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asciilifeform: polarbeard: care to give an example of how this was run ?
asciilifeform: let's say i want to press to the latest
polarbeard: you probably need to specify some paths, wot, patches and sigs
polarbeard: and that's it
polarbeard: sigs is what you call seals
polarbeard: you need the diff splitter, splitdiff ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> for any innocents : bingo is this activity where you get a bit of paper printed with numbers, there's a loudspeaker saying numbers, and you cross out the matches. << Aha, yes. It's like lottery as in person activity.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381690 << nah, they're 2-3 tons at 5-10k a kg. a truck is 5-10 tons at maaaybe a few hundies a kg. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:08:54; asciilifeform: about what a truck costs
asciilifeform: polarbeard: and i notice that this thing relies on grep
polarbeard: from the patchutils package
asciilifeform: ugh
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno, it looks more like a job (and a shitty one at that) than entertainment to me.
polarbeard: right, you have to feed all the targets
mircea_popescu: :D
asciilifeform: polarbeard: this is neat, in the sense that an eiffel tower built from toothpicks is neat
polarbeard: that's why I said I don't know wether this will hit make's limits
polarbeard: I know :)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Gotta consider the people wo were playing. "Big prison" is already pretty well engrained into their "living"
asciilifeform: i thought 'bingo' was largely played by children ?!
asciilifeform: and folks in insane asylums
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely the best introduction i've seen to date, tho. beats http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-01-2016#1377854 by quite the margin. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2016 23:27:04; buZz: i am me
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mostly here played by the elderly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i liked 'jinglebutt' introduction
mircea_popescu: tho i suppose some of the gentlemen may prefer swedes.
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: uh... which was that one ?
asciilifeform: !up polarbeard
mircea_popescu: polarbeard you can self-voice, say !up to assbot in private.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was some chick, you quoted it as 'as the name implies, i am jinglebutt. now remove me from this list' or the like
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: actually, that one reporter wasn't bad, however long ago.
polarbeard: mircea_popescu: thanks for the tip
mircea_popescu: i guess ima make a top nao. brb.
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 383.64, vol: 14814.48883594 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 388.887, vol: 10333.26836 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 382.56, vol: 62542.28941267 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 352.0, vol: 12.8786204 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 386.2852, vol: 97365.99530000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 384.3099, vol: 519.12550084 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 389.786203978, vol: 69.32396777 | Volume-weighted last (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: ;;more
gribble: average: 384.957436949
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mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-06-2015#1178377 << oldies but goldies. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 26-06-2015 22:00:59; ielo: mircea_popescu, i'm just sick of your shit you've independently claimed like 3 people i know are scammers and your life is literally gossiping on the internet
asciilifeform: who even was that
BingoBoingo: Prolly an Israeli Jew
BingoBoingo: Just judging by demographics
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-06-2015#1178421 << l0lparticle from linked day in logz ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 26-06-2015 22:13:17; mircea_popescu: anyway, ascii_field, apparently the dean is asking some questions eh ?
asciilifeform: interesting how this came to nothing.
mircea_popescu: i don't even recall what that was ?
BingoBoingo: U Maryland
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was this, http://trilema.com/2015/on-the-elaine-shi-and-andrew-miller-scam-ring
assbot: On the Elaine Shi and Andrew Miller scam ring on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZSVkgK )
asciilifeform: https://cs.umd.edu/~amiller << graduated
assbot: Andrew Miller phd@umd ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZSVtkv )
asciilifeform: no signs of lowering into pederasty
pete_dushenski: except for "Currently on the job market"
asciilifeform: http://elaineshi.com << still employed
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZSVwg8 )
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: that is implied under 'graduated'
mircea_popescu: myeah. dey doubled down on stupid didn't dey.
asciilifeform: she's teaching at cornell now
asciilifeform: upgraded to junior nomenklatura, apparently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not THAT implied. most employers of uni derps are unis.
asciilifeform: crime - pays.
mircea_popescu: yeah, until it doesn't it keeps paying.
asciilifeform: my point is that it went down exactly how i knew it would - dean looked at the books and understood where the payola comes from, and did not ask further questions of anybody.
asciilifeform: nobody throws out $8M in nsf grantola
mircea_popescu: 8mn is actually lowish.
asciilifeform: quite enough to feed two derpatronicists and a dozen slave labourers
asciilifeform: and to leave plenty over for the common piggy ☟︎
asciilifeform: https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2014/02/elaine-shi-awarded-2014-sloan-research-fellowship << prize winner !!11111
assbot: Elaine Shi Awarded 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship | UMD Department of Computer Science ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZSW1H1 )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: 8MN is par for feeding some classes of derp
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-07-2014#758493 << since i'm going through history. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 21:20:07; gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: No one terribly interesting.
asciilifeform: as a former participant in the racket, i will say that 8m - even in ~today~'s watered-down usg - is a princely grant bag.
asciilifeform: quite enough to run a large lab for a year+.
asciilifeform: the other takeaway is that ~nsf~ specifically is a magical thing in that the dean had nothing whatsoever to worry about, even if the grant were for reprocessing babies into lollipops, he would never be answerable for it - washington ~signed~, aha
mircea_popescu: lol epic logs. "who are you ?" "princessnell sent me"
BingoBoingo: !up polarbeard
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-04-2014#597433 << lol is this early danielpbarron ? ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 01-04-2014 16:55:28; mircea_popescu: who are you ?! and why are you determined to feed my ignore list ?
asciilifeform: ;;google "ken sent me"
gribble: Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded - Part 9 - Ken sent me - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98S9omMfAo>; Fouk - Ken sent me - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws0jnqNoGsg>; Cosmic Space Jorma - Ken Sent Me - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GvXtrdXL0>
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2014#562094 << lmao. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2014 18:47:15; mircea_popescu: that's maybe what are you doing. who are you ?
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-03-2014#562097 << heh. dead links. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2014 18:49:24; datz_: i run https://peercover.com and sponsor http://openxrptalk.com
pete_dushenski: ;;seen nubbins`
gribble: nubbins` was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 weeks, 1 day, 9 hours, 7 minutes, and 7 seconds ago: <nubbins`> <+mircea_popescu> in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano << they say castellano in peru too, but if i'm not mistaken this is not universal in south america?
pete_dushenski: and then there was one canuckistani
asciilifeform: !s ;;seen nubbins`
assbot: 210 results for ';;seen nubbins`' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%3B%3Bseen+nubbins%60
pete_dushenski: i guess there was the wikidood what was his name...
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-12-2015#1336882 << record not yet broken!111 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 05-12-2015 14:33:39; gribble: nubbins` was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 7 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes, and 59 seconds ago: <nubbins`> autographs for only 5 tx fees
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: From what I understand nubsy occasionally has things to do like reveal laser fraud and print.
pete_dushenski: ;;seen mike_c
gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 11 weeks, 0 days, 23 hours, 35 minutes, and 40 seconds ago: <mike_c> let's get that thing out the door and get alf some goddamn bitcoin already
asciilifeform: ;;seen artifexd
mircea_popescu: he has a point dun he.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 39 weeks, 2 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes, and 40 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: ;;seen fiat500
gribble: fiat500 was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 years, 4 weeks, 2 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes, and 54 seconds ago: <fiat500> protein with a side of agony
mircea_popescu: ha-HA!
asciilifeform: ;;seen moiety
gribble: moiety was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 13 weeks, 6 days, 13 hours, and 4 seconds ago: <moiety> i have to go, it was nice to see yous
pete_dushenski: lol.
pete_dushenski: mike_c has br0ken previous record : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-01-2016#1366012 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 03:49:35; gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 9 weeks, 3 days, 2 hours, 38 minutes, and 15 seconds ago: <mike_c> let's get that thing out the door and get alf some goddamn bitcoin already
mod6: ;;seen vragnaroda
gribble: vragnaroda was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 years, 30 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <vragnaroda> I'm American.
mircea_popescu: sheesh
mod6: ikr?
mircea_popescu: and it's still here, you know, four years later.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck lasts this long on the internet.
mod6: not much
mircea_popescu: back then digg > reddit even.
polarbeard: mircea_popescu: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/14/server_retired_after_18_years_and_ten_months_beat_that_readers/
assbot: Server retired after 18 years and ten months – beat that, readers! • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1ORItnW )
mircea_popescu: nb.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/comments/808993 << lotta that dumb shit on okcupid too. "oh how strange, she has 20 pics in the same exact angle"
assbot: Ruston's Guide to Spotting and Avoiding Fatfishing | fatpeoplehate ... ( http://bit.ly/1Kvm8ay )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: OKC is where a lot of fatfishing happens
pete_dushenski: btc-e trading higher than bistamp, which is itself trading higher than bitfinex... don't think i've ever seen that before.
pete_dushenski: must be a blue moon
mircea_popescu: or a red one.
pete_dushenski: soviet moon is best moon
shinohai: o7
pete_dushenski: from the mines : "Make no mistake. Shinola watches are battery-powered, quartz movement watches. They’re not automatics. One could question whether or not a battery-powered watch justifies a $550-$1,000+ price. However, the quartz movements are made by their Swiss partners, Ronda AG, and then are sent to the 30,000 square foot Detroit factory where Shinola created dozens of jobs for Americans. Each Shinola watchmak
pete_dushenski: ndergoes intense, strict training. None of them had any watchmaker experience before. In short, not only did Shinola create jobs, they gave Detroit natives the training to do those jobs. That’s a pretty fucking noble cause, if you ask me."
pete_dushenski: who wouldn't want an over-priced timepiece manufactured by hobos ? not ~real~ americans !!!1
mircea_popescu: uh. weren't q&q quartz timepieces like 10-20 bux since forever ?
mircea_popescu: what 500.
pete_dushenski: "made in detroit" (tm) (r)
pete_dushenski: the only major city with rents under $1/sqm lend untold credulity and providence
mircea_popescu: "As for having fat pets, this shows that they have no concept of portion control. An animal will eat anything you put in front of it." << this is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: what is the animal, a pig ?
deedbot-: [Trilema] The top 3 best self-introductions in #bitcoin-assets to date - http://trilema.com/2016/the-top-3-best-self-introductions-in-bitcoin-assets-to-date/
polarbeard: what an honour
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381724 << if anyone in afghanistan etc were not fully employed in countig rocks and fucking goats thus managing to find their way here, i'd definitely finance a project to fly a quad to a drone and use the old komet trick ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:19:28; asciilifeform: quite odd that nobody has yet (afaik) demonstrated this.
mircea_popescu: (photodiode interrupted electic firiing, fly under enemy, boom)
BingoBoingo: !up polarbeard
BingoBoingo: polarbeard: You know you can voice yourself now?
polarbeard: yes, thanks
BingoBoingo: !help
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
BingoBoingo: ^instructions there
BingoBoingo: !down polarbeard !up thyself
pete_dushenski: off to the cinema. g'nite !
mircea_popescu: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*u0cOcOtNDobvT8ZsWzfzXA.png << this is actually pretty good.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1SacMY1 )
ben_vulpes: woof
ben_vulpes: i think that i hate managing projects.
ben_vulpes: in bezzleland at least.
ben_vulpes: glorified secretarial work.
mircea_popescu: ever seen glengarry glenn ross ?
mircea_popescu: "What are you, you're a secretary, John. Fuck you. That's my message for you."
ben_vulpes: i have.
ben_vulpes: the salesmen are also entirely interchangeable.
ben_vulpes: except for the ones who are not and who don't want anything to do with my asbestos gloves.
mircea_popescu: quite.
mircea_popescu: then again john was quite a miserable manager.
mircea_popescu: all of the defense (you know, picking up when people steal toilet paper), none of the offense, none of the good stuff, like making the team not suck dicks.
ben_vulpes: i don't see the problem with embezzling a reasonable amount of toilet paper. it's a valid business expense, and the staff don't get taxed for it.
mircea_popescu: well, it's your fucking toilet paper and what sort of people are these.
ben_vulpes: hey man i'm just trying to get cash in the kids pockets while paying as little taxes on it as possible
ben_vulpes: tax*
mircea_popescu: sounds ever more like a co-op :D
ben_vulpes: heh
ben_vulpes: funny you should mention that
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49654 @ 0.00055672 = 27.6434 BTC [-] {2}
ben_vulpes: the insane fucking rules around ESOPs. i tell you.
ben_vulpes: wall street and congress got a hold of the notion and now there are all sorts of arcane bezzle-quirements like "must get valued by a state-blessed valutron", "must be investment grade paper" etc.
mircea_popescu: the problem here, and it's a fundamental problem, is that the derps that get employed aren't usually investor grade.
ben_vulpes: ofc not
mircea_popescu: they didn't want to make a simple "stock ownership for employees is STRICTLY reserved for employees making over 500k a year and over the age of 50" for obvious reasons ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i had to explain how buy-and-hold of non-dividend-paying-stocks the other day wasn't forgoing compounding.
mircea_popescu: the result is that they have to make an endless array of rules to approximate "not entirely fucktarded teen".
ben_vulpes: fucktarded teen still gets hoodwinked with worthless paper regularly.
mircea_popescu: they perceive they gotta try.
mircea_popescu: the only correct solution is to pay in stock only. you do get alf moaning about his sad fate as an owner of his own fate,
mircea_popescu: but the alternative is drinking straight crazy from a toilet bowl.
ben_vulpes: and as a result, my equitizing the staff is miserably difficult.
mircea_popescu: imo you're trying to make a copper-iron thermostable alloy.
mircea_popescu: desist.
ben_vulpes: explain the parallel in a little more detail?
mircea_popescu: there is absolutely no reason people who make 30 an hour should own stock ; and if they did it certainly shouldn't be yours.
mircea_popescu: their needs (represented by copper in this diagram) and the realities of owning stock in a small venture (represented by iron in same) have very different reactions to a change in financial context (represented as temperature)
mircea_popescu: you're trying to meld two things together that will never, ever stay put as temperature varies.
mircea_popescu: even if through whatever arcana you get it "good enough" for the current context you happen to inhabit, such as your room.
ben_vulpes: i just had the weirdest experience
mircea_popescu: whassat
ben_vulpes: i realized that the shartup bezzletron actually got this right
mircea_popescu: it did.
mircea_popescu: well, better than throwing darts anyway.
ben_vulpes: anyways, thanks for the insight.
mircea_popescu: hey, they don't pay me $infinity + bonuses + golden dirigibles for nothing.
ben_vulpes: lol golden dirigible
ben_vulpes: anyways this place is amazing
assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
mircea_popescu: hey, i started low on the dirigible scale.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28650 @ 0.00055705 = 15.9595 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: years of slaving for nuggets of insight once or thrice a quarter
ben_vulpes: i wonder what alf gets out of it, so competent as he is.
ben_vulpes: rubs the wrath itch?
mircea_popescu: yes but see, you get them as you need 'em. lyf.
ben_vulpes: life would be more like you don't get them when you need them.
ben_vulpes: i am now confronted with the difficult question of what the fuck i'm doing even owning my own stock.
mircea_popescu: now you are truly welcome.
ben_vulpes: relatedly, how does one grow worthy of the golden dirigible? kill everyone between you and it? does this hold for the smith? what about brunel? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: clearly, there's no 'worthy' but 'demands'. ☟︎
asciilifeform: brunel was in the up elevator ☟︎
ben_vulpes: what is this 'up elevator'
asciilifeform: as was, e.g., tesla
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: living in a rising, rather than falling, empire
ben_vulpes: ah
ben_vulpes: well that's novel and depressing ☟︎
asciilifeform: rewards slightly different sorts of folk
asciilifeform reads thread, and falls down, srsly, ben_vulpes pays his monkeyz stock ?
asciilifeform: why?!
ben_vulpes: lol you didn't read the thread didja
ben_vulpes: toilet paper, and i ain't talkin equity! ☟︎
asciilifeform: something about tax dodges, aha
asciilifeform: 'clever was the turkey, but ended in the soup anyway'
asciilifeform: (tm) (r)
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381525 << same exact story here. californians and it only happens once per year. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 20:50:17; BingoBoingo: We only got 3 or 4 inches of snow. Yet rather than remove it derps drive over it until it refreezes into a slick that doesn't remove so easily
ben_vulpes: well it doesn't actually work, asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: apparently i'm so scary i'm the only one taking the wine^H^H^H^Htoilet paper home
asciilifeform: oh and you're not running a proper sov-collapse shop until the workers have to bring own shitpaper
ben_vulpes: dude heaven forfend
ben_vulpes: i can see it though ☟︎
asciilifeform: there are tales of truck stops in finland being picked clean, early '90s, even of fixtures like mirrors and toilet paper ~holders~, for a while. then they were re-equipped sov-style to have nothing worth taking
ben_vulpes: heh
asciilifeform: in a sufficiently intense collapse one might expect the toilets themselves to disappear, eventually
ben_vulpes: good old anemic hand dryers
ben_vulpes: "wipe your hands on your pants, plebe"
ben_vulpes: it's good for the envirowhatever
ben_vulpes: (tr) (m)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382055 << you kill the queen of the hive and eat the royal jelly. this gives you five extra appendages, with which to kill other pretenders, and +5 vorpal sword of virility, and a +3 willpower. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:57:53; ben_vulpes: relatedly, how does one grow worthy of the golden dirigible? kill everyone between you and it? does this hold for the smith? what about brunel?
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1381924 << yes and I'm glad I had the sense to stfu after that line ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 00:39:42; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-04-2014#597433 << lol is this early danielpbarron ?
ben_vulpes: wow
ben_vulpes: time flies
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382021 << around here, there is no shortage of 500k/y,50y.o. mortgaged to the hilt, who would die ~faster than i would~ if income cut to 0 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:40:55; mircea_popescu: they didn't want to make a simple "stock ownership for employees is STRICTLY reserved for employees making over 500k a year and over the age of 50" for obvious reasons
asciilifeform: a 500k/y chump is just a slightly higher-powered chump
asciilifeform: and by no automagic means 'investor-grade' humanoid. ☟︎
asciilifeform: he ~could~ put the 500 in his pocket instead of mortgaging his anal virginity to a 10m cardboard 'house'.
asciilifeform: BUT these folks are typically 'bred to be eaten', heavily selected in the first place for the kind of behaviours that preclude 500k-in-pocket.
asciilifeform: at least here in the reservation, this is so.
asciilifeform: also
asciilifeform: also i am quite amused thinking about how ben_vulpes quasi-offered me work in a shop where the toilet paper is supposed to be an appealing perk
ben_vulpes: again with the not reading the threads omg!
asciilifeform: what did i miss now.
ben_vulpes: 'tis in the logs.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382067 << do i misinterpret this ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:07:25; ben_vulpes: toilet paper, and i ain't talkin equity!
ben_vulpes: yes. that's a joke about stock in startups.
asciilifeform: ok so you ~were~ speaking of stock. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: i was talking about several things!
asciilifeform: re: paying non-investorgrade folks (as in, people who need to ~work to eat~) in stock, do you know the soviet voucher story ?
ben_vulpes: no, go on
asciilifeform: !s privatization
assbot: 12 results for 'privatization' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=privatization
asciilifeform: de-sovietized affairs of all kinds, from oil&gas to factories, etc. were turned into stock, 'vouchers', parcelled out among the peeeeeple
asciilifeform: and pretty much all ended up sold for nanopennies
asciilifeform: so that folks could eat a little in the hungry '90s
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381688 << 'tis just a step on the road to the obvious solution of entirely disposable versions of all the above ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:07:57; asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: actually these are cheap, esp. in that when they explode, nobody's widow gets a pension
asciilifeform: ... ditto the flats, which were now owned by the residents, making 'insta-millionaires'
asciilifeform: but somehow most ended up bought up by folks who didn't have to worry about eatin'
asciilifeform: and now the rest, pay them rent.
asciilifeform: mega-unsurprise ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-05-2014#654954 << see also. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2014 03:15:33; asciilifeform: basic course on russian privatization. 'your formerly state-issued flat is now yours. you are a millionaire!' - 'neato. but my salary hasn't been paid in a year. gotta buy something to eat. what does dinner cost?' - 'half a million.'
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381723 << which is mind-boggling given the thing has a what turbofan? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:19:18; asciilifeform: incidentally 'predator' is a very slow machine, a toy chopper could quite likely catch up with it
asciilifeform: thing is also large and draggy
ben_vulpes: we have yet to arrive at state-issued flats for all but the most deeeeeserving of poor.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: japanese for-placement-only netdrones could probably snag one
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: and not actually similar, even where exist. american 'sec 8' leprosoria are not in any sense whatsoever owned by the inhabitants
asciilifeform: whereas sov flat inhabitant could only be dislodged by death or prison term
asciilifeform: a much stronger ownership than ANYBODY in usa has of ANY real estate
ben_vulpes: https://gist.github.com/polarbeard/90d9a921f084ed4ae942#file-buildgen-L30 << enough with the aligned shits
assbot: Makefile · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1K1WJKy )
ben_vulpes: you can smell the users of fashionable editors a mile away
ben_vulpes: i'd wager this one uses Atom
ben_vulpes: or Sublime Dicks
asciilifeform: bawawhat
asciilifeform: i thought 'atom' was a www syndicatron thing
asciilifeform: sublime dicks, on the other hand, is mega-popular for some reason, colleagues had it and i lullzed seeing the nag popup interrupt their session
ben_vulpes: some "we're going to revolutionize editing text by pretending emacs was never a thing"
ben_vulpes: lol over there too?
ben_vulpes: i routinely mock users who have the escape wired into their brains
asciilifeform: emacs is a thick enough, barbed enough broomstick, that this is not hard to pull off
ben_vulpes: "what, can't afford 10 dollars for your text editor?"
ben_vulpes: (or two man-years, yes)
asciilifeform: doubly lulzy when you're all pro re folks who 'ida' all day long
asciilifeform: and too lazy to bust the idiot nagware
ben_vulpes: the mind, it doth boggle.
polarbeard: lol, sublime
polarbeard: I use the only and true editor
asciilifeform: 'ed' ?
ben_vulpes: nano!
polarbeard: notepad.exe
ben_vulpes: editor of the dirigible
asciilifeform: pair'o'wirez+teeth
ben_vulpes: electron beam and a good set of sights
polarbeard: aggresive looks to the keyboard
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381809 << what? no. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:52:58; polarbeard: after verifying, patches are split into hunks
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381817 << what? what?! ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 23:55:19; polarbeard: there is no v
polarbeard: again, hunks = intermediate state
ben_vulpes: why.
polarbeard: the script is 300 lines, not hard to review
polarbeard: again, experiments, do not use
ben_vulpes: if so easy to review, similarly easy to explain.
polarbeard: ask
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1381849 << more dependencies, and again i ask /why/ ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 00:03:11; polarbeard: you need the diff splitter, splitdiff
ben_vulpes: why?
polarbeard: make is a build tool, it can build the press
asciilifeform: i read the whole thing, still can't figure out the 'why'
polarbeard: why implementing toposort for the nth time
ben_vulpes: why split the patches, polarbeard, quit dodging the question.
polarbeard: linear dependencies
asciilifeform: wait till polarbeard finds out what ~else~ we intend to implement for the n+1th time
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1381913 << and that's eating the capital of all sins ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 00:33:02; asciilifeform: and to leave plenty over for the common piggy
ben_vulpes: polarbeard: should reimplementing toposort be impossibly painful for you...
polarbeard: lol, k
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: folks who have enough capital to eat the drawn dividends, eat that, and never eat capital. the rest of us, eat whatever falls into the hopper
asciilifeform: see the su privatization thread again, if this does not make sense.
ben_vulpes: polarbeard: look at my contribution history. it is very nearly 100% reimplementations of that which asciilifeform or mod6 or trinque have written first.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i care not why whoever sins however. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: whomever?
ben_vulpes is the undereducated american today as every day
asciilifeform: i can't speak for ben_vulpes, but the idea that folks who what they do for some explicable reason, rather than because of daemonic possession, was - imho - an advance.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: in reference to?
asciilifeform: in re: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382183 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:40:39; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i care not why whoever sins however.
ben_vulpes: oh, whichever sins?
ben_vulpes: this is like me giving a shit about what gavin and company do and derp about on reddit.
asciilifeform: the islamic world, for instance, never moved beyond this, and it shows
asciilifeform: 'electron moves because allah willed so' ☟︎
ben_vulpes: the dependency chain of "well i work for satan because i got this useless phd that i got because i had a masters i didn't know what to do with because i got a bachelors that i similarly didn't understand the purpose of because i was told to go to college and" it never fucking ends and i don't really give a shit about the root cause for whatever retardation.
ben_vulpes: and no this is not "electron" this is why did isaac fuck ahmeds goat
ben_vulpes: i literally do not care and the spending of time figuring out why the derps do what they do is best left as an exercise to good men like mister backtick who actually enjoy hanging out on bitcointalk.org all day
ben_vulpes: and for the umpteenth time polarbeard /why/ split the damn patches and introduce a million new dependencies?
polarbeard: what dependencies?
ben_vulpes: "i didn't know any better" is, for the record, an entirely acceptable response.
ben_vulpes: diffsplit
polarbeard: *splitdiff
polarbeard: it's a neat tool
ben_vulpes: but more importantly the patches
polarbeard: I aliased it to 'spliff'
ben_vulpes: why won't you answer that one
polarbeard: linear dependencies, easier to handle
polarbeard: intermediate state is all about optimization
ben_vulpes: violates principles of v, though.
ben_vulpes: this is 'yagni' optimization.
polarbeard: you didn't read the script
ben_vulpes: i have to admit, my eyes glazed over.
ben_vulpes: i saw some turds, asked some questions, am not entirely thrilled with answers.
ben_vulpes has now filed reports with whip-crackers, can go home to die in sweet embrace, will be off shortly
ben_vulpes: anyways, interesting thing, polarbeard, perhaps i shall test it some day along side the tools written by people i trust like mod6 and trinque and asciilifeform.
ben_vulpes: in the meantime, try to understand why we use 'v', and why your failure to do so has lead me to stomp on the ground like a petulant child.
ben_vulpes: led*
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: apparently fella wanted to reimplement v in gnumake (as i once considered doing) but made some peculiar design decisions along the way
asciilifeform: (no, you don't ~have~ to split the patches into patchons, to do this)
asciilifeform: also it appears that his version requires you to manually munge it every time a new patch is added
polarbeard: I would have to implement a hash table in bash
polarbeard: meh
polarbeard: to keep track of multiple parents
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asciilifeform: which is how i ended up ~not~ doing it in gnumake
polarbeard: that's right, I shouldn't have released it this early anyway
polarbeard: just wanted to get some love
asciilifeform: but overall, dependency on ~more~ unix tools is a bad thing, and dependency on ~more complicated~ and less-likely-to-be-reimplemented-by-wot-folk-soon tools, likewise
asciilifeform: polarbeard: why not try your hand at, say, a tx debugger? sorely needed item
polarbeard: what do you want from a tx debugger
polarbeard: I wanted to instrumentalize trb a bit, btw
polarbeard: a tx debugger sort-of-fits in my plans
polarbeard: feed me :3 ☟︎
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mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382057 << who's brunel ?! ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:03:27; asciilifeform: brunel was in the up elevator
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382056 << i have nfi. i think it's a lot of "how does one get a gf". not being worthy, per se. not demanding $randomfemale submit, per se. not that far off, either. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:58:10; ben_vulpes: clearly, there's no 'worthy' but 'demands'.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382062 << but it does make a lot of difference. a rising tide lifts all boats, there was no admiral nelson of the mughal empire. certainly not at that date. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:04:27; ben_vulpes: well that's novel and depressing
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382077 << it happened. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:10:21; ben_vulpes: i can see it though
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382094 << you deeply misunderstand what "investor grade" means in this context. the point is that he is RARE. you understand this ? the fundamental property of capital control in any functioning society without exception possible is that it must be concentrated. ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:17:41; asciilifeform: and by no automagic means 'investor-grade' humanoid.
mircea_popescu: so, if that guy fucks up, as no doubt he will, his distress is merely amusing from a societal pov. and perhaps instructive., but mostly amusing.
mircea_popescu: and "you only have yourself to blame".
mircea_popescu: when plebs "own stock", the problem becomes unsolvable, because the ready answer is, "i can't blame myself, for i'm nothing - so i'll just blame the gods"
mircea_popescu: you can't blame the gods and live to see the morn.
BingoBoingo: for alf https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZXFI7GU8AAo4jj.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pc6m9Y )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382106 "and the moon changes ever as his mind!" ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:23:28; asciilifeform: ok so you ~were~ speaking of stock.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382120 << there's no other way out of the idiocy of equality. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:27:13; asciilifeform: mega-unsurprise
mircea_popescu: two step process : a) make everyone ACTUALLY carry the burden of being the lord he was seeing himself as and b) allow the scum to shirk away.
mircea_popescu: then they'll rant and rave about "dupa ce i-a cheltuit vor merita sa devina muncitori ! Nu mai au nici o scuza ca au devenit saraci!"
mircea_popescu: the people who don't care if they life or die either live or die. the people who do care - end up paying rent to the ones that live. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is the cornerstone of any possible sociology. ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382234 << isambard kingdom brunel. quite possibly greatest engineer of all time - built first modern bridges, world's largest ships of his century, for britain ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 03:24:11; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382057 << who's brunel ?!
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danielpbarron: ;;later tell mod6 i think your twatter bot died again
gribble: The operation succeeded.
danielpbarron: i like to retweet those greaterthan 100 btc trades
mircea_popescu: oh oh
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382257 << this'd be rather like a pirate proposing that piracy is the only possible structure. if it were, what would there be for him to plunder ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 03:41:20; mircea_popescu: this is the cornerstone of any possible sociology.
asciilifeform: su existed.
asciilifeform: for the privatizatory to carve up
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform prison term didn't dislodge. people came back to their own flats.
mircea_popescu: prison term FOR WHOLE FAMILY
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not if 'sentenced to 100th km'
mircea_popescu: even those got rescinded.
asciilifeform: on occasion, yes
mircea_popescu: right. but generally fambly kept the place, for mere conviction. it had to be political-wrathful to dislodge.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the exact same sort of people sifted to the top in the su as do anywhere else all the time. which is why yeltsin didn't survive and putin did.
asciilifeform: history is not, fortunately or otherwise, an endless loop of the same thing
mircea_popescu: pfff.
mircea_popescu: history is precisely an endless loop of the same thing. also, it has to be.
asciilifeform: it is the job of the inventor to not permit the endless loop.
asciilifeform: otherwise, yes, 5000 yrs of egypt.
mircea_popescu: the inventor is in this matter very closely related to the fashion designer.
mircea_popescu: they work hard at lipsticking the pig.
mircea_popescu: fortunately or otherwise, few live the millenia required for most of it to wear off.
asciilifeform: wake me up from my grave when, e.g., the gunpowder fashion, dies down.
mircea_popescu: also you'll be very hard pressed to argue that 5000 years of egypt were less than 5000 years hence.
mircea_popescu: (if for instance your aim is "population", mind that they started on a very narrow base. hard to beat.)
mod6: danielpbarron: thx for the heads up
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the egypt point is in re: the fact that the 3000th yr was quite like the 4000th and entirely possibly indistinguishable even to pro archaeologist
asciilifeform: perhaps a better example would've been the 10,000 yrs of australian abo.
mircea_popescu: you flatter yourself if you imagine there's more difference here than there, to an archeologist so distant in the future.
mircea_popescu: their shit keeps better than your shit does.
asciilifeform: no doubt.
asciilifeform: and the fossilized skeletons of the jurassic keep better still.
mircea_popescu: besides, the discussion in civilisational terms is besides the point. i guarantee that there was an alf in upper egypt bemoaning the vagaries of fate in the following exact terms :
mircea_popescu: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them ?"
asciilifeform: quite possibly.
asciilifeform: but meanwhile somebody wiped arse with the papyrus.
asciilifeform: so we're stuck guessing.
mircea_popescu: so what did not repeat ? the shape of the woman's pants ?
mircea_popescu: who cares, it's the same ass.
asciilifeform: telegraphy ?
trinque: they used to have feet. so what?
mircea_popescu: telegraphy is not a thing.
asciilifeform: i know full well that mircea_popescu can arbitrarily redefine 'a thing' for there to be none.
mircea_popescu: do you miss the things that'll be discovered after you die, perhaps ? nobody cares. you happen to have seen telegraph. they saw the complex calculation of how to pi, and counted them very civilised for it. big whoop.
trinque: it's simply staring at the tool and thinking of it in isolation, rather than inside the human process in which it is used
asciilifeform: i can boot up fortran and set 1 to equal 2 also.
asciilifeform: and i suppose 'human processes' didn't change a lick since pharaonic egypt. aha, right.
mircea_popescu: quite.
mircea_popescu: there's exactly nothing to change. what'd you change ?
mircea_popescu: you still value what you lost more than what you gain by that loss. you still need stimuli to grow geometrically for subjective sensation to progress arithmetically.
asciilifeform: and my arse still takes up space in 3 dimensions, big whoop
mircea_popescu: your eyes' cablature still crosses behind your nose.
mircea_popescu: quite.
trinque notes the former SU guy's fixation on novelty
trinque: HA!
mircea_popescu: lol
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu blasting off to mothership, tells chums 'this planet is a mega-snore, nothing ~ever~ changes there, let's get outtahere'
mircea_popescu: i don't mind.
mircea_popescu: i expect change like you expect nonsense. it comes out of young / silly people.
asciilifeform: and asteroids.
mircea_popescu: hardly.
mircea_popescu: you ever read that thing on the latin language ?
asciilifeform: 'the 80th latin' or what was it
asciilifeform: on trilema ?
mircea_popescu: yeah that.
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: spiffy
mircea_popescu: so asteroid. what sort of novelty is that ?
mircea_popescu: the only news in the world is the history you didn't know and the measurements you took incorrectly.
mircea_popescu: not like photons went you know what ? this planck constant's boring, let's get a new one.
asciilifeform: i suppose if asteroid cleaned everybody's clock but the hydrothermal vent microbes, mircea_popescu would (from his dirigible!) still say, 'nothing novel, planet still crawling with whatevers, snore'
mircea_popescu: pretty much.
asciilifeform: i cannot say to this, but only take off my hat.
asciilifeform: *say anything
mircea_popescu: your earlier mistake was to suppose it's UP TO THEM.
mircea_popescu: it isn't up to them. some people dont' care. some do. they can't change this anymore than you can be a woman.
asciilifeform: wai wut? up to whom ?
mircea_popescu: now, it's true that miseducation can bring one up to think himself the other kind, whichg CAN be remedied.
mircea_popescu: but this is not unlike retarded mother bringing boy up in skirts.
mircea_popescu: eventually, if nothing was cut off, duck in the yard can no longer resist the call of ducks in the sky and takes off.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382256 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 03:40:38; mircea_popescu: the people who don't care if they life or die either live or die. the people who do care - end up paying rent to the ones that live.
asciilifeform: this is also how we get http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1381984 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:09:02; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381724 << if anyone in afghanistan etc were not fully employed in countig rocks and fucking goats thus managing to find their way here, i'd definitely finance a project to fly a quad to a drone and use the old komet trick
mircea_popescu: how would you know this ?
trinque: mircea_popescu │ eventually, if nothing was cut off, duck in the yard can no longer resist the call of ducks in the sky and takes off. << I'm going to go ahead and carve this one into the inside of my skull.
asciilifeform: in approx same way and to same degree as i know that electron exists.
asciilifeform: (no, i did not see one with naked eye.)
mircea_popescu: so what did you see to make this equivalence stick ?
mircea_popescu: for instance, charge of electron can be measured even from white noise of antenna.
asciilifeform: aha
mircea_popescu: and from molar mass / speed of reaction
asciilifeform: and the sheer mega-virility of pashtun can be likewise measured in 1,001 ways.
mircea_popescu: and from a number of other things.
mircea_popescu: but that's not your thesis.
asciilifeform: thesis is that 'the spartan speaks with his sword', untempered, results in goatfuckistan.
mircea_popescu: but no. your thesis is that "can only result in" goatfuckistan.
asciilifeform: as amply confirmed experimentally as anything i'd care to think of.
mircea_popescu: and this has nothing to stand on.
mircea_popescu: such as actual sparta ?
asciilifeform: has same to stand on as 'communism results in misery' etc
asciilifeform: the totality of the record.
mircea_popescu: not so.
asciilifeform: wake me up when the he-men create so much as a 'aa' battery.
mircea_popescu: there's another great difference, which may be easier to ford. socialism - sacrifice now for later paradise. this - is enjoyable. now. so much so i have not the least care if paradise or no paradise, or as the old man of the mountain said to allah,
mircea_popescu: "you can keep your virgins"
mircea_popescu: "i already ate".
asciilifeform: this being said, i wouldn't mind visiting limonov's (or mircea_popescu's for that matter) planet where folks practice bare-handed head-chopping from sunrise to noon, and measure neutron cross-sections, compose symphonies, after dinner
asciilifeform: followed by a good ol'fashioned chess-boxing match on weekend.
asciilifeform: i might get eaten as a snack on said planet, but it'd be almost worth it
BingoBoingo: !b 3 ✂︎
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mircea_popescu: teh stubborn is strong with this one :D
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, not long ago had a brain-melting mindfuck, browsed maths crud on 'amazon' rec list, and noticed b00k, 'wait a sec, where did i see the author' - turns out, in email box
asciilifeform: (at wurk)
mircea_popescu: this is common neh ?
mircea_popescu: publish or shittish.
asciilifeform: personal first
mircea_popescu: eh, period in my life, i'd go to a party and inexorably leave with a half sack of books.
asciilifeform: interestingly, never happened when i actually was involved in academic racket
mircea_popescu: possibly a contributing factor in my distaste with the damned things.
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asciilifeform: my father had a world-class library, left it behind, today cannot stand the idea of amassing any such thing
trinque: why is the egyptian man's desire for food, a place to shit, and women to fuck different from mine? and if it isn't, whence this idea that my motivations are manifold (and advanced!), his few?
trinque brb
asciilifeform: i suspect that i will go the same
asciilifeform: the b00kz become associated with thing-that-anchors-you, i suspect
mircea_popescu: trinque well, an argument can be brought that yours are a lot more cleaved. like, you know, you can separately desire to lay with the woman as in cuddle, to lay with the woman as in fuck her brains out, to lay with the woman as to impregnate her and so on. whereas poor simple he, just lay with the woman.
mircea_popescu: now, whether a natural tongue or one surgically bifurcated is a change worth the mention... well... i suppose we must leave this up to the inventor.
mircea_popescu: lest the academic has to publish to justify his high station, an' the inventor must invent, hence so many new inventions all the time.
asciilifeform: i'd put the bifurcation as the whole of the man-monkey divide
mircea_popescu: you would.
asciilifeform: sure as hell, monkey has one fuck mode
mircea_popescu: this doesn't explain why young men are so undistinguishable from monkeys.
asciilifeform: not bifurcated far
mircea_popescu: "not along - across!"
asciilifeform: l0lz!
mircea_popescu: anyway. the difference between man and monkey is that man realises it's not actually worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: ie, contemplation, not invention.
mircea_popescu: or to put it in more familiar terms, you know why the german goes bald arouind the corona, and the romanian arfound the forehead ?
asciilifeform: speaking of 'indistinguishable from monkeys', i observed that approx 1 train car in 5 has a loud, rambling nutter in it
asciilifeform: or at least a black fella singing loudly along to his headphones, without a care
asciilifeform: in a car otherwise full of dour folk making angry eyes
asciilifeform: so why the german goes bald ... ?
mircea_popescu: it's a visual joke. imagine me saying "hmm, i wonder how best to do this" whille scratching the top of my head
asciilifeform: ah!
mircea_popescu: and then "omfg what have i done" slapping forehead
mircea_popescu: contemplation. that's the divide. reflexivity. once the hardware started doing recursion, it split.
mircea_popescu: monkey-human divide cybernetically equivalent to non-recursive / recursive systems.
asciilifeform: aha, as pictured in hofstadter and minsky
mircea_popescu: mebbe ? i dun recall
asciilifeform: (the former wrote a whole mega-l0ltron re: same, 'i am a strange loop')
asciilifeform: and i suppose the egyptians must have known this
asciilifeform: or we'd have a... new idea
mircea_popescu: i'm sure we also have a new language!
mircea_popescu: such novel!
mircea_popescu: this conception of "novelty" is not so dissimilar to creationist's conception of darwinism. "he said my auntie's a dog!"
asciilifeform: i am picturing, one day measured value of plank's constant shifts, mircea_popescu goes back to sleep, says 'this shift was implicit all along, could not otherwise happen.' and will sleep until the very integers get up and walk around.
asciilifeform: this is not curable.
mircea_popescu: catch me doing that first, wouldja ?
mircea_popescu: so far the score's about a trillion to 0 the other way.
asciilifeform: aha, which is why lulzy
mircea_popescu: (actually the only sane model of physical cosmogony i know doth require shifting planck constant, if ever so shyly)
BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 394567 | Current Difficulty: 1.1335429980147113E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 395135 | Next Difficulty In: 568 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 3 days, 8 hours, 11 minutes, and 17 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
mircea_popescu: (the problem, in the simplest terms, is that for h to be constant energy and spacetime must stay coupled. as such, it's impossible to have an original singularity (aka the big bang) seeing how everything solves neatly for a radius of 0, yielding a pretty field of 0's and a pile of nondetermined constants. conversely : in planck terms, the age of the universe is about 10^61, its radius about 10^61 and its energy about 1
mircea_popescu: 0^61, which is one hell of a coincidence that it should allign so right now! (same results can be expressed looking at the schwarzschild radius, too). )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, re boxchess, ever showed you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIgwkvM9P1g ?
assbot: S02.Ep19.Mat - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1S0DtAh )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382193 << i've yet to meet an electron who thought himself the ceo of the atom in question. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 02:43:37; asciilifeform: 'electron moves because allah willed so'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382232 << even the simple step of "add flag to trb to dump mempool into file each time a block is found" would be helpful atm. ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 03:02:42; polarbeard: feed me :3
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which - de-stupidification of the logging process would be a fucking blessing already. debug.log, srsly ? how about error.log mempool.log connect.log blocks.log for starters ?)
polarbeard: ^ agree, also hex logs
mircea_popescu: well, at least sanely tabulated.
mircea_popescu: in any case, then you could start it with -logs=emcb for all 4, or otherwise whatever combo thereof.
mircea_popescu: and for the love of christ implement either rolling or else a maxsize for files or something. ☟︎
polarbeard: roger
polarbeard: no logrotate love?
mircea_popescu: or that. anything.
mircea_popescu: as it stands right now it's made by sheepherds.
polarbeard: it's a miracle it works
mircea_popescu: ah, and also - fucking timestamps on loglines omfg.
mircea_popescu: who did that!
mircea_popescu: "here's a logline. it's from fuck you o'clock. you're welcome."
ben_vulpes: fuck you o'clock lol
ben_vulpes: didn't phf do something with timestamps?
polarbeard: haha, 'just derive it from block height man'
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even dump that, which would be insane but at least it'd be insane.
ben_vulpes: polarbeard: good idea except that syncing reference implementations to the best of my knowledge don't know the current blockheight
polarbeard: /ironic off :)
polarbeard: I'd be happy with unix_time space hex_message sent_or_received_bit
ben_vulpes: the log history that you're missing is that blockheight is the only non usg-shared time.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it could always curl deedbot.org for the latest. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: yes let's compile libcurl into the reference implementation
mircea_popescu: after all... we have fucking json in there for reasons!
ben_vulpes: i'm sure polarbeard can get on that train
ben_vulpes: choo choo!
polarbeard: moar deps
ben_vulpes: #nodeps
mircea_popescu: lol aren't you a bucket fulla sunshine.
ben_vulpes: writing software fills a boy with hate.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what was the calculation you ran to determine the hashpower necessary to nail a block more or less every 24 hours?
mircea_popescu: #noderps #nodeps #nodes
ben_vulpes: #definitelynofuckinnode
mircea_popescu: that there's 6 blocks an hour and 24 hours in 24 hours ?
ben_vulpes: so one'd need ~ 1/144th of nethash?
mircea_popescu: well, yes, if one's tolerant with the variance
ben_vulpes: sure
mircea_popescu: as you divide, variance divides by less.
ben_vulpes: ;;nethash
gribble: 892506470.131
polarbeard: blocks per day = (my_share_rate / difficulty ) x 86400 / block_time
mircea_popescu: still, it comes to about 2MW's worth, more or less.
polarbeard: my_share_rate = hash rate / 2^32
mircea_popescu: polarbeard so basically myhash/nethash * 144.
ben_vulpes: someone missed dimensional analysis in school?
polarbeard: yep, but nethash is not exact I think?
mircea_popescu: neither is 144.
ben_vulpes: approximation is a nifty wunderwaffen.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: schooled me rather hard on a good example around c3
mircea_popescu: i could hear you chuckling from here.
ben_vulpes: nethash is a joke is what it is
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the proper measure for nethash actually is PW or somesuch.
ben_vulpes: petawatts?
mircea_popescu: by the time it gets to 50%+1 all these approximations will be a lot less approximative
mircea_popescu: 50 TW, something like that.
mircea_popescu: 50 PW*
ben_vulpes: that has a lot of assumptions on mining chip efficiency boss
ben_vulpes: non?
mircea_popescu: nope. stable situation is where nethash is half the power generation.
mircea_popescu: chips irrespective, be they z80s or whatever startrek
ben_vulpes: but now.
ben_vulpes: not then.
mircea_popescu: universally.
mircea_popescu: "Hypothetically, according to Robert Engelman (Worldwatch institute), in order to prevent collapse, human civilization would have to stop increasing emissions within a decade regardless of the economy or population (2009)."
ben_vulpes: when you say that it comes to 2MW's worth.
mircea_popescu: ahh this shit's always such lulzyu lull.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ah yes, yes.
mircea_popescu: currently we're only burning something to the tune of 30GW
mircea_popescu: which is scandalous, but hey.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: 21co tried to make energy friendly chips, now they are trying to pawn them on users as "compooter"
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 3* 10^10 * 24 * 365
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't a valid number.
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 3* 10**10 * 24 * 365
gribble: 262800000000000
mircea_popescu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electricity_consumption << the esteemed republic is #13, after italy and above most of the world.
assbot: List of countries by electricity consumption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1ODTasQ )
mircea_popescu: it could light up almost 3000 chads.
thestringpuller: always imagined some d00d with access to nuclear power building a reactor on some island and using all the power for mining
ben_vulpes: did anyone ever run the numbers on what it would naively cost to lease the hashpower required to mint a block a day?
ben_vulpes: ;;help nethash
gribble: (nethash takes no arguments) -- Shows the current estimate for total network hash rate, in Ghps.
mircea_popescu: maybe 1% of the cost of a block, a day ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: of the subsidy of a block*
mircea_popescu: very simple mechanism to ACTUALLY improve your insurance : make a pool which pays 25.25 btc for the first block it finds each day. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: this is a very neat way to solve an otherwise very thorny economical problem, and it will figure prominently in the future.
mircea_popescu: miners will not only optimize txn to include in blocks per se, but also "whose pool to mine nao at"
ben_vulpes: so what's the lowdown on the various pool payout maths?
mircea_popescu: what do you mean ?
ben_vulpes: every time i look into pool payout schemes my eyes glaze over and my fraud alert systems kick in.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35017 @ 0.000556 = 19.4695 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: there's 3 or 4 principal ways to do it, 2 or 3 of which are very slight variation on the same theme.
mircea_popescu: it's a complex topic but no, they're not fraudulent.
mircea_popescu: arrived at through a lot of experimental as well as theoretical effort.
ben_vulpes: has anyone written this up anywhere?
mircea_popescu: well... miners.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 81283 @ 0.00055562 = 45.1625 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: worth your time to research it for your own sharpening, it's all pretty clever.
ben_vulpes: myeah
ben_vulpes: perhaps i'll do that while i install os x on this laptop for the umpteenth time
ben_vulpes: fucking operating systems
mircea_popescu: should take about a week.
mircea_popescu: depends how hard you push the "but why!" pedal.
mircea_popescu: lotta history.
ben_vulpes: man imma have to learn chinese at this rate
ben_vulpes: ideograms, man.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35000 @ 0.00055963 = 19.5871 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and i'm going to guess most of this history is on bitcointalk.org ☟︎☟︎
mats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5R9SZM2jaE ☟︎
assbot: Ukrainian Armor (The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1ODX1WS )
ben_vulpes: mats: badass
ben_vulpes: tis the age of the cmos
mats: the autoloader is cool
mats: for some reason the abrams doesn't have it
punkman: bon dia
punkman: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/a1/38/23a138d0e5eeb772813bb196e4c5f31c.jpg ☟︎
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1PoZ98p )
punkman: ^ dirigible ☟︎
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382541 especially the earlier history, yes. possibly a good place to start: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=14118;sa=showPosts;start=6160 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 06:06:51; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and i'm going to guess most of this history is on bitcointalk.org
assbot: Latest posts of: organofcorti ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pp0g8b ) ☟︎
punkman: ;;diffchange
gribble: Estimated percent change in difficulty this period | None % based on data since last change | 10.264 % based on data for last three days
punkman: https://megabigpower.com/buybackinfo
assbot: MegaBigPower :: Info ... ( http://bit.ly/1PKOWNY )
punkman: "pleased to announce our ASIC BuyBack Program"
punkman: https://hedgy.co/mining.html "Buy Bitcoin Direct from MegaBigPower at a Discount on a Future Date. Auctions Occur Once Per Month."
punkman: "It has been quite a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable to assume that most small miners will have recouped the majority of what they initially outlaid for the hardware, and are now disinclined to continue ‘supporting the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’, to acquire all this idle hashing power seems like a smart move. As, ☟︎
punkman: once the next price run up begins, there will be a frantic scrabble to re-power all the mothballed rigs lying around."
punkman: from http://blockchainstuff.eu/thoughts-on-the-current-state-of-bitcoin-mining/
assbot: Thoughts on the current state of Bitcoin mining | Blockchain Stuff ... ( http://bit.ly/1PKP93J )
punkman: "Bitfury recently announced their 28nm, 0.2 J/Gh offering (with some impressive efficiencies claimed) but have declined to inform us when they will be available, either-ways they do not sell to the public anymore. They also alluded to a 16nm chip with efficiencies as low as 0.02 due out later this year."
punkman: "KNC are in a similar holding pattern, awaiting production of their 16nm ‘Solar’ chip, with astonishing claims of 0.07 J/Gh,  They no longer sell to the public either."
kakobrekla: they sold until it was garbage, now that further decreasement in process size are hardly possible, they hold ☟︎
punkman: oooh just noticed "March 2015"
kakobrekla: basically folks have been used as sort of catalyst for the reaction of them getting 16nm or so and are now no longer needed
punkman: hmm
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50750 @ 0.00055964 = 28.4017 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382516 << perhaps i am up too late, but i cannot make heads nor tails of this ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:53:27; mircea_popescu: maybe 1% of the cost of a block, a day ?
punkman: ben_vulpes: 1% extra
punkman: https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/docs/other_libs.md "single-file public-domain/open source C libraries with minimal dependencies"
assbot: stb/other_libs.md at master · nothings/stb · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pp2TXI )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36700 @ 0.00055964 = 20.5388 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: ah?
BingoBoingo: http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/software.html ☟︎
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53000 @ 0.00055964 = 29.6609 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51500 @ 0.00056057 = 28.8694 BTC [+] {3}
shinohai: Height 394621 \o/
shinohai pops cork on muscadine wine even though it is 7 a.m.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30800 @ 0.00055961 = 17.236 BTC [-]
Azelphur: ;;rate RagnarDanneskjol -10 3 months of unpaid salary, will remove rating if payment ever arrives.
gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be authenticated to use the rating system.
Azelphur: ;;rate RagnarDanneskjol -10 3 months of unpaid salary, will remove rating if payment ever arrives. ☟︎
gribble: Rating entry successful. Your rating of -10 for user RagnarDanneskjol has been recorded.
Azelphur sighs
Azelphur: Was really unsure whether to place that one (badmouthing former employer and all) but figured he'll probably look here for someone to replace me, and other people might not be so financially secure as I am.
punkman: told me he needed some contract work 3 months ago, but didn't follow through
punkman: ;;seen RagnarDanneskjol
gribble: RagnarDanneskjol was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 44 weeks, 0 days, 2 hours, 50 minutes, and 19 seconds ago: <RagnarDanneskjol> trinque - i am occasionally using the nick for continued development on punks ver. if anyone here's partial to the name I can pass it over. Wow that xm42
Azelphur: punkman, yea for me I did the work, he just keeps saying he will pay and continues to delay / make excuses
Azelphur: he said he;
Azelphur: whoops, he said he'd pay me an installment of £1000ish on Monday, then said it was a bank holiday and that he would send it out Tuesday, ignored me till yesterday where he claimed he had sent it out, but honestly he has said it's sent so many times and it didn't arrive I don't trust it any more
punkman: yeah that's not very good
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382541 << yea, actually, the one thing bitcointalk is a source for is miner stuff. they never got any other venue , well noit publicly anyway ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 06:06:51; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: and i'm going to guess most of this history is on bitcointalk.org
Azelphur: Indeed it's not, had no money over christmas. His misinformation has cost me money too
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: that didn't work out so well did it
Azelphur: apparently not, no
Azelphur: was great up until the whole not paying me thing
punkman: you were working with him for a while though, right?
Azelphur: punkman, yea, I started with him last October iirc
Azelphur: ie, October 2014
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla http://trilema.com/2016/bitbet-sbbet-december-2015-statement/#comment-116281 << anything to this ?
assbot: BitBet (S.BBET) December 2015 Statement on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ppwpwi )
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah I get a new cert on bitbet, issued 2016/01/21
mircea_popescu: ah kk.
mircea_popescu: thing ended up in spam, possibly because of the link
Azelphur: but yea, officially looking for new work now. Hopefully it's a good move and I'll get paid a little more (and at all :P)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382551 << ahaha no that's a balloon. dirigible is oval not buttshaped. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:40:37; punkman: ^ dirigible
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382554 << he also had a blog which was pretty good. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:52:39; assbot: Latest posts of: organofcorti ... ( http://bit.ly/1Pp0g8b )
mircea_popescu: iirc the dude hated me for some reason.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382567 << well, actually, they sold back when they had to take the poisoned dollars of the masses, a few bucks at a time. once they n olonger need that, they don't. who eats garbage if they can help it. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 09:03:04; kakobrekla: they sold until it was garbage, now that further decreasement in process size are hardly possible, they hold
mircea_popescu: Azelphur notsure why you're not using the assbot wot anyway.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu, haven't been around much recently so haven't familiarised myself with it
mircea_popescu: ah
mircea_popescu: anyway, there was a bank holiday on monday. in the us. some black speechmaker dude
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382242 << tell a bit about the concentrated thing ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 03:32:24; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382094 << you deeply misunderstand what "investor grade" means in this context. the point is that he is RARE. you understand this ? the fundamental property of capital control in any functioning society without exception possible is that it must be concentrated.
Azelphur: mircea_popescu, yea I know, dude is very good at excuses, as I say it has been 3 months, and even if he has sent a bank transfer it's still only for a small percentage of total owed
asciilifeform: is it the '1024 chickens' idea ?
mircea_popescu: nope. it's the "brain resides in skullbox not spread out throughout cells like mitochondria".
asciilifeform: same thing, no ?
mircea_popescu: i guess it can be viewed so, yeah. ok.
asciilifeform: i'm trying to grasp how it isn't an argument for gosplan tho
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that both ox and chickens are separate from the thing they pull.
mircea_popescu: ah, this IS an argument for gosplan. the only one.
Azelphur: if it was just missed payment by a few days I'd be cool with it, heck I was fine with it up until about 2 weeks late, stopped working when it was a month late, and public -10 has only happened after 3 months late
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the argument against gosplan is that "fuck you".
mircea_popescu: while you personally may not be inclined, i am, and without me it dies.
mircea_popescu: Azelphur i c.
Azelphur: started to get really annoyed when I had the choice of taking money out of my cold wallet or taking a loan from my parents to make rent over christmas - not cool :/
asciilifeform: so mircea_popescu doesn't have an argument against gosplan ?! other than not liking the colour & shape on purely aesthetic grounds?
mircea_popescu: the argument against gosplan is exactly the argument against "hi guise i am ceo".
mircea_popescu: "who the fuck are you ?"
Azelphur: I feel bad -10ing him though, I like to work things out with people and it just sucks that he's not meeting his obligations or even being reasonable really
mircea_popescu: which is why all the red square nuclear bomb displays and etc. obligate pompousness.
asciilifeform: lucky we are that 'hi guise im ceo' has no army and no navy.
mircea_popescu: it's a forced mistake.
mircea_popescu: quite.
asciilifeform: (except when he does, e.g., obamitler)
mircea_popescu: problem being, they don't actually help, just serve to alienate me further.
asciilifeform: only because the beast is immunocompromised
mircea_popescu: mno.
mircea_popescu: i am immune to it, it depends on me. this creates a certain situation of power in the field.
asciilifeform: depends how ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the expression of the castrated subhumans that nevertheless are intelligent enough to notice the problem, this is usually called the "knowledge problem", ie poor state can't acquire and process enough information to make a reasonable gosplan.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, this is a flattering if incorrect representation. like saying "unfortunately whale did not have enough evolution mojo to grow wings". yeasure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea how to formulate this better than to refer you to the (oft mentioned, by me) worms dispute.
mircea_popescu: king can not invest by staff. he doesn't have a staff to give.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: modern usg is going for 'eastern despot' caesaropapism.
mircea_popescu: which is why they keep inventing academic honors for the emperor. they work admirably, don't they.
asciilifeform: hey it worked for the 5000yr egyptianreich!
mircea_popescu: not so.
mircea_popescu: your idea that "5000 yr egyptianreich" is not unlike a 1900s victorian idea that "5000 yr chinareich". wut ?
mircea_popescu: they had more dynasties than americans had sexual partners.
asciilifeform: point^
mircea_popescu: ironically, the people who could be caesar ie emperor and pontifex max uniformly do not wish to be, so much so it's almost a heuristic.
mircea_popescu: and they do not wish to be not because they somehow give a shit about brutus and brutish jealousies.
mircea_popescu: but, at this juncture, augustus' memoirs are recomended re-read. might explain the vecchio rotinculo much closer than before.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382542 << ukrs are apparently really good at shooting into 1) air 2) earth 3) defenceless farm houses. who'dhaveknown. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 06:17:35; mats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5R9SZM2jaE
asciilifeform: spiffy firewurx.
asciilifeform: and wake me up when they ~make~ a tank.
mircea_popescu: aww why the haet!
mircea_popescu: dja know that the AVERAGE ammo expenditure per enemy killed is in the 2mn range by now ?
mircea_popescu: people keep mocking hollywood marksmanship. mostly because they've never been in a warzone.
asciilifeform: well also because did not go to kindergarten, never learned concept of suppressive fire
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's about 2kj per bullet, we find that each enemy combatant takes ~1MWh in bullets only!
mircea_popescu: and that's on the modest 39mm. pretty much a thing of the past, everyone doing 51 now amirite. so 2x that.
asciilifeform was very very confused until realized that mircea_popescu is counting the ~length~ of the shell !
mircea_popescu: well yes. 39 is the old ak/sks russian thing. nato has a bigger one. ☟︎
asciilifeform: today as in '70s the man-portable small arms fire the 'intermediate' things and the squad guns - the 1890s longer one.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 101766 @ 0.00055833 = 56.819 BTC [-] {3}
mircea_popescu: well, depends. the large nato round is really like the hunting .308
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://s242.photobucket.com/user/Akalvarez_2007/media/PANA0003.jpg.html << sov-new (ak74), nato-new (m16), sov-old (ak47), nato-old-fullsize, sov-old-fullsize (mosin, and all ru squad guns, 1890s round)
assbot: Ammo Side By Side Photo by Akalvarez_2007 | Photobucket ... ( http://bit.ly/1KwjWQb )
mircea_popescu: aha
asciilifeform: notice the very archaic flanged shell and rimmed bottom on the last
mircea_popescu: yeah lol.
mircea_popescu: century old bullet!
asciilifeform: oldest rifle cartridge still in mass use.
asciilifeform: more than century.
asciilifeform played with a bag of empty shells of those, as a boy
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382439 << i thought we had this ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:23:47; mircea_popescu: and for the love of christ implement either rolling or else a maxsize for files or something.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382433 << all i really want presently is to dump mempool. and to have some means of removing ANYTHING whatsoever from it. because if we had this, we COULD semispace-garbagecollect. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:20:23; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382232 << even the simple step of "add flag to trb to dump mempool into file each time a block is found" would be helpful atm.
asciilifeform: (add what belongs in the pool to a new pool, then nuke what remains. also defrags...)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let the guy do something useful wouldja. step at a time.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382456 << ick ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:33:08; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it could always curl deedbot.org for the latest.
mircea_popescu: and drink humour vitamins!
asciilifeform: l0lzamins
mircea_popescu: very fucking hard making jokes about bitcoin codebase, seeing the state it's in.
asciilifeform: 'who has been in the army, does not laugh in the circus' (tm) (r) (su) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: like fucking pagliacci over here, just turns to sad.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha quite.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382549 << this looks disturbingly like BingoBoingo's material ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:40:14; punkman: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/23/a1/38/23a138d0e5eeb772813bb196e4c5f31c.jpg
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382561 << this seems like a deviously clever notion until you recall that most of the asic miners were - quite likely deliberately - not built to last ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:59:13; punkman: "It has been quite a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable to assume that most small miners will have recouped the majority of what they initially outlaid for the hardware, and are now disinclined to continue ‘supporting the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’, to acquire all this idle hashing power seems like a smart move. As,
mircea_popescu: http://36.media.tumblr.com/06e1a4f30719f22ffe8bd2f8abe73b1b/tumblr_nd32f8rOuT1rqs8dwo1_1280.jpg << in other news, never trust a man with a garage.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1KwkTrB )
asciilifeform: (they never got the wear circuits to behave plausibly like a real-life bathtub curve, either. so the things would routinely ship with varying number of working hash cores, etc)
mircea_popescu: iirc the overall "delivered asic, all cores working" was in the <5% zone.
asciilifeform: aha.
asciilifeform: i've always wanted to do a bit of microscopy on those, see if there was a set of magicks for re-enabling the 'accidented' cores
kakobrekla: deliberately? imo overlyconfident.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the whole racket stood on a solid column of chump, and was designed around such
mircea_popescu: more or less. really, esp early on, it was just blindly flailing.
kakobrekla: they didnt have the time to make anything past "this will prolly work"
mircea_popescu: easy to reinterpret what memory salvaged of the midden of history, but if you were there and saw the missing 95% from that story...
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: if this were so, there would have been many asic co. sunk by a taped out dud
asciilifeform: afaik there were none.
mircea_popescu: and so there were.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha don't kid, you make my heart jump so.
asciilifeform: but i - obviously - wasn't there.
asciilifeform: nor wanted to be.
mircea_popescu: of the people who scammed their "investors, at least half, to two thirds, were scammed in turn, by their "providers".
kakobrekla: i did say probably, not possibly.
asciilifeform: yes but any public intel suggesting a taped-out total dud ?
asciilifeform: or just 'took the money & ran'
mircea_popescu: asicminer had a fully blown up run. so did bfl, twice iirc.
mircea_popescu: so did many others.
mircea_popescu: there were, up until early 2013 or so, more dead runs than live.
asciilifeform: i am specificially thinking of ~ic~ rather than ~board~
asciilifeform: i remember very well the smoking ~boards~
mircea_popescu: pre-packaged chips.
kakobrekla: afaik there were 'duds' i dont recall specifics from top of the head
asciilifeform: then yes.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382579 << this is a mega-l0l, worth reading! turns out, one day they decided to play 'obfuscated c contest' at ft meade ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 09:39:27; BingoBoingo: http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/software.html
mircea_popescu: actually a proper history of early mining would be a most respectable endeavour for a serious, diligent historian at this point.
asciilifeform: (srsly who the FUCK uses 'salsa' etc)
mircea_popescu: of course they're busy fucking around doing nothing much. but hey, gosplan!
punkman: I'd like to contribute more debug-related patches, could maybe split the gui-snip stuff from debug_sanity patch, and start over.
punkman: does asciilifeform like anything from djb?
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punkman: https://github.com/SergiusTheBest/plog interesting logging library, less than 1kloc, includes simple log rotation ☟︎
assbot: GitHub - SergiusTheBest/plog: Portable and simple C++ logging library ... ( http://bit.ly/1KwmNbS )
asciilifeform: punkman: quite a few things
mircea_popescu: punkman start over, how you mean ?
asciilifeform: punkman: i'm a fan of the man's cryptoanalytic work. but the sv-popularity of his cipher primitives is concerning
asciilifeform: problem is that one doesn't get to 'make a name' in academe as 'cryptographer' by pushing rsa. ☟︎
asciilifeform: just like you don't become a famous small arms designer by refining the kalash
asciilifeform: even if ~that would be the Right Thing~
asciilifeform: so he's stuck with the ecc gargle.
asciilifeform: and with devising block ciphers, which is very easy to 'do'
asciilifeform: !s from:mircea_popescu originality
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asciilifeform: ^see also
mircea_popescu: djb = bernstein ?
asciilifeform: right
mircea_popescu: guy's brilliant, hard to argue with that. but yes, seems he's being slowly ground to paste by "teh system"
asciilifeform: one way to look at it is that he isn't much more of a 'free man' than, e.g., i am
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually may want to write him a letter, iirc he was also all about fits in head but arrived there on slightly different path
asciilifeform: in that he has to work on certain flavours of shit icecream, in order to eat
mircea_popescu: didn't he end up basically rewriting sendmail because sendmail sucked ?
asciilifeform: aha
punkman: mircea_popescu: start over, meaning make a new debug_sanity patch with more improvements (and without the gui snipping parts bundled together)
mircea_popescu: this with a view to better semantics, or with a view to reinstate gui ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my original thumbs-down for his patch was on account of bundling multiple-unlikes
mircea_popescu: it does carry water.
asciilifeform: the vestigial wx crapolade needs to go
asciilifeform: but ~in own patch~
asciilifeform: this makes it considerably easier to evaluate every path
asciilifeform: *patch
mircea_popescu: yeah.
punkman: both gui-snip and debug-sanity are gonna touch a lot of files though, and I would prefer to do this once
asciilifeform: 'does this do X and ONLY X'
asciilifeform: punkman: this is very much the wrong idea
asciilifeform: we aren't trying to minimize patch-line-counts AS SUCH
mircea_popescu: punkman certainly a worthy attempt, even if mod6 prolly won't be able to put it in current release.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, but not what he said.
mircea_popescu: what i took it to mean was that if he's gonna load his head with shit, would rather do two things than one and reload
asciilifeform: ok to make the two patches in one sitting
asciilifeform: but they gotta be separate.
mircea_popescu: that small logger thing actually looks pretty good
mircea_popescu: to my documentedly noobish eye.
punkman: can do the gui-snip thing first, work is already done
mircea_popescu: incidentally, why the fuck does bitcoin have json support ? do we actually want this ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is still there because that is how the rpc thing works
mircea_popescu: yes but fuck that, we have a protocol that then imports json ?
punkman: need to have a format for api output anyway right?
asciilifeform: i very dearly wanted to rip it out, but then all the robotics folks are presently 'come to expect' will have to be scrapped.
mircea_popescu: this strikes me as the same fundamental insanity of "we'll replace bdb with leveldb in the sense that WE KEEP BOTH!!1".
asciilifeform: if you recall, i wanted to replace it with unix signals.
asciilifeform: or at the worst, a simple telnet-type protocol
mircea_popescu: i do but i don't recall why i wasn't so hot about that.
asciilifeform: because it sux
asciilifeform: but unix doesn't give us a rpc-thing that doesn't suck
mircea_popescu: yes because it sucks lol. if you're happy with that much.
punkman: standard format would be nicer than new invention
mircea_popescu: punkman only if "standard format" doesn't expand at pre-compile time into "here's a debalanced tree of 547657698 "standards""
asciilifeform: punkman: when the standard does not fit-in-head and yields 200kB of heathen code - it can go die
mircea_popescu: it is ipso definitio not a standard.
punkman: there are some tiny json libraries
mircea_popescu: just a glorified mess.
mircea_popescu: the implementation is not the standard.
asciilifeform: punkman: any written by wot men?
punkman: no
mircea_popescu: even before wot issue considered : there's two branches to corectness.
mircea_popescu: one is code, the other standard. it helps me nothing that you've made one small if this makes the other huge.
asciilifeform: sorta what i meant in earlier thread, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=21-01-2016#1380326 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 22:16:42; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2016#1380266 << yes! and you can almost ~define~ 'sane system' this way. with the caveat that it can't be a non-orthogonal fudge like a program consisting of one line 'start_bitcoind()' nor anything in that spirit. ORTHOGONAL operators.
mircea_popescu: i guess so.
asciilifeform: ~genuine~ reduction in complexity specifically excludes shenanigans where it is 'swept under the rug' and hidden somewhere else
punkman: well, something for the foundation to decide, whether json is to be kept or replaced with something else
asciilifeform: it is intrinsically retarded
asciilifeform: and the logical replacement is sexpr. ☟︎
asciilifeform: which is 'standard' that fits in ONE MOTHERFUCKING PARAGRAPH
asciilifeform: and correctly implementable by a stray dog
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punkman: so if I talk to to bitcoind with python I get sexpr in ascii or otherwise?
asciilifeform: in ascii.
asciilifeform: json is really sexpr but was dropped as a baby
asciilifeform: all sv garbage is of this general flavour, incidentally
punkman: could have both and break compatibility later
asciilifeform: i.e. something built by the hands of ACTUAL people, that WORKED, but taken by jolt-cola-drinking jwz types and 'hacked!111 1333773d' into... what we have
asciilifeform: anyway i did not touch the json thing for the same reason i did not touch the whitespace formatting
asciilifeform: ... because it does not solve any of the dire problems of the era
asciilifeform: 'deck chairs on titanic' ☟︎
punkman: what is there to do on titanic other than abandon ship?
asciilifeform: the correct model is that there are no other ships.
asciilifeform: and the ocean is made of boiling oil.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382747 << ftr i do not like this one bit. WHY ADD 1000 LINES OF ???? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 15:11:54; punkman: https://github.com/SergiusTheBest/plog interesting logging library, less than 1kloc, includes simple log rotation
asciilifeform: this is how we got prb.
asciilifeform: 'let's add this useful!11111 pheature'
punkman: and if prb had sane logging we wouldn't be having this discussion
asciilifeform: mno.
asciilifeform: it is bad enough that trb has 500 man-year of study baked into it. let's now add a 501st ?
asciilifeform: fuck that.
asciilifeform: ergo replacing, e.g., openssl, with a 1000 line thing THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD, is a worthy thing
asciilifeform: adding an ~additional~ turd to the ball of shit, is not. ☟︎
asciilifeform: removing boost would be a worthy thing. BUT NOT if it multiplies the line count 2x, OR if it entails forcing gcc5 build
asciilifeform: (as discussed in the c++11 thread)
asciilifeform: ~likewise~ any change that increases substantially the number of lines written by non-wot folks, is ipso facto a loss.
asciilifeform: i thought all of this was elementarily obvious.
asciilifeform: with that in mind, YES, the logs need timestamps, or better still, an adjustable format, verbosity levels, etc.
asciilifeform: BUT NOT by adding some derp's 'log library'
asciilifeform: 'let's add the library' is, in mircea_popescu's well-chosen wordz, 'the hole through which the night slides in'
punkman: I didn't even dare suggest adding it of course!
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adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381103 << seems like everybody who doesn't lurk in #crypto-crackpots missed the joke ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 16:17:47; PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-01-2016#1376728 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-01-2016#1376731 << Later I realized why I missed the isomer joke: L is isomer of D, R is isomer of S, not quite interchangeable
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382818 << i think this is so. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 15:55:03; asciilifeform: and the logical replacement is sexpr.
mircea_popescu: heh im bashing that baby stuff. alf huffed the right paint this morning :D
asciilifeform: achtung, panzers! does 99.39.110.89 (99-39-110-89.lightspeed.gdrpmi.sbcglobal.net) belong to one of ye lot ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382830 << not so. the first step of work is cleaning out the workspace. it is the work of truly inept management to impede on this "because it does not directly contribute to productivity" ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 16:00:29; asciilifeform: 'deck chairs on titanic'
mircea_popescu: re BingoBoingo 's https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/comments/808993/4006420 << check out the ugly head of puritanism rearing its head yet again. "if i don't enjoy anything in the world i will surely be spared doom!!1". nothing's quite as resilient as idiocy. ☟︎
assbot: Ruston's Guide to Spotting and Avoiding Fatfishing | fatpeoplehate ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qre8hh )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382843 << in italian accent "Did you ever think about what you're going to do on the toilet? (yelling) What are you going to do on the toilet!" ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 16:09:28; asciilifeform: adding an ~additional~ turd to the ball of shit, is not.
asciilifeform: l0l! is this a ref to something?
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2A9vRjwfQY << with interpretation.
assbot: Seinfeld - Edward Scissorhands BEST SCENE EVER - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1PurcNu )
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's one thing to add "a library". it's another to "import this 1k lines that i read myself".
asciilifeform: if gonna add 1k lines, make it... tinyscheme-89
asciilifeform: implement tx debugger, sane logger instrumentation, and 101 other things, IN IT
mircea_popescu: now tinyscheme may be a good import
asciilifeform: so perhaps i can now admit to having this quietly on my hdd.
mircea_popescu: but conceptually, in my head at least, more of a "bitcoind migrates into bitcoinos" thing
asciilifeform: aha. slowly cut off chunks & replace with it.
asciilifeform: until the whole thing, one fine day, starts just fine in a mildly massaged sbcl
asciilifeform: and nobody even notices the cpp is gone.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a general point : even if you did compute a fastest route, and even if in fact you are correct (which is fundamentally an undecidable problem), there is still no reason to panic if phenomena goes a slightly more circuitous path. there are at least two good reasons, both political. one's education (ie, benefit of the ingroup), the other ... well let's just say the other's for the benefit of the outgroup.
polarbeard: s/jsonrpc/ipc socket/g
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: sbcl?
mircea_popescu: holy shit why does that substitution need recursion.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: http://sbcl.org
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1QreCnu )
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: my personal favourite readily-available lisp runtime
polarbeard: and plug-in whatever you like
thestringpuller: i barely "know" C, how am I ever gonna learn LISP?!?!? ☟︎
thestringpuller: LISP is like the masters saw.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: will have to spend a weekend, possibly risk opening a book
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thestringpuller: "When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand." ☟︎
thestringpuller: I want to be competent/sane before attempting to pick up master carpenter's tools.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i now envision your toilet-of-the-future as looking rather like a cray-II.
mircea_popescu: lol!
mircea_popescu: for the record, no girl liked the idea.
asciilifeform: cray 1 rather
asciilifeform: oh? why not
mircea_popescu: "would this be a punishment toilet ? for like the dungeon ?" "do you think the jacuzzi is a punishment pool ?" "ewww!"
mircea_popescu: now doesn't want to go into jacuzzi.
asciilifeform: l0l!
asciilifeform: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/crays/cray1/portrait/DSC08196.JPG << for reference
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1PusacC )
mircea_popescu: anyway, my idea was originalyl that it's a collaborative tool par excellence. girls better support each other's back, lest they fall in. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: but i suspect this heavy... butted aesop is a little too hamfisted for the actual butts in question.
asciilifeform: oh huh
asciilifeform: with no backs, interesting.
asciilifeform: i really pictured more of a cray.
asciilifeform: (vs gigantic ivan iv - style cauldron)
mircea_popescu: http://static.dudeiwantthat.com//img/household/bathroom/jacuzzi-entertainment-system-5501.jpg << in other news, the new york apartment of the future.
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1PuslVi )
thestringpuller: https://mattnt.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/cray.png << this one?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: yes. see also earlier link.
mircea_popescu: dude speaking of "provability" bs. FSB are "provably secure" because it can be proven they're at least as hard as regular syndrome decoding. which is np complete. while we don't actually know if THAT is in fact resolvable in polynomial time or not, nevertheless... PROVEDLY SECURE!!11 ☟︎
mircea_popescu: idiots.
mircea_popescu: "this bag is as heavy as that car. we don't know whether that car is just a cardboard cutout or what, but hey, provedly heavy bag! !1"
asciilifeform: don't expect ~sane~ crypto out of the leprosorium
asciilifeform: this is elementary.
asciilifeform: see also the ecc claptrap
asciilifeform: (as secure as 8x the bits of rsa!1111111)
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, as a bright mathematical mind pointed out once, "at some point the effort invested in stating rsa is 'widely researched' exceeds the effort ever expended into researching it"
asciilifeform: ^
mircea_popescu: it's one thing when five people who spend most of their time doing things gather in bohr's outhouse and agree "x is prolly hard".
mircea_popescu: it's another... eh, anyway. what am i doing.
asciilifeform: funnily enough, we did a walkover of the shmoo talks, incl. the crackpot algebraiceraser crypto thing, at the slave galley
asciilifeform: and even there folks chortled when i asked 'notice no mention of complexity class proof or even assumption'
mircea_popescu: the one thing i wonder, asciilifeform , is why do we always talk in strawmen.
asciilifeform: hm?
mircea_popescu: remember new guy, got overwhelmed a few days back.
asciilifeform: which?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-01-2016#1381179 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 16:43:36; AdrianG: why do you guys only speak in strawmen?
thestringpuller: if they rip out OpenSSL for libsecp256k1 won't this cause undeterministic behavior in signature checking? Or does the "comooniteee" just want to not check signatures anymore?
asciilifeform: i was not able to decipher this
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382587 << hehuahuahaehua ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 13:32:55; Azelphur: ;;rate RagnarDanneskjol -10 3 months of unpaid salary, will remove rating if payment ever arrives.
ben_vulpes: i mean poor Azelphur
mircea_popescu: i just read it as "the difference between one's understanding and the course requirement, call it D, is the maximal aperture past which useful metaphors (with an utility marked as U) and inept strawmen (with a deviance marked as -U) can still be distinguished"
mircea_popescu: ie, if U > D, U and U' are undiscernible.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had a spiffy article, 'variety speak' a while back.
asciilifeform: n00bz should not only read the logz but be grateful they don't have to learn 5,000 kanji first.
mircea_popescu: of course the correct method to learn greek consists of reading the source material and the angry german commentary in alternation.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu may have his reasons for being so friendly and welcoming but bearing a deep suspicion of new faces in #b-a has saved me untold heartbreak (and no doubt riches, if i were to listen to robert viragh's ilk) ☟︎
adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382886 << for starters, stop capitalizing it... LISP is from the same era as ALGOL and nobody uses either one today ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:03:25; thestringpuller: i barely "know" C, how am I ever gonna learn LISP?!?!?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where do you suppose they put spent ninjashotguns ?
asciilifeform: or do they rebarrel'em somewhere.
mircea_popescu: in marriages.
mircea_popescu: this is the traditional pathway of the derp. spends youth being inept, adolescence being revolutionary, gets metabolized by sub-slut grade female into "family unit"
asciilifeform: adlai: eh, if everyone knew this, how would we readily distinguish n00bz in conversation..
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: aren't there a million open source for 'em to get cycled through? each no doubt in need of deproblematizing some codebase of genderered nouns?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: possibly. but iirc that one was quite ready for the glue factory
ben_vulpes: with just a touch of retraining he could be right at home in a bike advocacy group
mircea_popescu: lol
adlai: asciilifeform: because they'll mix up set, setf, get, getf, and never quite understand the long form expansion definitions
ben_vulpes: but airbnb started out with traffic calming!
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the kind that puts caltrops in front of trucks on a highway ?
mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, senor vulpes understands quite exactly what i don't like about the subculture.
ben_vulpes: i mean traffic calming is good for children!
ben_vulpes: you should put a wifi in that kid.
thestringpuller: adlai: I'm already lost. I'm super n00b when it comes to master's tools.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: oh ffs sit down with clojure for a week if you're so scared
ben_vulpes: php and c are actually bigger pains in the ass and less useable than any lisp
adlai: thestringpuller: if you really want to learn CL, get used to feeling lost because it takes a couple years / decades to reach all the keys on this piano
asciilifeform: eh no it doesn't, wtf
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thestringpuller: maybe not for alfie who came out the womb with a commodore64 or some shiznit
adlai: well, longer than wrapping your head around all of C or $blub
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: for my own benefit what do i understand about bike advocacy?
asciilifeform: 978 motherfucking keywords in ansi std. ☟︎
adlai: thestringpuller: how about i just hand you http://l1sp.org and you never feel lost again
assbot: L1sp.org - a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation ... ( http://bit.ly/1JsRSST )
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> with just a touch of retraining he could be right at home in a bike advocacy group <
ben_vulpes: oh the endless blithering of nonsense?
mircea_popescu: a certain sort, a certain type.
asciilifeform: incidentally it blew my mind when ben_vulpes told us that some of his workers commute on bike
asciilifeform: i can only picture a sordid 1890s shanghai
asciilifeform: or vietnam
mircea_popescu: http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/20131229/tweetnacl.h << for my own education, why the fuck does a .h file in a 2 file project need to say #ifndef TWEETNACL_H #define TWEETNACL_H endif ?
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1JsS2th )
asciilifeform: (do any of them commute by riksha ?)
adlai: asciilifeform: my point is that it takes years of working in CL to have multiple opportunities to use each of those symbols to solve original problems
ben_vulpes: the notion of a functional town only mildly corrupted by cars must be as foreign to you as an atomic dirigible.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many folks use editors that automatically insert the doubleifdef-preventer thing
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aaaactually my home town had very few cars
mircea_popescu: xml-c++
asciilifeform: but nobody but children on bicycle ☟︎
asciilifeform: most folks rode trams, trolleys, a few buses.
ben_vulpes: ah well those are absent and generally reserved for the poverty stricken or physically disabled
asciilifeform: aha like here
ben_vulpes: and the cultural hatred of cars runs very deep.
adlai: asciilifeform: so amsterdam must literally be the circles of hell for you :P
asciilifeform: trains in d.c. are interesting in that they carry folks from hobo to gs-15
ben_vulpes: it'll be rather easy to turn that into a bloodthirsty hunt for californians alter.
ben_vulpes: later*
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thestringpuller: why is everyone hating on cyclist? you alfie of all people stuck in the horrid traffic of DC on a daily basis.
thestringpuller: in peak traffic takes just as long to travel to work on bike as by car
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i've nothing against it per se but it is firmly linked in my head with the third world
mircea_popescu: because he's poor, young and in the way.
ben_vulpes: he can't imagine a situation in which people are not condemned to his own version of hell.
asciilifeform: ^^^
thestringpuller: i'd rather just not sit in traffic and get more fat, that is one step above purgatory.
adlai: thestringpuller: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=15-01-2016#1370925 (althoug i am not an exception to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382985 ) ☝︎☝︎
assbot: Logged on 15-01-2016 06:47:07; adlai: buy a bike, you'll learn more about trading and addiction from not getting run over than you will from losing money on plebian status symbols
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:34:01; asciilifeform: but nobody but children on bicycle
asciilifeform: as a driver, i always despised the self-righteous pedaller who was convinced that he 'saved mother earth'
ben_vulpes: no, just his spine.
asciilifeform: does pedal man know how much fuel is wasted by the mile-long column stuck behind him ?
ben_vulpes: this is a hallmark of a miserable place to live.
mircea_popescu: i never lived anywhere that wouldn't have just splattered the derp.
mircea_popescu: nor do i see why i would.
ben_vulpes: sane places seperate the traffic.
asciilifeform: if bicyclist is permitted on a public street, so should horse !
polarbeard: so now driving cars is altruism
asciilifeform: i would happily commute on horse.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: this mile long column exist regardless of cyclist in my neck of the woods
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ever brushed a horse ?
ben_vulpes: and as a matter of fact horses /are/ allowed on the road.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not once.
ben_vulpes: and fwiw i'd rather ride a horse too.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: depends on locale
adlai: recently tlv municipality outlawed horse-driven antique furniture carts ("alte zachen"), yet another law nobody cares about
asciilifeform: horse is not permitted here except when used by police ☟︎
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: there is a d00d who sold his car for horse at livestock auction where my gf lives.
mircea_popescu: yeah well. horse maintenance is a lotta work. the whole horseback thing is a honest signal of a hierarchical society.
asciilifeform: auto is not so much less work
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: met the horse people by the river yet?
thestringpuller: thing is actually pretty fast, but upkeep seems a bit high, and of course the thing eventually dies
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the polo thing you mean ?
ben_vulpes: nono
ben_vulpes: the people who live by the river plate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform somewhat less work, and importantly machineable.
ben_vulpes: and who raise their children on horses.
mircea_popescu: i dun think so.\
ben_vulpes: very nice people.
ben_vulpes: put together a lovely parillada.
ben_vulpes: have approximately zero pesos to rub together.
mircea_popescu: any hot gypo chicks ?
ben_vulpes: met them through a south african who coached the greek olympic polo? dressage? teams before greece stopped paying for niceties like that.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure you can find cooze wherever
mircea_popescu: ;;ud cooze
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mircea_popescu: check it out, that's a new one.
ben_vulpes: also wrong.
ben_vulpes: shorthand in my world for cunt.
mircea_popescu: what's all this "Society" so and so talk anyway.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i thought it was traditionally 'cunt with the rifling worn off'
ben_vulpes: well it's urban dictionary, they're obsessed with their betters
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this wouldn't be a result of tarantino-cultism would it ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can be. context dependent. above usage is just assumption that mircea_popescu can magic gurlz out of the air in bsas gutter, river plate shores, nile and probably inside the pyramids even
mircea_popescu: one of his worse monologues.
ben_vulpes: which'd that be?
mircea_popescu: "Ok, let me tell ya what "Like a Virgin"'s about."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except cunt's not made out of soap, to wear off. it strengthens through usage.
asciilifeform: work-hardens ?
asciilifeform: like aluminum ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much.
asciilifeform: l0l
ben_vulpes: i swear we've done this thread
mircea_popescu: i think we might also do it again!
asciilifeform: until hard.
ben_vulpes: tonight, tonight...
mircea_popescu: imaqine all the people...
mircea_popescu: living in harmoneeee
ben_vulpes: hey y'all might appreciate my latest gentoo quest oopsie
ben_vulpes: i got the whole orchestra wired up, stage3 installed, everything mounted, uefi boot boss vanquished
ben_vulpes: and let the fucking laptop run out of batteries 2 seconds after running `emerge dhcpcd`
ben_vulpes: and this /retarded/ home router does not want to accept static IP declarations.
mircea_popescu: wait what ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: a hundy buys you a pf-capable box with 3 GB eth jacks
mircea_popescu: what router is that.
ben_vulpes: actiontec pk5001a
asciilifeform: ew
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: would be horrified at the state of my internal network
ben_vulpes: probably everone
mircea_popescu: so throw it out, today.
ben_vulpes: look here i only recently decided to move the toilet out of the kitchen okay
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha what.
ben_vulpes: you neckbeards with a decade of setting up your own personal infrastructure have completely forgotten what it's like to be a clueless noob
asciilifeform: phun phakt, my father's childhood was in a flat where the toilet ~literally~ was in the kitchen, behind a curtain.
mircea_popescu: "i one day stumbled on this irc channel, and it changed my life. #totallynotacult."
ben_vulpes lets mircea_popescu say it
mircea_popescu: speaking of insane idiocies. one apt i'm leasing i nthe fabulous ba has the following INSANE arrangement : two bedrooms, united by a 3x3 hallway, off one side of which is a 3x4 bathroom, and off the corner of which is... ANOTHER, tiny, 1x2 bathroom.
mircea_popescu: because making a proper, 6x4 bathroom to unite two bedrooms is EVIL
ben_vulpes: on the flip side i have a far better understanding of how linux machines boot now. so, not a particularly horrendous waste of time.
mircea_popescu: and must have little hallway.
mircea_popescu: idiots.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was prolly intended for 2+ humanoids who don't fuck
mircea_popescu: if i end up buying it i'm so tearing down that shit...
asciilifeform: we have gigantic towers of these very same things here, and more being built as we speak
asciilifeform: !s communal
assbot: 19 results for 'communal' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=communal
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion of sharing space and not fucking is almost as ridiculous as the notion of female wearing clothes before 30.
mircea_popescu: i get it, if you're visiting the 3 floor, 100k sqft country house of the marquis de Q you might not be fucking EVERYONE there.
mircea_popescu: but apartments ? gimme a break.
ben_vulpes: http://www.kgw.com/news/local/micro-apartments-as-small-as-150-square-feet-nw-portland/4373570
assbot: Micro apartments as small as 150 square feet NW Portland | KGW.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1PuuyQQ )
asciilifeform: l0l tokyo
ben_vulpes: and
ben_vulpes: http://koin.com/2015/12/16/tiny-space-big-price-micro-apartments-in-portland/
assbot: Tiny space, big price: Micro-apartments in Portland ... ( http://bit.ly/1PuuFvK )
ben_vulpes: eh it's not going to last
ben_vulpes: epic inventory hitting the market q4 2016 q2 2017
mircea_popescu: uh. 150 sq ft ?
asciilifeform: inventory of what?
mircea_popescu: so basically living in a bathroom
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jail
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: mas apartmentos y condos
asciilifeform: except in jail they feed you and you (in most of usa) don't have to work
asciilifeform: so this is worse.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that price floor is made of unobtainium and is going nowhere
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes everything inconvenient lasts in socialism.
asciilifeform: because if it caves in, the whole thing caves
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: portland goes through a boom-bust property cycle at about twice the frequency of the national market
asciilifeform: http://koin.com/2016/01/23/we-the-people-petition-white-house-to-arrest-bundy << linked from same rag. по просьбам трудящихся !111111 (tm) (r)
assbot: 'We the People' petition White House to arrest Bundy ... ( http://bit.ly/1PuuMqX )
mircea_popescu: lmao.
ben_vulpes: pretty routine to see 20% property value declines top to bottom
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: so at what point in this supposed cycle can i walk in and buy a livable HOUSE for 20k?
asciilifeform: rounding error.
ben_vulpes: 2% is a rounding error, not 20.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you have any idea what housing cost in the 80s ?
ben_vulpes: oh hilariously less
mircea_popescu: so yeah. 20% is a rounding error.
ben_vulpes: i'm not trying to argue against the property bezzle!
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the fluctuations come nowhere near making an actual palpable difference to anybody, ever.
asciilifeform: (it isn't as if they were of any serious amplitude, or even fluctuated in any particular phase to salaries, interest rates, or other relevant number)
ben_vulpes: my parents bought their current residence in...94? for 230k, are now batting away offers for 900+. i relent on the rounding error.
mircea_popescu: buy in 1981 for 35k, sell in 1994 for 230k, buy in 1994 for 230k sell in 2006 for 1.2mn
mircea_popescu: inflation over 25 years is a neat 3500%
mircea_popescu: 15% a year or thereabouts.
asciilifeform: 'how the world works!111' (tm)
mircea_popescu: so you took out a year and six weeks, once. rounding error.
ben_vulpes: okay okay!
asciilifeform: from billboard on other side of my commute: 'new townhomes in low 600s !'
asciilifeform: ^ in godforsaken piece of shit street
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: is crack still going on in DC? or do the white people still live on the otherside of the ptomic
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: there are upscale white folk in dc now
mircea_popescu: and meanwhile, when i visited the us people generally tipped 10% and derps were derping about how it's really not enough and should be more like 15%. incidentally looked on reddit the other day, "Everyone agrees" it should be over 20%.
mircea_popescu: soon enough it'll just be "double the bill".
mats: nice
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: you sound like that d00d in pulp fiction who doesn't believe in tipping.
thestringpuller: Buscemi was it?
mircea_popescu: spare me, i don't believe in hiring your shitty workers on my dime. i'll take a slavegirl with, and she can wait on me. your inept "staff" can go hang, how abvout that ?
mircea_popescu: run a fucking business rather than a morroccan tourist trap and have some fucking self respect.
thestringpuller: p. much right?
mircea_popescu: p much.
thestringpuller: waiters are generally shitty at their job too, cause "I'll be an actress one day!"
thestringpuller: In US tho, they spit in your food when you insult them with low tips.
ben_vulpes: "no, honey, we're not going out. you cook better, plate better, and do it all in the nude. i am not paying for designer lights, too much salt, and shitty hipster wait staff drinking habits. plus you'll want to tip 20% for completely miserable service and i just got my shoes off."
mircea_popescu: p much.
thestringpuller: That's why in house chef's have become more popular than eating out.
thestringpuller: or at least in whites-ville suburbia where I live
mircea_popescu: i imagine a larger driver is that a) "restaurants" saw the "opportunity" to turn into caterers and "prepare" pre-prepared meals and b) nobody trusts their fucking acquisition process.
mircea_popescu: "you wanna cook for me, pick ingredients from over here" is the main driver, i expect.
thestringpuller: For me I just have my own menu and tell chef "fix X here is money to go buy groceries. Don't get the cheap stuff."
thestringpuller: I should learn to cook. But I'm an extremely fickle eater.
mircea_popescu: for the same deal you could just get a poor gf.
mircea_popescu: i suppose ~half the marriages in the world today happen about like that.
thestringpuller: She doesn't cook as well as my buddy who went to culinary school.
mircea_popescu: well, get a competent immigrant. ukr chicks cook well.
thestringpuller: aha. I really should just learn to _actually_ cook. But I don't even know what foods I like.
mircea_popescu: travel & find out.
thestringpuller: when I'm no longer a USian slave I do plan to find out ;)
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/853da9c157c3a3129d72bdf4892949fb/tumblr_mttcnr7D0x1sjgtlbo1_1280.jpg
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Puwjxe )
thestringpuller: Eventually there'll be enough good porn links in the logs to have a !bait command
ben_vulpes: from:mircea_popescu media.tumblr.com ☟︎
ben_vulpes: ain't hard
ben_vulpes: in other apple nyooz, 'el capitan' ships with a new program 'photos'
ben_vulpes: that starts up, shits 40gb of files to disk immediately while importing the classic 'iphoto' library, and has now been spinning on the import for 2 straight days now. ☟︎☟︎
ben_vulpes: fuck these people.
ben_vulpes: ah it was punkman with the logs
fluffypony: with the candlestick?
deedbot-: [cascadian hacker] The measure of a state is its ability to deny benefits to outsiders - http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2016/01/23_the-measure-of-a-state-is-its-ability-to-deny-benefits-to-outsiders.html
ben_vulpes: fluffypony: in the server room
fluffypony: heh
ben_vulpes: huh shoulda fixed the date on that wotpost while i was at it
ben_vulpes: O WELL
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383171 << i did not notice this ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 19:47:00; ben_vulpes: that starts up, shits 40gb of files to disk immediately while importing the classic 'iphoto' library, and has now been spinning on the import for 2 straight days now.
asciilifeform: perhaps because i did not use the old sack'o'garbage ?
asciilifeform: nor the new ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i imagine you don't use iphoto
asciilifeform: wtf does it even do
ben_vulpes: open, see
asciilifeform: take photos with the cruddy webcam in the machine ?
ben_vulpes shakes head slowly
ben_vulpes: that'd be photo booth
ben_vulpes: oh ho ho
ben_vulpes: i discovered my photo booth archives from freshman year ☟︎
ben_vulpes: oh the tits
asciilifeform: so tell me what makes this app necessary
ben_vulpes: gimp is not a thing on macos?
ben_vulpes: necessary is a stretch
ben_vulpes: iphoto i'm sure will eventually fall to quest of removing toilets from places they should not be
ben_vulpes: handy categorizer-of-photos-by-exif is probably the best justification for my continued use of it
ben_vulpes takes a lot of photos
ben_vulpes: has since...02?
ben_vulpes: would pull down the negative books from that era but they're in the family fire-proof safe
ben_vulpes: yes, i store the negatives, wtf with this printed photo nonsense.
ben_vulpes: on the flip side i do *not* store raw digital photos.
ben_vulpes: absurd waste of bits. photography is lossy, deal.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382860 << recurring thread at $shop: encourage people to customize for personal ergonomics and efficiency or attempt to cultivate a standard environment for ease of collaboration on each other's devices? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 17:49:32; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382830 << not so. the first step of work is cleaning out the workspace. it is the work of truly inept management to impede on this "because it does not directly contribute to productivity"
ben_vulpes: probably unresolved because we're coolies working oars with illusions of being graham's "six smart hackers in a room"
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382890 << you are actually far more likely to lose a hand on the table saw your friend keeps in the garage that he doesn't know how to teach you to use than planing something flat on the master's shaper. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:06:52; thestringpuller: "When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand."
ben_vulpes: mostly because the shaper is a 5hp terror of cutter-face that'll make you think seven times before even beginning to cut, whereas your friend's table saw doesn't have the sawstop that your *other* idiot friend bought.
ben_vulpes: https://youtu.be/XVktVFyid-Y?t=150 << obligatory slo-mo sawstop
assbot: Finger into Sawstop at slow motion - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/20l7hsm )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 69200 @ 0.00055893 = 38.678 BTC [-] {3}
punkman: "SawStop has provoked opposition from the Power Tool Institute (PTI), which represents Black & Decker, Hilti, Hitachi Koki, Makita, Metabo, Bosch, Techtronic Industries and WMH Tool Group."
punkman: "In April 2008 they told Congress that SawStop's braking system is: dangerous because it requires the user to come in contact with the blade before activating; unproven, particularly in terms of durability; prone to false trips caused by commonly available wet and green wood; potentially vulnerable to latent damage that cannot be inspected and may cause a hazard; costly to the user because once
punkman: activated, saw blade and cartridge must be replaced; and significantly more expensive, ranging from a minimum of 25 percent and ranging upwards depending on saw type"
punkman: lulzy
punkman: "The PTI objects to the licensing necessary due to the "more than 50 patents" related to SawStop's braking system; such costs "would destroy the market for the cheapest, most popular saws, adding $100 or more to the price of consumer models that typically sell for less than $200." In response, their members developed "new plastic guards to shield table saw users from the dangers of a spinning
punkman: blade". PTI says "its member companies have received no reports of injuries on [the 750,000] table saws with the new guard design.""
ben_vulpes: punkman: they're fighting him because he kicked their ass on the licensing front ☟︎
ben_vulpes: and the plastic guard is a joke, comes off at the first opportunity.
punkman: I bet it is
punkman: but can you really trust a carpenter with all 10 fingers?
shinohai: I think I saw this. Said guard does destroy the blade in the process.
mats: i learned today that the 82nd recently retrofitted their M4s to full auto ☟︎
ben_vulpes: shinohai: i'd rather lose a blade than a finger.
ben_vulpes: in any event i'm long out of that line of work, and for good reason.
asciilifeform: !s sawstop
assbot: 0 results for 'sawstop' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=sawstop
asciilifeform: hm
asciilifeform: short story, the shits tried to make their PATENTED thing MANDATORY
asciilifeform: and when the whole industry, predictably, tried to push back, 'oh noez they WANT your fingers chopped!1111'
asciilifeform: mats: was there ever a real rationale for the 3-round burst thing at all ? ☟︎
ben_vulpes: mandatory? oh do cite plz
mats: asciilifeform: suppressive fire
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382679 << longer, but narrower ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 14:31:04; mircea_popescu: well yes. 39 is the old ak/sks russian thing. nato has a bigger one.
mats: what a massive waste of money for a) retrofit b) encouraging people to rambo
asciilifeform: mats: suppressive fire would be an argument for ordinary full auto, nein ?
ben_vulpes: ibd
ben_vulpes: that's hilarious
ben_vulpes: hey totally valid business strategy under gosplan--get yer shit mandated for use
punkman: ah now it makes more sense
mats: asciilifeform: well, yeah. burst is pretty good in close quarters
mats: the round itself is pretty light and you can control the grouping with practice
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://toolmonger.com/2012/09/14/more-sawstop-bs << randomly picked summary
assbot: More SawStop BS | Toolmonger ... ( http://bit.ly/20la0lz )
ben_vulpes: meanwhile found it
asciilifeform: mats: i was asking about the 3-round limit
asciilifeform: i found it a puzzling thing, esp. given as nato world uses professional soldiers rather than orcish conscripts, the latter presumably cannot be trained to let go of the trigger
punkman: what's with the pharma spam in that article
asciilifeform: punkman: never seen a blog gone to seed before ?
mats: most people i've run into have been trained to exclusively use semi auto
asciilifeform: how do you lay suppressive fire with semi ? ww1 volley style ?
mats: and some high speed units that have MOUT missions will teach burst in cqb
mats: and traditionally folks are taught that suppressive fire is for the SAW gunner
BingoBoingo: lol, yeah this idiocy exists everywhere http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382862 ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 17:52:11; mircea_popescu: re BingoBoingo 's https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/comments/808993/4006420 << check out the ugly head of puritanism rearing its head yet again. "if i don't enjoy anything in the world i will surely be spared doom!!1". nothing's quite as resilient as idiocy.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382941 << I have no recollection of what it was that flipped that paranoia switches when he was PM'ing me drunk, sober reading the logs unrevealing, but I am now very glad that breaker flipped. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:26:38; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu may have his reasons for being so friendly and welcoming but bearing a deep suspicion of new faces in #b-a has saved me untold heartbreak (and no doubt riches, if i were to listen to robert viragh's ilk)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: reading the log i posted as his rating was not enough ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not Robert V, The ragnar dude
asciilifeform: ah
BingoBoingo: The one who came with various promises of toil so can eat while hodl
BingoBoingo: At least it is one less ammends to make when step 9 comes around
danielpbarron: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1382902 << that's exactly what I had imagined ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:12:25; mircea_popescu: anyway, my idea was originalyl that it's a collaborative tool par excellence. girls better support each other's back, lest they fall in.
punkman: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/firearms-gangs-glamorous-assistant-who-7228168
assbot: Firearms gang's glamorous assistant who posed in provocative selfie with AK-47 jailed for 10 years - Mirror Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZUP3RN )
ben_vulpes: dafuq is a deactivated weapon
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383023 << Here horse is most privileged. Permitted on sidewalk, bike lanes, and road proper. Only limit on their popularity is pooper scooper laws. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 18:37:54; asciilifeform: horse is not permitted here except when used by police
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: "deactivated" typically means barrel filled with lead and various parts molested to place it substantially far from being a weapon capable of operation. Reactivating mean replacing parts.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: museum weapon
BingoBoingo: Also that.
BingoBoingo: For a while many of the fine mail order retailers of 'Murica actually marketed many of these museum weapons in their pages. Most have moved on from that though.
BingoBoingo: http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3710
assbot: JL: Neanderthal Idiots in Harm City ... ( http://bit.ly/1SbGa0d )
BingoBoingo: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/sympathy_for_the_devil_but_none_for_white_victims_of_violence.html#ixzz3y5ORkdBG
assbot: Articles: Sympathy for the Devil... But None for White Victims of Violence ... ( http://bit.ly/1SbGmwp )
BingoBoingo: "When one boy snarled she should go back to India, she told him that under his argument he should go back to Africa. That cost her a disciplinary inquiry for 'racism'. She was also hauled in for suspected 'racism' when she used the technical term "negate" in her class -- and a black girl took it as an epithet and brought her hell-raising mother to school to confront her in the principal's office. "
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 390.36, vol: 7889.73415043 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 393.0, vol: 5116.00628 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 389.79, vol: 25994.71324663 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 352.0, vol: 8.10773217 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 392.84704, vol: 78857.98570000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 390.8, vol: 372.47406101 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 399.40716801, vol: 19.80240217 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: ;;more
gribble: 392.007608699
BingoBoingo: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 394695 | Current Difficulty: 1.1335429980147113E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 395135 | Next Difficulty In: 440 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 2 days, 12 hours, 41 minutes, and 22 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-01-2016#1362586 << citation ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2016 00:12:37; asciilifeform: and even not considering this absurdity, you would have same problem as vasectomy patient (the sperm gets reabsorbed and your immune system begins to generate antibodies against it. with bonus measurable extra risk of alzheimer's)
ben_vulpes: ?
asciilifeform entirely snowed in, finally
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you will have to unearth the thing yourself
mats: stuck at work, asciilifeform ?
asciilifeform: mats: nah
mats: fortunate
ben_vulpes: huh
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: see PM
ben_vulpes: for someone reason vasalgel is being pushed as an alternative to risug
BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--zRrZQ14Y--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/klka9zgkgsp0qhksprw8.jpg << US cops now doing the stupid "gansta grip"
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/20lgJfo )
ben_vulpes: ty thestringpuller
mats: i feel bad for the pizza guy that has to drive here in 45 mins
BingoBoingo: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/01/21/oberlins-president-refuses-negotiate-student-list-demands
assbot: Oberlin's president refuses to negotiate with student list of demands ... ( http://bit.ly/20lgReM )
BingoBoingo: "The 14-page list of demands at Oberlin was detailed and contained many controversial items. Among other things, it demanded the immediate firing of some Oberlin employees, the immediate tenuring of some faculty members, specific curricular changes, a review and possible revision of the grading system (to be overseen by students), the creation of "safe spaces" for black students in at least three buildings on campus, the creation
BingoBoingo: of a program to enroll recently released prisoners from a nearby prison as undergraduates, divestment from Israel, and a requirement that black student leaders be paid $8.20 an hour for their organizing efforts."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383171 <<< blockchain crapologies ? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 19:47:00; ben_vulpes: that starts up, shits 40gb of files to disk immediately while importing the classic 'iphoto' library, and has now been spinning on the import for 2 straight days now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol whence the spunk ? blackdemandsmatter!
mircea_popescu: oh wait, Marvin Krislov. almost russian!
BingoBoingo: Nah, Oberlin jack off
BingoBoingo: It's Oberlin though so they've been enabling this shit for decades
mircea_popescu: http://www.press.umich.edu/1181733 << the irony.
assbot: The Next Twenty-five Years ... ( http://bit.ly/20lhk0D )
asciilifeform: one wonders, why not 'the next twenty-five thousand years'
mircea_popescu: because "progress".
asciilifeform: ogress.
mircea_popescu: well yeah. any sort of longer stretch is either inacceptably unprogressive or outright ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: consider : "so we'll have 3500% inflation over the next 25 years." "wait, that coems to ONLY 15% a year ? TOO SMALL!!1"
ben_vulpes: oho i'm going to have a blast with those demands later
mircea_popescu: sure baby. now do 150% a year for 25`000 years.
asciilifeform just finished transplanting the switch under 'printscreen' to under spacebar
asciilifeform: so nice to have industrial soldering iron at last, heats up in maybe 5sec
mircea_popescu: "wait, that coems to ONLY 15% a year ? TOO SMALL!!1" <<< meant to be "only 150%", cuz nigga can't exponentiate, divides instead.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so you starting your own "drunken mousy middle chalss chick at college" tumblr ?
ben_vulpes: waiwut?
BingoBoingo: Further ButtFurry lulz, Want to boost block size, but... https://archive.is/MI5UM
assbot: Cryptolution comments on "Consensus Round Table" meeting in Miami going on now ... ( http://bit.ly/1PdShc5 )
mircea_popescu: i dunno, jus going through logs.
BingoBoingo: "This meeting has reached a maximum of 50 participants. Please try again later."
ben_vulpes: in reference to?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383191 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383168 ☝︎☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 20:06:49; ben_vulpes: i discovered my photo booth archives from freshman year
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 19:31:10; ben_vulpes: from:mircea_popescu media.tumblr.com
ben_vulpes: nah, just giving the botmakers lurking a tip on how to automate the baitprocurement
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383219 <<< i wouldn't buy a thing with "SawStop (tm)" and i certainly don't want to HAVE to. ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 20:35:44; ben_vulpes: punkman: they're fighting him because he kicked their ass on the licensing front
asciilifeform: ^
asciilifeform: it is worse than that mercedes that brakes by itself.
mircea_popescu: quite. no rule everyone must run a saw.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383224 << and this to me just reads "we gave up on learning any aim". ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 20:39:46; mats: i learned today that the 82nd recently retrofitted their M4s to full auto
mircea_popescu: oddly related to the saw thing.
ben_vulpes admittedly has difficulty pulling head out of workplace safety mindset
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-01-2016#1383232 <<< yes. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 20:44:26; asciilifeform: mats: was there ever a real rationale for the 3-round burst thing at all ?
asciilifeform: actually it suggests usg confidence that it will ~never~ suffer shortages of ammo
asciilifeform: even localized
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes workplace safety != this just like domestic faithfulness != chastity belts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't fucking aim that bs.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: wut?
mats: its a change that does make rifle teams more flexible
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: full auto is for suppressive fire, just needs to go in the general direction of the enemy, nein ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but ONLY full auto means you can't do most of the things you actually want to do.
mircea_popescu: you want suppressive fire get a fucking platform.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: m16 was never 'only'
mircea_popescu: what the fuck are you going to do with a pos hot rifle that only fires full auto in the remains of a town ?
mats: although the effect is psychological and may not work against a trained enemy
mircea_popescu: shoot yourself and be done with the misery, i guess.
asciilifeform: it was traditionally select b/w single and auto
mircea_popescu: from what i understood it went full auto ?
mircea_popescu: or do i misunderstand ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they removed the 3-round burst thing that was put in instead of auto in the '90s
mircea_popescu: mats and "trained" in this context merely means experienced.
asciilifeform: it had a clockwork gadget that fired 3s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like every civilised everyone everwhere. aim the first.
mircea_popescu: by the time the 3rd went off, your barrel is so far up high it no longer matters.
mircea_popescu: save on the heat.
asciilifeform: bbbut what if spinnin' round & round, 'fooor piglet'
asciilifeform: !s for piglet
assbot: 5 results for 'for piglet' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=for+piglet
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2016#1379720 << surprisingly close read of the logs by...whom now? ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2016 15:24:17; thestringpuller: LOL >> "Don't forget Mr Popescu, who loves to harp on about how Bitcoin is not for the unwashed masses, just two weeks ago had a hugely embarrassing fiasco where he revealed he hadn't the faintest idea how Bitcoin transactions work.
mats: i personally like burst
mats: but the complexity it adds, usually isn't worth it
ben_vulpes: what, but the complexity of stack randomization /is/?!
mats: i don't make the rules, man
assbot: [MPEX] [S.NSA] 120000 @ 0.000087 = 10.44 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: l0l l00ks like jurov found a buyer
ben_vulpes: 87?
ben_vulpes: wow
ben_vulpes: am i missing an order of magnitude here?
ben_vulpes: holy shit snsa listed in 2013
assbot: [MPEX] [S.NSA] 260000 @ 0.000085 = 22.1 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc you were there
ben_vulpes: at the bell even
jurov: actually, 85 :(
asciilifeform: if i had an account, i'd buy it off him !
mats: i bought those
jurov: may they serve you well
mats: did you take a loss selling those
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 226316 @ 0.0005557 = 125.7638 BTC [-] {5}
jurov: mats, guess what was the ipo price?
mats: 9980?
jurov: close, but nope.
jurov: 2013-10-17 08:16 Buy xxxxx@0.0001
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> bbbut what if spinnin' round & round, 'fooor piglet' << i imagine you're exactly on the mark. cartoon army, designing weapons for cartoon usage.
mats: ic
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> holy shit snsa listed in 2013 <<< well yes, was gonna be xmas remember!
jurov: <asciilifeform> if i had an account, i'd buy it off him ! << iirc the person that holds your coins, does have an account? just ash zer to place teh order.
jurov: *ask
asciilifeform: jurov: i think this would violate his monastic oath or at least give him indigestion
jurov: imo you gave him some indigestions already
jurov: s/gave/caused/
BingoBoingo: Indigestions are an imprecise thing that over time increases risks of things like Barret's oesophagus
BingoBoingo: Hard to tell exactly when too many indigestions happen
mircea_popescu: who are you two talking about ?
mircea_popescu: "NervousNorbert [score hidden] 4 hours ago Consensus on increasing the maximum participant limit was not reached." << ahahaha top keks.
mircea_popescu: "The gang's downfall came when Aaron Shane Murphy and Uzair Patel, both 29, were stopped by police in a taxi in Newham in June 2015."
mircea_popescu: orly, check that out, airstrip one got taxi stopping policies nao ?
mircea_popescu: "I recently moved to the Pacific Northwest from Baltimore. What partly impelled the move was being beaten up by a black guy who I had grappled with and held down after he was chasing his girlfriend with a baseball bat. His GF and another woman went nuts, beating me as he and I grappled on the ground with me holding the bat with both arms. To shut them up, I stupidly rolled the bat away and let him get up. He promptly d
mircea_popescu: ecked me, kicked the hell out of my head (concussion and bleeding). I was very lucky. "
mircea_popescu: awww.
mircea_popescu: "These yuppie “blockbuster” musicians, who think they can save those who hate them and put their women and children in danger to assuage their own misplaced feminist guilt and world-saving bitch complex, should be staked out, skinned, have their eyelids pinned back, and left for the crows."
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, they could be just left to do what they do, which is both cheaper and conceptually cleaner.
mircea_popescu: in somewhat related news, http://49.media.tumblr.com/ae3ff8150c429b9e246ef7088cf1d5a1/tumblr_mxjvf37IWX1symi8mo1_400.gif
assbot: ... ( http://bit.ly/1Qlp5ir )
mircea_popescu: me: 'the measure of a state's sovereignty and quality of life therein is the degree to which it can deny benefits to outsiders' << certainly works to "why is B,TMSR~ superior to USG and necessarily a replacement thereof".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nevertheless, bear in mind that there is a catastrophic difference between "derp needing" and "dude trying to contribute".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66432 @ 0.00056091 = 37.2624 BTC [+] {3}
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> me: 'the measure of a state's sovereignty and quality of life therein is the degree to which it can deny benefits to outsiders' << certainly works to "why is B,TMSR~ superior to USG and necessarily a replacement thereof". << to borrow a recent parallel from copypaste, couldn't the same be said of best korea?
mircea_popescu: sure. on the scale of sovereignity north korea is doing pretty well, too bad they're stupid.
hanbot: admittedly i was looking moar at the "quality of life" bit
mircea_popescu: ie, much easier to "deny benefits to outsiders" when nobody wants the benefits you offer.
hanbot: mhm
mircea_popescu: well, "my son, we're bums but you'll inherit all of it" sorta degree. no loss in quality of life there.
phf: so only thing i did with timestamps in logs is add milliseconds to the log printer (to add necessary precisions to graphs). i'm pretty sure i discovered that blockchain height served as well in my case (produced similar shapes with none of the "laptop went to sleep" noise), but i was looking specifically at the number of block send/recv retries
mircea_popescu: is this in a patch ?
phf: milliseconds are
hanbot: i wonder how often that's more tolerable than eg cazalla's worse-off-than-grandpa plight.
phf: but the patch got lost, between punkman taking over logging improvements and the v-ification
mircea_popescu: hanbot should be universal. if i find any thing worse than in the time of the predecessors i'm bringing out the machine guns and fire throwers as a matter of principle. and i want the skies bathed in the screams of the innocent and the blood of gutted babes, also as a matter of principle.
mircea_popescu: phf what sorry state of sin is this!
phf: i can bring it forward, it wasn't included in the v release, nor did anybody ask about it, so i assumed it's not needed