Adlai: what horde, i thought they were all lost in a tragic mining accident
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'd have to mine to do block version.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38950 @ 0.00073054 = 28.4545 BTC [+] {4}
mircea_popescu: anyway, the bitfinex + kraken thing is pretty memorable lol.
mircea_popescu: exactly what that guy told satoshi the plan's gonna be, back on the original list in 2009. "they'll invent fake btc, trade it and it will "go down".
mircea_popescu: all the derps "buying" "cheap" bitcoin on the scams in question (bitfinex, kraken) remember : it's not yours until you send it to your offsite wallet.
Adlai: fake btc (unlike the real thing) exists solely in the mind of its bagholders
Adlai: mtgox were semifake, you could trade them about
Adlai: actually yah, and it'd be the best thing to ever happen to btc
Adlai: (second to satoshi spending directly to mpex)
Adlai: ((without creating an account))
Adlai: !rate asciilifeform -42 still uses blockchain.info
assbot: Rating should be any non zero value between 10 and -10.
Adlai: webbtc.com (or blocktrail.com for unconfirmed)
Adlai: or better yet, a fucking node
trinque: Adlai seems to be using the Erdos method re: mathematics
mircea_popescu: yeah since the tools alf dropped nodes are actually much more usable for ths
Adlai: asciilifeform: please elaborate on exactly which "graphical viewer thing" bci does that no other explorer does
Adlai: BingoBoingo: false, they run version j-ish
trinque: stamp just popped back up to 234
mircea_popescu: trinque i for one am very curious how bitfinex is going to settle all the buyers.
mircea_popescu: but somehow a buncha derps failed to read the memo re bitfinex.
Adlai: asciilifeform: tradeblock.com/blockchain
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the version is in the block as spit out, what gfx do you need ?
Adlai: webbtc.com uses ruby, it sucks, i know, i like them because they run scripts on demand
trinque: but how are we to in-group signal?
Adlai: wow, webbtc really is slow right now
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> signal with farts. << If I understand Edgerouter and Pogo are "farts" that signal ingroup. GIMP is a shit that doesn't work by spz to signal ingroup?
Adlai: well fuck me i'm here to give you what you don't need
mircea_popescu: a) dude wtf, gimp is the worst example for this, srsly ; b) your own block dump thing actually works for the purpose you discussed, chillax already ; c) there are all sorts of block explorers, yes. it'd be nice if one day someone makes the blockdump one we discussed but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: that's not the suggestion. what's said is that gimp is like lisp : if what you want to do can't be done in gimp iot's because you're either stupid or stupid.
mircea_popescu: ie, want to do something that shouldn't be done, or can't figure out how to find someone's pre-made lisp script
mircea_popescu: it's current;ly the only practical application i (or ANYONE ELSE, given that eulora challenge) have for lisp
mircea_popescu: "artist" using "drawing tablet" is retarded by definition.
mircea_popescu: it is roughly the equivalent of a "really professional chess player" who plays chess in the dark and moving the pieces with his asshole.
mircea_popescu: so wait. "wacom doesn't work" is an objection to gimp,
mircea_popescu: fact that wacom doesn't work with software means you can go fuck it, and fact that vectors are hard means you're still better off with gimp
mircea_popescu: not only he spent his money on something thar doesn't work
trinque: I mean to be fair, what the man's saying is that gimp has a scripting layer
trinque: jack your wacom into that or what?
mircea_popescu: good, saves me from fishing out that file setting up a challenge.
mircea_popescu: no bad piece of hardware is required by anyone but idiots.
mircea_popescu: period and full fucking stop, there isn't even what to discuss here.
mircea_popescu: all that can be done is repeating nonsense reddit style.
Adlai: penny for an emacs client?
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 04:41:23; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun think it currently is possible to have an open source graphical anything.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3542 @ 0.00071853 = 2.545 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: ps turns out, without excewption, in all cases, inferior work, BECAUSE IT SUCKS. it. irretrievably, it ruins work.
mircea_popescu: claiming otherwise because you got your sexual advances turned down by a mass spectrometer is nuts.
trinque: relatedly, I have a 1 for relaxedman when he comes back. I yelled at him to *read* his way through snags with gentoo, and he did!
mircea_popescu: neither jwz nor mass spectrometers nor anything else has any bearing here.
mircea_popescu: which is why i said it's the worst example you could have come up with
trinque: did not bitch "oh but it didn't work out of the box"
mircea_popescu: in the ps-gimp case, the only reason is strictly user being an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: yeah, you're missing the something where gimp is pretty much the only foss success in the actual marketplace.
mircea_popescu: being run by a bunch of incredibly idiotic idiots, yes. but still.
mircea_popescu: i don'trecall, but maybe cvut a digit. anyway, hgow is this related ?
BingoBoingo: <trinque> relatedly, I have a 1 for relaxedman when he comes back. I yelled at him to *read* his way through snags with gentoo, and he did! << Promised the same for OpenBSD, but...
trinque: can't speak to that, but the guy got himself booted, through X and a DE, so I can dig that.
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes usg can be rejected just by rejecting it. no, there aren't places where this actually hurts one. yes if one perceives to be hurt it's because one did something stupid in the past he'll have to undo. no this isn't anyone else's problem and no this calls for no sympathy.
mircea_popescu: only if the "profession" is saomethiong like "pop star",
mircea_popescu: and don't start with "gimme free stuff in very ellaborate detail of compelx usage".
mircea_popescu: buy spectrometer, 2nd hand. reverse it or pay for it be reversed. run it on sane computer.
mircea_popescu: useful life of the tool is 30 years +, so. you get to "break it in" for a few months first.
mircea_popescu: a "sane-indistinct" computer can be had for the task as defined, out of shelf parts.
mircea_popescu: i do nopt care about the problems of tribes in africa.
mircea_popescu: africa is not something that can be fixed. it's what the word "africa" means.
mircea_popescu: i imagine poor alf mother was in it for a 3 week labour
mircea_popescu: until they could convince the infant that indeed he is "needed" outside.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can appreciate the part where usg is there to give money to "compensate" the retarded kids that didn't reverse their spectrometer and so ended up with X loss tjhrough any of thbe multiple avenues. and i can appreciate how this makes lazy people manifest thjeir lazy.
mircea_popescu: you don't do the right things TO be paid. you do them BECAUSE they're the right things.
mircea_popescu: yes the world should work correctly. but whether it does or does not is not your fucking problem.
Adlai: sleep ad libitum, but perchance - dream
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 100215 @ 0.00073235 = 73.3925 BTC [+] {5}
Adlai: indeed, bitcoin is only worth anything because it's maximally irreversible
Adlai: !v assbot:Adlai.rate.mircea_popescu.2:1feac6383761210b4d44f65b92583e1a4f173ca424045f61b09c86fbdc378dab
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for mircea_popescu from 1 to 2 with note: speare shaker
trinque: did nobody get my erdos meth joke?
mircea_popescu: <trinque> Adlai seems to be using the Erdos method re: mathematics < ?
trinque: mircea_popescu: haha that was the one
trinque: asciilifeform: ah, my mistake
trinque: mircea_popescu: fella just seemed excited
danielpbarron: trinque, your script references a .tar.bz2 file that no longer exists, and it assumes I already have the gpg public key that signed the digest file
Adlai: trinque: if "erdos method" means hopped up on speed couchsurfing through the wot, i'd be honored but a little overplaying my character
trinque: yar, in the subsequent logs there's mention that it needs to be changed to the latest stage3
trinque: Adlai: twas just an idle joke sir
trinque also enjoys the latest deed
Adlai: all this requires is that a sufficient percentage of the wot settle in harm-reducing jurisdictia
Adlai: which this being which what?
Bingo_VACAY: Someday I won't irc on 3g because Thor decided to be a USG bitch
Adlai: get some sleep trinque, your antecedents are out of contrel
trinque: danielpbarron: yours + 2 is my response, might've gotten overlooked
mircea_popescu: one "really needs" an open instrument like one really needs a trustworthy wife.
Adlai thinks asciilifeform's attitude is only correct in the pre-scarcity world
Adlai: someday all the designers will be dead, and all the instruments rusted
mircea_popescu: yet magically no one's trying to do anything. somehow.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform often times i look around at this retarded place and i feel i live in the future us.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 54200 @ 0.00072323 = 39.1991 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: the precious little they do right, they do by thoughtlessly following tradition.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 203508 @ 0.00072323 = 147.1831 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: i would be much surprised if there's an argentinian who even knows what to do wit hone.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, for the obvious : TAKE FACEBOOK PICTUREWS NEXT TO IT!
mircea_popescu: absent another ww they can sit neutral around, they're so fucked zimbabwe looks promising.
mircea_popescu still can't wait to see how the bitfinex settlement's gonna work
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:41:43; asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo if you write a patch for the verson string thing, i'll read it!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I never had the original diff learned so it should be interesting
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 55464 @ 0.0007179 = 39.8176 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37678 @ 0.0007179 = 27.049 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: I'm just amazed how much of 2011 and 2012 the Filipenis is bringing back
BingoBoingo: "GeneralLee" is sync'd on home connection again after weather event
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 107361 @ 0.00073155 = 78.5399 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically, their bitfinex broom fired. the once it gets to fire.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck will still use it after this... god knows they were making up most of the volume anyway.
BingoBoingo: Maybe it is a Mosin, they could have a whole nother 4 to fire
BingoBoingo: 2nd or 3rd though prolly get that persistent Gox disconnect
mircea_popescu: i dunno who actually possessed of the least bitcoin interest would still use it after this.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, there still is the issue of settlement on the fake btc they sold < 200.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i dunno who actually possessed of the least bitcoin interest would still use it after this. << AMeriPhillipenis
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but that aside, there still is the issue of settlement on the fake btc they sold < 200. << Like Gox they hope noone ever withdraws
mircea_popescu: for all i care the dept of hernia can keep on doing this 300k donation programme to people who've took an obvious shot at 10:1 leverage untill they fall over.
mircea_popescu: they'd get better roi by buying adwords or something, but hey.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35000 @ 0.00073505 = 25.7268 BTC [+] {3}
mircea_popescu: lol speaking of bitfines, anyone rememeber "picostocks/100th" anymore ?
BingoBoingo: One of the early places I spotted Hanbot eating souls
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 235.66, Best ask: 235.95, Bid-ask spread: 0.29000, Last trade: 235.72, 24 hour volume: 124974.00784124, 24 hour low: 162.0, 24 hour high: 258.18, 24 hour vwap: None
assbot: New York Times, Daily Mail, BBC, BuzzFeed: Why did web traffic for world's biggest publishers drop in April? ... (
http://bit.ly/1E4e2b2 )
BingoBoingo: Still a relative increase of 200,000 places on a traffic decling, not bad. Glad fartbook was ignored
mats: im even moar poor than b4
BingoBoingo: I am always both poorer and richer than I have ever been before
trinque is eagerly waiting at the sidelines
BingoBoingo: trinque: No, stay up and fall once I have fiat
danielpbarron: i got the iso to boot from a flash drive using something called unetbootin
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 80500 @ 0.00070304 = 56.5947 BTC [-] {4}
mircea_popescu: when the price goes 10 / 7 it is because the people selling the fake btc do no wish to run their meagre offering into the bids of 10
mircea_popescu: and i expect a sec investigation into bitfinex post haste.
mircea_popescu: unless the sec particularly wants me to run an investigation into IT.,
mircea_popescu: with the caveat that i run my investigations with people hanging by butcher hooks.
mircea_popescu: that never happens naturally. you gotta do it, much like "bullet shaped hole in head" is proof someone was shot.
mircea_popescu: yes. they got shook to the tune of 5-10mn for their sins.
mircea_popescu: yes, provided the population is cockroaches. they expect no negative effects past you know, being more braindamaged than before.w
BingoBoingo would not be surprised if fiat based exchanges report higher than $317/BTC before September 5th
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Nah, I'm feeling this prediction straight from my friends the testicles
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If this winter made anything clear even USD promise anal rings can't sustain sub $200 BTC
BingoBoingo: Reported rates this low always required a Gox
hanbot: qntra article cooking in BingoBoingo?
BingoBoingo: Of course. Satoshi did the same 2009-Spring 2011
hanbot: water buffalo gestation!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I was refering more to the GI wiLCVfkaLx
BingoBoingo: www.ebay.com/itm/like/181815242494?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82wiLCVfkaLx
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3603 @ 0.00073536 = 2.6495 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30050 @ 0.0007397 = 22.228 BTC [+] {2}
BingoBoingo: So moving GeneralLee to port 8333 I've noticed it throws a lot more non-killing errors related to SPV nodes asking it for information with bloom filters, or at least I think that is what the errors are
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Only 4 in the past 18 hours
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> no reason to clog the exception collector with this crud << Tagged as Africa
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> this, too, is fit subject for a patch; << I imagine orphanage stomping patches will be joined with "Fuck off out of my kitchen" set
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1540 @ 0.0007355 = 1.1327 BTC [-]
BingoBoingo: Of course. Much as it would be nice to supplement "GeneralLee" on home connection with "GeneralQuantrill" seed and relay slut node on colo eventually.
BingoBoingo: Honestly as few fillipenis as stumbled onto node must wonder what the fuck they "wallet" with
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 117686 @ 0.00071235 = 83.8336 BTC [-] {5}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 75845 @ 0.00069214 = 52.4954 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "5 points 86% upvoted" ... how does this work ?
BingoBoingo: A long long time ago, I can still remember the day... Mathematics died
BingoBoingo: OH, now that I mentioned it the SPV niggers are clogging up my errors
trinque has learned that beeper services are few and dwindling
trinque: I'm thinking I could do everything I ever wanted by sending beeper alphanumeric messages which designate some URL whose contents are gpg'd
trinque: so you drive along, you do that, you slurp messages from wifi as you can and want to
trinque: whoever said a guy wanted or needed to be accessible 24/7
trinque: thought was you could page yourself URLs as a means of signaling
BingoBoingo: Also those baud rates, a bitcoind couldn't keep up
trinque: then you go grab the dpaste url or whatever it is from wherever you like
trinque: my first modem was 28.8, found its screech soothing
trinque: least I think it was 28.8; I was rather young
BingoBoingo: We are talking an ancient time when not the actual mp3, but the peers to find it took minutes
trinque: napster -> winmx -> directconnect -> gnutella
trinque: I think that was the beginning of my progression anyway
trinque: of them winmx was the most hackery-looking, and therefore the best
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 68950 @ 0.00071651 = 49.4034 BTC [+]
trinque: it's meant to be edited, but it really depends on whether you're targeting a USB stick or the hard drive inside
trinque: depends upon the order in which the drives are enumerated
danielpbarron: oh that was meant specifically to make a bootable flash drive?
mats: my read here is this guy is probably an idiot
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12100 @ 0.00073151 = 8.8513 BTC [+]
gribble: Current Blocks: 370503 | Current Difficulty: 5.269984240934701E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 370943 | Next Difficulty In: 440 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 2 days, 22 hours, 24 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 232.74, vol: 22104.99845004 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 228.475, vol: 15111.77 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 233.01, vol: 135247.89036003 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 230.01, vol: 30.44604167 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 233.666937, vol: 30038.59510000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 233.55, vol: 703.94647149 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 239.003988935, vol: 132.0671135 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
mike_c: i missed the memo, we're all selling now?
mike_c: just note, there's another random theory in the dust (mpoe correlated to btc price)
pete_dushenski: give it time, there's always a lag for these sorts of things
brg444: mircea_popescu I happen to have misplaced the email pertinent my trilema.com information access. what would be standard procedure to retrieve said password?
mircea_popescu: brg444 was not, i don't think anyone seriously read that thing.
mircea_popescu: so shitcoin-xt is built to run on windows 10 natively i gather ?
punkman: the only local traders I've found so far want 300-400eur per coin :/
punkman: (because alt-eurocoin here)
punkman: pete_dushenski: I doubt they have any serious qty
brg444: where may I find most up to date instruction as to how to register with assbot?
mircea_popescu: "Connections are made over clearnet even when using a proxy or onlynet=tor, which leaks connections on the P2P network with the real location of the node. Knowledge of this traffic along with uptime metrics from bitnodes.io can allow observers to easily correlate the location and identity of persons running Shitcoin-XT nodes."
pete_dushenski: punkman: i only ask because localbitcoins sellers in canada seem to tap out at $1500
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: time to inform mr and mrs old timey derpminers, the qntra ones
punkman: oh apparently I can send 500eur per month outside of greece now! lol
pete_dushenski: 'We conduct our business in a way that protects the blockchain against plurality attacks, and our planet's climate against warming. We hope you'll join us.'
pete_dushenski: they seem to to be located in ben_vulpes' corner of the world
brg444: !register 4A0363951AFA090B6C221787E2F23DB84A63EC22
assbot: Searching pgp.mit.edu for key with fingerprint: 4A0363951AFA090B6C221787E2F23DB84A63EC22. This may take a few moments.
assbot: No valid OpenPGP data found on pgp.mit.edu.
punkman: so this is a curious tidbit from updated capital control rulez. No early repayment of loans unless you are paying cash, foreign bank wire, or refinancing with new loan.
mircea_popescu: they're still negotiating it, obviously, which is why the rule. but i doubt it'll be under 70%.
brg444: Hi pete. What qualifies as new in that case? It is one I created a few months ago following the instructions on your blog..
punkman: wasn't nearly as bad in cyprus
brg444: Yes. That would make sense
punkman: mircea_popescu: I meant compare to .gr, not your percentages
pete_dushenski: brg444: look for 'send to keyserver' if you're using a gui app.
mircea_popescu: oh. yeah, but quickly diminshing returns. something like 86-88% is probably right.
brg444: Done, wait a few I guess?
mircea_popescu: meaning that if you had a 1mn euro loan, and a 1mn euro bank deposit, you just lost enough to buy twelve houses.
mircea_popescu: punkman and they're derping about for a few weeks while people can get a few hundreds out so the poor people can slowly leech their accounts during the interval.
punkman: hmm trying to find exact numbers from cyprus bail-in but it's all spammy blog posts
punkman: I bet some russians lost 80%
punkman: "As part of the deal, BoC absorbed the loans and insured deposits of Laiki, formerly the second-biggest bank, after its uninsured deposits had been comprehensively bailed in. The new bank was then recapitalised by converting 47.5% of BoC’s uninsured deposits into equity."
mircea_popescu: the thing is... even after that cyprus thing, there were still peopel thick enough to keep money in greek banks.
mircea_popescu: and even today, there's people with dollars in us banks etc.
mircea_popescu: there's truly no curing human idiocy. butcher them and lay em out in the sun is the only cure.
punkman: yes that's the only reason I keep mentioning the greek situation. Tomorrow it's gonna be you.
mircea_popescu: well, not me, but yes, everyone who "had no alternative".
punkman: for some values of you, yes
mircea_popescu: do not ask whom the fiat sovereigns fleece, my friend... for they fleece you.
cazalla: ;;later tell bitstein ofn, i published an article on that like a month ago, not sure why it is back in the news cycle again
cazalla: i expect today's logs shall be good
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 10:56:14; shinohai: ^ next she should go take on 4chan racists
pete_dushenski: BananaLotus: are you the banana troll from the contravex comments ?
mircea_popescu: this being 4chan's what, 4th ? 5th ? alignment to boring ?
punkman: Guardian: "Bitcoin's forked: chief scientist launches alternative proposal for the currency"
mircea_popescu recalls how excited they were over this, a year ago. almost looked like it's a thing that matters, to hear them talk.
mike_c: ;;ticker --market bitfinex
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 235.57, Best ask: 235.58, Bid-ask spread: 0.01000, Last trade: 235.72, 24 hour volume: 135720.2893984, 24 hour low: 162.0, 24 hour high: 258.18, 24 hour vwap: None
mircea_popescu: ah if only satoshi had the foresight to not piss all over the face of usg!
mircea_popescu: "chief scientist of a fraudulent foundation run by some people we've still, somehow, magically, not gotten around to investigating. hurr."
mike_c: too much drama for me. i'm going to bed.
punkman: "BitBeat: Bitcoin’s Noisy Size Debate Reaches a Hard Fork" some hilarious titles
mike_c: this terminology.. how is yet another altcoin a hard fork
mircea_popescu: if only bitfinex was worth twoi shits, and the planned price movement caught on, and all the alt-articles they tabled could have been published. aww what a glorious day could have been.
punkman: BBC: "Bitcoin could split in debate over currency's future"
mircea_popescu: mike_c how is osama a terrorist and obama a peace prize winner ?
mike_c: yeah, i'm just too tired to keep even keel. they are annoying me today. just stop fucking with it so we can do some useful things.
punkman: sorry for triggering mike_c
mike_c: well, i don't. but some of it leaks in here :)
punkman: Vox: "Bitcoin is on the verge of a constitutional crisis"
mircea_popescu: i kinda have a lulz reading the stuff now and again, but yeah, too much can readily bristle one.
pete_dushenski: bi "A bitcoin civil war is threatening to tear the digital currency in two"
mircea_popescu: must suck to be this powerless, after having imagined oneself almighty.
mike_c: that part i do enjoy. when the flailing subsides and they just look stupid.
punkman: they are Turks, so they probably could deal with goats
mike_c: hehe. is that coinion thing still going?
mircea_popescu: punkman amusingly, reviewing the (little) record from the 1700s, what the turks wanted from turkish part of romania was : a) sheep ; b) women. a distant 3rd, wax and honey.
mike_c: aww, doesn't look like it. too bad, they were funny
pete_dushenski: mike_c: looks like it's been a full year since a tweet outta 'coinion;
mike_c: and the domain is dead
mircea_popescu: i don't readily recall anything of theirs. what was funniest ?
mike_c: you offered to pay them
mike_c: if they published x articles
mike_c: !s from:mircea_popescu coinion
pete_dushenski: "Many of the newcomers filing in on Mondays may not be there in a few years. The company’s winners dream up innovations that they roll out to a quarter-billion customers and accrue small fortunes in soaring stock. Losers leave or are fired in annual cullings of the staff — “purposeful Darwinism,”"
pete_dushenski: “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
mike_c: anyway, bed for realz. later all.
punkman: "This email is to notify that your following domains have been automatically renewed as per your request and the amount was debited from your Credit Card" oh nice, can't keep spending the bitcoins here
mircea_popescu: demo-craci. based on the happenstance that the way you say "ankles to ears" in romanian is "umeri-craci"
mircea_popescu: i feel very confused, because i thought the anon derp in question was really part of the team that arrested miloshevich
mircea_popescu: no no wait. she was on the ship that discovered antarctica. which is why it was called antartibelle. right ?
mircea_popescu: that's not right either. was she the inventor of savarines ? which were then named after her ?
mircea_popescu: memory fails me. but i'm sure nobody on twitter is nevertheless a major force in things and such.
pete_dushenski: she was the one who married the beast, who turned out to be an enchanted prince, who turned out to be an fbi agent
mircea_popescu: punkman that's the sort of anarcho-patriarchist attitude that keeps women down under tech and stuff.
mircea_popescu: o right right, because in their alt-reality it's not really the bitcoin, it's "the blockchain technologee". nearly forgot.
mircea_popescu: "DI$RUPTIV3 @BitcoinBelle · Jan 6 You are far grander than you think you are. Dare to blow your own mind with how bold and beautiful you can be."
punkman: oh now BitcoinBelle makes sense
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assbot: Man Accidentally Shoots Self While Guarding 'Muslim-Free' Oktaha - NewsOn6.com - Tulsa, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports - KOTV.com | ... (
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BingoBoingo: Oh Arse Technica just ran Hearn's blogpost as an Op Ed
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mats: lots of mpoe moves while i snoozed
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lobbes: !rate mircea_popescu 2 trilema credits. Also, he's Mircea Popescu
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assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 21:41:42; ascii_field: 'nstead, a file called "wpbbin.exe" was placed in C:\windows\system32 and executed. That turns out to be a method Microsoft introduced with Windows 8 to allow the BIOS to execute code on boot up (!?!) called "Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT)". I can find almost NOTHING about this anywhere on the internet except a single document on Microsoft's website (link to the Google Cache since it's a .docx fil
mats: a guy i know had this fun fact: You can bypass mmap_min_addr on Linux via iopl. You basically need root, but even root is not supposed to be able to do that.
☟︎ thestringpuller: the intent is to jettison the entire pool? (hopefully I'm reading the patch correctly). mod6 informed me of the boost datastructure idiocy
thestringpuller: ah. it's a first step to mempool filtering once boost actually jettison's and poops the unwanted data, freeing memory.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 14:30:26; mats: a guy i know had this fun fact: You can bypass mmap_min_addr on Linux via iopl. You basically need root, but even root is not supposed to be able to do that.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 14:34:40; thestringpuller: ah. it's a first step to mempool filtering once boost actually jettison's and poops the unwanted data, freeing memory.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 08:38:36; mircea_popescu: ftr they have been available for a week or so.
mats regrets not being an american indian black disabled LGBT veteran
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 07:38:24; mircea_popescu: hey dumb women... y u so predictable ?
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assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 14:32:04; asciilifeform: thestringpuller: this patch does not work as described, on account of boost idiocy (removal of items from the hash does not invoke their destructures! believe)
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mod6: <+thestringpuller> the intent is to jettison the entire pool? (hopefully I'm reading the patch correctly). mod6 informed me of the boost datastructure idiocy << wait, wat?!
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thestringpuller: mod6: my bad BingoBoingo informed me of the data structure idiocy
mod6: did you add that patch to your currently running node on aws?
thestringpuller: i too am interested in the memory footprint and any potential leaks etc.
phf: odd because map::clear documentation says "Removes all elements from the map container (which are destroyed)"
phf: elsewhere says "Invalidates any references, pointers, or iterators referring to contained elements"
phf: but then a stackoverflow answer says that std::map doesn't manage, and require for(...) delete iter->second;
phf: thestringpuller: you should try patching that patch, by adding
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/map/map/begin/, for(...) { delete iter->second; } for mapTransactions and mapNextTx in the JettisonMempool function. seems like an easy fix, i don't have my env setup at the moment
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mircea_popescu: bitcoin sorely needs something like a humor outleta comic. something.
jborkl: whats all this non sense, hhe
mircea_popescu: they forgot "failed" and to delete "battered" in there.
jurov: ^ lame but kinda humor, too
mircea_popescu: "he data needs to be treated as “sensitive” and not available to the masses"
punkman: someone needs to explain the bikini wax joke to me
mircea_popescu: dude... your wife is cheating on you. with me. ain't jack shit you can d oabout it, now go put on those panties she bought you and wash the fucking dishes.
mircea_popescu: punkman ever see a chicken get in a terrible wood saw accident, resulting in a bloodied half body strutting around as if nothing happened ?
jborkl: it chills for a little bit, like all is good
mircea_popescu: well apparently you're missing a fundamental life experience that's integral to understanding a swathe of humor!
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i actually enjoy the butthurt tears of the jwz twerps. "oh, we can't pretend nothing happened now ?!?!?! hurrrrrr"
mircea_popescu: not a word about how the company in question lied to an' defrauded its "customers". not like they're about to tar and feather bitlove llc or etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Hey, I know you're trying to make a point and all, but do you mind removing me from the list?" then, now AND 4EVAR!!11
mircea_popescu: a terrabyte's not expensive or anything. on the other hand, i'm sure i could burn an infinite amount of resources feeding the idle internet twerps.
mircea_popescu has absolutely no trust left in the value or importance of "the internet community". serving it is not unlike serving cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: let them go read the guardian or whatever the fuck it is that they do. what mirror.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> perhaps the 'smart women' are the ones who sign up for free house and good food in cambridge, MA, sponsored by idiot usg < one is not smart who must eternal lie, and with strange eons even smarts may die.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, she's clearly as dumb as that polyanna chick, or as boiled frogs, whichever you prefer. she looks like a marginal stripper at best. so yes, given her meagre assets, certainly living the soccer mom life of a wife of some usg twerp is much better than living the stripper life of her mates.
mats: there was a chick who looked 17 that took 5-10s to figure out $10-3.50=6.50 wtf is goin on here
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform bbl <<< ran into similar issues with eulora. the thing is, as inconvenient as that may be, there's no actual alternative.
mircea_popescu: programmatic destructures work shittily enough you just end up with segfaults.
mats: incidentally, in cambridge, MA, at a farmer's market
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 15:40:35; phf: thestringpuller: you should try patching that patch, by adding
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/map/map/begin/, for(...) { delete iter->second; } for mapTransactions and mapNextTx in the JettisonMempool function. seems like an easy fix, i don't have my env setup at the moment
ascii_field: phf: that was actually my first try. it explodes in a fireball.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field exactly. which is why this is not trivial.
mircea_popescu: how was that ancient observation, "i know how to make a better garbage collector..." ?
ascii_field: i just don't have time to do everything in one day!
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 16:26:51; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> perhaps the 'smart women' are the ones who sign up for free house and good food in cambridge, MA, sponsored by idiot usg < one is not smart who must eternal lie, and with strange eons even smarts may die.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 16:14:37; mircea_popescu: not a word about how the company in question lied to an' defrauded its "customers". not like they're about to tar and feather bitlove llc or etc.
mircea_popescu: more like "the world exists to cater to me and so it SHOULD be the case this unhappened".
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ascii_field: now if only they were running a reactor, or a military engagement, and were now dead
mircea_popescu: except they'd do more damage than they're worth, if they had.
ascii_field: but no, the sc4mz0rz will reconvene under a new flag and run another usg-funded scam
mircea_popescu: no, best is for them to marry usg twerps and live out the rest of their lives, warehoused in maryland.
☟︎ ascii_field: wai wat, they aren't presently warehoused there ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, re the smarts bit : what distinguishes an agent undercover in shit from a housewife made out of straight shit, is that the former has, however tenuous, however rare, a place to speak the truth straight. radically so, as the case may be.
mircea_popescu: and the fact that there's someone else at the end of the line, not merely listening but actively seeking that truth, is what drives the profession.
mircea_popescu: which is how and why the su had no trouble at all recruiting agents in the us. even though, in any sense of summary view, it made jack shit sense of some people living in abundence to confederate with some idiots powering the empire of ideologically driven poverty.
mats: mircea_popescu: oh, some japanese thing? 'cute'?
mats: oh. well, she asked another employee for help, so i'm almost 100% sure it wasn't a play.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 16:55:13; mircea_popescu: no, best is for them to marry usg twerps and live out the rest of their lives, warehoused in maryland.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field this purely psychogenic conviction of yours results from lack of exposure.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: understand, my exposure happens every time i sit in traffic next to their mazeratis, and drive home past 100km of their mansions
ascii_field: this picture normally fades into the background, as i've lived all of my adult life here in 'land of the warehouse'
ascii_field: but i have occasion to think about it whenever i hear mircea_popescu's hypothesis re: how 'they' are losing to 'us' in some sense
ascii_field: every sense but the ones available to my eyes and ears through the window ?
mircea_popescu: your window experiment is perhaps the worstly conducted experiment in the history of b-a.
phf: <ascii_field> invalidates the iterator << wouldn't that just leave a map full of pointers to free'd memory, why would delete on an instance touch the container?
☟︎ ascii_field: phf: try it. you get a segfault on the second free
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 17:09:51; phf: <ascii_field> invalidates the iterator << wouldn't that just leave a map full of pointers to free'd memory, why would delete on an instance touch the container?
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ascii_field: and, unlike most other languages (of the time), to lie in poorly-systematizable ways
phf: first thing that came to my mind were naggum rants
mircea_popescu: in the end, it was not the ai lab and lisp that provided the best approximation of a computer companion.
mircea_popescu: people have spent so much time enjoying the company of computers, for it,.
mircea_popescu: yeah, who is that twerp again ? seems a rehash o\f the entire "twobitidiot" hangout.
mircea_popescu: and on a broader point ; post snowden, seems the usg added a new thing to their manual.
mircea_popescu: it's a very specific thing when a large body of idiots finally implements something for the idiots to do.
mircea_popescu: like the difference between a) linkspamming google and b) a bunch of "infoproducts" on "make money while you sleep" having been sold to the retard forums.
mircea_popescu: "come to america - where coca cola has created christmas and the government has created democracy!"
chetty: you know its a waste of energy to hate on usg
ascii_field: chetty: i will have you know that all of my works are 100% hatred-for-usg powered.
ascii_field: this is not ~strictly~ necessary - a professional exterminator (paid, as in orlov) can do his thing without emotion
ascii_field: who has to beg, borrow, and steal spare change for every mousetrap
chetty: now you are talking dream job, professional exterminator ...for gubermints
phf: make c++ object, object say "i live" in constructor, "i die" in destructor. put object map. run program: "i live. i die i die i die i die i die". wtf.
ascii_field: this is why it bugs me when folks (looking at mircea_popescu !) write 'c' and 'c++' interchangeably
phf: look, c++, i'm trying to investigate a specific issue, not travel down your rabbit hole of insanity
ascii_field: 'c', like a mule, will plod along and do a very predictable thing. cpp is like a gigantic sack of cockroaches
jurov: predictable modulo undefined behavior
chetty: I just love that it does different depending on the weather, or where it calls home today
ascii_field: jurov: don't use the undefined. (note that i specifically said 'c', rather than 'unix' here)
jurov: even if you do something innocent like printf("%d", sizeof(stuff))
jurov: cmpiler is allowed to compile it to system("rm -rf /")
jurov: sizeof returns size_t which may or may not be same as int.. and printf expects int here
jurov: hence, undefined behavior
ascii_field: and when a situation like this does come up, a civilized compiler (there is ONLY ONE known, gcc) ~will~ give you useful info re: types
jurov: in that sense std::map nor the boost stuff isn't part of c++, either
jurov: (just to split hairs)
ascii_field: now try getting similarly compact description in a cpp proggy re: e.g., the map issue.
ascii_field: jurov: my point was that cpp allows considerable variance between what is printed on the page and what the code actually generated is.
ascii_field: (sorta like c macros, but far less analyzable)
trinque: phf: what, it's making sure it's thoroughly dead!
phf: but i'm not dead yeat
mircea_popescu: <phf> make c++ object, object say "i live" in constructor, "i die" in destructor. put object map. run program: "i live. i die i die i die i die i die". wtf. <<< win
jurov: trinque seeing the code i think it just copies your "a" object multiple times
jurov: and then obv destroys evey one
jurov: trinque: if feeling like messing with it further, try adding copy constructor w/logging, or pass pointers/references instead, etc.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> jurov: my point was that cpp allows considerable variance between what is printed on the page and what the code actually generated is. << to make it plain ; just because c let you push her into a corner once or twice (provided you bring sweets) doesn't mean they're not sluts mmkay ?
mircea_popescu: <trinque> I feel happy! << sounds to me like a cry for help. can we do anything for the gent today ?
trinque: oh its a monty python quote
jurov: in short, playing with c++ with objects oon the stack directly is asking to lose one's fingers
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'c' is more 'sex doll' than slut
jurov: ^ ascii_field's short explanation
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phf: jurov: does c++ do a magic cleanup on its fields, or you have to provide a destructor that does things like if(field) delete field; ?
jurov: if you did field = new blabla() the yes
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jurov: if you did only field = blabla() then...idk :D
punkman: "STL containers may copy objects around in the process of doing assignment"
phf: punkman: yeah, i added copy constructor on jurov's recommendation
ascii_field: naggum had a perfectly valid point re: cpp bearing much of the proximate blame for microshit code being what it is
assbot: Logged on 18-08-2015 23:58:35; assbot: Block number 370434. First block with a version greater than 3 : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1JpvtoU )
mircea_popescu: the entire "blockchain voting" thing is bunk of the first degree anyway, as the power rangered sponsored fiasco with the most recent fork shows.
trinque: not that it matters, but since I haven't been looking, I wonder if reddit has completely turned on satoshi by now, in favor of the power rangers
trinque: whereas they were before trying to argue that of course he'd support bigger blocks
trinque: really sad thing there, culturally
trinque: well, wouldn't we all like a signed message; however, the content is true in either case
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mircea_popescu: no, more like "it says what i want to hear or it didn't happen"
ascii_field: as i understand, 'satoshi' is nor a moral authority, but a shotgun authority. and that shotgun is still locked in the safe, rusting
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assbot: Logged on 16-07-2015 22:27:33; mircea_popescu: ~that~ is what the hoard is for.
trinque: just struck me that the man who made this said the words "failed project"
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: i see. I wonder if that guy made good on the bounty.
punkman: "Academy of Art University" how is this a name?
trinque: punkman: it's a filter; only the dumb pass through
ascii_field: punkman: classic usg expose. 'let's pick on a usgwot-marginal scamatron, deflect fire from the main ones'
ascii_field: other thing is, the 'art college of art' chumpatronic sector has been edging into competition with the officially-blessed prestige-sellers
ascii_field: and therefore have been marked for gassing.
punkman: "One of the biggest blows to the for-profit education sector came in April, when Corinthian Colleges, based in Santa Ana, Calif., shut down and filed for bankruptcy. At its peak it had 81,000 students across 111 campuses. It closed after the Department of Education fined it $30 million and cut off student aid because it had misrepresented job-placement rates at subsidiary Heald College."
☟︎ punkman: misrepresented job-placement rates, ahaha
ascii_field: the ancient maxim, as retold by mircea_popescu, 'when hiring a psychic, hire the cheapest'. but the expensive psychic is liable to walk over to the cheapest and shoot the poor fella
trinque: in the next world, you'll have to say "lied"
ascii_field: thing about 'prestige market' is that 'art college of art' can make fraudulent claims of graduate employability just as well as, e.g., harvard
ascii_field: eventually the chumps notice that the cheap and expensive psychics 'tell the future' exactly equally
ascii_field: and the problems begin for the expensive soothsayer.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 18:22:25; punkman: "One of the biggest blows to the for-profit education sector came in April, when Corinthian Colleges, based in Santa Ana, Calif., shut down and filed for bankruptcy. At its peak it had 81,000 students across 111 campuses. It closed after the Department of Education fined it $30 million and cut off student aid because it had misrepresented job-placement rates at subsidiary Heald College."
punkman: "In 2009 four former AAU admissions staffers filed a whistle-blower suit in federal district court in Oakland, claiming the school had illegally adjusted recruiters’ pay based on the number of students they enrolled. AAU, which declined to comment on the lawsuit, said in court filings that the compensation scheme was then legal under a “safe harbor” loophole because it also considered qualitative factors."
trinque: wow, in re-reading the lyrics, more relevant than I even intended.
trinque: though I know it's uncontroversial at best, me too
lobbes: I've yet to meet someone that doesn't enjoy The Doors. great combination of musicians
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phf: ascii_field: i've tried reproducing the leak, but so far it looks like so according to my small test, mapTransactions.clear() should just work.
http://glyf.org/tmp/foo.cpp.html there's a bunch of copy allocations that get cleaned up, but you'll notice when foo.clear() is called that picks up the leftover objects.
lobbes: I wonder where the Trump stands on 'greencard marriages'; another loophole he'd have to close to make that plan work
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lobbes: perhaps it's in his plan. I have yet to read it myself
phf: ascii_field: i believe you, just trying to figure out what might be going on
trinque: if the 14th amendment were removed via another amendment, what of the descendents of slaves?
trinque: though I suppose he means something smaller, getting the courts to reinterpret it
lobbes: wouldn't their ancestors have been brought in the country 'legally'; i.e as property? good point though..
trinque: property yes, and not citizens
lobbes: would be almost impossible to trace back lineage, I'd assume
lobbes: and then you add in all the owners banging their slaves on the side. it would get murky
trinque: you know, I find it sensible that he's focusing on Mexico as a threat rather than something like ISIS
trinque: as per various threads here
trinque: whether it's possible to solve that problme from the position of "US president" is questionable
mats: ISIS is an existential threat at this point in time
trinque: they can knock down a few buildings at best
mats: if the caliphate is established, they'll have materialized as a real threat
trinque: but what about pakistani nukes, what about etc etc
mats: ie, control of baghdad and damascus
trinque: the thing is, this has never been total war between the USA and Middle East
trinque: it's been trying to manipulate countries into this or that state with the military
trinque: if something poses an "existential" threat to the USA, what do you think will happen?
trinque: assuming sure, said USA is aware enough to see it
trinque: why didn't the chechens take over even after the USSR fell?
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 22:12:55; Adlai: why smoke
funkenstein_: the "president" tv show seems mostly produced for foreign consumption, kinda like friends or baywatch
mats: USG will attempt to parlay another group into battle against ISIS
trinque: were I an ISIS, I would look for a large ally that was not the USA
mats: e.g. the kurds, shia
trinque: at that point I could believe that they're an actual threat, in that not they, but the actual other superpower, is a threat
punkman: mats, aren't they already battling?
trinque: or "wake me up when" they strike a deal with Russia
funkenstein_: forbes piece is nice in admitting the 1st priority of a university: real estate developer
punkman: funkenstein_: and they even have an antique car museum
mats: ISIS doesn't benefit from the allegiance of any nation state, and nor do i expect any to give it
trinque: mats: some kind of "muslim unity" thing against the USA could very well happen
trinque: I really don't understand this thinking, tbh
mats: their influence and wealth is transnational
trinque: the USA has done total war before, even if it's been a while
trinque: let us panic about our demise a bit and see what ideas are palatable
mats: USG cannot afford total war, and they do not have the stomach for it, either
trinque: the us military will be the last light shut off, not the first
mats: ISIS merely needs USG to stfu, not die, to succeed
mats: it'll die on its own
trinque: we have the stomach for the whole 20th century
trinque: die like Russia did I suppose
trinque: we'll lose ground but there's a vast difference there
trinque: and mind I'm not particularly thrilled at the thought
trinque: I would really like to understand this logic by which the entire US military vanishes, rather than at worst being handed down as an heirloom
mats: we'll see how committed NATO is to fighting ISIS when PMCs fail to take Mosul and a few F-16s get smoked
trinque: not what I was discussing, at least
trinque: whether or not ISIS controls Iraq is not the same question as whether they can destroy the United States
funkenstein_: trinque, one possibility: if no more paycheck people will just walk away, sell off the gear
trinque: am I wrong in understanding that there is still a considerable Russian military?
trinque: the USA has its own oil reserves, many of which have barely been used
trinque: and in an economic crash we'll stop crying about destroying the gulf to get at them
ascii_field: trinque: the next major usg trend is 'demand destruction'
trinque: what I meant about the military being the last light turned out
mats: militaries require competent leadership. when i say existential threat, i do not mean ISIS will march on DC
trinque: if there is not a single man inside the us military who can figure out something to do with even fragments of the thing, wtf?
mats: given enough time, US generals will sell off parts just like SU did.
trinque: so russia's military is gone
trinque: I can readily see that usg is on life-support and fading
funkenstein_: trinque, it has always been my assumption that such folks a) have the gold b) move the drugs c) controls m0 presses
trinque: and I would expect a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg
mats: usm, usg, and usd are liver, kidney, heart
trinque: when in history did a vast military power not fragment into many pieces, and instead dissolve completely, leaving no trace?
mats: fragmentation is enough for us hegemony to be immaterial
ascii_field: it includes every bit of brussels, stockholm, london, zurich
trinque: ascii_field: recall the convo about my family's farm with its gas well?
trinque: and you were right, immediately a target in that environment
trinque: doesn't that apply to what USM would do generally in the aftermath?
trinque: secure access to the things it needs to operate first, then move on from there
trinque: this is precisely what ISIS seems to be doing
trinque: and isn't USM quite a bit more capable at this game?
trinque: given its whole mode in the 20th century was knocking countries over for their resources?
funkenstein_: you know just because we can put capital letters together doesn't mean they represent a coherently motivated thing
chetty: <trinque> given its whole mode in the 20th century was knocking countries over for their resources?// meme of renown
trinque: chetty: this is not what happened?
ascii_field: trinque: at a certain point, there is a phase transition. where life is no longer about u.s. army's 'access to necessary resources to operate' but instead col. schmuckson's access to his mansion and cocaine
trinque: I am referring more to the conflicts not necessarily declared wars
ascii_field: which can be easier in zurich than alabama
chetty: dont think it was really resources acquisition as it was expenditure, keep making war toys
trinque: my understanding was that everything we did in the 20th century involved the rape of other countries
trinque: and yes, sure, also churning stock
ascii_field: trinque: have to understand that, to lizards, usa is also 'another country'
trinque: ascii_field: yeah, I see that point.
funkenstein_: on these topics i have found robert steele to be quite educational
funkenstein_: in fact this forum is a great example of his open source intelligence ideas
chetty: <trinque> my understanding was that everything we did in the 20th century involved the rape of other countries// great propaganda to make americans hate themselves
ascii_field: countdown to 'it wasn't rape!!11 they LIKED it!'
trinque: white mans burden and all that
trinque: and as far as that goes, indonesians didn't fight it off, so life goes as it does
trinque: the point is I don't think anyone sits back and thinks about "what happens with the *other* space station"
trinque: this all vanishes because somebody decided they wanted to do fundamentalist islam again
ascii_field: trinque: how about the other other space station? the one with 25 tonnes of trotyl and ball bearings
trinque: ascii_field: talking about projectile weapons?
trinque: one side of me sees decay, and the other that this coup in the USA has gone perfectly well
trinque: it depends on whether the command structure in the militaristic side is decaying as badly as the civilian side
trinque: last I checked US soldiers were astoundingly obedient
ascii_field: trinque: the test of obedience is when the salary checks bounce.
trinque: the lowest guys already make postman wages
chetty: the only reason other nations didnt rape us is us had bigger stick, they happily rape each other all the time. Americans are not special and not worthy of special hates
trinque: chetty: that I readily grant
trinque: and to do otherwise would itself be a sort of exceptionalism
ascii_field: chetty: the anglos being the authors of the global rapeatron, with themselves at the apex, earned the hate.
ascii_field: the excuse of 'if we hadn't raped this chick, somebody else would have' is a nonstarter
ascii_field: 'don't do the rape if you can't do the ape.' (tm) (r) (ilkka kokkarinen)
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chetty just dislikes seeing the assorted memes of the libtards repeated without clarifications
ascii_field: chetty: the libertards are properly the 'repentance' arm of usg. what mr mold referred to as 'the cathedral'
ascii_field: the folks inviting properly qualified minority female disabled folks to come to mit and write thesis on history of oppression by evil white males
chetty: indeed, I don't do self hate and sore knees
ascii_field: why would the anglos ~not~ try to capitalize on their major asset
trinque: it takes no self-hate on my part to observe that the us raped and murdered throughout the 20th c
trinque: I can look upon that and sleep just fine
chetty: <trinque> it takes no self-hate on my part to observe that the us raped and murdered throughout the 20th c// please to point to a first world country that didnt?
ascii_field: the liberasts tend to overemphasize the simple, kinetic rape & murder of .mil
ascii_field: vs the more subtle but destructive 'international law' and financial pyramid
trinque: chetty: that misses my point; I'm contradicting the claim that it doesn't still have a massive, throbbing cock with which to do so
ascii_field: chetty: everyone else who is commonly accused, has a perfectly valid self-defense against anglos defense
chetty: sure it does, it still has $$$ (as many as they can print)
trinque: how much is a stockpile of nuclear weapons worth?
chetty: it just turns into this gian finger pointing thing, and in fact I dont think we have a proper clue where those fingers should be pointed.
trinque: why are you bothering with the concept of blame?
ascii_field: funkenstein_: don't confuse the freshly-usgificated su republics of 1991 with 'most folks'
trinque: where all I'm saying is the 20th century's weapons are still there, and if the F35 doesn't work, this matters?
trinque: the missile launches work just fine
ascii_field: they gave up the goods in exchange for some usg lube for their raw anus
trinque: china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat
☟︎ trinque: this bias while understandable clouds the issue entirely
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 19:50:57; trinque: china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat
trinque: and then in the other direction, denying them some particular goal == defeated
ascii_field: it also means, depending on circumstances, 'can't be bombed with slow-moving pilotless planes with impunity' or even 'might fire back if bombarded navally'
ascii_field: for instance, see how these folks pissed themselves with rage when ru wouldn't give up its sole warm water port just because washington asked
trinque: ascii_field: seems to go along with what I'm saying
trinque: USSR "fell" yet Russia was able to keep Crimea when push came to shove
ascii_field: it remains to be seen if modern ru is ~actually~ sovereign
ascii_field: or if they shy away from shooting every harvard and yale graduate on their soil when the hour comes
ascii_field is not orlov and isn't paid by ru; hell, they won't even give him a passport
phf: ru did quietly close a handful of ngos, usaid being the largest of them.
ascii_field: but were the vermin turned loose to do new things, and loudly stink? afaik, they were
trinque: its true, there's not nearly enough pressure yet to see which structures will stand
trinque: and not enough time passed
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mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and therefore have been marked for gassing. <<< the other thing is, they had been doing fraud on a scale not seen since the credit unions.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, /me does not belive "for profit" education can be a thing. you can have for-profit amorous relaitons, something the us claims to be down on. you can't have for-profit education. it is a fundamentally unprofitable activity.
mircea_popescu: the only thing you can have is forcible rituals of passing, where the kids pay in flesh.
ascii_field: can have for-profit 'education' easily enough
wilbns: mircea_popescu: agree w/ what you are saying and would also add it's difficult to have for-profit healthcare as well
ascii_field: in usa, higher education is more or less a straight racket
mircea_popescu: difficult, but on the overall possible, i believe wilbns
mircea_popescu: surely. all fraud exists for profit, because why else.
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ascii_field: ('spam like a pro in 21 dayz', 'make money in your sleep')
mircea_popescu: like the "money" the derp sending script output to trilema is making.
ascii_field: recalling barnum's canonical 'sucker is born every minute, and two to take him' - can also add 'and two hundred and twenty two to visit the spot next day and smell the farts'
mircea_popescu: the major challenge with the healthcare is keeping payments fair (which really simply means meaningful).
mircea_popescu: but i would propose the actual case study for healthcare economics is... roman firefighting.
mircea_popescu: and back to the blocks issue : i've had a number of tests on various platforms. it would seem that time to verify blocks does not in fact scale liniarly with the block size.
mircea_popescu: in any case, comercially available home computers do not seem capable to verify full 8mb blocks six to the hour.
ascii_field: i am right because i have instrumented machines for this.
mircea_popescu: forget everything. there's not going to be larger l2 caches.
ascii_field: was there any genuine doubt in any genuine head that the mega-blox was a bullet for bitcoin ?
ascii_field: a bullet's job is not to make mr kennedy's brain work better
ascii_field: but to help it explore the back of his car
mircea_popescu: imo it did make lincoln's brain work better than it ever had before.
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ascii_field: mircea_popescu: also expect usg-endorsed 'hardware accelerators' to come.
mircea_popescu: i would very much like to get better "humint" work put in.
mircea_popescu: well... in the sense that finding a girlfriend is cheaper than building a submarine in the garage, at any rate.
ascii_field: it'll be rolled into the 2017 intel shitentium or whatnot
ascii_field: in fact, now i recall that this is already happening
ascii_field: may already be featured in currently stocked dies.
mircea_popescu: and no, they don't get to uise the "quantum" gimmick to push ecc against rsa. like they didn't manage the past three or four gimmicks.
ascii_field: good enough. it'll offload the scratch storage for the elliptic grind to dedicated sram
mircea_popescu: the time i consider changing off rsa is a time after i've taken a piss on the ruins of the white house.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: recall, this is all in my burial notebook
ascii_field: because screwed around with 'what if bitcoind circuit' for a spell
mircea_popescu: in fact, making "intel the only way to run bitcoin node" is the biggest strategic gain usg can hope for atm.
mircea_popescu: "oh, they won't be really USED yet. we just want it for when intel finally comes out wiht the chip and we can push it - not before"
ascii_field: i suspect it's coming off conveyor as we speak.
mircea_popescu: how does it feel, to have stuck so badly in so many clocks ?
mircea_popescu: "We are sorry, This PDF is available in download format only"
thestringpuller: "Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it." - Rick Ross
phf: bitch, i mybe, i mybe
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they'll frame it as 'just like mining!' too. 'why did you expect to be able to use 2009 pc for a node!111 you wouldn't try to cpu-mine,' aha
phf: ascii_field: hey, we won't even have to write an op_sigverify for qemu deployment, they'd do it for us
trinque: phf: that one's gucci mane innit?
trinque: I recall because that's what he said in response to asking whether he was guilty of w/e chargers
ascii_field: phf: qemu, l0l! then wait century for block verify
ascii_field: re: intel: thing is, usg economizes. why con folks into using diddled cpu, if they can be persuaded to run winblowz 10 ?
phf: "what does it mean? -- not funny"
ascii_field: but the cpu will be pushed, yes. the design itself predates bitcoin
ascii_field: and is part of the overall 'diddled crypto' campaign since clinton
mircea_popescu: phf nah, it means, "told you they're going to lose the war - already out of bullets!"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, a man can't really ask (nor should really ask) for more than to be on the wrong side of the major battles of his time.
mircea_popescu: give me a cato any day, keep all your cesars and pompeys.
punkman: "We knew when we started Shutdownify that its business model was risky, since many of our clients had already run out of money and were in the process of dissolving their companies."
punkman: YC should have acquired them :P
ascii_field: perhaps now mircea_popescu will buy an electron microscope.
ascii_field: the saving grace is that the crud is all hidden in plain sight.
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ascii_field: plain sight in the sense that your dna is.
ascii_field: 'The PCLMULQDQ instruction Intel introduced in 2009
ascii_field: on the 45nm Nehalem processor was renamed the CLMUL
ascii_field: “Perform Carry-Less Multiplication” later that year and
ascii_field: appeared in the 32nm “Westmere” processor in 2010. The
ascii_field: CLMUL is used to perform the carry-less multiplication of an
ascii_field: integer quad word (2 – 64 bit integers). This is complemented
ascii_field: by six AES centric instructions. While the intended use of
ascii_field: the CLMUL instruction set is to improve the performance of
ascii_field: applications doing block cipher encryption in Galois/Counter
ascii_field: Mode (dependent upon finite field multiplication), the six AES
ascii_field: instructions are specific to accelerate the FIPS Publication
ascii_field: Number 197 standard. An important implementation
ascii_field: of these instructions includes AES-GCM (Advanced
ascii_field: Encryption Standard - Galois Counter Mode) where AESNI
ascii_field: combinatorial logic appears to have a large effect on
BingoBoingo: In the hallowed halls dedicated to hallowed hall where songs were sang of songs once sang
punkman: "Truth is, this service never quite delivered on their promise. When my last two startups closed shop, it took shutdownify over 3 days to process the first one, and the second was still a full two days to get up and running. At that point I could have just put together a page myself. It didn't help that they rewrote their tech stack from Ruby to Node even as they were trying to find customers. "
punkman: "1) make web app claiming to check if someone's deets were in the Ashley Madison DB 2) harvest this new list of philanderers to blackmail"
ascii_field: punkman: already done with the credit card scam thing
punkman: what was it, "give me all your cc info so I can check if it's stolen?"
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ascii_field: mircea_popescu: they're at it again. because apparently didn't have enough last time
ascii_field: guess they decided that a very low resistor is safer than a dead short
bitcoinfailed: you fall for doug casey's recommendation of the place
bitcoinfailed: and can you please get yourself a proper tailor? those bag suits look aweful.
ascii_field: snapshotted the 'crossed wires' for posterity
ascii_field: 'cause historical graphs for spreads don't usually have room below the zero
punkman: ascii_field: that website is doing it's own thing
punkman: books have not crossed everywhere
ascii_field: punkman: i couldn't possibly say whether it tells the truth
punkman: notice two exchanges, one on each side of table
ascii_field: but this particular gambit is working, mass sell floods (or simulacra thereof) pretty much everywhere
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trinque: either way, title doesn't matter for zee bot
trinque: oh I see what that site does.
trinque: anyhow, was just responding to the request for deedbotting
mircea_popescu: i feel kinda scammed, those !up s go for like a bitcoin each iirc.
bitcoinfailed: no i dont have much to say, i will occasionally read your musings on trilema
bitcoinfailed: just wanted to point out its time to lose the cheap suits
bitcoinfailed: you want something with high armholes so when you lift your arms the entire thing doesnt lift off your shoulders
mircea_popescu: lol. this entire "cheap suits" business has its comedic value. here's something you wouldn't know : while visiting here, ben_vulpes got to meet my tailor, on the grounds that we walked by his shop downtown and teh old jewish gentleman ran out to assure his dearly beloved mr popesco that his suit will be done in time.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, we have yet another bleeting barn animal from anybarn, usa, derping impressively about things he's heard of, via movies.
mircea_popescu: it makes for a decent contrast, which i guess is what all humor comes from.
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mircea_popescu: they really should, once they're done fix bitcoin, go bring democracy to africa or what was it.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>wake me up when they close mit << what, you mean THE PREMIERE something something INSTITUTION in THE WORLD!!! ?
mircea_popescu: trinque how do you know he means the part about immigrants and not the part about "the debt of the us shall not be questioned" ?
mircea_popescu: <mats>ISIS is an existential threat at this point in time << he has a point. isis would be the first state actually outside of us policy since soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>seems about the same size << the chechens are about the same size. the us is in no sense the same size as the su when it fell. this theory can be readily verified putting the country through the equivalent of the 90s, which is coming regardless.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the us military will be the last light shut off, not the first << looked at the budget past decade ?
mircea_popescu: the last light shut off is in the office of the guy giving free housing to "needy" voters.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>we'll lose ground but there's a vast difference there << nobody has any incentive whatsoever to be "american". it's not even vaguely an identity. you might wish to be texan, maybe, liek some soviets wished to be russian. but otherwiose, being an iowan or a californian or a wisconsinian or generally an american is the epitome of fair weather friends : for as long as it pays to do so and no longer.
mats: yeah seriously. the army, for instance, is being whittled down to nothing, which has been in the works since rumsfeld/bush
mircea_popescu: <trinque>I would really like to understand this logic by which the entire US military vanishes << the "entrie us military" long ago vanished. it now consists of boys playing video games and girls playing the tomboy. that is not an army, it's a psycho patient support group.
mircea_popescu: in no way different than any other mental healthcare hospital, except it's larger and per-patient cheaper
mats: idea goes: we fight moar proxy wars and don't need so much line infantry, so we'll employ doorkickers and hire out to palantir and academi for the rest
mircea_popescu: right. worked so fucking splendidly over that last siege
mats: am curious to see mosul.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_>trinque, one possibility: if no more paycheck people will just walk away, sell off the gear << exactly how it went in russia heh.
mircea_popescu: neone's welcome to furnish his own skull as he sees fit.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>am I wrong in understanding that there is still a considerable Russian military? << you are wrong in imagining there's any sort of continuity. present day russian military shares nothing at all with the one that ended, and is almost entirely putin's making.
mircea_popescu: much like the third reich military had no debts owed to weimar and generally was hitler's creation.
mircea_popescu: the future where russian military was like present day german military seemed the likelier eventuality in 1990.
mats: does usg have suitcase nukes?
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the USA has its own oil reserves, many of which have barely been used << so does nigeria. wtf argument is this.
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mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>trinque: the next major usg trend is 'demand destruction' << i suspect this is what 2015 stalin would have called dekulakization.
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mircea_popescu: <mats>militaries require competent leadership. when i say existential threat, i do not mean ISIS will march on DC << it doesn't want or need to march in dc. all it conceivably might want is to pull a rotherham over at vassar.
mircea_popescu: all those preppy white chicks probably make excellent harem slaves.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>if there is not a single man inside the us military who can figure out something to do with even fragments of the thing, wtf? << you need to stop being racis.
mircea_popescu: what do you think a military is, some sort of a country club ? it exists to obey orders. the orders atm are on the line of "scoring officers' sensitivity to inane nontopics"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mexicans are kinda lazy methinks. the arabs are more serious when they do it.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>and I would expect a military dictatorship period directly following the fall of usg << IF you can find a certain corporal in the army that will get badly defeated and who resents the coupla decades of peace which consist mostly of american teenagers being used as public toilets from rashapur to ankara, then yes, maybe, dictatorship.
mircea_popescu: most teenaged girls' immune system had been massaged on more or less nothing but "boys" for millenia
mircea_popescu: where girl goes and kneels before anotehr woman's rapist to get some herself.
mircea_popescu: the firmware in question is both dedicated and ubiquitous.
BingoBoingo: I have as many connections form "subver" : "/Atdollar:0.10.2/" as XT nao
mircea_popescu: so, walrus is fucking a penguin. and one of those seagulls goes in front of it and exhibits itself for sexual use.
mircea_popescu: it had plenty of other choices, such as for instance, sitting around.
mircea_popescu: but the notion the usian will put up any sort of resistence, to any sort of invader, ofany kind come from anywhere...
mircea_popescu: yeah, he would. like the woman puts up resistence. with her uterus.
mircea_popescu: whole fuckthing wouldnt' work too well if you just fell in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "usian" is a population. like the argentine cattle. not a nation.
mircea_popescu: texans would prolly ally with the invader if the invader bitchslaped california harsly enough
mircea_popescu: what, "i'm a boy from tenesee here to die for some fat bitch's right to marry her dog" ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'm sure they were all spies sent by stalin himself to lure the enemy into a false sense of confidence.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>chetty: this is not what happened? << no, it is not what happened.
mircea_popescu: merely because the ww2 cost the us less than it cost europe does not mean it wasn't costly.
mircea_popescu: and generally, no involvement of us in anywhere to date has been economically productive.
mircea_popescu: you can't build yourself a rich house as a fiftene year old stealing from your father and fencing the stuff.
mircea_popescu: for a while there you couldf even fuck one, for the asking.