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00:42 BingoBoingo Caek was delicious
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01:03 shinohai Did they at least have lemonade too?
01:04 BingoBoingo Better. Coffee.
01:07 shinohai Good point
01:15 * BingoBoingo not sure if the lack of discussion on the fanfic is a good or bad thing.
01:15 BingoBoingo Perhaps now that the slash is done next entry should take a more traditional fanfic turn.
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02:38 mircea_popescu asciilifeform empire is really dedicated to "not a sperm is wasted". all teh holes gotta be always kept.
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09:52 mircea_popescu and, of course, http://66.media.tumblr.com/918778e0a014c11dbf790c170bbdb5db/tumblr_ngbn9hWiM31u2x6vro1_1280.jpg
09:53 trinque BingoBoingo: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/10/27/not-guilty-oregon-jury-exonerates-seven-defendants-refuge-standoff/ << no noose is good news
09:53 trinque dunno why that's filed under texas
09:53 trinque are they pandering to my demographic?!?!
09:53 mircea_popescu "all good things go in texas file" ?
09:53 trinque worx
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10:37 shinohai http://i.imgur.com/AX2KmH9.png
10:45 mircea_popescu ahaha
10:49 mircea_popescu and in other stupid ideas, http://67.media.tumblr.com/5113513464264c6073e4d6ccf74a38d5/tumblr_n38cmfzkWn1rtutkqo1_500.jpg
10:51 shinohai Asses are better for snorting coke off of
10:57 mircea_popescu you really don't want to mix the hygroscopic cocaine with skin brine.
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12:27 BingoBoingo <trinque> dunno why that's filed under texas << No, filed under news *FOR* Texas
12:30 BingoBoingo "One of the people who was sought in the probable cause action was killed. Another person was injured and transported to an area hospital where he was later arrested, according to an FBI press release obtained by Breitbart Texas at the time." << Pussies at Breitbart won't give Lavoy Finicum his NAME!.
12:31 BingoBoingo And lol http://qntra.net/2016/10/what-is-the-difference-between-bill-clinton-and-bill-cosby-a-qntest-with-bitcoin-prizes/#comment-76680
12:37 shinohai LOL vexual should have put that one in format for the Qntest
12:37 BingoBoingo 4srs
12:42 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
12:42 BingoBoingo ~!ticker --market all --currency gbp
12:43 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 706.7, vol: 3989.59358643 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 702.999, vol: 5255.44058 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 714.14, vol: 13968.47285007 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 713.287, vol: 1538.43442931 | Volume-weighted last average: 710.522274718
12:44 shinohai When you start to resemble the candidate you are voting for: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/10/29/trump-supporter-charged-with-voting-twice-in-iowa/
12:44 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all --currency rmb
12:44 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: BTCChina BTCRMB last: 4862.41, vol: 2937798.91540000 | Volume-weighted last average: 4862.41
12:45 BingoBoingo lol shinohai
12:56 mod6 mornin'
12:56 shinohai morning
12:56 shinohai or afternoon lol
12:56 phf meanwhile, asciilifeform at work http://66.media.tumblr.com/a1df58bc0106d0387164ad24ff49092f/tumblr_od226u6em41sndzdgo1_500.jpg
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12:56 mod6 lol, how's it goin?
12:57 mod6 phf: heheh
12:57 shinohai xD
12:57 mircea_popescu wow they allow non-tit tumblrs ?!
12:59 BingoBoingo OMG his hands ARE free!!!
13:01 mod6 lol
13:04 deedbot http://trilema.com/2016/poor-women/ << Trilema - Poor women...
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13:23 mircea_popescu !!key DarkSonic1338
13:23 deedbot http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/3b74h/?raw=true
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13:38 ben_vulpes "we even picked them out together online" wahaha
13:38 BingoBoingo For srs
13:39 ben_vulpes i ain't even take remedial kink and that shit's retarded
13:39 BingoBoingo Motherfucker *wants* to get cuck'd by a couple bits of plastic
13:39 BingoBoingo It's only time before he finds a boyfriend with "frame" to bring home.
13:40 ben_vulpes interesting take
13:41 ben_vulpes relatedly, hijinks on the corvette hood jammed the right side release
13:42 ben_vulpes fuckin toys
13:42 BingoBoingo PB Blaster and patience
13:42 ben_vulpes i think it's a mechanical jam, possibly the glass is now out of true
13:43 BingoBoingo PB Blaster, Patience, and Pushing is the amended prescription
13:46 ben_vulpes pushing
13:47 ben_vulpes source of and solution to the world's woes
13:48 BingoBoingo Seriously
13:48 BingoBoingo But the PB Blaster is pretty much nothing but solution... except in locks... or electronics
13:49 ben_vulpes more like a suspension of solution
13:50 BingoBoingo Nah, because wear items always evade permanent solutions. They aren't plinths.
13:51 trinque the guy who has to ask an authority how and whether to fuck truly is another gender.
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13:51 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes corvette is for fucking 50lbs of 17yo not 100lbs of married woman!
13:51 mircea_popescu there IS such a thing as engineering specifications!
13:52 ben_vulpes eh corvette is for depreciating
13:52 trinque also hooning in circles when wet
13:52 ben_vulpes schedule is a matter of personal taste
13:52 trinque :D
13:52 mircea_popescu i wonder if they actually had a hood engineer sit around thinking about this
13:52 ben_vulpes trinque: not circles, arcs
13:52 ben_vulpes arcs of like 30 degrees
13:52 trinque fair 'nuff
13:52 ben_vulpes UGH
13:52 ben_vulpes replacing that bumper is going to cost me 450 in plastic and another 175 in shipping oil
13:53 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes it may interest you to know i first met / picked out / hired my best driver ever when he was 17 and was doing "spinnies" with a group of similarly minded idiots
13:53 mircea_popescu which consisted of accelerating and then steer-locking the car in a gravel pit.
13:53 ben_vulpes aka 'donuts'
13:53 mircea_popescu ah is it ?
13:53 ben_vulpes i think so
13:53 ben_vulpes what is 'steer-locking'?
13:53 * mircea_popescu is largely innocent of cool car stuff
13:53 * ben_vulpes as well
13:54 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes well, you know how you can make the car skid if you steer it ineptly ?
13:54 * ben_vulpes is intimately familiar
13:54 trinque this is what texas "beaches" are for
13:54 ben_vulpes or if its rwd
13:54 mircea_popescu that done deliberately.
13:54 ben_vulpes right
13:54 mircea_popescu ah yes, but on gravel! ro standard gravel has this 1cm ish shards thing, it's a horror.
13:54 ben_vulpes so in other related plastics, ford is shipping a focus with "drift mode"
13:54 mircea_popescu mostly basalt flakes
13:55 ben_vulpes featuring computer controlled front/rear differential
13:55 mircea_popescu ffs.
13:55 ben_vulpes when yaw rate exceeds some envelope parameters it dumps power back to the front and yanks the car back under control (in theory)
13:55 ben_vulpes local club has a great story about a noob slamming a brand new focus into a rock wall playing with this
13:56 ben_vulpes missed the front of the pile of parked club cars by ~10 feet
13:56 trinque this is now called cuckatronics
13:56 mircea_popescu ^
13:56 ben_vulpes cuck cars
13:56 mircea_popescu cuck.ars
13:56 ben_vulpes (e)
13:57 mircea_popescu lol
13:57 ben_vulpes today's cooking mystery:
13:57 ben_vulpes WHY do yams and sweet potatoes fry so differently from ordinary american idaho potatoes?
13:57 mircea_popescu see how his free association works ? cuck-cook
13:58 trinque lel
13:58 ben_vulpes i was trying to work a cucking in
13:58 mircea_popescu i suppose yams think themselves pastries.
13:58 ben_vulpes it was a tight squeeze
13:58 ben_vulpes awkward fit
13:59 mircea_popescu best excuse ever for girl not liking condoms : "there's barely any room even without!"
13:59 BingoBoingo ben_vulpes: Because they are compeltely different things. White potatoes are a nightshade tuber and sweet potatoes are a morning glory tuber.
14:00 mircea_popescu !~google salt n pepa push it
14:00 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Salt N Pepa - Push It (Original) + Lyrics - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk4onJ7Z2MLI>; Push It - Salt - N - Pepa - Vevo: <http://www.vevo.com/watch/salt-n-pepa/push-it/USIV30400109>; Salt ' n Pepa , ' Push It ' | 500 Greatest Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone: <http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/salt-n-pepa-push-it-2011
14:00 phf i don't get sweet potatoes, i've been trying to work with them, but they don't seem to ever come out tasty. i even tried them as fries..
14:01 ben_vulpes fuckin BingoBoingo
14:01 ben_vulpes knew he'd have it
14:01 BingoBoingo And yams are something else entirely. Fucking inedible underground cyanide factories.
14:02 BingoBoingo In Africa even the food is weaponized
14:02 mircea_popescu i don't much care for the sweet stuff, so i don't usually eat it. i think it's acquired thanksgiving taste.
14:02 ben_vulpes hey i just said "PROCURE ME A DIVERSITY OF TUBER"
14:02 ben_vulpes and the plants themselves disappoint.
14:03 mircea_popescu at least you didn't end up with horse radish / nightshade mix.
14:04 * BingoBoingo drives by a field of cultivated horse radish with regularity
14:05 ben_vulpes is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"?
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14:08 trinque phf: they're good with something savory on 'em, say a fried egg and some sausage
14:08 BingoBoingo Well depends on the person? There's a bunch of stuff there that could be variably toxic depending on the specific person. Probably less allergy and more varying vulnerability to poison.
14:08 trinque chopped up, fried in sparing amount of butter
14:09 trinque you can throw in a chopped up green apple too
14:10 BingoBoingo phf: trinque is right. Don't think of them as potatoes. Think of them as a sort of underground squash.
14:17 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560012 << they're also in the fucking majority. it seems ridiculous enough here, but they're also the font of nonsense a la "statutory rape" etc.
14:17 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 17:51 trinque: the guy who has to ask an authority how and whether to fuck truly is another gender.
14:19 phf hmm, yeah, i have hard time with that whole direction, squash, eggplant
14:20 mircea_popescu no wai ?!
14:20 ben_vulpes man the texture of sq
14:20 mircea_popescu what do you make zacusca out of ?
14:20 ben_vulpes squash bits...
14:21 phf mircea_popescu: oh it's great as a zakuska, i was just thinking that i should make some "eggplant caviar" (no idea what the proper translation is)
14:21 mircea_popescu baba ganoush ?
14:22 BingoBoingo The best summer squash is the Pattypan squash. There is no contest here and assertions to the contrary are crimes (libel, defamation, fraud) against nature.
14:25 phf hah, that's why i like baba ganoush, but i don't know the recipe for later. when cooked russian style it's somewhat different from what they sell as baba ganoush in u.s.
14:26 phf interestingly french call baba ganoush caviar d'aubergine a la libanaise
14:32 mircea_popescu yeah, romanian style is also differenty
14:33 mircea_popescu and i have nfi why they call "caviar" things which remind them of ... cheap roe salads. but w/e
14:40 phf there's a joke in a su commedy set in 16th century russia, where a character is listing dishes at a lavish feast, black caviar in a giant container, red caviar in a smaller plate, and "caviar from foreign lands, eggplant caviar" barely a spoonful. i sort of always assumed because of that movie that at some point eggplants were near impossible to source around where the term "eggplant caviar" originated
14:43 mircea_popescu seems improbable, they come from the russian motherland of armenian ssr.
14:50 phf armenia wasn't part of russia until 19th century, and in 16th century it wouldn't yet be under iranian influence, so it's possible that it was brought all the way from iran as bademjan
14:50 mircea_popescu my joek!
14:50 phf woosh
14:54 phf i have to add this as an asset in an ongoing hostilities with my iranian colleagues over "things that we have invented and you stole from us", which started as this things do over my casual remark that samovar was invented by russians
14:55 mircea_popescu among other things they invented the jews.
14:56 phf how so?
14:57 mircea_popescu what do you mean how so ? like tv killed the radio star, they were there and jewing the place up then the jews came along and stole it from them.
14:57 BingoBoingo Wait, does this mean Iran or Russia did WTC?
14:58 phf i don't know what to do with that knowledge, like ark of the covenant, it might be ultimate weapon
14:59 mircea_popescu :)
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15:18 BingoBoingo OMG, what's on the RSS feed?
15:18 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/10/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-12-tmr/ << Qntra - Not Quite News Roundup Xtend 12 (TM)(R)
15:19 trinque dat timing
15:19 BingoBoingo Yes It's Roundup Xtend Time!
15:22 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo 40 bucks a bottle is actually pretty great price for the merchandise i'd say
15:23 mircea_popescu 1968 through it's practice <<<
15:23 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: You'd be surprised. One of those things with quite a bit of variation depending on the particular time and liquor store.
15:23 BingoBoingo ty fxd
15:24 mircea_popescu just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range.
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15:25 BingoBoingo But not flawless or even graded. Sold in private wool over the eyes "experience" swindle.
15:26 mircea_popescu hm
15:26 mircea_popescu well, if you buy by the barrel you should in principle get a barrel.
15:26 BingoBoingo Likely barrel were to far out of spec for blending into standard 20-30/bottle product so "exclusive" label attached.
15:26 mircea_popescu oh
15:26 mircea_popescu bwahahaha
15:26 mircea_popescu mkay.
15:27 BingoBoingo And definitely too far out of spec for bottled "single barrel" origin product.
15:27 mircea_popescu i see.
15:27 BingoBoingo It's called "artisan" cost recovery.
15:28 mircea_popescu Apparently Surkov used Microsoft Outlook.
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15:28 mircea_popescu ahahaha fucking imbeciles. still ? STILL ?
15:29 BingoBoingo Anyways even if barrel itself is included, ACTUAL used whiskey barrel is of... limited value...
15:29 BingoBoingo Yes still!
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15:46 shinohai "The Republic's efforts to locate Peace on Earth, going as far as the gates of Hell, resulted in SFYL as the forum admins selectively scammed MP for 0.1 BTC"
15:48 mircea_popescu aww.
15:48 mircea_popescu they never got back to you huh.
15:48 shinohai I left that goddamned page up for 3 days
15:51 * BingoBoingo kinda wants https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5844279808.html
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15:54 shinohai For that Mexican gardener look?
15:55 BingoBoingo Fuck Yeah. Or mebbe https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5794066983.html as project to make awesome flatbed road hero.
15:58 shinohai dat auto transmission tho
15:59 * BingoBoingo more worried about carb'd engine in hostile ethanol containing fuel market
16:02 BingoBoingo Oh, nm. Fuel injected motor
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16:23 mircea_popescu shinohai pretty fucking weird imo
16:24 shinohai What's weird?
16:24 mircea_popescu that they'd scam fiddy bux
16:25 shinohai I dunno if it was intentional or what ... but no way to contact admins or anything that I have found thus far.
16:26 shinohai They could at least include a sigaint address or something since already on tor
16:28 mircea_popescu kids
16:29 shinohai anywho is I find a way to contact them I'll hit you up if you don't mind signing a message from that addy.
16:29 shinohai *if
16:30 mircea_popescu notrly going to entertain the "addy signature" bs.
16:30 shinohai kk
16:30 mircea_popescu besides, it's not my job to chase him. guy scammed, let him put the elbow grease in to fix it.
16:30 mircea_popescu till then, scammer be scammer and that's all.
16:31 shinohai Lucky me all these berry claims are close together. :D
16:31 mircea_popescu well yes they come from the same run.
16:31 mircea_popescu basically the right way is to get 14 bundles, put them in table, walk over there, move them into one claim, then take them out one at time exploit claims then when done put product in table walk it back
16:32 shinohai I'm an idiot, I should have put bundles in table.
16:32 mircea_popescu lol
16:32 mircea_popescu there's ... a lot of depth to it see ? hehe.
16:33 shinohai meh they are close to town anyways
16:33 mircea_popescu nothing harder in this world than stuff which require pascal's esprit de geometrie.
16:34 mircea_popescu meanwhile on the corvette, http://66.media.tumblr.com/f11c5fca421700bece0afd20bc6f9a94/tumblr_n6teuied3M1tnztuoo2_1280.png
16:36 shinohai The brunette with the tat on side, one star for each gargled dick ?
16:36 mircea_popescu not possibru, unless she sheds her skin every three months like some sort of naga
16:37 diana_coman eh, on the other hand he might need to train in between claims seeing how his skill is not that high yet so a trip back to town anyway
16:41 mircea_popescu there is that yeah.
16:43 mircea_popescu also, for the amateur entomologists : the body of work published by the us agitprop wrt to vladislav surkov during the past five years is a splendid mirror to interpret the decaying empire itself. all that hero worship, all that fake fear that "someone", obviously "somewhere far away" may be you know, mixing democratic rhetoric with undemocratic intent, creating a "post truth" world and generally constructing a menacing unrea
16:43 mircea_popescu lity is entirely self-deconstruction of the most transparent ilk.
16:43 mircea_popescu like a contemporary fable. really, the WOLF did that ? a speaking wolf ? wow!
16:45 mircea_popescu https://archive.is/u4tdZ pars pro toto.
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18:05 asciilifeform https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k
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18:05 asciilifeform ey”, referred to by Zooko as toxic waste, needed to be destroyed. If this data is not destroyed, someone who has access to this key is able to generate an infinite amount of anonymous ZCash. This is the so called “hidden inflation problem”; unlimited counterfeiting of coins while nobody is able to detect it. ...'
18:10 shinohai !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/us8wa/?raw=true
18:10 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
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18:34 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1559985 << lel, that must be me in the parallel Bright SovFuture Universe i got booted from
18:34 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 16:56 phf: meanwhile, asciilifeform at work http://66.media.tumblr.com/a1df58bc0106d0387164ad24ff49092f/tumblr_od226u6em41sndzdgo1_500.jpg
18:34 asciilifeform (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing)
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18:39 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560126 << what didja think he used, mircea_popescu , elbrus ?
18:39 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 19:28 mircea_popescu: Apparently Surkov used Microsoft Outlook.
18:39 asciilifeform toldja.
18:42 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/10/hack-forum-kicks-ddos-vendors/ << Qntra - Hack Forum Kicks DDoS Vendors
18:43 BingoBoingo http://trilema.com/2009/abraham-lincoln-tradator-de-neam-si-tara/#comment-119577 << the discussion that follows as people learn reading is quite the artifact
18:45 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560115 << i went not long ago into 'upscale' booze shop in washington, there was a, iirc, 150k-usd bottle, in a 'hope diamond'-type glass display, shopkeeper claimed that he's sold 2.
18:45 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 19:24 mircea_popescu: just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range.
18:47 danielpbarron http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560075 << yes. I think i have this. whenever i eat eggplant i feel itchy and generally uncomfortable
18:47 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 18:05 ben_vulpes: is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"?
18:48 danielpbarron which is very strange to me because, i'm 1/2 armenian
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19:23 BingoBoingo danielpbarron: Perhaps you can set this commentard straight? http://qntra.net/2016/10/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-12-tmr/#comment-76734
19:30 danielpbarron i don't understand what it's referring to
19:34 BingoBoingo Prolly the Nineveh thing, likely confused it with Babylon
19:34 BingoBoingo Assure him daniel is safely in Connecticut or wherever
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19:53 BingoBoingo OMG my RSS sense is tingling
19:53 deedbot http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2016/10/29/is-so-unfair-cycle-11/ << Bingo Blog - Is So Unfair Cycle 11
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20:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sofware vs hardware omgerd
20:14 mircea_popescu "this is not a normal launch like any other scamcoin because we would really like it not to be, and reality shouldn't get in the way of what we want"
20:15 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo yeah not bad.
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20:32 mircea_popescu in other lulz, silent watcher that connects to no channels got klined earlier. "[465] You are banned from this server- Please do not spam users or channels on freenode. If in error, please contact kline@freenode.net. (2016/10/29 22.35)"
20:32 BingoBoingo lol
20:32 mircea_popescu it's however not banned or anything. just another unexpected failure mode.
20:33 mircea_popescu just in case phf trinque shinohai & crew ever think they got to the last test case or something.
20:35 mircea_popescu and in more meanwhile, http://67.media.tumblr.com/12c79505ac3fd8b4ff6b90bec94aa2bb/tumblr_nkc06ioOo11rrq7ino1_1280.jpg
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21:05 mircea_popescu danielpbarron must be the other half then.
21:17 phf oh by the time a111 can recover from all possible freenode failures we've achieved the dream of hard ai
21:18 mircea_popescu o look at that : latimes has trump +2
21:18 mircea_popescu 3k lv, ie the largest this week.
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21:36 asciilifeform he can 'win' a la gore with this.
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22:04 mircea_popescu lol gore.
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22:20 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560175 << most likely, that's ed emshwiller a somewhat famous pulp cover illustrator (can recognize by the "emsh" tag)
22:20 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 22:34 asciilifeform: (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing)
22:26 phf i actually picked up a 1964 pulp print of pkd's the simulacra with his illustration at a tiny "mystery books" bookstore in philadelphia, that since got closed
22:27 mircea_popescu there is actually a senator mike crapo.
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22:27 mircea_popescu there really is no bottom of lulz.
22:32 BingoBoingo There's a sort of asymtote that roughly approximates one. The geometry of lulz is not euclidean.
22:41 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-30#1560205 << recall, they have this thing in usa where it is at least theoretically possible for candidate to get 80+% of votes and lose
22:41 a111 Logged on 2016-10-30 02:04 mircea_popescu: lol gore.
22:45 mircea_popescu 80%, no.
22:46 mircea_popescu it's possible to win the popular vote by a slight margin and still lose the election, but that's all.
22:46 mircea_popescu also, tittybounce. http://67.media.tumblr.com/c047b309b177184d9ee2abebd3f65e96/tumblr_nj6lmoFgXI1ry595bo1_400.gif
22:47 asciilifeform lel that street looks almost exactly like asciilifeform's
22:47 mircea_popescu and most others. cheap fencing etc.
22:47 asciilifeform well cheap usa.
22:48 mircea_popescu gore's thing was ~500k votes, ie 0.5% sorta thing
22:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu apparently has it
22:50 mircea_popescu also that was like the largest such effect in 120 or os years
22:50 asciilifeform though theoretically the 'electors' are not bound by the votes, and could in principle elect whoever. though afaik this has not yet happened.
22:50 mircea_popescu you're thinking primaries electors.
22:51 asciilifeform nah
22:51 asciilifeform the proper ones
22:51 asciilifeform https://archive.is/HfNzw
22:54 mircea_popescu lol at all the derps accidenta-voting
23:01 mircea_popescu anyway, an elector rewrite of the election would be pretty much the lulziest outcome possible.
23:05 asciilifeform in other lulz, spotted this with own eyes, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/clitler.jpg
23:06 mircea_popescu this is good for the usd.
23:07 asciilifeform gotta love the 'step right up, sell yer vote! for (imaginary) 2k usd'
23:07 mircea_popescu lol
23:08 mircea_popescu they have ap oint though : this debt holds "all of us" back - if college numbers were released from this peg in reality the gdp could go as high as 500% the first month.
23:08 mircea_popescu why not. mit is worth 500 billiards as well as it's worth 50 billions.
23:08 mircea_popescu and all this would be good for the usd.
23:08 asciilifeform and why not promise idiots 20k, or 200, or...
23:08 mircea_popescu ikr?
23:09 mircea_popescu all numbers are good for usd.
23:09 asciilifeform not as if it will have to be paid in actual money
23:09 mircea_popescu of course, there's some sense in all of that. eg, why exactly is college debt not refinanceable ?
23:10 asciilifeform same reason (most) tax debt in usa is not.
23:10 mircea_popescu and also pushing the "college can charge whatever it wants - but it will never get more than 10% of the student's future pay, so whatevs" is pretty much the only way out of the mess.
23:10 mircea_popescu if a college education helps, fine. and if not - a well.
23:11 mircea_popescu o look, also wants to double the americorps payola. weren't they taking it back from suckers 10 years later recently ?
23:11 mircea_popescu that's a great govt style scam.
23:12 asciilifeform they were taking back iraq 'bonus'.
23:12 mircea_popescu "ship to irak tomorrow, and if they don't blow you up we'll give you 20k". wait 10 years after which "oh btw, only kidding about those 20k. whatcha gonna do about it bitch, NOT GO TO IRAK NO MOAR ? AHAHAHAHA"
23:13 asciilifeform (when i worked at flying a desk for u.s. army, there were posters hanging in the lobby promising 25-35k re-enlistment bonus for DESK FLYERS, with the logic that they CHANCE iraq)
23:13 mircea_popescu morelike with the logic that they by and large couldn't hire people above 98 iq even with the bonuses.
23:13 asciilifeform oh btw you get it, typically, up-front, goes straight to the debt collectors.
23:14 asciilifeform (to whom else.)
23:14 asciilifeform the remaining pennies - to dependapotamus.
23:15 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: they recruit schoolboys, and, typically, not the best arithmetizers, no.
23:15 mircea_popescu i wonder what male dependos are like.
23:15 mircea_popescu but anyway, i shall bbl.
23:17 ben_vulpes http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560134 << fuck buddy that looks like a great truck
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23:17 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 19:51 BingoBoingo kinda wants https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5844279808.html
23:19 * asciilifeform had to read that twice
23:19 BingoBoingo lol
23:19 asciilifeform fuckbuddy that looks like...
23:19 BingoBoingo 4srs
23:20 phf nohomo
23:22 ben_vulpes not my fault nobody gets the letterkenny jokes
23:23 BingoBoingo http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-one/ << "My parents threw a party for me in our field. I had a helicopter birthday cake." If people want to know why "Attack Helicopter" is such a popular gender identification amongst protesters
23:24 ben_vulpes "i mean fuck buddy, it's /your/ body politic but fuck, buddy. it's your /body politic/."
23:25 asciilifeform 'i invited the strippers [,] hitler and stalin to my party'
23:27 ben_vulpes it's "trailer park boys" grade poor mocking.
23:28 ben_vulpes http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560169 << choice.
23:28 a111 Logged on 2016-10-29 22:05 asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k
23:30 ben_vulpes "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point
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23:31 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: gotta be a gold standard, of sorts, in promisetronics
23:31 asciilifeform 'magical alchemical key of doom existed, but we burned it, peter todd PROMISED!!!11111111111'
23:31 ben_vulpes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RLjcGVUnw&feature=youtu.be&t=17m30s << from the linked piece, in which 'zooko' (this is a name? wothandle? what even jesus shit) 'reveals he doesn't even grok zero-knowledge proofs'
23:32 ben_vulpes yeah good grief
23:32 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: 'zooko' is primarily known for the 'dns triangle' thing
23:32 asciilifeform and someone by this handle commented on my old bl0g pieces re bitcoin, but that was ages ago.
23:32 ben_vulpes oh that is actually 'the zooko' then?
23:32 asciilifeform i have nfi, d00d never afaik had pubkey.
23:33 asciilifeform 'digerati' type, 'famous for being famous'
23:33 ben_vulpes only compounds the lols
23:33 asciilifeform belongs straight in the furnace.
23:34 ben_vulpes "guy we swear is this other guy who nominally but not provably does a thing also came up with a 'cryptocurrency' that doesn't have hard guarantees on monetary base numbers'
23:34 ben_vulpes s/that last singlequote/a double quote
23:34 asciilifeform 'shakespeare's plays were not written by shakespeare, but another man of that name'
23:35 ben_vulpes who expects this shit to carry water?
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23:35 asciilifeform them, apparently
23:35 ben_vulpes thinking, code-reading folks recoil in horror at bitcoin already
23:35 asciilifeform all 5 of'em.
23:35 ben_vulpes that /you/ know
23:36 asciilifeform noshit
23:39 asciilifeform at any rate, that thing apparently is the long-awaited 'tor-flavoured' shitcoin
23:39 asciilifeform the designated rubes are, likely, already sucking it up and asking for seconds.
23:40 asciilifeform then in year or three, begin the 'nobody could have predicted' blackmarketeer jailings etc.
23:41 asciilifeform familiar picture, to the point of tedium.
23:41 ben_vulpes BingoBoingo: "every one"
23:42 BingoBoingo ben_vulpes: Where?
23:42 ben_vulpes Everyone of Voldemort's
23:42 ben_vulpes fucking dying over here
23:43 ben_vulpes the lols are too thick
23:43 ben_vulpes send air
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23:43 BingoBoingo ty
23:43 BingoBoingo Wait till the 11th entry.
23:43 BingoBoingo Sry 12th
23:46 BingoBoingo In other Voldemorts http://trilema.com/2011/wikileaks-dcccxl/#selection-57.578-57.809
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23:49 ben_vulpes in other "don't talk to cops": http://bikeportland.org/2016/10/29/collision-on-st-johns-bridge-kills-bicycle-rider-194427
23:56 BingoBoingo WTF is a sharrow
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