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00:41 mod6 hehehh
00:41 mod6 i like the bot idea
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01:09 mircea_popescu yee
01:23 lobbes !~later tell Birdman hm, payment didn't seem to go through >> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767503
01:23 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 05:33 Birdman: !!pay lobbes 0.00224535
01:23 jhvh1 lobbes: The operation succeeded.
01:25 trinque lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767505
01:25 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 05:34 danielpbarron: you gotta wait a sec lol
01:25 trinque looks like he was too quick with the hot potato
01:27 lobbes aha
01:29 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768136 << for the record, that's ~exactly the cause of my http://trilema.com/2016/lets-do-chinese-together/ barf. "this is not a language and is not capable of supporting thought ; proceed without me."
01:29 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 01:11 phf: i think somehow lisp symbols tie into this, i'd call it sanskrit thinking, because you also see that a lot in sanskrit. let's attach as much meaning to this symbol as we possibly can, but when we speak the correct meaning will be communicated because the other person is also a vedic god
01:30 mircea_popescu basically early google bubble "search", let's hack speech into a broken device that can only be used to communicate to those people we have nothing to say to.
01:32 mircea_popescu (fwiw i always suspected that's the deep core of the pantsuit fascination with "eastern philosophy" : "o look, a cultural space fundamentally as self-alienated as we ourselves feel inside! THIS IS THE RIGHT BRAND OF EMO FOR MY NEEDS!".)
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07:16 BingoBoingo !~ticker --market all
07:16 jhvh1 BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 14049.7, vol: 19139.52240169 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 13896.0, vol: 52677.20701355 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 14010.0, vol: 4120.37539151 | Volume-weighted last average: 13940.9249072
07:17 BingoBoingo me voy a cita, hope to return with news and numbers
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07:38 shinohai Buenas dias BingoBoingo, suerte y nos veremos!
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08:48 BingoBoingo They gave me a lead on refurb equipment and should be emailing numbers my way for review
08:48 BingoBoingo In other news: https://freedom.press/news/tribute-james-dolan-co-creator-securedrop-who-has-tragically-passed-away-age-36/
08:48 mircea_popescu o.O
08:48 knubie hey everyone
08:48 mircea_popescu ello
08:49 BingoBoingo Buen dia!
08:55 mircea_popescu lmao check out the end of branding : exhibit a) https://image.ibb.co/j22296/00055d92_2889_72b3_714a_437ae2701953_958.jpg ; exhibit b) https://archive.is/jtYAL
08:55 * mircea_popescu wonders what "just a guy trynna make it in dis game" is gonna do.
08:58 shinohai 1/10 would not follow her up the stairs.
08:59 mircea_popescu do you understand she's the equivalent of a "very smart kid", ie, 1.5 or so standard deviations up from the average ?
08:59 mircea_popescu if not her, then whom.
09:00 shinohai Some girls are smart enough not to advertise their trashiness with gaudy tattoos
09:00 mircea_popescu well yeah, but in that prison stairwell...
09:00 mircea_popescu (i imagine that's not what she tells herself it is, but look at that institutional shit. it'd better be.)
09:01 mircea_popescu nevertheless, leaving the talent aside, as who the fuck even cares, grass for the scythe : the ~entrepreneurial young & coming photographer~! which the fuck one of the numerous "mista photographies" expended the resources to produce this artefact.
09:03 mircea_popescu there was a time (not so long ago!) when EVERY mark was known by ~everyone ; and not knowing one was perceived as a subjective lack not as an objective deffect ; and the whole shebang paid well. today i couldn't even order more of "his stuff" if i wanted to, putting in question the very possibility of "his" in "his stuff" and moreover the justification of labour or economic activity generally.
09:03 mircea_popescu a string of five random letters provides him with DOZENS of collisions.
09:03 mircea_popescu !~calc 27^5
09:03 jhvh1 mircea_popescu: 27^5 = 14348907
09:03 mircea_popescu as it must. but god DAYUM!
09:11 BingoBoingo Aha, the branding superiority saga repeats
09:18 BingoBoingo And in other movements https://www.elobservador.com.uy/una-rebelion-whatsapp-contra-el-isis-uruguayo-y-los-comunistas-mierda-n1158082
09:18 mircea_popescu o right, cuz in latam what isis means is ~commies.
09:19 BingoBoingo AHA, and CUBANS!
09:20 mircea_popescu "Yet SecureDrop would not currently exist without James, and he deserves all the commendation in the world for making it what it is today." << i'll need a primer on this, what "is it today" ?
09:21 BingoBoingo And that is truly the mystery
09:22 mircea_popescu ~obscure website nobody uses because http://trilema.com/2017/the-practical-costs-of-hallucinated-freedom/ and http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-30#1718478
09:22 a111 Logged on 2017-09-30 00:18 mircea_popescu: reality winner and her wannabe qntra friends constructed her own subhumanity.
09:24 mircea_popescu "James’s encyclopedic knowledge of computer and network security was a key reason why newsrooms were comfortable adopting SecureDrop when it was still seen as something relatively new and unknown." what THE FUCK are we talking about, am i in some kind of reality distortion field ?
09:25 BingoBoingo Back to the other subject and efficacy https://www.elobservador.com.uy/a-lo-hiroo-onoda-se-quedaron-esperando-un-piquete-que-nunca-llego-n1158070
09:25 mircea_popescu this shit reads exactly like old soviet side jokes about the great production and utter penury.
09:26 BingoBoingo As far as I can tell, SecureDrop was some sorta pantsuit thing Gawker and a couple other derpedias advertised accepting
09:26 mircea_popescu but reality winner happened... afterwards ? iirc this event was post 2013, and "became what it is today"
09:27 mircea_popescu "usg made the us army into what it is today" "you mean a useless piece of shit, janissary corps 2.0 ?" "yeah!"
09:27 BingoBoingo Well, that's what it is today. It is thing derped much about and they celbrate the accreted derp
09:28 mircea_popescu better story, "dood took 80% pay cut trying to make a secure drop thing work ; failed because ustards are retarded ; naggumed self".
09:28 mircea_popescu next time, find the republic instead.
09:30 BingoBoingo Perhaps naggumed "self" after finding bug needing fix that handlers didn't want fixed? Threatened defection to Republic and all?
09:30 mircea_popescu who even knows.
09:30 BingoBoingo Hopefully the next one has the sense to defect to the republic before thumbing nose at old handlers
09:31 BingoBoingo But UStardation likely too deep for that. Gotta play seekrit Agent
09:31 mircea_popescu hey, it costs me ~nothing to keep reading the obits.
09:35 BingoBoingo Are you sure? Are the laffs worth it compared to other laffs you could be having? Like laffs on the seekrit beach
09:36 mircea_popescu well i dunno i can just add everything to opportunity cost, the fact that the sun's not a cube may overshadow all these considerations.
09:37 BingoBoingo Well yes, everything else is opportunity cost taking away from the critical sun cubing effort.
09:38 mircea_popescu but, in any case, salvation of the drowning is work for the hands of the self-same drowning.
09:39 BingoBoingo The sooner we cube the sun, strap it to a pallet and abscond the more time it will take the terrans to realize the TMSR was the alien invasion after all
09:39 BingoBoingo But yes, gotta cought the water or not cough
09:41 BingoBoingo Anyways latest rumor taking the alt-alt by storm is USG's obvious preparation for fake alien invasion.
09:42 mircea_popescu is this the "fema is storing bullets" thing again ?
09:43 BingoBoingo It's the someone dug through cold war freedom of information act'd plans and filtered through through NASA's recent hype over weird space rocks
09:43 BingoBoingo Or it's marketing for the ongoing undeath of the X-files
09:44 mircea_popescu heh
09:44 mircea_popescu or it's unsourced tlp copy/paste.
09:45 mircea_popescu ie "But they have to go to therapy because the clinic requires it because Medicaid requires it (integrated care), and the patients need the clinic because that's how they're getting their SSI, not to mention the Zannies. The docs need them to come because that's how they earn their living, and the government allows this because it needs someone to deal with American poverty until either we discover cold fusion or the aliens
09:45 mircea_popescu invade. The government doesn't tolerate this, it doesn't turn a blind eye towards it, it explicitly allows it. The only thing it forbids is billing for a service not performed (e.g. ghost patient.)" and all that.
09:45 BingoBoingo At this point the marketing cancer is too advanced to tell
09:45 mircea_popescu apparently cold fusion too hard, quantum computers failed to deliver, so...
09:46 knubie http://www.news.com.au/world/europe/educaor-wants-julian-assange-out-of-london-embassy/news-story/8bdae0186186d3906d2a062258e762e4 <<< heh, wonder what will be the next move..
09:46 BingoBoingo Hey, Elon Musk "lost" a DoD satellite according to widely reported rumours and innuendos. Let the ambiguity reign
09:47 mircea_popescu lel, didn't they steal his "social media" recently
09:48 BingoBoingo Only certain thing is that noone wants to be a goat at scaping time.
09:48 knubie mircea_popescu: think so.. feel bad for the guy, his really copped it last few years, his slowly camouflaged into an Albino
09:49 mircea_popescu ironically, "conviction" of imaginary rape in sweeden would have resulted in better living conditions and 5 years is truly excessive anyway.
09:49 mircea_popescu general rule being that it's always much better to openly mock the fucktards than to take them seriously.
09:52 shinohai Maybe Venezuela will take him and he can mine their new fiat cryptocurrency
09:53 mircea_popescu ie, between approach 1, where 2012 assange'd have told anders perkelev he's a retarded cuck and should be ashamed of himself in fromt of teh HD, ended up ~maybe~ convicted of the swedish equivalent of http://trilema.com/2011/americanii-au-disperata-nevoie-de-un-sut-in-cur/ and told same anders perkelev in 2015ish that a) he's still just as much of a retarded cuck as he was in 2012 and b) meanwhile he's also a retarded cuck wh
09:53 mircea_popescu o LOST, publicly and humiliatingly
09:53 mircea_popescu would have delivered much better results in 2018 than the path actually taken, 2), where assange sat in cramped ecuador embassy quarters for five years and got a ~toilet paper roll's worth of pompous "un declarations".
09:54 mircea_popescu perelman had enough fucking sense to tell the ustards where to shove their soiled tp, assange somehow not bright enough to figure it out ?
09:54 mircea_popescu shinohai i thought theirs was refined not mined.
09:54 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo "educaor" lulz bonus.
09:55 shinohai Maduro announced around Xmas they are making a altcorn "backed by oil, gas, gold and diamond reserves"
09:55 mircea_popescu maduro has nfi what anything is, does he.
09:55 shinohai http://archive.is/aNV2b <<< The lulz announcement
09:58 shinohai This is what happens when you elect socialist bus drivers to be your leader.
10:04 knubie shinohai, in a bit may need a hand to finish off from last night :P
10:05 shinohai Finishing work costs extra, those rubber gloves ain't gonna buy themselves.
10:06 knubie lol, what doesn't cost these days.. >:)
10:09 shinohai I jest, just pm me when you are ready, I'll be around somewhere this morning.
10:11 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768272 << i suspect that sanskrit is what the end of the 'greek whisks of meaning' road looks like, however.
10:11 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 06:30 mircea_popescu: basically early google bubble "search", let's hack speech into a broken device that can only be used to communicate to those people we have nothing to say to.
10:13 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768306 << it was a kind of tor, i.e. usg-engineered transparent 'tool for opposition' . d00d presumably was showing symptoms of blowing the idiocy up, got nailgunned.
10:13 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 14:24 mircea_popescu: "James’s encyclopedic knowledge of computer and network security was a key reason why newsrooms were comfortable adopting SecureDrop when it was still seen as something relatively new and unknown." what THE FUCK are we talking about, am i in some kind of reality distortion field ?
10:14 mircea_popescu hanbot http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/BcuDd/?raw=true (for your convenience the porn has been separated packagedly : http://78.media.tumblr.com/170f77ec94cff4028a6380d9a0d92317/tumblr_ne5pvy04Al1tatbbfo1_400.gif ).
10:15 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768313 << approx same 'trying to' as tor. it was exactly same type of pkitronic nonsense, and fooled nobody with even basic degree of literacy
10:15 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 14:28 mircea_popescu: better story, "dood took 80% pay cut trying to make a secure drop thing work ; failed because ustards are retarded ; naggumed self".
10:15 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this is likely true ; certainly the latter sophist episode in greekworld gives much support to theory. greek advantage over original gypsies is just being small and so T manageable.
10:15 asciilifeform greek advantage, as far as i can tell, is 'die reasonably young, leave good-looking corpse'
10:16 mircea_popescu these two are ~same.
10:16 asciilifeform yea
10:17 mircea_popescu note however the evident egyptian relation : same process, just as small, accompanying feats of reason, and died of old age.
10:18 asciilifeform they did not afaik have the language thrust
10:18 asciilifeform ( recall what passed for a language there )
10:18 mircea_popescu it's an open matter.
10:20 mircea_popescu but -- let it be said that alphabet mega tool on this road. yes perhaps "end of road" looks unappealing, but it makes hella difference what you travel in.
10:21 ave1 http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767590, slow and frustrating, I'm currently trying to get gprbuild up and running, so far no success
10:21 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 17:59 mircea_popescu: hows teh ada musling coming along ?
10:21 mircea_popescu (yes they have a cvasi-alphabet, but a) it has 500 "letters" or some shit and b) it was invented about at the same time as emacs split)
10:22 mircea_popescu ave1 there were some complaints/discussion of this, such as http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-07#1766187
10:22 a111 Logged on 2018-01-07 04:53 esthlos: issue resolved by moving to 2016 ada
10:25 TomServo As far as failures go, this one is pretty great: https://archive.is/FueB0 .
10:26 mircea_popescu heh. amusingly, twas in the logs.
10:26 ave1 Yes, I've looked at that, gprbuild uses an internal function that should be in 2016 but seems to be missing, so I'm rebuilding everything from scratch
10:26 TomServo Doh, I missed, apologies.
10:26 ave1 (also like gnat, gprbuild 2016 needs gprbuild to build etc)
10:27 mircea_popescu ave1 detailed notes of the adventure would be rather useful.
10:27 ave1 yes, I will make a write-up
10:27 mircea_popescu xool
10:27 BingoBoingo In other news, somebody call Blofield: NVIDIA GPUs appear to be vulnerable to SPECTRE
10:27 ave1 (currently also writing up my adventures in building ch1)
10:27 mircea_popescu just as xool.
10:27 knubie TomServo: ouch, costly mistake
10:29 TomServo And here I was giving giving OSTK credit for /supposedly/ keeping the bitcoin income rather than using bitpay like everyone else.
10:30 mircea_popescu heh.
10:30 mircea_popescu that's ok, im sure coinbase will make them whole etc. inca dun steal from itself.
10:30 mircea_popescu only from you.
10:30 shinohai TomServo: Naturally Brian Krebs is now taking credit for this from anyone that will listen
10:31 TomServo shinohai: And making donations to charity!
10:32 shinohai :D
10:33 asciilifeform ave1: which 2016 ? adacore's, or gpl ?
10:33 asciilifeform the latter, in so far as i can tell, is ~complete rubbish
10:34 asciilifeform ( can be made to work, with a week's worth of hand-holding, on a particular system, for some values of 'particular system' , then will break later when you step on a previously-unknown mine )
10:35 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768383 << this here is the real problem. with ~everything.
10:35 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 15:26 ave1: (also like gnat, gprbuild 2016 needs gprbuild to build etc)
10:35 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-31#1761765 to quote from classics.
10:35 a111 Logged on 2017-12-31 15:31 zineKing: Respected for his contribution, for founding GNU.
10:36 asciilifeform none of the extant systems , of ANY kind, have anything resembling a sane bootstrap process.
10:36 asciilifeform not even plain-c gcc.
10:37 mircea_popescu but that is ok because.
10:37 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the 'gcc' fork of gnat isn't even a gnu product in the usual sense. as far as i can tell , it is made lock stock and barrel of the adacore gnat , but with some dr.mengele treatments
10:37 mircea_popescu as opposed to which portion of the "gnu ecosystem"
10:38 * mircea_popescu braces self for "emacs"
10:38 asciilifeform as opposed to , say, the rest of gcc
10:38 asciilifeform which dates back to the long-forgotten era when the mushroom still had hands
10:38 BingoBoingo lol
10:39 mircea_popescu that era is falling through the floor rapidly.
10:42 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768395 << kinda the fate of the muppets, go about pantomiming events to the crowd of hunchbacks. "oh, minstrel invented the city of worms!!1 punch and judy are the original queen of england!!"
10:42 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 15:30 shinohai: TomServo: Naturally Brian Krebs is now taking credit for this from anyone that will listen
10:44 BingoBoingo BRB, language learning adventure time
10:45 BingoBoingo Hopefully will return to numbers and writing from the data center.
10:51 mircea_popescu o hey, so corp all reg'd and everything ? nice.
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11:22 shinohai "Bitcoin Candy (CDY) is a new chain forked from Bitcoin Cash at the height of 512666. The original BCH holders will be compensated with 1000 CDY for every BCH held. "
11:22 shinohai lmao
11:23 mod6 sams
11:23 mod6 *scams
11:23 shinohai "Block 512666" <<< Easy there, Satan
11:25 shinohai Aside from that one, we have Bitcoin Smart and Bitcoin Interest within ~2 weeks
11:25 asciilifeform shinohai: what's in that last one ? lemme guess, 'pays interest' 'from satoshi's coinz' ?
11:26 shinohai "Bitcoin Interest ("BCI") is a frictionless global payment system focusing on three key areas Technology, Community, and Savings. Our payment system has a new integrated savings technology that allows our users to park their coins and earn interest. "
11:27 shinohai (Source: https://www.bitcoininterest.io/)
11:28 asciilifeform this is a pretty lulzy crackpotism actually
11:29 asciilifeform 'Every Bitcoin Interest ("BCI") block has two rewards; 12.5 BCI coins are generated for the miners for their participation in solving the block, and an additional 1.08 BCI coin reward is generated and sent to the interest pool to facilitate interest payments. This is achieved through what we call, "Enhanced Proof of Work" using the Equihash algorithm. The interest pool reward will start at 1.08 BCI coins and will decrease to 0.54 BCI
11:29 asciilifeform coins as our block height increases. This setup will ensure that interest payments are always available for those that choose to participate in parking their BCI coins.'
11:30 asciilifeform '...If I was to park 100 BCI coins for the entire duration of the round, and there were a total of 1000 BCI coins parked, then I would receive 10% of the interest pool...'
11:30 asciilifeform '...When you decide to park your BCI coins you agree to not move your coins until the current round has ended. If you choose to move your BCI coins before the round has ended, you will not receive an interest payment...'
11:30 asciilifeform so sorta like the old proof-of-stake nonsense but with 'new' flavour, somehow
11:31 shinohai Now with moar socialisms
11:31 asciilifeform aha, miners mine so that derps get phree payola
11:32 asciilifeform ( which, sadly enuff, is not so distant from classical bitcoin's 'noders node at own expense so that miners get payola'... )
11:35 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768427 << sounds like someone went on a dumpster rampage, rescued ye olde solidcoin
11:35 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 16:26 shinohai: "Bitcoin Interest ("BCI") is a frictionless global payment system focusing on three key areas Technology, Community, and Savings. Our payment system has a new integrated savings technology that allows our users to park their coins and earn interest. "
11:35 mircea_popescu anyone recall those ancient lulz ?
11:36 shinohai Actually here is one that does away with that shit and goes straight for PoS: http://www.bitcoinlite.us/
11:36 mircea_popescu just as "will take over bitcoin" as mit's later identical insanities.
11:36 asciilifeform oh hah is that what it was.
11:36 asciilifeform i recall it only from mircea_popescu's description.
11:36 asciilifeform ( oughta be in the logs somewhere )
11:36 shinohai bwahahaha Solidcoin
11:36 shinohai I wasn't here for those lulz was still in heathendom
11:36 mircea_popescu recall, his pow was flawed so he had this scheme whereby you'd "Deposit" your coins and basically get to write the blockchain for it.
11:37 shinohai https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48581.0 <<< 2011 !!!!
11:37 asciilifeform shinohai: pretty speshul, complete with msword-misformatted 'whitepaper'
11:37 mircea_popescu oya
11:38 mircea_popescu you know, just like http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767798
11:38 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 20:13 mircea_popescu: "# We use c=0.005 which has been experimentally found to be optimal in processing time for common PC under MS Windows and values of k of practical interest. A different c value may be desirable for use in different computing environments." << check it out asciilifeform ! IT IS SATOSHI ALL OVER AGAIN. why. WHY!!!
11:38 asciilifeform 'In next-generation crypto world there is no more need to use overpriced mining hardware, or take a loan to pay your electricity bill. There is much more efficient and eco friendly way to get FREE coins called STAKING. So you still helping the system verifying transactions and getting your free coins, while using just your personal laptop/ipad or a PC !'
11:38 mircea_popescu you know ?
11:38 mircea_popescu also in next generation fuck world there's no need for strip clubs, autist bois get it via tube in their garage
11:39 asciilifeform https://usercontent1.hubstatic.com/7987570.gif << oblig STAKING
11:39 shinohai That is indeed Proof of Stake asciilifeform ..... here, have 1 million phree Draculcoin
11:40 asciilifeform hey recall mircea_popescu's 'proof of tooth' coin.
11:40 mircea_popescu sadly pot is actually better than pow in all respects.
11:41 hanbot http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768160 << haha well this answers http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767425 then. 0 useful.
11:41 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 01:23 mircea_popescu: a very strong ideal property of this is given in http://trilema.com/2014/the-romanian-language-for-other-people/#selection-245.1-238.5 ; which is a large part of the problem and also serves as illustration -- who the fuck knew that random whore story from 2014 is actually an expose on generative grammar.
11:41 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 01:02 mircea_popescu: i'm vaguely curious how useful this'd be, "article X includes 003/101/209/309/402/801/908 !"
11:41 mircea_popescu heh
11:43 asciilifeform lol 'solidcoin' was a closed binturd?!
11:43 mircea_popescu yup
11:43 asciilifeform prettygreat.
11:43 mircea_popescu yup, as epic as could be had.
11:43 mircea_popescu that and the "bcrypt best crypt on the market" dorks.
11:44 mircea_popescu (the original cause for adlai friend's blacklisting in the bitcoin community, that scam)
11:44 asciilifeform didn't somebody do a hardware shitcoin? i.e. 'you must buy THIS box...'? or did i dream it.
11:44 mircea_popescu kinda stopped at yubikey/electrum looselet.
11:44 asciilifeform yea but that ain't quite it
11:44 mircea_popescu (formerly known as electrum wallet)
11:44 asciilifeform picture a chumpatron where 'you gotta have THIS here magic chip to mine...'
11:46 asciilifeform considering that microscopy costs ~= toyota, a circus like that could easily carry on, 'under the radar', for several years.
11:46 mircea_popescu kinda what yubikey was/is
11:46 mircea_popescu admitting anyone still thinks it's a thing
11:46 asciilifeform i thought that was a 'store yer password in this-here magic thumbdrive' thing.
11:47 mircea_popescu well ?
11:47 asciilifeform it ain't a coin scam , it's an umpteenth shit chinesium comp peripheral
11:47 mircea_popescu right. same diff.
11:47 asciilifeform by that token , asciilifeform's 'it crashed' flashlight was same thing, lol
11:48 mircea_popescu yup
11:48 mircea_popescu isn't it ?
11:48 asciilifeform not quite. ( i thought about discussion the difference in the orig chumpatron article, but cut it ) : there are , to borrow from algorithmics, 'linear' and 'superlinear' chumpatrons
11:49 asciilifeform linear is , e.g., selling 'rabbit' hats made of roadkill, or flashlights which fall apart, or ~100% of what chinese export is, really
11:49 mircea_popescu since the chip you discuss could be made out of extant bitcoin miner + yubikey arrangement, they must both be just as linear
11:49 asciilifeform i.e. every chump gets scammed for whatever pocket change he was going to spend on a flashlight that day
11:50 asciilifeform to round off the crackpottery, 'superlinear' is when the chumps deposit their dough, but afterwards ~go home to get more~, to bring friends, etc.
11:50 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: every complex mechanism is made of simpler ones.
11:50 asciilifeform does not mean that they are all equivalent.
11:51 mircea_popescu yes ; all assemblages of cogs are gearboxes not electronic computers.
11:51 mircea_popescu but do go on, example of "superlinear" ?
11:51 asciilifeform any ponzitron, for example.
11:51 mircea_popescu in that it sells ideals not reals ?
11:52 asciilifeform in that it is a resident infection in chump's head. rather than a 'nyahaha, i sold you a cutting board painted as ipad, and i'ma run faster than you can catch'
11:53 asciilifeform and right, ideals.
11:53 mircea_popescu how is "you got a nutria sable hat" not similarly infective ?
11:53 asciilifeform it could be, if the 'sable hat' is sufficiently convincing, that victim goes and gets whole village to line up and buy 'cheap sables'
11:53 mircea_popescu quite.
11:53 mircea_popescu like say, "college education"
11:54 mircea_popescu an ideal pretending to be a real. and convincingly, it'd seem.
11:54 asciilifeform usually self-limiting infection, tho, when the villagers go out to sell these 'cheaps' dearer, they run into folx who can tell the diff
11:55 asciilifeform hey did mircea_popescu ever write a piece about 'collegism' and the prev ver of very similar scam in 18th c. poland ?
11:55 asciilifeform where they ended up with ~20% of population having 'titles of nobility' with 0 real fief to go with ~any of it
11:56 mircea_popescu similar discussion embedded re both argentina and marriage/fertility
11:56 mircea_popescu but i dun think poland specifically.
11:56 mircea_popescu but yes, that's how "pan" got to mean "sucker"
11:56 asciilifeform there may have been other folx who shot themselves in the foot on similar scale, but i can't think of who other than the poles
11:57 mircea_popescu hey, "modern democracy" man imagines self some kind of 17th century french noble, has all the problems of same and none of the resources.
11:57 mircea_popescu ~50% of argentina is lawyers.
11:57 mircea_popescu they are illiterate, but letrados.
11:57 asciilifeform modern yes. q was re premoderns.
11:58 mircea_popescu asciilifeform scotland was going to be polonial cower!
11:58 mircea_popescu went over well...
12:01 shinohai But to me, the best of the day comes from the Ethtards: "RocketICO is the world’s first decentralized accelerator based on the DAO concept, where startups interact with experts and investors"
12:01 shinohai Also "Detects scam ICOs"
12:02 mircea_popescu on the basis of google's latest fakenews engine ?
12:04 shinohai Likely
12:05 shinohai They have some chic in a chatbox on their website supposedly, imma link her to: http://trilema.com/2016/to-the-dao-and-the-ethereum-community-fuck-you/
12:06 mircea_popescu why not the tits thing ?
12:06 mircea_popescu make a penny at least.
12:07 shinohai Even better!
12:08 mircea_popescu inb4 it's a scam chick, really accts manned by worthless 20something dudes, O NOES
12:10 shinohai Looking at site js, it has canned reply that comes up like most of these sites.
12:10 mircea_popescu awww
12:10 mircea_popescu but i'm sure it's not fraudulent because http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767533
12:10 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 17:03 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767519 <<< o look, when the saudis "bought" that piece of shit it ... wasn't "corruption" and the saudi state very much does not need to take measure to eliminate the "corruption" of giving usg money. it's only when non-usg gets dough that the idiot neets need to stand up and herpderp on social media about "corruption" amirite ?
12:11 mircea_popescu "only first ammendment issue when http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-09#1767974 ; otherwise -- FREE SPEECH FUNDAMENTALISM!!11"
12:11 a111 Logged on 2018-01-09 22:06 mircea_popescu: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/books/review/trump-michael-wolff.html << in other lulz, the new york times now free speech fundamentalists.
12:11 shinohai !~display 46.101.112.62
12:11 jhvh1 shinohai: No GeoIP information found for 46.101.112.62
12:11 shinohai ^ London ip space tho
12:11 mircea_popescu shinohai digital ocean
12:13 shinohai "Hello Caroline, since this useless token will fail just like the DAO and leave you unemployed, I was wondering if I might interest you in: http://trilema.com/2014/ill-pay-for-your-tits/ ? "
12:13 shinohai YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED
12:13 mircea_popescu wait what ?
12:14 shinohai Guess they don't like opportunities!
12:14 mircea_popescu lulzy.
12:15 mircea_popescu but, i guess all the 36yo suicides gotta come from SOMEWHERE.
~ 30 minutes ~
12:46 knubie lmao @ tits link
12:49 shinohai For lulz and only for the luz knubie
12:49 mircea_popescu knubie think about it this way : the only reason 3-4bn women live in poverty today is that they are TOO FUCKING DUMB to pick free dough off the ground.
12:49 knubie yeah, i noticed.. lol funny shit.. but i swear one of them looks so familiar
12:49 knubie mircea_popescu: totally agree with you on that one
12:50 mircea_popescu definitive cap on any possible "social security" discussion ever ; and, obviously, none of the proponents feel any sort of impetuus to address the item that ended their fanfic.
12:51 shinohai Sooner is better than later, as mp says .... the reward used to be 10 whole bitcents
12:51 knubie If it was back to late 90's & early 00's that list would be huge...
12:51 asciilifeform hey iirc we even have folx who were offered ~whole~ coin, and continue to not show ( taleb ? )
12:52 mircea_popescu yes but the non-statistical argument much weaker.
12:52 mircea_popescu shinohai pretty sure originally it was like a coin or somesuch, in 2014.
12:52 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: hossat
12:52 asciilifeform *how
12:53 knubie lmao, it's a good PR move for BTC...
12:53 mircea_popescu asciilifeform the "social policy" argument discusses "people" as a statistical construct ; and it is entirely sunk by the pay-for-tits item, exactly like how darwinism ends creationism or qm ends nm.
12:53 mircea_popescu but as far as single individual is concerned, well, they can forego profits for all sorta reasons.
12:53 mircea_popescu !!up Covale
12:53 deedbot Covale voiced for 30 minutes.
12:53 mircea_popescu not nearly same strength.
12:54 mircea_popescu "maybe taleb has been on a monster bender since 2014, hasn't yet read it". etc.
12:54 knubie Titties tag: 6bb9 1297 is the funniest shit ever..
12:54 mircea_popescu why ?
12:54 knubie the thumbs up & wicked smile
12:54 mircea_popescu ah
12:55 knubie cannot hide the joy
12:55 mircea_popescu yeah, some great chicks in there ; kinda goes to show that the http://trilema.com/2018/lay-the-favorite/ or http://trilema.com/2018/lucy/ style retards never win out.
12:55 mircea_popescu but then again if one needs such ellaborate proofs that anxious behaviour is improductive...
12:55 shinohai I'm still convinced there is some Romanian magic in that article
12:56 mircea_popescu how's that work ?
12:56 shinohai I met one of the girls and all her hot friends! Though only one came back to participate iirc
12:57 mircea_popescu a
12:58 knubie back in the day, IRC was flooded with females..
12:58 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768556 << there was some old essay , from early days of linux , re 'there once was the command line' or sumthinglikethat, that had a line 'you can give away free jagdtigers , and nobody will believe, no one will come for them, toogoodtobetrue'
12:58 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 17:53 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "social policy" argument discusses "people" as a statistical construct ; and it is entirely sunk by the pay-for-tits item, exactly like how darwinism ends creationism or qm ends nm.
12:58 mircea_popescu i think still is, but this particular network is more like technocuck than pure irc.
12:59 mircea_popescu asciilifeform except the whole thing's quite plainly and publicly documented.
12:59 mircea_popescu it's not a matter of the first, it's a matter of the 100thst.
12:59 mircea_popescu moreover jagdtiger cost of ownership is pretty huge.
12:59 asciilifeform e.g. FUCKGOATS is also 'plainly and publicly documented'. number of detectable clones made : 0
12:59 asciilifeform and it ain't a jagdtiger...
12:59 mircea_popescu yes but narrower usercase for FG than for dough.
13:00 asciilifeform tru
13:01 asciilifeform i gotta point out that the cost-of-ownership for even a centibitcoin , is not 0 either
13:01 * trinque went and squatted efnet #trilema, but they don't have any notion of chanserv, can't register.
13:03 Covale hello
13:03 asciilifeform Covale: who might you be ?
13:04 Covale a stranger, pretty much. used to get on here every now and then years ago
13:04 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656097 << recall that ? also "free for the taking", not taken because hurr, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-04#1764080
13:04 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 01:15 mircea_popescu: gutenberg statistics ? 24 downloads for regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre. in a fucking decade. because, of course, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653782
13:04 a111 Logged on 2018-01-04 17:59 mircea_popescu: here it goes : "did you know, women, that before pantsuited hilarity clinton was invented, you had problems XYZ ? and that afterwards, these were resolved ?" "nope" "we'll... it's all recorded for all enternity-till-year-end on jezbel" "Where is this wonder ?" "oh, DO WE REALLY STILL HAVE TO ?!?! IN 2018 ?!?! WE'VE ALL MOVED PAST THAT!!!"
13:04 asciilifeform Covale: ever consider reading the logs ?
13:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why not ? for one thing can immediately trade it for honda ; for the other thing can just let sit in deedbot.
13:05 Covale did that every now than. but I also read this earlier: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-bitcoin-is-worth-exactly-0-and-blockchain-might-be-very-valuable-2018-01-09?link=sfmw_fb
13:05 mircea_popescu lol still with this ?
13:05 ben_vulpes http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768503 << altcoins, 'responsible disclosure'
13:05 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 16:54 mircea_popescu: an ideal pretending to be a real. and convincingly, it'd seem.
13:06 Covale was wondering what you´d make of it, hence why I´m here
13:06 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ftr i think we're in the midst of a http://oglaf.com/humans for past wk or so
13:06 trinque lol
13:06 mircea_popescu Covale low effort nonsense, failed to mean anything back in 2015, subsequent rehashes sorta like subsequent hillary clinton bids.
13:06 ben_vulpes Covale: tard alarms should have fired at unqualified use of "blockchain" as a noun
13:07 mircea_popescu asciilifeform hey, first type of imperial scar tissue is "oh, cult" ; but 2nd type is "oh, famous".
13:07 mircea_popescu one way or another, teh narrative'll try an' spin.
13:07 Covale by the way, who on earth would already register this nickname ?
13:08 Covale I literally never thought of it until like 5 days ago...
13:08 mircea_popescu maybe you ?
13:08 mircea_popescu !#s from:covale
13:08 a111 0 results for "from:covale", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Acovale
13:08 asciilifeform what i mean is, several new faces, but wholly matching the pattern of 'i'ma decimation-style greek choir here, nobody will notice that i only post redditola, take no part in projects or actual discussion, etc'
13:08 Covale I wasn´t on IRC for years man
13:08 Covale by the way hello mircea_popescu :)
13:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i dunno, what's the rush.
13:08 mircea_popescu Covale so used to come by as what nick then ?
13:09 knubie Covale: Vote Oprah
13:09 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no rush. but gotta put it in therecordz.
13:14 knubie az buche vede glagol
13:15 asciilifeform knubie: kirill & mifodiy are three doors down..
13:16 knubie Saints Cyril and Methodius ?
13:17 knubie :P
13:18 asciilifeform !#s from:knubie
13:18 a111 36 results for "from:knubie", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Aknubie
13:18 mircea_popescu !!up Covale`
13:18 deedbot Covale` voiced for 30 minutes.
13:22 Covale` <knubie> Covale: Vote Oprah - I can´t :(
13:36 shinohai !~ticker --market all
13:36 jhvh1 shinohai: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 14573.79, vol: 18960.07387646 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 14485.0, vol: 57984.97278647 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 14616.0, vol: 4091.38344133 | Volume-weighted last average: 14512.3881289
13:49 shinohai Covale` missed the golden opportunity to register as Covfefe
13:51 shinohai !!up Covale`
13:51 deedbot Covale` voiced for 30 minutes.
~ 1 hours 8 minutes ~
15:00 asciilifeform meanwhile, in other ffa noose, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2105&cpage=1#comment-18610
15:03 knubie !!up Covale`
15:03 deedbot Covale` voiced for 30 minutes.
15:06 asciilifeform !~later tell apeloyee http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2105&cpage=1#comment-18611
15:06 jhvh1 asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
15:06 shinohai Mah standards!
15:10 asciilifeform !!up from_ffa
15:10 deedbot from_ffa voiced for 30 minutes.
15:11 asciilifeform from_ffa: hello ?
15:11 from_ffa hello
15:11 asciilifeform from_ffa: who might you be ?
15:11 ben_vulpes inb4 "just a person"
15:12 from_ffa a regular lurker of the chan. just started to muck around with your ffa series
15:12 from_ffa have a q for mod6
15:12 asciilifeform from_ffa: post it, he'll answer when he wakes up
15:12 asciilifeform from_ffa: and please consider getting a name, and registering with deedbot,
15:12 asciilifeform !!help
15:12 deedbot http://deedbot.org/help.html
15:13 from_ffa I already did a few years back. and yes, the gpg key is at hand
15:14 from_ffa t'was just in a hurry
15:14 asciilifeform from_ffa: so please consider logging in
15:14 asciilifeform think of it this way, would you rather converse with a person, or with a talking piece of pavement ?
15:14 from_ffa v.pl[v9994]:L398 -> `rm -rf $press[0]` if -d $press[0];
15:15 from_ffa so is it really necessary to nuke the dest dir when pressing a vpatch? :|
15:15 ben_vulpes yes, one does not press a patch, one presses a tree.
15:15 ben_vulpes if you want to patch an existing tree, the patch util is to your left
15:15 asciilifeform because of the retarded way in which gnupatch behaves ( it tries to merge, even though v ~explicitly~ forbids the CONCEPT of merge ) it is necessary
15:17 from_ffa at any rate, if I run "v.pl p ~/workspace ffa_ch1_genesis.vpatch" I expect to find ffa alongside all other projects. not an empty workspace dir with ffa in it
15:17 from_ffa consider at least documenting this, please :)
15:18 * from_ffa now off to muck around with gpg and an irc client
15:18 ben_vulpes coarse error in pilotage?
15:18 asciilifeform oh ffs did v.pl rm -rf ~ this poor d00d
15:18 ben_vulpes appears yeah
15:18 ben_vulpes at least ~/workspace
15:19 from_ffa nothing serious, everything was versioned. but yea
15:23 asciilifeform prolly it oughta have a 'dir exists' eggog, rather than a delete
15:24 asciilifeform !!up BigTexasBingo
15:24 deedbot BigTexasBingo voiced for 30 minutes.
15:24 BigTexasBingo Any more experienced travelers know what the deal is with Latinas and their mothers?
15:25 BigTexasBingo Not just the locals, but a Dominican now too!
15:28 ben_vulpes well share a story, BigTexasBingo
15:29 BigTexasBingo Story later, but short is find a Dominican for language immersion and get introduced to the mother at a time I would call too soon if it wasn't how every chica seems to operate here
15:30 asciilifeform BigTexasBingo: you might want to store the benjies in a sealing, smellproof container, i think they can smell'em
15:30 asciilifeform like dogs
15:30 BigTexasBingo Brb, adventure!
15:30 BigTexasBingo U no tengo benjies, tengo jacksons
15:31 asciilifeform them also
~ 36 minutes ~
16:07 shinohai In Soviet Russia, password hack YOU: https://password.kaspersky.com/
16:08 * shinohai wonders how many people running noscript have actually entered something there.
~ 21 minutes ~
16:30 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768634 << not like "entirely and clearly wrong", but may be a tall milkglass to drink, this.
16:30 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 20:06 asciilifeform: !~later tell apeloyee http://www.loper-os.org/?p=2105&cpage=1#comment-18611
16:44 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768658 << i don[' get it, can't afford a directory ? or expect the directory be provided ? or what is the actual issue here ?
16:44 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 20:17 from_ffa: at any rate, if I run "v.pl p ~/workspace ffa_ch1_genesis.vpatch" I expect to find ffa alongside all other projects. not an empty workspace dir with ffa in it
16:48 mod6 <+ben_vulpes> at least ~/workspace << i gotta dig this up from the logs. but older versions of v.pl actually *would not* over-write the original dir, would fail and say 'dir exists' or something.
16:49 mod6 based upon some commentary (going by memory here) lead us to the decision to delete the press directory even if it existed and then create a new directory even with the same name and re-press.
16:49 mod6 i'll go dig it up.
16:52 mod6 http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626770
16:52 a111 Logged on 2017-03-14 04:35 mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i suppose alternatively could just say DO NOT PRESS TWICE! DELETE DIR BETWEEN PRESSES. << agree. there obviously needs to be a check in there - if the press directory already exists, warn the user and stop.
16:52 mod6 thread begins here ^
16:53 mod6 if this behaviour should be changed, before next release, now is the time to get your opinions heard.
16:54 mod6 from_ffa: sorry I missed ya on here. but for now, yeah, that behavior is intended.
16:58 mircea_popescu mod6 eh, user can just read the v as god meant, know what it does, etc.
16:59 mod6 and also, fwiw, that change did not make it into the normal v document. but did end up in the changes list in the email. i'll have to make a note to add that to the doc.
16:59 mircea_popescu can't run around changing ~your~ v to match obscure config expectation of userbase ; high time userbase gets literate and walks out of the "i just wanted to" mindset.
16:59 mod6 http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2017-March/000260.html << orig email, see section 0x03
16:59 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768672 << they have an unsanitarily close relation to their mothers.
16:59 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 20:29 BigTexasBingo: Story later, but short is find a Dominican for language immersion and get introduced to the mother at a time I would call too soon if it wasn't how every chica seems to operate here
17:04 mod6 mircea_popescu: aha. fair enough.
17:05 mod6 I try to keep docs up to date. And add protections where they are needed. Hopefully my vtron is, over time, getting better. Not worse.
17:05 mod6 It's a work in progress. :]
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17:41 shinohai !!up Jautenim
17:41 deedbot Jautenim voiced for 30 minutes.
17:42 Jautenim mircea_popescu my issue is that I had a wrong expectation wrt the press operation and cut meself a finger
17:42 mircea_popescu well apparently also had correctly set up table, plugged it right back.
17:42 mircea_popescu so good for oyu.
17:43 Jautenim even if the behavour is not changed maybe is it worth documenting
17:43 Jautenim !!up Jautenim
17:43 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/2XXIc/?raw=true
17:44 Jautenim !!v otp 21A647DF0EA739D6CF54F4E10F4F9F499C60BFE486168F9C10B098C444C530C0
17:44 knubie lol
17:44 Jautenim herp
17:50 mircea_popescu !!rated Jautenim
17:50 deedbot mircea_popescu rated Jautenim 1 at 2015/05/18 16:44:02 << New blood.
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18:11 ben_vulpes dag old blood
18:12 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-10#1768685 << imho a proggy that deletes without warning an item which it itself had not necessarily created, is a backwards-firing pistol
18:12 a111 Logged on 2018-01-10 21:49 mod6: based upon some commentary (going by memory here) lead us to the decision to delete the press directory even if it existed and then create a new directory even with the same name and re-press.
18:13 mircea_popescu your system can't have rf in it.
18:13 asciilifeform ...or at the very least analogous to those old tv sets which xrayed the downstairs neigbours
18:13 asciilifeform i.e. problem may not turn lethal for a while, but eventually somebody will sit down in 'sweet spot'
18:13 mircea_popescu it's like a hammer that'll pound a finger it had not necessarily created ifg you put the finger where it pounds.
18:14 asciilifeform right, but it gotta be imho obvious ~where~ the business end is.
18:14 asciilifeform and what exactly means 'pounds'.
18:14 mircea_popescu well mod6 did say he's gonna add docs so.
18:15 mircea_popescu note tho that i am NOT going to enforce any kind of responsibility for vtrons. the item says "MAKE YOUR OWN!!! vtron" for a fucking reason, and this is that reason -- if you use another man's parachute package better not be surprised by the fact he likes to keep girl undies there.
18:15 mircea_popescu man can make own vtron as man pleases and thassat.
18:16 asciilifeform it's a simpleenuff item that there's really 0 excuse for not making own.
18:16 shinohai More shitcoin lulz: "Linda Cryptocoin is a hybrid coin with more than 70% pure PoS Block reward phase and 99% APR. This coin comes with a masternode which ensures lightening fast secured transaction, multi-wallets, encrypted messaging and stealth address for complete anonymity. "
18:16 mircea_popescu just putting it in teh plain that it works exactly opposite from most items, where it's rather "do it right so i don't have to have it redone"
18:17 shinohai Ninety-nine percent dontchaknow
18:17 asciilifeform shinohai: but does it come with an arse-mouth phree-food hose!
18:18 shinohai I'll make a pull request.
18:18 asciilifeform ( why shouldn't it ? same logic as 'give EVERYONE PHREEMONEYZ' )
18:18 mircea_popescu it's funny how by now the "idea men" / mit grads notion of bitcoin is closer to some kind of biological item. "99% pure!!"
18:18 asciilifeform hey they're Educated, they have ipadz, made of 100% purest ipadium
18:20 mircea_popescu scam of all time, a horde of useless 20somethinfg dicklets burdened under an immense pile of debt to "repay" for the "Service" they were rendered, which 99% consists of utterly unjustified and absolutely unsustainable self-expectations
18:20 mircea_popescu chief among the list -- the notion that useless 20something dicklet is ever going to repay six figure debts, as if he's some kind of fucking aeroplane or something.
18:21 mircea_popescu judgement by similarity has rendered a bunch of esltards imagine 1k usd is something they can afford. ridoinculous.
18:22 asciilifeform worse, some of these folx even imagine themselves successful scammers : 'hey i milked 100k's worth of meritwashium out of mit, now all i gotta do is find another'
18:22 asciilifeform and it isn't even trivial to dissuade one of these , the organ-collector van keeps not coming and not coming
18:22 mircea_popescu myeah. quite, the best approximation of "what's the usg all about ?" well... it sells to idiots the notion they're successful scammers.
18:22 mircea_popescu that's ~all.
18:23 mircea_popescu !#s "but i used the juice"
18:23 a111 1 result for "\"but i used the juice\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22but%20i%20used%20the%20juice%22
18:23 asciilifeform 'superlinear' (to continue earlier thread..) chumpatron just about always has this property, of convincing the mark that he 'got something over' the orig perp
18:23 shinohai !~google "But I used the juice"
18:23 jhvh1 shinohai: “I Wore the Juice ”- The Dunning-Kruger Effect – Galleys – Medium: <https://medium.com/%40littlebrown/i-wore-the-juice-the-dunning-kruger-effect-f8ac3299eb1>; The burglar with the lemon juice disguise – Mind Hacks: <https://mindhacks.com/2010/02/11/the-burglar-with-the-lemon-juice-disguise/>; Why a bank robber thought covering himself in lemon juice would ...: (1 more message)
18:24 asciilifeform there was an ancient link re carnival and casino-flavoured chumpatronics , where a historian of the subj observed this
18:24 asciilifeform 'make him think he has A System For Winning (tm)(r), he'll go home and fetch his gold to pawn' etc
18:25 asciilifeform btw asciilifeform found it interesting , in timisoara , there were '9000' betting-shops, each with 2-3 pawn shops right next. moar than cafes, moar than just about any commercial item, betting shops.
18:25 lobbes !!balance
18:25 deedbot http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/URbGu/?raw=true
18:26 mircea_popescu i'm getting a better idea of what you mean.
18:26 mircea_popescu "there's two kinds of scams : those who work on honest man, and those who don't. we call the later superlinear for reasons"
18:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "fala".
18:26 asciilifeform but what was interesting is that none of the pawnshops ~sold~ anything in the storefront. only bought. little hole in the wall, you put in goodies and get a few orcbux
18:26 mircea_popescu well, they sell but via wot.
18:26 asciilifeform invites the q : where did they liquidate the ipnojes, wedding rings, Last Shirts, that people put in
18:26 asciilifeform gotta be.
18:26 * mircea_popescu used to buy most of the girl jewelry etc that way.
18:27 mircea_popescu "that was a great blowjob. would you like someone's wedding ring ?" "lol sure"" here, pick"
18:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: the 'reasons' being that 'scams on honest men' do not, as a rule, produce 'free radicals'
18:27 asciilifeform ( i.e. converting the honest into scammers, to further scam elsewhere )
18:27 mircea_popescu possibru.
18:28 asciilifeform perhaps better analogy - slow neutrons
18:28 mircea_popescu this altogether depends, buyer of dud may well attempt to pass it on.
18:28 mircea_popescu elementarily -- what happens to most counterfit currency
18:28 asciilifeform pass it on to 1 other.
18:28 asciilifeform right
18:28 mircea_popescu so in this sense linear. aite.
18:33 asciilifeform epidemiologists have a similar concept for virulence
18:37 mircea_popescu the difference between linear and superlinear scams is that the former aren't actually "social reform movements".
18:37 asciilifeform 'basic reproduction number' (r0) iirc.
18:38 mircea_popescu obama "change bla bla" -- the platonic superlinear scam.
18:38 asciilifeform can reverse this equation also : every superlinear scam is , effectively, a 'reform movement'
18:39 asciilifeform 'reform yerself! in the Bright New World we will build, dogshit edible'
18:39 lobbes !!deed http://lobbesblog.com/billing/2017/q3/Birdman_payment_receipt.txt
18:39 deedbot accepted: 1
18:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yeah, kinda the point.
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19:30 mircea_popescu !!up BigTexasBingo
19:30 deedbot BigTexasBingo voiced for 30 minutes.
19:30 asciilifeform in other olds, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-03#1394975 >> it's back
19:30 a111 Logged on 2016-02-03 02:38 mircea_popescu: http://plouffe.fr/ << in other news, plouffe's site is gone.
19:30 BigTexasBingo Will blog when back at terminal.
19:30 asciilifeform as is uncle al's www ( also back, was gone for month+ 0
19:30 asciilifeform )
19:31 BigTexasBingo BUT the mom showed up for the date.
19:31 mircea_popescu lol
19:31 asciilifeform plouffe is on asciilifeform's list of 'folx who really oughta visit'
19:32 BigTexasBingo The earlier adventure wasn't just "say hi to my mom on vidya" so mom believes in the Gringo
19:32 mircea_popescu asciilifeform didn't he get all ptsd after interacting with canadian academia, or am i conflating
19:32 asciilifeform he was on the receiving end of a perelmanning
19:32 asciilifeform but loox like he's back in biznis
19:32 BigTexasBingo Then mom blows it for her daughter by showing up
19:33 mircea_popescu BigTexasBingo which reminds me, i was gionna translate a ro piece
19:33 asciilifeform http://vixra.org/author/simon_plouffe << see also
19:34 BigTexasBingo Walk the mall for 4 minutes, mom spots a coin operated massage chair. The charlatans make an act out of not finding coins.
19:35 BigTexasBingo 30 pesos (1 usd) and a Donde esta el bano later... Freedom
19:37 BigTexasBingo And for 30 pesos and 35 minutes in the mall (latinas and time) I know another location full of chicas guapa
19:38 * BigTexasBingo descanso en un safe house kilometers from the mommy predators
19:39 BigTexasBingo Anyways pops to alf on sniffing out the noses.
19:40 asciilifeform BigTexasBingo: experience from timis expedition. i had them benjies nicely sealed up but these critters could still smell'em
19:40 BigTexasBingo Here I was expecting fatter than the fotos and the girl turned out good except for the 100kg on the other side of her umbilical cord
19:41 asciilifeform they 'made eyes', pretended to friendly, acted as if they were happy to see asciilifeform , for no good reason, set off all kindsa alarm
19:42 BigTexasBingo This was an interwebz lead
19:42 asciilifeform it's almost like trying to hide food from bear.
19:43 shinohai Ah good ol https://montevideo.craigslist.org/ ?
19:43 BigTexasBingo Nah, badoo.
19:44 shinohai I was looking it over to see if the ads were just as lulzy as the US ones
19:44 BigTexasBingo Has a proximity girl finder so go to the mall, mirar chicas, chicas mirar back, but bonus leads from GPS margin of error
19:45 asciilifeform wtf is a proximity girl finder
19:46 BigTexasBingo Well, after leaving the mall it pings myself and the girlies I didn't notice to flirt with that we were in roughly the same place.
19:47 asciilifeform oh hm like that old japanese item
19:47 asciilifeform !#s lovegetty
19:47 a111 1 result for "lovegetty", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=lovegetty
19:47 BigTexasBingo Aha
19:48 BigTexasBingo It isn't much leverage, but gets the next batch of girls for you while you have been flirting with other girls.
19:48 asciilifeform what i still dunget is, why would the gurlz use an item like this
19:48 BigTexasBingo The things what Okcupid should have been. For some reason no users in USA and many in LATAM
19:49 BigTexasBingo Alf the girls use because shy and the sane ones want to meet dudes without their mothers in tow.
19:50 asciilifeform yes but why is 'shy' obstacle for them in ordinary meatmarket ? all they gotta do is sit there anyway
19:50 BigTexasBingo Because the local dudes are even more shy... Or too stoned to notice the girls
19:52 BigTexasBingo This isn't Lafond presents Baltimore. Here the youth in trendy clothes yeild when the find themselves in my way.
19:53 asciilifeform odd
19:53 BigTexasBingo And in this safehouse examination of the wallet, there actually were benjies there.
19:53 BigTexasBingo Tucked away from the beforetimes
19:53 asciilifeform i haven't any model of why they would, aside from possibility that BingoBoingo gained +9000 courage , from his successful jailbreak
19:54 BigTexasBingo It is probably the beard, the +5 courage, and the rebellious youth suck here
19:57 BigTexasBingo Or it is possible they have been robbed by the otherwise harmless beggars while stoned
19:58 BigTexasBingo The derelicts seem to watch pedestrians for cannabis induced vulnerability
20:00 BigTexasBingo The coffe is drank, me voy
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20:23 mircea_popescu asciilifeform whart do you mean why ? cuz they got an item that burns for the filling ?
20:24 mircea_popescu and you gotta be fucking kidding me. sit there, really ? like how, like so http://trilema.com/2013/attention-cunt/ ?
20:32 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> your system can't have rf in it. << Catching up here... I'd like to change how my vtron handles this. I think this is the simplest / safest solution: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/PKYLq/?raw=true
20:33 mircea_popescu mod6 i just meant that "rf" the utility doesn't actually fit his standard.
20:33 mod6 ah.
20:34 mod6 Anyway, was thinking that it would be best to halt operation if the directory already exists. Let the user decide how to handle from there.
20:34 mircea_popescu works
20:34 mircea_popescu i always imagined you have it in there because you got sick of constantly deleting dirs by hand
20:36 mod6 ah, no. i always use a different press dir name, but im pretty anal about how i use v.
20:37 deedbot http://trilema.com/2018/ridoinculous-taboos/ << Trilema - Ridoinculous taboos
20:38 mod6 basically: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626781 http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626790
20:38 a111 Logged on 2017-03-14 04:38 mod6: blowing away someones dir without notice seems like the wrong approach, no matter how clean it might seem.
20:38 a111 Logged on 2017-03-14 04:51 mod6: yeah, im maybe considering the bad-form-case where someone modifies the source of a pressed directory, forgets about his changes, comes back 12 years later, then re-presses over said changes, now lost.
20:39 mircea_popescu aite
20:39 mod6 so, hindsight here... i should have just stuck to that.
20:41 mod6 I'm still gonna write up that blog post about the change to how the press-path is calculated. Hopefully have somthing here by Monday.
20:41 mircea_popescu o hey. nice.
20:41 mod6 Hopefully that will get some good discussion going here so we can all validate it's correctness.
20:43 mod6 The automated tests that I wrote are paying in spades btw.
20:43 mod6 They're not super pretty, but they work and are saving me a metric FUCKTON of time.
20:44 mod6 Will be good to get these changes in, get it tested & validated, and then move on to the other pressing matters of the Foundation. :]
20:44 * mircea_popescu will read.
20:45 shinohai All the eucrypt stuff seemed to press fine with last changes you gave me mod6 btw, didn't know if you got the msg
20:46 mod6 Ah, yeah, thanks for checking that out.
20:46 mod6 So remaining changes include the one just discussed above, and the possible change to how I make/use tmp dirs.
20:58 asciilifeform !!up douchebag
20:58 deedbot douchebag voiced for 30 minutes.
20:58 danielpbarron !!key douchebag
20:58 deedbot Not registered.
20:58 asciilifeform oh hey, an honest man?! can turn the lantern off ?!
20:59 danielpbarron thought i rated this guy
21:00 mircea_popescu lel
21:00 danielpbarron !!key douchebag_
21:00 deedbot http://wot.deedbot.org/EB901B424CBEE2900C2B09B5390F1C6A460DD6E7.asc
21:01 danielpbarron douchebag, is that you ^ ?
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21:59 danielpbarron !!up douchebag
21:59 deedbot douchebag voiced for 30 minutes.
21:59 danielpbarron which nick do you plan on using
21:59 douchebag douchebag
21:59 danielpbarron register the key with that one then
22:00 douchebag kk
22:00 danielpbarron might have to make a new key come to think of it.
22:02 danielpbarron furthermore, out of principal i shouldn't change the rating over unless you can prove this situation with the old key, and i already feel like i can't be arsed to do all this
22:04 douchebag can you check if im properly registered
22:04 danielpbarron !!key douchebag
22:04 deedbot http://wot.deedbot.org/5A067BA31976B2576818247075CD5709D6509291.asc
22:04 douchebag yeah thats my pub
22:06 douchebag so what's going on in here
22:08 danielpbarron i just noticed wot.deedbot.org is not up to date. many days off
22:09 danielpbarron douchebag, see topic
22:13 shinohai danielpbarron: heh me too ... I updated your rating here http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-29#1760626 but isn't reflected
22:13 a111 Logged on 2017-12-29 13:50 shinohai: !!rate danielpbarron 3 #eulora Elder and merchant, operates rare ecu faucet. Bible markup project in #trilema-church
22:18 danielpbarron and relatedly, the lordship list linked in the footnotes of the topic url is also not up to date
22:18 TomServo asciilifeform: what is the current price for a fg?
22:28 mircea_popescu danielpbarron isnt it ?!
22:28 danielpbarron is shinohai not a lord now?
22:28 danielpbarron !!gettrust deedbot shinohai
22:29 deedbot L1: 1, L2: 9 by 9 connections.
22:29 danielpbarron !!gettrust deedbot framedragger
22:29 deedbot L1: 1, L2: 4 by 4 connections.
22:29 danielpbarron ditto him
22:30 mircea_popescu danielpbarron well yeah, kinda how this worked was that here's last year's list, what changes do you want.
22:31 danielpbarron ok just checking
22:46 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-11#1768884 << http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-10#1749182
22:46 a111 Logged on 2018-01-11 03:18 TomServo: asciilifeform: what is the current price for a fg?
22:46 a111 Logged on 2017-12-10 00:42 asciilifeform: 0.0395 is the current.
22:47 asciilifeform TomServo: there is also a fiatola dealership, run by danielpbarron , ask him for current price there.
22:48 danielpbarron 400 or best offer
22:49 mircea_popescu lol is the amazon thing still going ?
22:49 TomServo asciilifeform: aha, I just noticed danielpbarron lowered his price.. so I was curious.
22:49 danielpbarron i did?
22:49 danielpbarron a bunch of people got some for 200 USD
22:49 TomServo danielpbarron: wasn't it 600 a week or two ago?
22:50 danielpbarron nobody bought any at that price so i lowered till they did
22:50 TomServo ah!
22:55 danielpbarron !!gettrust TomServo
22:55 deedbot L1: 0, L2: 4 by 3 connections.
22:59 TomServo asciilifeform: Am I mistaken there are 2 types of fg? 1 usb, 1 rs232 ?
23:02 asciilifeform only 1 type. different cables.
23:02 asciilifeform ( generally i recommend that users obtain own cable )
23:03 TomServo asciilifeform: got it, thanks.
23:03 asciilifeform fg speaks standard rs232 , 115200b,8,1,0 , at 5v
23:05 asciilifeform ( '1 type' is strictly speaking not correct, there were several editions, but all functionally SAME, only slight cosmetic diffs )
23:11 shinohai asciilifeform: do you have the archive.is link handy to the fg schematics?
23:12 asciilifeform shinohai: click the banner on my www
23:13 asciilifeform shinohai: they are also in phf's v-viewer ww
23:13 asciilifeform w
23:13 shinohai oh cool, thanks I missed that
23:13 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/patches?patchset=fg
23:14 asciilifeform i am still, incidentally, waiting for somebody to admit to making his own fg
23:14 asciilifeform it is every bit as much of a wholesome thingtodo as making own vtron, imho
23:15 asciilifeform but so far 0 reports.
23:17 shinohai Well I was thinking of attempting this, since as of yet have been unable to purchase.
23:19 asciilifeform shinohai: why unable ?
23:19 asciilifeform they're in stock ( both here and at danielpbarron's , last i knew )
23:20 shinohai No spare bits atm
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