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00:00 decimation The20YearIRCloud: do you do any business in franklin county?
00:01 The20YearIRCloud Housewise? No, not a fan of their zoning & property inspection board. If we grow enough i'm sure i'll HAVE to go there, but for now i'd like to avoid it.
00:01 The20YearIRCloud One of the counties we're in has virtually no permiting process for home repairs, if I did the stuff I'm doing there in Columbus I'd of had 5 figures worth of fines.
00:02 The20YearIRCloud (Of course, I'd of got a permit in Franklin, but I hate the idea of it all).
00:02 decimation do you think that's because they are in the union trade's pockets?
00:02 The20YearIRCloud That wouldn't surprise me much, but they also have had coleman who is a ultra-liberal for years and years.
00:03 The20YearIRCloud He's got a big claim to fame because he's good at 'renovating' poor districts, he does it by moving all the poor people from one neighborhood to another.
00:03 The20YearIRCloud Downtown was a cesspool, then they kicked everyone out and made it so only rich could live there, alot of those moved to the short north. Then they did the same thing with the short north and all those people moved to Linden and Hilltop.
00:04 decimation I've heard the short north is popular with the kids around osu
00:05 The20YearIRCloud I had a house up there I was dealing with for someone, and I had roofers up there doing work. Zoning came by and complained that we hadn't bought the $100 permit, so they forced the guys off the roof even though it was going to rain soon and wouldn't let them put the tarp up there till there was a permit.
00:06 decimation this as much as anyone 'owns' a house in the us
00:06 The20YearIRCloud Well, you can drive 45 minutes outside of a columbus where you can buy land, build a smoke factory and the county asks for a $5 paperwork fee and literally nothing else
00:07 decimation heh
00:08 The20YearIRCloud So, if I can go into a neighborhood where they really don't want me there, and one where the city bends over backwards to try and help me out, i'll go with the second one
00:08 The20YearIRCloud Especially if the yields in both are almost identical
00:09 decimation well, that's a fair point.
00:09 decimation I imagine property tax in columbus and the 'burbs is sky high too
00:10 The20YearIRCloud it's higher, it isn't astronomical though
00:10 The20YearIRCloud A cheap house where we're working will run $450-$800 , same house in Columbus would be $1000-$1200
00:10 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23499 @ 0.00042279 = 9.9351 BTC [-]
00:11 The20YearIRCloud of course the scale of markets is quite different. In the 4 counties I expect to be able to find maybe 200 quality properties a year. In franklin I could find 200 a month easily.
00:11 decimation for the quality of hovel you are buying and fixing, wouldn't it be cheaper to buy a few empty plots and buy some trailers or 'tiny homes' or whatever
00:12 decimation I guess you gotta pay for utilities, etc in that case
00:12 The20YearIRCloud You seen the houses we own?
00:13 The20YearIRCloud I haven't delt with trailers yet, I want to but it's a different deal since you have to develop them out (including sewage) which is an EPA deal you can't get around easily.
00:13 decimation I recall you saying a few months ago that they are all really old
00:13 The20YearIRCloud Yeah, they are, but all are in good shape
00:14 decimation yeah I guess where you are there is no water or sewage
00:14 The20YearIRCloud It depends on where you want to do the trailer
00:14 decimation septic systems are not cheap
00:14 The20YearIRCloud Our first one was 2000sf, 5+br , 2ba, attached garage, built in 1880 and it turned out great
00:14 The20YearIRCloud $10k-$20k
00:15 decimation back in that time that would have been a mansion
00:15 decimation or a multi-family house
00:17 The20YearIRCloud Here's a bunch of random photos I had on my cellphone - https://www.dropbox.com/sc/rpzhm6eb5c14upe/AADe8OLgg4k-LFt2Xs3No9CEa
00:18 The20YearIRCloud It would have been a medium/high level person's house. It's near downtown and is only a few houses away from a speakeasy that was in operation during prohibition. It sold recently (the speakeasy) for around $200k.
00:19 decimation that's pretty nice inside actually
00:19 decimation better than a trailer anyway
00:19 The20YearIRCloud Those are 3 or 4 different houses
00:19 decimation that first kitchen is nice
00:19 decimation was that the amish fellows who cleaned it up?
00:19 The20YearIRCloud I know I joke about owning slum houses, but they're all actually very nice. I underprice our rentals by maybe 5%-10% under normal market prices, and keep em in slightly better shape.
00:19 The20YearIRCloud That first kitchen was the first complete rehab we did on a kitchen, every single thing there is brand new.
00:20 The20YearIRCloud Second kitchen photo is from a duplex we just bought for $30k ($15k a side)
00:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that flgiuht path thing is not nearly as indicative as it may seem to the casual observer.
00:23 mircea_popescu flight paths in europe are seasonal.
00:25 mircea_popescu Adlai: now that's an interesting hypothesis to test: a bot lurks and tracks "shortest path" to each past message, then records when i link it as opposed to somebody else links it to me <<< actually a reconstruction of the ba logs where lines are nodes and they're given pr as per original google mechanism may be the first step towards stemming this whole bundle.
00:28 Adlai right, but then you can look at properties of the graph's flow to draw wildly overzealous conclusions about the attentiveness and lazyness of real live humans
00:35 mircea_popescu decimation:trilema is dead too << still ?
00:35 BingoBoingo http://m.tn.com.ar/deportes/tremendo/indignante-el-presidente-de-textil-mandiyu-le-robo-a-sus-jugadores-con-la-ayuda-de-los-barras_544582
00:36 decimation yeah it's still down for me
00:36 mircea_popescu decimation: my router bounces from telia to an isp in pheomix called "cwie llc" <<< this sounds like a route hijack then. qntra is in amsterdam.
00:36 decimation interestingly I'm getting pings through, very very slowly
00:36 mircea_popescu what ip ?
00:36 assbot qntra is on phoenix nap, amsterdam.
00:37 mircea_popescu http://qntra.net/2014/11/cfpbs-proposed-rules-governing-prepaid-cards-include-virtual-currency/
00:38 decimation is it hosted by 'secured servers'?
00:38 mircea_popescu the heck can i see it then ?
00:38 assbot ;;isup also everything even if it not a valid url
00:38 gribble also everything even if it not a valid url is up
00:38 mircea_popescu anyway, this is proving impossible to debug, people not seeing it pls to pastebin traceroutes at the time you don't see it.
00:38 mircea_popescu uh so that's broken ?
00:38 mircea_popescu ;;isup example.com
00:38 gribble example.com is up
00:38 decimation hehe yeah
00:38 mircea_popescu gah
00:38 decimation ;;isup isuck.com
00:38 gribble isuck.com is up
00:38 assbot "example.com" actually is up
00:39 mircea_popescu internet needs a canoniucal down domain
00:39 mircea_popescu ;;isup obamacare.com
00:39 gribble obamacare.com is up
00:39 decimation ;;isup canonicaldowndomain.com
00:39 gribble canonicaldowndomain.com is down
00:39 decimation lol
00:39 mircea_popescu aha!
00:40 assbot decimation yes its hosted there
00:40 mircea_popescu http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#923264 << srsly
00:40 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 05:39:46; mircea_popescu: aha!
00:40 mircea_popescu so how the fuck then!
00:40 decimation well they have a pheonix pop
00:40 decimation who knows how shit gets routed
00:40 BingoBoingo ;;isup test.down
00:40 gribble test.down is down
00:41 assbot that entry is wrong, its routed just fine to ams
00:41 mircea_popescu assbot : pm lol
00:42 mircea_popescu also, re earlier discussion : http://i.imgur.com/0C5fmGB.jpg
00:43 decimation is that your picture of an ohio hovel?
00:43 mircea_popescu lol
00:43 mircea_popescu http://23.235.236.98
00:44 decimation yeah qntra is up
00:44 decimation I donno, it smells to me like a server problem
00:46 joecool responding to ping for me, nothing else
00:46 mircea_popescu how the fuck. the server has been up all along, the load is like 0.1 or some shit for the hour.
00:46 joecool mircea_popescu: nginx or whatever other server you use on it crashed?
00:46 decimation interesting
00:46 mircea_popescu joecool nope.
00:46 mircea_popescu how the fuck would i see pages on a crashed server anyway.
00:47 cazalla is that Bruno Kucinskas all there in the head? he reckons patrick murck raped like 30 kids
00:47 mircea_popescu phin gage is a little strange. he does tons of research, some of which is useufl.
00:48 Adlai ;;isup http://dead.link/
00:49 gribble http://dead.link/ is down
00:50 Adlai http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#923258 << localhost:0
00:50 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 05:39:14; mircea_popescu: internet needs a canoniucal down domain
00:50 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42500 @ 0.00043684 = 18.5657 BTC [+] {2}
00:52 mircea_popescu ;;isup localhost:0
00:52 gribble localhost:0 is up
00:52 mircea_popescu so muh for that idea.
00:53 Adlai ;;isup http://localhost:0/
00:54 gribble http://localhost:0/ is up
00:54 Adlai hmph.
00:54 Adlai curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 0: Connection refused
00:54 * Adlai wonders what's running on... some server
00:55 assbot ;;isup adlais penis
00:55 gribble adlais penis is up
00:55 assbot Last 3 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/1MAK2HC.txt )
00:55 BingoBoingo !b 3
00:56 assbot ha, im unbashable
00:56 BingoBoingo lol
00:57 decimation the server is up, it looks to me that there is at least one route that is being ddosed/constantly reset
00:57 * Adlai was wondering about ;;isup's server, should've !b5ed for that context
00:57 mircea_popescu decimation the best i can come up with is that yes, some weakly router that is nevertheless for insane unexplainable reason priority route from the us is constantly fucked up
00:58 mircea_popescu and im not even sure that i can do anything about it other than write angry letters.
00:58 decimation yeah probably not
00:58 decimation someone might have figured out how to trip the 'anti-ddos rate-limit' trap
00:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3784 @ 0.00042279 = 1.5998 BTC [-]
00:59 BingoBoingo At this rate we might need a router foundation!
00:59 mircea_popescu why does it only catch you folk ?
00:59 decimation I donno. if there is some theoretical anti-ddos filter, it might try to limit its action to certain subnets?
01:00 mircea_popescu maybe ?
01:00 mircea_popescu anyway, i'm having this looked into, but i tell you i dun even know wtf.
01:01 * BingoBoingo hasn't had trouble accessing qntra in quite a while a few hundred miles from geographic center of USia
01:02 decimation yeah in theory the internet has all kinds of redundant routing, in practice there are many chokepoints it would seem
01:02 Adlai lizard nazis probing the turmite colony's readership habits
01:02 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo so can you load it right now ?
01:02 BingoBoingo Yeah, loads all kinds of fast
01:03 mircea_popescu dude srsly...
01:03 RagnarDanneskjol i just tried it from multiple IPs in US and EU - no luck here
01:04 decimation I can get to qntra, but not trilema
01:04 joecool qntra works from romanian ip
01:04 decimation ah, now trilema works for me
01:05 mircea_popescu o.O
01:05 joecool lets try some other countries
01:05 mircea_popescu joecool of course, i'm in argentina...
01:05 mircea_popescu decimation this sporadic working no working would seem to mean route.
01:06 joecool works from UK
01:06 decimation yeah it could be some kind of route poisoning
01:06 mircea_popescu the future of ba is point to point cabling it'd seem.
01:07 decimation no - shortwave
01:07 Adlai works now.
01:07 Adlai (from tel aviv)
01:07 joecool works back in 'murica now
01:07 joecool they're onto us
01:07 mircea_popescu maybe it's bitchbased.
01:09 BingoBoingo Ass end of my traceroute to qntra.net http://dpaste.com/1QTVGPF
01:10 BingoBoingo 1up fivezerotwo
01:10 BingoBoingo !up fivezerotwo
01:10 joecool BingoBoingo: looks same as mine except i have a ??? between the last two
01:10 fivezerotwo hello again. so assbot appears to be hosted on this server, interesting
01:11 fivezerotwo have fun figuring out what this attack is ^_^
01:11 assbot not rly.
01:11 fivezerotwo assbot, well it was taking a while to respond here
01:11 Adlai !s fivezerotwo
01:11 assbot 154 results for 'fivezerotwo' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=fivezerotwo
01:12 assbot im a slow typist.
01:12 fivezerotwo lol
01:12 * Adlai toils and link graph bubbles
01:18 mircea_popescu In the beginning there was assembler. And programming was hard. The semantic gap between how humans think about problems and what we knew how to tell computers to do was vast; our ability to manage complexity was deficient. And in the gap software defects did flourish, multiplying in direct proportion to the size of the programs we wrote.
01:18 mircea_popescu And the lives of programmers were hard, and the case of their end-users miserable; for, strive as the programmers might, perfection was achieved only in toy programs while in real-world systems the defect rate was nigh-intolerable. And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
01:19 mircea_popescu this is the stupidest thing i ever read.
01:19 mircea_popescu i have NEVER and I do mean NEVER saw programs as good as bacxk in the days of asm.
01:19 mircea_popescu i don't even think code as tight can still be made, much like you can't have a proper boot made anymore, and hardly a proper suit of clothes.
01:19 mircea_popescu certainly not a top hat.
01:20 mircea_popescu anyway, maybe their lives were harder, but 1960s programmers certainly seem happier.
01:21 mircea_popescu perhaps because asm hard is the proper sort of hard. whereas dependency hell and library cruft is the horribly bad sort of hard.
01:21 decimation well, the systems were small enough to 'fit in the head' as ascii might say
01:21 mircea_popescu climbing a mountain versus diving in a septic tank sort of hard.
01:21 Adlai !s bacxk
01:21 assbot 2 results for 'bacxk' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=bacxk
01:22 Adlai oh it's a typo
01:22 assbot !b 3
01:22 mircea_popescu lol you ocd soul you.
01:24 assbot ;;echo !b 5
01:24 assbot Last 5 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/3WFTZ0G.txt )
01:24 gribble !b 5
01:24 assbot nope, not satisfactory
01:25 mircea_popescu ;;echo !echo ;;echo !b 18
01:25 gribble !echo ;;echo !b 18
01:25 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13350 @ 0.00042279 = 5.6442 BTC [-]
01:28 mircea_popescu ;;google horatiu capastru
01:28 gribble Iunie 2009 pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2009/06>; Gandesc, deci gandesc pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/gandesc-deci-gandesc/>
01:28 Adlai ;;google recursion
01:28 gribble Recursion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion>; Recursion (computer science) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science)>; Recursion -- from Wolfram MathWorld: <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Recursion.html>
01:28 Adlai hm, no link to the google results page?
01:30 thestringpuller ;;isup qntra.net
01:30 * Adlai is talking about "<span class="spell _uwb">Did you mean:</span> <a class="spell" href="/search?espv=2&amp;q=recursion&amp;spell=1"><b><i>recursion</i></b></a> "
01:30 gribble qntra.net is up
01:31 thestringpuller qntra still down for anyone in US?
01:31 mircea_popescu is it for you ?
01:31 thestringpuller yessir
01:32 decimation qntra.net is down for me now, trilema too
01:32 fivezerotwo mircea_popescu, it's down, I'm sure. http://check-host.net/check-http?host=qntra.net
01:33 * mircea_popescu shrugs
01:33 TheNewDeal bitbet is raging on
01:37 thestringpuller http://dpaste.com/3H14489.txt << when asking coinbase about buterin's waterfall
01:38 mircea_popescu lol why harassing indians.
01:38 Adlai thestringpuller: why not link in http://qntra.net/2014/11/bip-65-revisiting-nlocktime/ to the polished code? https://github.com/adlai/bitcoin/blob/polish/src/main.h#L397
01:38 assbot BIP-65: Revisiting nLockTime | Qntra.net
01:39 mircea_popescu wait was this supposed to work ?!
01:39 thestringpuller Adlai: i can't see the article yet so I can't answer the question
01:40 mircea_popescu thestringpuller it's your article from yest
01:40 mircea_popescu or w/e the 13th was
01:40 Adlai or if you don't want to use the polish fork for some reason, https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/v0.5.3/src/main.h#L403
01:41 TheNewDeal !sideways fivezerotwo
01:41 Adlai thestringpuller: BIP65 article, link to CTransaction::nLockTime
01:42 thestringpuller yes I see. does it really matter?
01:43 thestringpuller just a uint32 variable I was trying to show
01:46 Adlai nope
01:46 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i don't even think code as tight can still be made, much like you can't have a proper boot made... << oh but it can.
01:46 mircea_popescu maybe.
01:47 decimation asciilifeform: on new hardware?
01:47 asciilifeform decimation: on whatever hardware.
01:48 asciilifeform decimation: another generation or three of 'this', and hardware will look like the same shitfest as os/sw stack is now. fortunately 'this' doesn't have even one generation left in it.
01:48 mircea_popescu so we hope.
01:48 mircea_popescu if they find fusion, it does.
01:48 decimation 'this' being the current state of computing?
01:48 asciilifeform if they find fusion, laser wars between flying machines.
01:49 asciilifeform hopefully everything is destroyed.
01:49 thestringpuller hmm. am I on qntra blacklist?
01:49 thestringpuller @mircea_popescu
01:49 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 61450 @ 0.0004271 = 26.2453 BTC [+] {2}
01:49 decimation I want my pocket laser gun
01:50 asciilifeform incidentally, for implications of working fusion, straight to:
01:50 asciilifeform !s you and the atomic bomb
01:50 assbot 8 results for 'you and the atomic bomb' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=you+and+the+atomic+bomb
01:50 asciilifeform applies just as readily here as it did in 1945 re: fission.
01:51 mircea_popescu thestringpuller it dun has a blacklist
01:51 decimation imagine 'future war' where your squad as a 'laser machine gun'. In order to take the next hill, you need to lay down suppressing fire. the laser machine gunner opens up, and the enemy doesn't notice
01:51 asciilifeform qntra dead here.
01:51 decimation qntra is dead, but trilmea just popped up again
01:51 asciilifeform lol, laser suppressing fire
01:51 thestringpuller guess east coast thing
01:51 asciilifeform what next, laser musketry volley?
01:51 decimation maybe he can screw 'pew pew pew'
01:51 thestringpuller ;;lasers
01:51 gribble ┌━ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ ┄ *pew!* *pew!* *pew!*
01:51 decimation s/screw/scream/
01:52 decimation I suspect that fusion-powered robots will be doing most of the fighting anyway
01:52 Adlai asciilifeform: if you want to find when bitcoin started to have value, just look at when people began hoarding it: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/2881 suggests the april 2010 as the start of hoarding
01:53 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17350 @ 0.00042279 = 7.3354 BTC [-]
01:53 asciilifeform decimation: meatbags will still do 100% of the dying.
01:53 decimation sure
01:53 decimation plus robot ninjas are expensive
01:54 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> what next, laser musketry volley? <<< srsly. what's this supression fire, like laser welding ?
01:54 mircea_popescu Adlai what's this "start of hoarding" thing mean ?
01:54 decimation I imagine there's going to have to be some kind of visible protocol, otherwise the enemy would simply be confused about what's going on
01:54 mircea_popescu the first blocks mined are still unspent.
01:54 asciilifeform the enemy can be reasonably certain of his own death.
01:54 asciilifeform when it happens.
01:54 mircea_popescu decimation if you could fire silent bullets you'd find loud ones because protocol ?
01:55 decimation yeah, like full metal jackets
01:55 mircea_popescu and wtf is "visible laser" anyway
01:55 Adlai mircea_popescu: playing around with the magnitude of "valuable" in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#922718
01:55 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 00:41:00; asciilifeform: because it is the only one which existed upon the earth before bitcoin was valuable!
01:55 mircea_popescu not like military grade laser will be like in star trek
01:55 asciilifeform visible laser << rayleigh scattering.
01:55 decimation right, one that transmits somewhere in the visible spectrum (to humans)
01:55 asciilifeform switch on a toy green laser in dark room.
01:56 Adlai max paranoia = starting around april 2010, at least one tla began stockpiling coins
01:56 asciilifeform switch on large far-ir laser - also visible (!) - heated air
01:56 decimation I suspect the first 'military laser' will be infrared
01:56 mircea_popescu decimation you're late. the first military laser IS co2, uv.
01:56 decimation heh yeah good point
01:56 decimation but that wasn't really a man-portable system
01:56 mircea_popescu it woulkd be uv and uuv anyway. higher energy better focus less scatter.
01:56 asciilifeform which 'military laser' ? there are 1000.
01:56 Adlai well, short of satoshi acting in a tla-ish manner, perhaps due to belonging to a tla himself
01:57 mircea_popescu ;;ud tla
01:57 gribble http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TLA | TLA is a three-letter-acronym for three-letter-acronyms. by uncle tom ... It always have been and will be Lucas and Peyton, TLA (True Love Always). by lp_tla ...
01:57 decimation Something you could give to a grunt to replace his rifle
01:57 mircea_popescu i doubt you will have man operated lasers anyway
01:57 mircea_popescu it'd be 100% drones
01:57 asciilifeform what the hell would be the point?
01:57 mircea_popescu right ?
01:57 decimation exactly
01:57 asciilifeform i suppose it's hard to blow yer own brains out with a drone.
01:57 asciilifeform although still doable.
01:58 decimation or frag your lt
01:58 mircea_popescu why hard ?
01:58 asciilifeform incidentally, if 'cheap and compact source of infinite energy', the 'plasma rifle' from 'doom', etc. can exist.
01:58 decimation actually this brings up a good point, why aren't 'silent guns' more popular in military circles
01:58 Adlai "TLA is a three-letter-acronym for three-letter-acronyms." << i'd go as far as/cronyms/gencies/
01:59 mircea_popescu decimation because they can't be made.
01:59 asciilifeform ionized atmosphere with laser, pump current through
01:59 asciilifeform a la 'jacob's ladder.
01:59 decimation are you saying that you can't use a silencer and a sub-sonic round?
01:59 dub lockheed are buildinf fusion batteries now
01:59 dub wont be long
01:59 mircea_popescu so they claim yeah.
01:59 asciilifeform decimation: the actual 'silent pistol' does not use a gas silencer.
01:59 asciilifeform nor is it entirely silent
01:59 mircea_popescu i suppose the next logical bezzle step is a tesla-lockheed merger
01:59 asciilifeform (mechanical noise from the action. the bullet still whistles. etc)
02:00 mircea_popescu just think, the promise of the electric car married to the promise of the fusion battery
02:00 decimation yeah I agree they aren't 100% silent, but the advantages of silence seem to be large
02:00 asciilifeform decimation: http://topwar.ru/21240-besshumnyy-patron-hm76-ssha.html
02:01 asciilifeform that one.
02:01 BingoBoingo <decimation> are you saying that you can't use a silencer and a sub-sonic round? << Range and terminal energy at the target become huge problems this way
02:01 asciilifeform gas stays in.
02:01 mircea_popescu decimation swat / town warfare teams use supressed weapons
02:01 mircea_popescu mostly so they don't bleed from the ears.
02:01 decimation I suppose the idea that the 'standard grunt' is snaking up on someone is unlikely
02:01 decimation s/snaking/sneaking/
02:01 decimation but snaking works too
02:01 thestringpuller solid snake
02:01 asciilifeform incidentally, if the magic fusor can be nudged into chain reaction, it's game over.
02:01 decimation asciilifeform: what do you mean, like a fusion bomb?
02:01 asciilifeform doesn't even matter if 99 in a hundred men who open theirs, die
02:01 asciilifeform decimation: yes.
02:02 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not hard to make it limited.
02:02 asciilifeform 'Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end
02:02 asciilifeform to large-scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a ‘peace that is no peace’.'
02:02 asciilifeform make it limited << lol
02:02 asciilifeform what has been limited by the hand of man, can be un-limited.
02:02 mircea_popescu how ?
02:02 Adlai thestringpuller: overall though i liked the bip65 article, it was worded neutrally enough that it could almost be tagged 'News'
02:03 asciilifeform unless the case is one of 'intrinsic' safety a la fissile mechanics
02:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform has the hand of man enabled the disabled cores in an intel chip ?
02:03 decimation right, the 'fissile' bomb runs out of fissile material
02:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: give man a few days with ion beam workstation.
02:03 mircea_popescu how do you add deuterium inside the core ? with an enema pump ?
02:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: if you sit down and think about it for a bit, you can figure out six different methods.
02:03 mircea_popescu yeah, and ?
02:04 asciilifeform 'there is no safe that can be kept in the robber's living room.'
02:04 mircea_popescu i'd rather think about kim's butt.
02:04 mircea_popescu so would 99 men in a 100
02:04 asciilifeform aha but we just need the 1.
02:04 dub kim dotcom?
02:04 cazalla mircea_popescu, working but slowly http://pastebin.com/4XCDXVSi
02:05 mircea_popescu well, let's ut it this way : the reason the state does not collapse in a tsunami of violence is not now nor was it ever historically that such would be physically impossible.
02:05 mircea_popescu it is always that nobody can be bothered.
02:05 cazalla well, qntra is intermittent for me
02:05 mircea_popescu otherwise, see the experiences of the various members of the tsar's fambly with artisanal bombs
02:05 asciilifeform what if herr frein spent his life contemplating how to rewire his fusor
02:05 asciilifeform instead of marksmanship
02:05 mircea_popescu dub no, the fat female kim. champagne assgirl.
02:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this curren state will collapse regardless. not a technical, but a policital problem. it just sucks.
02:05 mircea_popescu nothing can save it.
02:06 asciilifeform right now it takes more than one man, however enthusiastic, working in his basement for twenty years, to level a city.
02:06 mircea_popescu not so
02:06 mircea_popescu recall the case of the kid who built his own nuke
02:06 mircea_popescu out of smoke detectors ?
02:06 asciilifeform except he didn't
02:06 decimation he just built a waste site
02:07 mircea_popescu well, he didn't work for the full 20 years either.
02:07 asciilifeform lovely legend, but fails kindergarten physics.
02:07 decimation although thorium is a fissile material
02:07 mircea_popescu the sad truth of the matter is that with the current state of manufacturing, i could build my own nuke. wouldn't even take a decade.
02:07 asciilifeform at any rate, the operative boojum wouldn't be the demolition of a particular plot of real estate.
02:08 mircea_popescu i can centrifuge my own uranium, there's plenty of places where it's directly exploitable etc.
02:08 asciilifeform but a demonstration of 'with fiddybucks any discontented sod can now do it where he wants'
02:08 mircea_popescu the fact that the iranians don't manage just shows how fucktarded htey are. it's by now a one man job.
02:08 thestringpuller Adlai: i don't think it was tagged as news
02:08 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: use laser separation.
02:08 mircea_popescu im not intending to lay out an actualrecipe here
02:09 mircea_popescu just making the general point.
02:09 asciilifeform 1/10000th the cost of conventional gas centrifuge.
02:09 asciilifeform above is more or less the recipe
02:09 decimation sorting out u235 from the other neutron spewing isotopes isn't trivial
02:09 asciilifeform (u-235 and u-238 have different absorption spectra)
02:09 mircea_popescu decimation the original bombs were'nt that classy.
02:09 mircea_popescu they won a war
02:09 mircea_popescu the much classier later versions won no war.
02:10 mircea_popescu see what i mean ?
02:10 asciilifeform actually iran tried to build laser separator. the men involved - died. and not of industrial accidents.
02:10 TheNewDeal thats to be determined
02:10 asciilifeform died of 'problems'
02:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform kinda what i mean by "inept iran"
02:11 asciilifeform then they went on to the 'old classic' recipe, and made sure to run moar winblows.
02:11 asciilifeform (literally)
02:11 mircea_popescu state that can't build a pot is one thing. state that can't keep a secret however, deserves to die.
02:11 Adlai !s feeling of power
02:11 assbot 12 results for 'feeling of power' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=feeling+of+power
02:11 Adlai excellent
02:12 asciilifeform state that can't keep a secret << incidentally, notice that no complete 'dump' for ru nuke of whatever variety ever hit the net.
02:12 cazalla mircea_popescu: certainly not a top hat. <<< maybe akubra? nfi on top hats but they have a solid rep
02:12 Adlai specifically http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-04-2014#624410
02:12 assbot Logged on 14-04-2014 18:26:21; gribble: THE FEELING OF POWER by Isaac Asimov Worlds of Science ...: <http://www.math.umn.edu/~rusin018/1271_Fall_2006/extra_1.pdf>; The Feeling of Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power>; MathFiction: The Feeling of Power (Isaac Asimov) - Alex Kasman: <http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf4>
02:12 mircea_popescu cazalla i know specifically what im talking about, because the last looms capable of making the required felt were destroyed a decade ago as part of a family feud.
02:13 mircea_popescu the world has physically lost the capacity to produce top hats.
02:13 mircea_popescu to me this is much worse news than the extinction of whatever stupid fish or crap
02:13 decimation asciilifeform: of course stalin's agents were all over the us bomb as it was being made
02:13 asciilifeform aha like the u.s. hbomb tamper foam.
02:13 cazalla mircea_popescu, sounds familiar, this story on trilema?
02:13 asciilifeform some of us here, imho, shall live to see the felt brought back.
02:14 mircea_popescu cazalla not sure, mebbe not.
02:14 cazalla something to do with looms is, that i know
02:14 asciilifeform ;;google fogbank
02:14 gribble FOGBANK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK>; Fog Bank: Capitola's Funnest Bar & Grille: <http://www.the-fogbank.com/>; Jeffrey Lewis • FOGBANK: <http://lewis.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1814/fogbank>
02:14 asciilifeform ^ relevant
02:16 decimation what about the homburg hat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homburg_%28hat%29
02:23 BingoBoingo http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/14/rosetta-comet-dr-matt-taylor-apology-sexist-shirt#comment-43664788
02:24 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41927 @ 0.00042729 = 17.915 BTC [+]
02:24 mircea_popescu oh for fucks sake
02:24 mircea_popescu fucking idiot.
02:25 asciilifeform exam - failed.
02:25 mircea_popescu see, it's imbeciles like this that cause trouble. now the point will have to be carved out of some innocent women's skin that nobody gives a shit.
02:25 mircea_popescu had he just pointed and laughed at the "offended" idiots we could have just moved on.
02:25 mircea_popescu basically matt taylor is personally responsible for a few violent gangrrapes now.
02:28 mircea_popescu we need to bully these autistic savants a whole of a lot more, can't be letting the libtards having all the fun.
02:28 decimation yeah I don't get it, if your'e gonna wear a shirt with semi-naked women in front of an international audience, show some follow-through
02:28 asciilifeform 'Knowledge can be lost. Sometimes this is perfectly reasonable: No one knows how to kill and skin a mastodon anymore, for obvious reasons. And cultures frequently lose knowledge as they evolve past it--you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who could write a computer program on punch-cards today. But there is something worrisome about misplacing knowledge that is only a generation or two old. And this happens mor
02:28 asciilifeform e often than you might think. ... ... Space enthusiasts say, 'If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we put a man on the moon?' "The answer, Simberg explains, is that we can't "because most of the people who did it are in their dotage or dead, and a lot of it was more art than science."'
02:29 asciilifeform ( http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/479avvbv.asp?pg=2 )
02:30 mircea_popescu asciilifeform im pretty sure i can still write on punch cards.
02:30 asciilifeform not hard.
02:30 asciilifeform bad example, not because of greybeards, but because of demented archaeologists like yours truly
02:30 asciilifeform and i can hardly imagine a modern big-game hunter having any serious troubles with a mastodon.
02:30 asciilifeform but i can sorta see the point he was trying to make.
02:30 mircea_popescu i sorta can't.
02:31 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45200 @ 0.00043661 = 19.7348 BTC [+] {2}
02:31 asciilifeform eh we just skinned a balloon, haven't we.
02:31 mircea_popescu knowledge != technology.
02:31 decimation asciilifeform: there's a good example of the 'art v. science' re: moon program here: http://eb-misfit.blogspot.com/2013/10/relighting-saturn-vs-f-1-rocket-engine.html?showComment=1381683061332#c1607749688683256926 "There were single welds on the engine that took all day to weld, by hand, and there were thousands of such welds. The engineers working on the new F1 copy say that theirs has less than 1/10th the parts of the original F1
02:32 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6109 @ 0.00043769 = 2.6738 BTC [+]
02:32 decimation and should be easily mass produced. "
02:32 mircea_popescu i still know how to make a felt hat
02:32 mircea_popescu doesn't mean the machines still exist.
02:32 decimation each saturn rocket was basically a metal art peice
02:32 asciilifeform decimation: this is not actually uncommon at the 'what is the factory made of' level in industry.
02:32 asciilifeform ultimately, there is no factory that churns out pilot plants
02:32 mircea_popescu used to. nowadays it's pretty rare.
02:33 asciilifeform craftsmanship all the way down, after a certain point.
02:33 decimation there's a point there
02:33 decimation someone has to program the robots after all
02:34 asciilifeform much of what makes civilization tick, is not available off the shelf, and the entire notion is nonsensical.
02:34 mircea_popescu whosoever programs the robots doesn't have to do so with chewing gum however.
02:34 mircea_popescu the fact that bitcoin .5.3 is full of spot welds is not a quality.
02:35 punkman .notary status
02:35 punkman notary status
02:35 notary punkman: 1 pending deed | Last bundle 6 hours and 14 minutes ago | 1 unconfirmed bundle
02:35 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: imagine if, e.g., the 'golden gate' bridge had been built by a retarded child. out of match sticks.
02:35 asciilifeform and it were still in use.
02:35 punkman speaking of shitty code, thing's stuck again
02:35 mircea_popescu http://i.imgur.com/RUvwvFk.gif
02:36 decimation it seems to come down to a question of economics, it's generally cheaper to pay a master craftsman to labor over one item, but if one is building thousands it is worth the start-up cost of the robots
02:36 asciilifeform decimation: except that none of this conceptually even applies to a computer program.
02:36 decimation unfortunately no
02:36 decimation one can imagine the software craftsman being aided by tools (likely of his own making)
02:37 decimation but the idea of 'mass production software' is nonsensical
02:37 thestringpuller !up fivezerotwo
02:39 mircea_popescu this "ctrl-c at console" business is so... hm. primitive.
02:39 mircea_popescu in the positive sense of that term.
02:39 punkman :)
02:39 asciilifeform like a death certificate that reads 'stopped breathing'
02:39 mircea_popescu nah, more like a hmm....
02:40 punkman so electrum is blocking forever when I try to send a tx, then the tx sending thread gets stuck
02:40 mircea_popescu nah, more like a retarded athlete who, after a majorly incredible game where his team won very closely or lost very closely is like
02:40 mircea_popescu "well... we lost"
02:41 mircea_popescu myeah dude.
02:42 thestringpuller $conference
02:42 empyex thestringpuller: Next conference starts in 5 months and 2 days. Estimated cost today: 3.31292039 BTC (Details: http://trilema.com/2014/the-conference-third-edition/ )
02:42 asciilifeform re: top hats: i vaguely recall that the planet lost the capacity to make toothpicks for a few months at some point in '09 (?)
02:43 asciilifeform chicom firm cornered the market, the story went, to the point of total monopoly - then went bust
02:43 RagnarDanneskjol punkman i think eventually you're gonna ahve to ditch electrum and run a daemon - these issues are somewhat known and why deedbot 1.0 replaced it w/ api
02:43 asciilifeform perhaps i dreamed all of this.
02:44 punkman RagnarDanneskjol: oh deedbot1.0 tried to use electrum?
02:44 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Clam one of yours?
02:44 RagnarDanneskjol yes
02:44 RagnarDanneskjol went through several versions
02:44 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo sorry ?
02:44 RagnarDanneskjol the last one actually works perfectly fine - just was on unsecure server
02:44 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: From the gif where it did the salt licking
02:44 punkman RagnarDanneskjol: well it didn't actually verify deeds
02:45 asciilifeform salt?!
02:45 RagnarDanneskjol how's that?
02:45 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo ah no, bounty of teh internets.
02:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yes. salt.
02:46 * asciilifeform wanders off to consider this.
02:47 fivezerotwo thanks thestringpuller
02:54 mircea_popescu "This muddle finally hurts those following in the researcher's path. Long after he has his Ph.D. or his tenure, inquiring students will be put off by the document he has left behind. He seems to have solved everything already, so the report says, yet there is no tangible evidence of it besides the report itself."
02:54 mircea_popescu oh brother...
02:54 notary Confirmed bundle 1NUkX9oL with 1 deed | http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/bundle/1NUkX9oLgWDpzWanrsxKdgUqs7JaRUKG4u
02:55 BingoBoingo http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/polygraph-com-owner-accused-of-training-customers-to-beat-the-polygraph/
02:56 mircea_popescu this is actually the fundamental problem with western academia. the self-licking icecreamcones problem is just a convenient frosting over this, but the point remains that even should that matter be solved, as it trivially would be solved - by say a stalin, which is always cheap
02:56 mircea_popescu nevertheless academia would STILL be fundamentally broken to the point of complete dysfunction.
03:11 RagnarDanneskjol http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2660293
03:12 RagnarDanneskjol [Founding Digital Currency on Secure Computation]
03:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23272 @ 0.00042858 = 9.9739 BTC [-]
03:26 cazalla RagnarDanneskjol, meh not promoting something that thinks "When a user wants to create an address, the user provides her identity to an IVS. The IVS checks that the provided identity is the identity of a real person who can be located and be accountable if illegal activity is detected, similar to existing Bitcoin payment systems such as Coinbase." is a good idea
03:27 RagnarDanneskjol they have some lame and some rather novel ideas in there
03:29 notary Confirmed bundle 1MH7Ri8j with 1 deed | http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/bundle/1MH7Ri8jmVKWouMdUijZQoH4hsZQb2txq2
03:34 Adlai you wouldn't say that militaries are still churning out pilot plants, but the automation/control balance of piloting itself has shifted?
03:34 Adlai (that was re: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#923619 )
03:34 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 07:32:47; asciilifeform: ultimately, there is no factory that churns out pilot plants
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03:50 RagnarDanneskjol lols http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/embracing-https/?_r=2
03:55 RagnarDanneskjol !up Vexual
04:00 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 36210 @ 0.00042725 = 15.4707 BTC [-] {2}
04:01 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23040 @ 0.00042362 = 9.7602 BTC [-]
04:03 RagnarDanneskjol https://www.spark.io/
04:08 punkman RagnarDanneskjol: similar thingie https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11395
04:10 Vexual the sd one is cool, i dont undertand the other thing
04:14 Vexual duodenum?
04:19 Vexual oh yes, just different form factors
04:19 Vexual such is life
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04:56 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo "It appears he's list 5 billion since June 30th" << lost ?
05:06 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Probably? Where to fix?
05:06 mircea_popescu your article re buffet
05:06 mircea_popescu http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/10/24/buffet-problems/
05:06 assbot Buffet Problems | Bingo Blog
05:07 BingoBoingo Ty, fixed
05:07 mircea_popescu and with that, it is time for ass!
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07:04 nubbins` <mircea_popescu> <undata> if I were russia, I'd wait for the US to go balls deep into the middle east again, and then I'd grab some of the north pole's oil, <<< obviously, you're not russia. <<< dat unfamilairity with arctic sovereignty claims
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08:46 BingoBoingo https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2maur6/an_open_letter_to_jason_king_of_seans_outpost/cm2l3ae
08:46 assbot SeansOutpost comments on An open letter to Jason King of Sean's Outpost
08:48 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 79000 @ 0.0004225 = 33.3775 BTC [-] {3}
08:54 nubbins` :00000000
08:55 nubbins` i never got the "feed the homeless in this guy's city instead of in your own city" thing
08:55 nubbins` LOOK AT ME I'M DONATING TO SEAN'S OUTPOST
08:55 nubbins` THERE ARE NO HUNGRY PEOPLE WHERE I LIVE
08:56 assbot Last 4 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/2QX2KNA.txt )
08:56 BingoBoingo !b 4
08:56 BingoBoingo Seriously though you feed the homeless in someone else's city so they all go there. Pied Piper and shit.
08:57 nubbins` "go"
08:57 nubbins` i live on an island, buddy
08:57 nubbins` nearest "city" is 20k people a 10 hour drive away
08:57 nubbins` anyway, always suspected that guy
08:58 nubbins` Easy Feel-Goods for sale, only $1.25
08:59 BingoBoingo No, easy feel goods are $75 at the massage parlor down by the strip club
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09:41 xanthyos http://i.gyazo.com/970002ace57462fba98546820653d316.png << look at the progress bar on an electronic transaction initiated two full days ago. obsolescence.
09:42 xanthyos so coinbase gets 4 full days to abort my purchase, which they will, if the prices goes up, and they won't if it levels or drops. with btc market volatility they have a sure thing
09:43 xanthyos business days, so essentially a full week
09:44 xanthyos using the customer's assumption that banking is a slow process (2 business days) and doubling that hoping they won't notice just to extend their opportunity to abort a sale that's not in their favor
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10:00 mats_cd03 08:56:40 <+BingoBoingo> Seriously though you feed the homeless in someone else's city so they all go there. Pied Piper and shit. << aka San Francisco
10:03 xanthyos actually liberal "utopias" like sf have very little accomodations for the poor
10:04 xanthyos as someone who's been homeless i've found it much easier to survive in backwoods towns in minnesota where people are poorer and not politicized
10:04 xanthyos california is a scam state and hollywood has used its media to convince the world that it doesn't suck there, but it really does
10:06 mats_cd03 sure. there are still hills of homeless in SF, despite billions spent trying to fix it
10:07 xanthyos SF spends its billions laying asphalt for zig-zaggy roads on their hills, not on the homeless
10:07 xanthyos hills
10:07 mats_cd03 http://www.sfchronicle.com/archive/item/A-decade-of-homelessness-Thousands-in-S-F-30431.php << 3k 'supportive housing units'
10:08 mats_cd03 "The city spends $165 million a year on homeless services, about half of which funds supportive housing. That’s one of the highest levels of per-capita spending on homelessness of any city in the nation, said Philip Mangano, who served as the nation’s homeless czar under President Bush."
10:08 mats_cd03 "... the nation's homeless czar" << lol
10:10 xanthyos so inefficient
10:10 xanthyos someone should take a box cutter to nancy pelosi's plastic mask
10:20 The20YearIRCloud and yet their homelessness problem is still one of the worst in the country
10:21 nubbins` freenode:#bitcoin-otc:fa7a9bfb7a0cda9a3b7302dd46bf9392bd9f7b87f41cecfed6437ddb
10:21 nubbins` i mean.
10:21 nubbins` http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
10:21 assbot Stephen Harper at G20 tells Vladimir Putin to 'get out of Ukraine' - World - CBC News
10:21 nubbins` curious to see what a .ru article about this says :D
10:21 nubbins` "According to MacDonald, Putin did not respond positively. He didn't provide further details."
10:27 jurov ohmy, dat log
10:28 jurov btw, what else can putin do? taking care of the nation is not capable of enacting western definition of lawful order
10:28 jurov despite generations of geletical pool cleansing
10:28 jurov *genetical
10:29 jurov try to go and conquer
10:29 jurov nothing alse make sense
10:31 jurov *nothing else makes sense
10:37 jurov http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-technique-for-seasoning-cast-iron/ << for cast iron jockeys
10:42 pete_dushenski howdy!
10:43 pete_dushenski so coinbase scored another $50 mn
10:44 pete_dushenski also, scoopbot be borkt so...
10:44 xanthyos heh
10:44 pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/12/rape-slavery-and-other-considerations/
10:45 pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/14/terrible-nasty-unfair-evil-no-good-money-and-its-relation-to-net-worth/
10:46 nubbins` cast iron 4 life
10:46 pete_dushenski and no assbot either eh
10:46 nubbins` the guy who runs javaranch got me into cast iron
10:46 nubbins` flaxseed oil!
10:48 pete_dushenski http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/us/series-of-secret-service-blunders-eased-way-for-white-house-intruder.html?_r=0 << makes that gasenwagen a lot less threatening of a theory
10:49 assbot Log In - The New York Times
10:49 pete_dushenski incompetence is just so adorable!
10:49 pete_dushenski assbot is too cool for contravex ?
10:49 pete_dushenski fucking bot
10:50 pete_dushenski http://karakullake.blogspot.com/2014/11/assads-31-forms-of-torture.html << from the old school
10:51 assbot Tamerlane's Thoughts: Assad's 31 forms of torture
10:52 nubbins` jurov / urovj i wait for my oil to smoke before putting food in the pan :/
10:52 nubbins` wtf am i supposed to do now!
10:53 jurov repent!
10:53 nubbins` i won't know when the pan is hot enough!
10:53 nubbins` non-scientific take: http://www.richsoil.com/cast-iron.jsp
10:53 assbot How To: Cast Iron Skillet Non-Stick and Lasts a Lifetime
10:54 jurov when cooking with olive oil, i can say by smell it's right temp
10:55 pete_dushenski "the crews that maintain the nation’s 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles had only a single wrench that could attach the nuclear warheads. “They started FedExing the one tool” to three bases spread across the country"
10:55 pete_dushenski that usg is less threatening by the day i tell you
10:57 nubbins` i actually use viscosity as a guide leading up to the smoke point
10:57 nubbins` this linseed thing is a neat idea tho. my 9" cast iron could use a fresh start
10:58 nubbins` it's rough-bottomed, tho, not sure if it's worth such special treatment just ye
11:08 asciilifeform jurov: mr p's response to australia >> http://www.loper-os.org/pub/lenta.html
11:08 assbot lenta
11:10 jurov so why the separatists were so eager to claim it?
11:11 asciilifeform jurov: which ones and where?
11:11 asciilifeform jurov: first i hear of such
11:11 jurov http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine-separatist-leader-boasts-downing-plane/25460930.html
11:11 assbot Ukraine Separatist Social Media Site Claims Plane Downing
11:12 asciilifeform jurov: afaik, nazi fake.
11:14 jurov afaik, RT fake
11:15 asciilifeform jurov: this is interestingly reminiscent of orwell's piece on the spanish war.
11:15 asciilifeform jurov: do you remember it ?
11:15 jurov no
11:16 jurov when RT invites amir taaaki as bitcoin expert, it's clear what they are up to
11:16 jurov but when they pull some "dutch expert" it's suddent sacrosanct truth
11:16 jurov *suddenly
11:17 * asciilifeform did not endorse rt as truth machine. but notes that, so far, usa has not denied authenticity of the smoking gun.
11:17 jurov nor has russia denied strelkov's boasts
11:18 asciilifeform jurov: the pronouncement that he lacked the necessary rocket is not a denial ?
11:19 jurov BUK was the name of the rocket, russians have it and the border is non-existing
11:20 jurov http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2696847/They-shouldnt-f-g-flying-There-war-going-Ukraine-intelligence-officials-release-phone-calls-claim-PROVES-Russia-shot-Flight-MH17.html
11:20 assbot BUK missile launcher shown in Russian separatist stronghold before MH17 crash | Daily Mail Online
11:20 jurov ^ photos of it allegedly operating at the site
11:21 jurov dunno we ever solve this here, it's clear as mud
11:22 asciilifeform the one piece of 'lack of gun' was that a launch is visible and audible for 40km or so around
11:22 asciilifeform and no one, afaik, has fessed up to noticing one.
11:24 jurov how are they so certain it's urk fighter?
11:24 jurov i can easily see russians doing it and placing buk in there as diversion
11:26 asciilifeform jurov: re: spanish: http://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1
11:26 assbot George Orwell: Looking back on the Spanish War
11:26 BingoBoingo Fuck it. The Greys did MH-17
11:26 asciilifeform 'I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, ‘History stopped in 1936’, at which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, n
11:26 asciilifeform ot even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellec
11:26 asciilifeform tuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various ‘party lines’.'
11:29 BingoBoingo It's those Alien provacateurs
11:30 pete_dushenski can anyone remember the title of that trilema article where mircea_popescu discloses how much he sold that 5% chunk of mpex for?
11:30 pete_dushenski then number $7mn is stuck in my mind but i can't dig up the article to confirm
11:31 * pete_dushenski has been reading lots of old trilema articles about the early mpex days
11:32 pete_dushenski it's nothing short of incredible to see just how tame mp reads then as opposed to now
11:33 pete_dushenski "I am by no means convinced it is even correct, but merely the suggestion of it has the sort of breathtaking effect sudden abstraction gives. The reason I’m publishing all this is, of course, that I’m interested to hear what others think. Fill me in below."
11:37 pete_dushenski modesty the likes of which would shock a johnny come lately reader
11:44 pete_dushenski https://twitter.com/pete_dushenski/status/533660967549157376
11:44 assbot Hey VCs, where's the $1.5mn funding for nanotube's WoT ? http://t.co/gdmiYpx1FA
11:45 jurov nonotube doesn't want to join bezzlatron?
11:45 pete_dushenski mebbe he does
11:46 ben_vulpes note to self: next time compress the blockchain *before* copying.
11:46 pete_dushenski hard to imagine anyone legimitately asking him
11:46 pete_dushenski https://imgur.com/6HC0yeM << trilema credits: 4 and still no worky!
11:46 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
11:46 ben_vulpes what would he need the money for, pete_dushenski? embedding contracts in the blockchain?
11:46 ben_vulpes give up, web technology will kill your children.
11:47 pete_dushenski ben_vulpes a house with a pool ?
11:47 pete_dushenski i'd personally be quite interested to see what nanotube would do if given a free $1.5mn
11:48 ben_vulpes kinda dodges the question of why would vcs put capital into it.
11:48 ben_vulpes here's my pipedream shartup
11:49 ben_vulpes pretend there's something smart
11:49 ben_vulpes wrap gpg
11:49 ben_vulpes end passwords
11:49 ben_vulpes FIN
11:49 ben_vulpes it doesn't even have a profit model!
11:49 ben_vulpes what could go wrong!?
11:50 nubbins` CIS installed in epson printer. print a file. epson says "it is almost time to replace ink cartridges"
11:50 nubbins` NICE TRY
11:50 ben_vulpes baww
11:51 ben_vulpes piped tar into curl
11:51 ben_vulpes exhausted all memory
11:51 nubbins` heh
11:52 ben_vulpes noob
11:52 nubbins` (CIS = http://imgur.com/5uggnbK )
11:52 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
11:55 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: what's an 'end password' ?
11:59 ben_vulpes end is a verb in this context.
12:00 nubbins` google end
12:00 asciilifeform aha
12:00 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: what do you have in mind?
12:00 ben_vulpes token decryption.
12:00 asciilifeform gribble-login for everything?
12:00 ben_vulpes mhm.
12:00 ben_vulpes 's the only way.
12:01 asciilifeform why does this need money ?
12:01 ben_vulpes because i need a shartup!
12:01 asciilifeform ahaha lol
12:02 ben_vulpes gotta hire sales people
12:02 ben_vulpes rent an office
12:02 ben_vulpes flip the ponzi a few times
12:03 * asciilifeform thought ben_vulpes already did something of the kind at day job
12:03 ben_vulpes what, run a ponzi?
12:03 asciilifeform not necessarily
12:03 asciilifeform but, some sort of firm
12:04 nubbins` hah
12:04 assbot Last 6 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/374TEEE.txt )
12:04 nubbins` !b 6
12:04 ben_vulpes yes i have a thing
12:04 nubbins` !gettrust assbot Anduck
12:05 nubbins` i mean.
12:05 nubbins` ;;gettrust assbot Anduck
12:05 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask Anduck!~anduck@unaffiliated/anduck. Trust relationship from user assbot to user Anduck: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 5 via 5 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=Anduck | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=Anduck | Rated since: Tue May 8 11:28:43 2012
12:05 ben_vulpes but it's kind of an estes scale thing, and i want a giant tower of hydrocarbons atop which to ride out of this gravity well.
12:05 nubbins` !up Anduck
12:06 nubbins` Anduck, you have L2 trust w/ assbot so you can take advantage of deed system
12:08 punkman https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=328849.msg9457267#msg9457267
12:08 assbot Trust system - users with most trust list trust
12:09 ben_vulpes http://bablogs.btcscoop.com/ << not actually a thing?
12:09 assbot #bitcoin-assets blog posts
12:10 ben_vulpes hm nm.
12:12 punkman https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=780707
12:12 assbot Forum finances
12:12 pete_dushenski ben_vulpes i want a giant tower of hydrocarbons << for some reason i didn't even think you had a car
12:13 pete_dushenski "Taxes and bitcoin, what is this sorcery"
12:14 pete_dushenski heya punkman how goes the punkbot ?
12:14 punkman notary status
12:14 notary punkman: No pending deeds | Last bundle 9 hours and 16 minutes ago
12:14 pete_dushenski ah yes!
12:14 punkman punkbot balance
12:14 notary punkman: Balance at 1LAwrWMbPLLSpt7nkD5Jv1Yf4cwPhD98ny is 0.06251 BTC (0.0 unconfirmed), enough for 568 more bundles.
12:14 punkman well in case someone forgets, both work
12:15 pete_dushenski cool
12:15 ben_vulpes pete_dushenski: oh i own one. rarely use it though.
12:15 ben_vulpes preferring to walk and bike.
12:15 pete_dushenski ;;rate punkman 1 maker of notary bot for #b-a deeds
12:15 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of 1 for user punkman has been recorded.
12:16 ben_vulpes but the things that one can do with a car don't really hold a candle to those that can be done with large rockets.
12:16 pete_dushenski ben_vulpes a but of course
12:16 ben_vulpes cars don't fly.
12:16 pete_dushenski anymore than bricks
12:16 ben_vulpes planes don't escape the gravity well.
12:16 ben_vulpes ('cept maybe the skylon)
12:16 ben_vulpes adios pete_dushenski, see you another day.
12:17 pete_dushenski meh gravity well is 75% in your own noodle
12:17 pete_dushenski ben_vulpes cheers mate
12:29 assbot http://news.rice.edu/2014/11/05/next-for-darpa-autocomplete-for-programmers/
12:30 assbot Next for DARPA: ‘Autocomplete’ for programmers
12:42 asciilifeform autocomplete << lol!
12:42 asciilifeform http://auto-complete.org
12:42 assbot Auto-Complete - An Intelligent auto-completion extension for Emacs
12:42 asciilifeform or even microshit's
12:42 asciilifeform am i missing something?
12:42 asciilifeform or was that article stolen from 'the onion' ?
12:50 asciilifeform http://www.contravex.com/2014/11/04/lets-cut-to-the-chase-is-la-serenissima-a-cult/#comment-4569 << interesting re: pankkake
12:50 assbot Let’s Cut To The Chase, Is La Serenissima A Cult? | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
12:50 asciilifeform i somehow missed this.
12:51 asciilifeform what was his project (mentioned in the comment) ?
12:53 asciilifeform incidentally - are there other 'retired' #b-a folks?
12:54 asciilifeform is there, somewhere, a smoky bar where they down hard drinks and tell anyone who'll listen how 'it was all a sham11!1!' ?
13:03 pete_dushenski asciilifeform haven't seen thickasthieves in a while either...
13:03 pete_dushenski brb
13:04 asciilifeform ;;seen thickasthieves
13:04 gribble thickasthieves was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 5 days, 2 hours, 47 minutes, and 48 seconds ago: <ThickAsThieves> but you da boss
13:10 nubbins` he hasn't been around as much since he stopped with xbond, neobee, etc
13:12 nubbins` i guess there's no gems left to push 8)
13:13 TheNewDeal is evorhees considered a retired #b-a member?
13:14 asciilifeform not being the shrink for either of these folks, i can't say with certainty, but do have a hypothesis:
13:14 asciilifeform some people don't react well to a (perceived) collapse of fantasy of escape from gravity well.
13:14 asciilifeform this may also explain the disappearance of moiety and a few other folks.
13:15 nubbins` iow, "gentlemen, we shall not be the future elite"?
13:16 asciilifeform not precisely
13:16 asciilifeform they, i suspect, reach a point of thinking 'i can't eat hope'
13:16 nubbins` but they can sure as shit eat crow :D
13:16 asciilifeform http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3217750625724755@naggum.net.html
13:16 assbot Re: realistic but short and simple LISP examples? - Naggum cll archive
13:16 asciilifeform ^ naggum on the subject
13:18 asciilifeform 'The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or needing money. For young people who have parents who pay for them or student grants or loans and basically have yet to figure out that it costs a hell of a lot of money to live in a highly advanced society, this is not such a bad idea. Grow up, graduate,
13:18 asciilifeform marry, start a family, buy a house, have an accident, get seriously ill for a while, or a number of other very expensive things people actually do all the time, and the value of your work starts to get very real and concrete to you, at which point giving away things to be "nice" to some "community" which turns out not to be "nice" _enough_ in return that you will actually stay alive, is no longer an option. Al
13:18 asciilifeform l of this "code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need. As soon as the need arises, a lot of people discover that it has cost them real money to work for the community and they reap very little benefit from it, because they are sharing value-less services and getting value out of something that people take for granted is hard to
13:18 asciilifeform impossible.'
13:19 asciilifeform the funny part is that nobody quit, e.g., a model airplane club, because they realize that it will not make them rich.
13:20 asciilifeform it is precisely the existence of 'success stories' in #b-a that creates the problem (if you will) of nonzero expectations.
13:21 nubbins` there are success stories in here? o.O
13:21 TheNewDeal if Mp wee #1, voorhees was #2, who would you say is number 3 in the success story lineup?
13:21 asciilifeform kako?
13:21 nubbins` lel, i kid.
13:22 TheNewDeal just curious - I'm capable of formatting my own opinions, just want to see how they measure up to others
13:22 nubbins` probably tat, he got rich as fuck
13:22 TheNewDeal but he was mostly riding the coattails, no?
13:23 nubbins` his coins aren't colored as such
13:23 TheNewDeal didn't he run a passthrough that was basically just an additional surcharge passthrough?
13:23 nubbins` several of them
13:23 nubbins` doesn't the corner store just buy flats of pepsi from costco?
13:24 TheNewDeal I don't really consider the owner rich
13:24 TheNewDeal you know?
13:24 nubbins` he had what, two AM passthrus, the SMG passthru, maybe three neobee passthrus?
13:24 nubbins` TheNewDeal sure, but if the owner didn't have to buy a store and now drives around in an escalade...
13:24 TheNewDeal you could call bitcoin harware resellers successful
13:24 TheNewDeal and I'm sure there are some that have made a pretty penny
13:25 nubbins` sure, but in here?
13:25 TheNewDeal but the idea is that it's sustainable
13:25 nubbins` what's success mean in this context anyway? got in early?
13:25 nubbins` in that sense, mp is successful, but so is goat
13:25 asciilifeform 'successful' i'd propose, would be in this context, folks who once had to prostitute themselves for fiat who no longer must, on account of something they worked on in collaboration with the people here.
13:26 nubbins` that's workable
13:26 nubbins` successful as a measure of percent exit from fiat
13:26 asciilifeform well, exit from wage labour
13:26 TheNewDeal ding ding ding
13:27 nubbins` implying wage labour remunerated in btc doesn't fit?
13:27 nubbins` say, a blockchain.info employee
13:27 TheNewDeal correct
13:27 TheNewDeal if they're making peas
13:27 nubbins` makes sense
13:28 TheNewDeal I can just as easily be a fry cook at mcdonalds and change my $100 monthly profits to btc
13:28 asciilifeform i'd imagine i'm not the only one who considers 'success' as implying a total exit from 'don't work a day - don't eat a day'
13:28 nubbins` surely not
13:29 nubbins` worth noting that this definition relies on flow in as well as out
13:29 asciilifeform wage labour is wage labour, whether for usd, btc, or gold dubloons
13:30 asciilifeform example,
13:30 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-01-2014#449496
13:30 assbot Logged on 19-01-2014 19:47:07; asciilifeform: getting back to the crapware: most instances you're dealing with a case of 'work 12 hrs. a day to make minim. wage while you sleep.'
13:31 nubbins` "great high pay job" 2 hour highway drive each direction, daily
13:32 nubbins` anyway, i guess under these criteria i'd be considered a success, although i'm admittedly raising an eyebrow myself over this
13:33 TheNewDeal Was working up in Canada a few weeks ago. Business owner claimed that everyone in Canada that wanted to work had a job
13:33 nubbins` tbf a significant portion of my income still (a) is received in fiat and (b) doesn't come from this sphere
13:33 asciilifeform nubbins`: let's say you wanted to close your printery and spend the rest of your days as a taleb-like scholarly man of leisure.
13:33 nubbins` TheNewDeal ehhhhhhhh yes and no.
13:33 asciilifeform nubbins`: could you?
13:33 TheNewDeal did not feel the need to argue the point that no on in their right mind wants to stock shelves at the Canadian superstore at 2am
13:34 nubbins` asciilifeform yeah, fair enough. not quite.
13:34 nubbins` in the next half-decade or so, sure
13:34 asciilifeform nubbins`: that was the 'success' i was theorizing about people being disappointed in not having.
13:34 nubbins` looks pretty naked laid out like that, huh
13:35 asciilifeform i can't claim to have a handle on what ails pankkake et. al.
13:35 asciilifeform this is merely the picture seen through my own 'shit-coloured glasses.'
13:36 asciilifeform i conjecture that it's all a problem of expectations.
13:36 nubbins` i figured it was a combination of the rose tint coming off his glasses, and getting tired of the bellicose rhetoric
13:36 asciilifeform i, for instance, expect to end up slowly dismembered in a cia dungeon.
13:36 asciilifeform every day that this has not yet taken place, i am pleasantly surprised.
13:37 TheNewDeal lel
13:38 TheNewDeal I don't see pankakke's argument considering dumb and evil people in bitcoin
13:38 TheNewDeal isn't the same thing in the bezzle economy?
13:38 nubbins` sure, it's just concentrated more here
13:38 nubbins` bitcoin is a rube funnel
13:39 asciilifeform he may be rehashing an argument made, among other places, in my 'microscope hammer' article.
13:39 nubbins` all these starry-eyeds wandering into a lion's den thinking it's the just the coolest thing
13:39 TheNewDeal linky ascii?
13:39 nubbins` and holy shit you can buy stocks i've always wanted to etc
13:40 nubbins` omg doadj-coin etc
13:40 asciilifeform TheNewDeal: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=939
13:40 assbot Loper OS » Bitcoin, or How to Hammer in Nails with a Microscope.
13:40 TheNewDeal gracias
13:40 thestringpuller asciilifeform: did yo ever watch dexter's lab
13:40 asciilifeform possibly once, on 'youtube'
13:40 asciilifeform don't recall precisely what.
13:40 asciilifeform it was mentioned here on at least one occasion
13:46 TheNewDeal ahhh I've read that one before. On a similar note - does that empty block miner still persist? Haven't seen organofcorti mention it
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14:17 TheNewDeal assbots back, simply amazing
14:17 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
14:17 mircea_popescu hey there buttboy!
14:17 mircea_popescu kakobrekla you know, assbot totally should respond to buttboy
14:18 mircea_popescu in other news : http://pastebin.com/S4fwBbpQ
14:18 assbot Return-path: <dd4bc@outlook.com> Envelope-to: * Delivery-date: Sat, 15 Nov 201 - Pastebin.com
14:19 mircea_popescu and jurov thought HE had issues with whitespace via email. check out this kiddie, 100+ 0x20s
14:22 Anduck .deed
14:22 punkbot Anduck: (deed [url]) -- search [url] for signed deeds and queue them.
14:22 Anduck o
14:22 Anduck .help deed
14:22 punkbot Anduck: (deed [url]) -- search [url] for signed deeds and queue them.
14:22 Anduck fine, fine. dont help me damn ass bot
14:22 mircea_popescu punkman no moar notary ?
14:22 mircea_popescu Anduck one sec ill fish out an example for you.
14:22 Anduck mircea_popescu: does it cost to use deed service?
14:22 mircea_popescu not yet./
14:23 mircea_popescu donation powered so far.
14:23 Anduck alright
14:23 Anduck sounds pretty good as in it doesn't shit the chain
14:23 Anduck at least compared to the others...
14:23 mircea_popescu Anduck 15-11-2014 01:09:45 <nubbins`> .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=eJhsu4D5 << like so.
14:23 Anduck thx
14:23 mircea_popescu yeah it's well designed.
14:24 Anduck well, who holds the database?
14:24 Anduck is it decentralized? it doesnt have to be but it'd be great if it was
14:24 mircea_popescu you can dld your own copy. otherwise, punkman is maintaining the deedbot service.
14:24 Anduck remember the link for copy?
14:25 mircea_popescu shit.
14:25 Anduck i checked deeds site, didnt even see an api
14:25 mircea_popescu it doesn't have an api, but you can get json/rss iirc.
14:25 Anduck mm
14:25 Anduck true
14:26 mircea_popescu punkman i forget, how does one download the bundles ?
14:27 punkman there are links bottom of bundle page
14:28 punkman and code is here https://github.com/extempore/deedbundler
14:28 assbot extempore/deedbundler · GitHub
14:28 mircea_popescu nubbins` THERE ARE NO HUNGRY PEOPLE WHERE I LIVE << lawl.
14:28 mircea_popescu o there you are.
14:29 mircea_popescu so wha' happened to notary ? and can the main address: 1LAwrWMbPLLSpt7nkD5Jv1Yf4cwPhD98ny | contact: punkman@freenode get a count of deeds added in the middle ?
14:30 punkman mircea_popescu: it disconnected and had to use alt name, guess I should set it up to revert to notary
14:30 mircea_popescu xanthyos: so coinbase gets 4 full days to abort my purchase, which they will, if the prices goes up, and they won't if it levels or drops. with btc market volatility they have a sure thing <<< not really, because a) there's not so many people ike you, actually using them and b) the respective 0.2 bitcents or w/e add to about enough to buy me a steak.
14:31 Anduck .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CKWWskHB
14:31 punkbot Anduck: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:31 mircea_popescu xanthyos: california is a scam state and hollywood has used its media to convince the world that it doesn't suck there, but it really does <<< this is by design. cute but stupid 17 yo chick from minesota goes to cali to be rich and famous, has to confront the unexpected situation where being homeless there sucks so as to eagerly overcome her education and suck cock.
14:31 Anduck hmm:(
14:31 Anduck .deed add http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CKWWskHB
14:31 punkbot Anduck: Error: 'add' is not a valid http url.
14:31 mircea_popescu if she knew about the knife she perobably wouldn't run there.
14:32 mircea_popescu Anduck no add in the examplke i gave you
14:32 Anduck mircea_popescu: as you saw, i tried without first
14:32 mircea_popescu ah yes.
14:32 mircea_popescu ;;gettrust assbot anduck
14:32 gribble Currently authenticated from hostmask Anduck!~anduck@unaffiliated/anduck. Trust relationship from user assbot to user anduck: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 5 via 5 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=assbot&dest=anduck | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=anduck | Rated since: Tue May 8 11:28:43 2012
14:33 mircea_popescu o.O did you find a bug ?
14:36 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/X8aNSdsY
14:36 assbot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is deeds.bitcoin-a - Pastebin.com
14:36 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:36 nubbins` it verifies
14:36 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=X8aNSdsY
14:36 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:36 nubbins` and the fingerprint matches anduck's
14:36 mircea_popescu nubbins` yup, and it verifies to his correct key.
14:36 mircea_popescu yeah.
14:36 mircea_popescu Anduck we thank you for your test, ye cursed by the gods :)
14:37 nubbins` yeah, interesting.
14:37 punkman yeah good signature indeed, hmm
14:37 mircea_popescu and if anyone wonders wtf, i tried to see what happens if i add a newline at the end.
14:37 mircea_popescu but no dice.
14:38 nubbins` .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=krnmUkra
14:38 punkbot nubbins`: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
14:38 * nubbins` shrugs
14:39 nubbins` something to do with your key or your relationship to someone
14:39 nubbins` punkbot checks trust to assbot?
14:39 mircea_popescu by spec it should.
14:39 mircea_popescu but it objects that the MESSAGE is invalid.
14:40 nubbins` ehh that's just what the error says
14:40 Anduck well
14:40 Anduck my educated guess: newlines problem
14:41 mircea_popescu nubbins`: i won't know when the pan is hot enough! << look at the oil.
14:41 mircea_popescu eventually you will be able to tell, just by looking
14:41 mircea_popescu (your eye does see ir. you just don't mentally see it, but you do see it.
14:41 nubbins` yeah i wait for first wisps of smoke now, but viscosity is a good judge
14:41 mircea_popescu that entire "can't distinguish hot glass from plain glass is bunk. you can, just need to look at it)
14:41 nubbins` as well
14:42 nubbins` Anduck i'm not so sure
14:42 nubbins` i copy/pasted your deed text to my machine, signed it, and it worked
14:42 mircea_popescu wow that's interesting huh
14:43 nubbins` now tbf copypasta has its own newline quirks i'm sure
14:43 nubbins` but i think punkman covered all bases w.r.t. newlines
14:44 nubbins` Anduck try signing a single line of text
14:44 punkman only explanation is the bot doesn't have your key
14:44 nubbins` how does the bot get keys
14:44 punkman fetches from sks
14:44 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XKAbVPzW
14:44 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:44 mircea_popescu o.O
14:44 mircea_popescu no. the signature block fucks up something
14:45 mircea_popescu maybe something as idiotic as "one line starts with slash" or w/e.
14:45 nubbins` oh, i just took his original text, not the block
14:45 nubbins` huh
14:45 nubbins` ineresting
14:45 nubbins` +t
14:46 nubbins` Anduck i guess try signing any other message and submitting it
14:46 punkman mircea_popescu: I think problem with that is that it stops at nested END PGP SIGNATURE, instead of the outer one
14:46 nubbins` hmm
14:46 punkman but I remember testing that case
14:46 nubbins` sounds like a regex fix
14:46 punkman guess I didn't
14:47 nubbins` END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n$ or smth
14:47 * nubbins` always has to look that stuff up
14:47 mircea_popescu nubbins` no lol, cuz no \n in spec :D
14:47 mircea_popescu punkman it stops at the commented out one ?
14:48 mircea_popescu ye - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ?
14:48 punkman yeah, I know how to fix that
14:48 mircea_popescu kk
14:48 punkman but why the hell is Anduck's key missing
14:48 punkman should have been there when I bootstrapped pubring
14:48 nubbins` .deed http://pastebin.com/29Ed1j5b
14:48 assbot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESS - Pastebin.com
14:48 punkbot nubbins`: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:48 mircea_popescu jurov: when cooking with olive oil, i can say by smell it's right temp << also butter yeah.
14:48 nubbins` oops
14:48 nubbins` .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=29Ed1j5b
14:48 punkbot nubbins`: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:49 nubbins` ok yep nesting breaks
14:49 nubbins` still doesnt explain anduck's weirdness
14:49 Anduck ._.
14:49 joecool prob threw finncrypt at it
14:50 joecool breaks everything
14:50 nubbins` Anduck try another deed, would be nice to see if that was a problem with your key or your deed
14:50 Anduck ok
14:50 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1i7QYM8g
14:50 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:50 mircea_popescu HA!
14:51 Anduck .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=sgyrnSKb
14:51 punkbot Anduck: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:51 Anduck deed ?!??
14:51 Anduck do i need to have this same text somewhere else
14:52 nubbins` .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tuWJ5TrH
14:52 punkbot nubbins`: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:52 nubbins` haha it's the forward slash at the start of a new line.
14:52 mircea_popescu aha!
14:52 mircea_popescu my intuition!111
14:53 Anduck heh
14:53 Anduck confirm it.
14:53 mircea_popescu now we throw eggs at punkman :D
14:53 nubbins` heh
14:53 nubbins` Anduck you could probably just add a whitespace char to your original text, sign it, it'll work
14:54 mircea_popescu nubbins` clearsign doesn't produce the same signature on the same text btw.
14:54 Anduck let's see
14:54 nubbins` o no?
14:54 nubbins` well til
14:54 mircea_popescu think about it.
14:54 mircea_popescu if it did, your messages would be brittle.
14:55 nubbins` i'm still only functionally literate wrt pgp
14:56 mircea_popescu jurov: when RT invites amir taaaki as bitcoin expert, it's clear what they are up to, but when they pull some "dutch expert" it's suddent sacrosanct truth <<< lol he got you there asciilifeform
14:56 Anduck .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JZQ0PkwU
14:56 punkbot Anduck: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:56 mircea_popescu bwhahaha
14:57 Anduck i guess
14:57 Anduck hmm..
14:57 nubbins` .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=vGkqhFr0
14:57 punkbot nubbins`: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:57 nubbins` o.O
14:57 Anduck .deed anduck.net/ducktest.txt
14:57 punkbot Anduck: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:57 nubbins` looks like it's expecting a very limited charset for that first char
14:58 mircea_popescu apparently.
14:58 punkbot Confirmed bundle 13u9WbT7 with 1 deed | http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/bundle/13u9WbT7N8WeBAH2kKrvkrPESenDMBpLMU
14:58 nubbins` .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=sPzaFq8s
14:58 punkman I think I may have borked permissions of gpg dir just now
14:58 punkbot nubbins`: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
14:59 nubbins` WHAT.
14:59 nubbins` |0|
15:01 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski: can anyone remember the title of that trilema article where mircea_popescu discloses how much he sold that 5% chunk of mpex for? << http://trilema.com/2013/smpoe-takes-strategic-investor/ ?
15:01 assbot S.MPOE takes strategic investor pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
15:01 mircea_popescu !up supay
15:03 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski: modesty the likes of which would shock a johnny come lately reader << But within that basic framework there are many subtle variations, only discernable to an acute observer, that reflect the many moods, the many shades, the many sides of MP!
15:03 mircea_popescu (this is morning mist)
15:06 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski:"where's the $1.5mn funding for nanotube's WoT" << perhaps you don';t understand what "a protocol for decentralized and password-less authentication" means.
15:07 mircea_popescu nubbins`: (CIS = http://imgur.com/5uggnbK ) <<< lawl.
15:07 assbot imgur: the simple image sharer
15:09 punkman .deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JZQ0PkwU
15:09 assbot Pastebin.com Unknown Paste ID
15:09 punkbot punkman: Error fetching URL: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=JZQ0PkwU (HTTP Error 404: Not Found)
15:09 punkman .deed http://anduck.net/ducktest.txt
15:09 punkbot punkman: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
15:10 mircea_popescu | 34 | Gavin Andresen | 0 | << not in forum trust list ; | 33 | OgNasty | 1 | << in forum default trust list.
15:10 punkman yeah your key was missing for some reason
15:10 mircea_popescu so much lulz.
15:11 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=X8aNSdsY
15:11 punkbot mircea_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
15:11 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XKAbVPzW
15:11 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
15:11 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=X8aNSdsY
15:11 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: dupe)
15:11 mircea_popescu so... wait.
15:12 mircea_popescu ah nm.
15:12 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1i7QYM8g
15:12 punkbot mircea_popescu: Queued 1 valid deed for next bundle.
15:12 mircea_popescu punkbot deed http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XKAbVPzW
15:12 punkbot mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
15:13 mircea_popescu so basically only http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XKAbVPzW is still weird.
15:13 punkman will put that on todo list
15:14 mircea_popescu - Expenses: 1505 (1257 Slickage, the rest mostly mods) << according to theymos, tardstalk has spent half a million dollars to one million this year.
15:16 punkman on another message he says he's spent $350k on Slickage
15:16 punkman https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=451893.0;all
15:16 assbot LEAKED - Latest status on forum software
15:16 mircea_popescu what's slickage ?
15:17 punkman some web developers
15:17 mircea_popescu someone paid 350k to "web developers" ?
15:17 mircea_popescu lmao
15:17 mircea_popescu ;;rated theymos
15:17 gribble You have not yet rated user theymos
15:18 punkman ;;rate thermos -5
15:18 gribble Error: User doesn't exist in the Rating or GPG databases. User must be GPG-registered to receive ratings.
15:18 mircea_popescu ;;rate theymos -10 defrauded the tardstalk community by throwing ~half a million dollars worth of BTC at some obscure service provider for kickbacks. a lenghty history of fraudulent behaviour, http://trilema.com/2012/scammer-tag-nefario-theymos-others-known-and-unknown/
15:18 assbot Scammer tag : Nefario, theymos, others known and unknown pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
15:18 gribble Rating entry successful. Your rating of -10 for user theymos has been recorded.
15:20 punkman well don't know if that quote is real
15:21 punkman but either way
15:21 mircea_popescu he does mention the name in his "report"
15:21 mircea_popescu http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slickage-studios << this thing. it never had 10k incoming in its lifetime.
15:21 assbot Slickage Studios | CrunchBase
15:21 punkman "let's make our own forum software, compete with SMF"
15:21 punkman in node.js no less
15:22 mircea_popescu unlike the SEC, MP actually is tough on fraud.
15:22 * mircea_popescu waves @maryjo
15:23 jurov in node? hahahahaha
15:23 mircea_popescu jurov you don't understand how the nodes work!
15:23 punkman https://github.com/slickage/epochtalk
15:24 assbot slickage/epochtalk · GitHub
15:24 jurov i'm laughing because i do understand a bit
15:24 punkman seems no commits since June
15:24 mircea_popescu 2 contributors << lol.
15:24 * jurov looks forward to Math.random pwnage
15:24 mircea_popescu so basically the 1-10 man dev studio is exactly one guy.
15:25 punkman and more derpage https://github.com/slickage/adness https://github.com/slickage/baron
15:25 assbot slickage/adness · GitHub
15:25 assbot slickage/baron · GitHub
15:28 punkman oh my bad they are still developing https://github.com/epochtalk/core
15:28 assbot epochtalk/core · GitHub
15:29 mircea_popescu adding core to something makes it better
15:29 mircea_popescu like, punk was dead, but then punkcore!
15:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: what was his project (mentioned in the comment) ? <<< you perhaps recall i said at conference i want two things made, an advertising service and a jobs board. we had some initial discussions about it, we ran into a bunch of conceptual difficulties about how exactly to handle the job descriptions/contractual enforcement, which turned out a much more complex task than originally imagined, last was "we
15:32 mircea_popescu we'll have to think about this some more" and it's the last i heard from him on the topic. or in general, really. that was back in may.
15:34 mircea_popescu anyway, the job board still needs to be made because this system where i drop something in chat and someone either happens to be here or happens to see it in logs is perhaps not optimal.
15:34 mircea_popescu on the other hand, it does provide proper incentive for noobs to read the thing, much to their benefit even if "they don't want to, because they know better", so whatevs.
15:36 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: is there, somewhere, a smoky bar where they down hard drinks and tell anyone who'll listen how 'it was all a sham11!1!' ? << not afaik, tho i'd like to have a hard drink myself. tho i imagine that'd ruin it huh.
15:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: this may also explain the disappearance of moiety and a few other folks. <<< it's not a bad theory in any sense. got any policy proposals based on it ?
15:39 punkman a bunch of conceptual difficulties about how exactly to handle the job descriptions/contractual enforcement << interesting in hearing some of those
15:39 punkman *interested
15:39 mircea_popescu punkman you familiar with the problems surrounding bitbet bets resolution ?
15:39 mircea_popescu they [used to] spill out into here with some regularity.
15:39 punkman well some of them at least
15:40 mircea_popescu right. what do words "mean" ? and especially, what do contracts OBVIOUSLY mean.
15:40 mircea_popescu this is not a trivial problem in any sense : http://trilema.com/2013/our-emperor-deliver-us/
15:40 assbot Our Emperor, deliver us. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
15:40 mircea_popescu "In support of their argument that the Agreement preserves liability only for malicious breaches, defendants argue that the word “willful” would be unnecessary unless it meant “malicious.” There is no reason to limit liability to breaches that are intentional, they claim, because any breach of this Agreement would be intentional—”heavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not breach merger agreements out
15:40 mircea_popescu of inadvertence, negligence, or mistake.” As a factual matter, this claim is questionable. It could just as well be said that heavily counseled parties to mega-mergers do not sign merger agreements containing glaringly ambiguous terms that lead to avoidable litigation—but here we are."
15:42 mircea_popescu !up gabriel_laddel
15:42 gabriel_laddel does anyone with experience with either gentoo or funtoo care to share their impression(s) of the projects? I'm interested in which group of devs is more intelligent, sane, etc.
15:42 Anduck punkman: what was the error?
15:42 mircea_popescu gentoo is well established, and currently my recommendation for noobs looking at linux.
15:42 punkman Anduck: didn't have your key for some reason
15:43 mircea_popescu Anduck therewas also an unrelated issue discovered, regarding first character on a line, so tyvm.
15:43 punkman no slash character theory was silly
15:44 punkman but problem with nested sigs
15:44 mircea_popescu punkman no, because it failed on the test bundle above.
15:44 mircea_popescu http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#924229
15:44 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 20:12:52; punkbot: mircea_popescu: No valid deeds found, try again. Errors: (msg1: invalid)
15:44 mircea_popescu meh wait, wrong one.
15:46 mircea_popescu ah yes right you are, nm.
15:50 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or needing money. <<< this is nonsense anyway. money is always needed, this is a scaling problem. average rat living in a hole in the middle east linking his pretenses to humanity to his possesion of an old cellphone someone lost may think ben_vulpes' l
15:50 mircea_popescu ife is the end of want, having a wife and a house in the amerca!!!
15:50 mircea_popescu however, ben himself wants a tower of hydrocarbons.
15:50 mircea_popescu and if he gets it, he'll want something else.
15:51 mircea_popescu there's no such thing as "not needing money" except for coma patients.
15:52 mircea_popescu wanting is the sign of intellectual health, just like erections are the sign of reproductive health. if you're lying down with teh nekkid gals and get no pang to trash them around it doesn't mean you reached nirvana, it just means you're not long for this world.
15:52 punkman http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/list-keys.txt plenty of 1024 keys
15:53 jurov didn't we solve a yesterday's conundrum about nature of life?
15:53 jurov ie.e life can be defined as anything that needs money
15:53 jurov or maybe intelligent life...
15:54 mircea_popescu kik
15:54 mircea_popescu punkman put 1024 keys together with the irc nicks so i can send them a later tell ?
15:55 Anduck are 1024s yet bad?
15:56 mircea_popescu best move on, yeah.
15:56 Anduck well yup
15:59 punkbot Confirmed bundle 1EWUaXVR with 3 deeds | http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/bundle/1EWUaXVRx4Mm94Q9m6J3BRN3TEjRcnmmuw
16:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: wage labour is wage labour, whether for usd, btc, or gold dubloons <<< this is an iffy proposition.
16:03 mircea_popescu "wage labour" on fain, on a voluntary basis (internet work, add links, vote on links, comments -> collect points -> take out btc) had average monthly payments well over 1 btc. AVERAGE.
16:04 mircea_popescu plenty of people took out 100 btc in one month. back then this was you know, a few hundred bucks, "wage".
16:04 mircea_popescu they probably sold it, of course, but if they did not, they have a lot more liquid btc than say goat.
16:04 mircea_popescu or any of the other talented folk that got in early, got out early.
16:05 mircea_popescu so wage for btc is not unlike wage for stock warrants, ie, typical start-up work.
16:06 mircea_popescu in any case : i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. let them put a decade in, build themselve financially to the position where they can participate in a start-up, and intellectually to the position where they actually aren't quite AS fucktarded as the average 20something.
16:06 mircea_popescu because no, i don't credit for a minute this theory whereby the 20yo male is the be-all end-all hope-and-pride of humanity.
16:07 mircea_popescu bitcoin isn't college sports.
16:10 mircea_popescu TheNewDeal: did not feel the need to argue the point that no on in their right mind wants to stock shelves at the Canadian superstore at 2am <<< why should they get a choice ?
16:10 mircea_popescu obviously if that's the only job they can get they AREN'T in their right mind. so why should their unright mind get an option as to what it wants to do ?
16:11 mircea_popescu not everyone's brain works, even if everyone's brain THINKS it does.
16:15 mircea_popescu nubbins`: getting tired of the bellicose rhetoric << "why can't we all just get along" ?
16:15 mircea_popescu fuck me, i dun wanna get along with idiots.
16:15 mircea_popescu it's not a matter of why or wherefore. i just do not wish to.
16:17 mircea_popescu i suppose the one true source of trolling is exactly that. ironically enough, pankake was orignally selling himself as a troll for hire iirc.
16:24 mircea_popescu ;;later tell peterl http://bablogs.btcscoop.com/ << seems empty ?
16:24 assbot #bitcoin-assets blog posts
16:24 gribble The operation succeeded.
16:25 Anduck mircea_popescu: remember, the people who you call 'idiots' may be living a happier life than you
16:25 Anduck so, are they idiots after all in that sense
16:25 mircea_popescu yes.
16:26 mircea_popescu im sure most of the cattle that i'm going to eat in my lifetime has also lived a pretty happy life,
16:26 mircea_popescu according ot its own standards.
16:26 mircea_popescu the notion that cattle gets to enact standards of happiness is beyond ridoinculous.
16:29 Anduck sure but its funny that many really are happy
16:29 Anduck they also know it
16:29 mircea_popescu so good for em.
16:30 mircea_popescu krugman prolly "really is an economist", at least if you ask him.
16:31 Anduck xD
16:31 Anduck oh, what do ya think of him
16:31 Anduck well, his bitcoin speech
16:32 mircea_popescu Anduck you mean http://trilema.com/2014/this-is-how-much-i-rule-today/ ?
16:32 assbot This is how much I rule (today) pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
16:32 Anduck i guess i cant read that one
16:32 Anduck paywall i see =(
16:34 mircea_popescu funny lol. guy from the public went up to bernadotte, after wagram, "o, what did you think of the archduke's order of battle!"
16:35 mircea_popescu i think it sucked, lol.
16:35 Anduck hmm
16:36 Anduck mircea_popescu: you know the new monero/bitcoin rpg stuff by rpietila?
16:36 mircea_popescu vaguely.
16:36 Anduck thoughts? will you attend
16:37 mircea_popescu i will not attend.
16:37 Anduck ok. as it's question hour: thoughts about bitcoin short term (1-2 years) valuation?
16:38 Anduck it's good to see how long bitcoiners see these last years of development
16:38 * mircea_popescu shrugs.
16:38 mircea_popescu you really need to go read the logs.
16:39 Anduck there's too much of logs.
16:39 Anduck seriously, even you wouldn't
16:40 mircea_popescu i actually do. i imagine you have nfi idea what wagram is, either, but this gives you no pause, because you're happy without, right ?
16:40 Anduck not relevant but yes i've zero idea of what a wagram is
16:41 mircea_popescu right. well, carry on but if possible quietly.
16:41 Anduck hehe
16:42 Anduck so you would value my speech here if i knew what a wagram is?
16:44 Anduck good. as expected
16:44 Anduck just remember: this is not how the world was built
16:45 mircea_popescu the world was not built by ignorant twerps. your ideas about "the world" are about as well formed as your ideas about "wagram". both are meaningless symbols to you. about one, you arbitrarily delude yourself you have something to say.
16:46 Anduck fine
16:46 Anduck i don't agree but im fine with it
16:46 mircea_popescu now stfu and go read the logs.
16:47 Anduck i guess i already stated i won't read the logs because there's too much and i've got better ways to find out what i want to find out =)
16:47 Anduck doesn't make me ignorant twerp, or does it?
16:47 mircea_popescu yeah, it does.
16:47 RagnarDanneskjol yes it does
16:47 Anduck please, give me a third "yes it does"
16:49 mircea_popescu kids, you know ? tries to engage its mother on its own terms (cries). mother doesn't go for it. kid... INSISTS!!! because totally, if you ignore everything and just repeat your thing... well.. that's happiness innit.
16:52 * undata wonders whether gribble or freenode itself is lagging today
16:53 mircea_popescu freenode's been having some issues.
16:53 undata ah
16:54 Anduck hopefully people here think clearly :)
16:57 mircea_popescu !up sdffsd
16:58 mircea_popescu punkbot status
16:58 punkbot mircea_popescu: No pending deeds | Last bundle 1 hour and 9 minutes ago
17:01 mircea_popescu so anyone know this Khalahan Henkh fellow ?
17:01 assbot http://arrakis.cs.washington.edu
17:01 sdffsd Mircea, I can't access mpex.co, what's going on?
17:01 assbot Arrakis | The Operating System is the Control Plane
17:02 mircea_popescu $proxies
17:02 empyex mircea_popescu: Proxies: mpex.biz mpex.co mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com mpex.ws Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
17:03 mircea_popescu sdffsd nothing ?
17:03 mircea_popescu anyway, if you have trouble with websites use the irc bots.
17:04 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2013/the-many-ways-available-for-talking-to-mpex/
17:04 assbot The many ways available for talking to MPEx pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
17:04 empyex mircea_popescu: MPEx-Status: mpex.biz (116 milliseconds), mpex.bz (131 milliseconds), mpex.ws (350 milliseconds), mpex.coinbr.com (1681 milliseconds), mpex.co (error)
17:04 empyex mircea_popescu: Health-Indicators: Homepage: √ MK Depth JSON: √ VWAP JSON: √
17:05 mircea_popescu awww
~ 47 minutes ~
17:53 mircea_popescu lol fucking idiot,
17:55 mircea_popescu ::later tell sdffsd nobody ever told you tor is not actually safe ? lol.
17:55 kakobrekla accidentally found another bitcoin web hosting http://bitcoinwebhosting.net
17:55 assbot Bitcoin Dedicated Servers, DDoS Protection, Anonymous VPS
17:55 mircea_popescu who;s running it ?
17:56 kakobrekla 1712 Pioneer Avenue Ste 1774
17:56 kakobrekla Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
17:57 kakobrekla ;;gettrust 1712 Pioneer Avenue Ste 1774
17:57 gribble (gettrust [<sourcenick>] <destnick>) -- Get trust paths for <destnick>, starting from <sourcenick>. If <sourcenick> is not supplied, your own nick is used as the source. See http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/OTC_Rating_System#Notes_about_gettrust
17:57 kakobrekla as i suspected
18:03 mircea_popescu https://blog.torproject.org/blog/thoughts-and-concerns-about-operation-onymous
18:03 assbot Thoughts and Concerns about Operation Onymous | The Tor Blog
18:03 mircea_popescu "Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of many Tor hidden services. We were as surprised as most of you."
18:04 mircea_popescu what the next line should be ? "we suck, and we're stepping down. sorry we couldn't do what we wanted to."
18:04 mircea_popescu what the next line actually is ? " Unfortunately, we have very little information about how this was accomplished, but we do have some thoughts which we want to share."
18:04 mircea_popescu something fundamentally broken with these people's heads.
18:06 mircea_popescu what do they instead claim ? "Bitcoin deanonymization"
18:07 mircea_popescu yeah, that's right. USG pseudo-secrecy agency used to fuck up idiots stupid enough to trust it now claims "it was bitcoin"
18:07 mircea_popescu im sure it was, heh.
18:08 punkman hah https://github.com/mapmeld/profanity65#profanity65
18:08 assbot mapmeld/profanity65 · GitHub
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18:08 mircea_popescu im sure it will be.
18:10 undata punkman: that's incredible
18:11 undata of note, "nsa-hugging"
18:11 undata yes
18:22 mircea_popescu sooo, buenos aires had this gay pride parade today.
18:22 mircea_popescu they closed off a major street downtown (rivadavia) and put a scene up and everything in front of the cogress building
18:22 mircea_popescu meanwhile, the parade consisted of like... i dunno, five people ? six ?
18:22 mircea_popescu i doubt total participation was 100 heads.
18:32 jurov interesting, last year they report over 100 thousand ppl
18:35 mircea_popescu i saw it with own eyes, about one guy every three minutes or something
18:35 mircea_popescu maybe it's early.
18:35 jurov aparently it was almost banned
18:36 mircea_popescu i dunno how banned it'd be if the city closed down a major street for it.
18:38 jurov looks like not really banned only asked a fee for the security
18:38 jurov and there is something about public indecent conduct
18:39 jurov En ese fallo se responsabilizo por delitos comunes exclusivamente a la Comunidad Homosexual Argentina (CHA) y se la condenó a pagar $450.000.- por un delito ocurrido en la vereda de la plaza donde se realizaba un acto.
18:41 mircea_popescu CHA lol. teh buttfuck foundation! it's a thing.
18:41 mircea_popescu anyway, they have very right-wing ideas about dispensing justice here.
18:53 mircea_popescu http://ctrlq.org/files/screenshots/6a630eefd44705f3ead4d3e81658fa9b.png <<< apparently they managed to lose some data
18:53 assbot Digital Inspiration
19:00 BingoBoingo Smell the onion http://pando.com/2014/11/14/tor-smear/
19:00 assbot How leading Tor developers and advocates tried to smear me after I reported their US Government ties | PandoDaily
19:01 mircea_popescu interesting. now that's qntrable.
19:09 BingoBoingo https://twitter.com/BBoingo/status/533772800516161536
19:09 assbot This onion, it smells! http://t.co/OWgxjuDF1F /hashtag/tor?src=hash /ioerror
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19:26 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2014/the-lulz-of-today-ddos-attacks-ransom-notes-tor-anonimity-and-other-faits-darmes-of-the-retarded-generation/
19:26 assbot The lulz of today : DDoS attacks, ransom notes, Tor anonimity and other faits d’armes of the retarded generation pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
19:26 mircea_popescu oddly related, BingoBoingo
19:37 mircea_popescu "You'll find the core developers are detached and very different to their users. As a developer of software myself I would find it disheartening if the bulk of my users were jerks like /r/bitcoin."
19:37 mircea_popescu look at that, lol.
19:37 mircea_popescu it's visible from something awful!
19:41 BingoBoingo Yeah. Honestly at this point I just don't see many "Bitcoin Developers" actually being very attached to Bitcoin. The "Gavin wants to quit, but doesn't want to say so" hypothesis.
19:43 mircea_popescu well, gavin wants to quit but he can't.
19:43 mircea_popescu the "satoshi costume" is just a start, he'll wear a dead deer if it comes to it.
19:45 BingoBoingo No shortage of those around here. Can't go for a drive of anylength without spotting venison on the roadside.
19:48 mircea_popescu there's some super-paleo people who eat roadkill
19:51 BingoBoingo Sure. I mean the fresh one's are probably safe, but possessing one without a tag for it... Probably safer to drive around with a trunk full of cocaine.
19:51 BingoBoingo In terms of the legal implications.
19:51 BingoBoingo "Conservation Police" here get to do warrantless searches.
19:52 mircea_popescu o rly ?
19:52 mircea_popescu prison 4 lyf for eating roadkill ?
19:52 BingoBoingo yeah. Conservation police find the cocaine... fruit of the poisonous tree, though probably still having problems.
19:53 BingoBoingo Not for life, but problems. The require for deer the same tag per deer required for hunting them.
19:53 mircea_popescu and why does anyone care what they "require" ?
19:55 BingoBoingo Only so many roads with enought traffic for reliable roadkill. The 5-0 has to take the roads too. The time it takes to drag the deer into a safe tarp and wad it up so the car's interior doesn't look like the scene of a homicide...
19:56 mircea_popescu no dude, not like that. for all the "knife subctulture" or we it is, people spending more money and time with knives than they're worth...
19:56 mircea_popescu just keep camping gear in the back, skin and cook the thing on the spot.
19:56 mircea_popescu call friends to bring beer
19:56 mircea_popescu get out before evening
19:57 BingoBoingo Aha.
19:57 cazalla http://qntra.net/2014/11/coinbase-rumoured-to-raise-50-million-bezzlars-down-from-150-million-bezzlars/
19:57 assbot Coinbase Rumoured To Raise $50 Million Bezzlars, Down From $150 Million Bezzlars | Qntra.net
19:58 mircea_popescu awwww
19:58 BingoBoingo I'm considering this problem in terms of where the deer are is, is on the side of the "main regional thoroughfare" normally. Because undeveloped colony.
19:59 BingoBoingo Two lane road steady flow of cars. most hours
19:59 mircea_popescu incidentally, am i the only one that finds it just a little amusing that torproject.org actively promotes the use of pdfs to encapsulate information that otherwise should be in a textfile or simple post ?
19:59 BingoBoingo ie. on one end of the "highway" is the seat of county X, on the other end the seat of county Y
20:00 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: You'd probably be the only one in some other channel.
20:00 mircea_popescu i guess so.
20:00 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo so basically not practical to just pull off road or what ?
20:01 BingoBoingo You jsut don't have a great window ever to do it quietly under cover.
20:01 BingoBoingo Consider this stretch of road https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=U4aSnIyhBFNIJ3A8fCzUmaVIwyWq6RtIfB4QKiGq_w,LR8A3wsCX4O7WF8-Cb8aigY6iTF1FIBrcYw-yVrSAavWXtZ5NfG6OeE9qFNtVdMDhkNnFpmhOfI2PU3QsUWW8TFXwtA8KEdiXYSgqm9znAZCKo6cBIrHDLz430KxyNObA--GQCnxFjo-vjNVDgvuK_qdZQ,oiRvm6TLtMPKeIbqUE9FRzURnfIRIDWBlGt2jTM-5OK0ssLA8uXFkOjq-5VkzSBz6sarVJ1YPhc0bZhwS56IZ8L_31klCsxLt-sUUr-27DWv1-qczcsFi27rvooqO8cwvhenztfmuYMKZgzEXsdEB_ZtKlfUoFLgNZuvqX3J3t
20:01 assbot Error 400 (Bad Request)!!1
20:01 BingoBoingo T-cHnyGuZg5bcKBN5AKZQGikn4UXWSael2cfWuu8GPZMT8qTuiE--sgR0IMGZMZhEMZJLy_F7b1V52hgFCijS5ioQbrvA7j3MDZZadhYolJmG8nKy5o6FTGJTwogtdmRCZVw&h=200&w=555&scale=1
20:02 BingoBoingo http://dpaste.com/2DR6XPG << Fucking textbining a url
20:02 assbot dpaste: 2DR6XPG
20:02 mircea_popescu because google.
20:04 thestringpuller ;;seen cazalla
20:04 gribble cazalla was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 minutes and 48 seconds ago: <cazalla> http://qntra.net/2014/11/coinbase-rumoured-to-raise-50-million-bezzlars-down-from-150-million-bezzlars/
20:04 cazalla i'm here, what's up thestringpuller
20:05 thestringpuller sorry not at a pc. cant read logs.
20:09 BingoBoingo https://twitter.com/Salondotcom/status/533758402934345728 << More with the shirt from people who went from serious talk of prison rape to articles on how fat people get made fun of maor.
20:09 assbot Hey, misogynists: The shirts that scientists wear is just as important as sending spacecrafts to comets
20:09 BingoBoingo !up devthedev
20:11 mircea_popescu lmao
20:11 mircea_popescu is that like a parody ?
20:12 BingoBoingo I think it is actually whatever derp runs Salon's twitter Saturday nights
20:12 mircea_popescu i suppose im the only one bothered by the ebonics coming out of salondotcom ?
20:13 mircea_popescu or is the us so poor these days that a plurality of shirts is verbally inconceivable ?
20:15 BingoBoingo I think it's the hint of ebonics coming to dominate the USian pidgin
20:17 mircea_popescu just like they decided a decade ago to randomly use she instead of the canonical pronoun,
20:18 mircea_popescu now they're going to randomly put is instead of are and so forth ?
20:18 mircea_popescu dun wanna be too cultumancated, lest anyone can tell the orcs apart from the elves ?
20:19 BingoBoingo I don't see much other in the way of explanations unless the literate are embargoing them.
20:22 BingoBoingo lulz at the reddit writeup on Thermos https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2mei83/for_the_amount_of_money_that_theymos_is_paying/
20:23 assbot For the amount of money that Theymos is paying for new forum software, we could run a bitcoin commercial during the Super Bowl. : Bitcoin
20:24 mircea_popescu "Gavin Andresen's salary as the full time lead developer of the entire bitcoin protocol is $209k a year."
20:24 mircea_popescu lol
20:24 mircea_popescu if there ever was proof positive that crime doesn't pay, gavin's income is it.
20:25 mircea_popescu he could probably make more begging where he lives, and being a professional beggar would actually be much more respectable and honorable than being bitcoin's 5th column.
20:27 BingoBoingo At that income level Gavin's basically in the trap doctors find themsevles when they realize they hate draining abcesses, but their only other prospect is long haul trucking.
20:28 BingoBoingo Except doctors can count on the MRSA spider always targeting junkies, while Gavin is at the whims of Vessennes burn rate http://www.gomerblog.com/2014/11/mrsa-2/
20:28 assbot Devious MRSA Spider Bites Yet Another Antecubital Fossa; Remains at Large | GomerBlog
20:29 PeterL mircea_popescu: fixed the blog site
20:42 mircea_popescu a cool
20:42 mircea_popescu PeterL so what about scoopbot uptime ? what keeps taking it down ?
20:43 PeterL well, it was not set up to reconnect if it lost the connection
20:43 PeterL I have been working on adding threading to monitor the connection
20:43 PeterL but I have never done anything quite like this, so I am learning as I go
20:44 mircea_popescu but do you know how it dies ? anything in the logs ?
20:44 PeterL I am still not sure why it is dying
20:45 mircea_popescu are you running it on a linux box ?
20:45 PeterL yes
20:46 mircea_popescu until myserver; do echo "Server 'myserver' crashed with exit code $?. Respawning.." >&2 sleep 1 done ?
20:46 mircea_popescu then look in stderr see what codes pop up
20:46 mircea_popescu you can just grep for "crashed with exit code" or w/e
20:47 assbot [HAVELOCK] [AMHASH1] 1298 @ 0.001195 = 1.5511 BTC [-] {3}
20:49 mircea_popescu speaking of which : another thing systemv does badly : it tries to restart stuff based on pidfiles.
20:50 undata what are the irc bots around these parts based upon?
20:50 mircea_popescu generally supybot
20:51 undata shameless friend plug: https://github.com/kyleterry/tenyks
20:51 assbot kyleterry/tenyks · GitHub
20:51 undata that thing's pretty good, used in another channel
20:52 mircea_popescu what is it, go ?
20:52 mircea_popescu there was also a ruby one but i dont recall right off what.
20:52 undata mircea_popescu: yeah, the core is written in go, then services in whathaveyou
20:55 RagnarDanneskjol that tenyks is very nicely done
20:56 undata RagnarDanneskjol: I'm sure he'll enjoy hearing that.
21:00 decimation if gavin is a pauper than I'm in the poor house
21:00 BingoBoingo decimation: No, they feed, clothe, and work you at the poor house. Also curfews and such.
21:00 decimation I wonder how many commits he has to make per week to keep his salary
21:01 decimation can he take a few months off like ascii dreams?
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21:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it's not a bad theory in any sense. got any policy proposals based on it ? << beyond 'open a physical empire where we can all defect to and die like men in the janissary corps' - no useful idea.
21:25 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not from my puny brain.
21:27 decimation https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2014/11/14/russian-state-television-shares-fake-images-of-mh17-being-attacked/?PageSpeed=noscript
21:27 assbot bellingcat - Russian State Television Shares Fake Images of MH17 Being Attacked
21:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: however, ben himself wants a tower of hydrocarbons. and if he gets it, he'll want something else. << actually, afaik what he was speaking for is my escape rocket metaphor.
21:27 undata asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_for_Employment_and_Economic_Development_%28Honduras%29 ??
21:28 assbot Zone for Employment and Economic Development (Honduras) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
21:28 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the discussion was not about 'enough money', but about the distinct and clearly identifiable phase transition where your time becomes 100% your own
21:28 ben_vulpes https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wedged-blockchains/237902.tar.gz.00 , https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wedged-blockchains/237902.tar.gz.01 for those looking to wedge a blockchain of their own
21:28 asciilifeform e.g. 'taleb mode'
21:28 decimation asciilifeform: maybe you can get a job at the 'bitcoin foundation' for $209k
21:28 asciilifeform or, alternatively, in the other direction of spectrum, perelman mode.
21:29 asciilifeform decimation: or city dogcatcher, lol
21:29 decimation ah thanks ben
21:29 decimation asciilifeform: actually many cops make near $200k with overtime
21:29 asciilifeform decimation: but they have to work.
21:29 asciilifeform as in, physically go places and do things
21:29 decimation well, 'work'
21:29 decimation true
21:30 asciilifeform decimation: i don't think anyone here has trouble getting money by working.
21:30 decimation if you watch 'the wire' one would believe that a possible option would be to sit in your car on the highway and get drunk
21:30 asciilifeform if you watch the right televised strange, one could believe that one possible option for space flight is to light one's farts.
21:31 decimation heh
21:31 ben_vulpes decimation: i'm inching up on 252450, will post more as i gin them up
21:31 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: i suspect that there is nothing magic about that block
21:31 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: but simply happens to be when my box exhausted ram from leakage and began to fandango on the db.
21:31 decimation asciilifeform: yeah if it is a memory stop it is probably hardware specific
21:32 asciilifeform decimation: wasn't a memory stop as such
21:32 decimation ben_vulpes: what platform are you working on?
21:32 ben_vulpes debian 6
21:32 asciilifeform decimation: but at one point exhausted ram, but blockchain remained wedged upon restart
21:32 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> decimation: i don't think anyone here has trouble getting money by working. << I was not able to secure seasonal retail work again this year. I suspect I'm already on a list to "have problems"
21:33 asciilifeform BingoBoingo is trying to retain some dignity (has not yet fallen into programming, for example)
21:33 undata bah, sling php, get dollars
21:33 undata better than folding shirts
21:33 decimation I had a lawyer friend who used to be a prosecutor near asciilifeform. He was told not to frequent the local fast food joints because of the poulation of ex-convicts
21:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied
21:34 BingoBoingo I think I've mentioned here before that after grad school I worked at McDonalds for ~6 weeks to break local kids spirits.
21:34 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: i'd love to confirm that for you
21:35 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: how did you resist the army?
21:35 decimation right, and in a related point - if $209k per year makes one a pauper, how much is the real bitcoin foundation going to pay?
21:35 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Too neurologically interesting to enlist.
21:35 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied << I believe for the rest #b-a is Frankenstein's attic laboratory
21:35 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: when working as an r&d contractor grunt, i met plenty of folks in uniform happily 'flying the mahogany bomber'
21:36 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: they mostly had uni degrees though
21:36 decimation asciilifeform: me too. if cards are played right, most mil can write their own tickets in contract jobs
21:36 decimation also military benefits are incredibly generous considering the level of education of most enlisted
21:38 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: My brain caught fire a bit too early. When medical records came up post ASVAB offers of pick your field turned into, "trust us, we'll find a nice place for you"
21:38 asciilifeform arrakis os << yet another 'c' microkernel os. snore. snore...
21:38 asciilifeform when will the academics finally starve.
21:39 BingoBoingo In agriculture department academics never starve.
21:39 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: what was the offered place? ball turret gunner?
21:39 decimation lol
21:39 decimation I think the last of those were phased out in the 60's
21:40 * asciilifeform behind the times
21:41 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Post asvab pre-medical write up offers involved language school or medical/technical fields, after when "trust us" I began suspecting "cooks assistant" and latrine crew
21:42 asciilifeform language school or medical/technical fields << what were you hoping to become instead ?
21:42 decimation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-52_Stratofortress << ' removal of the tail gun in 1991' wow later than I thought
21:42 assbot Boeing B-52 Stratofortress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
21:43 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: I probably would have signed for those. But... shift in tenor came when time to draft actual contract.
21:44 decimation BingoBoingo: did they make you take the mmpi?
21:44 decimation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Multiphasic_Personality_Inventory
21:44 assbot Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
21:46 BingoBoingo decimation: I don't remember that one specifically, but... pretty sure bring a folder of medical records is a part of what did in my chances for interesting stuff. Amazing what a trip to the wrong part of the hospital can do for your prospects
21:46 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
21:48 undata BingoBoingo: do the wrong drugs as a kid?
21:48 asciilifeform can he take a few months off like ascii dreams << when did i ever say 'few months'
21:48 asciilifeform 'few months' is about as useful as 'few thousand usd'
21:48 asciilifeform which is to say, not really at all.
21:48 undata BingoBoingo: not an insult; I've heard horror stories of kids tripping, getting hauled into the psych ward
21:49 BingoBoingo undata: Nah. Some people's brains don't self regulate well. Maybe it's genetic, maybe it was West Nile.
21:49 undata ah, that'll do it too
21:50 BingoBoingo I got my school bezzel so probably actually netted more value in the end.
21:51 undata when I was younger a doctor put me on an antipsychotic for a bit due to "depression"
21:51 undata a second doctor bothered with blood work and I was merely low on a few vitamins
21:51 undata american medicine is a scam
21:52 decimation asciilifeform: you would like to be more like maxwell?
21:52 BingoBoingo I'm not a big fan of antipsychotics, make me feel like Micheal J Fox. Anticonvulsants though, particularly lamotrigine... do my brain well
21:52 asciilifeform decimation: the example i usually offer is n. taleb
21:52 asciilifeform decimation: because he is familiar to the folks here
21:53 undata BingoBoingo: yeah, if things like diet and exercise don't help, there are always actual neurological issues to consider
21:53 decimation yeah. actually the first one that came to my mind was Don Colacho
21:53 undata hard to trust diagnoses with a pfizer clock on the wall
21:54 BingoBoingo undata: Well, I tend towards generics. Recently though ETOH has been the anticonvulsant of choice.
21:54 decimation http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2011/03/2921.html
21:54 assbot Don Colacho’s Aphorisms: #2,921
21:56 BingoBoingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome << most interesting event I've had with regularity. Not interested in Clomipramine at all though because I like getting boners.
21:56 assbot Exploding head syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
21:57 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: gentoo << complicated. the lead dev surrendered to microshit (literally) some years ago, and it's been run by a skeleton crew ever since, with numerous high-profile catastrophes (of the 'your machine is suddenly rendered unusable by a perfectly innocent-looking action' variety) -- but there is -no- adequate replacement to this day.
21:57 undata asciilifeform: hm, hasn't been my experience
21:57 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: to some extend it exactly mirrors the bitcoind situation - in that every serious user more or less has his own private fork.
21:57 undata anecdotally speaking
21:58 asciilifeform undata probably updates his box
21:58 undata ah, that I agree with, but that's part of the beauty
21:58 undata maybe not for everyone for the same reason
21:58 decimation asciilifeform: I thought mr. robbins quit and started his own gentoo fork?
21:58 decimation http://www.funtoo.org/Welcome
21:58 assbot Funtoo
21:59 BingoBoingo Ah, funtoo, the bring your own kernel adventure
21:59 * asciilifeform never tried 'funtoo', cannot speak for it
21:59 decimation http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ << "Part of the distinctiveness of Funtoo Linux is its dependency-based OpenRC init system, so changing this would make it something other than Funtoo Linux. So we do not support systemd as part of Funtoo Linux. "
21:59 assbot Funtoo Linux FAQ - Funtoo
22:00 undata I can attest to gentoo granting you the right to blow your hand off at every step
22:00 undata but also to a well-tuned gentoo install feeling a lot like a well-tuned emacs
22:00 asciilifeform undata: i still haven't forgiven the xorg thing
22:00 undata "ah, this is precisely what I wanted"
22:00 asciilifeform well yes.
22:00 asciilifeform this is why folks use it.
22:00 decimation asciilifeform: you mean the move from x11 to xorg?
22:00 asciilifeform but the cost, for people who did not spend the last decade with it, is high.
22:01 decimation running gentoo certainly gives you a motvation to scale down the lines of code in your system
22:01 decimation I remember running with KDE 10 years ago and dreading the 24 hour compiles
22:01 asciilifeform lol kde
22:01 decimation kde used to not be a steaming turdpile
22:02 * asciilifeform regards all mousy wm as turd
22:02 * BingoBoingo remeber running it of FreeBSD at work in 2004
22:02 undata with a relatively modern machine the compile time isn't so bad
22:02 decimation but instead of being the 'adult' alternative to gnome, kde surrendered to idiocy
22:02 ben_vulpes gentoo quest
22:02 undata and you get to make decisions like turning on stack protector and whatnot
22:02 BingoBoingo decimation: Well, the KDE problem is they went from desktop environment to software development club in the bad way
22:03 decimation yeah. I remember using slackware 3 on my old 486, and barely getting X to run - and also wondering what its point would be
22:03 asciilifeform incidentally, try this today.
22:03 asciilifeform you'll get nowhere.
22:04 decimation asciilifeform: you mean making aggressive compiler optimizations?
22:04 asciilifeform i know of no setup where it is possible to set up even a very decent 486 in such a way that it can be used for serious work today.
22:04 asciilifeform tried it personally, and put in a good effort, a year or so ago
22:04 decimation yeah. I was able to get plenty to run back in in the mid 90's
22:04 asciilifeform the main culprit is the www crud
22:04 asciilifeform as recently as 2004, you could.
22:05 BingoBoingo !up devthedev
22:05 asciilifeform a recent openbsd (what i eventually settled on for that machine) consumes virtually the whole 64m.
22:05 decimation asciilifeform: did you have 'compuserve' back in the day?
22:05 asciilifeform nope
22:05 asciilifeform not 'aol' either
22:05 asciilifeform never even saw them alive.
22:05 undata decimation: ah I had that
22:05 asciilifeform bbs-en - yes
22:05 undata I vaguely remember gopher sites as a young kid
22:05 decimation compuserve was kind of a giant bbs
22:06 asciilifeform yes, but for money.
22:06 asciilifeform and with lamers
22:06 * BingoBoingo remember AOL for the copious coaster they mailed
22:06 decimation yeah there were free forums as I recal
22:06 devthedev I wasn't even alive during the days of CompuServe
22:06 asciilifeform i liked the aol floppy disks.
22:06 asciilifeform although they were shoddy
22:06 decimation BingoBoingo: I had a friend who would call aol every day for a new 'demo floppy'
22:06 decimation he accumulated a pile
22:06 decimation later they switched to cds
22:06 asciilifeform i still have 'doom' on a stack of aol floppies somewhere.
22:06 BingoBoingo Oh, we never got their attention until the CD era
22:07 decimation back in my youth I actually ran a tcp/ip node on an 8086
22:07 BingoBoingo Though CD's make for poor coasters in practice
22:07 decimation it was connected to a radio modem and managed to pass tcp to other ham radio operators
22:08 decimation ran this >> http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/
22:08 asciilifeform my point earlier was that code bloat is ubiquitous and pestilential and finally made the old hardware unusable with software of even moderately distant (starting '05 or so) vintage.
22:08 BingoBoingo They distribute moisture too evenly over the surface so that it manages to still contact the tabletop
22:09 decimation I bet you could still run 'lynx' on a 486
22:09 asciilifeform 'lynx' - yes.
22:09 asciilifeform and that's more or less it.
22:10 decimation the question is - what have we 'bought' for all this bloatware?
22:10 * asciilifeform regular user of 'lynx', perhaps one of ten left...
22:10 BingoBoingo This is reminiscent of how Mac OS 9 is less viable on the Internet than OS 7.5.1
22:10 decimation I recall using netscape 1.0 and the user experience was pretty much the same as firefox 30
22:10 asciilifeform aha.
22:10 decimation asciilifeform: I use elinks occasionally
22:10 asciilifeform in most ways - better. because less retardation in the payloads.
22:11 decimation right, no javascript, just html and pictures
22:11 BingoBoingo The problem with Mac OS 8 and later is that it tempts with the fatally broken.
22:11 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: i know of no serious difference between 7.5 and 8
22:11 decimation BingoBoingo: my experience with macs pre OSX were all macos 8 and 9 - and they both sucked ass
22:11 decimation at least with the shitware I was running, they would regularly crash
22:11 decimation and take down the whole machine
22:11 asciilifeform aha, 'cooperative multitasking'
22:12 decimation heh yeah exactly
22:12 asciilifeform (9 was to have memory protection, but the brass over-ruled it)
22:12 decimation one wonders what would have happened if apple actually went down the lisp machine route
22:12 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: While 8 could be forced onto Pre-RISC macs, the result is, and I emphasize IS, never pretty.
22:12 BingoBoingo "Apple" never had a chance at that.
22:13 * asciilifeform is not particularly in love with the 68k
22:13 decimation I remember having to program a 68k variant microcontroller in school, wasn't too bad
22:13 BingoBoingo It was on the Ti-89 I had and the computer I acquired in the same window of time. My affinity is probably mostly through familiarity
22:13 decimation 68hc12 as I recall
22:15 asciilifeform profanity65 << pure genius.
22:16 decimation lol
22:19 * BingoBoingo suspects there are more similarities between http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=400548341 and Bitcoin than many might suspect.
22:19 assbot Missouri Tigers vs. Texas A&M Aggies - Box Score - November 15, 2014 - ESPN
22:20 asciilifeform unfortunately BingoBoingo may be the only man alive who can see this similarity
22:20 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: I consider it the privledge of being neurologically deviant
22:21 BingoBoingo The cost of waking up occasionally with a bout of exploding head is an acceptable cost.
22:21 decimation BingoBoingo: is that 'painful'?
22:23 BingoBoingo decimation: Not "painful" as in pain pain. More like having a strong electrical current between your temple and ear while your legs cramp in a way that might need ice in the morning. More discomfort than pain proper.
22:23 decimation that sounds unpleasant, for sure
22:25 BingoBoingo Eh, you get used to it. After about the 5th time when you get rather sure you aren't dying it's not hard to just go back the fuck to sleep by waiting it out.
22:25 asciilifeform if $209k per year makes one a pauper << consider applying my ad hoc formula: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-10-2014#869923
22:25 assbot Logged on 13-10-2014 01:35:27; asciilifeform: rephrase, if you like, as 'unit of discretionary income per unit of lost free time.'
22:26 asciilifeform ^ this, afaik, covers all edge cases
22:26 asciilifeform for example, gavin, a paid shill, has no free time (he is not his own man)
22:27 asciilifeform a mental patient, likewise
22:27 asciilifeform implied divisions by zero - intentional.
22:29 BingoBoingo <asciilifeform> unfortunately BingoBoingo may be the only man alive who can see this similarity << So the most superficial similarity is the media narrative. A&M is perenial legit title contender while MIZ accidentallied the SEC east championship last year and accidentally is in the lead to win it again this year.
22:29 decimation asciilifeform: do you think gavin works 40 hours per week on the git repo?
22:29 asciilifeform ^ may as well be in chinese
22:29 asciilifeform (BingoBoingo)
22:29 asciilifeform decimation: that was not the point
22:29 asciilifeform decimation: but that he is not actually free to, for example, do a 'decent' bitcoind
22:30 asciilifeform handler - would not approve.
22:30 asciilifeform his pay is in fact contingent not only on 'playing ball' but continued usefulness to handler
22:30 asciilifeform which is not guaranteed
22:30 decimation well, the bigger point - do we really think his 'foundation' is going to last that long anyway?
22:31 decimation so while he might be able to skate for a few years, later he's a pauper in retirement living on government cheese
22:31 asciilifeform if it were to implode, the shills will be placed into similar roles elsewhere
22:31 asciilifeform assuming they have not fallen into official disfavour by then.
22:31 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: So there's a media narrative when team A is having a horrible year that supposed they were good enough to win if only the competition wasn't so strong. But the narrative for Team B is that they are so miserable and wouldn't be winning if only their competition wasn't so weak. And then teams A and B finally meet and in the game B actually maintains a position of superiority.
22:32 decimation at any rate, I get you point, but you realize that the number of folks who are 'free' by your definition are probably less than a few thousand in the us
22:32 asciilifeform decimation: possibly even fewer.
22:32 asciilifeform although how could i possibly know.
22:33 BingoBoingo And in the course of writing that Mizzou leads Texas Ass&Mouth 34-20 now because they scored another touchdown.
22:33 decimation certainly the inflationary currency, the confiscatory taxation, and the expense of home and bread combine to make this lifestyle nearly impossible in the us
22:35 asciilifeform decimation: however, there is perhaps a million people in usa who, if they were to suffer some form of 'brain parasite', could easily jump the border and live this way on the capital they could smuggle out.
22:36 decimation yeah that's probably true
22:36 asciilifeform the capital controls being slowly worked in, are mainly to guard against this.
22:36 decimation a portion of them are doing exactly that every year
22:41 BingoBoingo https://twitter.com/JoseCanseco/status/533406823152226305
22:41 assbot My finger should have been amputated from the beginning. It was very loose with no bone to connect it.it was also smelling really bad.
22:43 BingoBoingo And twitter censored the picture of the actual necrotic finger
22:43 asciilifeform did i miss something? how did we get to gangrene ?
22:43 * asciilifeform reads log
22:44 asciilifeform or was this something to do with the sportsmen
22:44 ben_vulpes non sequitur by my read
22:44 asciilifeform ah
22:45 decimation asciilifeform: I found some amusing info: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2014/11/15/doug-williams-indicted-for-teaching-how-to-pass-a-polygraph-test/
22:45 assbot Doug Williams Indicted for Teaching How to Pass a Polygraph Test | AntiPolygraph.org News
22:45 asciilifeform aha that was in here earlier i think
22:45 asciilifeform and indictment was on 'cryptome' last night.
22:45 asciilifeform peculiarly corrupted fax scan, too
22:45 asciilifeform much snow.
22:45 decimation apparently the detail there is that all of the 'evidence' was collected by undercover cops
22:46 asciilifeform as different from virtually everywhere else?
22:46 decimation so basically they are going to try to convict this guy for training people pretending to be people who take usg's pseudoscience seriously
22:47 decimation This lead me to this guy http://www.c-span.org/video/?200264-1/book-discussion-true-believer
22:47 assbot Book Discussion True Believer | Video | C-SPAN.org
22:47 asciilifeform he's being zapped for 'lèse-majesté'.
22:47 asciilifeform big fat surprise.
22:47 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: He was the sportsman in the 1990's shot his finger off a few weeks ago. Reattached. "Modern Medicine" has problems.
22:48 decimation "ONE THING YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THROUGHOUT THIS WHOLE THING I MENTIONED AT LEAST TWICE, THAT ANA PASSED OUR POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION 1994 THAT DID NOT DETER ME OR FBI FROM PURSUING THIS. WE KNEW SHE PASSED THAT EXAM, SO WHAT?"
22:49 decimation "WHEN I WAS ACTIVELY DISCOURAGING HER FROM TAKING ANOTHER EXAMPLE QUOTE FRANKLY I WAS AFRAID THAT SHE WOULD PASS IT AGAIN. THAT WOULD NOT HELP ME OUT OF IT. "
22:49 asciilifeform they preferentially target the retarded for prosecution, big news.
22:49 decimation so an actual usg spycatcher actually caught found that the polygraph actually hindered his investigation
22:51 decimation asciilifeform: it would be more honest if usg made its agents walk on coals and swear secret loyalty to the civil service - it would be much more honest and straighforward
22:52 asciilifeform decimation: aha but the 'scientific' flavour.
22:52 asciilifeform see also: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2014#772419
22:52 assbot Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform: the one common anthropological thread i see here is that most governments insist on some 'national' symbolic meaning in their chosen means of execution. e.g., the french guillotine across all five 'republics'
22:52 asciilifeform (different thread, similar concept)
22:54 decimation asciilifeform: there was another interesting story on that site: https://antipolygraph.org/blog/2014/10/15/federal-polygraph-school-gave-countermeasure-information-to-polygraph-company/
22:54 assbot Federal Polygraph School Gave Countermeasure Information to Polygraph Company | AntiPolygraph.org News
22:55 decimation apparently usg agents are zealously evangelizing their 'secret' polygraph faith around the world
22:55 asciilifeform incidentall,y
22:55 asciilifeform http://imgur.com/lpIrYSr
22:55 assbot 'Grass' Model 79 D - Imgur
22:55 asciilifeform ^ saw this alive in a university surplus shop last week.
22:55 asciilifeform apparently they are common as dirt
22:55 asciilifeform and nobody wants the crud - computerized eeg is pocket-sized
22:56 asciilifeform this is a standard usg 'lie detector.'
22:56 asciilifeform iirc it was going for fiddybucks or so.
22:56 asciilifeform complete with chart printer.
22:56 decimation lol that would be amusing as a party trick
22:57 asciilifeform someone who wants to make a spy drama film, will buy it.
22:57 asciilifeform for any other purpose, quite useless.
22:57 decimation asciilifeform: you could probably get grant money from usg if you were a scamademic
22:57 asciilifeform the physical workmanship of the knobs, etc. - was superb.
22:57 asciilifeform decimation: i was drummed out of scamademia many years ago.
22:58 decimation yeah that's all 'mil-spec' hardware, with the 'round' connectors
22:58 asciilifeform superbly machined aluminum, brass knobs.
22:58 asciilifeform very satisfying 'click', too
22:58 asciilifeform i suspect the theatrical aspects demanded this.
22:59 decimation you should have bought it for the rotary switches
22:59 asciilifeform vita brevis.
22:59 decimation yeah only someone attending to 'serious business' would have a setup like that
22:59 decimation imagine the mind of the 'interviewee': surely usg wouldn't spend bezzlars on those fine knobs if this wasn't serious business
23:00 asciilifeform this is perhaps the 3rd time i see one of these for sale, too
23:00 asciilifeform (in person, not even counting 'ebay')
23:00 asciilifeform there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of them around here.
23:00 decimation do you have a favorite 'junk dealer' in the dc area?
23:00 asciilifeform a number of them.
23:01 decimation I know that there are many scavengers who survive on reselling usg surplus
23:01 asciilifeform yes.
23:02 decimation related: " The revolutionary does not discover the “authentic spirit of the revolution” except before the revolutionary tribunal that condemns him." http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/08/1665.html
23:02 assbot Don Colacho’s Aphorisms: #1,665
23:02 asciilifeform if you come across one, know that usg mandates disk sanitation pre-surplus, but no such law is enforced on contractors...
23:02 decimation asciilifeform: I think it depends if there was anything 'secret' on the drive - in that case it probably must be destroyed
23:03 asciilifeform statutorily - yes
23:03 decimation but for that reason most contractors are reluctant to 'donate' their hardware in such a way
23:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform action like what ?
23:03 asciilifeform like installing updated video board driver
23:03 asciilifeform (if re: gentoo)
23:04 mircea_popescu but i mean... rendered unusalbe as in you can't get a terminal on your monitor
23:04 asciilifeform as in, can't get x
23:04 mircea_popescu not as in, well the hdd's wiped and the bios randomly rewired
23:04 mircea_popescu right
23:04 mircea_popescu that's endemic with x.
23:04 asciilifeform it's pestilentially endemic with any tall dependency stack.
23:04 asciilifeform knock out brick from bottom - all falls.
23:05 decimation the pile of chairs gets mighty fragile
23:05 undata set proper VIDEO_CARDS, emerge -avuDN @world, config kernel, reboot
23:05 mircea_popescu anyway, i suppose the "so ssh then" only works for people who youi knw, actually own multiple computers
23:05 mircea_popescu ie, 1% of the 8bn
23:05 asciilifeform that was decade ago
23:06 decimation or 'use serial port'
23:06 asciilifeform now, anyone with access to a skip owns arbitrarily many
23:06 mircea_popescu lol
23:06 asciilifeform but if you think keeping one gentoo box around is work, try five.
23:06 mircea_popescu anyway, what i said was, to noobs looking at linux
23:06 undata I don't do any more work administrating mine than debian.
23:06 mircea_popescu i guess ubuntu 10.04 could be the alternative.
23:07 asciilifeform at any rate, no box i ever owned was rendered entirely unbootable by a braindamaged gentoo
23:07 asciilifeform one can always get a text tty
23:07 mircea_popescu problem is, yoyu get them on ubuntu, next you know they think it's windows and update
23:07 mircea_popescu next you know they ARE on windows.
23:07 asciilifeform although destroying sole means of network connectivity and ending up snaking a ppp link across room, is good times
23:07 decimation purists avoid 'vga' console for serial term
23:08 asciilifeform vga for serial, wat
23:08 asciilifeform probably meant 'text mode' tty ?
23:08 asciilifeform as in, the one normal people see on boot
23:08 decimation no I mean no video card, serial tty only
23:08 asciilifeform aha
23:08 decimation some bioses support this
23:08 asciilifeform well, you only need bios support to access the bios menu this way
23:09 decimation true.
23:09 asciilifeform otherwise any reasonably-civilized os will do
23:09 decimation the vga console code on linux still sucks after all these years
23:09 asciilifeform i and probably everyone else here has owned plenty of boxes with no video output hardware at all.
23:09 decimation many folks trying to get low latency ditch it
23:09 undata asciilifeform: I'm surprised you don't like gentoo, given you tend to advocate actually knowing what your computer's doing, and why
23:09 asciilifeform i use gentoo exclusively.
23:09 undata asciilifeform: ah! then you have every right to hate it.
23:10 asciilifeform or, almost exclusively (got a few bsd boxen around)
23:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: as in, physically go places and do things << dunkin donuts ?
23:10 decimation I might try 'funtoo' if he is serious about no systemd
23:10 mircea_popescu im bashing that exchange lol
23:10 mircea_popescu "o, then you have every right to hate it" lmao
23:11 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: even if the work of a policeman consisted solely in going to a doughnut shop and eating a kg of garbage every day, so long as he -must- -- that is still work.
23:11 asciilifeform as in, arbeit macht frei.
23:11 mircea_popescu yes yes, i know whatcha mean.
23:12 asciilifeform i was unaware that gentoo was on 'hate radar' for folks who aren't using it
23:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: decimation: but at one point exhausted ram, but blockchain remained wedged upon restart <<< speaking of this, there's an option to close with detached bdb
23:12 mircea_popescu this is useful if you keep stopping every x blocks, backuping bdb files
23:13 asciilifeform ben_vulpes ^
23:13 decimation mircea_popescu: you mean running bdb as a separate process?
23:13 mircea_popescu no no, bitcoin itself can close in such a way so as to not leave its own state crud crudely saved
23:13 mircea_popescu this would seem to sane minds the only way to close, but then it "took too long", so...
23:14 decimation ah I see
23:14 decimation which would help differentiate between 'wedged bitcoind state' and 'wedged bdb state'
23:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied << well, i know you self-motivate by refusing to see some degrees, but there are some degrees.
23:15 asciilifeform let's have the cold equations
23:15 asciilifeform which degrees ?
23:15 cazalla this fkn conference i'm streaming.. "cold storage is out dated, it's about multisig now".. where do you see bitcoin in 20 years time? "something like email where you can instantly send value over the internet"
23:15 * asciilifeform genuinely curious
23:16 mircea_popescu consider the case of the various chicks that came to show their tits for .1 btc
23:16 asciilifeform cazalla wallowing with the eagles, lol
23:16 mircea_popescu they didn't stick around. why this ?
23:16 mircea_popescu one explanation, that persuades me, it's because they dun have the time to. because they gotta work.
23:16 asciilifeform on account of having exhausted the fountain ?
23:16 asciilifeform if they could get the .1 again and again - perhaps would
23:16 mircea_popescu the fountain's still going.
23:17 mircea_popescu well, the .1 ain't, in my mind, the actual larger half.
23:17 asciilifeform iirc you only paid per set of tits ?
23:17 mircea_popescu sure.
23:17 asciilifeform and each gurl shipped with 1 set.
23:17 mircea_popescu but consider other example : http://trilema.com/2013/internet-story/
23:17 assbot Internet story pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
23:17 mircea_popescu 2nd quote most relevant.
23:18 asciilifeform aha
23:19 mircea_popescu put it another way : if i didn't think the .1 is the smaller half, i wouldn't be giving it out in the first place.
23:19 asciilifeform if here 1 -> 2 continued to 2 -> 4 -> 8 -> ... ... maxint - then yes, interesting
23:19 asciilifeform if a successful las vegas roll - less so.
23:19 mircea_popescu so, degrees. for most chicks, the cheese dispensed by the cheese dispenser is all there is.
23:19 mircea_popescu for some chicks, the fact that how the shot does a cheese dispenser work ?! is a more pressing question.
23:19 undata this is such a strangely wonderful place
23:20 mircea_popescu so there are degrees. yes, everyone in the bezzle is in the bezzle.
23:20 mircea_popescu some guys work three jobs to try and get the kid in school where he can work in a sv startup. this is a degree of improvement.
23:20 mircea_popescu then maybe one day the kid gets to the point where he even has the freedom to consider wtf he's doing. further degree.
23:20 mircea_popescu plenty of degrees.
23:20 * undata fist bumps with ben_vulpes
23:21 asciilifeform plenty of degrees. but, i can't help but notice phase transitions in the space.
23:21 mircea_popescu to restate : if you rent's due and you're short you should not be here chatting, you should be putting out that fire.
23:21 * asciilifeform unaware of this being a thing for any of the people still here
23:21 mircea_popescu well it's all i meant, rly.
23:22 mircea_popescu im sure the various "give us 1 btc or else !!1" kids were in exactly this position.
23:22 mircea_popescu ;;seen sdffsd
23:22 gribble sdffsd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 hours, 19 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <sdffsd> Mircea, I can't access mpex.co, what's going on?
23:22 mircea_popescu no further than today.
23:22 asciilifeform i still can't fathom 1 being the magic number in there
23:22 decimation like our little extortionist friend
23:22 asciilifeform why not extort, say, 10? 100?
23:22 mircea_popescu you don't understand how hope works.
23:23 mircea_popescu and since you mentioned moiety, from what i understood that was exactly her position.
23:23 asciilifeform starvation?
23:23 mircea_popescu well she had to figure out rent
23:24 mircea_popescu i tried to onlinehire her but for some reason she lacked the drive or w/e.
23:24 mircea_popescu maybe internets just noit her thing
23:24 asciilifeform for some reason i thought it actually happened
23:24 asciilifeform but didn't suffice
23:24 * asciilifeform wasn't there
23:25 * asciilifeform vaguely recalls an apparatus involving telephony, where moiety was paid per minute, but few folks called
23:25 mircea_popescu part of the problem is, the internet (and esp my stuff) is very self-directed
23:25 mircea_popescu many people are used to micromanagement, under relentless pressure from a pointless class that wants to justify its existence
23:25 mircea_popescu asciilifeform that's unrelated.
23:26 asciilifeform ah hm ok. i don't think the other thing was public
23:26 mircea_popescu even today i have plenty of handcrankled tasks for the aspiring slavegirl. never a shortage of that. what's of shortage is teh ppl to disciplinedly work, erry day, hour after hour.
23:26 decimation After seeing work exploit and demolish the world, laziness seems like the mother of the virtues. (#2,053)<< http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/10/2053.html
23:26 assbot Don Colacho’s Aphorisms: #2,053
23:27 mircea_popescu decimation sure, great. no complaints may then be entertained about needing stuff tho.
23:27 mircea_popescu laziness is a virtue of the well provisioned.
23:27 asciilifeform micromanagement << most folks around here used to it, but i always imagined they would profit from its removal
23:27 decimation heh good retort
23:27 asciilifeform sparrow in the park may be used to children throwing stones at it
23:27 asciilifeform doesn't mean it needs the stones for anythig
23:27 asciilifeform n
23:27 undata decimation: having been convinced that the walls of my country are going to fall in, I've got all the motivation I need
23:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform tell you what : teenager is used to seeing girls in his class dressed, imagines he'd ben efit from the removal of the clothes.
23:28 undata I think plenty more subconsciously know the same, and are hiding in distractions
23:28 mircea_popescu should that actually happen, teenager would run and hide in a corner.
23:28 decimation asciilifeform: for myself, I find working with an engage colleague to be much more motivating than a boss yelling
23:29 mircea_popescu decimation the tora study model eh ?
23:29 mircea_popescu im kinda curious what comes of the ben_vulpes - mod6 pairing in this vein.
23:29 asciilifeform folks who have not boiled in the cauldron cannot fathom the kind of hells that exist. i once worked in a salt mine where scores of people dredged 'reddit', illicitly, all day.
23:30 asciilifeform many years ago.
23:30 asciilifeform (when it was almost readable)
23:30 mircea_popescu sooo! degrees!
23:30 undata asciilifeform: hey man, I shoveled actual cow shit as a summer gig long ago
23:30 undata it's good for you
23:31 asciilifeform undata: a fellow i work with spent his childhood (india) in cow shit detail. fuel for the local cremation pyre.
23:31 asciilifeform had some interesting stories.
23:31 decimation yeah, in the old west where trees were lacking, cow shit was firewood
23:31 undata amazing how you lose sense of the smell
23:31 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
23:31 mircea_popescu doesn't that make him whatever that caste is ?
23:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: oddly enough - brahmin, entirely unsullied by this
23:32 mircea_popescu o.O
23:32 asciilifeform somehow there was an exception for children doing chores
23:32 decimation I think you are thinking of dalit
23:32 asciilifeform so long as human turds not involved - ok.
23:32 cazalla any takers for http://www.findbitcoinjobs.com/jobs/20347-risk-investigator-at-coinbase ? can double as a mole for qntra
23:32 assbot Risk Investigator at Coinbase | Bitcoin Jobs
23:32 asciilifeform human turds -> dalit
23:32 * asciilifeform not expert on the mechanics whereby cow shit does not count as shit
23:32 undata cows being holy or somesuch?
23:33 asciilifeform well yes.
23:33 undata I can firmly attest they are not
23:33 mircea_popescu maybe it's because it tastes good.
23:33 mircea_popescu indians are nuts.
23:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in parts of near east, folks mix it into chewing tobacco.
23:33 asciilifeform don't ask me why.
23:33 mircea_popescu nuts.
23:33 mircea_popescu cazalla im sure one'd have to sign whatever.
23:34 undata asciilifeform: humans will imitate goddamn anything
23:34 asciilifeform don't advertise for a 'stierlitz' in a public channel...
23:34 cazalla mircea_popescu, this job actually coincides with the fraud i reported on weeks ago to which they never responded, i'm writing it up
23:34 asciilifeform (folks will bite but not the ones you want)
23:35 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: teenager would run and hide in a corner << puzzling over this. why would this happen ?
23:35 mircea_popescu why. because nothing is as scary as cunt, that's why. try it sometime.
23:36 * asciilifeform often wonders if mircea_popescu is logged in from mars. or if asciilifeform is, himself.
23:36 mircea_popescu why do you think you take the bitch to the dog, not vice-versa ? males are shy.
23:39 cazalla you take the doe to the buck too!
23:39 cazalla sometimes to doe mounts the buck
23:39 mircea_popescu ^
23:39 cazalla the even
23:39 asciilifeform cazalla breeds radiation-damaged deer in butugychag ?
23:40 undata that even sounds like a soviet labor camp
23:40 asciilifeform it was.
23:40 cazalla asciilifeform, i wish, just rabbits but i'm sure you know this
23:40 asciilifeform but also a region.
23:40 asciilifeform aha rabbits.
23:40 asciilifeform damaged by what?
23:40 asciilifeform or is this normal for the species
23:40 decimation Frustration is the distinctive psychological characteristic of democratic society. Where all may legitimately aspire to the summit, the entire pyramid is an accumulation of frustrated individuals. http://don-colacho.blogspot.com/2010/05/1110.html
23:40 assbot Don Colacho’s Aphorisms: #1,110
23:41 mircea_popescu its normal for all mammal species yo.
23:41 undata asciilifeform: mining uranium without gear, no less. brutal.
23:41 cazalla asciilifeform, you DO know i raise rabbits right? *here comes cazalla and his rabbits talk again*
23:42 asciilifeform aha yes i recall.
23:42 asciilifeform good picture of heads
23:42 asciilifeform (what do you usually do with those?)
23:42 cazalla compost it all
23:42 * decimation is dreaming of building a colacho-bot which attempts to provide the appropriate aphorism for the conversational mood
23:42 cazalla i wanted to make snow camo but who has the time
23:43 asciilifeform i think ilkka kokkarinen had a colachobot
23:45 decimation lol he has a book http://www.amazon.com/The-Wingnut-Musings-Ilkka-Kokkarinen/dp/1468166816
23:45 assbot The Wingnut Musings: Ilkka Kokkarinen: 9781468166811: Amazon.com: Books
23:45 asciilifeform that book is all that's left of him.
23:45 decimation it sounds pretty good
23:45 asciilifeform i own it
23:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: i know of no setup where it is possible to set up even a very decent 486 in such a way that it can be used for serious work today. <<< sarge ?
23:46 asciilifeform he is/was a finnish emigre, working as a comp sci prof in canada. was hounded off the net by 'outraged mass' for moldbuggery.
23:46 asciilifeform not once, but twice.
23:46 asciilifeform first time, made to recant, threatened.
23:46 asciilifeform then came back. then, disappeared again, taking all of his materials with him, this time - for good, apparently.
23:46 decimation he should come on here
23:47 decimation foesti has a review http://foseti.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/review-of-the-wingnut-musings-by-ilkka-kokkarinen/
23:47 assbot Review of “The Wingnut Musings” by Ilkka Kokkarinen | Foseti
23:47 asciilifeform ilkka.kokkarinen at gmail
23:48 mircea_popescu hanbot mail the man would you.
23:48 asciilifeform tried to contact him 2 yrs. ago, he said 'shoo'
23:48 asciilifeform or the like
23:48 asciilifeform i have the dead tree book, it's a 'best of' his blog
23:48 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: and that's more or less it. << notice that bitbet, mpex, trilema, qntra, logs etc all work on lynx.
23:48 asciilifeform foseti and a few other guys have warez scans
23:48 asciilifeform ask'em.
23:49 asciilifeform he was a die-hard poker player and loved applying the metaphors to, well, relevant things.
23:49 asciilifeform also a very decent mathematics handler.
23:50 asciilifeform blog was called 'fourth checkraise'
23:50 mircea_popescu decimation: asciilifeform: do you think gavin works 40 hours per week on the git repo? << do you suppose captive whore in thai illegal brothel works 40 hours per week ?
23:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: sarge << i don't consider non-source-based distro as suitable for serious work
23:50 mircea_popescu what fucking difference does it make how many nominal hours teh slave works.
23:51 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: that was sorta my point in reply
23:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sarge source was released no /
23:51 asciilifeform source released != source-based distro
23:51 asciilifeform msdos source also 'released'
23:51 asciilifeform and win2k.
23:51 asciilifeform 'source based distro,' classically, is when nothing (other than bootstrap compiler & kernel, thomson says hello) gets on the box without being built there.
23:52 asciilifeform normally this is at least minimally mechanized.
23:52 asciilifeform because vita brevis.
23:53 asciilifeform ilkka's book << notice he pulled the 'kindle' version also.
23:53 mircea_popescu im pretty sure you could, and still can, do this with deb 3.1
23:53 asciilifeform and the printed one was a 'print on demand', there was no actual reason to zap it
23:53 asciilifeform except that he was frog-marched.
23:53 asciilifeform this is what means 'not free man'
23:53 asciilifeform he skipped red finland to end up in... this.
23:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform: if it were to implode, the shills will be placed into similar roles elsewhere <<< pretty miuch this.
23:54 mircea_popescu which is why career anlysis is such a powerful tool,
23:54 asciilifeform and attribution of works.
23:54 mircea_popescu and which is why as BingoBoingo pointed out earlier, when touched there they react. (the tor people in that case)
23:54 mircea_popescu it's the one place it hurts.
23:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yup, but until being "invented" here that really never existed.
23:55 asciilifeform and we watched herr dingledine give private performance for nsa.
23:55 asciilifeform a year ago.
23:55 asciilifeform ferglubssake we didn't invent pgp.
23:55 asciilifeform but in practice - this.
23:55 mircea_popescu "attribution", not pgp
23:55 asciilifeform !s three-man system
23:55 assbot 1 results for 'three-man system' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=three-man+system
23:55 asciilifeform invented by, afaik, herr korolev.
23:56 asciilifeform attribution.
23:56 mircea_popescu the idea that what you do wil come back to haunt you is very much mpoe[-pr], as far as the bitcoin, and generally the "entrepreneurial" spaces are concerned.
23:56 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2014#922643
23:56 assbot Logged on 15-11-2014 00:27:45; asciilifeform: there was a three-man system
23:56 mircea_popescu swanson's "that's not how normal debates work" is just an echo of that.
23:56 asciilifeform one day we produce a koraktor, wrapped in sc4mz0r pelt cover, 'the art and science of hunting shitgnome'
23:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform well that's why the quotes. obviously it's an ancient idea, and no invention whatsoever.
23:57 asciilifeform or 'malleus scamificorum' alternatively.
23:57 mircea_popescu but this doesn't change the fact that nobody did it, nor does it change the fact that i'm principally hated for that reason, my agents have been principally hated for that reason
23:57 mircea_popescu and this chan is called a cult, or anything else bad!111 for that reason.
23:57 asciilifeform devils - hate crucifix, yes
23:57 asciilifeform how could they not.
23:57 asciilifeform what does true hate even mean, if not this.
23:57 mircea_popescu cause nothing is so fucking evil as you know, someone digging up on trilema, coming up with meni rosenfeld's name, now the scumwipe can't go around pretending like you know
23:58 mircea_popescu "hje's been in bitcoin". "o, but doing what ?" "nevermind that!!!"
23:58 asciilifeform surprising he'd use the name again.
23:58 asciilifeform no one cancelled, even, 'google.'
23:58 mircea_popescu most of them didn't realise this attribution doohickey even exists.
23:58 mircea_popescu which is why, "invention". apparently it is.
23:59 mircea_popescu to this day, and shockingly, i write about church ? ppl are "oh, you're jealous"
23:59 mircea_popescu it doesn't even manage to pierce the dielectric between their ears that no, im jus saving it for later.
23:59 asciilifeform l0l!!
23:59 mircea_popescu somehow this is not a possible concept.
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