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00:00 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> catch is, you have to... burn the world. << How many people here are seriously opposed to this condition
00:01 asciilifeform for instance, in the '70s, when there was an understanding that a computer is purchased and comes with own os, and your own men will write literally everything else (often including os) that will ever run on it, until it goes to the scrapyard -
00:01 asciilifeform there was a plethora of interestingly-different machine architectures.
00:01 asciilifeform e.g., cdc 6600
00:02 asciilifeform the lisp machines (xerox and mit branches of the evolutionary trees, different in many interesting ways)
00:02 asciilifeform the early crays
00:02 asciilifeform then folks began to 'depend on things'
00:02 asciilifeform and increasingly, 'hysterical raisins' became primary justification for all engineering decisions re: computer.
00:04 BingoBoingo Shhhhh, you are about to spoil the part where the hittites surprise pete_d with iron weapns
00:04 asciilifeform this is in many ways a process analogous to ordinary senescence.
00:05 BingoBoingo Ordinary only in pathophysiology, not in affect
00:05 asciilifeform people age, and empires - and the 'computer we know' isn't really a separate animal from the u.s. empire.
00:05 asciilifeform there were computers once, among the people of the east.
00:05 asciilifeform !s trinary
00:06 assbot 7 results for 'trinary' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=trinary
00:06 asciilifeform then they decided they like w4r3z rather too much
00:06 asciilifeform to bother with own computers.
00:07 asciilifeform why go through the grind of developing world from scratch, they thought, when you can l33ch l33t w4r3z like a pr0 in 21 days
00:08 BingoBoingo ANd thus began the legend of niggers.txt
00:08 mircea_popescu lol
00:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19900 @ 0.00073016 = 14.5302 BTC [+] {2}
00:11 BingoBoingo The problem is encountering the actual mythical good is always a dissapointment.
00:12 asciilifeform the kid who gets his first fuck - also disappointed
00:13 asciilifeform ars longa, when you catch, kill, and dress the unicorn, can go after loch ness monster and many other prey.
00:14 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> the kid who gets his first fuck - also disappointed << rly ?!
00:15 mircea_popescu <BingoBoingo> Shhhhh, you are about to spoil the part where the hittites surprise pete_d with iron weapns << the hittites never had iron. you're thinking the franks.
00:16 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Maybe the Assyrians? Some sort of Turk turnt out the Jew bronze with their Iron.
00:16 decimation re: design space << so part of the problem with "C" is that it tends to occupy this mental design space rapidly
00:18 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/no-such-labs-snsa-october-2014-statement/
00:18 assbot No Such lAbs (S.NSA), October 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
00:18 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo the franks.
00:18 mircea_popescu "the iron! my god, the iron!" spoken in italia by the degenerate successors of the latins.
00:19 decimation what about 'damascus steel'?
00:19 mircea_popescu much later.
00:19 mircea_popescu franks are a 800ad affair.
00:19 mircea_popescu allah had been barely invented yet
00:19 BingoBoingo <decimation> what about 'damascus steel'? << 4 digit number of years innovation
00:19 mircea_popescu at the joseph smith stage yet.
00:20 decimation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel << " From the 3rd century to the 17th century, India was shipping steel ingots to the Middle East.[14]"
00:20 assbot Damascus steel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
00:20 mircea_popescu dunno what sort of steel they were shipping in 3ad.
00:21 mircea_popescu 300*
00:21 decimation yeah I think it was more "steel" than steel
00:21 mircea_popescu swords are like computers - they only work for some grades of si
00:21 mircea_popescu sand not acceptble.
00:22 mircea_popescu anyway, tardpedia's fascination with the east and white-hating notwithstanding, steel is a western invention.
00:22 asciilifeform invention - yes
00:23 asciilifeform primitives succeeded in making steels of a kind, from naturally carboniferous wootz traded along, e.g., silk road
00:23 asciilifeform but metallurgy - is white man's magic.
00:23 asciilifeform protest of japanophiles notwithstanding
00:23 decimation yeah I saw some documentary about japanese sword-making - that steel is closer to steel, but nowhere near modern quality
00:24 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> primitives succeeded in making steels of a kind, from naturally carboniferous wootz traded along, e.g., silk road << Wootz yes, low hanging fruit. When I read Damascus though I think laminate forging process
00:24 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in fairnes, the gypsies did show real talent in working with zamak,
00:24 mircea_popescu so much so they got dragged all over to europe by various turkic people.
00:24 mircea_popescu but zamak is still zamak.
00:24 asciilifeform aha
00:24 asciilifeform gotta fix those pots & pans.
00:24 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo that's post-byzantine conquest. strictly.
00:25 decimation the turks conquered Byzantium and then headed east?
00:25 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Of course, but also the product normally refered to now as "Damascus" steel
00:25 mircea_popescu nah.
00:25 mircea_popescu decimation the golden crescent is this pulsing heart of human civilisaiton.
00:25 asciilifeform see also: булат.
00:25 mircea_popescu the most recent pulse went in all directions, just about to india.
00:25 mircea_popescu it run into a hard wall at constantinople
00:26 mircea_popescu but eventually overcame it.
00:27 mircea_popescu (with hungarian cannons)
00:27 BingoBoingo "Historical" Dracula
00:27 asciilifeform !s drakula
00:27 assbot 21 results for 'drakula' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=drakula
00:27 mircea_popescu nah, unrelated.
00:27 mircea_popescu was some sort of columbus of metallurgy. little is known.
00:27 asciilifeform not related at all.
00:28 asciilifeform 'hedgehog marches in fog, with rifle on his shoulder.' 'not funny, but at least it's about the war!'
00:30 mircea_popescu come to think about it : the original siege cannon was carried by two dozen oxen, fired twice a day, had to be cooled with hlf a ton of oil and exploded every two weeks killing everyone around
00:30 mircea_popescu yet asciilifeform bitches about c.
00:30 asciilifeform and gypsies worked in tin, lead, no possible zamac
00:30 mircea_popescu tin, tin.
00:30 asciilifeform (Al being a creature of modernity.)
00:30 asciilifeform cannon aficionados should also think about chinese & korean leather cannon.
00:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in romanian it's how you say "base metal" generally.
00:31 decimation http://video.pbs.org/video/1150578495/ << said documentary with a demonstration of Japanese steel-making
00:31 assbot Video: Secrets of the Samurai Sword | Watch NOVA Online | PBS Video
00:31 asciilifeform it was more or less guaranteed to rupture at one point, killing crew
00:31 mircea_popescu asciilifeform tatara comes from... guess ?
00:31 mircea_popescu and they got it from... guess ?
00:31 asciilifeform ahaha
00:32 mircea_popescu myeah.
00:32 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> (Al being a creature of modernity.) << Elemental Al was accessible to ancients... at lightining strike sites
00:32 mircea_popescu not saying they didn't get very good at it, they did.
00:33 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: and pure Fe, and Ir, etc. from meteorites.
00:33 BingoBoingo Indeed
00:33 BingoBoingo but the later easier to refine and heavier.
00:33 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: not much of these in actual archaeological practice, iirc
00:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform actually the mediteranean people volcanoes prolly more than meteorites.
00:34 BingoBoingo A light shiny metal, Napoleon commisioned Aluminum flatware.
00:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ditto amerinds
00:34 mircea_popescu which is why vulcan lives underground not in the sky
00:34 asciilifeform (e.g., obsidian)
00:34 * asciilifeform still waiting for obsidian terroristknives
00:35 BingoBoingo obsidian conparatively common though. Aluminum might as well have been mythiril though
00:35 asciilifeform the ancients would've laughed at Al.
00:35 BingoBoingo * asciilifeform still waiting for obsidian terroristknives << DO you have a budget in mind?
00:35 mircea_popescu lmao
00:35 asciilifeform pretty damn useless metal, unless you can churn it out by the megatonne
00:36 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> the ancients would've laughed at Al. BUt in the 18th and 19th centuries only nobels had aluminium helmets
00:36 asciilifeform didn't really shine until aeronautics made folks itch for just it
00:36 asciilifeform helmets << spoons
00:36 BingoBoingo Still, how many obsiadian terroist knives, at what dimension, and in what quantity?
00:37 asciilifeform for folks outside of usa, good story re: Al: in washington d.c., there is an enormous obelisk, 'washington monument.' it is tipped with a small pyramid of precious aluminum.
00:37 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo actually, they didn't come up with duralumin
00:37 asciilifeform (extracted chemically at bowel-loosening expense)
00:37 mircea_popescu which is what limited its early use
00:37 asciilifeform aha
00:37 asciilifeform more or less no one uses pure Al for anything today.
00:37 decimation I believe that aluminum is part of the british crown jewels too
00:38 mircea_popescu "it is not rare to see a palpable (and all the more so for its unpredictability) delay between pressing a key and the drawing of a symbol on the screen." << i have never seen this.
00:39 decimation re: obsidian knives << if you want to go this route, just find some local flint and start chipping
00:39 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ms word much?
00:39 mircea_popescu part of the reason perhaps being that if i had, i'd start bludgeoning the machine into the ground.
00:39 mircea_popescu i think i had wordperfect on msdos
00:39 mircea_popescu or was it wordstar maybe ?
00:39 mircea_popescu word-something. like coin-* today
00:39 BingoBoingo http://www.finescience.com/Special-Pages/Products.aspx?ProductId=296&CategoryId=56&lang=en-US << Obsidian terrorist knife
00:39 assbot Obsidian Scalpels - Micro Knives - Scalpels & Blades - Product Overview - Fine Science Tools
00:39 decimation I distinctly remember seeing word on windows and thinking it was a huge step back from wordperfect on dos
00:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: that particular piece was written while waiting for a locked-up msword turd on a usg slavemachine, also running mandatory usg antivirus, which wedged the disk
00:40 mircea_popescu ah well
00:40 BingoBoingo decimation> re: obsidian knives << if you want to go this route, just find some local flint and start chipping << Flint =/= obsidian
00:41 BingoBoingo Also premier material for shaping flint, antler
00:41 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> more or less no one uses pure Al for anything today. << /me may use for heat...
00:41 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: glass scalpel << of late i have made much use of carbide cutting tools on lathe, which come with similar warnings.
00:41 asciilifeform (brittle as all fuck, cannot tolerate lateral force much at all)
00:42 BingoBoingo Exactly
00:42 decimation yeah I would be pretty scared to operate on someone with a glass blade
00:42 mircea_popescu "Recently, I devoted several sleepless nights to this problem. Why is it that our computers are getting faster and faster yet we are using them more and more to render things generated on some distant server? And it’s still slow!" <<< average bovine is comforted by the second delay.
00:42 mircea_popescu it has time to think^H blink, damnit.
00:42 BingoBoingo Compare to a modern blade made with powder sintered S30V steel http://www.cutleryshoppe.com/gerberapplegate-fairbairncovertautomatic-cpm-530v-378blackcomboedgeblade.aspx
00:42 assbot Gerber 30-000137 Applegate-Fairbairn Covert AUTOMATIC - CPM-S30V - 3.78" Black Combo Edge Blade
00:43 BingoBoingo <decimation> yeah I would be pretty scared to operate on someone with a glass blade << In an MRI tube what else can you use? Interventional radiology is lucrative
00:44 asciilifeform time to think^H blink << 'The lights must never go out, The music must always play..., Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night, Who have never been happy or good.'
00:44 decimation well, aluminium isn't magnetic right?
00:44 BingoBoingo decimation, depends on magnet size
00:45 mircea_popescu http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html quoted just to make stan bleed from the eyes.
00:45 assbot Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth - Joel on Software
00:45 asciilifeform bled already, done
00:45 asciilifeform tiresome wankers linked it in my comments maybe 15 times
00:45 mircea_popescu decimation that would have been the fucking moment of truth for the cataphract : when someone turned on a giant magnet
00:45 mircea_popescu sort-of equivalent to the moment when archimedes turned on the mirrors.
00:46 decimation lol
00:46 asciilifeform this actually plays out, as written, in an episode of disney's 'duck tales' i saw translated as a boy
00:46 mircea_popescu In fact there are lots of great reasons for bloatware. For one, if programmers don't have to worry about how large their code is, they can ship it sooner. And that means you get more features, and features make your life better (when you use them) and don't usually hurt (when you don't).
00:46 asciilifeform and, unless i'm hallucinating it, in 'connecticut yankee in king arthur's court'
00:47 mircea_popescu ahahaha i feel so dirrrrty
00:47 mircea_popescu check me out im a quotation slut.
00:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform listen : if coders didn't have to worry about whether THEIR PROGRAM EVEN HALTS
00:47 mircea_popescu they could ship it right now!
00:48 asciilifeform aha.
00:48 decimation I blame fiat.
00:48 mircea_popescu as joel well points out, we got a mental problem. no comprende como sheeping works.
00:49 decimation it allows everyone to pass the buck up to the assignat printing press
00:49 mircea_popescu "and the loss to the software company that has to give up two months of sales is even worse." << dat logic. so if i have sex for the first time today, rather than next week, i gain a full week of first time sexings.
00:50 decimation writing nearly perfect code is possible, but anyone who tries loses in the market by those who 'get there first' writing crap
00:50 mircea_popescu that's mostly his argument.
00:50 decimation right, the point to realize is that the market is broken
00:51 BingoBoingo And yet... What firewall beats pf atm?
00:51 decimation I remember the original netscape - it was a pile of shit
00:52 mircea_popescu every browser was a pile of shit.
00:52 asciilifeform pioneered the modern shitpile, yes
00:52 mircea_popescu it's a wonder the internet even stil exists.
00:52 asciilifeform masters of turdatronics, went on to Great Things
00:52 mircea_popescu in fact, the history of the internet and the browser narrowly mimicks the history of bitcoin
00:52 mircea_popescu powerful idea, badly implemented by idiots.
00:53 asciilifeform microscope.
00:53 decimation yeah that's a scary parallel
00:53 asciilifeform 'Bitcoin interests me as an obvious example of a technological jewel tossed around aimlessly by the brutal hands of cave men. I can’t help but picture a flashlight or a radio set, left behind in the wilderness by geologists, to be picked up later by some Stone Age aboriginals; to be fought over and worshiped. Until the batteries run out.' -- your truly
00:54 mircea_popescu decimation just think, what they were. remember... lycos ?
00:54 mircea_popescu altavista ?
00:54 decimation lol yeah
00:54 mircea_popescu search engine yo! internet wallets!
00:54 decimation the only reason google 'took off' was the fact that their competitors sucked
00:54 mircea_popescu someone actually thought that "yahoo" is a sane string to associate to your busines.
00:55 mircea_popescu it's a fucking derrogatory, it's almost like calling bitcoin's media company "cunt, raw"
00:55 mircea_popescu uh wait.
00:55 mircea_popescu somethingelse.
00:55 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3T2A22J.txt )
00:55 BingoBoingo !b 3
00:55 asciilifeform 'yahoo' << 'houyhnhnm' just doesn't have the same ring.
00:55 decimation as I recall the netscape was pretty much just a ripoff of mosaic
00:56 mircea_popescu notrly, mosaic almost worked
00:56 asciilifeform since we're on the subject of www,
00:56 asciilifeform http://www.cl-http.org:8001/cl-http/history.html
00:56 assbot CL-HTTP History
00:56 asciilifeform ^ not turd. why? didn't have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms.
00:58 decimation asciilifeform: it is sad that the pauper's computers 'won' in the long run
00:58 mircea_popescu http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000019.html << ahh the good old days!
00:58 assbot How Many Lies Can You Find In One Direct Mail Piece? - Joel on Software
00:58 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> ^ not turd. why? didn't have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms. << What, some people actually operate this way...
00:58 mircea_popescu It says that it's from Sky Dayton (founder of Earthlink) although it is actually from Earthlink's direct marketing department. I can just see the thought going through the copy writer's head. "People won't open it unless it's from someone they know, and everyone knows Sky Dayton!"
00:58 mircea_popescu anyone still know virgin atlantic branson dayton w/e his name was ?
00:59 BingoBoingo Richard Branson?
00:59 decimation asciilifeform: it's certain that there was some government meeting where the cl-http server was regarded as 'obsolete' because it wasn't compatible with frontpage or whatever
00:59 mircea_popescu right.
01:00 asciilifeform decimation: mallery ported it to reasonably-standard common lisps. so it did not die with symbolics corp. however, he stuck a rather asinine license on it.
01:00 decimation mircea_popescu: he has a business model similar to bitcoin miners: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/05/virgin-galactic-seatholders-ask-for-refund-on-tickets
01:00 assbot Some Virgin Galactic seatholders ask for refund on tickets after crash | Science | The Guardian
01:00 asciilifeform this was not the lethal pill, but didn't help.
01:01 mircea_popescu decimation well at least he knows how to make a small fortune.
01:01 asciilifeform incidentally, my little birds whisper to me that he now owns symbolics tech. co.
01:01 asciilifeform and is an nsa stooge.
01:01 mircea_popescu see, here's the thing : we had these idiots in romania, too. the sort that could be millionaires as long as the public treasury poured a billion or two in theior pants
01:01 asciilifeform (mallery. not branson)
01:01 mircea_popescu with some regularity.
01:01 asciilifeform but similar.
01:01 decimation wonder what the nsa would do with ancient lisp machines
01:01 asciilifeform it's no secret what they do.
01:01 asciilifeform run them.
01:02 asciilifeform (or what, light cigs with them?)
01:02 mircea_popescu deny them to the chicoms ?
01:02 decimation deny them to everybody?
01:02 mircea_popescu why did the barbarian conquer the roman temple ?
01:02 mircea_popescu so the other barbarian couldn't jack off to the marbles.
01:02 decimation lol
01:02 asciilifeform chicoms could be stamping'em out by the megatonne this friday if they wished it.
01:03 asciilifeform i would personally help.
01:03 mircea_popescu you just don't understand how thw world works.
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01:03 asciilifeform !b 4
01:03 mircea_popescu a pitbull will still try to take your toy
01:03 decimation chicoms for some reason just want to reproduce shitty bezzletronics
01:03 mircea_popescu even though you can just make a fucking toy factory
01:03 mircea_popescu with its skull.
01:03 asciilifeform aha.
01:04 mircea_popescu incidentally, now that im apparently using it, wtf does chicom even mean ?
01:04 asciilifeform china/communist
01:04 mircea_popescu ah k
01:04 asciilifeform vs. the other smaller one
01:04 asciilifeform cn/tw
01:05 decimation incidentally, there's a 2 hour podcast interview with Bil Herd of Commodore here (featuring that annoying australian): http://www.theamphour.com/222-an-interview-with-bil-herd-zany-z80-zygology/
01:05 assbot An Interview With Bil Herd - Zany Z80 Zygology | The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
01:05 asciilifeform what mention of commodore corp. without old jack tramiel!
01:05 asciilifeform auschwitz to cabbie to repair money to tech ceo with a brain, one of the last.
01:05 asciilifeform (yes, auschwitz)
01:06 decimation heh yeah, in the podcast Bil blames the death of commodore on Mr. Tramiel's exit from the company
01:06 * asciilifeform wonders if auschwitz or mit had more notable 'alumni'
01:06 mircea_popescu jew joke nao.
01:07 decimation according to Mr. Herd - Jack Tramiel ran Commodore with an iron fist. When he left, only derps were around to pretend to fill his shoes
01:08 mircea_popescu " I remember someone saying that if it hadn't been for automatic switches in the telephone network, the entire population of planet earth would have had to be telephone operators to handle the load of telephone usage in 1993 or thereabout. I get the eerie feeling that because modern computer systems are so incredibly braindamaged in their design and in the tools used to program them, the entire population of planet e
01:08 decimation I didn't realize - apparently Commodore made their own silicon chips, and even made their own LCD screens
01:08 mircea_popescu arth will be programming these idiotic boxes pretty soon if managers don't wise up to the fact that the equivalent of automatic switches already exist and have done so for at least 20 years. yet if Y2K doesn't light up most manager's view of the world of programming, there isn't hope for mankind at all."
01:09 mircea_popescu lol. most kids today ARE coding
01:09 mircea_popescu for the web
01:09 mircea_popescu in .net vb
01:09 decimation and .js!
01:10 asciilifeform last i knew, commodore-64 still held the record for the greatest number of a particular design of computer ever built.
01:10 asciilifeform (particular design - as in, same parts, same circuit)
01:11 asciilifeform and this was on account of genuine popularity. no one buried these by the thousand in a desert.
01:11 asciilifeform 'cheap and angry.'
01:12 asciilifeform a few years later, the company tried selling what was, at the time, an 'actually nice' computer - 'amiga.'
01:12 decimation according to Mr. Herd it was recently surpassed by the 'ipad' if you consider that to be a computer
01:12 asciilifeform but - not compatible.
01:12 JorgePasada Whatup nerds!?!?
01:12 asciilifeform 'hysterical raisins.'
01:12 asciilifeform decimation: which ipad? 1,2,3,4 ?
01:12 mircea_popescu JorgePasada nothing much.
01:12 decimation yeah I donno
01:13 decimation here's some text from Mr. Herd (he was the hardware engineer for the c128) http://hackaday.com/2013/12/09/guest-post-the-real-story-of-hacking-together-the-commodore-c128/
01:13 assbot Hacking the Commodore C128 with Bil Herd
01:13 asciilifeform c128 was arguably the beginning of the end
01:14 asciilifeform live by the trabambourghini, die by the trabambourghini.
01:14 asciilifeform retool for lambo after trambo - not easy.
01:14 decimation yeah, he admitted it was 9 lbs of shit in a 5 lb bag
01:14 asciilifeform like starting life again.
01:15 decimation in the podcast he said they should have produced the commodore LCD - which would have competed with the TRS-80
01:15 asciilifeform when i came to usa, i saw a c128 in, of all places, a toy store.
01:15 asciilifeform still don't know how it came to be there.
01:15 asciilifeform that was the first and last time i ever saw one.
01:15 decimation but apparently the fucktarded 'bitcoin ceo' who took over after Mr. Tramiel was speaking with the CEO of tandy who told him that here was "no money in portable computers"
01:15 asciilifeform c64 - by the tonne.
01:15 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> in .net vb << In library school I was forced into this bullshit for a semester, final project I couldn't take it. Went FU here's a mono runtime in a jail and Visual C++ 6.0 that compiles to it because fuku
01:15 decimation later that year the TRS-80 was a massive sales leader for tandy
01:16 asciilifeform c128 article << shows wire wraps as if it were exotic
01:16 decimation heh yeah
01:16 asciilifeform you lot never did a wire wrap?
01:16 BingoBoingo <decimation> later that year the TRS-80 was a massive sales leader for tandy << If you can point me to someone selling 90+ working samples... may be interested
01:16 asciilifeform surely, just once, as a boy?
01:16 JorgePasada Bah, getting kicked out of my friends place. Be back in 30. Been a while since I've been in here.
01:17 asciilifeform what on earth does BingoBoingo want witj 90+ trash-eighties
01:17 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> surely, just once, as a boy? << I did the disposable camera to taser conversion wrapping to get taser voltages.
01:17 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: didja keep the ignition coil in the output?
01:18 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: didja keep the ignition coil in the output? << Shhhh....
01:18 decimation I haven't wire-wrapped myself, no - only soldered. but I have considered getting into it
01:18 asciilifeform yknow, the one that strikes the 5kv or so arc so the ~300v cap can discharge through ionized xenon
01:18 decimation it seems like an ideal method for prototyping logic
01:19 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i've a story about those things.
01:19 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: as a student, bought disposable camera (those existed) with flash, late in the night
01:19 asciilifeform girl was wearing a shitmetal ring, it broke in half
01:20 asciilifeform tried to plasma-weld it back using the flash.
01:20 asciilifeform well, just the cap.
01:21 asciilifeform http://webspace.webring.com/people/gl/lemagicien/elecpage/maxflash/max01.jpg
01:21 asciilifeform ^ one of these buggers.
01:21 BingoBoingo Ah, so the only reason people bought those
01:22 asciilifeform i've no idea why anyone else bought them.
01:22 asciilifeform but i cannot recommend.
01:22 BingoBoingo Malice and pranks
01:22 BingoBoingo Only reasons I know
01:22 mircea_popescu lesson for stan : next time girl breaks her ring, don't try to weld it back on her.
01:22 asciilifeform [insert mircea_popescu's tale about soldering with matches here]
01:23 asciilifeform eh how'll it stay on ifya don't weld it back in the right place, lol
01:24 asciilifeform incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in the field.
01:24 asciilifeform perhaps using the same magic found in self-heating tinned food
01:24 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in the field. << SO story with those.
01:25 asciilifeform pull the pin, it simmers along at 200C for half hour.
01:25 decimation I've used butane soldering iron, works well
01:25 asciilifeform also have.
01:26 asciilifeform but - finnicky bugger, hisses, puffs, goes out in the rain
01:26 asciilifeform no good for zombocalypsis.
01:26 mircea_popescu lol
01:26 BingoBoingo Younger dumber highschool me got pretty girl I'd been seeing pretty ring, and being youg poor white trash me I completely ignored subtexts in acquiring 10 gold ring with colored quartz rock. Girl got ideas, ring was rendered part of schoolbus floor
01:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3350 @ 0.00073218 = 2.4528 BTC [+]
01:26 * asciilifeform does not wear rings today.
01:26 asciilifeform pet doesn't either
01:26 asciilifeform they get in the way of - work.
01:26 decimation they also expose you to the risk of your finger flesh being ripped off
01:27 asciilifeform ripped, roasted, zapped, amalgamated, dissolved, turned on lathe, milled off
01:27 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i don't get it, you got cvasi-married ?
01:27 asciilifeform clippered, sheared, ionized.
01:27 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Her poorer, more white trash ass thought so.
01:28 mircea_popescu why so harsh.
01:28 decimation I found a titanium ring is good for me most of the time, completely anti-reactive to skin and also cheap
01:28 decimation but solves none of the above problems
01:28 mircea_popescu some professional lines require rings.
01:28 BingoBoingo Everything is fun and games until poorer and more white trash tries to become a precondition for future life
01:29 asciilifeform professional... rings << hollywood ?
01:29 mircea_popescu holy shit... aluminum brass knuckles ?!
01:29 mircea_popescu i dont even.
01:30 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> holy shit... aluminum brass knuckles ?! << WHere???
01:30 mircea_popescu are these for afficionados, light enough to attach scope to ?
01:30 * BingoBoingo waits for inevitable DU brass knuckles
01:30 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbrUnQPbpEU persay.
01:31 BingoBoingo Wait, who seriously can't pirate Poor Man's James Bond vol. 1-4?
01:31 BingoBoingo Why aluminium?
01:31 mircea_popescu for scope.
01:31 mircea_popescu only explanation possible.
01:31 asciilifeform [insert 'tactical stick' here]
01:31 BingoBoingo Why not wet sopping rag knuckle dusters, they'll have more mass
01:33 Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Silver to fall under $15/oz before December 27th" http://bitbet.us/bet/1049/ Odds: 69(Y):31(N) by coin, 54(Y):46(N) by weight. Total bet: 3.5111 BTC. Current weight: 42,761.
01:33 decimation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubotan
01:33 assbot Kubotan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
01:34 BingoBoingo So if anyone cares, gas prices in Middle APerica less stable than BTC at the moment.
01:35 asciilifeform kubotan << see also демократизатор ('democratizer')
01:35 BingoBoingo Kind of looking forward to more action on that front as the Saudis try to bankrupt US Bezzel "oil" men
01:35 BingoBoingo <decimation> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubotan << Mag lite
01:35 assbot Kubotan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
01:36 decimation lol " In April 2010 actor and entertainer Darren Day was found guilty of possessing an offensive weapon, namely a Kubotan-style keyring, by a court in Edinburgh.[4]"
01:36 decimation so, usg & friends might arrest you if you carry a stick
01:36 asciilifeform http://lurkmore.to/%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80
01:36 assbot Демократизатор — Lurkmore
01:37 decimation asciilifeform: is that what russian cops use to beat hippies?
01:37 BingoBoingo Only outside of a legitimate domicile. Within domicile even a fucking claymore sword is fair game.
01:37 asciilifeform decimation: the very same.
01:37 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Russian batons... have a very dildonic look
01:38 asciilifeform small translation: 'rubber cock. lever of perestroika. anal irritator. in the 2000s - stabilizator. also 'attitude adjuster'.'
01:38 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3R1VHGS.txt )
01:38 BingoBoingo !b 2
01:38 BingoBoingo So... basically a kinder soldering iron alternative...
01:39 asciilifeform linked article mentions a popular brand among ru police, 'argument.'
01:39 mircea_popescu i wonder how many russian policemen used it to touch themselves.
01:39 assbot Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3BN8DAH.txt )
01:39 BingoBoingo !b 2
01:40 asciilifeform and handcuffs sold under brands 'tenderness' (one prisoner) and 'tenderness-2' (hold five)
01:40 asciilifeform this is ordinary, brw
01:41 mircea_popescu anyway, all the excitement i can take. later all!
01:41 asciilifeform tear gas was labeled under brand 'hackberry' (черёмуха)
01:41 * asciilifeform also to bed
01:44 BingoBoingo In this colony hackberry is ornamental tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtis_occidentalis
01:44 assbot Celtis occidentalis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
01:46 * BingoBoingo has formative memories of hackberry as tree that drops limbs everywhere and fucks shit up
01:52 cazalla home again, not much news around by looks of it anyway so didn't miss much
02:01 cazalla ;;isitdown qntra.net
02:01 gribble qntra.net is up
02:01 cazalla lies
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02:33 ben_vulpes holy hell i blink and 800 lines appear
02:34 * ben_vulpes must catch up later
02:44 punkbot [trust-update] no changes
02:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23370 @ 0.00073217 = 17.1108 BTC [-] {2}
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03:34 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/11/troubles-continue-for-canandian-bitcoin-miner-dominion-bitcoin-mining-company/
03:34 assbot Troubles Continue For Canandian Bitcoin Miner Dominion Bitcoin Mining Company | Qntra.net
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04:28 RagnarDanneskjol [PDF Accountable Storage] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/886.pdf
04:29 Duffer1 ;;isdown trilema.com
04:29 gribble Error: "isdown" is not a valid command.
04:29 Duffer1 ;;isup trilema.com
04:29 gribble trilema.com is down
04:34 punkman RagnarDanneskjol: do you read all those papers you link?
04:35 RagnarDanneskjol mostly yes
04:35 punkman sounds like torture :P
04:38 RagnarDanneskjol its fascinating for me. i really enjoy thorough research even if conclusions/methods are somewhat flawed
04:38 punkman "we show how our Accountable Storage protocol can be integrated with Bitcoin, to support automatic compensations proportional to the number of corrupted bits at the server. We also build and evaluate our protocols showing that they perform well in practice."
04:39 punkman have these people been outside the lab?
04:39 RagnarDanneskjol ha! doubtful
04:39 punkman oh hey 3 greek dudes in author list
04:46 punkman punkman: have these people been outside the lab? < they use nlocktime, so no
04:50 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3981 @ 0.00073612 = 2.9305 BTC [+]
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05:48 Bet placed: 2 BTC for Yes on "Silver to fall under $15/oz before December 27th" http://bitbet.us/bet/1049/ Odds: 80(Y):20(N) by coin, 66(Y):34(N) by weight. Total bet: 5.5111 BTC. Current weight: 42,527.
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06:26 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/11/introducing-introducing-neals-indiegogo-project/
06:26 assbot Introducing "Introducing Neals" Indiegogo Project | Qntra.net
06:36 cazalla !up Vexual
06:38 Vexual call me rabbit
06:43 Bet placed: 1 BTC for Yes on "Silver to fall under $15/oz before December 27th" http://bitbet.us/bet/1049/ Odds: 83(Y):17(N) by coin, 70(Y):30(N) by weight. Total bet: 6.5111 BTC. Current weight: 42,477.
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07:11 cazalla https://blog.coinjar.com/2014/11/05/andreas-m-antonopoulos-visits-down-under/ 30 minutes or so from where i live
07:11 assbot Andreas M. Antonopoulos visits Down Under | CoinJar Blog
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07:59 * jurov just came from dentist.. one tooth, 45 minutes and total exhaustion of both me and doctor
08:01 jurov !up Vexual
08:01 Vexual extraction?
08:02 jurov no, i don't know the term... hollowed down to the root and filled
08:02 Vexual oh root anal
08:02 Vexual *canal
08:02 jurov lol
08:02 jurov such slip
08:04 Vexual my typos anent usuall so dumb
08:05 Vexual did you get novocaine?
08:05 punkman https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=300809.msg3305064#msg3305064
08:05 assbot FAQ on the payment protocol
08:06 punkman "You should save the "Gavin is trying to impress evil institutional investors" mud-slinging for when I get around to laying out the argument for increasing the block size, because that would be closer to the truth."
08:06 cazalla zzz night
08:07 jurov no anesthetic needed fortunately
08:07 punkman ah was it that dead
08:18 mats_cd03 gop wins senate majority
08:18 mats_cd03 i lose bitbet :<
08:30 punkman kakobrekla: it seems i found 'the no guy' > http://bitbet.us/stats/14wqgUXyHpuzyuwfYssfeLuL1YtZpeVkcR/ << seems to start around the time I first mentioned it
08:30 assbot BitBet Stats
08:31 punkman yep, few days after, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-06-2014#726212
08:31 assbot Logged on 20-06-2014 21:56:59; punkman: so I just put together something to test betting strategies on past bitbets and guess what, betting 0.1 on No on all resolved bets would result in a net gain of 9.7 BTC
08:39 jurov http://mikegrim.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/an-easy-way-to-combine-the-power-of-net-and-java/
08:39 assbot An easy way to combine the power of .Net and Java | mikegrim
08:40 jurov let's port bitcoin to java on top of dotnet!
08:41 davout jurov: gotta get these pretty swing windows in dotnet
08:44 punkbot [trust-update] no changes
08:47 kakobrekla thats no update
08:48 punkman more of a heartbeat, should I remove?
08:48 kakobrekla cant think of a good reason why not
08:49 bounce that reads like the guy is a bit confused. then again, he certainly isn't the only one.
08:50 * bounce subtly points out that you can run other things besides java on jvm too. like ruby, and python, and there's a lisp....
08:51 jurov that was subtle suggestion of pytho->java->dotnet stack?
08:52 jurov yean with random assortment of libraries on every layer
08:52 bounce can we dotnet in javascript yet? with one of those nice accellerated js interpreters? It'll go lots faster that way, I'm sure.
08:52 bounce s/dotnet/run &/
08:53 punkman jsmess is pretty cool https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
08:53 assbot Internet Arcade : Free Software : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
08:55 punkman but yeah if there's linux on js, you can probably do .net
09:09 wyrdmantis ;;ident
09:09 gribble Nick 'wyrdmantis', with hostmask 'wyrdmantis!57099fab@gateway/web/freenode/ip.87.9.159.171', is identified as user 'wyrdmantis', with GPG key id 8B34AE9647FC7203, key fingerprint 146F3890EFFC6C796CB129BC8B34AE9647FC7203, and bitcoin address None
09:11 bounce http://developers.slashdot.org/story/14/11/05/0530228/the-effect-of-programming-language-on-software-quality
09:11 assbot The Effect of Programming Language On Software Quality - Slashdot
09:12 bounce there, science tells you what language to use, the size of team to pick, and the size of commits to commit. get to it, slackers! thank science!
09:13 kakobrekla http://i.somethingawful.com/u/garbageday/2014/phriday/scifi_placement/Palpek_33.gif
09:18 jurov bounce: gotta pick the best from every language !!!11
09:21 bounce that's more or less what the PHP "designers" think they're doing. so... if you want that, you know where to get it.
09:21 jurov word
09:21 wyrdmantis ahahah grreat gif kakobrekla
09:21 bounce hm. php on jvm? maybe retarget that facebook php compiler thing?
09:32 kakobrekla punkman> kakobrekla: it seems i found 'the no guy' > http://bitbet.us/stats/14wqgUXyHpuzyuwfYssfeLuL1YtZpeVkcR/ << seems to start around the time I first mentioned it < and they say pessimism isnt worth it.
09:32 assbot BitBet Stats
09:37 kakobrekla ok this shit is funny: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269216.msg9415640#msg9415640
09:37 assbot [BitFunder] IceDrill.ASIC IPO (235 Thash Mining Operation powered by HashFast)
09:37 kakobrekla Blazedout419 (he is here in the chan) > I am sure will and deadterra have done quite well on this scam...
09:37 kakobrekla while he carries another scam in the signature.
09:38 kakobrekla congratulations, mister chump of 2014
09:38 mircea_popescu lol wait wut ?
09:39 kakobrekla (the gaw miner)
09:39 mircea_popescu this plot is pretty thickened!
09:39 kakobrekla such beauty last page: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=720844.3980;topicseen
09:39 assbot GAW ZenCloud ZenPool Hashlet - does it really exist? ALWAYS MAKE MONEY :-)
09:39 punkman "Stop holding my coins hostage, pay out my divs so I may reinvest them. I am loosing potential profit because of your practice. " << lol
09:40 kakobrekla if someone has a working retard talk account, ping geegaw to come by ?
09:41 kakobrekla >That's what sucked me in, I saw a lot of posts about 1-2 month ROI's so I bought my Zens retail from GAW @ 17.95 next day worked out my ROI 217 days, the very next day 1 year ROI (approx), next day retail Zens @ 14.95 and ROI infinity +1. Early adopters were given high, magic, above market payouts to lure suckers like me in, and it worked.
09:43 punkman I thought magic cloud miners would autoscale
09:43 bounce http://www.wired.com/2014/11/atlas-314-3-d-printed-guns-bullets/ <- how to make a plastic gun that shoots: use casing for substitute barrel
09:43 assbot The Bullet That Could Solve 3-D Printed Guns' Reliability Problem | WIRED
09:44 mircea_popescu " Early adopters were given high, magic, above market payouts to lure suckers like me in, and it worked." << duh.
09:44 mircea_popescu <bounce> how to make a plastic gun that shoots: use casing for substitute barrel <<< pressed shit works just fine, when smeared on actually functioning machines!
09:45 mircea_popescu https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net << now look what you did! cazalla & bingo
09:45 assbot Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast
09:45 mircea_popescu This site reaches over 3,428 monthly people, of which 2,111 (62%) yesterday.
09:46 bounce "mobile web" + "online" = "web". dat distinction.
09:46 mircea_popescu marketeers know words.
09:47 mircea_popescu good thing mr police guy made me fucking move it.
09:47 mircea_popescu else this'd be a ddos.
09:47 kakobrekla eh? slashdot your target audience? top comment there: I bought one of these. It took a VERY long time to arrive, and only worked for a few weeks. I contacted them for warranty repair and they simply never responded after that. I am out around $3000.
09:47 bounce so does quantcast count wordpress as "people"?
09:48 kakobrekla you are basically talking to retard talk with green css
09:48 mircea_popescu bounce what do you mean by "wordpress" ?
09:48 bounce those pingbacks
09:48 mircea_popescu kakobrekla yes. it is a news venue. it talks to retards. this, we knew going in.
09:48 mircea_popescu bounce if it counted that qntra'd be well above gawker this month.
09:49 bounce sounds legit
09:49 punkman you have to run the quantcast javascript to count
09:50 bounce reimplement in php and submit as a patch to wordpress
09:50 mircea_popescu i have nfi how they do traffic measuring these days. i have no doubt whatsoever that it can be gamed.
09:56 punkman oh they have a fallback tracking pixel too
09:58 mircea_popescu !up dgeats
10:07 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/fderp-october-2014-statement/
10:07 assbot F.DERP October 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:07 mircea_popescu if anyoen wants to give a final look to the month's statements, please do. i'll be signing them and deeding them later today.
10:09 punkman oh it's a verb now
10:09 mircea_popescu it hastabe
10:09 mircea_popescu thestringpuller fixed.
10:12 asciilifeform bullet << http://world.guns.ru/ammunition/russian-special-cartridges-r.html (ru incarnation) or http://topwar.ru/21240-besshumnyy-patron-hm76-ssha.html (usa)
10:12 assbot Современное стрелковое оружие мира - Специальные Российские патроны
10:12 assbot Бесшумный патрон ХМ76 (США) » Военное обозрение
10:12 asciilifeform long, long invented.
10:13 mircea_popescu us creativity is an exercise in rebranding these days. http://trilema.com/2014/anonymous-derpage/ etc
10:13 assbot Anonymous derpage pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
10:13 mircea_popescu http://world.guns.ru/img/logo/logo_12.png << logo of word.guns.ru is... a pen.
10:13 mircea_popescu because totally.
10:14 mircea_popescu !up menahem
10:14 asciilifeform both of the above historic examples also featured gas seal (piston pushed out bullet) and therefore silent.
10:15 menahem yo pimps. :)
10:15 mircea_popescu well yeah, if you're going to make a gun-cartridge might as well make it sealed.
10:16 mircea_popescu and who might you be menahem ?
10:16 menahem n00b following the rules set forth by good 'ol pete dushenski
10:16 asciilifeform sealed shell was, iirc, a bitch re: disposal
10:16 menahem reading logs, etc.
10:16 mircea_popescu menahem is it any fun ?
10:16 asciilifeform (had to be treated with care, crushed in specially designed compactor)
10:16 menahem ha, yea. most of it is great, some stuff takes a few re-reads.
10:17 menahem i've met a few bitcoin-assets ppl around the globe already, not knowing until later that they were all in the wot.
10:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform what's wrong with just burying them in a pile ?
10:17 mircea_popescu ;;ident menahem
10:17 gribble Nick 'menahem', with hostmask 'menahem!~menahem@CPE705681c7a4c1-CMbc1401ee7d10.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com', is not identified.
10:18 mircea_popescu so time to get in then.
10:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: brass was precious, must recycle
10:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: modern ru shells are, mostly, steel though.
10:18 mircea_popescu oh.
10:18 menahem lemme verify my id again. brb, heading to an office space. gracias for the welcome.
10:19 nubbins` http://pastebin.com/8CwLzmVU
10:19 assbot Hi folks, I'm a homeowner on XXXXX Street, and I'm writing to complain -- onc - Pastebin.com
10:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform incidentally, wouldn't a continuous furnace be the best approach ?
10:19 nubbins` ^ that's the email i wrote to the city
10:19 mircea_popescu keep adding 1 cartridge/second, keep taking molten stuff out.
10:19 nubbins` a couple councillors email back "we will notify the appropriate people" etc
10:20 nubbins` then the MAYOR emails me back, CCing the city manager:
10:20 nubbins` http://pastebin.com/jc8MTCFB
10:20 assbot Dave Please arrange to have this removed immediately and billed directly to t - Pastebin.com
10:20 nubbins` my sides
10:20 mircea_popescu nubbins` is this slumlord the new official slur for this circumstance ?
10:20 mircea_popescu !up rdekley
10:20 nubbins` i can picture the old fart hove off on his couch w/ his ipad, smoking a cigar, "y'know what? enough IS enough"
10:21 nubbins` mircea_popescu gotta call a diamond a diamond
10:21 mircea_popescu nubbins` you know, the mayor response would be a better paste. we don't care what YOU said :D
10:21 nubbins` too true, but bg info!
10:21 nubbins` anyway, i pasted both, parse em as you will ;p
10:22 nubbins` so i got that reply late last night. today, the city comes, picks up the trash out front, gets a ladder, and REATTACHES THE DECK TO THE HOUSE
10:22 nubbins` my sides
10:22 mircea_popescu "the XXXXX Street area is a shitty, needle-littered dump" << srsly ?
10:22 nubbins` i gotta take a picture
10:23 nubbins` mircea_popescu not as bad as i make it seem
10:23 nubbins` but you do find needles from time to time
10:23 mircea_popescu maybe it's from all the diabethics.
10:24 nubbins` "fuck the sharps container, this one's going in the road"
10:24 mircea_popescu https://xhellgirlx.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/tears.jpeg <<< saving this for later use.
10:24 nubbins` feed that woman enough beans and she'd make a great espresso machine
10:25 mircea_popescu ahahahhaha
10:25 mircea_popescu true story : i once spent in excess of an hour inserting coffee beans one by one into girl butt. just to see what'd happen.
10:25 mircea_popescu sadly, no espresso.
10:26 nubbins` bet it was a crazy buzz tho
10:26 nubbins` http://imgur.com/qtJv9ns
10:26 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
10:26 nubbins` ^ that little bit of white trim is where the door used to be
10:26 nubbins` anyway, good on the city, i guess; reattaching the deck is way cheaper than dismantling it and hauling it to the dump
10:27 mircea_popescu north american houses look so shitty i swear.
10:27 nubbins` plastic is the new wood
10:28 kakobrekla Please arrange to have this removed immediately and billed directly to the
10:28 kakobrekla property owner , no matter what the cost to the owner! Enough is enough! < ask for pgp signed statement, email isnt safe.
10:28 nubbins` HEH
10:28 nubbins` doc o'keefe don't give a fuck about no pgp
10:28 mircea_popescu i'm giving even odds the guy doesn't end up paying for it.
10:29 kakobrekla no, nubbins` will pay.
10:29 kakobrekla (After some years)
10:30 nubbins` i already pay plenty by living next to the guy
10:30 nubbins` anyway, would be interesting to see how many prior invoices have gone unpaid
10:30 nubbins` this is maybe the 5th time in 3 years i've made this happen ;/
10:31 mircea_popescu generally, nubbins wars against people owning half the street go pretty predictable.
10:31 kakobrekla just remember ascii; http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2014#909708
10:31 assbot Logged on 04-11-2014 21:08:35; asciilifeform: the age-old mistake of provocateurs - thinking their master's promises are to be kept
10:31 nubbins` mircea_popescu no doubt, but it's my duty
10:32 kakobrekla next week will be "o wait, it costs 6k? no we are not paying for THAT. 6k is not "whatever it costs", its 3k more than that."
10:33 mircea_popescu hehe
10:33 mircea_popescu but no, coupla hours with a crew and a truck is what, 350 ?
10:33 nubbins` union crew, buddy
10:33 nubbins` try again
10:33 mircea_popescu minimum wage is still 10 bux or so in canada neh ?
10:33 mircea_popescu fuck that shit.
10:33 nubbins` $10.25 in 2dl afaicr
10:33 nubbins` varies by province
10:34 nubbins` city workers prolly get 25-35/hr during business hours
10:34 mircea_popescu right. 6 grunts for 2 hours + driver counted as 2 = 160 bux. 80 for the truck, provided you don't actually have a deal and get it for 6k or so a month.
10:34 mircea_popescu 100 left over for profit.
10:39 mircea_popescu http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7751/10908969.jpg
10:39 nubbins` heh
10:40 nubbins` would love to see o'dea's face when he gets the bill
10:40 nubbins` "deck reattachment: $200"
10:40 nubbins` "...what?"
10:42 mircea_popescu you missed the chance to put an i in there.
10:46 nubbins` barring ambiguousness, pronouns should always be omitted
10:46 nubbins` one thing the castellanos did right
10:47 jurov nubbins`: just put a deck, too? you said you want it
10:47 nubbins` i've already got a deck!
10:47 nubbins` needs a bit of work tho ;/
10:48 jurov so the solution is very easy
10:48 jurov bribe the town crew to fix the yours one
10:48 mircea_popescu nubbins` "dick"
10:48 nubbins` heh
10:48 nubbins` dicksurgery.ca
10:48 jurov and watch it billed to him
10:48 mircea_popescu lol "the yours one" j is adoooohrable!
10:49 jurov oh
10:49 nubbins` "yeah, o'dea said he was gonna buy a bunch of pizza and leave it out front, but he didn't...
10:50 nubbins` enough is enough! order a jumbo meat lovers and send the donair sauce to the property owner!
10:55 jurov !ud donair sauce
10:55 jurov ;;ud donair sauce
10:55 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Donair | A Donair consists of a fried pita with shredded spiced beef cooked on a spit than covered in Sweet sauce ( Condensed milk , Sugar and vinegar) with...
10:58 mircea_popescu putting sugar on meat wtf is wrong with people.
10:58 nubbins` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZmMZVHkMoQ
10:58 assbot The devil is real: little girl tells Christian preacher to shut up - YouTube
10:58 nubbins` FWIW the "sweet sauce" has garlic as the main spice
10:58 nubbins` mircea_popescu you don't dry-rub your briskets?!
10:59 punkman I've never had one with sweet sauce
10:59 nubbins` halifax-style donair sauce is the best thing
10:59 nubbins` https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~gpetitpas/Links/Donair.html
10:59 assbot All things Donair: Halifax Donair Sauce, Donair Meat, Donair Subs, Donair Pizza Recipes (And Garlic Fingers?)
10:59 nubbins` i like making a huge batch of donairs once or twice a year
10:59 mircea_popescu nubbins` dry rub, yes. thyme-and-garlic.
11:00 nubbins` no sugar?!
11:00 mircea_popescu no sugar.
11:00 * nubbins` shakes head
11:00 mircea_popescu and it's fucking donner kebap what you're going for
11:00 mircea_popescu not "donair"
11:00 mircea_popescu comes from the danube.
11:00 nubbins` i'm canadian, it's a donair.
11:00 mircea_popescu where is that oglaf.
11:01 nubbins` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab#Canada
11:01 assbot Doner kebab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
11:01 nubbins` 8)
11:01 nubbins` bbl gotta go buy a donair
11:01 mircea_popescu http://oglaf.com/muster/
11:01 assbot Muster the troops
11:01 mircea_popescu DON THE CROWN!
11:02 nubbins` i still can't believe she wasn't a donair
11:02 mircea_popescu k.o.d ? srsly ?
11:02 nubbins` ok, peace
11:02 jurov well... when i was in vancouver, my relatives there obviously knew better than to introduce us to poutine and donair
11:02 nubbins` ;;google king of donair trailer park boys
11:02 gribble King of Donair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Donair>; King Of Donair Party - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WqEq-v1wu8>; Trailer Park Boys Off-Set Filming Locations - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23OpCSxOUlE>
11:02 jurov only long after i discovered these "canadian foods"
11:02 mircea_popescu jurov "what stupid poor people would eat if they had no mothers."
11:03 nubbins` o wow
11:03 nubbins` fun fact, poutine is a common "first solid food" for babies in northern canada
11:03 nubbins` chew on THAT for a bit.
11:03 mircea_popescu poutine is actually not that bad.
11:03 mircea_popescu kinda normandy sort of thing, but hey.
11:09 mircea_popescu "Bitcoin isn't a security, if they say it's a security, they would be the first government in the world to give Bitcoin that sort of value or endorsement." << reading between the lines, "leadership coach" that doesn't understand either bitcoin or his jurisdiction is shitting his pants.
11:10 mircea_popescu punkman: have these people been outside the lab? << no dude, "corrupted bit" count totally is the correct proxy for insurance claims.
11:10 mircea_popescu that's why car claims are based on square cms of ruined paint.
11:10 mircea_popescu it's a shame that most people go to their graves with 99%+ intact bodies.
11:11 mircea_popescu a sad testament to the poor quality of healthcare offered before obamacare became a thing.
11:13 mircea_popescu ok, jurov's root anal / total exhaustion of all parties thing is in bash now. which i think jurov mods... so preemptive SCAM!
11:14 mircea_popescu somehow the quotes collected together get FUNNIER than they were in the logs. http://bash.bitcoin-assets.com/?quote=304 << had me laughing out loud.
11:14 assbot #bitcoin-assets bash
11:14 punkman https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ligi.satoshiproof&hl=en << prior art on deed system
11:14 thestringpuller ;;seen cazalla
11:14 gribble cazalla was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 hours, 8 minutes, and 13 seconds ago: <cazalla> zzz night
11:15 thestringpuller damn i missed him
11:15 mircea_popescu punkman not only am i not loading google js pilefest sites, but is the dude even in the wot ?
11:15 jurov what's scammy on it?
11:16 jurov on the root anal
11:16 mircea_popescu well nothing yet
11:16 mircea_popescu but maybe you don't approve it, how do i know
11:16 mircea_popescu gotta be vigilant!
11:17 jurov regardless it gets approved or not, i'll blame it on kako
11:17 punkman oh never mind, they generate fake addresses like the first deedbot. http://vog.github.io/bitcoinproof/
11:17 assbot Bitcoinproof
11:17 mircea_popescu kako is responsible for like 40% of somalia's milk production.
11:17 jurov that's not milk, but donair
11:17 mircea_popescu punkman why do you care anyway ? it's done.
11:18 punkman gonna write article eventually
11:18 mircea_popescu oic.
11:18 mircea_popescu waste of your time, trying to find someone do something useful before WE did it.
11:22 punkman well someone had the idea in 2011 at least, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52715.5
11:22 assbot Using bitcoin for trusted timestamping?
11:23 jurov kakobrekla you removed "cunt raw" before my eyes... you did not get it?
11:24 jurov just say "cunt raw ex" aloud
11:25 mircea_popescu jurov why "ex" ?
11:25 mircea_popescu you think it's contravex ?!
11:25 jurov wow, it has even another meaning?
11:26 mircea_popescu lol!
11:26 mircea_popescu this one is only there for russian speakers, because in english u never crosses the barrier to a, nor w (a sort of u) to v
11:30 kakobrekla jurov i guess i dont find it bash worthy
11:30 kakobrekla one thing to note jurov, when you approve, do them in order from top down
11:31 jurov yea i know and did it
11:31 kakobrekla sometimes i go through the pending list and just delete what i dont see worthy
11:31 kakobrekla and leave the quotes that im not sure what to do with, or how to cut them
11:31 kakobrekla for a later decision
11:32 mircea_popescu punkman: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=300809.msg3305064#msg3305064 <<< nice find lol.
11:32 assbot FAQ on the payment protocol
11:32 kakobrekla i see you just flushed everything down the toilet
11:32 kakobrekla mkay
11:32 jurov no i actually accepted everything that was left
11:32 kakobrekla yes
11:32 kakobrekla that the toilet
11:32 kakobrekla :D
11:32 jurov oh that's what you mean
11:33 kakobrekla the delete is the trash bin!
11:34 mircea_popescu lol the bathroom life : either trash bin or toilet.
11:35 jurov and qntra is the sink
11:35 kakobrekla hehe
11:35 mircea_popescu punkman fwiw, http://trilema.com/2013/and-gavin-moves-on-to-the-dark-side-the-bitcoin-project-is-officially-hijacked/ was july 2013.
11:35 assbot And Gavin moves on to the dark side. The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
11:36 mircea_popescu then by october he was already making preparatory moves.
11:36 kakobrekla <jurov> and qntra is the sink < bidet you mean prolly
11:37 mircea_popescu pizdet
11:37 kakobrekla is that how you call it in ro?
11:38 mircea_popescu it ? which it ?
11:38 kakobrekla pizdit
11:38 jurov pizdet === bidet?
11:39 mircea_popescu haha nah
11:39 jurov or it's special bidet only for pizdas? and the other one is pulet?
11:39 mircea_popescu well the bidet IS for pizde. and i guess for dudes cursed with a cock so short
11:39 mircea_popescu it doesn't even reach the water in the normal wc.
11:40 kakobrekla isnt bidet for ass?
11:40 kakobrekla idk.
11:41 mircea_popescu if you swing that way...
11:41 * jurov feels trilema exhortation on private hygiene upcoming
11:41 kakobrekla ;;google bidet ass clean
11:41 gribble Clean Butt: <http://www.cleanbutt.com/>; Clean Butt!!! - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4MHdDGiYGs>; Clean Your Butt with a Biffy - YouTube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_iizpAsczM>
11:41 mircea_popescu i should have called it trizdets
11:41 mircea_popescu alas... too late.
11:41 kakobrekla cleanbutt.com sez yes
11:41 mircea_popescu bezzle butts, what do they know.
11:43 punkman https://github.com/FactomProject/FactomDocs proof of existence, sidechains, bitcoin2.0 etc
11:43 assbot FactomProject/FactomDocs · GitHub
11:44 mircea_popescu oh, bitcoin 2.0 already ?
11:45 mircea_popescu punkman honestly, i do not believe the empty wankfest of these schmucks "having ideas" and resolving theoretical problems in theoretical ways should in any shape or form be encouraged.
11:45 mircea_popescu this dovetails into stans permabitch about the "mathematizing" and "proofs" issues in general computation theory
11:46 mircea_popescu and on the other hand into the business side of "your ideas are worthless, and what your head produced can't even be called an idea in any sense" i used to rant about back in 2013ish.
11:46 mircea_popescu kids need clear signals to be able to live their lives rather than dream their lives, and encouraging this stupidity is the wrong signal.
11:46 mircea_popescu !up starzz_
11:47 starzz_ Hello. I want to join the cult
11:47 mircea_popescu ok, you're in.
11:47 starzz_ lol
11:47 starzz_ will work for a rate
11:47 mircea_popescu work doing what ?
11:47 starzz_ have a stupid article to write for qntra
11:47 mircea_popescu write it, submit to cazalla
11:48 mircea_popescu ;;ident starzz_
11:48 gribble Nick 'starzz_', with hostmask 'starzz_!180f6af0@gateway/web/freenode/ip.24.15.106.240', is not identified.
11:48 mircea_popescu heh. maybe get in the wot first eh.
11:49 starzz_ in there. Don't know why it's not showing up here (otc it did)
11:49 mircea_popescu if gribble dun see you it dun see you. -otc -assets or anywhere else. maybe you disconnected.
11:50 mircea_popescu mats_cd03: gop wins senate majority << wow srsly ?!
11:50 starzz_ Must be it. Thanks.
11:51 mircea_popescu punkman: more of a heartbeat, should I remove? <<< yeah.
11:52 mircea_popescu bounce: there, science tells you what language to use, the size of team to pick, and the size of commits to commit. get to it, slackers! thank science! <<< this science allowed me to win the lottery for fifty eight times in a row by always wearing the same shirt i wore when i won the first time.
11:54 mircea_popescu kakobrekla: http://i.somethingawful.com/u/garbageday/2014/phriday/scifi_placement/Palpek_33.gif <<< i can't believe libertard central is still pushing this "need government for roads!" dead meme.
11:54 mircea_popescu seriously, you couldn't have dug up boston for a decade if there wasn't government to make it cost 10 trillion.
11:54 mircea_popescu roads, yo!
11:55 mircea_popescu meanwhile they're bitching about fossil fuels. here's an idea, libertard lobby : your understanding of bitcoin is going to fix the problem you imagine is "global warming". why hate ?
11:57 ben_vulpes https://unsee.cc/sigaroze/ << i came home to a surprise celebration of...tuesday!
11:57 assbot Unsee — Free online private photo sharing
11:58 mircea_popescu soo, unrelatedly : the republicans now own the house, majority in the senate, a bunch more governors...
11:58 ben_vulpes more importantly
11:58 ben_vulpes yesterday was tuesday!
11:58 mircea_popescu obama just went on a two year vacation, at a cost of a bunch of money.
11:59 ben_vulpes usgpolitics boooooring
11:59 mircea_popescu myeah. i remember the days a coupla years ago that used to be a part of the conversation.
11:59 mircea_popescu incredible how much a few years change in the third world.
12:00 ben_vulpes if we absolutely must talk uspolitics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9Y24MFOfFU
12:00 assbot Squeal - YouTube
12:01 mircea_popescu such bad voice acting.
12:01 ben_vulpes that she shakes her head while saying "i approve this message" made me lol.
12:01 mircea_popescu `--- `--- `--- awkward patter bullshit with the headcharge movement to boot
12:02 mircea_popescu it's gotten to the point where trying to be taught something in the us is a worse gambit than just not washing.
12:08 mircea_popescu !up qntranet
12:08 qntranet starzz again
12:08 qntranet following the link to contact cazala
12:09 mircea_popescu lol
12:09 qntranet I know. Who knew? Just click the link and I'm qntra?
12:09 mircea_popescu just so we know you came throug there.
12:10 qntranet Oh. Okay.
12:10 mircea_popescu google : "Barack Obama, Presidential term January 20, 2009 –"
12:10 mircea_popescu check it out, google is making a prediction.
12:13 qntranet I've been reading you for a year. I'm learning how. I've signed onto otc & know how to get in wot
12:14 qntranet I can afford to write an article. I don't have the 30 btc for Mpex (or I'd buy bitbet shares)
12:14 mircea_popescu qntranet you can just use coinbr ?
12:16 qntranet See. that's what us edumacation does for one lol
12:16 jurov qntranet any suggestion where coinbr should be advertised?
12:16 jurov so that people know about it?
12:17 qntranet it's tough to break into the media.
12:17 mircea_popescu jurov qntra, apparently.
12:17 qntranet That's what I think my article might do.
12:17 punkman jurov, mpex homepage :P
12:17 jurov it is mentioned in the mpex faq
12:18 kakobrekla jurov i think ppl dislike the ongoing costs associated with an account on cbr and advertising wont fix that. my humble opinion.
12:18 jurov long past most people's attantion span, tho
12:18 qntranet Remove the scare factor a little bit
12:18 qntranet I know there are other people like me who get it
12:18 mats_cd03 https://coinbr.com/ref?c=E1L4DoSrAc << referral code
12:18 assbot About CoinBr
12:19 qntranet lol cd03
12:19 jurov i know.. but still .. when there is only ~10 people who actually pay these 2 bitcents
12:19 jurov i don[t believe it would be so much more when it's free
12:19 mats_cd03 i don't mind the bitcent fees tbh
12:20 kakobrekla i just pass on what i heard.
12:20 mircea_popescu jurov what is it, 2 bitcents / mo ?
12:20 jurov yes. since november
12:20 mircea_popescu eh, that's reasonable.
12:20 punkman jurov, 0.1 year paid up-front might do better
12:20 jurov plus another two per withdrawal
12:20 mircea_popescu wtf, since when is 5 bux not free.
12:21 mircea_popescu same people then derp all about how ipad is great, costs them a little more than 5 bux, delivers a lot less.
12:21 jurov er.. since *last* november
12:23 kakobrekla if 5 bux is change then you just get mpex acc its like 10 bux at the current btc price
12:23 jurov kakobrekla wtf?
12:23 kakobrekla which part
12:23 jurov can't pinpoint
12:23 jurov just rephrase it all
12:24 kakobrekla ;;calc 30 * 300
12:24 gribble 9000
12:24 kakobrekla see, 10 bux
12:24 qntranet thanks ya'll. I have a coinbr account to create.
12:24 mircea_popescu ;;calc 30 / 0.02
12:24 gribble 1500
12:24 jurov these kakobux
12:25 mircea_popescu today we find kakobrekla's cock is approximately 28 miles long.
12:25 kakobrekla mebbe
12:25 mircea_popescu makes long distance relationships that much easier for him.
12:25 kakobrekla 28 miles is not that much easier
12:26 jurov pity he lives it that part of world where you can't get 10 miles without encountering town or road
12:26 mircea_popescu who else can fuck planes ?
12:26 kakobrekla or a bear
12:27 jurov planes? 28 miles is enough for orbital launch!
12:27 kakobrekla anyway shutup i got work to do.
12:27 jurov kako's preparing for another lauch
12:27 jurov *launch
12:27 kakobrekla lunch!
12:27 kakobrekla omnom
12:27 jurov suborbital jizz insertion
12:29 mircea_popescu the ultimate face splat experience. you don;t even know whom it's gonna end up on!
12:29 jurov ICJMs
12:31 jurov !up CheckDavid
12:31 CheckDavid Thanks jurov
12:31 CheckDavid A while ago i saw a notification here about a gold bet placed on bitbet.us, but now i can't find it.
12:32 mircea_popescu !s gold bitbet
12:32 assbot 16 results for 'gold bitbet' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=gold+bitbet
12:32 punkman http://bitbet.us/bet/1046/gold-above-1200-on-november-1st/ maybe
12:32 assbot BitBet - Gold above $1200 on November 1st :: 1.07 B (66%) on Yes, 0.54 B (34%) on No | closed 2 weeks 3 days ago
12:32 jurov when you put gold into the searchox, it won't come up?
12:33 mircea_popescu "where should the searchbox advertise itself" is jurov's q.
12:44 CheckDavid jurov: some gold bets come up, but i don't think its the one that i saw in the notification
12:44 mircea_popescu CheckDavid maybe that one closed ?
12:45 CheckDavid That's what i was thinking mircea_popescu
12:45 CheckDavid Doesn't show up in closed either, but not impotant
12:47 Bet created: "Obama Impeached" http://bitbet.us/bet/1062/
12:52 mircea_popescu http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/2012nationwidecountymapshadedbypercentagewon.svg <<< all the experience playing WoL tells us anything about this map ?
12:53 punkman for fellow snake charmers: http://pyrasite.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Shell.html
12:53 assbot pyrasite-shell - Give it a pid, get a shell — pyrasite 2.0beta documentation
12:54 mats_cd03 i wonder what glad tidings gop congress will bring
12:56 mircea_popescu basically, either they start taking obamacare apart or lose their mommentum
12:56 bounce lovely error message: "Failed to connect to server. The reason may be that the encryption methods supported by the server are not enabled in the security preferences." -- but naturally, DO NOT EVER show the poor user the list of supported protocols, because, you know, having the user guess is much better than showing what you do know.
12:57 mircea_popescu granted that dismating it now is probably the worst possible outcome, way worse than never having implemented it in the first place.
12:57 mircea_popescu bounce "please upgrade"
12:57 mircea_popescu it's constructed to support a certain ideology. that ideology does not include the user contributing anything.
12:57 kakobrekla since when do you listen to cow moos
12:58 jurov as for WoL.. did you ever do any giveaways on trolltalk? such as coinroll raffles, they made wonders
13:00 mircea_popescu jurov put some numbers on those wonders ?
13:00 jurov scrat put 100btc in, got several hundred out
13:01 jurov if someone (mpif nudge wink) gave us some dought, i'm sure it could be repeated
13:01 jurov *dough
13:01 mircea_popescu so wait. 100 btc raffle resulted in >30k worth of bets from bitcointalk ?
13:01 jurov yes
13:01 jurov r dunno from where
13:02 mircea_popescu i tell you i don't see it.
13:02 jurov Namworld you around?
13:02 jurov !up Namworld
13:03 jurov he should know concrete numbers, it was tracked
13:03 mircea_popescu anyway, there were all sorts of offers, matching gains, i dun recall it all.
13:03 mircea_popescu didn't do much.
13:05 mircea_popescu US $133,700 to turn the new album into an hour long musical anime
13:06 mircea_popescu something's wrong here.
13:07 mircea_popescu 70k frames at >1 dollar per frame ? i should make a korean drawing company.
13:08 mats_cd03 asciilifeform: know where i can find K&R 1st ed warez? ive only read 2nd ed, and i can't find the first through hefty googling.
13:08 jurov http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
13:08 assbot The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!
13:08 mircea_popescu jurov what, is 2008 coming back in style ?
13:08 jurov maybe that anime is done similar way
13:08 mircea_popescu actually that was more like 2005 iirc.
~ 19 minutes ~
13:28 The20YearIRCloud What album?
13:40 asciilifeform kakobrekla:jurov i think ppl dislike the ongoing costs associated with an account on cbr and advertising wont fix that << aha.
13:41 asciilifeform k&r 1st ed. w4r3z that someone asked for >> http://read.pudn.com/downloads124/ebook/525708/C_Programming_Language.pdf
13:42 asciilifeform ^ censored from 'google' incidentally.
13:43 mats_cd03 my hero
13:45 asciilifeform note that classical 'k&r' variant of the language used a now-archaic function declaration style. that extant compilers have less than perfect support for.
13:45 asciilifeform other than that, it's a perfectly living book.
~ 16 minutes ~
14:02 * bounce ran into an open tab with the purported cex/ghash sec letter. can't help but wonder what happened next.
14:03 kakobrekla bounce they upped their advertising cannons.
14:03 kakobrekla get as much chumps before they need to dox them
14:04 bounce so no meaningful reply except a stream of dox to be expected then. right.
14:05 bounce kinda curious since they're apparently registered in london.
14:05 kakobrekla well buttstamp gives dox to usg
14:05 kakobrekla so they can be a part of their averaged out ticker
14:06 kakobrekla and they are in eu/uk/si
14:07 kakobrekla bitstamp is legal by being retarded evil scammers
14:07 kakobrekla so much for regulation
14:08 bounce wonder if you could get away with telling the SEC, "we're being regulated by the bitcoin regulatory foundation so talk to them, not us."
14:10 kakobrekla you mean MP? :D
14:10 cazalla damn BingoBoingo, you were not kidding about that quantcast.. i had to get up early and chase the rubbish truck down the street as someone forgot to put the bins out last night :\
14:13 asciilifeform https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-03/msg01535.html << when the firing squads at last for folks such as these?
14:13 assbot Re: [O] Errors after upgrading emacs to 24.3.1 and org to 7.9.4
14:14 asciilifeform (for the malefactors who give cause for such discussions, not the participants therein)
14:15 asciilifeform and an advance fuckyou to anyone who might bitch, 'you whine about modeline vs. mode-line but you even want to switch to trinary computer and no existing soft.'
14:16 asciilifeform to which i answer: toilet - is good to have. kitchen sink - also good. toilet and kitchen sink hybrid - no thanks. the 'middle ground' is an idiot delusion, generally.
14:20 chetty asciilifeform, hahahaha best explanation of that I have heard, I am gonna steal it
14:21 asciilifeform chetty: al schwartz had the ultimate mindfucker of an explanation:
14:22 asciilifeform chetty: n-dimensional sphere, as n increases, has increasingly greater fraction of its volume closer and closer to the surface.
14:22 asciilifeform chetty: (if you don't believe this - work it out!)
14:23 asciilifeform chetty: hence, 'extremist' solutions, as dimensions are added to a problem (seen as a 'spherical horse' of course) are largely where the answers lie.
14:23 asciilifeform chetty: and not in 'moderation.'
14:23 asciilifeform chetty: unfortunately schwartz's original essay appears to be lost in the burned library of googlexandria - usenet archive.
14:24 chetty all very true, but not as much fun as the first one asciilifeform
14:25 asciilifeform chetty: more fun. because in many cases you can blow idiots straight out of the water, with rigorous mathematical rocket, with it.
14:26 chetty hmmm and when you put that together with the overton window ...now I got to think some
14:27 chetty unfortunately not that many people can follow the math of it
14:30 asciilifeform this was not real maths! strictly first grade.
14:31 asciilifeform if you understand pythagorean theorem, you can do this one.
14:32 chetty I seem to find a lot of people that cant even make change
14:33 asciilifeform chetty: i'd love to know who is behind the delusion that 'mathematical ability' is the ability to mentally crunch small numbers quickly.
14:34 chetty haha, yeah it doesn't really mean that much, but it does put me off trying to explain things
14:36 chetty anyway if you think about the overton window only letting you see the middle parts of the sphere it does explain a lot
14:39 asciilifeform incidentally,
14:39 asciilifeform http://francis.naukas.com/files/2013/05/dibujo20130521-counterexample-to-euler-s-conjecture-on-sums-of-like-powers1.png?w=584 << good mathlol
14:40 asciilifeform ^ possibly shortest interesting academpaper ever.
14:40 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2450 @ 0.00070575 = 1.7291 BTC [-]
14:41 ben_vulpes jurov: i just pinged the turdolator and didn't get a bounce and don't see it in the archives.
14:41 * ben_vulpes is confus
14:41 chetty now that one makes my head hurt :P
14:44 punkbot [trust-update] no changes
14:54 ben_vulpes salud Pierre_Rochard
14:54 Pierre_Rochard salud
14:58 thestringpuller Pierre_Rochard how is work. What was for lunch today? ;)
15:00 Pierre_Rochard thestringpuller: work is going well, we just moved half the employees to the other side, of I have an office to myself now. Just sandwiches
15:00 Pierre_Rochard so I have*
15:02 thestringpuller fancy new office! always a good day.
15:05 kakobrekla toilet and kitchen sink hybrid - no thanks. < toilet and bidet hybrids do well in china
15:05 asciilifeform kakobrekla: thought it was a jp thing
15:05 kakobrekla oh it might be jp sry
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15:47 The20YearIRCloud So how goes it everyone
15:53 asciilifeform ben_vulpes, whoever else: has anyone taken an interest in actually making the turd vaguely usable? namely, plugging the leaks (yes, all of them) and zapping the idiotic db corruption (supposedly 'rare': http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/2051)
15:53 assbot Page Not Found - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
15:54 nubbins` !s preferred syntax highlighting style
15:54 assbot 1 results for 'preferred syntax highlighting style' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=preferred+syntax+highlighting+style
15:54 nubbins` asciilifeform ^
15:55 asciilifeform nubbins`: we are far, far from the point where the answer to this question matters.
15:55 ben_vulpes memory leaks for your book?
15:55 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: what we have now is unusable crud.
15:56 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: as in it cannot be used, at all.
15:57 ben_vulpes because it fails to bring the whole chain down?
15:57 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: that, and it leaks memory. which means human intervention required.
15:58 nubbins` something tells me this book ain't getting done by nov 15 ;D
15:58 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: actually in its wedged state it leaks so rapidly that it soaks up 8GB in six or so hours. while failing to fetch any blocks.
15:58 nubbins` :0
15:59 nubbins` meantime, i may have something special lined up for the cover
15:59 ben_vulpes damn.
16:00 nubbins` it'll make an o'reilly cover look like Dick & Jane
16:03 mircea_popescu nubbins` how was the donairine
16:04 mircea_popescu !up fordlincoln
16:05 nubbins` i settled for a meat sub instead
16:05 nubbins` didn't have time for a donair ;/
16:05 mircea_popescu bounce: wonder if you could get away with telling the SEC, "we're being regulated by the bitcoin regulatory foundation so talk to them, not us." << depends on what you mean by get away.
16:05 ben_vulpes i wonder if 0.6.3 shows the same behavior.
16:05 mircea_popescu nubbins` isn't this fast food ?
16:06 ben_vulpes not that moving forwards to "version number" parity with the rangers is in any way a good idea, just to handle this crud.
16:06 nubbins` fast to order... eating it in a reasonable amount of time is the problem
16:06 nubbins` you need like 30-45 minutes to eat a donair
16:06 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lol asci-ilifeform
16:06 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/11/im-patrick-murck-and-welcome-to-jackass-2-0/
16:06 assbot I'm Patrick Murck And Welcome To Jackass 2.0 | Qntra.net
16:07 cazalla i'll keep pasting em seeing scoopbot no longer has the scoop
16:07 mircea_popescu yeah srsly.
16:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: chetty: n-dimensional sphere, as n increases << this is actually interesting to work out.
16:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i deliberately left the proof as exercise for the interested readers.
16:09 mircea_popescu the area (ie, 2d volume) of a circle (ie, 2d sphere) is pi r ^ 2. the area of a circle half as big ? pi (r/2) ^ 2. so therefore 3/4 of the sphere's volume is within the tophalf of its radius.
16:10 mircea_popescu in 3d, that proportion moves to ... 7/8.
16:10 mircea_popescu and from there ownards.
16:11 mircea_popescu the tophalf of a sphere always holds (2^n-1)/2^n of the volume.
16:13 bounce http://stopthecap.com/2014/11/04/suck-americas-worst-broadband-cities-includes-upstate-new-york-much-ohio/
16:13 assbot You Suck: America's Worst Broadband Cities Include Most of Upstate New York, Much of Ohio • Stop the Cap!
16:13 bounce not sure why this concentrates on "cities of at least 50k households"
16:14 mircea_popescu lol i bet half of africa has better internet than half of ny state.
16:14 bounce if you count facebook-only mobile "internet"
16:14 mircea_popescu bounce you'd be surprised.
16:15 mircea_popescu really, most of the "poor countries" are basically ohio minus us style cops. bout same facilities and amenties.
16:15 bounce but it's all the more poignant for the excellent backbone infrastructure that really doesn't exist in africa
16:16 mircea_popescu it's one thing to have shitty internet because you can't afford to lay cable.
16:16 mircea_popescu it's another because... uh... whatever the whiteplains excuse is.
16:16 bounce I have no idea what is or isn't available in ohio
16:16 asciilifeform ... can't afford to lay cable.
16:17 asciilifeform as for why not wireless - easy answer. cheap wireless would mean that folks with more money would not be 'sheared' adequately.
16:17 thestringpuller !up m4rCsi
16:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform :p
16:17 asciilifeform same reason why cheap housing is verboten.
16:17 nubbins` huly fu-u-u-u-u-ck it takes a long time to download the blockchain
16:18 z33andO_o that's because it's not really p2p software, bitcoin-core picks 1 node and downloads all from it
16:18 z33andO_o if you pick a slow one then it takes ages
16:18 mircea_popescu z33andO_o that's a good point incidentally.
16:19 nubbins` wat.
16:19 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes that's another one for the endless list : fix the motherfucking p0p implementation so it actually is p2p
16:19 mircea_popescu yes.
16:19 bounce the US does have a habit of starting some community initiative only to see it lobbied into the ground because it would be "unfair" to overpriced unwilling monopolistic large corporations
16:19 nubbins` jesus
16:19 mircea_popescu bounce and vice-versa.
16:20 mircea_popescu z33andO_o who're you btw ?
16:20 z33andO_o xiando
16:20 mircea_popescu oh nm
16:20 mircea_popescu :p
16:20 asciilifeform if sewer systems were introduced for the first time in today's usa, they would be an exotic and unobtainable thing. because would be unfair!!!11!! to 'private enterprise' fleets of honeywagons carting shit away for a dollar a turd.
16:21 mircea_popescu nubbins` satoshi's origina, likely defensible call was that "hack it this way so it works, fix later when more manpower"
16:21 mircea_popescu obviously usgavin then failed to deliver on this, as on anything else. another broken promise.
16:22 nubbins` nod
16:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform bitcoin is being introduced today for the first time, plays out exactly as described.
16:22 nubbins` seriously tho, i'm downloading blocks over fiber at 60KB/s
16:22 mircea_popescu internet before that.
16:22 mircea_popescu nubbins` flush the node.
16:24 nubbins` only thing i know how to flush is the toilet
16:24 mircea_popescu block its ip in your firewall. most likely result bitcoind hickups for a minute and moves on.
16:25 mircea_popescu obviously exact result can not be known, because the specification is gavin's mother's cunt.
16:25 mircea_popescu i mean software.
16:26 nubbins` a a a
16:26 nubbins` yeah, see, bitcoind crashes ~1x daily on this vm
16:26 nubbins` i'm assuming it grabs a diff node each time
16:26 nubbins` they're all slow as shit
16:26 mircea_popescu that's only 3-400x a year!
16:26 nubbins` :D
16:27 nubbins` 60KB/s is probably the best upload speed i'll ever get from some random user
16:27 mircea_popescu possibly canadian fiber runs on poutine ?
16:27 nubbins` w/e it runs on, it works
16:27 mircea_popescu did you rub sugar on it today ?
16:28 nubbins` nope, crisco
16:28 bounce can you force what node it'll fetch the blockchain from?
16:28 nubbins` 5.7MB/s over wifi
16:28 mircea_popescu lol crisco is for cisco ?
16:28 nubbins` heh
16:28 nubbins` the r is silent
16:28 bounce would be worth it to trace a couple yourself and pick a good one, then force-feed it
16:28 mircea_popescu bounce yes, actually, by editing the fallback list and wiping its other methods of acquisition
16:28 nubbins` ("kissco? the fu...")
16:28 mircea_popescu there are other methods
16:29 nubbins` not like this isn't a fool's errand anyway, if it's gonna clam up at block 250k
16:29 nubbins` but hey, to boldly go
16:29 mircea_popescu (said fallback list being another thing that should go away, but iirc this was mentioned)
16:30 bounce something to drop on a todo list in a wiki or something
16:30 nubbins` provide text file w/ trusted nodes as argument or smth
16:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: and zapping the idiotic db corruption <<< there is more to this story, i doubt it's just "corruption". sadly i dun have the smoking gun.
16:31 bounce or, well, start with dropping the things on the ml, it's there for this sort of thing
16:31 mircea_popescu but if there was a candidate for "magic packet" undocumented behaviour of the subverted gavin-bitcoin, this is it.
16:31 nubbins` http://www.speedtest.net/result/3886931652.png
16:32 mircea_popescu i r believ you nubbins` !
16:32 nubbins` the proof is in the ping!
16:32 nubbins` not sure what i'd get if i hooked up a wire
16:32 nubbins` suppose it doesn't matter
16:32 mircea_popescu nubbins`: it'll make an o'reilly cover look like Dick & Jane :D
16:33 mircea_popescu http://bitbet.us/bet/1062/obama-impeached/ << even money eh ?
16:33 assbot BitBet - Obama Impeached :: 0.28 B (58%) on Yes, 0.21 B (42%) on No | closing in 11 months 2 weeks | weight: 99`955 (100`000 to 1)
16:33 nubbins` http://www.brightok.net/~wdmorgan-ss/Books/TransferFolder/CoverFWDAJ.jpg
16:33 nubbins` fun /with/ dick and jane
16:34 nubbins` side note: that's a silkscreened cover
16:34 mircea_popescu yeah i was thinking, why em the "with"
16:35 nubbins` you'd see this occasionally in old letterpress shit, where the publisher ran outta type in the given font
16:35 nubbins` but silkscreen? nfi
16:35 mircea_popescu i think ima make a list of romanian cursing. the internet is appalling.
16:39 bounce maybe the same reason why "modern" word-produced turds end up with more fonts than words
16:39 thestringpuller ;;ticker
16:39 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 340.11, Best ask: 340.99, Bid-ask spread: 0.88000, Last trade: 340.99, 24 hour volume: 15372.53022261, 24 hour low: 326.71, 24 hour high: 344.17, 24 hour vwap: 337.428263329
16:40 cazalla http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2677538/the-woman-taking-on-coles-in-a-landmark-case/ But Ms Mesnage encountered a number of problems with the Coles website, including being unable to select a delivery time for her groceries and complex navigation that meant it could take up to eight hours to place an order.
16:40 assbot The woman taking on Coles in a landmark case | Illawarra Mercury
16:40 cazalla imagine having to build your website to accomodate such people or get your shit handed to you
16:41 mircea_popescu in other news, "man can't find door, sues shop"
16:41 nubbins` groan, eyeroll
16:43 asciilifeform not like this isn't a fool's errand anyway, if it's gonna clam up at block 250k << i actually have most of a patch for purely configurable block pumping. but shelved it and everything else for this reason.
16:46 bounce and the block problem is a DB handling problem, wasn't it? making swapping DB thingies a bit of a priority.
16:49 mircea_popescu bounce no apparently they ran into an earlier issue
16:49 mircea_popescu !up piznit
16:51 asciilifeform they ran into an earlier issue << likely involves db corruption. see earlier link, ~1hr ago
17:06 asciilifeform "magic packet" undocumented behaviour of the subverted gavin-bitcoin << can't rule this out, but this would play straight into my 'clever buggers after all' hypothesis.
17:13 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by thestringpuller: http://qntra.net/2014/11/introducing-a-new-bitcoin-foundation/
17:13 cazalla you got the scoop this time scoopbot
17:14 asciilifeform jurov's site still has the 1blabla... contract!
17:15 asciilifeform jurov: fix it before all the qntra readers laugh
17:15 kakobrekla ha ha.
17:15 kakobrekla too late.
17:17 * kakobrekla just dutifully rains on parade
17:18 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2TWKCJT.txt )
17:18 BingoBoingo !b 4
17:19 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: (from qntra) 'our project will likely discard the entire GUI in the near future' << already gone
17:20 punkman was playing with vanitygen, found a 1tits address that also says "how hot" in private key
17:20 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: unless, naturally, we're waiting for the turdatron where we can all sign on the patches thus far (i'm all in favour)
17:22 ben_vulpes there's that for sure
17:22 ben_vulpes there's also a discussion to have about how to distribute
17:23 ben_vulpes when merge, how number, method of dist etc
17:23 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: distribute what?
17:23 ben_vulpes merged set of patches
17:23 ben_vulpes or nothing, you know
17:23 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: at the moment i'm leaning against the idea of distributing binaries of whatever kind being a good one
17:24 ben_vulpes mhm yeah i dig
17:24 ben_vulpes but how about source?
17:24 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: anyone who is genuinely serious about using bitcoin should be able to build it. it isn't rocket surgery.
17:24 ben_vulpes sure absolutely.
17:24 ben_vulpes i'm talking about distributing a sourceball with patches merged.
17:24 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: as for source/patches, any turdbrigade member can put up unofficial mirror.
17:24 ben_vulpes could deem this unnecessary, but...
17:25 ben_vulpes as you did, i note!
17:25 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: at the very minimum, one ought to live on jurov's site. (at present, i don't see it there.)
17:26 BingoBoingo <bounce> the US does have a habit of starting some community initiative only to see it lobbied into the ground because it would be "unfair" to overpriced unwilling monopolistic large corporations << No, it happens. You just need a town that can get away with it. Muni internet exists here and had no serious opposition.
17:28 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: u.s. towns in this case are either prey or small change. tertium non datur.
17:29 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: what would be truly astonishing would be - municipal gsm. but pig's chance of flight.
17:29 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: u.s. towns in this case are either prey or small change. tertium non datur. << Small, affluent compared to the surrounding error.
17:29 PeterL was there a consensus as to if I should add prestonbryne.com to scoopbot's list?
17:29 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: what would be truly astonishing would be - municipal gsm. but pig's chance of flight << Aha!
17:30 BingoBoingo <PeterL> was there a consensus as to if I should add prestonbryne.com to scoopbot's list? << Prolly not, he stops by here very rarely.
17:30 BingoBoingo !t m s.qntr
17:30 assbot [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0.00015 / 0.00015 / 0.00015 (200 shares, 0.03 BTC), 7D: 0.00013514 / 0.00013704 / 0.00015 (4111 shares, 0.56 BTC), 30D: 0.00013514 / 0.00013704 / 0.00015 (4111 shares, 0.56 BTC)
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17:54 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-curse-cuss-out-and-swear-in-romanian-like-a-romanian-this-means-like-you-know-what-youre-doing-to-avoid-saying-professionally-with-structural-explanations-a-strategy-guide-plus-pro/
17:54 assbot How to curse, cuss out and swear in Romanian, like a Romanian (this means, like you know what you’re doing to avoid saying “professionally”). With structural explanations, a strategy guide plus pronounciation revealed! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
17:54 mircea_popescu !up satdav
17:55 satdav Thanks mircea_popescu
17:55 mircea_popescu sure. who're you ?
17:55 satdav $register
17:56 satdav I am a member of Firefox support team
17:58 mircea_popescu o hey.
17:58 mircea_popescu is it hard work ?
17:58 satdav mircea_popescu: how do I register on gribble
17:59 mircea_popescu ;;google first steps in bitcoin-assets
17:59 gribble start [bitcoin assets wiki]: <http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/>; #bitcoin-assets log: <http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/>; Why the IRS Is Taxing Bitcoins as an Asset - The Motley Fool: <http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/03/26/why-the-irs-is-taxing-bitcoins-as-an-asset.aspx>
17:59 satdav Yes very hard at times
17:59 mircea_popescu http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets <
17:59 assbot first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets [bitcoin assets wiki]
18:04 satdav mircea_popescu: is their windows setup for this
18:04 mircea_popescu hm ?
18:06 BingoBoingo <satdav> mircea_popescu: is their windows setup for this << If you must use GPG on windows at least compile it yourself. The extant gpg4win binaries have a dubious reputation
18:09 nubbins` http://i.imgur.com/N7K36Kw.jpg
18:09 jurov ben_vulpes" i told you several times: s'il vous plait, do register with the mailman. it will *not* register you automatically1
18:09 jurov !
18:10 jurov i am registered and did get your email fine
18:10 * nubbins` idly considers opening a sports shop named "s'il vous play"
18:11 nubbins` See vous play. Play, vous, play.
18:12 nubbins` fun with Dick and Vous
18:12 mircea_popescu Mousse de Vous.
18:13 ben_vulpes !
18:13 ben_vulpes i coulda sworn that i'd done that.
18:14 mod6 ;;ticker
18:14 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 339.55, Best ask: 339.56, Bid-ask spread: 0.01000, Last trade: 340.22, 24 hour volume: 15598.84432357, 24 hour low: 328.6, 24 hour high: 344.17, 24 hour vwap: 338.047285763
18:15 jurov maybe you did not finish
18:15 jurov in the second email there is a link,
18:15 jurov on that link there is a button
18:15 jurov or two
18:15 jurov and only after clicking it you're in
18:15 jurov you wanted rigor, gotta have rigor
18:16 mod6 thanks for getting the address setup for the foundation jurov & for signing on to be the treasurer for the Foundation
18:16 * ben_vulpes checks spam
18:17 jurov oh and please kindly send me or to deedbot your signed contracts
18:17 ben_vulpes rgr will do
18:17 mircea_popescu to deedbot
18:17 satdav You guys should register as a freenode group also
18:18 mircea_popescu satdav freenode is dead, basically.
18:18 mircea_popescu i've been trying to get them servers for a coupla years now.
18:18 mod6 jurov: do you mean my signed charter? http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/b/1MXeLHi5
18:18 assbot Bundle 1MXeLHi5 | #bitcoin-assets deed registry
18:19 satdav Lol mircea_popescu its hard for servers for irc ddos
18:19 mircea_popescu wait, what ?
18:19 ben_vulpes mod6: treasurer contract?
18:19 jurov no, the treasurer's contract so that there are no ugly 404s from the bottom links
18:19 jurov but wait, i'll update id with deed info
18:19 jurov *it
18:19 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes mod6 you're supposed to sign his thing too
18:20 mod6 yeah ok.
18:20 dub wat
18:20 mircea_popescu otherwise it's just, "jurov has self-appointed himself"
18:20 mod6 *nod*
18:20 jurov lol
18:20 mod6 Has the document been updated with the address et. al?
18:20 ben_vulpes mitm!
18:20 jurov mmnt
18:20 mircea_popescu incidentally, in a decade or two once gpg ios the only basis of commerce, identity and general life, that's going to be the #1 scam : here's this document. it's signed. just by me.
18:20 mod6 mp: werd.
18:24 mod6 we'll get it done asap
18:24 jurov http://therealbitcoin.org/treasurer_contract.html it's there
18:25 mod6 yeah got this: http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/deed/9ULZPc7yeZ9fQEA1aZ73H6mcv1s2C4gYFAbNTb5urovj
18:25 assbot Deed 9ULZPc7y | #bitcoin-assets deed registry
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18:44 jurov ooh I now get what was the REFERENCES for ... not for itself, but for the charter
18:44 jurov if nobody else does, will fix it tmrw
18:44 jurov laterz!
18:57 mod6 ah, yeah.
18:58 mod6 is there a way for someone to revoke their signed deed?
18:58 mod6 we need the three of us to sign that contract with the REFERENCES section in there
18:59 mod6 anyone whom already submitted might need to re-submit, not sure if there is a way to pull previously submitted deeds.
19:07 mircea_popescu nope.
19:07 mircea_popescu and something tells me this is going to be a bitch going forward.
19:07 mod6 yeah.
19:09 mod6 hrm
19:12 mod6 ok so this http://therealbitcoin.org/treasurer_contract.html is the contract with jurov's submission
19:12 mod6 (to deedbot)
19:13 mod6 and if both ben_vulpes and I sign that exact document with our keys, there is a tie back to the deed submitted by jurov
19:13 punkman handy when you are searching http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/from/jurov (can also add /rss there)
19:13 assbot #bitcoin-assets deed registry
19:14 mircea_popescu rss'd be good.
19:14 mod6 the problem is here, that "[R.1] doesn't tie back to the specific Charter document
19:14 punkman http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/from/mircea_popescu/rss
19:14 assbot deeds signed by mircea_popescu
19:15 mod6 just jurov's submission to the deedbot
19:15 mircea_popescu punkman can there be 1st line of deed too ?
19:15 mod6 so there should be a R.1 secion to the submission to deedbot for the charter, and an R2 that ties back to his submission of the Treasurer's contract to the deedbot
19:16 punkman mircea_popescu: might as well put the whole thing there (gotta fetch from db and decompress)
19:16 mircea_popescu punkman actually. yeah, whole thing no signature
19:16 mircea_popescu google will haet you otherwise.
19:16 punkman why no signature?
19:16 mircea_popescu to keep it lighter. i suppose you could actually put the whole thing sure.
19:17 mircea_popescu yeah.
19:17 mod6 and as far as "[R.1]" it should probably encompass both of our signed submissions of the charter to deedbot
19:17 mircea_popescu ;;later tell pete_dushenski who is http://www.contravex.com/2014/09/21/tete-a-tete-with-a-neo-national-socialist/#comment-4561 ?
19:17 assbot Tête-À-Tête With A Neo-National Socialist | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
19:17 gribble The operation succeeded.
19:17 mod6 (since we didn't submit them on the same bundle)
19:18 mod6 any errors in this thinking?
19:18 punkman should I look into creating a utility that does the multisig hack?
19:19 mircea_popescu no.
19:20 punkman or whatever can help such workflow
19:20 mircea_popescu mod6 srsly, i wouldn't worry about it. it's there, it's signed.
19:20 mircea_popescu anyone has doubts about the matter has also the means to verify it.
19:20 mircea_popescu what problem remains ?
19:20 mod6 ok. just was hoping for distinct links.
19:20 mircea_popescu the key to a functioning computer isn't that "everything is on your screen at the same time"
19:21 mircea_popescu mod6 but you each have a link no ?
19:21 mircea_popescu im not getting something here.
19:21 mod6 just was hoping for a daisy-chained document sigs in the public record
19:22 mircea_popescu so you mean you want jurov's thing to reference the charter you two signed ?
19:22 mircea_popescu this is trivially accomplished, just include the two links.
19:23 mod6 m6 & bv --sigs-> A & B signed charter ; treasurers sub-doc contains links to A & B to be signed by j & mod6 & bc
19:23 mod6 s/bc/bv
19:23 mircea_popescu sure.
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19:42 asciilifeform the key to a functioning computer isn't that "everything is on your screen at the same time" << this is how i ended up with 4 screens (and counting...)
19:42 mircea_popescu im still using one. old school.
19:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ever found a new 'trinitron' ?
19:43 mircea_popescu to be fair tho, i have a coupla other machines, so i suppose that counts as multiple anyway.
19:43 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not rly looking tbh.
19:44 asciilifeform surrendered to modernity?
19:45 mircea_popescu i've hammered this lcd thing into low emission tolerability, and well... kinda too lazy i guess.
19:46 asciilifeform 'eizo' makes tolerable lcd.
19:46 asciilifeform (tolerable - as in, still viewable when vertical, for instance.)
19:47 mircea_popescu i don't overturn them anyway.
19:48 asciilifeform on account of my peculiar profession, i am rather addicted to overturned screens.
19:52 asciilifeform foundation, l2 trust of assbot << i'd suggest switching from the #b-a voices for the turdatron to l1 of jurov (or ben_vulpes?) - i.e., do we want the camgurlz submitting patches?
19:53 mircea_popescu asciilifeform you'd reject a patch because it was submitted by a whore ?
19:53 asciilifeform nope.
19:53 mircea_popescu so then ?
19:53 asciilifeform but folks should at least have to ask to play
19:53 asciilifeform not that it matters much, 'if used as prescribed'
19:54 * asciilifeform awaits the patch whores
19:54 mircea_popescu i wish to see the camho that figures out how to submit fuck you to this thing.
19:54 asciilifeform we had quite a number here who figured out gpg, no?
19:54 mircea_popescu but generally : trust-but-verify is the best model available.
19:54 ben_vulpes http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lexl2/here_is_why_the_hash_rate_jumped_and_took_a_dive/
19:54 assbot Here is why the hash rate jumped and took a dive in days. EST. $3,600,000 worth - GONE! : Bitcoin
19:55 asciilifeform 'доверяй но проверяй'
19:55 asciilifeform ^ rhymed in the original.
19:55 asciilifeform (trust but verify)
19:55 mircea_popescu the original is afaik greek
19:55 asciilifeform let's have it?
19:55 mircea_popescu maybe it rhymes in russian because russian was so made so that good original sentences rhyme ?
19:55 asciilifeform ehehe.
19:57 ben_vulpes i just got an email with an attachment
19:57 ben_vulpes LEL NDA
19:57 ben_vulpes where is the eyerolling emoji again?
19:58 asciilifeform humlangs without declensions are a royal bitch to rhyme.
20:00 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i had it from patristics, and assumed it's greek. seems it's actually bona fide russian folklore.
20:01 asciilifeform http://s005.radikal.ru/i211/1110/84/274b6149a5d6.jpg
20:01 asciilifeform http://demotivkartinki.3dn.ru/_ph/5/2/119518605.jpg
20:01 asciilifeform etc.
20:02 mircea_popescu lol condom
20:07 punkman that's a greek comic
20:08 punkman "trust but verify" doesn't translate very well though
20:09 punkman http://www.messiniaportal.gr/sites/default/files/field/image/ark.jpg
20:10 mircea_popescu so apparently ask.fm is where all the cool kids are nao.
20:11 * asciilifeform peeked, not impressed. must not understand how the world works (tm).
20:14 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6750 @ 0.00072477 = 4.8922 BTC [+]
20:17 mircea_popescu "Which town did you grow up in? What's been the best commercial you've seen? What’s the best gift you have ever given someone, in your opinion? What position do you sleep in? Are you a very ambitious person? What is the worst gift you have ever received?" << of all the inept shit...
20:18 asciilifeform these folks >> straight to butugychag.
20:18 asciilifeform there's a pick and a cart with each of their names on'em.
20:20 asciilifeform http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/11/is-unlearning-harder-than-unschooling.html << intro to mr. o's linguistic crackpottery
20:20 assbot ClubOrlov: Is unlearning harder than unschooling?
20:20 ben_vulpes http://fuckyes.shithouse.tv/
20:20 assbot fuckyes
20:22 * mircea_popescu makes account, and for a minute contemplates stream of meaningless faces, and their literal outbursts. la nausee strikes.
20:23 asciilifeform wallowing with the eagles, eh.
20:23 * mircea_popescu is at that precise moment enlightened : rather than interact with random people, he'd count sand.
20:23 * asciilifeform prefers soaring with the pigs any day of the week
20:24 ben_vulpes i've been working out of a client's office on the 27th floor of this skyscraper downtown all week, and every time i walk outside i'm struck with gut-level desires to insulate myself from the people derping around outside the building.
20:24 mircea_popescu this notion that "other people" exist is perhaps the most striking shared delusion humanity ever came up with. seriously, they do ? how ?
20:24 asciilifeform hard to smell the pheromone trails when not an ant, yes.
20:24 mircea_popescu guess so.
20:25 cazalla so i butchered 6 rabbits this morning and a crow swooped and took a bunny head, imagine the poor kid that finds that in his backyard lol
20:25 mircea_popescu ew
20:25 asciilifeform there was a soviet-era kids' book about a lil'bugger who gets turned into an ant as punishment for his idiocy
20:25 asciilifeform and 'has problems' in the ant colony
20:25 asciilifeform wish i still had my copy.
20:26 mircea_popescu you know the ancient story of the "magical" ass yes ?
20:26 asciilifeform golden?
20:26 asciilifeform apuleus ?
20:26 mircea_popescu nah.
20:26 asciilifeform which, then
20:26 mircea_popescu worker falls asleep on the roadside, with loaded ass next to him. coupla bums decide to steal the goods
20:27 mircea_popescu one of them comes up with a bright idea : takes bit off ass, puts over own head, while his fellow takes the ass and its load away.
20:27 mircea_popescu worker awakens, finds a man instead of the ass. man explains that lo! he was cursed by his jealous lover woman, and his time as an ass just came to an end!
20:28 mircea_popescu awestruck worker bids him enjoy his freedom and leaves.
20:28 mircea_popescu coupla weeks later, worker runs into his ass at a fair. shimmies next to it and whispers
20:28 mircea_popescu "who did you fuck now!"
20:28 asciilifeform l0l
20:28 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3PK3CYG.txt )
20:28 BingoBoingo !b 3
20:29 mircea_popescu Most people stumble through life afraid to speak any of the words that they only know from their reading, fearful that they will make fools of themselves by mispronouncing them in public. <<< this was a fact in jerome k jerome's england, back when people knew your class based on your rp.
20:30 mircea_popescu meanwhile your average usian has no problem speako spanisho, and wonders why the spanish speakero no understando.
20:30 asciilifeform orlov appears to subscribe to the hypothesis that english is a semi-deliberate qwerty for 'branded on the toungue' purposes.
20:31 mircea_popescu o holy shit don't tell me he's of the "spoken as written" school of pararetardism
20:31 mircea_popescu no, no... he is!
20:31 mircea_popescu jesus.
20:32 mircea_popescu Take the word that sounds like “tu.” It is spelled in three different ways: “to,” “too,” and “two.” << if only these actually sounded even vaguely alike.
20:32 mircea_popescu that he's an ignorant ass i know. but why is he such a twerp to not even bother do his motherfucking reading, quote the actual canonical examples on this topic ?
20:35 asciilifeform these sound quite alike in usa.
20:35 asciilifeform or perhaps just my tin ear.
20:35 ben_vulpes nope.
20:35 ben_vulpes or maybe i'm infected with context.
20:35 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it's possible you don't hear them. some people don't distinguish some colors, red/green, yellow/blue, whatever. it does not follow paintings are bad or w/e.
20:36 * asciilifeform confesses he was taught 'uk' style as a boy and had to slowly unlearn it, to much lulz
20:36 asciilifeform ask a teacher of english in ru, and you'll get 'english is what they speak in england! here's how...'
20:36 mircea_popescu the way this works is actually very similar to genetics. there's someting like 100ish vowels available to the human voice. these are all spaced equally apart, say 1 unit each.
20:36 mircea_popescu no fucking language uses all 10 a's or all 10 o's.
20:37 * asciilifeform did the obligatory tour of duty as linguistics 'minor' at uni
20:37 mircea_popescu if a language happens to use the 3rd and 9th a, then the speaker expects that 6 unit barrier.
20:37 mircea_popescu when confronted with language using 5th 6th and 7th, he believes them to be "the same". this is not actually the case.
20:38 asciilifeform one you factor out the regionalisms, you get approximately orlov's phonemes, though.
20:39 mircea_popescu there is a very slight difference between the length of the vowel in to and too, which length allows the latter to round closer to a plain u
20:39 mircea_popescu whereas two has a faint j in there.
20:40 mircea_popescu consider that the u in food is properly uː whereas the u in good is properly ʊ. these are in fact quite distinct, for most people , with some training.
20:41 mircea_popescu juː is best heard in cue, or mule
20:42 asciilifeform if this recipe is followed, you end up a brit.
20:42 mircea_popescu and if it's not, you end up an urk.
20:42 mircea_popescu or w/e, ebonics speaker.
20:43 mircea_popescu anyway, no argument that english is, under the pressure of its colonialism, dieing a chinese death. so the argument is widely moot.,
20:43 asciilifeform they have their own most curious vowel 'dip switch' settings.
20:43 asciilifeform aha, it's the ultimate poorly-specced mandarin.
20:43 mircea_popescu mandarin was never specced, because, well... the speech is the spec.
20:44 mircea_popescu The “g” in “beige” is the same consonant sound as the “s” in “Asia” and “z” in “azure.” << god help us.
20:44 punkbot [trust-update] no changes
20:45 asciilifeform in mr o's docs, he specifically highlights 'unspell' being designed for folks who aren't u.s. subjects, but rather random people from the outer landscapes of the empire who 'know english' as written hieroglyph, but can't actually speak to one another except in a highly-castrated pidgin when they chance to meet
20:47 mircea_popescu And the kids are supposed to be able to make sense of this? At what point are children allowed to learn a set of symbols that unambiguously represent the speech sounds of English? << <this idea that if kids had it easier the world would be better is not unlike the idea that if the government spent more money the economy would work well.
20:48 mircea_popescu holy fuckingshit, fifty years of making it progressively easier for kids were enough to squander 500 years worth of accumulated advantages, to the point even the fucking indians can now compete with american kids.
20:48 mircea_popescu are you kidding me ?!
20:48 asciilifeform there's also a school of thought where 'notation is worth 80 iq points' and roman numerals are deservingly gone from mathematics
20:48 mircea_popescu kids need to be positively tortured.
20:48 asciilifeform tortured? sure. mutilated?
20:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform have you seen mathematical notation recently ?
20:48 mircea_popescu it has about as many symbols as medicine has words.
20:49 asciilifeform sure.
20:49 mircea_popescu note that he's not proposing to get rid of the training weights to replace them with actual anythings.
20:49 asciilifeform but, at least if speaking of mathematics-proper rather than 'perl', they come with usefully non-contextual definitions.
20:50 mircea_popescu give me an example.
20:50 asciilifeform nabla.
20:50 mircea_popescu any mathematical symbol is defined within its context and there only.
20:50 mircea_popescu as per godel.
20:50 asciilifeform within context - aye
20:50 mircea_popescu anyway, eating brb.
20:50 * asciilifeform also remembers that he forgot to eat.
20:51 BingoBoingo * asciilifeform also remembers that he forgot to eat. << And you're the one worried about everyone else's starvation!
20:57 asciilifeform http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lexl2/here_is_why_the_hash_rate_jumped_and_took_a_dive << 'miners can also have problems' !
20:57 assbot Here is why the hash rate jumped and took a dive in days. EST. $3,600,000 worth - GONE! : Bitcoin
20:58 asciilifeform asic may be costly, but kerosene is cheap.
20:58 kakobrekla which machines are those
20:59 thestringpuller asciilifeform: you suspect arson?
20:59 asciilifeform cui bono.
20:59 * asciilifeform wasn't there, didn't sniff the embers
21:01 * asciilifeform wonders why the setup wasn't under permanent inert gas to begin with
21:01 ben_vulpes or fire extinguishers?
21:02 BingoBoingo This is a point. Seriously why would people have a fat wall of mining hardware and no halon?
21:02 ben_vulpes i suppose mining really is so low margin these days that even the antifire stuff ruins profitability.
21:02 asciilifeform as one commenter pointed out, building was not sealable and therefore unsuitable for halon
21:02 asciilifeform but i wasn't talking about on-demand flooding
21:03 kakobrekla here is before : http://i.imgur.com/mYr74jf.jpg
21:03 kakobrekla cowboy miner
21:03 kakobrekla good it wasnt a slut?
21:03 ben_vulpes jesus.
21:04 * ben_vulpes looks forward to slutminer
21:04 asciilifeform on-demand flooding is also a varied beast. canonical example: 'hermitage' art museaum in leningrad. fitted with co2 tanks in the '50s. bell rings, you have two minutes to get out. after that, doors seal and 100% co2 atmosphere.
21:04 ben_vulpes ;;google slutminer
21:04 gribble No matches found.
21:05 BingoBoingo md5 http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/crypto-attack-that-hijacked-windows-update-goes-mainstream-in-amazon-cloud/
21:05 assbot Crypto attack that hijacked Windows Update goes mainstream in Amazon Cloud | Ars Technica
21:05 ben_vulpes http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-075
21:05 assbot SCP-075 - SCP Foundation
21:06 thestringpuller https://bitcointa.lk/threads/ann-cowboyminer-hosting-your-1th-s-a1-dragon-miners-at-excellent-rates.322187/
21:06 asciilifeform ^ lol! those are lovely.
21:06 BingoBoingo Old uranium mines filled with radon would be great, except for the radiation flipping bits
21:07 asciilifeform afaik these never usefully fill.
21:07 asciilifeform not with He (decay daughter) either.
21:08 asciilifeform (whither helium? unfortunately, mostly mixed in with combustible 'natural gas.' and mostly in usa.)
21:08 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: in emails do you prefer Stan or Stanislav?
21:09 asciilifeform doesn't matter
21:09 ben_vulpes mk.
21:09 asciilifeform so long as to correct key
21:09 ben_vulpes ah, but for mailing list references.
21:09 asciilifeform generally - 2
21:09 * asciilifeform tried to subscribe, failed
21:10 ben_vulpes check your 'spam' folder - jurov's not done anything with dkim
21:10 asciilifeform negative.
21:10 * ben_vulpes shrugs
21:10 ben_vulpes jurov!
21:13 BingoBoingo <ben_vulpes> jurov! << Sleeping
21:15 ben_vulpes http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/0.5.3-todos
21:15 assbot 0.5.3-todos [bitcoin assets wiki]
21:15 ben_vulpes a foundational question: do bounties work?
21:17 kakobrekla btw you can do subcategories there as well
21:17 kakobrekla maybe you want like foundation/client
21:17 kakobrekla dunno
21:18 kakobrekla or chicken/... :p
21:21 decimation dkim is kind of a chumpatron
21:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform anyway, to sum it : there already exists a phonetic notation, and has, for a century. it has the advantage that it works in all languages, and it is also fine enough for absolutely any conceivable use, with its extensions.
21:23 mircea_popescu on the other hand, there are numerous attempts by various poetterings to create a "better language" because maybe that way their mother will not have been a crackwhore anymore.
21:23 mircea_popescu the most notable example is that polari gypsy lingo thing, which is notable for how shitty it is.
21:23 mircea_popescu so... whatevs.
21:24 BingoBoingo Oh, the IPA thing?
21:24 mircea_popescu sure/
21:25 mircea_popescu http://i.imgur.com/N7K36Kw.jpg << fucking funny that burned rigs are STILL teh problem.
21:25 cazalla anyone want to buy some lucky rabbit feet or maybe even heads? http://i.imgur.com/gfYKXLP.jpg nsfw
21:26 BingoBoingo Ah, Yeah, it's a pain. Latin alphabet works one way, Anglophones have retarded vowel shift, the irrelevance of Chinese supposes azns should look to Castellano as a lingua franca for dealing with white people.
21:27 mircea_popescu what difference does it make anyway. if ruby were more like perl would you use it then ?
21:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform wonders why the setup wasn't under permanent inert gas to begin with << margins.
21:28 ben_vulpes heh.
21:28 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> what difference does it make anyway. if ruby were more like perl would you use it then ? << If by like perl you mean the runtime doesn't suck, then maybe?
21:28 mircea_popescu as ben_vulpes points out.
21:28 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo strictly discussing notation.
21:28 BingoBoingo AH
21:28 mircea_popescu kakobrekla: here is before : http://i.imgur.com/mYr74jf.jpg <<< absolute "cheapest of the cheap" scream to it huh
21:29 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo: Old uranium mines filled with radon would be great, except for the radiation flipping bits <<< if you're going to fill with gas, fill with technological gas.
21:29 mircea_popescu whatever your compressors can eat.
21:29 decimation supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so they don't have to learn the target language
21:29 BingoBoingo Well, I mean the mines flood themselves with it
21:30 mircea_popescu decimation the ones that don't speak italian anyway.
21:30 decimation yeah or german
21:30 mircea_popescu that's a myth.
21:30 BingoBoingo <decimation> supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so they don't have to learn the target language << Actually this is indeed a thing.
21:30 BingoBoingo If they are from Usia
21:32 * BingoBoingo has seen on several occasion musical scores in not Amerglish which had the target language only in IPA
21:32 decimation http://archive.csustan.edu/Music/handbook/Vocal_Major_Requirmnts.html "Knowledge of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English and Italian Sight reading"
21:32 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes: a foundational question: do bounties work? << they work best when large audience, small rewards.
21:34 mircea_popescu kakobrekla how do i edit thios wiki ?
21:34 mircea_popescu decimation the thing with ipa is that it roughly works like a modular pluggable thing.
21:34 kakobrekla How do I add stuff?
21:34 kakobrekla For editing rights, please ping kakobrekla on IRC. You also need a rated WOT account.
21:34 kakobrekla do you have a rated wot account?
21:34 mircea_popescu i do!
21:34 kakobrekla good!
21:34 mircea_popescu what nao
21:35 kakobrekla pm
21:38 mircea_popescu how does one use a wiki ? specifically, i wish to add an answer to "what is the desired behavior here?"
21:40 asciilifeform ipa suffers deadspace problem
21:40 decimation deadspace problem?
21:40 asciilifeform that is, wtf to do with a keyboard where most of the keys - you will never push.
21:40 decimation well, chinese solves this with a little gui tool
21:40 asciilifeform also folks hate latin with squiggles.
21:40 asciilifeform i sure as fuck do.
21:41 asciilifeform in fact, my main objection to orlov's gizmo is that it isn't huffman optimal.
21:41 asciilifeform quite like ipa.
21:41 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: so in your opinion bounties for biggies like "wedged 0.5.3" aren't going to produce much?
21:42 * asciilifeform speaks as a formerly very regular 'in anger' user of ipa
21:43 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: bounties << let's ask more concretely. how much of a bounty would move you, personally, to unwedge 0.5.3 ?
21:43 decimation wrt english pidgin < This already happens, ever been to hawaii?
21:43 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes let's consider the general point. a) elvis at the hight of his popularity offers a beer to anyone that runs a mile in five minutes ; b) totally unknown autistic otaku offers a million internet funbutts to anyone that runs a mile.
21:43 mircea_popescu which is the more likely to result in run miles ?
21:43 asciilifeform proverbial example of 'big hand, small bounty' - don knuth and his typo cheques.
21:44 mircea_popescu ^
21:44 BingoBoingo asciilifeform speaks as a formerly very regular 'in anger' user of ipa << IPA is the java of the linguistics world.
21:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform my point is merely that if a space already has a bad solution, implementing a bad solution by nobody is stupid.
21:44 mircea_popescu it will be worse.
21:44 asciilifeform a -good- solution by nobody - might have chance.
21:45 asciilifeform but 'better to be rich and healthy than poor and disease-ridden', yes.
21:45 mircea_popescu i read enough to know the person is not only never going to produce a good solution, but is actually ignorant enough to not even realise what the difference may be, and on top of that impudent enough to imagine this not to be so.
21:46 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: bounties << my unwedging << first i'd have to invent the universe
21:46 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: the universe << nah, just rip out bdb
21:46 mircea_popescu impudent, incidentally, is an interesting word. it comes, of course, from pudenda, and it connotes shamelessness, immodesty.
21:46 asciilifeform aha.
21:46 mircea_popescu but literally : cuntless.
21:47 mircea_popescu somehow contemporary retardation has retained ball-less-ness
21:47 mircea_popescu but cunt-less-ness is lost, and then people wonder why women feel unequal.
21:47 decimation it seems to me that sqllite might make a reasonable stand-in for bdb
21:48 asciilifeform decimation: same liquishit, different bottle
21:48 mircea_popescu ^
21:48 mircea_popescu iirc this was considered and rejected for good reasons in array.
21:48 decimation at least they claim to test the code
21:48 mircea_popescu and i claim the crown of mexico.
21:48 asciilifeform i'd do it but presently i've all eight of my shiva-hands full
21:49 mircea_popescu do it with your cock!
21:49 asciilifeform could, in principle, be persuaded to accidentally drop something
21:49 asciilifeform but not cheaply.
21:50 mircea_popescu no, not cheaply.
21:50 mircea_popescu repeatedly.
21:50 asciilifeform and i certainly hope i'm not the only one with hands.
21:51 asciilifeform because if so, we're in a dire spot.
21:52 asciilifeform where have all those literate folks scurried off to? the motherland calls!
21:52 asciilifeform http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/archive/f/f7/20091130080539!Ussr0437.jpg
21:53 decimation lol is that a recruiting poster?
21:53 asciilifeform aha.
21:53 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: i'm not averse to it at all but i can't even tell what's bdb and what's other things.
21:53 ben_vulpes right now, at least.
21:54 asciilifeform flies-from-cutlets separation, yes.
21:54 asciilifeform http://demotivation.me/images/20130529/qv4yvfj2tv42.jpg
21:54 ben_vulpes :(
21:55 asciilifeform http://cdn5.img22.ria.ru/images/92068/64/920686406.jpg
21:55 ben_vulpes i mean i don't even understand how CRITICAL_BLOCKs are implemented yet
21:56 mircea_popescu it' s a journey of discovery
21:56 mircea_popescu from milan to minsk
21:57 asciilifeform http://www.krasnoyeznamya.ru/gallery/rm_21_489.jpg << more relevant to the janitorial essence of the task.
21:57 asciilifeform loosely translated, 'red army's fine broom, sweeps the filth clean from the room'
21:58 asciilifeform and yes BingoBoingo that's a mosin.
21:58 BingoBoingo Looks the part
21:59 decimation asciilifeform: I didn't realize that the soviet army was a 'volunteer' organization
21:59 asciilifeform voluntary-compulsory.
21:59 asciilifeform (yes, that's a phrase.)
21:59 asciilifeform 'it takes a brave fellow not to be a hero in the soviet army.'
22:00 BingoBoingo "Voluntold" --Usian term
22:00 asciilifeform http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/2709/varjag-2007.4/0_1ef2c_d1f5d8f3_L.jpg << again the 'janitorial' motif.
22:01 BingoBoingo US election baramoeter highlights: http://thesouthern.com/ap/politics/quinn-concedes-illinois-governorship-to-rauner/article_e4fc81ba-82e3-5ddb-a6e4-d6a25018e068.html Also this guy won a distric that was blue for 70+ years www.suntimes.com/news/marin/12915506-452/viral-rant-makes-instant-folk-hero.html
22:01 assbot Quinn concedes Illinois governorship to Rauner : Politics
22:01 decimation so it was kinda like you could volunteer or be told that you were volunteering?
22:02 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo the final phase of dissolution is when the best predictor for electoral failure is being the incumbent.
22:02 BingoBoingo Yeah
22:03 mircea_popescu it simply means the "voters" scum expect on average more out of the forcing of the public treasury than on the maximum the public treasury may contain
22:03 asciilifeform public printery.
22:03 BingoBoingo In Illinois, Pat Quinn's greatest failing was being an "honest Democrat"
22:05 BingoBoingo To trim the budget he cut the wrong bezzels. Also broke the rule in Illinois that Governor must be Unrepentant criminal, he was repentant
22:05 decimation I predict that now the republicans have won they will quickly give away the farm on immigration, taxes, more welfare, etc
22:06 decimation I predict that the number of H1b visas will at least triple
22:06 BingoBoingo Well, that's how one keeps elected office generally
22:07 mircea_popescu decimation visas are not actually bad.
22:07 thestringpuller some companies hire H1B applicants over citizens/residents.
22:07 thestringpuller ^- decimation
22:07 mircea_popescu that's also not bad.
22:08 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: how so?
22:08 mircea_popescu well, obviously depends what your goals are, but if some sort of either efficiency or adherence to reality is among them then an open system will alway sbeat any closed one.
22:09 mircea_popescu in short, you're better off living in a country of immigrants than in a coutnry of citizens.
22:09 asciilifeform for particular values of 'you'.
22:09 mircea_popescu particular how ?
22:10 asciilifeform straight to greenspun.
22:10 asciilifeform http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
22:10 assbot Women in Science
22:10 asciilifeform ^ that one
22:10 asciilifeform 'Does this make sense as a career for anyone? Absolutely! Just get out your atlas.'
22:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform incidentally, it boggles that this orlov fellow has somehow managed to get all the us diseases. srsly, an amateur is going to joseph smith his way into a better way to read ? and pushes this on random kids ?
22:10 mircea_popescu insanity.
22:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform im not following ?
22:11 * asciilifeform has the misfortune of working with quite a few 'h1b' folks.
22:11 mircea_popescu go on ?
22:11 asciilifeform typical speciment: chinese fellow, cribbed dissertation, 100% cribbed/shannonized papers, total and unambiguous waste of oxygen
22:12 asciilifeform 'how did you get the sheepskin?' - 'washed glassware for advisor, same as the others.'
22:12 mircea_popescu k t
22:12 asciilifeform he gets his 25k/usd/annum, sends most of it home
22:12 mircea_popescu i think you miss my meaning. " if some sort of either efficiency or adherence to reality"
22:12 asciilifeform lab - 90% these folks, by weight.
22:12 asciilifeform and it shows.
22:12 mircea_popescu i don't happen to care that usians believe sucking cock is not something to be good at
22:12 decimation the numbers I have seen are that ~%80 of the 'skilled workers' brought in on h1b visas have completely phony credentials
22:12 mircea_popescu the demand exist.
22:13 asciilifeform now, the 'protectionist case' is not made here, because 'where there is a great birdlessness, my arse is a nightingale'
22:13 asciilifeform but it's still a laugh.
22:13 mircea_popescu decimation not so. the chinese guy in his example was well skilled
22:13 mircea_popescu just, at a skill the puritanical state refuses to name. "slavery" say.
22:13 decimation they refuse to say it, but tacitly allow it
22:13 BingoBoingo <decimation> the numbers I have seen are that ~%80 of the 'skilled workers' brought in on h1b visas have completely phony credentials << Difference is Usians with phony credentials tend to get along better at work parties
22:13 asciilifeform slavishly carrying out the rituals of 'scientocracy' - yes.
22:13 mircea_popescu well, it's a skill.
22:13 mircea_popescu asciilifeform a slave is a slave. the responsibility for his actions is his master's.
22:13 asciilifeform if they were slaving in uranium mine - another matter altogether.
22:14 mircea_popescu he is.
22:14 mircea_popescu let me show you one btw
22:14 mircea_popescu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P93o9_9N27o
22:14 assbot Cel mai oltean dintre chinezi - YouTube
22:14 mircea_popescu chinese guy in rural romania. herds goats.
22:14 mircea_popescu was an obgyn in china. had a wife, math teacher.
22:14 asciilifeform or the gurlz in that restaurant in timis, yes
22:15 mircea_popescu the locals are haetful. because he outworks them.
22:15 mircea_popescu imagine this. romanian rural population, making ~2-3k a year, thinks themselves better.
22:15 asciilifeform strikebreaker, yes
22:15 mircea_popescu i suspect guangfalong w/e
22:16 asciilifeform falun gong?
22:16 asciilifeform we have a pestilence of these in wash., d.c.
22:16 asciilifeform they like to set up little stands with 'atrocity porn'
22:16 decimation they hold gym class on the mall as I recall
22:16 asciilifeform revolting little buggers
22:16 mircea_popescu yah
22:17 mircea_popescu anyway. i wish you all a happy nov 6th and laters!
22:17 gernika I like the h1b worker as slave idea. Everything makes so much more sense now.
22:17 decimation http://time.com/2919691/street-fight-congress-renames-road-by-chinese-embassy-after-jailed-dissident/
22:17 assbot China: U.S. Congress Renames Chinese Embassy Road for Jailed Dissident
22:18 decimation gernika: it's pretty much reality
22:18 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> the locals are haetful. because he outworks them. << Generally the way this work in US is eventually Indian family produces doctor in US, they use their surplus to bringing in hardworking family members willing to put all effort into running fuelstation/convenience stores, shopkeep cousins succeed, finance next generation of doctors, pale natives bitch that people were willing to work at shopkeeping
22:18 scoopbot New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/you-know-what-you-should-do/
22:20 gernika Silicon valley companies are full of h1b slaves
22:21 BingoBoingo <gernika> Silicon valley companies are full of h1b slaves << You have to realize the h1b thing is USia's last defense against the doctor, retailer, doctor pipeline
22:21 decimation BingoBoingo: the question is - do their children have the same work ethic/.
22:22 BingoBoingo <decimation> BingoBoingo: the question is - do their children have the same work ethic/. << For a generation at least, but there's always more people with a work ethic who can sustain the system.
22:23 gernika What makes a slave happy? Certainly not freedom.
22:23 gernika That's what I didn't get
22:23 BingoBoingo And I'm not talking about the Urban tradition of Arab shops, I'm talking about motherfucking Circle K, king of the Midwestern convenience market
22:23 BingoBoingo gernika> What makes a slave happy? Certainly not freedom. << Goal oriented activity
22:24 gernika Yes. Everything and anything for the goal.
22:24 scoopbot New post on Qntra.net by thestringpuller: http://qntra.net/2014/11/thai-mining-operation-catches-fire-estimated-7-petahashes-lost/
22:24 decimation BingoBoingo: the real thing that enables this are "family relocation" visas
22:25 gernika The goal doesn't have to be meaningful. It just has to be achieved.
22:26 BingoBoingo decimation: Only on paper, the real power is there are always poor kids in India with dreams and a work ethic
22:27 decimation where were they in 1910? http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/27/a-shift-from-germany-to-mexico-for-americas-immigrants/
22:27 assbot From Germany to Mexico: How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century | Pew Research Center
22:30 BingoBoingo <assbot> From Germany to Mexico: How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century | Pew Research Center << I'm not refering to the most desperate, I'm talking about empire building follow from history http://www.circlek.com/history-and-timeline?language=en to the current reality
22:30 assbot History and Timeline | Circle K: Convenience store chain providing quick stop services including fuel, food, snacks, drinks, cigarettes, beer and our world-famous Polar Pop
22:32 BingoBoingo Dig into actual records, google will be of little help
22:32 gernika BingoBoingo You have to realize the h1b thing is USia's last defense against the doctor, retailer, doctor pipeline << even doctors and lawyers are slaves in the US now, due to student loan debt.
22:33 BingoBoingo ^ Depends on specialty. My brother who cam from the same poor ass lineage i did is now in Dentistry with his SJW wife and adorable dog
22:34 decimation well, there's little doubt in my mind that the reason h1b visas are 'tech' targeted is because engineers have the least political pull in the us
22:34 BingoBoingo Yes
22:34 decimation I'm sure the doctors, lawyers, etc would be more than happy to ensure that poor indian kids learn computers and not us law
22:35 BingoBoingo That is why stan doesn't atm have a ranch and to bitches trained in rifle-fu
22:36 BingoBoingo <decimation> I'm sure the doctors, lawyers, etc would be more than happy to ensure that poor indian kids learn computers and not us law << Of course, even with the obamacare bezzel established families in medicine have a strong advantage
22:36 BingoBoingo The difference between Internal medicine and dermatology is about 300k/year
22:37 cazalla the indians come to australia on a 457 visa to work at places like mcdonalds
22:37 BingoBoingo Networking, priveledge, reciptority, these are old mechanics. There were Roman Charioteers who earned more from sport than A-Rod could imagine
22:38 decimation I thought australia had very strict immigration rules
22:38 cazalla and i was not much a fan of them until i lived with one indian guy and he made the best hainanese chicken so all is forgiven
22:38 cazalla decimation, yeah, if you try to come by boat but come by plane and it's easy
22:39 decimation I guess I just wish for a hopeless outcome, which is that the us will not become (or already mostly is) a third world country
22:39 BingoBoingo <decimation> I guess I just wish for a hopeless outcome, which is that the us will not become (or already mostly is) a third world country << Twas inevitable. Blame the WASPs
22:40 cazalla australians really hate boat people which is amusing given so many of us actually came by boat, my parents included, 50-60 years back, it's like they don't want to be reminded
22:41 decimation what I find interesting is - why do these poor indian kids with a 'work ethic' really want to come to the us? as I posted here a few days ago, odds are that they will end up in some kind of debt slavery (aside from their indentured servitude)
22:41 decimation cazalla: were they POMs?
22:42 BingoBoingo <decimation> what I find interesting is - why do these poor indian kids with a 'work ethic' really want to come to the us? as I posted here a few days ago, odds are that they will end up in some kind of debt slavery (aside from their indentured servitude) << Because the previous generation used their surplus income to establish petit dynasties
22:42 cazalla decimation, nah germans, red cross helped my fathers family get out here
22:42 decimation I've heard that there is quite a large number of germans in australia
22:43 cazalla well, his family being his parents at the time and not me obviously
22:43 decimation cazalla: were they fleeing the post-wwii misery of germany?
22:43 cazalla decimation, east germany
22:45 cazalla i dunno full story tbh, opa was in the wehrmacht and we have photos of him as an officer but my father reckons he wasn't an officer despite the photos and shit
22:45 decimation most folks today never learn about the complete Apocalypse that faced german people after wwii
22:48 gernika decimation any good sources to read about it? Seen some german movies about the immediate post ware period.
22:50 decimation here's something http://www.rense.com/general78/germ.htm
22:53 decimation the pediwikia article isn't too bad, lots of links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_%281944%E2%80%9350%29
22:53 assbot Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
22:59 decimation http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-10-2014#883130 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-10-2014#883140
22:59 assbot Logged on 19-10-2014 04:50:50; asciilifeform: there were fully-functional german hamlets in, even, kazakhstan
22:59 assbot Logged on 19-10-2014 04:55:38; asciilifeform: what the anglos did to germany, will be remembered as -the- 20th c. crime.
23:01 gernika thanks
23:03 gernika interesting - the movie I saw was more about what the russians did to germany after the war. Wrt anglos are we talking firebombing?
23:04 gernika I would not be surprised at the gap in my knowledge given my public education.
23:05 BingoBoingo Anglos Firebommed and scared defectors with the "Russian threat", Russians at the time offered "Stalin"
23:07 decimation gernika: I guess I was more referring to the intentional policies of starvation and mass population displacement
23:08 decimation after the war was over, but yeah firebombing counts too. Of course the source for that is "slaughterhouse five"
23:09 decimation but also after the first world war, when the same population was starved and forced into debt slavery
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23:34 BingoBoingo !up supay
23:37 supay thanks BingoBoingo!
23:37 supay i was wondering if the bitcoin price will really rise again..
23:37 supay and what the reasons might be for the drop
23:37 supay doing a small presentation about bitcoins for my 'technical seminar' at school! :)
23:38 BingoBoingo <supay> and what the reasons might be for the drop << Buterin's waterfall
23:39 * supay googles
23:40 BingoBoingo !s waterfall
23:40 assbot 34 results for 'waterfall' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=waterfall
23:40 supay ah, thanks
23:41 supay okay, that seems understandable.
23:41 supay what do you guys think about the speculations? that 1btc will value anywhere between $10k to $40k or even more by the end of this year?
23:41 BingoBoingo Yeah, I'm working on a summary, if you can beat e to it submit it for publiccation
23:42 BingoBoingo <supay> what do you guys think about the speculations? that 1btc will value anywhere between $10k to $40k or even more by the end of this year? << This year questionable, Next year possible, but work on your knife fighting skills
23:42 supay haha, im only here to get your opinions and possible explanations for the same.. i dont have the know how to write a paper etc
23:43 supay oh, okay.. thats seems sad considering a lot of people were expecting it to jump up all of a sudden..
23:43 BingoBoingo supay: Qntra takes a lot of things.
23:44 supay the logs you linked me to have a mention of how the FBI seize of the SikRoad BTC might be a cause.. i've heard a lot of people saying the same, would that be nearly true?
23:44 BingoBoingo In Bitcoin you have to realize the thing shortly went from soft adversaries (Trendon Shavers) to hard adversaries (Obola and Ebama) very quickly
23:44 supay lol :)
23:44 BingoBoingo supay: Probably is in part, but not entirely
23:44 supay Obolo and Ebama, rofl
23:45 BingoBoingo The horsemen of each other
23:46 supay hmm
23:47 BingoBoingo Seriously BTC is a hard business this year. Jurov is surviving, barely, on 10 customers
23:47 supay i see.. thats sad
23:48 supay there was another mention of a reason for the price drop - a lot of companies now accepting bitcoins. but how does that work?
23:50 BingoBoingo supay: Well it works the same.
23:50 thestringpuller ;;ticker
23:50 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 337.42, Best ask: 337.92, Bid-ask spread: 0.50000, Last trade: 337.9, 24 hour volume: 13734.04653623, 24 hour low: 328.8, 24 hour high: 344.17, 24 hour vwap: 339.147808319
23:50 BingoBoingo People with Bitcoin pay Overstock.com for schlock and Overstock sells the BTC automagically, feeding Buterin's waterfall
23:51 supay interesting.. will have to go through that as well
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