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01:57 lobbes as promised, my own compendium of mp-wp notes: http://lobbesblog.com/blog/2018/03/mein-kompendium-mp-wp/
01:57 lobbes hopefully can be of use to someone down the line
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02:19 ben_vulpes !!pay asciilifeform 0.50046596
02:19 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/eruh1/?raw=true
02:19 ben_vulpes !!v 4C51729188CF3C233EEAAE49E8F66A24285DBFE0B9F0BADEBC50679C0830FC7B
02:19 deedbot ben_vulpes paid asciilifeform 0.50046596
02:20 mircea_popescu aaand in best vincent price lines, "alas, why must i be plagued by the harping of magpies on the eve of battle!"
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09:21 danielpbarron !!pay-invoice ben_vulpes 1
09:21 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/WhFu2/?raw=true
09:23 danielpbarron !!rate douchebag -1 l0de fan
09:23 deedbot Get your OTP: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/owe8o/?raw=true
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09:45 trinque http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-3-24#318721 << I said an arbitrary account balance. Do you understand what this means?
09:45 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-03-24 00:22 douchebag: This is a logged channel, unless invoices and withdrawls were made in PM. The balances could be determined by viewing the logs.
09:46 trinque It means I ask you "give me the balance of $x" and you respond correctly, to my satisfaction that you could do it for any account.
09:47 trinque It does not mean you trawl through the logs hoping that someone made all his wallet operations public.
09:48 trinque What, you took a day to go from "I'll root yer shit!" to "I-I can perl some logs..."
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10:04 deedbot http://qntra.net/2018/03/nine-citizens-of-iran-given-the-honour-of-inclusion-in-usg-fbis-wanted-list/ << Qntra - Nine Citizens of Iran Given the Honour of Inclusion in USG.FBI's 'Wanted List'
10:06 BingoBoingo http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-24#1789519 << Naturally. It's a good time to be in Latin America.
10:06 a111 Logged on 2018-03-24 01:00 mircea_popescu: http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-3-23#318191 << napoleon choice, it's the only sensible choice. us wants to go out with a bang! like france! everything must be done like france!
10:06 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-03-23 16:03 deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/03/moves-in-trump-administration-signal-the-remains-of-the-us-moving-into-a-more-aggressive-posture/ << Qntra - Moves In Trump Administration Signal The Remains Of The US Moving Into A More Aggressive Posture
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11:16 mircea_popescu http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-3-22#317465 << i'd add a third, which is "the insistence on the trivial case". there's a fundamental tension at work here, because we call it "exam taking", but bear it in mind that the presence of exam takers is not a flaw in the population, but a failure of the system!
11:16 mircea_popescu uncle al's expression is "insistently rewarding poor performance breeds ennui" or somesuch, but the fundamental problem is that the ~correct~ reaction of the working mind confronted with the broken system is to... exploit the breakage.
11:16 mircea_popescu this has the unfortunate correlate of implicitly training the best in the population to be trivial idiots (and thus manipulable), much like life in mine tunnels trains eyes out of mammals, or the life of sicilian mineworking boys bred symmetry out of their gait.
11:16 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-03-22 17:34 asciilifeform: the ~other~ engineering heuristic that's absolutely imho grand, and that i stole from mircea_popescu , is 'there is not a mechanical substitute for coming to an understanding with the people you live and work with'
11:16 mircea_popescu this then is the gambit of socialism : that it'll manage to maintain the breakage long enough so that every 20yo with a working mind ends up a "web security expert". it's certainly a better approach in "threat control" than ritalin, seeing how it's "invisible" (to the afflicted eye it's quite hard to see. unlike the pill.)
11:20 mircea_popescu but in any case : the difference between realism and idealism ~STRICTLY~ relies on the handling of the trivial case. all systems with "excepted" (a la http://trilema.com/2018/le-salaire-de-lidiotie/#selection-165.311-165.357 ) are ~IDEAL~ systems, and suffer not merely from heine's idiocy (of hoping for "one day" modernist lightnings to fall on the picklehaube), but from the very direct problem of http://trilema.com/2014/the-
11:20 mircea_popescu problem-of-ideal-social-systems-reprint/
11:22 mircea_popescu meh. http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-ideal-social-systems-reprint/
11:28 diana_coman that "correct" reaction sounds correct only for all sorts of definitions of "working mind"; dunno, working but un-reflecting; working but not worked; working blindly or something of this sort; to me it reads: "when in a broken environment, the correct reaction is to break yourself too as much as possible"; perhaps it is, along the lines of: one can hardly do anything else in that situation anyway so might as well extract the short-term app
11:28 diana_coman arent benefit or whatevers
11:30 mircea_popescu diana_coman you know, like the correctly working cunt gets wet whether it's rape or dad or whatever context. which is why "consensual nonconsent" or "DD/lg" are not things for 12 year olds.
11:31 mircea_popescu in any case you can't blame the vegetative system for cognitive failure ; and in the same spirit, i get it that ~everyone smells the pantsuit on douchebag and is driven mad to the point of barking with it. however, it seems to me the kid's merely maleducated, but fundamentally his brain works underneath.
11:36 mircea_popescu http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2017-12-8#255192 << he and i both suspect that eating bananas' ultimately not good for the spirit. yet what's the nigerian to do, hold out for potatoes ? potatoes don't even grow there. move 2k miles ? on what, his own farts ?
11:36 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2017-12-08 14:49 asciilifeform: the 'good climate makes folx lazy and slowly climbing 'back up to trees' ' item is an old saw, but i'm not aware of any major hole in the theory
11:37 mircea_popescu yes obviously once the choice is presented it's the job of the mind to choose correctly. but the entire job of management consists of being provided two or more alternatives at all points and picking one. there's no such magical chosing absent alternative.
11:46 mircea_popescu for which reason, going with the only available alternative is not unethical -- it's outside of ethics altogether (which, for the record, is not "morality" or blabla. ethics is the science of making correct choices, nothing else). obviously in practice this is conflated with wilful blindness, where the agent ~pretends~ to not have had the alternative ; and better whip for stirring idiocy to action than the false call to "ther
11:46 mircea_popescu e's no alternative" has never been devised. nor needs to be devised, really.
11:48 mircea_popescu but so far on the instant case, as to 1. "the internet is right there, it's your responsibility to find your way out of the pantsuit paper bag" -- well he's found the republic ; and as to 2. "make something of yourself, son"... too soon to tell yet, isn't it.
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12:13 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-24#1789555 << i dun think anyone even suggested that the kid was a tard. he suffers from specific infectious disease, if you will, as formulated in, say, http://btcbase.org/log/2018-03-22#1788946 , i.e. the disease of extrinsic motivation , 'what's the minimal sweat i need to grab the brass ring'
12:13 a111 Logged on 2018-03-24 15:31 mircea_popescu: in any case you can't blame the vegetative system for cognitive failure ; and in the same spirit, i get it that ~everyone smells the pantsuit on douchebag and is driven mad to the point of barking with it. however, it seems to me the kid's merely maleducated, but fundamentally his brain works underneath.
12:13 a111 Logged on 2018-03-22 19:35 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in my experience 20yo who already took home xxx,xxx $ 'for' doing The Wrong Thing , is incurable. but it was worth a try.
12:13 mircea_popescu and who doesn't ?
12:14 asciilifeform rather like cancer, 'everyone has it', but question of degree.
12:14 mircea_popescu right. rather in fact like respiration -- everyone has it, and ALL THE TIME ; it takes al schwartz to blow rather than inhale when organometallic fireball's going on.
12:14 asciilifeform entirely like-so.
12:15 mircea_popescu right. but he didn't come up with that shit on the spot anymore than he hit pause on the meltdown to run get some eye protection.
12:16 asciilifeform entirely like-so. which is why asciilifeform for instance approaches every diseased kid who finds his way in here, as potentially-treatable patient
12:16 mircea_popescu can't go wrong that way
12:23 asciilifeform http://qntra.net/2018/03/nine-citizens-of-iran-given-the-honour-of-inclusion-in-usg-fbis-wanted-list/#comment-111957 << in other pantsuitology
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12:46 mircea_popescu o this is fucking precious : "Costa Rica: Want to Invest in Bitcoin? Here's What You Should Know. The Bitcoin Code ( background-image: url("//img.revcontent.com/?url=https://revcontent-p0.s3.amazonaws.com/content/images/15214283180068218300.jpg&amp;static=true&amp;pos=face&amp;h=315&amp;w=420&amp;static=true&amp;fmt=jpeg"); height: 259px; )"
12:49 mircea_popescu scams-not-really-associated-with-bitcoin, from coinpay and buttbase all the way down to gurus, icos and the rest of the menagerie : will you take these bullshit adspaces nobody ever bought even in the days people were still buying online ads, a decade or two ago, the popunders, the "from the web", the "contextuals" all the way down to autoloaders or whatever to be your lawful wedded spouses, to honor and to cherish and to liv
12:49 mircea_popescu e together the fuck out of humanity's sight until the great dark finally comes on our worst mistake to date, the "information superhighway" web of shit ?
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14:07 trinque http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-3-24#318940 << yep, it's why I gave him a wager on his claims rather than negrate.
14:07 mimisbrunnr Logged on 2018-03-24 15:23 mircea_popescu: in any case you can't blame the vegetative system for cognitive failure ; and in the same spirit, i get it that ~everyone smells the pantsuit on douchebag and is driven mad to the point of barking with it. however, it seems to me the kid's merely maleducated, but fundamentally his brain works underneath.
14:09 mircea_popescu aha.
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17:29 ben_vulpes terf hate speech: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/BgIgH/?raw=true
17:30 mircea_popescu there's what ?
17:30 mircea_popescu idle cocksucker trying to be clever with his virtue signalling. "here's nothing for a very special dumb cunt!!!"
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19:57 * mircea_popescu has been quite enjoying the whole "scandal" whereby "it was really facebook (dobulespoken as "rogue" "market research" firm) thatr
19:58 mircea_popescu that * http://trilema.com/2016/to-be-clear-hillary-clinton-lost-the-presidential-election-on-june-16th-2016/ ; don't believe trilema #toxicfax #fakeboobs".
19:58 mircea_popescu took 'em long enough...
20:04 mircea_popescu dumping http://www.esthlos.com/images/gaussians.png here for the archival.
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21:19 BingoBoingo In other blows to pantsuitism https://pitchfork.com/news/killer-mike-defends-gun-ownership-in-new-nra-video/ https://archive.is/mj6xL
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21:39 deedbot http://barksinthewind.com/2018/vtools-vpatch/ << BARKS IN THE WIND - vtools vpatch
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