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ben_vulpes: trinque: is there a reason verify.mk uses `SHA512' instead of `sha512'?
trinque: ben_vulpes: that's one of the knobs
ben_vulpes: i already ripped the -s flag off the boost download, 'cuz i'm impatient and curious.
ben_vulpes: trinque: build/Makefile:16 `tar xvf' -> `tar xvzf` << any reason i shouldn't do this?
ben_vulpes: without, tar complains that the file uses gzip and that one must provide the `z' flag.
trinque: ben_vulpes: a verbosity knob might be nice
trinque: ben_vulpes │ i already ripped the -s flag off the boost download, 'cuz i'm impatient and curious. <<
trinque: but yeah I'll add that to the tar cmd
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ben_vulpes: trinque: fired your makefiles on obsd yet?
trinque: yeah, buildroot is very unhappy.
trinque: understandably so, as I understand that thing to be linux specific
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trinque: at least pulling the deps/shit works with make SHA512=sha512
trinque: ben_vulpes: and in fact if the buildroot step were stuck inside Makefile.rotor, it'd be trivial to have a Makefile.openbsd aside it
trinque: then it'd be make BUILDER=openbsd SHA512=sha512
trinque: V setup works fine on openbsd
trinque: yep, I'm moving buildroot, makes total sense
ben_vulpes: gotcha, okay, starting to see how this all fits together.
trinque: ben_vulpes │ neat stuff, dood. << ty
ben_vulpes: ping me when you have new makefiles, i'm going to remap keys and engage in other weeding-type activities on this machine
trinque: ben_vulpes: I'll probably not throw another onto the mailing list before fixing the boost build
ben_vulpes: fix << meaning address the failed targets?
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saifedean: lebanon is as it always is, mundanely on the precipice of exploding
saifedean: people hating each other and religious wars escalating everywhere... but... you know... the party must go on
saifedean: unfortunately i'm not there for the next few months, moved to Windsor, Ontario, of all fucking places, the exact opposite of Lebanon if ever there was one
mircea_popescu: who the fuck lives in ontario for the winter and in damascus for the civil war.
saifedean: well, the wife is due to deliver our first child in the next month or so, and we decided to come give birth here where my in-laws are, ensuring the girl gets the Canadian passport
saifedean: it's not the most exciting place in the world, but it's across the river from detroit, which stands as a constant reminded that shit could be worse
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saifedean: this place is so deadly boring it's unreal, but at least it's not a terribly cold winter, and I'm getting plenty of reading done... Also, it's not like you need much excitement to add to your life when you're expecting
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saifedean: well, not quite, there's a surprisingly large amount of stuff to do, learn, and decide if you choose not to hand over the entire process to the medical bezzle
saifedean: this has been an enormously edifying experience... most important lesson learned is that handing over a pregnant woman to a hospital and obgyn is fucking nuts
saifedean: the bezzle has completely destroyed people's conception of what birth is
saifedean: it's treated like an emergency like a car crash, when it's a natural process like sex
mircea_popescu: and the internet has ruined people's idea of what makes good storytelling. don't summarize, be specific.
saifedean: trying to give birth in hospital makes as much sense as trying to have sex there
saifedean: essentially: if a woman is left on her own in a comfortable setting with the father, her body will do all the work and pop the baby out painlessly and even pleasurably, the baby comes out healthy and looks for the tit to feed, it stays connected to the umbilical chord and placenta for a few days, the placenta empties all the nutrients and blood into the baby, and the baby grows healthy
saifedean: all the complications of birth come precisely from the medical bezzle trying to barge in on this natural process to make a buck, basically
mircea_popescu: but anyway. natural birth has a huge following in the states. almost unknown in yurp.
☟︎☟︎ saifedean: they'll whisk her in an ambulance and freak the shit out of her, causing her vagina to contract just when it needs to expand. this then necessitates painful pushing, which usually doesn't work, necessitating cutting up and stitching, the baby comes out bloody and bruised and the woman can't breastfeed for hours, which will then destroy the baby's ability to latch properly
saifedean: and most brutally, the fucking doctor wanting to go home quickly means he'll cut the umbilical chord immediately, suffocating the child and depriving him of about a third of his blood
saifedean: this for me is the difference between the barbarian and civilized humans today: the civilized have the time and choice to wait on the placenta to empty into the baby. The barbarians are told by the doctor the placenta should be cut immediately
mircea_popescu: who the fuck goes to the maternity ward in an ambulance ?!
saifedean: "you don't wanna take chances with your baby's health"
saifedean: the stuff you learn will blow your mind
saifedean: also, the post-birth interventions they do in the medical bezzle are astonishing... within an hour or so, the baby wil have had a vaccine against Hepatitis B, which I guess makes sense if you intend to pimp the child out in the first week. they'll give them an eye drop to protect against the possibility of the mom having chlamydia, regardless of whether she has it or not, thus destroying the child's vision for a few days..
saifedean: and then, the coup de grace, they give him a little sugar in the first hour to drug him and stop him crying from being separated from his mom while they do all the bezzle they wanna do
mircea_popescu: o yeah, the whole first day vaccination business is both novel and outrageous.
saifedean: all of which is not just unnecessary, but actively harmful. the child needs absolutely nothing in their first hours except their mom's milk. They need nothing for the first 6 months except her milk and sunshine
saifedean: but the interventionist bezzle logic we have all come to know and love from economics is applied with vigor at birth, producing mentally, physically and emotionally stunted idiots ready for the modern world's demands
saifedean: breastfeeding in the first hour is essential for the child and for the mom's breasts, it's part of the birth process
saifedean: the child should learn to latch onto the tit before anything else. In the fucking bezzle they give them the pacifier before the tit, and then they'll never latch properly... which happily enough creates endless business for Gerber and other peddlers of poison
assbot: saifedean is not registered in WoT.
saifedean: if she can get pregnant, she can breastfeed, it's all part of the same package
mircea_popescu: heh if only. if you can get it up, you can make her come, too ?
saifedean: the problems of breastfeeding all come from the mom not being given the child to breastfeed immediately
saifedean: inaccurate analogy, since she's another human. but if her body can carry a baby for 9 months, and if she eats well and takes care of herself, she will get milk
saifedean: she could fuck it all up of course, but it takes deliberate human fuckery to stop her breastfeeding
saifedean: and of course, a big, big part of this is diet, what the mom eats before, during, and after pregnancy
mircea_popescu: or whether she has a tyroid condition. or cystic ovaries. or or or.
saifedean: if you can get your dick up, you can fuck with it. Doesn't mean you will... you could still fuck it up.
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saifedean: she's got to actively fuck it up for her to not breastfeed... look at all real world examples, and you find a woman who ate shit, or who had a caesarian and didn't bother try breastfeeding for a few days, or as is usually the case, a woman who just can't be bothered and came up wiht a story
mircea_popescu: looky, i appreciate the youthful activist and half-doctor approach, but srsly, talk to an actual clinician. it doesn't always work. it sucks that it doesn't, it's maybe overreported, it's often just fancies in the woman's head, but not always. sometimes it dun work.
saifedean: of course the medical bezzle is always happy to oblige with "conditions"
saifedean: appreciate the faith in your clinician, but don't listen to those guys if you're having a child of your own, they're not in it for your benefit, they have med school loans to pay
saifedean: and they can't pay them if they deviate from the script...
trinque: I'll give it a coupla drops of truth in a bucket of rhetoric
saifedean: do you also talk to an economist phd to get your perspective on Bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: heh, i knew doctors with half century's experience before money was even fucking invented, you kidding me ?
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mircea_popescu: and yes i talk to economists. as it happens the brightest mind in banking alive today is from my old country.
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mircea_popescu: isnt that the chick at war with the fda over the whole raw milk thing ?
saifedean: you'll find it in pdf online if you look; reading it is a far better use of your time than arguing!
mircea_popescu: here's a fun fact : you can buy raw milk in romania from a fucking machine.
saifedean: are you familiar with Weston Price?
mircea_popescu: anyway, all these nitwits that aren't from cattle country don't know wtf milk is, even.
saifedean: it's a travesty that he's been completely forgotten... he's basically the Mises of nutrition
saifedean: Weston Price traveled the world for decades observing different cultures and their foods and examining the link with health and degeneration... pretty startling stuff
saifedean: raw milk is not that interesting an issue, ignore it
saifedean: but do read Weston Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
saifedean: the internet has that somewhere, too
saifedean: weren't you the one who wrote a post about how dumb it is to be hostile to things you do not know about?
saifedean: can't remember the post, but it stuck with me and has saved me plenty of time by always ignoring arguments from people hostile to things they don't know... mainly bitcoin and health, funnily enough
mircea_popescu: anyway, i was discussing whether raw milk is interesting or not. it's interesting, to me, because lol.
saifedean: yes asciilifeform, there is, by the sort of people who invented basically all the science and knowledge that got us out of swimming in our own shit in the jungle!
saifedean: i've never had raw milk, don't know a source i can trust in lebanon, and it's illegal to buy it here in Ontario!
saifedean: Isaac Newton was an alchemist primarily, physics and chemistry were the languages he used to speak to the plebs
saifedean: i ain't even lebanonesian, bro. I'm actually palestinian
saifedean: it's sad that your physicist friends havent read alchemists, but i'm gonna go ahead and guess that's sad for them, not for the alchemists... here's a list of actual aclhemists, imagine where you'd be without their contributions to your life!
mircea_popescu: honestly, to me all this sorta stuff, much like the "eu legislation" on "contaminated animal productS" ie, edible cheese, is a case of derpy dudes thinking chickens come out of the supermarket.
mircea_popescu: and i certainly aren't about to read some anglo derps on how and what to eat.
saifedean: ah, if only they sold that on amazon ascii
mircea_popescu: for another... what the fuck, i didn't grow up in a hole.
saifedean: the problem with this sort of debate is that i've lived the life of the cake-munching sugar-addled modern nutrition believing fatty, and i've tried the opposite... which makes this conversation difficult
saifedean: latin, after all, came from a sedentary agricultural society of grain-addicted fatties... you wanna look at pre-agricultural societies to see how to really be well-fed
saifedean: unfortunately those people don't write, but fortunately, some people who do write have studied them... like weston price
saifedean: who, in his defense, was not even american... he was my ontario homeboy
mircea_popescu: you've tried the opposite but never suckled off a cow.
mircea_popescu: what makes the discussion difficult is the significant chasm between what'd you want and what actrually is there.
saifedean: no, but i've had raw liver, which is much better :)
mircea_popescu: "i never had x but had y which is much better" is what you said to me ? how the fuck'd you know!
saifedean: look, i'd love to try good raw milk, and if you can hook a brother up, let me know... but, you know, it ain't the be all end all of human knowledge
punkman: /me is considering kokorec leftovers for breakfast
mircea_popescu: dude... cows, ok, i can see, they don't grow everywhere.
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saifedean: punkman is a man after my heart... kokorec is fucking good, whereabouts are you? turkey?
saifedean: what's your deal with milk mircea?
punkman: grandma always boiled the raw milk, I'm sticking with that
saifedean: milk's essential for kids, for at least a year, but i'm honestly not convinced grown-ups should even be drinking it, weston price be damned
saifedean: animal fats and meat is all a man needs
mircea_popescu: eh how'd you know. at least that dude has the excuse of a lot of bad dinners all over.
saifedean: the last two months i've basically eaten nothing but fatty meat, never been healthier
mircea_popescu: you should be an alchemist and write great books on theoretical physics.
mircea_popescu: for my part, for the past two weeks i've only been slapping butts with my left hand and i've never been taller.
saifedean: gotta finish popping babies and feeding them properly first, then focus on econ, then alchemy... theoretical physics does not interest me much
mircea_popescu: my money says they'd find a point of principle to disagree on and not be on speaking terms.
saifedean: who's funkenstein and does he paleo?
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> here's a fun fact : you can buy raw milk in romania << same here in Connecticut, the one state in all of the ussa that permits sale outside of a farm
☟︎ mircea_popescu: danielpbarron technically this was on a farm. the way they sorted it out was that the farm rented 20 sqft from the supermarket, plopped a machine down there. serviced it daily, there's a resident tech that does analytics.
danielpbarron: i haven't tried to keep it out of the fridge, but it seems to age more gracefully in general
saifedean: daniel, i didn't know that, might pop across the border next time I'm in NYC to see what it's like
danielpbarron: saifedean, not many stores sell it; not even whole foods last i checked
saifedean: criminals, all these people, they'd go to jail in the good ole US of A
punkman: I just realized if you try to vocalize TMSR you end up with something close to "timisoara"
mircea_popescu: punkman and another insider joke falls slain by your attentive read!
punkman: asciilifeform: ikr looks obvious now
mircea_popescu: fucking village, doesn't even have a tiny and cramped bdsm club
saifedean: ladies and gentlement i present you my first witness and exhibit A... the great paleo convert Bitstein of Texas, prayers and blessings be upon him
saifedean: yeah it really isn't just me who's into all this weirdness :D
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bitstein: asciilifeform: what's the other option?
saifedean: asciilifeform: the point is to join the cemetary at the same time as the high school class 30 years your junior
saifedean: the best way to defeat your enemies is to write their obituaries yourself
mircea_popescu: eh. you keep approaching a multivariate problem with a good feeling about having found the right single variable this time.
punkman: why spent time on and believe in either modern- or paleo- nutrition science?
saifedean: while your friends will be shitting their pants in retirement homes on diabetes medication, you'll be out there living life like a normal human
saifedean: i dont know punkman, why look either side when you cross the road?
saifedean: the road is a multivariate problem, after all
saifedean: orly? no normal human? i guess diabetes at 40 sounds grand, then
bitstein: mircea_popescu: eat nothing but super fatty meat (80:20 fat:protein by calories) for 30 days. you'll feel good too.
bitstein: you're in argentina, one of the cheapest places on earth to run such an experiment
bitstein: ribeyes are what, $4 USD a pound?
saifedean: the criteria unfortunately is not money, it's cake!
bitstein: asciilifeform: rabbit starvation is because of a lack of fat
trinque: bitstein: strange how your teeth don't look much like the teeth of an animal that makes this its business.
bitstein: Yea, I have these good for nothing canines and incisors.
bitstein: My molars certainly don't look like those of herbivores.
mircea_popescu: the chief merit of the human body is that it's so incredibly tolerant, it'll carry forward all sorts of bizarre notions of the inhabitant.
bitstein: mircea_popescu: yea, like that it can handle lots of sugar and insulin
saifedean: yes, your body is amazingly tolerant you can choose to live your life walking on your hands and using tools with your legs... but you do not have to
saifedean: and if you spent your entire life walking on your hands... it will sound crazy when someone tells you these hands would do a better job on a keyboard than feet!
mircea_popescu: come to think about it... you've never had a proper argentine porterhouse steak have you
mircea_popescu: you don't spend enough time with the chicks >1.80 alfie.
bitstein: asciilifeform: that's my argument against vegetarianism
mircea_popescu: every slut out there knows, that she can either sleep enough or age prematurely. ask 'em.
mircea_popescu: from an anthropologist's pov, this entire "paleo" thing is pretty much a bunch of boys wanting to be as annoying as the vegans but not ready to embrace metrosexualism or w/e it's called.
mircea_popescu: you know, like the xtians have "their own" xtian rock, and the boring kids have their own "straight edge" punk which is all about punk if you live in wichita.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what everyone thinks, multiculturalism has its advantages.
saifedean: that's very profound coming from someone whose only real problem with trying paleo is their addiction to cake :D
bitstein: mircea_popescu: my problem with "paleo" is it doesn't take itself seriously. paleo people eat so many foods that are only a few thousand years old. just look to their favorite veggies like broccoli, kale, cauliflower...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea saifedean: fuck broccoli, kale, and cauliflower
mircea_popescu: you know, since im on okcupid about 10 derpy chicks a day go "o, i know why you're not married, you're AFRAID of it!!1"
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally, something;s stupid because i'm not good enough for it, i'll buy that.
saifedean: they're an improvement over bread and pasta, but they're not what's gonna make you strong and healthy
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with pasta. just don't eat too much of it.
saifedean: there's nothing wrong with cyanide, too, by that logic
saifedean: but that's not how it works. grains are fucking poison, and the more you eat, the more you kill yourself. there is no "too much", any quantity is bad. if you can get over your sugar addiction enough to cut it all out, you'd be far healthier
mircea_popescu: dude, the more you eat anything the more you kill yourself. go vacuseal your carcass already.
bitstein: asciilifeform: what are you talking about? my entire diet is composed of flesh pleasures.
mircea_popescu: also the more babies your women have the older you get. and so on.
saifedean: lol you guys are addicted to the sugar rush and insulin spike... try to get over that addiction for a month, then try pasta and see how it feels
saifedean: it tastes like shit and it makes you feel like shit and it kills you slowly.
saifedean: and what did you do about CAKE o.0
saifedean: now quit meat for a month and get back to it, and it'll be the best day of your life when you have your first steak in a month
mircea_popescu: dude gets caught talking out of his ass - for the third time in an evening only, so i guess that's not so bad - switches seamlessly to more of the same.
☟︎ punkman: saifedean: it's peculiar that every time you visit you want to have the same discussion
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it's a pity they didn't put any copyright notices opn that page. for one thing, copyright doesn't work without a notice, and for the other - someone could steal their muzak!
trinque: punkman: fun to be the bearer of secret knowledge
bitstein: punkman: it's peculiar that people are so nihilistic about nutrition, a fundamental aspect of being alive and being human
mircea_popescu: bitstein being disinterested in innovation as to a fundamental part of one's culture does not have anything to see with "being nihilistic about nutrition"
bitstein: who said anything about a cure-all?
trinque: and one neat trick they dun want u to kno
mircea_popescu: go talk to israeli jews about you know, your solution to their geopolitical problems.
mircea_popescu: "dudes, if you only took left turns while driving for three months everything would be fixed!"
mircea_popescu: but ... i'm addicted to taking the bitchez on nude walks!
saifedean: the most amusingly funny aspect of this is that you folk sound exactly like my economist colleagues dismissing bitcoin... you don't know anything about it, but you can make up enough strawmen and groupthink to feel better about dismissing it
mircea_popescu: iirc you're the guy that upon examination turned out to be bereft of experience in the matter.
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saifedean: what examination?! which strawman was that?
bitstein: mircea_popescu: next: !down cake
mircea_popescu: actually kinda reminds me of the story of that guy, the anesthesiologist.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: just who /is/ the 'brightest mind in banking alive today'?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the one who was really rather talented but sold it all for western trinkets ?
pete_dushenski: so turns out transcript work is not for the faint of heart.
pete_dushenski: and all i was doing was copying subtitles, and i was still floored by the volume
pete_dushenski: anyways, glad to see bitbet payouts finally worked their way through the grinder
ben_vulpes: any idea what your wpm was, pete_dushenski?
ben_vulpes: sounds like you need some pedals like trinque
punkman: pro transcriptionists do use pedals
pete_dushenski: thankfully, youtubes pause with the spacebar, so the mouse wasn't needed
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ben_vulpes: saifedean, funkenstein_, and DiabloD3 - the list of dietary nutters grows...
gribble: diablod3 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 16 weeks, 4 days, 4 hours, 7 minutes, and 59 seconds ago: <DiabloD3> its a work in progress
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 05:33:16; asciilifeform: and wtf happened to his wot rating ?!
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 05:26:59; mircea_popescu: dude gets caught talking out of his ass - for the third time in an evening only, so i guess that's not so bad - switches seamlessly to more of the same.
mircea_popescu: anyway, diablo-d3 is a guy that did some work on one of the earliest independent miners (ie, gpu based not cpu based like the origian client), then followed up with a lulzy explosion at tardstalk over his plan to collect 1mn btc which "the community" owed him, and then use it to build some fantastic datacenter-cum-powerplant altogether reminescent of
http://trilema.com/2010/moment-de-visare/ mircea_popescu: after that didn't happen he had a moment of butthurt, then moved on to dealing in partnering up with usagi and giving away with both hands the few k's of btcs he did somehow collect (at the time btc was like 2 bux) in exchange for ridiculously valued worthless paper,
ben_vulpes: anyways it's not cake at issue, it's kakolate ice cream
assbot: diablod3 is not registered in WoT.
mircea_popescu: actually... iirc he did manage to get some asicminer shares at some point, which for a period were deemed worthless, but which then came up once they delivered and made his investors whole, or maybe close to it, or at least so he claimed at the time.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the people following the nutrition discussion along at home : the average human needs something to the tune of 2k calories a day to sit around and derp on social media. a little more if he actually moves. the sources of these calories can be protein, fat or sweets, there is nothing else. protein and sweets count at about 4 calories/gram, fat at about 7. the liver has a fixed capacity to process proteins, at
mircea_popescu: about 150-200 grams a day. there is similarly a fixed capacity to process fats. these also go through the liver, but mostly the bile is the limiting factor there. meanwhile sweets go through the pancreatic-centered insulin mechanism.
mircea_popescu: it should be obvious that one wants a mix of these three sources in their diet. (starches, such as breads etc, are all sweets for thid discussion, so is alcohol).
mircea_popescu: the limits are that on one hand you certainly can not have no fat and live ; and on the other the brain burns glucose exclusively. it is about 20 times more difficult to make it out of fat than it is to just rectify sugars, but the body'll do it if it has to.
mircea_popescu: similarly it'll adapt to anything within reason, and as far as it can help it, beyond any reason. it's only job is to keep you going and it takes it more seriously than you'll ever take anything as long as you live.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that said, the only certainty is that one day it'll fail to bring you back to homeostasis, and that's that.
ben_vulpes: stay in your performance envelope, hotshot.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-01-2016#1364239 << "The odds of winning are 1 in 292.2 million. So the expected value of a ticket is $800*1/292.2=$2.73. A ticket only costs $2 so that’s a positive expected value purchase! We do have to make a few adjustments, however. The $800 million is paid out over 30 years while the $2 is paid out today."
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 09-01-2016 18:52:52; BingoBoingo: Anyone want an Illinois lottery powerball ticket for tonight's 900 million dollar drawing, for the potential collection lulz?
BingoBoingo: The people who end up on all fats for fuel end up having to feed the brain ketones which works as an anticonvulsant, but for the same reason alcohol does. Unbalance electrical activity in the brain is forced to slow because now burning suboptimal fuel.
BingoBoingo: Could simulate these changes with benzodiazepine dependence (which is why people who do the Keto thing recreationally start to feel sick when carbs are introduced, ketosis stops and they undergo a drug withdrawal)
☟︎ BingoBoingo apologizes for not being around to say this to the addicts, was at addict story time club poker game doubling my quarters.
BingoBoingo: But yes, when the ketosis people talk about feeling sick when consuming carbs they really are feeling sick. Dope sick, just like a junkie dosed with narcan.
pete_dushenski: re: virtual boy, this is why the oculus rift this ~will not~ take off
pete_dushenski: unless you can see people gawking at your new gizmo, how are you going to know what you're cool ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: though i recall playing with one at the store as a boy, quite an intriguing bit of kit at the time
bitstein: I had one when it came out for about 2 hours. We took it back and got a super nintendo.
pete_dushenski checks ebay. sees that virtual boy is still dirt cheap. figures that, indeed, thing must have been utter garbage.
BingoBoingo also floored by the dairy hate, WHERE ELSE DOES WHEY COME FROM???
pete_dushenski: heya bitstein, you ever figure out what happened to your boy pierre ? seemed like he went off the reservation of late re:
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BingoBoingo thinks it was mere trolling. He was pushing this 1MB blocksize limit is preserved when blocksize limit removed enitrely because consensus.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: The idea is the burden of "consensus" forces the status quo 1MB blocksize to be preserved
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 03:54:17; mircea_popescu: but anyway. natural birth has a huge following in the states. almost unknown in yurp.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell saifedean Re: your tweets. I am sorry I can not help you at this time. If however your ketone dependence makes you hit bottom and your life becomes unmanagable, there's probably a group for that.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <bitstein> it's an interesting idea << It's how I'm interpreting Pierre's twitter trolling. Anyways it is hard to hold people to what they say on the social media playground of propagandaneering
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 04:31:31; mircea_popescu: less reading more suckling ok ?
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 04:42:13; danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> here's a fun fact : you can buy raw milk in romania << same here in Connecticut, the one state in all of the ussa that permits sale outside of a farm
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 04:44:46; mircea_popescu: certainly can make your own curds.
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assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 05:24:10; *: asciilifeform finds it interesting how well dietary crackpottery fits with the ancient tradition of 'salvation by rejecting flesh pleasures'
ben_vulpes: guarding plebs from the madness of irrational numbers!
BingoBoingo: Hockey underdog whose trend demanded a bet won, more than doubled my quarters at poker, powerball though... scam
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ith: pete_dushenski: Vernon
ith: I think Vernon is an Illuminati support city. Is your aunt a psychopath?
BingoBoingo: Frome the mines, health scamzors getting poor: "Move over, quinoa, kale, and açaí– 2016’s newest superfood might come in a familiar package (or can). Pulses — the dried edible seeds of legume plants, which include things like lentils, dried peas, and beans — are hoping to get their moment in the spotlight, thanks in part to a United Nations campaign to make 2016 the International Year of Pulses."
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: saw the same 'pulses' suggestion in cbc's article on grocery store inflation
pete_dushenski: ith: so what keeps you busy in vernon ? pretty sleepy little town last i was through
ith: pete_dushenski: I am being held prisoner by the Illuminati and can't escape. All day I try to survive relentlous attacks on my mind from my mother, my father and others who speak to me from the apartment downstairs, and manipulate me by directing messages to me (appearing to be speaking to a caller), in the case of my father, from the living room
ith: I struggle daily to survive and find a way to be free of these people
pete_dushenski: from mr. reed, who unfortunately doesn't have a comments section with which to correct his lack of 'bahamas' : "I’m going to move to Mexico. I swear I am. Except that I already have. Well, I’m going to move there twice. It’s to get away from Hussein Obama."
ith: They have stolen my brain code and use electromagnetic weapons to manipulate me by making it appear that sounds are coming from beneath concrete floors, etc. to try to drive me crazy
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BingoBoingo: Because oh, militant opposition groups aren't for the United States. They are only for Countries they CIA plants them in.
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BingoBoingo: Same link on Oathers: "A local “Committee for Safety,” which coordinates with Oath Keepers, has approached the protesters and asked them to leave."
ben_vulpes: trinque: yeah those failed boost targets are a real bitch
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copypaste: will the bitcoin foundation be accepting "segregated witness" into its client?
☟︎ copypaste: (i mean thebitcoin.foundation, not any fake one)
adlai: copypaste: i don't speak on their behalf, but it's highly doubtful that it'll include such opt-in softforks
copypaste: i think they should make a statement on it if it gets into Bitcoin "Core", since it seems to have wide support (but this support could just be imaginary on my part)
adlai: you must have missed a few trilema/qntra articles?
copypaste: i'd be especially curious how the bitcoin foundation would react if more than half of transactions were using it,
☟︎ copypaste: adlai: does BingoBoingo/qntra speak for the bitcoin foundation?
☟︎ adlai: eh, proportion of transactions is an unclear measure. proportion of utxos is a clearer one, and you can see that eg p2sh still has quite small market share, despite being adopted by several fiat-btc exchange sites
copypaste: right, but i'm pretty sure that script hash transactions are something that has to be opted into, meanwhile "segregated witness" if to work "well" (i.e. for maximum transactions) would have to be invisible to the user, as in on by default
copypaste: so many users might use it without noticing especially if it becomes default in bitcoin core.
☟︎ copypaste: but you have to take specific steps to send to a script hash
adlai: if you run a full node which has no recognition of segwit, you can still operate normally. segwit is dangerous for a) users of non-full nodes who think they have "SPV security" (whatever that may mean), and b) everybody, if enough utxos use segwit that miner defection becomes a real risk
☟︎ adlai: what happens with segwit is that people who do opt-in, have significantly less security in the face of miner defection
adlai: miner defection can't steal from people who didn't opt-in, although it causes reorganizations and general headless-chicken-panic
adlai: copypaste: also check out
http://p2sh.info/ which I like to interpret as the bounties available to defecting miners, should full nodes let them revert each respective soft fork
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assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 06:34:00; pete_dushenski: unless you can see people gawking at your new gizmo, how are you going to know what you're cool ?
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 06:50:13; BingoBoingo: ;;later tell saifedean Re: your tweets. I am sorry I can not help you at this time. If however your ketone dependence makes you hit bottom and your life becomes unmanagable, there's probably a group for that.
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assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 07:16:55; assbot: New Yorkers Can Now Be Fined $250,000 For Not Using Loony Gender Pronouns Like “Ze” And “Hir” ... (
http://bit.ly/1ZdJMiw )
mircea_popescu: "Apologists for this kind of SJW fascism will contend that the $250,000 fine is not mandatory and is a maximum, as if it somehow eliminates the farce of the laws’ new interpretation." << you know, consensus will enforce the lower limit.
mircea_popescu: everyone still living in new york must now use "Blasioisanidiotmarriedtoadisgustingnigger" as my preferred gender pronoun. failure to do so "more than a couple of times" means you gotta self-report yourself to city hall. bring your fine with you.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all the lulz aside, someone point out to the guy that the guidance is for employers and other "covered entitites", and his "quarelling couple in a bar" chosen example is entirely nonsensical. what the fuck is with these idiots, nobody went to school that speaks english ? a fucking generation of kelly bundys out there for the love of christ.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 07:59:18; BingoBoingo: ^ Good use of picture? yes or no?
mircea_popescu: "who normally presides over a force of local force of six," nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: " Harney County Sheriff David Ward, who normally presides over a force of local force of six, is the public face of the combined government effort lead by Federal forces." becomes "Harney County Sheriff David Ward, who normally presides over a force of locally forced six is now the public face of the combined government effort lead by Federal Force IV."
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mircea_popescu: and add a ((Mark to be pronounced "Carl" not "four")) on that IV
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 08:02:09; assbot: Whose land is it, anyway? Critics, supporters of armed Oregon occupiers agree protest must end — RT USA ... (
http://bit.ly/1mMFHpY )
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:41:58; copypaste: adlai: does BingoBoingo/qntra speak for the bitcoin foundation?
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:43:48; copypaste: so many users might use it without noticing especially if it becomes default in bitcoin core.
assbot: Logged on 05-01-2016 19:28:40; mircea_ahoy: direct any complaints as to "why my txn has been waiting for x days" to anyone and everyone who is running non-conformant bitcoin implementations. starting with the pools.
mircea_popescu: seeing how exactly 100% of bitcoin businesses are run by people here, it'll be a funny dispute between you know, the actual bitcoin people and all the derps sitting at the edges and opining about how things should be.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:40:52; copypaste: i'd be especially curious how the bitcoin foundation would react if more than half of transactions were using it,
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
thestringpuller: "An interesting consequence of this design is that, since all mapped blocks are empty, old clients will never see transactions confirming." << there are proposed soft forks which will essentially fork other nodes off the network.
shinohai: thestringpuller: any luck with your node?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller there is fundamentally nothing wrong with people using the permanence nature of the blockchain to enshrine data relevant to them in it. we do it already, with deedbot.
mircea_popescu: you could say that there is something fundamentally wrong with the fraudulent nature of their claims - because no, they're not moving bitcoin back and forth, but mere derivative tokens - but then again, to get the muppets to follow along and get out of actual human beings' way, you usually have to lie to them.
mircea_popescu: i am glad these dudes are here to do the lying so i don't have to, and with that... good riddance.
mircea_popescu: if all the coffee buying "with bitcoin", all five of the yearly instances, moves on a deedbot-like thing or simply goes away it makes exactly 0 difference.
thestringpuller: this is fine as long as my future trb node can witness transactions being confirmed that it broadcasted.
thestringpuller: if I broadcast tx and have to use block explorer or god forbid "upgrade" to see it confirm, then I take issue
thestringpuller: shinohai: i gave mod6 access to my box for further diagnostics
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thestringpuller: imo this is why TRB Foundation is so important. it not only decrufts the shitty code but acts as defenders of the blockchain
shinohai: Oh awesum. zzzzzzzzztook me a little longer to get a VM up than I thought, I'm in the process of upgrading to new lappy.
mircea_popescu: this said, it has to be pointed out that the one thing all these derps have in common is - that they can not afford to pay for the hardware that is required to run their software they've "contributed". (and re this,
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-01-2016#1360176 is apropos.) in this sense the economic freestanding value of their "contributions" is null.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 04-01-2016 15:58:10; mircea_popescu: THEY however, with their needs to compensate for absent intelligence through the deployment of computing hardware, DO need the shit to "improve".
mircea_popescu: their projective ability to control the future is also absent, for this reason. consequently, it is not in any sense inconceivable that a situation will come to pass where the maintenance of their derpage requires resources nobody wishes to expend.
mircea_popescu: if that happens, all the "Soft forks" get reverted on the spot, and all the "hard work" and "contributions" go to the same place windows nt codebase went.
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thestringpuller: yes. and as I told my mom "We can't have nice things cause there are stupid people who ruin it for everyone", i think bitcoin solves this problem effectively, but must stay ever vigilant
mircea_popescu: clearly whether this happens or not is purely a matter of accident, which is to say a matter of time - all the pr derps can do exactly nothing to influence it any way
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, "contributing" to bitcoin outside of b-a / tmsr is a pure and objectively declared waste of time.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, 0/0 is still an undefined value - inasmuch as their time and effort is actually worthless then it can not be argued that they should stop what they're currentlyu doing.
shinohai: thestringpuller: yup, was going to try and emulate that CPU you showed me. Not sure abt the rest of the architecture tho :/
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:45:13; adlai: if you run a full node which has no recognition of segwit, you can still operate normally. segwit is dangerous for a) users of non-full nodes who think they have "SPV security" (whatever that may mean), and b) everybody, if enough utxos use segwit that miner defection becomes a real risk
mircea_popescu: miner defection from any and all non-trb approved soft forks is a ~GUARANTEE~ in the future. just a question of when.
mircea_popescu: and if anyone imagines the "you wouldn't be willing to hurt innocents" is going to hold worth one stitch, please kindly review the history of accidental payments to bitbet and all that.
mircea_popescu: if a billion people starve because their thousands of btc got stolen by greedy miners who saw an opportunity to revert a soft fork and took it - i'll cheer them on. that's a billion idiots less, and an absolutely ideal end state.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wrote about that in his Qntra piece.
kakobrekla: great, good to hear angry emails will end soon
kakobrekla: the funniest was "pls hurry im traveling and out of cash"
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people arguing absurdities on bet resolutions like it happens now and again are actually you know, stranded in an airport somewhere and got nothing better to do until the battery runs out.
mircea_popescu: oh check that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing that apple fails in 2016.
☟︎☟︎ copypaste: i understand. thank you guys. i can't believe so called coredevs are supporting something which has such obvious problem as defecting miners dumping all transactions that follow the new rules. wtf.
copypaste: and then collecting all the fees. lol
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:43:30; mircea_popescu: oh check that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing that apple fails in 2016.
copypaste: so people going along with soft forks are literally just throwing their coins into a blackhole which will be opened whenever miners defect, which is a gaurantee as more muppets follow along with the softfork the potential gain from defecting rises
☟︎ copypaste: how can the "core" devs not see the obvious flaw in this stupidplan?
mircea_popescu: they are doing exactly the same thing they do with their every waking move : banking on the ultimately doomed proposition that "this ledge will hold".
mircea_popescu: what do they do when they pay taxes ? put money in 401k ?
mircea_popescu: whence would come such a sudden and complete change for the masses ? there is no such thing.
copypaste: but are the core developers really the "masses"?
copypaste: there aren't many of them, and they're supposed to be intelligent
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mircea_popescu: in fact... "there aren't many of them, and they're supposed to be intelligent" is not unlike saying "this cow doesn't belong in the pen, it gives a lot of milk which is rare". whether it goes in the pen or puts the would-be farmer in the pen strictly depends on how willing to
http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=shoot+cop the cow finds itself.
assbot: 8 results for 'shoot cop' - #bitcoin-assets search
copypaste: i see. it's all about mindset, and their mindset is all wrong.
mircea_popescu: in other words, intelligence is no bar against stupidity. they may be as intelligent as you wish, but certainly dumb as rocks. and so...
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:49:35; copypaste: so people going along with soft forks are literally just throwing their coins into a blackhole which will be opened whenever miners defect, which is a gaurantee as more muppets follow along with the softfork the potential gain from defecting rises
copypaste: the funny thing is, to hear them describe it (luke jr, wuille, antonopolous, and so on) "segwit" (cute name) has no problems whatsoever and softforks are perfectly safe so everyone should start throwing their coins into segwit transactions so as to make the overall "capacity" of the network go up
copypaste: i haven't seen one mention of the miner defection problem anywhere but b-a
copypaste: even though it's such an obvious flaw ...
mircea_popescu: and then they get hits called on their stupid heads and "nobody" understands why.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you were around for / recall this, but after i singlehandedly nixed the original "block expansion" almost a year ago to the day, they spent A FUCKING YEAR
mircea_popescu: pretending that a) didn't happen and then latter that b) if it happened it didn't matter and then even later that c) they did it anyway by themselves!!1
copypaste: so that's why at first they were all in support of raising the blocksize, but then they all turned against gavin
mircea_popescu: there is something fundamentally wrong with people, intelligent or otherwise, who can't simply come out and say "mp said no, so it can't be done". just like there's something fundamentally wrong with people who can't simply come out and say "i tried pissing upwind and staying dry - it doesn't work".
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funkenstein_: ascii is right I sympathize with saifedean and recommend a video "the business of being born"
funkenstein_: but I imagine I should hold off on exposing you to further of my dietary nuttery
mircea_popescu: i dun think the part about how limiting excessive medical procedurizing is the core of sane medicine was at all controversial.
mircea_popescu: heck, it's actually one of the oldest ideas in western thought.
funkenstein_: mircea_popsescu, your comment about Cauchy-Schwarz has led me on some wild goose chases
mircea_popescu: it's a basic tool for resolving certain problems in analysis.
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mircea_popescu: i dunno why the muricans don't recognize b's merits. he did the integral expansion which is the actual reason it's even useful.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and add a ((Mark to be pronounced "Carl" not "four")) on that IV << fixed
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mircea_popescu: This was the "Cadillac of computers". In 1975, when this system was introduced, Altair system owners were flipping switches for hours just to watch lights blink on the front panel of their systems. Digital Group system owners were throwing a power switch and loading an operating system in less than 20 seconds. The cassette interface, standard with DG systems, loaded programs at 1100 baud. At the time, this was nearly f
mircea_popescu: our times the speed possible with any other manufacturers tape systems, and ten times faster than paper tape -- the only method available at the time for loading Micro Soft BASIC onto the Altair system. Of course, to even do that on an Altair, you had to buy a paper tape reader and an interface. Usually an ASR-33 Teletype and an SIO card. ($$$) By contrast, Digital Group systems included a video and cassette interface
mircea_popescu: and a keyboard as standard equipment with all of their systems."
mircea_popescu: that lisp company isn't the only thing to have sunk irrespective of immense tech advantages in the history of computing.
mircea_popescu: " As the tape was read, the screen would fill with the HEX or OCTAL page high address of the byte being loaded, testing the memory content for correctly loaded data as each byte was saved."
mircea_popescu: "Digital Group also offered a very wide range of hardware accessories. If it was available to computer users at the time, it was available to DG system owners, and usually first. A users group of the time reported (and I confirmed in conversation with Dr. Suding) that within two weeks of the release of the Zilog Z80 chip samples, Dr. Suding had finalized the design for the Digital Group Z80 processor card, and had work
mircea_popescu: ing systems on display at computer shows. Besting the closest competitor by weeks if not months. Contrast that with the common practice of the day, of running ads for a concept product, then using the money from the customer orders to develop the advertised hardware."
mircea_popescu: and of course, alf's favourite part, "Popular until the very end, Digital Group failed in August of 1979 due to management and parts supplier troubles, not a lack of customer interest or product orders. Co-founder Dr. Robert Suding recalled that at the time of the bankruptcy, DG had thousands of product information requests and orders waiting to be filled."
mircea_popescu: it is bad management not to do a large number of various things that appear counter-intuitive to "intelligent" people. especially to the "civilised" metastasis thereof.
pete_dushenski: "So we’re left with our original question: What is a healthy diet? We know the basics — we need sufficient calories and protein to keep our bodies alive. We need nutrients like vitamin C and iron. Beyond that, we may be overthinking it"
pete_dushenski: "The takeaway, Archer said, is that our bodies are adaptable and pretty good at telling us what we need, if we can learn to listen."
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 06:11:34; mircea_popescu: similarly it'll adapt to anything within reason, and as far as it can help it, beyond any reason. it's only job is to keep you going and it takes it more seriously than you'll ever take anything as long as you live.
pete_dushenski: "Edward Archer, a computational physiologist at the University of Alabama’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center in Birmingham"
mircea_popescu: anyway, im in full agreement with the fellow on the "listen to body" angle. if one can shut up the stupid going on in his head long enough, absolutely amazing feats can be accomplished, such as knowing when to eat and what.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:29:15; copypaste: will the bitcoin foundation be accepting "segregated witness" into its client?
assbot: There's a one Bitcoin reward for the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1lxiG9S )
copypaste: pete_dushenski: you never seem online at an opportune time for me to tell you this. i think that you should develop your own style instead of copying MP's for contravex. contravex is a cheap knockoff at best to trilema. no one can surmount the original, i wouldn't dare even try writing in MP\s signature style.
copypaste: oh right, i forgot that command. i don't chat here often
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pete_dushenski: "Someone is betting $40,026 on the life of a 73-year-old lottery winner in Michigan. That amount was the highest bid Thursday in an online auction for a lottery prize that pays $1,000 a month, before taxes. But here's the hitch: The money is paid only as long as Donald Magett stays alive."
pete_dushenski: ^that winner'd better hope he's not drinking the tap water
pete_dushenski: watch donald be dropped off weekly cases of bottled water.
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funkenstein_: "You can prevent, totally prevent, cardio myopathy for ten cents a day. And if we don't do it, we are malignant dumb, I like to call it. Malignant dumb if you don't take in ten cents a day of Selenium. It's a waste of your life. It's one of those landmines that you can avoid.
funkenstein_: "The medical treatment of choice for cardio myopathy is a heart transplant, costs $750,000. I want you to think about that. They get the heart free from a donor, they get the blood free for the surgery from the relatives. They use $2.50 of suture material, and they charge you $750,000 for that procedure. Now 6 months ago in LA when they had the earthquake, they were putting people in jail for 60 and 90 days for price-gouging, for se
funkenstein_: lling these terrified people a gallon of water for $4.00. They put them in jail for price-gouging, for selling them a gallon of water for four bucks.
shinohai: Guess I'll have to compile trb on tinkerbell linux now
mircea_popescu: eh that's rank nonsense. "they" have to spend twenty fucking years training to be doing this, and "they" aren't joe blow from the gun fair.
pete_dushenski: waterboy is more than welcome to open his own heart transplant clinic, undercut the competition. go. do.
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me that you want random derp to be competing for heart transplant customers on the basis of marketing
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the point is the skills, not the location
mircea_popescu: no bro he got mad skills from watching the nature channel. just like all the other tardstalk ceobusinessmen
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: then other idiots learn that 750k isn't such a bad deal ?
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mircea_popescu: getting back to sanity, selenium is an essential micronutrient and not that hard to get. eat moar beats.
pete_dushenski: copypaste: furthermore, how'd you know that i wasn't an acultured asshole before reading trilema ? not that i deny the influence, but that's not entirely the point. the point is... how'd you know ? maybe being "mean" (or however you'd describe mp's style) is a cause of hanging around b-a, and not an effect, y'know ?
pete_dushenski: or maybe 'eating beats' is what dre calls it when his 'cheeks get pounded' or what was it
assbot: Logged on 03-01-2016 15:23:46; mircea_popescu: thought you were smart. You still dumb. If I want to pound some butt, I could do a woman. I’m a bisexual because I like to get my cheekbones blown out. I like to get pounded in the butt.’”
pete_dushenski: s/acultured/cultured. hm. dunno why that first one sounded right. it's definitely wrong.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:43:30; mircea_popescu: oh check that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing that apple fails in 2016.
pete_dushenski: "but jobs planned out the next 5 years of products so the company is still in good hands even though he's dead"
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mircea_popescu: apple is a monopoly in the sense qq.com is a monopoly. you... never heard of it.
assbot: Logged on 06-01-2016 21:57:20; pete_dushenski: girl who leases $500/mo suv couldn't imagine justifying $800 iph0ne, so... bought $300 chinese thing
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: what pc's do you imagine anyone under 60 is buying at this point ?
pete_dushenski: gray-haired men, yes, buy new crapple. that's it. walk into 'apple store' and look who is at 'genius bar'
mircea_popescu: you were talking about some obscure desktop thing apple perhaps still makes ?!
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a flying fuck about making desktops when discussing the apple failure.
mircea_popescu: if it sheds 99.4% oif its market cap and preserves the tiny thing you're interested in,
mircea_popescu: you'll say "nothing happened, as predicted, because monopoly"
mircea_popescu: and the world will say "omfg apple is finished. what a crater."
trinque: worth noting here that Google is rumbling about moving into PCs
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mircea_popescu: well... im gonna tell the investors you're working on it nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: trinque their bid to take over internet infrastructure altogether is apparently a little stalled.
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: Too much selenium is bad though, makes a person stink. Even thiols can't apporach the stink of selenium compounds
trinque: mircea_popescu: on the hosting side bezos has eaten a lot of it, and as far as what the average derp is staring at when she thinks she's on the internet, facebook
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BingoBoingo: <trinque> mircea_popescu: on the hosting side bezos has eaten a lot of it, and as far as what the average derp is staring at when she thinks she's on the internet, facebook << For on this try to find the web presence of any 'Murican Militia organization
BingoBoingo: Excluding Oathkeepers and other known USG moles
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: OH, some of them have EXTENSIVE facebook presences
BingoBoingo: But yes, to contact them gotta go through USG dept of prisons
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, but they were going to bitchslap cox cable & co on the providing side.
mircea_popescu: truth be told the connectivity situation of the us is really on par with its stature in the world : african.
trinque: mircea_popescu: that's right, "google fiber"
mircea_popescu: well, just like africa, so is the us a big... "country".
mircea_popescu: some places got better connectivity than others, but overall...
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> this is one of the things severely limiting the appeal, from my pov, of 'cheap middle-of-nowhere' locales there << Yeah, gotta be near a cable path and all of a sudden house no longer 1/5 but 1/4 or even 1/3
BingoBoingo: Oh, no I mean the transit cables, but even then no guarentee people will care to tap them >>
http://rlc.edu campus runs on poin to point wireless even though near I-57 and massive cables going from Chicago to US South, because no one has will to tap cables
BingoBoingo: But if near transit cables with existing tap, internet not too bad
BingoBoingo: Nowhere's ville near cable taps is where you find decent muni fiber in USia
BingoBoingo: What you really want for Best USA Internet (TM/R) is suburb 8.5-25 kilowarmbodies 10-30 miles from regional population hub and not too far from inerstate highway path
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: do you happen to have the link to that classic russian 'chukka' comic handy ? i can't find it in the logs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8400 @ 0.00049768 = 4.1805 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: What you want is a core of people who aren't poor relative to the rest of their USistan region. Once they make the muni-fiber jump the first few years are rough until they get addicted to uptime and buying more cables headed in different directions out of town.
pete_dushenski: friends had a kid (half indian, half lithuanian) who looks 100% 'chukka'
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funkenstein_: <mircea_popescu> apple is a monopoly in the sense qq.com is a monopoly. you... never heard of it. <-- i was surprised to learn recently tencent was a major player in handling the exchange to fiat-bank segment for e.g. btcchina
funkenstein_: though now apparently they go direct without third parties
funkenstein_: BingoBoingo, for this dwarf the bottleneck is never bandwidth or screenspace. Always my own fucking head.
BingoBoingo very disappoint there are no cool alternate lines being offered anywhere he can find on the Bama-Clemson game tomorrow. Wants to take Bama -13.5 or -20.5
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BingoBoingo: ;;later tell PeterL What kind of budget would you need to produce a paper on the sulfur chemistry of FOOF in the name of making the TMSR a contributor to cutting edge science?
BingoBoingo: Seems like low hanging fruit for TMSR to legitimately contribute to the advancement of the physical sciences
ben_vulpes: that one made an appearance in 'Ignition!' iirc
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: If we are to etch our own silicon we gotta consider all sorts of weird
BingoBoingo: "In an interview with Wired, Mr. Chaum revealed that, to prevent cybercrime and other nefarious groups from using their network, the researchers behind this initiative are planning to create a PrivaTegrity Council."
☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: "This council will provide access to data about users to law enforcement, but only for those who use the network for criminal activities. This council will have nine members from across the world, and all have to agree to release information about users to any government inquiring for data."
BingoBoingo: Just a man, pretending to be a man, pretending to be another man.
pete_dushenski: " and all have to agree to release information about users to any government inquiring for data." << 9/9 multi-sig !
pete_dushenski: "In short, right now the bitcoin infrastructure is insufficient to support the unbanked. This must and will change. Before we begin, a bit of disclosure: I’ve been researching this for my on project, Freemit, and I’ve been talking talking to startups in this space." << so much talking
pete_dushenski: "The bitcoin infrastructure is excellent, secure, and powerful in the abstract. In practice it is useless… but not for long." << try death warrants with paypal.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i've been thinking a lot about proteins lately
mircea_popescu: "since 100% of all bitcoin businesses are in b-a and b-a doesn't like it, you know what ? it is useless!11 nothing ever happened!111 blablabl~!111"
ben_vulpes is operating under a severe cognition deficit today. weird bugs in the blood.
mircea_popescu: it'll take you forever to find out it doesn't work, sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: "Writer and Maker. Editor for TechCrunch." heh. ever novel ways to say "nobody doing nothing, ignore me please"
BingoBoingo: Not to mention shaping proteins is hard bsns
pete_dushenski: i thought the whole 'maker' thing woulda died when 3d printing didn't put home depot out of business in 12 months flat. guess not eh
pete_dushenski: in other 'how would you know' nyooz, ""Everyone in our pool is making money, because people who aren't making money would not have their machines turned on," BTCC's Lee said."
pete_dushenski: probably the same logic bobby lee used to arrive at the 'must have 2mb blocks' conclusion
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 19:45:08; BingoBoingo: "In an interview with Wired, Mr. Chaum revealed that, to prevent cybercrime and other nefarious groups from using their network, the researchers behind this initiative are planning to create a PrivaTegrity Council."
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BingoBoingo: Did this Kristov Atlas fellow ever have a presence in either WoT, this is the stupid sort of twitter rambling that demands an ideological negrate
https://archive.is/fIuTA ☟︎ assbot: Kristov Atlas on Twitter: "@bboingo @bboingo @pierre_rochard @rogerkver right, but a firefighter's job presently is to take on physical risk." ... (
http://bit.ly/1ZeNJne )
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BingoBoingo: Seriously Obeasts are only a hazard to themselves? Does he even consider the pathogens people who can't clean their ass spread everyday as they go about sitting and leaning on public spaces.
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BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: More than any dietary change, avoiding morbid Obeasts will materially improve your health. Give it a try for 30 day, see the improvement in your life.
ben_vulpes: your reports are from a different universe from that which i inhabit
ben_vulpes: no obeasts on 1400 vertical foot hikes
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes already build his wizard tower?
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BingoBoingo right now just wondering on the holy grail of sealed FeNi batteries which would make wizard tower pissibru
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assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 19:45:08; BingoBoingo: "In an interview with Wired, Mr. Chaum revealed that, to prevent cybercrime and other nefarious groups from using their network, the researchers behind this initiative are planning to create a PrivaTegrity Council."
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thestringpuller: Basically all "new" PRB-nodes will refuse to relay high-S tx's to the network. Miners will still mine them though. But interesting that a high-s transaction has high probability to get fellated and malleated by network before being mined.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it shouldn't be the case that you're connected exclusively to prb nodes.
mircea_popescu: it should also not be the case that there isn't a trb path between you and miners.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i was just saying if miners receive tx's to mine via PRB code then it'll isolate
thestringpuller: i dunno if this is case, cause not like miners publicize their nodes (or maybe they do, i'm still investigating)
mircea_popescu: it's complicated and multi-layered and so on because ddos.
mircea_popescu: the dns derps keep going on about how important and bla bla they are - but by comparison they're 13yo's at the beach, making sandcastles.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 20:07:18; asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu will probably tell us that he oughta have shot a cop somewhere.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 19:56:13; ben_vulpes: "monte-carlo 'engineering'"
mircea_popescu: hey check that out, zimmerman makes nsa-phone and david chaum makes nsa-gossipd.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 20:15:26; BingoBoingo: Did this Kristov Atlas fellow ever have a presence in either WoT, this is the stupid sort of twitter rambling that demands an ideological negrate
https://archive.is/fIuTA mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the general lack of personal integrity in the angloworld is quite the sad spectacle, huh.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i have no interest in designing molecular structures myself. i am mostly interested in simulating the interactions of easily-procured precursors in lots and lots of sims, varying lots and lots of variables in the sim, in order to crap out eg simple logic gates
ben_vulpes: this is how various novel antibacterials are 'designed'.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, i get it, you want maximum skim for minimum upfront work.
mircea_popescu: yes but that because bad math more than anything else.
mircea_popescu: but not provable that a good heuristic intermediate between "closed form" and "fuck you" is absent for fundamental reasons.
mircea_popescu: i don't need it to answer absolutely. i just need it to reduce by a factor of 10^20 rather than by a factor of maybe 10^3
mircea_popescu: this was the exact description of a "bad math" situation htroughout the history of science.
mircea_popescu: in particular, it's why calorimetric theory was unverifiable. and so on.
mircea_popescu: so i'm taking an educated guess : it's because bad math.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 23:04:06; asciilifeform: 'powe ranger' bitcoin