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MrChrisJ: I was told about this place on Twitter
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ben_vulpes: jurov: grindr's really that central to the pickup scene /there/?
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jurov: i guess so, it's much more convenient
jurov: ppl who used to go to bars and saunas, mostly still do. it's a boon to everyone else
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mod6: so my compiled version of TEST2 (running on a m3.medium instance) died again, finally. i saw it die twice within about 15 days of eachother in october. so this time I ran nmon the entire time.
mod6: finally died, was started on the 1st of november. left me with a 73Mb nmon file.
jurov: i run mine intermittently, still feeding from 0.10, did not die yet. but it complains about nonstandard tx all the time
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 149150 @ 0.00050888 = 75.8995 BTC [+] {2}
mod6: i did check as recently as yesterday and it was fully sync'd.
mod6: each time it's crashed, there hasn't been anything too telling in the logs. i'll post my log, and the charts along with the raw nmon metrics collection.
mod6: [1]+ Killed LC_ALL=C ./bitcoind -datadir=/mnt/btc-dev/.bitcoin -port=8333 -myip=1.2.3.4 -addnode=5.6.7.8
mod6: message spit out into terminal ^
jurov: if you set big enough size with ulimit, it should drop a core automatically
jurov: it's hepfully set to 0 by most distros
jurov: > core file size (blocks, -c) 0
mod6: ohmahgerd the debug.log is 7.6 gb
mod6: 7.8G /mnt/btc-dev/.bitcoin/debug.log
mod6: maybe i'll just post like the last 10`000 lines or something.
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mod6: asciilifeform: ^ yeah, bingo.
mod6: the charts are kinda interesting -- they start from a fully sync'd node so there isn't any full-sync to witness, only the draw down of mem until oom.
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assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 02:58:44; mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
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mod6: lol, i racked up like 1500 low qual grass lastnight
mircea_popescu: o hey check this out, it sorta looks like that tempest-storm-whateverthefuck nsa server fucked up.
mircea_popescu: so i come back to find that xchat is seeking permission to download "sol.desktop", supposedly a 498 byte file sent by someone from... 192.168.0.29 (port 50234).
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that address doesn't map to any machine, nor could it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform .0 would asctually be the ISP provided modem.
mircea_popescu: well no, i'm not instrumented to extract any payloads.
mod6: <+danielpbarron> mod6, you selling it? << sure. atm ive got my hands full tho. maybe in like 30-45 mins?
mircea_popescu: from what i can see this'd be some sort of "server for linux" or whatevs.
mircea_popescu: o hey check it out, the key to driving mass linux adoption was copying minesweeper and solitaire, who knew.
mircea_popescu: ok, but i mean specifically "who the fuck embeds this ip"
mircea_popescu: "Your proposition may be good, but let's have one thing understood — whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it, I'm against it!"
mircea_popescu: maybe the best couplet in the history of english lolzedy.
mircea_popescu:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WildMassGuessing << this is pretty interesting. the idea being, and i cite, "The trope has also become increasingly important in more traditional fiction as of late because the Internet's technological revolution is such that an author's "twists" could easily be predicted ahead of time if enough clever fans put their heads together and talk things over. (And over.) "
mod6: danielpbarron: ok, wanna meet me in town?
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting problem to have. one edge of it could be readily dismissed as "well obviously if you can't write so instead of writing you substitute copywriting as per
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-11-2015#1330345 & all, imonlydoingmyjob bla bla you will be predictable, after all copywriting is designed to work much like computer codewriting : others gotta be able to pick up your job once you quit"
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 23-11-2015 20:26:41; mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's
mircea_popescu: but the other edge is to observe that fiction HAS to be predictable specifically because it isn't nonfiction. there not being a reality to feed from other than what emerges from the fact that the reader can follow, you're stuck.
mircea_popescu: jesus who knew fiction is a doomed entreprise. this would actually make literature not art, outright.
mircea_popescu: who knew the problem apelles of kos dealt with is actually much broader than just an annoying shoemaker.
mircea_popescu agrees with the general frenchypoof notion of the pre-mitterand years that cooking is indeed an art and mssr duchemin rightfully accepted in the academy.
mod6: And yeah, BingoBoingo, Hemingway was an ambulance driver, wounded on the Italian front, so the story goes. He wrote about it in A Farewell To Arms.
mod6: Did you ever read A Natural History Of The Dead - short story?
mod6: wow, look at that. thing has a thumb.
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mod6: anyway, i dunno, for me its a toss up between For Whom The Bell Tolls & A Farewell To Arms.
trinque: my ex had two of these, and yeah they can use them
trinque: could pick up food in their palms them eat
trinque: the thumbs aren't very strong, but hey, it's a start
mod6: danielpbarron: ah cool
punkman: trinque: could pick up food in their palms them eat < they don't need extra finger for that
kakobrekla: couple of weeks ago i saw a pig so fat he could not see anything for last 2 years
kakobrekla: have a pic from 2012 when vision still worked hold on
kakobrekla: he wont move unless you break a pumpkin in front of him
kakobrekla: ill take another shot if its still alive on my next visit
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assbot: I need some legal advice, because my roommate is a paranoid imbecile! - The Something Awful Forums ... (
http://bit.ly/1TbqSrc )
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assbot: Here's what you don't know or understand about Facebook : everything. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1M69PXV )
mircea_popescu: other than the same-day homage thing, i would guess between half and two thirds of every romanian blog is either a straight lift, a bad translation or a more or less hacky adaptation of either current or historical trilema.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone who isn't born in a minor culture can ever enjoy this situation of "i am the only literate one of my people. literally."
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mircea_popescu: and really, the vegetation of deep russia is stunnignlyt beautiful.
hanbot: mircea_popescu are they still opining about how you're "illegal"?
mircea_popescu: lol remember that time when i invented stickers and everyone got crazy butthurt ?
mircea_popescu: simple man's playbook. 1. OH NO THIS IS BAD ; 2. gotta do it too ; 3. we've always done it this way.
mircea_popescu: can go through the whole playbook in three years and STILL feign to not be aware who's daddy.
hanbot: mircea_popescu you forgot a step for pufuleti i mean profit
mircea_popescu: that's the worst layouyt for one i ever saw and wtf is with the window
BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> have a pic from 2012 when vision still worked hold on << That's some pig
mircea_popescu: nothing quite beats glass resting straight on metal, nor the tittilating value of fully dressed derps.
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gribble: Current Blocks: 385077 | Current Difficulty: 7.272278064254718E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 387071 | Next Difficulty In: 1994 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 5 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes, and 9 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
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pete_dushenski: canadians are... embarrassingly dumb and expectant. quite like this.
pete_dushenski: and for the unawares, Stevan Jovanovich using 'rogers' email indicates that he's a client of the country's largest telco, and that if his comment's place and content weren't sufficiently informative as to his demographic placement, he's almost certainly in his 50's.
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trinque: "The mafia has a bad reputation, but much of that's undeserved," says Gambino, who moved to Brooklyn in 1988. "As with everything in life, there are good, bad and ugly parts – the rise of global terrorism gives the mafia a chance to show its good side."
gribble: Error: "gooogle" is not a valid command.
btcdrak: I normally abhor war and violence but I laughed so hard when I saw that.
trinque: then allow me to applaud for you
pete_dushenski: (assuming you're not on the front lines in the trenches)
trinque: good screaming too. you gotta hope that if you get blown apart there's at least someone there to scream over the giblets.
btcdrak: mircea_popescu: she kept mentioning bitcoin-assets, I assumed she was in this channel.
gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 34 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds ago: <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
mircea_popescu: that dude is pretty lulzy tho. "i like thinking outloud on shitter, it helps me gauge how deep in the latrine i am"
pete_dushenski: "if the community tells me my ideas are valuable, a magic wand is waved and so it becomes ! and with it so too do i become a real boy !"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the top girl's calfs will cramp in no time in that position
pete_dushenski: as long as she doesn't twitch and break the table, so nothing.
BingoBoingo: Dose with a calcium channel blocker prophylactically, risk abated
mircea_popescu: Jay Hathaway said something with numbers in it once so Jay Hathaway is mathematician ? something like that ?
pete_dushenski: "In the past, when companies implemented labor-saving technology -- whether assembly lines or computers -- their workers didn’t simply go on the unemployment rolls. They became more productive than before, and commanded higher wages. If they got laid off, they eventually found jobs at other companies -- and since the economy overall was more productive because of the innovation, more new companies were started
pete_dushenski: . In the past, automation has always complemented human beings instead of making them irrelevant. That might change in the future, but so far the old pattern is still holding." << mr. 'noahpinion' on the history of innovation, in a nutshell, and pretty much straight from his 'social studies 10' textbook. because that's where facts come from : the dumb mouths of high school teachers and the sputum-cum-textbooks t
pete_dushenski: " the Industrial Revolution began in Europe, rather than in China, because European employers were forced to pay more for labor. Since labor was more expensive, companies invested in technology, which then raised productivity so much that it boosted wages even higher," << this is actually just lulzy
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mircea_popescu: well, they want the entire "higher wages = technology" argument.
mircea_popescu: which... whatever. you can pay ustards any amount of fake money you want, up to and including infinity. they're still goners.
pete_dushenski: at the turn of the 19th century, european INDIVIDUALS - (companies shmumpanies) - invested in technology because they had the freedom and inclination to do so, unlike the chinese, apparently.
mircea_popescu: gotta be "companies", as if such a thing even existed in any sense any recent derp would be familiar with.
mircea_popescu: forget corporation sole and all that actual history, it wasn't on Cheers.
pete_dushenski: well 'hudson's bay co did this' and 'east india company did that' is pretty much as far as the minds of american tv watchers go.
pete_dushenski: more likely : your ancestors lived off the table scraps of the adventurers and businessmen, then as now.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "productivity" claptrap is irrelevant. england just had a good moat.
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mircea_popescu: this figures way higher than "oh, president bahamas of london 1715 - what do you mean he didn't exist, not like he's a recent invention dun be racist! - forced companies to pay more in wages which is why manna fell from the heaven as it certainly will now!!1"
mircea_popescu: but whatever, easier to write fiction than get a job. like any fifteen year old with a "backup plan" knows full well.
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pete_dushenski: lulziest part is how 'noahpinions' can't find a single supporter who agrees with his dumb puppet mouth in the 124 comments. even the english-speaking male internetists knows enough to call a fraud when it sees one.
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assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:33:29; kakobrekla: right now there are more urgent things on the plate, once api is working as id like we can do something like dat. until then you can run the platform with wine.
pete_dushenski: "The rogue root certificate in new Dell computers – a certificate that allows people to be spied on when banking and shopping online – will magically reinstall itself even when deleted."
pete_dushenski: "According to an analysis [PDF] by Duo Security, a bundled plugin reinstalls the root CA file if it is removed. First, you must delete Dell.Foundation.Agent.Plugins.eDell.dll from your system (search for it) and then remove the eDellRoot root CA certificate."
pete_dushenski: "The cert, we're told, is used with the plugin for receiving cryptographically signed telemetry requests; said telemetry includes things like the machine's service tag, a seven-character serial number that identifies the computer model, if not the individual machine."
pete_dushenski: "Google received more than 65 million removal requests for search results containing alleged copyright violations in the space of the past month." << in other nyooz, the equivalent of vw's emissions bypassing tech is pirating musak so many times that the 'regulator' just throws up his arms in dismay and walks out the door without saying another word, never to return.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't count unless it's racist. google is tech, vw is manufacturing.
pete_dushenski: fooey, tech is da MOST racist. ask 'computers be racist and shit' dood
mircea_popescu: fortunately rakim has no say in setting the narrative.
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gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 3 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes, and 16 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
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pete_dushenski: "why is it that you expect your boyfriend introduce you to his friends ?" << missing a 'to', mircea_popescu ?
pete_dushenski refocuses trilemascope, fiddles dials and knobs until image on slide bears slightly crisper edges.
pete_dushenski: "If you make it half a million you just happen to be at the cusp of what the scum perceives as "Oprah rich" and they just almost kinda go for it," << coinkidink of coinkidinks, the token insurance salesman in my choir has recently set his eyes on me and yesterday pitched me EXACTLY 500k of life insurance coverage in exchange for $25/mo.
pete_dushenski: "rich people all buy it" he tells me, "ask any old person and they'll tell you to do it too !"
pete_dushenski: token old fart dutifully chimes in "pete, you have a kid now, buy life insurance !"
pete_dushenski: and as if any sum of money is going to replace me. ha !
pete_dushenski: go ahead, go, buy, another me. here's 500k. start shoppin' !
pete_dushenski wants to at least imagine that this would be a difficult and trying purchase experience.
pete_dushenski: ok, 500k could conceivably change ~someone's~ life, but not mein heir's. he would suffer loss could not possibly by papered over by money.
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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you will note that the thing discussed in my article was health insurance, which is a contingency sort of deal. life "insurance" has nothing to do with this, as everyone dies. as practiced it is moreover a sort of heavily discounted investment plan\
mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
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wyrdmantis: danielpbarron, no i'm having issues on both mac and win...
wyrdmantis: waiting for phf to give a mercyful hand :D
wyrdmantis: but i'm also looking to fire up a linux box
danielpbarron: ping me when you get it working and need something to do
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shinohai awaits a cli or text-based Eulora client.
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punkman: so one of those linear halogen bulbs exploded next to me and rained hot glass. almost got me even though bulb was facing the wall and had a half-cylinder glass cover.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums. << Such deal are typically "term" policies expiring in 5 years
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 08:47:46; mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
funkenstein_: how many months of USan salary were saved to pay to rip out the olive trees of palestine?
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 06:20:12; pete_dushenski: btcdrak: what's wrong with war and violence again ?
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funkenstein_: this rainmaker piece is anecdotal evidence of ghandi's behavioral hypothesis
mircea_popescu: punkman go throught chemical exposure protection cycle rightnao.
mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
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punkman: mircea_popescu: what's the cycle?
mircea_popescu: remove and seal all clothing, wash in abundant water, have air in space vacuumed throw out, wash the surfaces in acid
mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
☟︎ punkman: not sure these have any mercury in them
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, if you didn't know - this is pretty much the only thing where a vacuum cleanner that was supposed to have its bag changed weeks ago is good for - but boy is it great for it.)
mircea_popescu: punkman they pretty much all have ; the other heavy metals they could have are not much better.
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punkman: it did burn the wooden floor
mircea_popescu: punkman those aren't the kind that cut through teh glass
mircea_popescu: yes. but when they do they don't cut through the fucking glass protector and burn the floor!
punkman: they didn't destroy the glass cover
punkman: it allows air, not enclosed
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits the game of chicken first wi
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, br exposure, not the end of the world. wash the place, but at leasr you get to keep your clothes.
BingoBoingo: Everyone feels good in the beginning, at least one party feels good in the end.
mircea_popescu: punkman if it doesn't get up as much as before for a few weeks the effect's supposed to go away.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr, where do you buy your metal-halide lamps that are ACTUALLY free of mercury ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: oh you mean teh cock?
mircea_popescu: well anyway. mercury usually makes for negative resistivity
mircea_popescu: which means they increase draw until they explode, normally.
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mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insanity it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why the power plants don't update : they actually do the math.
punkman: I'm considering getting some proper LEDs, they high-wattage ones don't look too bad
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the discussion of "philips desperate to stick its shitendrils in here before led takes over" i think
mircea_popescu figures in short order fucking tables will "no longer be able to cool passively".
mircea_popescu: "The Cooperative is declining to name the Illinois state agencies and buildings which will be affecting by" why the fuck ?
BingoBoingo: That bullshit pushed as us business pseudo-ethics
BingoBoingo: "We don't talk about our customers except when we do"
mircea_popescu: the notion that government agents/agencies have ANY right to privacy is the highest grade of lulz.
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mircea_popescu: "USS Mount Whitney sunk by russian backed syrian/ukrainian/whatever rebels"
BingoBoingo: I mean enough US gears is in ISIS hands Russia had to assume the US infared IFF market meant ISIS had taken that warship as loot
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo damned tging nearly burned down in croatia this summer anyway.
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 06:50:51; pete_dushenski: hey random query : why isn't bit4x on mpex ?
kakobrekla: as it is now i dont have any obligation to keep it running, if one day i wake up and have enough i can just shut it down singlehandedly - if listed anywhere, this changes
☟︎ mircea_popescu: myeah. one classical problem the corporations were for is that usually ventures require a lot of dedication, and people got lives to live.
kakobrekla: if this was a fiat company there would be no such issue
kakobrekla: most people know how to use banks, most people dont know how to use bitcoin (at least approximately correctly)
kakobrekla: anyway, when we were doing bitbet i was explicit about not wanting to handle other peoples money
mircea_popescu: most people are used to getting raped by banks, and have enough respect to stfu and kiss the bloodied, dripping penis in thanks.
mircea_popescu: most people don't know how to walk on two feet, meanwhile.
kakobrekla: here the story was different, it was my condition that i am the treasurer if we are doing this
mircea_popescu: it's a reasonable condition. iirc the bitbet thing was a straight meeting of the minds, i wasn't going to do it with anyone else as treasurer anyway.
kakobrekla: well your idea was that i would periodically flush btc to you, which i declined.
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kakobrekla: how long can mircea_popescu go without looking at his main computer once ?
mircea_popescu: i know what you're saying, man. i fully know what you're saying.
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thestringpuller: Is there a reason everyone wants shit done like the day before you take vacation?
phf: the trick is to leave on vacation two days before you told everyone you're going
phf: those who matter will know the right date anyway, but the ones that have "needs" are so disorganized they would think they misunderstood you
mircea_popescu: i've just had the world's worst peach. what the fuck this tree should be ashamed of itself.
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thestringpuller: phf: that's fucking brilliant. also astute observation of why people send requests the day before a vacation begins. funny how many disorganized people end up in an ofice.
adlai almost wishes One Flew would've been a mediocre movie, then maybe more people would read the book
adlai: because it's excellent
adlai: the movie is good, very good. but as long as the book's around, it'll only be second best
adlai: the book is quite different from the movie, in that the movie merely tells a story, whereas the book takes the slightest baby step towards actually placing you inside the main character's head
adlai: and the main character is neither jack nicholson nor randall mcmurphy
mircea_popescu: imo this is one of those situations where the better movie makes the book its bitch. yes the book is longer and goes into more detail, as a book has space to do. but this is a twin edged sword
adlai: well i guess mcmurphy is the "main character", but the book has a narrator. i'm not sure i've seen a movie yet where narration didn't interfere with the story
mircea_popescu: the chief narrator device is mostly there to insulate the author from tyhe material, best i can tell.
mircea_popescu: anyway, stroke of luck mostly, god only knows what'd have happened if one of the douglas hack clan ended up with the role.
mircea_popescu: also mildly interesting, how that toothpaste-commercial-and-soap-opera extra got the nurse part.
mircea_popescu: forman blessfuly caught on eventually that the personification of evil has to be familiar, not visibly "evil".
adlai: what do you mean by "insulate the author"? ken kesey's writing process was a rather uninsulated anthropological investigation...
mircea_popescu: i suppose all the lsd and mental hospital moonlighting are there because he's all secure in his dominion, right.
adlai hasn't read the book
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dunno if you did this deliberately or not, but really, it's too smooth to not credit you with it.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, palahniuk loved the movie adaptation ; kensey hated it.
mircea_popescu: notably, he didn't hate it for any reason, other than being a vocal leader in the "book was better" chorus ; and for the director very sensibly removing the chief narrator clingwrap.
mircea_popescu: he never actually saw it. but he hated it, because "o noes, can't touch radioactive without chief brand mask!11"
adlai: 'kensey' is the hybrid synthesis of ken kesey and... alf kinsey?
adlai: the One Flew movie is a great movie though, in its own right. it's orthogonal to the book
adlai: the movie was good because it didn't try-and-fail to capture what the book does, which boils down to the power of humor
mircea_popescu: way i see it both try the same thing, in their own medium : describe the doomed situation of a society which has lost male force and is now going into castration mode at the hands of the decaying female biomass. it's a failure mode of human populations, well known, well understood, amply documented.
mircea_popescu: the film does a better job of this as a film than the book does a job of it as a book. arguably this is because film has less space to do it in ; countrariwise, film is more of a "tower of babel" sort of artifice, so it's harder to get anything done.
mircea_popescu: other than this mediated sort of approach, straight book-film comparisons are pretty meaningless anyway.
adlai: fight club's message, otoh, is a bit more in the "this is how you win" direction, rather than just "here's a problem, have fun dealing with it"
mircea_popescu: to me fight club is merely a coupla stages down. "we're lost - infantilism is always a refuge".
mircea_popescu: the notion that fight club is productive in any sense is pretty lulzy to me.
punkman: thestringpuller: adlai: didn't that happen with fight club as well? << I thought epilogue of the book was better than movie ending
adlai: i really disliked fight club because it lets the infantile 'rage' overshadow the parts that it shares with oneflew
mircea_popescu: all i see is disproportionate violence (note that mcmurphy doesn't set fire to the fucking hospital - heck he doesn't even LEAVE when he has the chance, because reasons.) and disavowal (really, the voices in your head told you to, maybe, who knows ? what are you, a dumbass us girl that has to get herself drunk to be able to have sex ?)
trinque: and then the act itself is futile.
adlai: they're both about identifying and responding to 'doomed situation'. palahniuk says, set fire to the hospital, while kesey just laughs all the way to the ECT
trinque: take a couple of buildings down and utopia!
punkman: book ending: "With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. The bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives. Still alive and holding Tyler's gun, the narrator makes the first decision that is truly his own: he puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some time later, he awakens in a mental hospital, believing he is in Heaven, and
punkman: imagines an argument with God over human nature. The book ends with the narrator's being approached by hospital employees who reveal themselves to be Project members. They tell him their plans still continue, and that they are expecting Tyler to come back."
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can actually jointly own it just fine is a stronger indictment of the female-mitigated insanity than anything else could ever be.
mircea_popescu: punkman whadda you like about this ? the christic parallel ?
adlai: that's not the book ending, that's wikipedia :(
adlai: "but the territory doesn't fit in the blockchain"
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's a path less traveled that should be. WHY is it that redskins in the continental us HAD TO be massacred ? is it because they "couldn't fit" in its future, somehow, mysteriously ? is it perhaps because white guys wanted the depopulation to support higher wages and liberty [aka the fronteer lifestyle] ? is it perhaps because the wives of farmers "didn't feel safe" with them around ?
mircea_popescu: i don't have a straight answer, but i will say that having been in argentina for a while now and having observed the assorted insanities they sport here, grouped for convenience under the "inseguridad" thematic, i understand a lot more of the fate of the new world.
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punkman: well I just grabbed the dead tree and reread last two pages. looks pretty stupid now.
assbot: Logged on 08-07-2015 19:34:29; ascii_field: far more interesting is the trait hasn eysenck called 'psychoticism'
punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not the looming threat of war with Russia."
☟︎ adlai and punkman are probably discussing different books
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phf: one flew narrative is a just a vehicle for kesey to share his first explorations of acid altered perception, which are further elaborated on in electric kool-aid, second hand, by tom wolfe.
mircea_popescu: punkman ironically war with russia would have been much better for the us than this crap.
mircea_popescu: they'd have just abandoned europe like the whores that they are and under pressure they'd have stayed in a better state of preservation for longer.
adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE" than "we are still in the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
☟︎ mircea_popescu: should be pretty amusing to see how greece'd have looked in alt-history where CCCE dominated the small continent. "oh we won't pay".
mircea_popescu: probably have a little oblast named for them in siberia, like the jews do.
phf: (experience of The Combine as a palpable thing for example, during his pranksters period turned into attempts at active manipulation of others, i.e. The Consensus, through Control, which pranksters called "putting them into our movie". if you can put them into our movie, you can make them read our lines. etc.)
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phf: kesey couldn't care less about plight of the mentally disabled, or helping you relate to a mental patient or anything like that. it's kind of obvious from reading about him. guy was just having interesting experiences at a mental ward, writing them down, and selling the result on a threadbare socially conscious theme.
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punkman: isn't forever21 the one that makes pants
kakobrekla: there should be a bounty on the breaking of their auth system
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BingoBoingo: I don't think they mine fast enough to fund such a bounty
adlai: this isn't even worth a whole qntreatment, the headline says it all: "Zapchain Growth Proves Bitcoin Tipping Viable Social Media Model"
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:17:26; mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
jurov: mom came, swept the drops, threw them out
jurov: nothing was ever done with the carpet
adlai: yes but (to paraphrase modern hebrew vernacular) "look how you look'
BingoBoingo: jurov: But aren't you protected by Bear Force?
jurov: dunno really, how i could look better. even the hair refuses to fall out as much as predicted
adlai: actually the mercury may have even imbued you with double astrological fortune
punkman: as long as it's not red mercury
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:41:30; punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not the looming threat of war with Russia."
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 21:36:12; jurov: i'm still here
ascii_field: organic compounds of Hg - another matter entirely
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
jurov: we have got a visi from fsf?
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jurov: BingoBoingo: what does fsf/member/jeraldv cloak mean?
BingoBoingo: No idea. I kinda though freenode cloaks were kinda random
SuchWow: freenode used to give affiliated cloaks back in the day, if you were affiliated with an open source project
phf: BingoBoingo: you can get a custom first part, if you represent a sufficiently large organization
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thestringpuller: ascii_field: what you doin on the field? you never take vacation?
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:04:25; mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
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pete_dushenski: hey look, mxn-cad not far off 10 year high. good news this.
pete_dushenski: why it didn't occur to me to check before i booked it, i can't say
pete_dushenski: but most likely explanation is that alternative, cuba, just had shittier hotels for the same price.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:24:14; asciilifeform: 'hot spot' effect
pete_dushenski: he thought i was kidding and that this was 'old wive's tale'
pete_dushenski: needless to say, i took to 'search engines' to find corroborating evidence, and every last fucking result was some derps on some derpy 'lighting' forum.
pete_dushenski: who knows, maybe light bulb industry is sending google take-down notices for 'copyrasted infoz'
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:25:24; BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits
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assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59; mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insani
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 16:33:22; kakobrekla: as it is now i dont have any obligation to keep it running, if one day i wake up and have enough i can just shut it down singlehandedly - if listed anywhere, this changes
pete_dushenski: i guess 'semi-circular' is really more of a hemispherical eh.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:53:01; adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE" than "we are still in the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
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pete_dushenski: (yes, jarhead was last 'first date' movie that pete saw, and may see for some time yet)
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pete_dushenski: well, 'normal' movies get you normal girls and normal relationships. glhf with those.
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pete_dushenski: "i was too busy to cook at home". yea, well, this is what your efficiency sowed.
pete_dushenski: "Gambetta and Hertog painstakingly gather together data on individuals belonging to a variety of terrorist groups in the Muslim world. Where they are able to get the data, it displays a compelling pattern – engineers are much more prone to become members of violent terrorist organizations."
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