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00:02 undata BingoBoingo: I'll read this but to continue, the Russians sought Putin's strong voice after their collapse.
00:03 undata why wouldn't I expect Americans to choose their own Putin
00:04 undata some guy comes along and pledges to slap our oligarchs around; after a bit economic collapse they'd eat that shit up
00:04 undata *big
00:04 BingoBoingo undata: Because 'Muricans share a weak soft language...
00:07 undata american putin doesn't look much like him
00:07 undata he looks like reagan
00:08 undata "Grandpa, tuck us in and tell us ISIS wont ruin Christmas!"
00:11 asciilifeform a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish << where is soviet army ?
00:11 thestringpuller ^- this point should have probably been mentioned earlier
00:11 undata still there, rotting, but not gone
00:13 undata and still very relevant to Russian life
00:19 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: wasp << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-10-2014#882545
00:19 assbot Logged on 18-10-2014 18:23:44; asciilifeform: thestringpuller: note that, for all the poetic license of the tale, it is very clear that wasp needs a support network.
00:20 decimation yeah 'wasp' doesn't work in anarchy
00:20 decimation it needs a fragile paranoia-state
00:20 asciilifeform all that 'wasp' without support can hope for, is
00:20 asciilifeform ;;google solzhenitsyn axe
00:20 gribble Quote by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn : “And how we burned - Goodreads: <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34738-and-how-we-burned-in-the-camps-later-thinking-what>; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes (Author of One Day in the Life of ...: <http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10420.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>; The Gulag Archipelago - Wikiquote: (1 more message)
00:21 asciilifeform it needs a fragile paranoia-state << these are not in any short supply
00:21 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: But a Wasp with a poor support network also has a death wish...
00:21 asciilifeform what's in short supply, is an 'earth' home to supply mr. wasp with containers, forged documents, etc
00:22 undata wow, that's a quote.
00:22 asciilifeform reading the tale, it is easy to forget that it is about a soldier, albeit an unusual one
00:23 assbot Last 1 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2GP5HFN.txt )
00:23 BingoBoingo !b 1
00:24 decimation asciilifeform: what do you pay on average at your loper-os isp if you don't mind asking? it seems like a really cheap deal
00:24 asciilifeform 1-5 usd/mo
00:24 asciilifeform on avg.
00:24 asciilifeform depending entirely on load
00:24 decimation yeah I guess hosting static text is cheap
00:24 kakobrekla yeah, asciis stuff is so quotable he could write directly into bash.
00:24 asciilifeform except not
00:24 asciilifeform BingoBoingo is just abuser of 'bash'
00:25 decimation Did you write your own comment system?
00:25 asciilifeform nah it's just an ancient 'wordpress' with all the crapolade ruthlessly burned out
00:25 mircea_popescu ^
00:25 mircea_popescu this is getting to be more and more the way to go.
00:25 asciilifeform what, didja think i actually did work on it
00:26 mircea_popescu fucking scavenger culture. "o, nice car, is it the latest ford ? no, it's an old toyota civic with the crap thrown off"
00:26 asciilifeform 'junkyard wars'
00:26 decimation I guess I thought that anything written in php was exploited to death
00:27 mircea_popescu no dude, php is a lot more stable than ruby bs, then the ruby crowd goes around bitching about php
00:27 asciilifeform decimation: 'nearlyfreespeech' co.
00:27 kakobrekla except not < i think you are the most common in bash say last 5 pages
00:27 asciilifeform lol
00:27 * asciilifeform looks
00:27 mircea_popescu s/bash/come see stan saying weird shit/
00:27 assbot Last 1 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0R0PCG3.txt )
00:27 kakobrekla !b 1
00:27 mircea_popescu fuck.
00:27 kakobrekla hehe
00:27 decimation I guess php has had a 'trial by fire' as the lingua franca of web devel
00:28 undata python isn't much better.
00:28 asciilifeform trial by shitburial.
00:28 mircea_popescu decimation no, moreover, php doesn't try to do much. literally, it's intended to process strings.
00:28 mircea_popescu consequently, the incredibly idiotic shit it does is concentrated
00:28 undata overgrown templating language
00:28 asciilifeform (never heard of shitburial? it's when yer in a hole and they park a honeywagon, lead the pipe out, throw reverse gear, and... fill)
00:29 decimation lol
00:29 asciilifeform ^ from dream as a kid
00:29 mircea_popescu decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge << a wedge ?!
00:29 undata is metaphor comrade
00:29 decimation mircea_popescu: it appeals to the un crapolade
00:30 mircea_popescu oh i see. meh. prolly jurov should just reg it to mess with people.
00:30 decimation I already did :)
00:31 asciilifeform it's intended to process strings << incidentally - 'SNOBOL'. i invite folks to read about it. the idea of dedicated 'string processing' languages is rather old, and has not really gone anywhere 'snobol' hadn't gone.
00:31 mircea_popescu lol
00:31 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you may be old enough to recall the fucking relief php was back when ppl were stuck doining web-cgi
00:31 asciilifeform patterns as first-class data type
00:31 asciilifeform ehe.
00:32 mircea_popescu you think the web is insecure now, brother...
00:32 decimation turns out they were calling the buggy-as-hell bash then too
00:32 * asciilifeform 'enjoyed' from safe distance
00:32 mircea_popescu you shoulda seen the days of c wrapped.
00:32 mircea_popescu decimation o ya.
00:33 asciilifeform incidentally, technically we never left 'c wrapped'
00:33 thestringpuller http://qntra.net/2014/10/bitcoin-shop-attempts-to-strengthen-shareholder-equity/
00:33 mircea_popescu decimation has it. "bash-wrapped c"
00:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: the non-classical version strings are interesting << the first time i said ppl alter their strings ppl hgere were "oh, mp is just making shit up to win an internet argument"
00:34 mircea_popescu (nobody actually said it, but I FELT IT!!!)
00:35 asciilifeform alter string - elementary
00:35 asciilifeform ask nodes their strings - also elementary
00:35 * asciilifeform can't fathom what people argued about
00:36 mircea_popescu we were arguing about power ranger braindamage uptake is like.
00:36 mircea_popescu about how8
00:36 asciilifeform does anyone have a quick&dirty interrogatory battery for a remote 'victim' bitcoind node?
00:37 asciilifeform as in, published
00:37 asciilifeform if yes, could arrive at a kind of truth moment
00:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: one can fudge the version string in the proggy, yes, but if you're on the network, folks can presumably connect to your node and test behaviours <<< miner doesn't have to rely
00:37 mircea_popescu and because of ddos, plenty of time miner doesn't rely.
00:37 asciilifeform not replying - also information.
00:37 mircea_popescu after a fashion.
00:37 decimation subtle client strings, etc?
00:37 asciilifeform if never replies, is it really a node ?
00:38 mircea_popescu could be.
00:38 asciilifeform in what way, then?
00:38 mircea_popescu nodes can implement their own private ip allows.
00:38 mircea_popescu if the right person asks, they answer.
00:38 asciilifeform aha
00:38 kakobrekla <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform: the non-classical version strings are interesting << the first time i said ppl alter their strings ppl hgere were "oh, mp is just making shit up to win an internet argument" < i can see how someone running v0.9 would set the string to 'ducky duck' but not v0.1.
00:38 asciilifeform then arguably their external 'face' is the fellow in their private net who -will- talk to strangers.
00:38 mircea_popescu kakobrekla now we're discussing psychology.
00:38 asciilifeform and then interrogate him.
00:39 kakobrekla mircea_popescu is that verboten here?
00:39 mircea_popescu kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's
00:39 asciilifeform ehe here we kinda do more psychiatry than psychology
00:39 mircea_popescu or w/e her name was.
00:39 kakobrekla i guess my guess is better than sexygingers
00:39 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> forsaking version control systems entirely! << i cannot conscience this.
00:39 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: read why and then think again. ten times.
00:40 mircea_popescu ima put kako in the bash nao
00:40 kakobrekla bash dont wash
00:40 mircea_popescu what was her name anyway
00:40 mircea_popescu oh saffron. kay.
00:40 decimation it's amazing that there isn't a version control system with embedded crypto signatures
00:40 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
00:41 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: conventional version control - for private dildonic pleasure. for project like bitcoin where any change whatsoever might sink a galaxy - no.
00:41 mircea_popescu assbot: Breakout Gaming Fall Short In Attempt To Raise 10,000 BTC | Qntra.net <<< they shouldn'rt feel bad, minigames didn't manage 10k either.
00:41 undata decimation: git pre-commit hook?
00:41 asciilifeform no hidden formats
00:41 asciilifeform sign (gpg, yes) a plain ascii patch set.
00:41 asciilifeform with totality of info visible to naked eye.
00:42 asciilifeform yes, the pluses and minuses.
00:42 mircea_popescu cazalla btw shouldn't http://trilema.com/smg-ipo-succeeded-other-statements be in there ?
00:42 assbot S.MG IPO succeeded. Other statements. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
00:42 decimation I suspect git or whatever could be hooked to operate on such patches
00:42 undata asciilifeform: the hidden format being the git db?
00:42 undata it's relatively simple
00:42 asciilifeform who the hell cares if it's simple
00:42 asciilifeform will you read it? in person?
00:42 undata yeah
00:42 undata I've done extensive work with it
00:42 asciilifeform or let 'git' do its thing
00:42 asciilifeform every time?
00:42 undata it's just a key-value store of hashes
00:42 asciilifeform why use 'git' then
00:43 asciilifeform if you won't let it chug
00:43 mircea_popescu i don't think you two are discussing the same discussion.
00:44 asciilifeform ^
00:44 undata asciilifeform: you're saying "what if git tainted my commit"?
00:44 undata that's easily discovered
00:44 asciilifeform no.
00:44 asciilifeform that's not it at all
00:44 undata then I'm off base; what were you saying?
00:44 asciilifeform that the entirety of everything submitted by a contributor must be signed, every time, with his gpg key, and this fact be visible to the naked eye at all times
00:45 asciilifeform naked eye means - no tools other than apparatus capable of displaying ascii text - plus one which can verify signature.
00:45 undata I don't see why that's a requirement, but ok
00:45 ben_vulpes base plus patchlist?
00:45 undata ascii isn't the only format that's "right there for your eyes"
00:45 asciilifeform pray tell what else
00:46 undata I could show you every bit in my git db easily
00:46 asciilifeform can i 'cat' it to my line printer?
00:46 asciilifeform unchanged?
00:46 mircea_popescu well ok, it could also be sung, or whatver. anyway, the central idea here is the signing.
00:46 undata these are bizarre requirements
00:46 asciilifeform no.
00:46 undata you could sign via git hooks
00:46 mircea_popescu undata you could sign via git hooks
00:46 mircea_popescu similarly, you could sign via a website that has your pubkeys
00:46 mircea_popescu would you ?
00:47 asciilifeform i don't actually care if he signs via hook to his toilet flush lever
00:47 ben_vulpes name of the game being dependency minimization.
00:47 asciilifeform but i - won't.
00:47 decimation the important part isn't the signature, it's the code
00:47 mircea_popescu wait what ?
00:47 asciilifeform !
00:47 mircea_popescu without signature, there's no code.
00:47 mircea_popescu just a collection of shit someone crapped out.
00:47 undata ben_vulpes: sure, that's a fine value, but every time someone tries to reinvent VCS, they either produce something terrible or git
00:47 decimation of course you validate the signature
00:47 ben_vulpes undata: git can be used for development
00:47 ben_vulpes that's not a problem
00:48 asciilifeform use git for private dildonic pleasure. or for playing with friends. i do.
00:48 ben_vulpes but for releases, history of changes to bitcoin x
00:48 mircea_popescu undata that's kinda why this is not the same discussion. you're thinking of the scratchpad. they're talking the exhibition.
00:49 undata that makes more sense. In that case yes, I could see a very simple tool for auditing, signing, then releasing
00:49 mircea_popescu right.
00:49 mircea_popescu fuck, people use email to this day to exchange code.
00:49 decimation I think people are complaining more aboug github than git
00:49 asciilifeform i was hoping to rationally convince people that the totality of the project ought to be the mailing list, the totality of the mailing list ought to consist of gpg-signed ascii text, and that this includes patch sets - which, collectively, add up to the product.
00:49 mircea_popescu can you intercept x's email for y, change subtly, release ? sure.
00:49 mircea_popescu "nobody could be bothered to do that"
00:49 undata mircea_popescu: I use the same for code review, even if it's a matter of emailing myself
00:49 mircea_popescu sure.
00:50 mircea_popescu until it becames a case of "we will hang whoever made this one byte error in bash"
00:50 decimation asciilifeform: isn't the linux kernel still done this way?
00:50 mircea_popescu then suddenly people discover that... wait... ?!!?!?!
00:50 asciilifeform linus uses some turdolator or other
00:50 mircea_popescu nah its email
00:50 asciilifeform 'bitkeeper' ?
00:50 * asciilifeform behind the times
00:50 decimation nah he wrote git to ditch bitkeeper
00:50 asciilifeform aha.
00:50 decimation but I know they discuss important patches on the kernel list
00:50 asciilifeform well there's the answer.
00:50 asciilifeform not plain text.
00:51 undata you can extract a nice looking patch from git, and even email it from there
00:51 asciilifeform and do all the linux contributors sign? i do not recall this being required
00:51 mircea_popescu not rly.
00:51 decimation Good question
00:51 asciilifeform can extract != must exist canonically in that form
00:51 undata asciilifeform: I'm saying it can provide the input to your envisioned system
00:51 undata even automatically... via a hook.
00:52 asciilifeform who even cares how each of us craps out his input
00:52 undata anyhow, horse is starting to stink
00:52 asciilifeform question is re: the canonical form.
00:52 asciilifeform no, this horse is alive and well.
00:53 * asciilifeform realizes that he is not very good at curing people of addiction to what feels to them as 'modernity'
00:53 decimation asciilifeform: the bigger question is: who is the 'registrar' of the 'official version' - or does that merely exist in the private collection of each person's note?
00:53 undata asciilifeform: explain; I'll listen.
00:53 asciilifeform official version, if you like, is one (if any) that we (magic-29?) all agree to sign under.
00:53 ben_vulpes <undata> anyhow, horse is starting to stink << what is this a reference to?
00:53 undata ben_vulpes: dead horse, beaten
00:54 ben_vulpes m ah
00:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nah, "official version" is redefined from * this (static) to whatever one has most wot trust towards.
00:54 asciilifeform in practice, the only possible result
00:54 mircea_popescu so if version x is signed by people i know and version y is signed by people i don't know, x is official and fu.
00:55 decimation right, it's in the 'eye of the beholder'
00:55 mircea_popescu exactly.
00:55 asciilifeform if 10 sign one, but never other, and 19 (plus ninjasp4mz0r) sign the remaining - clearly schism.
00:55 undata mircea_popescu: interesting, a fork could emerge due to a breakdown of trust
00:55 mircea_popescu no such thing as "official" "because we say so". who;'s we.
00:55 undata that fits the social happenings well
00:55 mircea_popescu undata more properly said : every breakdown of trust is a fork
00:55 asciilifeform 'we's are illusory
00:55 mircea_popescu rather than papering over breakdowns of trust with "foundations" and "chief scientistdom"
00:56 mircea_popescu and this puts huge pressure on trusted nodes not to break the fucking trust
00:56 decimation undata: no one here really minds having a different opinion than 99.999% of humanity
00:56 mircea_popescu which is essential, because our enemies are putting a lot of pressure on them to break it
00:56 undata my main thrust is that the thing will have to be structured in some way (a db)
00:56 mircea_popescu and you can't just expect "conscience" to resist indefinitely.
00:56 undata doesn't have to be git
00:56 ben_vulpes no db necessary
00:56 asciilifeform at any rate, the fact that no one could really directly profit (imho) from this escapade - other than devils, were they to succeed - should keep things interesting
00:56 ben_vulpes or rather
00:56 mircea_popescu conscience is fluid. look at Luke-Jr's conscience : he lied about bfl delivering. look at gavin, etc.
00:56 undata it could be a fancy db implemented atop the blockchain
00:56 mircea_popescu whenever people's conscience is the only protection, the third reich is about to emerge.
00:57 decimation asciilifeform: right, I envision it more as the collected correspondence of gentlemen scholars, rather than a profitable venture
00:57 ben_vulpes undata: staaaahp
00:57 mircea_popescu decimation yes. but actual gentlemen, rather than presumed gentlemen.
00:57 mircea_popescu ie, people with titles.
00:57 undata ben_vulpes: piles of ascii no, never, please no
00:57 asciilifeform collected correspondence of gentlemen <<<<<
00:58 asciilifeform undata will feel better if we 'gzip' them?
00:58 asciilifeform then no longer piles of ascii.
00:58 decimation folks are welcome to publish, index as they see fit
00:58 undata I yield the balance of my time, haha
00:59 mircea_popescu lol
00:59 mircea_popescu i dunno what the hatred of ascii is from anyway.
00:59 asciilifeform comes from, as i understand, 'xml' and other pseudo-humanreadable abominations
00:59 mircea_popescu more like utf-8 i thought
00:59 undata no, git is a distributed database
01:00 undata not merely a format
01:00 * asciilifeform is not ignorant of 'git' mechanics, uses it (sadly) every day
01:00 asciilifeform as in, 7 days a week.
01:01 cazalla mircea_popescu, where the facebook page and mockups for that?!?
01:01 mircea_popescu lol
01:01 cazalla maybe they meant to raise 50k facebook likes instead
01:01 ben_vulpes i think then this discussion is settled.
01:01 ben_vulpes there will be a base.
01:01 mircea_popescu lol
01:02 ben_vulpes signed patches will released.
01:03 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> decimation: bitcoind begs to be split into at least 3 programs << of which only 1 is necessary ! << for the record, what are the three and which the one?
01:03 asciilifeform which one - the one that actually 'bitcoin'ates
01:03 asciilifeform the one which menstruates guilade - flush it
01:04 ben_vulpes what is the bitcoinating? the part that attaches to the network, downloads and verifies the blockchain?
01:04 asciilifeform the unspeakable cthonian horror that remains - why even think of it
01:04 mod6 asciilifeform: i like the idea of a cypherpunk-esq mailing list to propagate patches from a common release.
01:04 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: the part that actually enables the things we like to do with the damn thing
01:04 asciilifeform bitcoinate.
01:04 mod6 this hasn't been done for some time, and probably needs to come back.
01:04 asciilifeform it is the only way.
01:05 * mod6 gets ready to fire up mutt!
01:05 decimation asciilifeform: wouldn't it be a good idea for the privkey need not live in the same memory space as the rest of the code, for instance
01:06 ben_vulpes decimation: a fantastic idea.
01:06 ben_vulpes wallets should be built atop bitcoind or equivalent.
01:06 asciilifeform decimation: in my (now very old) plan for rewrite, there were to be two machines
01:06 asciilifeform connected with serial cable
01:06 decimation aye
01:06 decimation perhaps with a protocol validator in the middle
01:06 asciilifeform but it - is not the topic
01:07 asciilifeform topic was janitorial upkeep of classic bitcoind
01:07 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> connected with serial cable << this from reading up on old mpex material ?
01:07 asciilifeform wait this was in there?
01:07 mircea_popescu long long ago, in a galaxy far far away
01:08 mod6 COIN WARZ
01:08 mircea_popescu back when there weren't any enemies listening in on our lists
01:08 mircea_popescu mpex was almost discussed
01:08 asciilifeform it's an obvious idea, srsly
01:08 asciilifeform or just to me
01:08 mircea_popescu it is yes
01:08 asciilifeform logic is one for all of us.
01:08 asciilifeform like victory.
01:10 * asciilifeform wonders if his entire life is alive somewhere in old mpex material.
01:10 mircea_popescu the disadvantage of productivity is that it's 5am and the log is closing in on 1k lines. and yest it was nearly 3k. and jesus god it's a lot harder to go through when it's not mostly my own lines! i had no idea!
01:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nah, im sure that's not the case, i never cut solid copper anythings.
01:10 asciilifeform lol
01:10 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: welcome to my hell.
01:11 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes cause normally i'm like, oh, logs, fancy that. but past few days it's been... omfg help me.
01:11 asciilifeform protocol validator in the middle << people don't seem to get this. 'secure' is not a gigantic mechanized orchestra of quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
01:11 mircea_popescu ^
01:11 asciilifeform it is 'fits in head.' and a few other things.
01:11 mircea_popescu mechanized orchestra is a particularly good metaphore. because it never existed.
01:12 mircea_popescu WHY did it never exist ?
01:12 asciilifeform i asked my father as a boy
01:12 decimation well, quite simply because the failure rate would be too high
01:12 asciilifeform 'why no compressor for the jazz band?'
01:12 mircea_popescu decimation eeexactly.
01:12 mircea_popescu !up deadalus
01:12 asciilifeform 'those trombones - how are they any different from pneumatic hammers!?!?'
01:12 asciilifeform 'why must these poor musicians blow, strain their chests!'
01:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform did he give you a sex answer ?
01:13 decimation dijkstra would have been a fan of 'fits in head'
01:13 ben_vulpes cazalla: i was derping with a colleague about btc payment processing recently. the topic: how to ensure the payment processor (he who tells the taco-delivery mechanism to release tacos) gets paid?
01:13 asciilifeform dijkstra actually believed in proofs
01:13 ben_vulpes our solution: one of the few actual uses for M/N signatures.
01:13 asciilifeform he lived in the last days of an age of proofs
01:13 decimation yeah but he also pretty much admits they are unworkable practically
01:13 mircea_popescu i'm kinda reminded of the jews on toilet joke. "is this work ?"
01:14 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: actually yes
01:14 ben_vulpes funds sent to M/N address, both merchant and payment solution provider must agree upon processor fee and merchant share to disburse funds to each.
01:14 mircea_popescu asciilifeform can't blame him. only way out of that one.
01:14 ben_vulpes mind you, this is a pure-btc play.
01:14 mircea_popescu otherwise it goes on forever, like the us puritan thought pattern.
01:14 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes seems dubious to me.
01:15 mircea_popescu you familiar with the three man committee to split a buck ?
01:15 ben_vulpes no, thy enlightenment please
01:15 mircea_popescu o wow.
01:15 asciilifeform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDESvyj1qo <<<< mechanized orchestra. required as that's my metaphor.
01:15 assbot : - YouTube
01:15 mircea_popescu so, me you and stan have to split a buck. i go : fuck stan, give me 50 cents i'll sign with you.
01:15 kakobrekla there were to be two machines connected with serial cable < heh i have such setup with a buffer on the cable
01:15 mircea_popescu you go to stan : hey listen, he's giving you nothing. take this 5 cents sign over to me.
01:16 mircea_popescu basically it has no stable solution.
01:16 mircea_popescu which is how and why the us political system does not work.
01:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18550 @ 0.00074164 = 13.7574 BTC [+] {2}
01:16 ben_vulpes what if there's no third?
01:16 mircea_popescu then it's not m of n.
01:16 cazalla so how long until bitpay pulls that shit on the merchant
01:16 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Problem with brass instruments is not strain on chest, but strain on face.
01:16 mircea_popescu kinda why i don't think much of the entire "multisig" bullcrap.
01:16 ben_vulpes lol wat
01:16 ben_vulpes m=n
01:17 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes no, n = 2 if there's no third.
01:17 mircea_popescu shit. n = 1 is what i mean.
01:17 ben_vulpes pardon?
01:17 ben_vulpes both keys must sign for outputs to be valid.
01:17 mircea_popescu myeah.
01:17 ben_vulpes "either we agree, or nobody gets anything."
01:17 asciilifeform that film - is precisely about that orchestra.
01:17 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes exactly.
01:18 ben_vulpes okay, so my derpitude re: m/n aside, the thing has a stable solutino.
01:18 mircea_popescu nop.
01:18 ben_vulpes go on
01:18 ben_vulpes please
01:18 mircea_popescu well i dunno what's missing ;/
01:19 mircea_popescu if i knew how to formalize this to be readily understanable for people i'd trilema it
01:19 mircea_popescu but i have nfi.
01:19 asciilifeform no stable solution <<
01:19 asciilifeform ;;google ultimatum game
01:19 gribble Ultimatum game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game>; What's the ultimatum game? - HowStuffWorks: <http://money.howstuffworks.com/ultimatum-game.htm>; Game Theory: The Ultimatum Game: <http://gametheory101.com/The_Ultimatum_Game.html>
01:19 mircea_popescu ^
01:19 ben_vulpes the incentives are aligned! merchant and payment processor must agree to get anything out.
01:19 mircea_popescu you contradicted yursrlf lol
01:19 mircea_popescu you just said they're at odds.
01:19 mircea_popescu "the incentives are alligned! they're contrary!"
01:20 * ben_vulpes weeps in ignorance
01:20 mircea_popescu let's use sex, people think easier about sex.
01:20 mircea_popescu suppose you're with a girl that doesn't wanna fuck you.
01:20 ben_vulpes i was going for the wot
01:21 mircea_popescu do you suppose her mother coming to your room and saying "neither of you is to leave here until you fuck" help anything ?
01:21 decimation asciilifeform: that's a trippy movie
01:21 ben_vulpes i'm not savvy to this story.
01:21 mircea_popescu which movie ?
01:21 ben_vulpes let's try the wot.
01:21 asciilifeform movie << linked above
01:21 ben_vulpes merchant and processor sign agreement that proceeds shall be divvied thusly.
01:22 mircea_popescu i had a nice script to ignore youtube links ;/
01:22 asciilifeform 'Шкатулка с секретом' ~= 'box with secret'
01:22 mircea_popescu NOW YOU BROKE IT
01:22 asciilifeform lol
01:22 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes if you're going to do that why bother with m/n
01:22 mircea_popescu just sign it from the beginning and be done with it.
01:22 ben_vulpes insurance policy?
01:23 decimation all this does seem to break down to something like "we want a computer to enforce a human language contract" which ain't gonna happen
01:23 mircea_popescu dude. srsly ?
01:23 mircea_popescu "insurance policy" ? "here's a car that doesn't work, and just to make sure, we welded to it a boat that also doesn't work" ? is this a way to live?
01:23 mircea_popescu do something that works.
01:23 ben_vulpes that's too big a leap for my tiny brain
01:24 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes what's your favourite meal ?
01:24 ben_vulpes boats and cars aside i think i get the "computer enforcement of human language contract"
01:25 decimation asciilifeform: not far from you in luray, va there's a cave where some guy converted a stalactite/stalagmite gallery into an organ
01:25 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: ojo de bife y vino
01:25 ben_vulpes vino tinto
01:25 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes ok, suppose the chicks ake you ojo de bife, but as an insurance policy they mix cheesekace in there.
01:26 mircea_popescu just in case you don't like it, as it were.
01:26 mircea_popescu this work ?
01:26 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i had a nice script to ignore youtube << that one's worth it. but you probably saw it. about same age as i did...
01:26 mircea_popescu or do they both get spanked purple and "next fucking time do one thing and do it right"
01:27 asciilifeform welded to a boat, also doesn't work >>> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-01-2014#436318
01:27 assbot Logged on 04-01-2014 00:00:40; asciilifeform: re: 400: 'for your convenience, we have packaged the defective ones separately.'
01:28 ben_vulpes https://p.gr-assets.com/540x540/fit/hostedimages/1381361152/4761785.jpg
01:28 mircea_popescu gr assets ? srsly ?!
01:30 mircea_popescu ahh, the beauty of 64gb memory systems is that if they allocate 46gb they still have plenty left over.
01:31 asciilifeform unless linux, and has to decide to not cache disk first.
01:31 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sane linuxes actually use the memory. or am i missing something ?
01:32 asciilifeform (like many things in life, invisible and harmless until fails)
01:32 mircea_popescu swap is 1.2/29.8gb used.
01:33 asciilifeform i often ask folks to contemplate, when they soak up 64g, what that number really means
01:34 asciilifeform and what unspeakably-dildonic luxury 64gB is
01:34 ben_vulpes * mircea_popescu kinda likes the smell of gasoline << various engineers went on red alert over a faint whiff of gasoline earlier today
01:35 ben_vulpes "oh my noes i can feel my brain wilting all the way over here! a scent of gasoline! in the warehouse we rent! we're all about to keel over!"
01:35 mircea_popescu asciilifeform im running a sort of generational modelling thing i hacked together. this is my idea of fun.
01:35 ben_vulpes silence and an absence of complaining ensued.
01:35 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes lol
01:35 * asciilifeform was driving car, and smelled unexpected smell, took almost a minute to realize that it was it. and turned out to be next car's ruptured tank!
01:35 asciilifeform went on like this for a few km.
01:35 decimation good time for a car-b-q
01:35 asciilifeform phoom.
01:36 mircea_popescu carbeque :D
01:36 ben_vulpes how was the scent moving with your vehicles?!
01:36 asciilifeform both moved
01:36 asciilifeform column
01:36 asciilifeform generational modelling << genetic algo?
01:37 mircea_popescu of sorts
01:37 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: I know duct tape gets a bad rap around here, but... duct tape
01:37 ben_vulpes but f-frictional losses?
01:37 * asciilifeform secretly sins with genetic algos
01:37 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo how does duct tape get a bad rap ? i used it for a sex act earlier today!
01:37 decimation I was driving along i-95 once, saw a full carbeque in progress in the right shoulder. Three lanes over through rolled up windows the heat was uncomfortable on my face
01:38 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Apparelty people don't trust that it apperently comes in different qualities
01:38 BingoBoingo !s duct tape
01:38 assbot 19 results for 'duct tape' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=duct+tape
01:38 mircea_popescu !s abductape
01:38 assbot 0 results for 'abductape' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=abductape
01:38 mircea_popescu a well.
01:38 joecool decimation: i had a truck explode in front of me on i-78, driver got out just in time, bad spot too under an overpass
01:39 mircea_popescu did you get thrown off road ?
01:39 asciilifeform carbeque << 'and then they summoned me / to the 'special' division / and asked 'why did you not burn up with your tank?' / to them i answered / 'in the next attack,' / 'in the next attack,' / 'i promise, i'll burn up!'
01:39 asciilifeform (rough translation, perverted version of ru ww2-era patriotic song)
01:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: no need for the 74xx to melt - enough to 'get lucky' and reach a metastable state in one or more switching elements << for pure wankeriferious interest : wouldn't supercooling it be a pill against all this ?
01:40 asciilifeform against metastability?
01:40 asciilifeform nope
01:40 joecool mircea_popescu: opposite side, very strong heat, assuming the diesel is what caught
01:40 ben_vulpes <kakobrekla> answer to someones question earlier http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/versions.html << those colors.
01:40 assbot Bitcoin Peer to Peer Network Status
01:40 joecool not a bomb
01:40 decimation if you were to fully extract the energy of a tank of gas going into your car at the pump, you would be getting about 22 megawatts
01:40 asciilifeform what it even means. the fact that the two documented stable states of, e.g., flipflop (or even just inverter) are an abstraction.
01:40 decimation Er, power, not energy
01:40 asciilifeform think of a sheet of rubber with two dimples
01:41 asciilifeform but in reality, there are not only two. there may be a third, and fourth, or rubber can even bend when the ball rolls on it.
01:41 asciilifeform and make new pit to park in.
01:41 mircea_popescu decimation mw-s only impressive for a second
01:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform isn't the probability to find a metastable state roughlt linear with system energy ?
01:42 mircea_popescu (at low energies)
01:42 asciilifeform depends on system.
01:42 asciilifeform but given example wasn't so bad, 'molten slag' is also a metastable state.
01:42 asciilifeform just, not the only.
01:42 asciilifeform mw - let's work out:
01:42 decimation no, the main issue is poor timing
01:42 asciilifeform your engine, let's say, 300kW
01:42 decimation or reflections, etc
01:42 asciilifeform nice car
01:42 asciilifeform how many times faster the spigot pours, than your fuel pump?
01:43 asciilifeform multiply.
01:43 asciilifeform 22mW is not unreasonable figure
01:43 asciilifeform (how long it takes to fill your car? how long, on the road, to empty it?)
01:43 decimation http://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2011/09/gas-station-pumps-energy-at-22.html source
01:43 assbot The Lansey Brothers' Blog: The gas station pumps energy at ~22 Megawatts
01:43 decimation 34.8 mJ * 10 us gal / 1 min
01:43 asciilifeform like so.
01:44 decimation this is one reason why batteries suck
01:44 asciilifeform yes.
01:44 ben_vulpes <kakobrekla> o hey our resident child rapist also keeps charts << lulzy, what's the story on this?
01:44 asciilifeform go find something other than chemical fuel that you can charge at 22 MW but won't discharge unexpectedly at 22 MW.
01:44 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll be looking to grow my farm once qntra takes off << lol what a plan for the future.
01:45 asciilifeform hey about as good as mine.
01:45 mircea_popescu you write for qntra ?
01:45 decimation pumping gas is the same as borrowing about 2% of a reasonable nuclear generator
01:45 asciilifeform nope
01:45 decimation at 1 gigawatt
01:45 asciilifeform (re: qntra)
01:45 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: qntra grows, I buy chickens and strange hardware. Nothing wrong with that.
01:45 asciilifeform was re: plan.
01:45 mircea_popescu decimation there's a reason civilisation is built on oil.
01:45 asciilifeform my plan is to think of a plan once i have a plan to think of a plan.
01:46 mircea_popescu ^ sounds like you should be on kickstarter.
01:46 asciilifeform or, earlier, if i've something to work with
01:46 asciilifeform lol
01:46 BingoBoingo Chickens have strong foreclaws, powerful warriors for D.A.G.
01:46 asciilifeform directed acyclic graph?
01:47 asciilifeform or 'dirac angestun gesept'
01:47 BingoBoingo The latter
01:47 asciilifeform lol
01:47 mircea_popescu danielpbarron o hey how did radio go.
01:47 decimation re: metastability https://filebox.ece.vt.edu/~athanas/4514/ledadoc/html/pol_cdc.html
01:47 assbot 1 Clock Domain Crossing
01:47 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Fear the avaians, but not for their flu. They know of their McNugget futures and choose otherwise!
01:48 asciilifeform decimation: yes. incidentally this is why we can't really do asynchronous logic (e.g. muller's gate) on extant fpga.
01:48 mircea_popescu undata: more like giant slave and ankle-chain << this was recently in full display in the ukraine, and then later in iraq. except both ukrainians and iraquis are, as a stock, more resilient than the us guy.
01:48 asciilifeform decimation: i even think i explained this very thing to someone here, once.
01:48 asciilifeform long ago.
01:49 mircea_popescu undata: the US military is immensely capable of holding cities <<< should be interesting to hear more of this.
01:49 decimation yeah. digital circuits are not ideal 0/1 gates, they are analog computers
01:50 mircea_popescu undata: a highly armed, extremely disciplined military doesn't just vanish because the congressmen stop coming to work << obviously not. it just starts working for me instead ?
01:50 asciilifeform the digital computer is a beautiful dream. good and well, but you can't dream the dream without some 'meat' to dream it with.
01:50 decimation the thing is, the us military only looks impressive because it has 'support'
01:51 decimation in the same sense that the wasp guy did
01:51 decimation without that support, and with dwindling oil supplies, what you gonna do?
01:51 mircea_popescu undata: BingoBoingo: I'll read this but to continue, the Russians sought Putin's strong voice after their collapse. << not after, honey. a decade after. that decade is important.
01:52 mircea_popescu decimation generally high efficiency is obtained at the cost of high fragility. the jit system is a fine exampel of the principle.
01:52 decimation aye
01:52 mircea_popescu essentially to get "really good" at one thing you define a narrow thing to be good at.
01:53 mircea_popescu then you end up engaged in the middle east trying to do another thing,
01:53 mircea_popescu and everyone's pointing and laughing at your apparent inability, notwithstanding immense expenditure, not leat of all of your own god damned effort.
01:54 decimation right, randomly destroy the support for the existing 'ability' and you see rapid nonlinear fragmentation
01:54 decimation not graceful linear degradation
01:54 BingoBoingo Predicted used for Deedbot: 1. Declarations of giving a fuck 2. Claiming swaths of US land 3. #b-a related corp financial statements
01:54 mircea_popescu so yeah, if washington goes or stays is irrelevant, but if the obnoxious sissy faggots currently in the general staff are all raped and hanged the army will suddenly see its mission redefined much widerly
01:54 mircea_popescu and in that redefinition it will signifcantly increase in strength.
01:54 decimation without a single tank being moved
01:54 mircea_popescu quite.
01:54 mircea_popescu in fact, it wil happen not merely in spite of gas shortages
01:54 mircea_popescu but because of gas shortages.
01:55 mircea_popescu yugoslav army was not 1/6 as effectual as the same god damned units, except now commanded by the war criminals.
01:55 asciilifeform folks who are not 'armchair general' scholars of nato idiocy may be surprised to learn the extent to which the entire edifice was built - still is built - to 'blow its wad' against ussr in no more than a 3 week period.
01:55 undata mircea_popescu: I think we agree then.
01:55 asciilifeform and then die
01:55 asciilifeform of hunger, thirst
01:55 asciilifeform boredom.
01:55 mircea_popescu undata good to hear.
01:55 undata I was arguing that "those piles of weapons" commanded by whomever will remain
01:56 undata and likely operate without the freedom-loving layer of bullshit
01:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well yes, pretty much every single gi item has fulda fucking stamped on it.
01:56 mircea_popescu invisible, yet present.
01:56 asciilifeform operate - to guard col. ripper's shiny new harem and wineyard - yes
01:56 asciilifeform to 'take dallas' - why?
01:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform if memory is any guide, it will be more to settle wot disputes than anything.
01:56 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Cousin spent 2005 - 2009 as an active duty Marine. Spent two years on a boat in blue water, "just in case"
01:57 decimation my point is simply that there's no way the us military would be effective against its own people, it would fracture
01:57 mircea_popescu harem does not need guarding, not in that context. btches know enough not to get messy at that juncture.
01:57 asciilifeform harem as in physical structure
01:57 mircea_popescu decimation doubt it. croatian military didn't "fracture". nor did serbian.
01:57 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it seriouslt doesn't need so much defense. would be smartasses are well shy
01:58 asciilifeform many places will get things they don't strictly need.
01:58 asciilifeform or think they need
01:58 mircea_popescu sure. so they do today. business as usual.
01:59 mircea_popescu no, i tell you, it'll be "colonel X of Y promised major Z of K delivery of m then reneged. who the fuck does he think he is ? charge!"
01:59 mircea_popescu because if you don't charge might as well shave, oil up and go to the harem.
01:59 asciilifeform basic point - what keeps col. x from turning his division on the white house, for shits & giggles?
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01:59 BingoBoingo !b 4
01:59 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: In Napoleon's army mustaches
02:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the fact that his division is valuable and the wh is meaningless.
02:00 mircea_popescu what should have kept hitler from digging the desert looking for the holy grail ?
02:00 mircea_popescu sanity.
02:00 ben_vulpes <mircea_popescu> kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's << boss you got a funny memory
02:00 asciilifeform may well have perverse meaning to col. x
02:00 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes my memory's my best part!
02:00 asciilifeform herr schicklegruber had a nonzero grail budget
02:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform exactly. perversity and sanity are unsisters.
02:00 decimation right, but what does general y have to say about what col x. does?
02:00 asciilifeform by some accounts
02:01 BingoBoingo decimation: Various general were replaced by cigarette smoking men in suits
02:01 asciilifeform today - col. x won't blow away wh because he has an imaginary retirement with hunting dogs and cocksuckresses living in the spiderwebby recesses of his balding skull.
02:01 mircea_popescu ha! hahahah get out.
02:01 asciilifeform tomorrow - the spiderwebs clear away. no dogs
02:01 asciilifeform no retirement.
02:01 decimation my point is that col. x is much more likely to appoint himself 'mayor of dallas' and send a polite 'fuck you' to the remaining chain of command
02:01 mircea_popescu find me any army colonel that gets... cocksuckressES. plural ? gtfo.
02:01 asciilifeform in his mind.
02:01 mircea_popescu what was that caricature, army wife ?
02:02 mircea_popescu dependosaurus ?
02:02 BingoBoingo ;;google dependopotamus
02:02 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: just a picture read from the faces of actual living specimens i saw alive
02:02 gribble Urban Dictionary: Dependopotamus: <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dependopotamus>; 3 Signs A Woman Is A Dependopotamus | Thought Catalog: <http://thoughtcatalog.com/raul-felix/2014/07/3-signs-a-woman-is-a-dependopotmus/>; Dependopotamus | Thought Catalog: <http://thoughtcatalog.com/tag/dependopotamus/>
02:02 BingoBoingo ;;google terminal lance dependopotamus
02:02 gribble Terminal Lance #56 “Myths and Legends II: The Dependapotamus”: <http://terminallance.com/2010/08/06/terminal-lance-56-myths-and-legends-ii-the-dependapotamus/>; Sunday Funny: the Dependopatamus | Kit Up!: <http://kitup.military.com/2012/01/sunday-funny-dependopatamus.html>; overview for magress - Reddit: <http://www.reddit.com/user/magress>
02:02 ben_vulpes why do dependopotamuses have sex in the water?
02:02 asciilifeform dependopotamus is a real creature which infests privates, not colonels.
02:02 asciilifeform typically.
02:03 mircea_popescu generally the hussies flock to the businessmen rather than the warlords. at least from what i've directly observed.
02:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i never heard of a colonel that wasn't ever a private.
02:03 decimation mircea_popescu: this is regularlly the case in us mil
02:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: himmler?
02:03 decimation colonels are appointed directly from university
02:03 ben_vulpes well gents you have a good one
02:03 mircea_popescu o.O ?!
02:03 decimation it's rare one finds an officer who was first enlished
02:03 ben_vulpes i have a charter to dream up
02:03 decimation enlisted
02:03 cazalla heh brock piere be retweeing qntra now lol
02:04 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes we're writing for when you get up!
02:04 decimation it happens, but not common
02:04 BingoBoingo Well in Usia Colonels usually start as Lou-Tenants
02:04 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: ah go fuck yourselves
02:04 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo 2nd lt is private neh ?
02:04 ben_vulpes how am i supposed to read all these lines i didn't write?!
02:04 decimation 2nd lt is the eqiv. of 'officer private'
02:04 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes with attention! these are actually the good ones!
02:04 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: No, its commisioned
02:04 asciilifeform in usa, 'private' is rank of the cannon fodder man, fresh off the street
02:04 * mircea_popescu thinks he pushed his point far enough, rests.
02:04 BingoBoingo 2nd Lt often is platoon leader
02:05 decimation with no actual military experience other than officer boot camp
02:05 BingoBoingo I hear 2nd Lt's exist simply to make NCO's lifes miserable
02:06 mircea_popescu undata: some guy comes along and pledges to slap our oligarchs around; after a bit economic collapse they'd eat that shit up <<< this is some massively funny shit.
02:06 asciilifeform decimation: i once learned, to great surprise, that as late as '70s i'd quality for an instant lieutenant if joined american army - all you needed was an ordinary uni degree (4 yrs.)
02:06 mircea_popescu you actually think this is what putin did ?! or russian prole thought he did ?!
02:06 undata mircea_popescu: correct me. I'd like to know.
02:06 asciilifeform decimation: this, i think, was repealed.
02:06 decimation asciilifeform: of course, they would pay you a bonus which you are generally required to spend on a ford mustang
02:06 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i bet you the 20 year sergeants are pretty fucking happy with that o.O
02:06 asciilifeform haha
02:06 asciilifeform very 'happy.'
02:06 decimation asciilifeform: no they still make you go through 'officer canidate school' which is boot camp lite
02:07 mircea_popescu undata well, it's a lengthy matter, hard to fit in one line or w/e. but let me find you this thing about stalin.
02:07 asciilifeform in those days, it was a kind of compressed 'crash course.'
02:07 mircea_popescu !s stalin from:asciilifeform
02:07 assbot 24 results for 'stalin from:asciilifeform' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=stalin+from%3Aasciilifeform
02:07 decimation if you are a 'professional' like doctor or pharmacist it's pretty much just show up in uniform and learn how to salute
02:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform wher's the one where you discuss people driving a truck with the man's pic ? because he makes order ?
02:07 asciilifeform decimation: 'warrant officer'
02:08 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-06-2014#719963
02:08 assbot Logged on 15-06-2014 17:24:22; asciilifeform: phun phact. russian truck drivers had portraits of stalin in their windshields (facing out.) possibly even now.
02:08 decimation no no warrant officer is generally a rank reserved only for highly qualified enlisted men
02:08 mircea_popescu undata ^ there you go. he didn't say anything about oligarchs. he just promised order.
02:08 mircea_popescu this is a subtle concept. like the platonic notion of cosmos, an ordered universe.
02:08 decimation although I think there were various times when it applied to technical experts
02:08 mircea_popescu the main thing is that this de facto promises that every phenomenon carries meaning.
02:09 undata mircea_popescu: ah, not revenge, just a return to function?
02:09 mircea_popescu because unmeaning phenomena are very bothersome to simple folk.
02:09 mircea_popescu uyp
02:09 undata this goes back to the conversation recently about the concerns of a soldier at war
02:09 mircea_popescu yup.
02:10 decimation right, and the question is: is col x. with his own local agenda going to provide meaning or is gen y. in far away disaster-land?
02:10 mircea_popescu maybe. distance dampens meaning.
02:10 BingoBoingo http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com/2010/05/macy-from-maize-on-adult-ifying-power_1666.html
02:10 assbot Rate Your Students: Macy from Maize on the Adult-ifying Power of the Curse.
02:10 decimation without reliable air transport and crumbling land-transport, america is a big place
02:11 mircea_popescu a lot to signify, and rapidly deteriorating common language. not in the sense of english,
02:11 mircea_popescu but in the sense of, this feat where random high functrioning idiots like the kent guy quoted earier suddenly buy the common delusion of "global warming" becomes impossible.
02:12 decimation right, I envison something like revolutionary france where the king is derping around paris and all of the peasants suddenly decide not to pay their taxes or heed property rights
02:12 asciilifeform 'stalin did not recede into the past - he dissolved into the future!' (de gaulle ?)
02:12 mircea_popescu ^
02:13 mircea_popescu the fundamental function of the rabi (which is what stalin was, practically, at the massive outskirts) is not going away.
02:13 mircea_popescu and it does really not matter what sort of an ass the rabi is privately.
02:13 mircea_popescu !up eightyeight
02:14 mircea_popescu but the fact that the average person is not fascinated by congressional proceedings, let alone comprehend them at all, is a serious warning sign.
02:14 mircea_popescu if you recall, back when the us functioned people went to see wtf jefferson said as their evening's entertainment
02:14 asciilifeform well, people. not 'people.'
02:15 mircea_popescu how is this then to be leadership ? because tradition-tradition ? mkay. only goes so far.
02:15 asciilifeform homo redditicus was not yet born in his homunculus factory.
02:15 undata "the dissolution of shared meaning" << this is a wonderful description of what's at work here
02:15 mircea_popescu once the young sluts radicalise it's the end. which is why the teenaged runaway chgicks are so important.
02:15 BingoBoingo Allegedly policical speech makes the evening newscast with alleged attribution
02:15 asciilifeform it was why i linked them.
02:15 undata what's the next step? doesn't someone come along and become that meaning for them?
02:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform reddit is an effect not a cause.
02:15 undata and don't they long for it?
02:15 undata I recall the "need to belong" also from the other day
02:15 asciilifeform reddit is effect, yes
02:15 mircea_popescu undata only if such can exist. i very much doubt it can.
02:15 BingoBoingo !up justusranvier
02:15 asciilifeform just like the drool of a drooling retard is an effect
02:16 asciilifeform but still synonymous with retardation
02:16 mircea_popescu granted.
02:16 decimation I think such men can exist for localities
02:16 mircea_popescu basically, the great federal project failed, the national project never succeeded, what's left is a sort of us of africa.
02:17 decimation but right now the federal government means nothing but taxation and disorder to the majority of the populace
02:17 mircea_popescu worst failed state in the history of european adventure, the us.
02:17 undata there is a wide swath of the south that could easily start eating each other should the walmarts run dry
02:17 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: The more I read on Argentina, the more it seems like what the US said it was going to be
02:18 decimation agreed. and private Y. is going to be mulling these things over when he and his friends are getting killed over some vague pro-climate change agenda or whatever
02:18 mircea_popescu undata why the south preferentially ?
02:18 Adlai +BingoBoingo | I hear 2nd Lt's exist simply to make NCO's lifes miserable // true in the idf too
02:18 mircea_popescu my bet is on chicago cannibalism = first cannibalism.
02:19 asciilifeform also depends on how quickly us mil can retool for formally organized plunder
02:19 Adlai why not detroit? or mogadishu?
02:19 mircea_popescu Adlai detroit is stable as is. in fact if it does collapse, detroit will be the new capital.
02:19 mircea_popescu they have the druglords to support order.
02:19 BingoBoingo Adlai: Detroit now has some farms within city limits too
02:19 undata mircea_popescu: chicago gangs could at least hope to establish some kind of crude order
02:19 undata yeah
02:19 decimation asciilifeform: indeed. there are powerful incentives for local col. x to 'defect' and become the warlord of kansas or whatever
02:19 undata there are parts of the southern US that are just... astoundingly ignorant
02:19 mircea_popescu decimation which, you'll notice, is exactly how the roman empire went.
02:19 Adlai well, i doubt the US would let its capitol be ruled by local cartels, but they might be a capital of an independant state
02:20 asciilifeform chicago cannibalism = first cannibalism << washington cannibalism - best cannibalism...
02:20 mircea_popescu undata ignorance doth not a criminal make.
02:20 undata they would not be capable of any kind of cobbled-together society
02:20 asciilifeform a la 'best korea'
02:20 undata mircea_popescu: what about hungry ignorance?
02:20 mircea_popescu i have my doubts, having been there.
02:20 * Adlai still maintains that human society is cannibalistic, we just don't eat flesh directly
02:20 mircea_popescu undata nah, new york and california will be the shitholes.
02:20 mircea_popescu rural missisippi wprolly be quite pleasant.
02:20 decimation yeah I think the south and west would survive the best
02:20 mircea_popescu generally, go to the places currently "ignorant", you'll be safe there.
02:21 decimation rally the wagons, fuck you to outsiders, plenty of resources, not a crushing population density
02:21 mircea_popescu their alleged ignorance is merely unallignment. not being alligned with the idiocy that just failed is a bonus.
02:21 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2RKF9PN.txt )
02:21 BingoBoingo !b 4
02:21 asciilifeform Adlai would be pleased to read the works of soviet academician Porshnev
02:21 mircea_popescu this was kinda the boon of romania. the slowest sheep in the eu flock.
02:22 mircea_popescu as a result, when the flock went over a cliff... romania was still way behind.
02:22 Adlai asciilifeform: any specific one?
02:22 undata mircea_popescu: I see your point; my parents have a farm in rural PA. It would take about three weeks for the more dangerous (meth-addled) neighbors to be quiet.
02:22 asciilifeform who argued, almost convincingly, that cannibalism shaped all of human history (e.g., fire was discovered to fight the cannibal half of humanity, who then morphed into sc4mz0rs or the like)
02:22 asciilifeform Adlai: afaik, as with most soviet crackpots, no translation to english exists
02:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform shit, you read my article about how fire was used to cookl ?
02:23 asciilifeform nein
02:23 asciilifeform tried using fire to cook, though
02:23 asciilifeform it worked.
02:23 mircea_popescu o you'll get a kick out of this.
02:23 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2012/muffins-si-o-disputa-de-antropologie/
02:23 assbot Muffins si-o disputa de antropologie pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
02:23 Adlai well that's a nice crackocy, but i'm talking about the fact that upscale anglophonia lives off the sweat of other societies
02:23 mircea_popescu "Ca atare, in baza acestor observatii, bomba : cel mai probabil prima carne gatita a fost de om, nu de animal. A cazut vre-o proasta-n foc"
02:24 * Adlai is using "societies" to refer to other classes within and without anglophonia
02:24 mircea_popescu Adlai why misuse the term then.
02:25 asciilifeform de om, nu de animal << ahahaha porshnev
02:25 decimation Adlai: it certainly is the case that the 'upscale (blue)' class in the us takes advantage of the labor & genius of the 'smart unaligned rednecks'
02:25 undata mircea_popescu: oh, and florida is in the american south.
02:25 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i swear never read him.
02:25 undata there are highly populated areas throughout the south
02:25 * asciilifeform believes
02:25 mircea_popescu but... one logic, one mouth, one fie.
02:25 BingoBoingo undata: But Florida man is a hero of ancient legend
02:25 asciilifeform 'one mouth, one fie' a la american saying 'one shot, one kill' lol
02:26 mircea_popescu >D
02:26 undata BingoBoingo: hah, he will rise and rule the cock of the continent
02:26 asciilifeform http://www.new-cccp.ru/warb/1261.jpg << incidentally not only american saying.
02:26 Adlai the relationship is quite similar to that of an agricultural society herding cattle
02:26 Adlai mircea_popescu: why misuse the term << the term is misused to shock the audience, a technique you seem to enjoy yourself...
02:26 mircea_popescu vrag!!! (aka enemy)
02:27 asciilifeform incidentally that phrase (in picture) doesn't translate one bit.
02:27 asciilifeform just fails.
02:27 mircea_popescu Adlai not quite, no.
02:27 asciilifeform 'hit such that ain't there one bullet but there's one enemy.'
02:27 asciilifeform [to match it]
02:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "shoot not to the shots but to the enemies" neh ?
02:27 asciilifeform looks like that, yes. but no - above.
02:27 mircea_popescu as in, don't shoot to have shot, shoot to have killed.
02:28 Adlai mircea_popescu: oh come on, your blog is full of metaphors that shock the average netizen encountering it for the first time
02:28 * asciilifeform to bed
02:28 mircea_popescu Adlai this is true. but when i redefine terms i always do it with a solid backing of thought behind it, and my redefinitions are actually cognitively stronger than the current convention.
02:28 mircea_popescu these considerations are important, i can't be immitated by merely taking pictures.
02:28 BingoBoingo Adlai: You only think that because you're still looking at the rabbit hole and not harvesting the coneys therin
02:28 Adlai ok, so what's wrong with looking at farming individuals of your own species as a form of cannibalism?
02:29 mircea_popescu Adlai this was discussed in the logs :D
02:29 mircea_popescu !s bullocks
02:29 assbot 12 results for 'bullocks' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=bullocks
02:29 Adlai lol http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2014#862769
02:29 assbot Logged on 07-10-2014 18:16:29; nubbins`: ;;google the net sandra bullock
02:29 mircea_popescu but anyway, at issue was the misuse of "societies" to mean "groups", not of cannibalism.
02:29 BingoBoingo Adlai: It isn't cannibalism if you merely plan to take them to the rendering plant for fuel and not the abbatoir for meat
02:30 Adlai no, not according to the current dictionary definition of cannibalism
02:30 decimation cooking someone in your stomach is different than cooking them in your car?
02:30 Adlai though i'm misusing the term intentionally, my misuse is well-defined
02:30 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo you're on a... slippery slope, so to speak. for most of history women were merely used to make more of them.
02:31 mircea_popescu seeing how for same most of the history man was the engine, it's technically using women as fuel.
02:31 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Or merely a lubricated slope
02:32 BingoBoingo Man uses homo sapiens, ethics is the discussion of acceptable uses
02:32 * Adlai recalls a calculation in Collapse that egyptian pharoes had at their disposal approximately the same level of manpower as a single piece of modern construction equipment (eg bulldozer)
02:32 mircea_popescu i kinda doubt this calculation.
02:33 mircea_popescu omfg i finished the logs.
02:33 BingoBoingo How does it feel?
02:34 mircea_popescu it feels... good.
02:35 mircea_popescu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzlpTRNIAvc
02:35 assbot James Brown - I Feel Good (Legends of Rock 'n' Roll) - YouTube
02:36 * Adlai pokes around to see if he hasn't lent out his copy
02:37 mircea_popescu incidentally, why all this bile directed at fertile women ?
02:37 mircea_popescu http://thoughtcatalog.com/raul-felix/2014/07/3-signs-a-woman-is-a-dependopotmus/ << #2 ? she dares have children!!11
02:37 assbot 3 Signs A Woman Is A Dependopotamus | Thought Catalog
02:38 Adlai which bile/
02:38 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Homo redditicus has trouble accepting it has an origin story
02:38 mircea_popescu "While dimwitted, the Dependopotamus is a shrewd beast who knows that there is one surefire way to trap a man: Bear as many of his offspring as possible. Since having a baby in the military is free thanks to the dependency benefits, she’ll be in a constant state of hosting and developing new fetuses that she isn’t certain are from her husband or one of her many lovers."
02:38 mircea_popescu this echoes an older argument brought by say shaw, in much blander prose.
02:39 mircea_popescu sure, the female can be seen as a preditor. in that it ingests and keeps the sperm, sure.
02:39 undata mircea_popescu: this is the insecurity of many men, that if they can't keep their woman, it must be the wretched whore's fault.
02:39 mircea_popescu this is more of a novelty / gentleman's amusing musings, than actual you know, life philosoph.y
02:39 mircea_popescu undata it's not even clear if the author wants her to stay or to go.
02:40 undata he wants to be worshiped by something he hates, undeservedly
02:40 mircea_popescu undeservedly which ?
02:41 Adlai !g george carlin pumping out a unit
02:41 mircea_popescu (now say undeservedly both and get in the bash)
02:41 undata twas both
02:41 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: I think you wrote on geek wanting to be gifted a woman in his closet who doesn't need for anything. Dependopotamus trope is the inverse of that.
02:41 mircea_popescu seems so.
02:41 BingoBoingo The actual geeks revulsion with sctual women
02:41 Adlai ;;google george carlin pumping out a unit
02:41 mircea_popescu "She is extremely fertile but should be on a list of human beings who aren’t allowed to reproduce because her genes are toxic and will only perpetuate more parasites throughout society."
02:41 gribble George Carlin - 2008 - Pumping out a unit - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwm-eXbakdg>; RIP George Carlin - Kids - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIXlwYoOV9k>; George Carlin - Feminist Blowjob Lyrics - Songs | Most Popular: <http://artists.letssingit.com/george-carlin-lyrics-feminist-blowjob-rnh9pn8>
02:41 mircea_popescu all this pop science. toxic genes, seriously ?
02:43 mircea_popescu Adlai ya, but then again carlin's not exactly the marrying kind.
02:43 Adlai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin#Personal_life
02:43 assbot George Carlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
02:44 mircea_popescu heh my bad
02:44 mircea_popescu i had no idea.
02:49 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Anyways with the dependopatomus I don't think the jealousy comes from them resenting what their actual highschool classmates had when they weren't in the service, but jealousy of what the hollywood version of the rest of their high school class ahd.
02:49 BingoBoingo ANd on that note, bed time
02:49 mircea_popescu !up AdamIRAway
02:51 xinxi hi
02:51 mircea_popescu ello
02:51 Adlai morning xinxi
02:51 xinxi morning
02:51 xinxi you guys are still not sleeping?
02:51 xinxi i guess most of you are from the US, right?
02:52 xinxi it should be very late there.
02:52 Adlai it's always morning on freenode
02:53 mircea_popescu we're all on meth.
02:54 xinxi mircea_popescu - did you watch breaking bad?
02:54 mircea_popescu one episode at some point.
02:54 xinxi then bored?
02:55 mircea_popescu sitcoms, not really my cup of tea.
03:00 xinxi i like the way that they make meth. it’s quite educational.
03:01 mircea_popescu !up Tom_Servo
03:01 mircea_popescu nice host lol.
03:02 xinxi i would probably get higher marks in chemistry if i watched that tv a few years earier.
03:03 xinxi and i woudn’t need to do bayesian stuffs everyday.
03:03 mircea_popescu o btw, did you manage to score a qntra article yet ?
03:08 xinxi mircea_popescu - let me check the public offering first.
03:09 xinxi btw, will anyone proofread my writing?
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03:41 Adlai xinxi: sure
03:42 Adlai xinxi: it's not educational at all, methylamine synthesis yields a racemic product
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04:59 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/10/gocoin-gets-cozy-with-igaming-operator/
04:59 assbot GoCoin Gets Cozy With iGaming Operator | Qntra.net
05:01 undata cazalla: oh the term un(der)?banked makes my skin crawl
05:01 undata great piece of propaganda from the banking industry, that.
05:02 undata the tobacco industry should try 'unsmoked'
05:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47750 @ 0.0007413 = 35.3971 BTC [-] {5}
05:21 cazalla undata, unsmoked lol
05:23 undata oh better yet, those who have yet to receive freedom bombs are the "unliberated"
05:28 RagnarDanneskjol http://mises.org/daily/6934/Understanding-Quid-Pro-Quo
05:28 assbot Understanding Quid Pro Quo - Gary Galles - Mises Daily
05:29 punkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFbsXIyzP-s
05:29 assbot The Boswell Sisters - Stop the sun, stop the moon (1932).wmv - YouTube
05:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4000 @ 0.00074216 = 2.9686 BTC [+]
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05:52 RagnarDanneskjol http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401v1.pdf
05:52 RagnarDanneskjol [Neural Turing Machines ]
06:04 Adlai ;;isitdown log.bitcoin-assets.com
06:04 gribble log.bitcoin-assets.com is down
06:04 Adlai xinxi: still need a pair of eyes for your article?
06:05 RagnarDanneskjol http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/ is new mirror
06:06 xinxi Adlai - thanks. it’s about qntra.net
06:06 Adlai ... so?
06:06 Adlai you asked for proofreading, i'm offering it
06:06 xinxi i am not sure whether it’s neccessary.
06:06 Adlai ok
06:07 * Adlai (does not expect any kind of compensation)
06:07 xinxi let’s see what will happen, if it’s really neccessary, i think then you can help.
06:07 RagnarDanneskjol http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/42958.pdf
06:07 RagnarDanneskjol [C/C++ Thread Safety Analysis ]
06:07 Adlai pdfs!
06:08 Adlai latest chromium has an embedded pdf viewer, pissing me off. i used to click pdfs without worry, knowing that they'd get downloaded and i could process them safely later (pdf2djvu, open in vm, w/e)
06:09 Adlai now chromium just fucking opens them of its own accord, who knows what fuckery goes on there
06:09 RagnarDanneskjol yea- annoying I kno
06:16 Adlai cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/10/gocoin-gets-cozy-with-igaming-operator/#comment-138
06:30 bounce apropos of nothing, is there any evidence of secret agencies sponsoring production of spy fiction?
06:36 danielpbarron ;;later tell mircea_popescu re: radio, he avoids talking about bitcoin with me and sticks to getting me to say politically incorrect things about the Bible
06:36 gribble The operation succeeded.
06:38 Vexual bounce: undoubtedly
06:40 Vexual ;;google dictionary sponsor
06:40 gribble Sponsor | Define Sponsor at Dictionary.com: <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sponsor>; Sponsor - Merriam-Webster Online: <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sponsor>; sponsor - definition of sponsor by The Free Dictionary: <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sponsor>
06:41 punkman bounce, it's rather amazing how many tv shows revolve around cops
06:41 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
06:42 Adlai !s AMAZING COMPANY!
06:42 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
06:42 assbot : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=AMAZING+COMPANY%21
06:42 Adlai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2014#890116
06:42 assbot Logged on 23-10-2014 04:40:52; assbot: AMAZING COMPANY!
06:43 Adlai so assbot can access its own logs, but it has lost the capacity to amaze itself
06:48 Vexual lost and never found cannot be the same
07:01 cazalla Adlai: cazalla: http://qntra.net/2014/10/gocoin-gets-cozy-with-igaming-operator/#comment-138 <<< approved it, i'll have a think, too late here to reply and i'd bet others here can provide more insight than i anyway
07:01 assbot GoCoin Gets Cozy With iGaming Operator | Qntra.net
07:02 Adlai okthx
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07:22 davout ;;isup qntra.net
07:22 gribble qntra.net is up
07:22 Vexual Adlai, it's like rocking up with a shopify plugin to a game of craps
07:23 Adlai uwot
07:23 Vexual theye confused the unbanked with people in africa who own half a goat
07:23 bounce http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/hard-money-deflation-or-economic-stagnation/ <- spot the flaw.
07:24 assbot Hard Money: Deflation or Economic Stagnation | PHILOSOPHICAL ECONOMICS
07:27 punkman fractional reserve goat
07:27 Vexual oh they'll bet it alright
07:34 Vexual but a goats worth more than the money, just like a carton of beer here in oz, or a bitcoin
07:41 Vexual if i provide services for a carton, and recieve a pineapple, thats bullshit
07:42 Vexual ;;google pineapple $50
07:42 gribble Appendix:Australian English terms pertaining to money and wealth ...: <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Australian_English_terms_pertaining_to_money_and_wealth>; Australian fifty-dollar note - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_fifty-dollar_note>; Great Australian Slang Dictionary | CNN Travel: <http://travel.cnn.com/sydney/life/great- (1 more message)
07:47 cazalla help a mate move, you better believe that's a carton or 2
07:47 Vexual fuck oath
07:48 Vexual point is, if he turns up without the beer it's one less mate
07:50 Vexual i'd like to know what this steve eregard thinks he's saying when he says underbanked
07:59 cazalla holy fuck these kids http://vimeo.com/109731596
08:01 punkman poor kids
08:03 Vexual thats aweful
08:14 Vexual the emPHAsis is all wrong
08:15 jurov lol reminded me today's facebook outrage
08:15 Vexual what happened?
08:15 jurov "this is in 1st degree schoolbook in norway !!!1" https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204168203518090&set=a.4040499183634.174096.1616452016&type=1
08:16 jurov ofc a lawyer with two degrees fell for this
08:16 Vexual bit early isn't it?
08:17 jurov Vexual the context is that theres a hysteria that moral corruption comes from west
08:18 jurov amd Norway is funding some liberal NGOs around from the oil moeny
08:18 Vexual i thought st nick was from the north?
08:18 jurov and this is 99% a hoax
08:18 jurov scandinavia is "teh west" for us
08:19 Vexual yes thankyou, im aware of that
08:19 Vexual i jest
08:20 jurov lol vex at loss of words?
08:22 Vexual santas a leftie?
08:23 jurov depends which one? dunno about the coca cola addict?
08:23 Vexual i don't know that one
08:23 Vexual oh yes
08:23 Vexual the image came to me
08:24 jurov keep em coming
08:25 jurov Дед Мороз is more interesting. pediwikia says: in 1928 Ded Moroz was declared "an ally of the priest and kulak"
08:29 jurov currently he's involved in "on-going détente with various counterparts from other cultures, such as the Estonian Santa Claus (Jõuluvana or "Old man of Christmas"), the Finnish Santa Claus (Joulupukki or "Yule Goat"), and other Santa Claus, Father Christmas, and Saint Nicholas figures"
08:29 jurov when my dirty imagination sees a french word in such context...
08:40 Vexual theres about 400 punchlines there, context?
08:43 jurov just take a sip
08:44 Vexual I'll save you a bottle
08:45 Vexual did you hear what our elf of a leader said to putin?
08:45 jurov prolly not
08:47 Vexual he told the newspapers that hed "shirtfront" him; a violent football term for grabbing the opponent by the shirtfront with a twisting motion
08:49 jurov heh... shoulda gone straight for balls
08:49 Vexual well he sent the foreign minister to apologise a week later
08:52 Vexual shes pushing 50 and weighs 40 kg
08:54 xinxi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvSV7bgsClo
08:55 xinxi Mark Zuckerberg speaks Chinese.
08:58 Vexual Meng Fei wouldn't let him speak
08:58 Vexual "perhaps next year"
08:59 Vexual No, I am wrong, he speaks well
09:01 xinxi yeah, his chinese is not bad.
09:01 xinxi Meng Fei? you mean the beauty selection tv program?
09:02 Vexual ofcourse
09:02 xinxi do you watch it?
09:02 Vexual yes
09:02 xinxi oh, nice to meet another chinese people here.
09:07 Vexual I am not chinese
09:08 nubbins` <undata> "partisans" have no chance << https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chWE8Gdp8_g
09:08 assbot LEONARD COHEN - Partisan (1970)-Dedicated to the Matala Festival - YouTube
09:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37700 @ 0.00074087 = 27.9308 BTC [-] {2}
09:14 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_yaC_AGJk
09:15 bounce http://www.nber.org/papers/w20592
09:15 assbot . . . and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns
09:19 jurov http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2k2zr0/coinbase_is_in_trouble_but_its_their_own_damn/
09:19 assbot Coinbase is in trouble... but it's their own damn fault. : Bitcoin
09:22 Vexual eat sleep rage repeat
09:23 nubbins` http://terminallance.com/2010/08/06/terminal-lance-56-myths-and-legends-ii-the-dependapotamus/ <<< :(((((((
09:23 assbot Terminal Lance - Terminal Lance #56 Myths and Legends II: The Dependapotamus
09:24 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBoRkg5-Ieg
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09:39 nubbins` the authors of these "dependopotamus" articles are maybe the saddest spectacle i've ever seen
09:40 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKqz3DkS3g
09:40 nubbins` because you know they're all telling the tales of their own sad, shitty, ill-thought-out lives
09:40 bounce so why bother?
09:40 nubbins` why stare at a car crash?
09:41 nubbins` morbid fascination, natch
09:41 Vexual i roll past withought a glance in lifeful delight
09:41 Vexual read about it on qntra later
09:42 bounce there's better stuff to be read. see arrse.co.uk, say their wiki or the forum stuff about "walting"
09:42 nubbins` each dependopotamus husband sowed the seeds of his own misfortune, yet presents his life as something that "happened" "to" him, rather than it being a direct consequence of his poor choices
09:43 nubbins` "i'm a useless sack of camo shit who married the first woman who showed a passing interest, because my relationship choices are about as logically sound as my career choices. somehow, this is my new shitty wife's fault and not my own shitty fault"
09:45 nubbins` "The Dependopotamus is a paradox. She is an utterly useless woman with a high sense of entitlement and self-importance." <<< completely and utterly unlike the guy who wrote this article, huh?
09:47 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPw8MQXjDDM
10:00 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucoK6KN1dzU
10:01 Vexual this vodka went thru the carbon at about 10c
10:06 Vexual it's good
10:08 Vexual nubbins`: ive got a barrel of the kremlin shit, you wanna do a label?
10:10 Vexual fuck it, ill remember what it is
10:15 RagnarDanneskjol where do you buy vodka by the barrel
10:17 Vexual got bitcoin?
10:24 Vexual you could take a lada and head north with this shit, it's currency and fuel
10:25 Vexual 90 proof if im a day old
10:36 RagnarDanneskjol sounds like a party
10:36 Vexual http://vimeo.com/101616414
10:37 Vexual I'll save you a bottle
10:47 xinxi Vexual - you are not chinese? then you watch the translated tv program?
10:47 Vexual do you drink xinxi, i guess not
10:47 Vexual yes i watch with suctitles
10:47 Vexual *subtitles
10:47 xinxi yeah, I drank a lot when i was an undergraduate student.
10:48 xinxi drank until vomit
10:48 Vexual did it help you analyse intelligence?
10:48 Vexual yes thats not good
10:48 xinxi that’s difficult to say. maybe it helps.
10:49 xinxi causal inference is difficult.
10:50 Vexual it might just be a stereotype but chinese people process alcohol differently?
10:50 xinxi by process do you mean digest?
10:51 Vexual erm, im not sure, i was looking for the right word
10:51 Vexual i can't talk i get silly on the stuff all the time
10:52 xinxi it finally becomes urine. that’s for sure.
10:52 Vexual hehe thats true
10:53 xinxi where are you Vexual?
10:53 xinxi south east asia?
10:53 Vexual northern australia
10:53 Vexual so yes almost se asia
10:55 xinxi oh, i don’t know non-chinese australian also watch feichengwurao.
10:55 xinxi do you like the girls?
10:55 Vexual oh it's very popular here
10:55 Vexual yes
10:55 xinxi are they pretty?
10:55 Vexual yes
10:55 xinxi haha, who do you like the most?
10:55 Vexual i havent watched for a while, i don't know who is on it
10:56 Vexual i like to watch to learn about china
10:57 xinxi is it because of the beauties?
10:57 Vexual well i like the discourse
10:57 Vexual but the beauties make it palatable
10:58 Vexual beth
10:58 Vexual both
10:58 Vexual they are all so different
10:59 Vexual i learn about different cities by the way they speak
11:00 xinxi interesting, so the tv program is also quite educational.
11:01 xinxi but many girls of them like money quite much.
11:02 xinxi one of them used to say: I would like to cry in a bmw instead of lauching on a bike.
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11:03 kakobrekla !b 2
11:04 Vexual well the girls are a subset that like to be on tv
11:05 kakobrekla >In Slovenia the name Ded Moroz was translated from Russian as Dedek Mraz
11:05 kakobrekla hehe
11:05 xinxi yeah, there are also many good girls.
11:06 kakobrekla > Initially he was said to live in Siberia, but with the Informbiro crisis and the schism between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union his home was relocated to Mt. Triglav, Slovenia's (and also Yugoslavia's) highest peak.
11:06 kakobrekla hehehe
11:08 Vexual can we equare Ded Moroz to Meng Fei xinxi?
11:09 Vexual *equate
11:10 Vexual kakobrekla is calling upon your intelligence
11:10 xinxi is Meng Fei that good?
11:10 Vexual nevermnd i googles it and its snata clause
11:11 Vexual yes i like him
11:11 Vexual he would be good at parties, inlike santacaluse
11:11 xinxi yeah, they are quite different.
11:12 xinxi Meng Fei has great personality
11:12 xinxi but not santa
11:13 Vexual yes h eeats magic mushrooms and provides no conversation whatsoever
11:16 Vexual i need a new keyboard, perhaps jurov will bring me one
11:16 jurov Vexual it'll get incinerated at customs due to biohazard
11:17 Vexual ah thats a vexualism
11:21 Vexual order a kb from jurov, get coal
11:22 xiando omg $1227 they are attacking gold
11:22 Vexual no annual fee
11:23 Vexual huh? what do you mean xiando!
11:24 xiando http://btccharts.everdot.org/2014-10-23/gold_under_attack.gif
11:24 xiando I mean they are selling the gold.
11:24 Vexual oh thats just ben10
11:24 xinxi … I have 20 oz
11:25 xiando I have no gold and neither do you xinxi
11:25 Vexual he said he haz 20 oz
11:25 xiando yes
11:25 Vexual so he prolly haz 20 oz
11:25 xiando now I know he has 20 oz and all I need is a $2 hammer and his address to get it
11:25 xiando so my advice is to repeat after me: "I haz no gold"
11:26 Vexual well i dunno if you noticeced but were getting friendly
11:26 xiando :-) sorry. I just alwasy recommend saying "I have no gold"
11:26 Vexual say what you like, if that shit goes missing..
11:26 xinxi xiando, my gold was bought a few years ago
11:27 xinxi but i did not sell it when the price reached $1700
11:31 Vexual i own no gold
11:31 nubbins` "I would like to cry in a bmw instead of lau[g]hing on a bike."
11:31 nubbins` leel
11:31 Vexual nubbins` is opposite
11:32 nubbins` i like bikes and i like laughing
11:32 nubbins` and i think BMWs are for people with no external genitalia
11:33 nubbins` and the furnace at the tenant's house is fucked, which i do not like
11:34 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOgj9_Rcl4
11:35 xinxi OK, I will never buy a BMW.
11:35 kakobrekla there is also bmw bikes :)
11:36 Vexual if you do, get an m3
11:36 nubbins` kako only in yoorup
11:36 kakobrekla dunno
11:36 Vexual we have them here
11:36 nubbins` i've never seen one in .ca
11:36 Vexual cops rode em till they got susies
11:37 nubbins` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X7b2E_Jq-k
11:39 Vexual oh la la
11:42 nubbins` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3SaDlKkqCg
11:46 nubbins` same drums/vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuZGauZqpbg
11:49 * Vexual likes the sentiment, can plaace the anti-shake
11:49 Vexual *can't
11:51 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VnX0hf_yM no gold
11:52 nubbins` whoa same face
11:53 nubbins` http://exclaim.ca/images/Waterman-and-Milley.jpg
11:55 Vexual play it
11:56 nubbins` https://blockchain.info/tx/61978dc4de853503debffd040ae4f03ccc17d7fe2cfcc986cf74cdcf62f6c105
11:57 kakobrekla http://www.diyphotography.net/can-close-studio-amazon-patents-photographing-seamless-white/?_ga=1.40344354.1034369528.1398079273
11:57 kakobrekla old as fuck, i missed it.
11:58 Vexual is that your nubbins`?
11:58 nubbins` kakobrekla lel x 1000
11:58 nubbins` Vexual nope just an interesting tx
11:58 nubbins` check the inputs
11:59 Vexual nothings familiar, what am i looking at?
12:00 asciilifeform a miner
12:00 nubbins` a bunch of coins freshly minted 4 years ago, moving.
12:00 Vexual satoshin?
12:00 nubbins` nah
12:00 wywialm hello
12:01 nubbins` all the inputs are from late 2010
12:01 Vexual okay, i wasn't born then, fill me in
12:02 nubbins` no hidden meaning here, literally just a mildly interesting tx.
12:02 Vexual oh thats the whole story?
12:02 * nubbins` nods
12:02 Vexual cool
12:02 nubbins` is it? 8)
12:02 Vexual whaa?
12:02 Vexual not at all
12:03 * nubbins` nods
12:03 nubbins` mildly interesting tho, hey?
12:03 Vexual alll minted? pineapples?
12:03 Vexual fuck me
12:04 nubbins` rather not
12:04 Vexual i wouldnt
12:04 nubbins` you say that now
12:05 Vexual 2010 black says different
12:05 Vexual this kbs claged
12:08 mats_cd03 10:50:27 <+Vexual> it might just be a stereotype but chinese people process alcohol differently? << some asians lack the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme
12:08 Vexual ah thats what i was thinking of
12:08 mats_cd03 http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase
12:08 assbot Alcohol dehydrogenase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
12:09 mats_cd03 irc on the pooper
12:09 Vexual shit up a storm
12:09 mats_cd03 feels good man
12:11 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw7xkvc1RlI eat beans and rice, shit up a storm
12:15 Vexual reminder
12:16 Vexual gotta have beans
12:20 nubbins` where else ya gonna get your protein, quinoa?!
12:20 nubbins` mats_cd03 dat mobile link
12:24 Vexual not likely
12:25 mats_cd03 i was poopin and forgot to fix the link
12:29 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNA4ELdkYCo
12:32 mircea_popescu danielpbarron sucks huh.
12:33 nubbins` "I think lots of people confuse natural concentrations of power or wealth that come from either being smarter or more savvy or luckier or starting with more power or wealth or reputation with systems that prevent newcomers from competing with entrenched interests."
12:33 Vexual yea i herd him on the radio
12:33 nubbins` that's a difficult one to parse
12:34 Vexual the dj sucke dharder
12:34 mircea_popescu nubbins` "i don't believe i suck because i suck, let me rephrase this five thousand different ways maybe one sticks"
12:35 mircea_popescu in my experience beating slaves into submission, two types are clearly apparent. one is interested in stopping the beatings, and will change in any way necessary. the other is interested in arguing about how the beatings should stop.
12:35 Vexual oh lookout tomservo qntra ops
12:35 TomServo mircea_popescu: Which radio show was that in reference to?
12:35 mircea_popescu type two changes into type one around the third day mark.
12:35 TomServo Vexual: Pardon?
12:35 mircea_popescu TomServo something danielpbarron was on yest, dank something
12:35 Vexual you're right tommo
12:36 nubbins` "I think lots of people confuse (natural concentrations of (power or wealth) that come from either being (smarter or more savvy or luckier or (starting with more (power or wealth or reputation)))) with (systems that prevent newcomers from competing with entrenched interests)."
12:37 mircea_popescu "i think lots of people confuse good hierarchy with bad hierarchy" to be followed by a) i am the one to establish which is good and which is bad, b) it's okay for me to use "does it recognise me as god-king" as a criteria of whether it's good or bad, c) the fact that i can and do argue against ANY hierarchy does not invalidate my methods.
12:37 Vexual you were holdring chanops on the undregisered #qntra
12:37 Vexual seems you left
12:38 mircea_popescu the pill against this, of course, is mp on rape, all that discussion about how the ignorant don't know what they're ignorant of and therefore can't make choices as to what to learn and how to learn it. which is why mp is so unpopular with this particular crowd of retards.
12:38 TomServo Oh ahah, yeah - wasn't sure how/why I ended up with the ops either.
12:39 Vexual its just irc business
12:43 Vexual tomservo: in the past its been considered bad form to leave without passing operator stautus to another
12:46 Vexual so on a new chan you op everyone, and you were the las out
12:46 Vexual this aint cute japanese qualifier chan
12:46 Vexual this aint hashtag (n)
12:46 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49586 @ 0.00073986 = 36.6867 BTC [-] {3}
12:47 Vexual and im sure as fuck not gonna register #qntra
12:48 Vexual keep it alive oldschool
12:49 nubbins` back in my day...
12:51 Vexual loaf of bread was 25cents
12:52 TomServo Vexual: It wasn't intentional, my host was disconnected. Muhbad.
12:53 Vexual hey i don't give a fuck, im impressed you strayed on for so long
12:55 Vexual ;;date TomServo
12:55 gribble Error: "date" is not a valid command.
12:56 Vexual when youre the last one out, leave the light on
12:56 mircea_popescu !up ziggamon
12:58 bounce the pill against people establishing themselves as god-kings is you establishing yourself as a god-king, while making fun of the others?
12:58 mircea_popescu i hate how life is filled with double standards. If a girl fucks a bunch of guys she's a whore. if I do, i'm gay. wtf?!
12:58 mircea_popescu bounce that's all a matter of perspective.
12:59 mircea_popescu god-kings exist exactly in the same sense "fuck you rich" exists : in the imagination of the poor.
12:59 bounce the rich are simply too busy slinging subtle and oh-so-refined insults at each other
13:00 mircea_popescu lol
13:00 bounce ancient nobility, of course. nouveau riche and such are party poopers because the insults go over their heads.
13:01 mircea_popescu all that matters is perspective!!11 and also, it's only funny until someone loses an eye.
13:03 Vexual insults go right rthough me
13:04 mircea_popescu ;;google "you are ugly, and your mother dresses you funny"
13:04 gribble Hank Moody (Character) - Quotes - IMDb: <http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0031933/quotes>; "Californication" Hell-A Woman (TV Episode 2007) - Quotes - IMDb: <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039933/quotes>; Hank Moody - Mirror Monologue - Smile Douche! - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzpiWYrW5tw>
13:04 Vexual the ones that go over my head i dont hear
13:04 mircea_popescu meh, they stole it. this was the best insult in an ancient game
13:04 mircea_popescu you played one of six nobles in medieval england
13:07 Vexual six?
13:08 Vexual what is this majong?
13:09 mircea_popescu undata: oh better yet, those who have yet to receive freedom bombs are the "unliberated" << this is already a thing.
13:09 Vexual yep
13:09 ben_vulpes i only find it funny once people start *losing* eyes.
13:10 mircea_popescu ;;later tell xinxi you submit it to cazalla who is the editor in chief.
13:10 gribble The operation succeeded.
13:10 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes "then it's hysterical"
13:10 Vexual ben_vulpes: may i recommend a wine?
13:12 asciilifeform "fuck you rich" exists : in the imagination of the poor << lol, in what way does this not physically exist ?
13:12 mircea_popescu am i to satisfy a negative ?
13:12 mircea_popescu fuck you rich is like "youthful healthy". only the sickly and elderly know about it.
13:13 asciilifeform not as such, but at least suggest how the apparent unicorns are simply goats with horn glued on
13:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform for instance by pointing out to the street whore that IS in fact fuck you rich ?
13:13 mircea_popescu lemme find her.
13:13 * asciilifeform can easily picture a street whore who is arbitrarily rich
13:14 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2009/viata-pe-drumuri/ < there.
13:14 ben_vulpes http://i.imgur.com/JgYKinT.mp4
13:14 mircea_popescu "What do you get when you cross a whore with a systems engineer? A fuckin know-it-all!"
13:15 ben_vulpes hah
13:15 Vexual ben vuples the java king
13:17 * asciilifeform doesn't quite grasp what he's seeing
13:17 Vexual its a chihuahua
13:17 asciilifeform no, mircea_popescu's link
13:18 mircea_popescu street whore doing her morning shower.
13:18 asciilifeform i.e. http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/lifeinthestreets3.wmv
13:18 asciilifeform aha
13:18 mircea_popescu fuck you rich. right ?
13:18 asciilifeform how?
13:18 asciilifeform the expression (afaik, american) traditionally means - one who is rich enough to never work again, if so wishes
13:18 mircea_popescu well you're asking me ? your term! define it!
13:19 mircea_popescu well she doesn't seem to be working, does she.
13:19 asciilifeform and, usually presumes, live like a man (not rat)
13:19 mircea_popescu ahaha
13:19 mircea_popescu and that isn't a matter of perspective ?
13:19 asciilifeform well yes. phrase is uttered by humans, who of course have perspective - 'tall' means something else to a dwarf than to an architect
13:20 mircea_popescu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8XilZa2WY << kid does not want to live like a rat.
13:20 assbot 16 year old birthday surprise gone wrong. - YouTube
13:20 Vexual you know about the asthmatic lesbian?
13:20 Vexual she caught her breath in statches
13:21 bounce apparently "lords of the realm", perhaps II
13:21 mircea_popescu bounce yes!
13:21 asciilifeform ^ wtf
13:21 mircea_popescu Vexual what do you call a promiscuous pony ?
13:21 asciilifeform (re film)
13:22 Vexual idk
13:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well ? kid does not want to live like a rat., what now ?
13:22 mircea_popescu Vexual a little whorse.
13:22 bounce starship titanic had "purveyor of shoddy goods!" -- pretty damning in context
13:22 asciilifeform rats own trucks?
13:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform do rats own computers ?
13:22 asciilifeform not usually
13:22 asciilifeform though i've had my doubts
13:22 mircea_popescu neither does my fuck you rich bitch., what now ?
13:22 asciilifeform rat, however, often owns a rathole
13:22 asciilifeform does the woman?
13:23 asciilifeform 'rat' may even be an upgrade for her
13:23 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdeizHM9OU no monero
13:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform rat owns a rathole in the same sense she owns some sidewalk.
13:23 mircea_popescu possession being nine tenths of the law and all that.
13:25 asciilifeform 'fuck you money,' if i recall, has the following etymology. the idea that if you came into $fuckyou, you could utter 'fuck you' to the boss at the plant tomorrow, and continue to live at least as well (consumption) as presently, indefinitely
13:25 mircea_popescu so she has it ?
13:25 asciilifeform and most of the speakers are not street bums, and so aren't sitting on a floor one cannot fall through
13:25 mircea_popescu but that's besides the point isn';t it.
13:26 asciilifeform well it has a meaning - most folks aren't bums, and possibly don't even inhabit a mental space where bums exist (other than in the vaguely 'doomy' sense that death exists for them)
13:26 asciilifeform to abuse mathematical parlance, bumhood is a 'degenerate case'
13:29 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agRzpnS_FGw the doom generation
13:30 asciilifeform 'fuck you money' is a very real item for which folks have a very real longing - because in fact, it is simply the desire to be released from workschwitz and arbeit macht frei.
13:31 asciilifeform people with even an elementary brain do understand that perhaps one in a thousand can be a rentier
13:31 bounce that is the assumption anyway
13:35 Vexual ascii trolls now?
13:36 Vexual of coursem its late, or early
13:37 kakobrekla its fuck you money only until its not.
13:37 Vexual not everyone with a brain seeks residual income
13:38 thestringpuller mircea_popescu is still awake?
13:39 asciilifeform its fuck you money only until its not << yes, generally how fiat works
13:40 asciilifeform but one could redefine 'fuck you' with an engineering margin
13:40 asciilifeform such that, e.g., you can lose 90% of the principal and remain fuckyou-enabled
13:40 kakobrekla you basically need 10 fuckoffs.
13:40 chetty I always thought it had more to do with being willing to live without whatever to the extent you would say $fuckyou to the boss, doesn't have to be money
13:40 Vexual 100 bux is prolly fuck you money if youve got skills
13:41 thestringpuller http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/22/technology/mobile/apple-pay-double-charge/index.html
13:41 asciilifeform if you like to live in forest and eat tree bark - $0 can be
13:41 kakobrekla yeah if shoe dont fit, cut foot :)
13:41 Vexual deep
13:42 chetty kakobrekla, matter of how much you like the foot? or the shoe ..
13:42 kakobrekla cant argue with that
13:50 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTxqHbJOzg
13:56 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYBIRHi5-o8
14:01 ben_vulpes dig this: my favorite mechanical pencil, the the PaperMate Logo II, is now basically unavailable.
14:01 Vexual i know right
14:02 Vexual drafters frriend
14:02 ben_vulpes either buy in lot of 12 for 240 odd bucks, or get stuffed.
14:02 Vexual depends how many girldfriends u got
14:04 jurov $proxies
14:04 empyex jurov: Proxies: mpex.biz mpex.bz mpex.co mpex.ws mpex.coinbr.com Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
14:04 empyex jurov: MPEx-Status: mpex.ws (124 milliseconds), mpex.co (134 milliseconds), mpex.biz (146 milliseconds), mpex.bz (237 milliseconds), mpex.coinbr.com (644 milliseconds)
14:04 empyex jurov: Health-Indicators: Homepage: √ MK Depth JSON: √ VWAP JSON: √
14:04 Vexual i've still got one in my leg
14:11 Vexual https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
14:13 mircea_popescu so i submit the following bitbet problem to the group : http://bitbet.us/bet/861/raul-gonzalez-to-play-in-nasl/
14:13 assbot BitBet - Raul Gonzalez to play in NASL :: 0.12 B (59%) on Yes, 0.08 B (41%) on No | closed 2 days 18 hours ago
14:13 mircea_popescu the bet says "to play". the guy... signed a contract. to play. next year.
14:14 mircea_popescu so does this mean he IS playing or merely that he will be ?
14:14 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo ^
14:14 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> to abuse mathematical parlance, bumhood is a 'degenerate case' << but inasmuch as your argument rests on the "mental space" of the user, then therefore my observation IS satisfied, and indeed it's not a thing, but merely a figment of imagination.
14:15 mircea_popescu note that the reality of the longing for the idol is not in question, nor does it rub off on the idol to make IT real.
14:15 mircea_popescu <kakobrekla> its fuck you money only until its not. << fuck you meat!11
14:16 mircea_popescu <chetty> kakobrekla, matter of how much you like the foot? or the shoe .. <<< she has a point, i've seen women cut foot for prada heels.
14:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: prisoners may have different reasons to want out of the jail, but that does not make freedom a 'figment of imagination' - there is actually a world outside of the jail.
14:17 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: My gut says it resolves at yes if he actually... starts playing
14:17 mircea_popescu but that there's a world does not actually give the prisoner's notion of "freedom" any legs.
14:18 mircea_popescu i mean, there's land where "the indies" were supposed to be, too. that doesn't mean columbus found india.
14:18 Vexual he had a crack
14:18 mircea_popescu Vexual speaking of which, who is the more eco-friendly ? the drug dealer or the whore ?
14:19 Vexual i think we should get katy pery in here
14:19 Vexual i guess the whore
14:19 Vexual she only east and poops
14:19 asciilifeform unlike columbus/indies, just about all people have experienced freedom (in the sense of not having to work) - as children
14:19 Vexual *eats
14:19 mircea_popescu Vexual the whore. because she reuses her crack.
14:20 Vexual the drug dealer charters planes and shit
14:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform childhood may be a poor experience of anything. freedom included.
14:20 Vexual oh a joke
14:20 kakobrekla ;;later tell punkman ping
14:20 gribble The operation succeeded.
14:21 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu You may want to consult someone who actually follows soccer though. I'll look into the stuff later, but I think actually playing in that league this year would have been possible
14:22 asciilifeform poor experience of anything << ?
14:22 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo im just opening it for ip input.
14:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well you wouldn't go through life with your living decided by a five year old's understanding of what's going on, neh ?
14:23 Vexual when does london close?
14:23 asciilifeform i understood that arbeit macht frei sucks as a five year old, just as well as now.
14:24 mircea_popescu just as well, maybe. the same way, i think not.
14:24 mircea_popescu i thought eucalyptus sucked, as a five year old. and alcohol. and so on.
14:24 wywialm Vexual, in 1.5h
14:24 Vexual no that's a juroc joje
14:25 Vexual *jurov joke
14:25 wywialm i'm unfamiliar with that one
14:25 Vexual yes
14:26 mircea_popescu wywialm how goes ?
14:27 wywialm mircea_popescu, good question. As you have not heard much from me, you can deduce that the repo otc business did not do well
14:27 mircea_popescu well to be perfectly fair, i had pre-deduced that last we met.
14:28 wywialm yes, i remember that
14:28 mircea_popescu btw, you writing a piece for the qntra ?
14:30 wywialm i will definitely consider that as soon as i will have anything valuable to say
14:31 mircea_popescu sounds like a plan.
14:33 wywialm speaking of a plan, does anything happen on the options market in BTC? in particular, does the (possibly otc) option market happen?
14:33 mircea_popescu more or less.
14:34 mircea_popescu it's not terribly open to the general public.
14:34 wywialm i guess i'm the member of general public then...
14:35 wywialm is there a way to change that status?
14:36 mircea_popescu well, basically, if you have a lot of volume you advertise it and you'll find someone. if you don't... well... you don't.
14:37 wywialm ah, the standard way
14:38 punkman wywialm: you could use bitbet for some action
14:38 punkman or that thing xinxi made
14:38 jurov btcnut
14:39 jurov or such
14:39 wywialm isn't it only for binary trades? that appplies to bitbet as well
14:39 punkman buttnut
14:39 punkman ;;ticker
14:39 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 362.61, Best ask: 364.63, Bid-ask spread: 2.02000, Last trade: 364.66, 24 hour volume: 17852.87309723, 24 hour low: 358.0, 24 hour high: 386.32, 24 hour vwap: 370.329378879
14:40 wywialm besides, it's financially settled which depends on the reliability of the exchanges
14:40 mircea_popescu wywialm i supposew you could use the x.eur future ad interim
14:40 mircea_popescu you can make an option out of a future and an underlying.
14:41 wywialm option out of a future and underlying? could you explain futher?
14:42 asciilifeform ;;later tell nubbins`: if you have a trimmed bitcoind, kindly post somewhere where i can find it, i'd like to test run.
14:42 gribble The operation succeeded.
14:42 kakobrekla not sure if that will work cause ':'
14:42 asciilifeform ;;later tell nubbins` if you have a trimmed bitcoind, kindly post somewhere where i can find it, i'd like to test run.
14:42 gribble The operation succeeded.
14:42 asciilifeform kakobrekla ty
14:42 xanthyos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqC5Nvjybqc
14:42 assbot Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja (Acoustic Cover) - YouTube
14:44 mircea_popescu wyrdmantis you understand synthetic positions ?
14:44 punkman I left namecheap search open in a tab and it crashed my browser, because javascript is awesome
14:44 wywialm mircea_popescu, quite well, but i don't see how can i use two linear instruments to obtain nonlinear payoff
14:45 mircea_popescu well, you'll likely have to throw a bond in there somewhere.
14:45 wywialm apart from dynamic hedging, where i could use only one
14:45 mircea_popescu anyway, it's a "sort-of" type of thing, obviously.
14:47 kakobrekla heh JS, i recall some sites killing a core2 quad machine
14:48 wywialm mircea_popescu did you mean any static replication?
14:48 mircea_popescu wywialm basically.
14:49 mircea_popescu not sure you can actually get it to be static
14:49 mircea_popescu really, it's a field that can take a lot more work, bitcoin financial synthesis.
14:51 wywialm i could "sort-of-replicate" option payoff trading on a spot market, each day buying/selling according to the delta (the difference being transaction costs and interest rate and noncontinuity)
14:51 wywialm but thats not static
14:51 wywialm do i miss anything?
14:52 wywialm (of course i should have a decent model to obtain reliable deltas)
14:53 wywialm mircea_popescu - but that's not static. do i miss anything?
14:54 mircea_popescu it wouldn't be exactly static, no.
14:54 wywialm what is the exact multiplier of x.eur?
14:54 mircea_popescu 1
14:57 wywialm btw, do you know of any trade on btc realized volatility or realized variance?
14:58 mircea_popescu i don't recall anything being publicly announced.
15:00 jurov FabianB_: mpex.coinbr.com fixed
15:03 wywialm mircea_popescu, did you consider calculating a stock index for MPEx?
15:03 mircea_popescu on and off, yeah.
15:03 mircea_popescu maybe moving the oix from the now gone options to stocks.
15:04 wywialm what types of indices did you consider?
15:05 wywialm the warsaw stock exchange begun with 5 stocks listed as well, and calculated the WIG
15:05 mircea_popescu yeah, i know. anyway, nothing public about all that yet.
15:06 wywialm if you were interested in my thoughts on it, i could throw my 2 cents
15:07 mircea_popescu ty :)
15:08 undata that vid of the 16 year old brat attacking his new truck has me in stitches
15:08 undata coward wouldn't even go for a window, not that he could break one the way he was swinging
15:09 mircea_popescu ^
15:09 mircea_popescu it's really an excellent piece, that.
15:11 asciilifeform that thing made me have emotions.
15:11 undata wouldn't break a window; would swing for his dad. fascinating.
15:12 asciilifeform specifically, wanting to see the idiot executed a la the 'bear jew' scene in 'inglorious bastards'
15:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why ?
15:12 asciilifeform i.e. with baseball club.
15:12 asciilifeform ruining a perfectly good truck
15:12 mircea_popescu undata for his dad ?! are you kidding ?
15:12 mircea_popescu i doubt the truck's all that good, looked like a guzzler.
15:12 asciilifeform still.
15:12 bounce http://www.mil-oss.org/
15:12 assbot Home - Mil-OSS
15:12 undata mircea_popescu: his dad backed off after one fake swing at him
15:13 undata or whoever the fat fuck standing by was
15:13 mircea_popescu that was his mom.
15:13 mircea_popescu dad is skinny old guy with goatee
15:13 undata haaa
15:13 undata the guy in a black shirt going "you better not"
15:13 mircea_popescu older bro ?
15:14 undata probably 25, still living at home driving the mchummer
15:15 mircea_popescu well, yes, but he got into whatever grad programme.
15:15 mircea_popescu which 16 yo kids can't do, because highschool.
15:15 * asciilifeform confesses he didn't have the audio plugged in
15:16 mircea_popescu anyway, nothing wrong with all those kids living at that particular home, with their wives, girlfriends and offspring. it looks just about big enough.
15:16 asciilifeform was it notable?
15:16 mircea_popescu plenty wrong with them being this dumb tho
15:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform depends if you like male teenager whining or not.
15:16 * asciilifeform does not
15:17 bounce isn't that like a requirement for teenagers? whine, at least 50% of the time.
15:17 jurov youtube comments say fake
15:17 undata mircea_popescu: my folks live here -> http://www.thewoodlands.com/
15:17 assbot The Woodlands - Texas' most celebrated master-planned community
15:17 undata that family above could easily be residents
15:17 mircea_popescu bounce it's god's cruel joke. jews take it even further with all the torah singing.
15:17 bounce to get back at the almighty or something?
15:19 mircea_popescu well i dunno, seems to humiliate the kids.
15:19 jurov doomiiinuuus vooobiiiscuuum
15:19 mircea_popescu jurov no they have this thing where they make 13yos sing in front of the whole congregation.
15:19 mircea_popescu all serious and shit.
15:20 undata these are precisely the americans I hope starve first when their bank accounts no longer work
15:20 mircea_popescu undata why ?
15:20 undata because they're conditioned to be utterly insecure about whatever they lack, at no matter what level of wealth
15:20 jurov i'd rather listen to 13yos than old farts
15:20 asciilifeform they'll starve last.
15:21 undata they gorge themselves on cheap "wealth" instead of generating actual wealth for the 'society' they're a part of
15:21 mircea_popescu jurov that may be a matter of taste :)
15:21 bounce cheap knockoff society
15:21 mircea_popescu undata what bizarro social justice stuff is this lol.
15:21 undata mircea_popescu: it's hardly that.
15:21 bounce consumerist socialism?
15:22 mircea_popescu i'll take your word for it, but it kinda sounds it.
15:22 undata the american idea that the highest good is "eat as much as possible" whether the thing eaten is food, cars, etc.
15:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14650 @ 0.00074011 = 10.8426 BTC [+]
15:22 mircea_popescu how do you figure the people in the vid fit that theory ? they don't seem overweight.
15:22 asciilifeform tell american about that he should generate wealth, and as likely as not, he'll fear being sent to uranium mines
15:23 asciilifeform i'd fear the mines if someone decreed that i must now generate wealth
15:23 undata asciilifeform: expressing a value is distinct from insisting it be imposed.
15:23 asciilifeform i'm not sure i personally have ever held a day job which was a 'net gain for the motherland'
15:23 mircea_popescu undata ok, but it's not very well expressed. what is the value ?
15:25 undata mircea_popescu: why live if you're a cheap copy of the "rich" guy next to you. Life is about projects, not piling up Hummers. Wealth fuels projects.
15:26 asciilifeform Wealth fuels projects <<<<<
15:26 asciilifeform this. is precisely what i meant by 'i refuse to live as a rat'
15:26 mircea_popescu i'm confused.
15:26 asciilifeform if i can't afford projects, it isn't life.
15:27 mircea_popescu but you can project anything.
15:27 The20YearIRCloud I wouldn't say every american is driven by greed
15:27 punkman well maybe I'd rather live around the guy that minds his own business, his business being his farm, rather than around guy that has neverending stream of "projects"
15:27 undata I am also confused.
15:27 The20YearIRCloud I know plenty that live self-less lives
15:27 undata mircea_popescu: you seem to have many projects.
15:27 mircea_popescu punkman i can see it.
15:27 asciilifeform the particular species of projects i engage in. not sand castles out of cow shit in bangladesh.
15:27 asciilifeform (though those may also be 'projects')
15:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well... how about "reengineer all of it"
15:27 asciilifeform ?
15:28 mircea_popescu all of IT*
15:28 asciilifeform aha
15:28 undata asciilifeform: how about "Life is about projects, and wealth should only be interesting inasmuch as it supports those endeavors."
15:28 * asciilifeform fails to apprehend, with puny brain, how this can be done on rat budget
15:28 mircea_popescu i mean, if your bar is that, then you'll never be happy. takes a lot of dough, that project.
15:28 mircea_popescu undata how about "you don't get to say what should be interesting to other people" ?
15:29 undata mircea_popescu: everyone says that to everyone with every sentence.
15:29 mircea_popescu that's what triggered the "wtf sjw is this"
15:29 mircea_popescu i dun agree.
15:29 asciilifeform even the comparatively smaller undertaking i'm presently engaged in - still doesn't come cheap. (i speak of the tooling which i have not charged to the piggy, but also of the fact that i cannot convert btc to usd even for those portions where expenses invoiced. as previously recounted here.)
15:30 punkman asciilifeform: assuming you asked them, how much did olimex quote for cardano assembly?
15:30 asciilifeform asked 'golden phoenix'
15:30 undata mircea_popescu: I would never force anyone to live a certain way (provided it didn't encroach on my own) but I think it's essential to discuss ways to improve the art of living.
15:30 asciilifeform was obscene price tag, for given qty, and they wanted auto-kitting
15:31 mircea_popescu undata well sure, but the problem with this is diogenes. you know the bath tub story ?
15:31 undata I do not
15:31 mircea_popescu but you know who he was ?
15:31 undata greek cynic
15:31 undata reading the story now
15:32 mircea_popescu yeah, guy famously got caught jacking off in the forum (roughly equivalent to putting pron tumblr pix in the serious #b-a chan) and when confronted said that his only regret is that hunger doesn't also abate by rubbing the stomach.
15:32 The20YearIRCloud ascii is this a business where btc was invested for tooling?
15:32 mircea_popescu anyway, at some point the city was being attacked by the enemy, and so every citizen was running up and down trying to make themselves useful. to the "society", by which of course you mean polis.
15:33 The20YearIRCloud Oh a good note about RentalStarter, our banking partner has really stepped up in terms of lending to us
15:33 mircea_popescu and diogenes being woken up by all the ruckus, started pushing the tub he inhabited up and down and all around.
15:33 asciilifeform The20YearIRCloud: to a very limited extent. (mircea_popescu insisted that i bill for the construction of the three-axis robotic platform for prototype assembly.)
15:33 mircea_popescu helping too, you see.
15:33 asciilifeform The20YearIRCloud: all pertinent info is to be found on his site, do read the monthly proclamations if interested in the subject
15:33 The20YearIRCloud TBH i can't remember what project you're involved in
15:34 asciilifeform The20YearIRCloud: s.nsa. first project is a small electronic device, 'cardano.'
15:34 undata mircea_popescu: how does that describe what I've said, in your view?
15:34 asciilifeform The20YearIRCloud: co-authored with mircea_popescu.
15:34 mircea_popescu well, the problem with "discussing the art of living" is diogenes. as in, discussion requires common ground. which isn't a given.
15:35 undata mircea_popescu: doesn't everyone presume his way of living best, or he'd do otherwise?
15:35 mircea_popescu ask asciilifeform ?
15:35 mircea_popescu "best" is a complex concept.
15:36 bounce then I'll take bestest
15:36 asciilifeform lol i was beginning to think that diogenes was mentioned precisely because my 'best' is as odd as his was.
15:36 mircea_popescu but on anecdotic evidence, whether people believe that or don't is more of an indicator of whether the polis is on the upswing or downswing than anything personal.
15:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform except his is the exact opposite of odd. his best is even.
15:37 asciilifeform ahaha
15:37 mircea_popescu anyway, you;ll appreciate i didn't bring him up in the definition of "fuck you rich"
15:37 asciilifeform doesn't everyone presume his way of living best, or he'd do otherwise << 'you go to war with the enemy you have, not the enemy you wish you had'
15:37 asciilifeform lol
15:37 mircea_popescu the point is still there, tho. fuck you rich is about fuck you, not about rich.
15:38 bounce implying people wish to be fucked over?
15:38 kakobrekla no
15:38 kakobrekla thats why they dont live in the barrels
15:38 kakobrekla for the most part
15:38 mircea_popescu meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave.
15:38 asciilifeform ^ yes. just as freedom may or may not be about a hacksaw, depending on whether one is in prison, and of what material the prison is made (a pair of clippers may suffice for a savage rope cage, etc.)
15:39 asciilifeform (re: 'about fuckyou not the rich')
15:39 undata one minute god-kings; the next liberty
15:39 undata haha
15:39 kakobrekla people slave for not to slave
15:39 mircea_popescu best slavery there is.
15:40 * undata processes on that last bit for a moment
15:42 kakobrekla anyway, the recipe is to say fuck you, go in the barrel and then if you like climb out of it while keeping the finger raised
15:43 mircea_popescu kakobrekla the problem wih that approach is that it's literally indistinguishable from the tack of the 16yo kid in the video.
15:43 asciilifeform here's a random example of what it costs to effectively think about problems in the physical sciences, without a Crown license.
15:43 undata obviously someone thought it worth writing about the barrel or you wouldn't be saying so.
15:43 undata *everything* is stated with the implicit underlying statement that the worldview in which the statement was made is true.
15:43 mircea_popescu selfless sacrifice on the altar of satisfying the societal expectation.
15:43 asciilifeform i have to pay several 100 usd / yrs. to access library.
15:44 asciilifeform (the university kind, that idiot college fauna get into for free)
15:44 mircea_popescu undata a worldview can not be true.
15:44 undata another attempt: all statements are implicitly advocacy.
15:45 kakobrekla mircea_popescu since when do appearances matter?
15:45 mircea_popescu (i don't mean it never is, i mean the noun is outside the domain of availability of the adjective. like a circle can't be heavy, 2d figures have no weight)
15:45 bounce "free" as in part of the crushing tuitition debt package deal
15:45 asciilifeform well yes.
15:45 asciilifeform rolled into that particular chumpatronic prize.
15:45 mircea_popescu kakobrekla well that's the thing, they don';t.
15:45 kakobrekla so is all good.
15:46 asciilifeform or into benefit package of being a loyal servant of Crown 'scientocracy' (professional academics)
15:46 mircea_popescu <undata> another attempt: all statements are implicitly advocacy. << only for the utilitarian/methodist/usretardian school of thought.
15:46 asciilifeform if you're a civilian - you pay.
15:46 asciilifeform and pay.
15:46 mircea_popescu but otherwise this is what the existentialists used to call "petit burgeois"
15:46 bounce a reasonable solution for "publish or perish" would be useful
15:47 mircea_popescu bounce "no tax money spent on education" is a solution.
15:47 mircea_popescu be rich or stfu and work, science is not for "the people".
15:47 asciilifeform bounce: they used to at least let people into the libraries without membership (though could not check out books, or read - the now all - electronic - journals.) but the bums began to nest there.
15:47 bounce bit of a cop out. can't we do better?
15:47 mircea_popescu who's "we" ?
15:48 mircea_popescu but no, we can't do better, because otherwise the fucking bums start nesting there.
15:48 asciilifeform 'once there was The People, terror gave it birth... once there was The People, and it made a Hell of Earth...' (kipling?)
15:48 mircea_popescu like, the sort of people churning out "science" about stuff.
15:48 asciilifeform (:re we)
15:49 asciilifeform i give the library tidbit as an example of what, in my mind, 'not living as rat' involves
15:49 undata if only there were some way to cheaply stockpile and grant access to documents.
15:49 asciilifeform for a human vegetable, who only needs to afford a hovel to eat, shit, and fuck in, and a tv screen - different cost.
15:49 bounce thing is, I do want to filter the pool for the talent regardless of parental wealth
15:49 mircea_popescu what is talent ?
15:50 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i think that cost may be more than a few hundies a year.
15:50 asciilifeform that's library alone
15:50 The20YearIRCloud asciilifeform: is it that way around the world? I know it is here - bums everywhere at the library
15:50 asciilifeform (the figure above)
15:50 mircea_popescu The20YearIRCloud amusingly, bums here mostly sleep in banks.
15:50 mircea_popescu i kinda suspect where bums sleep is indicative of societal notions
15:50 kakobrekla guard the safes yo
15:51 asciilifeform The20YearIRCloud: library is heated in the winter, cool in the summer, no one hassles the poor bomzh to buy anything
15:51 asciilifeform and quiet, very few people per square metre.
15:51 asciilifeform usually, entire floors empty.
15:51 asciilifeform so perfect.
15:51 mircea_popescu i wonder how many social studies chicks fuck bums because they're bums.
15:51 mircea_popescu 1 a year ? 100 ? 10000 ?
15:52 asciilifeform freshly-minted bums (or well-kept hobos) likely.
15:52 undata mircea_popescu: again, anyone speaking about anything intends for the listener to be influenced by the content.
15:52 asciilifeform the kind that walked in the same suit for a decade - less plausible
15:52 undata I can't see how it could be any other way.
15:52 mircea_popescu well so you can't see.
15:52 mircea_popescu ;;google gratuitous act
15:52 gribble gratuitous - definition of gratuitous by The Free Dictionary: <http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gratuitous>; gratuitous legal definition of gratuitous: <http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/gratuitous>; www.andregide.org | Caves of the Vatican | Lafcadio's Adventures ...: <http://www.andregide.org/studies/vatfow.html>
15:52 mircea_popescu lmao check that shit out, doesn't even exist in english.
15:53 mircea_popescu ;;google acte gratuit
15:53 gribble acte gratuit - Wiktionary: <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acte_gratuit>; L'ACTE GRATUIT: <http://actegratuit.tumblr.com/>; Older posts - L'ACTE GRATUIT: <http://actegratuit.tumblr.com/page/2>
15:53 The20YearIRCloud mircea_popescu: are banks over there open 24/7, or access to parts?
15:53 The20YearIRCloud Around here they're on lockdown outside of normal business hours
15:53 mircea_popescu The20YearIRCloud the atm parts.
15:53 undata mircea_popescu: I think in english "gratuitous" means something far off from what you're aiming at.
15:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in english, usually 'crime of passion' ?
15:53 The20YearIRCloud Your ATMs aren't outside?
15:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no dude, not at all.
15:54 undata "uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted."
15:54 mircea_popescu "Un acte gratuit est le fait d'agir en dehors de toute raison, motivation ou incitation."
15:54 undata and.. ain't that some shit.
15:54 mircea_popescu "the fact of acting outside any reason or motivation"
15:54 undata how could it be possible to act without motivation?
15:54 kakobrekla also says it means 'free shit'
15:54 undata it came from god, not me?
15:54 asciilifeform banks 24/7 << story. where i live, you can walk into the vestibule of a bank (where the atm often lives, on 'bad streets') using a magnetic card. implication is that it must be the bank's - but this is false.
15:54 mircea_popescu undata listen, go read le diable et le bon dieu, sartre.
15:54 asciilifeform any card will do!
15:55 undata mircea_popescu: k
15:55 asciilifeform and often, sc4mz0rz patch into the reader, and plant bug there
15:55 asciilifeform recording cc # day and night.
15:55 * undata wonders if the translation will butcher it
15:56 mircea_popescu aww that sucks.
15:56 asciilifeform (for those wondering why it is so easy to sc4mz0r american magnetic cards, read log.)
15:57 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-02-2014#499334
15:57 assbot Logged on 13-02-2014 01:00:26; asciilifeform: fact is, 'carding' could disappear overnight if the card issuers wished it. (even in countries with ubiquitous old-style magnetic readers. devices which present the correct magnetism, using one-time account #s, are trivial.)
15:57 asciilifeform etc
15:57 kakobrekla implication is that it must be the bank's < we also have such setups with but no such implication as atms are compatible over all banks
15:57 punkman asciilifeform: seen same card activated doors in many places around eu
15:58 mircea_popescu yeah no such implication.
15:58 asciilifeform at any rate, just about any magnetic card with the right number of tracks (was it 3?) will open the gate.
15:59 FabianB jurov: looks good now :)
15:59 nubbins` asciilifeform will likely take a couple days
16:00 punkman also bums love to sleep next to ATMs, and they all have some kind of card that will open the door
16:00 asciilifeform nubbins`: what was your starting point again?
16:00 asciilifeform nubbins`: i just want to test build chain
16:00 nubbins` plan was to take stock 0.5.3, remove src/qt/* and attempt to build
16:00 nubbins` and use that as a starting point
16:01 nubbins` so you could use stock 0.5.3 to test
16:01 asciilifeform what was the turd in 0.6 that made us stop short of it ?
16:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the whole thing was a debate over whether it should be earliest or latest that still works. apparently earliest won
16:01 asciilifeform aha.
16:01 * asciilifeform rereads log
16:02 * mircea_popescu votes yesterday as "most likely to be reread"
16:02 mircea_popescu it'
16:02 nubbins` ah, nothing in particular, i don't think. merging bugfixes etc from 0.6 would be next i guess
16:02 asciilifeform lol!
16:02 mircea_popescu it's like "the hangover" in there.
16:02 asciilifeform who has a known vintage tarball of 0.5.3 ?
16:03 asciilifeform (as in, personally leeched as long ago as possible, and sat since)
16:03 asciilifeform kindly post hash.
16:04 asciilifeform best heroes - post signed hash.
16:04 nubbins` heh
16:04 nubbins` not i
16:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu?
16:04 mircea_popescu mm ?
16:05 asciilifeform vintage tarball ^
16:05 mircea_popescu oh. i'll have to go through archives. be a while.
16:05 jurov i arrived in 2012 and lost a hdd since :/
16:06 nubbins` march 14 2012
16:07 jurov http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Obsolete/ huh what a scary message
16:07 assbot Bitcoin - Browse /Obsolete at SourceForge.net
16:07 * kakobrekla wont run bitcoind without the 'coin control' patch
16:08 mircea_popescu jurov not to mention it's also untrue.
16:09 mircea_popescu but hey, what's a little lying hurt anymore.
16:09 asciilifeform 'obsolete' !?
16:09 asciilifeform aha like 'truecrypt'.
16:09 jurov 15033115709f0eb55674ebf5e79208bfb05a5745 bitcoin-0.5.3-linux.tar.gz << sha1 of the turd form there
16:09 asciilifeform ty
16:09 asciilifeform 'A visitor received this implanted, false message today, promoting the market of certificates of authority and encryption. HTTPS fetishists are trying to coerce us into using the crappy security gambit. Ignore HTTPS monotheists. Online security promises are hokum. This is admitted on sec discussion fora. Pushers of HTTPS, Tor, crypto, secure drops are David Blaines.' (cryptome.)
16:10 asciilifeform ^ http://cryptome.org/https-ignore.jpg
16:10 mircea_popescu aww, no "as mp said" ? sucks.
16:11 asciilifeform http://cryptome.org/2014/10/bitcoin-tor-nope.pdf << sorry no clean version of this
16:11 asciilifeform guide to bitcoin mitm for n00bz
16:19 asciilifeform if anyone wants to post checksums for vintage dependencies from build-unix.txt, appreciated.
16:22 midnightmagic coin control is unnecessary now, create/decode/sign raw transaction exists plus listunspent and listaddressgroupings
16:23 asciilifeform hard disk is unnecessary, magnetized needles exist.
16:24 kakobrekla exists < yeah in which version ?
16:25 midnightmagic pretty easy to use them. I have a very tiny perl script that does the same thing..
16:25 kakobrekla which version?
16:25 mircea_popescu no he has a point, you can just make your own tx and forget the stock selection code
16:25 midnightmagic mm.. dunno when they were introduced. it's been a while.
16:25 asciilifeform make your own tx, with soviet calculator.
16:26 asciilifeform people seem to forget why we even bought computers.
16:26 mircea_popescu i didn't mean by hand yo
16:26 midnightmagic I just don't trust the coin control nor tx selection to pull the most-private from the unspent list is all. It is a bit more work to make decisions about it though
16:27 kakobrekla making your own tx is best way to go
16:27 kakobrekla cc makes it easy
16:28 midnightmagic not for privacy imo. but I guess it does make tx creation easy.
16:29 kakobrekla well you control the privacy
16:30 kakobrekla stock selection code < as shitty as it gets.
16:31 mircea_popescu don't knock it, it's what they use to make hambuger meat.
16:35 * asciilifeform forgot what a sack of shit classic bitcoind is, in terms of build deps
16:35 mircea_popescu never 4get.
16:35 mats_cd03 http://cryptome.org/2014/10/bitcoin-tor-nope.pdf << heh heh. i once ran an exit node off AWS for a week, scooped 0.2 btc from a shmuck
16:38 asciilifeform mats_cd03: the best idiots are the tor-miners.
16:38 asciilifeform mats_cd03: how one would even arrive at the idea of miner connected through tor?
16:38 mats_cd03 decentralize!
16:38 mats_cd03 anonymous!
16:39 asciilifeform not a single mainstream mineatron, afaik, does anything useful against even a very pedestrian ssl mitm.
16:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform as much as a new news site brings about ddos.
16:39 mircea_popescu these are real problems derps are trying to solve.
16:39 asciilifeform which problems?
16:39 mircea_popescu not that safe to be a miner out there.
16:40 asciilifeform ahaha
16:40 asciilifeform sufficiently large miner can, presumably, afford $maxint worth of proxies or even fallback isp.
16:41 mircea_popescu yeah, but tor miner is not sufficientl large.
16:41 asciilifeform if the only enemy is ddos
16:41 mircea_popescu you dunno what the enemy is until mats_cd03 steals your .2 btc
16:41 asciilifeform at one point, chumpnet miners often went through tor
16:42 mats_cd03 ill be rich someday
16:42 mats_cd03 i will use that .2 btc to buy a ranch and a new stereo
16:42 asciilifeform undeserved prize tastes ten times as good.
16:42 asciilifeform or how did it go.
16:43 mats_cd03 i thought it was a peach?
16:43 bounce millions of peaches/ peaches for free/
16:43 mats_cd03 anyway, on the subject of fruit
16:43 mats_cd03 i have discovered honey crisp apples
16:43 mats_cd03 and they are godly
16:44 bounce so, better than oranges?
16:44 asciilifeform miners << is there any actual reason why an arbitrarily large miner should not choose to appear as a large number of arbitrarily small ones, from the network standpoint ?
16:44 mats_cd03 better than the red delicious
16:44 mats_cd03 which is in fact not delicious, only red
16:44 asciilifeform why is it even still possible to identify 'large miners' as existing.
16:45 mats_cd03 bad software?
16:45 nubbins` wow, building bitcoin on osx is actually a bit tangly
16:46 nubbins` mostly because of all this brew/macports gibberish
16:46 asciilifeform nubbins` confronted with fact of having bought a fake unix box?
16:46 nubbins` it's more unix than windows, at least ;p
16:46 asciilifeform that's literally the only thing going for it.
16:46 asciilifeform microshit-free.
16:46 mircea_popescu thestringpuller here's one for you : what concert costs 45 cents ?
16:48 asciilifeform ^ the busy signal in a u.s. pay phone (if you can still find one!) -- costs 0.50, and you'll find a 'nickel' in the coin return tray.
16:48 asciilifeform 45 cents for concert.
16:48 kakobrekla <asciilifeform> microshit-free. < id rather be apple free than ms free given only those 2 options. call me retarded or whatever dun care.
16:49 asciilifeform lol!
16:49 asciilifeform kakobrekla will voluntarily use winblows?
16:49 kakobrekla no
16:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform really, it's 50cent feat nickleback
16:49 mircea_popescu but anyway!
16:49 kakobrekla asciilifeform >given only those 2 options
16:49 mircea_popescu !up IHB_
16:50 mircea_popescu i wonder what a windows tablet would be like.
16:50 asciilifeform two closed turds, and you'll use the one with no shell, no posix, no modern build system?
16:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: windows tablet existed.
16:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: you can perhaps guess what they were like, by the fact of having to ask the question
16:50 mircea_popescu i never saw one
16:51 kakobrekla just cant swallow apple. sry no can do.
16:51 asciilifeform kakobrekla: you can almost pretend it's a 'sun' or other weird ancient unixlike
16:51 asciilifeform esp. if you behead it and use a terminal.
16:51 joecool just took delivery of a mbp and am attempting to resize it's cancer of an os to put anything on
16:51 joecool yeah would do windows before this
16:51 kakobrekla whats next, use phone and pretend its computer ?
16:52 joecool chinese killed the thinkpad though
16:52 bounce boo. hiss.
16:52 mircea_popescu incidentally, can you format the ipad, run debian on it ?
16:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: debian - no idea. netbsd - almost certain.
16:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ask enthusiasts if there's any i/o support for it
16:53 mircea_popescu touch drivers and errything ?
16:53 mircea_popescu uhm, it has wireless neh ?
16:53 asciilifeform well depends what you need it for
16:53 asciilifeform if for perverse file server in a closet - yes, can do right now.
16:53 asciilifeform if as a 'touch' gizmo - check first.
16:54 asciilifeform also easier to do this with non-apple gizmos, where there is not an elaborate boobytrap chipset in there, to try to keep you from 'jailbreaking'
16:54 nubbins` ^
16:55 mircea_popescu so it's not basically a laptop board with a soldered over bios chip ?
16:55 asciilifeform 'arm'-compatible.
16:56 asciilifeform a few vendors (samsung, and others) make the reverse of this - 'arm' laptop.
16:56 mircea_popescu aha
16:57 joecool all sorts of weird "features" in OSX like, "stuck" processes
16:58 nubbins` force quit kicks ass over whatever the fuck you do in windows again
16:58 bounce stuck different from stuck processes on other unix?
16:59 mircea_popescu nubbins` hadn't they implemented kill ?
16:59 joecool it's different than zombie process in other nix
16:59 nubbins` windows? who knows
16:59 joecool can't do anything with it
16:59 mircea_popescu ;;google kill process windows
16:59 gribble XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill | a ...: <http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/446/xp_kill_windows_process_command_line_taskkill/>; Really killing a process in Windows - Stack Overflow: <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/49988/really-killing-a-process-in-windows>; Taskkill - TechNet - Microsoft: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en- (1 more message)
16:59 mircea_popescu yeah they have
16:59 nubbins` looky loo
17:01 nubbins` !uq ninjashogun
17:01 nubbins` shit, my p is backwards
17:01 nubbins` ??? :/
17:01 mircea_popescu !ub ninjashogun ?
17:01 * nubbins` shrugs
17:01 nubbins` !ud ninjashogun
17:01 mircea_popescu kakobrekla you broke it.
17:02 nubbins` not cool man
17:02 mircea_popescu !gown nubbins`
17:02 nubbins` how are we supposed to ub people
17:02 nubbins` !pown mircea_popescu
17:02 nubbins` NOTHING'S WORKING
17:02 nubbins` ;;ficker
17:03 gribble Error: "ficker" is not a valid command.
17:03 asciilifeform unƃoɥsɐɾuıu dn¡
17:03 nubbins` what is going on D:
17:04 mircea_popescu so it turns out atheism is a non-prophet organisation.
17:04 nubbins` http://instantrimshot.com/classic/?sound=rimshot
17:04 assbot Welcome to Instant Rimshot
17:04 mircea_popescu !up ninjashogun
17:04 mircea_popescu shit man, you were doing it right! it's p
17:04 nubbins` fuuuuuu
17:04 nubbins` too late, man
17:04 nubbins` :(
17:06 nubbins` ʍou ƃuᴉʞɹoʍ s,ʇᴉ ǝqʎɐɯ
17:06 IHB_ thanks for the mircea. last time i was in here was when i living in bangalore. you just published your response to the SEC and it was great.
17:06 IHB_ *voice
17:07 nubbins` w̢̤͖͓̹e̠ļ̯̟c̀o̥m̱͉̻̲̜e̛̳͚,̵͙̩̭̻̲̙͍ ͍͖̘͓̫̤̝n̮͙i̘̟̝n̳͔̺͚͡ͅj҉͖a̷̜͖s̢͚̭̪̭̝̪̣ḥ̞o̭̭̺̣g̛̳͖̟͚͚ụ͎͙ṉ̣̜͎̮
17:07 mircea_popescu so where do you live now ?
17:07 nubbins` wow
17:08 kakobrekla nubbins` get a 'real' computer.
17:08 mircea_popescu nubbins` did you do all that on an osx ?
17:08 nubbins` :D
17:08 nubbins` kakobrekla what, a dell?
17:09 asciilifeform a Multivac.
17:09 kakobrekla a vegetable. instead of fruit.
17:10 mircea_popescu multivac'd have been a great vacuum cleanner brand
17:10 asciilifeform 'nothing sucks like multivacs' ?
17:11 asciilifeform ;;google nothing sucks like electrolux
17:11 gribble Electrolux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux>; Brand blunder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_blunder>; VAX - Catb.org: <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/V/VAX.html>
17:11 mircea_popescu "if you stuff one vac, it's got more!"
17:21 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/what-do-you-call/
17:21 assbot What do you call… pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
17:25 mircea_popescu lmao these logs... nubbins` using cohen as an argument ?!
17:27 mthreat What do you get when you cross a potato with a dildo?
17:27 mthreat a dictator
17:28 mircea_popescu lol
17:28 undata mircea_popescu: the puns! THE PUNS!
17:28 ben_vulpes <nubbins`> wow, building bitcoin on osx is actually a bit tangly << i for one gave up
17:28 undata <3
17:29 mircea_popescu my puny attempt!
17:29 mircea_popescu undata we had limmerick day a few months ago too.
17:30 undata I will have to read those logs.
17:32 ben_vulpes oh god those jokes
17:32 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2014/10/new-paper-bitcoin-over-tor-a-bad-idea-especially-bad-for-spv/
17:32 assbot New Paper: Bitcoin over Tor a Bad Idea, Especially bad for SPV | Qntra.net
17:33 ben_vulpes just what i need while watching this ftp dump scroll by
17:34 mircea_popescu xinxi: one of them used to say: I would like to cry in a bmw instead of lauching on a bike. <<< that's a whole new dimension to the entire "fuck you rich" discussion.
17:34 mircea_popescu apparently it's different by gender :D
17:36 BingoBoingo Eh, bike's more likely to get stolen
17:37 BingoBoingo !up IHB_
17:48 BingoBoingo https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/23/151 << RE: USB turd
17:48 assbot LKML: Greg KH: Re: [PATCH] usb: serial: Perform verification for FTDI FT232R devices
17:49 BingoBoingo !up MosesEX
17:49 BingoBoingo Hello MosesEX
17:49 MosesEX BingoBoingo, whats up BingoBoingo
17:49 BingoBoingo Oh not too much
17:50 MosesEX any christians in here?
17:50 MosesEX or jews or muslims?
17:50 kakobrekla those were already stoned to death
17:50 MosesEX homosexuals should be put to death
17:50 mircea_popescu yeah we only got sluts and drunks left.
17:50 MosesEX but obama supports homosexuals
17:50 kakobrekla !down MosesEX
17:51 mircea_popescu ;;ud obama
17:51 BingoBoingo ;;ud obola
17:51 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obama | An acronym standing for. One Big Ass Mistake, America! Q: What was the result of the 2008 election? A: OBAMA. by ferrgus February 23, 2009. 22182 13448.
17:51 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Obola | Oct 13, 2014 ... Obola. (noun) the result of a completely incompetent democratic administration that cares more about open borders with no enforcement of ...
17:53 mircea_popescu i guess it's mitt romney's showbiz name.
17:55 BingoBoingo !up MosesEX
17:56 MosesEX YA
17:56 BingoBoingo !down MosesEX
17:56 MosesEX YAY
17:58 dignork BingoBoingo: RE: USB turd - it was pbbly a joke, Russ Dill works for Texas Instruments
17:58 BingoBoingo Ah, makes sense nao
18:04 kakobrekla anyone want these atc i have ? maybe mpif takes em?
18:04 kakobrekla bb?
18:04 BingoBoingo WHy not? 1BuJThNvr31EwnLGiaAdQbYHCkBdJvgTQJ
18:06 kakobrekla sent
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18:44 jurov http://chralash.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/proof-of-reserves-born-out-of-tragedy-will-slowly-become-the-global-gold-standard-for-financial-auditing/
18:44 assbot “Proof of reserves,” born out of tragedy, will slowly become the global gold standard for financial auditing. « Real Virtual Currency
18:44 jurov herp derp
18:44 jurov !up punkman1
18:49 asciilifeform https://marcan.st/transf/ftdi_evil.png
18:50 asciilifeform ^ looks quite like 'ida' output, so symbol names presumably inferred by reverser
18:58 BingoBoingo http://mobilesecurityares.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/why-samsung-knox-isnt-really-fort-knox.html << NSA Phone
18:58 assbot Mobile Security Blog: Why Samsung Knox isn't really a Fort Knox
18:58 asciilifeform there's what, 17 of them now?
18:59 asciilifeform 'all but the laziest man' are now making 'avoid 3v1l surv31l4nc3111!' turdicles.
19:01 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: No, this is the one NSA approves of for gubmint work
19:02 asciilifeform which work.
19:02 asciilifeform afaik the only 'top seekreet'-approved Pnohe is 'blackberry sektera' (sp?)
19:02 asciilifeform aka obamaphone
19:03 asciilifeform (or was it obamaberry?)
19:03 BingoBoingo Well this is the new one they are proposing
19:03 BingoBoingo By samsung
19:03 * asciilifeform does not own one, but recalls seeing photos, there's a normal 'blackberry' and an nsa board sandwiched under the battery
19:04 BingoBoingo I've owned normal blackberries. Pleasant paging device.
19:05 * asciilifeform never understood the appeal of the microscopic trackball on those things
19:06 BingoBoingo Skipped those after first one broke in hours. The tiny trackpad used as a micro trackball was very functional though
19:07 asciilifeform https://twitter.com/JohnnySoftware/status/525092883125506048 << lulzies
19:07 assbot /SwiftOnSecurity Windows Update busily bricking USB serial chips http://t.co/XkoNmNiCUH Maybe completely intentional. Microsoft-SWATed case?
19:07 asciilifeform 'FTDI's own web site says their chips are used in medical...'
19:08 BingoBoingo Ah
19:09 * asciilifeform is hoping that this kind of thing will become an everyday event
19:09 asciilifeform run moar winblows.
19:11 kakobrekla choke on your fruit.
19:11 asciilifeform which fruit
19:12 kakobrekla thats what you already said for python
19:12 asciilifeform lol
19:12 * asciilifeform just got back from fruit&veggie market, got a number of possible things to choke on, that were still in season
19:14 kakobrekla apples will do.
19:16 BingoBoingo http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/the-washing-up
19:16 assbot Everybody loves Eric Raymond » The washing up
19:18 jurov one click and i ended up on http://www.schneierfacts.com/
19:18 assbot Bruce Schneier Facts
19:20 jurov http://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/1341 << exactly what i wanted
19:20 assbot Bruce Schneier Facts
19:20 jurov (if anyone did not read my rant yet: http://explo.yt/post/2014/02/26/Bruce-Schneier-passwords-fail )
19:20 assbot Bruce Schneier passwords fail - serialized delusions
19:23 BingoBoingo http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/the-redhat-package-mangler
19:23 assbot Everybody loves Eric Raymond » The RedHat Package Mangler
19:24 midnightmagic "It's about the same likelihood as that you would get spontaneously quantum teleported by tunnelling through solid wall, that's why such things just don't happen." <-- this is incorrect
19:25 jurov yes?
19:25 pete_dushenski first things first: http://www.contravex.com/2014/10/23/the-trade-offs-of-feminism/
19:25 assbot The Trade-Offs of Feminism | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
19:25 pete_dushenski now, logs!
19:28 jurov rly? masculinity as a measurable natural resource?
19:28 artifexd kakobrekla: If you find a way to get the mbp to not sound like it's overheating while using a non-mac os, I'd love to hear about it.
19:28 pete_dushenski jurov lol tis a theory.
19:29 kakobrekla artifexd never had, never will have any apple products.
19:29 nubbins` kako uses alienware only
19:30 artifexd I thought I just read that you got a mbp...
19:30 jurov no, we use lenovo - it means slovenky in somalian
19:30 jurov *slovenly
19:30 artifexd Ah no. That was joecool. Same color as you.
19:31 kakobrekla colors, the root of all evil.
19:36 BingoBoingo <artifexd> kakobrekla: If you find a way to get the mbp to not sound like it's overheating while using a non-mac os, I'd love to hear about it. << apmd -C
19:37 jurov or soundproof foam?
19:38 kakobrekla or just turn it off
19:40 artifexd I don't see a -C option
19:41 BingoBoingo http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/linux-doomsday
19:41 assbot Everybody loves Eric Raymond » Linux doomsday
19:42 pete_dushenski ^must be the same raymond from that trilema comment. everyone loved him too!
19:42 BingoBoingo artifexd: Which non-OS X OS are you running?
19:42 asciilifeform http://www.novate.ru/blogs/121014/28088 << 'kegelcizer' from 'futurama' now actual.
19:42 assbot - KGoal, | |
19:42 artifexd I'm looking at centos right now.
19:42 jurov http://i.imgur.com/iXsZdHh.jpg?1 << kakobrekla
19:43 artifexd I haven't settled on a distro yet though.
19:43 kakobrekla heh
19:44 BingoBoingo asciilifeform> http://www.novate.ru/blogs/121014/28088 << 'kegelcizer' from 'futurama' now actual. << WOnderful
19:44 assbot - KGoal, | |
19:47 kakobrekla ;;google kegel kickstarter
19:47 gribble kGoal Smart Kegel Trainer by Minna Life — Kickstarter: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/892018590/kgoal-smart-kegel-trainer>; Skea - Smart Kegel Exercise Aid by Linkcube Studio — Kickstarter: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2091647642/skea-smart-kegel-exercise-aid>; The Kegel Bear by Natalie Bayne — Kickstarter: <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871901583/the- (1 more message)
19:48 asciilifeform sc4m4tr0nix?
19:48 asciilifeform though i'm told that once in a while, when the planets align, an actual product is made on 'kickstarter'
19:49 kakobrekla dunno not the vagina expert and lampelina is in bed.
19:49 asciilifeform best expert.
19:50 asciilifeform https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871901583/the-kegel-bear
19:50 assbot The Kegel Bear by Natalie Bayne — Kickstarter
19:51 BingoBoingo http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/letters-of-support
19:51 assbot Everybody loves Eric Raymond » Letters of support
19:52 asciilifeform http://www.businessinsider.com/potential-nyc-ebola-patient-took-an-uber-2014-10
19:52 assbot Potential NYC Ebola Patient Took An Uber - Business Insider
19:52 asciilifeform ubola.
19:55 BingoBoingo Only missing A, I and Y
19:55 BingoBoingo !up MosesEX
19:55 MosesEX yay
19:55 asciilifeform iBola ?
19:55 MosesEX hello everyone
19:55 BingoBoingo MosesEX: What are your thoughts on Obola
19:56 MosesEX BingoBoingo, ebola? its overreacted
19:56 BingoBoingo ;;ud ibola
19:56 gribble Google found nothing.
19:56 MosesEX yet it might spread
19:56 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: iBola isn't a thing yet. Maybe next month?
19:56 MosesEX those who die from ebola is because they were ordained to die from it
19:56 BingoBoingo MosesEX: Ordanation doesn't count when ebama does it
19:57 MosesEX obama is destroying this country
19:57 MosesEX we need republicans
19:57 MosesEX not demoncrats
19:57 MosesEX hi everyone!
19:58 BingoBoingo MosesEX: They both suck.
19:58 BingoBoingo MosesEX: You said you had questions. Ask or you get the !down again.
19:58 MosesEX ys
19:58 MosesEX yes
19:59 MosesEX does the irc hate bitcoin?
19:59 MosesEX why or why not
19:59 MosesEX i mean irs
19:59 MosesEX does the irc hate bitcoin yes or no
19:59 MosesEX god dammit
20:00 MosesEX DOES THE IRS OR FERDERAL GOVERNMENT HATE BITCOIN
20:00 midnightmagic jurov: quantum tunnelling doesn't and can't happen for macroscopic objects like that. quantum wave functions are sometimes bounded asymptotically in position.
20:00 BingoBoingo MosesEX: Are you high?
20:00 MosesEX LIKE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T TAX IT
20:00 BingoBoingo !down MosesEX
20:02 ben_vulpes !down MosesEX
20:02 ben_vulpes once was not enough
20:03 BingoBoingo http://dpaste.com/1PX6023
20:03 assbot dpaste: 1PX6023
20:14 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu:meyer lanski famously told some older street thoughs, as a 12 yo, "you get nuttin' for nuttin'". that's all it is. at 12 he's as rich as me telling the sec how to behave. << beauty.
20:14 joecool artifexd: hm? i had used ibm and then lenovo thinkpads exclusively, up until today
20:14 pete_dushenski speaking of mobsters, anyone have any book recommendations on mafia/mobs?
20:15 pete_dushenski BingoBoingo goosfraba eh?
20:16 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: You never really know
20:22 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu:i kinda suspect where bums sleep is indicative of societal notions << ya the libraries vs. banks discrepancy is telling.
20:23 pete_dushenski i wonder where in the world bums shack up in public schools, hospitals, and other public buildings.
20:26 mircea_popescu india ?
20:26 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: The bathrooms.
20:27 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu quite possibly. haven't been there yet to see
20:27 pete_dushenski maybe india'll be on the 2015 list
20:27 asciilifeform i vaguely recall reading (1990s usenet?) of american expats living in bathrooms in jp.
20:27 asciilifeform as a routine matter.
20:28 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu speaking of travel plans, some close friends decided to GET MARRIED on the same weekend as the third conference. so ya.
20:28 pete_dushenski i'm out for this one.
20:29 pete_dushenski asciilifeform probably mcd's: clean
20:30 * asciilifeform checks grinding wheel on which current turd is being polished;
20:30 asciilifeform anyone have a preference for which 'libboost' is to be used?
20:31 joecool oh book on mobsters, i haven't managed to find a copy of the book that came out a couple years ago about samsung
20:32 joecool "thinking of samsung" or "think samsung" i think it translated into
20:36 nubbins` asciilifeform iirc 1.5.5 was current when bitcoin 0.5.3.was released
20:36 nubbins` most recent is only 1.5.6 i believe
20:36 asciilifeform nubbins`: ty
20:42 mircea_popescu wow look at that, jurov's blog is not vulnerable to the wp reflected ddos thing
20:42 mircea_popescu nice.
20:43 mircea_popescu nubbins`: kako uses alienware only << no, he uses girls'.
20:44 BingoBoingo https://twitter.com/Paulmd199/status/525422001058742273
20:44 assbot Just remembered this /ioerror statement, after hearing one of the Ottawa shooting suspects was designated "high risk" http://t.co/9ULzZ3tm1E
20:45 mircea_popescu http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/wp-content/images/ep062.jpg << lolk
20:47 pete_dushenski just ordered this: http://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Fall-Jewish-Gangster-America/dp/0231096836/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414111566&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Rise+and+Fall+of+the+Jewish+Gangster+in+America
20:47 assbot The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America: Albert Fried: 9780231096836: Books - Amazon.ca
20:48 BingoBoingo GNOME + Redhat >> http://lwn.net/Articles/617176/
20:48 assbot gnome-shell: lock screen bypass [LWN.net]
20:48 asciilifeform someone is using gnome !?!?111
20:49 nubbins` BingoBoingo lelel
20:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you know who ? linus.
20:49 asciilifeform lol!
20:49 * asciilifeform somehow did not know this.
20:49 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3E1GYG4.txt )
20:49 BingoBoingo !b 4
20:49 mircea_popescu not even kidding.
20:49 BingoBoingo Linus uses Fedora, right?
20:50 * asciilifeform buried herr torvalds in his head long ago, 'and ordered cement poured to be tempted to dig up'
20:50 asciilifeform (apologies to vysotsky)
20:50 asciilifeform *not tempted
20:50 joecool lolololol gnome
20:50 mircea_popescu why was that ?
20:50 asciilifeform rng warz
20:50 mircea_popescu and holy shit, this linux thing is really not used by anyone, is it ? took until 2014 for someone to mash the prtscr key ?
20:50 mircea_popescu likely story.
20:50 asciilifeform and before that, 'i'm apolitical, don't care what happens etc'
20:51 asciilifeform linux - used, sure. but gnome...
20:51 mircea_popescu neither of these crossed it for me.
20:52 mircea_popescu midnightmagic: jurov: quantum tunnelling doesn't and can't happen for macroscopic objects like that. <<< well they call anything "quantum" these days.
20:52 mircea_popescu forgetting what it actually means.
20:52 mircea_popescu tl;dr : nothing "quantum" can ever affect a macro object. by definition.
20:53 asciilifeform eh, the photon that broke the camel's back?
20:53 mircea_popescu !up no_imagination
20:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "i choked on a particularly rapid tachyon" should be standard blonde answer.
20:54 no_imagination thanks
20:54 mircea_popescu this is the imagination institute. welcome.
20:56 asciilifeform re: bitcoind liposuction: who's for nixing the 'alert' gizmo?
20:56 mircea_popescu in any case change its key.
20:57 asciilifeform alternative can only be if someone (mircea_popescu ?) is willing to sit on a new key!
20:57 no_imagination mircea_popescu: read some of your stuff. is it fair to say you value BTC as a store of value and the rest is secondary?
20:57 * asciilifeform would rather it not be him. when he is killed key will fall into enemy hands.
20:57 BingoBoingo http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Advisory_OpenBSD_5_5_Local_Kernel_Panic.pdf
20:57 mircea_popescu no_imagination oversimplified. i mean... it's in the stuff you read, as short as it gets.
20:58 nubbins` which key is this
20:58 asciilifeform nubbins`: key for the mechanism which enabled bitcoind to nag users with warning text
20:58 no_imagination im all about simple
20:58 nubbins` right
20:58 nubbins` kill it
20:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4111 @ 0.00074124 = 3.0472 BTC [+]
20:58 asciilifeform that was my suggestion
20:59 nubbins` without mercy
20:59 Apocalyptic asciilifeform, I guess there's no much use to it nowadays
20:59 asciilifeform what use was there at any point for it?
20:59 mircea_popescu not particularly useful. i can live with my current key being used but would rather not and am definitely not making a different one.
20:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform a lot of this stuff is you know, "just in case"isms driven by the fact that a few years ago bitcoin was entirely a novel concept.
20:59 asciilifeform ehe.
21:00 mircea_popescu a lot of questions i can answer atm i couldn't even properly form in 2011, and im sure im not the only one.
21:00 joecool gavin has that key right?
21:00 Apocalyptic not only gavin
21:00 asciilifeform hitler has it
21:00 joecool ok cia too
21:00 mircea_popescu that emergency messaging thing was more of a "let's bake a p2p messaging app into the core because you don't know what will happen and it may be needed."
21:00 * asciilifeform doesn't much care who has it
21:00 Apocalyptic there is thermos and a third fellow i forgot
21:00 joecool buzzfeed.com
21:01 joecool "12 things you might be doing wrong with your bitcoin"
21:01 mircea_popescu Apocalyptic it was sirius not thermos no ?
21:01 Apocalyptic I've read from many sources thermos has it, but it could be wrong
21:01 bounce you need a keykeeper? what's the key do?
21:02 asciilifeform needed. and now nothing.
21:02 Apocalyptic midnightmagic may know
21:03 bounce oh, nag people. oh well. guess I'll have to keep at it here then.
21:04 mircea_popescu lol
21:05 midnightmagic the key is held by gavin. satoshi still has it. i don't know who else. I don't think anyone else.
21:05 mircea_popescu nah it was more people, before satoshi split.
21:06 thestringpuller theymos
21:07 midnightmagic hrm. there might be a k-of-n threshold split key now, it would make sense.
21:07 asciilifeform ;;later tell jurov was it you who was making the mailing list gizmo ?
21:07 gribble The operation succeeded.
21:08 mircea_popescu course at some point it had a bug where it kept a hash of the signature and so you could change the message around if you had an older key.
21:08 mircea_popescu an older signature* i mean
21:10 asciilifeform new seed nodes?
21:10 nubbins` lel
21:10 mircea_popescu huh ?
21:10 asciilifeform pnSeed[]
21:11 mircea_popescu o the fallbacks ?
21:11 * asciilifeform assumes everyone here has a copy of the src
21:11 mircea_popescu such a fucking kludge that.
21:11 mircea_popescu should be done away with
21:11 asciilifeform what'll it be then
21:13 mircea_popescu reads user provided config file
21:13 mircea_popescu if you don't supply bootstrap nodes you shouldn't be running it anyway.
21:14 asciilifeform 'Oh that will not do, said Milder to Moulder / Oh what will you do then said Festel to Fose / Great guns and great cannon said John the Red Nose ... '
21:15 asciilifeform does anyone give a rat's arse about builds other than 'unix' ?
21:15 mircea_popescu should run in cygwin.
21:16 asciilifeform lol, someone does this ?
21:17 mircea_popescu incidentally, the node discovery mechanism is a fucking hole of the first degree. all an attacker really needs to do is take control of the "last resort" ips and then supress "normal" peer discovery.
21:17 mircea_popescu certainly not outside the capabilities of the us, and a fine reason why stock bitcoin is not safe anyway.
21:17 asciilifeform or of 'showmyip.com'
21:17 mircea_popescu that wouldn't do anything.
21:17 bounce the windows build is a mingw build, no? kinda useful to be able to build that from linux
21:17 asciilifeform bounce: why would you dream of running bitcoin under winblows?
21:17 mircea_popescu bounce pretty sure it was mingw at some point, not sure if still
21:18 asciilifeform i can't think of any reason to do this
21:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform because underbanked, reasons and logics.
21:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: and we are to help them?
21:18 * bounce doesn't dream of that, but people do that stuff
21:18 asciilifeform people also eat shit
21:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform think about it, they're prolly running pirated windows, too.
21:18 bounce though if you're going to toss qt then perhaps there's a case to drop the whole windows thing
21:18 asciilifeform best windows.
21:19 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5650 @ 0.00074124 = 4.188 BTC [+]
21:19 nubbins` <+asciilifeform> does anyone give a rat's arse about builds other than 'unix' ? <<< makefile.osx is a steaming shit heap in 0.5.3 anyway. i'll offer a working one in the future if there's demand
21:19 asciilifeform most of the planet, i suspect, has never seen a 'legit' winblows
21:19 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> bounce: why would you dream of running bitcoin under winblows? << I imagine people may want to run relay nodes on Win for variety.
21:19 mircea_popescu and btw, someone has to fix all the fucking magic number fest in the node discovery mechanism
21:20 mircea_popescu it's nothing but add a week of this, substract 51 minutes of that, madness.
21:20 * asciilifeform was reading it just now
21:20 asciilifeform incidentally
21:20 mircea_popescu set this to 0 so that accidentally overloks it, it's written by drunk geese.
21:20 asciilifeform that's traditional malware code
21:20 asciilifeform ;;google domain generation algorithm
21:20 gribble Domain generation algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_generation_algorithm>; Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA) in Stealthy Malware - Damballa: <https://www.damballa.com/domain-generation-algorithms-dga-in-stealthy-malware/>; Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) - InfoSec Institute: <http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/domain- (1 more message)
21:20 TheNewDeal ;;seen Chaaaang-Noi
21:20 gribble Chaaaang-Noi was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 11 weeks, 4 days, 9 hours, 29 minutes, and 38 seconds ago: <Chaaaang-Noi> either never have time, or not have money....
21:20 asciilifeform ^ reminiscent
21:20 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i just meant the timestamping.
21:21 asciilifeform the 'randomize order in a deterministic way' thing
21:21 mircea_popescu heh yeah i guess you're right.
21:21 mircea_popescu it's a sickening display i tell you that.
21:22 * asciilifeform enjoying tour of sausage factory
21:22 asciilifeform http://pbfcomics.com/153 << obligatory
21:22 assbot The Perry Bible Fellowship
21:22 mircea_popescu more like a dildo factory, but hey.
21:22 mircea_popescu ;;google bitcoin was written by the retarded
21:22 gribble Bitcoin was written by the retarded, part II pe Trilema - Un blog de ...: <http://trilema.com/2014/bitcoin-was-written-by-the-retarded-part-ii/>; "Bitcoin's Place in the Coming Economic Crash" written by Evan ...: <http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/24l16i/bitcoins_place_in_the_coming_economic_crash/>; Bitcoin for dummies - Author walks users through how ... - Reddit: (1 more message)
21:22 nubbins` ha
21:23 asciilifeform this one here's one of them hollow glass dildos
21:23 asciilifeform liable to unexpected fragmentation.
21:23 mircea_popescu also, was there a special command line thing to add ips ?
21:24 mircea_popescu or was that taken out by .5 ?
21:24 mircea_popescu and is addr.txt still there ?
21:24 * mircea_popescu is not on a code reading system atm
21:25 bounce then you'll just have to wait for the book
21:25 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> also, was there a special command line thing to add ips ? connect and addnode persist in newer iterations
21:25 nubbins` bounce heh
21:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu is on playing Doom system?
21:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nah, on chick chit chatting system :D
21:26 nubbins` chick chit chat
21:26 mircea_popescu i suppose i should route it through chittaggong
21:28 * BingoBoingo gets the vibe Coinbase lacks coins to sell at any price https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2k2zr0/coinbase_is_in_trouble_but_its_their_own_damn/
21:28 assbot Coinbase is in trouble... but it's their own damn fault. : Bitcoin
21:28 mircea_popescu also, at least at some point there was explicit tor support in the code
21:28 mircea_popescu which also should go to bed.
21:28 asciilifeform incidentally...
21:28 asciilifeform which miners contain ftdi ?
21:28 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo well sure.
21:28 asciilifeform i know there were such.
21:29 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i don't think anyone made it to market ? i think just plans for.
21:29 asciilifeform folks who don't diddle electronics don't appreciate how ubiquitous ftdi is
21:29 mircea_popescu !up Evolyn
21:29 * nubbins` cheers the continued gutting
21:30 mircea_popescu less to print eh ?
21:30 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/10/pools-closed-for-crypto-money-expo/
21:30 assbot Pool's Closed For Crypto Money Expo | Qntra.net
21:31 nubbins` i hope there'll still be enough to fill a book ;/
21:31 mircea_popescu oh, also i nthe stupid pile : there used to exist a way to send coins by ip. it was a no-verification "tell me an address" special message.
21:31 cazalla and with that, i'm off to beach for a little
21:31 mircea_popescu inexplicably, the nonsense made it all the way to 5.
21:32 TheNewDeal kakobrekla has anything come of the pre-log logs allegedly held by Azelphur?
21:32 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu> oh, also i nthe stupid pile : there used to exist a way to send coins by ip. it was a no-verification "tell me an address" special message. << killed in 0.3.x series. one of Satoshis later acts
21:33 asciilifeform and apparently it is possible to get 'git' to cough up a plain unix patch.
21:33 asciilifeform so aficionados of this apparatus can use it to heart's delight
21:33 mircea_popescu http://qntra.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/01.jpg << me thinks is is like too fucking much to scrool through. but anyway.
21:34 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo oh was it ?
21:34 mircea_popescu well good then
21:34 nubbins` you will regret scrolling to the bottom
21:34 mircea_popescu am i entirely off base in my belief the habbo hotel thing is pretty much the last remaining, well known and well advertised child porn marketplace online ?
21:35 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: The story if I recall correctly was Satoshi said upgrade nao, and then later told everyone the patched vulnerability in pay to ip
21:35 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo now that you mention it im vaguely remembering this
21:38 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: it was the sort of mandate that only Satoshi or what USgavin wishes he was could push
21:38 nubbins` "follow the bit of the crypto coins"
21:38 nubbins` where do i send my $10k
21:38 kakobrekla TheNewDeal idk there were several efforts made so far in that direction by various entities and i dont think anything came out of it
21:38 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo well honestly, back around .3.x the atmosphere was quite different. i dunno who or why would not patch when satoshi said patch.
21:38 TheNewDeal going to need a meme for this. It's not in the logs?
21:39 mircea_popescu TheNewDeal "this" ?
21:39 TheNewDeal The pre-log logs
21:39 mircea_popescu lol
21:39 TheNewDeal I've been exposed to some
21:39 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Well it was still around 10kiloBTC pizza time
21:40 TheNewDeal someone once sent me a text file of the SD ipo
21:40 TheNewDeal I believe
21:40 TheNewDeal but they will remain mythical in my mind
21:40 mircea_popescu fun times.
21:40 mircea_popescu thing of it the good way : that much less log to read.
21:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 1600 @ 0.00074124 = 1.186 BTC [+]
21:41 TheNewDeal *back to penance*
21:41 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36500 @ 0.00074106 = 27.0487 BTC [-] {2}
21:41 * BingoBoingo has but a tiny bit of pre-log logs.
21:42 * kakobrekla confesses he misses nefario and prolly some others.
21:42 mircea_popescu **** BEGIN LOGGING AT Thu Apr 12 23:03:54 2012 << my first mention.
21:42 bounce <asciilifeform> which miners contain ftdi ? << no idea, but it wouldn't surprise me if the typical USB miner's USB interface is exactly that. then again, maybe best leave that to miner programs.
21:43 nubbins` http://worstcats.tumblr.com
21:43 TheNewDeal Chaaaang-Noi / goat never signed up for gpg , aye?
21:44 bounce also, git allows for generation of patches that're relatively easy to send over a ml then feed'em back to git.
21:44 TheNewDeal nubbins` not those slimy hippos again
21:44 nubbins` april 2012, that predates me by maybe 7 months
21:45 mircea_popescu i was in otc before that. and back in 2011/2012, -otc was pretty much like here.
21:45 kakobrekla lies
21:45 mircea_popescu then it... evaporated.
21:45 nubbins` otc is a ghost town
21:45 nubbins` like here, but without discussions
21:45 TheNewDeal lots of trolling tho
21:45 nubbins` and with noobs asking to buy $10 btc with ppusd
21:45 mircea_popescu is sturles still in that game ?
21:46 nubbins` yeah
21:46 nubbins` still around anyway
21:46 mircea_popescu incredible, that guy. he's been doing 10bux trades with noobs for what, 3-4 years ? all paypal. he must be married to thiel or something.
21:47 mircea_popescu no idea how he didn't get his accounts frozen.
21:47 mircea_popescu ;;rated sturles
21:47 gribble You rated user sturles on Sat Oct 29 01:49:37 2011, with a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: coupla deals over pp.
21:47 mircea_popescu one of the unsung heroes of bitcoin.
21:47 TheNewDeal nubbins` - cats out of the bag ! http://imgur.com/5T5nXXl
21:54 BingoBoingo Hello fivezerotwo
21:54 fivezerotwo Hello BingoBoingo
21:55 fivezerotwo ;;isup qntra.net
21:55 gribble qntra.net is up
21:55 fivezerotwo Meh, it's generally slow enough to be unusable.
21:55 BingoBoingo ;;isup Gribble
21:55 gribble Gribble is up
21:56 BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all
21:56 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 357.5, vol: 22227.78066240 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 355.564, vol: 7662.83937 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 357.89, vol: 37452.28542973 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 357.409811, vol: 67730.70380000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 368.36564, vol: 13.95253549 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 355.7179, vol: 147.48973354 | Volume-weighted last average: 357.452315111
21:57 BingoBoingo fivezerotwo: What, do you not like the new favicon?
21:58 fivezerotwo Oh, nice favicon.
21:58 BingoBoingo Thank you.
21:59 BingoBoingo fivezerotwo: May you pretty please let us become legit News Outlet++
22:00 fivezerotwo Heh. Oh, I have another job now, but I'll be back at Qntra soon (^.^)
22:00 Apocalyptic fwiw some DNS servers still don't resolve qntra.net, include mine
22:01 fivezerotwo That's doubtful, perhaps you got banned
22:02 Apocalyptic it's really not
22:04 BingoBoingo FU ebay and your local pickup only bullshit!!! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-19-SGI-Silicon-Graphics-XYR-Servers-and-Storage-Chassis-Units-Altix-Onyx/311115009699?_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D26942%26meid%3D26c12aa8df564c9292af44d0b8622bc1%26pid%3D100010%26prg%3D11184%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D24%26sd%3D161451319162
22:10 BingoBoingo Oh reddit agrees with mircea_popescu now, kind of https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2k3jpe/lets_not_be_dicks_to_victims_of_bitcoin_theft/clhzgbd
22:13 kakobrekla >Amen to that, entirely too many assholes in the cryptosphere these days. The entry barrier is no longer access to coins, or ability to mine. It is being able to deal with all the children and pricks that think they know it all and that their ideology are law.
22:13 kakobrekla lol
22:13 mircea_popescu jesus that lansky fellow is one boring fuck.
22:13 mircea_popescu i've had him shadowed for months now, he's not done anything. i don't even mean anything indictable, he's not done anything AT ALL
22:13 mircea_popescu how can these dorks live like that.
22:14 assbot Last 5 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/12AX4F3.txt )
22:14 BingoBoingo !b 5
22:15 mircea_popescu Apocalyptic what does it say ?
22:16 Apocalyptic mircea_popescu, can't resolve host, as you can see in https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/qntra.net , some DNS servers all around still didn't catch up
22:16 Apocalyptic not a really big deal
22:16 mircea_popescu australia mostly huh.
22:17 Apocalyptic western europe too, (the nodes are chosen randomly so we don't have the same ones probably)
22:18 asciilifeform !s lansky
22:18 assbot : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=lansky
22:18 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lawsky i mean. the ny derp.
22:18 asciilifeform aha
22:18 Apocalyptic but yeah Aus is pretty bad too
22:20 mircea_popescu i suppose the soa cache is the culprit.
22:21 mircea_popescu URL tested:http://qntra.net Test performed from:New York, NY Test performed at:2014-10-24 02:21:20 (GMT +00:00) Resolved As:23.235.236.98 Status:OK Response Time:0.604 sec DNS:0.241 sec Connect:0.091 sec Redirect:0.000 sec First byte:0.091 sec Last byte:0.181 sec Size:35273 bytes
22:22 mircea_popescu i dun see the problem, most of the internet takes more than a second
22:22 BingoBoingo soa = School of Ass???
22:22 mircea_popescu http://gtmetrix.com/reports/qntra.net/gOCNpLYe 99% 97% w/e that means.
22:23 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo state of authority record
22:23 mircea_popescu start*
22:23 mircea_popescu http://www.webpagetest.org/result/141024_34_5MM/ << also comes out good
22:24 mircea_popescu no idea what the 502 guy is about.
22:24 asciilifeform http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=assbot&sign=ANY&type=RECV << never authed?
22:24 asciilifeform am i missing something
22:24 nubbins` ;;google scissorfight planet of ass
22:24 gribble Scissorfight - "Planet of Ass" - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqzy0JK9-p0>; SCISSORFIGHT planet of ass - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GA1HPBNtn4>; Planet Of Ass - Dark Lyrics: <http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/scissorfight/guaranteedkill.html>
22:24 nubbins` last authed 08-13
22:25 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why would assbot auth anyway ?
22:26 asciilifeform damned if i know
22:27 nubbins` http://i.imgur.com/G8DdQpS.jpg
22:28 BingoBoingo %p
22:28 atcbot >> No data returned from CoinMiner.net << [PityThePool Hashrate]: 513.11 GH/s [iSpace Pool Hashrate]: 1.73 TH/s [P2P Hashrate]: 0.00 TH/s
22:28 kakobrekla asciilifeform iirc last gribble auth was when nicks were changed, it does auth to nickserv though
22:29 asciilifeform aha
22:29 kakobrekla keeping the key on the server would defeat the purpose of key?
22:29 asciilifeform who said to keep it there, lol
22:30 * asciilifeform peers into abyss, contempating evil assbot and gribble
22:30 asciilifeform *contemplating
22:30 mircea_popescu undiscovered ?
22:31 asciilifeform undiscovered enough to fuck with some heads
22:31 mircea_popescu like how'd it go ?
22:31 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Well kakobrekla just did heart surgery...
22:32 * asciilifeform if knew - would demonstrate now
22:33 mircea_popescu i guess we find out.
22:33 kakobrekla speaking of assbot, just pushed a patch and going for reset
22:37 kakobrekla !s lansky
22:39 kakobrekla http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2014#891961
22:39 assbot Logged on 24-10-2014 00:00:08; midnightmagic: jurov: quantum tunnelling doesn't and can't happen for macroscopic objects like that. quantum wave functions are sometimes bounded asymptotically in position.
22:39 kakobrekla http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2014#891961
22:39 assbot Logged on 24-10-2014 00:00:08; midnightmagic: jurov: quantum tunnelling doesn't and can't happen for macroscopic objects like that. quantum wave functions are sometimes bounded asymptotically in position.
22:40 kakobrekla http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=lansky
22:42 kakobrekla !s lansky
22:42 assbot 6 results for 'lansky' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=lansky
22:42 kakobrekla aha
22:42 asciilifeform let's fire that again: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2014#889092
22:42 assbot Logged on 22-10-2014 22:05:36; asciilifeform: http://zeptobars.ru/en/read/FTDI-FT232RL-real-vs-fake-supereal << entirely different silicon. from this we learn!! that a) they copied it because usb id is charged for by rent-seeking scumz0rs b) winblows includes ftdi driver already. relationship with microshit. so chinese were forced into this.
22:43 decimation sigh log is down
22:43 kakobrekla use mirror
22:43 decimation yeah I did. is it being ddosed?
22:43 asciilifeform re: ftdi, microshit, usb phoundation:
22:43 asciilifeform !s the air seller
22:43 assbot 4 results for 'the air seller' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=the+air+seller
22:43 kakobrekla yeah, say thanks to somenumberasletters guy
22:44 decimation wait, so if windows includes driver, this will only hurt those who use an 'aftermarket' driver?
22:44 decimation or did this get pushed in a windows update?
22:44 asciilifeform decimation: traditional ftdi chip, for no particularly good reason, is reflashable in-band.
22:44 decimation yeah, most usb turds seem to be
22:45 asciilifeform and, afaik, no wp pin on any of them
22:45 asciilifeform Because It Would Be Wrong (TM)
22:45 decimation or 'fuse'
22:45 decimation wait, why would it be wrong to put a wp pin?
22:45 joecool is cardano project still active?
22:45 BingoBoingo kakobrekla: By thanks you mean make sausage of?
22:45 asciilifeform joecool: yes.
22:45 asciilifeform joecool: see mircea_popescu's site for monthly reports.
22:45 decimation like, it would be unflashable by idiots?
22:45 mircea_popescu ;;isup log1.bitcoin-assets.com
22:45 gribble log1.bitcoin-assets.com is up
22:45 joecool asciilifeform: thanks
22:46 kakobrekla BingoBoingo the letters are right next to each other.
22:46 mircea_popescu decimation how is it down ?
22:46 decimation I can't get to it
22:46 decimation lemme check why
22:46 mircea_popescu !up JimDowJones
22:46 asciilifeform decimation: if the chinese had simply copied the die, as folks often do, the vulnerability would be no surprise. but instead they reimplemented the thing bug-for-bug.
22:46 asciilifeform from scratch.
22:47 decimation I can't ping it, it resolves to 178.62.254.13
22:47 mircea_popescu joecool yeah. http://trilema.com/category/snsa/
22:47 asciilifeform simple enough best, so there was no real need to make electron micrograph and laboriously reverse the mask
22:47 decimation asciilifeform: lol
22:47 decimation so they exploited their own bugs?
22:47 asciilifeform they simply took the spec & reimplemented.
22:47 BingoBoingo http://moderncuriosity.com/images/ohullothere.gif
22:47 mircea_popescu decimation that's fucking weird.
22:47 asciilifeform decimation: they exploited their own 'don't care' bits.
22:49 decimation asciilifeform: if it's an exact duplicate, how do they differentiate it from legit chips?
22:49 mircea_popescu asciilifeform from wqhat i understand the problem is that they didn';t copy bug for bug. in that they write even bits, the original does not
22:49 BingoBoingo decimation: None of the clones are actual duplicates, they just "borrow" scarce usb id number
22:49 TheNewDeal !up RagnarsBitch
22:49 decimation ah I see
22:50 BingoBoingo decimation: Not even a real counterfeit problem so much as not enough ID numbers problem
22:50 mircea_popescu this is a case of, broken implementation uses its own brokenness to deny things to better competitors
22:50 decimation but presumably the reimplemented devices are 'close enough' for the standard ftdi driver to work?
22:51 mircea_popescu decimation the original only writes bytes in pair. sane implementation write bytes as presented
22:51 mircea_popescu thus the hack makes the sane implementation null itself and fixes the checksum too, while the original ignores both operations because not two bytes involved.
22:52 decimation it certainly seems to me that any owner of the chinese copies has a good basis for a lawsuit
22:52 mircea_popescu what, "unauthorised access to a computer system" ?
22:53 decimation exactly
22:53 mircea_popescu that's like "wmd"s and "terrorism". can only be used one way.
22:53 mircea_popescu tho a high court of justice held in serbia, hanging bush jr and co would be a fun sight.
22:54 decimation did you guys see the uk law idea balloon? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/22/serious_crime_bill_computer_misuse_national_security_life_in_prison/
22:54 decimation I assume that's the phrase you were referencing mircea
22:55 mircea_popescu the uk is such a lulzfest by now.
22:56 decimation yeah it's more american than the us
22:57 mircea_popescu the cheek of them fuckers, anyway. so wait, governments hacking individual phones is a ok, individuals exposing the lies of governments is life in prison ?
22:57 mircea_popescu how about fuck you, rogue state ?
22:58 decimation yeah, that's over the top
22:58 mircea_popescu the only crime is working for a government.
22:58 decimation I can't see how normal people see this anything other than bureaucrats covering themselves, rather than doing anything in 'the people's' interest
22:58 mircea_popescu murder is not in and of itself comparable. neither is rape. certainly not theft.
22:58 decimation so why isn't ftdi management going to jail
22:59 mircea_popescu right.
22:59 decimation I guess the important part is that bureaucrats keep their jobs, not that owners keep their property
23:00 mircea_popescu there's no way out, the "western world" must burn.
23:01 mircea_popescu and that specifically includes "the countries", ie, governments and their minions. it doth not include "the people" as such.
23:06 TomServo u
23:06 joecool no u
23:07 mircea_popescu &urmom
23:07 gribble Error: "urmom" is not a valid command.
23:08 decimation last night it occured to me - what if someone took over a botnet and then used it to - create bitcoin nodes
23:08 asciilifeform again, the whole ftdi boobytrap - just another little proggy for microshit virus os.
23:09 asciilifeform decimation: what, precisely, would this accomplish?
23:09 decimation that little scoreboard page could register your custom string :)
23:09 asciilifeform speaking of which.
23:10 asciilifeform someone wants to suggest string?
23:10 decimation well, I like the idea of taking back 'bitcoin foundation', but I find it likely to confuse
23:10 asciilifeform who exactly is part of this perverse digression anyway
23:11 decimation I might contribute a patch or two if the ball is rolling
23:12 joecool woah i just had a DoD ip try to get into my gmail
23:12 joecool 33.40.41.69 <
23:12 asciilifeform tripped the alarm?
23:12 joecool i guess
23:12 joecool yeah "suspicious sign in prevented"
23:13 decimation might have been a misconfigured router somewhere
23:13 mircea_popescu now im curious
23:14 asciilifeform chumpnet node, snore
23:19 asciilifeform I find it likely to confuse << who said to call it a phoundation?
23:19 asciilifeform and is there a name, anyway?
23:20 mircea_popescu moreover, there's good confusion and bad confusion.
23:20 mircea_popescu like for instance, when a 16 yo gets her first boyfriend, who is an alcoholic shithead,
23:20 mircea_popescu and then they finally break up and the sane 2nd guy calls himself ALSO a boyfriend
23:20 mircea_popescu the confusion thus created is positive. it's the confusion that precedes the move from sheer idiocy to sanity.
23:21 mircea_popescu so in this sense, creating confusion with the current bitcoin foundation is the best thing that can happen, short of the entire group of shitheads spontaenously combusting in a flame of shit.
23:21 asciilifeform eh, this is like jamming radio
23:21 asciilifeform shouting contest
23:21 mircea_popescu exactly.
23:22 asciilifeform how is this a good thing ?
23:22 mircea_popescu the idea is for people to be able to go "i support the bitcoin foundation" and for derps to go oh, this thing ? and for people to lol superiorly at their cluelessness.
23:22 mircea_popescu this is how derps learn. by finding themselves in a situation where the people they aim to impress laugh at their cluelessness.
23:22 mircea_popescu without this, they have no motivation.
23:23 asciilifeform so are we going for an avignon papacy ?
23:24 mircea_popescu no, we are going for the roman papacy.
23:24 mircea_popescu this current avignon bullshit has run its course.
23:24 asciilifeform there's a fat arse parked at rome already
23:24 asciilifeform how to dislodge?
23:24 mircea_popescu personally, i dun see it.
23:24 decimation generally this takes a french army
23:24 mircea_popescu the rest is just claims. people can claim whatever they like.
23:26 BingoBoingo Pope on a rope?
23:26 asciilifeform rope-a-pope.
23:27 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2CEKYWC.txt )
23:27 BingoBoingo !b 2
23:30 decimation asciilifeform: I can think of a use for a collection of zombie nodes: discover other nodes and relay transactions
23:30 asciilifeform decimation: the folks who do this now, what do they gain from it ?
23:30 asciilifeform what kind of secret, exactly, is the existence of a node ?
23:31 decimation one might be able to pinpoint the generation of a new block
23:31 asciilifeform !s sybil attack
23:31 assbot 16 results for 'sybil attack' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=sybil+attack
23:31 mod6 wb
23:32 mircea_popescu myeah. ty.
23:34 TheNewDeal ;;gpg info creativex
23:34 gribble No such user registered.
23:38 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the name collision gambit - how far to take it? are we to carry on the entire papal court thing?
23:39 mircea_popescu how do you mean ?
23:39 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: that is, the ridiculous meatspace org thing
23:39 decimation copyrast lol http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/24/remember_aereo_no_well_its_pretty_much_dead_now/
23:40 asciilifeform the current phoundation rolls in coin of mysterious (or not-so-mysterious) origin, this powers a certain amount of 'loud shout' idiocy
23:40 decimation I'm not sure they are worth the dignifying with targeting
23:40 mircea_popescu i personally don't give a shit. my thinking is, if im making a backloading hoe, i shall name my backloading hoe a backloading hoe. sure, someone may or may not exist figuring his hoe is THE backloading hoe. this does not interest me. if he has already built a "backhoe loading palace" or not, if and when i feel like building a backhoe loading palace, i shall call it... guess ?
23:40 TheNewDeal did anyone else (like goat or theymos) get in trouble a la http://bitbet.us/bet/486/james-gibson-aka-gigavps-to-be-named-as/ ?
23:40 mircea_popescu the only way to avoid this is being in my wot. which the derps in question are not. so therefore they do not exist.
23:41 mircea_popescu ;;google trilema nefario, theymos, others known and unknown
23:41 gribble Scammer tag : Nefario, theymos, others known and unknown - Trilema: <http://trilema.com/2012/scammer-tag-nefario-theymos-others-known-and-unknown/>; Octombrie 2012 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2012/10>; Bitcoin pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/bitcoin/>
23:42 asciilifeform !s the problem of enforcement
23:42 assbot 1 results for 'the problem of enforcement' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=the+problem+of+enforcement
23:43 TheNewDeal mp, was that a response to my 'spergily timed question?
23:43 mircea_popescu TheNewDeal yeah ?
23:43 asciilifeform who, if anyone, owns the meatspace trademarks anyway ?
23:43 TheNewDeal gracias
23:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform believe it or not... mtgox!
23:44 asciilifeform lol!
23:44 mircea_popescu bewcause the fucktards in question decided it's best to give it to a "safe company"
23:44 * asciilifeform somehow misses this
23:44 mircea_popescu i even said in the log, a year or so ago, now it will be bought off a bankruptcy auction
23:44 mircea_popescu herpy-derp and a bottle of cum.
23:44 asciilifeform that'll be the day.
23:45 mircea_popescu yeah, that'll be the day trademark enforceability ends.
23:45 decimation asciilifeform: no one ones "bitcon foundation"
23:45 decimation but I think a trademark must be used.. in trade
23:45 mircea_popescu decimation you can't register X "foundation" aganst the owner of X.
23:45 decimation yeah, it would probably be a court case
23:46 decimation if one lawyered carefully, one could make annoying
23:46 thestringpuller http://trilema.com/2012/security-comparison-of-bitcoin-denominated-instruments-exchanges/ << lol
23:46 mircea_popescu back in 2012 huh.
23:47 decimation asciilifeform: I suggest 'xbtd'
23:47 asciilifeform barf
23:47 decimation heh
23:47 decimation it probably collides anyway
23:48 TheNewDeal ok I understand James McCarthy took the hit for glbse, and got banished to his parents basement for eternity
23:48 TheNewDeal and a scammer tag or two was handed out
23:48 TheNewDeal but did anyone go to jail, get fined by sec, etc?
23:48 thestringpuller ;;gettrust Nefario
23:49 gribble WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user thestringpuller to user Nefario: Level 1: 0, Level 2: -1 via 4 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=thestringpuller&dest=Nefario | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Nefario | Rated since: Tue Jul 12 22:55:49 2011
23:49 TheNewDeal ;;gpg info Nefario
23:49 gribble User 'nefario', with keyid 28DD49E2A68F4B7C, fingerprint 03B47461C1E526576917215728DD49E2A68F4B7C, and bitcoin address None, registered on Tue Jul 12 02:17:47 2011, last authed on Thu Sep 27 07:05:00 2012. http://b-otc.com/vg?nick=nefario . Currently not authenticated.
23:49 asciilifeform TheNewDeal: glbse was 'yi yi zhi yi' and therefore legally untouchable.
23:50 asciilifeform !s yi yi zhi yi
23:50 assbot 6 results for 'yi yi zhi yi' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=yi+yi+zhi+yi
23:50 TheNewDeal in a very straight line?
23:50 asciilifeform no.
23:50 thestringpuller running through a WoT graph
23:50 thestringpuller and wow some of the names that pop up when you go back in time
23:51 * asciilifeform did not invent pinyin, is not to blame for it
23:51 asciilifeform or wait, what
23:51 TheNewDeal I see the reference now - control the barbarians using barbarians
23:51 asciilifeform e.g., mtgox
23:51 thestringpuller PatrickHarnett: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=PatrickHarnett&sign=ANY&type=RECV ; Kludge the banker: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=PatrickHarnett&sign=ANY&type=RECV
23:51 asciilifeform !s anarchotyranny
23:51 assbot 0 results for 'anarchotyranny' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=anarchotyranny
23:51 asciilifeform eh.
23:52 TheNewDeal so weird to see stuff like copumpkin giving the guy a 4, then everyone else negrating?
23:52 TheNewDeal -?
23:52 TheNewDeal +.
23:53 mircea_popescu i doubt copumpkin is keeping much track anymore
23:53 asciilifeform glbse, mtgox - folks who are doing 'god's work' from usg point of view will not be molested by usg.
23:53 decimation lol perhaps the name 'gaijin' keeping with the japanese theme
23:53 asciilifeform (unless they fail to play ball at some point)
23:53 TheNewDeal but james did get bannished to his childhood bedroom
23:53 thestringpuller ^- which james?
23:53 thestringpuller giga?
23:54 TheNewDeal mccarthy?
23:54 thestringpuller oh nefario
23:54 TheNewDeal nefariolol
23:54 thestringpuller http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=gigavps << anyone know what happened to that guy?
23:55 TheNewDeal all the talk about old people and namworld runs off?
23:55 asciilifeform obligatory - http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939 << my first excretion on the subject, inspired by glbse
23:58 decimation asciilifeform: what was the name of that soviet agent who was like 'james bond'
23:59 asciilifeform ???
23:59 TheNewDeal stanislav
23:59 TheNewDeal I believe
23:59 decimation I can't find it in the logs, you mentioned him months ago
23:59 asciilifeform wtf even means 'like james bond'. everyone he fucked died same day?
23:59 decimation fictional character
23:59 asciilifeform well certainly
00:00 decimation as in, pop spy
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