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00:00 trinque and obviously I'm not calling leadership a matter of humility. the narcissism is all through the ranks.
00:01 trinque these fuckers are going out tweeting their molotovs as a matter of social signaling
00:01 trinque thing's gonna smolder, not explode.
00:02 mod6 asciilifeform: I wonder iTomServo might try cutting off the latest blk#####.dat file? thoughts?
00:03 mod6 *if TomServo
00:05 asciilifeform mod6: to unwedge? nope. the tx index will be out of sync with the block db, and you get soup
00:06 mod6 yeah. :(
00:06 asciilifeform now, to slice it up to see wtf is even ~in~ the tip of his train -- yes!
00:06 mod6 using blkcut? that might be worthwhile
00:07 asciilifeform dumpblock also worx
00:07 asciilifeform dump currentheight, currentheight-1, ..., a dozen, say.
00:07 mod6 ah, yeah thats better. we don't need 69,000 blocks. just the last, probabaly 20.
00:07 mod6 or ya, 12 or whatever.
00:08 asciilifeform btw i was thinking about a command,
00:08 asciilifeform say, 'dumpblockhashes', eats an N, dumps sha512 of each of last N blocks known
00:09 asciilifeform (of ~blocks~, whole, not shitoshi's idiot header thing)
00:09 mod6 ah, ok. thought you meant the header.
00:09 asciilifeform this'd let you quickly compare the leading train of two nodes
00:09 mod6 getting the sha512 of the entire bytes of a block seems useful
00:09 asciilifeform see reorg shenanigans with naked eye
00:10 asciilifeform mod6: it'd be a fairly trivial mod of dumpblock .
00:10 mod6 yeah, 'tis a good idea.
00:10 TomServo Just so I understand, survey says? Node is fucked, may have forensic value?
00:11 asciilifeform TomServo: aha
00:11 asciilifeform potentially very valuable.
00:12 mod6 we need a way to rebuild the index.
00:12 trinque anyhow good article, but the guy overlooks the reason why, stated here the other day http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-24#1632388
00:12 a111 Logged on 2017-03-24 20:47 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-24#1632355 << orlol discussed this, and it was 100% true, 'homo americanus' has some very serious damage that is very expensive to build prosthesis for -- he has no family , no friends, no one will lend him money other than at extortionate rates, has no one alive whom he could live with in small hut, 5 to 10 sq. metres, without killing one another
00:12 mod6 TomServo: Do you have any backups of your chain at all?
00:13 trinque which is why he's got nothing but "no one will come to my pistol classes :(" at the end
00:13 TomServo mod6: Yes, but not a terribly recent one unfortunately.
00:13 mod6 You could roll back to your latest backup I suppose, but using your chain for forensics is really a good idea so we can try to extrapolate some causation.
00:13 asciilifeform trinque: the folx who understood-why -- i suspect -- are not teaching pistol class, they are eating pistols
00:14 asciilifeform but at the very least -- not posting
00:15 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/03/clark-county-nevada-commits-three-quarter-billion-in-taxpayer-dollars-to-stadium/ << Qntra - Clark County Nevada Commits Three Quarter Billion In Taxpayer dollars To Stadium
00:16 asciilifeform as orlol wrote, when someone asked 'how do i, typical office plankton, survive colapse' : 'for you -- there is not an answer. but you could try to become somebody else, a different kind of person , for whom there ~is~' or sumthinglikethat
00:16 trinque kinda hard to square "turn the other cheek" and "render unto caesar" with ~doing anything~
00:17 trinque utterly feminizing religion (at least the widely practiced version in the states).
00:17 TomServo mod6: Gotcha. I'll try and perserve this as is and follow up later. Thanks.
00:17 mod6 Yeah, certainly.
00:18 mod6 If you wanna work on something here quick, get familiar with dumpblock and dump the last 12 blocks for us perhaps.
00:18 trinque that may be the one actual advantage with the black hoodie kids. if nothing else, they haven't got sky-dad keeping them up at night.
00:18 mod6 TomServo: as a side note, I've been watching MST for the first time. show is hilarious. i had no idea bout your nick. :]
00:19 TomServo mod6: aha! It's pretty great.
00:19 mod6 indeed haha.
00:20 asciilifeform trinque: the mexicans, with their nominal christianity, iirc, seem to demolish the blacks wherever the turf wars include both. so maybe not so simple.
00:21 mod6 meanwhile, I'll see what i can do in the next few days about putting together alf's suggested patch
00:21 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> trinque: the mexicans, with their nominal christianity, iirc, seem to demolish the blacks wherever the turf wars include both. so maybe not so simple. << Aha, Catholic v. Protestant
00:21 asciilifeform mod6: the knob isn't strictly necessay, you can pipe dumpblock into sha512
00:21 trinque yep, different creature
00:21 asciilifeform it'd be convenient, is all
00:22 mod6 asciilifeform: ah, fair enough. but yeah, could be handy.
00:24 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632901 << aha. goes by 'spyked'. regular commenter on trilema and even occasionally contravex, eg. http://www.contravex.com/2017/02/18/the-robot-tax/#comment-54654
00:24 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 01:54 asciilifeform: unrelatedly, anyone know this d00d? : http://lucian.mogosanu.ro/about
00:24 trinque the protestant thing was in the first place a rejection of teh catholic "corruption"
00:24 asciilifeform oh hey.
00:25 asciilifeform neato pete_dushenski
00:25 trinque catholic seems much more likely to sin now, pray later
00:25 pete_dushenski he's a phd computing science student of some description. decent blogger too.
00:25 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: cheers
00:25 BingoBoingo <trinque> catholic seems much more likely to sin now, pray later << AKA, infrustructre to handle need for believers to do "necessary" "evils"
00:31 pete_dushenski in other evils, why do 'muricans suck at math ? it's the teachers, dummy http://archive.is/mfd3i
00:32 asciilifeform mod6: imho manual knobs ~for unwedging~ are a fundamental mistake. nodes shouldn't be wedgeable, period. and the only use for a wedged node is to learn why it wedged and to make said scenario impossible in the future.
00:33 asciilifeform and so, knobs for dissection, -- yes, useful
00:39 mod6 well, i agree it never should happen.
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00:59 mircea_popescu hello!
00:59 pete_dushenski bienvenido
00:59 * mircea_popescu tacitly confirms mp_en_viaje was his very own self.
00:59 asciilifeform oh hey.
01:00 mircea_popescu how goes alfie.
01:01 mod6 hey!
01:01 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-26#1632770 <<< bwahaha what.
01:01 a111 Logged on 2017-03-26 16:10 asciilifeform: 'Hello asciilifeform I see on coin.dance/nodes , The Real Bitcoin is listed with the 'Emergent Consensus' feature tag. Could you tell me if that's accurate - will you follow a HF to > 1MB , and could you tell me anything about how it's implemented in TRB ? Thx!'
01:04 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-26#1632806 << anyone ever told you you can kvetch with the best of them ? they have competitions for this in the borscht belt you know.
01:04 a111 Logged on 2017-03-26 17:34 asciilifeform: incidentally : asciilifeform's muscle memory never recovered, still has to look up the commands ~every~ ~single~ ~fucking~ time.
01:05 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632824 << i'm not actually gonna read the bs ; by the time they start with the "mistake" and "apologize" you know it's the wrong side of history speaking.
01:05 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 16:48 asciilifeform: meanwhile, daniel bernstein ( of the smooth-parts-of-integers algo used in phuctor, and 1,001 other useful mathematical works ) is headed for gasenwagen: https://eindhoven.cr.yp.to/false-statements-by-henry-de-valence.txt
01:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: he didn't apologize
01:06 asciilifeform or 'mistake'
01:06 mircea_popescu good for him.
01:06 asciilifeform but it's a long an' fairly unpleasant document, fwiw i was not able to swallow whole thing, of yet.
01:07 asciilifeform will have to wait till i get stuck in a lift, or such.
01:07 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632843 << time to wake up to the fact that female / nonwhite ceos do not work. go with the flow, yo.
01:07 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 18:06 asciilifeform: ' Rich Felker Retweeted Adora Cheung‏ @nolimits Mar 23 Last month another investor asked a female founder/CEO to search for a white male to replace her as CEO. Also uninvited.'
01:07 mircea_popescu takes a jack warner to build a company and a carly fiorina to burn it down.
01:10 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632866 << there's really no different groups among the soviets. they all have the same "stands" on the basis of the same "tru fax" etc.
01:10 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 18:29 phf: oh, that's different group though. it's the "girl hacker" community
01:11 mircea_popescu girl hacker or no girl hacker it'll still be save the flying pandas, guns kill people, abortion doesn't kill people, can't say nigger and our democracy etc.
01:12 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632867 << like all large size sweatshirts over at the america's mall hot topic, "oss" is fulla "women". they were "hippies" before and nobody noticed also.
01:12 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 18:29 shinohai: Good God is OSS full of women with penises nau ?
01:13 deedbot http://trilema.com/2017/linda-vista-social-club/ << Trilema - Linda Vista Social Club
01:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632872 << that's pretty much the required blue pill. it's either this or else no possiblity of "our democracy". kinda what the whole "toxic ideas" is all about : here's the set of notions that make an indefensible, unfundamented belief in our religious tenets untenable.
01:14 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 18:36 ben_vulpes: apparently children shouldn't worry about making judgements about the world. or maybe just some subset of the world. it's unclear, but i think it would be grand if we all skipped along thinking that everything is hunky-dory because who am i to judge?
01:14 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632874 << o noes, republic's 1st martyr ?
01:14 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 18:41 danielpbarron: a friend of mine is dealing with social workers trying to take his kids away, in part -- i think, because his oldest has been repeating some of the things i taught him to his teachers in school
01:17 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632890 << there's a reason mp opts not to live in the us, however. that shit works if there's a happy meeting of one's network with the general prevalence of sane people. if your network is 1k deep and sane people are 10k ppm, it works fine. if your network is 10 deep and sane people are 10 ppm, you're about five degrees of magnitude short meaning roughly speaking it'll work once every 10k t
01:17 a111 Logged on 2017-03-27 19:28 ben_vulpes: can also attempt a mircea_popescu, and go after the cps officer in question personally for making shit up
01:17 mircea_popescu ries.
01:21 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632901 << yes, goes by spyked on trilema ; bright undergrad and then grad at the bucharest politechnic (which still is a fine technical school, though it was better pre-democracy).
01:21 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 01:54 asciilifeform: unrelatedly, anyone know this d00d? : http://lucian.mogosanu.ro/about
01:22 mircea_popescu at some point cca 2012 i was trying to get him to get the lab into building miners. it never took off though.
01:23 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632906 << lightning just struck again. truth is, the world of actual competence / unsuck is truly tiny. there's a marked difference between type A "i saw a chick, do you know her ?" "no" and type A' "i saw this chick driving a red porsche, and she was without a doubt the most aggressive driver i ever saw. and incredibly fucking hot too!" "ah, that's jane,"
01:23 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 02:00 phf: in practice last two times i was asked that, i knew the vadim etc. in question. it's still a funny question tho
01:26 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632918 << this happens to be entirely false. the contrary view is based on the same shaky basis "global warming" is based : taking the past 20 years and "extrapolating" it into "history". in point of fact most wars in history (in the sense of 90%+) were won by the right. the incidental social turbulence caused by the tailwinds of industrialization make this look different. but even pre 1950,
01:26 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 03:48 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'The Left has won far more dirty civil wars and insurgent conflicts than the Right has won. There are a host of reasons for this, but most notable is the aversion, on the Right, to give up the security of law-and-order. ' << tru!
01:26 mircea_popescu the left got crushed systematically and everywhere. franco passed, the brown shirts used the commies for pissing practice etc.
01:27 mircea_popescu it's a sweet dream this, that leftard boy has a chance in the world. nothing more than a dream, though. in reality, leftard boy is dogmeat.
01:28 mircea_popescu being left is generally the macula of stupidity ; but in matters of conflict is just the convenient excuse of losers looking for an excuse to lose (for full discussion of how this works, review the hustler, magical jew there explains the process).
01:30 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632948 << technically there is a reindex, for node that shut down clean (ie, didn't trash the bdb temp stores)
01:30 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 04:12 mod6: we need a way to rebuild the index.
01:33 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632968 << this is factual.
01:33 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 04:20 asciilifeform: trinque: the mexicans, with their nominal christianity, iirc, seem to demolish the blacks wherever the turf wars include both. so maybe not so simple.
01:33 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632977 << and "corruption" is always and everywhere the actually good part.
01:33 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 04:24 trinque: the protestant thing was in the first place a rejection of teh catholic "corruption"
01:38 mircea_popescu awww, theranos finally blew up did it
01:38 pete_dushenski catholic corruption certainly made for some beautifully crafted churches, most of which are still enjoyed today even by non-catholics (maybe especially)
01:38 pete_dushenski none of the guilt, all of the awe
01:39 pete_dushenski but tnstaafl. have to buy plane ticket to see.
01:43 mircea_popescu "For two days, according to insiders, Holmes, who is now 32, had refused to address these concerns. Instead, she remained largely holed up in a conference room, surrounded by her inner circle. Half-empty food containers and cups of stale coffee and green juice were strewn on the table as she strategized with a phalanx of trusted advisers, including Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, then Theranos’s president and C.O.O.; Heather Ki
01:43 mircea_popescu ng, the company’s general counsel; lawyers from Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the intrepid law firm; and crisis-management consultants. Most of the people in the war room had been there for two days and nights straight, according to an insider, leaving mainly to shower or make a feeble attempt at a couple of hours of shut-eye. There was also an uncomfortable chill in the room. At Theranos, Holmes preferred that the temperature
01:43 mircea_popescu be maintained in the mid-60s, which facilitated her preferred daily uniform of a black turtleneck with a puffy black vest—a homogeneity that she had borrowed from her idol, the late Steve Jobs."
01:44 mircea_popescu psssh. "women ceo" of the libertard variety, "celebrity" bla bla, "billionaire by x". what the fuck does anyoine expect out of the soap opera circuit ?
01:44 mircea_popescu of course there's a soap opera coming out the other end. what the fuck else ? people who can't think "starting" "companies" hurr.
01:46 mircea_popescu “a chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel.”
01:46 mircea_popescu a chemistry is performed indeed.
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02:24 diana_coman mod6, list of deps for trb from what I gathered on a fresh, minimal centos box: bc, gcc, g++, gpg, wget, perl, patch, rsync, sha512sum, unzip
02:25 mircea_popescu on a 100mbit link should take no more than half an hour!
02:26 diana_coman ha, wb mircea_popescu ; I left it on its own after I saw it was going ok, haven't quite timed it
02:27 diana_coman anyway, gotta say that mod6's script and docs were great and very, very helpful
02:28 mircea_popescu ty ty
02:28 mircea_popescu and yes they are.
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04:44 BingoBoingo Welcome back
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08:26 mircea_popescu how goes BingoBoingo
08:30 shinohai !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/Ih9uR/?raw=true
08:30 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
08:30 shinohai and Buenas dias Sr. mircea_popescu , wb o/
08:31 mircea_popescu hola! how's sluts.
08:32 shinohai It's like digging through the landfill hoping to find that HDD you threw away with 20 BTC on it back in 2010 at this point.
08:32 shinohai But I'll stick with it.
08:32 mircea_popescu quite, huh.
08:32 mircea_popescu only if it's fun :D
08:34 shinohai It has it's moments, but selling some of these people on GPG, etc for a future http://trilema.com/2015/a-proper-social-site-for-the-bdsm-community/ is a bit of a hard sell unfortunately.
08:35 mircea_popescu i expect, yeah. so dun sell it like that.
08:35 mircea_popescu after all, the hos buy lipstick and it sure as fuck don't promise that to them does it.
08:40 shinohai Out of every ~1000 contacts a week, < 10 seem to even give a shit about Bitcoin. Yet endless complaints about chargebacks and scams on other platforms.
08:40 shinohai Go figure.
08:50 mircea_popescu nuts huh
08:51 shinohai I now know how you and hanbot musta felt when you tried to *give* camgirls btc a few years back.
08:52 mircea_popescu im still in disbelief about that not wholly digested experience.
08:52 mircea_popescu anyway, i recall the correct way to get dumb 16yo chicks to shave their snatch was to convince the other girls that it's declase. then they convince each other.
08:53 mircea_popescu perhaps appealing to their vanity will work where appealing to their absent intelligence failed ; after all everyone's got a vanity.
08:58 mircea_popescu meanwhile in elsewhere amusements, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1837136.msg18302362#msg18302362
09:00 shinohai hey!
09:01 mircea_popescu also apparently they've been making blogs, these fellows, eg http://www.coolpage.com/commentary/economic/shelby/Understand%20Everything%20Fundamentally.html http://unheresy.com/Information%20Is%20Alive.html and prolly more
09:01 mircea_popescu leaviong aside the lulz of windows titles for a moment.
09:01 shinohai "Thus I think Mircea Popescu either hasn't thought this out entirely or he is counting on someone like myself (i.e. the sovereign republic) to fix it."
09:01 shinohai lmao
09:01 mircea_popescu possibilities abound!
09:03 mircea_popescu o lol, you still got a tardstalk account ?
09:04 shinohai Sure do.
09:04 netmonk hello
09:04 mircea_popescu aite, point out to the dude that blondy in
09:04 mircea_popescu hi netmonk
09:04 * shinohai also doesn't have an avi of himself wearing his fucking hat backwards
09:06 mircea_popescu shinohai : point out to the dude that blondy in https://archive.is/QgEUj#selection-5165.1-5096.24 being eaten out by her friend is actually smart bio student who was also the heroine in http://trilema.com/2013/internet-story/
09:07 mircea_popescu not a matter of photoshop. besides i have a whole [unpublished] fucking set with them. and for that matter while she may be smarter than him, she's certainly braver seeing how she DID talk to mp eh.
09:08 shinohai "But I couldn't even stay in the USA, because I am such a rebel. " <<< Like asciilifeform, my dosimeter is nearing max
09:08 mircea_popescu who couldn't ?
09:11 mircea_popescu (anyway, ftr i do not dispute the "So this exemplifies that MP makes mistakes, is reckless, duplicitous, and may be borderline lunatic/sociopath who could lose his mind at some point and totally REKT Bitcoin. We do not have decentralization with Satoshi's PoW." concept. examples are not needed ; mp is indeed all the above and more.)
09:12 shinohai Or, mp may outsmart all you top minds on tardstalk/reddit - but perhaps I am biased.
09:13 mircea_popescu i was born of a woman in the usual way ; perhaps fit for friendship but certainly not fit for public worship. it may work in private with my own sluts, but that is an insanely narrow and controlled environment.
09:22 asciilifeform https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1837136.msg18324180#msg18324180 >> 'Note back in 2013, MPeX sent me (@AnonyMint) a PM. It was something about his enemy @rpietila who he refers to as "tortilla". Since then Risto has had his laptop hacked, been put in a mental ward and subjected to forced medications, etc..'
09:22 asciilifeform hilarious thread
09:23 mircea_popescu o.O
09:23 mircea_popescu didn't the guy end up with a few week's enforced relaxation because he attempted to reorganize some hotel/resort he didn't own or somesuch feats of confusion ?
09:25 mircea_popescu it was a pretty lulzy thread, something with a sauna. 2014ish or such.
09:26 shinohai Oh so THATS who this guy is .... anonymint
09:39 mircea_popescu remind me ?
09:46 mircea_popescu dude how the fuck are 100ms roundtrips possible to mp's interface in the middle of fucking goatland i have nfi. there's a half mile 20% average climb to get to his crow's nest.
09:46 mircea_popescu the technologies have defo improved since the 90s
09:47 asciilifeform ^ twist: he's talking to the mitmtron, 100 metres away!111111
09:47 mircea_popescu nah i just checked it propar.
09:48 mircea_popescu also any kind of anything would stick out as a fucking sore thumb out here. unless of course evil imperial agents learn how to drive donkey uphill just like the locals.
09:49 asciilifeform no moar cement jungle ?
09:49 mircea_popescu no moar.
09:49 asciilifeform pet a pampas cat yet ?
09:50 mircea_popescu and i can't tell you how fucking great it is to not find oneself in a country as despicably idiotic, either. people shouldn't live with people they hate.
09:54 asciilifeform if not a mega-seekrit, where-in-the-world-is-mircea_popescu ?
09:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not mega seekrit, but momentarily seekrit owing to the procedings in the last trilema article
09:54 mircea_popescu giving people a chance to guess neh
09:54 asciilifeform aite.
09:55 mircea_popescu perhaps in time that becomes a social game. "where-in-the-world-is-mircea_popescu ?" now from tabletop, inc.
10:08 Framedragger well so far all i've got is that camera temperature was allegedly 29 degrees (C) which makes me to conclude after careful consideration that it must be "some place real warm at night". :)
10:08 mircea_popescu or that the metadata is all for lulz. either way.
10:08 Framedragger of course :)
10:08 mircea_popescu but frozen it was not, owing to all the vegetation, so there is that.
10:09 mircea_popescu does england still have snow or all melted yet ?
10:10 Framedragger no snow! it's actually spring here (or well, was yesterday lol, good enough for a nice picnic), and ~here~ is scotland, down south could be even better
10:10 mircea_popescu aaaah
10:10 Framedragger and in general were snow to appear, they would go bonkers. like for instance use rakes in edinburgh to try to make it disappear from streets (duly observed)
10:10 mircea_popescu do they also have no nudity at public park laws or didn't check ?
10:10 Framedragger quite a lack of nudity indeed (did check)
10:11 mircea_popescu fucking stupid. wtf is a park for if not naked dogs and naked women.
10:11 mircea_popescu incidentally... they fucking dress dogs now, don't they. nuts.
10:12 Framedragger oh yeah! nuts indeed :( sad view. and in general parks are a bore in the uk
10:13 mircea_popescu and to think it is all backed with the nonsensical belief that THINGS WOULD HAPPEN!!1
10:13 Framedragger i'm sure that down south they'd also patronisingly stare at you if you dared smoke a cigarette in a park. the scottish at least tend to give less of a fuck, but still a nanny state 100%
10:13 Framedragger yeah.
10:13 mircea_popescu what the everloving fuck will happen. nothing happens. dudes who don't have the balls to talk to women dressed sure as fuck won't talk to them naked.
10:14 mircea_popescu though it's true the dogs seem to love the idea. "finally! a sane human! ima go right there and lick hi to her!"
10:15 Framedragger reminds me of your story about observing a dog which attempted to systematically find a new owner. sanest mammal in town sorta deal
10:16 mircea_popescu sad but tru.
10:16 mircea_popescu there's this runaway effect of unbounded self-referential complexity whereby everyone long forgot why the fuck they were doing the thing 184 steps back that "it all" supposedly rests on.
10:17 mircea_popescu the brighest dogs have iqs in the 30-40 range, and yet they can beat the average human in ~average human~ contexts. what could be more humiliating of a "culture" i can not imagine.
10:19 Framedragger balancing the democracy stack takes up lotsa memory...
10:19 mircea_popescu democracy fabulous hash algo. unbounded memory.
10:21 Framedragger somehow reminds me of a theory in social neuroscience (not original of course) whereby genesis of 'self-awareness' is attributed to buildup of neural machinery to predict what the other social animals in a group are doing/thinking. you end up having to predict what the other animal is predicting *you* to be doing, hence have to have a model of your own attention/awareness.
10:22 Framedragger but it's *expensive* and there are lots of ways to short-circuit the mechanism (cheating the award mechanism to think you've accomplished something, etc.) not rigorous at all but yeah
10:22 mircea_popescu i recall this thing was one of the (many) post-bicameral-world-excitement byproducts. it failed to go very far.
10:23 mircea_popescu the notion, in the abstract, of POE seems splendidly meaningful to excplain cognitive evolutionarily ; but any attempt to pin it down in practice went ~nowhere afaik.
10:23 mircea_popescu to explain cognition* i mean
10:24 Framedragger guess so. (guess you can trace quite a bit of jaynes in it yeah.) not enough evidence for sure, and not concrete enough (to generate falsifiable predictions, etc.)
10:25 mircea_popescu there may be fundamental problems with the very concept. (for instance : give an example of self-organizing heat exchange defect. "oh, life itself" what else ? "the tornado that happens in the drain". mmkay. the problem with not being able to give examples of a theory besides the item that prompted the theory is generally known as begging the question.
10:27 Framedragger definitely some kind of circular presupposition yeah (+ "i love recursion!!!" "i've read hofstadter" vibe)
10:27 Framedragger idea is stimulating to me but maybe that's about it.
10:28 mircea_popescu nothing wrong with a little bit of aesthetics. but you certainly noticed the very strongly monotonous abstractization function of actual knowledge. what starts life as banal observatrion of natural numbers ends up linked to ever more complex manifestations in who knows what algebra / space / etc.
10:28 mircea_popescu here, however, no such evolution. makes one fear the idea is actually sterile.
10:29 mircea_popescu ie, "this sounds great and explains nothing" ; much like the void thinking (void) ai program.
10:31 Framedragger i guess so - it doesn't seem capable of leading one anywhere, so to speak. (this connects with (again) "generates nothing to be falsified"). iirc they tried to connect with "mirror neurons" etcetc "look we make it more concrete", but it was too eclectic / a cheat (don't recall, for anyone curious the article in question was iirc https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223025/ )
10:31 mircea_popescu consider eg a * b > a + b. this is basically cauchy pared down. that there's no direct path from one to the other is the only last nail of hope (but mp, just because we've not found yet why it's fundamental doesn't prove it isn't. sure.)
10:32 mircea_popescu Framedragger yep that's exactly the sadness, that all attempts ended up smoke or mirrors.
10:45 mod6 hai mircea_popescu, wb!
10:45 mircea_popescu hola mod6
10:48 mod6 How's the nest?
10:50 * asciilifeform looks at photo
10:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: cuba ?!
10:51 mircea_popescu oh it's lovely. asciilifeform nah.
10:52 mod6 nice. :]
10:53 mod6 I knew it couldn't have far off given recent bs in the former locale.
10:53 mod6 *have been
10:54 mod6 too much nonsense.
10:57 mircea_popescu myeah
10:58 mircea_popescu the difference is palpable, too. me in computer store, sits down in char. "can i buy this ?" "uh... it's the display..." "you have no others ?" "brb i'll check"
10:59 mircea_popescu guy comes back later, to tell me they have no others ; and i can buy that one. takes it over to dispatch, "Hey, can you take this chair apart and pack it ?" "i'd love to."
10:59 mircea_popescu i'm like... finally! people! doing commerce irl!~
10:59 mod6 So i bought one of those rigol MSO1104Z-S deals, and a bunch of stuff. couple raspberry pi's, three arduinos and a fairly large kit of sorts.
11:00 mircea_popescu making satellite ?
11:00 mod6 haha, trying to.
11:00 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> i'm like... finally! people! doing commerce irl!~ << aha, nice.
11:00 mircea_popescu we prolly should put one up just to mess with people. it's not THAT expensive by now.
11:00 mod6 trb in orbit
11:01 mircea_popescu you know ?
11:01 mircea_popescu all sputnik did was peep... peep... peep...
11:01 * shinohai buys a fuckton of weather balloons from Amazon .....
11:03 mod6 i did wanna get a few xilinx boards to play with... but first ill see what I can learn with the other stuff I got. i also bought a soldering iron.
11:03 mod6 so we'll see what kind of mess i can make. haha
11:03 mircea_popescu you looking into hardware engineering eh
11:03 mod6 thought it might be worthwhile to learn a thing or two anyway.
11:04 mircea_popescu tru
11:04 mod6 and it's a fairly inexpensive foray into some of that. for educational purposes.
11:05 mircea_popescu great career path anyway. i never heard of an unemployed hardware negineer.
11:05 mod6 fair enough.
11:06 mod6 I think I started thinking about it a lot more recently when pondering the auditing process of FGs.
11:06 mod6 Now, alf has a bunch of steps on NSA's website. But the gears were turning before hand.
11:06 mircea_popescu aha
11:07 mod6 I won't let it side track me from my main work. Just something to futz with here and there.
11:08 mircea_popescu the more a man knows, the better a man he is. i wouldn't worry about it.
11:08 mod6 Salud!
11:08 mircea_popescu certainly as far as my own experience goes, just about all i know i learned while neglecting homework.
11:08 shinohai It's a fun diversion. I have a plastic tub full of resistors, ic's, etc. I got for pennies when local radioschack shat
11:09 mod6 nice shinohai
11:09 shinohai Occasionally a project presents itself.
11:09 mod6 mircea_popescu: hah, sounds kinda familiar.
11:09 mod6 I also bought this huge whiteboard ; 6'x4'
11:10 mod6 i realized when trying to diagram out, for instance, the notated split of trb.node with trb.wallet (posted in logs a little while back) that I didn't have enough paper on 8.5"x11"
11:10 * shinohai would like to thank Forrest Mims for printing decent book I could understand at 8 and building lifelong obsession
11:11 mod6 The thinking was, now I can diagram the things, post an image, have the other republicans look it over, and agree/disagree. Then it can become part of the ticket that gets entered, or at least linked in the notes section.
11:12 mod6 I hope it'll spur some collaboration anyway.
11:19 mircea_popescu yeah whiteboards are cool
11:19 mircea_popescu slides make for a very poor replacement.
11:19 shinohai My neighbor has one of these, though I have yet to play with it: https://www.schooloutfitters.com/catalog/product_info/pfam_id/PFAM32230/products_id/PRO50936
11:20 asciilifeform i like everything about whiteboards save for the smell (and how they get porous and uneraseable over fairly short time)
11:20 mircea_popescu ie, slides AS YOU DESCRIBE THEM (here's a shot of a whiteboard from another room, comment) work ; but the idiocy normally deployed by the empire tards does not.
11:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform irl we had blackboards ; and every teacher had asthma.
11:20 asciilifeform they oughta wear nose cones.
11:21 mircea_popescu did you have the chalk wars ?
11:21 asciilifeform wassat
11:22 mircea_popescu (somebody came up with bright idea of making cone out of paper, filling with ground up chalk, then pumping it out of the narrow end. DESASTER!!! followed.
11:22 shinohai I thought I recalled an article somewhere where these parents successfully sued a school for forcing their son to clap erasers as punishment because he developed breathing issues ....
11:22 asciilifeform http://grrrgraphics.com/index.html << in other lulz.
11:22 mircea_popescu that was one of the very few administrative rules that got actually obeyed. ~nobody wanted to see a rehash of the white horror.
11:24 mircea_popescu shinohai is that pizza slice a reference to the 4chan child pron thing ?
11:24 mod6 <+asciilifeform> i like everything about whiteboards save for the smell (and how they get porous and uneraseable over fairly short time) << on the latter part here, i agree. i kinda made a mistake. the one i bought is ~ok~, but when it starts to get bad, I'm gonna buy a new one that is glass.
11:24 mod6 those ones never go bad.
11:24 mircea_popescu mod6 buy the nice bohemian glass. (shards sold to idiots as "swarowski crystals" hurr). those also never scratch.
11:24 shinohai mircea_popescu: prolly
11:25 mod6 mircea_popescu: ah, thanks for the tip!
11:25 asciilifeform mod6: the stick-and-peel films also work
11:25 mircea_popescu it's just leaded glass irl.
11:25 mod6 ah. ok
11:25 asciilifeform cheapo, you put it right on the wall, if it wears out -- peel off, dump
11:25 mod6 asciilifeform: noted.
11:37 ben_vulpes old windows with the backs painted are a pleasing aesthetic alt
11:37 ben_vulpes ragragra child get off my keyboard
11:38 ben_vulpes alternative to sterile white patches on the wall
11:38 asciilifeform painted windows, you'd love nsa outposts, lol
11:39 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: what, they mount fake painted windows to cube walls to convince drones the building has more ports than it actually does but painted over for security?
11:39 asciilifeform nono
11:39 asciilifeform think: usual american glass box office hell, but all windows painted on inside
11:39 ben_vulpes well yes
11:39 ben_vulpes i'm not saying /paint your windows/ i'm saying salvage some vintage hardwood window frames that don't seal, lack double-panes etc, and do something pretty with them.
11:39 asciilifeform aah
11:40 mircea_popescu !~ticker --market all
11:40 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1064.02, vol: 8391.74520177 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1062.0, vol: 9709.32942 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1058.5, vol: 23558.13526354 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1006.491647, vol: 5672.15140000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1060.051, vol: 3714.36133046 | Volume-weighted last average: 1054.40694027
11:40 ben_vulpes last set girl made me had this subtle hand-done white-on-off-white chevron pattern
11:40 shinohai http://archive.is/jst71 <<< More shots fired in the Google vs. Symantec warz
11:42 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: p-panama?
11:54 asciilifeform belize ?
11:59 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633177 << i'll point out, FUCKGOATS even doubles as a (very small, actually 2nd smallest chip they sell) xilinx dev board...
11:59 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 15:03 mod6: i did wanna get a few xilinx boards to play with... but first ill see what I can learn with the other stuff I got. i also bought a soldering iron.
12:05 mircea_popescu neither!
12:08 * asciilifeform did in fact try the obvious, taking the freighters as a 40 m. scale, and walking the costlines on map. but failed.
12:08 asciilifeform maybe these were very long ships. or very short...
12:18 mircea_popescu i think much like the gps of yore, "civillian" maps not militarily accurate
12:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i haven't spotted a fudged coastline on google's map yet -- dun mean it ain't there.
12:19 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo goes well
12:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform then how explain you the matchlessness of aerial photograph ?
12:20 asciilifeform the limited ability of asciilifeform's puny brain ?
12:20 mircea_popescu ah
12:21 asciilifeform a serious 13337d00d could , i imagine, perspective-transform the photo in his head, draw it, then immediately find on map.
12:23 mircea_popescu ye olde analyst
12:23 mircea_popescu (no joke, there's people whose whole career consists / ed of looking at grainy aerial barf to spot missile silos or whatnot)
12:23 asciilifeform aha, it's a profession, wat.
12:24 mircea_popescu about half of what droive the whole "image recognition ai" wank
12:24 mircea_popescu could never hire enough of those.
12:24 asciilifeform and before that, they dabbled in eldritch horrors, e.g. optical comparators
12:24 asciilifeform (yes, ~analogue~ image search tool)
12:25 mircea_popescu aha.
12:25 mircea_popescu though that more for bombing and such time-sensitive ops
12:26 asciilifeform asciilifeform's father, in ye olde su army, had a job in map-makin'
12:26 asciilifeform and so asciilifeform played with various fragments of some of the gear, as a boy.
12:27 asciilifeform (at that point, decades-old gear, even)
12:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the truly mega-seekrit maps today are magnetometric, gravimetric, radio background, etc
12:28 mircea_popescu aha
12:28 mircea_popescu ocean floor etc
12:30 asciilifeform the radio is esp. interesting -- if you are anywhere near civilization, you can get a fairly accurate idea of exactly where, with a directional antenna and one of those pc radio dongles.
12:32 mircea_popescu prolly every other wifi hotspot broadcasts 3 decimal accurate longitude/latitude anyway
12:33 asciilifeform long before 'hotspots' etc , in '80s su, there was a prototype warhead that pinpointed final leg (descent) by map of radio spectrum
12:34 asciilifeform (optional fine-vernier -- if enemy has turned off his cities, and no radio -- reverts to classical inertially guided notion of where it is)
12:35 BingoBoingo AHA, CONELRAD
12:35 mthreat mircea_popescu: en viaje - donde?
12:35 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/03/arkansas-facing-shortage-of-snuff-fans-to-watch-executions/ << Qntra - Arkansas Facing Shortage Of Snuff Fans To Watch Executions
12:36 mthreat oh we're guessing, nm :)
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13:07 * asciilifeform rereading oldies, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=152027.msg1616310#msg1616310
13:09 asciilifeform 'It's ok Jeff, if this new thing will have to be the Real Bitcoin then this new thing WILL be the Real Bitcoin. Point blank: money will never tolerate the sort of crap that has been pouring out of devtroop for the past while. I don't care you(*)'ve been dorking around with it for years and nobody told you it's wrong, that doesn't make it right, that just makes the little coven irrelevant enough. If current Bitcoin can't be made into
13:09 asciilifeform good Bitcoin then sucks for current Bitcoin, it is no different from Novacoin or whatever flavor of the week failed altchain.' (mpoepr)
13:14 shinohai !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/QNKVG/?raw=true
13:14 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
13:19 BingoBoingo tyvm
13:20 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/03/computing-constraints-limit-amazons-brick-and-mortar-adventure-with-shopsize-limit/ << Qntra - Computing Constraints Limit Amazon's Brick And Mortar Adventure with "Shopsize" Limit
13:21 shinohai Sorry BingoBoingo .... can we strike the "an" from before "Ethereum-like bugs" ?
13:21 shinohai My mistake
13:21 BingoBoingo ty fxd
13:22 shinohai thx o/
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13:45 mod6 Today is like christmas.
13:45 mod6 FGs have arrived. :]
13:45 asciilifeform congrats mod6 !!
13:46 asciilifeform happy FUCKGOATSing.
13:46 mod6 Cheers asciilifeform! Many thanks.
13:47 mod6 Very nice packaging I might add.
13:47 asciilifeform do an 'unbox' photo mod6 !111
13:47 mod6 sure thing.
13:51 jurov http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/ Original SystemV sources published
13:51 asciilifeform oh neato jurov
13:51 asciilifeform are these different from the one in the Lions book ?
13:52 jurov there's more versions
13:53 asciilifeform i'll read any more sysv5 after i finish brezhnev.
13:53 asciilifeform and kim il sung.
13:54 asciilifeform how did it go, 'man who has not read sysv, is illiterate; man who has read nothing but sysv, is also illiterate' (or was it marx..)
13:57 jurov http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-March/009354.html butbut heroic effort!!!1 by numerous people over many years!!!1
13:57 asciilifeform lul
13:57 danielpbarron btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632959 << mp's advice of "flee the country" is in accordance with scripture.
13:57 asciilifeform incidentally jurov mit released, back in '90s, its lispm sources (the ones licensed by symbolics, ti, and lmi for megabux) under similar license.
13:58 danielpbarron http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632959 *^
13:58 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 04:16 trinque: kinda hard to square "turn the other cheek" and "render unto caesar" with ~doing anything~
13:58 danielpbarron http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632983 << there is no necessary evil. Catholicism leads to hell www.atruechurch.info/catholicism.html
13:58 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 04:25 BingoBoingo: <trinque> catholic seems much more likely to sin now, pray later << AKA, infrustructre to handle need for believers to do "necessary" "evils"
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14:25 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/ED62D7C8B4D9F7D45ACE9CFD2A4F743CD3353BF89595AA9510535369584247BE << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1480...0843 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '193.61.4.128 (ssh-rsa key from 193.61.4.128 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (sideshow.psyc.bbk.ac.uk. GB)
14:25 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/ED62D7C8B4D9F7D45ACE9CFD2A4F743CD3353BF89595AA9510535369584247BE << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1555...6339 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '193.61.4.128 (ssh-rsa key from 193.61.4.128 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (sideshow.psyc.bbk.ac.uk. GB)
14:26 asciilifeform SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES Birkbeck, University of London << lel
14:26 mod6 Alright! FG unboxing pics:
14:26 mod6 http://www.mod6.net/fg/
14:26 asciilifeform oh hey.
14:27 * asciilifeform indeed had sent something looking quite like this, to mod6 !111
14:29 mod6 :]
14:29 asciilifeform mod6: any reason i shouldn't link to these externally ?
14:33 mod6 not at all.
14:33 asciilifeform aite
14:35 mircea_popescu mthreat that's being guessed upon!
14:37 shinohai mircea_popescu: ever visited Valparaiso ?
14:37 mircea_popescu shinohai "it's" bid!
14:38 shinohai >.>
14:42 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/99AF8C8235EA010866A21AAD3160ABD9ABBB00160321045FF2A094B6BFF8F1C9 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1520...5187 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '195.167.195.204 (ssh-rsa key from 195.167.195.204 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (reverse.completel.net. FR)
14:42 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/99AF8C8235EA010866A21AAD3160ABD9ABBB00160321045FF2A094B6BFF8F1C9 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1647...2127 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '195.167.195.204 (ssh-rsa key from 195.167.195.204 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (reverse.completel.net. FR)
14:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: coast of brazil
14:47 asciilifeform somewhere.
14:47 mircea_popescu nope.
14:47 asciilifeform then i utterly nfi
14:47 mircea_popescu brazil has some incredibly hot black women, but it's too hot altogether.
14:47 mircea_popescu cheaper tro move the hotties than to alter the climate.
14:48 shinohai In adition, Brazil has some some of the most callipygous ladies in SA
14:50 mircea_popescu sa ?
14:51 mircea_popescu ah. worldwide, really. best in big butts.
14:52 asciilifeform ' I'VE NEVER sailed the Amazon, I've never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will! ... Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio Some day before I'm old!' (tm)(r)kipling
14:52 shinohai oh sorry, sa for `South America`
14:54 * shinohai looks at trilema article finally, sees "Linda Vista", thinks of Paraguay .....
14:55 asciilifeform lol why would he go to paraguay.
14:56 shinohai Perhaps he needs Indian slaves to work on the sugar plantation.
14:57 mthreat how broad can we guess the location? can I start with continent?
14:58 mircea_popescu shinohai tis not the republica oriental, no.
14:58 * mthreat wants to do this search in log(n) time
14:58 mircea_popescu mthreat do what amuses you shall be the whole of the law!1
14:59 mircea_popescu and speaking of adult women, http://68.media.tumblr.com/25194658b900ffe36dd12b221b184ea5/tumblr_o7zqrasbFG1vw96tuo1_1280.jpg
14:59 mthreat colombia
15:00 mircea_popescu mthreat nah.
15:01 shinohai He surely would not have went to Colombia without getting a copy of my slut list first.
15:01 danielpbarron indonesia
15:01 mircea_popescu danielpbarron nope.
15:04 mthreat Calafate
15:05 mircea_popescu mthreat in teh interest of human suffering and spurious torture ima limit the guesses to one per day per person. so tomorrow!
15:06 mthreat fair 'nuff
15:07 mircea_popescu how's tricks in austin anwyays ?
15:07 BingoBoingo ty fxd
15:08 shinohai kudos for stripping the exif data so we can't geolocate.
15:08 asciilifeform shinohai: civilized cameras don't exifate
15:08 mircea_popescu aww
15:09 asciilifeform ( though i'd like to patch mine, to always give , e.g., semipalatinsk. )
15:10 mircea_popescu in other sad fucking news : i'm now buying fucking homeopathy products.
15:10 asciilifeform waiwat
15:10 asciilifeform why
15:10 mircea_popescu why ? because the imbeciles that there's no other "mainstream" idiots won't make toothpaste withouyt fluoride.
15:10 mthreat mircea_popescu: austin's good, but i'm somewhere else at the moment. hint: i recently flew over butch cassidy's ranch house.
15:11 mircea_popescu the insane dilutionist tribe - do. so what can i do ? i buy from the weirdos.
15:11 asciilifeform mthreat: the 'albatross' still worx?
15:11 mircea_popescu was thaty like wyoming ?
15:11 asciilifeform ( or what was it he had )
15:12 mircea_popescu he bought it cvasi new and spent the first year dicking around with paperworks, i imaghine it still got years of juice.
15:12 asciilifeform i keep seeing parts for it, on 'ebay' etc.
15:12 asciilifeform must be mega-popular machine.
15:12 ben_vulpes BingoBoingo: "purchases credited to their accounts"?
15:13 mthreat asciilifeform: it works, but i'm not flying it yet
15:14 mircea_popescu o really ?!
15:14 mthreat ya you need 1000 hours logged to get the type rating
15:14 * asciilifeform still astonished to hear that mthreat returned to gringolandia
15:14 mthreat i don't have that yet
15:15 mircea_popescu 1k hours... that's a long, expensive time.
15:16 ben_vulpes flugenhobby
15:19 BingoBoingo ty ben_vulpes fxd
15:21 ben_vulpes BingoBoingo: anytime
15:22 mircea_popescu did we do the huston vs austin texan war yet btw ?
15:22 ben_vulpes where are my copy editing qntra shares
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15:37 mthreat actually i just had the houston vs. austin discussion this morning on another channel with some friends!
15:37 trinque mircea_popescu: long as they keep the californians they imported, I'm fine with it.
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16:01 ben_vulpes in other adult women and professional photographers: http://68.media.tumblr.com/96cf953ae9a81800daddbc7513aec004/tumblr_o77ggywRgX1qd33wso1_400.jpg
16:03 mircea_popescu hawt
16:03 mircea_popescu meanwhile a la granja, http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2abz9XtEC1qmvi83o1_1280.png
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16:25 mod6 holy smokes
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17:06 * BingoBoingo wonder if MP is in Peru
17:07 ben_vulpes since we're doing "the view from behind" today, http://68.media.tumblr.com/59382b0efa68f99f5d194ee1b96e97cc/tumblr_o9fwmu2DQC1urwuzno1_1280.jpg http://68.media.tumblr.com/f7b0b0e4f9350fbe81bdf4d7f2848e0c/tumblr_nrghuclzx91ti7uhjo1_500.gif
17:09 ben_vulpes anywhoodle, provisionally successful with gentoo quest ppc edition
17:09 asciilifeform congrats ben_vulpes
17:10 asciilifeform post recipe?
17:11 doppler what's the target system?
17:11 ben_vulpes the only thing not in the ppc handbook (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC) is that ybin MUST be run from the chroot.
17:11 ben_vulpes doppler: g5 towers
17:12 doppler godspeed
17:13 doppler they're fun, *when they actually work* :)
17:13 * ben_vulpes looks at the working ppc
17:13 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: what else would 'recipe' entail?
17:13 asciilifeform ben_vulpes has apparently nominated himself tester of all things bigendian nao!11111
17:14 ben_vulpes ugh
17:14 asciilifeform afaik nobody else has one.
17:14 doppler i've had to deal with lots of broken ones
17:15 ben_vulpes doppler: in what ways do they typically go south?
17:16 doppler power supply failure, liquid coolant leak, and just general motherboard stability
17:17 doppler i suppose in the latter respect, they're no worse than the later G4s
17:23 phf there are no provisions in bitcoin client for endianness support, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches/makefiles/tree/bitcoin/src/serialize.h#L124 (that's the basic implementation, but also similarly assumptions are baked into other parts of serialize.h)
17:23 asciilifeform phf: this is quite correct
17:24 asciilifeform it idiotically relies on 'natural' littleendianness.
17:24 phf it idiotically relies on good old struct mapping
17:25 asciilifeform well yes
17:25 phf you could probably get away with just patching serialize.h though since most of the rest of code relies on it (i.e. both networking and fs code)
17:28 BingoBoingo If I recall a certain sede vacantist patched PRB in some way for big endian.
17:32 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/03/us-securities-regulator-denies-another-paper-bitcoin-trading-instrument/ << Qntra - US Securities Regulator Denies Another "Paper Bitcoin" Trading Instrument
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17:59 ben_vulpes !!up ohae it's a CompanionCube
17:59 deedbot ohae voiced for 30 minutes.
18:00 ben_vulpes !!up CompanionCube lookie there!
18:00 deedbot CompanionCube voiced for 30 minutes.
18:00 CompanionCube ben_vulpes: greetings. I saw you mention me in the logs.
18:01 ben_vulpes aya, 'tis odd to see a feller rated in the #trilema wot but not...in #trilema
18:01 ben_vulpes welcome!
18:02 ben_vulpes !!v E13742AC2567DEF14AC85727A2080AEFD3F87DCEF19B2B169C0EDB786EBE10A8
18:02 deedbot ben_vulpes rated CompanionCube 1 << new blood
18:02 CompanionCube it was one of the things that tipped me over the fence from 'just reading' to 'might as well join now'
18:03 ben_vulpes should be able to voice yourself now
18:05 doppler CompanionCube: welcome.
18:08 ben_vulpes in re mircea_popescu's classic "girl bouncing around on all fours for a treat": http://68.media.tumblr.com/2dcd3ac18dfdbcd51fe376d5479591cc/tumblr_nratjy81nR1rs6a2oo1_400.gif
18:12 shinohai http://archive.is/t1z2A <<< Jack Dorsey totally understands how this encryption thing works .....
18:14 * CompanionCube apologizes for the stupidity of the home secretary and UK government
18:14 ben_vulpes you just don't get to run a payment processor in fiatlandia without being on a /really/ short leash.
18:15 asciilifeform shinohai: in fact d00d is more of an 'honest crook' than, e.g., crapple, goes straight to 'my crock of shit is porous and censored', rather than pretenses of 'resistance'
18:16 shinohai Heh, true.
18:16 asciilifeform 'you have entered the rape pit, 5 cents / hour' vs 'this is a sanatorium, no rapes in past 150 yrs, honest!1!!!'
18:18 Framedragger CompanionCube: in my view they're just continuing on a well-set path... opportunistically used london terror attack to repeat 'e2e encryption is going away' to acclimatise folks when they're more 'receptive'... etc.
18:19 CompanionCube Framedragger: it's to be expected - this isn't their first time around this merry-go-round obviously. At least Dorsey made sense unlike the homesec
18:19 Framedragger aha yeah.
18:20 CompanionCube David Cameron was doing this same thing more or less the same time last year.
18:20 asciilifeform pretense of non-snooping is ~expensive~ -- good parallel-constructors don't work for minimal wage.
18:21 CompanionCube Encryption backdoors would tail nicely with the Investigatory Powers Act and it's technical capability notices.
18:22 ben_vulpes good luck sticking new backdoors in the old gpg source
18:23 shinohai "We'll just make you new gcc compile backdoors into itself"
18:24 CompanionCube shinohai: that would be at least interesting to look at and analyze
18:24 asciilifeform how many, incidentally, 'coke machine' prisoners in ye olde britain? anybody ever even counted?
18:24 phf no, because gb is roughly as relevant as albania
18:24 ben_vulpes elbonia!
18:25 ben_vulpes http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/dilbert/images/5/5b/Elbonia.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150622164352
18:32 CompanionCube well, self-voicing works
18:38 asciilifeform welcome, CompanionCube .
18:50 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
18:50 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1042.61, vol: 9074.60117998 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1038.819, vol: 9835.46768 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1045.0, vol: 26267.13525601 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1002.452307, vol: 5465.05330000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1042.133, vol: 4655.17553884 | Volume-weighted last average: 1039.0620549
18:51 BingoBoingo Interior Painting Protip: The right tool for applying paint to surfaces is a 2 inch angle sash brush.
18:57 pete_dushenski BingoBoingo: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/P2E9a/?raw=true
18:57 pete_dushenski solid news day
18:58 pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633392 << wd eh! my new firewire cable just arrived so my openbsd quest can resume once more. fingers crossed.
18:58 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 21:09 ben_vulpes: anywhoodle, provisionally successful with gentoo quest ppc edition
19:00 ben_vulpes openbsd settles quite nicely onto old macs
19:00 ben_vulpes what do you need with the firewire cable?
19:00 pete_dushenski for 'target disk mode' from other machine
19:00 pete_dushenski wasn't having any success with usb or cd
19:01 ben_vulpes huh
19:01 ben_vulpes glhf
19:01 pete_dushenski oh i will :)
19:02 ben_vulpes in other "once you capitulate you may never stop capitulating"s: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-28/uber-s-diversity-report-leaves-out-the-most-important-thing
19:02 pete_dushenski also cracked open mathematica 9 last night. lots on the plate!
19:04 asciilifeform didn't i warn folx re mathematica ?
19:04 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/03/dnc-follows-clitlers-lead-fires-entire-staff/ << Qntra - DNC Follows Clitler's Lead, Fires Entire Staff
19:04 phf the only legitimate way of running mathematica is knuth style: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/screen.jpeg
19:04 pete_dushenski you warn folks about looking out window, asciilifeform. watch out for black van stealing your turkey recipes!
19:05 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: that ain't it
19:05 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: the problem is that it is entirely like a dope habit
19:05 asciilifeform it took asciilifeform YEARS to kick mathematica.
19:06 ben_vulpes what does asciilifeform use instead? maxima?
19:06 pete_dushenski phf: i'm not worthy of knuthdom
19:06 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: bare hands
19:06 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: aye aye
19:06 asciilifeform pete_dushenski: you have a macturd in the logz link in latest qntra
19:07 pete_dushenski o ?
19:07 ben_vulpes space in the "for your leftism" link too, if that's not the turd in q
19:07 asciilifeform under 'leftism'
19:07 doppler phf: -- Motif graphics initialized --
19:07 doppler phf: except, nope
19:08 phf fvwm
19:08 doppler what about it?
19:08 pete_dushenski BingoBoingo: please to beleet "%20" from last link there
19:08 CompanionCube doppler: except for the nextsteppy clock in the top right
19:08 pete_dushenski asciilifeform: cheers
19:08 BingoBoingo ty fxd
19:09 doppler oh haha, i was referring to mathematica's init message
19:09 doppler love that clock though
19:09 phf oh, you meant "nope" in a sense that you're not going to run it. duly noted.
19:11 doppler why is knuth's username "uno"?
19:11 doppler is he numero uno?
19:19 phf there's probably some obscure reason which warrants a detail footnote in one of this books. or you need to mail him a letter and he'll dedicate a detailed response to it
19:19 doppler hahaha
19:20 phf but apparently he has a chinese name "gao dena" given to him by frances yao
19:21 asciilifeform was that the d00d who drove perelman into exile ?
19:21 phf that's francis yao
19:22 asciilifeform hm.
19:24 phf i think that was huai-dong cao, or maybe it was the xiping zhu. i don't remember now which one of those two was the main guy
19:24 asciilifeform i definitely remember a yao.
19:25 phf oh oh, shing-tung yau
19:28 asciilifeform 'In September 2006, Yau established a public relations website, which disputed points in it. Seventeen mathematicians, including two quoted in the New Yorker article, posted letters of strong support. On October 17, 2006, a more sympathetic profile of Yau appeared in The New York Times. ... The article stated that Yau had alienated some colleagues, but represented Yau's position as that Perelman's
19:28 asciilifeform proof was not generally understood and he "had a duty to dig out the truth of the proof". ' -- pediw.
19:28 asciilifeform lol.
19:30 * asciilifeform aspires to OneDay achieve the mega-highscore of writing a thing that 'requires' a chinese 'digger of truth'...
19:31 phf pretty sure can go to china now, ghost write for their mathematical aristocracy. it's now a well established russian tradition
19:32 asciilifeform i did it right here in usa, lol
19:32 asciilifeform pays moar.
19:33 asciilifeform sucks ==.
19:42 ben_vulpes welp emacs ~works on the ppc, insofar as emacs can be said to work
19:42 asciilifeform why the ~
19:42 asciilifeform what unworks
19:42 ben_vulpes org-babel shat itself when a directory in the tempfiles path didn't exist up front
19:43 ben_vulpes or perhaps the temporary file machinery itself shat itself
19:44 ben_vulpes either way, i crufted some state onto the station and it works now.
19:48 phf if you're going to try crosscompiling things from one openbsd machine to your older ppc boxes make sure you have the right os versions set. the abi changes, and that bit me a few times
19:48 asciilifeform phf: does static linking work on openbsd ?
19:49 phf yes
19:50 phf in fact, i static linked a copy of trb on a recent machine (5.6 say), and then moved it to a libretto (that was running 5.3 or whatever) and the binary booted and worked, but then silently failed on some system calls.
19:50 asciilifeform ugh
19:50 phf yeah, exactly.
19:50 asciilifeform that doesn't sound like 'static linking works'
19:50 asciilifeform it sounds like 'pretends to work'
19:51 asciilifeform a la glibc.
19:51 phf it's not the static linking that gets you, it's the lack of stable abi. binary loads, but fails to do the right thing on system call
19:52 asciilifeform phf: this was the original drepperist excuse for 'shadow banning' static linking, 'oh forget it, no MODERN!11 os has a stable abi'
19:54 phf "we shat in your soup. we then threw out all the soup utensils, who eats soup with shit anyway, fuck is wrong wit you!1"
19:55 asciilifeform mircea_popescu's 'tv raft'.
19:56 asciilifeform >> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524864
19:56 a111 Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
19:57 asciilifeform from what phf has described ( and from my own experiments ) it is not clear to me that openbsd is salvageable .
19:57 asciilifeform ( possibly -- if some hero devotes several years to it, trb-style -- but even then )
20:01 phf http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633295 all the way
20:01 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 17:51 jurov: http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/ Original SystemV sources published
20:05 ben_vulpes phf: gentoo for now
20:06 phf i just opened an openbsd laptop a second ago and it greeted me with ddb (kernel debugger on panic)
20:08 asciilifeform and i thought my openbsd 'libretto' that loses its x11 frame buffer was rotten
20:08 phf this is an x60 too
20:08 asciilifeform pretty sad.
20:08 asciilifeform where exactly does it work reliably.
20:08 asciilifeform ..vax?
20:10 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633390 << nope. though great guess, peru is pretty cool.
20:10 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 21:06 BingoBoingo wonder if MP is in Peru
20:10 asciilifeform i was hoping for peru!111 land of delish guinea pig steak.
20:11 asciilifeform ( what places even left, that nobody's guessed yet.. )
20:11 asciilifeform only hint so far is that it's a donkeystan
20:11 mircea_popescu i am enjoying a newfound love of "el condor pasa" btw. it's a fucking epic song if one reads the ORIGINAL SPANISH TEXT.
20:11 asciilifeform but this isn't much to go on.
20:11 asciilifeform aha SPAIN!
20:11 mircea_popescu rather than the dorky usgistan cover lyurics.
20:12 asciilifeform well not spain, but spanish lands
20:12 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes check it out, naked slut entering cvasi-whats-that-triangle-thing-called !
20:13 phf could be spain proper
20:13 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633409 << correct.
20:13 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 21:23 phf: there are no provisions in bitcoin client for endianness support, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches/makefiles/tree/bitcoin/src/serialize.h#L124 (that's the basic implementation, but also similarly assumptions are baked into other parts of serialize.h)
20:14 mircea_popescu o hai phf. but no, isn't in leon-y-castillia
20:14 asciilifeform aww, just when i thought mircea_popescu might have gone to help the basques nail the occupant scum
20:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what, with the fleet under wing, "this is eagle-1, standby for launch over."
20:15 asciilifeform nah, as partizan commander
20:16 mircea_popescu buncha girls naked but for the aks... i could see it.
20:17 asciilifeform Hasta siempre, Comandante!111
20:18 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633429 << we did https://68.media.tumblr.com/fa9a2501411802f10f1ddcaf88a17b7f/tumblr_o218aqlfjI1sk3xdpo1_500.gif I take it ?
20:18 a111 Logged on 2017-03-28 22:08 ben_vulpes: in re mircea_popescu's classic "girl bouncing around on all fours for a treat": http://68.media.tumblr.com/2dcd3ac18dfdbcd51fe376d5479591cc/tumblr_nratjy81nR1rs6a2oo1_400.gif
20:18 * shinohai now has an idea to reswell the ranks of FARC with camhos ....
20:18 mircea_popescu !#s "fa9a2501411802f10f1ddcaf88a17b7f"
20:18 a111 3 results for "\"fa9a2501411802f10f1ddcaf88a17b7f\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22fa9a2501411802f10f1ddcaf88a17b7f%22
20:19 mircea_popescu so we did.
20:19 mircea_popescu shinohai i thought the farc finally went on the govt dole last month.
20:19 phf sort of how spk was training a group of schizophrenics for revolutionary activity, making bombs, etc. the whole place blew up.
20:20 mircea_popescu Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu ?
20:20 mircea_popescu i suppose this'd hafta be sermaye pizdiasi kurgolu
20:21 phf sozialistisches patientenkollektiv
20:21 mircea_popescu (the turkish sec, for a lol)
20:23 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170328/#547 << an blair was doing the exact same thing ten fucking years ago.
20:23 scriba Logged on 2017-03-28: [22:20:09] <CompanionCube> David Cameron was doing this same thing more or less the same time last year.
20:26 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170328/#579 << for some reason "Exec exec unclutter" made me lol. i expect i don't understand how thr world etc.
20:26 scriba Logged on 2017-03-28: [23:04:56] <phf> the only legitimate way of running mathematica is knuth style: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/screen.jpeg
20:28 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170328/#586 <<< aaahahahaha!!!1 o brother! >>> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-21#1630254
20:28 a111 Logged on 2017-03-21 01:45 asciilifeform: quite srsly, i'd like to know : phf now uses what? 'ed' ? does he still write programs for money ? in commonlisp? in selfsame 'ed' ?
20:28 scriba Logged on 2017-03-28: [23:06:25] <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: bare hands
20:28 mircea_popescu why is everything so lulzy all the time! why!
20:30 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633557 << i've been greatly enjoying not needing ANY of that nonsense in 'nqb'
20:30 a111 Logged on 2017-03-29 00:13 a111: Logged on 2017-03-28 21:23 phf: there are no provisions in bitcoin client for endianness support, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches/makefiles/tree/bitcoin/src/serialize.h#L124 (that's the basic implementation, but also similarly assumptions are baked into other parts of serialize.h)
20:31 asciilifeform ( and fought, successfully, the temptation to release the thing before the mmap'd replaces-all-the-db-and-indices thing is properly done )
20:33 asciilifeform btw storing actual physical locations in all of the places where a tx refers to other tx, saves megatonne of time as well as space. (and in case it isn't obvious, it remains possible to reconstitute the original tx, noshit, we store the 256-bit sha2(sha2(x)) hash of a tx ONCE on the disk -- or whole thing'd be useless )
20:36 asciilifeform outputs also get a place to store 'who-spent', which is an index to the input who spends them (if such exists.) this is practical because the main db is not affected by reorgs (only 'nursery' is. currently i've defined 'nursery' to store the leading train of 144 blox. this is adjustible.)
20:36 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170328/#615 >> bwahahaha
20:36 scriba Logged on 2017-03-28: [23:28:09] <asciilifeform> proof was not generally understood and he "had a duty to dig out the truth of the proof". ' -- pediw.
20:36 mircea_popescu fwiw, whichj isn't much, i don't expect perelman gave much of a shit about it all before, either. not exactly "driven into" or anythjing
20:36 asciilifeform 'driven' may be wrong word.
20:37 mircea_popescu "who the fuck are yo uto be giving me awards anyway" might well have been set to happen regardless.
20:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: one mega-q is what to do with the knobs that never got turned, but could turn. e.g., sequence numbers.
20:41 mircea_popescu this is so.
20:42 asciilifeform theoretically trb & prb permit 'tx replacement' idiocy
20:43 mircea_popescu especially because ineptly unspecified design space creates the latter possibility of a sort of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-26#1632676 which is entirely "legitimate" ie perfectly silent
20:43 a111 Logged on 2017-03-26 15:06 mp_en_viaje: wuille comes along, "expands" for the africa box A. now the design is broken, in that item in B will correspond to both a and a'
20:43 mircea_popescu "oh, knob now cooks frogs. problem ?"
20:43 asciilifeform aha, specifically this
20:43 mircea_popescu myeah.
20:43 mircea_popescu i dunno how we correctly sear this open sore.
20:44 mircea_popescu "design is fucking hard -- you gotta specify ALL you gotta specify AND NO MORE!!1" sigh.
20:44 asciilifeform i must confess, this is 90% of the work there will be, in any attempt to convert nqb into a btctron.
20:44 mircea_popescu i expect.
20:44 mircea_popescu what was the initialism standing for, did i miss ?
20:44 asciilifeform ( as it is, it is simply a REALLY fast block and tx flow explorer )
20:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'not quite bitcoin'
20:45 mircea_popescu ah
20:45 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170328/#637 << this incidentally is a very fine point.
20:45 scriba Logged on 2017-03-28: [23:51:43] <phf> it's not the static linking that gets you, it's the lack of stable abi. binary loads, but fails to do the right thing on system call
20:45 asciilifeform it is a proggy that came out of asciilifeform's slow adaization of all known-permanent bitcoin protocol
20:45 mircea_popescu "my stove dun work", fine, but it isn't because the gas is wet.
20:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: presently it eats blocks and tx in a heapless and demonstrably nonoverflowable way, into a general-purpose fixed space (no tx can >1MB) representation that is operable in O(1)
20:47 mircea_popescu this is rather nice a model.
20:47 asciilifeform (i.e. fetching an output or input is a simple array access)
20:48 asciilifeform these will end up 'interned', i.e. represented in the db, in such a way that any tx referred to inside a tx is fetched in O(1)
20:48 mircea_popescu http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170328/#644 << "the stain will remain!!1"
20:48 scriba Logged on 2017-03-28: [23:57:45] <asciilifeform> ( possibly -- if some hero devotes several years to it, trb-style -- but even then )
20:48 mircea_popescu not even a joke, this.
20:49 asciilifeform (because the reference is a simple integer, showing where thing is found!)
20:49 asciilifeform stains -- always remain.
20:49 mircea_popescu myeah. the blockstain.
20:51 mircea_popescu to continue the "bikers are human too" thread, http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1m5dbf9Rn1qe8p5xo1_1280.jpg
20:56 mircea_popescu in other oh wows, elena udrea (ro slut politician, quite successful. http://trilema.com/2009/super-terrific-caption-hour-part-i/ ) got convicted for nothing in particular (her party no longer in power), 5 years.
20:56 mircea_popescu i dunno that at any point since henry was the "legal system" so much of a joke.
20:57 asciilifeform ye olde natostan
20:57 mircea_popescu 43 yo, unsuspended sentence
20:57 mircea_popescu it dun look good for clitler, fwtw.
20:59 asciilifeform what was it, 'corruption' ??
21:03 mircea_popescu obv.
21:03 mircea_popescu wth else. witchcraft.
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21:26 mircea_popescu meanwhile in colombia, http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1wpejDo6f1r4e6vso1_1280.jpg
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21:47 shinohai Why yes, I *do* want to follow you upstairs.
21:53 mircea_popescu lel
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23:39 asciilifeform phunphakt : the only synthetic cloth fiber that isn't shit ( as, e.g., nylon : flammable, melts on skin, crumbling under sunlight, etc ) is made in... north kr! >> https://fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/facility/industry38.htm
23:40 asciilifeform needs 0 petro, even.
23:40 asciilifeform and apparently jp finally has a pilot plant, http://www.unitika.co.jp/vinylon/e/vinylon/index.html
23:45 asciilifeform invented, incidentally, by d00d who was fired from professorship by usg colonizers of south kr; fled north.
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