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00:06 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Apparently male bc, is just liek woman bc, up the hormones
00:10 BingoBoingo !up Duffer1
00:11 BingoBoingo Duffer1: No qntra submissions yet?
00:12 Duffer1 hola
00:12 Duffer1 there's a conspiracy afoot
00:13 Duffer1 nah i don't know what to write about
00:13 Duffer1 my iguanas are doing great, but it turns out they're both male so i'll have to re home one :(
00:14 BingoBoingo Nah, make them gay.
00:14 BingoBoingo It's what all the good schools do nao
00:14 Duffer1 might work if there were a lot more of them, but with just two they'll kill eachother
00:15 BingoBoingo Or love each other... Gotta turn em gay.
00:15 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Apparently the gold standard for male birth control nao is called Trenbolone
00:16 Duffer1 is that the nut glue?
00:16 BingoBoingo Define "nut glue"
00:17 mircea_popescu y no bone ?
00:17 Duffer1 the glue developed to be injected into the vas deferens and dissolved when reversal is wanted/needed
00:17 Duffer1 = nut glue
00:17 BingoBoingo <Duffer1> the glue developed to be injected into the vas deferens and dissolved when reversal is wanted/needed << Defo not that
00:18 Duffer1 ah
00:18 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> y no bone ? << Apparently boners are a major side effect
00:18 BingoBoingo Just, why was this nevar discussed in pharmacy school even though all of its neighbors were
00:19 mircea_popescu hm
00:21 Duffer1 anyone watch the first dem debate?
00:22 BingoBoingo Nah, I value my sanity.
00:22 Duffer1 i skipped it but heard clinton vs webb went a lot like http://img.fark.net/images/cache/850/P/PP/fark_PPd3uabFbb1Xq5lWHJeGsfO83es.gif?t=Ea84tJtZHJo0Br2TmyoVvg&f=1445227200
00:22 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1G4olx3 )
00:22 BingoBoingo But Webb is a much better sysadmin than Clitler
00:24 Duffer1 ha that's not a high bar :P
00:26 Duffer1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gXhwv9_ZS0
00:26 assbot Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Jazzwoche Burghausen Live (2004) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1G4oxMJ )
00:26 BingoBoingo But she went to an "elite" school and married a future president!!!!!
00:26 Duffer1 ^ what I'm currently chilling to vex
00:36 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Apparently the freaks with super natural muscle were on to something, and that something was male birth control. I feel lied and cheated to.
00:37 BingoBoingo Men had hormonal birth control first and the 1960's were a lie
00:39 * BingoBoingo now wonders if all the real roid freaks jsut get neuticals and do their hormones IM
00:43 BingoBoingo !up Duffer1
00:46 Duffer1 glad i remember how to do that
00:46 BingoBoingo Well, You are initiated aren't you?
00:47 Duffer1 possibly?
00:47 BingoBoingo Even if you lost money you will be remembered for that gut wrenching and emotionally moving takedown of Labcoin.
00:47 Duffer1 ah ya baptism by fire
00:48 Duffer1 do not recommend
00:49 BingoBoingo This is like I'd like you to with you experience spot and write up some shit for qntra. You have the history to carry it
00:51 Duffer1 alright, if i can think of an angle i'll submit something
00:53 BingoBoingo Duffer1: Cool, keep a look out. Gotta make those losses up somewhere.
01:03 Duffer1 ah ya man that would be nice hehe
01:05 BingoBoingo May take a while, but do you really want anyone trying to outdo your baptism by fire narrative?
01:08 Duffer1 i'd be impressed if they could find a way, who wants to read the story of the games losers?
01:09 BingoBoingo Who doesn't, far more to be learned than from the winners?
01:09 BingoBoingo http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3086 << On Impotence
01:09 assbot JL: ‘Thug Season’ ... ( http://bit.ly/1K7XfjA )
01:10 Duffer1 i dunno maybe you're right
01:12 Duffer1 vex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7KXq6RJ0PA
01:12 assbot Esbjörn Svensson Trio (Seven Days Of Falling/Elevation of Love) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1K7XACE )
01:19 BingoBoingo Also the entire Lafond life plan just shifted http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3087
01:19 assbot JL: On the Downside ... ( http://bit.ly/1PflSm1 )
01:24 Duffer1 interesting read
01:27 BingoBoingo Duffer1: Try his older shit. Up until a couple weeks ago he wrote as though he were some sort of white ape from the Congo. This is a precipitous decline
01:29 Duffer1 does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
01:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24750 @ 0.00047342 = 11.7171 BTC [-] {3}
01:32 BingoBoingo Duffer1: He has a long chronicle of past injuries. This sudden decline is new though and he ofers no new injury. I may be a combination of age and the past injuries.
01:33 Duffer1 ah
01:34 BingoBoingo There are pieces he has where he chronicals getting hit in the nuts more than any person should.
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01:57 BingoBoingo Just remember everyone, if you sell out to Gawker Media they will treat you like trash until and past your natural death https://archive.is/wvcwZ
01:57 assbot EAT SHIT, LEITCH! ... ( http://bit.ly/1NG2BKv )
02:04 BingoBoingo Also, qntra has been at 800 posts for a few hours nao
02:04 BingoBoingo 800 posts, 1051 non-spam comments
02:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34271 @ 0.00047338 = 16.2232 BTC [-] {3}
02:19 BingoBoingo !up HeySteve
02:19 BingoBoingo !up tripleslash
02:30 HeySteve hey BingoBoingo
02:30 BingoBoingo hey
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03:10 BingoBoingo tard mode http://wptavern.com/jetpack-protect-blocks-brute-force-amplification-attacks
03:10 assbot Jetpack Protect Blocks Brute Force Amplification Attacks ... ( http://bit.ly/1LjWXrq )
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03:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2700 @ 0.00047935 = 1.2942 BTC [+]
03:59 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35500 @ 0.00047298 = 16.7908 BTC [-] {2}
04:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25756 @ 0.0004798 = 12.3577 BTC [+] {3}
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04:29 wyrdmantis hello asseters
04:30 wyrdmantis to do gentoo correctly am i right with this: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-hardened+nomultilib/ ?
04:30 assbot Index of /ftp/mirror/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-hardened+nomultilib ... ( http://bit.ly/1G4Iral )
04:38 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 31744 @ 0.0004813 = 15.2784 BTC [+]
04:49 punkman http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-videogames-are-saving-the-symphony-orchestra-1444696737
04:49 assbot How Videogames Are Saving the Symphony Orchestra - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1G4Kr2o )
05:00 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5877 @ 0.00047353 = 2.7829 BTC [-]
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06:22 jurov wyrdmantis hw do you mean correctly? if you want hardened gentoo, this one is right
06:27 punkman http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-October/086429.html
06:27 assbot [erlang-questions] Mnesia ... ( http://bit.ly/1VRAHQc )
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06:45 funkenstein_ http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-10-2015#1297678 <-- your death is right over your left shoulder, waiting to tap you
06:45 assbot Logged on 13-10-2015 14:16:05; thestringpuller: for people with anxiety disorders: what works for you other than drugz?
06:46 funkenstein_ if you understand this you'll see there's no time to be anxious
06:48 funkenstein_ re: diesel thread, at one point i drove a friends retro-fitted diesel. retrofit consisted of an extra tank and a switch to select fuel line
06:48 funkenstein_ this enables one to get free fuel behind any chinese restaurant
06:49 funkenstein_ diesel engine runs on almost anything
06:53 funkenstein_ http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=09-10-2015#1295232 <-- this one needs repeating.
06:53 assbot Logged on 09-10-2015 01:49:22; mircea_popescu: the notion that people may read "newpspaers" made by people they don't know.
06:58 funkenstein_ http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/11/one_of_these_things_is_a_straw.html <-- thanks for that one.
06:58 assbot The Last Psychiatrist: One Of These Things Is A Straw Man, And The Other Is On Fire ... ( http://bit.ly/1LLv7Uk )
07:00 funkenstein_ a good old lecture on the topic is "Dead doctors don't lie" - joel wallach
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07:20 funkenstein_ http://imgur.com/eEkkvSn from http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-10-2015#1296319
07:20 assbot Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet ... ( http://bit.ly/1LLycUp )
07:20 assbot Logged on 11-10-2015 00:37:45; asciilifeform: http://www.demotix.com/news/5506846/police-destroys-37-tons-seized-drugs-chacarita-cemetery << oldie, re: the mega-graveyard
07:20 funkenstein_ pressed shitboard
07:21 funkenstein_ more news from people I don't know
07:25 funkenstein_ i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
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07:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6521 @ 0.00047517 = 3.0986 BTC [+]
08:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13753 @ 0.00047341 = 6.5108 BTC [-]
08:13 punkman "French governt endorses #Blockchain tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's this prize davout?
08:20 punkman I was wondering what a digital economy minister does and ended up here http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/13/digital-minister-wants-to-break-some-cliches-about-the-french-startup-scene-interview/
08:20 assbot Digital minister wants to 'break some clichés' about the French startup scene (interview) | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Chris O'Brien ... ( http://bit.ly/1MziYqD )
08:26 fluffypony https://i.imgur.com/cx6pk88.jpg
08:26 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lkf2FU )
08:38 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQ9JlNeVEAAeeR_.png:large
08:38 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1LkfFPT )
08:49 punkman http://boingboing.net/2015/10/13/this-tropical-mushroom-gives-w.html
08:49 assbot This tropical mushroom gives women spontaneous orgasms from sniffing it / Boing Boing ... ( http://bit.ly/1MzoA4d )
08:53 davout punkman: a lot of people wonder what she does :D
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09:11 nubbins` http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/newfoundlanders-are-trolling-the-fuck-out-of-harper-with-this-barbaric-cultural-practice
09:11 assbot Newfoundlanders are Trolling the Fuck Out of Harper With This ‘Barbaric Cultural Practice’ | VICE | Canada ... ( http://bit.ly/1MzsBWt )
09:12 nubbins` ^ in which a single photograph and a facebook event allowed nubs to spread his views on civil liberties from one coast of this fine country to the other two
09:23 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 97950 @ 0.00048121 = 47.1345 BTC [+] {7}
09:23 davout nubbins`: nice!
09:30 nubbins` davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
09:30 nubbins` only media outlet that actually bothered to publish my thoughts beyond the superficial ones
09:31 nubbins` this election is seriously the most fun i've had since i don't know when
09:32 davout "Sucks, but I don't want to sterilize perfectly good satire just so people don't have to worry or think." <<< the world would be a much better place if this stance was more common
09:33 nubbins` i could kiss drew brown for including that paragraph verbatim
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10:00 jurov !up gabrielradio
10:02 gabrielradio thanks jurov
10:04 TheNewDeal g'day
10:04 TheNewDeal or gdevening
10:04 gabrielradio If you're a native Romanian speaker with a very good grasp of English, I am interested to work out an arrangement for your translation of my older Romanian articles. Don't hesitate to make contact for this purpose. << mircea_popescu , is this still of interest to you?
10:05 TheNewDeal Just wanted to say that I am revoking my license as of today. I was a little sloppy with my key. I'll be back later
10:07 TheNewDeal ;;nethash
10:07 gribble 438458414.672
10:07 TheNewDeal ;;bc,stats
10:07 gribble Current Blocks: 378863 | Current Difficulty: 6.0813224039440346E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 379007 | Next Difficulty In: 144 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 22 hours, 26 minutes, and 29 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
10:07 TheNewDeal ;;nexthalf
10:07 gribble Error: "nexthalf" is not a valid command.
10:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22086 @ 0.00048286 = 10.6644 BTC [+] {3}
10:08 TheNewDeal ;;nextblockreward
10:08 gribble Error: "nextblockreward" is not a valid command.
10:12 TheNewDeal I'll be back
10:12 TheNewDeal !down TheNewDeal
10:15 jurov diana_coman: ^ see gabrielradio
10:15 jurov i doubt very much mircea_popescu will translate someone else's articles
10:17 diana_coman jurov, I think gabrielradio means that he is interested in doing the translation
10:17 jurov lolk
10:17 diana_coman I must admit that I kind of hate doing translation work as I find it horribly time consuming
10:18 davout diana_coman: that's a problem with work in general
10:19 diana_coman he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
10:20 diana_coman alternatively it might simply be that I just hate translating - I'd much rather rewrite the thing in my own words as an exercise in understanding it
10:21 diana_coman fwiw I have been following Trilema from pretty much its beginning so I'm quite familiar with most of it (not that I wouldn't benefit from re-reading a lot of it) and I think there are many articles that would be worth translating
10:28 shinohai ;;ticker
10:28 gribble Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 251.94, Best ask: 251.99, Bid-ask spread: 0.05000, Last trade: 251.94, 24 hour volume: 9017.66443652, 24 hour low: 249.9, 24 hour high: 252.5, 24 hour vwap: None
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11:04 VariaVarietatis asciilifeform: know where I can find more like this in english? http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/153079.html
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11:21 jurov !up disident
11:23 asciilifeform VariaVarietatis: probably nowhere
11:25 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298566 << fella may have taken one too many hits in the head - from his logic, it seems that he ought to be carrying a frag, rather than a knife...
11:25 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 05:29:18; Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
11:27 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298589 << we have this here. i even attended one performance, had no idea what it was, the playbill stated 'music from games', i recognized ~not one~ - because i never had 'console'
11:27 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 08:49:41; punkman: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-videogames-are-saving-the-symphony-orchestra-1444696737
11:28 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298593 << mega-essay, recommended to everyone who is interested in salvaging what little of worth remains in this whole 'computing' thing
11:28 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 10:27:17; punkman: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2015-October/086429.html
11:29 * asciilifeform experimented with erlang at great length, on multiple occasions, but cannot bring himself to use it for anything on the battlefield because 1 ) ONE IMPLEMENTATION and 2) IT DOES NOT FIT IN HEAD
11:29 asciilifeform other than this, it is, imho, very spiffy
11:30 asciilifeform and, iirc, to this day runs the swedish national telephone grid.
11:31 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298611 << 'general population' will believe just about anything
11:31 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 11:25:15; funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
11:32 punkman one case it doesn't mention is that clueless client demands to use AWS and mongodb and hadoop, because "I heard these were popular and next week when I am a big multinational I'll need to hire 10k developers and they'll only know how to use those"
11:32 asciilifeform punkman: precisely the disease that gave us microshit
11:33 asciilifeform and why the entire 'industry' needs a good thermonuking
11:34 asciilifeform the whole thing, to the degree it shows any evidence of design at all, is optimized for vermin at every level.
11:35 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298586 << at this point, i hesitate to recommend gentoo to a n00b. the problem is that there is not actually an alternative to gentoo.
11:35 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 08:30:50; wyrdmantis: to do gentoo correctly am i right with this: http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-hardened+nomultilib/ ?
11:36 asciilifeform learn it the way you would learn sapping
11:36 asciilifeform i.e. from someone who already knows, in person.
11:37 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298580 << i dun get it. why there has to be a 'pack' of whatever sort, why not simply nuke the idiot xml rpc thing once and for all ?
11:37 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 07:10:30; BingoBoingo: tard mode http://wptavern.com/jetpack-protect-blocks-brute-force-amplification-attacks
11:37 VariaVarietatis recent comments
11:40 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298508 << folks who want to join the endocrine freakshow know where to go...
11:40 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 04:06:28; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently male bc, is just liek woman bc, up the hormones
11:40 asciilifeform it isn't hard. ask in your local gym. the down sides are well documented.
11:41 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298540 << could go straight for the castration and skip the organ damage...
11:41 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 04:36:41; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Apparently the freaks with super natural muscle were on to something, and that something was male birth control. I feel lied and cheated to.
11:42 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298571 << who is this and why would anyone care..?
11:42 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 05:57:35; BingoBoingo: Just remember everyone, if you sell out to Gawker Media they will treat you like trash until and past your natural death https://archive.is/wvcwZ
11:43 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298614 << how come we learn of this not from davout ?
11:43 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 12:13:40; punkman: "French governt endorses #Blockchain tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's this prize davout?
11:49 punkman old gcc lulz https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475#c4
11:49 assbot 30475 – assert(int+100 > int) optimized away ... ( http://bit.ly/1PtiK5t )
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12:05 davout asciilifeform: is it really that noteworthy that a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
12:05 davout or "opining on"? (folks who actually speak english are more than welcome to correct me!)
12:12 punkman not rly, I was just wondering about the prize
12:14 davout yeah, the whole thing materializes a government grant
12:14 davout plus a small paper diploma :D
12:17 mircea_popescu gabrielradio yes
12:17 davout http://www.wired.com/2015/10/hedge-fund-borrows-10m-in-stock-via-the-bitcoin-blockchain/ <<< god knows what happens when some of these colored coins get haxxored
12:17 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1PtlKhY )
12:21 mircea_popescu lol. supoena!!1
12:22 mircea_popescu how the fuck is a "hedge fund" issuing stock and who the fuck heard of a 10 mn "hedge fund"
12:22 mircea_popescu are these people off their rocker ? you can't name yourself a hedge fund with under 1 bn just like you can't call a thing a car if it's under 1 meter long.
12:22 mircea_popescu "this 10 milimetre long car got great fuel economy and runs on someone's halitosis".
12:23 mircea_popescu well done!
12:23 asciilifeform model car.
12:23 asciilifeform (toy hedgefund?!)
12:25 mircea_popescu !up
12:25 mircea_popescu i never saw a 3mm car.
12:25 mircea_popescu make it say 3 cm, it could maybe be a model car.
12:25 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298696 << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-10-2015#1298309
12:25 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 15:49:34; punkman: old gcc lulz https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30475#c4
12:25 assbot Logged on 13-10-2015 22:07:28; mircea_popescu: i never knew i could equally hate both sides of a "debate" to the degree.
12:25 asciilifeform shitgnome wreckers on one hand, 'but my legacy crud broke!!1111111' on the other
12:26 asciilifeform a pox on both houses.
12:26 mircea_popescu it's not even that. it's jwz.
12:26 mircea_popescu WHAE THINGS DUN JUS WORK I WAS BORN OF WHYTE CUNT IN AMUYRKA
12:26 mircea_popescu I AM TOO GOOD TO KNOW HOW TO FLYUSH TOELat
12:26 asciilifeform 'we are living in ameeeeerika, ameeerika, ameeerika, ... coca cola! sometimes war!' (tm) (r)
12:28 mircea_popescu it's like "radical left" arguing with obama voters. "WE NEED TO MOVE AWAY FROM PROPUDCERIST DARAPIGM!!1" "WHERE IS MY MORE FOOTSTAMPS!!!1"
12:28 mircea_popescu !up gabrielradio
12:29 gabrielradio i had a go at one of the articles http://pastebin.com/XH5hBW13
12:29 assbot Christian Europe and other absurdities - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1PtmZhj )
12:29 mircea_popescu o hey.
12:30 mircea_popescu aberrations is a word. absurdities != aberations.
12:30 mircea_popescu "One of the most ridiculous nonsense passed with pious self-importance by the neophytes and likewise unwarranted people"
12:30 mircea_popescu this is broken in at least two places. one of the most x nonsense is bad grammar. the X and otherwyse Y z's is bad style
12:30 mircea_popescu your ennumerations must be balanced, either ennumerate nouns or adjectives.
12:30 asciilifeform it still beats the shit out of 'google trans'
12:31 mircea_popescu it does.
12:31 mircea_popescu gabrielradio trilema text is very fucking tense, so it needs this intensive approach to work. ya know ?
12:32 gabrielradio true
12:32 asciilifeform 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it as-specified
12:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the only problem is that it takes me ~20 minutes to translate one. it maybe takes me 15 minutes to read and fix his, except i'll also get angry. so it's a sort of economical problem.
12:32 asciilifeform thereby every single program beyond the schoolbook trivium depends on just such behaviour.
12:33 mircea_popescu ~depends~ being tghe key word.
12:33 mircea_popescu it's not that you can fix it with better dakka.
12:33 asciilifeform break it, by choosing a different reading of the talmu^H^H^H^Hstandard, and it dies.
12:33 mircea_popescu in order to work, it DEPENDS on it. better dakka just guarantees more of the same.
12:33 asciilifeform dakka?
12:33 mircea_popescu ;;google "i need more dakka" site:trilema.com
12:33 gribble I NEED MOAR DAKKA on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/i-need-moar-dakka>; O, wasted youth! on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/o-wasted-youth>; Rautati si Mizerii on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/rautati-si-mizerii/>
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13:36 shinohai >.>
13:41 ben_vulpes https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/its-now-or-never-texts-reveal-teens-efforts-to-pressure-boyfriend-into-suicide/
13:41 assbot ‘It’s now or never': Texts reveal teen’s efforts to pressure boyfriend into suicide - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1LMrVrK )
13:42 trinque baw
13:42 ben_vulpes go, read
13:43 ben_vulpes i evillold
13:44 mircea_popescu !rate gabrielradio 1 Apprentice Trilema translator
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13:47 trinque ben_vulpes: my brother yesterday was telling me about this "autistic" kid that punches teachers at his high school
13:47 trinque me: "And what if they could punch him back? Do you think he'd continue?" him: "hmmmmmm"
13:48 trinque a "counselor" comes running every time this kid lashes out. I say he wins
13:49 punkman "After his death, Carter became a self-proclaimed advocate for mental health. She organized a fundraising tournament in Roy’s memory and posted on Facebook and Twitter about her attempts to save her boyfriend’s life."
13:50 mircea_popescu lol
13:51 punkman attempts such as: “I was on the phone with him and he got out of the car” because the carbon monoxide was working, she said. She added that she “told him to get back in.”
13:51 mircea_popescu so basically the girl's plan was to be an activist, and she figured since all the verbiage is "you can't discuss X because you don't KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having a bf off himself.
13:51 mircea_popescu she's right, too.
13:52 mircea_popescu at any rate a damn sight better plan than "i'll go to college and become carrie bradshaw"
13:52 shinohai Well, she got valuable experience in little time, sure beats going to school and studying that shit.
13:55 mircea_popescu she'll get the even more valuable experience of impunity, IN SPITE of a lot of verbiage and to and fro from the soi dissant "legal system", "community" etc.
13:55 mircea_popescu in other words, america is building its leaders of tomorrow.
13:55 mircea_popescu they just don't happen to be the sort of leaders it [thinks it] wants.
13:56 mircea_popescu just like dumbass chick with "i want people to like me for me" and no nudies on facebook IS selecting for her future husband.
13:56 mircea_popescu just, not for the future husband she [thinks she] wants. certainly for the one she deserves
14:04 shinohai !b 2
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14:04 shinohai yay assbot is back. I had forgotten until I already sent command.
14:06 shinohai https://i.imgur.com/gOtiYtR.jpg
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14:07 mircea_popescu in other news, http://i.imgur.com/V3BmKlZ.jpg
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14:08 mod6 Alright, wot-sync removed, some other minor changes. Everything resigned and posted for review, enjoy!
14:08 mod6 http://thebitcoin.foundation/v/V-20151014.tar.gz
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14:08 mod6 http://thebitcoin.foundation/v/V-20151014.tar.gz.mod6.sig
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14:08 mircea_popescu nice going mod6
14:08 mod6 ty :]
14:08 mircea_popescu shinohai it has a point, too. reddit is fundamentally this, pretending moos are speech.
14:11 mircea_popescu "James LaFond—a little prick I never much cared for anyhow—is dead, and I am the ghost animating his tottering corpse." << you know, this is pretty typical schizo stuff and im willing to bet the guy kills someone.
14:16 mircea_popescu maybe it's just grieving, who's to know.
14:17 mircea_popescu no country for old men, huh ?
14:17 mircea_popescu strangely, somehow, no one seems to notice THAT is the premier, perhaps the only appeal of crypto.
14:20 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298614 << o hey, check him out!
14:20 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 12:13:40; punkman: "French governt endorses #Blockchain tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's this prize davout?
14:20 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298629 << lol another one!
14:20 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 13:30:20; nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is the best one
14:21 phf (gabrielradio is presumably gabriel_laddel in mobile mode)
14:21 * mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has to decide whether he goes to nobel ceremony for b-a person or oscar prize for b-a person because hey, assholes don't understand they gotta deconflict schedules for b-a.
14:21 mircea_popescu phf it's what i thought too but seems not.
14:22 phf huh!
14:23 mircea_popescu "I know they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
14:23 mircea_popescu what the everliving fuck. closing down "status of women" offices is a fucking must for women's rights.
14:23 mircea_popescu and capitalizing that shit is a lot more fucking bigoted than saying obama is just a slave put there to do his white master's bidding.
14:26 mircea_popescu ". There's a legitimate concern that sauntering into a polling booth dressed like something out a low-budget nightmare might actually be trivializing or mocking the experience of those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse) as part of their religious devotion"
14:26 mircea_popescu no there fucking isn't. "trivialization" is never a legitimate concern.
14:26 mircea_popescu the people pretending otherwise are also not legitimate people. ask for their fucking legitimations, the matter's not resolved by simply being there.
14:29 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298657 << she';s most efficient looking for widow's whisp berries atm i suspect :D
14:29 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 14:19:04; diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
14:31 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298674 << "believe". there's two kinds of believe, the "pepsi is best pepsi that saves women's rights" believe and the "sit on a pineapple" believe.
14:31 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 15:31:01; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298611 << 'general population' will believe just about anything
14:31 mircea_popescu no point confusing them.
14:31 mircea_popescu usians will say anything and believe nothing.
14:42 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298698 << depends if she ever posted tits. that usually makes the cut >D
14:42 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 16:05:20; davout: asciilifeform: is it really that noteworthy that a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
14:43 mircea_popescu "Most of that development is iterative rehashes of what everyone else has already done, though. This is a red flag to me. Social networks, messaging systems, click analytics, GIS frameworks for click analytics, and lots of other things called "analytics" but really boil down to adtech, adtech, adtech, adtech, and some more adtech, and marketing campaigns about campaigns about adtech."
14:43 mircea_popescu with the mention that it's not tech. it's voodoo.
14:43 mircea_popescu so unless one';s willing to go "timecube is astrotech astrotech and some more astrotech", one shouldn't so refer to "click analytics" and the rest of that shit.
14:46 shinohai http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uosc-cbm101315.php <<< Once I went to a funeral (Jewish) and joked to my cousin that "He is in heaven with Jesus now". May as well have said the holocaust never occured.
14:46 assbot Cultural blunders make people better thinkers | EurekAlert! Science News ... ( http://bit.ly/1X4etaI )
14:50 mircea_popescu "The elephant in the room being that the ad market is falling apart because it isn't worth anything near like what we imagined. If views were what mattered it would be impossible for Twitter to be in such trouble, Arstechnica be struggling to maintain its editorial standards, or sites like Huffington Post and Forbes to be forced to display clickbait panels and load 40 ~ 70 third party plants per page load."
14:50 mircea_popescu quite.
14:54 mircea_popescu A hilariously low percentage of tech investment targets the SMB market (aiming instead at huge business, the web, and the consumer electronics tie-in (the only interesting part of the list)) <<< yeah, it's not JUST bitcoin that the VC circus misdirected the usg into losing out of.
14:54 mircea_popescu this one will kill it, of course, but even if it didn't, even without it : usg had been tricked by usg.vc into missing out on pretty much everything. even fucking obvious things like small biz.
14:56 shinohai I'm going to paint "Dumb ideas and bankrupt companies" onto a briefcase and dress up as a VC for Halloween.
14:57 trinque that's pretty good
14:57 mircea_popescu nb.
15:04 shinohai At first I though of making a giant paper-machie forhead and going as Vitalik Buterin, but it kept collapsing. :/
15:04 shinohai *forehead
15:04 mircea_popescu lmao
15:04 mircea_popescu papier-mache does not make a suitable replacement for pressed shit.
15:05 shinohai I'm certainly nowhere near fat enough to be Gavin.
15:08 shinohai https://i.imgur.com/Ur3Wf73.jpg <<< kek
15:08 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1X4ijRh )
15:16 phf last year i did travis bickle for halloween, complete with haircut, which had a nice bonus of being a big fuck you to the firm i was working for. apparently it's fine to have purple hair if you're an agile manager, but not so much a "warhawk" for a project architect.
15:16 phf http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/51/af/bb/51afbbec842a18006aa399b4d40bbd5a.jpg << for reference
15:16 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1X4jNej )
15:20 phf shinohai: i think you want these if you're trying to buterin, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BLWW8A
15:20 assbot Amazon.com: EARS LARGE PLASTIC: Clothing ... ( http://bit.ly/1X4kqoc )
15:25 mircea_popescu i dun get why you'd want to big fuck you the firm you work for.
15:26 shinohai lmao phf .... makes me actually want to make a Buterin costume.
15:34 mircea_popescu "To illustrate this, consider the latest issue containing an article, "Power Hour." It describes an impromptu experiment on the world's powerful (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz) that unfortunately failed to show the intended result, namely, that he's a jerk.
15:34 mircea_popescu The fact that the experiment failed didn't stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz as a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
15:35 mircea_popescu via http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/05/the_new_yorker_writes_about_po.html
15:35 assbot The Last Psychiatrist: The New Yorker Writes About Power ... ( http://bit.ly/1X4mU5T )
15:35 mircea_popescu what has changed in 7 years ? oh... the new yorker went out of business.
15:35 mircea_popescu and whoever took over's paying less for the copywriting and even less for the artwork.
15:35 mircea_popescu and otherwise... let's do a test to see if it comes out the way we want it to here it is it did!!11
15:36 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> << who is this and why would anyone care..? << Person who sold out to Denton for minimal cash and a life time of being trolled by his media child
15:40 phf mircea_popescu: i was being childish, but also under a lot of stress. at that point they didn't quite believe me that i really am only staying on long enough to wrap up the projects i was responsible for. the haircut cut off any attempts to bring me into meetings with new clients. in any case not my proudest moment, but it was my best halloween costume so far.
15:41 mircea_popescu usually how this works :D
15:42 mircea_popescu "not my proudest moment in retrospect, but hot damned that time i stripped naked and jumped in the pool was the greatest party ever!" said many a tall beauties.
15:42 phf ahaha
15:44 mircea_popescu whadda ya do for a living now, anyway
15:46 phf helping out a friend on his project ~3 days a week or so in a last authority on technical decisions role.
15:47 mircea_popescu what, you're retired ?
15:49 phf that's one way of putting it, except i don't have enough leverage to last me to the end, so technically no
15:50 mircea_popescu so you're basically a nigger in prison (ie, timed out by the failures of this world!!1) except not actually black.
15:51 phf that's a much better way of putting it, yes
15:51 mircea_popescu so why don't you do something ? here's alf bending over the task of routing circuits in the blockchain implemented in ada
15:51 mircea_popescu and here's phf sitting around wondering what's for dinner.
15:51 mircea_popescu is this fairness i ask you ?
15:53 asciilifeform l0l
15:54 mircea_popescu worst run sharashka ever.
15:54 phf well, this is eye of sauron kind of operation
15:54 mircea_popescu what's that ?
15:55 phf whenever mp notices a problem, there's a active search for a solution
15:56 phf i'm basically following along the logs, looking for things i can pick up and work on. last one i saw was memory limits in nursery
15:56 mircea_popescu flattering, but noit that accurate.
15:56 asciilifeform phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved.
15:56 mircea_popescu not that the strategy per se is bad, following the log.
15:57 mircea_popescu but i am positive that either mod6 or alf could give you huge chunks to do, if you're mostly into that. prolly mod6 more swamped tghan alf atm, even.
15:58 asciilifeform e.g., http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298782 needs a good test.
15:58 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 18:08:21; mod6: http://thebitcoin.foundation/v/V-20151014.tar.gz
15:58 mircea_popescu there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
15:58 mircea_popescu and othjers.
15:58 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: actually i'll fess up to being a good chunk of the way into both of the above
15:59 mircea_popescu ofcourseyouare.
15:59 asciilifeform but this does not mean that other folks ought not to do it!
15:59 asciilifeform as in 'v'
15:59 mircea_popescu which is why i dun wanna encourage your heretic renaissance-orchestra-man ways by attaching more talented young folk to your crazylab.
15:59 asciilifeform l0l aha.
15:59 mircea_popescu fits in head, i suspect, is just your bait and switch to make the world "fits in ass".
15:59 asciilifeform !s arse safe
16:00 assbot 2 results for 'arse safe' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=arse+safe
16:00 mircea_popescu why do you want to rectally insert the creation, alf ?
16:00 asciilifeform ^ key feature!
16:00 asciilifeform the old saw, 'you own only what fits in one hand while firing with the other' is not applicable if using two-handed weapon. because then, you own only what fits in head (and arse...)
16:01 mircea_popescu aha
16:02 asciilifeform ;;seen artifexd
16:02 gribble artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 24 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
16:02 mircea_popescu myeah been a while.
16:02 asciilifeform fella's logged in...
16:02 mircea_popescu yo artifexd ... how goes ?
16:03 asciilifeform 'отряд не заметил потери бойца и яблочко песню допел до конца' (tm) (r)
16:03 mircea_popescu heh
16:04 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved. << the only problem that EVEN BENEFITS from a different approach is childbearing.
16:04 mircea_popescu and the different apporoach is not on the part of the buggerers either, they still work nights and weekends with bare...
16:05 mircea_popescu hands.
16:06 asciilifeform go and fab cpu 'nights&weekends with bare hands.'
16:07 mircea_popescu sometimes i think b-a is really the mental process of a nutty old guy
16:07 mircea_popescu keep[s having the same arguments with himself.
16:07 mircea_popescu incidentally this'd be the way to write the b-a book.
16:07 asciilifeform 'the dreams of cthulhu'
16:09 mircea_popescu not even. "The Retired Life of Mr. Boody Wallen."
16:09 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298621 << call me skeptic, but wake me up when gurlz carry shroom snuffboxes instead of cosmetic cases !
16:09 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 12:49:26; punkman: http://boingboing.net/2015/10/13/this-tropical-mushroom-gives-w.html
16:10 mircea_popescu call me crazy, but the most often heard HONEST response to "would you like to cum ?" is no.
16:10 asciilifeform how's that wurk
16:10 mircea_popescu women, sane women in sane situations, don't generally want another orgasm.
16:10 mircea_popescu because it's exhausting.
16:10 asciilifeform life is exhausting
16:10 mircea_popescu not paroxistically.
16:10 phf so gossipd is "in progress", but fella's not been heard from in a very long time. gpg has not been started, but ascii presumably has a lot of ideas about it. then there's pie in the sky projects, like fabricating own cpus or rsa over udp routers.
16:11 mircea_popescu phf notice that the gossipd thing was specced, the pgp one has not.
16:11 mircea_popescu and i am pretty certain the specwork for it will involve fireworks.
16:11 asciilifeform phf: 3 of these 4 are well underway right here.
16:12 asciilifeform i suppose i spoiled 'v' a month before publishing, and no one noticed it, so perhaps i ought to 'spoil' this one
16:12 shinohai If help is still needed cleaning or writing some crap for the wiki I may can help.
16:13 mircea_popescu shinohai A LOT of that is needed on teh eulora wiki, at that.
16:13 asciilifeform the - presently nameless - pgptron - is simply an emulator for a very simple but imaginary computer which performs arbitrary arithmetic on bignums.
16:13 phf and then there's always bitcoind source, which is infinite rabbit hole. i'm studying the source by rewriting chunks in cl, and the more i learn, the more i know i don't know
16:13 asciilifeform a 'public key' is simply a snippet of code for this 'computer'
16:14 asciilifeform ditto private.
16:14 mircea_popescu yarvin will be pissed.
16:14 asciilifeform there are no hardcoded implementations of ciphers, or hashes
16:14 asciilifeform these are carried in the 'keys'
16:14 mircea_popescu the entire fucking point nsa even sponsored his nonsense is that it might perhaps prevent this manner of looking on asym crypto.
16:14 asciilifeform 'v' is the bullet in the head for shithub et al;
16:15 asciilifeform 'p' (draft title) - for the old pgp.
16:15 shinohai keep forgetting to rejoin #eulora, never added to autojoin
16:15 asciilifeform i could say more, but why ruin ~all~ of the surprise.
16:15 phf g is presumably ascii's gossipd version
16:16 asciilifeform whole thing is a few 100 lines of c. (not entirely tested yet, so i will not say precisely how much it weights.)
16:16 asciilifeform *weighs
16:17 asciilifeform for some exposition of the general approach, see also my ancient article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=309
16:17 assbot Loper OS » No Formats, no Format Wars. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DG9cuX )
16:17 shinohai Any news on when our friend phuctor might return asciilifeform ?
16:17 asciilifeform shinohai: when i find a place to put it.
16:17 mircea_popescu darn was going to get a quote
16:17 mircea_popescu ;;seen naphex
16:17 gribble naphex was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 10 hours, 24 minutes, and 35 seconds ago: <Naphex> mircea_popescu: yep; i'm waiting for a mail from him should come later on today
16:17 asciilifeform shinohai: so far, nothing satisfactory. i continue the search.
16:17 shinohai kk thanks
16:18 asciilifeform would ~strongly~ prefer to put it in a place i can physically touch, but mircea_popescu does not much like this approach, iirc he said 'dont wanna trade with the enemy'
16:18 mircea_popescu im still hopeful might manage to get a colo'd box there.
16:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you can touch it just as soon as you get out of nazi state.
16:18 * asciilifeform makes stone face, like stierlitz in '17 moments of spring'
16:19 mircea_popescu lol
16:19 shinohai I can't offer any such help as I too am under the thumb of the SS.
16:20 trinque ship shinohai out on the barge
16:20 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-10-2014#905048 << for reference.
16:20 assbot Logged on 31-10-2014 02:48:16; asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKuatNrLHLY << with english translation in 'show more' box
16:23 * asciilifeform bbl
16:24 nubbins` add BBC News to the list o.O
16:27 mircea_popescu hehe. are you a celeb nao nubs ?
16:37 mircea_popescu zxq9@zxq9.com host mx10.mailspamprotection.com [184.154.208.34] SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data
16:37 mircea_popescu clearly, "email filtering has gotten so good of late"
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16:53 shinohai Jeezus mircea_popescu you weren't kidding about the eulora wiki.
16:54 mircea_popescu aha.
16:54 mircea_popescu !up PeterL_out
16:54 mircea_popescu o.O
16:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13439 @ 0.00047733 = 6.4148 BTC [-] {2}
16:57 mircea_popescu !up PeterL
16:57 mircea_popescu assbot had netsplitted.
16:57 PeterL http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298437 << oil is made of hydrocarbons, carbohydrates are things like sugars
16:57 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 00:23:57; mircea_popescu: this is exactly what it sounds like : oil is a mix of carbohydrates, you sort this by mass and cut it into slices.
16:57 PeterL just nitpicking
16:58 mircea_popescu a right.
16:58 mircea_popescu not much oxygen in oil.
16:59 PeterL unless your "oil" comes from a US gas pump and is filled with oxygenates like ethanol
16:59 mircea_popescu aha.
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17:50 brg444 did bitderp story get pulled from Qntra?
17:52 BingoBoingo Which one?
17:53 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2015/10/troubled-bitpay-signs-up-gaming-platform/ ???
17:53 assbot Troubled BitPay Signs up Gaming Platform | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1NdrfiG )
17:53 BingoBoingo Ah, deedbot didn't catch it
17:53 trinque was absentee due to some freenode fart; just brought it back
17:56 Duffer1 g2a is the sketchiest bullshit
17:56 Duffer1 brand new AAA games at 80% off day of release
17:56 Duffer1 "we're legit"
17:58 brg444 my bad the recent one, would be bitreserve/uphold
17:59 brg444 their fiat "rebranding"
18:01 BingoBoingo I don't remember that one
18:05 brg444 aaa found it. stumbled on it today ... from 2014 http://qntra.net/2014/10/bitreserve-holds-your-bitcoins-as-fiat/
18:05 assbot Bitreserve Holds your Bitcoins as Fiat | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1NdrJoP )
18:10 brg444 veteran scammer Halsey Minor sells 5000 BTC worth of IOUs into his fiat bank, today claims one of "Bitcoin's biggest company"
18:14 shinohai rofl
18:14 brg444 Minor, too, predicts that bitcoin as a currency “will get destroyed.” He likens the coin’s current market cap—about $3.7 billion—to “an accounting mistake or rounding error that Bank of America makes.”
18:14 brg444 http://fortune.com/2015/10/14/bitreserve-bitcoin-uphold/
18:14 assbot Bitcoin Startup Bitreserve Changes Name and Moves Beyond Bitcoin - Fortune ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ndsb6o )
18:16 brg444 "22% of the world's publicly traded bitcoin has been transacted on our platform in less than 11 months"
18:16 brg444 what the fuck does that even mean
18:16 pete_dushenski wash trading
18:17 pete_dushenski http://www.dfs.ny.gov/banking/agree_symphony_09142015.htm << crytolulz
18:17 assbot NYSDFS - Banking - September 14, 2015: NYDFS Reaches Agreements With 4 Major Banks on New Symphony Chat & Messaging Platform ... ( http://bit.ly/1NdsePI )
18:17 pete_dushenski cryptolulz*
18:17 pete_dushenski "The four banks will store duplicate copies of the decryption keys for their messages with independent custodians (i.e., custodians not controlled by the banks)."
18:18 ben_vulpes ahahaha
18:18 pete_dushenski why the fuck even bother with 'end-to-end encryption'
18:18 ben_vulpes "operate in us? can't use crypto."
18:19 pete_dushenski if you're just going to hand the unencrypted emails over the second the nydfs comes aknockin'
18:19 shinohai They like making you *feel* secure.
18:19 pete_dushenski how in the fuck did the nydfs even manage to negotiate this ?
18:20 pete_dushenski actually, if i were goldman, i'd use 'symphony chat' for 'clean tawk' and pgp for 'dirty tawk'.
18:21 pete_dushenski "here you are officer, i think you'll find this correspondance regarding the weather in peru to be in order"
18:21 deedbot- [BitBet Bets Bets] 4.99990000 BTC on 'Yes' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b38
18:22 pete_dushenski correspondence*
18:23 pete_dushenski see, without good ol' deedbot- i'd have forgotten entirely about that eth bet.
18:23 pete_dushenski how is that scam doing these days ?
18:24 pete_dushenski oof. down 19% today to 0.0019
18:24 pete_dushenski 'yes' is looking tempting isn't it.
18:25 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298978 << what's sketchy about a gaming platform whose users want to suck its dick, all nice and sloppy like ? http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Trustpilot-Id-suck-your-dick-all-nice-and-sloppy-like.png
18:25 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 21:56:25; Duffer1: g2a is the sketchiest bullshit
18:25 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1NdsBK6 )
18:26 brg444 jays just got jobbed
18:27 pete_dushenski orly ? missed the game.
18:27 brg444 live rite now
18:27 brg444 people throwing beers on the field and stuff
18:27 BingoBoingo Eh, baseball season ended last night
18:27 pete_dushenski what happened ? it's in toronto iirc
18:27 pete_dushenski brg444 ^
18:28 BingoBoingo lol https://archive.is/ac3ed
18:28 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1NdsK0i )
18:28 brg444 refs made a terrible call on awarding a free run to the plate on a botched pitch back to the pitcher
18:29 brg444 appeared to have called the play off then awarded the point on review. now checking out the replay, again.
18:29 pete_dushenski ooo drama
18:30 brg444 someone's getting ejected soon
18:31 brg444 BingoBoingo about STL sports team, Gurley is entertaining
18:31 BingoBoingo He is
18:31 BingoBoingo Tre Mason can eat a dick though. Wasn't for that asshole Mizzou would have had an SEC Championship.
18:32 pete_dushenski @GreggZaun: Try to keep it classy Toronto. The WORLD is watching << bahaha. shut the fuck up zaun. you're a has-been and your little world and everyone you know doth not make up any ~useful~ fraction of the world extant. but whatever, enjoy your time in the sun, however brief it may be.
18:33 pete_dushenski the WORLD watches WORLD CUP
18:33 pete_dushenski that's it. not the olympics, not the 'world' series, nothing else. football.
18:33 pete_dushenski and cripes, not the american kind either.
18:34 BingoBoingo The card's elimination from the playoff wouldn't be so bad if it came at the hands of any team other than Shitcago
18:34 pete_dushenski ahh chicago. i remember the days of frank thomas like they were yesterday.
18:35 pete_dushenski now ~that~ man could hit a ball, pre-juice too (or before widespread use at least)
18:35 BingoBoingo Frank Thomas was with the OK Chicago team.
18:35 BingoBoingo There was probably juice around then too, I mean Jose Canseco. Thomas though was a genetic freak.
18:36 pete_dushenski i have a soft spot for genetic freaks in sport.
18:36 pete_dushenski lebron, tiger, bolt, etc. those 'supermen'
18:37 pete_dushenski the ones that 'don't make sense'
18:37 brg444 i get the same feelings watching Odell Beckham launch 45 inches in the hair grabbing footballs one handed during pre-game
18:38 BingoBoingo Right. But the Cards were eliminated by the fucking Northside Pedobears https://archive.is/oD37c
18:38 assbot 19ckws9y9dr7yjpg.jpg (636x358 pixels) ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ndt3Iq )
18:38 shinohai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299012 <<<lawl
18:38 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 22:25:37; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298978 << what's sketchy about a gaming platform whose users want to suck its dick, all nice and sloppy like ? http://www.contravex.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Trustpilot-Id-suck-your-dick-all-nice-and-sloppy-like.png
18:38 brg444 lebron the most impressive specimen I've seen
18:40 brg444 nh
18:41 pete_dushenski brg444 i remember watching him for the first time, while in a hotel room in mexico as it happens, during his senior year (of high school!) in the slam dunk competition. he was simply monumental. and i remember saying "watch out for this kid" without really knowing jack shit about pro bball
18:42 brg444 yep. was unheard of. kid was probably pulling more ratings on ESPN then this baseball game on now as a senior.
18:44 brg444 it's a shame he's such a doofus though. mentality he is amateur at best. doesn't understand how to be great
18:44 brg444 MJ did
18:45 * BingoBoingo remembers when MJ was my favorite minor league baseball player
18:46 brg444 :o
18:46 brg444 he was ass though
18:47 brg444 that speaks to why he was so great though: dude had such an ego he thought there was nothing he couldn't do.
18:47 pete_dushenski baseball update: so weird rangers run counted. jays look to come back in bottom of 7th, bases loaded, 1 out.
18:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13000 @ 0.00047463 = 6.1702 BTC [-] {2}
18:55 brg444 oh wow
18:58 pete_dushenski 6-3 jays. grand salamie.
19:00 brg444 na, was actually 2 people on bases
19:00 brg444 people in toronto going nuts
19:01 pete_dushenski Frank Thomas @TheBigHurt_35 This is the craziest inning of baseball I've ever seen!! <<
19:01 pete_dushenski brg444 aha. my bad.
19:02 brg444 I've lost track of time but it seems this one inning has been going on for the last hour
19:06 shinohai http://imgur.com/a/D4A0n <<< You guys had ur 40x6 cm dildo today ?
19:06 assbot futabu dildo - Album on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1jpcnE8 )
19:08 pete_dushenski "The relationship of intelligence and intelligent behavior has been the topic of recent debates, yet understanding why we call certain actions stupid irrespective of their cognitive abilities requires the understanding of what people mean when they call an action stupid. To study these questions empirically, we analyzed real-life examples where people called an action stupid."
19:09 pete_dushenski while i could think of worse and less hilarious topics for one's phd...
19:10 pete_dushenski wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ? as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
19:11 pete_dushenski while pretty much everyone is stupid is ~some~ ways, this doesn't imply that there aren't vast disparities between the shades of gray.
19:12 pete_dushenski yes, tlp is a smart dude, but no, he couldn't wrap his head around the concept of independence.
19:12 pete_dushenski for his daughter, at least.
19:16 pete_dushenski likewise, obama is smarter than your average nignog, but he can't negotiate himself out of a paper bag, much less prevent his 'country' from spiralling from despondency on downwards. in fact, if he were smarter, he'd be accelerating the process at every opportunity. instead, he just drags his dumb heels in the sand his father was born in.
19:17 pete_dushenski might as well get it over with, burn the mess down already. but no, too stupid. too much 'hope'.
19:24 ben_vulpes lol bye pete
19:25 brg444 *drops mic
19:25 ben_vulpes obama doesn't actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
19:25 ben_vulpes it's just the wwe yearly belt competition
19:36 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i suppose they could bid for a eulora copper merchant position like anyone else.
19:37 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298986 << what exactly did the guy do to be veteran ?
19:37 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 22:10:00; brg444: veteran scammer Halsey Minor sells 5000 BTC worth of IOUs into his fiat bank, today claims one of "Bitcoin's biggest company"
19:38 mircea_popescu oh the cnet dude nm
19:39 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299006 << me sees this, goes orly ? goes and checks, sure enough 0.00204816 BTC (-15.62 %)
19:39 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 22:21:57; deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 4.99990000 BTC on 'Yes' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b38
19:39 mircea_popescu niggas stealin' ma bitbetz!
19:42 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299054 << michael jackson ?!
19:42 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 22:45:37; *: BingoBoingo remembers when MJ was my favorite minor league baseball player
19:44 mircea_popescu http://imgur.com/a/D4A0n << im sure every internist in audience is thinking that's just about the size of an impacted shit.
19:44 assbot futabu dildo - Album on Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1jpcnE8 )
19:45 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299071 << more like smart people do stupid shit all the time and often enough it happens that you're impressed with something someone does only to discover they "did it" by pure coincidence later on.
19:45 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 23:10:19; pete_dushenski: wtf is this 'irrespective of their cognitive abilities' nonsense ? as if everyone in the world were equally stupid, and therefore equally intelligent, and therefore had equal rights and so on and so forth ?
19:45 mircea_popescu tis a problem.
19:45 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Jordan. During those two years he had to leave Basketball over those gambling debts
19:46 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299074 <<< re that quote, in fairness and on re-read it could be said he sort-of gets it. maybe. lotta effort it takes, too
19:46 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 23:12:54; pete_dushenski: for his daughter, at least.
19:46 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo you mean aids ?!
19:46 BingoBoingo Nah, that's Magic Johnson
19:47 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1299079 << and the american husband doesn't have the mandate to put wife on knees. of course he doesn't, except if he takes it, in which case he does. because this is kinda how this shit works.
19:47 assbot Logged on 14-10-2015 23:25:18; ben_vulpes: obama doesn't actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
19:47 mircea_popescu reagan didn't have the mandate to send the airline union packing. it went packing. roosevelt had no mandate to confiscate people's currency, or to redefine currency, or to fuck up the justice system.
19:48 mircea_popescu and for that matter he had as much mandate to start a war as lincoln did.
19:48 mircea_popescu it specifically says "you don't have mandate to start wars, unless you do."
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20:11 mircea_popescu first!
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20:26 mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/07/academics_hide_drug_company_pa.html << this shit is so on point...
20:26 assbot The Last Psychiatrist: Academics Hide Drug Company Payments ... ( http://bit.ly/1NI78Mn )
20:26 mircea_popescu "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything, those re
20:26 mircea_popescu sults were coming no matter what, those publications were already going to be written.
20:26 mircea_popescu The money isn't corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not a scientist, he's a priest.
20:26 mircea_popescu He starts out as a young academic. He lands a spot in a research group that studies X, so he studies X, later he branches out into X+Y, or goes to Z, etc, eventually he finds himself a niche. And he believes in that niche, he believes in his data, no matter what it says. You can't convince him he's wrong because it isn't science and it isn't even a bias-- it's identity.
20:26 mircea_popescu That's how an entire nation of psychiatrists could have been deluded into prescribing Depakote for maintenance when the data itself says not to do it. It's belief, not money, "we believe bipolar is a kindled disorder..." Hell, if Harvard believes it, what chance do the rest of us have?"
20:27 asciilifeform and this is not even remotely limited to pharma.
20:27 mircea_popescu has 0 to do with pharma. where usg goes, the usg.problems go.
20:28 mircea_popescu wherever there's two ustards, there's ustardation, aka this sort of narcisiac neurosis.
20:28 asciilifeform btw 'bipolar as kindled [as per 1950s theory of epileptic fit origins] disease' comes entirely from one thing:
20:28 mircea_popescu heck, the fucking "expat" group in costa rica had it./
20:28 asciilifeform antiepileptics tend to be 1) infinitely polymorphable into patentability 2) lobotomize patient into quiescence
20:29 mircea_popescu yes, obviously, "antiepileptics for everything" aka "everything to do with the brain will be fixed by fucking with these neurotransmitters" comes from exactly this fertile field.
20:29 mircea_popescu and the entire "everything wrong is really wrong with the brain" ie "not criminality but imbalance" so on and so forth are only superficially an ideology matter, ie "humanism" run amok us style.
20:30 asciilifeform but i will note the overall ~direction~ of usg psychiatry.
20:30 BingoBoingo antiepileptics tend to work on ion channels, antipsychotics/antidepressants fuck with neurotransmitters
20:30 mircea_popescu fundamentally, they're exactly driven by this tecxh
20:30 mircea_popescu technological happenstance.\
20:30 asciilifeform much the same as that of sov психушка
20:30 mircea_popescu this discussion exactly mirrors yesterdauy's discussion about diesels.
20:30 asciilifeform there ~were~ dopaminergics.
20:30 mircea_popescu the "regulators" had 0 to do with it. while the refinery process poured out diesel fuel, you were gonna run diesels.
20:30 mircea_popescu while petrochem pours out depakote, you're gonna fucking feed people depakote and stfu.
20:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not really the case here. petrochem had equally easy time pouring out dopaminergics as it does neuroleptics
20:31 mircea_popescu notrly.
20:32 mircea_popescu see, the uppers risk cascading.
20:32 mircea_popescu the downers just make people stfu and sit down.
20:32 asciilifeform naturally
20:32 BingoBoingo Depakote was popular because drug companies made conditions for the insurance companies to pay for it.
20:32 asciilifeform usg would rather have a herd of depressives than manics, yes
20:32 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo but they only did that because it was accessible.
20:33 BingoBoingo Before Depakote, it was seroquel, after depakote it was Zyprexa
20:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not even usg related. it is CHEAPER.
20:33 mircea_popescu \that's the considerationb here.
20:33 asciilifeform cheaper to manage the depressives ? certainly
20:33 asciilifeform to make the pill? nope.
20:33 mircea_popescu no. cheaper to make these than those. cheaper to prescribe them. cheaper to take them.
20:33 mircea_popescu in the very lowest sense of it all. cheaper in adp terms.
20:34 BingoBoingo Psychiatry swings in an antipsychotic-antiepileptic-antipsychotic-antiepileptic pattern for bipolar
20:34 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo these aren't different.
20:34 mircea_popescu psychiatry is being a slut while pretending she's having amorous complications.
20:34 mircea_popescu it still fucks the same dude every night.
20:34 asciilifeform is PeterL around ? let's look at the synthesis for either.
20:34 BingoBoingo Sure, but they switch around condom brands
20:35 asciilifeform i don't see anything in the structures that would suggest a substantial difference in cost per kg.
20:35 asciilifeform of, e.g., 'depakote' vs dextraamphetamine
20:35 mircea_popescu asciilifeform your argument will reduce to something like "making 1950s bachelite and fuel oil is '''cheaper''' than making diesel and wd40". this is equivalent to saying "z80 is cheaper to make than pentium 3". both are incorrect.
20:35 mircea_popescu pentium 3 is ACTUALLY cheaper to make than z80 ever was.
20:35 asciilifeform z80 is absolutely cheaper.
20:35 mircea_popescu not so.
20:35 mircea_popescu "absolutely" is a meaningless term. yes, you think it exists. good for you.
20:36 asciilifeform unless one goes 'but no one is tooled for it'
20:36 mircea_popescu but outside of your pinning it down, it does not exist.
20:36 mircea_popescu aha.
20:36 mircea_popescu it's not that "no one is tooled for it". it's that theyre not TOOLABLE for it. and if they WERE, it'd be expensive.
20:36 mircea_popescu consider home cooking. it is ABSOLUTELY the cheapest way to feed a fambly.
20:36 mircea_popescu except, not.
20:36 mircea_popescu there isn't this "absolutely" .
20:37 deedbot- [Trilema] Chez Cocus, or the Argentinian Chorus - http://trilema.com/2015/chez-cocus-or-the-argentinian-chorus/
20:37 mircea_popescu in the world where women cook as a matter of course, cooking is MORE EXPENSIVE than in the world where cooking would be "absolutely" less expensive but women would kill themselves if you allowed them in a kitchen
20:38 mircea_popescu does this coallesce into sense on your side ?
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20:59 mircea_popescu speaking of nothing related, anyone recall the original patrick naughton trial ? compuserve exec, flew to La to meet a 40yo FBI agent that had been posing as a 13 yo girl in a dads&daughers sex chatroom. hung jury : all women voted to convict ; all men voted he;s innocent.
21:00 asciilifeform hung != acquit
21:00 mircea_popescu somehow THAT gender gap doesn't figure too prominently in "feminist" discourse today
21:01 mircea_popescu but i think it informs, subconsciously, ALL of it.
21:01 asciilifeform re: previous thread: i get the hypothesis, but it falls apart re: z80 specifically. as it is... still made. and is about $5 in qty.
21:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform iirc he went to work as an exeprty in fucking teens for the fbi afterwards.
21:01 mircea_popescu so yes, it did.
21:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform $5 does not describe the price.
21:02 mircea_popescu see my bottles of wine. also $5. or, less.
21:02 mircea_popescu pentium costs $0.
21:02 asciilifeform wai wut
21:02 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2015/chez-cocus-or-the-argentinian-chorus/ <\
21:02 assbot Chez Cocus, or the Argentinian Chorus on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1PhCREx )
21:02 asciilifeform in the sense of go-dig-up-from-the-skip ?
21:02 asciilifeform yes, $0
21:03 mircea_popescu in the sense of, "put on provision slip, sign, costs nothing"
21:03 mircea_popescu go, put z80 on the list.
21:03 asciilifeform how does it 'cost nothing' ?
21:03 asciilifeform pray to god, he drops a pallet down ?
21:03 mircea_popescu suppose you're in soviet russia.
21:03 mircea_popescu if you want a Tatra truck, ask for it.
21:03 mircea_popescu if you want a general motors truck ?
21:04 mircea_popescu your wife's cunt costs 0. teen poon costs... how much does it cost ? as alf says "might as well me from mars."
21:04 mircea_popescu what company you ever heard of had a debate over "windows licensing costs" ?
21:04 asciilifeform this is handy for the present day but does not explain how the pieces on the board got to where they are
21:04 mircea_popescu "hey, maybe we should use linux, it's cheaper". sure, as a red herring for "red hat", which is not linux.
21:05 mircea_popescu well, they got to where they are through a succession of present days.
21:05 mircea_popescu you familiar with the mathematical sleigh of hand called "induction" rite.
21:05 asciilifeform incidentally, for the two kinds of dope picked for this comparison, the packaging and distribution costs dwarf the actual cost of producing the pill
21:05 mircea_popescu i show today and tomorrow and i won.
21:05 mircea_popescu aha.
21:05 mircea_popescu which is why we strictly ignore it.
21:05 asciilifeform so what was cheaper on day 0 ?
21:06 mircea_popescu a club.
21:06 mircea_popescu you familiar with this, yes ? the romans kept going "why would someone farm when he could heroicly steal women and shit ?!?!?!"
21:06 asciilifeform aha
21:06 mircea_popescu so then.
21:07 mircea_popescu the fundamental problem of reality is that for things to work, things don't actually have to work.
21:07 asciilifeform except where they do.
21:08 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3326 @ 0.00047798 = 1.5898 BTC [+]
21:08 mircea_popescu which is just another restatement of "people are insane" which is pretty much the oldest observation in the book that everyone keeps restating self-importantly and lo, it's voltaire! it's nietsche! it's existentialism! it's your grandmother vigin! etgc
21:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform they never do. that's the problem. by the time the war is lost, the people who lost it are dead. that's the thing.
21:09 mircea_popescu yes the people that won won. but this means nothing in context.
21:09 mircea_popescu ofcourse they were gonna win etc.
21:09 * asciilifeform is palpably confused
21:10 mircea_popescu look, let's go at it this way. in your own private experience, as a witness, how many times did a horde of idiots on some idiot forum know better than me ?
21:10 mircea_popescu i'm still here, they as individuals are not. but they as group are still here. perhaps to outlast me.
21:10 asciilifeform as per the 'infinite hitpoints' article from mircea_popescu's www, aha
21:10 mircea_popescu the idiot can not lose, because by the time he's lost he's gone. where's the neobee schmuck ?
21:10 mircea_popescu not around, that;s where.
21:11 asciilifeform or my personal favourite 'cockroaches will inherit the earth'
21:11 mircea_popescu so in this sense, there is no "unless it does". yes, they'll die.
21:11 mircea_popescu they'll die anyway.
21:11 mircea_popescu things are only meaningful to those capable to perceive meaning, and this ALREADY means not-them.
21:11 mircea_popescu in aother formulation.
21:12 mircea_popescu if multiverse, and if in ALL possible verses picking a on X quesdtion results in annihilation, this means exactly nothing. the a pickers aren't in any way different from the non-a pickers.
21:12 mircea_popescu "oh, the end of their world is visible from our world". a) no, it isn't ; b) so ?
21:16 mircea_popescu in a very amusing (to me) twist, this is actually in the fucking patristics (the wanna-be mishnah of xtianity). "your reward be not of this world" etc.
21:16 asciilifeform i thought that was a standard 'jam tomorrow'
21:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24100 @ 0.00047798 = 11.5193 BTC [+]
21:17 mircea_popescu so you did.
21:17 mircea_popescu but if there's one criticism that can not be put at the feet of the scholasticis, it is superficiality.
21:18 mircea_popescu it's a very plain statement that dunning-kruger, and consequently, the reward for being not an idiot is not accessible in idiot terms.
21:18 asciilifeform this - yes.
21:18 mircea_popescu this for some reason has to be stated.
21:19 asciilifeform hell, this was even in (pre-braindamage) paul graham
21:19 asciilifeform in his 'blub' article.
21:19 mircea_popescu generally it is a common mark of middling sanity.
21:20 asciilifeform http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html << it.
21:20 assbot Beating the Averages ... ( http://bit.ly/1LbsH4p )
21:20 mircea_popescu but back to our point of interest : your expectation that "z80" and "pentium" costs can be meaningfully compared breaks down.
21:20 mircea_popescu when they can be compared, z80 loses. where they be meaningfully compared, common ground breaks down.
21:21 mircea_popescu so - efficient markets, yes. but only if markets. and there's no guarantee everything you imagine can be a market.
21:21 mircea_popescu this is trivially understood either through geometry or high physics. there are fewer things than you can write equations for.
21:22 asciilifeform recall the crashing flashlight ?
21:22 mircea_popescu aha.
21:23 asciilifeform and yes, cost is not a scalar. but as someone who actually buys things i am led to partially differentiate. i.e. if i personally need max cpu ~quantity~ for my personal bag of money, i will be buying z80.
21:23 mircea_popescu and if you want maximum sploodge for your penis you buy brunettes.
21:23 mircea_popescu what of it ?
21:24 mircea_popescu art is art.
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21:40 nubbins` sez u
21:43 mircea_popescu LOL
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21:52 BingoBoingo Oh, nubbins` the celebrity is back
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22:15 BingoBoingo lol
22:29 mircea_popescu haha
22:29 mircea_popescu how much for autogripes ?
22:30 BingoBoingo !t m s.butts
22:30 assbot I haven't understood a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
22:30 BingoBoingo ^Free
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22:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20450 @ 0.00047259 = 9.6645 BTC [-]
22:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14150 @ 0.00047556 = 6.7292 BTC [+]
22:57 BingoBoingo shinohai: You around?
22:57 BingoBoingo Or anyone else who wants to cut their teeth on a qntra story?
23:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21778 @ 0.00047742 = 10.3973 BTC [+] {2}
23:05 mircea_popescu "If you ever do find yourself working for a startup, here's a handy tip for evaluating competitors. Read their job listings. Everything else on their site may be stock photos or the prose equivalent, but the job listings have to be specific about what they want, or they'll get the wrong candidates." << this is actually very much correct.
23:06 mircea_popescu "we don't care what the unknown animal sounds like. what does it eat ?"
23:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: this misses a fairly big chunk of reality, where hiring is not done publicly but through meatwot
23:06 asciilifeform esp. in small firms
23:07 mircea_popescu aha.
23:07 mircea_popescu but you know WHO they hired.
23:07 asciilifeform how?
23:07 mircea_popescu ok.
23:07 mircea_popescu but I know who they hired.
23:07 asciilifeform only if you have a mole
23:08 mircea_popescu i've seen many skins, i've yet to meet one without a single mole on it.
23:08 mircea_popescu investigation continues.
23:18 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-10-2015#1299118 << would be entertaining to hear more of this
23:18 assbot Logged on 15-10-2015 00:28:18; mircea_popescu: heck, the fucking "expat" group in costa rica had it./
23:18 BingoBoingo Seriously if anyone wants a ready packed "My First Qntra Piece" http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/market-news-detail/12538849.html
23:18 assbot Investment in Factom - London Stock Exchange ... ( http://bit.ly/1k63f7o )
23:19 mircea_popescu not really too much to tell. buncha old dudes who couldn't really afford to live in the states [to their expectations], hitting the casinos and the 5 foot nothing whores of san jose.
23:19 asciilifeform aka 'brass pole in bangkok'
23:19 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6942 @ 0.00047797 = 3.3181 BTC [+] {2}
23:19 mircea_popescu except cheaper.
23:20 asciilifeform but where's the 'ustardation' ? all i see thus far is poverty
23:21 mircea_popescu in the pretense.
23:21 mircea_popescu seriously, if all yhou have are "not enough money to be a retired midwestern mobster" what you do is go south and try to pretend ?
23:22 asciilifeform pretense how? is the refrigerator box a hobo lives in a pretense of a house ? or merely the only house he can afford
23:22 mircea_popescu here's the thing : cargo cult is what savages / pacific islanders / subhuman monkeys do as a reaction to exposure to actual hjuman beings and their civilisation.
23:22 asciilifeform but how is this a cargo cult? what i'm seeing is a very small but functioning airplane
23:22 asciilifeform vs one of sticks and mud
23:24 asciilifeform 'Factom's software allows companies to maintain a permanent, time-stamped record of their data tied to blockchains, reducing the cost and complexity of conducting audits, managing records, and complying with government regulations. n the financial services industry, Factom tools let customers build transparent accountability systems for the financial industry, helping clients build immutable records that can be synced and shar
23:24 asciilifeform ed among multiple parties. The validation and verification tools let the client audit these transactions in real time or run more sophisticated business process analysis of systems in the future.'
23:25 asciilifeform 'blockchains'
23:26 * asciilifeform is mildly curious re: whether this flavour of nonsense even pretends to physically exist, as product, or is straight bezzle laundry
23:27 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Story is in Crowdfunders are now recast as "software licensees"
23:27 asciilifeform lulzy
23:27 asciilifeform advertise 'we sold ten tonnes of meat', but no reason to mention what % is maggot
23:28 BingoBoingo Low hanging, yet not particularly urgent fruit for anyone who wants to try their hand at a qntra
23:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16879 @ 0.00047798 = 8.0678 BTC [+]
23:39 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24950 @ 0.00047259 = 11.7911 BTC [-]
23:43 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9332 @ 0.00047259 = 4.4102 BTC [-]
23:55 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27650 @ 0.00047512 = 13.1371 BTC [+]
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