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00:04 deedbot http://www.contravex.com/2016/08/11/the-sorts-of-questions-scandinavian-journalists-ask-about-maidsafe-answered/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The sorts of questions Scandinavian journalists ask about MaidSafe, answered.
00:14 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518776 << halifate has own problemz.
00:14 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 03:53 mircea_popescu: go to eeurope, better deals and marginally less retarded peoplez.
00:15 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518772 << hey , those chix are luscious
00:15 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 03:50 ben_vulpes: lol is that the first mircea_popescu imglink with no actual nudity?!
00:16 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518777 << cokeman's cokecastle is wired for ethernet! mega-modeeern..
00:16 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 03:57 mircea_popescu: well, since i've already done non-nude, let's do non-coke. http://www.4tuning.ro/bloguri/ganduri-octanice/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/72832.jpg
00:17 asciilifeform aand what's in the green 'gogo' ?? mircea_popescu ?
00:20 mircea_popescu shitty alcoho-gel
00:20 asciilifeform wai
00:20 asciilifeform would anyone
00:21 mircea_popescu there is much you don't know, young alf.
00:28 mircea_popescu and in other news, romanian pua in effect : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuXxIrarHEc
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00:55 danielpbarron http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518720 << bwahaha i have irc logs dating back to 2004 ! there is, preserved in cd-rom, a record of the transformation of me from atheist to christian
00:55 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 00:58 mircea_popescu: (dunno who for instance recalls 2012 back when "logging irc" was "a bad idea" by "community agreement". freenode would still hold on to that idiocy hadn't it died meanwhile.)
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06:29 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2016/08/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-tmr/ << News Roundup Xtend (TM)(R) will iterate every week where nothing independently important happens but where the accretion of nothings may offer some lols
06:29 BingoBoingo Next edition will be News Roundup Xtend 2 (TM)(R) followed by News Roundup Xtend 3 (TM)(R) etc.
06:34 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/08/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-tmr/ << Qntra - Not Quite News Roundup Xtend (TM)(R)
06:39 BingoBoingo http://theralphretort.com/breaking-hillarys-handler-carrying-auto-injector-syringe-anti-seizure-drug-diazepam-8007016/
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08:03 mircea_popescu diazepam is not "anti seizure drug". it's just about valium, ie, housewife popcorn.
08:03 mircea_popescu $rated gabriel_laddel
08:03 deedbot mircea_popescu rated gabriel_laddel 2 at 2015/04/11 14:35:30 << almost a year later, he got a larger chunk of exercise ball down his gullet than anyone i know of.
08:04 mircea_popescu $rate gabriel_laddel 2 McClim & stuff
08:05 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: It is indeed used that way. Works on the GABA system.
08:05 * deedbot hands you a broomstick.
08:06 mircea_popescu da fuck deedboot!
08:07 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo sure, and alcohol is "an alternate green fuel"
08:07 mircea_popescu $rate gabriel_laddel 2 "McClim & stuff"
08:07 deedbot Get your OTP: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/2df769b2-154d-4eeb-912d-ea537b27349b/
08:07 mircea_popescu trinque ^
08:08 BingoBoingo Well most things that break seizures work as housewife popcorn.
08:08 mircea_popescu $v 8A30C0809960E3CFEF2B791E665096AB45D61141568F9CC58FC3435D48B53B2D
08:08 deedbot mircea_popescu updated rating of gabriel_laddel from 2 to 2 << "McClim & stuff"
08:09 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo look, the woman ain't got no seizures. she's got a habit, left over from the days she was stuck in scandal cast playing kerry washington (created by shonda rhimes).
08:10 BingoBoingo Well seizures are a benzodiazepine withdrawal symptom, goes with the habit.
08:10 mircea_popescu (for the concerned watchers : i googled "scandal" looking for that idiotic talk show where some old douche keeps being oh-so-amazed at teenage sluts and whatnot. this worked.)
08:11 mircea_popescu danielpbarron so consider publishing it. you got a blog neh ?
08:12 mircea_popescu "Coinbase has continued their apology and solvency tour " bwahahaha mkay
08:13 mircea_popescu ftr this is a good idea bb.
08:13 BingoBoingo It's time. Last week lots of good news. This week just fallout and noise mostly related to last week.
08:14 BingoBoingo And its been discussed for a while without opportunity appearing.
08:16 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518811 << folks with habit, take pillz, not bloke with syringe at the ready in public
08:16 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 12:09 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo look, the woman ain't got no seizures. she's got a habit, left over from the days she was stuck in scandal cast playing kerry washington (created by shonda rhimes).
08:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this "folks" is a 70+ yo woman.
08:17 asciilifeform what of it
08:17 mircea_popescu why the fuck do you think prince died as a ball consisting half of psychoactives by mass ?
08:18 mircea_popescu habits have this habit of running away from you.
08:18 mircea_popescu she's had the habit for 40+ years.
08:19 asciilifeform p was morphinist iirc
08:19 asciilifeform like goring.
08:20 mircea_popescu contrary to what you imagine, there's not really that vast variety of substances.
08:20 mircea_popescu there's uppers and there's downers. add "nothings" a la caffeine/nicotine etc and that;s just about it.
08:20 asciilifeform well yes.
08:21 mircea_popescu it's not alice's wonderland where the potions actually are fascinatingly unknown.
08:21 asciilifeform not outside of the late alex shulgin's basement at any rate
08:21 mircea_popescu just like when you pop the cover off some program you either find javascript or c.
08:22 asciilifeform it remains fact, that handler with battlefield trauma injector is not a sop part of whatever habit.
08:23 asciilifeform there is, interestingly, another possible explanation for the photo. injector like this (actually two, one being the very same diazepam) are part of u.s. army response kit for organophosphate war gas.
08:25 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Micheal Jackson had cardiologist for getting high? Why would Clitler not have Neurologist?
08:25 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: 'get high' is typically done off stage ?
08:26 BingoBoingo ONE HAS TO MAINTAIN THEIR BUZZ!!!!
08:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you think this because you live in your cave.
08:27 mircea_popescu every "rockstar" with a habit i've ever encountered had one of these.
08:27 asciilifeform with syringe loaded in one hand, following the 'star' around, publicly ?
08:28 asciilifeform link to even one photo ?
08:28 mircea_popescu now, the ancients didn't think it wise to have blind emperor ; why the postmoderns imagine it acceptable to have figurehead with habit...
08:28 asciilifeform hey it 'worked' for hitler !1111
08:28 mircea_popescu suppose i get hold of her and keep her in a room for half a day ? what then ? "i can't recognise the person i voted for!!!" ?
08:28 mircea_popescu idiots.
08:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform link to even one photo of your mom's cunt or else you weren't ever born!!11
08:29 mircea_popescu social convention prevented publication of plenty of material for many years.
08:29 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> with syringe loaded in one hand, following the 'star' around, publicly ? << Autoinjector is not mere syringe. Preloaded just like star is.
08:29 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i know what it is, had one in my desk for some years
08:29 mircea_popescu lol!
08:29 mircea_popescu and you're not even a president!
08:29 asciilifeform it came with the desk
08:29 BingoBoingo lol
08:29 BingoBoingo Boring epipen or something else?
08:30 asciilifeform pralidoxime iirc.
08:30 asciilifeform inherited with the office.
08:31 mircea_popescu lol what, in case someone farts real bad ?
08:34 mircea_popescu in entirely unrelated and broadly uninteresting news, https://archive.is/K6glt
08:39 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: the fella with the flashlight appears to be pointing to the other handler, re where to stand
08:40 asciilifeform not to clitler.
08:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: antidote was from previous inhabitant of the desk, who did field tests
08:40 mircea_popescu aha.
08:41 asciilifeform incidentally, sov gensecs had a dude with diazepam injector follow them around. but the thing was not for gensec, but for crowd bozos rushing at him
08:42 asciilifeform there was a public incident where yeltsin had some old hag run out at him and she got needled
08:42 asciilifeform (if anyone has handy link - phf ? - post plox.)
08:44 mircea_popescu not unreasonable, though not sure i'd use diazepam. why not ketamine, watch them go all weird lol.
08:44 asciilifeform same reason why not knife.
08:45 mircea_popescu anyway, propofol is the right move for the purpose. but w/e.
08:45 asciilifeform you also dun want to generate a corpse.
08:45 asciilifeform whole point is quiet and deniable removal of hooligan etc.
08:45 mircea_popescu needn't be deniable. need be humiliating, need cause memory loss.
08:45 asciilifeform (propofol has narrow therapeutic window)
08:45 mircea_popescu sure. how long do you need ?
08:46 asciilifeform humiliating - have intruder seized and publicly horsewhipped
08:46 mircea_popescu the attacker being belligerent outside of his kill zone is an asset to you, not to him.
08:46 asciilifeform modern rulers do discreet/deniable/quiet, not humiliating/educational.
08:46 mircea_popescu can then leak youtubes of "crazy person"
08:47 asciilifeform anaesthetic won't produce 'crazy flail'
08:47 mircea_popescu hence why i wouldn't use diazepam. god gave you propofol / ketamine for a reason.
08:47 asciilifeform again, narrow therapeutic window, corpse is likely
08:48 mircea_popescu not bloody likely, no.
08:48 asciilifeform spring-loaded injector !
08:48 mircea_popescu and if your security team needs more than 5 minutes you need a new security team.
08:48 asciilifeform no adjustment for weight of 'patient' --> corpse
08:49 mircea_popescu no dude. that's how it works with lone redditard in his forsaken den. if some guy just rushed your subject, he's in the middle of a media blitz and the ambulance is right there.
08:49 mircea_popescu he'll be fine, if ventilated.
08:49 asciilifeform why not curare then.
08:49 * asciilifeform pictures ss agent with blow dart gun
08:49 mircea_popescu cuz i culturally dislike the subculture.
08:49 mircea_popescu ie, "god didn't give you curare, it gave it to those monkeys."
08:50 asciilifeform wai wat subculture, the indians ?!
08:50 mircea_popescu anything south of mexico, im discovering.
08:50 mircea_popescu i think the earth makes people stupid here.
08:51 * asciilifeform looks at globe, verifies that usa, where stupidity is manufactured and shipped elsewhere, is north of equator
08:52 mircea_popescu the south americans at their peak are scarcely qualified to import us made stupidity. that's why they're so proud when they manage.
08:52 mircea_popescu heck, do you know that their favourite part of the us (to the point of scarcely even knowing other parts even exist) IS MIAMI ?
08:52 asciilifeform betcha 9/10 orcs' favourite city in usa is miami.
08:52 mircea_popescu da fuck is wrong with them.
08:53 asciilifeform because that's where orcish quislings get (or at least in imagination, in jam-tomorrow promise) retired to.
08:53 asciilifeform for their services.
08:53 mircea_popescu dfu
08:53 asciilifeform not, understand, in the flesh
08:53 mircea_popescu dude... a shitty place with hot wet weathert and a bunch of old farts in "gated communities".
08:53 mircea_popescu it's like ohio-arkansas.
08:53 mircea_popescu im sorry, did i misspell arkansaw ?
08:54 asciilifeform ciskensaw.
08:54 BingoBoingo Miami is just St Louis with beaches
08:54 BingoBoingo minus winter
08:56 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: an orcish quisling who weights, even in his own mind, anything, tends to be an older fella already
08:56 asciilifeform at the time of his quislinging
08:56 asciilifeform and what do you expect him to yearn for but 'warm place to shit and six types of sausage in the store'
08:56 mircea_popescu dude forget that. chicks with no practical hope to anything selling shoes in shitty shoe store aspire to go to miami.
08:56 mircea_popescu "bitch, why" "oh it's so great"
08:57 asciilifeform diffusion from orc media.
08:57 mircea_popescu must be.
08:57 mircea_popescu where orc media = word of mouth.
08:57 asciilifeform the shoe chick is not target audience, no.
08:57 asciilifeform for miamism.
08:57 mircea_popescu "what mom overheard while doing the cleaning in so-and-so's house who was talking on the phone to her highschool friernd who is married to the brother of the undersecretary of trabajo"
08:58 asciilifeform how else.
08:58 asciilifeform https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/08/12/feds-indict-two-alphabay-vendors-distribution-conspiracy-charges << moar lelz
08:58 asciilifeform 'encrypted email address' !!111111111111
08:58 mircea_popescu they're insane with the gossip, by the way. do you know how often i see this scene where woman is talking the ear off posted policeman, who is doing his best to politely ignore her ?
08:58 mircea_popescu just about daily occurence.
09:01 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518874 << 'therapeutic window' refers to the diff b/w a 'therapeutic' and fatal dose.
09:01 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 12:45 mircea_popescu: sure. how long do you need ?
09:01 asciilifeform not duration.
09:02 asciilifeform ok this is gold:
09:02 asciilifeform 'Law enforcement was able to investigate postal records and discover that Almashwali had purchased the postage for the two heroin packages. Farooq was apparently involved in “other mailings.” During the investigation, law enforcement officials were able to discover that the encrypted email address associated with the Area51 AlphaBay profile was linked to social media accounts. When they recovered the email’s password they disco
09:02 asciilifeform vered the same password was used for other online accounts. The documents specifically mention Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook – all three of which link back to Farooq. It’s concerning that this was considered an OK practice. Although unconfirmed, Reddit users who have purchased heroin from both vendor’s claim that both men use the same return address.'
09:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform eh get out of here. ketamine ld50 is like half a gram/kg. propofol 1/10 that. in either case you can't pack enough of the stuff in a shot to kill anyone.
09:05 mircea_popescu that's why they're used in the first place, inept nurses don't kill patients with them.
09:05 asciilifeform in what hospital are there nurses with ketamine ?
09:05 mircea_popescu most surgery wards ?
09:05 asciilifeform not in usa (at least, not outside of army)
09:05 mircea_popescu it's a fucking essential medicine.
09:05 mircea_popescu so ?
09:07 mircea_popescu autoinjector shot is what, maybe a shade over 2ml ? which includes the carrying fluid. insufficient to kill a lapdog.
09:08 asciilifeform at any rate is still seems like an odd choice for 'inject crowd bozo', you still get a limp, not flailing, man
09:08 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Ketamin used in us hospitals increasing as alternative to general anesthesia because lolwyers
09:08 * mircea_popescu recommends experimental assay, 8:1 mix of ketamine/propofol in solution.
09:09 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i hear it's pretty great if you like watching the surgeons work on yer guts
09:10 mircea_popescu they give you an ipad, you'll never even know you were there.
09:10 asciilifeform (not to be confused with the other typical american 'anaesthesia' where you get to ~feel~ all of the cuts, but cannot move or speak to complain)
09:10 mircea_popescu "dude i finally passed that hard level in bubble casino" "How ?" "manned up and got that castration procedure wife kept wanting finally"
09:11 mircea_popescu "now she can go off the pill, and i have an elite highschore!" "sweet!"
09:11 asciilifeform dulap!111111111
09:19 phf ahaha, i know people with such ridiculous k tolerance, i'd like to see cops shoot at them
09:20 mircea_popescu lol, ketamine bbs.
09:20 mircea_popescu (fwiw, historical romanian guard types did fire large gauge shotgun loaded with salt at kids/thieves/etc)
09:21 phf right right
09:21 phf some grandma shooting k at kids
09:21 mircea_popescu low powder load ; salt corns. it is actually surprisingly effective.
09:24 phf also miami is where da clubs at, it's like a trashier, "let's go to the beach" version of new york club scene. let's have merlin bronques say a few words about it http://www.lastnightsparty.com/miami/
09:24 mircea_popescu no but that's exactly my point.
09:25 mircea_popescu typical argentine has all the pretense of small time german krownprinz and all the sabiduria of rural south cali gangster.
09:30 mircea_popescu http://www.lastnightsparty.com/another1/slides/8Y0A2813.JPG << looks just like medellin, colombia or what.
09:30 mircea_popescu (also, props to all the genius "DRM" nonsense they installed. fucking clearly it works huh.)
09:33 phf well, terry richardson popularized the style of photography. sort of trashy "amateur" photography with good lighting, vomit and tits. it all looks a lot more polished when you're shit faced
09:34 mircea_popescu the tits are superb, btw, best silicone i've seen in a while.
09:35 mircea_popescu but they ran out of blondes in the us huh.
09:36 mircea_popescu http://www.lastnightsparty.com/another1/slides/8Y0A2858.JPG << this is EXACTLY how Old Whore looked at that age : a transvestite prostitute.
09:37 asciilifeform this was what, vampire masquerade ?
09:37 mircea_popescu http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02131/_Cristina-Kirchne_2131773b.jpg << AOW, ftr.
09:38 phf i think blonds are out at the moment, everyone wants a quirky hipster brunete, miami only makes it worse with all the latinos. i know a few blonds that actually color their hair. it's trully barbaric age up here.
09:38 mircea_popescu http://www.lastnightsparty.com/another1/slides/8Y0A2881.JPG << ahaha lol oops, i take it back. they got blondes. from 1970. check out the ex trophy wife!
09:38 mircea_popescu phf and this because kim totally fucking won the assculture war.
09:39 asciilifeform related: https://cryptome.org/2016/08/christopher-rokos-notice.pdf ( http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/92815419-4294-4356-a38c-6a3e318f3bba/?raw=true )
09:39 mircea_popescu i know of no us-born individual of similar accomplishment as that armenian.
09:40 phf hehe, to answer asciilifeform's question from long time ago, you want wife like kim, so when you go to da club all the hoes look like your hubby
09:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nuts, vet bills > clothes for kid ?
09:40 asciilifeform i have deeply nfi
09:40 asciilifeform whole thing is a riot
09:41 mircea_popescu "I have to say that I do not find it very ediffying that people in this financial bracket should be taking up a day of court time over a sum which to them, though not to others, is objectively so small. However, agreement has not been reached and I must rule." << HOLY SHIT
09:41 mircea_popescu judge can't spell, and has the unmitigated audacity to say THAT ?
09:41 mircea_popescu i'd fucking call a hit. what the fucking shit is this. omfg.
09:42 mircea_popescu how can these people live ?
09:44 mircea_popescu the indignity. illiterate peronista judges. is there enough alcohol in the "civilised world" ?
09:44 BingoBoingo Do they actually live?
09:44 mircea_popescu what a fucking outrage.
09:47 mircea_popescu http://www.lastnightsparty.com/another1/slides/8Y0A3739.JPG << dude... really ? is that actually intended as an insult ?
09:48 mircea_popescu http://www.lastnightsparty.com/another1/slides/8Y0A3931.JPG << ahahahaha ok, this shit's epic. check out the milliONEaire!
09:48 mircea_popescu thanks phf, i have been entertained by last night's party
09:49 * mircea_popescu will find this joint one day, give a girl a five and ask for change.
09:52 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo mind if i write a qntra detailing justice holman's breach of the european declaration of human rights and other matters ?
09:53 BingoBoingo go for it
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10:11 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/93f0f96d-0681-4407-84eb-853db928df97/
10:12 BingoBoingo ty
10:14 mircea_popescu (note the sheeps at end is intentional, because ships)
10:19 BingoBoingo What of the man worth 1 pence who sues for a whole pound?
10:19 mircea_popescu i imagine he gets it by default.
10:20 mircea_popescu (it is not technically possible for a man's claims to exceed his wealth, because wealth includes the value of all claims by definition)
10:21 BingoBoingo Well, in that case, those Argentine cowsies you are so fond of have it all
10:21 BingoBoingo Maybe they can get NEW cardboard to further advance their claims!
10:22 mircea_popescu totally.
10:22 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all
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10:23 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/08/brexit-fallout-illiterate-british-justice-enacts-breach-of-european-declaration-of-human-rights-into-british-legal-precedent/ << Qntra - Brexit Fallout : Illiterate British Justice Enacts breach of European Declaration of Human Rights into British Legal Precedent
10:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2016/08/brexit-fallout-illiterate-british-justice-enacts-breach-of-european-declaration-of-human-rights-into-british-legal-precedent/#comment-67011
10:25 mircea_popescu nice! thanks asciilifeform for the tip!
10:25 mircea_popescu and plox notify the parties named in that paste BingoBoingo . twitter, email, w/e.
10:28 BingoBoingo The ones from the story or is there another paste?
10:29 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2016/08/brexit-fallout-illiterate-british-justice-enacts-breach-of-european-declaration-of-human-rights-into-british-legal-precedent/#comment-67013
10:31 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo the one alf linked, i know no other.
10:31 BingoBoingo ah
10:31 BingoBoingo There was also the one the story came in
10:31 mircea_popescu well yes, lemme fish it out
10:32 mircea_popescu https://archive.is/Q7K60
10:33 BingoBoingo ah, k
10:35 mircea_popescu $up gabriel_laddel
10:35 deedbot gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
10:35 mircea_popescu how goes ?
10:35 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: working.
10:35 mircea_popescu good for you.
10:35 gabriel_laddel phf: is your logging engine open source / can it be so that we can have less shit logs on #clim?
10:35 gabriel_laddel phf: there is no search right now and it makes the whole development cycle hellish
10:36 mircea_popescu lol. you heard the man phf ; gotta have your tool.
10:36 mircea_popescu whether os or not os needn't be resolved ; but gabriel_laddel should be able to acquire a copy i say!
10:37 asciilifeform last night trinque posted his
10:37 gabriel_laddel ben_vulpes: do you have an intern who wants to make a couple hundred bucks here and there writing CL for McCLIM?
10:37 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I want the wwwtron
10:37 mircea_popescu damn we still need that jobs thing.
10:37 gabriel_laddel ben_vulpes: if so, have him drop into #clim and talk to beach, who is handling fundraising / distributing funds atm
10:38 mircea_popescu what, in like...fiat ?
10:38 gabriel_laddel ya
10:39 gabriel_laddel he is currently paying jackdaniel several thousand out of pocket to help
10:39 mircea_popescu yeah but i mean... why handle donations in shitcoin in the first place.
10:39 gabriel_laddel because some of us need fiat to eat
10:39 mircea_popescu that may be, but this is scarcely a reason to breach your privacy and etc.
10:40 mircea_popescu whose job is it of the usg's what jackdaniel gets paid and from whence it came ?
10:40 gabriel_laddel I'm not in charge of fundraising, talk to beach re this.
10:40 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: First round sent https://twitter.com/BBoingo/status/764109211705802752
10:40 gabriel_laddel also, jackdaniel is a pleb / etherhuffer (at least politically, and I really appreciate his work on mcclim)
10:40 mircea_popescu ok, so he can get paid in ethereum, what of it.
10:40 gabriel_laddel ... anyways
10:41 mircea_popescu importing bitcoin into your financial affairs works its magic just by being a node ; doesn't have to be the whole process. actually, can't even be whole process, that's gavintardism. but yeah, no big deal.
10:41 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo worx.
10:42 * BingoBoingo will need to dust off copy of "spam like a pro in 24 hours"
10:42 gabriel_laddel were I in charge of fundraising, I'd not be doing it as an anon anyways but rather calling syscog, ravenspack etc and trying to get donations in the 10ks rather than pocket change, but w/e
10:42 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel hey, they're people, with a brain right ? can benefit from discussion of this as any other topic.
10:43 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: that's one perspective. another is that I'm extrodinarily lucky that they're doing anything useful on mcclim at all
10:43 mircea_popescu yeah, i can see that one :)
10:43 gabriel_laddel there have been discussions of re-implementing it on top of the web, ncurses etc
10:43 gabriel_laddel have had to quash them as best I can
10:43 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: for my edification, plox to summarize what, exactly, you lot have done to mcclim
10:44 mircea_popescu hey, understand, i'm not knocking you/it or anything. jus' sayin'.
10:44 asciilifeform (you have a spiffy www but the clim looks much as i found it in 2007)
10:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform best i could tell they... started.
10:44 mircea_popescu half the job right ?
10:44 asciilifeform but started ~what~
10:44 mircea_popescu ah. that. well...
10:44 mircea_popescu im curious too, turns out. started what gabriel_laddel ?
10:46 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: redid the website, removed all the crap backends, gas2serra fixed a threading bug that caused irritating visual artifacts, I went through the whole of the CLIM archives and pulled out all the useful info, the codebase has been totally re-ordered, truetype is now the default, bugfixes relating to not pulling in the correct X keyboard
10:46 gabriel_laddel configuration after a setxkbmap change...
10:46 asciilifeform truetype?!~
10:46 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel but what's the goal or how are you proceeding or anything like that ?
10:46 asciilifeform what happened to 'do WHOLE MOTHERFUCKING STACK of graphics henderson-style' ?
10:46 gabriel_laddel ya
10:47 gabriel_laddel don't worry about it, I'm taking care of it
10:47 gabriel_laddel one thing at a time
10:47 asciilifeform of what ? rewriting truetype in cl ?
10:48 gabriel_laddel No. Cutting X/cario/opengl/truetype out of the picture completely.
10:48 asciilifeform i dun even recall tt being ~in~ the picture in '07.
10:48 gabriel_laddel talking directly to the monitor / whatever and implementing CLIM on that.
10:48 asciilifeform used to be just x
10:48 asciilifeform (and readily substitutable with any raster display)
10:49 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel could probably get a considerable head start on clim cleanup just by unwinding version by a decade
10:49 asciilifeform sorta like we did with trb.
10:49 gabriel_laddel The fonts look like shit without truetype and that makes it impossible for me to make money using CLIM.
10:50 asciilifeform you already cannot make money with it, the athena widgets look like dog barf
10:50 gabriel_laddel on my dead harddrive there is a bunch of half-implemented useful things like clim-spec-in-clim, the "navigator" which is a reflective search apropos, I've taken climacs and made it usable for day-to-day work...
10:50 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I am already paid to make money with it
10:51 asciilifeform i suppose in abstract you can 'make money' with anything
10:51 gabriel_laddel am installing masamune for a client (by hand) right now
10:51 phf oh for fucks say, client side font rendering. welcome to 2002, can i fuck up your stack
10:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform dude...
10:51 asciilifeform but folks who will eat athena will eat fixed font also.
10:51 phf gabriel_laddel: have you tried actually getting some quality type 1 fonts and setting them up ~with your x server~ and seeing if you like the result
10:52 gabriel_laddel phf: no.
10:52 gabriel_laddel X has to die, this is non-negotiable
10:52 gabriel_laddel all of the business that I do inbetween now and then is simply churn to get there
10:52 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: keep in mind that a 'replacement for x' that doesn't do the same job is not a replacement.
10:52 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel opengl too ?
10:52 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: yep.
10:53 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: which is to say, if i cannot connect over network to machine across the planet and have the window FILL THE ALLOTED SPOT on my display, CORRECTLY, 'replacement' is junk.
10:53 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel huh. listen, probably not actionable right now, but in general and on the long term if you write me a crystal space replacement in lisp ima definitely bundle it in eulora.
10:53 asciilifeform ditto if it insists on transmitting whole video frames.
10:53 phf asciilifeform: i don't know why gabriel_laddel is saying what he's saying. truetype has already been rewritten in lisp, and that's what mcclim uses for fancy truetype rendering. it's expensive as hell, and equally pointless.
10:53 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the difference between your spec and my spec should be obvious. is it ?
10:53 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: you're going to be waiting a while in any case, so I wouldn't get to worked up about it.
10:54 phf last time i checked there wasn't cairo/freetype/etc. in mcclim to begin with
10:54 asciilifeform ^
10:54 asciilifeform phf: possibly it got inserted because the unusably slow thing were thrown out ?
10:54 phf asciilifeform: or possibly gabriel_laddel doesn't know what he's talking about
10:54 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: yer thing needs realtime 3d iirc.
10:54 gabriel_laddel phf: sorry, what exactly is unclear about what I'm saying?
10:54 mircea_popescu i guess it's not obvious ;/
10:55 mod6 mornin'. many lulz reading this lastnight: http://trilema.com/2016/pisi-dot-ar-y-otras-temas/
10:55 mircea_popescu cheers mod6
10:55 phf gabriel_laddel: you're saying that mcclim has FFI to cairo/freetype/opengl, i don't think that's true, care to link to relevant code
10:57 gabriel_laddel phf: that's not what I'm saying. truetype is in CL. McCLIM is 100% CL. But it /communicates/ with X, which has cario and all this other nonsense integrated with it, and it's causing problems.
10:58 phf gabriel_laddel: cairo is not integrated with X, nor is freetype. both are client side rendering libraries, that send computed bitmaps over the wire
10:58 gabriel_laddel there is no meaningful way to interrogate the X server about its state, so when it crashes (and it does from time to time), it really gets in the way of the whole lispm experience
10:59 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: i'm looking forward to seeing what happens when you wake up and realize that this applies to the entire linux.
10:59 mircea_popescu phf he means you can't use them without x, integrated.
10:59 asciilifeform and not merely x11.
10:59 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I have woken up and realized this?
11:00 asciilifeform has not, apparently, fully sunk in yet ?
11:00 gabriel_laddel but I need a stable platform from which to redesign computing from the ground up
11:00 gabriel_laddel and run the various simulations that I have to run
11:00 asciilifeform 'stable platform' is linux box on which you cad new iron.
11:00 gabriel_laddel yaya
11:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform wouldja let people live their lives!
11:01 phf gabriel_laddel: first mistake is to do so much pointless rendering on the client. from the few minutes of talking, it's quite clear that you're prepared to walk the path of "linux on desktop" to the same result
11:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: hey, i didn't show up at fella's house with megaphone.
11:01 mircea_popescu you two make miserable fathers, let it be stated in the permanent record.
11:01 asciilifeform 'salvation of the drowning is work for the hands of selfsame drowning'
11:01 gabriel_laddel lol
11:01 mircea_popescu whatever wisdom one has is divided in two categories : that which must be asked for ; and that which needn't be.
11:02 mircea_popescu maintain this distinction.
11:02 gabriel_laddel phf: I intend to do away with the whole notion of "client & server" in rendering for CLIM
11:02 gabriel_laddel function calls and nothing more
11:02 gabriel_laddel though tbh, I plan on paying someone else to do much of this
11:02 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel so who renders, the client or the server ?
11:03 gabriel_laddel neither because those notions no longer exist?
11:03 gabriel_laddel you simply have a CL process that talks directly to the hardware
11:03 mircea_popescu but humour me. in my own terminology, which'd be ?
11:03 asciilifeform and what happens if i want to rasterize on a device that isn't my lcd ? (e.g., printer, phototypesetter, lcd on mars..?)
11:03 gabriel_laddel tough nuggets
11:03 gabriel_laddel you can use the old, shit clim
11:03 asciilifeform terry davis school of thought ?
11:03 mircea_popescu is the cl process that talks directly to the hardware part of "kernel" or part of "user space" ?
11:04 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: it is not yet clear as I don't know enough about the kernel to know if I can do away with the whole "user space" thing.
11:04 mircea_popescu hm.
11:04 gabriel_laddel in the sense you're thinking about things, probably the "user space"
11:05 mircea_popescu well so then do you understand what phf means about "Welcome to 2002" ?
11:05 mircea_popescu $up gabriel_laddel
11:05 deedbot gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
11:05 mircea_popescu you gotta form a habit to voice self you know.
11:05 asciilifeform reminds me of subj in http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3244575386963745@naggum.no.html
11:05 asciilifeform re the 'doing less work'
11:05 gabriel_laddel key is not handy atm
11:06 asciilifeform it is very easy algorithm for 'optimization' - simply declare that a good chunk of the job 'does not need doing' and cut the corner
11:06 mircea_popescu asciilifeform onion link in naggum's message - gone.
11:06 phf gabriel_laddel: i understand your end goal, but the steps that you're taking to get there are going to result in worse design. you'd be better served in understanding clx first, making ~that~ work well by working to its strengths, and then replacing clx with own system. by then you'll have a snappier system and less primitives to write. i highly recommend spinning up VLM/genera and seeing how they do unix interop. it's really quite
11:06 phf elegant
11:07 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: was my interpretation that in 2002 people were dong a lot of client side font rendering?
11:07 asciilifeform the problem is that you have not in fact done the job, but arbitrarily proclaimed that your steer is 'just the same as a bull'
11:07 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel the reason kernel exists is so that random crap doesn't steal your machine.
11:07 asciilifeform 'same but cheaper', plastic gears, want to go there ?
11:08 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: my understanding of the present situation is that the linux kernel is here to stay, as it is a result of the way that the cee machine works, and contains drivers for a bunch of useful hardware
11:08 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I'm not sure what "job" you have in mind, but suspect it is different from the one I have in mind
11:09 mircea_popescu this is debatable. but the fundamental problem with allowing userspace hardware access is that it can cut you loose from your own computer.
11:09 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: 'replace x11'
11:09 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: the msdos-style 'apps will write directly to graphics card' is not a replacement.
11:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform a ms-dos lisp would not, at this point, be a bad machine.
11:09 asciilifeform it can be, in ~your~ head, because you do not use typesetters, or remote displays, etc. and can arbitrarily proclaim that they are 'irrelevant'
11:10 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: until i want to send a pcb print to a laser printer.
11:10 mircea_popescu motherfucker. YOU YOURSELF USE SHIT THAT DOESNT INTEROIPERATE
11:10 mircea_popescu jesus christ.
11:10 mircea_popescu bring this argument again once you're pdf free, ye hear ?
11:10 asciilifeform i use all sorts of junk.
11:10 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: look, if the machines sell, they sell
11:10 mircea_popescu so then stfu and let him use all sorts of junk too!
11:10 asciilifeform the thread is about ~design~ of future junk !
11:10 asciilifeform this is quite separate matter from 'which old junk to use'
11:10 mircea_popescu problem being that you're all done designing yours and are now designing his, too.
11:11 asciilifeform let, then, gabriel_laddel waste half a decade , as i did, learning what he could instead learn in 10min.
11:11 asciilifeform why not.
11:11 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I will note that if someone with sufficent knowledge of x.org stumbles into my life, I'd be happy to pay them to solve the issues CLIM has with it
11:12 mircea_popescu i think the last person who had that locked themselves in a cellar and rages there still.
11:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i'll tell you why not : because until he asks, you can;'t tell.
11:12 gabriel_laddel Terry A Davis wrote a whole graphics system that doesn't communicate with X.
11:12 asciilifeform the part i dispute, gabriel_laddel , is that it is WHOLE
11:12 asciilifeform it is not 'whole graphics system'
11:13 asciilifeform but a cheap imitation.
11:13 gabriel_laddel aha
11:13 asciilifeform a ~whole~ system lets me preserve the semantics of the items to be drawn, for maximally compact transmission over a wire, and rasterizing on a display of my choosing
11:13 asciilifeform with, say, 100,000x100,000 res.
11:14 phf i think the disagreement can be bridged on architectural grounds. i think gabriel_laddel's lack of understanding of clx and ideological refusal to understand it better is going to result in the worse final design. there are examples of x11 done right, that are much easier to port away to native hardware. whether or not "x11" or "no x11" is the final design, basic x protocol provides for a very solid set of ground level elements and also
11:14 phf puts concerns where they matter. (like not requiring client render its own fonts for one)
11:15 phf problem with mcclim is that it went through many 2002 style "for the people" pretifications, that made optimizations, refinment and other aspects of architectural design work much harder than need be
11:15 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: can we table this discussion for the time being? I understand what it is that you're getting at, but you don't have (and nor will you have) a clear picture of exactly what it is that I'm doing.
11:15 gabriel_laddel Also, you seriously underestimate the utility of paying other people to do work for you.
11:15 gabriel_laddel And seem to be adverse to making money.
11:16 gabriel_laddel Which, whatever, to each his own.
11:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the reason i sometimes try to 'wake up' young, excitable folk like gabriel_laddel is that they are not yet at a stage where one made various dead-end design choices , that, now locked into, man enters a sad lifetime of justification and 'just wanted to' and 'only a terrorist would throw out my life's work of library'
11:16 phf ^
11:16 mircea_popescu i don't dispute your goals ; merely your very inept methodology.
11:16 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: i very much do not have a clear picture of what you're doing. other than the one fact that you seem to believe 'write directly to video ram' as 'viable replacement for x11'
11:17 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: if you saw what i do to 'make money' you would barf, and ask for the valium injector from this morning's thread
11:18 mircea_popescu eh this is nonsense. something somewhere will at some point have to write to video ram ; and he's not said much more than that.
11:18 gabriel_laddel exactly. which is why I write CLIM for a living
11:18 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: how's this work, you turned it into dissertation ?
11:18 gabriel_laddel ^ ding ding ding
11:18 asciilifeform who pays ?
11:18 gabriel_laddel the client
11:19 gabriel_laddel I have people waiting on me *right now* to sell them masamune machines.
11:19 gabriel_laddel If I could just get the fking replication working..
11:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the 'most of x11 is unnecessary' is a 20 y.o. heresy, that ends up summing to 'let's do graphics the way microshit does' in all cases.
11:19 mircea_popescu phf define for me the concept of "bridged on architectural grounds"
11:20 asciilifeform i do not want a motherfucking 'desktop'.
11:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i have serious trouble distinguishing him from a young steve jobs, at this point.
11:20 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you mean, a bloke wandering around looking for a woz to bamboozle?
11:20 asciilifeform or some other young stevejobs.
11:20 mircea_popescu if you will.
11:21 mircea_popescu note that the woz didn't make the ipad. so that theory lost a lot since 2002.
11:21 asciilifeform woz, broke in a ditch, made very little afaik.
11:21 mircea_popescu woz without jobs => universal remote. and see also site:trilema.com fred quimby
11:21 asciilifeform without money.
11:22 mircea_popescu wouldja stop with the fetishism ? "without money" == "dumb as rocks" and nothing else. not now, not during roman judaeea.
11:22 asciilifeform (and incidentally i have nfi which, the money, or the stevejobs. but to limit hypothesis to the latter strikes me as hasty)
11:22 mircea_popescu any arbitrary pick of my slaves has more money than jobs had when retook apple.
11:23 asciilifeform herr trump was moneyed even when, on paper, 'no money'
11:23 asciilifeform i am speaking of real-life-no-money.
11:23 mircea_popescu aka "excuse-no-money".
11:24 mircea_popescu or w/e, "meta-no-money", if you'd rather.
11:25 asciilifeform more like 'others see 2nd deriv.(your money) as 0 or -'
11:25 gabriel_laddel Gotta run. If anyone has experience with the levano x61 tablet or some other hardware you really like, do tell. I read all logs eventually.
11:25 mircea_popescu you realise that derivative evaluates on bases other than... your money ?
11:25 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: i have x61 here.
11:25 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: and x60.
11:25 mircea_popescu lenovo ?
11:25 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: aha
11:25 mircea_popescu oh how cute, even dyslexia, check it out.
11:25 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: what do you need to know about either
11:26 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: waiwat
11:26 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: ty. asciilifeform: I think that the rotating screen is spiffy, and would love to stop carrying around a notepad + computer
11:27 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: see logs for thread re x60/61
11:27 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: kk
11:27 asciilifeform iirc i described it in some detail.
11:27 asciilifeform (the 'open' bios is neither open - uses blobs - nor actually works - machine crashes at full cpu load in 100% of case)
11:28 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-29#1418199
11:28 a111 Logged on 2016-02-29 16:55 asciilifeform: so at this point i'm satisfied that rms either 1) does not actually use an x60 machine with 'libreboot' ~~or~~ does not program.
11:29 asciilifeform and if gabriel_laddel wants an x61 he can have mine for the cost of postage.
11:29 mircea_popescu that's nice.
11:29 asciilifeform power brick and pen incl.
11:29 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: "machine crashes at full cpu load in 100% of case" < nevermind then. glad I asked.
11:29 asciilifeform thing is taking up space.
11:30 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: that was x60!
11:30 asciilifeform with 'libreboot'
11:30 mircea_popescu was a whole thing re rms's supposed ideal machine.
11:30 mircea_popescu a lenovo x60
11:30 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: the x61 does not crash?
11:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aha, i reproduced it
11:30 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: neither crashes with vendor bios
11:30 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: does the x61 crash running linux?
11:30 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel the point was that rms made certain falsifiable statements, that alf took the pains to falsify.
11:30 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: nope
11:31 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: spiffy. I'd be happy to pay for postage. Will try and find somewhere to ship it later today
11:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i ended up reversing the vendor bios on x60, or rather, the particular routine that concerned the hardware whitelist, and nopped it out
11:31 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: pgpgram when you do.
11:31 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: preferably here, and not email.
11:32 mircea_popescu incidentally, he might use an older item with a peculiarly functional set of parts. standardization in hardware is kind-of iffy
11:32 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I'm homeless and that isn't really possible atm
11:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nobody uses the stock nic. it was largely the impetus for the bios swap.
11:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: but stock x60 bios did not permit 'illicit' nics.
11:32 mircea_popescu heh
11:32 asciilifeform so i cracked it.
11:32 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: usa post office box is 100bux/yr
11:33 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: it'll be shipped to a friend's place.
11:33 asciilifeform worx
11:33 gabriel_laddel anyways, bbl
11:33 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel you've not actually managed to lose your key, have you ?
11:33 asciilifeform i ain't shipping unless he signs with his $key.
11:34 mircea_popescu myeah.
11:38 mircea_popescu and in other lulz, http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/princess-diana-secret-sex-toy-8615318
11:38 asciilifeform oh mircea_popescu -- https://archive.is/Mvc6x - enjoy.
11:41 mircea_popescu lol cool.
11:42 asciilifeform most pages are not 'so lucky', but that one was cult hit
11:42 asciilifeform my curiosity is piqued by its disappearance
11:43 mircea_popescu and in other "la vie c'est ailleurs" news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/acf990fa23a1a30bad4ca6c6e21af8a6/tumblr_ndu41h5Ot61ttr86so1_500.gif
11:43 asciilifeform also i dun fully grasp her laddel's story
11:43 asciilifeform he has 'clients', is writing dissertation, taking in 1000s in donation, etc
11:44 asciilifeform but is 'homeless' also ?
11:44 asciilifeform how's this wurk
11:44 asciilifeform is on the run, shot the sheriff, or wat.
11:44 mircea_popescu america.
11:44 asciilifeform kokakola, sumtimes WARRRR!11111 etc
11:44 asciilifeform but this? is a first, to me.
11:44 mircea_popescu young fetching fellow living in sunny climate, fucking locals for showers. not that rare.
11:46 asciilifeform when's the last time he $v'd, while we're on subj ?
11:46 mircea_popescu $s "$up gabr"
11:46 a111 20 results for "\"$up gabr\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22$up%20gabr%22
11:46 mircea_popescu hm
11:46 mircea_popescu $s "from:gabriel_laddel $up"
11:46 a111 0 results for "\"from:gabriel_laddel $up\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22from%3Agabriel_laddel%20$up%22
11:46 mircea_popescu apparently...never ?
11:47 asciilifeform looks like 0 ?!
11:47 mircea_popescu im too lazy to dig up the old logfiles.
11:47 PeterL would not be in chan, $up is to deedbot
11:47 mircea_popescu phf you importing those already!!11
11:47 asciilifeform iirc phf has whole set in there
11:47 mircea_popescu $s "from:gabriel_laddel !up"
11:47 a111 0 results for "\"from:gabriel_laddel !up\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22from%3Agabriel_laddel%20!up%22
11:48 mircea_popescu of course... he wouldn't do it in cahn in the first place would he.
11:48 mircea_popescu apparently this needs an actual command, $last_check name or somesuch. looks for the last time someone self-authed.
11:48 PeterL maybe a command could be added to deedbot to return last time verifyed?
11:49 mircea_popescu myeah.
11:49 mircea_popescu actually no - not a command.
11:49 asciilifeform 'FreeNode-#bitcoin-assets.log:Nov 22 01:21:09 * assbot gives voice to gabriel_laddel'
11:50 mircea_popescu trinque can you modify deedbot so instead of "<deedbot> gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes." it says "<deedbot> gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes. Last self-authed on : <timestamp>" ?
11:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: as for deedbot - apparently never.
11:50 asciilifeform not once.
11:50 PeterL ah, that was before B-A/Trilema split
11:50 mircea_popescu well guy went homeless or somesuch.
11:51 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-22#931508 << the logged line immediately after his last known selfvoice.
11:51 a111 Logged on 2014-11-22 06:21 punkman: another fun exercise, trying to install Linux on 3TB disk
11:51 asciilifeform 2014.
11:52 asciilifeform now it is conceivable that he was here when my fiber was down or etc.
11:52 asciilifeform other folks - welcome to grep own l0gz.
11:53 asciilifeform herr laddel would not be the first unlucky fella to lose key and then be 'too lazy to reach for it' for yearz.
11:53 PeterL or too ashamed to admit loss of key
11:53 phf mircea_popescu: i don't have the 2012 ones yet
11:53 asciilifeform which is sad, because by this time he could have rebirthed himself with new key and worked long enough for new key to add up to a man
11:54 mircea_popescu quite.
11:54 phf but otherwise it's to the early days of b-a
11:54 mircea_popescu phf wait, how does this work ? i recall i sent you a batch, or was there a problem there ?
11:55 phf mircea_popescu: i haven't had time to integrate it, my spare cycles were going into bot rewrite
11:55 mircea_popescu ah ok.
11:55 phf (mostly because those logs will have to have negative id's, i assume there are bunch of places, where ids are handled with parse-integer)
11:57 phf i wrote a loader for them though, and they load, eating up another 100mb or so
11:58 mircea_popescu well, now and again the matter will pop up anew.
12:01 trinque mircea_popescu: I'd have to start collecting that information, but yes
12:01 mircea_popescu cool. useful because otherwise...
12:05 asciilifeform re earlier thread, did we ever do http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3144404199547949@naggum.no.html ?
12:05 mircea_popescu iirc yes.
12:05 asciilifeform 'suppose you drive down the highway and you suddenly want to go some nice place you saw just before you pass a forest. you veer off the road, plunge into the wilderness and promptly decide that you need four-wheel drive, a huge cutting device in front of your car, much better shock absorbers, a bigger engine that could actually run on swamp water instead of getting all drowned, and then need an amphibious vehicle to get across the r
12:05 asciilifeform iver on the far side of the forest. you can't get all that right away after you made up your mind to veer off the road, and This Is Surely Somebody's Fault...'
12:05 * asciilifeform digs.
12:06 asciilifeform ...sorta. http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-21#1412522
12:06 a111 Logged on 2016-02-21 21:23 asciilifeform: as described by naggum, http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3144404199547949@naggum.no.html
12:06 asciilifeform at any rate, it is applicable, imho, to herr laddel.
12:06 mircea_popescu yeah, it was part of a discussion of rms/foss/etc ineptitude.
12:07 asciilifeform very, to be fair, easy trap to fall in. 'i just want to y while never letting go of z.'
12:07 asciilifeform 'only a lunatic would suggest that i part with z.'
12:07 asciilifeform 'would have to redesign machine!1111'
12:08 mircea_popescu anyway, i;m deeply unpersuaded of naggum's love for "dynamism"
12:08 asciilifeform 'here, instead i will part with networked displays, which i never used anyway, and shoelaces.'
12:08 mircea_popescu non-static code is rank nonsense.
12:08 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: naggum's 'dynamism' is a very particular thing.
12:09 asciilifeform simply means dispensing with batch compilation.
12:09 mircea_popescu yes. and the reason no allowance for it is made in say v is also very particular.
12:09 asciilifeform as described in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=256 .
12:10 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the two items have nothing to do with one another.
12:10 mircea_popescu his "open car design" is copied exactly off the "no guns" europolicy.
12:10 asciilifeform fella was, incidentally, 'gun nut'
12:11 mircea_popescu "find a better way to do what you want than shooting justice holman"
12:11 asciilifeform (not an easy thing to be in norway)
12:11 mircea_popescu fuck you bitch, i DO NOT WANT to find a better way.
12:11 mircea_popescu i want to plow right through the fucking swamp.
12:12 asciilifeform subj is not about whether mircea_popescu likes to plow through swamp. but about whether roads are unnecessary because let's all buy amphibious bulldozers.
12:14 mircea_popescu seems to me it's rather about how amphibious buldozers are unnecessary because her majesty's engineering corps may one day get around to building a road that goes where I WANT.
12:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the coming of 'justice holman's, preets, etc. is not unlike the fungus in aids patient - it is not there from insufficient antifungal intake. by the time it appears, ought to pick out tomb stone, write will.
12:14 mircea_popescu fuck her scrawny ass with a pineapple.
12:15 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: naggum was, as you can probably tell, 'roman', or 'man of civilization', 'i'ma drown like a gentleman ! (tm) (r) (brit officer)' etc.
12:15 asciilifeform hence why dead.
12:15 mircea_popescu for the record, if a system had this sort of "semantic indirection" built in where any fuckwad could "redefine OPEN()" i'd burn it and piss on the ashes.
12:15 mircea_popescu fucking hell, windows is preferable.
12:15 asciilifeform 'operator can' != 'any fuckwit can'
12:15 mircea_popescu orly.
12:15 asciilifeform omfg what is so hard about this concept.
12:15 mircea_popescu define "operator"
12:15 asciilifeform operator == the fella who can put the key in the keyhole.
12:15 asciilifeform in front panel.
12:16 asciilifeform that has N notches, yes.
12:16 mircea_popescu you just downloaded bitcoin code. define "operator".
12:16 asciilifeform me.
12:16 asciilifeform and no, it doesn't get to 'redefine open' for any other process.
12:16 asciilifeform unless i let it.
12:17 mircea_popescu what is so hard about this concept is that it is not a concept of wisdom but a concept of idiocy. which is to say, it does not belong in reality, but in the masturbatory alt-reality, necessarily inexistent, secreted by overexcited virgins who lived in a basement.
12:17 mircea_popescu you're eschewing the question. "operator=me" has two options : a) not run the code ; b) run the code, giving whoever wrote it operator status.
12:17 mircea_popescu what's your pick ?
12:17 asciilifeform THIS IS IDIOCY
12:17 asciilifeform i pick c !
12:17 asciilifeform code runs in impenetrable prison.
12:17 mircea_popescu which is what, to read it and re-redefine everything in it ?
12:17 asciilifeform that gets clearly delineated choice of operations
12:18 asciilifeform none of which is 'redefine x for other processes'
12:18 mircea_popescu this is something you can say ; but not something you can do.
12:18 asciilifeform not on x86 anyway.
12:18 mircea_popescu you've just said "i build escherian trestlework around it"
12:18 asciilifeform which is why x86 goes to the skip.
12:18 mircea_popescu mno.
12:18 mircea_popescu if THIS is you reason to dislike the x86, YOU go in the skip.
12:18 asciilifeform note, i can do it using two or moar x86 boxes.
12:18 asciilifeform and routinely do.
12:18 asciilifeform and so does mircea_popescu .
12:18 mircea_popescu you can run a buggy approximation thereof.
12:18 asciilifeform but it is 'heavy' and unwieldy method.
12:18 mircea_popescu unlike you, mircea_popescu doesn't lie to himself about what's going on.
12:19 asciilifeform where is the lie ?
12:19 mircea_popescu in that you're crudely approximating something that's fundamentally impossible - and tell yourselfd this is proof the impossible may be possible! magic! socialism!
12:19 mircea_popescu fucking nonsense.
12:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu's toilet is in his kitchen ? or not ?
12:19 asciilifeform is the wall a 'lie' ?
12:20 mircea_popescu it's not that i chose not to redefine sink as toilet. is that my sink CAN NOT BE so redefined.
12:20 asciilifeform betcha i could find bacterium that only grows in yer shitter, in your kitchen sink.
12:20 mircea_popescu there is no "bacterium that only" except in the masturbatory alt-reality, necessarily inexistent, secreted by overexcited virgins who lived in a basement.
12:20 asciilifeform 'learn how the world works!' mno.
12:20 mircea_popescu definitionally bacterium will live anywhere.
12:20 asciilifeform live.
12:20 mircea_popescu that's what makes them themselves.
12:21 asciilifeform i did say 'grow'
12:21 mircea_popescu go do this experiment for curiosity. plumbing grows ~the same stuff everywhere.
12:22 mircea_popescu there's no "toilet bacteria" ; there is genetic variation, but by geography not by function.
12:22 asciilifeform at any rate it is quite possible to semantically isolate processes inside, yes, one crate.
12:22 asciilifeform with no side-channels.
12:22 mircea_popescu but this for static processes
12:22 asciilifeform that ~nowhere it is seen, is immaterial.
12:22 mircea_popescu not for meaningless labels.
12:22 mircea_popescu generally speaking, i specifically do not wish for anyone to be able to redefine anything ever.
12:23 mircea_popescu that is the policy. any opposition to this, such as "we're now calling niggers afroamerican" or such as "naggum redefined OPEN() to work on his system" is EXACTLY the same thing,
12:23 asciilifeform spoken like a fella who never personally engineers anything.
12:23 mircea_popescu and that thing is unmitigatedly evil ; not to mentionm the fundamental source and ther self-replicating living body, of our present predicaments.
12:24 mircea_popescu you want to change the world, build on top of immutable primitives, like in v. don't go around pretending "light" now means something else than yesterday.
12:24 asciilifeform an immutable record of past imperfections is not same as immutable pineapple to eternally sit on.
12:24 mircea_popescu sure.
12:24 asciilifeform nobody asked for mutable past.
12:24 asciilifeform (not asciilifeform anyway)
12:25 mircea_popescu what the fuck is this "redefine OPEN" bs then!
12:25 mircea_popescu $up gabriel_laddel
12:25 deedbot gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
12:25 mircea_popescu ye found yer key ?
12:25 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: it is not lost. Simply out of reach atm.
12:25 gabriel_laddel costs me about 300 usd to go get it, so am waiting
12:25 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: how come it's - apparently - been out of reach since nov. 2014 ?
12:25 mircea_popescu lol you got kicked out of rented apt ?
12:25 mircea_popescu WITH backrent ?
12:26 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: I have 3 closed bank accounts.
12:26 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I authed many times in 2015
12:26 mircea_popescu your management skills amaze.
12:26 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: neither mine, nor - it would appear - anyone else's log - has record of this
12:27 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: will do some grepping at some point, but for now - work
12:27 asciilifeform btcalpha does show gabriel_laddel as having rated several people since '14.
12:28 asciilifeform so there's that.
12:28 mircea_popescu a right, that works.
12:28 asciilifeform but plox find yer key gabriel_laddel , esp. if you want the old lenovo thing, i'ma only ship to signed post addr.
12:28 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: that's going to have to wait 1-5 months then, depending on my fiscal situation
12:29 asciilifeform thing sat on my shelf for a year, can sit moar.
12:31 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: also, I'm not taking thousands in donations. jackdaniel is being paid several k to work on CLIM
12:31 gabriel_laddel were I fundraising for clim, yes, it would not be via 'crowdfunding' and yes, the numbers would be in the 10ks
12:31 mircea_popescu what's keeping you ?
12:32 gabriel_laddel work
12:32 mircea_popescu well then that kinda work should eat through your 300 overdraft in a short time.
12:33 gabriel_laddel nothing is straightforwards when you don't have a bank account
12:33 gabriel_laddel (among other things in my life that are totally fucked)
12:33 mircea_popescu "they sure wouldn't have built this very versatile car, which they talk about a lot more than where they have used it and for what" << now this is fo sho valid criticism of the whole demographic.
12:34 PeterL MP-in-my-head says: get a girlfriend and use her bank account
12:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: as per the 'shit hanging off the side' thread.
12:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha.
12:34 gabriel_laddel I had a girlfriend. was staying at her place when parents were out of town etc
12:34 gabriel_laddel too much work
12:34 mircea_popescu PeterL not a terrible plan.
12:34 asciilifeform ah yeah, iirc, karate gurl
12:35 danielpbarron http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519312 << I found one in this channel, here is the logged line preceeding it: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-16#1453037
12:35 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 15:52 asciilifeform: other folks - welcome to grep own l0gz.
12:35 a111 Logged on 2016-04-16 06:38 mircea_popescu: folding proteins for instance is essentially a search over a very large graph space
12:35 trinque gabriel_laddel: y'know I used to do this "fuck everything but work" thing, trying to get somewhere.
12:35 trinque no sleep, caffeine, so on.
12:35 mircea_popescu danielpbarron sorry, what did you find ?
12:36 trinque was never homeless, but it's a difference of degree.
12:36 asciilifeform danielpbarron: nope. 'Apr 16 02:19:58 <BingoBoingo> $up gabriel_laddel'
12:36 trinque you'll actually get more useful work done if you take time to fix your life.
12:36 trinque the brain needs control over its environment to function best
12:36 mircea_popescu Apr 16 03:51:01 * deedbot removes voice from gabriel_laddel Apr 16 03:52:58 * deedbot gives voice to gabriel_laddel << ah yes.
12:36 asciilifeform ah there.
12:36 danielpbarron yeah and then the 30 minutes are up, he loses the +v, and then gets it again with nobody saying up
12:36 asciilifeform at any rate, fella is to be encouraged to find key !!
12:37 mircea_popescu course that could be anyone upping him in pm ?
12:37 asciilifeform would you let your cock, if it unscrewed, sit around in some closet ??
12:37 danielpbarron seems I can't $up someone in private
12:37 danielpbarron unless i lost auth, lemme see
12:37 danielpbarron $up zfx
12:37 deedbot zfx voiced for 30 minutes.
12:37 mircea_popescu trinque> you'll actually get more useful work done if you take time to fix your life. << i support the notion. life's not a sprint but a marathon, and attempting to build anything serious on the very rotten shifty bases here described is not unlike trying to do clim in windows 95.
12:38 mircea_popescu consider that there's more to your tooling than just the software and fix things in priority order.
12:38 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: thing is, he ~is~ doing clim in win95, best as i can tell.
12:38 asciilifeform a win95 known as linux.
12:38 trinque asciilifeform: http://oglaf.com/cockhunt/ << oblig
12:40 asciilifeform and gabriel_laddel if i 'cannot girlfriend because too much work' but the 'work' does not pay even enough to have flea-ridden flat, or post address, i would consider another work...
12:40 asciilifeform but perhaps that's just me
12:40 mircea_popescu perhaps it's just the girls he cavorts with. needy adolescent can be exhausting.
12:40 mircea_popescu kinda why you need more womenz to process that payload.
12:41 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: women who are uneducatable but intelligent are exausting..
12:41 PeterL is having the girlfriend too much work, or does the too much work get in the way of having girlfriend?
12:41 mircea_popescu gabriel_laddel how's an uneducatable intelligent woman like ?!
12:41 mircea_popescu old ?
12:41 gabriel_laddel older - 28ish
12:41 mircea_popescu myeah kinda towards the end of salvation window.
12:42 gabriel_laddel can memorize anything, rattle of facts about various interesting topics. Totally unable to see things from outside of the box she's been in for N years.
12:42 gabriel_laddel also people who are cowards are no fun
12:43 trinque does "coward" resolve to "you should probably right your ship" ?
12:43 mircea_popescu women are born cowards for very good, fundamerntal biologic reasons.
12:43 mircea_popescu gotta play to the op's strengths not weaknesses.
12:44 gabriel_laddel trinque: nein.
12:44 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: elaborate what means 'coward' here ? 'won't attempt to live on tobacco alone, in dumpster, with me ' ?
12:44 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: stupid stuff like being afraid of parents "angry about staying out late with strange boy"
12:45 gabriel_laddel at 28
12:45 mircea_popescu wait. at 28 ?!
12:45 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: east asia ?
12:45 mircea_popescu i confess not my notion of cowardice.
12:45 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: iran
12:46 mircea_popescu i suspect the subtext there is "you're poor". i've known irani chicks, not exhibited such problems. perhaps their daddy being petrified of me a large factor.
12:46 * trinque dated one; they're fucking hot
12:46 mircea_popescu can be ; can be.
12:47 mircea_popescu that's part of the whole "o look, latinas in miami" lulz. if you're going to decide to go brunette, there's a shitload better options than fucking south america, and they come from the golden crescent.
12:47 gabriel_laddel ^
12:47 mircea_popescu hence kim the ~armenian~
12:49 * shinohai still finds yesterday's trilema girl quite fetching.
12:50 trinque eh
12:50 trinque could wash her hair
12:50 mircea_popescu too much work.
12:51 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: an to the "cowardice" thing. girls who are afraid of eg, dropping lsd, but happily eat whatever the doctor hands them, inspite of a boy having them read, OUT LOUD various articles, research on the respective effects == cowards aor stupid.
12:52 mircea_popescu still not my idea of cowardice.
12:52 gabriel_laddel mircea_popescu: and what is your idea of cowardice?
12:52 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: how long you had this gurl ?
12:53 gabriel_laddel Idk, couple months. the lsd thing never came up explicitly, but several things in that vein did.
12:53 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: if answer is 'years' and it still won't eat, either 'not programmable, get a new one' or 'the bad dancer is hindered by own arse' (tm) (r) (iddish proverb)
12:54 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I can assure you that the problem here is not me. 'dated' (for some value of that word) a 35 yr chinese woman who had zero hangups
12:54 mircea_popescu sadly not too easy to put in words.
12:55 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: what can i say, if knife won't cut, get new knife, or cut something softer..
12:55 asciilifeform $up gabriel_laddel
12:55 * trinque cackles at this measure of whence the problem
12:55 deedbot gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
12:56 asciilifeform there is a concept, ad-hoc, i refer to as 'pressure', but there is quite likely a better and more specific name for it. e.g., mircea_popescu , walks into a village, and the menfolk line up in one column and the wimminfolk in another, the men - pick up rifles, and wait for order, the chix - get on knees, ready to pleez, etc.
12:56 asciilifeform this is because 'higher pressure'
12:57 trinque that'd be dominance eh?
12:57 asciilifeform on other end of the scale, there are freaks of nature who have so little 'pressure', they look for what to chameoleonize to wherever they go.
12:57 mircea_popescu heh not how irl works, because complex interaction in crystalline lattice causes all sorts of strange peribehaviours.
12:57 asciilifeform sure.
12:57 asciilifeform but in approximation.
12:57 asciilifeform just like rockwell hardness is approximation
12:57 asciilifeform yet useful to machinist.
12:57 mircea_popescu sure.
12:57 asciilifeform though it has no physical existence on its own.
12:58 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519202 << it's kind of a pun, i think of systems design as landscape traversal. i think there are frequently paths, as is the case here, that hit multiple design goals and have lower overall complexity, better than a seemingly direct path, that has a hidden high complexity. abstract discussions about ideological goals, that don't take into account design space traversal can be resolved by actual taking
12:58 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 15:19 mircea_popescu: phf define for me the concept of "bridged on architectural grounds"
12:58 phf the necessary mental steps.
12:58 asciilifeform from my brief sojourn with thickasthieves in airplanes, for instance, i learned that he is a fella of considerably lower pressure, it appeared, than his wife.
12:58 asciilifeform and that this explained some of his very peculiar thought processes.
12:59 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: anyways, this is an ex-gf, looking for a new knife
12:59 mircea_popescu phf the fundamental problem here is that you misuse words. "to resolve on the basis of" requires a basis, which is to say, something shared. whether right or wrong - i can resolve quantum physics disputes on the basis of coran suras if need be. yet your thing is "this is cool so should be basis". how cool it is has no bearing on how shared it is, you know ?
13:00 phf mircea_popescu: i think asciilifeform and gabriel_laddel goals are very similar, combined together they'll produce an easy low complexity (but perhaps less glamorous) design space traversal path. gabriel_laddel doesn't see it, because he thinks that a certain stop on his path is "dirty" or somesuch, so he wants to avoid it altogether
13:00 mircea_popescu maybe.
13:00 gabriel_laddel phf: I just want the fking thing to work and make me some money.
13:00 gabriel_laddel all else is negotiable
13:00 asciilifeform what i see in his approach is a distinctly 15th c., hygiene-via-parfumery approach.
13:00 phf mircea_popescu: i think that it is shared between all designers, it's just that newbs have a very adhoc design space vision, it's better formed with experience
13:01 mircea_popescu so you're a platonician then ?
13:01 asciilifeform it gave us what we have now, and it dun work.
13:02 asciilifeform a kitchen with roaches, and kitchen with-roaches but at given instance in time they are behind closed cabinets and i cannot see them, are not the same item, even if 'functionally' the same from particular camera angle.
13:03 asciilifeform and i can see them buggers through 10 metres of steel.
13:03 phf mircea_popescu: i'm actually more of jungian
13:03 asciilifeform if need be.
13:03 mircea_popescu phf but your argument fundamentally is "there's no need for communication because the essence of all things is in all things", which is what that is.
13:04 mircea_popescu meanwhile, socrates used questions specifically for that fundamental reason - that understanding may only happen on the basis of what the understander contains, and naught else.
13:04 mircea_popescu a point platon never quite groked, hence his terrible political failures.
13:05 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: for folks who 'dun care how, just wanna make some moneyz!111' the belching smokestacks of microshitschwitz are waiting.
13:05 asciilifeform presumably you know the address, i do not need to point.
13:06 asciilifeform at usgschwitz also we had all the moneyz you could want.
13:06 asciilifeform and then some.
13:06 asciilifeform the shovels were insufficient, to shovel it.
13:07 asciilifeform so i must infer that gabriel_laddel did not 'just want some moneyz' or he would be there, already, shovel in hand.
13:08 phf mircea_popescu: i don't take it all the way to the cave, i believe that one can tap into shared mythic space which has more to do with human condition than it does with humanless abstract. but for how often i'm misunderstood, i suspect that socratic method is much more effective.
13:08 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: I live in silly-con valley. If I - just - wanted to make money I'd be out doing it.
13:08 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: aha
13:08 asciilifeform so then, what does gabriel_laddel want ~on top~ of 'some moneyz'
13:08 mircea_popescu well, it certainly is much more effective when stuck with the apparent incomprehensible mysts, as seen here.
13:08 asciilifeform ?
13:08 phf :D
13:09 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: sane computing, for one
13:09 asciilifeform 'sane computing' dun have a linux kernel or c compiler in it.
13:09 asciilifeform anywhere.
13:09 asciilifeform and there is not a shortcut ladder into heaven that lets you 'save time' by 'using what you have' etc.
13:10 asciilifeform more relevantly , it ALSO does not have a c-compiler-shaped hole in it.
13:10 asciilifeform that you got from building on the latter and then removing.
13:10 gabriel_laddel asciilifeform: we've already discussed this. I'm going to be selling masamune computers + related until the leap can be made from the cee machine to... something else
13:10 asciilifeform nor a linux-shaped hole.
13:10 gabriel_laddel we need masamune machines to design on top of until then
13:10 asciilifeform why not sell bulldozers ?
13:10 asciilifeform or tyres ?
13:10 asciilifeform or cement ?
13:11 asciilifeform at least these things won't warp yer brain for the computer work
13:11 phf mircea_popescu: that point is consistently being driven home. in fact i got to talk lisp to a bunch of random people and had a very visceral experience of the gap. hathayogapradipika says to keep your yoga secret, i.e. don't be a incomprehensible myst. but sometimes i still get carried away. ~some~ people grok me though, even when i start speaking internal experiences.
13:11 mircea_popescu i recall this cca 2014 heh.
13:11 gabriel_laddel under what circumstances is it appropriate to open a deli?
13:11 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: any and all. go, open
13:11 asciilifeform i will even come & eat there.
13:11 gabriel_laddel when your uncle runs a slaughterhouse.
13:12 mircea_popescu phf this "you already know all knowledge, just, you know, wash" is ridiculous enough, but nowhere the ridiculousness is in starker evidence than in the harem. "so i washed, can i bellydance yet ?" "no, wash more."
13:15 mircea_popescu anyway, the incomprehensible mists were him, not you. who the hell knows what's in the box of a guy who does such contradictory things as alf pointed out. i wouldn't risk much on the theory we share any mythology, and it's not even directly evident gabriel_laddel actually lives meaningfully related to the human condition.
13:15 asciilifeform gabriel_laddel: the 'i will pick high-level abstractions and then, much later, find a low-level set that supports them well' is doomed. and leads to, e.g., urbit.
13:15 asciilifeform the only way to have structure that stands up is to begin from the bottom.
13:15 asciilifeform this painful lesson is taught, again and again, for the whole history of the idiot field, but nobody learns.
13:16 asciilifeform because everybody 'i'm a genius and will pick the tower back up and insert hard ground under it because i am better than everyone who lived prior' etc.
13:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you will note that there exists no life of the spirit outside of exactly this "i will pick high level abstracrtion and proceed to allign realia to it"
13:17 mircea_popescu the alternative to this is strictly "the lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft computador from the bosom of the lake"
13:17 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: have you ever met, e.g., mechanical engineer, who has never heard of alloys ?
13:17 mircea_popescu yes.
13:17 asciilifeform and draws 'whatever, and let machinist pick'
13:17 mircea_popescu yes i have.
13:17 asciilifeform the result is, approximately, american car.
13:17 mircea_popescu well...
13:18 mircea_popescu romanian train (no need to discuss alloy, there were like 4) ; egyptian car (they'll use the best they can) ; etc. many possible contexts.
13:18 asciilifeform it is not the designer's place to replace the metallurgist. but 'design for manufacturability', for instance, is a thing.
13:18 mircea_popescu sure.
13:18 asciilifeform and requires functional grip on the materials.
13:18 mircea_popescu also sure.
13:18 trinque mircea_popescu: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing computadors is no basis for a system of computing!
13:18 mircea_popescu you'd think, trinque, you'd think!
13:19 asciilifeform german jet, for instance, famously, jumo and bmw both, did not turn back british largely because it was designed with no mind of availability of materials (can get whatever you like for prototype, but try for production line)
13:20 mircea_popescu complicated discussion.
13:20 asciilifeform hence were few, and what few there were, had mtbf measured in 10s of hrs.
13:20 asciilifeform complicated, but not wholly unrelated.
13:20 mircea_popescu there's an overarching consensus that the germans would have broken britain had they not been cowards and kept up the london bombin.
13:20 mircea_popescu in the end, material shortages decide a lot more than people like to think.
13:20 asciilifeform cowardice has ~0 to do with it, there were jet bombers over london in april '45.
13:21 asciilifeform or rather, bomber.
13:21 asciilifeform singular.
13:21 mircea_popescu no, it's a matter of volume.
13:21 asciilifeform volume, aha.
13:21 mircea_popescu they cut down on losses ; instead of leaning into on losses.
13:21 mircea_popescu that, incidentally, is a good entry into "female, necessary, biological cowardice". what do you do confronted with losses ? wind down ? or pip up ?
13:21 mircea_popescu every domesticated animal winds down.
13:22 asciilifeform wild - gnaws off own leg, aha.
13:22 mircea_popescu there's a reason we have domestic sheep but not domestic mice
13:22 asciilifeform and - if he can - hunter's.
13:23 mircea_popescu so then there's the two and only two available strategies. the psychopath (the more i lose, the more i send, fuck you) ; and the woman (the more i lose, the less i send, may my children cover the earth).
13:24 asciilifeform not even uncommon for same individual to switch between strategies (in, e.g., certain fish)
13:26 mircea_popescu obv.
13:26 asciilifeform re: metallurgy, and 'design for manufacturability', i once heard a vintage, scratchy-record recording of old american engineering, if you will, folk song, where some quasiliterate rube is ruthlessly mocked, and chorus was something like 'triangular drills will drill all his square holes!'
13:26 mircea_popescu ahahah
13:26 mircea_popescu plox to put this on your blog. i gotta hear it
13:27 asciilifeform http://genius.com/Jordin-kare-the-engineer-lyrics << appears to be it, or at least variant.
13:27 mircea_popescu (you can, incidentally, obtain polygonal holes - if not necessarily square - with odd shaped bit moving on two different orbits)
13:27 mircea_popescu neat!
13:28 asciilifeform well yes, you can, it is the item referred to.
13:28 asciilifeform just co$$t$.
13:28 mircea_popescu myeah
13:29 mircea_popescu apparently not even folk - jordin kare is the propulsion guy neh ?
13:29 asciilifeform i have nfi where it originated.
13:30 asciilifeform maybe - him.
13:30 mircea_popescu But the tricky bits here are these spheres within spheres, the Klein bottle tanks, the irrational gears
13:30 mircea_popescu ahahaha ok
13:31 asciilifeform btw 'sphere in polyhedron' used to be a standard journeyman machinist exam.
13:32 asciilifeform http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k106/jims_03/IMG_0007-1.jpg << like so.
13:32 asciilifeform http://cdn.instructables.com/FPO/WZ15/GZKG35LC/FPOWZ15GZKG35LC.MEDIUM.jpg << or so.
13:39 asciilifeform https://www.shapeways.com/forum/t/irrational-gears-by-oskar.27672 << lulzy.
13:44 danielpbarron ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://danielpbarron.com/qntra/choose-your-government-wisely.asc.txt
13:44 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:45 asciilifeform in other noose, http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/d15a7303-62c3-4aa5-beaf-f67218ab3ebf/?raw=true
13:46 asciilifeform 'The claimants in this case appeal from the district court’s entry of default judgment for the government in a civil forfeiture action against funds deposited in the claimants’ names in banks in New Zealand and Hong Kong. Default judgment was entered after the government successfully moved to disentitle the claimants from defending their claims to the defendant property under the federal fugitive disentitlement statute, 28 U.S.C.
13:46 asciilifeform § 2466. The claimants appeal the judgment on several grounds, most prominent among them that the district court lacked jurisdiction over the defendant property because it resides in foreign countries, that fugitive disentitlement violates constitutional due process, and that disentitlement in this case was improper because the claimants are not fugitives from the law. Finding these arguments unpersuasive, we affirm the district cou
13:46 asciilifeform rt.'
13:46 asciilifeform ^ gassing of kimdotcom stands.
13:48 trinque now he's going to deedbot torrent hashes and somehow make it all back
13:49 trinque revolutionary blockchain technology
13:49 asciilifeform i have nfi what deal idiot made with which preet to preserve the remaining empty skin husk of his arse.
13:50 asciilifeform ( a practice i suggest to refer to as 'shremming')
13:50 PeterL speaking of which, where is the best place to find torrents?
13:50 asciilifeform from meatspace friend's disk ?
13:51 asciilifeform (warez in the general, rather than 'torrent')
14:04 mircea_popescu in another life /me had set of five jade spheres, hand carved. whole thing about titsized.
14:04 asciilifeform eh by hand it is easy.
14:04 asciilifeform just takes patience.
14:04 mircea_popescu uyp.
14:05 asciilifeform nobody gets to be journeyman-anything by doing it with hands.
14:08 mircea_popescu also need a proper sized jade piece, which is rarer the bigger it gets.
14:09 asciilifeform this also.
14:13 mircea_popescu "|I don't see why anyone would insist on a way to do things that does not solves the real problem, but rather solve an ancilliary problem that is a problem only because someone is very stubborn." << the political ineptidude of these people.
14:13 mircea_popescu it is a problem BECAUSE I AM THE BOSS OF YOU ; NOT YOU THE BOSS OF ME.
14:14 mircea_popescu how fucking hard to see could this possibly be ?
14:14 asciilifeform to naggum, mircea_popescu is boss if he is paying.
14:14 asciilifeform and for so long as paying.
14:14 mircea_popescu no.
14:14 mircea_popescu his "car could go there some other way" requires car user to recognize "other way provider" as boss.
14:14 asciilifeform as described in his cpp chronicles. he largely quit programming for a good while, because disagreed with the use of the abomination.
14:14 mircea_popescu "car goes through your house" requires "other way provider" to recognize car owner as boss.
14:15 mircea_popescu this has naught to do with me or naggum.
14:15 asciilifeform fact is, if konsoomer demands something that is fundamentally stupid, konsoomer is stupid.
14:15 asciilifeform even regardless of whether demand comes with a stack of cash that reaches to pluto.
14:15 mircea_popescu i don't care about the consumer.
14:16 asciilifeform this is not a seekrit.
14:16 asciilifeform and yes, triangular bits will drill mircea_popescu's square holes.
14:16 mircea_popescu naggum's solution to "bitcoin is broken" would be pointedly not to "take over source and discharge the delusional folks "releasing" "versions" in their own mind" ; but instead to "find another way". perhaps what, spam the forums ? to build consensus ?
14:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: as you know, this is not how he solved 'mule'.
14:16 asciilifeform he solved it the trb way.
14:16 asciilifeform with death ray.
14:16 mircea_popescu so then what's this gunk all about.
14:16 asciilifeform it is about sanity.
14:16 asciilifeform in engineering.
14:17 mircea_popescu sanity in engineering includes confiscation of codebases. something he didn't do with mule.
14:17 asciilifeform not 'bend over and spread arse cheeks for existing state of the art', no.
14:17 asciilifeform but he did.
14:17 mircea_popescu this titanic "start from scratch" nonsense is not of interest
14:17 asciilifeform confiscated emacs, essentially, for a good while.
14:17 mircea_popescu i thought he retreated to cave and wrote own ? oh ?
14:17 asciilifeform no.
14:17 asciilifeform he trb'd it.
14:17 asciilifeform at a certain point the heathen emacs surrendered.
14:17 mircea_popescu mkay then. the man's deeds and his words are not alligned.
14:17 asciilifeform possibly because mircea_popescu misreads the meaning of the wordz.
14:17 mircea_popescu possibly.
14:18 mircea_popescu "plain reading", eh ?
14:18 asciilifeform aha.
14:18 asciilifeform fwiw, i found myself having to examine what n. did, to fully grasp what he said and why.
14:19 mircea_popescu see, this is kinda backwards. normally, one examines what subject says to understand what he did. not what subj
14:19 mircea_popescu did to understand what he "meant" through "redefining what open() means in the middle of the text"
14:20 asciilifeform normally. but from the words i began to suspect that we had been to the same mine fields.
14:20 asciilifeform and it piqued curiosity.
14:20 mircea_popescu anyway ; im putting this off to an exquisitely bad metaphor, with the cars.
14:20 asciilifeform possibly.
14:20 mircea_popescu read in a charitable light, his point can perhaps be salvaged wrt lisp/unix.
14:21 asciilifeform or the hammer-drill from mircea_popescu's latest piece.
14:21 asciilifeform re fundamental tradeoffs of civilization, city, etc.
14:21 asciilifeform (or for that matter mircea_popescu's 'rural and urban' piece.)
14:24 mircea_popescu "I think Free Software and Open Source addicts will get down from their current high and become tremendously frustrated when the obvious problem of having millions of pieces of source code available and they actually can't move in any direction because the ability to make modifications that they have so lauded in the past turn into a very serious problem when much bigger problems require modifications to much larger systems t
14:24 mircea_popescu han the ones people today think are usefully modified locally." << this, for instance, is oddly half-true/half-delusional.
14:24 mircea_popescu it's true foss died ; for which reason it carries little water here. but the frustration is a) the inability of foss to maintain strong immutability in front of organised crime, be it usg or otherwise ; b) the part where it can't actually move is valid, but not exactly for the reason he describes.
14:24 mircea_popescu moreover for an array of half-related, half-unrelated reasons.
14:25 mircea_popescu such as "in lowering the perceived barrier to entry, encourages idiots and degrades median code quality" ; "in encouraging writing over reading, it plays to software's weaknesses against its strengths" scl
14:25 asciilifeform naggum's observation that it was a largely mindless 'protest' movement remains correct.
14:25 asciilifeform if not exhaustive.
14:25 mircea_popescu it's not that "bigger systems require changes" AT ALL. on the contrary : it's that bigger systems do not PERMIT changes some idiots think they are entitled to.
14:26 mircea_popescu yeah but it's a pretty mixed bag once he goes into discussion of it.
14:26 asciilifeform he observed the 'changes idiots perceive they are entitled to' at agonizing length re common lisp standard
14:26 mircea_popescu he has the strong excuse no bitcoin was there. but the main problem of bitcoin as "foss" is precisely this - that various idiots think they may change things.
14:26 asciilifeform when comp.lang.lisp was besieged by loud arsehats demanding to reopen the committee so they could have orc glyphs or whichever.
14:26 mircea_popescu and they have to constantly, painfully, slowly, humiliatingly be beaten down with a large stick.
14:27 asciilifeform naggum is ~the~ go-to source, pre-bitcoin, in my mind, re this eternal war.
14:27 mircea_popescu so fucking far up their own ass is their head, that merely me ~saying~ something is stupid, which should be fucking enough among any group of adults with functional brains, is not,
14:27 asciilifeform of the 'i want MY WAY, solely because MY shit dun stink, MOVE OVER old system'
14:27 mircea_popescu and requires complex, timewasting, resource destroying, excursions in fuck you.
14:27 mircea_popescu which also have to be repeated.
14:29 asciilifeform the ant traps in my kitchen also have to be repeated every odd year.
14:29 mircea_popescu he ~almost~ nearly makes the "it is wrong to encourqage code writing over code reading" point, and then it oddly eludes him
14:29 asciilifeform (floor is not hermetically sealed, no.)
14:29 mircea_popescu but one could pretend the entire car nonsense was his trying to say that and no more.
14:29 asciilifeform he says it in 1,001 ways in 1,001 places.
14:29 asciilifeform largely why i dug in.
14:29 mircea_popescu guy's work would have greatly benefited of his having a log, where he could reference it properly to itself.
14:29 asciilifeform had the classic 'earthworm and ants' feel to it
14:30 mircea_popescu having a blog* i mean
14:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: he had a blog.
14:30 asciilifeform too little, however, and too late.
14:30 asciilifeform and spent last 8-9 or so yrs of life, largely offline.
14:30 asciilifeform because, i suspect, he realized that he was banging head on wall.
14:30 mircea_popescu myeah. this blog thing seems to me very strictly a problem of "tools are 30 iq points".
14:30 mircea_popescu you can explain to roman astronomer about proper numeration all you want.
14:31 asciilifeform because he was not mircea_popescu and did not have any knife sharp enough to actually make a palpable mark on the wall.
14:31 mircea_popescu but HAD he proper numeration, he'd be in such better a position.
14:31 asciilifeform aha.
14:31 asciilifeform finally this sinks in, i see.
14:31 mircea_popescu wait, what ?
14:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu, i suspect, was originally allergic to the 'roman numerals' observation for approx same reason as in dope thread
14:31 asciilifeform no, numerals do not make brilliant mathematician
14:31 asciilifeform nor the dope
14:31 asciilifeform nor the funny hat.
14:32 asciilifeform but ~in the hands of one~ etc.
14:32 mircea_popescu when exactly was i allergic to it ; and for that matter i've been preaching blogging to people for years.
14:32 mircea_popescu actually, starting the week after proper log/search/irc took off.
14:32 asciilifeform was speaking of the generalized 'tool is +30iq'
14:33 mircea_popescu i suspect this may be a case of "you may not use that tool here" being taken for "i don't like that tool". it was a domain problem most likely, but do link ?
14:33 asciilifeform and yes, walk across usa and meet 1,000,001 people who think GIGANTIC lathe, or tractor, or kalash with SHIT HANGING OFF SIDE, will make them THE GREAT MEISTER etc.
14:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: any of, e.g., the notation threads. or the dope thread. or any ' mircea_popescu: this is worthless crapola used by posers to appear relevant . asciilifeform: no, i saw it used, and perhaps used personally, to palpable effect. mircea_popescu: bullshit, i can do same thing with shoestring and power of my mind. asciilifeform: ...'
14:34 mircea_popescu domain problem.
14:34 asciilifeform possibly.
14:36 mircea_popescu the beauty of the fucking logs - what is actually said can, and IS actually extricated from the "reasonable interpretation" it forms at the time of the saying. this is both a) a necessary effect of the passage of time and b) actually exponential rather than log or even liear. Moreover c) it actually provides aggregating benefits to everyone's toolset.
14:37 mircea_popescu do find the examples, worth our time to look at them.
14:37 asciilifeform http://naggum.no << holy shit, still up.
14:37 asciilifeform unchanged.
14:37 asciilifeform somebody must be paying the bill...
14:37 mircea_popescu ex gf woman committed to doing that iirc
14:37 asciilifeform (could even be the man's acct, slowly draining?)
14:37 asciilifeform nah, she prolly would've put some emo crapola in there)
14:39 mircea_popescu "wtf is orkut" https://archive.is/lkQ9Z << "300 mn social media network ; closed"
14:39 mircea_popescu apparently these aren't ACTUALLY worth money after all ?
14:39 asciilifeform it was among the first arsebooks.
14:39 mircea_popescu shoulda sold it to facebook for 10 bnz
14:39 asciilifeform iirc it survived in brazil for some years.
14:40 asciilifeform on own farts.
14:42 asciilifeform https://web.archive.org/web/20050205013750/http://ungregarious.org/2004 << lel.
14:43 asciilifeform http://www.librarything.com/profile/nocebo << his misc. net litter.
14:49 mircea_popescu and in ~other news http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=52365.msg1068840#msg1068840
14:50 asciilifeform lel, as if 'flyover' walmartlandia is full of productive self-sustaining folk.
14:50 mircea_popescu hey, brain needs a foundational fiction.
14:50 asciilifeform evidently.
14:51 asciilifeform but usually ends up flying with own bootstraps.
14:53 asciilifeform and i met folks cashing fat usg contract cheques who laughed at 'welfare niggerz' etc.
14:54 asciilifeform somehow it is different when done in tailored, vs walmart suit ? i have nfi.
14:54 mircea_popescu crabs in the pot.
14:55 mircea_popescu "how to cook crab ?" "make sure you have a half dozen or more"
14:56 asciilifeform 'how to guard an auschwitz. make sure you have half a dozen....' etc
14:56 asciilifeform 'one prisoner might make a break for it, half a dozen will sit, smoke, justify...'
14:57 mircea_popescu hence http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519485
14:57 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 16:40 mircea_popescu: kinda why you need more womenz to process that payload.
14:57 asciilifeform 'The state told her she had to contact the SSA to get a specific form that says her SSN was misused and that she in fact was the "owner" of her number. When she went to the SSA, she said they wouldn't give her the form. The reason? They stopped giving them out (apparently recently as this just happened a few months ago) because they were getting too many request for them. So their decision, rather than going after the people falsely
14:57 asciilifeform using SSNs to get benefits, was to stop providing documentation so that the person who was actually associated to the number could prove it, because there were too many instances of this happening.' << this is actual and typical.
14:58 asciilifeform 'So she returned to the state disability office and told them this. Their response was, "Oh, I guess that's new. Okay, no problem, we'll assign you a different ID number." My cousin's kid was like "WTF?" and asked them why they would reassign her a number rather than reassign, or better yet freeze, the SSN thief's account. Their response was that they don't get involved in those legal issues, their job is just to provide the benefit
14:58 asciilifeform s. ' << gold.
14:58 asciilifeform 'got burgled? here, have this refrigerator crate to live in'
14:58 asciilifeform 'it is just as empty as your house now is.'
14:58 mircea_popescu myeah. kinda why the name of the game has been "suck it dry and expatriate all you can" for about a decade now.
14:58 mircea_popescu it's just about clear the ship's hollow and will sink.
14:59 asciilifeform ship has been quite as it is since '70s.
14:59 mircea_popescu not at all.
14:59 mircea_popescu the difference even 2001 to 2016 is palpable.
15:00 asciilifeform every particular stretch is quite palpable.
15:00 mircea_popescu dubious there'll be a 2031 to palpate against.
15:00 asciilifeform now this, yes.
15:00 asciilifeform then again, north kr has chugged along .
15:00 asciilifeform living on own farts.
15:00 asciilifeform and remaining fat, what there is.
15:03 mircea_popescu "alf's idea of a think he has no sensation access nor cares to reasses to has remained unchanged over the interval the foregoing held"
15:04 mircea_popescu mmkay.
15:04 asciilifeform re quoted bit, the 'they stopped giving out form' is as questionable as 'nsa bugged my house, but i have no photo'
15:04 asciilifeform what happens if he finds the form , on the net, and files it ?
15:04 asciilifeform no answer ? how about in court ? etc.
15:04 asciilifeform what's the case # ?
15:05 mircea_popescu tru. which is why i didn't quote that part.
15:05 asciilifeform methinks this is simply the 'tech supports keeps you waiting for 5 minutes', feynman's postbox, bit.
15:05 asciilifeform a great many 'atrocity stories' from u.s. folk fit this description, on close thought
15:05 mircea_popescu also tru.
15:05 asciilifeform 'so city hall told you to fuck off, what didja do next?'
15:05 asciilifeform 'nuffin, watched tv, sad there sad'
15:05 asciilifeform *sat
15:06 asciilifeform the story never seems to end with 'i filed suit # .... and then four dudes in black van came and told me to withdraw or there will be problems'
15:07 asciilifeform two available resolutions to this, either four dudes also said 'shut yer trap or there will be problems', and ~everybody~ shut, or...
15:07 asciilifeform the other one.
15:08 asciilifeform now ~sometimes~ the story ends with 'judge found that 'quiet enjoyment' includes 1,001 crying babies at 3am' or the like.
15:08 asciilifeform (as per mircea_popescu's article circa, iirc, 2010)
15:08 asciilifeform but usually it ends with 'and then i drank myself to sleep in front of tv.'
15:08 asciilifeform in asciilifeform's experience as listener.
15:09 asciilifeform >> http://trilema.com/2013/the-onlinns-of-court << subj
15:10 asciilifeform $s rule of law
15:10 a111 62 results for "rule of law", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=rule%20of%20law
15:10 asciilifeform ^ see also.
15:11 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519816 << not this, but simply observation that usa has been slowly sinking, since - at the very latest, even - fdr.
15:11 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 19:03 mircea_popescu: "alf's idea of a think he has no sensation access nor cares to reasses to has remained unchanged over the interval the foregoing held"
15:11 asciilifeform rather than from some novel bush-era malady.,
15:25 trinque eh the money printing did the hockey-stick maneuver pretty recently
15:25 trinque from its previous setting of "side of pyramid"
15:25 asciilifeform '08
15:27 asciilifeform the more interesting q is the rate of leakage into turkey-dollars.
15:27 asciilifeform most of the printolade, at least in so far as is visible to public naked eye, went into real estate racket
15:27 asciilifeform which in practical terms simply means that now plebe has to indenture himself for 50, not 20, years, when 'buying' his cardboard boxhouse
15:28 asciilifeform at some point it'll be 100.
15:28 asciilifeform what of it. just as meaningless, to office plankton, as the diff b/w being sentenced to 100 vs 200 years without parole.
15:30 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2013-12-25#431177 << see also.
15:30 a111 Logged on 2013-12-25 21:05 mircea_popescu: Itzhak is a respectable moneylender in the small neighbourhood of Fool's Crossing.
15:31 asciilifeform the moar interesting parameter is , if you will, 'meta' inflation, it being the rate at which the soup quotient in the soup cans shrinks, the rate at which respectable folk eat soup from cans to begin with - climbs, the plastic in the machine gears increases to 100%, etc.
15:32 asciilifeform the relationship between the 'goldman sachs printed another trillion' kind of inflation, and this weimar one, is - at least to my savage and primitive mind - a murky one
15:33 asciilifeform rather like the relation between hbomb tests and cancer rate
15:33 trinque quantify decadence
15:33 asciilifeform i.e. i am satisfied that there ~is~ one, but have nfi re particulars (hormesis, say, is a thing.)
15:34 asciilifeform i and anyone else can point to a few obvious 'financial memory leaks' - e.g., folks borrowing against 'their' house , buying btc, and rocketing off to mars.
15:34 asciilifeform but this is not exhaustive catalogue.
15:35 asciilifeform nor do i have any notion of what ultimately controls the rate of such leakage.
15:35 asciilifeform (it was not wholly impossible to 'leak' pre-btc, either..)
15:44 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-11#1518369 << see also re 'inflation hormesis' as analogous to same in radiation.
15:44 a111 Logged on 2016-08-11 16:16 mircea_popescu: as it dislodges the meat robots from their comforts and forces them into towns.
15:46 asciilifeform but it is not clear, at least to me, that debased currency is a ~cause~ rather than ~symptom~ of cultural decay.
15:47 trinque why can't both cause the other
15:48 asciilifeform can, why not.
15:48 asciilifeform but typically it is depicted as 'this-way'
15:49 asciilifeform or at least, implied as reversible 'using sound money'
15:58 asciilifeform i am quite interested in the mechanisms whereby 1) goldmansachs usd are prevented from transmuting into turkey usd 2) plebes wielding turkey usd are restrained from putting unendurable pressure on supplies of limited resources, of the sort which lead to shortages and visible collapse.
15:59 asciilifeform i know a few things re (1) - e.g., cash confiscations.
15:59 asciilifeform but very little re (2)
15:59 asciilifeform nor do i expect to find out, unless mircea_popescu reveals tidbits.
16:00 trinque it was supposed to be central bank interest rates that sucked money out of the system
16:00 trinque but this is fiction when they set at near zero or below
16:00 asciilifeform trinque: how did central bank suck actual physical benjies out of mattresses ?
16:00 asciilifeform or do i misunderstand.
16:01 asciilifeform trinque do you know, e.g., why devaluations of the ruble were a bi-decennial, regular thing in su ?
16:02 asciilifeform it was how they emptied the mattresses.
16:02 asciilifeform which might otherwise strain already painfully limited supply of, e.g., auto tyres.
16:02 asciilifeform and 1,000,001 things.
16:02 asciilifeform su had not invented credit card and electric money.
16:03 asciilifeform you walked into a shop, and, if i had x - you bought x, with paper cash.
16:03 asciilifeform so the cash had to be collected from people , in occasional mass batches, to relieve strain on scarce supply of x-en.
16:04 trinque in this case the average consumer isn't saving shit. they're paying on house loans, student loans, so on.
16:05 asciilifeform not much of a spoiler if i say that the devaluations did not work! tyres and other seemingly mundane 'shop' goods still had to be allocated in gnarly and entirely nonmarkety ways.
16:05 asciilifeform trinque: there are many ways to keep folks from putting undue strain on shrinking industrial base. one is to simply prevent saving.
16:05 asciilifeform as successfully done in usa.
16:05 asciilifeform another is - also done here - to confiscate savings.
16:06 asciilifeform another - limits on what can be purchased, where, in what qty.
16:06 asciilifeform we have nearly all of these, here.
16:06 trinque central bank interest rate is afaik the rate it loans to other banks, which then themselves may speak a certain multiple of money into existence by virtue of holding the central bank's voodoo
16:06 trinque so really the interest rate diddles the margins of how fast the flood of money occurs
16:06 asciilifeform trinque: i know this. but am interested presently in where it interfaces with physical reality.
16:06 trinque not whether it's sucked back up
16:07 asciilifeform the particular spot, understand, where delusion turns to scorched flesh.
16:11 trinque certainly a mircea_popescutronic question
16:11 trinque I wonder if it's truly that the USA was *that* wealthy that it had this far to fall, that there is not yet starvation.
16:11 trinque what a pathetic thing if so
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16:29 asciilifeform was.
16:29 asciilifeform i recently acquired ~60 years of 'scientific american'. worth every penny.
16:29 asciilifeform exhibits, graphically, this fact.
16:29 asciilifeform even the ads. in particular, the ads.
16:31 asciilifeform there was a... nearly incomprehensibly titanic 'battery charge' of ingenuity, sanity, and plain simple 'ant' (vs 'grasshopper') accumulated delayed gratification, that is now being maggoted through.
16:32 deedbot http://danielpbarron.com/2016/from-order-towards-chaos/ << Daniel P. Barron - From order towards chaos.
16:33 asciilifeform i was recently reading about 'oilite', a type of self-lubricating bronze, that is still made in usa. the factory where it was originally produced, owned by chrysler corp., lived in the '30s. today it is a ruin, rats live in it. oilite is still made, in usa, but for how long - i have nfi, at some point it will become difficult to find people who will follow the ritual (yes, to savages, industry is ritual) and it will sail off to china
16:33 asciilifeform like everything else.
16:35 trinque begins to look like a great place to live, provided decent gas mask.
16:36 asciilifeform provided yer born there
16:36 asciilifeform and dun expect things such as cheese, or trees, or being considered for work outside yer clan wot
16:36 asciilifeform see mega-thread with mircea_popescu and china.
16:37 trinque aha
16:37 asciilifeform understand, if elephant is being devoured by ants, it does not necessarily follow that anthill is a 'great place to live' for elephant - or lion, or the other animals watching.
16:38 asciilifeform if mircea_popescu were awake, he might say sumthinglike 'nothing human is foreign to me', etc.
16:38 asciilifeform but i will say that there ~is~, to me.
16:38 asciilifeform this may be subjective thing wholly. maybe trinque can learn to like living in anthill, without cheese or chix with visible tits. i have nfi.
16:39 asciilifeform http://www.allpar.com/history/amplex.html << oilite.
16:39 asciilifeform for the record.
16:43 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519904 << holy mother of fuck, danielpbarron
16:43 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 20:32 deedbot: http://danielpbarron.com/2016/from-order-towards-chaos/ << Daniel P. Barron - From order towards chaos.
16:43 asciilifeform dragon?!
16:44 asciilifeform eh i suppose it is no worse than the rest of it.
16:44 danielpbarron hehe
16:45 trinque what does the lord's word say on bigfoot?
16:45 asciilifeform well odin did slay the yottin
16:45 asciilifeform or wait, that was different lord.
16:46 danielpbarron I can see why the levianthan would be particularly hard to accept, seeing as how the thing is supposed to currently be alive in the ocean, whereas many of the other far-fetched sounding things in The Bible are supposed to have only existed long ago
16:47 asciilifeform leviathan ?
16:47 danielpbarron trinque, I don't think there is any mention of bigfoot in The Bible
16:48 danielpbarron asciilifeform, yes
16:48 asciilifeform ( since gabriel_laddel thread i can never again be certain, whether typo is typo or deep barb of some sort )
16:48 trinque lol
16:48 danielpbarron this time, just a typo
16:48 asciilifeform lolk
16:53 asciilifeform http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/6dcba9a9-9d9d-4ea0-91ed-f02be5840e03/?raw=true << obligatory.
16:54 asciilifeform 'Can you draw out Leviathan[a] with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you? Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens? Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they
16:54 asciilifeform apportion him among the merchants?'
16:55 asciilifeform '... Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle? Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around? His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal; One is so near another That no air can come between them; They are joined one to another, They stick together and cannot be parted.' << dune sandworm!
~ 31 minutes ~
17:27 danielpbarron heh, nice
17:32 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581551 http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581552 http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581554 << go figure that the logs have covered most every situation imaginable, to which i'd like to ask mircea_popescu specifically about znort987 : how much trust is he (she?) worth ?
17:32 a111 Logged on 2014-03-26 00:22 mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre suppose this guy comes to trade 5 with you.
17:32 a111 Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: you don't know him, but know me. so you come to me
17:32 a111 Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: "hey, what's this guy worth in trust ?"
17:33 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: did the 'bbet payouts halted after shitfinex incident' thing resolve, btw ?
17:33 asciilifeform because if not, answer is a fat and obvious 0.
17:33 asciilifeform at least, i'd expect.
17:33 pete_dushenski no one else in my l1 has rated znort, so mp is my only tether here, and a seemingly tenuous one at that.
17:33 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: haven't been keeping up with that tbh
17:34 asciilifeform it is iirc the most recent mention of bbet here.
17:34 pete_dushenski well other than emails from znort requesting a bailout loan from ol' petey, sure.
17:34 danielpbarron !!
17:34 gribble Error: "!" is not a valid command.
17:34 asciilifeform lolwat
17:35 asciilifeform srsly?
17:35 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: recently ?
17:35 asciilifeform so it ~did~ shitfinex itself.
17:35 pete_dushenski yesterday and into today. the conversation continues and will be published on contravex once it's all tied up.
17:35 danielpbarron why no qntra ??
17:36 pete_dushenski contravex seems like a better spot for the emails, qntra can pick it up after as nyooz
17:37 asciilifeform so, supposing pete_dushenski did not dream this while on lsd, it ~was~ purchased by scammer.
17:37 asciilifeform (speculating with escrowed coin , on whatever exchange, is scamming )
17:38 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: bring it on
17:38 asciilifeform and - about what could such a conversation conceivably 'go on' ?
17:39 asciilifeform it is rather like talking to ninjashogun. i personally would like some of the time i wasted on it, back...
17:39 pete_dushenski patience, grasshopper, patience.
17:41 pete_dushenski while it might be obvious what goes on between nigerian scammers and their would-be prey, it never hurts to show the readers at home how their various attacks are thwarted.
17:41 danielpbarron seems to me the news is now broke-- whatever the details. Not that the qntra competitors are gonna link to trilema logs as their source.. but still
17:42 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: oblig mr kako : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-08-2016#1452474
17:42 pete_dushenski anyways, i'm a bit hesitant to throw the 'scammer' label at znort, but there's definitely some fishy smells about.
17:42 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: by what conceivable means would bbet operator need 'bailout loan' ASIDE from having speculated with escrowed coin ?
17:42 asciilifeform (aside from, say, armed robbery - but was any such thing alleged ?)
17:43 danielpbarron lol i can't even load the b-a logs. I guess i'm blacklisted
17:43 asciilifeform danielpbarron: use, e.g., google's cache.
17:43 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: by continuing the conversation, perhaps i'll find out just that. sick grandmother ? ransomware ?
17:43 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: 'i spent escrowed coins to cure sick grandmother' == scamming.
17:43 asciilifeform 'i put escrowed coin on a winblowz box' == scamming.
17:44 asciilifeform 'i put escrowed coin up my arse and then went to visit white house, where anal computer was confiscated and emptied' == scamming.
17:44 pete_dushenski danielpbarron: qntra still has a place, even when news breaks in channel.
17:44 danielpbarron asciilifeform, ya I archive.is'd it
17:44 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: lol.
17:45 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: do you know how loss of state secrets was punished in su, and why..?
17:45 asciilifeform same idea.
17:45 pete_dushenski solitary ? gulag ?
17:45 asciilifeform pistol.
17:45 asciilifeform 'did the rape? do the ape.' otherwise exercise in excuse-crafting.
17:45 pete_dushenski eh. i'm a curious feller. sue me.
17:46 asciilifeform well when pete_dushenski is done being curious and puts in the bullet, i'll sit and listen.
17:46 * shinohai pops popcorn
17:47 asciilifeform iirc we already had nearly this thread. no constructive cut can ever be made between an accidental and deliberate betrayal of trust.
17:48 asciilifeform IF it was a close friend, who stiffed you, you MAY choose to write off the debt, forgive him.
17:48 asciilifeform CHOOSE to.
17:48 asciilifeform stiffed YOU.
17:48 asciilifeform etc
17:50 asciilifeform incidentally, pete_dushenski , it may well be physically possible to determine if bbet deposits went to shitfinex.
17:50 asciilifeform whether znort wants you to find out, or not.
17:51 pete_dushenski i recall the thread. it was persuasive as to the difficulty of the cut. in the end, 'scammer' is probably an accurate tag for bitbet's new owner.
17:51 asciilifeform touched shitfinex or ANY exchange while bets are hot ? scammer.
17:51 asciilifeform QED.
17:51 pete_dushenski quite so.
17:51 asciilifeform in fact, coin movement from bet addr during bet hot - scammer.
17:51 asciilifeform quite arguably.
17:52 pete_dushenski sort of like valet taking ferrari to pick up gf while hustler is in the 'sino
17:52 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski a guy by that name was active back in 2011-2012 ; he made some corrections to mpex faq verbiage ; we've not kept in touch hence nor have i heard anything of him for a few years.
17:52 mircea_popescu that'd be it.
17:52 pete_dushenski sort of what i gathered from the logs during bbet auction day. cheers.
17:53 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519848 << mno, you're missing the chief significance : in practice it means "todos juntos defendiendo la soberania", ie, chinese have to pay more to buy it.
17:53 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 19:27 asciilifeform: which in practical terms simply means that now plebe has to indenture himself for 50, not 20, years, when 'buying' his cardboard boxhouse
17:54 pete_dushenski danielpbarron: wd on the latest blog post. made me realise i missed the last couple too!
17:54 mircea_popescu after the very sad experinece of japanese re speculation in new york, this is a reasonable manoeuver, macro speakling.
17:54 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: their pile of zeros elongates at least as quickly as the price tag's
17:54 mircea_popescu yeah well, nobody said you can build escherian trestlework.
17:54 asciilifeform (because they already own usa)
17:54 asciilifeform aha, quite the klein bottle here.
17:55 asciilifeform with perpetuum mobile, even.
17:55 mircea_popescu nevertheless, if you start on one end you're stuck starting on the other too.
17:55 mircea_popescu kinda the nature of ideal social systems : they force this sort of mistake.
17:56 asciilifeform well sorta like how a fire forces being black, dead, sooty, and smelling of cooked meat.
17:56 pete_dushenski vancouver is a prime example of this macro manoeuvre. recently announced 15% tax on foreign (read: chinese) buyers to boot.
17:57 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519864 << i don't think it was ever contemplated in these here logs as anything but symptom.
17:57 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 19:46 asciilifeform: but it is not clear, at least to me, that debased currency is a ~cause~ rather than ~symptom~ of cultural decay.
17:57 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: it will be fascinating to watch the gymnastics of chinese shills answerable to 'no one' on official paper, but to handlers in actual flesh, doing their 'independent' thing.
17:57 mircea_popescu a readily visible, central reason why goldbugs per se are so intellectually laughable.
17:57 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: sorta like 'rich' people in, e.g., ukraine.
17:58 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519869 << the latter part you can see in my doomed efforts to get to a fucking club in buenos aires. exact same fucking mechanisms.
17:58 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 19:58 asciilifeform: i am quite interested in the mechanisms whereby 1) goldmansachs usd are prevented from transmuting into turkey usd 2) plebes wielding turkey usd are restrained from putting unendurable pressure on supplies of limited resources, of the sort which lead to shortages and visible collapse.
17:58 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: there's no one better than chinese gymnasts atm. just watch the olympics.
17:58 mircea_popescu "we have plenty of" "where ?" "oh, nowhere" "right."
17:59 pete_dushenski japanese men were close last time, but iirc chinese still took gold.
17:59 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: what scarce resource would it exhaust in ar to have working clubs ? molybdenum ?
17:59 mircea_popescu cunt.
17:59 asciilifeform scarce ?
17:59 mircea_popescu the moment they have sexual competition the whole thing comes apart.
17:59 asciilifeform ah in that sense.
17:59 mircea_popescu that's the thing - female patience with ar loser IS fucking scarce
17:59 mircea_popescu because they need so much and it's not naturally occuring - hasta be produced. hence all the luchamos gargle.
17:59 mircea_popescu thatg's what that's all about.
18:00 asciilifeform we have same thing here in north argentina, it is produced via other means ('401k' gargle, etc) but otherwise similar.
18:00 mircea_popescu quite.
18:00 asciilifeform 'make luser attractive deal to stupid female'
18:00 mircea_popescu cunt is a major transaction medium, in point of fact ; seeing how sexual competition is the driver of economic move.
18:03 mircea_popescu which is precisely why, widely speaking, economic progress happened in the west, with the sandyvagina'd women that didn't marry and didn't have kids, rather than i nthe east, or in china, with the loving and tolerant she-rabbits.
18:03 mircea_popescu the nonsensical myth of the "pure" knight is specific of what, england, northern france/belgium/luxemburg, and northern italy.
18:03 mircea_popescu as opposed to midi, sicily, holy roman empire etc.
18:05 mircea_popescu bitchez dun put out, beta male goes to get pomodori, spices and whatnot, maybe it gets her hot ; or otherwise arab boi goes to fucking sweden, where it's cold and it sucks, to rape the swede horsewomen.
18:05 asciilifeform used to be the swede - went.
18:05 mircea_popescu ukr chicks put out, ukr is the lol of all orcs, even the muscovi losers.
18:05 mircea_popescu etc.
18:06 mircea_popescu hence the whole protestantism thing. it delivered - they wiped the catholic tolerants.
18:06 mircea_popescu history of england is quite interesting under this aspect.
18:06 mircea_popescu majority catholic - fucking burgundy, which is now somehow inexplicably a country - owns it.
18:06 asciilifeform eh, there was spain.
18:07 mircea_popescu and then they got owned by the dutch. the DUTCH of all people!
18:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yeah, and spain IS because at some point the extremadura hos were putting out ~for the arabs~
18:07 mircea_popescu which sunk the arabs.
18:08 asciilifeform at any rate 'tolerasts' ~ALWAYS~ get their arse handed to them.
18:08 asciilifeform no exception.
18:08 asciilifeform from mazdak on.
18:09 asciilifeform (do engl.-speaking folks even KNOW about tolerasty? well, they do now!)
18:10 asciilifeform Just Say No to tolerasty, kiddlez.
18:11 asciilifeform Be Smart, Dun Start
18:11 asciilifeform or how did it go.
18:11 mircea_popescu yeah srsly, i should run an ad campaign here. "Be smart, don't fuck Argentines."
18:11 asciilifeform well as per start of this subthread, nobody needs the ad, they just need the psychotronic weapon that makes them spread for idiots, removed.
18:12 mircea_popescu myeah.
18:12 mircea_popescu you should see this fucking place - 19yos going around WITH THEIR MOTHERS
18:12 asciilifeform when idiocy ray is turned off, people tend to go back to some approximation of sanity.
18:12 mircea_popescu so fucking degrading, it's unconscionable.
18:12 mircea_popescu i don't think i've ever seen this in romania. or for that matter the states.
18:12 asciilifeform how about egypt ?
18:13 mircea_popescu girl that age would rather be caught sucking off pigs than sharing an intimate moment with her mother.
18:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform oh, egypt all teh time.
18:13 mircea_popescu by and large if you wanted to start a cunt you pretty much had to have her mother spread her out for you.
18:13 asciilifeform lel
18:19 mircea_popescu as per the quote, "sfondami tutta! prendi mia figlia! te la faccio sverginare!"
18:26 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: That thing your submission discusses was already withdrawn. Otherwise it would have been in the News Roundup Xtend
18:26 BingoBoingo Sorry, News Roundup Xtend (TM)(R)
18:29 shinohai I haven't found *a single thing* to qntra this week
18:30 mircea_popescu slow week huh.
18:30 shinohai Yeah, kinda weird. I started two submissions, then realized how dumb they sounded and canned 'em.
18:31 mircea_popescu kinda how this goes yeah
18:33 danielpbarron BingoBoingo, ah, so i shouldn't even publish it myself?
18:33 shinohai Even scammers are starting to recycle scams, like PayCon.
18:33 shinohai No news :/
18:33 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Well with some rewording that it failed you can self republish
18:36 asciilifeform lel bbet implosion is quite a nyooz
18:36 asciilifeform imho.
18:36 mircea_popescu wait what happened ?
18:37 BingoBoingo I was tempted to write about the falling value of tits.
18:37 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519892 << nah, the central bank interest rate is the loss of the circuit. like, what s.mg takes out of eulora would be it.
18:37 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 20:06 trinque: so really the interest rate diddles the margins of how fast the flood of money occurs
18:38 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo seems kinda marginal tbh.
18:38 mircea_popescu maybe next pass you know, come 2019 or w/e, when i gotta move it from 0.02 to 0.001 or w/e
18:38 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Yeah, but not mockable News Roundup (TM)(R) marginal either. Next move prolly has a place.
18:39 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519897 << yes, the us was inconceivably wealthy. i nthat 1985-1990 half decade / 5yrplan it could have literally convinced the globe to do anything. this is ultimate wealth. sadly they decided to use that capital to convince the globe "saddam had nuclear weapons" and "green energy/blabla ecolotardisms and assorted danquayleisms" instead.
18:39 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 20:11 trinque: I wonder if it's truly that the USA was *that* wealthy that it had this far to fall, that there is not yet starvation.
18:39 mircea_popescu possibly the largest case of wastage in the history of humanity.
18:42 BingoBoingo <pete_dushenski> asciilifeform: there's no one better than chinese gymnasts atm. just watch the olympics.<< I thought black american hobbits were winning?
18:42 pete_dushenski that was in the pool
18:43 pete_dushenski lbgtbbq ethiopans ftw
18:43 * pete_dushenski saw some objectionable picture of such in local paper
18:44 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519893 << other than cunt already mentioned, "criminal behaviour", ie, male systematic intolerance. hence all the "terrorists" etc.
18:44 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 20:06 asciilifeform: trinque: i know this. but am interested presently in where it interfaces with physical reality.
18:45 mircea_popescu kinda why the clinton ticket is such nonsense to anyone not-a-pleb. the one thing obvious is things can't continue - how to let steam out, where etc are debatable, but her utterly mccain-ish notion of "all is well" smacks of such senile delusion as can scarcely be put into words.
18:45 pete_dushenski http://qntra.net/2016/08/brexit-fallout-illiterate-british-justice-enacts-breach-of-european-declaration-of-human-rights-into-british-legal-precedent/#comment-67051 << mircea_popescu
18:45 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: Nah, I just caught that downthread you were talking about dudes.
18:46 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519902 < aha. quite valid measuring stick.
18:46 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 20:29 asciilifeform: even the ads. in particular, the ads.
18:47 pete_dushenski BingoBoingo: stop oppressing ethiobians
18:47 mircea_popescu the switch from representational to aspirational advertising is quite the direct reflection of the turning point.
18:47 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: Maybe if they didn't want oppressed they would have kept the Ras Tafari Haille Sellaise alive?
18:48 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1520086 << l0gz from past ~2hrs
18:48 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 22:36 mircea_popescu: wait what happened ?
18:49 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: tlp obviously went after this aspirational angle, even if he tripped over the patek philippe price points, as per http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/10/the-danger-of-unchecked-assumptions-or-the-surprising-depths-of-inequality/
18:49 mircea_popescu aha.
18:51 mircea_popescu oh danielpbarron doth not approve of thiel heresies ?
18:52 pete_dushenski http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3650344/Daughters-friends-partners-bizarre-relationship-men-human-size-plastic-dolls-China.html << in other chinese markets
18:52 mircea_popescu ah babel, not bad example either.
18:54 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1518968 << ftr, wide road was paved by jlo and non-us-born shakira
18:54 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 13:38 mircea_popescu: phf and this because kim totally fucking won the assculture war.
18:54 mircea_popescu blondies ? dun think so.
18:54 mircea_popescu road was paved by countless, nameless, black chicks shaking booty.
18:54 mircea_popescu so that cvasi-jew may one day be accepted queen in their stead
18:54 mircea_popescu very much like the obama trick, actually.
18:55 mircea_popescu (to go quite into the depths of this : /me has always suspected all the "upsetting" stories about how hairy kim is were i nfact strategic plants from her media strategist. to make her acceptable, for being ~jewish)
18:55 pete_dushenski jlo's sorta sandy-haired, shakira hit the bleach bottle
18:56 mircea_popescu image is everything ; substance dun count in this discussion.
18:56 mircea_popescu it's about women, after all.
18:57 pete_dushenski kim was harped on for being hairy ? this is nooz to me. i thought she just got sassed for being, as chappelle would say, a nigger-lover.
18:57 mircea_popescu re danielpbarron 's thing : yes, the texts do not support the reading of leviathan as demon. it is beast ; a sort of cow, or hippo or what have you.
18:58 pete_dushenski http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3737641/Farage-aide-held-money-laundering-claims-Son-glamour-model-dated-Prince-Charles-facing-years-jail-offering-services-dark-web.html << from same fishwrap. darkweeeb
18:59 mircea_popescu $s daughters
18:59 a111 105 results for "daughters", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=daughters
19:00 mircea_popescu check it out, us can now confiscate uk citizens np. nice.
19:00 asciilifeform could, eons ago.
19:00 asciilifeform e.g., laury love
19:00 mircea_popescu recall the days the british navy pressed rando usians into 10 year ship washing terms ?
19:00 asciilifeform aha
19:01 asciilifeform usa even declared war over it.
19:01 asciilifeform i saw, in delaware recently, a cannonball stuck in wall, since 1814, from it.
19:01 mircea_popescu doesn't seem like the uk is declaring anything but "i'll hold her for you"
19:01 asciilifeform well yes, 'airstrip one' uk.
19:03 mircea_popescu lol nice story though, guy worth 1/4bn is going to bother with 15k piddly us dollahs. this is almost as good as "we found a street hooker who's willing to swear she was a hotel maid and the european central bank prresident did vague things to her. honest!"
19:03 mircea_popescu state butthurt over brexit much ?
19:05 pete_dushenski http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160702123222-trump-star-tweet-clinton-backlash-00001715-large-tease.jpg << heh. speaking of ~jewishness and politix
19:05 asciilifeform dun seem like he was dragged, hog-tied, to usa tho.
19:05 mircea_popescu quite.
19:06 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: ever see j. streicher's cartoons?
19:07 pete_dushenski dun think they ever ended up in local journal, so prolly not
19:07 asciilifeform der sturmer.
19:07 * pete_dushenski read comics section religiously as a child
19:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the strauss-kahn idiot also went willingly.
19:08 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: german dude. hanged at nuremberg.
19:08 mircea_popescu dudes gotta learn, you don't visit barbarfic lands without proper bonds.
19:08 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: aha. just recalled that i read a bio or two of streicher after your mention of him in the logs recently.
19:08 pete_dushenski http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/der-sturmer.jpg << example i guess
19:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i have nfi why strausskahn went
19:09 asciilifeform perhaps they had his mother as hostage or wat.
19:09 mircea_popescu because they refuse to conceptualize that the us is a rogue state, why.
19:09 asciilifeform sisters, daughters, pets,
19:09 asciilifeform nfi.
19:09 mircea_popescu they don't go around visiting north korea
19:10 mircea_popescu though honestly much better reasons there.
19:10 asciilifeform the occasional imbecile does
19:10 mircea_popescu at least you probably can get a proper foot massage.
19:10 asciilifeform and gets stuck
19:10 asciilifeform typically christbesotted types
19:10 asciilifeform go a preachin'
19:10 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519966 << morel ike a teaser. i'm teased alright.
19:10 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 21:41 danielpbarron: seems to me the news is now broke-- whatever the details. Not that the qntra competitors are gonna link to trilema logs as their source.. but still
19:10 asciilifeform then to gulag.
19:11 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i meant people, not rando "i crawled out of a woman at some point"
19:11 asciilifeform strausskahn was a people?
19:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu knows, as fact?
19:12 mircea_popescu well, stuborn old fool, but sure, why the hell not.
19:12 asciilifeform well i have nfi, perhaps missionary dude also was ?
19:12 mircea_popescu is naggum people ? he's not in the wot. what standard shall we apply.
19:12 asciilifeform i haven't the intel. hence q.
19:12 mircea_popescu i dunno the missionary, and don't care to remedy this.
19:14 asciilifeform BingoBoingo or anyone with time/energy: see if any live bbet bets have empty in addrs.
19:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1519996 << this is altogether unclear. this "the people have the right to trace the coins" is a) still nonsense, bitcoin is not traceable ; b) still nonsense, forget the "dao" bullshit ; c) still nonsense, you trust the operator or you don't trust the operator.
19:14 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 21:51 asciilifeform: touched shitfinex or ANY exchange while bets are hot ? scammer.
19:15 mircea_popescu while i ran bitbet there was no specific guarantee made that "the coins" would be found in any place or not found in any place. this specifically, explicitly and intentionally ; against at least three different attempts to "community organize" and assorted nonsense.
19:15 * covertress waves hello to mircea_popescu
19:15 mircea_popescu how goes ?
19:15 asciilifeform oh hey, https://bitbet.us/bet/1256/donald-trump-will-win-the-2016-united-states/#b25
19:15 covertress well, and with you?
19:15 mircea_popescu nb.
19:15 covertress I've been in contact w le ver.
19:15 asciilifeform https://blockchain.info/address/128VPofnGL1BCZdjgbyf8gRpuAALD3SLJj
19:16 mircea_popescu lol "lever". nb.
19:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: whether 'can trace' or cannot, gambling with escrows == scamming
19:16 asciilifeform or, wat, only if you lose???
19:17 mircea_popescu covertress i've been in contact with a lively, nicely titted waitress. i think this makes it 1-0 for me.
19:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no such thing as "escrows".
19:17 covertress ahh, yes, I've seen your numbered exploits posted here. lulz
19:17 mircea_popescu nobody asked you anything of how bitbet's capital is to be used by bitbet.
19:17 asciilifeform coin parked at bbet and promised to come out minus fee.
19:17 asciilifeform what do you call it, mircea_popescu
19:17 mircea_popescu bitcoin is fungible. you hold a claim to a sum, not to any sort of otherwise specifiable coins.
19:18 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: you're assuming taint
19:18 asciilifeform tru!
19:18 mircea_popescu there is no "these" coins in bitcoin.
19:18 asciilifeform sum.
19:18 mircea_popescu sum, sure.
19:18 pete_dushenski perhaps time for another audit ?
19:18 mircea_popescu up to operator.
19:18 pete_dushenski iirc mats did the last one of bbet
19:18 pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/2014/04/07/results-of-first-bitbet-audit-april-7-2014/
19:19 asciilifeform so jon corzine was an honest man per mircea_popescu's lights?
19:19 covertress mircea_popescu, I've meant to speak w you in private but, thought it rude to PM you.
19:19 mircea_popescu understand - just because i'm the king and queen and can afford to leave whatever untold bitcoin fortunes lay fallow in whatever addresses for yeasrs at a time - does not give you the right to expect or demand such.
19:19 mircea_popescu this is just another of those "sunk costs of mp's that we don't recognize nor compensate him for - just expect bitbet to magically work for free"
19:19 mircea_popescu i don't expect ~anyone else would afford to do this. period.
19:19 asciilifeform i dun expect it to work. i expected it to walk with the coinz.
19:20 asciilifeform hence - did not use after heathens got to it.
19:20 mircea_popescu covertress as we don't know each other, we have nothing to discuss "in private". public will work jus' fine.
19:20 covertress yes, of course.
19:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well there's always that.
19:20 asciilifeform i'ma, lets say, low expectations fella.
19:20 covertress I would like to propose a visit then, during my return leg from Shanghai.
19:21 mircea_popescu anyway, this is another problem of the prev discussed "bitbet" theme - without a proper cash market and cash insurance, it's pretty fucking hard to get it going.
19:21 covertress 26-sept
19:21 mircea_popescu covertress aite, i'll buy you a steak. you ever had a proper steak ?
19:21 covertress kobe?
19:21 asciilifeform but i do expect that if a phriend of mircea_popescu borrows his moneyz, and goes to gamble with it, and loses all, he will be made to pay with balls
19:21 mircea_popescu well no, we'd be in argentina not in japan.
19:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform whether he will pay with balls, wife, or a cute poem, is mp\s problem ; but you're to expect you will be paid.
19:22 covertress wagyu
19:22 mircea_popescu are you a kobe fan covertress ?
19:22 covertress yes
19:22 mircea_popescu a then you can tell me what you think of the local cut.
19:22 covertress would love to
19:22 mircea_popescu alright then.
19:23 covertress will you be avail to meet w me?
19:23 mircea_popescu i just said that didn't i ?
19:23 covertress :)
19:23 covertress then I believe we now have something to discuss in private
19:24 mircea_popescu lmao such a slippery one she is.
19:24 asciilifeform mircea_popescu gonna love the veery speshul seeeekrit rogervergerian offer!!
19:24 mircea_popescu get in touch when you're here, i'll send someone to pick you up or such covertress .
19:25 covertress very well
19:25 * covertress waves goodbye to mircea_popescu
19:26 mircea_popescu this makes the... shit i lost count-th lady flying into weird uncharted lands to meet with me.
19:26 mircea_popescu i think i am altogether a bad influence.
19:27 BingoBoingo Did Shanti Dynamite ever make it?
19:27 mircea_popescu are you trying to destroy shanti fungibility ?
19:28 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1520211 << did mircea_popescu ever say why he did not charge the full cost of bitbetronics? it was loss leader? or wat.
19:28 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 23:19 mircea_popescu: this is just another of those "sunk costs of mp's that we don't recognize nor compensate him for - just expect bitbet to magically work for free"
19:29 asciilifeform or was it the 'pay for sunlight' thing.
19:29 asciilifeform where nobody knows how to bill 'died for the glory of the motherland'.
19:29 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: What every Indiancandi has the same name or something?
19:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform to quote a wise man, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-14#1432299
19:32 a111 Logged on 2016-03-14 16:33 phf: nubbins`: it's a shame that you chose this approach for your denouncement. some people are here (myself, maybe ascii) not to make money, but to fuck around with novel ways of doing things. it would've been nifty if, as a "lord" if you will, you picked up the game and made your accusations formal, maybe solicited a judge from the wot, made it interesting somehow! you don't have to obviously, but the approach that you chose was basic and
19:33 mircea_popescu it wasn't a significant sum - think, i threw away 1k btc to humiliate buffett, i threw away 5 fucking btc for stuff like the contest that produced "shall be delivered" ; etc. moreover, to correctly account for it would have likely cost more.
19:33 asciilifeform well bbet is not run by lord, or even - to my satisfaction - actual wot persona.
19:33 mircea_popescu it's not a complaint ; it's a statement of fact, made at a time it's required to be made to protect the business environment from public insanity.
19:34 mircea_popescu anyway, don't misunderstand the "not to make money" bit, it's in my case a coincidence not a virtue. go, make money, absolutely no shame in it. a lot of shame in luchamos juntos blablala, so there's that.
19:39 asciilifeform dunno, i see 0 difference b/w a bbet that shitfinexes customer coin and that derp who put his customers' into canadian lottery.
19:40 mircea_popescu yes, this may be. the problem is that THE SOLUTION you originally envisaged / the STATEMENT of the problem you originally used is braindead. this is, ironically, very much approached to his worship our bishop's objections - in that merely thinking you "should be able" to technologize your way into heaven is scarce guarantee you will in fact manage such.
19:40 asciilifeform no word re technologizability.
19:40 mircea_popescu yes, little difference between idiot putting bitcoin into bitfinex and idiot putting bitcoin into canadian lottery. but this is not the same as saying "we shall now has smart contracts bitbet"
19:41 asciilifeform but if i pick up a stray burst of radio static from bbet that suggests he lotteries, this will be part of my risk assessment.
19:41 asciilifeform and i will share. publicly.
19:41 asciilifeform as pete did.
19:41 mircea_popescu well no possible argument there ; sure.
19:42 asciilifeform and no 'smart contract' or whatever, just radio static. it is ~possible~ that znort moved the coin because, solely because, he is allergic to odd-numbered addrs. or sumthing.
19:43 asciilifeform nevertheless i am free to consider a hypothesis that could be ruled out if he had not moved it.
19:43 mircea_popescu in general, unless someone is ~central bank, it'll be difficult for them to ignore the time-value of capital.
19:44 mircea_popescu some fish might be too big to care ; but in general fish that aren't too big to care are required, economically, to maximize the usage of resources.
19:44 asciilifeform what time value. after private mpoe, the ~only + or even breakeven ev btc use is 'hodl'.
19:44 asciilifeform presently.
19:44 mircea_popescu sure. but this is a conclusion that requires analysis above the pay grade to make.
19:44 mircea_popescu very pernicious vicious circle / catch 22 sort of situation.
19:44 asciilifeform well i dun wear a pope hat.
19:45 mircea_popescu let me put it this way : the fact that we don't have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not, as a factual matter, as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
19:46 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: But you wear a Cardinal's College!
19:46 mircea_popescu yes, it's not even altogether clear there CAN be such a thing as a bitcoin-equivalent of the fiat money market. yes, problems of all sorts, yes yes yes. and yet - what's he to do ?
19:46 asciilifeform and yes, the temptation to 'invest' other people's coin , without their knowledge, has been overwhelming, for ~every megascammer to date.
19:46 asciilifeform the 'winners' - we generally never hear about.
19:47 mircea_popescu not even a temptation. the ECONOMIC DRIVE! if he doesn't - another will. and neither he nor the other are mp, to obliterate any conceivable competition by simple fucking logos like a thing out of the sacred texts. so what's he to do ?
19:47 mircea_popescu you think the average us banker DIDNT know, throughout the 2000s , that they're going straight into real estate crisis ?
19:47 asciilifeform lol aha, 'if i dun steal that donkey, another will'
19:47 mircea_popescu like shit.
19:47 mircea_popescu of course they did.
19:47 asciilifeform you still gotta hang thieves.
19:47 mircea_popescu sure. hang away.
19:47 mircea_popescu i don't think i ever spoke against a hanging, maybe if nice tits invovled or something, but rare enough.
19:48 asciilifeform pete is, as i understand, boiling the rope, as we speak.
19:48 mircea_popescu ahh, the scent of boiling rope.
19:48 mircea_popescu what things modern man knows not he doesn't know.
19:52 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1520274 << well, we have a 'these ships sail for west indies next morning and most will come back never, or in a decade, and maybe full of gold and slaves, or maybe plague' market.
19:52 a111 Logged on 2016-08-12 23:45 mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don't have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not, as a factual matter, as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
19:52 mircea_popescu the italians all had proper risk and insurance markets.
19:52 mircea_popescu shakespeare knows of this.
19:53 asciilifeform did they assess risk of discovering syphilis??
19:53 mircea_popescu yes.
19:53 asciilifeform and if so, at what.
19:53 mircea_popescu at, allow me to quite,
19:53 mircea_popescu quote*
19:53 asciilifeform and who paid - whom
19:54 mircea_popescu SHYLOCK: Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum. Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate...
19:54 mircea_popescu there's more substance to lending than the naive christian "asking a living out of bare metal".
19:55 asciilifeform i dun see how they covered the colourful swan of , e.g, syphilis.
19:55 mircea_popescu actually there's more substance to lending than ~anyone ever alive ever realised.
19:55 asciilifeform from this example.
19:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so you don't see.
19:55 asciilifeform 'cause it isn' there?
19:56 mircea_popescu mno. "i don't see how they did" and "i see how they didn't" are quite widely spaced apart.
19:56 asciilifeform if i catch syphilis now, can i charge the penicillin bill to some dead genoan?
19:56 asciilifeform or wat.
19:56 mircea_popescu if you don't catch fdmjkrlehkjer now, shall a dead genoan send you the bill ?
19:57 asciilifeform yes. i think i might still be paying that one.
19:57 mircea_popescu evidently :)
19:58 asciilifeform for all the substance in the 'social contract' lunacy, it may as well be bill from dead cromagnons etc.
19:59 mircea_popescu the rousseau nonsense is unrelated to our discussion so far.
20:00 asciilifeform going up the stack, i dun see successful gambler as == to 'was covered'
20:01 asciilifeform elsewise shitfinex's 'insurance' will have been 'legit' right up to its total disappearance from the record.
20:02 asciilifeform and jon corzine was a crook.
20:02 mircea_popescu yeah, not at all contemplated here, such nonsense.
20:02 asciilifeform and obamite.
20:02 asciilifeform and would have still been a crook if he had won his bets and lost 0.
20:02 asciilifeform just an ~undiscovered~ bezzlemeister.
20:03 mircea_popescu at some point you'll have to understand bitcoin scarcity.
20:03 mircea_popescu unlike fiat, there specifically ISNT as much of this as anyone could ever need.
20:03 asciilifeform if mr thief picks mircea_popescu 's pocket, goes to the races, wins, and put the money back, he is still a pickpocket
20:03 asciilifeform and mircea_popescu in the right to collect his balls
20:04 asciilifeform if catches him.
20:04 mircea_popescu surte.
20:05 asciilifeform and cash being fungible, mircea_popescu won't blink when he notices that his pocket had a hundie five minutes ago but now has 5 20s, right ?
20:05 asciilifeform or will he.
20:05 asciilifeform what am i missing ?
20:06 mircea_popescu hm ?
20:06 asciilifeform re bbet example and the 5 20s.
20:06 asciilifeform the coin movement is a bit of information.
20:07 asciilifeform to say 'aint no such thing as taint' is great that bit is there, like the light from a distant star, it carries info.
20:07 asciilifeform like the hundie that turned, 'spontaneously', to 5 20s.
20:07 asciilifeform *but that bit is there
20:08 mircea_popescu that bit is there to the owner of the pocket. in thsi case, bitbet. not you.
20:08 asciilifeform if i can see it, i can see it.
20:08 asciilifeform i am under no obligation to close my eyes.
20:09 mircea_popescu you may think you see whatever ; for all you know some guy "sees" the true meaning of pgp signatures.
20:09 asciilifeform fact is, it moved. MAYBE to other pocket of same guy, maybe not. but MOVED.
20:09 mircea_popescu they spell out 666 JOO
20:09 asciilifeform vs if it had not moved, i can see that it had not.
20:09 asciilifeform which carries a bit of actionable info re risk assessment.
20:10 asciilifeform and yes, there IS chance that key was lost
20:10 asciilifeform or owner - dead
20:10 asciilifeform but compare this with EV of 'bitcoin invest' on shitfinexes.
20:10 mircea_popescu apparently voodoo is just hard to let go of.
20:10 asciilifeform it aint voodoo if it works.
20:11 asciilifeform wanna demonstrate why i merely hallucinate that it works?
20:11 asciilifeform and the starlight carries 0 info
20:12 mircea_popescu ahahaha
20:12 asciilifeform i can already guess where this will go.
20:12 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-13#1520349 <<<>>> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-13#1520324
20:12 a111 Logged on 2016-08-13 00:10 asciilifeform: it aint voodoo if it works.
20:12 a111 Logged on 2016-08-13 00:03 asciilifeform: if mr thief picks mircea_popescu 's pocket, goes to the races, wins, and put the money back, he is still a pickpocket
20:12 mircea_popescu at least we get to admire your intellectual flexibility!
20:12 asciilifeform burden of proof will be on asciilifeform , not on wotless wonder znort
20:13 mircea_popescu burden of proof applies to meaningful statements. there's no burden of proof here, as this inference isn't even wrong.
20:15 asciilifeform P(coins lost | coins moved) > P(coins lost | coins stayed put).
20:15 asciilifeform there, testable.
20:15 mircea_popescu lol.
20:15 asciilifeform or, at least, observable.
20:16 asciilifeform this is a usable hypothesis, and the smart money will use it, just as it uses 'if train engineer drinks, he is more likely to cause bloodbath than if does not drink'.
20:16 mircea_popescu it's not even a hypothesis.
20:17 asciilifeform you can take' it to the bank '.
20:17 mircea_popescu it's a "if god exists he has 10 minutes to strike me down" nonsense.
20:17 mircea_popescu o look, mussolini's a theologian now.
20:18 asciilifeform i get it, mircea_popescu has this 'if we pretend coin movement carries 0 bits of info to the enemy, mebbe it will become true' thing going.
20:18 asciilifeform i dun see how it worx.
20:18 mircea_popescu no. "coin movement" carries no information ; anyone may pretend otherwise at their leisure.
20:18 asciilifeform yaya.
20:18 asciilifeform my arse movements prolly carry info
20:18 mircea_popescu it's a ridiculous stance, but whatever, people did PROVE that "she's a witch, but we did do the nose" etcetera.
20:19 mircea_popescu hey, it's integral part of modern man's damnation that he flatters himself so.
20:19 asciilifeform btw if mircea_popescu wants to do a shannon-style proof a la otp bits, i'm all ears.
20:19 asciilifeform (recall thread?)
20:20 mircea_popescu there is no such proof to be had ; you are simply pretending to glue together things that don't exist in the same domain.
20:20 asciilifeform proof can always be had.
20:20 mircea_popescu there's nothing here ; your presupositions can't be admitted. there's no way to do science o nthis.
20:20 mircea_popescu mno. proof can be had on meaningful representations. not on random strings.
20:21 asciilifeform tell me how 'coin moved' is not equivalent to 'coin may have moved to addr that mover dun have the key to and aint ever giving it back'.
20:21 mircea_popescu "is this ball bluer than the number 5 ???"
20:21 mircea_popescu "what ?"
20:21 mircea_popescu "proof can always be had!!11"
20:21 asciilifeform MAY have.
20:21 mircea_popescu may doesn't rescue you from the fact that you're purporting to compare the results of two functions that may never return at the same time.
20:22 asciilifeform sorta like 'wife MAY have fucked stranger last night, when she was out, but not THIS night, she was tied up in basement'
20:22 mircea_popescu except you don't have a wife.
20:22 asciilifeform i tell ya, i dun see it.
20:22 mircea_popescu aite.
20:22 * asciilifeform bbl, will go think.
20:33 deedbot http://trilema.com/2016/etude/ << Trilema - Etude
20:33 asciilifeform i tell ya, whole classes of coin loss universe that are possible given 'coin moved' - can be immediately ruled out if coin has not moved.
20:34 asciilifeform for instance, 'sold for usd.'
20:38 mircea_popescu it's all getting oneself drunk on spring water.
20:42 asciilifeform next mircea_popescu will tell me that P(aids|shoots heroin) is not > P(aids|clean), etc.
20:43 mircea_popescu entirely unrelated items.
20:43 asciilifeform and that the actuarial alarm bell is my 'drunk on springwater.'
20:43 mircea_popescu if there existed good physical models for bitcoin we wouldn't have either the problems or the interest.
20:43 asciilifeform fact is , what has not been spent, could not have been mis-spent.
20:43 asciilifeform lost key ? yes. meteor fell ? yes. ww3? yes. spent ? no.
20:44 mircea_popescu unless you didn't hear the block.
20:44 asciilifeform which sooooo happens every fucking day, aha.
20:44 asciilifeform mno.
20:44 asciilifeform 'it's in the next block!'
20:44 asciilifeform the check is in the mailz!
20:44 mircea_popescu if you think you "hear all transactions" you'll have a lot of weird to explain.
20:45 asciilifeform if a year later nobody heard a tx, and nobody showed it to me, it dun exist. proof or gtfo.
20:45 mircea_popescu oh, and this year is what, in the protocol ?
20:45 asciilifeform taken arbitrary length here.
20:45 mircea_popescu your discussion of p's from afore somehow morphed into "proof or gtfo" ? what nonsense is this.
20:45 mircea_popescu exactly.
20:45 mircea_popescu go, take whatever voodoo water you will ; and don't ask me to sign off on it.
20:46 asciilifeform but burden of proof is on fella who says 'i've been trying to get this tx mined since obama presidency and nobody includes it in block because they are joooz' is on the claimant.
20:46 asciilifeform who - as incidentally mircea_popescu did - shows the tx.
20:46 asciilifeform if he wants to be believed.
20:47 mircea_popescu the only burden of proof is on ridiculous short man with napoleon delusions giving god ultimatums and then pretending the "burden of proof", as if such a thing could even exist in the nonsensical context, is on this or that.
20:47 asciilifeform (if he dun care whether anyone believes, naturally he dun have to show nuffin)
20:47 mircea_popescu lettuce talk of something else for i tire of the nonsense.
20:47 asciilifeform ahahaha argumento ad dirigible.
20:47 asciilifeform if there's nothing else, i've nothing.
20:47 mircea_popescu there's nothing to be had, no.
20:48 asciilifeform https://archive.is/wCuPt << not quite related lelz
20:48 asciilifeform 'The fate of Liu Dawei that would lead him to a life sentence conviction began on July, 2014. Then 18-year-old, gun enthusiast Liu placed an online order to purchase 24 replica firearms from a Taiwanese website ...'
20:48 asciilifeform ^ reminiscent of usg trials for faux dope.
20:49 asciilifeform 'The judge said, based on the law, smuggling over 20 firearms should be given death sentence. However, the judge added that considering Liu’s young age at the time when the crime was committed, the court thus handed down a life sentence instead.'
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