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00:09 pete_dushenski ahoy
00:11 pete_dushenski !up Vexual
00:11 Vexual you planning to inject some bc into the australian economy pete_dushenski?
00:12 pete_dushenski fiat for sure
00:12 pete_dushenski btc is tbd
00:14 Vexual good timing
00:14 Vexual dies gribble do fiat pairs?
00:17 Vexual ;;google 1 aud in usd
00:17 gribble XE: (AUD/USD) Australian Dollar to US Dollar Rate: <http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?From=AUD&To=USD>; XE.com - AUD/USD Chart: <http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=AUD&to=USD>; XE: (USD/AUD) US Dollar to Australian Dollar Rate: <http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?From=USD&To=AUD>
00:17 Vexual thanks
00:21 Vexual did you buy any plastic money yet pete_dushenski? they don't take greenback here
00:22 pete_dushenski cad is plastic too yknow
00:22 joecool it smells of maple syrup too
00:24 pete_dushenski and beavers
00:24 Vexual you'll get a better rate at home
00:25 pete_dushenski oh most definitely
00:25 pete_dushenski not my first overseas rodeo ;)
00:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39695 @ 0.00064443 = 25.5806 BTC [-]
00:26 * joecool actually wasn't kidding
00:26 pete_dushenski lol how do you figure joecool ?
00:26 pete_dushenski not like anyone here uses cash anyways
00:27 pete_dushenski debit, credit, etc is 95% of cad transactions
00:27 joecool http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/28/186890578/does-canadas-100-bill-smell-like-maple-syrup-many-say-so <
00:27 assbot Does Canada's $100 Bill Smell Like Maple Syrup? Many Say So : The Two-Way : NPR
00:27 Vexual our money smells like chanel 5
00:28 joecool pete_dushenski: i used it until i had interac (debit), a lot of places will not do credit
00:29 pete_dushenski which part of canada was that in?
00:29 joecool ontario
00:29 joecool GTA
00:29 pete_dushenski right. in ontario for sure
00:30 pete_dushenski credit is widely used in alberta: hot economy, bezzlemania
00:30 pete_dushenski only bubble tea shops are debit/cash
00:30 joecool yeah i don't recall having much issue in the maritimes this summer, i was fine in montreal too
00:31 pete_dushenski ontario is also a far larger province so there's a much wider range of businesses
00:31 pete_dushenski alberta is mostly franchises, sorta the only thing that can keep up with the insane horizontal expansion of cities
00:32 pete_dushenski montreal definitely likes its cash
00:32 Vexual who doesnt?
00:32 pete_dushenski i was in montreal last weekend and i gotta say it's downright enjoyable to be in a city with a proper mafia
00:32 pete_dushenski the cops are nowhere near as uppity and self-important
00:33 joecool heh, i'll head back there this winter sometime, fun city
00:33 pete_dushenski it probably helps that the cops in mtl drive dodge caravans
00:33 pete_dushenski the least threatening mode of transport since the segway
00:33 pete_dushenski joecool one of my favs as well
00:33 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42000 @ 0.00064776 = 27.2059 BTC [+]
00:34 pete_dushenski what takes you there?
00:34 joecool a longtime friend of mine lives there
00:35 pete_dushenski a nice
00:36 pete_dushenski i'd definitely recommend checking out the anthropological museum if you haven't already
00:36 Vexual is montreal qbec?
00:36 joecool yes
00:36 pete_dushenski plus this polish restaurant in the old town with the most fantastic borscht
00:36 pete_dushenski Vexual mhm
00:37 pete_dushenski lemme find the name of that restaurant...
00:37 pete_dushenski http://www.stashcafe.com
00:37 assbot Montreal Restaurant - Polish Food - Stash Cafe
00:38 pete_dushenski the canard roti was most excellent as well
00:38 pete_dushenski it was an entire half bird!
00:38 Vexual one might arrive by horse drawn cart?
00:39 pete_dushenski lol actually yes
00:40 pete_dushenski saifedean:lol, i think i saw this on pete's blog before... << heh the guy's gone deeper into the archives that i'd thought. i like!
00:40 Vexual bitchin
00:40 Vexual whats to drink?, theres no list
00:40 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: saifedean for my own curiosity, google that string (no quotes) see what pops up ? << this is incidentally exactly why we should s/google/duckduckgo already
00:41 pete_dushenski Vexual rotating list i guess
00:41 pete_dushenski byob is pretty common in mtl though
00:41 Vexual ill have the soup
00:41 pete_dushenski only just starting to see this in alberta
00:42 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: turns out, it can keep the sane man about three years. << i lasted 3 months. maybe coulda gone longer?
00:43 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7000 @ 0.00064443 = 4.511 BTC [-]
00:44 xanthyos ;;gettrust bagels7
00:44 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask bagels7!bagels7@modemcable232.144-161-184.mc.videotron.ca. Trust relationship from user xanthyos to user bagels7: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=xanthyos&dest=bagels7 | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=bagels7 | Rated since: never
00:44 xanthyos !up bagels7
00:44 xanthyos omg
00:44 xanthyos sophie bagelz in teh wot!
00:46 xanthyos ;;rate bagels7 1 known on efnet and tinychat 5 years. friendly, courteous canadian. average- to poor-skilled internet poker player.
00:46 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user bagels7 has been recorded.
00:47 pete_dushenski punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/41hUkcLM
00:47 assbot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 14-day Eviction Notice - Pastebin.com
00:47 punkbot pete_dushenski: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
00:47 pete_dushenski ^an experiment ;D
00:47 xanthyos !up vexual
00:48 pete_dushenski bagels7 is canadian eh?
00:48 xanthyos montreal
00:48 Vexual is sophie hot xanthyos?
00:48 pete_dushenski lol what a coincidence!
00:49 Vexual or does she just ug up tinychat?
00:49 xanthyos !down Vexual
00:50 pete_dushenski lol
00:50 pete_dushenski don't mess with xanthyos' girl
00:51 xanthyos just a friend
00:51 pete_dushenski cool
00:54 xanthyos !up vexual
00:54 Vexual i was joking how tinychat isn't a thing
00:55 Vexual unlees youre 15
00:56 pete_dushenski saifedean:my idea is to prepare for the future of the triumphant return of hard money, low-time preference, and civilization, and to profit from it by doing good food properly, in a beautiful setting where you can relax around a big grill's fire and enjoy your meal like a civilized human << this does sound rather splendid.
00:56 pete_dushenski good food never goes out of fashion, even if it might occupy a smaller piece of the pie in bezzletimes
00:57 Vexual theres really nothing better to spend money on than food
00:57 pete_dushenski saifedean: Vancouver is another possibility... << try affording to live there. bon chance!
00:58 pete_dushenski vancouver is the worst major city, in essentially every regard, and all of which stem from a hyperbezzle housing market, in canada... after toronto.
00:59 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski it's bonne chance you kno
00:59 pete_dushenski so it is!
01:00 pete_dushenski saifedean: they are the absolute world champions, along with the south africans << for steaks, alberta is up there.
01:00 punkbot Bundled 1 deed | http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/b/1JHpQ1AS
01:00 pete_dushenski as long as you avoid the hipster derps with their grass-fed sous vide nonsense
01:00 pete_dushenski they try so hard, and fail so large
01:01 mircea_popescu ahahaha eviction notice deed ?
01:01 mircea_popescu win.
01:02 Vexual pete_dushenski: are you adverse to shellfish like lobster?
01:02 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu something different eh?
01:03 pete_dushenski Vexual ya, not much for shellfish, only started eating fish in the last 2 years.
01:03 mircea_popescu punkman maybe add a "total deeds in total bundles" thing between the address and your contact ?
01:04 mircea_popescu http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/trusted <<< tho i gotta say this is pretty sweet.
01:04 assbot Trusted keys | #bitcoin-assets deed registry
01:05 mircea_popescu could it be sortable by columns ? (most browsers support this afaik, needs a table class="datadisplay sortable")
01:05 Vexual consider lobster, it's not really a shellfish
01:06 mircea_popescu also, total trust prolly shouldn't be emphasized.
01:06 Vexual yay
01:08 pete_dushenski reading the logs about paleo, black coffee etc, the health-related upsides of this cult are readily apparent.
01:08 pete_dushenski this should be part of our marketing hook
01:09 pete_dushenski it's not enough to just pretend to be all-powerful and all-conquering and then execute
01:09 Vexual no, one should always stop off for lunch somewhere nice on the journey
01:10 pete_dushenski saifedean: if you eliminate grains, seeds and sugars, you effectively eliminate the possibility of developing most modern diseases, including diabetes, cancer, alzheimer's, obesity, and so on << aren't nuts part of paleo ?
01:11 * pete_dushenski researching which "nuts" are actually seeds. can't remember
01:12 pete_dushenski " 'nuts' that aren’t include Brazil nuts, Cashews, Walnuts, Coconuts, Macadamia nuts, Peanuts, Tom Cruise, and Pistachios"
01:12 Vexual theres no good reasoning to a paleo diet, it's no bread no pasta no fun
01:12 asciilifeform paleo << ahahaha.
01:12 pete_dushenski oh, plus almonds
01:13 * asciilifeform waits for paleobitcoin where we calculate the way the gods meant us to, with little calculi - pebbles.
01:13 cazalla pete_dushenski, i don't know about cashews, there is a shortage didya know?
01:14 Vexual really?
01:14 cazalla Vexual, yeah big cashew shortage
01:14 Vexual i got more cashews than chicken last night
01:15 pete_dushenski bigger chicken shortage
01:15 pete_dushenski it's all relative
01:15 Vexual gotta prepare them properly cashews
01:15 asciilifeform who remembers the zoologist who tried, for years, to live on the chimps' fruits, and ended with nothing but very ill digestion?
01:16 pete_dushenski jane goodall?
01:17 pete_dushenski cazalla: https://www.quantcast.com/qntra.net qntra continues to lose traffic, it's dead << chin up soldier!
01:17 assbot Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast
01:18 Vexual satoshi expose will fix that
01:19 Vexual or you get foot in mouth
01:19 * asciilifeform goes off for paleosleep
01:19 Vexual or some variation of loose stool
01:20 * asciilifeform or no, he won't, because likes box spring, rather than pit of own shit
01:20 Vexual don't chew the pillow; it's cotton
01:20 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/0WJA1GQ.txt )
01:20 BingoBoingo !b 4
01:21 * asciilifeform reminds listeners still tuned in that 'reversed stupidity is not intelligence.'
01:21 asciilifeform avoiding mickey-d and other fine recyclable edibles does not lead to immortality. cheers.
01:23 pete_dushenski cheers asciilifeform
01:24 pete_dushenski and by extension of the same point, pure-mcd's diet does not lead to immediate death
01:24 pete_dushenski these mortal coils being made out of some resilient shit
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01:41 punkbot Confirmed bundle 1JHpQ1ASmtNXg39tvGghDjyQE4r3n5cVYk | http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/b/1JHpQ1AS
01:54 pete_dushenski http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/amazing-photos-of-chinas-newest-stealth-jet-show-growin-1657003826
01:54 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
01:54 assbot Amazing Photos Of China's Newest Stealth Jet Show Growing Air Might
02:03 pete_dushenski !up Vexual
02:03 Vexual thanks, that cargo plane look sexy
02:04 pete_dushenski heh ya.
02:04 pete_dushenski china's air force has got it going on
02:04 Vexual they don't fuck about thats for sure
02:05 pete_dushenski ben_vulpes: ^^ for the third reich afficionados << damn. wayne still has it!
02:05 Vexual even the awac version looks good like tey designed both at once
02:06 Vexual the tail missile holds the radar
02:07 Vexual i dont hink anything so useful ever looked so good
02:08 mats_cd03 twin engine f35
02:09 Vexual meh
02:09 mats_cd03 oh god thats rich
02:09 Vexual they dont even work yet
02:11 Vexual do yo uthink that awac plane is pretend?
02:12 Vexual nope , it needs a big arse runway
02:13 Vexual ok f35s are pretty cool
02:17 mats_cd03 i doubt any of it is fake hardware
02:17 Vexual f35 looks way cooler than chinese fighters
02:17 mats_cd03 it all exists already and its not like dod affiliates have good security
02:20 mats_cd03 thank usg taxpayers for latest advances in cn, ru aircraft design
02:21 Vexual well a mig would prolly shoot the shit outta that thing today
02:23 mats_cd03 ;;ticker
02:23 gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 370.58, Best ask: 371.0, Bid-ask spread: 0.42000, Last trade: 370.58, 24 hour volume: 19077.46038459, 24 hour low: 360.0, 24 hour high: 377.77, 24 hour vwap: 370.039710474
02:24 Vexual pilots fly planes
02:24 mats_cd03 go on
02:24 Vexual i dunno i heard some people are dissapointed with f35s
02:25 mats_cd03 they are known to suck
02:25 mats_cd03 aircraft design by committee usually does
02:26 Vexual leaving an fa-18 can't be easy
02:29 Vexual those fucker lready go straight up
02:32 mats_cd03 http://www.syverson.org/entropist-final.pdf
02:41 mats_cd03 footnote 7 is great
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02:59 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> who remembers the zoologist who tried, for years, to live on the chimps' fruits, and ended with nothing but very ill digestion? << was this one of the lefty us "anthropologists" that keep going to sleep with apes in africa ?
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03:22 mircea_popescu !up saifedean
03:22 mircea_popescu you really gotta get into the wot
03:22 saifedean i do, and you really gotta get paleo :)
03:23 saifedean it's just that computer literacy, wot, irc gpg, and all that is just too much to process at the same time
03:24 saifedean until last week i spent my life using my computer like i use my washing machine, just getting my dirty deeds done as quickly as possible
03:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 46200 @ 0.00064728 = 29.9043 BTC [+]
03:34 mircea_popescu "Dovecot's author takes pride in secure design and implementation. A reward of EUR 1,000 (approximately $1,310 USD, £840 GBP, 130000 Yen as of May 2013) has been announced for finding any remotely exploitable security flaw."
03:34 mircea_popescu o.O
03:34 mircea_popescu !up saifedean
03:34 saifedean thanks for the voice, mp!
03:35 mircea_popescu ye
03:36 saifedean mp: " eh get out with the paleo stuff. what do you do for cake ?" <<< you stop being a teenage girl about it and enjoy life without these sugar highs and their crashes. Getting your energy from animal fats makes you constantly alert and with high energy reserves, not dependent on getting your next sugar kick to do anything, and not constantly crashing.
03:37 mircea_popescu but... i am neither ?
03:37 saifedean "you two are aware that if this were the normal about 90% of urban population would die off through simple starvation within the decade, yes ?" how very publicly spirited of you, sacrificing your own health so you can eat in a way that lets peasants survive in giant urban hell-holes!
03:37 mircea_popescu i dun care either way lol
03:37 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 61000 @ 0.00064863 = 39.5664 BTC [+] {3}
03:40 saifedean the point from looking at evolution is not to mimic the life of ancient humans, it is to figure out what are the things that make our lives better and what makes it worse. humans love to dip in streams, seas and rivers, and washing copies that. humans only recently developed condoms, and sex in condoms does definitively suck. having unwanted kids sucks more, so you do have to don one, but you would still rather not.
03:40 mircea_popescu it doesn't suck, get out.
03:41 cazalla saifedean, fuck yeah paleo, do you slaughter your animals with your barehands or what?
03:41 * cazalla ripped the head off a rabbit and fried it in butter with rosemary for dinner.. PALEO!
03:42 mircea_popescu cazalla you actually eat the brain ?
03:42 cazalla no, that goes into compost
03:43 cazalla i've read something about some rabbit brain disease that is not destroyed by cooking
03:43 saifedean the brain is the best part!
03:43 cazalla saifedean, i'll eat the kidneys/liver sometimes but compost the rest
03:44 saifedean yeah i was kidding, ive rarely had rabbits and never had its brain, but i do love sheep brains, and all gizzards
03:44 mircea_popescu well, all nervous accumulates prions, but i dunno what the situation is for rabbit
03:44 mircea_popescu imbeciles doing "scientific" cattle raising in europe have sadly made oxtail soup too risky
03:44 mircea_popescu a fie upon their early graves!
03:46 saifedean lots of good research on the effect of grains on human brains... http://www.amazon.com/Grain-Brain-Surprising-Sugar-Your-Killers/dp/031623480X
03:46 assbot Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers: David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg: 9780316234801: Amazon.com: Books
03:47 mircea_popescu yeah yeah, quod me nutrit
03:48 saifedean really, before you dismiss paleo, just try eliminating grains from your body for 2 weeks and see what it does to you. every single person i know who's done it has changed their life entirely.
03:48 saifedean but anyways, enough diet preaching,
03:48 mircea_popescu im not dismissing it per se
03:49 cazalla saifedean, can i drink alcohol on paleo?
03:50 saifedean the less sugary, the better, so i think vodka is the least bad
03:51 saifedean obviously, you can do whatever you want, and you can always have things in moderation and your body will be fine. the problem is when you have things in excess, when they become a regular part of your diet, and that is true for alcohol as well as grains
03:51 mircea_popescu well so then.
03:52 saifedean i'm 34 and in better shape than i ever was, much fitter and stronger than when i was 18. i play football with my university's varsity team, the fittest 18-22 year olds in my college and i'm in better shape than most of them. when i was their age, i was nowhere near fit enough to get into a varsity team, 15 years later, with paleo, i am!
03:53 mircea_popescu you should be on tv.
03:53 saifedean lol, i had my own tv show when i was in college...
03:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8400 @ 0.0006491 = 5.4524 BTC [+]
03:54 saifedean a young people channel's debate show, it was horrific, but fortunately predates youtube and so no evidence of it remains
03:54 mircea_popescu luckly you
03:55 cazalla i've been on tv too but not my own show heh
03:55 cazalla actually, twice
03:56 punkman https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/
03:56 assbot !Mediengruppe Bitnik | Random Darknet Shopper
03:58 mircea_popescu is this like the new tor ?
03:58 mircea_popescu "nobody will think of wwwwww" ?
04:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 49525 @ 0.00065005 = 32.1937 BTC [+] {2}
04:01 punkman http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/14/what-are-we-actually-rating-when-we-rate-other-people/
04:01 assbot Uber's Ratings Terrorize Drivers And Trick Riders. Why Not Fix Them? - Forbes
04:02 punkman "At the end of the trip, the driver turned around and begged my fiancee to give him five stars, explaining that he was one bad review away from being deactivated and losing his access to the platform. He wouldn’t let us out of the cab until she promised to do so"
04:04 mircea_popescu ugh
04:05 punkman yep
04:05 cazalla anyway this is me on tv, ya might need to turn the sound up to hear and look at the middle of the tv screen to see skype call pop up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuAQtXNQDLo
04:05 assbot i'm on TV, oh shiz, first cops, now this, imma be a star son! - YouTube
04:05 cazalla guy on right did a toshiba laptop scam tv pitch and i pranked him over and over on live tv
04:05 cazalla poor cunt didn't know what to do
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04:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28268 @ 0.00065039 = 18.3852 BTC [+] {2}
04:32 mircea_popescu lol
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05:00 cazalla http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-11-07-bungie-exec-swatted first swatting i've seen that involved a fkn helicopter lol
05:00 assbot Bungie exec swatted | GamesIndustry.biz
05:01 mircea_popescu heh
05:02 mircea_popescu bet you it's a "feminist"
05:05 BingoBoingo The problem is neither the caller, nor the swatted person. The problem is the proliferation of swat teams
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05:34 cazalla ;;isitdown qntra.net
05:34 gribble qntra.net is up
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05:50 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11258 @ 0.00064701 = 7.284 BTC [-]
06:04 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18050 @ 0.00065163 = 11.7619 BTC [+] {2}
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06:44 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21550 @ 0.00065193 = 14.0491 BTC [+]
06:52 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15850 @ 0.00065136 = 10.3241 BTC [-]
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07:09 mircea_popescu that groupon thing is such a scandalous failure.
07:10 mircea_popescu i mean... it claimed to be worth money. then it turned out the entire thing was fraudulent, through and through. nobody got put away, of course, because this is the us and "tough on crime" maryjane
07:10 mircea_popescu so on they trudge, unable to deliver any value to anyone, supposedly worth however many bezzelions.
07:11 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11103 @ 0.00064997 = 7.2166 BTC [-]
07:16 mircea_popescu ;;later tell richih listen, your blog is down. there's no point sending broadcasts if your thing can't take the traffic.
07:16 gribble The operation succeeded.
07:16 mircea_popescu meh, guy's probably not in any relevant channel anyway huh.
07:20 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/freederp.png
07:30 mircea_popescu !up _flow_
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08:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26900 @ 0.00065144 = 17.5237 BTC [+] {2}
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08:54 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30000 @ 0.00064997 = 19.4991 BTC [-]
09:06 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25904 @ 0.00064836 = 16.7951 BTC [-] {3}
09:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14935 @ 0.0006466 = 9.657 BTC [-]
09:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30650 @ 0.00064602 = 19.8005 BTC [-] {2}
09:27 BingoBoingo https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lypd1/peter_todd_on_changetip_not_a_real_bitcoin_app/clzd6yb << Gavin Speaks
09:27 assbot gavinandresen comments on Peter Todd on changetip. Not a real Bitcoin app. Could be done in same way by PayPal
09:33 BingoBoingo http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/11/10/the-sjws-now-get-to-police-speech-on-twitter/
09:33 assbot The SJWs Now Get To Police Speech On Twitter « The Dish
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09:52 danielpbarron great; probably gonna get my account suspended
09:58 BingoBoingo Well, I've seen some become unsuspended
09:59 danielpbarron my account is fairly old; hopefully thst gives me some leeway in woman hating
10:03 asciilifeform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXWJrpA8FnE
10:03 assbot Russian military NASTY SUPPRISE in a box for US military - YouTube
10:04 asciilifeform ^ science fiction, but not quite.
10:09 Duffer1 http://io9.com/hbo-will-make-asimovs-foundation-with-interstellars-jon-1657018306
10:09 assbot HBO Will Make Asimov's Foundation With Interstellar's Jonathan Nolan
10:09 * BingoBoingo kind of expected the punchline to be quadrocopter actually delivered fresh fruit
10:09 asciilifeform very fresh fruit.
10:11 asciilifeform note the diesel-genset tether in the last one
10:13 asciilifeform iirc we did that one right here.
10:14 asciilifeform (it is hands-down the most practical 'wunderwaffen' shown in the film.)
10:16 mike_c ;;isup trilema.com
10:16 gribble trilema.com is up
10:16 mike_c hm. not from here.
10:28 asciilifeform naturally, the gigantic chopper is a monumentally-unimaginative idea.
10:28 asciilifeform instead, truck ought to contain 1000+ little choppers.
10:28 asciilifeform with thermite limpets.
10:28 asciilifeform it takes, what, 100g to perforate an airplane?
10:29 asciilifeform let them fly to and weld onto the victims at night, quietly and with no fanfare.
10:29 asciilifeform or in the day, and let the idiots shoot one another with own small arms while trying to bag some.
10:30 asciilifeform the large chopper is really more like something the americans would use.
10:30 BingoBoingo Tiny chopper is definitely the more interesting concept
10:30 asciilifeform 'asymmetric', to use the american term.
10:34 BingoBoingo Well the benefit of many small choppers is that the people releasing them may escape long enough to die in the name of brining the enemy other pain
10:45 BingoBoingo http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/10/09/ridiculous-oa-journal-launches-with-ridiculous-title/
10:45 assbot Ridiculous OA Journal Launches with Ridiculous Title | Scholarly Open Access
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11:29 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14241 @ 0.00064652 = 9.2071 BTC [+]
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13:23 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: "githug" yes, i understand the weaknesses, and it deserves a callout
13:24 ben_vulpes i weary of guarding fools from themselves already
13:25 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: this is not about fools; it's about something that is legitimately counter-intuitive to 'civilians' - who usually assume, correctly, that a www repo is authoritative.
13:26 ben_vulpes civilians, right.
13:34 * thestringpuller gives ben_vulpes a githug
13:36 * ben_vulpes trudges back into the wordpress mines
13:40 thestringpuller why are you in wordpress mines?
13:41 ben_vulpes clients.
13:46 ben_vulpes i am making an http redirect
13:46 ben_vulpes because there are mysterious 'stage' strings prepended to some posts
13:46 ben_vulpes some posts urls*
13:46 ben_vulpes and nobody knows the history of why this whoopie is this way
13:47 ben_vulpes and we don't have access to the original boxen
13:47 ben_vulpes cruft cruft cruft it up
13:47 ben_vulpes try not to fuck it up!
13:47 ben_vulpes merrily merrily merrily merrily
13:47 ben_vulpes peoples use of computers makes me want to kill myself
13:47 TomServo BingoBoingo: http://imgur.com/a/cpjta Some wasted space on the right side, recent posts box ends up underneath the current stories.
13:47 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
13:48 TomServo Let me know if you want to see landscape mode.
13:49 thestringpuller lol mobile qntra
13:49 thestringpuller you can still read it
13:49 thestringpuller :P
13:49 thestringpuller ben_vulpes: those clients sound special.
13:56 xanthyos !up bagels7
14:06 ben_vulpes ;;ident bagels7
14:06 gribble Nick 'bagels7', with hostmask 'bagels7!bagels7@modemcable232.144-161-184.mc.videotron.ca', is not identified.
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14:22 jurov https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/10750243_802192643172549_2785477057758423743_o.jpg
14:22 jurov asciilifeform: want some? ^^
14:30 thestringpuller my hypothesis is that asciilifeform is part robot
14:33 jurov thestringpuller you haven't met him.
14:34 jurov i have very hard time imagining a robot so... er... a bit pudgy?
14:40 thestringpuller who da fuck is peter todd?
14:40 thestringpuller and why is twitter telling me to follwo him
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14:59 dignork TomServo | BingoBoingo: http://imgur.com/a/cpjta Some wasted space on the right side << I suggest adding this to style.css http://dpaste.com/385MY23
14:59 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
14:59 assbot dpaste: 385MY23
15:02 mike_c min-width of 800px? that would make it side-scroll, no?
15:02 dignork i tried with resizing browser on pc, left menu drops to bottom, but the article stretches to full width
15:03 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 69074 @ 0.0006394 = 44.1659 BTC [-] {3}
15:03 mike_c heh, that's because there is a bug
15:04 mike_c you made it "min-width: 800 px", which is nothing
15:04 mike_c "min-width: 800px" would make it side-scroll
15:09 dignork a, lol, i see what you mean, it's a typo in original css, full text then: http://dpaste.com/0D7MGFD
15:09 assbot dpaste: 0D7MGFD
15:11 asciilifeform jurov: underpants << lol
15:13 mircea_popescu ;;later tell pete_dushenski lol@ the derp on your blog. "i am ignorant, justify the world to me! because the stupid but lazy have inherited the earth at some point while nobody was paying attention and now that's how it works!!11"
15:13 gribble The operation succeeded.
15:13 mircea_popescu fucking alt-realities these people live in.
15:16 asciilifeform /me fat robot << in america, no other kind of robot!
15:21 mircea_popescu assbot: gavinandresen comments on Peter Todd on changetip. Not a real Bitcoin app. Could be done in same way by PayPal << todd has a point
15:22 mircea_popescu danielpbarron: great; probably gonna get my account suspended <<< twitter is not exactly a good venue anyway. why would one wish to maintain a lifeline with the weirdo cult of america ?
15:22 mircea_popescu let them have their fun on their own and they wonder why they're hungry.
15:23 mircea_popescu "Thanks for being a class act, Gavin." hahaha srsly ?
15:24 mircea_popescu team-libtard. "let's thank ourselves for being stupid, it's how they do it on the special olympics too! that's how you win!"
15:27 thestringpuller Huxely strikes again.
15:27 mircea_popescu *: ben_vulpes trudges back into the wordpress mines <<< wait wut ? why ?
15:32 asciilifeform http://pastebin.com/yqJfwDkY << these people spam 'pastebin' now.
15:32 assbot #TakeDownRSD - Pastebin.com
15:34 mircea_popescu UPDATE tril_posts SET `wp_content` = REPLACE (`post_content`, 'twitter.com', 'trilema.com') WHERE `post_content` LIKE '%twitter.com%'
15:34 mircea_popescu 315 rows affected. (Query took 1.1584 sec)
15:34 mircea_popescu should have done it long ago.
15:34 asciilifeform http://pastebin.com/5WCAcY6X << yet more? asking for spam?
15:34 assbot >>> Real Social Dynamics <<< - Pastebin.com
15:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i duin get it ?
15:40 asciilifeform the 'strangler' fellow who was thrown out of australia
15:40 mircea_popescu "On behalf of myself and my peers, I am lodging a formal complaint regarding your provision of financial services to Real Social Dynamics—specifically Real Social Dynamic's co-owner Julien Blanc (pseudonym)—on the grounds that their employees, business practices and instructional literature promote violence against women, sexual harassment, rape and racism."
15:40 mircea_popescu bnwahaha
15:40 mircea_popescu wait, this is how it works ?
15:41 mircea_popescu im pretty sure the license to provide services of any kind includes the obligation to provide them universally.
15:41 mircea_popescu so in teh bitcoin future, a financial services firm is not allowed to be down, for anyone and for any reason, or else risks losing its license.
15:41 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: but what about the terrorists!
15:42 mircea_popescu what about them ?
15:42 thestringpuller you can't serve the terrorists. it's unpatriotic
15:42 chetty banks refuse to open accounts all the time ..or close existing ones ..
15:42 mircea_popescu let the police do its job.
15:43 thestringpuller what about the case when someone goes down for "due cause"
15:43 mircea_popescu this "let the word processor be a browser and the browser be a music station and th phone a camera" trend is pure idiocy.
15:43 thestringpuller i.e. MPEx webserver attack, Trade engine failure, etc.
15:43 mircea_popescu there's no point in having a bank be the police. let the police be the police, and if they're no good at it let them go home.
15:43 mircea_popescu thestringpuller then they suck.
15:44 thestringpuller so in future MPEx will "never be down"
15:44 mircea_popescu it's never been down for a while.
15:44 mircea_popescu more on point, imagine if the blockchain "were down"
15:45 thestringpuller then bitcoin, would die.
15:45 mircea_popescu something that happens with regularity to fiat banks, "sorry, we can't process txn, our so-called system is down"
15:46 asciilifeform i was in restaurant just the other day, fiat 'was down', delayed for no good reason.
15:46 thestringpuller but there is a possibility (albeit improbably) someone bombs every mining facility on the planet, and the hash rate plummets making block times 10 hours per
15:46 mircea_popescu there's also a possibility the aliens land and start mining.
15:47 chetty I vote for the aliens
15:47 mircea_popescu incidentally, i have a spot of work for a python guru. anyone bored ?
15:47 mircea_popescu and speaking of that, i need someone to make me (another) site. anyone wanna make a b-a site ?
15:47 thestringpuller there's already a b-a site
15:47 thestringpuller isn't that kako's job?
15:48 mircea_popescu you might have not noticed this, but! the model is fully decentralised, with delegated subdomains.
15:48 mircea_popescu kakobrekla is like the dns cabal.
15:48 thestringpuller so it's already done?
15:48 thestringpuller lol
15:48 diametric mircea_popescu: what kind of work in python do you need done?
15:48 mircea_popescu wht is ?
15:49 mircea_popescu diametric well, there's a format for computer models called "3d" something. it sort-of almost works in blender, there's an ancient convertor someone made. this : ttps://github.com/UnoffLandz/unoff-landz/wiki/Editing-Static-3d-Objects
15:49 mircea_popescu http://sourceforge.net/projects/unoffserver/files/Blender%20Scripts/Import%20Export%20e3d%20files/
15:49 assbot UnoffLandz - Browse /Blender Scripts/Import Export e3d files at SourceForge.net
15:49 mircea_popescu i need this brought up to date, because it ties into blender from 2009 and uses python from 2007
15:50 thestringpuller hahahaha
15:50 diametric so you just need it to run in current blender/python?
15:50 mircea_popescu yup
15:51 thestringpuller this is a pretty complex script.
15:51 diametric i'll give it a cursory glance and let you know
15:51 mircea_popescu ty.
15:52 thestringpuller hopefully blender doesn't does do crazy stuff (like MS) between versions like change from lhs to rhs
15:52 mircea_popescu wouldn't surprise me.
15:52 thestringpuller who would be using this program?
15:53 mircea_popescu ...
15:53 mircea_popescu what are you, oracle ?
15:53 diametric this is pretty gnarly
15:53 mircea_popescu myeah.
15:54 thestringpuller very funny mircea_popescu
15:54 mircea_popescu For your reference, please see the following video. It depicts one of Mr. Blanc's instructional seminars where he advocates illegal and racist behavior as well as video footage of Mr. Blanc in the act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grV1iDns87s
15:54 assbot "Pick-Up Artist" pushing Japanese women's heads down to his crotch 白人が日本で大暴れ「日本ではHしほうだい」(字幕) - YouTube
15:55 mircea_popescu now this i gotta see, illegal and racist behaviour
15:55 thestringpuller damn, this while loop is gross.
15:56 mircea_popescu uhhh... srsly, staged crap ? these people need better concerns.
15:56 mircea_popescu “When you go to Tokyo….if you’re a white male, you can do what you want. Just grab her, pull her in. She’ll giggle. Just say PIKACHU or POKEMON or something to take the pressure off. I’m romping through the streets (of Tokyo) just grabbing girls and it’s like (motions) head on dick (pfft) head on dick, yelling ‘PIKACHU’ with a Pikachu shirt on….Every foreigner who is white does this. When you see that
15:56 mircea_popescu one foreigner in the crowd in Tokyo and your eyes will lock and you know that he knows and he knows that and it’s this guilty look like you both fucked a hooker or something.”
15:56 mircea_popescu honestly this entire "feminist protesting" stuff reads a whole lot like the sort of crap that tucker max "strategist" derp would come up with
15:57 mircea_popescu da fuck was his name.
15:57 mircea_popescu Ryan Holiday.
15:57 asciilifeform kgb disinfo agitprop that took own life of its own.
15:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well... not so much a life. more like a hottopic of its own.
15:58 asciilifeform unrelated: http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
15:58 assbot Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
15:59 mircea_popescu and judging how quickly it comes on the heels of the entire gamergate thing, i;m calling it.
16:00 punkman mircea_popescu: what's the new b-a website?
16:01 mircea_popescu punkman you seriously want to do ALL fo them !? this is very nice and all but imagine what happens if the aliens come to elect you their leader. all the shit drops off maintenance ?
16:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i actually moved to turbo pascal from qbasic back in very long ago.
16:01 mircea_popescu it *was* fast.
16:02 thestringpuller yum qbasic. the first language I ever learned.
16:02 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: to turbo pascal from qbasic << i, also.
16:02 punkman well if I'm elected alien leader, I'll put a few of them to task
16:02 mircea_popescu punkman what if you're elected cumrag.
16:02 punkman problems
16:03 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: mines << gotta eat.
16:03 mircea_popescu support wordpress actually pays money ? i'm awed.
16:03 mircea_popescu ing*
16:03 ben_vulpes bezzleland.
16:06 mircea_popescu well, if nobody speaks up punkman gets it tomorro, so. speak up.
16:07 thestringpuller i'm interested. but want to know what it is fiiirst
16:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform actually ironically enough, pascal was supposed to be a shitty program. c++ was supposed ot be the cat's teats. yet the experience i had over a coupla summers with turbopascal is pretty much unmatched. maybe the only time i actually enjoyed coding.
16:07 mircea_popescu borlandc++ sucked by comparison. maybe because i was too dumb to properly grok the language, or too lazy to learn the spec
16:07 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: cpp was not designed for humans, but for slave galleys.
16:07 mircea_popescu but holy testlist on a stick mary, who wants it.
16:08 punkman notary, status
16:08 notary punkman: No pending deeds | Last bundle 15 hours and 8 minutes ago
16:08 mircea_popescu o splendor of splendors
16:09 punkman punkbot, balance
16:09 notary punkman: Balance at 1LAwrWMbPLLSpt7nkD5Jv1Yf4cwPhD98ny is 0.06295 BTC (0.0 unconfirmed), enough for 572 more bundles.
16:09 notary punkman: Of course, you wouldn't have any 'extra' tobacco
16:09 mircea_popescu lol wait wut
16:09 punkman poor thing got confused
16:10 mircea_popescu $proxies
16:10 empyex mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.bz mpex.ws mpex.co mpex.biz mpex.coinbr.com Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
16:11 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes anyway, you ever sorted out the whatever it was ? mah wp expert happens to be sitting across from me.
16:11 ben_vulpes what is the part of wordpress that determines what things are prepended to the slug?
16:12 empyex mircea_popescu: MPEx-Status: mpex.co (119 milliseconds), mpex.biz (152 milliseconds), mpex.bz (242 milliseconds), mpex.coinbr.com (10266 milliseconds), mpex.ws (error)
16:12 empyex mircea_popescu: Health-Indicators: Homepage: √ MK Depth JSON: √ VWAP JSON: √
16:13 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes apparently there's an interface in the admin to set it
16:14 mircea_popescu settings > permalinks
16:15 mircea_popescu and apparently you shouldn't get into those guts anyway, just pick custom structure and form a string
16:22 ben_vulpes here's the wacky thing - it's the same on both the old site and the migrated copy.
16:22 ben_vulpes just using "Post name" option.
16:23 jurov Dunno if guru, but I do have few pull requests against py projects.
16:23 jurov *Accepted pull requests.
16:24 mircea_popescu jurov : see above ?
16:24 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes and so it doesn't use just the name ?
16:24 ben_vulpes it's got this http://domain/foo/slug
16:25 ben_vulpes the old one was http://domain/foo/bar/slug
16:26 mircea_popescu so add bar ?
16:26 ben_vulpes no slashes in slugs
16:26 jurov Oh you want to sort out weird old mess. Sounds like stuff I am good with.
16:26 mircea_popescu huh ?
16:26 jurov i saw blender+py from 2007
16:27 ben_vulpes old site has /foo/bar as uneditable zone in permalink area on page
16:27 ben_vulpes new site only has /foo/
16:27 ben_vulpes i have no idea where /foo/ is even configured
16:27 mircea_popescu what
16:28 mircea_popescu 's /foo/%postname%/ do ?
16:31 asciilifeform http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/11/twilight-of-oligarchs.html << quality lulz from mr. o.
16:31 assbot ClubOrlov: Twilight of the Oligarchs
16:32 mircea_popescu anyway, there's a $prefix defined in wp-admin/options-permalink.php but "you really should not fuck with that"
16:33 ben_vulpes i can't imagine that was set at any time.
16:33 ben_vulpes something (perhaps js?) strips the '/', '%'
16:36 mircea_popescu $wp_rewrite->set_permalink_structure($permalink_structure); is the call you care about
16:38 undata asciilifeform: It is likely a failure of my imagination that I cannot guess what sort of violence-entrepreneurs might emerge in the US.
16:39 undata maybe gangs
16:39 mircea_popescu they already have emerged.
16:39 mircea_popescu go buy some dope and some cunt,
16:39 mircea_popescu same people wil be selling water and batteries soonish
16:39 undata mircea_popescu: so gangs?
16:39 undata I could see that.
16:39 mircea_popescu no, not gangs. gangs are roughly what the police is. hardly entrepreneurial/
16:39 asciilifeform undata: in many (most?) places in usa, they won't be readily distinguishable from existing policemen.
16:40 undata asciilifeform: there we go; I was going to suggest "state govts"
16:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yeah, they will. VERY distinguishable. recall the previous fall : who dared go around in a militsya uniform ?
16:40 undata many in Texas (not on the fringe) are secessionist
16:41 asciilifeform uniform << in that sense, yes
16:41 mircea_popescu anyway, unlike stockpiling X Y or Z magical golden pill produced on antiquated thinking, going out and making friends with a drug dealer TODAY is both actionable and useful.
16:41 mircea_popescu having those friends will pay in 2020. having a basement full of whatever might get you killed.
16:41 undata mircea_popescu: haha, that's a wonderful PSA
16:41 undata "Make friends with a drug dealer TODAY!"
16:41 mircea_popescu and i dont mean no dime peddling doofus either.
16:42 undata no no, someone with his own enterprise
16:42 mircea_popescu buy a pound of cocaine, uncut, on the premise that it muyst be exactly one pound and exactly uncut.
16:42 undata they've already shown they can operate with independence
16:42 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: works best if one can find a matching ethnomafia to go in.
16:42 mircea_popescu then flush it down the drain for all it matters, you just want to meet the people involved.
16:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform americans aren't a nation. no such for them.
16:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no flags involved. pure ethno-colourcode, dialect, mannerisms sort of thing.
16:43 mircea_popescu that's what the flag is.
16:44 mircea_popescu what did you think the flag was
16:44 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: at least where i live
16:44 asciilifeform http://pastebin.com/vEXnTjWq << best spam.
16:44 assbot The Obamacare Gestapo 012 - Pastebin.com
16:45 mircea_popescu did you just download pastebin.com and are now rummaging ?
16:45 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: a small experiment, yes
16:46 undata mircea_popescu: here in Oregon there are plenty of farming operations that I wouldn't be surprised if later they take on a more political nature
16:46 undata heavily armed, unfortunately christian, but otherwise seemingly fault tolerant
16:46 mircea_popescu undata you act as if this political thing is a reserve ability all men have.
16:46 mircea_popescu if they weren't worthless they'd be invovled NOW. since they aren't now, they won't later.
16:46 undata mircea_popescu: the one I'm thinking of is better termed a distributor
16:47 mircea_popescu well if the one you're thinking of is, then the one you;re thinking of might be, yes.
16:47 undata but then again they could be the basement full of goods
16:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if they weren't worthless they'd be invovled NOW << tricky bit here. 'involved now' almost always means 'share the fate of the new york death ray plot' or 'citadel corp.' or a thousand other stoolie-run shams.
16:47 undata I am unaware of their total capacity to defend themselves
16:48 mircea_popescu anyway, i'd say i'm the poster child for orlov's "violent entrepreneurs". it's not that i make an enterprise of violence, is that i clearly and pointedly reserve the right to use violence without limit.
16:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not so.
16:48 mircea_popescu take ben_vulpes, he's involved now.
16:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, he's involved << wai wat.
16:49 mircea_popescu he's not particularly powerful, at least not in any way the pete's derpy commenter would recognise. but that's an unrelated matter.
16:49 thestringpuller mircea_popescu: how so? you have mercenaries now?
16:49 mircea_popescu thestringpuller i always did, but that is besides the point anyway.
16:50 thestringpuller ^- if greatest soldier alive is in your private army, you are automatically most powerful so very relevant?
16:50 mircea_popescu i have servers, too, and as the ddos rises so do the servers. simple equation there.
16:51 mircea_popescu in a sense, "entrepreneurs of violence" is just a particular facet of sovereignity. orlov was in a room with a sovereign elephant and what he came out with was the trunk.
16:52 mircea_popescu " And as the unraveling progresses, the violent entrepreneurs develop agendas of their own, which, inevitably, involve having the cooperation flow the other way: instead of cooperating with those formerly in charge, they demand that those formerly in charge start cooperating with them. And it is here that the scene turns bloody."
16:52 mircea_popescu "the sec wants to matter, the sec better get in the wot". hasn't turned bloody yet.
16:52 undata mircea_popescu: ah I understand; I took it as "violence start-ups"
16:53 mircea_popescu i dunno what he meant by it, but what he actually said does allow an interpretation that actually works, so. benefit of the doubt.
16:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: mr o is fixated on the 'elephant's trunk' because that was the organ he saw in action personally while visiting ru in '90s
16:53 mircea_popescu asciilifeform understandable.
16:54 mircea_popescu undata violence is not merely physical violence. tim swanson got bludgeoned into the dirt, what is that if not violence ?
16:54 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in his words, approx., 'violent entrepreneurs are special and distinct in that they will work whether or not you pay them, whether they're paid simply determines whether they work with you or on you'
16:54 mircea_popescu ^
16:54 mircea_popescu exactly.
16:54 mircea_popescu see ? sovereignty.
16:55 mircea_popescu "the country works whether it's your ally or your enemy, as what it does"
16:56 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, he's involved << wai wat. << does this need elucidation still ?
16:57 mircea_popescu " There tends to be a clean break with the old, collapsing society, which is motivated by money and prestige within society at large, because these entrepreneurial groups are motivated by honor and prestige within the in-group only." << what is the wot if not exactl;y that ?
16:57 mircea_popescu guy pretty much has it, in the working parts.
16:59 diametric http://securelist.com/analysis/publications/67483/stuxnet-zero-victims/
16:59 assbot Stuxnet: Zero Victims - Securelist
17:00 cazalla ddos back or something?
17:01 mircea_popescu looking.
17:01 mircea_popescu nope.
17:01 mircea_popescu there's something afoot with the dns service worldwide tho
17:03 mircea_popescu a they found the domains huh.
17:05 asciilifeform stuxnet << as i described in my article 'don't blame the mice' - imho, iran doesn't really want to live. how we know this? if they wanted to live, there would have been a public impalement of whoever said 'everyone runs winblows, it's ok for us to'
17:05 mircea_popescu ^
17:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the only thing ever in deficit in the world is the working brain and the erect penis.
17:05 mircea_popescu everything else is forever abundant. and so... they may well wish to live
17:05 mircea_popescu but who among trhem can think ?
17:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i can't say that i agree. they're cheap as dust. but very far, typically, from the 'levers of power'
17:06 mircea_popescu maybe our definitions of working differ.
17:07 undata this topic might help me understand something, if someone wishes to explain
17:07 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: e.g., i like to imagine that i had 'working brain', yet here i am 'on mars', far away.
17:07 undata Iran to me is a great example of why strict authoritarian systems do not work
17:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform is the engine spinning on the test bed a working engine or not ?
17:07 undata but to ask a different question, how do we end up with authorities who are rational?
17:07 mircea_popescu till you get your wheels on you're just a prototype. a good one, sure, but...
17:07 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: test bed << if the proper kind, with simulated loads - aye
17:08 mircea_popescu undata wot ?
17:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i don't agree. it doesn't do any work.
17:08 asciilifeform iran authoritarian << poor country, and, afaik, run by populistic idiots generously helped by foreign wreckers from half the globe
17:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform there's a much larger issue there. iran is mostly ethnially persian. the leadership, ethnically arab. on their own, the arabs are usually poor. therefore they depend on govt dole.
17:09 asciilifeform doesn't do any work << usually folks ask 'if x works' with the understanding that x may be on a shelf, in a crate, has not been used in anger yet
17:09 mircea_popescu exactly manchuko scenario replaying itself.
17:09 mircea_popescu what used to be fearless warriors are now blind old dependants.
17:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i don't disagree the brain works. im just saying, it's not working till it does work.
17:10 asciilifeform manchuko << interesting and explains things
17:10 mircea_popescu otherwise endlessly spinning the "simulated loads" of bezzle is a great way to keep a great engine away from the road.
17:11 undata mircea_popescu: my question is how a parasitic overclass is avoided if one is to believe in soverignty and aristocracy?
17:11 mircea_popescu what's your definition of "parasitic" ?
17:11 mircea_popescu manking lives off the soil.
17:11 mircea_popescu mankind*
17:11 undata mircea_popescu: one that eventually wears out the thing underneath, leading to collapse
17:11 undata maybe that's just the nature of it
17:11 undata I'm not convinced I'm asking the right question.
17:12 mircea_popescu listen, until you start doing your own photosinthesis, you can be accused of being "parasitic"
17:12 mircea_popescu it's like accusing someone of us "rape". do they have a penis ? well....
17:12 undata sure, but there's a question of degree there
17:12 mircea_popescu yeah, and that question is called politics.
17:12 mircea_popescu the apportioning of penance among the universally guilty humans, the temproal role of the church,
17:12 mircea_popescu the first central government
17:13 undata so the answer in Iran's case is "because an adjacent sovereign is not fit enough to destroy them?"
17:13 mircea_popescu they're just lazy and stupid.
17:13 mircea_popescu could also say "they're letting the women lead much to their detriment"
17:13 mircea_popescu middle easterners have this problem.
17:20 mod6 asciilifeform: are you the author of these patches? : rm_rf_upnp.tar.gz https-snipsnip.tar.gz turdmeister-alert-snip.tar.gz goodbye-win32.tar.gz ?
17:20 asciilifeform mod6: yes
17:20 diametric https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/starttls-downgrade-attacks
17:20 assbot ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption | Electronic Frontier Foundation
17:20 asciilifeform mod6: except the 1st
17:21 mircea_popescu mod6 shouldn't you be able to tell ?
17:21 ben_vulpes not rm_rf_upnp you aren't
17:21 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: aha, i think you wrote that one
17:21 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: i already forgot most of this
17:21 mod6 mircea_popescu: eh yeah, just making sure i guess, those wern't posted to the mailing list.
17:21 ben_vulpes gpg --verify should spit out the author
17:21 ben_vulpes i've been a busy boy it's true
17:21 asciilifeform ^^^^
17:21 mircea_popescu diametric i bet you it's a "cost saving measure"
17:22 mircea_popescu "Some of the action is bound to be quite shocking; for instance, while the elites and the oligarchs themselves are rather well defended, at least initially, their children, ensconced in various elite schools, academies and universities, comprise a soft target, setting the stage for school take-overs, mass kidnappings and shootings of a very different sort from the ones seen to date. "
17:23 mircea_popescu so orlovs' prediction is that in the near future i will be able to order oligarch underage daughter prostitute to my hotel room in odessa ?
17:23 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: well sure, more like hotel in london
17:24 mircea_popescu why would i go to fucking london.
17:24 mircea_popescu i'd rather BE the prostitute.
17:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: idk why to go to london. just following mr. o's thoughts.
17:27 ben_vulpes at the risk of point out the obvious if you can afford the bundling and transportation, you could have them in odessa
17:29 asciilifeform odessa is under american occupation atm, afaik
17:29 asciilifeform (well, more precisely, nato's unofficial little shitgnomes)
17:30 mats_cd03 such hostility
17:35 mircea_popescu ;;isup log1.bitcoin-assets.com/
17:36 gribble log1.bitcoin-assets.com/ is up
17:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform kinda my point.
17:38 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes yeah, but the idea is for it to be done for free.
17:42 mircea_popescu generally, that's the formative experience of failure. when one's daughters are given away as objects to they in the other system, because even as objects there they are still worth more than were they to stay in their parents' own system, much like infinitely nothing of something is still more than absolutely all of nothing whatsoever.
17:42 mircea_popescu which is, i guess, what "traditional marriage" is all about.
17:42 mircea_popescu jurov so give it a look let me know ?
17:54 mats_cd03 https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/09/07/provers.html
17:54 assbot ImperialViolet - A shallow survey of formal methods for C code
17:55 asciilifeform !s formal means
17:55 assbot 7 results for 'formal means' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=formal+means
17:56 asciilifeform !s decaying urbits
17:56 assbot 6 results for 'decaying urbits' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=decaying+urbits
17:57 asciilifeform mathematicized, 'proofy' programming is one part grantsmanship, two parts organized pseudoscience, one part enemy disinfo.
17:57 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-09-2014#846642
17:57 assbot Logged on 27-09-2014 02:45:16; asciilifeform: decimation: the cure for this depression is to understand that a machine can be built to be -understood-.
17:58 asciilifeform (see also that entire thread.)
18:03 mats_cd03 yep, read it
18:17 mircea_popescu 12-08-2014 05:29:50 <punkman> I am subjecting myself to Swanson's book << anything came of this ?
18:18 punkman just the comments that followed
18:19 mircea_popescu kk
18:28 gernika It's hard to go for more than a year here without the company you're working for being sold.
18:40 mircea_popescu !up TheShrander
18:41 mircea_popescu gernika i can see it.
18:44 undata gernika: when I was 16 I worked for a software company which persuaded staff (myself excluded of course) to alter their stock options unfavorably given that they subsequently sold out to HP
18:44 undata that was a formative experience
18:44 gernika undata Pretty sure the same thing happened to me about 3 years ago.
18:45 gernika term sheet change, sell company
18:49 TheShrander i'm gonna hold a speech about the WoT in Italy next month. mircea_popescu we have already talk weeks ago, i'm wyrdmantis, remember?
18:50 mircea_popescu yea.
18:50 BingoBoingo dignork TomServo: Ty
18:54 cazalla dignork: a, lol, i see what you mean, it's a typo in original css, full text then: http://dpaste.com/0D7MGFD <<< thanks, it's a bit of an improvement for mobile
18:54 assbot dpaste: 0D7MGFD
18:55 cazalla oh, you doing same thing BingoBoingo ?
18:55 BingoBoingo cazalla: I was, but... you can go ahead
18:56 cazalla done
18:58 TheShrander i'm trying get some more people here, so they can understand and not waste money in fucking startups... we will see :D
18:59 mircea_popescu cool.
19:01 scoopbot New post on The Whet by han@thewhet: http://thewhet.net/2014/thinking-you-can-infer-the-meaning-of-new-words-still-eviling-strong/
19:14 mircea_popescu RagnarDanneskjol http://trilema.com/2014/the-thorny-problem-of-violence-or-the-miracle-of-the-talking-ass/ << the 8th note you will prolly find of interest.
19:14 assbot The thorny problem of violence, or the miracle of the talking ass. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
19:16 RagnarDanneskjol oh yes very interesting indeed - I read it before - always get more the second time around. thank
19:17 mircea_popescu i just published it
19:18 RagnarDanneskjol oh -the title looked familiar
19:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if orlov's a paid muppet, when do i get paid.
19:19 mircea_popescu why would you get paid ?
19:19 asciilifeform (what's sadder, paid shilling, or pro bono muppetry?)
19:20 mircea_popescu i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin"
19:20 mircea_popescu muppetry is hard work yo.
19:20 asciilifeform mostly on account of i can't be bothered to give a shit.
19:20 mircea_popescu well ?
19:20 mircea_popescu so then, again...why would you get paid ?
19:20 asciilifeform but i give enough of a miniature shit to link mr. o
19:20 asciilifeform lol
19:20 mircea_popescu so wait, you COULD be a tailor ? cuz yo usorta like cut stuff now and again ?
19:21 mircea_popescu this is your argument for payment ?
19:21 asciilifeform 'whore, on account of the equipment' heh.
19:21 mircea_popescu quite.
19:23 RagnarDanneskjol this is the one i was thinking of http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-enforcement/ - also worth rereading
19:23 assbot The problem of enforcement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
19:23 mircea_popescu ah.
19:23 gernika Was Orlov paid first, and then he started writing? Or the other way around?
19:23 asciilifeform iirc that's the one where 'we need a new fleanode'
19:23 gernika Blog until you make it?
19:24 mircea_popescu gernika the kgb does not recruit nobodies for this role.
19:25 mircea_popescu either he's an officer, which is weird, but weird is not new in the game ; or else he's just yet another aspiring-talking head, except not working for X company but Y, or else i'm wrong.
19:25 gernika I could see him as the "social media" branch of a wider effort that includes RT.
19:26 mircea_popescu me too.
19:26 mircea_popescu has he ever linked to rt ?
19:26 asciilifeform let's posit paid muppetry. what is the client getting for his money?
19:26 mircea_popescu "buzz"
19:27 asciilifeform 'demoralize decadent west.' but why take a contract out on a corpse?
19:27 mircea_popescu what does any other derp paying for "online marketing" ?
19:27 mircea_popescu it's not quite as simple as all that.
19:27 mircea_popescu asciilifeform remember that rather accurate depiction of "typical agent" ?
19:27 asciilifeform aha.
19:27 mircea_popescu how the fuck do you expect to reach him ?
19:27 asciilifeform the one with the junkyard, yes
19:27 mircea_popescu well ?
19:28 asciilifeform that one had a perfectly pedestrian military logic.
19:28 asciilifeform what's the logic here?
19:28 mircea_popescu if you wish to reach those guys, how do you do it ?
19:28 mircea_popescu put up a craigslist ad ?
19:28 mircea_popescu do it on reddit ? on twitter ?
19:28 mircea_popescu your best bet is exactly what orlov is doing.
19:28 asciilifeform in the classic book, you had a fella going up to the junkyard keeper, offering him a bag of benjies 'for almost nothing'
19:28 mircea_popescu sorta fringe-y, sorta-angry but not really, "let's make a new alphabet"
19:30 scoopbot New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-thorny-problem-of-violence-or-the-miracle-of-the-talking-ass/
19:31 gernika !s typical agent
19:31 assbot 0 results for 'typical agent' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=typical+agent
19:31 asciilifeform gernika: http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/08.html
19:31 asciilifeform (the piece in question)
19:32 asciilifeform 'A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something like this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and ha
19:32 asciilifeform s never met any Soviet citizens, leads a lonely, introspective life, far from other people, and is by profession a forester, fisherman, lighthouse-keeper, security guard or railwayman. In many cases such an agent will be a physical invalid...'
19:33 asciilifeform the piece concerned folks who were given the job of preparing hidey-holes and providing materiel, however
19:33 asciilifeform rather than 'influence agents'
19:33 asciilifeform so perhaps mircea_popescu was thinking of another.
19:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform again, how do you FIND these guys ?
19:34 asciilifeform legwork.
19:34 BingoBoingo !s Hal Turner
19:34 assbot 2 results for 'Hal Turner' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=Hal+Turner
19:34 asciilifeform same way i might find a mechanic
19:34 asciilifeform or drywall master
19:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform specifically, legwork. orlov's blog, is that legwork ?
19:34 asciilifeform let's play this 'chess' a few moves in
19:34 asciilifeform say one bites.
19:35 gernika Orlov reminds me of detective who has you in the interrogation room. He somehow befriends himself to you and makes you think he wants to help you. He lays out your options. Cooperate and you get life. Otherwise death.
19:35 mircea_popescu asciilifeform aha ?
19:35 asciilifeform picture the letter: 'dear mr.o, where can i park my mystery crate that certainly does not contain a rocket launcher.'
19:35 asciilifeform or the like.
19:36 asciilifeform unless i dramatically fail to grok how this works, a public blog is very much not the correct tool in the box for this.
19:36 mircea_popescu let's model it properly. you're the kgb special assets chain of command, and i'm orlov.
19:36 mircea_popescu now, propose a situation, sketch a plan and give me an order.
19:37 asciilifeform i thought the hypothetical was that mr. o is the commander.
19:37 mircea_popescu lol get out.
19:37 asciilifeform or at least a controlled muppet
19:37 mircea_popescu well yes.
19:38 mircea_popescu think cc server - rooted box. i'm the rooted box. say something to me!
19:38 asciilifeform so, let's cast mr. o as muppet in charge of volunteer recruitment.
19:38 asciilifeform moscow says 'find us some useful morons'
19:38 mircea_popescu error #1 : unspecific command ; ignoring.
19:39 asciilifeform moscow: 'we need to park a http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2014#917246 within 10km of 'camp david.''
19:39 assbot Logged on 11-11-2014 15:03:50; asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXWJrpA8FnE
19:40 mircea_popescu select from blog_derps where location within 50 miles and factor 1..n in $criteria or has car etc
19:41 asciilifeform except that if mr. o were so 'open' to volunteers, he'd be grunting in the oubliette with mr. nyc deathray
19:41 mircea_popescu obviously.
19:41 mircea_popescu but this is a technical objection.
19:41 mircea_popescu if the car worked on an ideal carnot cycle it'd be pretty much fireworks show
19:42 asciilifeform so one would have to posit some magic-trick in his pocket to explain why he is still around and kicking.
19:42 mircea_popescu maybe he's not done anything useful yet.
19:43 mircea_popescu maybe he's been lucky so far
19:43 mircea_popescu who the fuck knows, it's a shitty life the junkies, whores and assets lead.
19:43 asciilifeform not saying that this is an impossible picture.
19:43 asciilifeform just that it fails on a few basics. for one thing, ru recruiters traditionally false-flag.
19:44 asciilifeform (bugger: 'i wouldn't work for no russian scum' agent: 'aha, but we're mossad, friendlies, dontchaknow')
19:45 mircea_popescu i haven't a clue if they mostly do or don't.
19:45 BingoBoingo Why won't people learn to pastebin: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2L0hRICAAAAKSg.png:large
19:45 mircea_popescu which year is this ?
19:46 mircea_popescu "a stunted copulation between a woman who hadn’t been laid in decades and a man who interrogated mattress springs for a living"
19:46 mircea_popescu ;;later tell hanbot win
19:46 gribble The operation succeeded.
19:48 asciilifeform (most folks, apparently, feel less 'edgy' re: the idea of muppeting for a small-time intelligence agency, than ru or us)
19:50 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: if you happen to have a w4r3z link to 'running rings of spies' by 'paladin press', it has some (authenticated and not) case studies.
19:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform most folk get this idea that "they're in control of their own life" and that "they won't have to do anything they don't want to do" and so...
19:51 asciilifeform very elegantly described in that tome.
19:51 mircea_popescu what's the worst that can happen. and nobody reads anyway, and who's going to figure anything out
19:51 mircea_popescu or keep tabs.
19:51 asciilifeform in a, i dare say, psychiatric style.
19:51 asciilifeform (an intelligence case officer is a kind of psychiatrist, in the same sense that a sniper is a type of surgeon)
19:52 mircea_popescu i like it when hirelings go "hello micrea". on a first name basis with people you don't even know the first name of ? way to fail multiple times per line!
19:52 asciilifeform micrea?!
19:53 mircea_popescu apparently.
19:53 mircea_popescu snatislav!
19:53 BingoBoingo Micrea is the cleanshaven alternate universe version
19:53 mircea_popescu maybe it should be my stage name. Mic Rhea
19:54 * asciilifeform has read such letters, yes
19:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform at least it didn't get all the way to snotislav or something
19:54 asciilifeform 'they called him rheostat. for the knob he twisted to turn up the current when they ended up in his chair.'
19:55 ben_vulpes rheostan
19:55 thestringpuller !s from:asciilifeform regex
19:55 assbot 0 results for 'from:asciilifeform regex' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=from%3Aasciilifeform+regex
19:56 asciilifeform regex?
19:56 thestringpuller ^- did i do it wrong
19:56 undata thestringpuller: wrong string.
19:57 thestringpuller undata: did they remove the from: tag?
19:57 thestringpuller there is to:
19:57 undata thestringpuller: not a clue
19:57 thestringpuller ~_~
19:58 asciilifeform 'ring of spies' << when does #b-a get own w4r3z ftp?
19:59 asciilifeform 'instant file hosting' crud - sucks.
19:59 undata asciilifeform: spend magnet links into the blockchain?
19:59 undata maybe I'll write that this weekend
19:59 asciilifeform magnet links << and who seeds? you?
19:59 undata asciilifeform: same question as who hosts, isn't it?
19:59 undata of course you could get fancier and do some darknet thing
20:00 asciilifeform point is not even entirely to host w4r3z - this is not an entirely unsolved problem - but to demonstrate 'fortress.'
20:00 thestringpuller torrent boxes paid for with btc
20:01 asciilifeform expensive proposition if they have short life expectancy.
20:01 ben_vulpes temporary storage paid for with btc
20:01 asciilifeform see above
20:01 thestringpuller host on #b-a satellite in space
20:02 asciilifeform lol.
20:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform im not so sure there's that much validity to that demonstration.
20:02 mircea_popescu the entire us carrier approach to war is expensive and unwieldy.
20:02 asciilifeform not only this, but it helps to be able to link to a document in a thread.
20:03 asciilifeform instead of crapping out a 'go find it, it's there somewhere on the net'
20:03 mircea_popescu anything specific ?
20:03 asciilifeform 'spies'
20:03 mircea_popescu the thing linked above ?
20:03 asciilifeform aha
20:03 asciilifeform a curious little vintage monograph
20:03 mircea_popescu so what's the problem ?
20:03 asciilifeform iirc i posted it once, to a 'file host' thing, but of course long gone.
20:04 BingoBoingo I've located a copy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=running+rings+of+spies+kickass.to&t=canonical
20:04 assbot running rings of spies kickass.to at DuckDuckGo
20:04 mircea_popescu !s suvorov6
20:04 assbot 0 results for 'suvorov6' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=suvorov6
20:04 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: that's not a copy
20:04 mircea_popescu dat tokenization. anyway, iirc it was on the same place last tiem
20:04 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: the top link is to a torrent which may or may not be alive
20:05 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: It's a path that leads to a copy, that lives
20:05 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: and may or may not be the actual scan or a questionable ocr turd
20:05 BingoBoingo Pretty shitty photoscan, but scan
20:05 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i want to link to an actual document. with a known sha2.
20:05 asciilifeform or it isn't a real discussion.
20:05 * undata will just write said magnet link thing and report back
20:05 BingoBoingo That's a harder problem.
20:06 mircea_popescu asciilifeform lemme see here.
20:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: this is a different piece, not suvorov
20:06 undata seems like seeding a trackerless torrent with your thing and a signature of the thing solves this
20:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: american 'can't say exactly who i was' vietnam vet.
20:06 mircea_popescu the ideal would be to have a permanent file storage that works by incrementally adding chickens to the task
20:06 mircea_popescu but taking chickens away degrades performance but not storage ?
20:06 asciilifeform aha.
20:07 BingoBoingo Known sha2 for scans of print text is a very hard problem unless designated agent goes to Paladin press, buys dead trees, and signs hashlists
20:07 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: easy problem if canonical scan.
20:07 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo the other way.
20:07 asciilifeform as in, the one you and i read.
20:07 mircea_popescu just make a scan.
20:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform incidentally, there is a lot of overlap between the problem of packing bits and the problems of blockchain and crypto isn;'t there.
20:08 asciilifeform packing bits?
20:08 mircea_popescu lzw or w/e
20:08 asciilifeform the spittoon is all in one strand, yes
20:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: but perhaps you had something more specific in mind
20:09 mircea_popescu well, the problem ehre is this : immutable datastore comes with the problem of, who may add to it.
20:09 mircea_popescu if not, straight to spam pile.
20:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i assume you studied some of the known bitcoin predecessors.
20:09 BingoBoingo Fuck, whoever made this scan isn't very good at the whole scanning books business
20:09 asciilifeform there was one called 'eternity'
20:09 mircea_popescu myeah.
20:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in short, your complaint is legitimate but the solution unobvious.
20:10 asciilifeform in fact, many folks arrived at 'proof of work' and something akin to our current concept of 'blockchain' by attempting to answer the 'who gets to add bits' question.
20:10 asciilifeform http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/eternity/eternity.html
20:10 asciilifeform ^ that one.
20:11 asciilifeform and a few others
20:11 asciilifeform ('eternity' was one of the more braindamaged ones, so perhaps that wasn't it)
20:11 mircea_popescu problem goes deeper : if "who can add is finite" then you have a point of failure baked in quite nastily.
20:12 asciilifeform aha.
20:12 mircea_popescu for that matter, the current state of the web, 50% or more linkrotted away
20:12 mircea_popescu is clear testament to this being a major problem.
20:12 mircea_popescu i know i've ranted about it on occasion.
20:13 asciilifeform it's a serious problem, and folks who don't routinely discuss 20+ year old, moderately-obscure documents don't even know the beginning of it.
20:13 asciilifeform it goes beyond 'where do i put l337 w4r3z'
20:14 mircea_popescu how about this canonical formulation of it : most of what i know i know alone, because the "internet" is made out of knowledge in the sense the earth is made out of grass.
20:14 asciilifeform warez censor is not the only mouse in the warehouse. there's moth and dust, father time.
20:14 undata asciilifeform: what about torrent sites with seed ratio requirements? They seem to have done well as archives, even of the obscure.
20:14 mircea_popescu and the body out of hair
20:15 asciilifeform undata: 'obscure' here is almost by definition - that which is not found on 'pirate bay' and the like
20:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how's the russian thing work ? mostly as undata's idea, right ? loosely affiliated, % enforcing warez sites
20:15 asciilifeform aha.
20:16 asciilifeform it also works by having some specificity - as in, 'only books that were actual books once'
20:16 asciilifeform and the language barrier mostly (not always!) keeps enemy at bay
20:16 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i'll tell you something about obscure. perhaps the best franchise in the history of western pornography is kink.com. best in purely aesthetic terms. now, their various brands, things such as i dunno, publichumiliation exist on the piratebay in the sense of maybe a dozen items out of what, 500 ? 1k total ?
20:16 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: none of the major 'libraries' have '% ratios' though
20:17 mircea_popescu yes, it serves someone wanting to jack off just fine, because nobody needs three hours of video to rub one out
20:17 mircea_popescu suppose i wanted to do something of the substance of actual reason, knowledge, science. da fuck do i do ? pray ?
20:18 mircea_popescu imagine if libraries of the paper variety were organised on the principle that "well if you want something to read we prolly have a coupla books"
20:18 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: another example. want w4r3z copy of 'winblows' ? easy as fart. want the leaked microshit source? (why!?!? but that's another question) - harder.
20:18 mircea_popescu rather than "we have every book ever made"
20:18 asciilifeform though it's out there.
20:18 asciilifeform well if you want something to read we prolly have a coupla books << prison library.
20:18 undata the sites I'm thinking of solve this by making upload credits capital you spend on download, effectively
20:18 mircea_popescu in fact, the way digital stuff is handled, it reminds me of how books would be handled in the house a functionally illiterate peasant from the 1900s.
20:19 undata it seems that kind of incentive structure could be tweaked to reward preserving the obscure
20:19 mircea_popescu "and here is where we keep the books" . "what's in them ? " " letter"
20:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: that's precisely it.
20:19 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: reminds me of a tale from the pet. she was once given a bag of 'books' by a 'friend' who vaguely recalled that she 'likes reading books.'
20:19 asciilifeform (it was all crud long-overdue for the recycling vats from the moment of printing, naturally)
20:19 mircea_popescu careful what she says, next she gets a bag of fucks.
20:21 mircea_popescu but the problem is not merely storage. retrieval is up there too. consider the simple task "let us watc ha movie". the girls now have to find one. i've distributed more lashes for failure to find good films than for all other reasons combined, in 2014.
20:21 asciilifeform undata: you need 'wot' baked in or you get idiots gaming the ratio system, the way they did on 1990s bbs.
20:21 asciilifeform zip-o-crud generators.
20:21 mircea_popescu while the exercise is instructive, i don't really believe it's the girls' fault exactly.
20:21 undata asciilifeform: certainly
20:21 mircea_popescu how do you find a good film ?
20:21 mircea_popescu as in, "only films that were actually films once"
20:22 asciilifeform this, as often is, - is one of the 'insufficient wot in extant system' cases.
20:22 undata given a BTC transaction which represents an "item" in the catalog, there could as well be transactions which refer to that one and rate it
20:22 undata and so on.
20:22 mircea_popescu asciilifeform which is why the "unspecified" website i asked for someone to make a month ago and punkman volunteered is EXACTLY a wot-driven film database.
20:22 asciilifeform (for reading fiction, some folks actually use primitive 'wot' systems like 'goodreads')
20:22 mircea_popescu "see the films that people you trust liked"
20:23 asciilifeform http://bookriot.com/2012/07/31/goodreads-v-librarything-part-one
20:23 assbot Goodreads v. LibraryThing- Part One - BOOK RIOT
20:23 asciilifeform (a review of the very primitive state of the art)
20:23 asciilifeform for film - no idea, if exists
20:24 asciilifeform !s kyristor
20:24 assbot 7 results for 'kyristor' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=kyristor
20:24 mircea_popescu ure it exists. "metacritic rating"
20:24 mircea_popescu hear what five hundred internet imbeciles thought about racism in THIS film
20:24 asciilifeform ^ my ancient failed attempt at 'wot.' was to be used with another (never happened) apparatus, 'sollipse,' for running a 'multiverse' of wots.
20:25 asciilifeform (an individual could be a 'node' on any number of orthogonal wots, such as film tastes, mathematics, etc)
20:25 mircea_popescu this is where it's headed.
20:26 asciilifeform in the sense that it is the only solution - yes.
20:26 asciilifeform in fact, 'reddit' gizmos can be seen as a specially broken case of wot - having the same relationship to wot as baited rat poison has to food
20:27 mircea_popescu as per http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ :)
20:27 assbot Spamming reddit, an “experiment”. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
20:27 asciilifeform which is, that to the victim's nose it distantly resembles the real thing - but has an ulterior motive baked in.
20:27 mircea_popescu mircea_popescu The idea being that any current “social media” website is a defective implementation of the WoT, what I intend to do is prove this point. Because the sort of idiots involved won’t figure it on their own, and the assholes a la zuck and conde nast have about as much interest in the matter as your random bank cares about getting off shitty buggy ms software.
20:27 asciilifeform aha.
20:27 asciilifeform except that it goes beyond active disinterest.
20:27 mircea_popescu mebbe.
20:28 asciilifeform they're certainly interested - in something quite else.
20:28 mircea_popescu unsovereignty ?
20:28 asciilifeform vox sheepuli.
20:28 mircea_popescu "god help us if people are in charge of their own lives, anything b ut that" ?
20:28 asciilifeform 'god help us if the thinking folks find one another'
20:28 mircea_popescu right.
20:28 mircea_popescu now see, THAT is a fortress worth making
20:29 mircea_popescu which is why it's here.
20:29 asciilifeform well, the pieces are here.
20:29 mircea_popescu a fortress is first and foremost an embodied fuck you.
20:29 asciilifeform aha.
20:29 mircea_popescu just how well fortified it actually is =- that's a technical discussion'
20:29 mircea_popescu but the unbreached fortress is exactly as fortified as any other unbreached fortress : infinitely so.
20:30 mircea_popescu (and by "it's here" i means specifically, b-a)
20:30 asciilifeform well, yes
20:31 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: incidentally, i lifted 'kyristor' name not from the obvious place, but from a zoological exploration of a peculiarly malignant femiderp re: 'kyriarchy'
20:32 asciilifeform decided that it would be a particularly apt name for the ideal 'crucifix' against the vampires in question.
20:32 asciilifeform but that's ancient history.
20:33 asciilifeform interestingly, mr mold invented almost precisely the same scheme, afaik independently, neither of us lifted from the other
20:33 asciilifeform imho it is an inevitable discovery, like semiconductor.
20:34 asciilifeform (a rusty nail semiconducts, if you know where on it to stick a probe. this is how 'coherer' - first radio receiver - worked, though its inventor did not know this)
20:35 mircea_popescu nothing as indomitable as an idea whose time has come eh
20:36 asciilifeform ;;google railroading time
20:36 gribble Quote by Robert A. Heinlein: “When railroading time comes you can ...: <https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/557199-when-railroading-time-comes-you-can-railroad-but-not-before>; Q&N: The Door into Summer (Heinlein) - Hjkeen.net: <http://www.hjkeen.net/halqn/dor2sumr.htm>; Railroad Time - Home Page - TimeZone: (1 more message)
20:36 mircea_popescu "hard to keep people from observing water is wet once their wanderings take them to an ocean"
20:36 asciilifeform ^
20:50 asciilifeform no one will even think to mention 'wot-based' gizmo in the future, just as when you buy a pc now - the crate does not bother to say 'semiconductor-based'
20:50 asciilifeform it's merely obvious.
20:51 asciilifeform it's not even a 'technology' in the sense semiconductor is - but more as arithmetic is.
20:52 asciilifeform namely - if you're operating using some other, incompatible abstraction - the result will be demonstrable nonsense.
~ 15 minutes ~
21:07 decimation re: spies << Stierlitz is a psychologist
21:08 decimation I was amused the reference to the lady morse operator's "hand"
21:08 asciilifeform morse 'hand' is a thing, ask anyone who still deals with it
21:08 undata asciilifeform: how does it compare to emacs claw?
21:09 asciilifeform not to be confused with 'telegrapher's glass arm' disease
21:09 asciilifeform 'hand' here is in the sense of 'handwriting'
21:09 undata ah
21:09 decimation asciilifeform: when I visited Bletchley park, they told a story about this. Apparently the germans initially sent the 'headers' in enigma traffic in plaintext before the message
21:09 decimation the uk operators at the "Y" stations became familiar with the 'hand' of each german operator
21:10 asciilifeform hand >> incidentally, this was part of the reason why shortly after the war, most intelligence orgs moved to mechanical (punched tape) operation
21:10 decimation later, when the germans started to encrypt the 'headers', they were able to sort out each crypto link by the intercept operator's ability to recognize his opponent's hand
21:10 decimation as nearly all enigma traffic was sent by hand morse
21:10 asciilifeform the ru version was a very simple stapler-shaped gizmo that punched holes in old 35mm film
21:10 asciilifeform it was then fed into the telegraph.
21:11 asciilifeform i have no idea what usa used, probably same.
21:11 decimation actually morse was initially 'machine' sent
21:11 asciilifeform it was mainly to shorten total 'on air' time, to make triangulation harder
21:12 decimation the original idea was to mark a strip of paper with the morse characters, but very soon after the telegraph was introduced it was realized that operators could send by ear much more quickly
21:12 asciilifeform and reduce mistakes (professional 'morse man' and skilled 'illegal' is like asking to hire a pro racing driver who is also an expert cocksucker)
21:12 decimation yeah I also found it interesting in 'stierlitz' that he didn't send his own morse/radio traffic
21:13 asciilifeform after the war, it was almost unheard of to have 2way traffic at all
21:13 asciilifeform most return comms from illegals were via 'dead drop'
21:13 asciilifeform simple, 'cheap and angry'
21:13 asciilifeform grunt under diplomatic cover - fetches it.
21:13 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> it's not even a 'technology' in the sense semiconductor is - but more as arithmetic is. << quite agreed,
21:13 mircea_popescu and to think the derps are going o nbout "blockchain technology". as if.
21:14 asciilifeform decimation: 2way traffic is a forced wartime thing. when you have no one in diplomatic cover behind the lines.
21:14 decimation asciilifeform: in Stierlitz, the poor English translation for the word that refers to when a spy is killed 'doing his duty' seems to be 'failed'
21:15 asciilifeform провал?
21:15 decimation "Stierlitz knew he would 'fail' if he did x"
21:15 asciilifeform literally, 'fell through'
21:15 asciilifeform as in, through a hole in the street
21:15 decimation I get the feeling that's the wrong translation at times
21:15 asciilifeform the closest translation would probably be 'blown'
21:15 decimation so it's kind of idiomaitc
21:15 asciilifeform (as in 'cover')
21:15 decimation yeah
21:16 asciilifeform (for folks reading this who have no idea - there was not a film called 'stierlitz', but it is the cover name of the hero in iconic ru multiparter '17 moments of spring.')
21:17 mircea_popescu english has the funcitonal equivalent, "the deal fell through"
21:17 BingoBoingo From the lulzmines: "Batman is a rich white psychopath who beats up poor people for fun. He is not now and never has been a hero."
21:17 asciilifeform aha.
21:17 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo also, blackface.
21:17 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-03-2014#582399
21:17 assbot Logged on 26-03-2014 03:30:35; asciilifeform: nitpick with pediwikia - the 'batman' in the epic is not wearing a 'batman' costume. he's a bloke who smashes heads with a baseball bat.
21:18 mircea_popescu "By their nature as vigilantes, acting outside or above the law, most superheroes have a troubling undercurrent of aristocratic, undemocratic, authoritarian values."
21:18 mircea_popescu how dare they be better than the scumcrowd!11
21:18 decimation yeah sorry for the shorthand. You can view the whole series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzOma9Pyv8&list=PLA6274B0CEF58CEB0 (or download with youtube-dl)
21:18 assbot 17 Moments of Spring - 1/12 - 1/7 - YouTube
21:18 asciilifeform re: scumcrowd:
21:18 asciilifeform ;;google harrison bergeron
21:18 gribble Harrison Bergeron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron>; Harrison Bergeron - Tnellen.com: <http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html>; Full text of "Harrison Bergeron (& Activity)" - Internet Archive: <https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Bergeron_djvu.txt>
21:18 asciilifeform (if there remains alive even one who has not read it)
21:19 mircea_popescu i have no idea what h b is.
21:19 mircea_popescu oh, vonnegut. kay
21:19 asciilifeform short story by k. vonnegut.
21:19 asciilifeform about a 'glorious future of ikvaliti.'
21:20 asciilifeform [insert w4r3z]
21:20 * mircea_popescu is reading it.
21:22 undata asciilifeform: social media is the shriek of the headphones
21:23 undata what were we talking about?
21:23 asciilifeform undata: except - for now - optional.
21:23 mircea_popescu And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. "Excuse me-" she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.
21:23 mircea_popescu lol.
21:24 assbot RetroUpriser +v failed; L1: 0, L2: 0
21:24 xanthyos !up RetroUpriser
21:24 RetroUpriser Care to play a game of chess, mircea_popescu?
21:24 BingoBoingo A doomed by the bong case heats up http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/highway-seizure-in-iowa-fuels-debate-about-asset-forfeiture-laws/2014/11/10/10f725fc-5ec3-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html
21:24 assbot Highway seizure in Iowa fuels debate about asset-forfeiture laws - The Washington Post
21:25 mircea_popescu ugh, ive not played chess in like a decade or two
21:25 RetroUpriser Well the offer stands should you change your mind
21:27 mircea_popescu why thank you.
21:27 mircea_popescu heck, why the hell not.
21:27 mircea_popescu what do you want, heads or tails ?
21:27 RetroUpriser You can choose first
21:27 decimation asciilifeform: "fiat 'was down'" << sometimes this happens because a geomagnetic storm knocks down a satellite - for example most gas stations in the us clear credit cards through satellite
21:27 RetroUpriser And i was thinking of using chess.com
21:28 mircea_popescu i dun have a login
21:28 asciilifeform 'Minutes later, Trooper Vanderwiel arrived with the dog, which alerted on the back area of the car. That gave Simmons and Vanderwiel probable cause to search the vehicle without a warrant or the driver’s consent.' << lol re: the obvious implication, the beasts are trained to 'signal' on command rather than search
21:28 asciilifeform !s clever hans
21:28 assbot 0 results for 'clever hans' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=clever+hans
21:28 RetroUpriser How would you like to play?
21:29 asciilifeform http://www.kbrhorse.net/tra/hans.html
21:29 xanthyos http://en.lichess.org/ << no login needed
21:29 assbot lichess.org • Free Online Chess
21:29 decimation yeah my understanding is that the results of the 'search dogs' are always an objective basis upon which one can search
21:29 asciilifeform search dog != confiscation dog
21:29 mircea_popescu bah all these people and their javascript already
21:29 asciilifeform (if the latter are not yet standard - they are being grown.)
21:29 decimation the dog smells money on you
21:30 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: dig out that 'ipad'
21:30 asciilifeform chess is more or less what it's for.
21:30 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> 'Minutes later, Trooper Vanderwiel arrived with the dog, which alerted on the back area of the car. That gave Simmons and Vanderwiel probable cause to search the vehicle without a warrant or the driver’s consent.' << lol re: the obvious implication, the beasts are trained to 'signal' on command rather than search << Pretty much an open secret by now
21:30 mircea_popescu i dun have an ipad here ;/
21:30 asciilifeform no civilian computer at all?
21:31 mircea_popescu fuck it ima play ascii art chess.
21:31 decimation http://oglaf.com/heel/
21:31 assbot Heel
21:31 xanthyos you don't need to physically see the same board
21:31 xanthyos just announce moves
21:31 RetroUpriser this is true, we could play through text
21:32 BingoBoingo http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--O-wxNBJR--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/omamfciqg1uiper3pdrj.jpg << Murican ingenuity
21:32 BingoBoingo !s d6
21:32 assbot 12 results for 'd6' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=d6
21:32 mircea_popescu RetroUpriser ima do algebraic notation in about 5 minutes lemme type out some letters
21:33 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: likely hand-loaded shells with almost no powder
21:33 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: or would have ruptured
21:33 mircea_popescu http://pastebin.com/gqUgekiU <if anyone's curious.
21:33 assbot abcdefgh 1 TCNRXNCT 1 2 PPPPPPPP 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 - Pastebin.com
21:34 BingoBoingo That, but then again non-nagant revolver so there was an exit point for the pressure between the chamber and barrel
21:34 mircea_popescu so now, is X the queen or the king in that arrangement ? or is white caps or no caps ?
21:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: normally folks play ascii chess using ordinary coordinates and physical boards
21:35 mircea_popescu RetroUpriser e2e4
21:36 mircea_popescu now where did he go
21:36 BingoBoingo r is the queen, x is the king, white is on top (king's starts on e, queen on d)
21:36 mircea_popescu so i got it right ? go me.
21:37 RetroUpriser hold on finding an online board to use
21:37 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i was always curious why nagant forward-cam did not catch on
21:37 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: it seems like pure win
21:38 thestringpuller Just play with the text board with pasties
21:38 RetroUpriser d7 ~ d5
21:38 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: probably the cost of making of forward cam vs. retard resistant gas can escape two places design
21:39 mircea_popescu e4e5
21:39 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: is sidearm srsly a cost-sensitive application?
21:40 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: (aside from pathological cases like 'liberator')
21:40 decimation re: semi quad-copter << I don't get how that's more effective than a semi-truck full of small guided ballistic missiles
21:40 RetroUpriser Ke6
21:40 RetroUpriser c6*
21:41 asciilifeform decimation: range
21:41 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: It is for the manufacterer and the purchasing agency negotiating on the specs. Maybe Police wants to spring for better than liberator, but forward cam... too much
21:41 BingoBoingo RetroUpriser: How does king move two spaces?
21:41 xanthyos heh
21:42 mircea_popescu f2f4
21:42 BingoBoingo Wait, king is x
21:42 BingoBoingo Nevermind
21:42 BingoBoingo non-standard lettering...
21:43 Apocalyptic you guys are using weird notations
21:43 RetroUpriser pe6
21:45 mircea_popescu c3
21:45 mircea_popescu knight c3
21:45 asciilifeform decimation: re: morse tape: http://cryptomuseum.com/burst/index.htm
21:45 assbot Burst Encoders
21:45 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo is this even anything btw ?
21:46 RetroUpriser Pb6
21:46 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Game seems to be a thing, just the non-standard letters are messing with my ingrained encoding
21:47 mircea_popescu d2d4
21:48 RetroUpriser Bc7
21:48 decimation asciilifeform: seems to me it would be easier just to send a pcm signal like bpsk or something, but I guess this was before that kind of stuff was well known
21:48 BingoBoingo looks like RetroUpriser is playing some sort of French defense and mircea_popescu is just grabbing space
21:48 asciilifeform decimation: mechanical.
21:48 decimation radio teletype was mechanical too
21:49 decimation mostly
21:49 asciilifeform decimation: mechanical and man-portable here.
21:49 asciilifeform decimation: and, potentially, received by another operator equipped with nothing more than consumer radio set.
21:49 mircea_popescu c3b5
21:49 asciilifeform and pencil.
21:49 decimation yeah those are tough specs
21:51 RetroUpriser b7a6
21:53 mircea_popescu b5x3
21:53 mircea_popescu b5c3
21:54 RetroUpriser a6f1
21:55 mircea_popescu wut ?!
21:55 BingoBoingo !up RetroUpriser
21:55 RetroUpriser Thanks
21:56 mircea_popescu aw shgit i had the pawn moved not the bishiop. my bad.
21:56 mircea_popescu h1f1
21:57 RetroUpriser ahem
21:57 RetroUpriser that cant be done
21:57 RetroUpriser you knight is still on g1
21:57 mircea_popescu igh.
21:57 mircea_popescu somehow i was missing a knight o.o
21:58 mircea_popescu dude this is nuts, ascii chess
21:58 RetroUpriser im looking at a board and putting the moves in
21:58 asciilifeform most folks use boards with tele-chess
21:58 asciilifeform except when in jail
21:58 mircea_popescu e1f1
21:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yeah well, if the WEB DIDNT SUCK
21:59 mircea_popescu then perhaps i could.
21:59 asciilifeform actual as in physical board
21:59 asciilifeform on each end
21:59 mircea_popescu im poor and destitute
21:59 asciilifeform l0l
22:01 RetroUpriser d8h4
22:01 mircea_popescu wasn';t x the king /
22:02 RetroUpriser huh?
22:02 Apocalyptic why not using the standard algebraic notation ?
22:02 mircea_popescu Apocalyptic because... i don't know it ? so ended up making some shit up on the spot ?
22:02 RetroUpriser heh, i have my kings on e
22:02 mircea_popescu RetroUpriser sorry man, i'll have to take a bow here. my table is too fubar for a 3rd debug attempt
22:02 mircea_popescu you'll have to play with someone who actulaly knows how.
22:02 RetroUpriser no worries
22:03 Apocalyptic mircea_popescu, easier to learn than to ask your opponent to adapt, especially if he plays quite a lot
22:03 RetroUpriser ill count it as a win in my books
22:03 RetroUpriser so im satisfied
22:03 RetroUpriser adios!
22:03 Apocalyptic it's quite intuitive
22:03 asciilifeform ♜ ♞ ♝ ♛ ♚ ♝ ♞ ♜
22:03 asciilifeform ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟ ♟
22:03 decimation lol
22:03 asciilifeform yes.
22:03 decimation ascii with the unicode
22:03 mircea_popescu Apocalyptic no argument there, but i just don't happen to give a shit about chess, what can i tell you
22:04 Apocalyptic then no argument there indeed
22:05 nubbins` ♙♙♙♙♙♙♙♙
22:05 nubbins` ♖♘♗♕♔♗♘♖
22:05 nubbins` i guess i'll go first?
22:07 nubbins` altho given the results of the tourney, maybe i should abstain
22:07 thestringpuller ;;kitten lasers
22:07 gribble Error: "kitten" is not a valid command.
22:07 thestringpuller ;;kittenlasers
22:07 gribble Error: "kittenlasers" is not a valid command.
22:08 thestringpuller ;;laserkittens
22:08 gribble ุ ₍˄.͡˳̫.˄₎ ุ ┌━ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ *pew*
22:18 asciilifeform https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/423640/unicode-chessboard-in-a-terminal
22:18 assbot Unicode chessboard in a terminal | DaniWeb
22:26 mike_c sliding backgrounds!
22:26 mike_c http://www.coinpip.com/
22:26 assbot Bitcoin Payment Gateway | Bitcoin Merchant Services
22:28 mircea_popescu is anyone even keepiung count of all these braindamaged "services" the bezzle keeps pumping out ?
22:28 mircea_popescu i mean, they all depend on being the only one as a business model, by now the only firm guarantee that can be made is that nobody will EVER make a dime in that market
22:29 thestringpuller like bitpay?
22:30 mike_c but this one is purty
22:30 mircea_popescu like all of 'em.
22:31 dignork mike_c: this one is more annoying: https://cryptocapital.co/
22:31 assbot Crypto Capital | Merging the Fiat & Crypto World | Exchanges, Investors, Traders
22:31 dignork it scrolls sideways!
22:31 mike_c it is moving around a lot
22:31 mircea_popescu im waiting for the one that scrolls crazy shitstick on all sides
22:32 mircea_popescu so the paleo fad diet experts among us : what the fuck do you do about sushi ?
22:32 mike_c omg, that one does. it scrolls down then sideways then down
22:32 mircea_popescu don't tell me the thing's intended for kansasites who are barbaric enough to never heard of and so never miss sushi
22:32 ben_vulpes "rice doesn't count!!!1"
22:33 mircea_popescu what about bechamel ?
22:33 mircea_popescu am i to starve in france ?
22:33 mircea_popescu also, wheat is verboten but what about beans ? pretty sure no paleoman ate lentil soup.
22:37 ben_vulpes shit hangs together like camo netting
22:38 PeterL http://btcscoop.com/cgi-bin/blogroll.py thoughts?
22:38 assbot #bitcoin-assets blog posts
22:39 PeterL mircea_popescu: paleo says fish is fine, can you make sushi without rice?
22:40 PeterL there are other ways to prepare fish
22:40 fluffypony it's called sashimi
22:40 fluffypony :-P
22:43 PeterL mircea_popescu: paleo says no beans
22:43 mircea_popescu PeterL well it'd be sashimi then
22:43 mircea_popescu which is ok... but i like sushi.
22:43 mircea_popescu eh fluffypony beats m to it!
22:44 fluffypony lol
22:44 PeterL I've had sushi, didn;t like it much, probably not high quality though
22:44 fluffypony yeah you need to try quality sushi
22:44 fluffypony stuff from a takeaway joint on the corner is reserved for sushimergencies
22:44 mircea_popescu there's no point in having meh sushi.
22:44 mircea_popescu and incidentally, that's another thing this town shines in. they got sushi.
22:45 mircea_popescu PeterL anway, i was just illustrating a point. one of my fave meals is, pork wellington. my own invention.
22:45 mircea_popescu you need crust to hold all that liver and mushroom
22:45 PeterL simmilar to beef wellington?
22:45 mircea_popescu exactly the sam, but using a whole pork tenderloin.
22:46 PeterL yes, there are many dishes which just don't happen on paleo
22:46 PeterL I tried it, like the way I felt physically, but was too bored with eating the same things over and over
22:47 mircea_popescu yeah well, i'm not giving up on my culture for the sake of you know... preserving some bizarre prehistorical concerns
22:47 PeterL sure
22:48 mircea_popescu come to think about it... i would think deviled eggs is the pinnacle of paleo culinary achievement huh
22:48 mircea_popescu as a craft i mean. obviously hard to fight a proper steak
22:48 PeterL my wife managed to make some interesting dishes trying to keep things interesting
22:49 mircea_popescu did you do the actual no beans no milk no nothing version ?
22:49 PeterL yup
22:49 mircea_popescu or more like "whatever, we just won't eat too many sugar frosted dumplings" version
22:49 PeterL lasted a couple months
22:50 * mircea_popescu is a firm champion of "eat whatever thoust will until you burst" diet, going on 40 years now
22:50 decimation wait how is milk not paleo?
22:50 mircea_popescu im not even that fat.
22:50 PeterL then she decided she couldn't stand to see another sweet potato and we started adding lots of stuff back in
22:50 mircea_popescu decimation well it's not manly enough, sucking on titties.
22:50 mircea_popescu speaking of which, do paleo guys also fuck paleo ?
22:50 decimation lol
22:50 mircea_popescu hair pulling and surprise insertions all the way ?
22:50 PeterL milk digestion as an adult was one of the most recent enzymes added to the human genome
22:51 PeterL some populations get it more than others
22:51 mircea_popescu PeterL how does that make sense ? if you have it as a kid then it's there
22:51 PeterL most animals don't eat milk as adult
22:51 mircea_popescu but the enzyme, it gotta be there.
22:51 PeterL yeah, but the body stops making it
22:51 mircea_popescu the genome doesn't change over the lifetime of the individual
22:52 ben_vulpes upregulation and downregulation is a thing
22:52 mircea_popescu sure.
22:52 ben_vulpes stop drinking milk long enough and it will hurt the next time
22:52 decimation http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/centum-and-satem-2/ << "It all started pretty far to the East. There, some crazy locals first tamed the horse. I’m thinking that they were something like the Botai culture, riding and hunting horses, but not farmers. They may well have milked those horses – by the way, horse milk is much richer in lactose than human or cow milk."
22:52 assbot Centum and Satem | West Hunter
22:53 * asciilifeform actually knows a fellow who lost lactose digestion as adult
22:53 mircea_popescu you ever had mare milk ?
22:53 asciilifeform go figure.
22:53 asciilifeform iirc not digestible by man unless fermented
22:53 mircea_popescu i am pretty convinced the way milk became a part of the diet is because of animal husbandry.
22:53 mircea_popescu mares literally love being suckled, and will love you if you suckle them
22:53 asciilifeform кумыс.
22:54 mircea_popescu this given, how long would it have taken some bored kids in central asia ?
22:54 joecool <ben_vulpes> upregulation and downregulation is a thing < it's funny how many people forget this
22:54 thestringpuller http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lzmji/i_am_a_student_at_mit_who_recently_received_100/
22:54 mircea_popescu joecool i was just keeping his hands to the coals on the technicality of it. "retaining milk digestion past childood is a recent adaptation" etc.
22:55 mircea_popescu thestringpuller so basically, "mit sucks" ?
22:56 mircea_popescu maybe they should start small, give the bright kids there lightbulbs
22:56 asciilifeform !s mit battery
22:56 assbot 11 results for 'mit battery' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=mit+battery
22:56 asciilifeform ^ obligatory
22:57 mircea_popescu asciilifeform afaik, the fermentation makes it accessible to wussies
22:58 nubbins` http://imgur.com/JXEDCf3
22:58 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
22:58 PeterL by the way, I added code to scoopbot, now if he disconnects he should reconnect, hopefully this will keep him running
22:58 mircea_popescu splendid.
22:58 nubbins` anyone know if you can carry money in a regular wheelbarrow or do they make ones w/ nets to keep the cash from blowing away?
22:58 assbot Last 1 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/03RPEVV.txt )
22:58 asciilifeform !b 1
22:59 mircea_popescu i am still frozen from having read that.
22:59 PeterL nubbins`: use a paperweight?
22:59 nubbins` currently using a couple of cookie sheets, but they slide around
22:59 asciilifeform easy answer to riddle: money is typically heavy and does not blow away.
23:00 asciilifeform benjies - might
23:00 nubbins` asciilifeform actually knows a fellow who lost lactose digestion as adult <<< this happened to my wife
23:00 joecool happened to my ex
23:00 joecool must be a canadian problem
23:00 nubbins` lactose-free dairy stuff is more common these days
23:01 nubbins` you can get president's choice lactose-free cheddar AND marble now :0
23:01 asciilifeform given that gene expression is a thing, this is actually a very easy way to give yourself food allergies
23:01 asciilifeform simply abstain from something for a spell
23:01 joecool nubbins`: it is, can buy regular milk without lactose and even ice cream
23:01 asciilifeform (works for a number of things)
23:01 nubbins` yup
23:01 joecool or eat lots of lactase
23:01 nubbins` the lactase pills even stopped working
23:02 nubbins` i mean, old cheddar doesn't have much lactose to begin with.
23:02 joecool i told her this too, she never had an issue with aged cheeses
23:03 dignork nubbins`: they just make them from money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhI4gi9nNk
23:03 assbot Extreme wheelbarrowing - YouTube
23:03 assbot you know they put lactose in lactase pills
23:04 nubbins` you got it all wrong buddy
23:04 nubbins` stick to what ya know
23:17 PeterL assbot: you know they put lactose in lactase pills <<< wth assbot?
23:18 assbot what, its true
23:18 BingoBoingo assbot is the bot with the hero butt
23:18 PeterL is somebody playing with assbot?
23:19 BingoBoingo I doubt it. Prolly a new feature.
23:26 ben_vulpes things about ios 8 that drive me insane
23:26 ben_vulpes app store search results are sorted above my installed apps
23:28 assbot PeterL, have you seen the movie 'being john malkovich'?
23:35 cazalla woot, cherries in season
23:40 ben_vulpes on an entirely different topic, i'd like to derp in public about bisection in hunt of the commits that unwedged 0.5.3
23:41 ben_vulpes my plan at the moment is to wait for my 0.5.3 binary to wedge itself, and then write a script that hooks into the git 'bisect' tool.
23:42 ben_vulpes this script will take the wedged blockchain on disk; copy it into the testing dir; compile bitcoind from a different point in the source tree; and boot it pointed at the wedged blockchain; and check to see if the output of 'bitcoind getblockcount' has gone up
23:43 ben_vulpes if yes, mark as good with git bisect and proceed with binary search, repeating the above process until the unwedging commit is discovered.
23:43 decimation ben_vulpes: won't you need much disk space per 'try'?
23:43 ben_vulpes 2x the size of the wedged blockchain
23:44 ben_vulpes one for copying into the dir, one for launching from.
23:44 ben_vulpes if i'm not being clear, i plan to clobber the data dir on each run.
23:47 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: doubtful plan
23:47 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: illuminate me
23:47 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: wedging almost certainly involves what ends up being saved as blockchain
23:47 asciilifeform rather than how it is decoded
23:48 ben_vulpes ah ha
23:48 ben_vulpes well then shit i should copy this datadir while its yet unwedged
23:48 asciilifeform but - assuming you've the time/energy - there is no reason not to try it
23:49 asciilifeform (specifically - to see what, if anything, a >0.5.3 client will do with a wedged 0.5.3 chain)
23:51 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: were i to use a chain slightly downstream of the wedging to start the process, would that be less unlikely to work?
23:51 asciilifeform how could i know.
23:51 asciilifeform try.
23:52 decimation ben_vulpes: what if the 'wedging' were caused by some dependency (memory leak, etc)?
23:52 asciilifeform the catastrophic memory leak is also a fact.
23:52 asciilifeform not directly a cause of the wedge though
23:52 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> how could i know.
23:52 ben_vulpes <asciilifeform> not directly a cause of the wedge though
23:53 ben_vulpes there is much contrast in the implications of these statements.
23:53 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: well, i was able to determine that wedging takes place prior to memory exhaustion
23:53 asciilifeform no data on whether common bug behind both, however.
23:53 asciilifeform here's another tidbit from 'valgrind' runs - leak is very slow prior to wedge, then appears to speed up
23:54 decimation I guess my point is that if something external to the turd participates in the 'wedging' then the bisect plan won't really work
23:54 decimation or at least, will have misleading results
23:57 ben_vulpes what would be considered "external"?
23:58 decimation bdb for instance
23:58 asciilifeform 'boost'
23:58 decimation if something is stomping on something in those libraries it could be quite subtle
23:58 ben_vulpes would the libraries not be held constant between bisections?
23:59 ben_vulpes provided i'm not doing something retarded like also updating packages
23:59 decimation sure, but it is at least possible that is stomping on the code in such a way that it doesn't work in one version, but then works in another
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