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00:09 asciilifeform http://glaciergruff.com/Autonetics.htm << historical interest
00:09 assbot My Aerospace Years ... ( http://bit.ly/1LxUJEN )
00:09 asciilifeform ^ re: 'golden age' usg
00:10 BingoBoingo !up tripleslash
00:10 asciilifeform 'Part of the mathematics of the Kollsman was a search program built into the VERDAN to help the Kollsman find a star, lock on to it, then find a second star and third, to use for triangulation. If I remember correctly, we tracked stars like Canopus, Sirius, and Procyon. I don’t remember for sure. But I do remember that there had to be a most efficient way to find a star. If you knew the time of the day (the G&N could give yo
00:10 asciilifeform u that since it knew Latitude and Longitude), you could find the sun. From the sun, and predetermined celestial positions, you could find the appropriate star in the region. Once you found that star, it was easy find the next one and go back and forth between the two, determining position. Here’s the deal. How do you search for a star, though. The least inefficient way is to use a square pattern. Obviously a diagonal is a cl
00:10 asciilifeform oser distance between two points than a rectangular or square pattern. That still doesn’t help you find a star efficiently once you find the sun and slew to the star. So it was determined that the best, quickest and most efficient search was a “prolate hypercycloid.” I think you’d call it a clover pattern. Actually it is very special search, and with that shape has the highest percentage of quick find of a star of any
00:10 asciilifeform search pattern.'
00:10 asciilifeform ^ -analogue- star tracker.
00:11 danielpbarron !up shesek
00:11 asciilifeform http://www.ebay.com/itm/191476427032 << l0l. must be common if so cheap on junk market
00:11 assbot B 52D Star Tracker Kollsman Automatic Astro Compass Type MD 1 Astro Tracker | eBay ... ( http://bit.ly/1LxV4aD )
00:11 * asciilifeform floored
00:17 asciilifeform 'We still have a saying, though, when we saw the Soviets building a copy of the Air Craft Carrier Enterprise, right down to the nuts and bolts…if you lose a document, just go to the Soviets. They have copies of all of it. Our security meant absolutely NOTHING.'
00:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13328 @ 0.00039096 = 5.2107 BTC [-] {3}
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00:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21449 @ 0.00038829 = 8.3284 BTC [-] {2}
00:37 danielpbarron http://danielpbarron.com/shesek.log.txt
00:37 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Eq4Uez )
00:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8043 @ 0.00038586 = 3.1035 BTC [-]
00:39 asciilifeform danielpbarron: gold
00:40 danielpbarron ty
00:43 asciilifeform http://www.eutimes.net/2011/07/russia-downs-us-missile-after-norway-obama-secrets-release << vintage tabloid lulz
00:43 assbot Russia Downs US Missile After Norway, Obama Secrets Release | EUTimes.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1w5siqB )
00:47 BingoBoingo !up tripleslash
00:47 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: US seems to have surrendered radio quiet
00:47 mircea_popescu decimation: mats: unfortunately being asian puts you at the bottom of every welfare list << yeh azns took ur jerbz.
00:50 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Bautiful mega lol
00:51 danielpbarron feel free to cite in qntra or w/e
00:51 mircea_popescu mats: the subconscious domination of a white woman that is << wait, you her or her you ? dat ambiguity
00:52 mircea_popescu mats: benghazi parts two through twenty will soon be upon us << myeah.
00:52 mircea_popescu the dodo bird makes great quarry.
00:54 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes: this has made me wonder how much "book value" of these big shops is similarly inflated. << from the recovery practice, one would not usually expect more than about 1% of book value to be recoverable through asset sales.
00:54 asciilifeform 'The only exception is a plan for more extensive practicing of security response tactics at launch silos, a move that requires signed agreements with owners of the private land on which the missile silos are situated.'
00:54 asciilifeform ^ wat!?!
00:54 * asciilifeform ianal but thought 'easements' were sop, even for usg
00:54 asciilifeform (source: vintage lul, http://nypost.com/2014/05/22/air-force-security-failed-nuke-test )
00:54 assbot Air Force security failed nuke test | New York Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1w5uHSd )
00:59 mircea_popescu So bad have things become in the United States that one of their top right-wing commentators named Glenn Beck warned his listeners this week that the Obama regime was turning America into a Nazi-like Third Reich and leading the US into a “society of gas chambers”.
00:59 mircea_popescu lawl.
00:59 asciilifeform 'crank bait'
00:59 mircea_popescu "Beck’s astounding comments about the Obama regime appear to have merit as London’s Daily Mail is reporting today"
00:59 mircea_popescu pretty good indication of the principle that propaganda works both ways.
01:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ where this was even for ? isp ? << well, turns out the datacenter (phoenix nap) refused to forward the counter-notification.
01:01 mircea_popescu they claimed that it's not properly drawn up. meanwhile i discovered that the dc in question (worth ~1.7mn) is actually owned by the same holding company that owns ccbill, which is a "high risk" cc payment processor, which has a business relationship with fetlife.
01:01 mircea_popescu so... we're in settlement talks. which, should they break down, we'll be in court.
01:01 asciilifeform l0l, sp4mc4rdz
01:01 mircea_popescu class action, the works.
01:02 mircea_popescu anyway, a slim chance i end up with my own dc.
01:02 asciilifeform 1.7m << peculiarly small dc
01:02 asciilifeform some schmuck's cellar ?
01:02 mircea_popescu net assets.
01:03 mircea_popescu funny how pulling on a thread firmly unravels whole stacks of shit.
01:03 mircea_popescu "i didn't know they stacked shit that high"
01:03 asciilifeform (where i live, a traditional 19 inch by 40 'u' rack starts at a few $k / mo.)
01:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: also does dmca really have the provision for 'complainant must sue before date x'? (ianal!) << yes. this is what dmca is substantially : dc gets a claim. if customer responds with counterclaim, they forward it to claimant, who has 10 days to show proof they sued.
01:05 mircea_popescu http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html << if you care.
01:05 assbot U.S. Copyright Office - Copyright Law: Chapter 5 ... ( http://bit.ly/1Eq8Mw4 )
01:05 asciilifeform aha
01:05 * asciilifeform always cared about the details of dmca in much the same way as he cares about the precise voltage of the electric chair he will sizzle in: not particularly
01:06 asciilifeform but here - interesting
01:06 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Still Maybe 3 mosins max in "collapse" an I have "longline" tower.
01:06 mircea_popescu well, none of these things matter to the layman until they observe another monkey fashion a club out of it and blooding some faces
01:06 mircea_popescu then it's fascianting.
01:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what kind of blood do you think to get from the stone ?
01:07 BingoBoingo "Murican" society is sinking. Batman's valet tonight was shot by his war buddie.
01:07 mircea_popescu turtles are not made out of stone.
01:07 mircea_popescu they appear so, to men without good clubs.
01:07 BingoBoingo Tortise shel makes the best ornamentation. Also gets sharp once club is used
01:08 mircea_popescu but the general rule of fist is, "nothing manmade can resist arbitrary pounding"
01:08 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> (where i live, a traditional 19 inch by 40 'u' rack starts at a few $k / mo.) << I'm contemplating $200/month for offering welded shut case
01:09 * BingoBoingo is drunk
01:09 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: iirc, colo facility doesn't care if you weld you case
01:09 asciilifeform (so long as it isn't messily done on the premises, i suppose)
01:10 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: They don't. Still stl isn't asking 4 digits
01:10 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> (so long as it isn't messily done on the premises, i suppose) << If was taking torch to pren]mises would have lance of great concrete cutting
01:11 asciilifeform at any rate, only the lucky fellas like mircea_popescu earn the honour of having a mook sent to physically wriggle inside chassis
01:11 mircea_popescu it's not entirely certain that ever actually happened.
01:11 asciilifeform aha see
01:11 asciilifeform still have to work to earn this.
01:11 BingoBoingo Might be possible in USia asciilifeform but geographical arbitrage is a thing
01:12 mircea_popescu lol @ that log. "widespread adoption", such a red herring.
01:12 mircea_popescu nuclear warheads also failed to reach widespread adoption, such a failweapon.
01:12 asciilifeform welding a server is one of those things that 'feels good' out of all proportion to actual military utility
01:12 mircea_popescu ^
01:12 mircea_popescu what exactly is it supposed to do ?
01:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: when done (rarely!) by sane folks, is generally 'part of a balanced diet' involving various vibration/temp/radiation/etc. sensors and rapid key zeroization
01:14 mircea_popescu so your welding really consists of owning the dc.
01:15 asciilifeform to steal from ed felton, 'you can't build a safe that is to be kept in the robber's living room' - except that some folks must anyway, so they craft safes that will set fire to the money at slightest provocation
01:15 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> so your welding really consists of owning the dc. << Ideallu solder and powersupply is chozen such that yes
01:15 mircea_popescu http://36.media.tumblr.com/c888c587c60a5917e2e58830cca6580f/tumblr_mvfuq8PRBY1sqwu1no2_500.jpg << have a nightmare. on me.
01:15 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1EqaddV )
01:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7350 @ 0.00039479 = 2.9017 BTC [+]
01:15 asciilifeform 'what good is a phonecall... if you've no mouth'
01:16 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> http://36.media.tumblr.com/c888c587c60a5917e2e58830cca6580f/tumblr_mvfuq8PRBY1sqwu1no2_500.jpg << have a nightmare. on me <, hard to scare people with Par
01:16 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Eqak9f )
01:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22862 @ 0.00039912 = 9.1247 BTC [+]
01:17 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> to steal from ed felton, 'you can't build a safe that is to be kept in the robber's living room' - except that some folks must anyway, so they craft safes that will set fire to the money at slightest provocation << Shoot for Tepco can not cut without fine
01:18 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: at any rate, if you must, use a standard hand-held spot welder
01:18 asciilifeform the kind with the clamps
01:22 * BingoBoingo blind, hates reflexively
01:24 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: the kind with the clamps << /me usually solders by plumbing rules. More checks less death by inferno
01:24 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: spot weld, not solder
01:24 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Who seriously welds a toilet down pipe
01:24 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: http://www.jamesriser.com/TrialSpot/Weld0001csm.jpg
01:24 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/17QPGC7 )
01:25 asciilifeform toilet - no
01:25 asciilifeform server - yes
01:25 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: must understand world here is surplus stupid
01:26 asciilifeform http://www.vista-industrial.com/images/Spot-Welding.gif
01:26 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/17QPT8e )
01:26 asciilifeform http://hp9000.blogspot.com/2013/06/see-spot-weld.html << make own
01:26 assbot The Hindenburg Principle: See Spot Weld ... ( http://bit.ly/17QQ1EI )
01:27 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: So most teflon I ever saw in my life... was pulling shifts at Mcdonalds...
01:27 asciilifeform where was the teflon ?
01:28 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Top side of the clamshell grill
01:28 BingoBoingo Every aspect of "beef" patties was rabot handled
01:29 * asciilifeform the most teflon ever saw is a 1x10 inch rod in his machine room
01:29 asciilifeform yes, you can buy it in machinable rods like anything else..
01:29 mircea_popescu i had teflon wire at some point
01:30 cazalla <mircea_popescu> http://36.media.tumblr.com/c888c587c60a5917e2e58830cca6580f/tumblr_mvfuq8PRBY1sqwu1no2_500.jpg << have a nightmare. on me. <<< sorta reminds me of creepychan
01:30 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Eqc6r0 )
01:30 asciilifeform phun phact: it bleeds a little HF when machined.
01:30 BingoBoingo Mcdonalds used teflon in sheets to substitute heat for hygeine at any opportunity
01:32 BingoBoingo But sheets of teflon on clamshell grill, genius
01:33 cazalla do they do the mccafe thing in america?
01:33 BingoBoingo They try
01:37 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: the rod is milk-white and very smooth, slippery.
01:37 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Actually that... Not a thing
01:39 mircea_popescu !up agentbob
01:40 * BingoBoingo sleep nao
01:42 BingoBoingo Nt aware enough to do right
01:48 cazalla wish i had the sense to do that the other night lol
01:49 cazalla i'm taking a sabbatical from drinking in any case
01:49 cazalla (yeah, heard that before)
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02:20 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49100 @ 0.00040148 = 19.7127 BTC [+] {4}
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02:42 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11604 @ 0.00039774 = 4.6154 BTC [-] {2}
02:43 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17449 @ 0.00042395 = 7.3975 BTC [+]
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03:36 Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Bitcoin to drop under $150 before April" http://bitbet.us/bet/1123/ Odds: 31(Y):69(N) by coin, 31(Y):69(N) by weight. Total bet: 7.20805692 BTC. Current weight: 98,099.
03:42 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13050 @ 0.00039658 = 5.1754 BTC [-]
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05:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3200 @ 0.00041379 = 1.3241 BTC [+]
05:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35300 @ 0.00040907 = 14.4402 BTC [-] {2}
05:27 assbot [MPEX] [S.BBET] 20000 @ 0.00007 = 1.4 BTC [-] {2}
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06:55 chetty http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistanis-face-a-deadline-surrender-fingerprints-or-give-up-cellphone/2015/02/23/de995a88-b932-11e4-bc30-a4e75503948a_story.html
06:55 assbot Pakistanis face a deadline: Surrender fingerprints or give up cellphone - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1JGEvh6 )
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07:25 plonky the most wtf of today http://presschain.com/decentralized-malware-on-the-blockchain/
07:25 assbot Decentralized Malware on the Blockchain | Presschain ... ( http://bit.ly/1JGKpif )
07:32 plonky soon pedopornography cyphered in the blockchain
07:44 cazalla i'm sure i've read someone already put kiddy porn in it
07:47 cazalla BingoBoingo, you'll love this.. from that getgems app you always talk about :P "So far our app was installed by 2,284 users and an average rating of 4.5 in the play store."
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08:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24460 @ 0.00040368 = 9.874 BTC [-]
08:14 jurov http://envisage-project.eu/proving-android-java-and-python-sorting-algorithm-is-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/
08:14 assbot Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken (and showing how to fix it) | Envisage: Engineering Virtualized Services ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7hg6I )
08:15 jurov ^ when anyone wants to complicate an algorithm for performance, hit them with this
08:16 Adlai "sorting algorithm" sounds a bit like "intelligence test"
08:19 jurov heh... i remembered feeble attempts by uni prof "but really, don't call it sorting but ordering"
08:20 jurov nah. sort'em all!!!
08:21 danielpbarron height=223223 vs height=191349
08:24 jurov now i am interested at the exact tradeoff factor "X% faster" vs. "crashes in 1 of Y cases" under which our civilization operates
08:25 jurov as in, aliens land, gather this number and "nah, too big risk, let's move on"
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09:16 PeterL !up NomosOne
09:21 PeterL hi y'all, how's #B-A today?
09:23 PeterL !up hollywoodundead
09:24 hollywoodundead thank you
09:25 PeterL yw,np
09:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57747 @ 0.00039772 = 22.9671 BTC [-]
09:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21453 @ 0.00040368 = 8.6601 BTC [+]
09:31 mats butts
09:31 PeterL butts?
09:32 mats butts.
09:33 hollywoodundead for sure
09:34 PeterL !up Xuthus
09:34 PeterL !up arvicco
09:38 mats http://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Publications/Monthly_Report/2015/2015_01_monthly_report.pdf
09:38 assbot Deutsche Bundesbank - Startseite - Monthly Report - January 2015 ... ( http://bit.ly/1zcJLOc )
09:51 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all
09:51 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 238.39, vol: 5765.82511119 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 231.743, vol: 7836.58021 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 238.78, vol: 23878.03444169 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 236.782052, vol: 131311.13140000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 237.94427, vol: 3.49384746 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 241.83145, vol: 42.26997966 | Volume-weighted last average: 236.886926799
09:54 BingoBoingo cazalla: I'm telling you that is the appcoin scam that will undoo coinfire
10:04 BingoBoingo Block 330204, 100 days left to sync
10:10 PeterL when downloading the blockchain, does the program ask for each block individually, or does it just ask for a starting block and the other node feeds it everything from that point forward?
10:14 BingoBoingo ^ good question
10:14 PeterL or, where in the code might I learn how downloading the blockchain logic works?
10:16 BingoBoingo Where in the code is prolly going to depends on the version, but sync.cpp might be a place to start
10:17 BingoBoingo If your version has that
10:19 jurov http://btc.yt/lxr/satoshi/source/src/main.cpp#2057 PeterL this is what sender does
10:19 assbot Satoshi 0.5.3.1/src/main.cpp ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7EGcr )
10:20 jurov and blocks are received on line 2190
10:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13633 @ 0.00038566 = 5.2577 BTC [-]
10:34 BingoBoingo So... Team hilary is really etting a head start on the primary season http://www.dorkly.com/post/72803/is-joe-biden-too-touchy-feely-with-anime-school-girl-constituents
10:34 assbot Joe Biden's Definitely Making These Anime School Girls Uncomfortable - Dorkly Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7Ho1i )
10:36 jurov virile males are completely undesirable in usg
10:37 BingoBoingo Seriously
10:39 ben_vulpes <plonky> [] the most wtf of today http://presschain.com/decentralized-malware-on-the-blockchain/ << don't use bitcoin it's dangewous!
10:39 assbot Decentralized Malware on the Blockchain | Presschain ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7IfiN )
10:40 BingoBoingo Bad google http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-explicit-adult-content-from-blogger-blogs/
10:40 assbot Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7IsSS )
10:41 jurov tl;dr: interpol got informed that buttcore 0.10 is out
10:43 mats http://news.yahoo.com/chief-justice-could-again-swing-obamacare-case-governments-060709462--finance.html
10:43 assbot Chief justice could again swing Obamacare case in government's favor - Yahoo News ... ( http://bit.ly/1BlPUz2 )
10:44 jurov when they're jumping, something gotta swing
10:48 mats <plonky> the most wtf of today decentralized-malware-on-the-blockchain << http://www.scribd.com/doc/250009335/A-Novel-Approach-for-Computer-Worm-Control-Using-Decentralized-Data-Structures
10:48 assbot A Novel Approach for Computer Worm Control Using Decentralized Data Structures ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7JGxI )
10:48 BingoBoingo The expanding 'Murican waistline https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/570117968492941312
10:48 assbot Officials say 19 manatees trapped in a Florida drainage system have been rescued, and others escaped on their own. http://t.co/EQAkrPOFql
10:51 mats http://news.clearancejobs.com/2015/02/21/federal-workers-overpaid
10:51 assbot Are Federal Workers Overpaid? - ClearanceJobs ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7KaDK )
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11:10 BingoBoingo https://i.imgur.com/4ZA1hua.jpg?1
11:10 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1BlZDVO )
11:13 BingoBoingo ;;later tell cazalla See the traffic spike yesterday was the exact middle of my predicted range https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net
11:13 assbot Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast ... ( http://bit.ly/1yTZAP9 )
11:13 gribble The operation succeeded.
11:13 jurov any pro poker player around? we need someone who can do quick background check for us
11:14 jurov i'm going afk, pm me
11:17 nubbins` danielpbarron
11:18 nubbins` you follow instructions somewhere for your pogo build?
11:18 thestringpuller nubbins`: its on danielpbarron.com
11:18 nubbins` o! tyvm
11:19 thestringpuller np
11:33 asciilifeform decentralized-malware-on-the-blockchain << lol, yeah, turdware loader wants to wait 3 wks and sift through 40GB to fire 2nd stage payload, sure.
11:34 asciilifeform got a bridge to sell ya.
11:36 asciilifeform incidentally, i suggested this not long after first coming to #b-a.
11:36 asciilifeform -somebody-'s been reading the logs.
11:37 thestringpuller getting a bitcoin client to deploy a payload kept on the blockchain would be a frightening event...
11:37 asciilifeform no mention of diddled clients in the linked piece
11:37 asciilifeform just the fact of keeping turdware (or c&c data) in the blockchain
11:37 nubbins` hopefully they won't find the diddles in our 0.5.3.1
11:37 nubbins` i mean uh
11:37 nubbins` !b 9
11:37 assbot Last 9 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/30TFVRE.txt )
11:38 * nubbins` dusts hands, wanders away
11:38 thestringpuller nubbins` is like guy who will joke about dufflebags of cocaine in trunk of car while crossing border
11:38 asciilifeform l0l
11:38 nubbins` haha
11:38 nubbins` if that doesn't encourage log readers to actually read and absorb the fuckin patches
11:38 * nubbins` shrugs
11:39 nubbins` but seriously though, i don't think we should have merged the foundation tax thing into the code
11:40 nubbins` !b 6
11:40 assbot Last 6 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3TN4YNN.txt )
11:40 asciilifeform wai wat
11:40 * nubbins` cackles
11:40 jurov lol "absorb patches"
11:40 nubbins` y'know, like nicotine
11:40 nubbins` or EMLA!
11:41 nubbins` danielpbarron this stuff is great
11:41 nubbins` such notes
11:41 nubbins` http://www.henrys.com/67130-POGOPLUG-MOBILE-CLOUD-DEVICE.aspx#
11:41 assbot POGOPLUG MOBILE CLOUD DEVICE POGO-V4-A1-01 ... ( http://bit.ly/1A3yKPr )
11:42 nubbins` ^ it's actually cheaper for me to buy it from a henry's store, locally, than online
11:42 nubbins` :0
11:49 chetty http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/wi-fi-spy-barbie-records-childrens-5177673
11:49 assbot Wi-fi "spy" Barbie records children's conversations - and could be a target for hackers, say experts - Mirror Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1A3zFPJ )
11:49 mircea_popescu https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net o.O
11:49 assbot Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast ... ( http://bit.ly/1yTZAP9 )
11:49 mircea_popescu nice going BingoBoingo cazalla lol
11:50 * BingoBoingo guess bump was going to be between 2k and 30k, hit the exact middle
11:50 asciilifeform http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-February/000050.html
11:50 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1A3zRyp )
11:50 asciilifeform ^ reposted
11:51 mike_c logs are failing me. what was the big hit on qntra?
11:51 mircea_popescu mike_c the name&shame of vcs that did superfish was on slashdot etc
11:51 mike_c ah
11:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nice.
11:52 mircea_popescu danielpbarron btw, there should be NO references. all text referenced by url should be quoted in the instructions, and link to original.
11:52 asciilifeform statically linked!
11:52 nubbins` beauty!
11:52 mircea_popescu quite.
11:53 danielpbarron k
11:53 nubbins` not coincidentally, footnotes would be an adequate substitute ;p
11:53 mircea_popescu qntra is like, headed for trilema traffic levels.
11:53 mircea_popescu i guess it'll soon surpass it.
11:53 mircea_popescu nubbins` :p
11:53 nubbins` XD
11:54 nubbins` mischievous tuesday
11:55 mircea_popescu so ridoinculous btw. there was a time, 10-15 years ago, when something like this would have taken a site down.
11:55 mircea_popescu not anymore. the ddos back in sept was what, 100 to 1k x more visible in server logs.
11:56 mike_c it was nice of that guy to do load testing for qntra.
11:56 BingoBoingo !b 3
11:56 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/1FKCPWB.txt )
11:56 mircea_popescu i guess so huh.
11:57 mircea_popescu but people readily ignore this fact. normal traffic ? x ; being linked by all the internet ? a*x. being ddosed ? b*x.
11:57 mircea_popescu where a < 100 and b / a > 100.
11:58 mircea_popescu which both shows the absolute loss of gatekeeper power on one hand and the massive decrapification of the software on the other.
11:58 thestringpuller facebook wants to be the new gatekeeper
11:59 thestringpuller but it's like watching retarded kid on playground wanting to be leader one day as he eats glue.
11:59 BingoBoingo scoopbot -fetch
11:59 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by Bingo Boingo: http://qntra.net/2015/02/half-million-dollar-ransom-made-in-bitcoin/
11:59 thestringpuller bad scoopbot
11:59 thestringpuller Good scoopbot :D
11:59 mircea_popescu it's just... what it meant being on rotten, or maddox, or drudge coupla decades ago is completely unrelated to what it means being on slashdot, reddit, or w/e today.
12:00 mircea_popescu sort-of like the difference between being a star in hollywood cca 1955 vs being "a star"/waitress in a la diner today.
12:00 mircea_popescu or, for that matter, being times man of the year in 1966 vs being times man of the year in 2006.
12:01 nubbins` there were less men back then
12:01 nubbins` which isn't the point, but a fact nonetheless
12:01 mircea_popescu well that may be. there were certainly less retards chasing the "Social media" dragon.
12:01 BingoBoingo nubbins`: No, there were more men
12:01 nubbins` i'm talking humans with penises
12:02 mircea_popescu there were more women, is fo sho. lotta girlies today.
12:02 mircea_popescu some of them 40+yo.
12:02 nubbins` you pedants!
12:02 BingoBoingo nubbins`: I'm discounting functional retards from that set
12:02 nubbins` natch
12:02 mircea_popescu new pick=up line. "i'm a pedant. wanna wear my pendant ?"
12:02 nubbins` things were more novel back then, too
12:03 nubbins` you think elvis would be the fuckin king if he was born in 1996?
12:03 mircea_popescu he would still be fat
12:03 mircea_popescu phat*
12:03 nubbins` he'd be nobody
12:03 nubbins` because there's no barrier to entering "the" "music" "biz"
12:03 nubbins` all those quotes are intentionally separate
12:03 mircea_popescu see ? it was all captn sanders. i keep sayin' it...
12:04 * mircea_popescu googled it. turns out the man's name was Marvel Jr.
12:04 mircea_popescu no, fuck wrong one. who the fuck was his owner ?
12:05 mircea_popescu iirc elvis was proper collared and everything.
12:05 nubbins` they all were
12:05 mircea_popescu colonel Tom Parker. there we go.
12:05 nubbins` well y'see boys we've got this here fancy recoahdin' studio
12:06 nubbins` guy was taking half by the end, wasn't he?
12:07 mircea_popescu yea
12:07 nubbins` born andreas cornelis
12:07 nubbins` now there's an american name
12:07 mircea_popescu elvis was dumb as rocks, if reports are to be trusted.
12:07 mircea_popescu nah he was finish or danish or something.
12:07 nubbins` no kidding. ever see the dude's movies?
12:07 nubbins` dutch
12:07 mircea_popescu yes, actually, saw a coupla.
12:08 nubbins` oh. andreas cornelis /van kuijk/.
12:08 nubbins` that's dutch, alright
12:09 nubbins` i recall seeing one of the flicks at some god-awful "grand ole" type place in the southern usa
12:09 nubbins` elvis smoking a cigarette while working under a car
12:09 nubbins` then shimmying with the ladies on the beach!
12:09 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu> elvis was dumb as rocks, if reports are to be trusted. << And drugged all to hell. Owner screwed the pooch on that one.
12:09 mircea_popescu he has all the sexual projection of a highschool retard.
12:10 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i may be like, the first owner in human slavery history to actually discourage drug use by teh chattel.
12:10 nubbins` "braaaaaaiiih!" -elvis
12:10 mircea_popescu owner was just buying ibm in elvis' case.
12:10 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> he has all the sexual projection of a highschool retard. << "non-threatening" 1950's USia was retarded in this way
12:10 nubbins` "hurmalurmalurm" -elvis
12:10 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo that IS true.
12:12 mircea_popescu nubbins` Jailhouse Rock was ok as far as that goes.
12:12 mircea_popescu he made a bunch of "good for blowjobs" movies.
12:12 mircea_popescu russ meyer, like.
12:12 nubbins` actually what i've been humming since that "braaaaaaaih" earlier
12:13 mircea_popescu lol
12:13 nubbins` hm, accidentally opened windpipe while drinking
12:13 nubbins` brb paper towels
12:13 mircea_popescu he played the most fucktarded names too. deke. vince. etc
12:13 mircea_popescu i think he was a chad once too
12:14 mircea_popescu todd gack mysteriously missing.
12:15 nubbins` the other day i watched a docu about a florida election worker who was lynched
12:15 nubbins` "hanging chad", 3/5
12:16 pete_dushenski scoopbot -fetch
12:16 mircea_popescu by elvis ?
12:16 nubbins` rimshot.mp3, just kidding
12:16 pete_dushenski ;;later tell peterl who do i have to blow to get contravex and scoopbot talking to each other ?
12:16 gribble The operation succeeded.
12:16 nubbins` pete_dushenski yourself, paste imgur here
12:17 pete_dushenski well why didn't you just say so ? ;)
12:17 mircea_popescu lol
12:17 nubbins` what was it, mad men? "who'd you have to fuck to get this office?" "myself"
12:18 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: Probably the best way to solve this problem is to look at how blogs that play nice with scoopbot do RSS and crib off of that
12:19 pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/feed/ << doesn't work somehow ?
12:19 assbot Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1A3DeWm )
12:20 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski maybe your rss feed's too long ?
12:20 pete_dushenski weird thing is: bablogs.btcscoop.com seems to have no problem with it
12:20 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: Maybe like thestringpuller's it is missing a field?
12:22 pete_dushenski i just noticed that each article in the feed was set to show "full text"
12:22 pete_dushenski now chaned to "summary"
12:22 pete_dushenski changed
12:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35179 @ 0.00038477 = 13.5358 BTC [-] {2}
12:22 pete_dushenski in any event: http://www.contravex.com/2015/02/24/this-is-how-we-date-now-because-this-is-how-we-fail-now/
12:22 assbot This is how we date now because this is how we fail now. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1JHOPp4 )
12:23 pete_dushenski "Erik is a famous individual of the Bitcoin community online forum (screen title- evoorhees), as well as presently benefits Coinapult, derived in Panama." << lulziest spam comment i ever did see
12:24 pete_dushenski posted on my paper wallet guide, which in no way mentions voorhees
12:24 mircea_popescu prolly spun text
12:24 pete_dushenski a must be that
12:24 mircea_popescu (what the bots do these days is crib facebook for textual content, hack it together and use it as spam filler to fool bayesian filters. which are STILL a stupid fucking idea)
12:25 mircea_popescu scoopbot -fetch
12:25 pete_dushenski i seem to recall there being a trilema on spam filtering
12:25 mircea_popescu a few yeh
12:26 pete_dushenski http://trilema.com/2013/effectual-spam-filtering-for-wordpress/
12:26 assbot Effectual spam filtering for WordPress pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1A3DXXm )
12:26 pete_dushenski ^ the one i was thinking of
12:27 mircea_popescu aha sounds like it
12:31 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all
12:31 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 238.3, vol: 5909.75632155 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 232.091, vol: 8210.31175 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 238.34, vol: 23504.59916274 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 236.707548, vol: 132421.46550000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 238.0, vol: 3.23426211 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 234.890000011, vol: 54.80316614 | Volume-weighted last average: 236.765056335
12:33 mircea_popescu that article of course was in 2013. meanwhile it's no longer 18`219 spam comments out of 96`421 total, it's 29`704 out of 112`367 total.
12:33 nubbins` anyone happen to have familiarity with zero-tuition universities, specifically euro ones, specifically how they came to ditch tuition?
12:33 mircea_popescu so they did go from under 20% to over 20% in the interval.
12:34 pete_dushenski nubbins` probably donations from alumni
12:34 mircea_popescu nubbins` generally you don't have to pay if you're very very good. at least the ones i'm familiar with.
12:34 nubbins` hmm
12:34 mircea_popescu same reason women don't have to pay to go to a club, especially if they go naked.
12:35 nubbins` i mean like countries where post-secondary is free, for everyone
12:35 mircea_popescu that doesn't exist irl.
12:35 mircea_popescu used to be, but soviet russia & friends.
12:35 pete_dushenski if it did, it'd just be grades 13-17
12:36 nubbins` i feel like an educated populace isn't a terrible idea, as long as it's educated in things that aren't fucking out to lunch
12:36 nubbins` i.e. your ph.d. in medieval folklore would definitely not be free
12:36 mircea_popescu the way to do that is forbid louts from having sex.
12:36 nubbins` available, perhaps, if there are enough of you to pull a couple classes together
12:36 mircea_popescu nah, that i can see paying for. what i can't see ever paying for is "social studies", "womens studies" etc.
12:37 mircea_popescu ie, "things with political importance".
12:37 nubbins` so suppose we say "free university for anyone who wants to study STEM"
12:37 nubbins` but it's not free
12:37 nubbins` because if there wasn't a catch, it'd just be a boondoggle
12:37 mircea_popescu stem should in principle never be free.
12:38 mircea_popescu because the only reason it exists is that it's useful. if useful can't pay useful can go hang.
12:38 mircea_popescu meanwhile, things that exist because thery're beautiful may get a pass.
12:38 pete_dushenski free stem turns to religion
12:38 nubbins` instead, it's the same cost it is *now*, except the government would pay the minimum monthlies on your student loans for as long as you remain in (the province, city, state, w/e)
12:38 mircea_popescu ^
12:38 mircea_popescu think about it. who will remain ?
12:38 mircea_popescu all the schmucks that can't leave.
12:38 mircea_popescu why do you want them ?
12:39 mircea_popescu this is exactly like suicide : the people who succeed we want. the people who fail should have succeeded.
12:40 nubbins` hm.
12:40 punkman nubbins`: i mean like countries where post-secondary is free, for everyone << Greece is one
12:40 nubbins` why, indeed, would i want a bunch of fresh grads kicking around
12:40 nubbins` punkman AAH FINE FORGET IT
12:40 nubbins` D:
12:41 punkman ;)
12:41 mircea_popescu punkman what, srsly ?
12:41 mircea_popescu no grade requirement, no nothing ?
12:41 punkman yep, 4 year degrees, masters, PHDs
12:41 punkman no there are grades
12:41 mircea_popescu no but i mean, do you qualify for free degree irrespective of any exam, grades, etc ?
12:41 mircea_popescu you just need a pulse /
12:42 punkman as in "uni entrance national exams" grades
12:42 punkman yes just pulse
12:42 mircea_popescu ah well.
12:42 mircea_popescu um.
12:42 punkman and until now you could take 10 years to do 4 year degree
12:42 mircea_popescu well which is it!
12:42 mircea_popescu heh. greece, the least rich eu country, adheres to nubbins` ideals!
12:42 punkman there are grade requirements for entry into uni, based on demand
12:42 nubbins` speak not of my ideals!
12:43 mircea_popescu naked woman just bent to pick up my garbage. i forget, what were we saying ?
12:43 punkman if you get in, it's all free. might have to pay for some books these days
12:44 mircea_popescu anyway. this is kind-of how it worked in all teh warsaw pact. except back then people actually had nothing better to do with their time, (LIKE IN A PRISON, ALF!) so they studied.
12:44 mircea_popescu and read and like, bought classical records.
12:45 nubbins` anyway outmigration is a big thing here
12:46 nubbins` and the usual is to get a degree (cheapest in the country!) and then fuck off
12:46 mircea_popescu yeah but this can't be fixed administratively.
12:46 nubbins` no kidding
12:47 pete_dushenski nubbins` outmigration out of maritimes or out of the country ?
12:47 nubbins` like you said, if the $150/mo student loan payment is the thing keeping someone here...
12:47 mircea_popescu if you want to fix it, what you do is, you pick a pimp, give him legal immunity for a decade, let him build cabaret street.
12:47 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13300 @ 0.00038058 = 5.0617 BTC [-] {2}
12:47 nubbins` pete_dushenski out of twodogland, specifically
12:47 mircea_popescu bare cunts dancing!
12:48 pete_dushenski nubbins` ya well administration after graduation is very much closing the barn doors after the horses have left
12:48 nubbins` in other news, the whole "we have oil, let's spend money" thing has given way to "the price of oil is out of our hands, let's aww fuck it's too late"
12:48 pete_dushenski admin before getting in (barriers to entry) can work
12:48 nubbins` the school system is a pretty big barrier to entry
12:48 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski the only thing that can work is making the place be cool. merely "not suck" is not good enough.
12:49 mircea_popescu have "toss the feminist" festivals, people (that aren't retards) may wanna come.
12:49 nubbins` it is cool, but it just can't pay manual laborers $70k/year
12:49 mircea_popescu otherwise... whatever, anonimity is hard.
12:49 mircea_popescu nubbins` lol the other kinda cool.
12:49 nubbins` it is the other kind ;(
12:50 mircea_popescu no it's not lmao.
12:50 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031876 << good point.
12:50 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 13:24:00; jurov: now i am interested at the exact tradeoff factor "X% faster" vs. "crashes in 1 of Y cases" under which our civilization operates
12:50 mircea_popescu im curious too, vicariously. if you figure it out say.
12:52 pete_dushenski i'd argue that uni is currently very 'cool'
12:52 pete_dushenski or at least fashionable
12:52 mircea_popescu nubbins` how did you get the idea twodogs is cool as in, someone'd want to move there as a thing to do, rather than "whatever, they are giving out money here"
12:53 pete_dushenski this seems to accomplish the objective of keeping an inflated population off the streets and little more
12:53 mircea_popescu uni being cool don't enter into it. florida and arizona party schools are very cool, i would visit, i would not ever stay lmao
12:53 pete_dushenski ok so 'the place' isn't uni ? what is it ?
12:54 mircea_popescu back when new york was cool, it was principally broadstreet.
12:54 mircea_popescu generally, it's the "bare cunts dancing" district that makes or breaks a city's cool.
12:54 nubbins` mircea_popescu i'll blithely respond by gesturing to all the people in my life who came here by chance and never left again 8)
12:55 mircea_popescu you just opened yourself for a pile of rocks thrown eh.
12:55 mircea_popescu any cool people among them ?
12:55 pete_dushenski so you'd want to visit nyc then
12:55 nubbins` none as cool as, say, you
12:55 pete_dushenski but like arizona state or w/e, not stay
12:55 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski incredibly enough, it's not how that works.
12:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14756 @ 0.00038411 = 5.6679 BTC [+] {2}
12:56 mircea_popescu somehow "cuntslime on every rock" makes a place want you to stay. which is exactly why las vegas exists.
12:56 pete_dushenski so cities =! schools
12:56 pete_dushenski but vegas is also god awful
12:57 pete_dushenski pretty much on par with nyc
12:57 mircea_popescu how awful it is has no bearing on how cool it is. new york sucked at all points.
12:57 mircea_popescu so did london, so did rome. etc.
12:58 mircea_popescu http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-explicit-adult-content-from-blogger-blogs/ << heh. aren't you glad you followed trilema biases and never touched that shit.
12:58 assbot Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1ae1osl )
12:59 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu seems like this is also how calgary is cool but largely sucks
13:00 mircea_popescu i don't think it ever reached the level. i mean it's been trying, ever since the 80s winter games etc. but...
13:00 mircea_popescu it's not easy, being cool.
13:01 pete_dushenski it's endlessly sprawling and full of self-important consumers, but the stampede draws out the ladies
13:01 mircea_popescu this is in no sense what i said, however.
13:01 mircea_popescu ladies that take "drawing out" are the anticool.
13:02 pete_dushenski ha!
13:02 pete_dushenski well said
13:02 pete_dushenski in that sense, it's really only vegas that strikes me as a cool place on the continent
13:03 mircea_popescu not really, not anymore. not since hughes bought the cool people out.
13:03 mircea_popescu http://hwcdn.net/t3r3e5a7/cds/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/240215tsa1.jpg << in other news... tsa now outsourcing their idiocy to airlines.
13:03 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1ae2Zyc )
13:03 mircea_popescu because hey, why should you get blamed for doing something stupid ? force others to do it for you!
13:04 pete_dushenski in the sense that cool is relative, vegas, for all its abhorrence, is still cooler than whatever else there is
13:04 pete_dushenski by your definition
13:04 mircea_popescu https://tsaoutofourpants.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/corbett-v-tsa-iii-petition.pdf some corbett dude is really going after teh tsa.
13:04 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1ae3hVO )
13:05 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski i can see that point yeah.
13:05 mircea_popescu problem is, it's like money : either you have fully monetized cool, and then it's cool and that's that, suck it.
13:05 pete_dushenski re: tsa outsourcing, 'tis basically just el-al protocol
13:06 mircea_popescu or else you have partially unmonetized cool, and then there's different cools vying. like, las vegas is the cool for people like liz blakely. however, san diego is the cool for people like leah mcfuckface, what's her name
13:06 mircea_popescu the dumb newsweek goon that "discovered" satoshi
13:06 pete_dushenski even qantas did this recently: 'are you carrying more than $10k in monies' and 'are you a tewowist' thing
13:06 pete_dushenski mcgrath ?
13:07 mircea_popescu such nuts. "wtf dude it's not your business how much money i got"
13:07 mircea_popescu yeah that.
13:07 pete_dushenski super such nuts.
13:07 pete_dushenski felt like they were trying to protect their dollar from alien invaders or something
13:08 pete_dushenski el-al at least sticks to 'oh so you were on kibbutz for 2 months, what's the hebrew word for milk ?'
13:08 pete_dushenski qantas was a whorish imitation
13:08 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031906 << wtf nation of fucking otakus over there or what ?! it's like the 5th grade, "o may gawd he grabbed her butt!!" of fucking course he did. what did you think it's for ?
13:08 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 15:34:42; BingoBoingo: So... Team hilary is really etting a head start on the primary season http://www.dorkly.com/post/72803/is-joe-biden-too-touchy-feely-with-anime-school-girl-constituents
13:09 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski "it wasn't a diary kibbutz, it was a bombs and explosives kibbutz. DIE GREAT SATAN!!!"
13:09 pete_dushenski lmao!
13:10 pete_dushenski p.s. who is liz blakely ?
13:10 mircea_popescu a decade or w/e ago i last visited the us, they wanted to know if i have any real clothes.
13:10 mircea_popescu i guess this qualifies in the same line. but at least it was fucking customs, not the airline.
13:10 mircea_popescu honestly, it looked more like a private concern of the guy's.
13:11 pete_dushenski 'real clothes' ? wtf is that ? were they suspicious of the gypsy with money braided in his fro ?
13:11 mircea_popescu lol. i had suits and white shirts etc.
13:11 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Did you not have your TSA approved paper gown?
13:11 mircea_popescu i never saw the tsa, somehow.
13:12 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031908 << very desirable, as shown by the infantile giggling reaction to even a faint whiff.
13:12 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 15:36:32; jurov: virile males are completely undesirable in usg
13:13 mircea_popescu "In any business, including the Federal Government" << check it out ?! it's a business now ?
13:13 mircea_popescu "we're in the business of fucking shit up!"
13:15 * pete_dushenski would love to see the catholic church, or similar, admit the same
13:23 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031922 << this is fucking insane. "federal employees are not overpaid because federal govt is a business except it's not a business, and other businesses that are businesses skew the business average data!!!! federal employees are not overpaid by comparison to federal employees, in fact thjere's a perfect 1:1 correspondence"
13:23 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 15:51:13; mats: http://news.clearancejobs.com/2015/02/21/federal-workers-overpaid
13:24 mircea_popescu where the fuck do these idiots go to school ? clearly it must be a special venue.
13:24 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031939 << duh.
13:24 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 16:36:29; asciilifeform: -somebody-'s been reading the logs.
13:30 pete_dushenski especially when it pops up so readily on teg googles
13:30 pete_dushenski the lulzy thing about federal, and other gov employees, is that they think they're underpaid!
13:31 mircea_popescu well they ARE doing a great job at fucking shit up
13:31 pete_dushenski they imagine that private contractors, who charge millions of dollars for various and sundry services, are making mad bank
13:31 mircea_popescu that's not the problem.
13:31 pete_dushenski while the private ceo's might be, the average gov emplyee is better paid and works less than the private contractor
13:31 mircea_popescu they imagine that if they were in the private sector, they'd be contenders for vp of jpm
13:32 mircea_popescu rather than struggle to make it as a janitor at mcd.
13:32 pete_dushenski lol right
13:32 pete_dushenski the only published salaries for private employees are 7 figures
13:32 mircea_popescu just like pansy ass middle class priss imagines if she were a street hooker she'd dazzle everyone with her charms.
13:32 mircea_popescu and on it goes.
13:32 pete_dushenski and they imagine that their 6 would become 7 if only they were paid what they're worth
13:32 pete_dushenski and yet, they don't leave
13:32 mircea_popescu part of the problem is that they have plenty of time to daydream.
13:33 mircea_popescu which is how bad 'regulations" come about too.
13:33 pete_dushenski 'this is how it COULD work'
13:33 pete_dushenski they'd be better off writing children's books
13:34 mircea_popescu as long as no children actually read the abominations.
13:34 pete_dushenski which, i suppose is what gov regulations really are
13:34 pete_dushenski they're for the child-at-heart-and-at-head
13:34 pete_dushenski so 'think of the children' is perfectly valid in this la-la-land because it equates to 'think of me'
13:35 pete_dushenski and what child doesn't think that they're the centre of the known universe ?
13:35 pete_dushenski hint: one without parents
13:35 mircea_popescu http://41.media.tumblr.com/850b5f8b02361ba9af41da92e628c270/tumblr_n2m23xkF1l1s9749uo9_1280.jpg one. http://41.media.tumblr.com/5eaa8bc7affa0a7bbfd1a3cb7b611a9c/tumblr_n2m23xkF1l1s9749uo6_1280.jpg two http://41.media.tumblr.com/5b8e0f5dcf3de1f5a64b9080bd4d4b7e/tumblr_n2m23xkF1l1s9749uo3_1280.jpg three
13:35 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1BO2si3 )
13:35 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1BO2tTe )
13:35 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1BO2u9C )
13:37 gabriel_laddel And also for the American Universities the tide may be turning. Traditionally they have been asked to train the work-force for the American industry, while the question of educating the industry so as to be worthy of their graduates was left untouched. But, currently, companies in Silicon Valley seem to be folding up at a higher rate than they are erected. I consider that good news because it could drive home the me
13:37 gabriel_laddel ssage that neither slogans like "knowledge-based decision aids", nor a combination of adhoccery and brute force will do the job. (It is regrettable that large groups only come to their senses after their day-dreams have turned into nightmares but, this being so, we should occasionally welcome the nightmares.)
13:37 gabriel_laddel -- http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html
13:37 assbot E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The threats to computing science (EWD898) ... ( http://bit.ly/1D8bF05 )
13:38 mircea_popescu ahahahaha
13:38 mircea_popescu wait wait, the industry is to be trained to be worthy of all the outpouring social studies experts ?
13:38 mircea_popescu epic.
13:39 mircea_popescu yes, silicon valley is going to fail. this is BECAUSE OF US. nothing else.
13:39 gabriel_laddel bonus: http://www.shadbase.com/smells-like-teen-spirit/
13:39 assbot Shädbase - Smells Like Teen Spirit ... ( http://bit.ly/1D8bQIS )
13:41 mircea_popescu no doubt in my mind they'll actually do it. nothing else they could do.
13:41 mircea_popescu such glorious.
13:42 mircea_popescu wasn't dijkstra dead tho ?
13:43 gabriel_laddel nah, he lived until into the 2ks iirc
13:43 mircea_popescu 1984 speech
13:43 mircea_popescu well, in THAT context his quote means substantially something else than what i took it to mean, made 30 years later.
13:47 gabriel_laddel eh, not much has changed in the intervening years. s/moocs/knowledge-based decision aids
13:47 gabriel_laddel "the tumor has grown"
13:48 gabriel_laddel surprise
13:48 mircea_popescu a lot has changed actually. in 1980s the battle was on to get ibm to stop fixating on "ibm men wear suits" to the detriment of all else.
13:48 mircea_popescu today the issue is more "who is going to deliver the 500`000`000 beatings needed by these idiot kids"
13:49 gabriel_laddel Hm. Seems to me that it
13:50 gabriel_laddel 's the same problem. Lack of contact with reality. Without a war or some such you'll have a class of people who revert to judging others by their suits/hoodies/lack of personality
13:50 gabriel_laddel That class has grown considerably, right along with inflation.
13:51 mircea_popescu perhaps. tho the "ibm look" of the 1980s was more of a testament of obedience, much in the manner an [insecure] master may mandate slavegirls wear collars.
13:51 mircea_popescu whereas the hoodies of 2010 are a testament of anomie.
13:51 mircea_popescu "we could be creative, there's certainly nothing keeping us from it" sorta thing
13:52 gabriel_laddel Another interesting EWD for those who've not had the pleasure of reading Dijkstra: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1175.html
13:52 assbot E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The strengths of the academic enterprise (EWD 1175) ... ( http://bit.ly/1D8dLwR )
13:52 mircea_popescu "so they why aren't you ? why is it still the same three kiddie pools you're threading all over ? they're muddy and green ffs!" "sshh!"
13:55 mircea_popescu The final reason for my refusal is that the habit appeals to the quantitative mind and I come from a culture in which the primarily quantitative mind does not evoke admiration. [A major reason that we considered Roman Catholics to belong to a lower class was precisely their quantitative bent: they always counted, number of faithful, number of days in purgatory, you name it.....]
13:55 mircea_popescu an interesting point, tho im not entirely sure what value it carries. warp and weft, as he says.
13:58 mircea_popescu " (If you even wondered why I did not join Disneyland or IBM, you now know why. )" << gabriel_laddel see ? right there.
14:01 gabriel_laddel I had that quote in the scratch buffer right along with some others prior to posting in the chat. Did read.
14:02 gabriel_laddel It seems to me that again, the basic mechanism is the same. But then again, I wasn't there, and surely cannot comprehend the suit fetish in its full absurdity.
14:02 mircea_popescu anyway, thank god dijkstra died and i don't have to read 2014 abominations from him like i have to read 2014 "manifest destiny" abominations from buffett.
14:03 mircea_popescu it's always sad when a great mind dies. it's worse when it just goes dark and keeps on living.
14:03 gabriel_laddel ;; google sickboy's theory of life
14:03 gribble Sick Boy's Unifying theory of life - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQD-dXfHrvk>; Trainspotting (4/12) Movie CLIP - Sick Boy's Theory of Life (1996) HD: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAR2qB24yQ>; Trainspotting (1996) - FAQ - IMDb: <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/faq>
14:03 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel you readily can. it's like trying to keep a 16yo girlfriend today. think of that, you have the model.
14:03 mircea_popescu stupidity never ever changes, at all.
14:04 gabriel_laddel "The intelligence level shifts because the experience level shifts. Warren speaks on his experience from 1930 – Jay is from a different culture and different time in history. His intelligence should be measured by the decisions that he makes, not by stories he tells of his previous environment. Just the fact that he is making the decision to surround himself with a mentor like warren buffet should tell you a lo
14:04 gabriel_laddel t about this young man. His net worth of 607MM should say a lot to."
14:04 gabriel_laddel hahahaha
14:06 BingoBoingo ;;google "Universe 25"
14:06 gribble CABINET // The Behavioral Sink: <http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php>; Behavioral sink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink>; 5 Sci-Fi Dystopias We've Actually Created (For Animals) | Cracked ...: <http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-sci-fi-dystopias-weve-actually-created-for-animals/>
14:06 gabriel_laddel (I googled "buffet manifest destiny")
14:06 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
14:06 ascii_field danke BingoBoingo!
14:08 ascii_field mircea_popescu: you just need a pulse << not how it worked in ussr. sadistic entrance exams (for sci degree, that is. not for meritwash of apparatchik children, that was done american-style)
14:10 mircea_popescu ascii_field obviously not. i was asking him about his country today.
14:10 ascii_field there's a country where they have this ?
14:10 mircea_popescu otherwise, about one 18 yo girl per 1000 killed herself (chiefly by hanging) for having done a poor job on the exames.
14:10 ascii_field straight to jp
14:10 ascii_field where this is sop
14:10 mircea_popescu imo this is the mark of a good exam. if you don't get 1 female suicide out of 1k, you'e not really doing an exam.
14:11 ascii_field sounds pathetically low
14:11 mircea_popescu who the fuck is "jay"
14:11 mircea_popescu and who the fuck "surrounds themselves" with mentors. is this jay's movie ?
14:11 ascii_field you get 1 of 1000 at 'standard temperature and pressure' in some places
14:12 mircea_popescu ascii_field no, it's 1 per 10k normally, and notice the age specification. you'd get about 1 to 300k 18yo suicides normally.
14:13 nubbins` hm
14:13 * ascii_field is listening to a '3d printer' go, and it's strangely hypnotic - like 'dot matrix' printer but less grating on the ear
14:14 nubbins` i saw this ridiculous youtube ad about this asshole with an obv rented lambo
14:14 nubbins` talking about how he found 5 mentors!
14:14 nubbins` and he can now teach you their secrets
14:14 ascii_field at this point i can tell the topology being printed by the sounds, though not the geometry, and it's creating a strange picture in head
14:15 nubbins` the logical conclusion is 10 of them performing the imperial march
14:15 ascii_field eh already done
14:15 punkman I didn't explain well before, here's how it works: 1. last year of high school you, national exams. 2. you make ordered list of unis you'd like to study at 3. exam grades and minimum grade for each uni are published. 4. congratulations, you got your 27th choice.
14:16 punkman and you kinda have to be an amoeba to not get in some uni
14:16 nubbins` wake me up when they can play rachmaninoff ;p
14:17 mircea_popescu punkman thats exactl;y how it works everywhere, romania, france. "bacalaureat" is the proper term, tho prolly greeks don't use it ?
14:17 thestringpuller ascii_field: you're leaving your house quite often these days. I thought you may have developed agoraphobia.
14:17 mircea_popescu in any case, it's a great system, but a) most kids have to pay and b) i forget.
14:17 ascii_field thestringpuller: wurk
14:18 mircea_popescu nubbins` tu du du duuuum tu du duu duuuum
14:18 ascii_field ^ aha
14:19 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q
14:19 assbot Richard Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1BmWm91 )
14:20 punkman mircea_popescu: it was great when they weren't all "no kid left behind"
14:20 mircea_popescu pity this got so fucking popularised. it's a great march.
14:20 thestringpuller https://twitter.com/BlueMeanie4/status/570067969130110977/photo/1 << d00d can't decipher sarcasm?
14:20 mircea_popescu punkman romanians just make them pay, it's beautiful. "got a 9.9x on natl exams ? ok, free. got 9.85 ? 3k a year. fu."
14:20 mircea_popescu so beautiful.
14:21 punkman and we are basically exporting all the decent graduates, since nobody wants to live on 500eur/month salary
14:21 ascii_field what kind of money is 3k-usd in ro ?
14:21 ascii_field a toyota ?
14:21 mircea_popescu ascii_field 9k gdp. basically, a salary.
14:21 mircea_popescu tbh, there's absolutely no reason college time costs more than 10-15k in the us, either.
14:21 mircea_popescu everything over that is just inflabezzle.
14:22 ascii_field mircea_popescu: that's not even the interesting part
14:22 ascii_field but the 10-20%/yr increment
14:22 mircea_popescu ya well.
14:22 nubbins` actually now that i think about it
14:22 ascii_field outruns every conceivable other thing
14:22 nubbins` there's been a tuition freeze here since like ~2001
14:22 * nubbins` shrugs, gives up
14:22 ascii_field nubbins`: where i live, the 'tuition freeze' is a total scam. they raise 'fees'
14:23 ascii_field that are mandatory but somehow 'not tuition'
14:23 nubbins` there *are* more fees now -- rec hall fee, xyz improvement fee... but still a shadow of non-frozen tuition
14:23 mircea_popescu thestringpuller guy's just trying to matter, i wouldn't read too much into it.
14:23 ascii_field and housing cost, that of books (mandatory and unshareable because homework given through www for which password is a scratch-off card in book) etc
14:23 mircea_popescu ascii_field who in his right fucking mind would participoate in this ?
14:23 mircea_popescu i mean, just this. THIS.
14:23 ascii_field mircea_popescu: who do you think?
14:24 nubbins` in his right fucking mind is the key
14:24 nubbins` a better question, who would fuck everyone else in the world, in the ass, for a free book?
14:24 ascii_field who: folks who know they have a 1 in 10 shot at employment if they play, but 1 in 100 if not
14:24 nubbins` and the answer is actually a fair number of people, university professors included
14:24 gabriel_laddel ;; google uncle al SPEED HEALS
14:24 gribble Backreaction: New experiment doesn't see fifth force, rules out class ...: <http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015/02/new-experiment-doesnt-see-fifth-force.html>; Boils: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001474.htm>; Kraven the Hunter (Alyosha Kravinoff) - Wikipedia, the free ...: (1 more message)
14:24 mircea_popescu those aren't people.
14:24 gabriel_laddel eh. http://mazepath.com/uncleal/ritalin2.htm
14:24 assbot SPEED HEALS ... ( http://bit.ly/1BmYnSs )
14:24 ascii_field ^^
14:25 * ascii_field has the complete set
14:25 nubbins` and yet they're still determining what the course materials are
14:26 ascii_field mircea_popescu: actually my explanation is out of date, now that i think about it
14:26 gabriel_laddel ascii_field: has complete set of Uncle Al? Worth every satoshi?
14:26 ascii_field mircea_popescu: folks aren't signing up for uni because of employment, but as a temporary reprieve from... what comes next
14:26 ascii_field gabriel_laddel: yes. and even bought it for actual money back when al was selling
14:27 ascii_field still have the floppies.
14:27 ascii_field i tried and tried, without success, to get schwartz in here.
14:27 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel we were going to put it on the cardano originally, but guy stopped answering emails.
14:28 ascii_field got enough of a squeak out of him to learn that he's alive, but he doesn't sit on the net much these days
14:28 mircea_popescu ascii_field of course. WHICH IS WHY THEY ARENT PEOPLE
14:28 ascii_field sorta went perelman
14:28 gabriel_laddel understandably.
14:28 gabriel_laddel I've given a few people links to PERUSING THE LIMITS OF FAILED SYMMETRY
14:28 danielpbarron http://imgur.com/3AyJ9FY ascii_field
14:28 assbot Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1zditHo )
14:28 gabriel_laddel they flip out
14:28 mircea_popescu same exact thing happens in romania, 20sometrhing yo girlie, still very much mentally 15, does not want to learn to suck cock, does not think a job's high enough for her reddit-powered pretense,
14:28 ascii_field schwartz is one of my personal 'heroes'
14:28 danielpbarron not sure if i did this right
14:28 mircea_popescu goes for a phd. parents support "education" becasuse parents are a) idiotic and b) mostly women buy the time she's 25 anyway
14:28 ascii_field i did a good bit of supercomp heavy lifting for his eotvos thing, pro bono
14:29 danielpbarron not seeing a /dev/ttyUSBx
14:29 ascii_field danielpbarron: what's on the other end?
14:30 ascii_field other end should be that little dongle
14:30 ascii_field plugged into your werkstation
14:30 mircea_popescu and the very few that do work, take up bs jobs a la "pr". which, in romania, is just about the 2010 version of "hairdresser".
14:30 danielpbarron ascii_field, http://imgur.com/NR0fbT6
14:30 assbot Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdiFGC )
14:30 gabriel_laddel (allow me to retract "flip out" - they don't address any of the arguments, say that it pattern matches for 'crank'. I point out that this isn't an argument and that every sentence is clearly falsifiable. Conversation terminates.)
14:31 mats https://harbor.ly/blog/bitcoin-the-stupid-way-to-fund-terrorism lol
14:31 assbot The Harborly Blog | Bitcoin: the Stupid Way to Fund Terrorism ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdiOKk )
14:31 ascii_field danielpbarron: and what happens?
14:31 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel and all that just from an essay ?
14:31 danielpbarron the pogo light turns red after blinking green, and nothing new appears in /dev/tty
14:32 mircea_popescu mats as they say, *someone* reads the logs.
14:32 danielpbarron this was done to an otherwise untouched pogo
14:32 ascii_field gabriel_laddel: schwartz actually experimented with cleaning it up and submitting as proper latexed paper to journals
14:32 thestringpuller PM just told me of a NL company that does ecommerce
14:32 ascii_field gabriel_laddel: got similar response
14:32 ascii_field !s adelberger
14:32 assbot 8 results for 'adelberger' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=adelberger
14:33 thestringpuller when you go to checkout, if you are using internet explorer, they charge you an IE tax to encourage people not to use it.
14:33 ascii_field ^ the piece of shit who has to die for there being any chance of al's experiment being run in the english world
14:33 ascii_field and not only him, but everyone who did degree under him, etc
14:33 mats " Currently, for pure Bitcoin to Bitcoin transactions, there are multiple ways todiscover the location and identity of the individual in question." IPs are not locations
14:34 mats " When an indivdual wants to buy or sell any sizable amount of Bitcoin, they need to interface with a Bitcoin retailer like Harborly or an exchange likeBitstamp, all of whom adhere to extensive KYC (Know Your Customer) policies." whats OTC?
14:34 mircea_popescu "o look, we're stupid therefore carnot cycle doesn't exist"
14:34 mats mircea_popescu: their reading comprehension is awful if they went and wrote this piece afterwards
14:34 mircea_popescu mats it doesn't even load on my system, so there is that.
14:34 mircea_popescu otherwise i'd have left them a comment.
14:35 mircea_popescu ahaha "like harborly" ? who the fuck ius harborly.
14:35 ascii_field gabriel_laddel: if you're interested in the eotvos thing, absolutely must read the old threads here
14:35 ascii_field esp. how al's problem isn't fixable with money
14:36 mats idk. another exchange that loves bootstrap from what i see.
14:36 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: Yep. Aggressive intelligence frightens the luddites(?) who have temporarily taken over.
14:37 gabriel_laddel !up ascii_field
14:37 mircea_popescu another exchange that loves making total fucking asses of themselves, that's for sure. any of the old idiots involved ? rosenfeld ? kenna ?
14:37 mircea_popescu it has the old bitcoin fucktard impertinence to it.
14:38 mats i don't recognize any names on their about page
14:38 ascii_field ty gabriel_laddel!
14:39 mats connor black and gabriel ferrin
14:39 mircea_popescu well anyway. when a bunch of idiots decide to make "their own exchange" and pretend like it has to do with bitcoin, it gets laughed at in b-a and goes away in about 18 months.
14:40 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: I remember that a while ago you mentioned you lectured at local universities. Was this in Romania aor Argentina?
14:40 mircea_popescu romania. brief, mostly because friend ran it.
14:41 danielpbarron ascii_field, when should something show up in /dev ? when i plug the usb thing in? or when the povo turns on?
14:41 thestringpuller BingoBoingo: Maybe like thestringpuller's it is missing << pete_dushenski: I think that got fixed. tumblr is lik dumb.
14:42 ascii_field danielpbarron: in a modern linux box, you get a /dev/ttyUSBx immediately
14:42 ascii_field whether anything is plugged in on other end or not
14:42 ascii_field (serial dongle cannot know)
14:42 danielpbarron i do not get that
14:42 ascii_field on the workstation end
14:42 ascii_field wtf are you using for a machine
14:42 ascii_field and kernel
14:42 danielpbarron gentoo
14:42 ascii_field does it show up in lsusb ?
14:42 ascii_field and /var/log/messages
14:48 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOIZsiIPUOM << actually pretty decent scenes.
14:48 assbot Trainspotting - Deleted Scenes - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdkPGc )
14:49 danielpbarron ok apparently my computer has been dumping to /var/log/messages nonstop since my install and is now 21 gigs
14:49 danielpbarron something about nvidia
14:49 ascii_field l0l
14:49 mircea_popescu lol
14:49 mircea_popescu blockchain #2!
14:49 ascii_field whaddayamean you don't have a dedicated monitor for /var/log/messages
14:49 ascii_field like normal folks.
14:50 danielpbarron i don't even know what that means
14:50 ascii_field you know, box on a leg, displays things
14:50 danielpbarron oh
14:51 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel for the sake of argument, can you identify an university that closer adheres to dijk's ideas set forth in your 2nd url than b-a ?
14:51 gabriel_laddel nope.
14:51 gabriel_laddel which is actually why I was reading it
14:51 mircea_popescu " The external pressures to do the wrong thing are enormous, but yielding to them would be fatal for the academic enterprise, while resisting the pressure reinforces its strengths. The pressures are, in fact, so strong that I do not know a university where there is not some faculty or some department that has yielded, but there should be no mercy for snake oil pedlars on campus."
14:51 mircea_popescu etc.
14:52 * ascii_field is rather fond of dijkstra
14:52 ascii_field he thought that university could become a fortress against dark age
14:52 ascii_field like in the old days
14:52 gabriel_laddel I've been having fantasies about WoT for academic matters. The ability to turn off an entire viewpoint in a graph-traversal. Ah.
14:53 mircea_popescu it's the intended use.
14:53 mircea_popescu not merely the "don't run code not in your wot".
14:53 ascii_field gabriel_laddel: except that they -have- a wot. just, firmly under sc4mz0r control.
14:53 ascii_field al schwartz, for example,. wasn't in it
14:53 mircea_popescu all the way : http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-deal-with-pseudoscience/
14:53 assbot How to deal with pseudoscience ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdlojA )
14:53 ascii_field and couldn't possibly enter
14:53 mircea_popescu studies not in your wot never happened.
14:53 mircea_popescu cultural diversity actually possible, for likle... the first time ever.
14:54 mircea_popescu ascii_field no they do not.
14:54 ascii_field precisely. ergo, to 'respectable academia', schwartz never happened
14:54 mircea_popescu they have a reddit.
14:54 ascii_field could not happen
14:54 mircea_popescu a reddit is NOT a wot.,
14:54 ascii_field how's it a reddit
14:54 ascii_field doesn't vote
14:54 mircea_popescu just like a crate is "like a car" except not a car.
14:54 mircea_popescu in the most important manner : it's summable. a graph is not.
14:54 mircea_popescu the value of a node depends on the path you take to it.
14:54 mircea_popescu this does not exist on reddit. values of nodes are "absolute".
14:55 ascii_field aha
14:55 mircea_popescu and it does fucking vote. what do you think "peer review" and "tenure comissions" are ?
14:55 mircea_popescu imagine the concept of "x is tenured for a1, ak but not for ak+1 an faculty members" ?
14:56 ascii_field the basic cockroach in the soup is that traditional academia fights for usg table scraps
14:56 mircea_popescu even the fact that "firmly under scamzor control" shows that it's not a wot.
14:56 ascii_field i.e. who gets to eat
14:56 ascii_field and who doesn't
14:56 mircea_popescu scammers can't control a wot specifically because it's a wot.
14:56 mircea_popescu re the entire discussion about "standardization" and how it's bad
14:56 mircea_popescu you recall that thread ?
14:57 ascii_field hm which
14:57 mircea_popescu why we don't want to all apply the same scoring criteria for people ?
14:57 mircea_popescu ;;google trilema how the wot is attacked how the wot defends itself
14:57 gribble Advanced WoT course : how the WoT is attacked, and how ... - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/advanced-wot-course-how-the-wot-is-attacked-and-how-it-defends-itself>; You can't have door-to-door shakedowns in defeudalised France ...: <http://www.contravex.com/2015/02/04/you-cant-have-door-to-door-shakedowns-in-defeudalised-france/>; Jooz and stereotypes. | Contravex: A blog by Pete (1 more message)
14:57 ascii_field ah that
14:57 mircea_popescu yes that.
14:58 ascii_field it is deceptively easy to avoid the problems of usg academia if you aren't trying to deal with the question of how folks are to eat. just like it is very easy for an electromobile to 'not pollute' - superficially - because it lacks a tailpipe
14:58 ascii_field but electromobile's energy doesn't come from the gods
14:59 mircea_popescu the "folks are to eat" thing is not a problem.
14:59 mircea_popescu every volk eats individually.
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15:00 mircea_popescu how exactly they do it is really no-one's problem unless they start doing particular things.
15:00 ascii_field mircea_popescu: point being that it's much easier to honestly work towards some useful end when not fighting over crumbs
15:00 mircea_popescu this can't ever be a point.
15:00 mircea_popescu it mixes two things that can't be in the same sentence.
15:00 gabriel_laddel ;; google Henry Kissinger "the battles are so vicious because the stakes are so small"
15:00 ascii_field this is quite reminiscent of the elektromobile thing, imho
15:00 gribble Sayre's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law>; Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small ...: <http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/18/acad-politics/>; Henry Kissinger - Wikiquote: <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger>
15:00 mircea_popescu "In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very. I have even read one text that argued that uni
15:00 mircea_popescu versity scientists should co-operate more in order to become more competitive..... Bureaucracies are in favour of teamwork because a few groups are easier to control than a large number of rugged individuals."
15:00 mircea_popescu there's the story, how convenient.
15:01 mircea_popescu find your own crumbs. that way a) we're stronger and b) there's no "income" tax.
15:01 mircea_popescu because it's your own god damned income.
15:02 gabriel_laddel Yep. It takes a while for people to figure this out though - especially when there are the remnants of actual intellects (von n., ulam) hanging around.
15:02 mircea_popescu well the advantage is that people can take all the time they need.
15:02 ascii_field works great for now, while there are plentiful crumbs scattered around.
15:03 mircea_popescu not being goal-oriented, but cause-driven, la serenissima is in no particular hurry.
15:04 mircea_popescu ascii_field there are always plenty of crumbs scattered around for the man carrying a large enough hammer.
15:04 ascii_field what would 'being in a hurry' look like ?
15:04 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1032368 < that.
15:04 assbot Logged on 24-02-2015 19:20:08; thestringpuller: https://twitter.com/BlueMeanie4/status/570067969130110977/photo/1 << d00d can't decipher sarcasm?
15:04 ascii_field not sure how the imbecile connects here
15:06 mircea_popescu besides the point. that's what being in a hurry looks like. "omfg, i wonder if there are many people following me", said that blair deffective while walking towards the elephant rifle in hand
15:06 mircea_popescu he should have had twitter.
15:06 ascii_field lol!
15:06 mircea_popescu well ?
15:07 ascii_field but that's not 'hurry' per se, that's democraretardation
15:07 mircea_popescu no, that's hurry per se.
15:07 mircea_popescu !up ascii_field
15:07 ascii_field ty mircea_popescu
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15:09 mircea_popescu "Under current circumstances I would not even attempt to promote co-operation between the academic and the industrial worlds, because it seems pointless and dangerous. I have come to the conclusion that, industrial management being what it is, it is extremely unlikely that computing science can save the computing industry. Conversely, the computer industry can severely damage computing science; it does so quite regular
15:09 mircea_popescu ly by the donation of equipment that had better be ignored."
15:09 mircea_popescu no srsly, this is a great thing.
15:09 mircea_popescu i had forgotten just how on point dijkstra is.
15:09 ascii_field we did that one here, iirc
15:09 ascii_field and yes, he was completely spot-on
15:10 mircea_popescu "Academic computing science is doing fine, thank you, and unless I am totally mistaken, it will have a profound influence. I am not referring to the changes that result from computers in their capacity of tools. Okay, the equipment opens new opportunities for the entertainment industry, but who cares about that anyhow. The equipment has enabled the airline industry to make its rates so complicated and volatile that you
15:10 mircea_popescu need an expert to buy a ticket, and for this discouragement of air travel we can be grateful" << my exact brand of ecology,
15:10 ascii_field the actual field of comp sci was annihilated more thoroughly than anything the lysenkoists did to soviet biology
15:10 mircea_popescu amusing how spot on he was huh :D
15:11 gabriel_laddel "So, if I look into my foggy crystal ball at the future of computing science education, I overwhelmingly see the depressing picture of "Business as usual". The universities will continue to lack the courage to teach hard science, they will continue to misguide the students, and each next stage of infantilization of the curriculum will be hailed as educational progress.
15:11 gabriel_laddel I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty."
15:11 gabriel_laddel - EWD1063
15:12 mircea_popescu heh.
15:12 gabriel_laddel "You don't need to take my proposal seriously because it is so ridiculous that I am obviously completely out of touch with the real world. But that kite won't fly, for I know the real world only too well: the problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. So, let us try again."
15:12 gabriel_laddel and here we are.
15:12 gabriel_laddel trying again.
15:13 mircea_popescu amusingly, "Did the writer not know that the use of the term "the real world" is usually interpreted as a symptom of rabid anti-intellectualism, or did he not mind? "
15:13 gabriel_laddel lolyeah
15:13 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel i specifically dispute the stance that we're trying "again". it's still the same one try, and it's still going oin magnificently.
15:13 mircea_popescu has been, for millenia.
15:13 mircea_popescu and yes, most derps & mooks have only a fleeting superficial view of it. so ?
15:14 gabriel_laddel On that timescale, sure. when it comes down to Schwartz and Stan having years of their lives wasted...
15:14 mircea_popescu to illustrate what i mean, here's a quote from the mooks in question :
15:14 gabriel_laddel to say that "we" have not been set back is nonsense.
15:14 gabriel_laddel what, the burning of the great library of Alexandria was just a blip?
15:17 mircea_popescu meh i canbt find it. anyway, it was yet another of the "bitcoin has failed" but this one was because "greed made it not applaud gavin"
15:17 mircea_popescu this can be rehashed indefinitely, but what exactly does it do ?
15:17 mircea_popescu i burned books myself, what of it ? they sucked.
15:18 ascii_field folks who mention 'alexandria' aren't usually objecting to burning books per se
15:18 ascii_field but some - presumably interesting - only copy of xxxx that is now lost
15:18 mircea_popescu maybe it sucked ?
15:18 ascii_field or not
15:18 ascii_field whole idea is, nobody knows
15:19 mircea_popescu so then how's it a setback ?
15:19 ascii_field in some cases ( mircea_popescu of all people ought to know ) partial copy of something survives
15:20 ascii_field one (often overhyped but afaik factual) example of a total loss that is later 'un-lost' is archimedes having had fluxions
15:20 mircea_popescu http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/2v8f84/if_you_are_more_practically_inclined_and_having/ << since im digging up reddit. check out where "l'enfer, c'est l'autres" is identified as "using latin"
15:20 assbot If you are more practically inclined, and having understood, accepted and come to terms with your fundamental human inferiority as it flows from your poverty, some solutions to your predicament of "I wish to buy myself a basket" have already been discussed. : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdoOma )
15:20 mircea_popescu ascii_field but you take an eerily supermarket view of this setback thing.
15:20 danielpbarron ok well i got the usb thing to show up in a live ubuntu, but nothing gets sent from pogo
15:20 ascii_field mircea_popescu: hm?
15:20 mircea_popescu tell me, if i burn the walmart in connecticut tomorrow, has capitalism had a setback ?
15:20 ascii_field mircea_popescu: walmart != archimedes
15:20 mircea_popescu books are the defecation product of thinking.
15:20 ascii_field quite possibly a species only ever gets one or two of them
15:21 mircea_popescu they aren't thinking per se anymore than an ashtray is a party.
15:21 danielpbarron do i need to modify uboot to make it send through usb?
15:21 ascii_field danielpbarron: the stock uboot iirc did spew something
15:21 ascii_field check your pinout
15:21 ascii_field also make sure your dongle is set to 115200 baud
15:22 danielpbarron it is
15:22 ascii_field try reversing rx and tx
15:22 ascii_field they're almost certainly backwards
15:23 ascii_field then - without unplugging the usb - power cycle the pogo
15:23 ascii_field should see output.
15:23 ascii_field failing this, boot pogo into arch and echo "something" > /dev/ttyS0
15:23 danielpbarron got it!
15:23 ascii_field works?
15:24 danielpbarron ya
15:24 ascii_field congrats!
15:24 danielpbarron tyvm
15:24 ascii_field before re-closing chassis,
15:24 ascii_field take a good close-up of dongle & pogo pcb
15:24 ascii_field labeled with rx/tx/gnd
15:24 ascii_field if you've the time
15:24 ascii_field for other folks
15:24 danielpbarron already closed it
15:25 ascii_field also note that it will overheat if run at length w/out heatsink
15:25 ascii_field (the aluminum plate)
15:25 ascii_field at any rate, danielpbarron now has an 'adult' pogo
15:26 ascii_field it is even theoretically possible to restore it if nuked 'uboot' as well
15:26 ascii_field (marvell will slurp up a boot image via 'xmodem' though tty if you feed it)
15:26 thestringpuller crafting completed. new skills unlocked.
15:27 ascii_field all the rest of you with 'pogos', i highly recommend taking the time to do this mod
15:27 nubbins` is the serial mod necessary or can i just ssh to the silly thing?
15:27 danielpbarron i'll try to document what i did
15:28 ascii_field nubbins`: it lets you debug boot, and see kernel output prior to nic init
15:28 nubbins` aha.
15:28 nubbins` so i don't need it unless i do, in other words
15:28 ascii_field also lets you resurrect a wedged box
15:29 nubbins` pret-t-t-t-t-y sure i've got an FTDI adapter here somewhere
15:29 ascii_field (expect mircea_popescu to retort 'throw the damn thing out' but i'll note that they aren't exactly in limitless supply - nor do we yet know of an alternate box that is)
15:33 ascii_field (i do have one of these, http://i.imgur.com/EuoNzHn.jpg - ~18 usd - but it suffers from lack of sata, 32M(ram) 8M(rom), and a wifi chip that cannot be disabled - built into cpu and embedded antenna)
15:33 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/170NIyE )
15:35 ascii_field cryptome dead ?
15:36 mircea_popescu i didn't say that eh.
15:38 nubbins` !up ascii_field
15:38 ascii_field ty nubbins`
15:47 cazalla BingoBoingo: Bad google http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-explicit-adult-content-from-blogger-blogs/ <<< the amusing part of this is that the author of that article sued a porn actor who used the same name as the author, poor girl had to get a new name
15:47 assbot Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs | ZDNet ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdrEYu )
15:47 cazalla girl in question http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noname_Jane
15:47 assbot Noname Jane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdrKzl )
15:50 ascii_field porn - a-ok in usa; viewing porn without usg permanent record of the act - nope
15:51 ascii_field never know who might have to be 'robert borked' in the future.
15:56 mircea_popescu google is scummy by now.
15:57 mircea_popescu ascii_field how's blogger.com banning porn further that ?
15:57 mircea_popescu no, it's just provincialism, the same idiotic middle age women that run apple now run google.
15:57 ascii_field mircea_popescu: not banned. permitted in 'viewable only to registered' sites.
15:57 ascii_field it's being herded.
15:58 mircea_popescu heh.
15:59 mircea_popescu cunts shackled and sad on the internet their forecunts had fought to conquer ?
15:59 BingoBoingo !b 5
15:59 assbot Last 5 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0E2KVW7.txt )
15:59 mircea_popescu but yes, the "sexual disorder" of the 90s is definitely coming to a close. it's too expensive, and to most dickheads undesirable anyway.
16:00 mircea_popescu the gays got their way with marriage prior to the freeze, but that's it. pedos aren't getting theirs.
16:00 mircea_popescu who cares that pedo today ==== faggot 1965.
16:00 ascii_field much more politically useful even
16:01 ascii_field electronic equivalent of toilet tank cocaine
16:02 cazalla mircea_popescu: todd gack mysteriously missing. <<< yeah, what sort of name is that anyway?
16:03 cazalla shame you can't todd gack someone on reddit with a few thousand satoshi
16:07 kakobrekla buttstamp is looking for 'senior django developer'
16:08 kakobrekla a friend replied telling them he can fix everything that is wrong, but they dont want that.
16:09 kakobrekla !up ascii_field
16:09 ascii_field ty kakobrekla!
16:10 ascii_field kakobrekla: how do -you- normally answer letters from people offering to 'fix everything that's wrong' ?
16:11 kakobrekla idk if i was ever in a position where 'everything is wrong' was legit claim.
16:18 mike_c didn't you write bitbet in PHP?
16:18 * mike_c runs quickly
16:27 ben_vulpes hee hee
16:30 kakobrekla nah, that was mpex
16:34 ben_vulpes ho ho
16:39 kakobrekla hehe, is true; http://mpex.co/?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
16:40 kakobrekla !up ascii_field
16:40 kakobrekla adont thank me
16:45 kakobrekla !up kushed
16:47 mike_c sekrit php detector. i had no idea.
16:48 PeterL pete_dushenski:weird thing is: bablogs.btcscoop.com seems to have no problem with it << I forgot I had to do a funny trick with codecs to get that to work, lets see if scoopbot works now?
16:49 mike_c elephant: http://mpex.co/?=PHPE9568F36-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42
16:50 mircea_popescu ;p;
16:50 mircea_popescu lol*
16:50 * ben_vulpes is a baffle
16:56 mike_c and just because this should be immortalized in the logs: http://phpsadness.com/
16:56 assbot PHP Sadness ... ( http://bit.ly/18iqWnk )
16:57 ascii_field last i checked, php wasn't mandatory
16:57 mike_c you lost me there.
16:58 mircea_popescu i think it was in the logs from last time we did this
16:58 mike_c not according to search
16:58 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-02-2014#512379 etc
16:58 assbot Logged on 17-02-2014 22:31:05; mircea_popescu: http://phpsadness.com/sad/9
16:58 mike_c !s phpsadness
16:58 assbot 0 results for 'phpsadness' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=phpsadness
16:58 ascii_field afaik nobody is forced to program in it
16:59 mircea_popescu !s phpsadness.com
16:59 assbot 3 results for 'phpsadness.com' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=phpsadness.com
16:59 mircea_popescu no stemming eh ?
16:59 mike_c intersting. slash is a word break but not a period?
16:59 mircea_popescu !s b-a.link
16:59 assbot 1 results for 'b-a.link' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=b-a.link
16:59 mircea_popescu !s s.b-a
16:59 assbot 0 results for 's.b-a' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=s.b-a
16:59 mircea_popescu SOME dots are wordbreaks.
17:00 mike_c word breaking is different from stemming. that feels.. wrong. mthreat is it normal for periods to not break words?
17:01 mike_c ;;later tell mthreat is it an index option for periods to break words?
17:01 gribble The operation succeeded.
17:10 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
17:13 mats django. god help the one that accepts the job.
17:15 mircea_popescu "the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines" ?
17:16 mike_c what's wrong with django? i bit bloated, but there's a lot of good code in there.
17:25 mats a buddy of mine uses it only the daily. moans constantly.
17:25 mats on^
17:28 jurov pity more people don't use turbogears2. i have found it quite usable, with documentation uptodate and keeps improving
17:36 ben_vulpes fuck it
17:36 ben_vulpes fuck django, fuck rails, and probably fuck turbogears too.
17:37 jurov fuck everythign that moves.
17:37 ben_vulpes while they can all be used well by people who know what they're doing, most people using them categorically do not.
17:37 jurov and all other too
17:37 mike_c and the alternative is they build from a microframework and fuck up even more?
17:37 ben_vulpes and in their experiments with object oriented programming create these insane class hierarchies that are impossible to fit into human working memory.
17:38 jurov oh, that. http is notable for its leaky effects into all higher layers
17:38 ben_vulpes mike_c: ever touched a clojure ring app?
17:38 mike_c not with a 10ft pole
17:38 ben_vulpes oh and let's not get into the ORM.
17:39 ben_vulpes while again it can be used well by people who can use it well (intentional tautology)
17:39 ben_vulpes the novice's desire to not learn how relational databases work and how to leverage their strengths is damaging to both themselves and anyone downhill of them.
17:39 jurov you mean people who have a clue what happens on wire/in browser?
17:40 jurov rdbms are easier that that
17:40 ben_vulpes ORM/wire?
17:40 mike_c i don't get it. you're saying a novice can use cojure ring and not hurt himself?
17:40 ben_vulpes not at all.
17:40 ben_vulpes a sword still cuts.
17:40 mike_c so you are just offended by the offering of something between cojure/ring and wordpress.
17:40 ben_vulpes but the surface area over which they can make mistakes is vastly limited.
17:41 ben_vulpes mike_c: keep in mind i'm approaching this from an empirical perspective.
17:41 mike_c idk. noobs will make sites. and their wordpress blogs will be used in ddos reflection attacks. what can you do.
17:41 jurov ben_vulpes: so everything sucks because idiots can use it to hang themselves?
17:42 ben_vulpes miserable django shites made by novices rapidly become very expensive to reason about.
17:42 ben_vulpes rails, ibid.
17:42 ben_vulpes (most wordprexen are cobbled together from plugins - not terrifically difficult to reason about)
17:43 mike_c ok, but i'm not going to judge by how easy it is to un-fuck a particular framework done poorly.
17:43 ben_vulpes there's something about working in lisp that seems to reduce the speed at which entropy chews apart a webdev project.
17:43 mike_c or, there's something about those that choose lisp..
17:43 ben_vulpes i'm always cautious about that line.
17:43 ben_vulpes mostly, because it's so damn easy.
17:44 ben_vulpes and i speak not as a veteran here.
17:44 * ben_vulpes back to the mines
17:46 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: there you go with that lisp nonsense again!
17:46 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: the best webdev lanuage is PHP.
17:46 lobbes <ben_vulpes> mostly, because it's so damn easy. << I played with lisp for a second, and even I felt like seemed way more 'intuitive'
17:46 ben_vulpes (oh, and those "experts" in rails/django/yii/whatever tend to swallow wholesale whatever braindamage comes out of the "community")
17:46 thestringpuller rails is da shit
17:46 thestringpuller s/da//
17:46 thestringpuller :D
17:47 jurov my impression of list is that it boosts ego to the point of making any cooperation hard
17:47 jurov *lisp
17:47 thestringpuller django is good for marketing teams who need to deploy content fast and don't have IT
17:47 thestringpuller jurov hits nail on head
17:47 mike_c or for webdevs that don't want to rebuild every wheel
17:48 mike_c turbogears2 looks good too.. i have some vague memory of not liking sql alchemy for some reason, but that was awhile ago and i can't remember why.
17:48 thestringpuller mike_c: yes. but rails took this overboard imo.
17:48 mike_c agreed. i think rails has too much black magic
17:48 thestringpuller the rails generate command is abused a bit too much
17:49 thestringpuller i know the script kiddies love it, but probably same reason they defend node.js
17:52 ben_vulpes "No Thinking Required!"™
17:53 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
17:53 ben_vulpes "Mindlessly Churn Out Crud Apps!"
17:57 jurov "Excremental Development Model (r)(tm)"
18:05 ascii_field ty BingoBoingo!
18:05 ascii_field boosts ego to the point of making any cooperation hard << wat
18:13 jurov my impression is, eveythign around lisp is considerably fragmented
18:20 mats i spent the last ten mins reading BlueMeanie4's blog
18:20 mats what a mistake
18:21 thestringpuller mats: why did you submit yourself to that punishment?
18:22 mats i wanted to see if he had anything useful to say in a long form medium
18:23 mats turns out hes as retarded on a blog as he is on irc and twitter
18:24 thestringpuller ah. Well he honestly thinks GPG contracts are failures because they are too hard to use...which is like retard believing he is not retarded.
18:24 mats and anyway i like to see what people offended by mp are up to
18:24 mats (the ones that used to hang here, anyway)
18:24 thestringpuller mats: you've made me miss EskimoBob
18:24 thestringpuller ;;seen EskimoBob
18:24 gribble EskimoBob was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 33 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours, 33 minutes, and 46 seconds ago: <EskimoBob> no idea how executions are shown on btct
18:27 mats ;;seen evoorhees
18:27 gribble evoorhees was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 31 weeks, 4 days, 23 hours, 29 minutes, and 46 seconds ago: <evoorhees> I need to go for now, on later
18:29 Adlai if anything, GPG contracts are too easy to use
18:37 thestringpuller Adlai: drafting them to spec is difficult sometimes. Like coming up with a good statement of work, or an SLA
18:37 thestringpuller but this is irrelevant of execution i suppose
18:41 mats http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/02/greek-surrender-hope-150222120049943.html
18:41 assbot Greek surrender: When all hope is gone - Al Jazeera English ... ( http://bit.ly/1w9FJ9a )
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19:00 BingoBoingo http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=h_people
19:00 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MPEHcY )
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19:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21550 @ 0.00040343 = 8.6939 BTC [+] {2}
19:35 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4350 @ 0.00040368 = 1.756 BTC [+]
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20:02 asciilifeform jurov: my impression is, eveythign around lisp is considerably fragmented << algol's mighty fragmented too
20:07 cazalla how many times can you spot "legitimate" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2967084/Paedophile-porn-rings-selling-live-streams-rape-involving-children-young-six-Skype-return-Bitcoins-warn-Europol.html
20:07 assbot Paedophile porn rings 'selling live streams of child rape on Skype', Europol warns | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1BoSZ18 )
20:07 cazalla it's old news btw, for some reason they dug up a report from last year and ran it today as new
20:10 thestringpuller microsoft can't get a break (ms owns skype now rite?)
20:13 cazalla thestringpuller, yeah, i was gonna write it up under heading of hundreds of paedos use microsoft products to rape kids, but actually covered the report the above article mentions back in october or november last year
20:13 cazalla microsft really enable these rapes because not only do the paedos use skype, but they use windows as well
20:14 cazalla plus the paedos have the gall to use legitimate services such as Bitcoin
20:16 thestringpuller about as bad as Gavin killing those kids
20:21 ben_vulpes ;;ticker
20:21 cazalla actually there is a new report.. may as well write it up
20:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19563 @ 0.00039685 = 7.7636 BTC [-] {2}
20:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22865 @ 0.00038063 = 8.7031 BTC [-] {3}
20:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5000 @ 0.00040026 = 2.0013 BTC [+]
20:34 mircea_popescu <mike_c> idk. noobs will make sites. and their wordpress blogs will be used in ddos reflection attacks. what can you do. << kvetch
20:34 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4883 @ 0.00040146 = 1.9603 BTC [+]
20:35 mircea_popescu <ben_vulpes> (oh, and those "experts" in rails/django/yii/whatever tend to swallow wholesale whatever braindamage comes out of the "community") << that's because these are experts in groupthink, having come of age in the 90s at the earliest.
20:37 asciilifeform while hunting for marvell errata sheets, found http://code.google.com/p/inferno-kirkwood/source/browse/devsata.c - driver for same, written for bell labs's 'inferno' os (interesting animal all in itself, see old thread) - contains some clues re: reset behaviour
20:37 assbot devsata.c - inferno-kirkwood - Inferno for the Marvell Kirkwood/Sheevaplug - Google Project Hosting ... ( http://bit.ly/1zFdfp0 )
20:38 mircea_popescu <mats> and anyway i like to see what people offended by mp are up to << lol me too. but this guy... he's not offended, he's just trying to you knwo, "make it in this game".
20:38 mircea_popescu as that kid told that retarded cop once.
20:39 mircea_popescu !up rotarydialer
20:41 mircea_popescu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
20:41 assbot Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1zFe7Kl )
20:44 mats its revealing how people react when confronted with inadequacy
20:44 thestringpuller similar to rejection
20:46 cazalla you won't sleep with me? ya fucking slut!
20:47 TheNewDeal ;;nethash
20:48 TheNewDeal !Up gribble
20:48 TheNewDeal Fu, assbot
20:48 mircea_popescu ;;bc,stats
20:50 TheNewDeal ;;Seen gribble
20:50 TheNewDeal Acting like a pouty bitch
20:50 mircea_popescu lol
21:05 mats hm, 'Citizenfour' is public domain due to being used as evidence in a suit
21:06 mats er, that's a terrible construction, but anyway http://cryptome.org/Citizenfour-HD.7z
21:07 asciilifeform can we do that to the rest of them ?
21:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16000 @ 0.00040171 = 6.4274 BTC [+] {2}
21:10 mats i'm not really sure how it works
21:10 gribble 318572931.893
21:10 gribble I have not seen gribble.
21:10 gribble Current Blocks: 345015 | Current Difficulty: 4.668437631686029E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 346751 | Next Difficulty In: 1736 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 6 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes, and 44 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 43633659578.1 | Estimated Percent Change: -6.53477
21:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13018 @ 0.00039928 = 5.1978 BTC [-]
21:17 mats https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/566616227582582785
21:17 assbot Defense provided 2 DVDs of Citizenfour as exhibit in Edwards suit. So film in public domain as unsealed record. On HBO 2/23/15. Leaking $.
21:18 mats i'm not certain that submission as evidence nullifies IP rights
21:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6336 @ 0.00039928 = 2.5298 BTC [-]
21:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6448 @ 0.00040347 = 2.6016 BTC [+] {2}
21:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14600 @ 0.00040368 = 5.8937 BTC [+]
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21:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7900 @ 0.00040368 = 3.1891 BTC [+]
21:54 cazalla scoopbot, fetch
21:55 cazalla http://qntra.net/2015/02/europol-uses-kiddy-porn-hysteria-to-attack-bitcoin/
21:55 assbot Europol Uses Kiddy Porn Hysteria To Attack Bitcoin | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1FqGnnC )
21:56 mike_c scoopbot fetch
21:56 mike_c scoopbot -fetch
21:56 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/02/europol-uses-kiddy-porn-hysteria-to-attack-bitcoin/
21:56 cazalla mind of its own
21:57 mike_c "I'll fetch when i damn well please"
21:59 thestringpuller "When I feel like it"
22:00 thestringpuller nasdaq.com covered that C4 nonsense: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/why-the-proposed-security-certification-for-bitcoin-matters-cm447831
22:04 cazalla !up veeminer
22:04 cazalla oops lol
22:04 cazalla !up Vexual
22:11 Vexual New rules for foreign investors buying real estate in oz. You pay a small lubrication fee to the firb and despite any n shell companies you are liable for theoretical noncompliance fines.
22:14 thestringpuller "lubrication fee" << hue hue
22:17 Vexual Only took a week and everyone happy
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22:53 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7996 @ 0.00039928 = 3.1926 BTC [-]
22:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51748 @ 0.0003837 = 19.8557 BTC [-] {3}
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23:10 mircea_popescu <mats> i'm not certain that submission as evidence nullifies IP rights << it's a right nightmare.
23:11 mircea_popescu they'll be stuck arguing "context"
23:11 mircea_popescu thestringpuller part of the reason it doesn't matter is that nasdaq would like it to.
23:11 ben_vulpes http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site
23:11 assbot The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1AIGUR4 )
23:11 mircea_popescu part of the reason nasdaq would like it to is that it's yet anopther "make bitcoin more like fiat retardness"
23:14 mircea_popescu “It’s sort of an open secret among attorneys that regularly make police station visits, this place – if you can’t find a client in the system, odds are they’re there,” said Chicago lawyer Julia Bartmes.
23:14 mircea_popescu heh
23:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15088 @ 0.00039161 = 5.9086 BTC [+]
23:18 asciilifeform 'black site' << snore, orc management pen.
23:18 ben_vulpes no snore.
23:18 ben_vulpes this "snore" attitude is part and parcel of the decay.
23:18 ben_vulpes "boring, world's going to hell in a handbasket."
23:18 asciilifeform i mean, yes, we'll go there when time comes
23:18 ben_vulpes where's the anger?
23:19 asciilifeform but just as easily to another warehouse
23:19 asciilifeform that's storing iPnohes or toilet paper today
23:20 asciilifeform instead of condemned prisoners
23:20 mircea_popescu you or them, about even odds atm.
23:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu optimist
23:22 mircea_popescu what;s the guy's name, Jon Burge
23:22 mircea_popescu no, im a realist.
23:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6073 @ 0.00038302 = 2.3261 BTC [-]
23:24 mircea_popescu he just about got back out i'd guess.
23:37 decimation how do you negrate the city of chicago
23:40 decimation re: federal employees overpaid < I suspect the whole system operates as a net with a hole - all the talent get sucked in and immediately leaves, but the bottom suckers end up 'caught'
23:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17595 @ 0.00037834 = 6.6569 BTC [-] {2}
23:53 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24050 @ 0.00037502 = 9.0192 BTC [-] {2}
23:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11870 @ 0.00038775 = 4.6026 BTC [+] {2}
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