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mircea_popescu: mats i suspect you don't understand how anglo agitprop works.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-05 01:37 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wanna bet they'll be right back trying to trade while insolvent, shtylman style ?
mats: >'In the meantime, In place of the loss in each wallet, we are crediting a token labeled BFX to record each customer’s discrete losses. Tokens will be distributed without release or waiver. The BFX tokens will remain outstanding until redeemed in full by Bitfinex or possibly exchanged—upon the creditor’s request and Bitfinex’s acceptance—for shares
☟︎ mats: of iFinex Inc. We are still sorting out many details on this; we will post further updates in the coming days.'
shinohai: so buttfinex hacker told me he doesnt have a pgp key -_-
mats: i await mp intel that indicates inside job
mircea_popescu: no mp intervention needed, the lulz spindle seems to be working great neh ?
BingoBoingo: shinohai: To many non-people doing nothings in that one
mircea_popescu: "scientists" with "secret" proof and never-seen "publications" ; bureaucrats with secret "law" ; financiers with "secret" resources that don't exist and "businessmen" in their own minds asking you to "sign their nda" to hear their "idea"
mircea_popescu: also, the us congress is not a branch of us government.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the usians are special, they call government "Administration" and the state "government"
mats: in other news, .de seems to be building up the bundeswehr
☟︎ mats: an extra 20k personnel and some billions - doesn't look nearly enough
mircea_popescu: their "congress" is a parliament. there's no such thing as "congress". words have meanings, even if the rural colonists never had a chance to visit a school or library.
mircea_popescu: yeah. what else are they gonna do ? it'll be cheaper to make it in germany than to buy it from trump.
mircea_popescu: and unlike the ukistans, they actually have a shot at fielding something.
mircea_popescu: (22:35:16) >Daniel has got 0.81 BTC worth of Boulder and assorted loot while building. Congratulations! <
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 02:30 mircea_popescu: the very notion of secret "law"
mircea_popescu: the only problem with this approach is that it's utterly unsustainable. by the time "they just want to" that, the sword's all out of the sheath, and i'm way the fuck more likely to buy obama's daughters by the pound than they're to "win the war on x" or w/e the fuck.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 02:42 mats: in other news, .de seems to be building up the bundeswehr
mircea_popescu: or #whatever, i kinda lost count. what's the official uber alles count ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 00:29 mats: >'In the meantime, In place of the loss in each wallet, we are crediting a token labeled BFX to record each customer’s discrete losses. Tokens will be distributed without release or waiver. The BFX tokens will remain outstanding until redeemed in full by Bitfinex or possibly exchanged—upon the creditor’s request and Bitfinex’s acceptance—for shares
mats: jesus christ covertress your linkedin interview and blog is cringey
mats: >For you more adventurous types, like me, you can dive into the world of cryptocurrency and diversify your wallet among a sea of alternatives to bitcoin. Dogecoin (internet tipping) and Gaiacoin (e-commerce platform) are two of my favorites.
mircea_popescu: how come you're not playing eulora btw ? diversify your portofolio with ecu!
mats: altcoins are retarded, covertress
covertress: sorry, idk the dynamics of this feifdom and don't know who 'ranks'... but, fair warning.. im gonna call it like i see it
mircea_popescu: this curse of modernity, where nobody has any time to eat because everyone gotta cook all the time.
covertress: kr is currently .00011908 btc on bittrex
mats: i'll diversify my portfolio into dogecoin and gaiacoin just as soon as i scoop some bitfinex shares
mircea_popescu: actually, if you're part of the NOT!!1-corruption ring of the usg and have some hope of obtaining serviceable enforcement, it's not a terribru buy.
mats: who knows, maybe one of these three scams will unfuck itself
BingoBoingo: Oh, come on now this is no where near weird
mats: nobody has even mentioned slavery yet
mircea_popescu: since for some reason we're doing home of the slaves & land of the cowardly discovery : " The Jimmy Ryce Act (Jimmy Ryce Involuntary Civil Commitment for Sexually Violent Predators' Treatment And Care Act) was passed unanimously by the Florida legislature and was signed by Governor Lawton Chiles on May 19, 1998, becoming effective on January 1, 1999. The act calls for inmates with sex offense histories to be reviewed by the F
mircea_popescu: lorida Department of Corrections, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), and state attorneys to determine the level of risk for re-offense. Upon release from incarceration, these inmates may be subject to civil proceedings and commitment to a secure facility for treatment. That treatment center, located in Arcadia, was criticized because treatment is lacking (less than 5 hours per week), it lacks security (sev
mircea_popescu: eral incidents of murder on site, riots requiring hundreds of officers to quell) there is no method of restoring civil liberties (the program has no release stage) being underfunded, understaffed and located in an old condemned correctional facility."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, like the dudes that bought up argentina's debt at 2 cents to the dollar, proceeded to have the idiots for some reason respond tgo suit in us court, and have us judge opine as if anyone asked him anything.
mircea_popescu: "buttfun-ex owes me fiddy billion because i spent 839 kr to buy up its scamtokens"
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Imagine a corporation that engages in economic activity without guidance or direction from humans."
mircea_popescu: is this futa-archy ? ie, the japanese what were they, chicks with monstrous mammaries ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-07 18:18 asciilifeform: some derp named hanson was pushing a crackpottery called 'futarchy', where you have a bitbet-like item that is actually plugged into a robotic monarch that issues edicts
mircea_popescu: i'd say futa = deeply sexualized female, with monstrously large male genitals that violate basic physics (chiefly in that they can disappear under clothes, and don't need blood to function)
mats: is a genuine human hermaphrodite even biologically possible?
mats: operational genitalia and all?
mircea_popescu: there's also chemical imbalances of various sorts, it's not entirely well understood.
BingoBoingo: Don't worry though at this year's olympics there are 0 testosterone regulations on competing as women
BingoBoingo wonders if ISIS version of dependapotamus if Hijjabba the Hutt
mircea_popescu: no ?! obesity is prevalent enough in traditional muslim society.
BingoBoingo: Like futa, we can build it! Start with conjoined twins and substantial donor blood for revision surgery.
BingoBoingo: Same reason they keep Giraffe and other non-functional pets.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've seen a woman over 50 that wasn't over 30bmi in my entire time among teh muslims, actually.
mircea_popescu: perhaps forcing a point. but there's this very typical balabusta look.
mircea_popescu: more like in the way ancient transparent trylobite sealed in a cave since 2mn years ago is a mollusc.
mircea_popescu: anyway. re hermaphroditism thing : it's actually much more common in embryos ; generally get aborted before end of 1st trimester.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall what it was for "true" hermaphroditism in "average" population, maybe 20 or somesuch ppm ?
mircea_popescu: which you know, is ~same as "really hot woman" and ~100x more than "great soccer player" etc.
mircea_popescu: "more common than us presidents" let's put it that way.
jurov: we're coming close, if hilary wins, we'll have fuparchy
mircea_popescu: i have, and saw enough burns. that patch of skin was welted by application of a cane, not fucking "laser"
mircea_popescu: this is no small matter : mechanical oscillation is just as much oscillation as lightwave.
mircea_popescu: and i can just as you can measure the wavelength of the generator on the basis of the mark left behind eh.
mircea_popescu: but in this case the alleged psykushka kicked her out.
mircea_popescu: it is true the us uses "medicine" to wash its hands on social problems, ballas has well explained this, article is cached on trilema
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, like any strained mechanism supposed to do one thing in theory and another in practice, the practitioners aren't too keen
mircea_popescu: and so often the sherriff goes "here's a load of items of the right type - we don't know what else to do with them" and the psych ward lead goes "fu bitch, none of these belong here take them out"
mircea_popescu: leaving the sherriff puzzled... "in training they told us to dump here evertything we don't know how to otherwise process. wtf ?!"
mircea_popescu: and on the other score : the weak and the ignorant are mad and have no excuse. i don't mean no excuse to mistake. i mean no excuse to be.
mircea_popescu: the recommended answer will be an array of assays. "get ye so and so item from amazon and do so and so with it"
mircea_popescu: then do something other than post a billion pics of anon people sitting in room and ONE clearly mislabeled item
mircea_popescu: set up go-pro system to watch live set-up and dump it online
mircea_popescu: and ftr, if i one day ran into aliens, i would similarly not report it to the closest police preceinct
mircea_popescu: this because i'm not "a citizen" aka consumjer aka idiot, but one of those elite folks to whom law doesn't apply and to whom the police are a tool not an entity.
mircea_popescu: consequently i don't give them to solve problems they're not there to solve.
mircea_popescu: makea a blog, call it "joe and katy's radioastronomy garage lab". post the weirdo data live, let people come visit...
mircea_popescu: what was linked was a sort of scrapbook, much alike what a "our wedding" album would look in the hands of a deranged housewife.
mircea_popescu: third party comes to visit to see how the detectors are wired
mircea_popescu: not that they report something noteworthy as the visit progresses.
mircea_popescu: so then. there's no excuse for not having blog, for not being in wot, for etc.
mircea_popescu: note that this woman dun have something dragos roua did have
mircea_popescu: literally, i see no difference between this idiot and the used up party-hos with the "ambassador" blabla crowding out paetraeus
mircea_popescu: yeah, ex office cocksucker that had to be let go over her idiotic trying to compete with other office cocksucker in any other way than cocksucking.
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mircea_popescu: that's how a sane person structures this claim. "i am in possession of the electronics here documented. i got them because X tried to bug my house. feel free to come up with alternative explanation"
mircea_popescu: yes, there will be a chorus of "ononononon", and you just behead the lot.
mircea_popescu: but you see the difference between this and that. it's marked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i meant, if the woman had it and is affraid of publishing it.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, back 20 years ago, friend being pursued by especially insultingly incompetent "secret service" called in a hit on their car. boxed them in, got them out, beat the shit out of them, took them to police station as per tradition. police wouldn't make arrest, he berated them a good one. and left.
mircea_popescu: at the time, possibly still today, secret service wasn't armed.
mircea_popescu: much like the ru iirc. pretty much everyone competent in the field eschews the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: point remains, a "secret agent" shooting is not unlike a "mathematician" doing finger-addition.
mircea_popescu: i can scarcely think of a situation where spook's odds are improved by shooting.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, someone who is qualified in their chosen profession.
mircea_popescu: so it turns out upon examination that it's not as much "us snoop has police cover" ; but rather that "some police grunts are deluded into thinking themselves snoops to accept lower paychecks"
thestringpuller: for posterity in chan: "Second, most companies in the digital currency space are not profitable right now. Coinbase is not" - Brian Armstrong
mircea_popescu: back when mp was saying this while mpex was a public company, the idiots knew better.
mircea_popescu: now that it's private, nothing's to keep the dickface from admitting it. hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: the "public" deserves everything it gets. long and hard.
phf: "the public" is what you say when you're talking trash, while periodically glancing back to check if there's somebody to back you up.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 14:40 asciilifeform: let's cut in another direction. say, not my house (which is studiously ignored even by pigeons, i have nfi) but... e.g., BingoBoingo's - he picks up microwave background, thick enough that birds are dropping. gets rf burns when touching conductors (as i suspect that chick got in the photo)
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thestringpuller: "Customers have shown an incredible willingness to pay for the service we've created because there is demand for it, and they recognize that this will help digital currency be more successful." << I love the denial. There is overwhelming hatred from the over regulation. Coinbase is just another fiat institution.
mircea_popescu: specifically in 2013 MPEx gave a sort of soft ultimatum to the public : either you rally behind us, and push the world into the future, or you rally behind either of these two options and get raped.
mircea_popescu: the public, as then predicted, picked the most rape per unit work.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: were you surprised. Given CDO et. al.?!?!?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah i dunno what is more hated by the noobs on the margin of btc than coinbase.
mircea_popescu: literally, they're responsible for the largest count of marginal people - people who could have gone in, and ensured their future, but didn't.
thestringpuller: meanwhile as asciilifeform says, build walls let zombies eat each other
mircea_popescu: they're the equivalent of a guy that sits with a baseball bat in front of hospital and chases the elderly, the infirm and the disabled away.
mircea_popescu: then turns around and claims "the willingness to pay" is somehow indicative of... how loved he is ?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: sue me for liking to sugar coat things. my fragile subconscious is not used to this new wasteland we are living in
mircea_popescu: and totally neglects the fact that most of the hospital's business comes in the shape of dudes that show up in unmarked vans, tie him to a wall and fuck him in the ass while loading/unloading patients.
phf: sort of definition of eternal september, since before "eternal" septembrists were deprogrammed by forced communal reeducation. "read the logs, etc."
mircea_popescu: phf no but they're "busy" with "their business". as if there could be a fucking business.
thestringpuller: phf: this is as asciilifeform says throwing nuke waste into caskets and firing it into the sun
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: show up in unmarked vans << funny how i know plenty of money launderers who use coinbase.
shinohai: i lol'd because how quickly their position changed on ETC
thestringpuller: ether huffing is sustainable until people are so brain dead their bodies stop working
phf: thestringpuller: there's a limited number of cultural references for these people. that's why all the conspiracy theory youtube videos use that one track from the matrix when they need to lay down "truth" etc.
mircea_popescu: more generally, the dysfunctional brain is by definition limited.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is also why nutty woman accidentally admits she's been pushing this nonsense ever since trhe 80s, and puts her parents (ie, authority figure) in the amulet.
☟︎ phf: vampire doctor is my favorite..
phf: it's the main character in this strip, the one that always dispenses kooky medical advise
mircea_popescu: the rogue chick ? yea she might be the best character in oglafverse
mircea_popescu: imo her best is the fabled "evadam sau ne futem ?" "fuff. mai fimflu"
phf: she needs a video game, a whacky take on Thief series
mircea_popescu: nah, she needs a video game, a remake of planescape : torment.
phf: get avellone and spitzley to design & program
phf: that would be a righteous project to fund, it'll burn thousands of btc and the crumble under its own weight. "featuring in game cinematics by alexandro jodorowski"
BingoBoingo: In other news, Russia was banned from the parolympics
phf: i've never seen, but but valerie and her week of wonders looks fun..
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Cripples need too much dope!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, "putin this or that ore the other". because it's not about the cripples, paralympics is like paralitics, ie politics-something
phf: with a modern PC twist
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:54 mircea_popescu: more generally, the dysfunctional brain is by definition limited.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:54 mircea_popescu: more generally, the dysfunctional brain is by definition limited.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:55 mircea_popescu: which is also why nutty woman accidentally admits she's been pushing this nonsense ever since trhe 80s, and puts her parents (ie, authority figure) in the amulet.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 15:55 mircea_popescu: which is also why nutty woman accidentally admits she's been pushing this nonsense ever since trhe 80s, and puts her parents (ie, authority figure) in the amulet.
phf: making sure those messages always come through
mircea_popescu: "i had a nut, but then i eted it. then i eted it. then iiiiii"
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 16:12 phf: i broke a thing
phf: downsides of patching live process, one definition got updated, another one is sitting somewhere on stack
phf: $seen mircea_popescu
a111: 2016-08-07 <mircea_popescu> awww. even rabbit log can die but once.
mircea_popescu: grep for "wavies", a term i didn't see before, she halfmouthedly admits it.
mircea_popescu: it's not directly apparent what "trifield" would mean.
mircea_popescu: and why the fuck pay these derps 50 bux instead of just plugging a ten mile long cable into some capacitors and pipe to serial connector on pc.
deedbot: shi_ voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2014-11-26 04:23 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: at one point i needed some conductive cloth (the kind with silver strands) for an experiment. to my great surprise, i discovered that there is a large manufacturer in usa, and they do brisk business with folks suffering from precisely the kind of phobia described in decimation's link.
mircea_popescu: it's mindboggling poor dersign. so for one thing, the measurement mechanism for magnetic is liable to influence measurements for electric and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, how do i make sure i don't burn this item, since apparently the same needle responds to 3 unrelated things ?
mircea_popescu: maybe we should introduce official tmsr rf measurement tools for environment.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how anyone expects to be taken seriously without bundle of coax clearly visible.
mircea_popescu: fucking chicken cooksl when you bring it next to smartphone
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly honest, a lot of your "oh, cern is not needed" is inseparable in my mind from "oh why should i spend the 50 on buying cable for antenna, not needed".
mircea_popescu: in ~every serious measuring effort, the antenna is more trouble than the collectors.
mircea_popescu: she bought a cane and thought it's a laser and bought a funbox and thought it's a measurement tool.
mircea_popescu: this may well be more of the "cannibals" priestly fantasy.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: following TaT's evolution of his personal branding on twitter following his long walk
BingoBoingo: He fell in with some obeast organization "whaleclub" or something sure. No idea about gavinotronic ties.
davout: paris is approximately 9000 km away
davout: from my current position
davout: figured moving to the south wasn't enough, so i've settled on mauritius
davout: yeah, i'm waiting a few months to see if i actually like it here
davout: iirc it used to be dutch, then french, then british, then independent
davout: so it's kind of weird, everything official is in english, but usual conversation is either in french, or in creole
davout: cars are heavily taxed, the rest is okay i guess, depends obviously on whether you insist on buying the exact same stuff as at home or if you're ok going the local way
davout: from what i've seen a cleaning lady costs like 4 or 5 times less than in france, but the rest isn't *that* cheaper
davout: asciilifeform: excellent, they're deploying fiber pretty much everywhere
davout: cars are horribly expensive though
davout: they're like ridiculously taxed for some reason
davout: and they drive on the left side of the road
mircea_popescu: no cars i kinda like, actually. besides, it's an island.
davout: mircea_popescu: it's pretty good from what i've seen
davout: i'm renting a 3 bedroom house, with a pool, for like the ~750 eur/month
davout: i'm staying one year at least, more if i like it, or were you asking about the lease?
davout: one year, i can leave with 2 month notice
mircea_popescu: well the english sent the natives off an island, rented it to the us
davout: sounds like a lot to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform us as well as most "sane" places are in the 0.1 range
davout: drugs seem to be a big deal there
davout: repression-wise especially
davout: apparently cigarette rolling paper is illegal here
mircea_popescu: anyway - they also ~all smoke pot. which is the fucking nuttery of the age, you should see the ba derps.
mircea_popescu: instead of burning the city down, the she-cows huddle around with their mothers throughout adolescence, dressed in retard apparel ; while the he-cows smoke immense amounts of pot and wash it down with gallons of mate.
davout: mircea_popescu: when i was in bsas i could pretty much smell pot on every corner of the street, here not even once, kinda surprising
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform makes you keep taking khat. ~nothing else.
davout: makes you want to drink more tea
davout: lol no i don't chew tea! but when i don't smoke, i'm much more sensitive to coffee and drink tea instead
davout: i've only been reading qntra's executive summaries lately
davout: now that the gtfo of france is complete imma have more time, link to the thread?
davout: it's pretty nice here, i hear frogs and can actually see the stars!
davout: asciilifeform: shut up, i saw a fucking monkey today
davout: i thought you lived in the suburbs of washington dc?
davout: nah, i was driving through some forest, it just crossed the road
davout: not like the kind that'll steal your photo camera if you don't pay attention
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: NFI, If existed probably grave error of trusting it to the evil Greenvald was made
a111: Logged on 2015-03-27 01:04 asciilifeform: i think he means 'he led the nsa device catalogue leaker to his anthill death'
mats: eh? the walk in got killed?
mircea_popescu: davout> asciilifeform: shut up, i saw a fucking monkey today << i assume he means this literally.
mircea_popescu: o jesus, don't tell me the new bitbet management decided to you know, eschew bitcoin-handling problems by... holding their money over at bitfinex.
davout: doubtful, but would be lulzy nonetheless
hanbot: so in V99995 testing, it'd seem the asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option.vpatch.asciilifeform.sig is "invalid", i imagine 'cause of something to do with stan's old key? and deedbot only spits the current, which i have. i don't see the old one on btcalpha either, anyone have an idea fo' me?
☟︎ hanbot: possibly shinohai also ran into this?
shinohai: hanbot: i simply changed the hash to match :P
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 18:29 shinohai: hanbot: i simply changed the hash to match :P
shinohai: but evidently i have old key because i dont require hammer when building
mod6: mine seems to do fine, i've got this key: pub 2048R/B98228A001ABFFC7 2012-12-20 [expires: 2017-01-04]
☟︎ mod6: anyway, im putting in an entire new sink etc. so ive got my hands full atm.
☟︎ mod6: will check back in later.
mod6: in reality, we want to test V99994 and see how that behaves.
☟︎☟︎ mod6: V99995 is about to be replaced
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 19:53 mod6: anyway, im putting in an entire new sink etc. so ive got my hands full atm.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 19:54 mod6: in reality, we want to test V99994 and see how that behaves.
ben_vulpes: hanbot: have you added that key to the default keyring on the box?
ben_vulpes: the autobuilder has three keys mentioned at the top that need to live in the keyring used when you run gpg -k
ben_vulpes: you can see that this is the issue you're running into if you run gpg --verify thinger.vpatch thinger.vpatch.sig (or w/e the inane order is)
ben_vulpes: if you're hitting this failure path, gpg will complain that it doesn't have stan's key
ben_vulpes: in other news i am taking babymomma on A DATE!!1
ben_vulpes: first time in months, in the midafternoon
jurov: .sig always goes first
a111: Logged on 2016-08-07 19:27 mod6: mine seems to do fine, i've got this key: pub 2048R/B98228A001ABFFC7 2012-12-20 [expires: 2017-01-04]
shinohai: oh mircea_popescu chic from a few nights ago said thank you for the bitcoin, she loved it.
shinohai: no i never met her before in m life.
shinohai: but she mysteriously shows up here pms me and leaves lol
shinohai: she wants ou to come to show and i haz no pron tokens
mircea_popescu: ftr buying camhos is even a worse deal than getting married.
shinohai: it is, that is why i stay away mostly
shinohai: in other not news "FBI working with bitfinex on case"
mircea_popescu: quick, someone tell the businessmen with cumulative years of experience about the excel spreadsheets! don't let inferior tooling happen to you!
mircea_popescu: only the best fbi case solving happens with excel spreadsheets!
shinohai: we can put the blockchain on excel spreadsheets ... smart contracts!