mod6: all set, list is updated. thanks for the heads up.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: !!v 5325D9B5D94E7753F351A78ED8788C68B2A7AC1F0FE2C01AE4928A0E5EA9E0CF
deedbot: gabriel_laddel_p voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: in other unimportant matters, wtf is with the idler party and that "speak truth to power" meme ?
mircea_popescu: how about "bitch, if you could know truth if it hit you on the head you'd be in power". not fucking evident enough ? how the fuck are the powerless to obtain truth, from their father, the god of the stupid ?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: power is always undeserved to these people
ben_vulpes: underservedly vested, i might have said.
mircea_popescu: i suppose official usg-lese for "tmsr" is "non-nation-state actors" nao.
mircea_popescu: nono you don't understand, network segments and engineers!
mod6: 'll have 3 network segments, a large fry, and a silly shake to go plz
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BingoBoingo: !~later tell gabriel_laddel_p Just curious, but why did you suppose alf combing back through logs for 100 USD would be good use of engineer time? Collating information from logs is secretarial rather than engineering work.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: Still, just the nature of the work and party it was directed too.
BingoBoingo would rather read alf's 700 page Chronicle of Squirrel Wars
BingoBoingo: Anyways, have the bushy tailed rebels been defeated yet?
BingoBoingo: Probably the squirrels were trained stooges. Catcher having taken protection money may move them to different neighborhood and repeat on another sucker.
BingoBoingo: Do ther scammers care how -EV their scam is for other parties?
BingoBoingo: "A crushed cockroach leaks micrograms of linoleic acid. Linoleic acid is an essential nutrient in humans (you need to eat about 3 grams/day) and is essentially odorless. If you are a cockroach it is an overwhelmingly powerful chemical signal - a pheromone - to RUN AWAY! It makes evolutionary sense, doesn't it? Anything that stomps on cockroaches should be avoided if you are a cockroach. "
ben_vulpes: complete with hamburger menu and opacity overlay
ben_vulpes: classic hn -> bitcoin-assets -> trilema conveyor belt
ben_vulpes: 1 hn comment even mentions fucked company
danielpbarron: i found a karaoke venue that lets me sing "offensive" songs. at some point after i finished singing one of my songs, a girl calls for my attention using my name. i don't recall what i said, but her reply was to say that i was "rude" to her. i lose interest and walk away. later on i'm outside having a smoke and she confronts me again. says she "has a bone to pick" with me about something she heard i had said to one of her male frien
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Actual girl or Female2Mayo transperson?
danielpbarron: there were lots of questionables there, but this particular one seemed to be strictly girl
danielpbarron: her friend was kinda cute, asked me to sing a duet with her
danielpbarron: i obliged, even though the song was terrible and i had never done it before
☟︎ BingoBoingo: That's too be expected. Competence is a very lordly attribute
mircea_popescu: ahh, hanbot found a great fucking place. cabaret-restaurant.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 04:22 ben_vulpes: because fucked company was never a thing
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 05:49 danielpbarron: i obliged, even though the song was terrible and i had never done it before
phf`: “First-Ever LSD Microdosing Study Will Pit the Human Brain Against AI (vice.com)”
phf`: “Ask HN: How can a front-end developer dive into machine learning?”
phf`: “Alan Kay at Startup School [video] (startupschool.org)”
phf`: “Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem (theatlantic.com)”
phf`: on mac when you search for UTC in timezones, the system helpfully offers "UTC - United Kingdom" and sets timezone to GMT. little know fact: great britain switches from GMT to BST, British Summer Time during summer months. welcome to computers!
mircea_popescu: phf` not that little known, spent half hour trying to syncronize watches with uk resident engineers coupla weeks back
phf`: i'm mostly just find it fascinating how everything is broken in subtle ways
mircea_popescu: so, girl discovered this very promising place. in charge of it, this stunning beauty of an actress/real estate agent. you understand me ? this girl did understand you can't make it as an actress without money, but she didn't go into prostitution, or waitressing, like all others. she got herself real estate firm.
mircea_popescu: she got a nice place on the cheap no doubt -- hey, what else is the point of being in real estate ? -- and spent a year furnishing it into a concept restaurant.
mircea_popescu: she has a kitchen, an art exhibition where a young painter who was not even untalented! was working on his (really, not bad) stuff, a wine whatever, everything.
mircea_popescu: girl does not speak english, did not steal the idea. she came up with it on her own. hired actual actresses for waitstaff, they throw fits and rant around, to the unspeakable confusion of (all other) patrons.
phf`: it's nifty, i think i've seen variations on the idea, but this sounds like a solid execution
mircea_popescu: ok. now, wanna guess the subtle ways or shall i just say ?
mod6: are the guests somehow integrated into some sort of daily script?
mircea_popescu: but i belittled and insulted the mousy brunette playing the ocd type, we had a lot of fun.
phf`: i'm not sure how you can subtly fuck up that one
mircea_popescu: 1. the restaurant was unvented. if you went on the loft above of it, you could thouroughly smell it. so would your clothes if you spent enough there -- such as, time for a meal.
mircea_popescu: utterly noob mistake. i've owned restaurants enough to know you build the whole fucking kitchen around the vent, first you put that in then you places the stoves. how's she to know and how's she to guess ?
mircea_popescu: 2. the new-age-y dood handling the wine was offewring wine icecreams. fabulous, really. all vegan, he informed us insistently -- coconut base. they really did taste good.
phf`: opened a bottle, used it a little bit, corked it again, to use again later?
mircea_popescu: lol. no see, he's not fucking braindamaged. he's just excited and means well.
mircea_popescu: he put salt in. chunks, not flakes or anything. i fished out half dozen pea sized rocks of salt.
phf`: ugh, i'm not sure which one's worse
mircea_popescu: i pointed out to him he's not supposed to do that, salt is terrible for your health. he explained it's hymalayan rock salt, has no fluoride, is all good for health.
mircea_popescu: i asked him why he put it in though, he explained "to neutralize the bla bla bla".
mircea_popescu: this is my point, wrapped up : it's not even conspiraci , not in the general sense.
mircea_popescu: it's the well meaning ignorance that conspires to fuck people's shit up.
mircea_popescu: yet another aspect of that endless "your own head is your first and only enemy".
mircea_popescu: subtle flaws, because nobody has any books and the masters all went to boring island and are sitting there fishing all day or i dunno wtf.
phf`: there's too many places to name that fuck up the whole vent thing. there's a small cafe next to my apartment that i can't go to because they don't have exhaust. but i think it's a general "oh we need to cook? i'm going to replicate my mom's kitchen". at least they now all get proper stoves, probably after watching cooking shows where fire goes "woosh" when it's cooking
mircea_popescu: moreover, they get proper stoves because they can't get shitty stoves anywhere.
mircea_popescu: that's where the whole "upgrade or die" software nonsense comes from/
mircea_popescu: if the eu hadn't made it illegal, people'd still drive 1950 cars around the eu. like you know, smog filled paris. what, his car did the smog ?
mircea_popescu: but since bad venting you needn't get anywhere specifically, they still have it.
diana_coman knows people who LIKE the smell/to smell of food; I'm quite sure they know also what hunger means - firsthand as it were, even if in their past rather than present
mircea_popescu: if supermarkets offered the old, hand cranked washing machine, there'd be households with the handcranked washing machine. and blogs dedicated to how it's better. and so forth.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman let's distingush "smell of food" as in ie mp cooks for three and "smell of kitchen", as in, restaurant. it's not the smell of any specific food just like the sewer is not the smell of any specific ass. yes some people like some asses, but that's as far as it goes.
phf`: diana_coman: i think smell of food is different in home kitchen vs industrial kitchen like at a restuarant
phf`: oils and other particles are carried by constant steam, accumulate on surfaces, start catching dust and dirt particles, etc. it's straight up unhygienic.
diana_coman: makes some sense; to me though "smell of food" is fine as long as it's more like flavour of thing on the plate, NOT smell from the kitchen ; those people like that smell from the kitchen; admittedly it's still not industrial so yeah, there is something there
mircea_popescu: yeah. basically it's large scale fat distillation. might as well sit atop a refinery tower.
mircea_popescu: phf` is there a ru equiv of the "ciorba de spalatoare" ro concept ? dishcloth borscht ?
phf`: ahaha, that's a great metaphor. i think somebody, possibly Gogol had some similarly visceral imagery, but i don't remember it as a phrase
mircea_popescu: eyah, somehow teh socialist masquerading as co-op-ist isn't quite prepared for a) his nonsense to be readily identified, "rock soup, rly?" and b) the obvious "just make sure it's not dishcloth borscht" ready counter.
mircea_popescu: i guess somehow the obvious got unhappened in all languages because why would they wanna think of such things!
mircea_popescu: (i have azn friend who likes trying to bother me. feigned surprise at how we here in the decadent west let the toilet water go to waste, when we could raise a koi in there. jsut think alf! millions of toilets! tons of carp!)
mircea_popescu: significantly helped by the fact that carp is, in romanian, crap. literally. you can buy "icre de crap" ie crap roe.
mircea_popescu: shinohai when you realise that's what it does whether in the toilet or not, you will... shit bricks and pellets of fishfood.
phf`: come to think of it the whole exhaust in the kitchen applies to other cases where exhaust is mandatory: i like the small of soldering rosin or the smell of freshly sawed wood, but i wouldn't want to spend much time in a workshop that doesn't have an exhaust. and you have similar failure mode: "come all to work on projects!" hackerspaces notoriously don't have exhaust
mircea_popescu: While the documents describes an incredibly powerful code-breaking project, according to what hacker and computer researcher Andrew "Bunnie" Huang told The Intercept, if you're using the latest encryption, you don't have anything to worry about. "Even if [WindsorGreen] gave a 100x advantage in cracking strength, it's a pittance compared to the additional strength conferred by going from say, 1024-bit RSA to 4096-bit RSA or go
mircea_popescu: ing from SHA-1 to SHA-256."At least when it comes to this venture. Who knows what's currently being developed?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 13:27 asciilifeform: then dies of hugochavez a year or so later.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you will need grams not micrograms of the stuff.
mircea_popescu: yes well i don't see that many phosgene to ac unit cia goons out there combing the streets.
mircea_popescu: you put it on the dood's ac, for all you know you cure his coloitis and little girl next door delivers twin puppies.
mircea_popescu: even to that, there's the occasional mobster walking away from gunfight with dozen holes in hide.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-12 15:14 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-12#1655115 << for the record there's ~nothing there. "oh, project rife with the kind of complex math". save me rwanda, they're gonna dekulakize math now.
mircea_popescu: ~equivalent to tumblr ho scribbling "for hot males only" on her snatch pix. rly ?
mircea_popescu: what, they give usians a nda to sign at birth, along with all the ssn papers and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: lmao, wait, wait, they dun want any actually productive zeks touching it ?
mircea_popescu: course, everyone who is citizen has little interest to actually put in any work, can jsut get the freebies and coast.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, apparently the last foreigner to obtain chinese citizenship was some russian broad in 1964
a111: Logged on 2014-06-19 02:30 asciilifeform: chinese 'WoT' (like in other asian nations) is very heavily tilted in direction of blood relation
mircea_popescu: aand in other lulz : local kid superstore sells slingshots in valupacks.
mircea_popescu: what we did was inflitrate army depot, cut off rubber belts off gas masks, attach to wood Y.
mircea_popescu: anyway, reason i didn't buy is because the commies didn't sell. otherwise -- money, had.
mircea_popescu: tourniquet'd have prolly been even better. that thick orange-ish tube huh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so. if you do with own hands whenever possible, how are you to ever meet any girls ?
pete_dushenski: 999.995 kb block mined by f2pool at heigh 466100. tight fit.