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00:47 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
00:47 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 766.36, vol: 4806.11493697 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 758.387, vol: 3488.09214 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 765.78, vol: 10231.54029497 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 774.02763, vol: 935485.94050000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 767.358, vol: 842.78398918 | Volume-weighted last average: 773.837638236
00:58 BingoBoingo !!up ser
00:58 deedbot ser voiced for 30 minutes.
00:58 ser :)
01:08 BingoBoingo 8=====D
01:13 ser i'm just a silent reader
01:15 BingoBoingo Who is your daddy and what does he do?
01:16 ser an architect. he is dying at the moment
01:17 ser because of tobacco addiction
01:17 BingoBoingo That's very sad.
01:18 BingoBoingo Hope he finds Peace.
01:18 ser i told him to quit dozens years ago
01:22 BingoBoingo Addiction is weird.
01:23 ser especially such stupid one
01:26 BingoBoingo It's easy to become powerless over nicotine, but very hard to see how it makes life unmanageable until the end.
01:28 ser it's like taking a 140y mortgage :)
01:30 BingoBoingo !!up ser
01:30 deedbot ser voiced for 30 minutes.
01:31 BingoBoingo Nah, for most people if you get a low interest rate 140 year mortgage is great. Very low payments.
01:31 ser but grandchildren are not being asked if they like it, as they are usually unborn
01:33 BingoBoingo Grandchildren get it even better because inflation. Movie tickets used to cost a nickle!
01:33 ser swedish parliament recently limited mortgages to 105 years maximum only
01:35 BingoBoingo That's only six years longer than "traditional" maximum lease!
01:43 ser Royal Bank of Scotland did not pass "stress tests" whaterver it means
01:43 ser what is your estimation - how much money is lacking?
01:44 ser XX billions, XXX billions, XXXX billions?
01:50 ben_vulpes there are only 21 million bitcoin, so if they're that short they may be in a bit of a tight spot
01:51 BingoBoingo brb, sleep
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02:53 deedbot http://www.contravex.com/2016/12/08/a-brief-discourse-on-sovereignty/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - A brief discourse on sovereignty.
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04:36 diana_coman mircea_popescu> diana_coman for some reason it decided i'm anonymous lol. <- fixed; weird though, as I can't seem to be able to reproduce whatever the issue was
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06:19 Framedragger random question: have there been considerations for introducing financial instruments to eulora at some point, for trade etc? just curious
06:19 Framedragger !#s futures eulora
06:19 a111 0 results for "futures eulora", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=futures%20eulora
06:19 Framedragger !#s derivatives eulora
06:19 a111 1 result for "derivatives eulora", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=derivatives%20eulora
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07:56 diana_coman Framedragger, you are probably better off searching the logs of the eulora channel
07:58 diana_coman I vaguely recall some discussion touching a bit on that
08:02 Framedragger diana_coman: ah, good idea, thanks :)
08:11 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/5AB617368C211177E70A6D35E959F5F5D02B25D9A6AE8A81E3291C4BE369B494 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 2192...4261 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '219.83.84.138 (ssh-rsa key from 219.83.84.138 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown ID BA)
08:11 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/0E29C622D65A4E5719E5E2D2F15B59462D2AC218BB9C28FF2CC1C1E43AA1B95B << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 2379...9311 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '46.19.16.165 (ssh-rsa key from 46.19.16.165 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (svn1.ez.no. NO)
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09:09 mircea_popescu diana_coman issue might have been my accidentally leaving field empty.
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09:39 mircea_popescu ser> what is your estimation - how much money is lacking? << more than exists, basically.
09:39 mircea_popescu ie, if the govt prints ten times what rbs has and gives it to them, it will improve nothing, just increase the "how much more they need" by a factor of tenish.
09:44 * mircea_popescu has the pleasure to introduce EDLionX , who's chinese, lives in brunei and looks altogether like a great kid (though he isn't a kid!)
09:44 EDLionX uhh
09:44 EDLionX heyy all
09:45 EDLionX I'm not a Kid
09:45 EDLionX that's all
09:45 * diana_coman is waiting for BingoBoingo to ask "who's your daddy?"
09:45 mircea_popescu EDLionX can you translate from chinese ?
09:46 EDLionX sure
09:47 EDLionX what ya need bossman
09:47 mircea_popescu a that's nice to know.
09:47 mircea_popescu not right now, but occasionally there's news items that get poorly translated to en by idiots
09:47 mircea_popescu actually BingoBoingo what was that thing vaguely mentioned on qntra recently ?
09:48 EDLionX alright
09:49 asciilifeform in other noose, https://threatpost.com/hackers-gamify-ddos-attacks-with-collaborative-platform/122290/
09:50 mircea_popescu doh.
09:50 mircea_popescu i thought they gamified with the "loic" thing a decade ago
09:51 mircea_popescu asciilifeform https://archive.is/rSEYe << whats with all the bs sites that don't work
09:51 Framedragger EDLionX: there's a bunch of boxes with factored ssh keys, would be great for someone to go through them and check what webserver crap they're running... http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-29#1574580 , http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-29#1574597 if interested, go ahead :p
09:51 a111 Logged on 2016-11-29 16:35 asciilifeform: http://67.18.208.92 << 'Partido Obrero Secretaria de Prensa'
09:51 a111 Logged on 2016-11-29 16:50 asciilifeform: anyway, i have neither the time (presently grunting out a much-delayed and urgent item) nor inclination to do the entire backlog (what, 800 of these?! by now) by hand.
09:52 Framedragger see ip addresses in this list, http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/phuctored
09:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: nfi, perhaps overzealous ip blok ban
09:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i've run into quite a few of these
09:52 mircea_popescu Framedragger he's an english/math teacher not a coder from what i gather.
09:52 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i suspect bad https.
09:53 Framedragger mircea_popescu: no coding really needed, mind you! at least not for this 'phase' of analysis. but ya sure
09:53 EDLionX oh hey yeah Frame, no offense, but you just completely assblasted me
09:56 Framedragger hmm, a rather visual answer, fair nuff :p well, glory awaits someone!
09:57 mircea_popescu Framedragger really, shouldn't just run the scan on port 80 ?
09:59 Framedragger the particular scanner used for extracting pubkeys is not meant for that kind of stuff, but.. the first phase thing ("check who's alive") can grab banners, yeah.. would require fiddling (connections would become stateful, right now first phase uses 'SYN cookies') but ya sure possible
09:59 Framedragger i guess i should rerun the scanner at some point at any rate
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10:15 mircea_popescu i suppose even something as simple as curl $item would work really huh.
10:18 Framedragger for some initial additional data, i think so yeah..
10:18 mircea_popescu no i mean, to see if live webserver.
10:19 mircea_popescu cat iplist.txt | while read ip; do curl -A "blabla" "http://$ip/" > results.txt; done
10:20 Framedragger (ah. suresure. well if one plans to do that on millions of machines or more, better to use simple tcp sockets hm. say that masscan for 1st phase uses its own tcp stack to not exhaust kernel handles accidentally, etc...)
10:20 mircea_popescu afaik the phuctor list is like 1k or so ips by now no ?
10:21 Framedragger yes, something like that.
10:22 Framedragger (1319)
10:23 shinohai Just waiting to be Framedragged: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cxk9H4eUcAE7xCv.jpg
10:23 mircea_popescu that ssd 3 hui gate is not bad either.
10:24 Framedragger HuiGate? so like, a pussy?
10:24 * Framedragger just made a shitty .ru joke and is very proud of it
10:26 mircea_popescu ikr ?
10:33 mircea_popescu diana_coman https://instagram.fsst1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/t51.2885-15/e35/15403578_1040577492731424_4285726398984749056_n.jpg << this look like anything to you ?
10:34 diana_coman bwahahhaa; when we were made pioneers we had this picture by the flag thing
10:34 diana_coman quite the same, esp the face of that guy
10:35 diana_coman "cultural production capacity"
10:38 mircea_popescu it is still alive!
10:38 mircea_popescu including the fucking machined rug. everything.
10:38 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the things to scan, that very often are found: 80 (http), 443 (ssl), and if either found, the page; if ssl -- the cert id strings (see l0gz for how) , and lastly, ftp (yes, believe or now) and telnet greetings.
10:39 diana_coman clearly, yes; tbh I had this uneasy feeling of totally back to the 80's when I went to Belarus some ...hm, 7 years ago already
10:39 diana_coman but I don't expect it really changed all that much either
10:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform a right, must not forget telnet.
10:40 asciilifeform but it only makes sense to do this to popped boxes, Framedragger's ssh scan requires just 1 SYN, but these other things - 10,001 times moar
10:40 mircea_popescu yes.
10:40 * mircea_popescu is too lazy to edit the bash above, but anyway
10:41 asciilifeform sshello=`timeout -k 0m 3s nc $ip 22`;
10:42 asciilifeform ^ line from bash script, gives sshd greeting from $ip if exists
10:42 asciilifeform curl -s http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/phuctored | grep "ssh-rsa key from" | cut -d' ' -f23 | sort | uniq
10:43 asciilifeform ^ gives list of ips in question
10:43 asciilifeform e.g., for ip in `curl -s http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/phuctored | grep "ssh-rsa key from" | cut -d' ' -f23 | sort | uniq`; do ...something with $ip..... done
10:44 asciilifeform more or less self-explanatory.
10:44 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/0E29C622D65A4E5719E5E2D2F15B59462D2AC218BB9C28FF2CC1C1E43AA1B95B << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1513...1869 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '46.19.16.165 (ssh-rsa key from 46.19.16.165 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (svn1.ez.no. NO)
10:53 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/5AB617368C211177E70A6D35E959F5F5D02B25D9A6AE8A81E3291C4BE369B494 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1361...9417 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '219.83.84.138 (ssh-rsa key from 219.83.84.138 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown ID BA)
11:03 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> actually BingoBoingo what was that thing vaguely mentioned on qntra recently ? << You'd have to be a bit more specific
11:08 Framedragger :D
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11:25 mircea_popescu there was some badly translated "proceeds of miner conference" sometime earlier this year
11:26 mircea_popescu sadly that's about the extent of my recollection ;/
11:27 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2015-03-03#1039158 << found it|!
11:27 a111 Logged on 2015-03-03 01:48 BingoBoingo: So... Anyone here know chinese? Good enought to translate a Hand complete police report?
11:34 BingoBoingo Oh my
11:48 mircea_popescu and in today's "very early trilema article remarkably on point", http://trilema.com/2011/ce-probleme-rezolva-ecologia/
11:53 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: re ^ and the part where the asian folk donated jewelry to motherland's central bank , quite reminiscent of the 'old woman who bought t-34 tank and named it after stalin and her five dead sons' recurring item in ww2
11:53 mircea_popescu aha.
11:53 asciilifeform i.e. i have nfi how many parts fact to how many parts propagandistic swill
11:54 mircea_popescu it seems credible to me qualitatively ; quantitatively i have nfi.
11:54 asciilifeform i can actually see the tank;
11:54 asciilifeform but, why the fuck would anyone donate family gold to prop up emperor's golden toilet
11:55 mircea_popescu because the emperor is ; in traditionalist societies existence is predicated on existence.
11:55 mircea_popescu why the fuck would cunt lubricate to ease penile intromission ?
11:56 asciilifeform in traditional society we also have 'emperor is far away, what care i'
11:57 mircea_popescu fuck i love this article. "Deci, ce probleme rezolva ecologia ? Niciunele. Ecologia se bucura insa de sprijinul institutional al statului ca justificare persuasiva si credibila a nevoii de-a reechilibra administrativ dezechilibre economice induse administrativ. Tot aceleasi probleme pe care le rezolva si psihologia," -> "So, what problems does ecology resolve ? No problems. Ecology simply enjoys institutional support of the [
11:57 mircea_popescu socialist] state as a persuasive and credible justification for the need to rebalance administratively imbalances induced administratively. same exact problems psychology resolves."
11:57 asciilifeform afaik standard feudal org chart works in steps (d00d answers to ~immediate~ commanding officer)
11:57 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not really. ru peasant aslo thought emperor is good ; and right here.
11:58 asciilifeform good part of 'царь-батюшка' is that he never asks you directly to do anything
11:58 mircea_popescu this "what care i" is very much a proposal to modulate behaviour ; whereas this active diatesis is not there contemplated.
11:58 asciilifeform can always blame immediate superior for your famine, fleas, conscription
11:58 mircea_popescu "the emperor is ; this gold is ; they go together."
11:58 phf not quite true, you had лжецаревич uprisings
11:59 asciilifeform tru
11:59 asciilifeform analogous to chain forks..
11:59 phf also kind of tru re famine, but typically boyars were blamed rather then tzar or barin
11:59 phf since both were beyond reprise
11:59 asciilifeform well yes, you blame the d00d who actually worked you to the bone
12:00 mircea_popescu phf you did ; nevertheless - in the case of those runaways who were discovered in the 60s after however many centuries of absence, what figured greatly was that a) the tsar is good and b) that woe on random anon merchant for refusing to donate a quarter ton of potatoes to the cause.
12:00 phf no, no, i'm saying the opposite. ~barin~ in this case is the dude who worked you to the bone
12:00 asciilifeform goodcop/badcop symbiosis, landlord/emperor
12:00 asciilifeform reverse, rather
12:01 mircea_popescu and the fake ivans etc are not exactly attacks on the tsar ; they're just a discussion of identity , not actually a modernisation proposal.
12:02 mircea_popescu similar to the whole "mandate ofheaven" chinese thing - IS he or ISN'T he the "one true emperor" ; whether his being anything in particular matters with regards to "his job" ie, what he has to do is not discussed. even the notion that emperorhood is a job is nonsensical in context.
12:03 asciilifeform eh, semantic games. rebel armies surround capital? ooops, must mean he lost mandate of heaven!
12:03 mircea_popescu (for distinction between emperorhood and emperorship see http://trilema.com/2011/oamenii-superficiali-si-bestia/ )
12:03 phf i think i'm being misunderstood. i'm saying that fake-tzars were cases of "emperor asking of you", because both tzar and barin (i.e. immediate supervisor) were seen as fundamental good. peasants consistently and historically allocated blame on various random hangerons. boyars, traders, foreigners, etc. in fact in fake-tzar cases the narrative was consistent "evil boyars have deposed our tzar-father and we won't stand for it"
12:03 asciilifeform 'mandate of heaven' is about as logically consistent as the proverbial witch-drowning tester
12:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform they're only semantic games to you ; for they to be games they need the optionality.
12:04 mircea_popescu phf this is very true yes.
12:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: when my time machine malfunctions and aztec priest eats my heart so that quetzalcoatl will shit the sun back out, it will still be semantic game.
12:04 mircea_popescu hence the "useful evil minister" strategy deployed in england and france as well as everywhere else - get the guy to do things then behead him.
12:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform so if i give you a lined mat and a pile of all black tiles you thereby "still have a game of go" ?
12:06 asciilifeform not as such. though mircea_popescu's asian rituals and 'no optionality' thread reminds me of the infamous 'castle tournaments' in jp, where go players would rehearse same game dozens of times in advance
12:07 asciilifeform ( royal folk dun like to wait for moves ! )
12:07 mircea_popescu it's actually not a bad constraint.
12:07 * mircea_popescu frequently requires better go players to play very fast and train for it in advance.
12:07 asciilifeform and, BingoBoingo , this is 1000+ yrs before pro wrestling!!111
12:08 mircea_popescu just because i can't keep up with the horse doesn't mean it won't get its exercise. we have mechanics!
12:08 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no, it wasn't even that they played 'blitz', but ~memorized game~
12:08 asciilifeform and simply tape-played it back.
12:08 mircea_popescu ah.
12:08 mircea_popescu no, my idea simply was "explore all the trees for my convenience".
12:08 asciilifeform ( precious few folks played blitz go, it makes for atrocious games )
12:10 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: serious aficionados today have proggies for browsing tree, e.g., 'kombilo'
12:10 asciilifeform ( https://www.u-go.net/kombilo )
12:11 mircea_popescu getting back to the modern/traditional thing : there's a very visible and practically relevant distinction in trade. when i hire a modernist, i hire him to do a job, and i expect him to do a job. but when i hire a traditionalist, i am essentially assigning office. and as it is LOGICAL in that context, he may agree to any "job" specification ie burdens on the title before he gets it, while all he IS is humble applicant ; but o
12:11 mircea_popescu nce he gets it, once he IS the job title, then of course he finds himself in a more elevated position, which should mean by his logic that he gets to renegotiate and eliminate some of the burdens.
12:11 mircea_popescu which is exactly why simple minded folks in third countries such as argentina etc display the strange behaviour where they don't wish to actually work, first discussed in the article about whores
12:12 asciilifeform eh it's an orc thing, 'работа стоит -- а срок идет!' (tm) (r)
12:12 mircea_popescu ( http://trilema.com/2010/romanul-si-comertul/#selection-75.56-75.175 )
12:12 asciilifeform ('work stands still, but the [prison] sentence still moving!')
12:13 asciilifeform modify, perhaps, for modern world, 'work stands still, but the paycheque still approaches')
12:13 mircea_popescu aha. HOWEVER - which is why i bring all this up - the reversal is fucking evident here too.
12:13 mircea_popescu see, when I hire diana_coman to do dev work for eulora, OF FUCKING COURSE she gets to redefine the job on the basis of the title. because before she got it she hadn't seen the code, and after she had, for instance. or for any other reason.
12:14 mircea_popescu in short, in the entirety of the observable universe, we are reverting to traditionalist systems, approaches and altogether a reality.
12:14 mircea_popescu most computing jobs are unspecifiable in the terms most industrial jobs of the brief modernist interlude were specifiable.
12:14 mircea_popescu whereas most computing jobs require identity in terms entirely impossible in the brief modernist interlude. what cares the cotton ginny whether you are white or black skinned ?
12:15 mircea_popescu and this is what all the unicode wastage is : they, the lost souls of a dead world, are trying to make computers more like cotton ginnies. more inclusive, more capable to work with a modernist perspective, where who dun matter and what is considered.
12:15 asciilifeform did the sword 'care' whether knight came from 10 or 40 generations of pure-blooded norman ?
12:15 asciilifeform or did the horse ?
12:15 mircea_popescu yes. both.
12:16 mircea_popescu fundamental myth of english feudalism is a sword that cared.
12:16 mircea_popescu fundamental myth of english modernism is "blind love", which, if you'll notice, is at the time of its introduction a very cheap trick very much in the manner of protestantism ; and also a mythical beast :
12:16 asciilifeform and fundamental myth of pygmistan is that magical horn (today replaced with drainpipe, they forgot how to carve wood) that talks to the dead
12:16 mircea_popescu the belgian woman from before. "blind" as in, no who just what. a modernist unicorn.
12:17 mircea_popescu asciilifeform pygmystan is not actually a culture ; stone age tribes don't get names.
12:17 mircea_popescu it's just "the stone age".
12:17 asciilifeform eh the bantu -- who enslaved them -- iirc had iron.
12:18 asciilifeform so just as iron-age as ol' rotten england
12:18 asciilifeform just stuck there.
12:18 mircea_popescu (the discussion of all this, for the curious, is probably best started with the trilema on the mind's compartments, http://trilema.com/2014/the-bicameral-world-in-one-room-the-city-dump-in-the-other-room-the-starred-restaurant-do-these-talk-to-each-other-read-on-to-find-out/ (
12:19 mircea_popescu asciilifeform iron age is ~norman conquest. industrial age is a different thing.
12:19 asciilifeform iron, turns out, is not such a handy 'iq test', plenty of folx passed the iron exam and failed everything else.
12:20 asciilifeform re 'cheap protestant tricks', and also in re 'argentinians who sit in chair and won't work', a good chunk of the weirdo mass-programming the protestants have been doing for 200+ yrs is precisely to 'make'em work'
12:20 asciilifeform there are not so many ways to make folks work.
12:21 asciilifeform you can prevent 'работа стоит -- а срок идет!' by imposing 'no work - no food' quotas, and this was often tried in gulag, but led to unexpected problems
12:22 mircea_popescu except there is no "work" in the abstract, as a byproduct of anti-idlehandsaredevilswork. not anymore.
12:22 asciilifeform (in 100 zeks, you get a few well-fed блатные and a bunch of dystrophic worker bees )
12:22 mircea_popescu back in 1616 there was a "do something - anything". today that results in github.
12:23 mircea_popescu and not just in github, it results in 5bn for BART's 16 track miles and in 12mn/year for 1bn database for microsoft.
12:23 asciilifeform and in egypt it resulted in pyramids
12:23 mircea_popescu in short - it dun work, in any practical way.
12:24 asciilifeform shithub is a religious ritual
12:24 mircea_popescu the Floating Littoral Embarassment is very much the symbolic product of "technology by modernist means in postmodernist times"
12:24 asciilifeform also pyramid.
12:24 asciilifeform if you have a massive project that nobody computes ROI on, and folks throw rotten eggs at anyone who suggests doing so --- pyramid.
12:25 asciilifeform ( in all fairness, moon probe, arpanet, etc -- also pyramid )
12:25 mircea_popescu modernity hadn't quite ended yet.
12:25 asciilifeform (egyptian, rather than ponzi, pyramid)
12:26 asciilifeform and often i get distinct impression that mircea_popescu is posting from a parallel future on mars : where, e.g., robots are not three orders of magnitude more expensive than well-brainwashed 'work ethic' folx working with bare hands
12:27 mircea_popescu they aren't.
12:28 asciilifeform you gotta take the ~hardest~-to-roboticize industrial processes as the basis for comparison, not the ~easiest~;
12:28 asciilifeform otherwise we 'had cheap robots' in 1850, cotton mill
12:28 mircea_popescu there are a number of reasons for this. 1. robots eat electricity ; humans eat a sort of oil derivate ; see http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577962 ; 2. robots are an industrial product, this costs ~nothing while "well brainwashed humans" are the equivalent of a "well behaved wife". tell you what, here's a half billion girlies in your "civilised world", you have a week to find a wife. let me know what you spent.
12:28 a111 Logged on 2016-12-05 16:09 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-04#1577534 << the petrol engine is not well impedance-matched with anything, even auto wheels on asphalt ! hence the 'hybrids' thing
12:31 asciilifeform talk to folx who worked with industrial robots, dun take asciilifeform's word for it: robotization of a process is not 'magical free work while you supply mains current', but replaces 100 fungible gurlz with 1-3 'assembly line phd', which is not always a +ev trade
12:31 asciilifeform nor is yield necessarily higher, because Software Sucks
12:32 mircea_popescu i suspect i might've talked to more industrial robots folks than you have over our respective careers, but be that as it may, the trend is towards not away job destruction.
12:32 asciilifeform this is on account of easily-roboticized 'low hanging fruit' (e.g., pcb component placement) and also shortages of human hands created by welfarization
12:33 mircea_popescu the welfarization creates nothing. it is the maggot on the corpse of postmodern industry.
12:33 mircea_popescu those people would have been idle anyway.
12:33 asciilifeform take mircea_popescu's proverbial 'twerk chick'. her grandmother - was idle ?
12:33 mircea_popescu (kinda yet another angle of why the great again is so lulzy - what, economic trends will reverse by election ?)
12:33 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no ; because modernism hadn't ended yet. but the chick herself - if she weren't twerking she'd be on reddit . there is literally NOTHING for her to do.
12:34 mircea_popescu with the exception of tmsr, there is NO PLACE in this world which sticks to the modern tradition of, "random bozo walks in, is given a job"
12:34 mircea_popescu this is how eg construction yards used to work, for milennia. not anymore, for decades now.
12:36 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: from whence then comes this 'nothing to do' ??
12:36 mircea_popescu from "robotization" in the general sense of the term.
12:37 asciilifeform this 'total robotization' thing, i can see it as a logical conclusion, but it isn't here yet. e.g., how many robots has mircea_popescu , to date, fucked ?
12:37 mircea_popescu fucking me is not a job. it is an honor.
12:38 mircea_popescu i've not decorated any robots either.
12:38 asciilifeform aite. when mircea_popescu called plumber, did robot show up ?
12:39 mircea_popescu amusingly - i used to call plumbers in places where plumbing had been laid by hand. but in places where plumbing laid by robot - no need so far.
12:39 mircea_popescu dat old ecosystem drives itself by supporting its niches and denying competing niches thing.
12:39 asciilifeform elaborate re 'plumbing laid by robot'
12:39 asciilifeform referring here to digging machine ? (a bit of stretch to call 1890s item 'robot')
12:39 mircea_popescu you are aware "car fixing" ie, "that is my idea of heaven - a bucket o' grease and a cracked cylinder" now consists of sticking probes in dataports ?
12:40 asciilifeform well yes, it consists of 'read error code and throw part # into order form and replace assembly'
12:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform no, plumbing mostly comes as part of the prefab components of construction nowadays. is not separate thing.
12:40 mircea_popescu "robots" does not strictly mean r2d2. entirely automated process chain is also a robot in this sense, even if perhaps a meta-robot for they preoccupied with the physicality of things.
12:41 mircea_popescu ie - the visually driven notion of "robot" as "anthropomorphised tuna can" is not particularly useful in a discussion of economics and robots.
12:41 asciilifeform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teufz17PqoY << re prefab plumbing, oblig.
12:42 mircea_popescu heh. laugh all you want, and take refuge in 1970s artworks if you will - but the fact remains that if you buy planks you buy planks but if you buy ikea you buy robotized planks.
12:43 mircea_popescu it's what it is, out of the final table in the latter case about 2/3 is robot work.
12:45 mircea_popescu yes, there isn't a beep-boop thing going around your livingroom. but it might as well be - the warehouse is entirely robotized ; the production line mostly ; etcetera. even driving is going away.
12:45 asciilifeform actually there ~is~ , lol
12:45 mircea_popescu do you know how many longshoremen work for amazon ? o wait ... the name is entirely antiquated.
12:46 * asciilifeform robotization aficionado, has programmable vacuum, etc
12:47 mircea_popescu aha
12:47 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: at no point in my head for this thread was 'tuna can', but the headaches of fairly standard industrial robot process over which i presided some years ago
12:47 mircea_popescu sure, but tell you what : the headaches of managing herd would be a lot closer in your mind had you i dunno, been a mcdonalds manager in your late teens.
12:47 asciilifeform quite possibly.
12:47 mircea_popescu there's no economic future for the average human, quite literally.
12:48 mircea_popescu for as long as we still feel like entertaining ourselves by providing them with food and board, the derpage will last. and they'll "put women back into history at the call of bbc wikipedia.
12:48 asciilifeform 'robocalypse' is a when, not if, yes, but there are certain obstacles (mainly reducing to 'software sucks', and even 'we don't quite have computer yet')
12:48 mircea_popescu once that becomes old, they'll become dead, in a very starved and cold sense of the term.
12:49 mircea_popescu yes, well, that when is cca 1999.
12:50 mircea_popescu anyway - the original point was how the environment changed, and modernism is strictly no longer possible because exogenous reasons, not opened to consensusing electoralizing etc.
12:51 mircea_popescu the WHO is the major consideration ; the what is relatively equivalent.
12:51 mircea_popescu which reduces to and is in fact equivalent with the "no economic future for average human" above, and with the "there's nothing one can do on the simple basis of being one" even further above.
12:52 asciilifeform afaik we still dun have a tech for producing ubermenschen other than by keeping massive herd of 'average human' around somewhere
12:52 mircea_popescu http://trilema.com/2016/an-immodest-proposal/ << somewhere is important.
12:53 asciilifeform ^ sorta how golden age su worked
12:53 asciilifeform roughly.
12:53 mircea_popescu (o look! the separation of the fat from the water in the sense of leaving the who-equivalent modernists behind in the gutter is actually quite the viscerally ferocious thing!)
12:54 mircea_popescu nobody is going to forbid modernism. they who wish to feel equal will have a place where this is how things works.
12:54 mircea_popescu (arguably this is also in the past - not like i'm actually forbidding redditards to reddit, even as i am squeezing the cream from the thing)
12:55 asciilifeform in mircea_popescu's sketch, by what process does 'who' come to exist ?
12:55 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-08#1579718
12:55 a111 Logged on 2016-12-08 14:44 mircea_popescu has the pleasure to introduce EDLionX , who's chinese, lives in brunei and looks altogether like a great kid (though he isn't a kid!)
12:56 mircea_popescu how else ? exactly how it historically worked.
12:56 asciilifeform well yes, but how didja dig him out of the ground
12:56 asciilifeform asciilifeform, for instance, (for those who were not tuned in), was excavated from www by hanbot
12:56 mircea_popescu chance encounter.
12:56 mircea_popescu rather similar actually!
12:57 mircea_popescu eulora, with its steep learning curve and well engineered intake manifolds is actually a muchly improved bitcoin from THIS perspective.
12:57 mircea_popescu ie, "how to fish whos"
12:57 asciilifeform this may be, but i could not tell that this is so by the backflow from #e into #t
12:58 mircea_popescu hey. everything around you is new.
12:58 mircea_popescu still, the question was "how who" not "how non-who". that your milk contains fat and water is not a valid objection to "how do you get fat from the cow ?" "you milk it"
12:59 * asciilifeform not in eulora and cannot say
13:00 asciilifeform but so far looks to me as if it mostly attracts folk who are good at playing eulora, rather than generalists spilling over into the kinds of projects in motion here.
13:01 asciilifeform (exiles from other muds..?)
13:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: didja ever translate http://trilema.com/2010/minciuna-cosubstantiala ?
13:10 asciilifeform (early piece re 'promisetronics')
13:16 mircea_popescu i don't think i did no
13:17 mircea_popescu and i am entirely unconvinced by this "good at x" bs. nobody's "good at x". the "good at x" is nonsense of the ilk and period of "blind love", to try and help the wedge of who-equivalency into the trunk of reality.
13:17 mircea_popescu either your brain works or doesn't. if it does, you can use it for all brain things, much like either your cunt works or doesn't, and if it does it does for all dicks.
13:17 mircea_popescu there's no "good at math" anymore than there is "white dicks cunt"
13:19 asciilifeform did i miss rsa worst-case difficulty proof emerging from mircea_popescu's well-trained harem ?
13:19 asciilifeform how about cs equivalence to diffie hellman proof ?
13:19 mircea_popescu what sense does this make ?
13:20 mircea_popescu i also didn't see meat airplane borne out of the soviet maternity circuit. this proves something ?
13:20 asciilifeform if 'there is no good-at' and can train-anybody-to-anything with sufficient application of hot irons
13:20 mircea_popescu hot irons weren't mentioned.
13:20 asciilifeform even better
13:21 trinque and that a brain works does not mean that the requisite information for a particular has yet been jammed in.
13:21 mircea_popescu for one thing.
13:21 mircea_popescu "this cpu could do anything" "i don't see your sql server doing any dos emulation work" "nigga... wut ?!"
13:22 asciilifeform mircea_popescu surely was involved in some form of sport, at one time. or knew folks who were. did trainers take the approach 'either body works, or doesn't' ? or did they pick childrenz with the right body type for the contest
13:22 mircea_popescu laugh, but they very pointedly picked former approach.
13:23 mircea_popescu there was entirely no "picking" in romania, the romania that produced the first full 10 olympic gymnasts. hundreds of thousands of kids ran into thousands of pe teachers who very pointedly "body works to it - now make it work to jump!"
13:23 mircea_popescu body works to eat*
13:24 asciilifeform having 10,000,001 kidz do somersaults is cheap
13:24 mircea_popescu the "nfl picks" usian system seemed very alien, and quite frankly wasteful, to the general mind. "americans will never amount to anything in sports" therefore.
13:25 mircea_popescu of course, this was in a time of general conscription and so forth. obviously things have changed - it is easier after all.
13:26 mircea_popescu and no, i have no argument - it is EASIER to think of yourself as "i am good at x" raqther than "brain works or doesn't work."
13:26 mircea_popescu now THAT easy-seeking habituation is what the hot irons are used for.
13:28 asciilifeform gymnasts may not be perfect example. when you have a role where the training per se is costly, you're stuck picking. e.g., pilots; i recently read a quite interesting autobio, 'Обречены на подвиг' ('condemned to heroism', roughly) by su flying d00d / instructor / colonel. described how children having any physical imperfection, even tooth cavity, were mercilessly rejected from flight academy even if they passed all of
13:28 asciilifeform the theoretical weedouts
13:29 mircea_popescu i personally prefer the "here's the book pile, go read whatever ; do something"
13:29 mircea_popescu why should i pick and why should i care.
13:29 mircea_popescu if you feel like anything good ; and if you feel like nothing in particular reddit's that way.
13:30 asciilifeform this is rather different statement than 'there are no good-ats, anyone can anything'
13:30 mircea_popescu but by all means, if you, trinque or anyone else feels like running su airpilot style court, your right and priviledge. i'm sure it'll work just fine.
13:30 asciilifeform reddit is full of folx who 'feel like nothing' because good-at nothing
13:31 mircea_popescu it's not like preference's forbidden or anything. i'm sure i'd be great at fucking dudes, too, i never fucked any nevertheless.
13:31 mircea_popescu the point is, that "i would suck at fucking dudes" is a very poor excuse and entirely rotten pillar of identity.
13:33 asciilifeform as soon as the cost of failure is >0, selection becomes a thing -- does mircea_popescu not carefully select harem ?
13:33 mircea_popescu nope. and what is the cost of failure ?
13:33 Framedragger http://shivankaul.com/blog/2016/12/07/clean-your-desk-yet-another-amazon-interview-experience.html
13:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i am ill-equipped to describe it. but presumably there is a reason mircea_popescu has a harem, and not a human chick-sized 'cat door' to let in whoever.
13:34 mircea_popescu i can't imagine that whoever wanted to get in couldn't at least try.
13:35 mircea_popescu what exactly is the cost of failure ? is it some sort of "oh, i can't go talk to the girl in the bar" sort of crazy ?
13:35 asciilifeform how about 'burns house down'
13:35 asciilifeform 'plants nsa bugs'
13:35 asciilifeform or similar.
13:35 mircea_popescu it's insured. heh ok.
13:36 mircea_popescu why would there be a THE HOUSE ? i don't subscribne to "let's all go to the same shitty island and make a georepublic" ima have a the house ?
13:36 asciilifeform proverbian the-house.
13:36 asciilifeform *proverbial
13:36 mircea_popescu so she burns down some apartment. the firepeople will put it out, the insurance people will pay for it and i guess the police people will take her to the doctorpeople or w/e.
13:37 mircea_popescu or if they don't because society broke down, i guess my guardpeople shoot her and throw the body to the dogs. either way.
13:38 asciilifeform and guards -- picked off the street, because anybody-can-anything? or selected for certain attributes ?
13:38 mircea_popescu both!
13:38 asciilifeform will mircea_popescu hire a blind d00d? missing trigger finger? or even one of BingoBoingo's patients ?
13:38 mircea_popescu as in, picked off the streets because anybody can anything and selected for certain attributes.
13:38 BingoBoingo Wait I have patients nao?
13:39 mircea_popescu what, i'ma only hire x school graduates like obama ? wtf am i , stupid.
13:39 asciilifeform 'has 10 fingers' != 'has imperial diploma'
13:39 mircea_popescu picked off the streets == "not has imperial diploma"
13:40 asciilifeform now i'm stumped
13:40 asciilifeform elaborate ?
13:40 mircea_popescu how would i elaborate, you'e the one who's stumped. you elaborate.
13:40 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: you have, now, patients ! probably you've done moar to cure gluttony than most medical men
13:41 mircea_popescu o.O
13:41 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: random d00d 'from street' could indeed have 'imperial diploma' neh ?
13:41 mircea_popescu i imagine he could, sure.
13:41 mircea_popescu they usually don't walk the streets, being selected for a sort of pretentious lazyness, but anyway.
13:41 asciilifeform so i how do i parse 'picked off the streets == "not has imperial diploma"'
13:42 asciilifeform it eggogs in my head
13:42 mircea_popescu ah. "no shits given re imperial diploma"
13:42 asciilifeform aah aite.
13:42 mircea_popescu right.
13:42 mircea_popescu http://shivankaul.com/blog/2016/12/07/clean-your-desk-yet-another-amazon-interview-experience.html << this is some serious sf shit.
13:43 * mircea_popescu has walked out of numerous meetings etc, often offended, but never participated into SUCH INSANITY wtf.
13:43 asciilifeform this story makes 0 sense
13:43 asciilifeform why would they give exam on the d00d's comp, at ~his~ house
13:44 mircea_popescu dude i have nfi. because they're used to hiring camwhores ?
13:44 asciilifeform normally this kind of thing is done by inviting candidate to a locked booth after arse search etc
13:45 mircea_popescu yes but i guess they can't be arsed to deal with stuck in traffic peon / having to physically go to the peon pen etc
13:46 asciilifeform ah hm i think i get it
13:46 asciilifeform technical term is 'shit test'
13:47 asciilifeform 'sir please locate a cucumber' 'now bend..'
13:47 mircea_popescu i guess the dude was just "getting his identity confirmed" or w/e KYC stuff.
13:47 asciilifeform selected. for obedience.
13:48 mircea_popescu i dunno, my selection-for-obedience process doesn't also select for comatose mental state simultaneously.
13:48 mircea_popescu anyway, bbl
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14:36 shinohai !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/mIgMP/?raw=true
14:36 jhvh1 shinohai: The operation succeeded.
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15:24 deedbot http://qntra.net/2016/12/yahoo-caulks-another-hole/ << Qntra - Yahoo Caulks Another Hole
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16:26 mats 😘
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16:41 mats merp. friendo typed in my window
16:44 trinque lol
16:45 * trinque charitably assumes it was a chick blowing kisses at the Republic
16:50 mod6 :]
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17:13 shinohai http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/08/world/middleeast/ap-ml-iraq-mosul-ambush.html?_r=0 <<< urban warfare fail for Iraq army
17:19 trinque As Iraqi forces advanced toward the al-Salam hospital in Mosul earlier this week, encountering only light resistance from Islamic State fighters, commanders decided to seize the facility instead of sweeping the neighborhoods along the road leading to it.
17:20 trinque then later "elite forces"
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18:09 phf asciilifeform: i didn't read that thread too close, but in japan they still seem to do "hire who not how" presumably successfully http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
18:09 phf "The company will mold you to their exacting specifications to do whatever form of service they require. You will happily comply, in this as in all things. For example, if your company needs a Java-speaking systems engineer and you have a degree in Art History, this is not a problem because you can be fixed."
18:10 phf "Sure it might take ten years and only work on a quarter of the new hires but that’s why we employ you for 45 years and hire a hundred at once!"
18:21 phf and on the subject of japan and doing things right, gwern wrote about internet culture in japan http://www.gwern.net/The%20Melancholy%20of%20Subculture%20Society#japan-and-the-internet he got everything wrong, but the subject is interesting
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18:57 BingoBoingo In other customer complaints: "Bought a weed and grass killer. Used it according to instructions and it killed a linden tree and many plants. Ace does not seem to be responsible and turned me over to a David at spectrum who admitted that their product does damage."
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19:34 mircea_popescu lol! dat "he got everything wrong but the subject is interesting".
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19:51 * pete_dushenski is digging patrick mckenzie's blog
19:52 pete_dushenski it even has pgp pubkey block... gpg v1.4.10!
19:52 phf well, i suspect he's got his facts right, but the commentary is dodgy
19:53 mircea_popescu i don't even doubt the label, i just find it amusing.
19:54 mircea_popescu like "fish, delicious and healthy!" label on a caserole in the discount yesterday's icebox.
19:54 mircea_popescu yes, fish in general is delicious and healthy.
19:55 pete_dushenski or sign on car rotting on mechanic's lot : "needs work to get running but a smooth driver!"
19:55 phf look, the margins are thin and the fish gotta go, you buying or what
19:55 mircea_popescu i'm buying, i'm buying.
19:55 * mircea_popescu does exactly this on occasion, feeds cats.
19:57 phf is buenos aires like istanbul, street cat culture?
19:58 mircea_popescu not quite, lots of dogs being tortured on small terraces, apartments, 3sq feet of concrete behind bars (srsly, pair of dogs, COULDNT EVEN STRETCH OUT!).
19:58 mircea_popescu but there's still plenty of cats.
19:59 phf somehow makes total sense from all the other argentina points
20:00 mircea_popescu myeah.
20:00 mircea_popescu and this nation, that to my knowledge has furthest perfected the art of pointlessly but with extreme callous cruelty torturing man's oldest and best friend, nevertheless considers itself full of dog lovers.
20:01 mircea_popescu they actually say this, "i'm a dog lover". then you meet the dog, and the general effect is "i love kids" guy with a fridge full of kid parts.
20:05 ben_vulpes urban dog owners, man.
20:05 mircea_popescu myeah.
20:05 mircea_popescu in other news, i'm enjoying reading this kalzumeus piece on japanese culture. it's like japan consists of the 1950s mob.
20:06 ben_vulpes oh, it's mckenzie's turn huh? how'd he escape the eye of sauron for so long?
20:06 mircea_popescu prolly, his employer skulldruggery.
20:09 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-09#1580071 << asciilifeform also feeds catz
20:09 a111 Logged on 2016-12-09 00:55 mircea_popescu does exactly this on occasion, feeds cats.
20:10 asciilifeform the orbiting beasts have doubled and doubled in size...
20:10 ben_vulpes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464775
20:12 mircea_popescu wtf is starfighter.
20:12 mircea_popescu " about: THOMAS H. PTACEK hopes, by strict attention to business, combined with moderate charges, to merit a fair share of patronage and support."
20:13 ben_vulpes :D
20:13 ben_vulpes hiring gauntlet as a service
20:13 mircea_popescu !#s tptacek
20:13 a111 8 results for "tptacek", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=tptacek
20:13 trinque http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/03/09/announcing-starfighter/
20:14 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes oh, like ProctologyU
20:14 ben_vulpes i have no idea
20:14 mircea_popescu o wait, liek minigame except failed ?
20:14 mircea_popescu aww!
20:22 mircea_popescu "One’s actual salary as a salaryman is generally rather low — about $100 per year of age per month, as an engineer in Nagoya (set by a particular monopsonistic engineering employer near Nagoya). In Tokyo, my sense of the market is that, as an intermediate engineer in his early thirties, I’d probably command somewhere between $30k and $60k. (In Silicon Valley, the going rate would be somewhere between $120k and $160k and
20:22 mircea_popescu increasing rapidly.)"
20:22 mircea_popescu ahahaha get the fuck out.
20:23 mircea_popescu this is like saying that your "sense of the market" indicates that as an intermediate starlet in her 30s you'd probably command between 1 and 3 mn pa because hey, that's what bravo/seveteen/cosmo/whatever said christina applegate was making at some point in 2006 when she was 32 and was doing three different things.
20:25 mircea_popescu except she is "intermediate" among the people actually making money ; not among the people aspiring to be used, which is still not the same as making money. you could just as well say tom cook is an intermediate manager (in the sense that bezos is clearly better and whoever they have at microsoft, that indian fellow, clearly worse), so you figure ten years after getting your degree from ohio state business school you'll be pu
20:25 mircea_popescu lling in like 25mn + options.
20:26 mircea_popescu "as an intermediate manager"
20:27 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/23F4D70A532D06432B7710D4685138EB5DB19B3AD816EFD65D4E8158E361E79C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1732...0147 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.75.157 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.75.157 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (79-98-75-157.sys-data.com. CZ ST)
20:27 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/AAF7663C0AECC17FC31935B62259B2A1A4700A0EAE5AB14624B296023EEF258C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1489...4207 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '123.103.245.144 (ssh-rsa key from 123.103.245.144 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown HK)
20:36 mircea_popescu "When I met her mother for the first time, I brought my resume and tax returns. Her mother was not 100% keen on the match when we started dating, as a combination of “foreigner” and “not gainfully employed” suggested that I was not exactly marriage material, but I eventually won her over."
20:36 mircea_popescu holy shit these people...
20:36 mircea_popescu how does this dude expect to be taken seriously, by anyone, like ever ?
20:36 mircea_popescu i know dogs that are more respectable.
20:36 pete_dushenski not japanese dogs
20:37 mircea_popescu well i don't know any japanese dogs at all.
20:37 mircea_popescu da fuck, empowering old women, wtf is this. whatever happened to bitch, if you talk out of line i'll burn you alive.
20:38 mod6 yeah, srsly. "here's my tax returns." wat?!
20:38 mircea_popescu mod6 and these are the dorks who go "oh, midwest, flyover zone". really ? flyover zone for what, your ballsac in a sling ?
20:38 pete_dushenski respect for elders in jp folx is like fried chicken for blacks - goes hand-in-hand
20:38 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski respect for the elders is predicated upon the stable basis of them elders having earned enough life experience to know better than getting in my way.
20:39 mircea_popescu this is a young idiot mistake, not an elder mistake.
20:41 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: only for values of 'my way' that resolve to mircea_popescu and similar, which'd be rare enough to mostly ignore in jp. or else, sure, in a world where ol' ladies be gettin' torched leftrightandcentre, gramma opens the door for you, not the other way around.
20:41 phf that's what i'm saying though, these are like nifty anthropological studies by very inept anthropologists. you learn more about the author, than...
20:41 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski all the warning signs are there. to wit : "(The hypothesis was advanced, more than once, that as a foreigner who routinely travels abroad, speaks Spanish, and has money without any evidence of gainful employment, I was probably a drug dealer. I wish I were joking.)"
20:42 mircea_popescu now, it is true that you don't have to deal drugs to accumulate power ; nor because you accumulated it. but it is supremely unwise to imagine one's not going to crack a few skulls if it comes to it.
20:42 mircea_popescu phf myeah.
20:42 pete_dushenski phf: the authors aren't highly cultured and esteemed envoys from foreign lands, they're just... regular blokes.
20:43 mircea_popescu would you think an elder who ineptly harasses a drug dealer is particularly respectable ?
20:43 pete_dushenski ofc not, so 'drug dealer' is obv a snide remark, not actually positied theory
20:44 pete_dushenski posited*
20:44 mircea_popescu ~if i am~ a drug dealer and i burn down your house, you'll what ? file a police report ? go on the local news network with a teary eyed "no one could have predicted that if i get pissy with people who break the law for a living i might end up with a burned down house" ?
20:45 pete_dushenski apparently the 'big city' of tokyo or wherever isn't part of the jp where triads ARE the law, financiers, drug dealers, etc etc.
20:47 phf pete_dushenski: sure, but my comment stands. when you read travel diaries in general they all have the same format, it's just this particular one reads like "in my country of Kazakhstan we shoot dog, i couldn't find any places to shoot dogs in so called civilized england"
20:47 * mircea_popescu notes for the record that in 1916, man considering the mitzvah of accepting a cunt in his household was given money, and no insignificant portion thereof, by the ever-delighted parents.
20:48 mircea_popescu how the fuck these "men" have managed to turn that into the above quote in one short century is anyone's guess.
20:48 pete_dushenski phf: to be sure
20:49 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: this hasn't changed in 100 years, but still depends ~where~ we're discussing.
20:49 mircea_popescu i guess.
20:50 pete_dushenski father-in-laws can be, and in my fortunate experience are, still grateful sobs
20:50 pete_dushenski from whom, yes, honey flows.
20:51 mircea_popescu one time, the dad of this chick (/me is very old school, always insisted in meeting the parents of all molls) asked me if i have serious intentions. so i asked him if she's a virgin.
20:52 * pete_dushenski guesses that quantity of honey depends on the degree of f-i-l's personal means, how many girls he's burdened with, and how much of a stud the s-i-l is.
20:53 pete_dushenski mircea_popescu: lol. good comeback. and yes, gotta meet parents, ideally even before formal courtship begins or else within first two weeks of commencement.
20:53 mircea_popescu generally after first fuck.
20:53 mircea_popescu here, too, on coupla of occasion took girl over sunday noon that i had met saturday night at bdsm club no less. resulting in some appropriately spooked parents.
20:53 pete_dushenski which should be within first two weeks :p
20:55 * pete_dushenski would very much one day like to see what these bdsm clubs are all about, preferably with mircea_popescu as guide, for he presently has nfi what he's missing out on.
20:55 mircea_popescu nomina nuda, mostly.
20:55 mircea_popescu i thought you lived in something that passes for urban center in the frozen wastes ?
20:55 mircea_popescu i'm sure they must have one.
20:57 pete_dushenski this is where i sheepishly admit that there could be one across the street but that i've not yet encountered anyone who's admitted to knowledge of its whereabouts. though given that 'edmonton ab' showed up on a few of the fetlife meatlist, you sorta have to figure there must be ~something~ of the sort in a town >1mn pop.
20:57 mircea_popescu eh, they probably advertise.
20:58 mircea_popescu !~google edmonton bdsm club
20:58 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: Edmonton O Society - BDSM Education Society | BDSM Education ...: <http://edmontonosociety.org/>; Meetings | Edmonton O Society - BDSM Education Society: <http://edmontonosociety.org/meetings/>; Edmonton - domination and BDSM services - backpage.com: <http://edmonton.backpage.com/Domination/>
20:58 mircea_popescu there lol. sign up for a meeting, take wifey along.
20:59 pete_dushenski haha there are worse ideas
20:59 pete_dushenski bbiab. to inquire!
20:59 mircea_popescu a munch is generally just dicking around a food court, child safe sort of events.
20:59 mircea_popescu course seems the last for the year was o wait, you have one on 14th.
21:11 ben_vulpes rip john glenn apparently
21:12 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/AAF7663C0AECC17FC31935B62259B2A1A4700A0EAE5AB14624B296023EEF258C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1489...4207 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '123.103.245.144 (ssh-rsa key from 123.103.245.144 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown HK)
21:12 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/FFE6DAF3C3F67391AD8CBEA1EC2F88C16821237CF7F335B9890B0808F9FFEFBA << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1489...4207 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '123.103.245.199 (ssh-rsa key from 123.103.245.199 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown HK)
21:13 mircea_popescu he was really old wasn't he ?
21:13 ben_vulpes ya, rather
21:19 mircea_popescu this tiny may bug like creature is having the time of its life over on the db in jp monitor. i've never seen one so happy.
21:30 mircea_popescu i don't get this fizzbuzz thing. someone explain it to me ? for i from 1 to 100 do if i is divisible by 3 j+="Fizz" ; if i is divisible by 5 j+="Buzz" if j is null j = i print j.
21:31 mircea_popescu am i nuts or something ? wtf "I think Fizz-Buzz is "hard" for some programmers because (#1) it doesn't fit into any of the patterns that were given to them in school assignments, and (#2) it isn't possible to directly and simply represent the necessary tests, without duplication, in just about any commonly-used modern programming language." (as per http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest )
21:32 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-09#1580107 << ahahahahahahahahaha http://123.103.245.144/index.html 'Quanta Megarac' '(C) COPYRIGHT American Megatrends Inc. 2008-2009'
21:32 a111 Logged on 2016-12-09 01:27 deedbot: http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/AAF7663C0AECC17FC31935B62259B2A1A4700A0EAE5AB14624B296023EEF258C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1489...4207 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '123.103.245.144 (ssh-rsa key from 123.103.245.144 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown HK)
21:32 asciilifeform remote admin for some godforsaken serv mobo
21:32 mircea_popescu still on seven years later...
21:33 asciilifeform you can trivially enumerate users ('admin', for instance, confirms to exist...)
21:34 asciilifeform nfi what else, there is probably a vendor backdoor, i cannot be arsed
21:34 asciilifeform (stoooodent project!11111)
21:34 mircea_popescu evidently.
21:34 asciilifeform this is one of those fabled ipmi cards mircea_popescu spoke of in earlier thread.
21:34 mircea_popescu one of these is going to turn out to be whatever supersecret bullshit someone put online because idiots and everyone's going to lose their shit.
21:34 asciilifeform apparently whitelabeled by number of folx, incl. dell
21:36 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-09#1580164 << it was a pons asinorum, a 'write hello world' exam to weed out applicants who 1) cannot program to save their life 2) memorized 'hello world' to fool examinators
21:36 a111 Logged on 2016-12-09 02:30 mircea_popescu: i don't get this fizzbuzz thing. someone explain it to me ? for i from 1 to 100 do if i is divisible by 3 j+="Fizz" ; if i is divisible by 5 j+="Buzz" if j is null j = i print j.
21:37 mircea_popescu but what i specifically take issue with is the claim that "There is no clear way in any languages". what the heck ?
21:37 asciilifeform believe or not, (1) is pestilentially common in usa, and has been for decade+, and (2) is also met with regularly
21:37 * asciilifeform goes and unwinds mega-log
21:38 ben_vulpes asciilifeform should probably poop more often
21:38 asciilifeform lel
21:38 asciilifeform 'captain's log'
21:38 ben_vulpes did everything come out all right?
21:39 mircea_popescu lmao
21:40 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-09#1580131 << 'where, sir, i SHOULD PUT THIS!!???' (tm) (r)
21:40 a111 Logged on 2016-12-09 01:47 phf: pete_dushenski: sure, but my comment stands. when you read travel diaries in general they all have the same format, it's just this particular one reads like "in my country of Kazakhstan we shoot dog, i couldn't find any places to shoot dogs in so called civilized england"
21:42 mircea_popescu holy shit! the page itself claims there is a simple structure... BUt ONLY FOR LISP
21:42 mircea_popescu fucking bullshit, "use separate variable, test the number test variable if empty" can be written in fucking bash.
21:42 mircea_popescu what is with these obnoxious prigs already.
21:43 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-09#1580145 << mircea_popescu showed one during c3. picture a ~packed~ lift, with alcohol served
21:43 a111 Logged on 2016-12-09 01:55 pete_dushenski would very much one day like to see what these bdsm clubs are all about, preferably with mircea_popescu as guide, for he presently has nfi what he's missing out on.
21:44 mircea_popescu not even that far off.
21:44 asciilifeform ~same dress level, ~same folx standing in corners, etc
21:45 mircea_popescu there was some nudity wasn't there ?
21:45 asciilifeform i saw an arse cheek iirc
21:45 asciilifeform singular.
21:46 mircea_popescu buttlift.
21:50 asciilifeform re 'buzz' test, see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-18#1569804
21:50 a111 Logged on 2016-11-18 16:58 asciilifeform: (at a recent hellhole where asciilifeform worked, they marched in folx with perfect marks, many magister degrees in 'sciences', etc., who COULD NOT PROGRAM)
21:50 mircea_popescu i don't even see how the fuck this is programming.
21:50 mircea_popescu srsly now. can they stock their pantry, these people ?
21:51 asciilifeform what pantry, 'talk into clownface for food pellet'
21:52 asciilifeform it's a helloworld, a litmus to see whether esteemed mr. orc has even heard of the notion of programming a computer
21:52 asciilifeform last time asciilifeform went around to look for work, saw an astonishing variety of olympiad puzzles
21:53 asciilifeform 'here's 20 pgs of c, find 3 exploitable bugs'
21:53 mircea_popescu should have given you emacs macros instead :D
21:53 asciilifeform 'here's a pg of obdjump -D .., say what is the routine'
21:53 asciilifeform etc
21:53 asciilifeform some outfits had 'olympiad' so gnarly that it was given 'takehome'
21:54 asciilifeform nothing prizeworthy, because wtf, think someone wants to sit and make up real prize problem.. but it wasn't all low-effort crapola either.
21:55 asciilifeform there was even one 'tbtf' corp where they wheeled in a pc-cum-tv thing and ida...
21:57 mircea_popescu o.O
21:57 asciilifeform olympiads are a desperation measure, when i sat on other end of the table i resorted to them also
21:57 asciilifeform degrees -- worthless; people pretending to know what computer is but came straight from donkey - ubiquitous
22:00 ben_vulpes us degrees are worse than worthless, they're an actual burden. holders generally have such an inflated opinion of themselves and blown up cashflow needs due to student loans they're nigh unemployable.
22:01 asciilifeform ben_vulpes: ~old~ (relatively) degrees -- still worth ~something, occasionally
22:02 mircea_popescu no ben_vulpes has it ; degrees are anti-signal.
22:02 ben_vulpes and the old folks who bear them, occasionally as well.
22:02 mircea_popescu very inflexible curs with outsized "needs".
22:02 ben_vulpes the lifetime of coddling doesn't make managing them any easier either.
22:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i think you are describing 'old folx', not necessarily diplomaed
22:04 mircea_popescu old folks as in bio age i usually have an easy enough time with ; young folks who aspire to be employed however are aged beyond their age, like touched by the fucking vorlons.
22:04 mircea_popescu i actually told a 29 yo "i know a guy who's 92 and a lot more flexible than you".
22:04 mircea_popescu which incidentally was true at the time.
22:05 asciilifeform does army service count as 'employ' for the purpose of mircea_popescu's disdainful eye ?
22:05 mircea_popescu well no, i've never had the pleasure of hiring for the army.
22:06 asciilifeform sketch plox the inflexible 29yo
22:06 mircea_popescu asciilifeform (i suspect we may be talking at cross purposes)
22:06 asciilifeform hm possibly
22:06 mircea_popescu ah. the inflexible 29 yo had this very obnoxious penchant for trying to restate any problem in specific terms as per his textbook.
22:06 asciilifeform aaaah THEM!!
22:06 mircea_popescu needless to say this produced "correct" responses through the insufferable avenue of missing out on the problem.
22:07 mircea_popescu this is about as useful as an "expert system".
22:08 asciilifeform if not mega-seekrit, what sort of worker was he pretending to be..?
22:08 mircea_popescu the 92 yo i had in mind specifically was http://trilema.com/2010/la-munca-cu-negrii/#selection-37.0-37.88
22:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform systems engineer
22:09 asciilifeform it always boggled my imagination, how these folx pick a thing to 'be'
22:10 asciilifeform why not go across the street and pretend to be some other thing. why came to our door.
22:10 mircea_popescu from what i heard from all other shops, they do. it's like asking why has superluminous tachyon decided to bless your apparatus.
22:10 asciilifeform the unspoken but correct answer is 'if i go and pretend to be a real liberal-profession, lawyer, airline pilot, i will go to jail'
22:11 mircea_popescu hey - other ones blessed mrs jones' urethra etc
22:21 * mircea_popescu waves at lobbes
~ 17 minutes ~
22:38 mircea_popescu "For example, when I first came to Japan, I had no computer. I also had no money, because the plane ticket and setting up my household ate all of my savings. In America, this isn’t a barrier to getting a computer, because Dell will do a quick FICO score on you and then happily extend you $2,000 of trade credit."
22:38 mircea_popescu for the love of all that's holy. who does this ? WHO ?
22:39 asciilifeform https://web.archive.org/web/20140302045958/http://my.opera.com/Vorlath/blog/2012/04/20/math-why-there-is-disagreement-on-cantors-diagonal-argument << strictly for pro entomologists. cantorist crackpot! and here i thought that the last one died in '99 or so, usenetron in hand...
22:40 asciilifeform think, ~disagreement~ !111
22:40 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: who does what
22:40 asciilifeform move with 0 money and 0 prospects, living by wits ? i thought mircea_popescu was proponent of this for young folx
22:41 mircea_popescu the approximate equivalent of "umm... hi fortified city, here is my siege. i... uhhh... i ate all the horses on the way over. and burned the trebuchets. surrender now ?"
22:41 asciilifeform hey maybe they watched mircea_popescu take city with bare teeth and want also.
22:41 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i was living under the impression that i am reading the faits d'armes of adule male. for some reason.
22:42 * asciilifeform goes back and actually reads subj
22:42 mircea_popescu wtf is this "disagreement" holy hell.
~ 20 minutes ~
23:02 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/23F4D70A532D06432B7710D4685138EB5DB19B3AD816EFD65D4E8158E361E79C << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1548...9783 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '79.98.75.157 (ssh-rsa key from 79.98.75.157 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (79-98-75-157.sys-data.com. CZ ST)
23:08 ben_vulpes !~later tell Framedragger http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/ << 404s
23:08 jhvh1 ben_vulpes: The operation succeeded.
23:20 ben_vulpes 403 i mean
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