deedbot: Nordic voiced for 30 minutes.
Nordic: :D Thanksies, and evenin' people.
Nordic: How do i answer that, lol. Norwegian dude, interested in the cryptoscene.
Nordic: Also very entertained :D .. today has been a funny day.
Nordic: I see some "known" nicks from slacks here
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a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 00:13 Nordic: I see some "known" nicks from slacks here
BingoBoingo: Oh prolly luke-jr midnightmagic maybe hegemoOn ??
ben_vulpes: fuck software, it's time for a new scam.
ben_vulpes: i'm thinking dig olivine out of the earth, blow co2 over it, and sell carbon credits.
mod6: mircea_popescu: works good! followed the guide pretty much exactly. just the version numbers need to be updated in the wiki, and the link to the binary.
ben_vulpes: operate as a triple-bottom-line corp, strive to lose money, and sell stock on an ongoing basis to 'ethical investors'
ben_vulpes: for bonus points, capture some amount of the heat generated from the exothermic co2 sequestration process
mod6: (built on african linux)
mod6: werd. Saw you were in there mowin' the lawn.
shinohai: this is the epitome of shitposting, the whole site
mod6: "Public Exponent 35 is NOT PRIME!"
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: dupe champ << was that thte total dups counted below? 5`431?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 14:38 mircea_popescu: nobody ever told 20 yo girly, in her 16 or so years of active intellectual life to date, that she's fucking untalented and needs to go do something she can actually do.
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phf: "U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad (wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com)" first win, entire team is chinese, hmm
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: GQ piece comes out sometime in the next 24 hours for further lulz
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 01:20 mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: dupe champ << was that thte total dups counted below? 5`431?
phf: "because i turn up and it’s not fucking not anonymous anymore. i’m not just some guy in the crowd ever again." цыпа такая цыпа. зашкварился, теперь под петухами всю жизнь ходить
BingoBoingo: phf: He could always go to San Diego and jack it.
ben_vulpes: i'll probably be cursed with the opposite.
ben_vulpes: either that or a totally staid gay lawyer
mircea_popescu: eh, i wouldn't be too worried. by now most of "the crowd" is made out of washed outs who thought at some point they were somebody.
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BingoBoingo: Just remember to save the gay whales in Darfur-finex
mircea_popescu: actually i'm doing a large-ish project whereby various bullshit "countries" leak their civil records (ie, names, ssi, taxids, address etc) of their whole population ; which then gets searched in fb db.
mircea_popescu: guess what ? less than 10% of people alive actually have a fb.
mircea_popescu: actually. less than 10% of people alive EVER HAD a fb. less than 10% of THOSE touched it in the past year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i wonder if any of the derpy investors ever did any sort of dd whatsoever.
BingoBoingo: At a time it had users, could do recon by scoping out a persons facebook page. Now... none of the kids have them anymore.
mircea_popescu: "could recon", for as long as you stayed within certain demos
BingoBoingo: Well back when still did, needs were modest.
phf: oh ffs larse magne nuked gmane after all
phf: ben_vulpes: i was going to link relevant mail message, but udev has been merged into systemd a while ago. gentoo has a fork, called eudev. udev also prompted one of the linus' famous rants,
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484 phf: yeah, somehow killing internet infrastructure doesn't make him throw up
mircea_popescu: phf im mostly ignorant of the stuff (heck, i think i read gmane... once. in like 1996. it didn't deliver.) but what exact idiocy is kay sievers invested in not reverting at whatever cost, including his anal virginity ?
mircea_popescu: "I need your assistance if you can. I accidentally sent a message to the [redacted] email list last night with a live password in it. The password is hardcoded in to dozens of machines, so changing it would be… inconvenient, to say the least. I don’t yet see the message on your archive page, so I can’t provide the URL link, but I wanted to see if you could remove the message before it is processed and posted."
phf: oh, and he's giving up domain to anyone willing to "set up a new web based service" "all previous permalink.gmane.org (etc.) links continue to work as before, but they’ll look new and spiffy in your new and spiffy web interface" bunch of anons in the comments going "yeah, i'm kind of sort of interested plx send money to this btc address^W^W^W^W^Wdomain"
mircea_popescu: and, much like the retard with the "live password", no fucking idea what he's doing wrong.
phf: explains how we got here, for every linus-- 100 larses
phf: i have his blog on rotation, and about 2 years ago he stopped posting anything interesting. it's all 1) screenshots from movies he watches 2) photos of comic books he reads
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, anyone saw travolta's outrageous incarnation of a bill clinton idealized above and beyond anything brejnev ever got ?
mircea_popescu: came out right about the time of the impeachment, too.
phf: i don't know the details of ken sievers, some lesser part of systemd's master wrecking plan, involving firmware devices. probably behavior is somehow mandatory in NSA injection sequence. or else guy is just another righteous prick
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah kinda what i was vaguely and amateurishly curious about.
phf: i'll reread it tomorrow with an eye for malice, unless someone else (looks in direction of asciilifeform) does it first. it does look curious
phf: thing is gmane is not really for reading, it's a permanent archive of a handful useful technical emails, sort of what google was supposed to be for usenet, before they pulled the plug
mircea_popescu: explain to me how this thing can be useful as kept by unrelated randos.
mircea_popescu: deedbot, i can see. logs, i can see. what exactly goes into this archive ? why do you trust anything in it ?
mircea_popescu: the age of "we're all intellectuals here and therefore gentlemen" is long gone.
phf: intertia? :> sort of eton boys for queen and country long after the empire died
phf: i think half the conversations here are about coming in terms with how royally "the age" was lost
mircea_popescu: honestly, the age never existed. i've seen such ages, up close and personal. but the composition of this particular version was exceedingly weak. not even teracotta soldiers, more like pillsbury doughmen.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: excited like little children at paper fortunes, puffing and huffing on their stick horses without an inkling of understanding of how horses work, let alone to what fucking purpose they'd like to run them. and without the clue to even begin not knowing the difference, but noticing something's amiss.
mircea_popescu: "we just want the world to be a better place somehow vaguely and ''technologically'' which is just doublespoken easily, and to be nice to each other".
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 15:44 asciilifeform: why not 'die in a fire, scum'
mircea_popescu: what happened to tearing the entire us com apart in 1992 ?
mircea_popescu: "there's no further need for a usg computing arm. here's the entire archive of everything. we're moving on."
mircea_popescu: woefully behind the times, these men of "wake me up when"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: thank you for the killfile.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he should go on a tandem bike with those tandem pants...
mircea_popescu: fucking retards, huddling around "universities" long gutted, hoping to catch a dribblet of dole off some business major's penis.
ben_vulpes: dude the business majors are even more pathetic.
ben_vulpes: now, the business major /chicas/ not so at all.
ben_vulpes: but the male-gendered bowel movements don't have a scrap of dole to redistribute.
ben_vulpes: semi-relatedly, i found the wine insulator.
ben_vulpes: i believe that one of the cleaning girls put it in the dishwasher.
ben_vulpes: heh and further lolz of the wine insulator, i once asked one of the staff to bring a bottle up in it
mircea_popescu: crazy american, has more cleannign girls than mating girls on the premises. as a result... wine suffers.
ben_vulpes: he arrived on the deck with the bottle /in/ the insulator, surrounded by ice and /in water/
ben_vulpes: this a bottle that'd been sitting in the fridge all week.
ben_vulpes: "dude, it's not a cooler. the wine was already cold. it's an /insulator/."
ben_vulpes: no although i did have to lay about with the cane one time when someone brought me a bottle of refrigerated red.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i usually ask them in turn how long they've been working, they say something with months in it, i ask them how they like it, they say not very much...
ben_vulpes: i briefly looked into buying a giant waterproof sack and sticking it into a TEU for int'l wine shipping.
mircea_popescu: why be good at somethiung when you could just be argentine.
ben_vulpes: there are some good deals on the market!
ben_vulpes: but iono, nato, rockets, enforcement, he'll come up with a reason why it'd never work.
mircea_popescu: the reason is obvious, they start at more millions than he has. not more millions than he;d have had the cardano shipped on schedule and we all make it rich off the exploding share price, but neways.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: fuck dude go park it off a shipping lane and get weekly oil deliveries if you really burn that much
☟︎ ben_vulpes: yeah well have to build a cpu first or something
ben_vulpes: heh, all that means is you're 43 and not willing to come to terms with it yet
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> small tanker, best possibru vessel. << Can even build properly plumbed ark inside!!!
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : there's 10x more women aged 27-29 on facebook than there's women aged 30-35.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's a silent epidemy killing tens of millions of women in their prime and nobody knew anything about it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo an ark large enough to build a house in it! with a pool!
ben_vulpes: anyways, unrelatedly, the new box stands on its own two feet. now to close the colo deal, rack and migrate.
BingoBoingo: No, it coincides with facebook being/not being a college student thing when those demographics passed
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: whut? 30-35 is prime wimminzing?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: 30-35 is when the women should be independent and wealthy after having finished basking in the glory of mircea_popescu and learning
mircea_popescu: "old enough to have scarlatine immunity ; young enough to not crack a hip if she drops to the floor"
BingoBoingo: Old enough to have had baby, young enough to not have to look forward to eventual grandbabies
mircea_popescu: i dunno about this babying. oodletons of flesh in various states of decay already produced.
BingoBoingo: 20 seconds of firing a rotary canon is the entire ad
ben_vulpes: not so bad west of the cascades though.
BingoBoingo: Democrat turned Republican Trump killed the GOP, Only Democrat turned Republican Greitens can save it
BingoBoingo: The math is simple Action Movie > Reality TV
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mircea_popescu: oh dude. julia roberts crying on teh set of whatever shitty featurette she's shooting now, because whatever ugly goon ditched her sorry ass ? YES!
jurov: BingoBoingo: qntra distributed
thestringpuller: shinohai: Steem is slowly drying up. Volume and depth evaporated from bittrex, and they've openly admitted now it's designed like a ponzi to bring more people to the scene. But what I imagine actually happens, is a bunch of smart people write bots to go to war with each other. the spam bots and counter spam bots. The spam bots pretty much will just extract revenue from spam like anything else, but in this context it actually works, si
shinohai: the new lulz is the sudden coinbase decision to launch etc
thestringpuller: So basically Steemit's fate is being turned into a straight up spam machine since it has no soultion in place for the eternal september except "premined votes from ned and dan" and btc bagholders who bought extremely early and can't yet exit. This is the doom I believe Bitcoin would have faced if Roger, Gavin, Hearia, or whatever incarnation of USG programmed hedonist-bot had hijacked the entire system and allowed spam to be cheap. Th
thestringpuller: The thing that would intrigue me is an updated chart using MP's method from the "lets chronicle the scammer drama" and had a chart for the total loss of the economy due to scams over 2012 charted by month
shinohai: derp shares may rise again on mpex yet
PeterL: mpex.co not responding, what is the correct tld?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:45 mircea_popescu: he fucking admits deleting emails. what archive is this ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:50 mircea_popescu: honestly, the age never existed. i've seen such ages, up close and personal. but the composition of this particular version was exceedingly weak. not even teracotta soldiers, more like pillsbury doughmen.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 06:04 mircea_popescu: no fucking way he gets a cheaper seaworthy platform.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 06:05 mircea_popescu: the reason is obvious, they start at more millions than he has. not more millions than he;d have had the cardano shipped on schedule and we all make it rich off the exploding share price, but neways.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 06:05 ben_vulpes: fuck dude go park it off a shipping lane and get weekly oil deliveries if you really burn that much
PeterL: For less than a boat you could get an isolated cabin here in MI and be as isolated as you want
PeterL: seems like empty land would be cheaper than boat in the long run
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc the nutso scientology guy did for a decade or so.
mircea_popescu: note that i'm the one explaining "life on the sea" is idiotic, you don't get to hijack that argument. fact remains that IF you're willing to bite the live-on-sea bullet, tanker by far best deal.
mircea_popescu: and WILL STAY best deal, for your lifetime, given that no amateur shithead/copywriter is going to come up with a way to MAKE NEW ships that'll come out cheaper than the tail end of the industrial process.
mircea_popescu: just like no squirrel is ever going to make a cpu that'll be cheaper than simply taking a box of pentiums out of radioshack in a post-apocalyptic world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have nfi. maybe ? it'd surely help if they listed names.
mircea_popescu: if you imagine you'll have orlov build you a ship out of a well chosen half walnut that'll perform better in "freakish weather" than a tanker you really should move on to apologetics, what can i say!
mircea_popescu: well, by far the cheapest masquerade of a solution is spending the 45mn or so to buy a junky old tanker and be happy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not really. most tankers run on tiny crews of a dozenand a half to two dozen
mircea_popescu: also, it's a consumer item. you never drydock it. buy another.
mircea_popescu: bitch, things cost money. what is this "im of the internet and free plox" ?
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point of "buy tanker, live on sea" is that you are exploting an early-come apocalypse.
mircea_popescu: the industrial world died. once this means everyone can loot walmart, everyone will
mircea_popescu: by the time you get to loot, you get to loot like fungi do (visible but nobody to take advantage)
PeterL: Somali pirates spend much less than 45 mn to get their tankers
mircea_popescu: PeterL as above. he's a lilly ass murican, not a somali.
mircea_popescu: he "has better things to do". "do those better things buy you a tanker ?" "don't ask so many questions!"
mircea_popescu: so what is this, you'll be sinking the ru navy as part of this project ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most of the better whores can, and do, and that's why i love them.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:10 mircea_popescu: actually. less than 10% of people alive EVER HAD a fb. less than 10% of THOSE touched it in the past year.
shinohai: mod6 was gonna add one to tbot or something
mircea_popescu sings "i did it one step at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime... i got the only one there is around"
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 05:40 phf: i don't know the details of ken sievers, some lesser part of systemd's master wrecking plan, involving firmware devices. probably behavior is somehow mandatory in NSA injection sequence. or else guy is just another righteous prick
mircea_popescu: someone should prolly actually classify these, actually.
mircea_popescu: there's ~no value in considering the individual "people" as people. take mike hearn. he's not as much "mike hearn" as he is "lemme break this while right solution" + x + y.
mircea_popescu: much smarter would be to create the categories and then just tag the billion vermin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite so. certainly smaller than its flesh.
mircea_popescu: and yes it does need expert entomologist, but wtf we've been doing here.
mircea_popescu: i'd definitely read carefully / comment on any proposed classification
mircea_popescu: but, point being, the story of idiocy would benefit from systematic approach.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 14:20 PeterL:
http://www.upmls.com/land.php?view=1088652&board= "The north east corner of the property touches the Ottawa National Forest. The almost one million acres of this Forest extends from the south shore of Lake Superior to the Wisconsin border."
PeterL: but nobody is going to come knocking on your door
PeterL: just an example, there are plenty of other plots available for about same price, some have road access
PeterL: send servant to get supplies?
a111: Logged on 2016-01-18 20:35 mircea_popescu: flycheck is hereby banned from anywhere
mircea_popescu: FLYCHECK IS STILL BANNED FOR BEING ASSWIPES THAT DELETE CONTENT ON THE QUIET IN AN ATEMPT TO CIRCUMVENT TMSR BAN.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, on the other side, we fucking need an auto-archive bot for all links.
mircea_popescu: it didn't "move". they deleted it to circumvent tmsr ban. then, as you'd expect, later tried to lie about that, too.
mircea_popescu: intelligence is not here discussed. legal liability is.
mircea_popescu: wake me up when flyckech manages to escape the charge of fraud.
mircea_popescu: tho it's still unclear to me what exactly you imagine to achieve through this "wake me up" device.
mircea_popescu: it's still unclear what exactly you imagine to achieve through this "i don't expect to live to see a thing" device either.
mircea_popescu: expectation clearly has no impact on living. so then... "here's my favourite oft repeated nonsequitur" ?
mircea_popescu: everyone got blogs anyway, and is now desperate for material to fulfill the "one a day" golden rule, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: fucktard beta aspiring to speak in the group. since when may this happen under the fucking sun!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's ok, i didn't actually want to say anything @openbsd.
mircea_popescu: oh right right, he was waxing indignant atop some hallucinated "moral superiority" on twitter, "look at these people calling me what i am, clearly i must be right!!1"
mircea_popescu: "support me now, ye imbeciles of the world, lest next they behead you!!11"
mircea_popescu: sure. the only problem is that apparently "pillar of komyooniti" is a disease that kills, whereas "obvious signs of mental illness" is a pretty good predictor of stability.
mircea_popescu: wasn't that sloven fucktard derping about how "everything will come to grief because mp stopped subsidizing my sorry ass AND I THOUGHT I WAS ENTITLED!11"
mircea_popescu: yeah, whatever. i can't be arsed to have anyone dig it up, but certainly germane to this idiocy. imbecile went as far to actually ~predict~, the obviously falsifiable point, that somehow the republic is unstable. because omg, it breks the tenets of socialism and dares have personally invested sovereignity, THEREFORE IT MUST BE BAD.
mircea_popescu: the sort of braindamage that'll make one continue putting out predictions that are regularly falsified instead of fixing the tool that produces them is something else.
mircea_popescu: (and if you're unwilling to beat your children, this is what you produce. this unrelenting sort of idiot who's never had to learn on his own skin at the age of 3, when the skin is soft and the flesh fixes quickly, that escalation is not to be tried idly ; then has to learn it in the life's school of hard knocks, where there's no fix and no way to grow head back out of beheaded neck.)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu has a quite spiffy article, iirc, concerning the 'bobbeck' species << <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu has a quite spiffy article, iirc, concerning the 'bobbeck' species
mircea_popescu: of course... the other view here is that the dictionary of stupidity sunk flaubert, or to quote, "will be the death of me" .
BingoBoingo: covertress: Wait, they FIGHT ENTROPY???? BAD ANARCHISTS!!!
mircea_popescu: "VIII. But Hanno Böck explained that" / "VIII. But I heard that"
mircea_popescu: for humans, because it doesn't serve any purpose to credit idiots; with anything. for computers, because the whole point of the idiot being named is to make it impossible for his life to continue outside of his association with his fucking a pig.
mircea_popescu: reusing the name does nothing for either, and moreover there's no cause for it. he's nothing to nobody, except a pig fucker with a matching face.
mircea_popescu: aquae et ignis, you understand. "flycheck" lacks the ability to "it moved" much like hanno bock lacks the ability to "tell" anyone anything.
mircea_popescu: these aren't to be assumed, just because fucktards think socialism, and all things are equal and all "people" are special and so forth.
mircea_popescu: you're getting the brunt of it for your "sin" of being naively open, but whatever, you're a big enough boy to survive it i'd hope : the above orcish "when stated plainly they laugh so whatever, the face trick seems to work" is a large part of why people like rms failed without meaning to and without realising they were. much like the hurtless cut of the apple carpace.
mircea_popescu: they're built up to exploit the force of this "it works" mistake you understand ? much like a revolver uses the gas to move the next round.
mircea_popescu: this is how the ethereum humiliation worked ; and why ; and wherefore. and it's how the bitfinex thing played out, for the same reasons.
mircea_popescu: use the tools shown to bring back head of lizzard in battle ; not the ones that are shiny in the sun.
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mircea_popescu: well, the "inertia locking" thing is kinda useful in theory.
mircea_popescu: apparently i need drinks with someone to tell me who to drink with.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck emplacement is that, "we trust we will never have to use this under fire ; and ideally - at all" ?
mircea_popescu: where's the "i'd like to not have a wall a foot behind me to reflect all napalm and ricochet on my head"
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "a safe distance autocannon" for the love of fuck.
mircea_popescu: the autocannon is the armor equivalent of the roman gladius.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> for perforating uninvited rowboats etc. << Hey rowboats were entire threat model justifying TWO classes of littoral comabt ship
mircea_popescu: how, 90 degree rotation and plows for the sub with its beak ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Rowboats were the Pubic rallying cry though. But yes everything else seems to suggest designed to beat up on plywood narco subs
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: at some point torpedos were imagined
mircea_popescu: that thing at no point was considered with a torpedo in mind.
mircea_popescu: literally, anything from ww2 even, should it score a hit in that horrendous lip of nonsense will crack the ship in two and sink it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Firing torpedos... somehow
BingoBoingo: Where to fit torpedos among imaginary missiles, mortars and helicopers is a mystery
mircea_popescu: afaik the tube is actually self-contained. you could just tie it on with chicken wire and will still work.
BingoBoingo: I dunno if thing actually has armament beyond thing next Missouri governor fired at/above lake in most recent ad
mircea_popescu: sure, but in the million range. cocaine should afford one.
mircea_popescu: and we'll deduct from this the usual alf "golden toilet" premium yes ?
mircea_popescu: not that anyone needs a 50km range ton-and-a-half monster.
mircea_popescu: (it should be pointed out that the torpedo also weighs about the same as a year worth of officer)
PeterL: sort of like drone sub with atomic warhead?
mircea_popescu: shinohai strangely enough, slack can afford to pay for advertising on pastebin ; can not afford to make the people it defrauded whole.
PeterL: and pick up on other shore
mircea_popescu: i thought the grimy looking tual fellow had... a chat thing ?
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is everyone in vcland making "chat things" after we started a chat thing is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu still chuckles at the "conference" where the various "captains of industree" were discussing who sleeps on whose floor, because one of them was subletting or bumming out or w/e in some flat in london
mircea_popescu: so why not just use irc ? i suppose these charge at some point no ?
trinque: irc doesn't have emojis and gifs.. would be the "reason"
mircea_popescu: so why the fuck would a software house hire eh nevermind.
mircea_popescu: almost like an entry bar. "if you can't get your team irc room together you're all fired"
mircea_popescu: i suppose this leads us to the fundamental tmsr reform. our view is exclusive, "either it works with this or is banned" ; their view is inclusive, "either it works with this or we change the this"
mircea_popescu: who the fuck in management would say anything other than "so buy a proper phone" to employee who was like "i can't call the company"
mircea_popescu: but how the fuck does this work, i can just set my system time and send messages back to 2014 ?
mircea_popescu: quite typical, too, in the elevator example. "i want things to be made to be what i thought they were going to be at no expense to me!"
mircea_popescu: but no, they know shit and have opinions on matters and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: and then, THEN, when it comes time to eat the shit they don't gop
mircea_popescu: they don't go "hey, you know what, MP was right all along, we ARE fucking idiots not fit to lick his boots clean, and will henceforth do just that"
mircea_popescu: no, instead it's just "silently" erase history and... keep the pretense going.
mircea_popescu: that way, they can be sure they will also never be fit to lick my boots clean, ever.
BingoBoingo feeling bearish, because what happens when the fuck juice runs out????
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thestringpuller: can insurance even exist in bitcoin yet without devolving into Usagi antics? the liability it too high to insure bitcoin with bitcoin. and insuring bitcoin with fiat isn't insurance.
thestringpuller: That was probably the case for people scamming usagi, which is what it boiled down to. Usagi issued insurance against people who were exposed to pirate (insured their debts), then collected it into risk trenches (A, B and C) of descending risk. he did 0 underwriting, and was overconfident. So all the people who told him they weren't exposed to pirate were.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: are you familiar with MPEx CDO? And how the derpage was so bad it was like a 60% default rate.
mircea_popescu: they somehow fail to grasp this a) has al ong history of being tried which b) never failed to produce the opposite effect.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo subject to enhance penalties as "hate" crimes. << missed a d
mircea_popescu: also it should probably be noted that what worries them isn't "attacking police officer", but the very tmrs-esque "attack government drone"
mircea_popescu: supposedly this luft will protect them. somehow. who knows.
mircea_popescu: they believe they'll get pensions, so why wouldn't they believe the usg will somehow, magically, protect them and their families.
mircea_popescu: it protected the people involved in its various wars, from iraq to bitcoin, ever so grandiosely well. it even managed to protect its ground installations in say libya, or for that matter ethereum...
mircea_popescu: sean smith could be you today, and WILL be you tomorrow, yo!
mircea_popescu: not really. recently old woman got stabbed, remember ?
mircea_popescu: apparently a warning ain't enough. which... hey, the beatings can definitely continue.
mircea_popescu: how many unknown hillary clintons will have to paint the sidewalk before usg admits defeat and goes to licking selected boots ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (in usa, this is typically not nyooz, recall the missouri governor - typically a whole president has to get plugged before it is nyooz) << Auditor, would have been governor
BingoBoingo: Phun Phact, soybeans bleed red when you cut their roots
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ben_vulpes: read as though you were implying i lived off setting ircd's up for folks.
ben_vulpes: "in this webinar, i will teach you how to hold your dick."
ben_vulpes: "first, unzip your pants. unroll your sea slug into your left hand."
ben_vulpes: "look! you are now holding your dick."
mircea_popescu: i want to say that i followed some instructions provided in this website and ended up holding an unmentionable part in my hand.
mircea_popescu: i would like you to delete this dangerous material from the interweb and google.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure i can delete it from everyone's logs
mircea_popescu: This week, due to your GNAA postings, I just suffered the loss of an important job opportunity, and contract because an individual obtained the private parts I had not intended for hand distribution. After the irc error I wrote several people on that chat ridiculed me.
mircea_popescu: As I informed Mr. [redacted], there are treatises between the Nations of the United States and yours, I believe, Norway, which mandate compliance with the California State and Federal privacy laws respectively.
mircea_popescu: The penalties that can be adjudged against you due to your reckless and knowing violation of the aforementioned act, and my privacy rights under the California Constitution, the highest law in the land for any one person living in the State of California, are very high.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone with a visible anything gets a ton of these
mircea_popescu: in fairness, using google is not unlike using the bitcoin network.
mircea_popescu: gotta maintain numerous connections and compare the various lies
mircea_popescu: the naive "i connected to one, should be good rite???" thing dun work since late 90s
mircea_popescu: also a nice bastadization of "you can be anything" with "if you want something the whole universe coelhospires for it to happen"
mircea_popescu: but it's certainly quite deep. the vermin doesn't merely aim to a comfortable existence, but more importantly to a memory-less situation.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: hence all the "drugs will make things better". the ONE thing all psychoactives have in common is a destruction of identity through fucking up memory.
mircea_popescu: this is also a large portion of why i'm so nonplussed by theoretical "improvements"
mircea_popescu: there's a fundamental, perhaps "not visible" in some lights line that distinguishes the college twerps who KNOW what they did from the college twerps who need someone else to tell them what they did.
BingoBoingo: One can not soak the brain in solvents without solving some brain!
mircea_popescu: memory is a high cognitive function, which is why alzheimer's
mircea_popescu: "It’s generally a mistake to let twitchy nerds get their paws on statistical data." <<
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you take enough to notice you thereby took enough to affect memory!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 15:26 asciilifeform: observe how nobody's about to legalize the performance dopes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "(Visited 38 times, 1 visits today)" holy shit that's a sad fate for an otherwise entertainingly (if superficially) penned piece.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Suddenly since piece published responding... slow...
BingoBoingo eventually will get it proper hosting and just convert site to a static archived thing
deedbot: Bad URL or network outage.
mircea_popescu: there was actually a ton of this saccharine bs in the period.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 17:05 asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sal
mats: shhh its kako being sneaky
mats: i did also notice he's a big fan of the 'qntra is slashdot repost' line
mircea_popescu: o wait, apparently it's actually yet another archiver.
mircea_popescu: if they weren't on efnet i might even have dropped in for a hi.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, idiot local glossmag had pic of i forget which celeb and her 11 or so yo daughter. who was, fitting for a child that age in summer, topless.
mircea_popescu: except the idiots blurred out her eyes, making the whole thing look INCREDIBLYT dirty.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: say hi to the kako for me << Common divorce phenomenon. Parents generally resent the children whose affections continue to follow the other parent.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh btw, discussion in #eulora reminded me : peano, a very respectable LITERATE mathematician, did in fact chase cantor's counterintuitve result, did in fact find a unit interval to unit space mapping, DID in fact construct a fucking tile to decorate his house, but did NOT put any fucking drawings in his work explaining how to make a non-zone-differentiable function.
mircea_popescu: SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE, and in his own words, "pictographic understanding is not understanding"