Forum logs for 29 Oct 2016

Monday, 16 March, Year 12 d.Tr. | Author:
BingoBoingo: Caek was delicious [00:42]
shinohai: Did they at least have lemonade too? [01:03]
BingoBoingo: Better. Coffee. [01:04]
shinohai: Good point [01:07]
* BingoBoingo not sure if the lack of discussion on the fanfic is a good or bad thing. [01:15]
BingoBoingo: Perhaps now that the slash is done next entry should take a more traditional fanfic turn. [01:15]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform empire is really dedicated to "not a sperm is wasted". all teh holes gotta be always kept. [02:38]
mircea_popescu: and, of course, http://66.media.tumblr.com/918778e0a014c11dbf790c170bbdb5db/tumblr_ngbn9hWiM31u2x6vro1_1280.jpg [09:52]
trinque: BingoBoingo: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2016/10/27/not-guilty-oregon-jury-exonerates-seven-defendants-refuge-standoff/ << no noose is good news [09:53]
trinque: dunno why that's filed under texas [09:53]
trinque: are they pandering to my demographic?!?! [09:53]
mircea_popescu: "all good things go in texas file" ? [09:53]
trinque: worx [09:53]
shinohai: http://i.imgur.com/AX2KmH9.png [10:37]
mircea_popescu: ahaha [10:45]
mircea_popescu: and in other stupid ideas, http://67.media.tumblr.com/5113513464264c6073e4d6ccf74a38d5/tumblr_n38cmfzkWn1rtutkqo1_500.jpg [10:49]
shinohai: Asses are better for snorting coke off of [10:51]
mircea_popescu: you really don't want to mix the hygroscopic cocaine with skin brine. [10:57]
BingoBoingo: <trinque> dunno why that's filed under texas << No, filed under news *FOR* Texas [12:27]
BingoBoingo: "One of the people who was sought in the probable cause action was killed. Another person was injured and transported to an area hospital where he was later arrested, according to an FBI press release obtained by Breitbart Texas at the time." << Pussies at Breitbart won't give Lavoy Finicum his NAME!. [12:30]
BingoBoingo: And lol http://qntra.net/2016/10/what-is-the-difference-between-bill-clinton-and-bill-cosby-a-qntest-with-bitcoin-prizes/#comment-76680 [12:31]
shinohai: LOL vexual should have put that one in format for the Qntest [12:37]
BingoBoingo: 4srs [12:37]
BingoBoingo: !~ticker --market all [12:42]
BingoBoingo: ~!ticker --market all --currency gbp [12:42]
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 706.7, vol: 3989.59358643 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 702.999, vol: 5255.44058 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 714.14, vol: 13968.47285007 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 713.287, vol: 1538.43442931 | Volume-weighted last average: 710.522274718 [12:43]
shinohai: When you start to resemble the candidate you are voting for: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/10/29/trump-supporter-charged-with-voting-twice-in-iowa/ [12:44]
BingoBoingo: !~ticker --market all --currency rmb [12:44]
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: BTCChina BTCRMB last: 4862.41, vol: 2937798.91540000 | Volume-weighted last average: 4862.41 [12:44]
BingoBoingo: lol shinohai [12:45]
mod6: mornin' [12:56]
shinohai: morning [12:56]
shinohai: or afternoon lol [12:56]
phf: meanwhile, asciilifeform at work http://66.media.tumblr.com/a1df58bc0106d0387164ad24ff49092f/tumblr_od226u6em41sndzdgo1_500.jpg [12:56]
mod6: lol, how's it goin? [12:56]
mod6: phf: heheh [12:57]
shinohai: xD [12:57]
mircea_popescu: wow they allow non-tit tumblrs ?! [12:57]
BingoBoingo: OMG his hands ARE free!!! [12:59]
mod6: lol [13:01]
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/poor-women/ << Trilema - Poor women... [13:04]
mircea_popescu: !!key DarkSonic1338 [13:23]
deedbot: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/r/3b74h/?raw=true [13:23]
ben_vulpes: "we even picked them out together online" wahaha [13:38]
BingoBoingo: For srs [13:38]
ben_vulpes: i ain't even take remedial kink and that shit's retarded [13:39]
BingoBoingo: Motherfucker *wants* to get cuck'd by a couple bits of plastic [13:39]
BingoBoingo: It's only time before he finds a boyfriend with "frame" to bring home. [13:39]
ben_vulpes: interesting take [13:40]
ben_vulpes: relatedly, hijinks on the corvette hood jammed the right side release [13:41]
ben_vulpes: fuckin toys [13:42]
BingoBoingo: PB Blaster and patience [13:42]
ben_vulpes: i think it's a mechanical jam, possibly the glass is now out of true [13:42]
BingoBoingo: PB Blaster, Patience, and Pushing is the amended prescription [13:43]
ben_vulpes: pushing [13:46]
ben_vulpes: source of and solution to the world's woes [13:47]
BingoBoingo: Seriously [13:48]
BingoBoingo: But the PB Blaster is pretty much nothing but solution... except in locks... or electronics [13:48]
ben_vulpes: more like a suspension of solution [13:49]
BingoBoingo: Nah, because wear items always evade permanent solutions. They aren't plinths. [13:50]
trinque: the guy who has to ask an authority how and whether to fuck truly is another gender. [13:51]
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes corvette is for fucking 50lbs of 17yo not 100lbs of married woman! [13:51]
mircea_popescu: there IS such a thing as engineering specifications! [13:51]
ben_vulpes: eh corvette is for depreciating [13:52]
trinque: also hooning in circles when wet [13:52]
ben_vulpes: schedule is a matter of personal taste [13:52]
trinque: :D [13:52]
mircea_popescu: i wonder if they actually had a hood engineer sit around thinking about this [13:52]
ben_vulpes: trinque: not circles, arcs [13:52]
ben_vulpes: arcs of like 30 degrees [13:52]
trinque: fair 'nuff [13:52]
ben_vulpes: UGH [13:52]
ben_vulpes: replacing that bumper is going to cost me 450 in plastic and another 175 in shipping oil [13:52]
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it may interest you to know i first met / picked out / hired my best driver ever when he was 17 and was doing "spinnies" with a group of similarly minded idiots [13:53]
mircea_popescu: which consisted of accelerating and then steer-locking the car in a gravel pit. [13:53]
ben_vulpes: aka 'donuts' [13:53]
mircea_popescu: ah is it ? [13:53]
ben_vulpes: i think so [13:53]
ben_vulpes: what is 'steer-locking'? [13:53]
* mircea_popescu is largely innocent of cool car stuff [13:53]
* ben_vulpes as well [13:53]
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, you know how you can make the car skid if you steer it ineptly ? [13:54]
* ben_vulpes is intimately familiar [13:54]
trinque: this is what texas "beaches" are for [13:54]
ben_vulpes: or if its rwd [13:54]
mircea_popescu: that done deliberately. [13:54]
ben_vulpes: right [13:54]
mircea_popescu: ah yes, but on gravel! ro standard gravel has this 1cm ish shards thing, it's a horror. [13:54]
ben_vulpes: so in other related plastics, ford is shipping a focus with "drift mode" [13:54]
mircea_popescu: mostly basalt flakes [13:54]
ben_vulpes: featuring computer controlled front/rear differential [13:55]
mircea_popescu: ffs. [13:55]
ben_vulpes: when yaw rate exceeds some envelope parameters it dumps power back to the front and yanks the car back under control (in theory) [13:55]
ben_vulpes: local club has a great story about a noob slamming a brand new focus into a rock wall playing with this [13:55]
ben_vulpes: missed the front of the pile of parked club cars by ~10 feet [13:56]
trinque: this is now called cuckatronics [13:56]
mircea_popescu: ^ [13:56]
ben_vulpes: cuck cars [13:56]
mircea_popescu: cuck.ars [13:56]
ben_vulpes: (e) [13:56]
mircea_popescu: lol [13:57]
ben_vulpes: today's cooking mystery: [13:57]
ben_vulpes: WHY do yams and sweet potatoes fry so differently from ordinary american idaho potatoes? [13:57]
mircea_popescu: see how his free association works ? cuck-cook [13:57]
trinque: lel [13:58]
ben_vulpes: i was trying to work a cucking in [13:58]
mircea_popescu: i suppose yams think themselves pastries. [13:58]
ben_vulpes: it was a tight squeeze [13:58]
ben_vulpes: awkward fit [13:58]
mircea_popescu: best excuse ever for girl not liking condoms : "there's barely any room even without!" [13:59]
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Because they are compeltely different things. White potatoes are a nightshade tuber and sweet potatoes are a morning glory tuber. [13:59]
mircea_popescu: !~google salt n pepa push it [14:00]
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Salt N Pepa - Push It (Original) + Lyrics - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk4onJ7Z2MLI> Push It - Salt - N - Pepa - Vevo: <http://www.vevo.com/watch/salt-n-pepa/push-it/USIV30400109> Salt ' n Pepa , ' Push It ' | 500 Greatest Songs of All Time | Rolling Stone: <http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-500-greatest-songs-of-all-time-20110407/salt-n-pepa-push-it-2011 [14:00]
phf: i don't get sweet potatoes, i've been trying to work with them, but they don't seem to ever come out tasty. i even tried them as fries.. [14:00]
ben_vulpes: fuckin BingoBoingo [14:01]
ben_vulpes: knew he'd have it [14:01]
BingoBoingo: And yams are something else entirely. Fucking inedible underground cyanide factories. [14:01]
BingoBoingo: In Africa even the food is weaponized [14:02]
mircea_popescu: i don't much care for the sweet stuff, so i don't usually eat it. i think it's acquired thanksgiving taste. [14:02]
ben_vulpes: hey i just said "PROCURE ME A DIVERSITY OF TUBER" [14:02]
ben_vulpes: and the plants themselves disappoint. [14:02]
mircea_popescu: at least you didn't end up with horse radish / nightshade mix. [14:03]
* BingoBoingo drives by a field of cultivated horse radish with regularity [14:04]
ben_vulpes: is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"? [14:05]
trinque: phf: they're good with something savory on 'em, say a fried egg and some sausage [14:08]
BingoBoingo: Well depends on the person? There's a bunch of stuff there that could be variably toxic depending on the specific person. Probably less allergy and more varying vulnerability to poison. [14:08]
trinque: chopped up, fried in sparing amount of butter [14:08]
trinque: you can throw in a chopped up green apple too [14:09]
BingoBoingo: phf: trinque is right. Don't think of them as potatoes. Think of them as a sort of underground squash. [14:10]
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/forum-logs-for-29-oct-2016#2186557 << they're also in the fucking majority. it seems ridiculous enough here, but they're also the font of nonsense a la "statutory rape" etc. [14:17]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 17:51 trinque: the guy who has to ask an authority how and whether to fuck truly is another gender. [14:17]
phf: hmm, yeah, i have hard time with that whole direction, squash, eggplant [14:19]
mircea_popescu: no wai ?! [14:20]
ben_vulpes: man the texture of sq [14:20]
mircea_popescu: what do you make zacusca out of ? [14:20]
ben_vulpes: squash bits... [14:20]
phf: mircea_popescu: oh it's great as a zakuska, i was just thinking that i should make some "eggplant caviar" (no idea what the proper translation is) [14:21]
mircea_popescu: baba ganoush ? [14:21]
BingoBoingo: The best summer squash is the Pattypan squash. There is no contest here and assertions to the contrary are crimes (libel, defamation, fraud) against nature. [14:22]
phf: hah, that's why i like baba ganoush, but i don't know the recipe for later. when cooked russian style it's somewhat different from what they sell as baba ganoush in u.s. [14:25]
phf: interestingly french call baba ganoush caviar d'aubergine a la libanaise [14:26]
mircea_popescu: yeah, romanian style is also differenty [14:32]
mircea_popescu: and i have nfi why they call "caviar" things which remind them of ... cheap roe salads. but w/e [14:33]
phf: there's a joke in a su commedy set in 16th century russia, where a character is listing dishes at a lavish feast, black caviar in a giant container, red caviar in a smaller plate, and "caviar from foreign lands, eggplant caviar" barely a spoonful. i sort of always assumed because of that movie that at some point eggplants were near impossible to source around where the term "eggplant caviar" originated [14:40]
mircea_popescu: seems improbable, they come from the russian motherland of armenian ssr. [14:43]
phf: armenia wasn't part of russia until 19th century, and in 16th century it wouldn't yet be under iranian influence, so it's possible that it was brought all the way from iran as bademjan [14:50]
mircea_popescu: my joek! [14:50]
phf: woosh [14:50]
phf: i have to add this as an asset in an ongoing hostilities with my iranian colleagues over "things that we have invented and you stole from us", which started as this things do over my casual remark that samovar was invented by russians [14:54]
mircea_popescu: among other things they invented the jews. [14:55]
phf: how so? [14:56]
mircea_popescu: what do you mean how so ? like tv killed the radio star, they were there and jewing the place up then the jews came along and stole it from them. [14:57]
BingoBoingo: Wait, does this mean Iran or Russia did WTC? [14:57]
phf: i don't know what to do with that knowledge, like ark of the covenant, it might be ultimate weapon [14:58]
mircea_popescu: :) [14:59]
BingoBoingo: OMG, what's on the RSS feed? [15:18]
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/10/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-12-tmr/ << Qntra - Not Quite News Roundup Xtend 12 (TM)(R) [15:18]
trinque: dat timing [15:19]
BingoBoingo: Yes It's Roundup Xtend Time! [15:19]
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo 40 bucks a bottle is actually pretty great price for the merchandise i'd say [15:22]
mircea_popescu: 1968 through it's practice <<< [15:23]
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You'd be surprised. One of those things with quite a bit of variation depending on the particular time and liquor store. [15:23]
BingoBoingo: ty fxd [15:23]
mircea_popescu: just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range. [15:24]
BingoBoingo: But not flawless or even graded. Sold in private wool over the eyes "experience" swindle. [15:25]
mircea_popescu: hm [15:26]
mircea_popescu: well, if you buy by the barrel you should in principle get a barrel. [15:26]
BingoBoingo: Likely barrel were to far out of spec for blending into standard 20-30/bottle product so "exclusive" label attached. [15:26]
mircea_popescu: oh [15:26]
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha [15:26]
mircea_popescu: mkay. [15:26]
BingoBoingo: And definitely too far out of spec for bottled "single barrel" origin product. [15:27]
mircea_popescu: i see. [15:27]
BingoBoingo: It's called "artisan" cost recovery. [15:27]
mircea_popescu: Apparently Surkov used Microsoft Outlook. [15:28]
mircea_popescu: ahahaha fucking imbeciles. still ? STILL ? [15:28]
BingoBoingo: Anyways even if barrel itself is included, ACTUAL used whiskey barrel is of... limited value... [15:29]
BingoBoingo: Yes still! [15:29]
shinohai: "The Republic's efforts to locate Peace on Earth, going as far as the gates of Hell, resulted in SFYL as the forum admins selectively scammed MP for 0.1 BTC" [15:46]
mircea_popescu: aww. [15:48]
mircea_popescu: they never got back to you huh. [15:48]
shinohai: I left that goddamned page up for 3 days [15:48]
* BingoBoingo kinda wants https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5844279808.html [15:51]
shinohai: For that Mexican gardener look? [15:54]
BingoBoingo: Fuck Yeah. Or mebbe https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5794066983.html as project to make awesome flatbed road hero. [15:55]
shinohai: dat auto transmission tho [15:58]
* BingoBoingo more worried about carb'd engine in hostile ethanol containing fuel market [15:59]
BingoBoingo: Oh, nm. Fuel injected motor [16:02]
mircea_popescu: shinohai pretty fucking weird imo [16:23]
shinohai: What's weird? [16:24]
mircea_popescu: that they'd scam fiddy bux [16:24]
shinohai: I dunno if it was intentional or what ... but no way to contact admins or anything that I have found thus far. [16:25]
shinohai: They could at least include a sigaint address or something since already on tor [16:26]
mircea_popescu: kids [16:28]
shinohai: anywho is I find a way to contact them I'll hit you up if you don't mind signing a message from that addy. [16:29]
shinohai: *if [16:29]
mircea_popescu: notrly going to entertain the "addy signature" bs. [16:30]
shinohai: kk [16:30]
mircea_popescu: besides, it's not my job to chase him. guy scammed, let him put the elbow grease in to fix it. [16:30]
mircea_popescu: till then, scammer be scammer and that's all. [16:30]
shinohai: Lucky me all these berry claims are close together. :D [16:31]
mircea_popescu: well yes they come from the same run. [16:31]
mircea_popescu: basically the right way is to get 14 bundles, put them in table, walk over there, move them into one claim, then take them out one at time exploit claims then when done put product in table walk it back [16:31]
shinohai: I'm an idiot, I should have put bundles in table. [16:32]
mircea_popescu: lol [16:32]
mircea_popescu: there's ... a lot of depth to it see ? hehe. [16:32]
shinohai: meh they are close to town anyways [16:33]
mircea_popescu: nothing harder in this world than stuff which require pascal's esprit de geometrie. [16:33]
mircea_popescu: meanwhile on the corvette, http://66.media.tumblr.com/f11c5fca421700bece0afd20bc6f9a94/tumblr_n6teuied3M1tnztuoo2_1280.png [16:34]
shinohai: The brunette with the tat on side, one star for each gargled dick ? [16:36]
mircea_popescu: not possibru, unless she sheds her skin every three months like some sort of naga [16:36]
diana_coman: eh, on the other hand he might need to train in between claims seeing how his skill is not that high yet so a trip back to town anyway [16:37]
mircea_popescu: there is that yeah. [16:41]
mircea_popescu: also, for the amateur entomologists : the body of work published by the us agitprop wrt to vladislav surkov during the past five years is a splendid mirror to interpret the decaying empire itself. all that hero worship, all that fake fear that "someone", obviously "somewhere far away" may be you know, mixing democratic rhetoric with undemocratic intent, creating a "post truth" world and generally constructing a menacing unrea [16:43]
mircea_popescu: lity is entirely self-deconstruction of the most transparent ilk. [16:43]
mircea_popescu: like a contemporary fable. really, the WOLF did that ? a speaking wolf ? wow! [16:43]
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/u4tdZ pars pro toto. [16:45]
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k [18:05]
asciilifeform: ey”, referred to by Zooko as toxic waste, needed to be destroyed. If this data is not destroyed, someone who has access to this key is able to generate an infinite amount of anonymous ZCash. This is the so called “hidden inflation problem” unlimited counterfeiting of coins while nobody is able to detect it. ...' [18:05]
shinohai: !~later tell BingoBoingo http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/us8wa/?raw=true [18:10]
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded. [18:10]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1559985 << lel, that must be me in the parallel Bright SovFuture Universe i got booted from [18:34]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 16:56 phf: meanwhile, asciilifeform at work http://66.media.tumblr.com/a1df58bc0106d0387164ad24ff49092f/tumblr_od226u6em41sndzdgo1_500.jpg [18:34]
asciilifeform: (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing) [18:34]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560126 << what didja think he used, mircea_popescu , elbrus ? [18:39]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 19:28 mircea_popescu: Apparently Surkov used Microsoft Outlook. [18:39]
asciilifeform: toldja. [18:39]
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/10/hack-forum-kicks-ddos-vendors/ << Qntra - Hack Forum Kicks DDoS Vendors [18:42]
BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2009/abraham-lincoln-tradator-de-neam-si-tara/#comment-119577 << the discussion that follows as people learn reading is quite the artifact [18:43]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560115 << i went not long ago into 'upscale' booze shop in washington, there was a, iirc, 150k-usd bottle, in a 'hope diamond'-type glass display, shopkeeper claimed that he's sold 2. [18:45]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 19:24 mircea_popescu: just going by it generally. esltards pretend whiskey to be an actual drink (it utterly is not, fruit alcohol is the only stuff worth drinking), and if we grant that faulty premise then 40 bucks for a quart of flawless whiskey compares favourably with a middle of the road cognac going more in the 100-200 range. [18:45]
danielpbarron: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560075 << yes. I think i have this. whenever i eat eggplant i feel itchy and generally uncomfortable [18:47]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 18:05 ben_vulpes: is there anything to this "nightshade allergy"? [18:47]
danielpbarron: which is very strange to me because, i'm 1/2 armenian [18:48]
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: Perhaps you can set this commentard straight? http://qntra.net/2016/10/not-quite-news-roundup-xtend-12-tmr/#comment-76734 [19:23]
danielpbarron: i don't understand what it's referring to [19:30]
BingoBoingo: Prolly the Nineveh thing, likely confused it with Babylon [19:34]
BingoBoingo: Assure him daniel is safely in Connecticut or wherever [19:34]
BingoBoingo: OMG my RSS sense is tingling [19:53]
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2016/10/29/is-so-unfair-cycle-11/ << Bingo Blog - Is So Unfair Cycle 11 [19:53]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sofware vs hardware omgerd [20:13]
mircea_popescu: "this is not a normal launch like any other scamcoin because we would really like it not to be, and reality shouldn't get in the way of what we want" [20:14]
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah not bad. [20:15]
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, silent watcher that connects to no channels got klined earlier. "[465] You are banned from this server- Please do not spam users or channels on freenode. If in error, please contact kline@freenode.net. (2016/10/29 22.35)" [20:32]
BingoBoingo: lol [20:32]
mircea_popescu: it's however not banned or anything. just another unexpected failure mode. [20:32]
mircea_popescu: just in case phf trinque shinohai & crew ever think they got to the last test case or something. [20:33]
mircea_popescu: and in more meanwhile, http://67.media.tumblr.com/12c79505ac3fd8b4ff6b90bec94aa2bb/tumblr_nkc06ioOo11rrq7ino1_1280.jpg [20:35]
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron must be the other half then. [21:05]
phf: oh by the time a111 can recover from all possible freenode failures we've achieved the dream of hard ai [21:17]
mircea_popescu: o look at that : latimes has trump +2 [21:18]
mircea_popescu: 3k lv, ie the largest this week. [21:18]
asciilifeform: he can 'win' a la gore with this. [21:36]
mircea_popescu: lol gore. [22:04]
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560175 << most likely, that's ed emshwiller a somewhat famous pulp cover illustrator (can recognize by the "emsh" tag) [22:20]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 22:34 asciilifeform: (actually i could swear i saw that pic on a '90s sf cover, when they were being printed on that yellow toilet paper thing) [22:20]
phf: i actually picked up a 1964 pulp print of pkd's the simulacra with his illustration at a tiny "mystery books" bookstore in philadelphia, that since got closed [22:26]
mircea_popescu: there is actually a senator mike crapo. [22:27]
mircea_popescu: there really is no bottom of lulz. [22:27]
BingoBoingo: There's a sort of asymtote that roughly approximates one. The geometry of lulz is not euclidean. [22:32]
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-30#1560205 << recall, they have this thing in usa where it is at least theoretically possible for candidate to get 80+% of votes and lose [22:41]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-30 02:04 mircea_popescu: lol gore. [22:41]
mircea_popescu: 80%, no. [22:45]
mircea_popescu: it's possible to win the popular vote by a slight margin and still lose the election, but that's all. [22:46]
mircea_popescu: also, tittybounce. http://67.media.tumblr.com/c047b309b177184d9ee2abebd3f65e96/tumblr_nj6lmoFgXI1ry595bo1_400.gif [22:46]
asciilifeform: lel that street looks almost exactly like asciilifeform's [22:47]
mircea_popescu: and most others. cheap fencing etc. [22:47]
asciilifeform: well cheap usa. [22:47]
mircea_popescu: gore's thing was ~500k votes, ie 0.5% sorta thing [22:48]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu apparently has it [22:49]
mircea_popescu: also that was like the largest such effect in 120 or os years [22:50]
asciilifeform: though theoretically the 'electors' are not bound by the votes, and could in principle elect whoever. though afaik this has not yet happened. [22:50]
mircea_popescu: you're thinking primaries electors. [22:50]
asciilifeform: nah [22:51]
asciilifeform: the proper ones [22:51]
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/HfNzw [22:51]
mircea_popescu: lol at all the derps accidenta-voting [22:54]
mircea_popescu: anyway, an elector rewrite of the election would be pretty much the lulziest outcome possible. [23:01]
asciilifeform: in other lulz, spotted this with own eyes, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/clitler.jpg [23:05]
mircea_popescu: this is good for the usd. [23:06]
asciilifeform: gotta love the 'step right up, sell yer vote! for (imaginary) 2k usd' [23:07]
mircea_popescu: lol [23:07]
mircea_popescu: they have ap oint though : this debt holds "all of us" back - if college numbers were released from this peg in reality the gdp could go as high as 500% the first month. [23:08]
mircea_popescu: why not. mit is worth 500 billiards as well as it's worth 50 billions. [23:08]
mircea_popescu: and all this would be good for the usd. [23:08]
asciilifeform: and why not promise idiots 20k, or 200, or... [23:08]
mircea_popescu: ikr? [23:08]
mircea_popescu: all numbers are good for usd. [23:09]
asciilifeform: not as if it will have to be paid in actual money [23:09]
mircea_popescu: of course, there's some sense in all of that. eg, why exactly is college debt not refinanceable ? [23:09]
asciilifeform: same reason (most) tax debt in usa is not. [23:10]
mircea_popescu: and also pushing the "college can charge whatever it wants - but it will never get more than 10% of the student's future pay, so whatevs" is pretty much the only way out of the mess. [23:10]
mircea_popescu: if a college education helps, fine. and if not - a well. [23:10]
mircea_popescu: o look, also wants to double the americorps payola. weren't they taking it back from suckers 10 years later recently ? [23:11]
mircea_popescu: that's a great govt style scam. [23:11]
asciilifeform: they were taking back iraq 'bonus'. [23:12]
mircea_popescu: "ship to irak tomorrow, and if they don't blow you up we'll give you 20k". wait 10 years after which "oh btw, only kidding about those 20k. whatcha gonna do about it bitch, NOT GO TO IRAK NO MOAR ? AHAHAHAHA" [23:12]
asciilifeform: (when i worked at flying a desk for u.s. army, there were posters hanging in the lobby promising 25-35k re-enlistment bonus for DESK FLYERS, with the logic that they CHANCE iraq) [23:13]
mircea_popescu: morelike with the logic that they by and large couldn't hire people above 98 iq even with the bonuses. [23:13]
asciilifeform: oh btw you get it, typically, up-front, goes straight to the debt collectors. [23:13]
asciilifeform: (to whom else.) [23:14]
asciilifeform: the remaining pennies - to dependapotamus. [23:14]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they recruit schoolboys, and, typically, not the best arithmetizers, no. [23:15]
mircea_popescu: i wonder what male dependos are like. [23:15]
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i shall bbl. [23:15]
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560134 << fuck buddy that looks like a great truck [23:17]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 19:51 BingoBoingo kinda wants https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/5844279808.html [23:17]
* asciilifeform had to read that twice [23:19]
BingoBoingo: lol [23:19]
asciilifeform: fuckbuddy that looks like... [23:19]
BingoBoingo: 4srs [23:19]
phf: nohomo [23:20]
ben_vulpes: not my fault nobody gets the letterkenny jokes [23:22]
BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-one/ << "My parents threw a party for me in our field. I had a helicopter birthday cake." If people want to know why "Attack Helicopter" is such a popular gender identification amongst protesters [23:23]
ben_vulpes: "i mean fuck buddy, it's /your/ body politic but fuck, buddy. it's your /body politic/." [23:24]
asciilifeform: 'i invited the strippers [,] hitler and stalin to my party' [23:25]
ben_vulpes: it's "trailer park boys" grade poor mocking. [23:27]
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-10-29#1560169 << choice. [23:28]
a111: Logged on 2016-10-29 22:05 asciilifeform: https://archive.is/Djt8g << meanwhile, at the circus, 'This is not a “normal launch” like any other altcoin, because ZCash required a so called “trusted setup”. During this setup, some secret (public) parameters were generated based on a “master private key”. These network parameters are needed to create the so called “zero-knowledge proofs”, which is the anonymizing mixer on the ZCash network. The “master private k [23:28]
ben_vulpes: "Zooko proposed recently to periodically force everyone to reveal their balance as a solution for the hidden inflation problem." << ahaha i mean fuck what's the point [23:30]
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: gotta be a gold standard, of sorts, in promisetronics [23:31]
asciilifeform: 'magical alchemical key of doom existed, but we burned it, peter todd PROMISED!!!11111111111' [23:31]
ben_vulpes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6RLjcGVUnw&feature=youtu.be&t=17m30s << from the linked piece, in which 'zooko' (this is a name? wothandle? what even jesus shit) 'reveals he doesn't even grok zero-knowledge proofs' [23:31]
ben_vulpes: yeah good grief [23:32]
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'zooko' is primarily known for the 'dns triangle' thing [23:32]
asciilifeform: and someone by this handle commented on my old bl0g pieces re bitcoin, but that was ages ago. [23:32]
ben_vulpes: oh that is actually 'the zooko' then? [23:32]
asciilifeform: i have nfi, d00d never afaik had pubkey. [23:32]
asciilifeform: 'digerati' type, 'famous for being famous' [23:33]
ben_vulpes: only compounds the lols [23:33]
asciilifeform: belongs straight in the furnace. [23:33]
ben_vulpes: "guy we swear is this other guy who nominally but not provably does a thing also came up with a 'cryptocurrency' that doesn't have hard guarantees on monetary base numbers' [23:34]
ben_vulpes: s/that last singlequote/a double quote [23:34]
asciilifeform: 'shakespeare's plays were not written by shakespeare, but another man of that name' [23:34]
ben_vulpes: who expects this shit to carry water? [23:35]
asciilifeform: them, apparently [23:35]
ben_vulpes: thinking, code-reading folks recoil in horror at bitcoin already [23:35]
asciilifeform: all 5 of'em. [23:35]
ben_vulpes: that /you/ know [23:35]
asciilifeform: noshit [23:36]
asciilifeform: at any rate, that thing apparently is the long-awaited 'tor-flavoured' shitcoin [23:39]
asciilifeform: the designated rubes are, likely, already sucking it up and asking for seconds. [23:39]
asciilifeform: then in year or three, begin the 'nobody could have predicted' blackmarketeer jailings etc. [23:40]
asciilifeform: familiar picture, to the point of tedium. [23:41]
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "every one" [23:41]
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Where? [23:42]
ben_vulpes: Everyone of Voldemort's [23:42]
ben_vulpes: fucking dying over here [23:42]
ben_vulpes: the lols are too thick [23:43]
ben_vulpes: send air [23:43]
BingoBoingo: ty [23:43]
BingoBoingo: Wait till the 11th entry. [23:43]
BingoBoingo: Sry 12th [23:43]
BingoBoingo: In other Voldemorts http://trilema.com/2011/wikileaks-dcccxl/#selection-57.578-57.809 [23:46]
ben_vulpes: in other "don't talk to cops": http://bikeportland.org/2016/10/29/collision-on-st-johns-bridge-kills-bicycle-rider-194427 [23:49]
BingoBoingo: WTF is a sharrow [23:56]
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