis decommissioned ak47 because it was shot upside-down when fighter aped american gangster from u.s. movies
ben_vulpes: this is actually a thing with planes, pete_dushenski.
ben_vulpes: now if the envelope is retardedly small, that's a different problem.
ben_vulpes: exceeding stress limits is akin to holding the tach in the red for an extended period of time.
ben_vulpes: yes, you can do it, and yes the car will survive. how many hours did you take off of its life, however?
ben_vulpes: how are you going to lose the crew and not the plane, praytell
ben_vulpes: given that the ejector seats are to save the staff at the expense of hardware.
pete_dushenski: for the sake of argument, let's say that the plane will depreciate sufficiently to accommodate for loss of life. so $115 mn lost, but info gained. or $115 lost and no info gained.
adlai: "write off" doesn't mean the plane gets scrapped and resold as coke cans
jurov: there are testing pilots for ...er... testing that know better how to do these experiments
ben_vulpes: "will depreciate...to accomodate for loss of life", sorry, not following. as though i were 5?
kakobrekla: adlai if its not airworthy, are you going to dive the seas with it?
☟︎ jurov: and they do want pilots to risk in combat, hence arrangements to preserver their life
adlai: kakobrekla: well pete_dushenski didn't link source so i'm not sure what's in store for that plane, but all i took from the quote is that it won't be chemtrailing isil farmlands
adlai: this is #bitcoin-twatters now?
ben_vulpes: i have no idea where it came up with the notion i found it on twitter
kakobrekla: ;;google Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new $115million gunship
jurov: gotta train pigeons instead
ben_vulpes: a smaller example: some high performance gliders will tear themselves apart if they go too fast, pete_dushenski
ben_vulpes: is this one of the birds nominally intended to replace the warthog?
adlai: and this still doesn't have the report itself, or say what happens to the plane... and i just ran out of distraction-minutes
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: loss of life 'costs' something, which is presumably fixed in this example, whereas 'value' of plane decreases over time, starting at $115 mn and eventually ending up at whatever the scrap is worth melted down.
pete_dushenski: along the continuum of depreciation, the net loss in the plane's 'value' will equal the 'cost' of crew life, ya ?
adlai: "The mishap pilot (MP) was attempting to ..." << check it out, they're already slandering it on mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: the plane is now unflyable, so in the sense that its value was "one returned crew, maybe" its value is now "not likely a returned crew".