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trinque: that has to be from the ancient db where things were done by key ID
trinque: there are a handful of those
trinque: do we know a full fingerprint for that nick?
trinque: yeah, that should not be using short key ID
trinque: he registered by short key ID; I'll be disallowing that
trinque: I'll be fixing !!key for a sec
trinque: the cask concept is very interesting.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu is moderately surprised amontillado wasn';t even mentioned.
deedbot: Provide the full 40 character key fingerprint without spaces or dashes.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, trump wants 54 bn cut off "most federal agencies", ie the libertard state.
mircea_popescu: that's about 2% of the federal budget, ie barely a ripple.
mircea_popescu: of course it's also 2x the expenditure on "science", or "environment" crap... so whatevs.
mircea_popescu: somehow fake news fails to mention THIS WOULD BE THE FIRST US BUDGET SINCE FUCKING REAGAN.
danielpbarron: trinque, it's supposed to take a url to the ascii armored key right?
trinque: indeed, I see the guy's session though and I screwed something up last update
phf: i don't understand weird al. it's some weird post-hippy take on klezmer, but i feel like i'm missing something, some kind of intermediate step
BingoBoingo: phf: You aren't missing anything. The problem is your brain is working.
phf: asciilifeform: the usual 5 people on the channel, and the one dedicated shadow NSA agent that's assigned to this channel
mircea_popescu: think harlan ellison, or the fucktard that started scientology.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dont worry about it, people routinely read 5k+ word trilema pieces, and they're not even specifically about something.
mircea_popescu: and yankovic was iconic at some point in the (late) 80s
trinque: story still ranks as one of my favorites
mircea_popescu: but it's improper to link him to klezmer like it's improper to link hot topic to "teenage angst".
mircea_popescu: course if youi mean the 1970s bs, then you're just about right.
mircea_popescu: there was an actual ro/ukr folk thing in the late 1800s, however.
phf: i'm thinking klezmorim as reinterpreted through the 60s do your own thing prism, "happenings", clown with an accordion being "playful" and "weird". it's hard for me to fully connect this line because the whole scene is repulsive
mircea_popescu: might as well be connected to "far east spirituality", seeing how it's just about the same thing, bored, idle and useless middle class cali chicks trying to find something to do with themselves that would still be useless and improductive.
trinque: liking the pulp? nah, the misanthropy fit my early teens just fine.
trinque: cheap porn did too, and for similar reasons
mircea_popescu: im not even sure it's terrible, the piece. but the author is certainly this mercenary hack, would-be-copywriter-if-anyone-were-hiring sort.
mircea_popescu: there's no general rule two bit crack whore can't do an epic strip number.
trinque: I waited the whole fucking video!
trinque: wtf is that bun on her head
mircea_popescu finds fake lesbian teeny bopper "show me the money" russian frauds much more appealing.
trinque: the weird sexual constipation that thought this was racy
mircea_popescu: they at least have the common sense to whisper rather than squeal. how the fuck people manage to put up with the squeal is beyond me, but if this is music why not fuck pigs.
trinque: my god she turned sideways and sorta wiggled
mircea_popescu: makes it real hard to take any "conservatives" seriously dunnit.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, i bet you didn't even get your cock sucked until i taught your mistress how."
mircea_popescu: in the background, there's this steve martin - kathleen turner movie in which she's a black widow and he's a brain surgeon. woman has nice legs and a fine disposition ; what a fucking waste of a reel.
phf: i actually thought that shangri la clip was from the 40s or something, hence the "serge gainsbourg later ..." :o
mircea_popescu: 40s. 40s is fucking big band / andrews sisters and nobody giving a shit about getting the clap.
mircea_popescu: but that monroe / lemmon thing is prolly descriptive enough
trinque: I don't speak the language, man, but I saw the lollipops
mircea_popescu pictures trinque in beatles uniform, "michelle... i don't speak the language... but i can perceive the hole..."
phf: trinque: it's double entendre in a musical form. she's singing about a girl who likes lollipops, but of course everyone know what the author (gainsbourg) ment. later she grew up a bit and had a falling out with gainsbourg once she learned the trick
mircea_popescu: ay, ima go do things to people now. will read it tomorro.
trinque: I'll be up early with a fresh mind to read.
trinque: while harlan ellison is still on the mind, to a young trinque, his story was one of the first (yes) indications that total rejection of others was a thing.
trinque: that the character which embodies this is "AI" is not important; it's behavior is entirely human
trinque: to anyone born in a cultural sewer, hatred is along every path out, even/especially the laziest one.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-21 22:48 mircea_popescu: and then she hates her parents.
trinque: not the only ingredient of sanity, but it clears the field.
trinque: ben_vulpes: lady friend tried to explain rocky horror to me once, did not make it through my thick skull
ben_vulpes: i don't much know about paths out, but hatred is definitely the fuel for the torch i use to burn a moat around my tiny castle.
ben_vulpes: trinque: horny teen girls need a culturally sanctioned place to be horny in public, 'twas the best most of america had post y2k
trinque: "but nothing sexual happens?"
trinque: and thus I lost interest entirely
ben_vulpes: also something something mildly transgressive with the homostuff
mircea_popescu: wtf "nothing sexual happens". in a fucking theatre ? that's insanity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re your piece (you know if you had intelligently published it ON YOUR OWN BLOG i could have left a comment there instead, and in a year or whenever this were to be reviewed we wouldn't have to go grepping the logs like idiots) :
mircea_popescu: there's a major problem with the very tight coupling your write-up may be read to envisage wrt cask filling. there are, as far as reality goes, two lists : a list of available txn slots in blocks, which is fixed and aforeknown, and a list of desired txn, which is neither fixed nor truly aforeknown. the workers moving the latter into the former (miners + nodes) are necessarily going to have serious trouble doing a very fixed a
mircea_popescu: nd disciplined 1:1 casks and fills ratio strictly declared at arbitrary points in time.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason a man will fuck ~any woman he encounters naked or in any even vague kind of peri-nude state. without this property, reproduction'd have long ago failed. there's similarily a reason miners currently accept absolutely any txn into a pool of liquid shit.
mircea_popescu: to demand miner makes a certified statement to the effect of "offset 0xa to 0xb in block y is reserved for txn 0xc" is putting a constraint on this p2p system the likes of which it can't conceivably bear.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's a different, much less notable problem wrt to what constitutes "a rotten fill". if i go to the stock market (i mean the old, gentlemany, pit of hand gestures thing) and bid "sentiments" for a certain share, i am in fact engaging in retarded behaviour, on the level of sjwing, and will, and should be kicked out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if however i offer half the "current price" for a share, i am not so engaging. moreover the case exists in history, for instance at the root of the rotschild fortune
mircea_popescu: (fellow was trusted by "everyone" to have best infos as to the situation in europe ; when he offered half price for the bond tranche everyone erroneously decided napoleon had won.)
mircea_popescu: moreover you even want it to invalidate blocks, which is certainly too much. how is a node to even know.
mircea_popescu: a third, and rather major, problem is that you will have serious trouble creating fixed width transactions in general. the reason is that the amount of information itself varies ; you can pretend to push this inconvenience all the way to the user ("hey, always use two inputs and two outputs and fu!") but it's somewhat unlikely to ever stick.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: a fourth, minor point, is that you have your market primitives ass-backwards. no price formation is ever envisaged to have "asks may depend on bids" as an edulcoration of "asks are fixed ; bids are fixed" because it is always possible to produce a pricing function for the product (based on cost) whereas it's never possible to produce a pricing function for the demand (demand is a psychological, not a physical phenomenon). the
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a fifth, major point is that the current ~ten minute blocks are predicated on loose coupling of "casks" (current situation can be deemed to be that all miners roll infinity of casks at all times to all comers, and all pubkeys are nil) and no negotiation whatsoever occurring either downward or backward. the dual-negotiation system you propose instead a) has never been tried in practice (which practically reduces to "can't work
mircea_popescu: on the internet"), the closest thing is google-ish "advertising bidding" whereby google presents you with some details about a click and you have less than 300 ms to make a bid, which it matches and delivers ; b) is VERY likely to cause major delays. your system would, on the basis of pissguessing, require hourlong blocks or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: a sixth, also major problem is that the system offers no serious guarantees to the user. think of some situations : a) i mined some bitcoin back in 2011, today i clean out the closed and boot up old laptop, to check out the tits and bits of ex gf who was back then hot and heavy into me. i jack off, and then snoop around and find a bitcoin wallet with ~500 btc in it. i go to spend it... and discover... that i know no nodes...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if i try to meet some... they don't roll anything down... a day later finally someone rolls something down and so i put my txn in and it... doesn't get included. wtf is this shit ?
mircea_popescu: b) i point and laugh at some idiots. they demure. i ruin their shit. they bitch and whine. i now have to specifically go on the hunt for nodes that DON'T lend an ear to the idiots bitching and whining ? on my own time & dime ? why the everloving fuck. the entire fucking point of even having cryptocurrency in the first place is so that i can rape eth, and flaunt the rape, and nobody can do jack shit other than flimsly psychode
mircea_popescu: fenses a la "he didn't really do it, someone else did, and he's unloved!!1"
mircea_popescu: in fact most usecases that don't reduce to "we know each other so really we don't need bitcoin in the first place" fail to be served by your scheme as it is.
mircea_popescu: (imagine how well this handshake'd have worked on any other venue, hurr.)
a111: Logged on 2017-02-14 17:51 mircea_popescu: trinque understand the problem with "I will also be piling up the signed material for my records" : if during your lifespan you manage to lose eg a 30yo hdd, because you've built a reviewable system those txn will be reviewable. are you on the hook now for refunds ?
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, the whole segwit thing could be best described as "a rather braindamaged attempt to implement half of stan's casks"
mircea_popescu: yes, but here's the only important lesson of life : it is NOT POSSIBLE to adminstratively decide who are the chicks and who are the cats.
mircea_popescu: whatever attempt to "turn the cock against the man" will fizzle just as soon as man feels like it. the cockbearer is a matter of fact not a matter of convention.
mircea_popescu: "british empire decided women should be fucked -- we're a different empire, decide otherwise"
mircea_popescu: "no, you're a bunch of orcs with delusions of agency in others."
mircea_popescu: yeah, there is. the fact that node can't reproduce miner but miner can reproduce node.
mircea_popescu: the reason man is the head of household is that he can do juyst fine without woman ; not vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: and not for lack of trying, with always the same abject results.
mircea_popescu: it may well be argued that user is actually worst-fucked, as per 6.a or .b examples above.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 11:56 mircea_popescu: to demand miner makes a certified statement to the effect of "offset 0xa to 0xb in block y is reserved for txn 0xc" is putting a constraint on this p2p system the likes of which it can't conceivably bear.
mircea_popescu: (because as a miner you got this cask returned for the 5th time, whose head do you cut.)
mircea_popescu: think, you push out 1k casks, statistically 5% will be returned > 5 times etc.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a "this is a 4th roll of this cask - must fill" field in your protocol.
mircea_popescu: i now issue 300 more casks, to 300 more "distant cousin" nodes.
mircea_popescu: 90 get returned AGAIN. fair deal, as far as the nodes are concerned, ie the distant cousins did nothing else nor anything worse than the original 1k.
mircea_popescu: FOR ME however, and unbeknownst to them, this is becoming a crunch.
mircea_popescu: but they must be because i am working on block n with 1k holes in it./
mircea_popescu: i must ensure i get 1k filled casks for it ; but if nodes can return casks at any time, i will ALWAYS have a % of casks returned too late.
mircea_popescu: which in practice i will resolve by always overissuing by (1+sqrt(2) )*that percent.
mircea_popescu: this is not a merit but a dismerit of the design, as such.
mircea_popescu: well, i read your attitude as rather negative to it. but okay.
mircea_popescu: understand, the principle is naturalia non sunt turpia. what this means is, that if the girl MUST go on her knees and cover her own face in semen while looking up at you, then THEREFORE it CAN NOT be "a shameful act" for a woman on her knees to cover her own face in semen while looking up.
mircea_popescu: you can't go around picking some random parts of your spec to disavow. you put it in there.
mircea_popescu: well, i dunno which it is, but saying for future generations of sluts.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 11:59 mircea_popescu: there's a different, much less notable problem wrt to what constitutes "a rotten fill". if i go to the stock market (i mean the old, gentlemany, pit of hand gestures thing) and bid "sentiments" for a certain share, i am in fact engaging in retarded behaviour, on the level of sjwing, and will, and should be kicked out.
mircea_popescu: the rot where i shit in the soup and the rot where the soup is "too expensive" iyo are not the same rot.
mircea_popescu: both result in your not eating soup, but that as it may.
mircea_popescu: this is hinged for no apparent reason, decorative element.
mircea_popescu: well yes. cask comes with "and this much in fee", write your tx for it or return the cask.
mircea_popescu: same way you have a market with price lists for restaurants.
mircea_popescu: you can still have a market. "cost of spill vs cost of fill"
mircea_popescu: see, a market is a thing of itself, not a sort of air that fills crevices you leave, but a sort of magnetic field, goes where it goes.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 12:14 mircea_popescu: a fourth, minor point, is that you have your market primitives ass-backwards. no price formation is ever envisaged to have "asks may depend on bids" as an edulcoration of "asks are fixed ; bids are fixed" because it is always possible to produce a pricing function for the product (based on cost) whereas it's never possible to produce a pricing function for the demand (demand is a psychological, not a physical phenomenon). the
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 12:08 mircea_popescu: a third, and rather major, problem is that you will have serious trouble creating fixed width transactions in general. the reason is that the amount of information itself varies ; you can pretend to push this inconvenience all the way to the user ("hey, always use two inputs and two outputs and fu!") but it's somewhat unlikely to ever stick.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-25 19:19 asciilifeform: all input lookups are O(1).
mircea_popescu: yes, which is at least to my eyes the major objective source of satoshi bitcoin braindamage.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 12:08 mircea_popescu: a third, and rather major, problem is that you will have serious trouble creating fixed width transactions in general. the reason is that the amount of information itself varies ; you can pretend to push this inconvenience all the way to the user ("hey, always use two inputs and two outputs and fu!") but it's somewhat unlikely to ever stick.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-25 19:19 asciilifeform: all input lookups are O(1).
mircea_popescu: all the rest, that he used boost, or bdb or qt, or that he doesn't know how to design or that he scratched his name in the lens can be fixed
mircea_popescu: there's a reason i said 2 in 2 out. anything else is either nonmoving (1-2) or else tree pruning (2:1 ends up with a single coinbase ; 1:2 ends up with an infinity of satoshi sized coinbases you might as well stop lying about and issue outright)
mircea_popescu: forcing all txn to be 2 in 2 out is a poor man's ring signature i guess.
mircea_popescu: 2 in 2 out is the correct primitive, even if oyu want to move 11.
mircea_popescu: but it would ~seem~ that if you do this, then you should put in the work and make a ~proper~ ring signature scheme.
mircea_popescu: which was the topic of yesterday's comments or w/e we talked about that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose i have a wallet full of dust. how do i resolve the problem ? count dust / 2 txn in sqrt(count dust) tranches ?
mircea_popescu: and then turned around and mined the garbage dump for it.
mircea_popescu: see... irl exact same thing happens, people throw it out until one day.
mircea_popescu: but the fixation on collecting the dust is quite akin to the fixation on "collecting the water" in a spaceship, or for that matter with the fixation on "retaining the atmosphere" on planet earth. venus, see, didn't so much care about its dust.
mircea_popescu: i thought i made it clear that's nonsense, but to revisit :
mircea_popescu: the (false!) theory that the bitcoin unit of account is the 0.00000001 btc or satoshi is based on the batshit insane theory that a system could ever be devised that would track 21 million hundred million individual 512byte outputs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: practically speaking on current tech the bitcoin unit of account is probably something like 0.25
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can add any decimals you want -- you can not make them work.
mircea_popescu: well, i keep recurring this problem / most everyone is eager to glaze eyes and move on.
mircea_popescu: depends what people do with it. it's very hard to predict such stuff.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, all it needs to show is that it is a problem. you don't get to unproblem it.
mircea_popescu: showing woman another light in which her current husband appears a shitbag does not give her a new husband.
mircea_popescu: i think the notion is generallyt accepted, under the broad heading "bitcoin is a prototype"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 12:24 mircea_popescu: a sixth, also major problem is that the system offers no serious guarantees to the user. think of some situations : a) i mined some bitcoin back in 2011, today i clean out the closed and boot up old laptop, to check out the tits and bits of ex gf who was back then hot and heavy into me. i jack off, and then snoop around and find a bitcoin wallet with ~500 btc in it. i go to spend it... and discover... that i know no nodes...
mircea_popescu: but bitcoin is a lot more promiscuous about it. you want marriage, bitcoin does the "handjob in theatre / quick fuck alley behind bar" thing
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 12:31 mircea_popescu: a seventh and final problem : you now constructed a chain of casks, on top of the blockchain. consider what happens if node fails to keep his ENTIRE history of casks EVER issued :
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-14#1613884 mircea_popescu: what odds do you give it this entire infrastructure of detectable unopposable broken promisery will be jetissoned at first opportunity by everyone involved ?
mircea_popescu: (pro tip : 90% of design work must be spent in the above loop.)
mircea_popescu: "marriage gives real bang for the buck, like the complete abolition of foam parties and blindfold orgies"
mircea_popescu: people LIKE stranger's skin, way the fuck more than they like their spouses.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i suppose that's why you never went to any wash dc orgies. but lots of people find the promise sufficient.
mircea_popescu: i used to think this is principally a figure of speech, then i saw a dude fucking a misfortunate husky.
mircea_popescu: incredibly, mindblowingly, the dog's expression was EXACTLY that of a very bored girlfriend/wife. how the fuck is this even possbile is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear to me how such a thing is an improvement over "just run your current trb through the future gossipd"
mircea_popescu: so you're in favour of the m design rather than the ak.
mircea_popescu: "but if i make mircoscope, and monkeys - use it for a hammer - what's to do."
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 13:11 mircea_popescu: practically speaking on current tech the bitcoin unit of account is probably something like 0.25
mircea_popescu: the solution is either an improvement in the technology (such as, going from bdb to bfs as discussed here etc), which will lower it somewhat, or otherwise the indicated : stop being poor.
mircea_popescu: the limit on "smallest bitcoin payment" is very emphatically NOT in the user's hands.
mircea_popescu: for the other side of the matter, if you never take dumb 15 yos out for a night on the town, whence the crop of 19yo accomplished cocksuckers is to come ?
mircea_popescu: eventually you will find that something somewhere still heats your room.
mircea_popescu: it is one thing to not permit the infantile to interact with you ~on their own terms~. this, i wholeheartedly support. it is quite another thing however to not permit the ifnantile to interact with you at all. this is insupportable.
mircea_popescu: (it is also in the end the mother-father distinction ; mother permits at least some interaction on the infant's own terms.)
mircea_popescu: to make the story round, alf : there is ample record, not just re antinisca nemour's stinky feet, but in general regarding the women of the 70s and before. they didn't wash. what i have to deal with today in say
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-08#1537246 is the tail end of a half century process that BEGAN with exactly this, "sharing the fruits of industry", in this case hollywood, with people unfit to make the wot lists. all
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 15:33 mircea_popescu: you would be surprised how many girls have to be taught how to wash.
mircea_popescu: the girlies that didn't get to see deepthroat but worshipped "stars".
mircea_popescu: and similarily with math, and with other things. there's some leakage.
mircea_popescu: there's a dubious romanian film, "the death of mr lazarescu", in which a very professional doctor sends the orderlies to take the man out for a half hour spin until his subdural hematoma has progressed to a state where it's worth his scalpel.
mircea_popescu: ceteris paribus i'd rather take a clueless teen than the confused twentysomething she naturally produces.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent - deepthroat, a movie of dubious pornographic merits, was produced by the mob and released through the mob's own wot. that you saw it in the 70s meant you were cool, period and full stop. even if you saw it in between gangbangs as an american version of carol.)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-13 15:53 mircea_popescu: "to advance it is at serious odds with the massive glorification of youth. As marketing found itself unable to expand without encroaching upon our childhood, the intense drive to capture the minds of the youngest among us has tended to make people believe that 30 years of experience can be replaced by the young looks of rank novices. This is made worse by the management schools that make it possible for people who have yet
mircea_popescu: this is not a fair statement. modern "western world" / "our democracy" is what you get when girls are ineptly forced to shoulder the WHOLE task.
mircea_popescu: they can't mature on their own ; nor can they construct a working society on their own. this is neither shocking nor worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: for instance : the younger sluts grow bigger tits than used to be the norm. they redefine it alright.
mircea_popescu: rather the correct cut is that they get to define it physically, rather than consciously.
mircea_popescu: which is why the example given was "bigger tits" not "niunamenos"
mircea_popescu: bout the same thing, occupy wallstreet, black lives matter, student choice in education, i will fix bitcoin,
mircea_popescu: same exact nonsense, "i'll talk about things i don't know"
mircea_popescu: in random lulz : tje original "gone wild" reference comes from dorky ny judge who condemned deep throat. "a sodom gone wild before the fire".
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 13:10 mircea_popescu: the (false!) theory that the bitcoin unit of account is the 0.00000001 btc or satoshi is based on the batshit insane theory that a system could ever be devised that would track 21 million hundred million individual 512byte outputs.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-28 03:24 asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-27#1608577 << here's one crackpot method: implement 'gravitation'. analogously to physical one. i.e. an agglomeration of coin is worth ~more~ than selfsame coin in fragged form. quantifiably, in some straightforward way.
mircea_popescu: not the worst of situations, though it does fuck over a lot of typically cryptocoin usecases.
mircea_popescu: honestly i kinda lost interest once it was about shithead news.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i dunno, one of the supposedly intellectual libertard dorks.
shinohai: I had to read that horror in Hugh School.
mircea_popescu: "11. Camp is the triumph of the epicene style. (The convertibility of "man" and "woman," "person" and "thing.") But all style, that is, artifice, is, ultimately, epicene. Life is not stylish. Neither is nature."
mircea_popescu: this is how you get a D in any half-decent highschool.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, essay does not mean making baseless enunciations in the thick hand of a fucking peasant."
shinohai: I got a day of ISS because I said she was in the wrong camp.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that nature isn't stylish can only come out of somebody who has put absolutely no work whatsoever into studying nature. half an hour in the microbiology lab should permanently disabuse one of the notion.
mircea_popescu: in fact the entire substance, such as it is, of "i fucking love science" contemporary idiocy is exactly that, "omaigerd nature is stylish!"
mircea_popescu: and before anyone attempots the historical gambit, "but mp, that's not what it is, but it's what they thought in 1960", gimme a break. that's what INEPT AND LAZY BUT AMBITIOUS GIRLIES thought. much like poor people think "rich people can;'t be happy", as a cheap and useless psychological defense.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-20 00:22 danielpbarron:
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber >> they said that I didn't show any signs of an upward career trajectory. I pointed out that I was publishing a book with O'Reilly, speaking at major tech conferences, and doing all of the things that you're supposed to do to have an "upward career trajectory", but they said it didn't matter and I needed to prove myself as an engineer.
mircea_popescu: all those fistbumped janitors etcetera, why the fuck else were they there ?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 11:30 mircea_popescu: wtf "nothing sexual happens". in a fucking theatre ? that's insanity.
trinque: asciilifeform: good day to you sir!
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think i ever went to a cinema with a girl that wouldn't take stuff off. not past the age of 13 in any case, or as an independent agent, or however you put it.
mircea_popescu: really, they went straight back to the october pipe, that's all they got ? i thought it was going to be protests and revolutions and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: five weeks of half-assed not-really-trying "irony" and back to denial ?
mircea_popescu: whatever, dude's going to go right back to a "losing streak" which is seeing cuts to libertard state ~= to the entire education budget.
trinque: he's half of what got elected at least
trinque: I watched a talk he gave in 2016 sometime, subtext sounded like "real change comes on the other side of a currency crisis"
trinque: nothing particularly mind-blowing about bannon's apparrent strategy either. "we can never pay back the imaginary fiat-denominated debt" so we'd better juice the fuck out of what military we have while there's time.
trinque cannot find the log line from mircea_popescu re: developing economy and deficit spending, but mr bannon apparently heard him
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: trinque: in portland, when i was a wee one, they were a deliberately not-as-raunchy-as-they-could-be bdsm-lite-junior-queers-and-thespians social club
ben_vulpes: some grooming and recruiting obviously
ben_vulpes: i attended one sometime in the last five years, and it'd been sadly neutered and taken over by the mayos
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a single block for each height, what are you talking about.
mircea_popescu: whatever it retains outside the blockchain aren't blocks.
mircea_popescu: i'm not in the business of telling clerks how to run their office. it is clear what the blockchain is, no further explanation is needed.
mircea_popescu: if anyone has issues resolving which string of bits is block n, that someone is invited to fix his hear, his node or both.
mircea_popescu: at all points the blockchain is a linear string of blocks though.
mircea_popescu: whether your opinion changes as to which exact blocks is not germane. to mine on chain a you use n and to mine on chain a' you use n'.
mircea_popescu: ie, this is an entirely mental problem, manufactured out of thin air. dun exist in the actual thing.
mircea_popescu: if at position n-1 two possible candidate blocks could be n, then in order to extend n1 you will have to consider the blockchain as consistying of n1, and in order to extend n2 you will have to consider the blockchain as consisting of n2.
BingoBoingo: Oh the Trump flensing knife lulz come out tonight, while still digesting trb-i theory. What a time to be live!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In my mind trb-i is discussion piece. Ideal may be impossible. trb-i may end up being way to consider idea for trb-b which suceeds trb-a (a is for arse)
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the great tuscan salami scandal has 992 views on dumbtube.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> trb-tits << I thought that was shinohai's fork
shinohai: BingoBoingo: I'm trying but I get 90% "Bigger" tit blocks
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I though the appeal of programming work was a porsche in the driveway for one's blue haired silicon valley transpig
BingoBoingo: In the city I hear the convert it to the freebase and smoke it
mircea_popescu: holy shit, the imbecile lists FUCKING NAPOLEON among "truth, beauty and seriousness" ? the dude with the white dickpants ? THE CAMPIEST CHARACTER OF ALL HISTORY ?!
mircea_popescu: who can take "feminist intellectuals" seriously, i wish to know ?
ben_vulpes: i heard parts of the bezosnet went out
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo deliciously dirty today after filling raised beds
BingoBoingo: for ben_vulpes inevitable curiosity used 4 cu ft. med texture vermicultie, 3 cu ft. peat moss, 300 lbs (~6.7 cu ft.) composted cow manure, and assorted bags of clearance potting soil that apparently did not sell last year (~ 6 cu ft, mostly Dr "earth" brand)
BingoBoingo: After some weather will likely add more vermiculite and peat
BingoBoingo: Oh, and a little bit of leftover clay midsoil was worked in near bottom
ben_vulpes: my 'experts' suggested fish compost, coconut coir instead of peat, pumice, rice hulls, misc. fertilizer and rabbit manure
ben_vulpes: if i have time and energy, i'll be experimenting with the pickled food waste compost + charcoal in a different corner of the yard, in planters to mitigate externalities
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: coir is fail hippy dippy shit that they only push because "renewable"
BingoBoingo: And for installation with > 1 year life expectance vermiculite has better mineral content that integrates into you new "soil" structure
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: has nothing to do with cost of disposal
ben_vulpes: getting right with the dirt spirits, though
BingoBoingo: The leftover potting soil includes all sorts of misc that is cheapest to get year after tested on market and then clearanced out because who wants to pay $maxint for fucking potting soil
ben_vulpes: digging peat out of the ground kills me; i grew up running around on 100yr old moss blankets
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "moving" does not produce compost for growing veggies, wtf