mircea_popescu: fly, piggy, fly!

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-05-2015#1128664 << it's a fucking stupid idea. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: the LAST thing i want is all the idiots buzzing around IN PLANES. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-05-2015#1128674 << not suddenly. once the usg got involved. it has the shidas touch. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: there's a reason drug cartels use subs not blimps

mircea_popescu: in other news, "We always used condoms before, and we both agreed he's only going to fuck my ass now that we're married. We both love the symbolism — I'll be shitting out his weak sperm while superior black men's seed will soak into my womb as nature intended."

mircea_popescu: seems pretty els.

mircea_popescu: english as a language secundary.

mircea_popescu: !up Kalki

mircea_popescu: "under fire" ? what exactly does that mean ?

mircea_popescu: "a bunch of fat slobs with too much time on their hands and a govt-subsidized internet connection are mashing keyboards" ?

mircea_popescu: ello. who're you ?

mircea_popescu: ah i c.

mircea_popescu: anything in particular ?

mircea_popescu: in other news : http://40.media.tumblr.com/e2ee7e04c2577655bc8aa69b393caf58/tumblr_mesvhfBhNW1rpfeuyo1_1280.jpg where have all the female bellies went ?

mircea_popescu is not that crazy about the workout flats.

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron what was that company that was "under fire" for something or other to do with gay marriage, ended up with booming sales ?

mircea_popescu: ah yeah

mircea_popescu: a senator got shot in the face ?

mircea_popescu: you mean, with a gun ? i mean... rifle ?

mircea_popescu: poor woman

mircea_popescu: why not as an example of why you shouldn't go around without one ?

mircea_popescu: either seem about as vaguely related.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bdsm is very risky for the single, naive/retarded female. it is almost as risky for the single, ideologically captive male.

mircea_popescu: not to my knowledge risky for anyone else, except, of course, as far as the presence of the former impels.

mircea_popescu: jurov alrighty. what's official price on them ?

mircea_popescu: <mod6> once I have these guys << hanbot how about you help with that effort ?

mircea_popescu: jurov so trade 10k shares for 21.367 btc ?

mircea_popescu: o wait that's btcalpha

mircea_popescu: he total assets per share implied value is thus 0.00021372

mircea_popescu: jurov yeah. or 200k for 2x ?

mircea_popescu: what's your pleasure ?

mircea_popescu: aite, 200k for 42.744 coming right up.

mircea_popescu: yeah,

mircea_popescu: i'd rather see uclibc in the "official" b-a linux ☟︎☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: aww

mircea_popescu: cnn moving into the wordsalad humor racket. reddit turf.

mircea_popescu: i guess so.

mircea_popescu: saudi arabia actually can fly all those planes it was collecting ?!

mircea_popescu: i thought they're just pulling a great gatsby / jerry seifeld, and just storing them

mircea_popescu: famously, the returning, defeated nazis said the same thing.

mircea_popescu: "just pray, madam, that the russians don't do to you and your daughters anything like"

mircea_popescu: heh

mircea_popescu: lol!

mircea_popescu: and in the latest lulz for today, http://trilema.com/2015/introducing-the-bitcoin-isp/#comment-114124

mircea_popescu: it's funny, what a few decades of "everyone else is your supporting cast" has done to joe blow.

mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's not even that, lol. i'm not making a judgement based on how the twerp presents itself. this is more like, "you're not famous, go away", but for a much better definition of famous. "people i care about heard of you."

mircea_popescu: "but i have a shirt and shoes!" "so does my goat."

mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field

mircea_popescu: absurdistly obligatory, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CYaU3x_nRU

mircea_popescu: aww!

mircea_popescu: i bet nobody gets them booze, either.

mircea_popescu: in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/13be0b7c54cf8797f03ac1c7b4949f35/tumblr_no0iysbOD51s53p61o1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: sure. moreover,

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-05-2015#1125647 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/952/866/367365/ << this thing that got linked on the recent bisp announcement is pretty interesting on its own.

mircea_popescu: "In a line of precedent almost a century old, the Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not preclude the government from retrying a defendant whose conviction is set aside because of an error in the proceedings leading to conviction."

mircea_popescu: basically this translates to "the constitution is there to protect the government from having to do things it doesn't want to do, not to protect the citizens from things the government wants to do but shouldn't"

mircea_popescu: apparently.

mircea_popescu: "While different theories have been advanced to support the permissibility of retrial, of greater importance than the conceptual abstractions employed to explain the Ball principle are the implications of that principle for the sound administration of justice. Corresponding to the right of an accused to be given a fair trial is the societal interest in punishing one whose guilt is clear after he has obtained such a tri

mircea_popescu: al. It would be a high price indeed for society to pay were every accused granted immunity from punishment because of any defect sufficient to constitute reversible error in the proceedings leading to conviction. From the standpoint of a defendant, it is at least doubtful that appellate courts would be as zealous as they now are in protecting against the effects of improprieties at the trial or pretrial stage if they k

mircea_popescu: new that reversal of a conviction would put the accused irrevocably beyond the reach of further prosecution."

mircea_popescu: imagine the perversity of this.

mircea_popescu: "if we don't steal your rights right at the top, it is unlikely our agents at lower levels would not steal them anyway"

mircea_popescu: dude... fuck you ?

mircea_popescu: you get one shot, like everyone else. if you miss, you've missed.

mircea_popescu: this entire "government's speshul" doctrine...

mircea_popescu: "guilt is clear" === "we are butthurt"

mircea_popescu: perhaps, yes.

mircea_popescu: so government can fuck up the conviction, gets a second shot because hey, govt's speshul. you go fuck up your tax returns, see how that goes over.

mircea_popescu: "but your honor, it would be a price too high for society to pay were the government granted the right to act because of any defect sufficient to invalidate submitted tax reports"

mircea_popescu: apparently, corrupt govt official with private intersts made pro-forma arrangements to rid himself of these so as to use govt tools to further them

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller but who's asking him ?

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, see, the opinions of people who do not own 30 btc to their name as to the comings and goings of places where this is a minimum requisite bar do not constitute proper ignorance. it's like saying country bumpkins in montana have no idea how broadstreet works. they obviously don't, but this because the goat does not know calendars.

mircea_popescu: what business of it is theirs ? "oh, you're so ignorant, you don't even know astronomy". well... he's a farm hand, let him farm.

mircea_popescu: !up Crypton

mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic what's crypton ?

mircea_popescu: mod6 http://thebitcoin.foundation/OrphanageThermonukeCharts/Disk.png << this space intentionally left blank ?

mircea_popescu: and that % style is pretty bad

mircea_popescu: ah ok.

mircea_popescu: mod6 omfg wtf <4gb ?! WUT ?!

mircea_popescu: it is THAT good this thing ?!

mircea_popescu: mod6 listen, what happened in the 6-12 may interval ? full blockchain sync ? something else ?

mircea_popescu: ascii_field 4gb is pretty impressive tbh.

mircea_popescu: mod6 doesn't matter which chart per se, just trying to put this in context. what was bitcoind doing in the interval ?

mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't recall ever running a node under 8gb, and for that matter that was more like 2012. i think everything now's 32.

mircea_popescu: 6 days ?

mircea_popescu: also pretty good.

mircea_popescu: http://thebitcoin.foundation/OrphanageThermonukeCharts/Page_Faults.png << negative page faults o.O

mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah kinda what i was trying to evaluate, if the "0, usually" is valid.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i must say the profiling seen here crowns an expectation that has been slowly building from what was shown prior, ie that the snipped bitcoin 5 we're using is actually a major improvement over the old bitcoin 5, and thus very, very far ahead of bitcoin 10/11/etc.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field industrial engineering is a three century old history of "minimal improvements have astounding effects"

mircea_popescu: exactly.

mircea_popescu: dabbled in same, back in the day.

mircea_popescu: mod6 not a bad idea. but make sure you package these with the required context and publish them.

mircea_popescu: as it is, this reporting, it is a 90% of an excellent job. make the extra 10%. make it whole, it'll be great.

mircea_popescu: mod6 maybe even think about writing a qntra piece, or ben_vulpes

mircea_popescu: i don't see it makes that big of a difference.

mircea_popescu: dun worry bout it mod6

mircea_popescu: just, you two, package this in a detailed, explicit, clear, verbose article.

mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field

mircea_popescu: so i've been listening to aerosmith all morning. shocking how great bad music was, 40 or so years ago.

mircea_popescu: entertainment's in this weird situation where the olympic record holders of today couldn't meet the quals for regional competitions in the 70s.

mircea_popescu: memory not disk.

mircea_popescu: lol.

mircea_popescu: more indexes prolly.

mircea_popescu: +an 18th ~200mb

mircea_popescu: trinque im not even sure how rock aerosmith is, or what it all means.

mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSmOvYzSeaQ << check out 90s EGA high techs

mircea_popescu: http://t.imgbox.com/DA1uRbI3.jpg back in the day

mircea_popescu: speaking of someliers, they have a forum, you know ? http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=33438

mircea_popescu: i had a 286! and (after that!) a weird pc-xt that had asm debugger built into bios. and so on

mircea_popescu: was that a sound blaster repackaged ?

mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field

mircea_popescu: so it WAS a sb repackaging then ? the chipchat ?

mircea_popescu: weird, the sort of shit they could do back then.

mircea_popescu: back to the lulzlaw department for a moment, " Nonetheless, the government concedes that it failed to file a timely certificate with the district court "that the appeal was not taken for purpose of delay and that the evidence is a substantial proof of a fact material in the proceeding," although § 3731 required it to do so. The government has now filed such a certificate, and correctly notes that the late filing, alth

mircea_popescu: ough not regarded with favor, does not rise to jurisdictional dimensions."

mircea_popescu: o, so the government filed late ? it's ok, we'll invent some legally meaningless words it can be bad in, but otherwise it's fine.

mircea_popescu: you try filing late.

mircea_popescu: fuckheads delayed filing the certificate that they're not appealing to delay.

mircea_popescu: "The certificate was filed seven months after the entry of the district court's order and six months after the filing of the government's notice of appeal. It was filed only after the defendants raised the issue of its absence in their briefs to this Court."

mircea_popescu: and so therefore, " If the requirement of the timely filing of a certificate is to have substantial meaning, the government's appeal here should be dismissed. Indeed, the purpose of the certificate requirement is to ensure the government has verified the propriety of its appeal, and so certified to the district court, at the time it files its notice of appeal. That purpose is defeated by the perfunctory filing of the c

mircea_popescu: ertificate after the appeal has been docketed and briefed and within days of its argument in this Court."

mircea_popescu: but is there a disbarment of the government counsel as a result of attempted fraud in open court ?

mircea_popescu: where is the one year in the can for contempt + civil liability for the prosecuting team + their eighteen indictment trial for all sorts of fraud, abuse of legal process etc.

mircea_popescu: check it out, the government is required to file a certificate. and if they don't... fuckall. and if it's fraudulent ? all the better.

mircea_popescu: and moreover, the government can contempt the court all it wants, that's what it's there for after all.

mircea_popescu: !rated theymos

mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/cec108a1b9ef61cc0ce17e80b2fed4ec/tumblr_meuxlnPw761qjm83bo1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: looks like a tail

mircea_popescu: hm yeah, aws is useful to have but it really shouldnt be a dependency.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-05-2015#1128969 << dude, i actually like CultOs ☝︎

mircea_popescu: Adlai why do you think final i in satoshi is long ?

mircea_popescu: it's not satoshii is it ?

mircea_popescu: heathen.

mircea_popescu: heretic.

mircea_popescu: cultundies, for those girls that still wear the things.

mircea_popescu: that orlov link...

mircea_popescu: "Western media focused on the fact that western leaders declined to attend the celebration, either in a fit of pique or because so ordered by the Obama administration, but this only highlights their combined irrelevance, be it in defeating Hitler, or in commemorating his defeat 70 years later."

mircea_popescu: bwhaha. who penned this i wish to know ? the man himself is incapable of such quality.

mircea_popescu: Submissions: 47728 Known Moduli: 31262 Moduli Waiting for Test: 4584 Running Product (Π(∀n)): 43224973 digits

mircea_popescu: so ascii_field from the above, am i correct in deducing that there have been at most 47728 - 31262-4584 = 11882 (out of 47728, or ~1/4) keys without any RSA subkeys in them ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: there are also 68 keys with duplicate moduli, but i imagine that wouldn't impact very much the overall numbers ?

mircea_popescu: da fuck is that

mircea_popescu: "here i sit in a prefab vinyl siding plebhousing unit, burning a 50 dollar bill" ? ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: here, i see your gavin andresen impersonator and raise you, http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m421aoiZzX1qjm83bo1_1280.jpg

mircea_popescu: a barbie doll by a rack of boy toys.

mircea_popescu: heh, intel points out that is not an impersonator. https://paw.princeton.edu/_internal/cimg!0/oh4xm7lc83q8lk7h15cuz4zuk3nzeim

mircea_popescu: from https://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2013/11/13/pages/7588/index.xml

mircea_popescu: apparently the SEW way to do urls is .xml

mircea_popescu: yea. eXecutable Mega Lolz

mircea_popescu: i imagine.

mircea_popescu: "Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, [blablabla] made the sign of the cross, in the Russian Orthodox manner. This simple gesture transformed the parade from a display of military pomp to a sacred ritual."

mircea_popescu: dude seriously, that's how russian orthodoxy-lite works ?

mircea_popescu: at this rate they could probably use it as an anti-islam equivalent.

mircea_popescu: "If you think about it just a tiny bit, nothing on this scale could be contrived artificially, and the thought that millions of people would prostitute their dead for propaganda purposes is, frankly, both cynical and insulting."

mircea_popescu: bwahgaha. these EXACT PEOPLE prostituted their dead, and their living, wives, children, the lot. by the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS. not even fifty years ago.

mircea_popescu: gimme a break.

mircea_popescu: not that it's not genuine sentiment, i'm sure to some degree it is. the topless sluts were ALSO genuine sentiment, for sure just as genuine, definitely as widely held. the result ? 400 people, beat up by police, not 4mn pushed by the govt press agents. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: so... yeah, which way the state goes is part and parcel of it.

mircea_popescu: lobbes i was talking about femen specifically. you think not ?

mircea_popescu: ah yeah

mircea_popescu: we have this ongoing debate re orlov i guess.

mircea_popescu: heh. he paid 4k and wants to make a profit, CLEARLY he should get 5k.

mircea_popescu: offer him 5% in the btctc shambles ?

mircea_popescu: worth 100k!

mircea_popescu: ^

mircea_popescu: starvation is the adequate solution to this problem.

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel but if anyone opposed to smoking, drinking and eating whatever falls into your hads is "new age bs", then hippo should be too.

mircea_popescu: guy's practice was mostly focused on dietary approaches to medicine.

mircea_popescu: ah

mircea_popescu: i prolly read to much into it.