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00:01 shinohai One sec, lost jhvh1 in netsplit
00:08 BingoBoingo np
00:13 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
00:14 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1505.95, vol: 11498.06020734 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1402.799, vol: 10509.1831 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1614.4, vol: 17193.86019088 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1237.444551, vol: 13250.12280000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1513.368, vol: 5061.21710821 | Volume-weighted last average: 1458.31605317
00:16 shinohai Dem Buttfunions
00:18 BingoBoingo That's a good one
00:18 BingoBoingo brb, sleep
00:19 mod6 night
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00:45 mod6 !~later tell mircea_popescu Hi, does seem like my gnat woes were system environment related. Was able to compile alf's ffa after splitting up the file: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Nl0EP/?raw=true
00:45 jhvh1 mod6: The operation succeeded.
01:00 mod6 Crap. Forgot to add that the gcc version on the one that worked was GCC 4.9.2. Maybe that's my problem with my broken env., gnat version doesn't match the GCC version.
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01:41 ben_vulpes in unrelated arse-digitalia: "If she is curious about encryption, she should find the Internet's best tutorial on the workings of the RSA algorithm."
01:41 ben_vulpes "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing" has some gems
01:42 ben_vulpes mod6: i think it's grand
01:43 * ben_vulpes elbows mod6 and whispers quietly in his ear "hey see if you can get him to do the eulora coppers while you're at it"
01:48 ben_vulpes endless lulzrabbit hole, this: "I seriously considered quitting the industry in 1997 when Apple Computer was concluding its acquisition of NeXT. Imagine if the president of General Motors said, in 1997, "It has come to my attention that our cars are kind of clunky and unreliable. Don't worry, though. We're rectifying this problem by licensing the blueprints to the 1985 Toyota Camry."
01:49 ben_vulpes and from le wik: "One of Greenspun's most famous students is Randal Pinkett, who built an online community for low-income housing residents in Greenspun's 6.171 Software Engineering for Internet Applications course."
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06:07 phf mod6: this is anathem, but you could split the learning of ada and the build from sources into separate unrelated projects by downloading a prebuilt binary from adacore. that's what i did first, http://libre.adacore.com/download/ unpack whatever version ./doinstall puts all the binaries (including its own version of gcc) into a subdir structure you specify
06:10 phf it also gives you a working gps (gnat programming studio) which is handy if you don't emacs (and even if you do, it's a semi-proper ide with context sensitive completion and code validation)
06:14 phf afaik gnat is built as part of gcc, i.e. it's one of possible artifacts produced during gcc suite compilation, so you shouldn't have a situation of non matching versions, and if you do it's most likely not going to work right. the easiest approach is to build matching gcc/gnat into their own directory structure, and change PATH when you're working with gnat projects. i think package managers going the other way and try and carefully match gcc/gnat
06:14 phf versions (at least that's what pkgsrc does)
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07:28 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651593 << yeah should be fine
07:28 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 02:05 mod6: ben_vulpes: thoughts?
07:29 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651619 << nice pile mod6 !
07:29 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 03:12 mod6: here's the results from FG #3, second run of entropy collection1.1Gb worth. `ent` && `dieharder` results: http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg3.ent_run2.txt http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg3.dieharder_run2.txt
07:30 mircea_popescu "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." huh. not bad.
07:31 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651635 << sounds like a prime candidate.
07:31 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 05:00 mod6: Crap. Forgot to add that the gcc version on the one that worked was GCC 4.9.2. Maybe that's my problem with my broken env., gnat version doesn't match the GCC version.
07:31 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651637 << quite, yes. dude's always been my mental model for "irl george costanza".
07:31 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 05:41 ben_vulpes: "Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing" has some gems
07:34 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651645 << chiefly because nobody seems to grok hl the master of the rolls' point. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-02#1651098
07:34 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 10:14 phf: versions (at least that's what pkgsrc does)
07:34 a111 Logged on 2017-05-02 19:43 trinque: how about... users
07:35 mircea_popescu there's users, there's directories, and then there's a bunch of gnats trying to reinvent the wheel so they could call it gneel and LIVE FOREVER IN MEMORY OF MAN!!11
07:35 mircea_popescu fucking brain parasites.
07:43 shinohai Buenas dias Sr. Popescu y los demas de Trilema
07:45 mircea_popescu hola!
07:47 mircea_popescu we claim dis gorge and we shall call it disgorge!
07:57 mircea_popescu and in other dekulakizations, https://archive.is/lWBxq#selection-695.430-695.619
07:57 mircea_popescu "maximum return" for shareholders and other gems of the soviet state.
08:01 shinohai In Soviet Russia, money disgorges YOU.
08:02 mircea_popescu "It’s a bit like the homeowners “using their houses as ATMs” during the 2000s, except that the shareholders don’t get stuck with the mortgage payments. The ­businesses’ workers and customers get to share the pain."
08:04 mircea_popescu fancy that wonder. putting money down the line, with no kind of collateral whatsoever is not "sharing the pain". none of that obnoxious http://trilema.com/2015/other-peoples-money/#selection-77.0-77.47 oh no.
08:05 mircea_popescu instead, the "workers", michael moore's http://trilema.com/2012/the-imbecilitarians/#selection-193.214-203.38 , those schmucks who spent all their day trying to put in less work THAN WHAT THEY WERE PAID FOR. those "sharei n the pain". what fucking pain ? the pain of ~their future expectations~ of tits continuing to bleed ambrosia in their open mouths going away.
08:06 mircea_popescu "Firms’ investment decisions, then, don’t depend on current earnings or credit conditions; they depend on whether management can propose projects with high enough returns to convince shareholders to leave “their” money inside the firm." << get a load of that. quotes. not around "workers" and not around "our" democracy. but around "their" money.
08:08 mircea_popescu the schmuck in question, http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/j-w-mason actually thinks he's an economics phd/asssistant prof etc.
08:10 shinohai http://userfeeds.io/ <<< "Allow your token-based community to create their own view of social media destinations" - But further down the page "Want to find out more? Check out our Medium blog."
08:11 shinohai Because naturally the shit doesn't work yet.
08:11 mircea_popescu not really. more because octopus arm gotta signal its attachment to octopus so the other worms know what's what.
08:12 mircea_popescu basically the reason we keep ending up with the empire of stupid "running things" instead of the republic of the smart, is because smart people look at stupid people and can tell they're stupid, and then imagine this means something. it does, in some places. in other places it does not : the stupid can still recognize the stupid and band together.
08:13 mircea_popescu most of the activity of the stupid is channeled to this "constructing the dogvomit" activity. it's not like "oh, stupid did something stupid, it dun work." it's always "stupid did something to signal to stupids that didn't happen to have other effects".
08:15 mircea_popescu goes right back to that discussion re spam, "oh how could anyone expect to sell something when they can't even spell". except he's not trying to do anything other than signal to other dumbasses, "hey, here's dumbassery". they then merge. that's all that's going on there.
08:15 shinohai Not surprisingly, the main "investor" here is coinbase founder Fred Ehrsam.
08:15 mircea_popescu aha.
08:16 mircea_popescu this "stupid signalling" approach explains 100% of the activity of the idiots.
08:19 mircea_popescu compare and contrast "Production can only be carried out successfully by managers who want to make things, and not just to make money." from the marxist idiot masquerading as an economist with the "We thought we were ready, but then everyone arrived. The team was overwhelmed. The airport was jam packed. The buses couldn’t handle the load." of the very manager he's talking about, passionate of "the ocean" and "technology" bu
08:19 mircea_popescu t innumerate.
08:21 mircea_popescu yes, it sounds way the fuck better in the abstract (if you're clueless, entirely devoid of either experience, any faculty for thought and any inclination to resolve either). but it's the same god damned thing -- the desire of "visual thinkers" to introduce new glyphs in the alphabet so they don't get "constrained" in their "creativity" by the present set exactly mirrors the need of the house fly to get some garbage going so i
08:21 mircea_popescu t can lay its eggs somewhere.
08:23 mircea_popescu point fucking remains : people who "just want to" "creative" and be relieved from the need to math are fundamentally stupid people who will never do anything but make trouble for their betters, and who essentially aim to burn your house down to make marshmellows in the blaze.
08:29 shinohai https://blog.slock.it/blockchain-energy-p2p-sharing-project-share-charge-going-into-live-beta-ad4e069e79d <<< More of the same, from the neckbeards @ slock.it
08:29 mircea_popescu lol, that lulz still pretends to existence ? really ?
08:31 shinohai Also, still pretending that Ethereum is "Immutable" apparently.
08:32 shinohai "Our mobile application enables anyone to benefit from a platform secured by proven cryptographic principles without knowing the technical details behind it"
08:33 shinohai We don't know the technical details behind it either, but hey!
08:33 mircea_popescu made by the people that also made the anal orifice ethereum got raped through ?
08:33 shinohai The very same.
08:34 mircea_popescu what could possibly go wrong! some idiots will flock to it, if it makes a blob large enough they'll be "too big to fail" and if it doesn't maybe it attracts the attention of a slightly larger blob looking to accrete specs of stupid to grow.
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08:51 mircea_popescu !!up asciilifeform
08:51 deedbot asciilifeform voiced for 30 minutes.
08:52 asciilifeform ty mircea_popescu . trinque : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651420 >> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552690
08:52 a111 Logged on 2017-05-03 19:23 trinque: unrelatedly hey asciilifeform, got an apu2?
08:52 a111 Logged on 2016-10-04 15:36 asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, PANZERS! pc engines 'apu2' (the board with the intel nics - vs. 'apu1', with realtek) , turns out, is crippled, hdt probe barfs with it, the cpu is reputed to have a drm fuse set.
08:53 asciilifeform so it's approx the same as any cheapo x86 nao.
08:53 mircea_popescu heh
08:53 asciilifeform apu1 was the nice one.
08:53 asciilifeform 2 has bloblocked amd and -- as if this weren't enough -- intel (yes) nic.
08:57 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651432 << this fact is readily verified with almost naked eye. yet 'unhappening', naturally.
08:57 a111 Logged on 2017-05-03 19:41 mircea_popescu: meanwhile the chinos seem to have completely given up on tx priority by fee. there's 20 sat/B items included, there's 200 sat/B item waiting for hours in the pool, it's a complete, ridiculous mess.
08:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651435 << them and other folx who claim to 'prioritize' tx in exchange for ... fiatola
08:58 a111 Logged on 2017-05-03 19:43 mircea_popescu: (andpool, as usual, the worst offender.)
08:58 mircea_popescu amusingly it improved significantly right after i said that. coincidental, i'm sure,. and not to last, obviously.
08:59 mircea_popescu who could have predicted that the people supposedly served by the market in question are the first to try and break it ?
08:59 mircea_popescu apparently every imbecile is firmly convinced the warm embrace of some sort of "consensus" fiatism is going to treat him better than any possible marketplace.
09:00 shinohai http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651510 <<< lol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14262389
09:00 a111 Logged on 2017-05-03 23:04 ben_vulpes: heh it'd be funny if a) the fiduciary rule had stuck and b) if someone had brought suit against coinbase/kraken for pushing penny stocks
09:00 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651480 << hey, in usaschwitz inmates are forbidden from having money at all
09:00 a111 Logged on 2017-05-03 21:26 mircea_popescu: soooo... the unconfirmed rumour is that the chinese govt is drawing up plans to make bitcoin a strategic commodity, making it illegal for private citizens to hold it / buy their holdings at the "prevailing market rates" (ie, 1kish_
09:00 mircea_popescu in short : the fundamental error at the base of the currently deployed bitcoin prototype is the nonsensical proposition that observed competence correlates with actual competence, rather than being just accidental happenstance.
09:00 mircea_popescu it's a little like giving an A to the kid who's top of the mongoloid class, forgetting for some reason that even if he floated to the top, he still floated to the top of a sewer and consequently is still a turd, fundamentally.
09:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: recall the 'columbus and driftwood' thread
09:01 mircea_popescu yes the current miners elbowed themselves atop a larger set who tried to mine, over years, somehow. but this does not mean they're anything but a bunch of idempotent tards.
09:01 mircea_popescu asciilifeform quite.
09:02 mircea_popescu it's still one for the ages, to observe the people for whom the market exists in the first place squirm like they were visited with flaming salt ffs.
09:03 mircea_popescu it's almost as if everyone agrees itsucks for the nodes, they got no fee market, except for the miners, who go "hey, at least they ain't got a market!11"
09:04 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-03#1651533 << shannonizer
09:04 a111 Logged on 2017-05-03 23:16 mircea_popescu: "passions" for you know, "technology", "the ocean" and "music". because that's how this fucking works, there's a large jar called "passions" and you pick m&m's from there. they're all the fucking same.
09:04 mircea_popescu wetware, but yes.
09:07 mircea_popescu shinohai lulzy, all the "technical trader" explaining away why their idiocy did not work. here, i have a very similar one for you : https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1376503/september-11-cameraman-claims-hes-got-proof-the-george-w-bush-administration-was-behind-terror-attacks/
09:07 mircea_popescu tl;cba - dude shot his wife in the head, ran off to argentina, is not being extradited and likes to claim that it's because he has sept 11 proofs!!1
09:10 shinohai Jet fuel can't melt steel beams yo
09:11 mircea_popescu 6 inch peni can't satisfy wives, either. nevertheless...
09:11 shinohai hue
09:12 mircea_popescu this whole "oh, someone else snuck in and shot my wife, didn't bother to fuck her before or after, nothing" is such lulz. who the fuck is going to shoot a woman, the husband himself can't be arsed most of the time.
09:16 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651644 << this took me ~month to tune, i oughta have posted the makefile
09:16 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 10:14 phf: afaik gnat is built as part of gcc, i.e. it's one of possible artifacts produced during gcc suite compilation, so you shouldn't have a situation of non matching versions, and if you do it's most likely not going to work right. the easiest approach is to build matching gcc/gnat into their own directory structure, and change PATH when you're working with gnat projects. i think package managers going the other way and try and carefully match gcc/gnat
09:16 asciilifeform will post when i get home
09:17 asciilifeform ( originally planned to wait till 'p' release , did not anticipate the appetite of readers )
09:17 * asciilifeform bbl
09:18 mircea_popescu in other lulz, apparently george michael died. heroin abuse.
09:18 asciilifeform !!down asciilifeform
09:18 mircea_popescu wtf is with all these obnoxious 80s media items doing heroin anyway ?
09:18 mircea_popescu anyone got a theory ?
09:18 mircea_popescu and yes asciilifeform , YOU SHOULD HAVE FUCKING POSTED IT.
09:19 mircea_popescu think, if only you had taken the day to do that, you'd have saved mod6 a week of fiddling, for a net gain of 6 days for the republic.
09:19 mircea_popescu why so irresponsible ? srsly nao. you hate us or something ?
09:19 shinohai Perhaps they don't have the Bitcoin or Chinese connections to purchase Carfentanil
09:24 shinohai http://vessenes.com/tokencard-tech-roundup-and-erc20-crediting/ <<< In other Ethereum projects that can't math ....
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09:55 mircea_popescu when is this schmuck getting prosecuted for his "foundation" scam ?
10:03 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-04#1552690 << d'oh
10:03 a111 Logged on 2016-10-04 15:36 asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, PANZERS! pc engines 'apu2' (the board with the intel nics - vs. 'apu1', with realtek) , turns out, is crippled, hdt probe barfs with it, the cpu is reputed to have a drm fuse set.
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10:21 mircea_popescu and in other "production being carried on succesfully by managers who want to make things", https://archive.is/IOVKM#selection-1317.5-1317.68 <<->> http://trilema.com/2014/namecheap-goes-off-the-deep-end-anyone-know-a-decent-domain-registrar/
10:22 mircea_popescu people from the future will look at these boneheaded decades incomprehendingly. never before, and i expect never after, has so much business been destroyed by "really passionate" imbeciles "who wanted to".
10:26 shinohai I don't think I've ever used Cpanel at any point in my internet life.
10:26 mircea_popescu for a while was the cheapest way to get wordpress minds on their own space.
10:27 mircea_popescu whatever, no longer relevant in itself. yet another electric panel co.
10:30 mircea_popescu and in other "When you see it"s, https://68.media.tumblr.com/fc9f5fcc1f392a51a74ec2dbb2cd013d/tumblr_n6sccvgZuH1tptzhko1_1280.jpg
10:30 shinohai What is that, a Soviet block glory hole?
10:30 mircea_popescu must be
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10:46 lobbes http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651737 << probably follows standard path of percocet abuse (around $30 per pill on black market iirc) to eventual (much cheaper) heroin
10:46 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 13:18 mircea_popescu: anyone got a theory ?
10:46 mircea_popescu why not buy a 20lb rock of pure lsd, mount it in a "den" and just you know, lick it whenever you wake up ?
10:47 mircea_popescu there's better drugs to abuse than fucking heroin.
10:47 mircea_popescu in fact, the cogent argument re heroin is that any usage pattern from which you woke up is abuse. the correct way to use it is the way chinese use it, as a retirement plan.
10:48 lobbes Trappings of power vs power I imagine. "Ah shit, can't relax, can't sleep. Ah this mellows shit out"
10:48 mircea_popescu ie "he just wanted to" ?
10:48 lobbes Lsd, on the other hand, can make one more paranoid
10:48 lobbes More aware of "fuck I actually have no control after all!!"
10:48 mircea_popescu mdma ?
10:48 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651584 << this was nice, thx!
10:48 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 01:39 shinohai: Framedragger: I prefer Rimsky-Korsakov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR_Q7NbLzyU&t=916s
10:50 lobbes Mdma may be the right prescription for em' although many are cut with amphetamines. "The day after blues" can hit hard
10:50 mircea_popescu you'd expect pop icon of the 80s can afford nuclear grade pure samples.
10:50 Framedragger i think the simile of "lsd is like being given a coredump" is apt (actually heard this from an opioid affictionado). you're sorta-given-all-the-data, but then what. mdma on the other hand is in-between a psychedelic (you still get that psychedelic experience, to a point) and a stimulant (which in its case acts as "guidance", of sorts).
10:50 shinohai I never get tired of that one .... There is a version somewhere that the NY Philharmonic butchered by performing a bit too presto for my taste.
10:51 shinohai That one is likely best on Youtube
10:51 * Framedragger agrees re "heroin as retirement plan". doesn't plan to try opioids before ~60, even
10:51 Framedragger shinohai: nice
10:53 Framedragger (required disclaim re mdma: one has to do the homework, understand basics of serotonin syndrome (oxidation => damage of serotonin synapses), do it *very* infrequently (if at all), etc.)
10:53 Framedragger disclaimer*
10:53 lobbes ^^ true
10:54 Framedragger (unless you're a british raveboy who does it every weekend and then complains of "memory problems" years later. plennnnty of these here)
10:54 lobbes I try to space my mdma experiences between several years even
10:55 lobbes Oh god, I couldn't imagine that. Talk about brain frying
10:56 Framedragger sounds like a good idea :) i think "3 months" is a nice bare-minimum, but there's actually not enough data. controlled studies are with mice etc., and field observations have too many confounding variables (alcohol, weed, etc.; also, *body temperature* (most important catalyst of deprivation of antioxidants it seems, many fall prey to this, underhydrated, etc.))
10:57 mircea_popescu they don't do the cold rooms anymore ?
10:58 Framedragger too young / out-of-loop to have seen this. guess not. is it like a place you go to for dancing breaks? sounds nice
10:58 mircea_popescu it is the place where you go to lie down and have your body temperature fixed passively.
10:58 mircea_popescu wtf.
10:59 trinque totally untrue re: lsd gives you all the data
10:59 Framedragger trinque: yeah, that was too optimistic, i agree
10:59 mircea_popescu what is wrong with the fucking soviet, it always builds these shits, roadways without parking spaces, brothel;s without bathrooms, raves without the requisite terarium scl etc ad infinitum.
10:59 mircea_popescu if anything should be the international, universal and enduring symbol of socialism / stupidity, it'd be a koi fish in a plastic bag.
11:00 trinque Framedragger: it's depersonalizing and that can maybe give you some room in your skull to think for a while if you're otherwise too neurotic to calm down
11:00 trinque otherwise makes sensory input LIKE WOAH MAN which is fun, but does nothing useful
11:01 trinque funny enough this was exactly what I was thinking about in the shower
11:01 trinque republican overmind is everywhere
11:02 mircea_popescu lol
11:02 scriba say BORG
11:04 Framedragger !!rate scriba -1 buggy
11:04 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/UL2ou/?raw=true
11:06 lobbes lel
11:11 shinohai http://archive.is/J3fXr <<< Judge rules users can be compelled to reveal phone passcodes in sextortion case.
11:14 mircea_popescu "social media star yesjulz" ? sorry ?
11:14 shinohai I never heard of her either.
11:14 mircea_popescu "Both Voigt and "YesJulz" are big names on social media. Voigt is a fitness model and Instagram celebrity who starred last fall on "WAGS Miami," an E! reality TV show about the wives and girlfriends of sports figures in South Beach."
11:14 mircea_popescu you have ghot to be kidding me.
11:16 mircea_popescu so basically this entire "legal proceeding" is about trying to enact the pretense that "E!" is a tv station and "WAGS Miami" is some sort of show and so on and so forth.
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11:36 shinohai And that the "celebrities" involved are actual people.
11:46 mircea_popescu "nobody ruled on nobody in particular's sophomoric argument with nobody else involving things and matters, please care!"
11:48 mircea_popescu i suppose the next helping out of the ever fertile well of these idiots' imagination is you know, "bitcoin is money because we've been acting like it were for long enough and everyone really cares what we act like!!!"
11:48 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> wtf is with all these obnoxious 80s media items doing heroin anyway ? << Their doctors have been scared by the DEA gang into not giving them pharmaceutical opiates
11:50 mircea_popescu why would you give 50yo kid trying to make a life/career out of singing into mom's hairspray tube in his underwear opiates ?
11:50 shinohai Also, am I delusional or did s.qntr price increase this round
11:50 mircea_popescu a good paddling i could see. morphine ? what for ?
11:51 BingoBoingo <lobbes> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651737 << probably follows standard path of percocet abuse (around $30 per pill on black market iirc) to eventual (much cheaper) heroin << You mean under $1 a pop at Walgreens to street price sticker shock to "One trick the drug companies don't want you to know"
11:51 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 13:18 mircea_popescu: anyone got a theory ?
11:52 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> you'd expect pop icon of the 80s can afford nuclear grade pure samples. << Nah, they all hired fiduciaries who told them to "invest" in building their own "Neverland Ranch" by 1990
11:54 mircea_popescu dorks.
11:58 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> why would you give 50yo kid trying to make a life/career out of singing into mom's hairspray tube in his underwear opiates ? << Because muh hips, muh knees, muh condishuns!
11:59 mircea_popescu eh get out
12:00 mircea_popescu half the trench foot sufferers of 1917 got no morphine for amputations because no morphine avaialble, and the sky didn't fall over.
12:00 mircea_popescu now these schmucks expect dentistry work be done under anesthesia ?
12:00 mircea_popescu paddlings.
12:00 BingoBoingo Well, products of their times
12:01 BingoBoingo Progress in medical technolotit and all that
12:01 BingoBoingo "Progress"
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12:26 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/05/midwest-corn-and-altcorn-crops-experience-widespread-deluge-delay/ << Qntra - Midwest Corn And Altcorn Crops Experience Widespread Deluge Delay
12:37 shinohai https://pastebin.com/zU6YZWXK <<< Supposed Q&A w/ Hoaxtoshi in r/btc slack
12:48 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
12:48 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1577.87, vol: 14084.22809790 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1487.892, vol: 12279.16881 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1648.0, vol: 20042.63513104 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1251.4457, vol: 11297.13350000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1577.002, vol: 6551.13376322 | Volume-weighted last average: 1525.07025951
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13:54 mircea_popescu aaand in other consumer futures, http://68.media.tumblr.com/1be6ec112a14f6a173a4a66c2e12f100/tumblr_nxh9kdjXzj1u2j8oyo1_1280.jpg
14:03 shinohai http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39798988 <<< Extreme selfies, US Army edition
14:11 mircea_popescu "human cost of war" my foot. a mortar shell blew up during a training exercise. what fucking war ? the human cost of the continuance of the usg criminal organisation.
~ 1 hours 2 minutes ~
15:14 phf this is as heavy handed as soviet propaganda used to be. photographer dies during training accident, "heroic womens dies in war, we salute all the heroic womens in war, and call a photography honor after heroic womens!1"
~ 51 minutes ~
16:05 mircea_popescu quite.
16:06 mircea_popescu woman insisted we watch "quails"
16:06 mircea_popescu it's the story of some laundress (kate pizdets) who speaks with a minor character la salle or de sale or w/e like she's hius wife
16:06 mircea_popescu and an entire hospital, country and film set is organized around her.
16:06 mircea_popescu because she's a woman, you understand.
16:07 mircea_popescu and everyone cares about her. you know ? like irl ?
16:07 mircea_popescu fucktards.
16:16 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/8A8FCA2E770D10993CDBB43D037DE6D5C71B312B44D564BE99CEC3032F2323A8 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1515...4643 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '195.5.254.146 (ssh-rsa key from 195.5.254.146 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (network.ippi.fr. FR)
16:16 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/8A8FCA2E770D10993CDBB43D037DE6D5C71B312B44D564BE99CEC3032F2323A8 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1622...1559 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '195.5.254.146 (ssh-rsa key from 195.5.254.146 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (network.ippi.fr. FR)
16:16 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/C5B7435DED25831DC3124683E4E026958F97627DEF877176C739F0713DA58A8F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1409...7323 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '31.28.254.19 (ssh-rsa key from 31.28.254.19 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (host-19-254-28-31.sevstar.net. UA 40)
16:16 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/9E6C665F9E88721784B110AFFF0C32B26A7F76FBF9A23EDDA111C9BC9BED62B2 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1409...7323 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '78.139.73.56 (ssh-rsa key from 78.139.73.56 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (56-73-139-78.kamensktel.ru. RU SVE)
16:16 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/FAE0707E17D6FC42F61F64831A1D0579383302AD965D59BC4A2C82CD7020B595 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1409...7323 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '41.191.238.241 (ssh-rsa key from 41.191.238.241 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown ZW)
16:16 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/C5B7435DED25831DC3124683E4E026958F97627DEF877176C739F0713DA58A8F << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1377...0023 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '31.28.254.19 (ssh-rsa key from 31.28.254.19 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (host-19-254-28-31.sevstar.net. UA 40)
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18:56 BingoBoingo And the lower house of US congress passed healthcare reform-reform
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19:12 ben_vulpes is this good for healthfarecoin?
19:21 BingoBoingo Unknown
19:31 mod6 <+ben_vulpes> mod6: i think it's grand << aha. ok sounds good then.
19:31 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651593 << yeah should be fine << yup, just as long as we/treasurer keeps track.
19:31 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 02:05 mod6: ben_vulpes: thoughts?
19:32 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651619 << nice pile mod6 ! << thx, salud!
19:32 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 03:12 mod6: here's the results from FG #3, second run of entropy collection1.1Gb worth. `ent` && `dieharder` results: http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg3.ent_run2.txt http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg3.dieharder_run2.txt
19:32 mod6 phf: thanks for the info.
19:33 mod6 I totally should have just checked that the version alignment on the thing. It was weird because simple things would compile.... like really simple things. But when it came to the more complex, ffa for example, was getting weird error messages. But at least, hey, it's out there, it has some sharp edges.
19:40 BingoBoingo Anyways local interstate highways have spent time closed this week because of water, fuck that's a lot of water, OMG is the river changing its course?, and TREE! Tree happened when ground became too wet to support continued rooting
19:45 mats appeals to emotion for opposition to trumpcare are peaking
19:47 BingoBoingo Idiocy is like water, it doesn't have a firm peak. Sometime it floods, but the high point is a "crest" not a peak.
19:47 BingoBoingo This is because it is constantly trying to "self level", no standouts among idiots after all
20:01 phf be like water my friend
20:02 mats o god
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20:44 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes it's spelled healthfyre
20:49 ben_vulpes in particular i find the "number of insured will decline" line amusing
20:49 ben_vulpes taking as a given that more insured ===== better
20:50 mircea_popescu that was the whole obamacare thing.
20:51 mircea_popescu socialist paradise of the future to be enacted through having more people involved. just like they think the country will fare better, politically, by having more low information voters added to the rolls, and just like clinton genuinely thought the economy will gain by having more black morons with "home ownership". even if it was a purely scriptural matter.
20:51 mircea_popescu this is the ~only belief of the idiot church : more is better.
20:51 mircea_popescu then they go hole themselves up in "exclusive" cul de sacs with bollards and shit.
20:52 mircea_popescu "no child left behind" wasn't supposed to lead to direct, immediate and precipitous tankage of the basic education system.
20:52 mircea_popescu they genuinely imagined, and to this day still hold on to the impacted, unverbalised and unverbalizable belief that "educating" 100% of the horde is like... 2x better than educating 98.8% of it.
20:53 mircea_popescu some strange fyrefestival math like, eating 4 cupcakes = 2400 calories, eating 5 cupcakes = 3500 calories and eating ALL the six cupcakes > 9000 calories. because ALL!
20:57 mircea_popescu this shit isn't in any sense rational. it's not properly speaking belief, like some believe jesus gives a shit about them or whatever, moses turned piss to vinegar. this is more like fatlogic, a convenient and therefore self-perpetuating earworm. whatever the problem, they'll just pretend like it's caused by you know, something somewhere being left behind, like they're playing old sierra quest games.
20:59 mircea_popescu and it's not novel in any sense, either. exact same idiocy documented late 1800s, as per eg https://archive.is/lWBxq#selection-695.430-695.619
20:59 mircea_popescu !!up asciilifeform
20:59 deedbot asciilifeform voiced for 30 minutes.
20:59 mircea_popescu how goes alfie
20:59 asciilifeform aalmost done with this here expedition.
21:00 ben_vulpes what have you been up to?
21:00 asciilifeform secular matters
21:00 mircea_popescu auditions for his exclusive rave / festival.
21:00 asciilifeform ( wurk )
21:00 ben_vulpes mm
21:00 mircea_popescu lol secular as opposed to cultish ?
21:01 asciilifeform aha. did get to ride on a (i picture) mircea_popescu-grade yacht.
21:01 mircea_popescu o hey. nude sluts ?
21:02 asciilifeform 0 sluts. old folx with beards. but, two massive diesels.
21:02 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-05#1651870 << if fucked up the reference, meant http://trilema.com/2016/sensitivity-human-rights-democracy/#selection-69.0-73.139
21:02 a111 Logged on 2017-05-05 00:59 mircea_popescu: and it's not novel in any sense, either. exact same idiocy documented late 1800s, as per eg https://archive.is/lWBxq#selection-695.430-695.619
21:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform ah, the generator discussion huh
21:03 asciilifeform it blew my mind, i had never before heard of a 'wet muffler', walked around vessel in search of the missing tailpipe...
21:03 mircea_popescu o ya.
21:04 mircea_popescu there's certain advantages to using the grown up version of items
21:04 mircea_popescu like it making sense to deploy the good trims.
21:04 asciilifeform 'why doesn't smell like the bulldozer it is? where is it.'
21:05 asciilifeform and it turns out, asciilifeform is entirely immune to seasickness.
21:05 asciilifeform fwiw.
21:05 mircea_popescu you know that's somewhat common in folk with myopia ?
21:06 asciilifeform dunno, i get sick on , e.g., trains
21:06 mircea_popescu it's the far peripheral vision that gets the vagal system all fucked up
21:06 asciilifeform even had the electroshocker gizmo, when i rode the train ( helped! )
21:09 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651748 << i tried it exactly once, mircea_popescu probably recalls
21:09 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 14:26 shinohai: I don't think I've ever used Cpanel at any point in my internet life.
21:09 asciilifeform it was a horror
21:10 asciilifeform unusable box.
21:10 mircea_popescu lol i recall
21:11 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651852 << i'ma have to do a likbez when i get home. mod6 did you even split the ads and adb pieces? ( i pasted them into same paste, for ease of reading )
21:11 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 23:33 mod6: I totally should have just checked that the version alignment on the thing. It was weird because simple things would compile.... like really simple things. But when it came to the more complex, ffa for example, was getting weird error messages. But at least, hey, it's out there, it has some sharp edges.
21:11 asciilifeform and incidentally phf did build it .
21:12 mircea_popescu meanwhile in real asia news, https://68.media.tumblr.com/224cbc06ec31a452b533aa4fee6574f4/tumblr_nwwqxzsfMi1u1u4hvo1_500.gif
21:12 asciilifeform but yes, you gotta clean your box of any multiple gnats, unless you have a ~very~ tight control of paths in your shell and make sure that only one at a time is visible
21:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: lol!!
21:13 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/C0225860DCE123B51C7C8DEC74F67E219BBD9E6B34A15F6676ECD5F1213549B4 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1070...5033 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '12.46.225.30 (ssh-rsa key from 12.46.225.30 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown US)
21:13 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/C0225860DCE123B51C7C8DEC74F67E219BBD9E6B34A15F6676ECD5F1213549B4 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1015...6703 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '12.46.225.30 (ssh-rsa key from 12.46.225.30 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown US)
21:13 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/D65BBD0677E0395C5E6E5DCC0255CF05BFC01B71712815526A8C78C542D93045 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1015...6703 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '50.59.149.233 (ssh-rsa key from 50.59.149.233 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown US)
21:13 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/D65BBD0677E0395C5E6E5DCC0255CF05BFC01B71712815526A8C78C542D93045 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1265...1349 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '50.59.149.233 (ssh-rsa key from 50.59.149.233 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown US)
21:14 mircea_popescu is it me or is phuctor popping at an increasing rate
21:14 asciilifeform eh sometimes days with 0
21:15 mircea_popescu tri
21:15 asciilifeform i did recently massage the db knobs, slightly increasing the eat speed
21:15 mircea_popescu ah
21:20 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651723 >> 'He says inside the building he came across a vault that had been cleared of its contents before the planes struck.'
21:20 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 13:07 mircea_popescu: shinohai lulzy, all the "technical trader" explaining away why their idiocy did not work. here, i have a very similar one for you : https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/1376503/september-11-cameraman-claims-hes-got-proof-the-george-w-bush-administration-was-behind-terror-attacks/
21:20 asciilifeform iirc there were other witnesses of said vault.
21:21 mircea_popescu ya but how many vaults total ?
21:22 asciilifeform 'He says he has the most trouble understanding how World Trade Center 7 collapsed despite suffering no damage.' << this was the cherry on the cake of idiocy usg asked gullible public to swallow.
21:22 mircea_popescu this whole "nefarious AND COMPETENT lizard usg" theory would fare a lot better if it weren;t the case that during ~WELL EXPECTED~ hurricane hit about 500bn in negotiable paper got ruined.
21:22 mircea_popescu you recall that ?
21:22 asciilifeform ruined paper is a win for lizards, not a loss
21:23 asciilifeform it is absolutely never the case that a plebe suddenly no longer owes his mortgage, say, because a paper burned
21:24 asciilifeform whereas the reverse -- always and everywhere.
21:24 mircea_popescu nevermind this tangent. what do you expect was in wtc safe ? paper.
21:24 asciilifeform 'oh your bonds burned? fuck off , usg owes you 0 nao'
21:24 asciilifeform gold?
21:24 mircea_popescu nah.
21:25 asciilifeform http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/nyregion/a-nation-challenged-the-vault-below-ground-zero-silver-and-gold.html ?
21:25 mircea_popescu it's not practical to keep gold in the middle of fucking new york. you ever saw the wtc traffic ?
21:25 mircea_popescu nonsense, by my lights, but whatever.
21:26 asciilifeform and most of usg's claimed/official reserve lives in nyc still.
21:26 asciilifeform ( at least nominally )
21:26 mircea_popescu not in the fucking wtc though.
21:26 asciilifeform in nyc fed.
21:27 mircea_popescu i dunno about that.
21:27 asciilifeform Officially.
21:27 mircea_popescu what, you mean in the museum building at 33 liberty ?
21:29 mircea_popescu !!up asciilifeform
21:29 deedbot asciilifeform voiced for 30 minutes.
21:29 asciilifeform 'The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also lost two evidence vaults, according to a spokesman for that agency' << gotta wonder, they dismissed even 1 case?
21:30 mircea_popescu well, the lying chemist resulted in about 600 retrials in boston. coupla hundred walked.
21:30 mod6 hai
21:30 asciilifeform heya mod6
21:31 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> auditions for his exclusive rave / festival. << ha
21:31 mod6 how's the trip alf?
21:32 asciilifeform in some ways interesting.
21:32 mod6 <+asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651852 << i'ma have to do a likbez when i get home. mod6 did you even split the ads and adb pieces? ( i pasted them into same paste, for ease of reading ) << yup. that was the first thing I encountered. but indeed, much easier to read.
21:32 a111 Logged on 2017-05-04 23:33 mod6: I totally should have just checked that the version alignment on the thing. It was weird because simple things would compile.... like really simple things. But when it came to the more complex, ffa for example, was getting weird error messages. But at least, hey, it's out there, it has some sharp edges.
21:32 danielpbarron there's pretty substantial evidence that the WTC buildings were destroyed with a "directed energy weapon"
21:32 mircea_popescu what's a directed energy weapon ?
21:33 mod6 and that's the main thing. i really care about trying to fit it in head, as opposed to "compiler" concerns at this time with ffa. however, my other little sample shits i've been trying to make are probably going to go a lot better now that i have a 'sane' environment.
21:33 asciilifeform what ~isn't~ one ?
21:33 asciilifeform even knife, qualifies
21:33 danielpbarron focusing electromagnetic beams in some sort of static field
21:33 mircea_popescu well, supposedly revoler, directed matter weapon ? i dunno
21:33 danielpbarron that would be a kinetic weapon
21:33 * asciilifeform bangs head on desk
21:33 mircea_popescu danielpbarron did you bother with the math on that ?
21:34 mod6 asciilifeform: hey, did you ever see my q for ya in #trilema-mod6?
21:34 asciilifeform nope
21:34 mod6 hope it didn't make you puke or whatever, was just curious...
21:34 mod6 so. ok.
21:34 asciilifeform gonna have to check the logs.
21:35 danielpbarron mircea_popescu, no. did you do the math on jet fuel?
21:35 mircea_popescu or for that matter the practical details. what's a MW laser look like, cost, what's it sound like when it goes, why would i say "nah, pulsed" as it were obvious in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-17#1628600
21:35 a111 Logged on 2017-03-17 04:04 mircea_popescu: eh ffs, what sustained. pulse.
21:35 mircea_popescu stuff like that.
21:36 mircea_popescu well yes, as a matter of fact i keep doing that math. it keeps coming up here, about how a liter of gasoline is 1.5 MJ and there ain't no electric battery even come close etc.
21:36 mod6 asciilifeform: it's here http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema-mod6?d=2017-5-2#084fcaeb-3165-47f6-a8d2-ab029ac3adbb
21:38 mod6 basically, I was just wondering about the verbage there and how I aught to "distill"; my first inclination was to go two bytes at a time, xor them together, output 1 byte. but then after sleeping on it, and a search of "xor in place", i thought maybe it meant to take: 0A0B and swap to 0B0A.
21:38 danielpbarron if jet fuel, why wasn't there a million tons of debris at ground zero? why wasn't there any significant seismic activity?
21:38 mod6 After doing such, I have a hard time thinking how that would be cryptographically helpful. So perhaps the former is correct? Just looking for a heads up.
21:38 mircea_popescu standard kerosene is 46MJ/kg. the boeing carries about 63k liters, and kerosene density is about .82
21:39 mircea_popescu !~calc 46 * 63 * .82
21:39 asciilifeform mod6: xor is the 1 operation where entropy is guaranteed-additive ( supposing the two items are independent! X xor X = 0 ! )
21:39 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: 46 * 63 * .82 = 2376.3599999999997
21:39 mircea_popescu 2.3 TJ.
21:40 mod6 asciilifeform: even in the case of a swap?
21:40 mircea_popescu what's a swap ?
21:40 asciilifeform what swap
21:41 mod6 my being dumb, the second time around.
21:41 asciilifeform this has 0 to do with the swap trick in ffa, mod6
21:41 asciilifeform xor, realize, has many uses.
21:41 mod6 http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/R51WR/?raw=true
21:42 mod6 sorry, don't mean to confuse with ffa
21:42 mod6 this is for FG
21:42 mircea_popescu danielpbarron i take the laser because notwithstanding the ample lossage generally discussed as "slope efficiency", photon beams are the most efficient em "weapons". actual ion beams are even worse than the 3-5%ish laser. so you know, someone somewhere had to burn 50 TJ or so to deliver the same effect, plus whatever the intervening air ate up. you know how air looks if traversed by a TJ laser ?
21:42 mod6 at the end of the page it says "distill a days worth of entropy and xor in place"
21:42 mod6 just trying to find out if im doing that right
21:42 mod6 nevermind, just hit me up when you're bck
21:43 asciilifeform mod6: it means that you need B bytes, but you collect x*B, and xor them over a B-sized buffer
21:43 trinque "directed energy weapon" is a whole other level of strange
21:43 trinque I had not heard that particular tinfoil
21:43 danielpbarron it wasn't a laser. it was some thing that causes a sort of cold fusion that turns atoms into other atoms, and causes atoms and molecules to repel eachother. it caused the buildings to turn to dust mid-air
21:44 trinque the thing was demo'd.
21:44 danielpbarron there is a woman named Judy Wood who came up with this theory, and she has a lot of evidence to back it up
21:44 asciilifeform danielpbarron: what part of the picture was inconsistent with good old dynamite?
21:44 trinque like any other structure that collapsed into footprint
21:44 asciilifeform ^
21:44 asciilifeform the 'martian deathray' folx -- serve usg.
21:45 mircea_popescu tecnically, i suppose fuel-air bombs are "directed [thermal] energy", for a very weak specification of "directed"
21:45 danielpbarron asciilifeform, lack of explosions, lack of debris, toasted cars on the ground away from where they could have been hit by things-- and toasted not by fire but something else. witnesses saw them spontaneously combust
21:45 mircea_popescu danielpbarron cold fusion tends to leave very specific residue however.
21:45 danielpbarron tritium, yes that was found
21:45 mircea_popescu not that much lithium snow in new york the next day.
21:46 mircea_popescu tritium results from hydrogen cold fusion, theoretically. what hydrogen ?
21:46 danielpbarron isn't there hydrogen in the air?
21:46 mircea_popescu not in this sense, no.
21:47 mircea_popescu there's water in the air. but hydrogen, even lighter than helium, tends to either react or run off.
21:47 mircea_popescu you can't really cold-fuse water's hydrogens, because the tightly bound oxygen works as a sort of equivalent of a moderator.
21:48 danielpbarron i don't know, but the levels of tritium at ground zero were much higher than what you'd expect
21:48 asciilifeform danielpbarron: tritium is a gas at stp
21:48 asciilifeform just like regular old H
21:48 mircea_popescu also flammable yes.
21:49 asciilifeform and you won't find measurable qty of either in outdoor atmosphere.
21:49 mircea_popescu ah, depends with what you measure.
21:50 mircea_popescu can now and again see a line, gets 2nd year physicists all excited.
21:50 danielpbarron the effects of this weapon go on long after it as been deactivated. there was a building near the WTC that suffered minimal damage and was repaired, only to be demolished months later because the structure rotted. the metal looked as if it had been submerged in the ocean for a century
21:51 mircea_popescu ok, but you're aware this is not really how radiation works. there's no electromagnetic linger.
21:51 mircea_popescu actually, that's the principal distinction between "matter" and "energy" as intuitively understood. matter sticks around. energy does not.
21:51 mircea_popescu photon rest mass is 0 for a reason.
21:54 asciilifeform mod6: see logs, 'xor lemma'
21:54 asciilifeform mod6: i'ma post example when i get back to cockpit
21:55 mod6 no problem.
21:55 mod6 it can wait.
21:56 shinohai So there is this chick that calls herself "Lil Wafarin" on twitter sent me a message. When I casually asked why she chose rat poison as her nom de guerre, she goes ballistic.
21:57 mircea_popescu meanwhile at "endoscopy ? i love endoscopy!" camp, https://68.media.tumblr.com/67bc762d294ac3d279059aa8e7a3c511/tumblr_nuu3mpB1qT1uwm5r1o1_500.gif
21:58 mircea_popescu shinohai were you being disrespectful of her roots ?
21:59 shinohai !!Up asciilifeform
21:59 deedbot asciilifeform voiced for 30 minutes.
21:59 shinohai Nah least I didn't consider it disrespectful. I was genuinely curious.
22:00 shinohai Perhaps she is a serial killer that uses Coumadin to poison her victims.
22:00 shinohai Quien sabe.
22:02 * asciilifeform bbl - tomorrow.
22:10 mod6 later
22:15 mircea_popescu oh yeah, totally forgot to gloat. so today on highway going to town, crash in front of me. then on the way back... crash in front of me. this one actually made traffic crawl, so i told the driver to switch lanes. because he wasn't going in the faster one.
22:15 mircea_popescu the lane i told him to switch to ? stayed fast. so THERE!
~ 1 hours 1 minutes ~
23:16 mod6 nice!
23:16 mod6 sounds like you dodged a kid on a bike the other day too.
23:16 mircea_popescu passively!
23:17 mod6 damn bikes!
23:18 mircea_popescu i suspect kid was trying to impress attendant slavegirl.
23:21 mod6 ahh. trying to showboat found him a strategically placed hydrant.
23:21 mod6 lifes lessons aha
23:21 mircea_popescu hey, sort of like sidewalk's penis.
23:22 mod6 ya, very much. there's one on every street!
23:22 mircea_popescu lel
23:24 mod6 i bet the switchbacks were brutal on that hike 'eh?
23:25 mircea_popescu they can't be arsed with switchbacks here. fuck it they say, make it 25% and let you drive in 1st for a few hours, what of it.
23:25 mircea_popescu good for the engine!
23:25 mircea_popescu you ever saw "4x4" choke to death on asphalt ?
23:26 mircea_popescu just couldn't get enough torque to get its fat ass up the grade. period.
23:27 mod6 wow. no, can't say that I have.
23:27 mircea_popescu they have some hills here that if it even lightly frosted, it'd just be farewell to arms
23:27 mircea_popescu and legs.
23:28 mod6 heheh.
23:28 mircea_popescu they'd just have a bunch of disparate torsos collected in the valley.
23:29 mod6 i'd imagine that it'd be crazy.
23:29 mircea_popescu even water slick is VERY problematic.
23:29 mod6 i suppose even with the rains it's pretty bad
23:29 mod6 ya
23:29 mircea_popescu rains daily, see ? and if you start sliding there's nothing.
23:29 mircea_popescu just no fucking way, stop on the first ravine.
23:30 mod6 there a fair amount of mudslides/erosion?
23:30 mircea_popescu yes.
23:30 mircea_popescu they build walls and shit to contain it, and are very good with trench gutters, foot deep etc.
23:30 mircea_popescu but still.
23:31 mod6 sure.
23:31 mircea_popescu fortunately the soil isn't very good. if it were the rich black stuff, that sucks a lot of water, forget about it.
23:31 mircea_popescu but mostly jungle crap, not so soaky.
23:31 mod6 sure, more sand like then?
23:31 mircea_popescu sand/clay sorta thing.
23:31 mod6 ah. what's the power situation like? do they lose power often during the rain?
23:31 mod6 take a while to get it back on?
23:33 mircea_popescu nah. it's pretty dirty but hey, you get inverters etc. otherwise, no, outage may be 10 minutes or such. they're just very serious, diligent people, drive up the hill fix it.
23:33 mod6 that seems reasonable.
23:33 * mircea_popescu likes ticos.
23:34 mircea_popescu way the fuck better than argentina, i'll tell you that. those idiots... god help them.
23:34 mod6 good to hear.
23:34 mod6 i think you had all you could stand of that place.
23:34 mircea_popescu just about.
23:34 trinque yeah, I found 'em friendly, helpful, and you could joke with them
23:35 trinque no air of "someone's about to get offended"
23:35 trinque which sad that this was noteworthy to me, but was
23:35 mircea_popescu haven't seen good salesmen for a long while pre coming back here. you know that, BOTH a) not be obnoxious and b) talk to you. not one, or the other. fucking both.
23:36 mircea_popescu mod6 i wasn't here for it, but one opf the places, tree fell over brought down power grid. ticoswarm, power back on 2 hrs later.
23:37 mod6 ah, nice
23:37 mircea_popescu ~the inner limit for what something like that can reasonably take, i figure. so... yeah.
23:39 mod6 hell, sometimes a storm can come through here, knock down lines; the tree guys might have to clear debris, power guys gotta hook up new equip and lines, can take ~12-24 hours
23:39 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> standard kerosene is 46MJ/kg. the boeing carries about 63k liters, and kerosene density is about .82 << Aha, this seems to be a source of common misunderstanding. That Jet fuel is a kerosene "heating oil" and not a gasoline exploding oil
23:41 mircea_popescu aha. because turbine not boomegine, but whatever.
23:42 BingoBoingo <shinohai> So there is this chick that calls herself "Lil Wafarin" on twitter sent me a message. When I casually asked why she chose rat poison as her nom de guerre, she goes ballistic. << BwAHAHAHAHAHAH
23:42 mod6 when i first moved into this place, the huge silver-maple tree was touching the high-wire during a storm. the branch actually caught fire in the rain. started to spread down the branch quite a ways...
23:42 mod6 i was like "well... umm... tree is ON FIRE... so call fire dept?"
23:43 mircea_popescu live tree ?
23:43 mod6 so, did, they came and kept an eye on it until it went out on its own. but next day, they came and trimmed off the back half of the tree to clear for the line.
23:44 mod6 yah live tree. still is huge monstrosity in my back yard.
23:44 mircea_popescu pretty hardcore
23:51 mod6 sounds like these highlines for residential service are somewhere between 300-600 volts
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