Forum logs for 21 Mar 2015
Sunday, 24 November, Year 11 d.Tr. | Author: Mircea Popescu
mircea_popescu | anyway : quantum tunneling is the observed property of quantum "particles" to interact at a distance without ever interacting with whatever's separating their first position from the second. | [00:00] |
mircea_popescu | this is most annoying when for instance electrons ignore dielectrics | [00:00] |
nubbins` | that's quantum entanglement, no? | [00:00] |
mircea_popescu | no. | [00:00] |
nubbins` | quantum tunneling is when i go outside but skip the door | [00:00] |
mircea_popescu | quantum entanglement is the property of two apparently distinct "particles" to share more than they should. | [00:00] |
mircea_popescu | as a rule of thumb, the first occurs over tiny distances, the 2nd is distance-invariant | [00:01] |
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mircea_popescu | nubbins` yes, something like that. as if you could only be right before or right after the door but not in between. | [00:02] |
nubbins` | this is all the sort of thing i understand while reading it but don't really copy it over to long-term storage | [00:02] |
mircea_popescu | depends a lot on your energy. | [00:02] |
nubbins` | yeah | [00:02] |
mircea_popescu | but then again in qm, your existence is not so distinct from your energy. | [00:02] |
mircea_popescu | how did that line go, | [00:02] |
asciilifeform | the long-distance one behaves exclusively like a pair of synched rng. | [00:02] |
mircea_popescu | ;;google money over power, power over money | [00:02] |
gribble | WAREN G & SISSEL - THE RAPSODY PRINCE IGOR - YouTube: |
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asciilifeform | the short-distance (tunnel) on the other hand is one of the weapons by which 'moore's law' is dying - http://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/entner/node23.html | [00:04] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1FODLm0 ) | [00:04] |
asciilifeform | http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/barr.html << for folks who like to play with the numbers | [00:05] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOE1BN ) | [00:05] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform quite. | [00:05] |
mircea_popescu | just about at the 5ish nm level it takes over iirc | [00:05] |
decimation | asciilifeform: re: conversation about neighborhood isp: turns out there is a town about an hour away from you that is attempting to provide its own gigabit fiber service: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-startup-offering-gigabit-fiber-is-expanding-to-a-second-comcast-dominated-city | [00:07] |
assbot | A Startup Offering Gigabit Fiber Is Expanding to a Second Comcast-Dominated City | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOEpQt ) | [00:07] |
mircea_popescu | decimation a startup != a town tho neh ? | [00:07] |
asciilifeform | was about to say. | [00:07] |
asciilifeform | show me a town where anyone freely digs up the roads. | [00:08] |
asciilifeform | not even in africa. | [00:08] |
decimation | no if you read the article, the 'startup' is actually a division of tucows, the domainame freeware site | [00:08] |
decimation | and they are merely 'operating' the network after westminster, md builds it | [00:08] |
decimation | " "We want to blow this thing up, and we want disruptive services at disruptive pricing," Robert Wack, Westminster's city council president, told me. "We've got Comcast and its usual suite of services, Verizon DSL, with its patchy service areas, and dish and satellite services. Nobody is happy with any of it, and none of it has the capacity we need to take this city into the future."" | [00:09] |
asciilifeform | verizomcast is doomed to play 'bad cop' to the 'good cop' of usgnet | [00:09] |
asciilifeform | (or whatever name it ends up taking) | [00:09] |
decimation | apparently tucows is on usg's shitlist because it won't play ball | [00:10] |
decimation | http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-the-notorious-canadian-internet-company-targeted-by-the-us-government " As previously mentioned, Tucows landed on the US Trade Representative’s annual list of notorious markets due to the company’s practice of not responding to takedown requests from companies alleging that Tucows registers domains for sites selling illegal goods. This is despite the fact that a domain name registrar has | [00:10] |
assbot | Inside the 'Notorious' Canadian Internet Company Targeted by the US Government | Motherboard ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOFnfA ) | [00:10] |
decimation | essentially no say in the content of the websites on its roster, Bunton told me. " | [00:10] |
asciilifeform | idea is that they 'have the choice to surrender to usg' and didn't make it | [00:12] |
decimation | yeah I guess that's the idea, but it seems dubious that usg will tolerate such behavior | [00:13] |
decimation | especially when it has its own blessed monopolists | [00:13] |
nubbins` | wonder will the town wait to be sued before giving up subscriber info | [00:15] |
asciilifeform | lol 'giving up' when isp (and credit card co) pipe it to usg in milliseconds when subscriber pays | [00:15] |
asciilifeform | and continuously after | [00:16] |
nubbins` | :D | [00:16] |
nubbins` | if i wanna see a card trick, i don't want you to hold the deck face-up | [00:16] |
asciilifeform | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9GJPoMs30E << historical interest | [00:17] |
assbot | Guillotine in the basement of German Reichstag - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bf9tCJ ) | [00:17] |
nubbins` | man, i remember tucows from back when i had to buy a book to use the internet | [00:17] |
decimation | asciilifeform: I don't get why we don't still use the guillotine | [00:18] |
decimation | seems pretty fast and efficient | [00:18] |
asciilifeform | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=07-01-2015#967169 | [00:18] |
assbot | Logged on 07-01-2015 00:39:01; *: asciilifeform has been enjoying 'Seeing Justice Done. The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France.' (Paul Friedland.) | [00:18] |
asciilifeform | ^ described, among other very interesting things, the decline & fall of the guillotine | [00:18] |
asciilifeform | even while it was still used, was hidden behind closed door for most of the 20th c | [00:19] |
asciilifeform | because of the fundamental duplicity of totalitarian state | [00:19] |
asciilifeform | (must keep two sets of books, can't show publicly how it works) | [00:19] |
asciilifeform | just as 'civilized' countries today punish folks behind closed doors | [00:20] |
asciilifeform | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2014#772419 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2014#772420 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2014#772421 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-07-2014#772429 | [00:20] |
assbot | Logged on 27-07-2014 17:35:40; asciilifeform: the one common anthropological thread i see here is that most governments insist on some 'national' symbolic meaning in their chosen means of execution. e.g., the french guillotine across all five 'republics' | [00:20] |
assbot | Logged on 27-07-2014 17:36:01; asciilifeform: when usa was a techno-power, electric chair was king | [00:20] |
assbot | Logged on 27-07-2014 17:36:20; asciilifeform: banana republics, soviet world - shooting | [00:20] |
assbot | Logged on 27-07-2014 17:39:58; asciilifeform: so from this it follows that the current ceremony (injection with not-quite-poisons in an elaborate pseudo-medical setting) also symbolizes something about modern usa, re: national character. | [00:20] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4200 @ 0.00029193 = 1.2261 BTC [-] | [00:21] |
decimation | re: electric chair < my understanding is that it was mainly a marketing gimmick for electricity | [00:21] |
nubbins` | i once saw thomas edison electrocute an elephant | [00:22] |
nubbins` | well, not in person | [00:22] |
asciilifeform | famous film | [00:22] |
decimation | asciilifeform: note that keeping the execution behind closed doors greatly diminishes its intended effect to encourage the others | [00:22] |
asciilifeform | the books was actually about this | [00:23] |
asciilifeform | specifically, how the purpose changed | [00:23] |
asciilifeform | and wtf it even was originally. | [00:23] |
asciilifeform | highly recommended. | [00:23] |
decimation | thanks for the recommendation. | [00:23] |
nubbins` | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_%28elephant%29 | [00:24] |
nubbins` | :o | [00:24] |
assbot | Topsy (elephant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1FOIRip ) | [00:24] |
decimation | asciilifeform: my hypothesis re: hidden execution in the US was that those who wanted to end all executions encouraged it so that they could then argue that it doesn't have a 'discouragement' effect on crime | [00:24] |
nubbins` | what a bummer | [00:25] |
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decimation | just like the same ones burden the death penalty with layers of bureaucracy and then claim that it's too unwieldy to use | [00:25] |
mircea_popescu | !up ponyslaystation | [00:26] |
-assbot- | You voiced ponyslaystation for 30 minutes. | [00:26] |
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mircea_popescu | o.O | [00:27] |
mircea_popescu | and obviously, the usg doesn't like it. how surprising. | [00:27] |
* | decimation has fond memories of downloading warez from tucows back in the day | [00:27] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 95950 @ 0.00028191 = 27.0493 BTC [-] {2} | [00:27] |
asciilifeform | aha | [00:27] |
asciilifeform | it and simtel | [00:27] |
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mircea_popescu | generally, any friend of the usg is an enemy of the world. | [00:28] |
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decimation | asciilifeform: did you get those little paper catalogs of shareware which you could order on diskettes? | [00:28] |
asciilifeform | never got paper, no | [00:28] |
asciilifeform | (where? lol) | [00:28] |
mircea_popescu | i did, actually. | [00:28] |
mircea_popescu | even got a diskette of fractal programs. | [00:29] |
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* | mircea_popescu comes from a country where "warez" has no particular meaning. you mean software, right ? | [00:31] |
decimation | yes, with the meaning shaded with the implication that the software is unlicensed | [00:31] |
decimation | although in this case it was shareware generally | [00:31] |
mircea_popescu | http://36.media.tumblr.com/2a63eaed64b2fba30ca3a958c905b813/tumblr_mw02jsxq8T1s9rg6lo1_1280.jpg << study. | [00:33] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bfd6bH ) | [00:33] |
decimation | linked from ascii's youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdDnbXXn20 < Wehrmacht soldaten describing their point of view, and pride | [00:39] |
assbot | WW2 justified by former German soldiers - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bfej2Q ) | [00:39] |
decimation | forward to 2:57ff to see the old dude scold some chick about 'war crimes' | [00:40] |
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asciilifeform | from guillotine thread: a: 'I want it, is it for sale?' | [00:44] |
asciilifeform | b: 'Build your own, so you too can become a state. Then build a prison to house it, and start capturing people, accusing them of shit, and holding them for ransom. Print lots of worthless IOUs and start paying for stuff with them, and extorting money from your neighbors to pay you with your own IOUs every year a tax on their land, or you will imprison and guilotine them. Use your growing wealth to stockpile more and more we | [00:44] |
asciilifeform | apons and back up your operation, because you're making more an more enemies, but that's okay, you have all the high tech weapons. Start passing laws to prohibit others from owning anything more than a rifle or shotgun, while you buy gunships and tanks and jets and cluster bombs. Hirer very intelligent people who are ready to sell out humanity in exchange for trinket amounts of wealth to fatten their own pockets. Setup c | [00:44] |
asciilifeform | ourts and judges to pass laws to forbid everyone around you from killing, lying, enslaving or imprisoning people, and stealing, but make it all legal for you under different names. Congratulations, you have just founded a country,also known as a state! Go to war with other states, to get rid of surplus wealth and attempt to grab more land to tax more people, when you find an opportunity that they are weaker than you. Secret | [00:44] |
asciilifeform | ly assasisnate foreign leaders to destablilize small countries around you, and run drug running operations to generate even more revenue for more black projects, and tell your people its for their own security. Waterboard and torture your enemies and call them terrorists.' | [00:45] |
asciilifeform | (dropped here for the lulzrecord) | [00:45] |
decimation | heh | [00:46] |
decimation | asciilifeform: not to mention you gotta setup a bureacracy so the people can grovel before it for trinkets: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/02/28/massachusetts-bureaucracy-gets-1-in-13-households-to-come-in-and-beg/ | [00:50] |
assbot | Philip Greenspun's Weblog » Massachusetts bureaucracy gets 1 in 13 households to come in and beg ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bfh5oL ) | [00:50] |
mircea_popescu | in mass' defense, it's really merely providing a very in demand service | [00:54] |
mircea_popescu | 1 in 2 households are looking for something to beg and someplace to do it. | [00:55] |
decimation | heh true | [00:55] |
mircea_popescu | "And those workers are different from the ones who decide whether or not to give out a free" | [00:55] |
mircea_popescu | why exactly are these idiots called "workers" ? | [00:55] |
decimation | well, they get paid | [00:55] |
mircea_popescu | people object to slave hard drives being called slave hard drives, in spite of the accuracy | [00:55] |
mircea_popescu | nobody cares shitheads are called workers ? | [00:56] |
mircea_popescu | you, if your paycheck comes from the governent, YOU ARE NOT A WORKER. | [00:56] |
mircea_popescu | work is when you do something useful. you're a fricitoner not a fucking worker. | [00:56] |
decimation | well, that net catches a good portion of the us when considered in its wide sense | [00:57] |
mircea_popescu | i'da made the comment there, but apparently greenspun doesn't know how to comments. | [00:57] |
decimation | as it is, only 58% of usians "work" http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm | [00:58] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1BfiSdm ) | [00:58] |
decimation | almost 59%! thanks obama! | [00:58] |
mircea_popescu | honestly i don't think this has ever been different. | [00:59] |
mircea_popescu | in your classical "ancient tribe in the caves" about 2/3 of the tribe did something. | [00:59] |
decimation | well, it excludes the quite legitimate work of raising children | [00:59] |
mircea_popescu | what's different is a bunch of ideological spew clouding the issues. | [00:59] |
mircea_popescu | decimation other than the genetics of intelligence, the children is another way i get conservatives enraged. | [01:00] |
mircea_popescu | as far as i'm concerned, giving a mother a year off at childbirth is perfectly reasonable. | [01:00] |
decimation | why wouldn't a conservative agree? | [01:01] |
mircea_popescu | people go nuts. as if babies are required to come from the stork, and for free, because htey're wrapped up too tightly to consider fucking. | [01:01] |
mircea_popescu | decimation FREE MONEY TO NIGGER WHORES!!!?!?!?!?! | [01:01] |
decimation | well, there is the question of 'who pays' | [01:01] |
mircea_popescu | at least that's what it usually reduces to. | [01:01] |
decimation | but it certainly seems like society ought to consider paying for young families over old codgers | [01:01] |
mircea_popescu | decimation imo the most defensible expense in the state budget. | [01:01] |
mircea_popescu | way before "education" | [01:01] |
asciilifeform | meat production? | [01:02] |
mircea_popescu | i dun think there's anything that can be done in a whole decade of "education" that's as valuable as kid having mother at home first year. | [01:02] |
decimation | there is something weird about the us, in that the grandparents often think that their responisibilities end after seeing the children off to college | [01:03] |
decimation | instead of endowing the next generation | [01:03] |
mircea_popescu | decimation generally ro families reproduce once grandparents go to pension. | [01:03] |
mircea_popescu | EXACTLY the same thing, except state doesn't pay for mother's year off, pays for gramma's years off. | [01:03] |
decimation | well, paying for young families has the further advantage of being a limited-time affair | [01:04] |
mircea_popescu | it's not even paying for families per se. | [01:04] |
mircea_popescu | it's just, children are a cost everyone seems to wish to externalize. | [01:04] |
mircea_popescu | glwt... | [01:04] |
decimation | yes, agreed | [01:05] |
decimation | a few generations ago it was considered everyone's job (in the family tree) to assist with the young children | [01:05] |
mircea_popescu | amusingly, the revolutionary french actually put it in the code that pregnant women may steal food off market displays. | [01:05] |
mircea_popescu | but, in turkey, at the height of the syrian refugee crisis, i numerously observed various people selling food gifting items to pregnant syrian women. | [01:06] |
mircea_popescu | the idea's widespread. | [01:06] |
decimation | there is some of that in the us, in a fossilized way. sometimes pregnant women are given priority for parking, for instance | [01:07] |
mircea_popescu | (put the husbands in the most visibly awkward position too - once that hand to chest gesture's done they can't refuse, but on the other hand... their wife's sexuality was just referenced by these half-satan pigdogs. was pretty lulzy to observe) | [01:07] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57350 @ 0.00028252 = 16.2025 BTC [+] {2} | [01:08] |
mircea_popescu | which doth mean that even across religious conflict, the pregnant woman trumps the imam. imagine that! | [01:09] |
decimation | heh. no one can shrug off their own humanity | [01:09] |
mircea_popescu | i'm not even sure that's what it is. | [01:09] |
mircea_popescu | There are no limits to male hypocrisy in this matter. No doubt there are moments when man’s sexual immunities are made acutely humiliating to him. When the terrible moment of birth arrives, its supreme importance and its superhuman effort and peril, in which the father has no part, dwarf him into the meanest insignificance: he slinks out of the way of the humblest petticoat, happy if he be poor enough to be pushed o | [01:10] |
mircea_popescu | ut of the house to outface his ignominy by drunken rejoicings. But when the crisis is over he takes his revenge, swaggering as the breadwinner, and speaking of Woman’s “sphere” with condescension, even with chivalry, as if the kitchen and the nursery were less important than the office in the city. When his swagger is exhausted he drivels into erotic poetry or sentimental uxoriousness; and the Tennysonian King Ar | [01:10] |
mircea_popescu | thur posing at Guinevere becomes Don Quixote grovelling before Dulcinea. You must admit that here Nature beats Comedy out of the field: the wildest hominist or feminist farce is insipid after the most commonplace “slice of life.” | [01:10] |
mircea_popescu | i am rather persuaded by shaw there. | [01:10] |
mircea_popescu | quite out of the field. | [01:10] |
mircea_popescu | the us equivalent, of course, being mammie to rhett butler : "theis ain't a man's job, buzz off." | [01:11] |
mircea_popescu | http://edge.org/conversation/the-normal-well-tempered-mind << fwiw, i am still not convinced that the electric neuron is not the correct approach. the problem is that it should be stateful. i am half tempted to model what happens if you run a grid of these with say 255 states per. | [01:14] |
decimation | there was a time when the husband could appropriately wait outside to receive the new little one after the moment came | [01:14] |
assbot | THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND | Edge.org ... ( http://bit.ly/1BfmpIX ) | [01:14] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061067 << lol he's such a gadfly this guy :D | [01:16] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 23:15:14; jurov: lol "we don't know what is a consciousness? let's say it is composed of many of itself" | [01:16] |
thestringpuller | anyone watching the friedcat story developing | [01:16] |
mircea_popescu | jurov you ever considered doing stand-up comedy ? something in the stewart vein mebbe ? | [01:16] |
mircea_popescu | thestringpuller sort-of. why / | [01:16] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9550 @ 0.0002912 = 2.781 BTC [+] | [01:19] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061138 << well, something like that. "what do you mean by this nonsensical question you purport to be asking" | [01:21] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 23:46:09; asciilifeform: the answer to 'is the copy you' is 'shutthefuckup you're asking a broken question' | [01:21] |
mircea_popescu | but that aside : you will note that if i make a bitwise copy of a running system on anothjer system, eiteher will continue independently. if i then set the second on fire, the first is unharmed. whether the 2nd "Thinks" that "it" = "the first" is harmed oir not is irrelevant. | [01:22] |
mircea_popescu | that's the animism here, the naive proposition that harm upon the wax statuette will visit the subject. | [01:23] |
mircea_popescu | which is lulzy. | [01:23] |
asciilifeform | the lulz comes from operating using undefined thing | [01:24] |
asciilifeform | as in a proof where divided by 0 | [01:24] |
mircea_popescu | to me the lulz comes from the similarity with idiocy, in spite of all the pretense. | [01:24] |
mircea_popescu | the same sort of thing as "well... french nobles had lice. just like the peasants. and died of tb" | [01:25] |
mircea_popescu | "so then what is this nobility again ?" "oh, their blood was a differentcolor." "ic." | [01:25] |
mircea_popescu | "rationalists" indistinguishable from flatearthists, except, perhaps, by the color of their guts ? sign me up. | [01:25] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4531 @ 0.00028047 = 1.2708 BTC [-] | [01:26] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061143 << except less is, of course, more. | [01:27] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 23:51:31; Adlai: well, you do become 'less yourself', until there's nothing left... although it's a more complex process than just cells dying | [01:27] |
mircea_popescu | you become more like your "true self", which just happens to be dead. | [01:27] |
mircea_popescu | no one would dispute the true lenin is in the transhumanist facility at dark pink plaza right ? | [01:28] |
asciilifeform | mega-l0lz | [01:28] |
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asciilifeform | 'Ленин жил, Ленин жив, Ленин будет жить!' (TM) | [01:28] |
mircea_popescu | ikr? | [01:29] |
nubbins` | <+mircea_popescu> you become more like your "true self", which just happens to be dead. <<< oh ho ho ho, i like this | [01:29] |
mircea_popescu | ;) | [01:29] |
nubbins` | what an anomaly to be wiggling about!! | [01:29] |
mircea_popescu | isn't it ? | [01:30] |
nubbins` | christ, can't wait for it to stop | [01:30] |
mircea_popescu | that's why you get sleep paralysis. but it doesn'ty hold. | [01:30] |
nubbins` | get some fuckin rest | [01:30] |
mircea_popescu | well... at least not at first. | [01:30] |
nubbins` | ahh, that's rich | [01:30] |
decimation | re: genetics of intelligence < the post makes a good point, in that there's nobody who can tell a story about how some genes 'cause' intelligence. But that doesn't really address the observation that when you give a test to ethnic groups A&B, the resulting distributions are different. | [01:31] |
asciilifeform | and the twin studies - happened. | [01:31] |
mircea_popescu | decimation why would you expect it addresses that ? | [01:31] |
mircea_popescu | it also doesn't address this : http://36.media.tumblr.com/a3c8b86ae62f828e29f0cc2f7becb8c5/tumblr_mvfml07JnV1sgpxs6o1_1280.jpg | [01:31] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bfqz3x ) | [01:31] |
mircea_popescu | among other things. | [01:31] |
asciilifeform | !s stupidity heritable | [01:31] |
assbot | 1 results for 'stupidity heritable' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=stupidity+heritable | [01:31] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: l0l where this photo from ? | [01:32] |
nubbins` | the singularity | [01:32] |
mircea_popescu | oh, private genetics research lab. | [01:32] |
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mircea_popescu | (there's this entire subculture of [mostly white] men that aim to raise other peopel's children) | [01:32] |
asciilifeform | fetish ? | [01:33] |
mircea_popescu | im not sure that's an adequate term. | [01:33] |
decimation | cuckoldry? | [01:33] |
mircea_popescu | the behaviour is not so much different from whatever, altruism. speech. etc. | [01:33] |
mircea_popescu | decimation i suppose technically. | [01:33] |
mircea_popescu | tho by now that's migrated closer to a personal relationship. | [01:33] |
mircea_popescu | less dramatically, people adopt all the time. | [01:34] |
nubbins` | aka the double cuckold | [01:34] |
decimation | and always have | [01:35] |
mircea_popescu | at any rate : expecting human behaviour to be addressed by genetics is a little like expecting food to be discussed by chemistry. | [01:35] |
asciilifeform | ^ ahahaha there we have it | [01:35] |
mircea_popescu | some attempts will be made, but srsly... whadda ya want. shit's hard and chemistry has other stuff to do. | [01:35] |
asciilifeform | can still explain the behaviour of turing's apple with chemistry | [01:35] |
mircea_popescu | for some definitions of explain. | [01:35] |
asciilifeform | the most interesting fact about it - absolutely | [01:36] |
mircea_popescu | that's the thing : any attempt to explain behaviour by genetics ends up bending the notion of "explain" the fuck out of place | [01:36] |
mircea_popescu | this is damaging to the explainer. | [01:36] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform but maybe the apples made him gay ? | [01:37] |
asciilifeform | thinking of the kcn apple | [01:37] |
mircea_popescu | i know. | [01:37] |
mircea_popescu | but wouldn't you agree that had the apples made him gay, THAT would be the most interesting thing about them ? | [01:37] |
asciilifeform | sure, let's walk with that | [01:38] |
asciilifeform | what do we get | [01:38] |
mircea_popescu | we get that fuckall. | [01:38] |
decimation | well, we have a warning to others | [01:38] |
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nubbins` | eat not thine apple | [01:39] |
nubbins` | i developed an allergy to apple skins | [01:39] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: we have a hidden and unjustified jump here | [01:39] |
nubbins` | sucks, i like apples ;/ | [01:39] |
asciilifeform | -some- behaviour is demonstrably -heritable- | [01:39] |
asciilifeform | not same as 'behaviour can be explained [in total] by genetics' | [01:39] |
nubbins` | didn't they retroactively expunge turing's homosexuality conviction within the past couple years | [01:39] |
mircea_popescu | well so then. | [01:40] |
mircea_popescu | "to explain" normally means, "all of it". | [01:40] |
asciilifeform | in that sense hardly anything has ever been explained. | [01:41] |
mircea_popescu | once copulation explained pregnancy, that was it , you know ? | [01:42] |
mircea_popescu | well... | [01:42] |
nubbins` | took me til age 24 before it was explained that 1+1=2 | [01:42] |
nubbins` | and even that... the axioms | [01:42] |
nubbins` | only goes down so far | [01:42] |
asciilifeform | nubbins` owns the complete r&w 'principia' ? | [01:42] |
nubbins` | covered sections in various number theory courses | [01:43] |
decimation | mircea_popescu: "pregnancy comes from copulation" is a fairly workable theory | [01:44] |
nubbins` | worst rabbit hole re:math was one winter eve i found myself thoroughly intoxicated at a party i'd wandered across | [01:44] |
nubbins` | turned out to be the 60th bday of this philosophy prof at local uni | [01:45] |
nubbins` | left the house ~4 hours later w/ several tomes on the philosophy of mathematics | [01:45] |
mircea_popescu | decimation quite a ways ahead of any genetic explanations for intelligence on tap | [01:46] |
mircea_popescu | leaving aside the differential of quality between the definitions of pregnant and intelligent. | [01:46] |
asciilifeform | of several key types of stupidity - as solid as any explaination in e.g., electronics | [01:46] |
nubbins` | anyway, principia, smth like ~100 pages into volume ii before they finish the proof?! | [01:47] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform but the genetic explanation of stupidity is certainly not in dispute here. | [01:47] |
mircea_popescu | what, down sindrome ? that's uncontroversial as it gets. | [01:47] |
mircea_popescu | the other end of the scale tho... | [01:47] |
asciilifeform | not even speaking of trisomies etc | [01:47] |
mircea_popescu | note that my observation about where the gaussian's bound is not idle. | [01:47] |
mircea_popescu | it connects to this. | [01:47] |
asciilifeform | but of what in the english world is usually called 'shitflessness' etc | [01:47] |
asciilifeform | *shiftlessness | [01:47] |
mircea_popescu | not very visible, but yes, whole spittoon | [01:47] |
nubbins` | i feel shiftlessness is much more a product of upbringing | [01:49] |
asciilifeform | nubbins`: the twin studies -happened- | [01:49] |
asciilifeform | can't magick them away | [01:49] |
mircea_popescu | but he feels. | [01:49] |
asciilifeform | and, notably, no one ever tried. | [01:49] |
nubbins` | ^ strongly, even! | [01:49] |
mircea_popescu | are you saying the whippets are no no2 ? | [01:49] |
asciilifeform | l0l | [01:49] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform anyway, re twin studies : they're great because best we got | [01:50] |
mircea_popescu | not because word of god, so to speak. | [01:50] |
asciilifeform | but state of the art, which has to be dealt with as such | [01:50] |
mircea_popescu | no contest. | [01:50] |
asciilifeform | and not as 'lala never heard of this, so must not be relevant' | [01:50] |
mircea_popescu | but that is an argument to sink a competing theory with, | [01:51] |
mircea_popescu | it does not work to sink skepticism. | [01:51] |
asciilifeform | skepticism ought to happily bob about, it doesn't need to sink | [01:51] |
decimation | of course not, but the skeptic is still informed | [01:51] |
mircea_popescu | yeah, skepticism will never sink, and if it does, brainbox' flooded. | [01:51] |
mircea_popescu | anyway, back to the issue : a plethora of persuasive arguments can be made starting with genetics and ending with behaviours. however, the most commonly encountered ones are neither persuasive | [01:52] |
mircea_popescu | nor all that intelligent or informed. | [01:52] |
asciilifeform | what do we do next, the 'commonly encountered' variety of physics? number theory? | [01:53] |
mircea_popescu | and in particular the race -> intelligence one has, in my experience so far, about a thousand times more often worked to illuminate the idiocy of the proponent than say anything about its intended topic. | [01:53] |
mircea_popescu | (and yes intelligence is, by and large, a human behaviour. it's not a fucking identity.) | [01:54] |
mircea_popescu | same difference as between being a doctor and practicing medicine. | [01:54] |
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asciilifeform | naggum had a nifty piece on this fine point | [01:54] |
asciilifeform | but i've misplaced it | [01:55] |
mircea_popescu | i like naggum's points. | [01:55] |
asciilifeform | it won't run away. whoever wants, can find... | [01:55] |
mircea_popescu | but to belabour the point : one of the principal reasons "measuring iq" as it were height is so ridiculous, is because nobody has yet had an off day for height. | [01:56] |
nubbins` | all i'm arguing is that stupid people have kids, and their kids are given stupid food and provided with stupid stimulation and forced to interact mostly with their stupid parents and their stupid friends | [01:57] |
mircea_popescu | im normally 6"2 but i woke with a headache and im only 4"10 | [01:57] |
decimation | whatever the causality between 'genes' and 'intelligence' might be, the story is shrouded under layers of ignorance, and it is thus good to be humble on the subject | [01:57] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: strength is better analogy than height | [01:57] |
nubbins` | if you think genetic predisposition plays a bigger part than whether you're surrounded by idiocy in your formative years, well... | [01:57] |
asciilifeform | very simple to have an 'off day' for strength | [01:57] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` that won't fucking do anything. ANYTHING. you are to be traced to lucy, the stupidest chimp that ever lived. | [01:57] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform but strength, you wiull notice, is VERY capped at the top. | [01:58] |
mircea_popescu | we don't see that many people carrying skyscrapers around. | [01:58] |
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asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: greater dynamic range, sure | [01:58] |
mircea_popescu | is it ? | [01:58] |
asciilifeform | abundantly obvious | [01:58] |
decimation | nubbins`: folks who have looked into the matter tend to disagree | [01:58] |
nubbins` | decimation your logic has no place here | [01:58] |
asciilifeform | incidentally, my (i don't exclusively claim it..) myelin impedance matching hypothesis - is testable. | [01:58] |
mircea_popescu | it's not bad, tho perhaps not directly intelligence, | [01:59] |
mircea_popescu | certainly related. | [01:59] |
decimation | asciilifeform: reaction times? | [01:59] |
mircea_popescu | iirc i said then, i mostly measure intelligence in person by derived units, such as reaction speeds. | [01:59] |
asciilifeform | think analogy: picture a number of clocks | [01:59] |
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asciilifeform | complicated mechanical clocks, all quite alike, but large enough to admit some sand | [01:59] |
asciilifeform | and still run | [01:59] |
asciilifeform | sorta. | [01:59] |
asciilifeform | now vary how much sand in the gears. | [01:59] |
asciilifeform | very loose analogy for the myelin matching thing | [02:00] |
decimation | http://iqpersonalitygenius.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-decline-in-general-intelligence.html | [02:00] |
assbot | Intelligence, Personality and Genius: The decline in general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bfx5Hq ) | [02:00] |
asciilifeform | incidentally the 'sand in the gears' hypothesis has a name | [02:00] |
asciilifeform | 'big G' | [02:00] |
asciilifeform | or rather 'general fitness factor' | [02:00] |
asciilifeform | i forget who first described it | [02:01] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061162 << ftr, this "qualified" does exactly nothing. i dunno who thinks themselves qualified in the topic. | [02:01] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 23:54:02; nubbins`: there's a large chunk of the book that could be misidentified as schizo by the unqualified observer | [02:01] |
asciilifeform | but it adds up to, overall, taller/healthier/more decisive/intelligent in whatever sense / stronger / etc | [02:01] |
asciilifeform | because - less 'sand'. | [02:01] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform and blonder. | [02:01] |
asciilifeform | l0l | [02:01] |
asciilifeform | 'your mileage may vary' | [02:02] |
asciilifeform | at any rate, it was a hypothesis, and i only know of any support for a restricted version of it | [02:03] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1061169 << you know this could make some pretty decent technomagic folklovestories ? | [02:03] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 23:54:55; asciilifeform: and then mircea_popescu walks in with a '45 and asks which one to shoot | [02:03] |
mircea_popescu | chick falls in love with geek, he takes her home and tells her to fuck any toy in the lab except this one, | [02:03] |
mircea_popescu | so of course she does, so now there's a copy, | [02:03] |
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mircea_popescu | davai zdreanta desdemona etc. | [02:03] |
asciilifeform | but it threatens to make some logical sense based on the tiny size of the 'phase space' of 'healthy/intelligent/strong' vs a world of possible organism, living and dead, which is none of these | [02:03] |
asciilifeform | (recall the genetic algorithm discussions, and basic theory of mutation overall) | [02:04] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform on my own guesswork it's a present but minor factor. | [02:04] |
mircea_popescu | think about women, your head thinks about women much easier/better. general fitness factor : big tits, tall, clear eyes, wide hips, etc etc. | [02:04] |
mircea_popescu | intelligence ? | [02:04] |
mircea_popescu | veheheheeery vaguely related. | [02:05] |
decimation | the intelligent one survived long enough to be presented | [02:07] |
mircea_popescu | maybe. | [02:08] |
mircea_popescu | in some circumstances lack of intelligence is a distinctive fitting advantage. | [02:08] |
decimation | no doubt. 'curiousity killed the cat' | [02:09] |
asciilifeform | of intelligence, or the inevitable cost ? | [02:09] |
asciilifeform | (it costs just like cpu costs) | [02:09] |
mircea_popescu | well... you can now divorce these ?! | [02:09] |
asciilifeform | well no. but it's rather like the difference between 'die in car crash' and 'die of exhaust fumes in garage' | [02:10] |
asciilifeform | both - of car. | [02:10] |
mircea_popescu | if survival depends on, say, spending a week in a fox hole paying the fuck attention, "intelligence", especially the dreamy "creative" sort the us is so enamoured with, is the topmost liability. | [02:10] |
asciilifeform | hell, in that situation, you'd want to be... an insect. mosquito can bite in milliseconds; us, with our heavy circuitry, cannot ever equal this - even if limbs were short enough | [02:10] |
mircea_popescu | actually i watched mosquitoes bite, and the head movement really resembles a tank tower. | [02:11] |
mircea_popescu | it takes 2 seconds or so. | [02:11] |
decimation | unless you dream up a robot ninja to fight on your behalf | [02:11] |
mircea_popescu | decimation take your real self away from me!111 | [02:11] |
asciilifeform | perhaps i was thinking of a gnat, hm | [02:11] |
decimation | hehe | [02:11] |
mircea_popescu | well, scorpion, spider, etc. | [02:11] |
mircea_popescu | plenty of good examples, no argument they move faster. | [02:12] |
asciilifeform | the u.s. being collectively enamoured of anything that could be described as 'intelligence' is mega-news to me | [02:12] |
mircea_popescu | ok. "sort of wankery they abusively call intelligence, cause they're dumb and ambitious" ? | [02:12] |
asciilifeform | something like that. but now we've lost the specificity | [02:12] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1061201 << ironically, this would actually explain the modern age. | [02:13] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 00:01:13; asciilifeform: re: teleporter: there were actually people who refused to travel on steam locomotives because the soul can't keep up and will get lost | [02:13] |
mircea_popescu | i'd read a technopunk sf novel working on this exact premise. | [02:13] |
asciilifeform | that would be a mega-novel, yes | [02:13] |
asciilifeform | i've thought about it myself | [02:13] |
gabriel_laddel | Which US is this where "intelligence" is discussed? | [02:13] |
mircea_popescu | "and then everything failed because well... everyone was in a bureaucracy, because the souls were like loist behind" | [02:13] |
mircea_popescu | gabriel_laddel reddit. | [02:13] |
asciilifeform | perhaps somebody whose soul is still attached will write this book.. | [02:14] |
mircea_popescu | if i were 20 years younger i'd take the sluts to whatever cons on this premise. | [02:15] |
mircea_popescu | we'd be a new sort of furry : the soulless! better than emo! | [02:15] |
mircea_popescu | it'd prolly make a fucking tsunami of pointless. | [02:15] |
mircea_popescu | any 16yo boys with a harem reading this ? go fer it! | [02:15] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1061224 << wait, joos aren't allowed to touch women ?! | [02:16] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 00:04:40; Adlai: probably to prevent physical contact with female flight attendants | [02:16] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1061226 << i agree, the first thing i'd want to ask my long lost twin is if they wanna fuck. | [02:16] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 00:04:53; jurov: i'd fuck myself. we'd only have to resort to reading /dev/random about who goes first. | [02:16] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1061249 << enlighten me ? | [02:19] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 00:07:42; nubbins`: examine the utter failure of logic by this man | [02:19] |
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decimation | !down decimation | [02:22] |
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nubbins` | mircea_popescu guy's protecting himself from the cemetery he's flying over | [02:37] |
nubbins` | by... wrapping himself in clear plastic | [02:37] |
asciilifeform | nubbins`: notice that only the 'graded for effort' hypothesis explains why the cellophane 'counts' but not the plastic in the fuselage | [02:38] |
asciilifeform | (because, clearly, the latter was not put there by the hassid fella) | [02:38] |
nubbins` | "i do my own plastic work" | [02:38] |
nubbins` | it might as well be "i can fly over a cemetery as long as i'm playing tetris on a nintendo game boy" | [02:39] |
asciilifeform | there is a little hassid enclave here where i live. they have the 'eruv' (ceremonial rope boundary) that establishes a zone where they can sorta do things on shabat | [02:39] |
asciilifeform | the interesting thing, from where i stand is, 1) the rope 'counts' but the sidewalk it follows, or the line of trees - do not | [02:39] |
nubbins` | seems taking once-practical advice to the point of absurdity | [02:40] |
asciilifeform | 2) the rope is ill-maintained and often it is down or even in pieces | [02:40] |
asciilifeform | and i have not been able to figure out why it is there on certain times but not others | [02:40] |
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mircea_popescu | nubbins` so ? | [02:44] |
mats | https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/qrinception.pdf "QR Inception: Barcode-in-Barcode Attacks" | [02:44] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1HcXF8H ) | [02:44] |
mircea_popescu | ahahah | [02:45] |
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mircea_popescu | nubbins` to begin, is your position that this doesn't work or that this doesn't make sense ? | [02:46] |
nubbins` | my position is that wtf is a plastic bag doing that the fuselage isn't | [02:46] |
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asciilifeform | nubbins`: provenance | [02:47] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` so you're arguing to ignorance ? | [02:47] |
asciilifeform | nubbins`: once you understand how their religion works, it sorta clicks | [02:47] |
asciilifeform | it's not just a perverse kind of engineering, where it's the plastic that matters | [02:47] |
funkenstein_ | QR code attacks <-- reminds me of "snowcrash" | [02:47] |
asciilifeform | mats: packet-in-packet attack (see also, described in that neato phrack thing you linked to, i spent all day leafing through it, you wrecker you) or even frame-shift-mutation in genetics, etc | [02:48] |
asciilifeform | or anybody who ever jumped in the middle of x86 instruction | [02:49] |
mats | ya. | [02:49] |
mats | reminds me a bit about goodspeed's zigbee hax | [02:49] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform actually that was the lulz of all time, "malware detectors". except they didn't detect stuff half-register shifted did they. | [02:49] |
mats | https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/woot11/tech/final_files/Goodspeed.pdf | [02:50] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1HcYRZx ) | [02:50] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: 1001 variations on that theme | [02:50] |
asciilifeform | !s polymorphic | [02:50] |
assbot | 2 results for 'polymorphic' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=polymorphic | [02:50] |
mircea_popescu | "oh, ffcd 21aa blabla ? you mean cd31 aaetc ?" | [02:51] |
asciilifeform | aha. | [02:51] |
mircea_popescu | "i dunno, never seen ffcd or 21aa in malware b4!!1" | [02:51] |
asciilifeform | and folks still use signature-based 'detection' | [02:51] |
mircea_popescu | myeah. because hey, enumerate badness. | [02:51] |
asciilifeform | because 'whaddayamean i'm to be hanged for buying ibm' | [02:52] |
asciilifeform | the funny part is that crapware artists, by and large, oblige | [02:52] |
asciilifeform | and continue to bake idiocies readily detectable this way and not polymorphic one bit | [02:52] |
asciilifeform | with 500kB of visual stoodio crud | [02:52] |
mircea_popescu | the caught ones, at any rate. | [02:53] |
asciilifeform | the intelligence of the hunter and the deer are, it seems, linked. | [02:53] |
asciilifeform | neither finds it worthwhile to rocket far away from the other | [02:53] |
mircea_popescu | but in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/793d96d71ffd561915f8c9c49f321e8d/tumblr_mimit0y2OI1rpyycwo1_1280.jpg | [02:53] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1HcZCBZ ) | [02:53] |
asciilifeform | (typically0 | [02:53] |
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mircea_popescu | !up mogreen | [02:54] |
-assbot- | You voiced mogreen for 30 minutes. | [02:54] |
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mats | http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/03/20/260513/operation-to-retake-tikrit-from.html | [02:56] |
assbot | ISTANBUL: Operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State stalled by heavy casualties, discord | Iraq | McClatchy DC ... ( http://bit.ly/1HcZXoe ) | [02:56] |
mats | ha. called it. | [02:56] |
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mircea_popescu | lol. | [02:56] |
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mircea_popescu | check itr out, b-a outintels dod. | [02:57] |
asciilifeform | can anyone identify the weapon in the photo? looks like recoillessrifle - but which. | [02:57] |
mircea_popescu | alf will, true to form, magick this success away. | [02:57] |
asciilifeform | l0l success is when they're here | [02:57] |
mircea_popescu | no. they made their prediction, we made ours. | [02:58] |
mircea_popescu | they lost. | [02:58] |
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asciilifeform | wai they made a prediction ? | [02:58] |
* | asciilifeform behind the times | [02:58] |
mircea_popescu | well they did send the fucking thing eh ? | [02:58] |
asciilifeform | does this necessarily imply a prediction ? | [02:58] |
mircea_popescu | yes. | [02:58] |
asciilifeform | perhaps usg sent the cannon fodder to die | [02:58] |
mircea_popescu | nevertheless. | [02:58] |
mats | looks like a Carl Gustav | [02:59] |
mircea_popescu | maybe she cheated on you because she loves you. | [02:59] |
mircea_popescu | she took the cock, she took the chances. | [02:59] |
asciilifeform | mats: that one's shorter, no ? | [02:59] |
mats | you're right | [02:59] |
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asciilifeform | found it, 'spg9' | [03:00] |
asciilifeform | (СПГ-9) | [03:01] |
mats | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/fighting-isis-in-iraq-how-british-soldiers-and-other-european-troops-are-helping-train-the-peshmerga-10096952.html << based on this, i thought it may be a folgore | [03:02] |
assbot | Fighting Isis in Iraq: How British soldiers and other European troops are helping train the Peshmerga - Middle East - World - The Independent | [03:02] |
mats | a sign of sleep deprivation. night | [03:03] |
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nubbins` | k, nite | [03:07] |
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asciilifeform | incidentally, any serious amateur historian of political engineering skullduggery will enjoy an account of the life and death of the recoilless rifle in '30s ussr. | [03:13] |
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asciilifeform | (built in vast numbers, apparently all maldesigned, head engineer goes from hero - at one point, monopolizer of virtually all cannon factories - to zero - shot in the head - within 7 years) | [03:14] |
asciilifeform | not one recoilless cannon was fired, afaik, by ussr in ww2. | [03:14] |
asciilifeform | all melted down. | [03:14] |
asciilifeform | it is worth noting what precisely kurchevsky (the engineer) did. | [03:15] |
asciilifeform | went with 'conversative' design where he took ordinary cannon of whatever kind, and sawed off the breech, replacing with funnel. | [03:15] |
asciilifeform | so kept heavy barrel | [03:16] |
asciilifeform | and retained the unwieldy bulk | [03:16] |
asciilifeform | (no modern recoillness cannon works this way) | [03:16] |
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assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28350 @ 0.00029411 = 8.338 BTC [-] {2} | [03:49] |
mircea_popescu | more interesting is, why did he get away with it for long enough to become a prolbem | [03:50] |
mircea_popescu | i guess i wouldn't make a very palatable politburo member. | [03:50] |
mircea_popescu | but in other news, http://33.media.tumblr.com/acf990fa23a1a30bad4ca6c6e21af8a6/tumblr_ndu41h5Ot61ttr86so1_500.gif | [03:50] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1ATY4ch ) | [03:50] |
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assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12215 @ 0.00029808 = 3.641 BTC [+] | [04:01] |
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mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060745 << for the record, this user count bs... see stuff like http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=18-03-2015#1056265 | [10:39] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 21:10:47; felipelalli: mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored? | [10:39] |
assbot | Logged on 18-03-2015 05:09:03; mircea_popescu: " Content preview: Dear Alare Kool, thank you for registering at Bitstamp exchange service! At this point you have just contributed a great deal to future of decentralized monetary market." | [10:39] |
mircea_popescu | they have no users. just because the whatsapp scam was pushed by fb on the grounds of "users" (by the way, did the fantabulous "growth rate" continue after the acquisition ?) does not mean that the same sort of fraud will either work again in the future or is in itself any sort of value. | [10:39] |
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nubbins` | alare kool... from bangladesh?!!? | [10:40] |
mircea_popescu | i have nfi. | [10:40] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060780 << drunk anger does that. drink more water | [10:42] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 21:34:56; BingoBoingo: I have the most intense hangover | [10:42] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060802 << layflat for one volume would run you about 1200ish | [10:43] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 21:40:35; ascii_field: not one can do 'lay flat' cover, for instance | [10:43] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060821 << haha win. | [10:44] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 21:44:19; danielpbarron: basically anything ascii wants in book form, I would probably also want | [10:44] |
nubbins` | incidentally, here's a layflat binding | [10:46] |
kakobrekla | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/18/want_to_dodge_nsa_supply_chain_taps_ask_cisco_for_a_dead_drop/ | [10:46] |
nubbins` | http://www.halstan.co.uk/news/images/20130219-Binding-Otabind.jpg | [10:46] |
assbot | Cisco posts kit to empty houses to dodge NSA chop shops • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1DI9V3o ) | [10:46] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1DI9W7c ) | [10:46] |
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mircea_popescu | !up Tetra113 | [10:47] |
-assbot- | You voiced Tetra113 for 30 minutes. | [10:47] |
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nubbins` | as you can see, the biggest thing is to not adhere the spine of the book block | [10:47] |
nubbins` | downside is that the book block is now much less securely held in place | [10:48] |
nubbins` | one cm-thick strip of glue on each outer page | [10:49] |
Tetra113 | good afternoon | [10:49] |
nubbins` | here's another lay-flat: http://www.techscribe.co.uk/techw/images/layflat.jpg | [10:49] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1EzsxNV ) | [10:49] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060850 << obligatory http://www.amosnews.ro/arhiva/joc-erotic-terminat-tragic-17-11-2005 | [10:49] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 21:48:38; ascii_field: in the sense that a typical artisan binder would probably react to my laser suggestion the same way my musical friends react to the suggestion of connecting my air compressor to the tuba | [10:49] |
assbot | Joc erotic terminat tragic ... ( http://bit.ly/1EzsxO5 ) | [10:49] |
nubbins` | "after a colleague introduced them to the anus compressor hose" | [10:50] |
nubbins` | dat machine translate | [10:50] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` 50 yo blue collar woman went after shift with coworkers, had compressed air hose stuck up ass. | [10:50] |
mircea_popescu | died. | [10:50] |
Tetra113 | i was spending alot of time reading about bitcoin shares/stocks | [10:50] |
kakobrekla | !s french block | [10:50] |
assbot | 0 results for 'french block' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=french+block | [10:50] |
nubbins` | i wonder had she ever seen an air compressor in use before? | [10:50] |
kakobrekla | https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150318/06273130352/french-government-starts-blocking-websites-with-views-govt-doesnt-like.shtml | [10:50] |
mircea_popescu | Tetra113 where ? | [10:50] |
assbot | French Government Starts Blocking Websites With Views The Gov't Doesn't Like | Techdirt ... ( http://bit.ly/1EzsAt6 ) | [10:50] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` well it was her place of work eh. | [10:51] |
nubbins` | specifically, had she ever seen the release valve opened on a full one? | [10:51] |
Tetra113 | mircea_popescu, mostly sites that appear written by you lol | [10:51] |
mircea_popescu | lol | [10:51] |
Tetra113 | but anyway | [10:51] |
nubbins` | if so, why in the world did she think her ass was a good place for that to happen? | [10:51] |
mircea_popescu | kakobrekla i don't get it, is the french govt running an isp ?! | [10:51] |
nubbins` | they're apparently running all of them 8) | [10:51] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` i dunno man, to me it's the crowning achievement of a particular sort of technopunk, which is what 50 years of soviet industry really is. | [10:52] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` you know just like who ? just like putin, except not the real one, the factitious version that "is holding country back" jurov was talking about. | [10:52] |
kakobrekla | idk imma guess they just change the native dns and using an alternative one fixes this | [10:52] |
mircea_popescu | kakobrekla used to work in china. for the first coupla years. | [10:52] |
nubbins` | given that more people are familiar with changing DNS servers as a result of wanting to watch american netflix, you'll see the turnaround on these things get shorter | [10:53] |
nubbins` | (you'd be amazed how many people who don't know what DNS stands for know what it does these days) | [10:54] |
danielpbarron | height=290070 vs height=214008 | [10:55] |
Tetra113 | mircea_popescu, how does one get in on bitcoin company shares? | [10:55] |
mircea_popescu | what's that one trying to achieve ? | [10:56] |
Tetra113 | profit? | [10:56] |
Tetra113 | hehe | [10:56] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` noit that amazed, history of internet. | [10:56] |
nubbins` | guess so hey | [10:56] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62700 @ 0.00027537 = 17.2657 BTC [-] {2} | [10:57] |
mircea_popescu | you'd be amazed how many monkeys click the blue e, too. | [10:57] |
nubbins` | soon it won't be blue or an e! | [10:57] |
mircea_popescu | the monkeys ain't going anywhere. | [10:57] |
nubbins` | nope | [10:58] |
nubbins` | meantime, if anyone happens to have come across a guide to Smyth Sewing (re: bookbinding), would be forever in your debt | [10:59] |
mircea_popescu | i wonder idly if anyone even realises that the turing machine space has by now been explored MUCH more in depth than the human genetic space, for instance. | [10:59] |
nubbins` | remarkably hard to find solid info on | [10:59] |
mircea_popescu | ie, we've built a much larger % of the computers that could be than there's been people alive as a % of the people that could be. | [10:59] |
nubbins` | i'd imagine so | [11:00] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` https://vimeo.com/42600794 ? | [11:01] |
assbot | Process: Smyth Sewn Book Binding on Vimeo ... ( http://bit.ly/1DIbrCD ) | [11:01] |
nubbins` | ugh | [11:01] |
chetty | [11:02] | |
nubbins` | have seen that video | [11:02] |
nubbins` | shows nothing | [11:02] |
mircea_popescu | well that's all i had :D | [11:02] |
mircea_popescu | "In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because | [11:03] |
mircea_popescu | there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole | [11:03] |
mircea_popescu | should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a | [11:03] |
mircea_popescu | random spectacular crash due to bad locking." | [11:03] |
mircea_popescu | ahh, the sweet innocence of presnowden. | [11:03] |
nubbins` | on the surface, it looks like a plain kettle-stitch binding, with the addition of those stress strips | [11:04] |
Tetra113 | chetty, yes obviously there has to be some company generating the value?? | [11:04] |
mircea_popescu | the crash is only important if it can be used to poison the stack. otherwise... it's just annoying. | [11:04] |
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mircea_popescu | Tetra113 so then find them and buy chunks. | [11:04] |
nubbins` | Tetra113 ^ | [11:04] |
nubbins` | generally, one gets in on shares by buying them | [11:05] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-03-2015#1060883 << i thought it was hotels. | [11:06] |
assbot | Logged on 20-03-2015 22:02:49; danielpbarron: one of the best places to get like-new Bibles is a used book store | [11:06] |
Tetra113 | so nubbins` where did you buy them? | [11:07] |
nubbins` | Tetra113 what is "them"? | [11:07] |
Tetra113 | shares? | [11:07] |
nubbins` | shares of what? | [11:08] |
nubbins` | microsoft? cisco? | [11:08] |
nubbins` | figure out your question in full before you start asking it, maybe | [11:10] |
mircea_popescu | Tetra113 seriously, this isn't etrade in a different color scheme. | [11:10] |
mircea_popescu | etrade only exists because that model's practically dead. | [11:10] |
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mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062072 << well maybe one day you run into a people. it's not impossible, even in tasmania! | [11:11] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 07:35:50; cazalla: mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen. <<< pete_dushenski, PeterL might be interested, personally i think while nubbins` would do a great job, it's something i would look at once, put in cupboard and forget about | [11:11] |
mircea_popescu | !s tumblr_mimit0y2OI1rpyycwo1_1280.jpg | [11:12] |
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danielpbarron | i was planning on handing them out at porcfest as i attempt to interview people | [11:12] |
mircea_popescu | lies ben_vulpes :D | [11:12] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34398 @ 0.00027468 = 9.4484 BTC [-] {2} | [11:12] |
mircea_popescu | danielpbarron cool plan. | [11:12] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062107 << moving eh ? all the better. | [11:14] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 12:59:54; mats: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zqrqe/update_on_my_foia_request_for_the_first_us/ >> "Pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 16.8(d) and (f) , we initiated business submitter notification procedures.to provide the winning bidder (Tim Draper) an opportunity to object to disclosure of the purchase price. Mr. Draper submitted written objections to disclosure. " | [11:14] |
danielpbarron | http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zrdxz/withdrawals_halted_as_stolen_evolution_coins_make/ << is this a qntra article? | [11:15] |
assbot | Withdrawals halted as stolen evolution coins make their way to BTC-e : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1DId0jX ) | [11:15] |
mircea_popescu | may be yeah. | [11:16] |
mircea_popescu | doesn't seem a terribly legit reason to stop withdrawals, who knows if they're piggybacking on it to excuse their own failure. | [11:17] |
danielpbarron | it's a horrible reason to stop withdrawals | [11:17] |
danielpbarron | and the only thing it hurts is themselves | [11:18] |
mircea_popescu | so go for it. | [11:18] |
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mircea_popescu | in any case this "we attack bitcoin fungibility and expect to remain in business" angle has to be dispelled. | [11:18] |
mircea_popescu | no one ever will survive trying to make one bitcoin unequal to another bitcoin. | [11:19] |
mircea_popescu | this is a capital offense. mass arson, rape and murder is a tea party by comparison. | [11:19] |
nubbins` | i wonder will they halt withdrawals when draper's stolen SR bitcoins start moving to exchanges? | [11:20] |
nubbins` | by my count, guy's got a hundred bucks belonging to me | [11:20] |
mircea_popescu | lol | [11:20] |
nubbins` | actually, that'd be an interesting trace. | [11:21] |
mircea_popescu | but this is exactly it, usg trying to insert itself into the process by "blessing bitcoins" | [11:21] |
nubbins` | ^ | [11:21] |
mircea_popescu | much like you know, "you can'tr fuck this woman until this old man has sprinkled water on her" | [11:21] |
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mircea_popescu | "orly ? " | [11:21] |
nubbins` | you can't be in charge until you fill out this paperwork! | [11:21] |
mircea_popescu | "how about you fill in the paperwork while i keep on being in charge." | [11:21] |
nubbins` | heh | [11:22] |
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danielpbarron | Update: BTC-e admins have reached out to Coin Fire to state that withdrawals have been re-enabled and that they have no further comments regarding the situation moving forward regarding this or any other security issue. | [11:23] |
danielpbarron | is it still an article if they tapped out? | [11:23] |
mircea_popescu | only if you absolutely want to. | [11:23] |
mircea_popescu | "btc-e briefly stupid this morning", i guess. | [11:23] |
mircea_popescu | it wouldn't necessartily be much more than editorializing, up to cazalla if he wants more of that or more news to balance things out. | [11:24] |
danielpbarron | the story might be all the FEDs that swarm to reddit saying things like "see bitcoin isn't anonymous you better just use dollars!" | [11:25] |
mircea_popescu | this is not terribly factual. | [11:26] |
mircea_popescu | not every poltroonish german's a gestapo agent, not every poltroonish soviet's a kgb agent and not every reddit idjit's working for teh soup. | [11:27] |
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nubbins` | anyone happen to have any of the btc addresses used for the first sr auction? | [11:27] |
mircea_popescu | 1F1tAaz5x1HUXrCNLbtMDqcw6o5GNn4xqX ? | [11:28] |
mircea_popescu | going to 1Ez69SnzzmePmZX3WpEzMKTrcBF2gpNQ55, never spent. | [11:29] |
mircea_popescu | since w/e, 9 months ago. | [11:30] |
funkenstein_ | btc-e grabs some easy publicity perhaps | [11:30] |
mircea_popescu | sort-of like putting cockroaches in your pizza for easy publicity. | [11:30] |
funkenstein_ | so no bitcoin numismatics then? 2 BTC for my coin which was mined in 2010? | [11:31] |
danielpbarron | how does that even work? you sell the private key? | [11:31] |
mircea_popescu | nubbins` is the local numismatist | [11:31] |
nubbins` | ^ | [11:32] |
funkenstein_ | no i just transfer it as usual | [11:32] |
nubbins` | i'm not sure that's the word you're looking for | [11:32] |
danielpbarron | then you'd destroy all those coin-days which i thought was the thing you were trying to sell | [11:33] |
nubbins` | pedigree coins | [11:33] |
funkenstein_ | not coin days but mining origin | [11:34] |
mircea_popescu | http://dpaste.com/087PNN7 << best story ever, 10/10 would hire indian excel expert to literaturate again. | [11:34] |
assbot | dpaste: 087PNN7 ... ( http://bit.ly/1DIeYAC ) | [11:34] |
nubbins` | funkenstein_ no better than fresh-minted coins? | [11:35] |
funkenstein_ | maybe you'd rather pay more for fresh minted coins, i hear some people prefer them | [11:36] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 62900 @ 0.00027742 = 17.4497 BTC [+] {2} | [11:36] |
funkenstein_ | based on hash rental rates | [11:37] |
mircea_popescu | http://edge.org/conversation/the-normal-well-tempered-mind << you know this is easily the most disjointed, ridiculous and overall pointless piece of crap. "out of whack" three times ? the whole thing's an exercise in content-free derpage. | [11:37] |
assbot | THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND | Edge.org ... ( http://bit.ly/1DIfi2v ) | [11:37] |
funkenstein_ | mircea_popescu, i thought it was interesting, but i guess not enough to finish it | [11:38] |
mircea_popescu | there's some reasonable if banal shit floating around in a sea of very annoying nonsense. wtf is "out of whack" even supposed to mean, and since when is an ipad a better model of computing than a desktop. | [11:40] |
mircea_popescu | but anyway, whatevs. | [11:40] |
funkenstein_ | lol sounds about right | [11:40] |
funkenstein_ | We're beginning to come to grips with the idea that your brain is not this well-organized hierarchical control system where everything is in order, a very dramatic vision of bureaucracy. <-- i liked that part | [11:40] |
mircea_popescu | yes, obviously, people working on computational theories of human intelligence are basically correct and broadly irrelevant, yes people who were working on this 30 years ago are too stupiud to follow it, because hey, they didn't grow up with a computer, like i did, and yes culture consists of a lot of fleas and relatively little treasures. | [11:41] |
mircea_popescu | and yes the brain's not a leviathan. nothing is. that only exists as a first line of fantasy, no place ever worked like that except in the bookish literotica of state-wankers. | [11:42] |
nubbins` | yeah tim draper owes me at least a few bucks | [11:42] |
mircea_popescu | about as sensible as the "paradise" of xtians, or ragnarok or w/e. | [11:42] |
funkenstein_ | some testing notes for mod6 http://dpaste.com/1EP63W5 | [11:44] |
assbot | dpaste: 1EP63W5: release notes, by funkenstein ... ( http://bit.ly/1DIg1R9 ) | [11:44] |
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funkenstein_ | and some bloggage fors ya http://frass.woodcoin.org/?p=39 | [11:54] |
assbot | The Dollar Market and a Game Theory Example | Free your Frass ... ( http://bit.ly/1IaOruB ) | [11:54] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23200 @ 0.00027609 = 6.4053 BTC [-] | [11:56] |
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assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22973 @ 0.0002759 = 6.3383 BTC [-] {2} | [11:57] |
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[]bot | Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Gold to drop under $1000 before August 2015" http://bitbet.us/bet/1131/ Odds: 50(Y):50(N) by coin, 50(Y):50(N) by weight. Total bet: 2.1 BTC. Current weight: 99,907. | [12:16] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 51450 @ 0.00027456 = 14.1261 BTC [-] {2} | [12:19] |
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assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27800 @ 0.00028 = 7.784 BTC [+] {3} | [12:24] |
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nubbins` | "This second pillar of Legion Theory might appear to be an unnecessary complication to our model. Dare we say, an “intellectual wank”. " | [12:26] |
nubbins` | i like these guys | [12:26] |
mircea_popescu | ;;later tell funkenstein_ could that thing stop being disqus | [12:29] |
mircea_popescu | ;;google "Legion Theory" | [12:29] |
gribble | The operation succeeded. | [12:30] |
gribble | Legion Theory - Theory & Psychology - Sage Publications: |
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mircea_popescu | heh mk. | [12:30] |
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thestringpuller | lol slush adds css to site everyone is like "this is best site ever" | [13:03] |
thestringpuller | smoke and mirrors make the derps go oooh and ahh | [13:04] |
fluffypony | OMG I MUST SWITCH | [13:04] |
fluffypony | CSS | [13:04] |
fluffypony | JS | [13:04] |
fluffypony | BEST | [13:04] |
fluffypony | EVER | [13:04] |
thestringpuller | ^- pretty good impression fluffypony | [13:06] |
fluffypony | I try | [13:06] |
fluffypony | my redditard is a little rusty | [13:06] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9458 @ 0.00028129 = 2.6604 BTC [+] | [13:07] |
Adlai | dogecoin rallied after they added css3 moon rocket upvote animations | [13:17] |
fluffypony | so this is good for bitcoin? | [13:18] |
Adlai | the next difficulty adjustment is critical | [13:18] |
thestringpuller | http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zrdxz/withdrawals_halted_as_stolen_evolution_coins_make/ | [13:19] |
fluffypony | lol Adlai | [13:19] |
danielpbarron | thestringpuller, they resumed withdrawls | [13:20] |
danielpbarron | someone should tell the exit scammers about bitbit as an option for mixing | [13:24] |
Adlai | how is that any good? if you know somebody's betting address, you can see their winnings on the site | [13:25] |
danielpbarron | yeah but you can't see it on the block chain | [13:28] |
mats | there are private bets | [13:35] |
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nubbins` | so 0.5.3.1 auto.sh will compile everything up to bitcoind itself | [13:37] |
nubbins` | at which point incompatibilities in ld crop up and grind the thing to a halt | [13:37] |
kakobrekla | private bets are public, just need a password to request a deposit address | [13:37] |
kakobrekla | also, there are none. | [13:37] |
kakobrekla | i dont recall if there ever was an approved one | [13:38] |
nubbins` | https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=813233.msg10841000#msg10841000 | [13:38] |
assbot | Casascius 10BTC Silver Round /w Gold B ... ( http://bit.ly/1BikwLq ) | [13:38] |
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mircea_popescu | kakobrekla i dun recall one either. | [13:51] |
mircea_popescu | not sure why we put it in, but i think it was the usual "customer request" stuff | [13:51] |
Adlai | let's say i've identified a certain address A as coins that are "not welcome here". i see it move coin to address B, so i sniff around and notice that B is a deposit address on bitbet, with winnings going to C. i add C to the list of unwelcome money. | [13:53] |
* | Adlai is equally amused from "lalala taint doesn't exist" and "lalala bitcoin doesn't exist" | [13:54] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12850 @ 0.00027392 = 3.5199 BTC [-] | [13:55] |
mircea_popescu | you really should read the logs, this was discussed ad nauseam. | [13:55] |
mircea_popescu | address A with your "taint" may lose to address B. what now ? | [13:55] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12850 @ 0.00027392 = 3.5199 BTC [-] | [13:56] |
mircea_popescu | it's not a matter of "lalala taint doesn't exit". taint exists exactly as much and exactly for the reasons god "exists" | [13:56] |
Adlai | then the idiot using a betting site as a tumbler, got what they deserved | [13:56] |
mircea_popescu | some idiots can't cope otherwise. | [13:56] |
mircea_popescu | Adlai didja eat dumb this morning ? i put 100 btc on one side, of your taint, and 100 btc on the other side, you don't know about. if one wins now you've gotta taint 2x as manby btc, if the other wins you lost track. | [13:57] |
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mircea_popescu | but really, the notion of taint is only recurring because people are stupid, and do not wish to think. otherwise, taint is meaningless. | [13:58] |
Adlai | taint in as meaningful as the person you're trying to do business with thinks it is | [13:59] |
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Adlai | but whether or not it's meaningful to a specific incident, it still exists | [14:00] |
mircea_popescu | it exists to the degree the madonna-whore exists. | [14:00] |
mircea_popescu | yes, some idiots have trouble with reality, replace it with neurosis. this to the detriment of them and anyone trusting them. | [14:01] |
mircea_popescu | like any other stereotype, like the nigger thief/rapist, the dumb woman, the jew cooking christian children etc, it "exists" in the minds of the stupid, | [14:01] |
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mircea_popescu | and it recurs because stupid is really a very narrow space. | [14:01] |
Adlai | no. you're confusing between value in the minds of people holding a bill, and fingerprints on its surface. one exists in the mind, the other is evidence. it could be misleading evidence, but it is there. | [14:03] |
mircea_popescu | taint != fingerprints. | [14:03] |
mircea_popescu | in that fingerprints are on the bill, and taint is in the mind, wholly imagined. | [14:04] |
Adlai | do we agree that utxos exist? | [14:05] |
mircea_popescu | yes. | [14:05] |
Adlai | ok, what i'm calling "taint" is the tree constructed by recursively collecting the inputs that led in to each utxo | [14:07] |
Adlai | a better word for this could be "signing history", but whatever it is, it exists. you can ask what the history of any utxo is, and you get a graph of signatures | [14:07] |
Adlai | blockchain.info pander to idiots by misrepresenting this as taint(address1,address2) = percentage | [14:08] |
Adlai | it's much more complicated than a single number, same as you can't scalarize "trust" - but taint as i've defined it exists, in the blockchain - outside of the mind. | [14:09] |
mircea_popescu | no, what you're calling taint is a particularly dumb implementation of "smart contracts", ie, overloading txn with "meaning" that's really in your own head. see also http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1058300 | [14:09] |
assbot | Logged on 19-03-2015 21:32:58; fluffypony: "release the money to mircea_popescu if I send the money to mircea_popescu" is about the sum total of it | [14:09] |
Adlai | uh what? | [14:10] |
Adlai | this has nothing to do with it | [14:10] |
mircea_popescu | uniquely among dumb implementation of "smart contracts", this doesn't even involve the actual parties to the txn, but third parties. | [14:10] |
mircea_popescu | you wish. it's exactly what it is. | [14:10] |
Adlai | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=14-02-2015#1018795 | [14:11] |
assbot | Logged on 14-02-2015 18:06:59; mircea_popescu: lol kay. | [14:11] |
mircea_popescu | the "signing history" is entirely meaningless. the TOTAL information it conveys is already conveyed, and spent. there is NO MORE in there, at all, nothing whatsoever. | [14:11] |
Adlai | lalala! | [14:12] |
mircea_popescu | hey, what can i tell you. | [14:12] |
Adlai | "i understand what you're saying and insist on attacking a strawman" | [14:13] |
nubbins` | Adlai | [14:13] |
Adlai | nubbins` | [14:13] |
mircea_popescu | i understand what you are saying, and i also understand why it's stupid. you have the option to pretend like you don't see it, or not. nothing i can do thar. | [14:13] |
nubbins` | perhaps i can explain this succinctly, as i had this same convo some time ago | [14:13] |
nubbins` | let's use an example | [14:13] |
nubbins` | https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/ | [14:13] |
assbot | BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.15 B (20%) on Yes, 4393.47 B (80%) on No | closed 1 month 4 days ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1MYAYXH ) | [14:13] |
nubbins` | examine the first "no" bet, which won 0.05280995 btc | [14:14] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10100 @ 0.0002726 = 2.7533 BTC [-] {2} | [14:14] |
nubbins` | input address is 16u2vFY3w6j18KZ6WxtiJpGeZfXnyyK7NM | [14:14] |
nubbins` | payout address is 1F3fzDm5yM5dsPmP9andV2UJgSvrsLHXXm | [14:14] |
nubbins` | here's the link between the two: | [14:14] |
nubbins` | https://bitiodine.net/a2a/16u2vFY3w6j18KZ6WxtiJpGeZfXnyyK7NM/1F3fzDm5yM5dsPmP9andV2UJgSvrsLHXXm | [14:14] |
assbot | BitIodine - Find paths ... ( http://bit.ly/1MYBchq ) | [14:14] |
Adlai | no, here's the link: https://bitbet.us/bet/786/bitcoin-to-surpass-berkshire-as-an-investment/#b2 | [14:15] |
assbot | BitBet - Bitcoin to surpass Berkshire as an investment :: 1121.15 B (20%) on Yes, 4393.47 B (80%) on No | closed 1 month 4 days ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1MYBhlj ) | [14:15] |
nubbins` | so now you're left with... some random betting website that says the two addresses are owned by the same entity, with no further evidence to back it up | [14:15] |
nubbins` | that's not a link | [14:15] |
nubbins` | i could just create a static copy of bitbet w/ a web crawler and create all the "links" i want | [14:16] |
nubbins` | does that mean they exist? | [14:16] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9250 @ 0.00027237 = 2.5194 BTC [-] | [14:16] |
mircea_popescu | i very much doubt that after he ignored the "if one wins now you've gotta taint 2x as manby btc, if the other wins you lost track." bit he's in a position to grok this one, but hey. | [14:16] |
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nubbins` | there's nothing on the blockchain to link the two addresses | [14:16] |
nubbins` | and if there's nothing on the blockchain to link them | [14:16] |
nubbins` | then you're just trusting the word of some guy who runs a website. | [14:17] |
Adlai | there are a bunch of different concepts which are getting wrapped up together as "taint" so let's stop using that word, it's about as helpful as "jew" | [14:17] |
mircea_popescu | can we move to "celestial teapot" ? | [14:17] |
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nubbins` | okay | [14:17] |
mircea_popescu | (pls do not lalala-ignore my celestial teapot, it triggers me) | [14:17] |
nubbins` | so let's go back to unwelcome money | [14:18] |
mircea_popescu | teapot money ? | [14:18] |
nubbins` | why is 1F3fzDm5yM5dsPmP9andV2UJgSvrsLHXXm unwelcome money? because it's listed as an output address on http://bitbet.us? | [14:18] |
assbot | BitBet ... ( http://bit.ly/1C9Uteb ) | [14:18] |
trinque | RagnarDanneskjol | trinque - i am occasionally using the nick for continued development on punks ver. << no problemo; deedbot- works for me | [14:19] |
mircea_popescu | fucking hell, "unwelcome money" is about as self-consistent as "human dignity" or "representative democracy" | [14:19] |
Adlai | the "this is just text on a betting website" doesn't get the 'electric anthill' any further from your anus | [14:19] |
nubbins` | groan | [14:19] |
Adlai | the "..." *defense | [14:19] |
Adlai | ie, the information is there, should somebody wish to act on it | [14:19] |
nubbins` | so then why don't we just ask mp to create a dummy bet page, and list tim draper's stash as the output? | [14:20] |
nubbins` | his coins will be ruined | [14:20] |
nubbins` | right? | [14:20] |
mircea_popescu | Adlai are you discussing rule of law or rule of thugs ? | [14:20] |
Adlai | not if he doesn't touch the winnings | [14:20] |
nubbins` | now you're talking about electric anthills | [14:20] |
mircea_popescu | cause i am really not interested in persuading thugs of anything through any method other than clubbing to death. | [14:20] |
Adlai | electric anthill = rule of thugs | [14:20] |
nubbins` | WHAT WINNINGS? | [14:21] |
mircea_popescu | so then why is ANY oif it relevant lol. | [14:21] |
nubbins` | https://blockchain.info/address/1F3fzDm5yM5dsPmP9andV2UJgSvrsLHXXm | [14:21] |
assbot | Bitcoin Address 1F3fzDm5yM5dsPmP9andV2UJgSvrsLHXXm ... ( http://bit.ly/1C9UT4i ) | [14:21] |
nubbins` | show me where the "winnings" were transferred | [14:21] |
mircea_popescu | obviously whatever random thug is going to make randomly unsubstantiated claims and pretend like they hold water. so what of it ? | [14:21] |
nubbins` | all i see is some random coin moving around | [14:21] |
mircea_popescu | this isn't something to be approached rationally. | [14:21] |
Adlai | if you know that an enemy is profiling you, one approach is simply to evade the profile | [14:22] |
nubbins` | Adlai a random website taking two random unlinked transactions and placing them side-by-side on a random page does not constitute even the /scent/ of proof | [14:22] |
mircea_popescu | Adlai never interrupt the enemy while he's making a mistake. | [14:23] |
nubbins` | i don't know how simpler to put it | [14:23] |
mircea_popescu | let 'em "profile" until they fall over. | [14:23] |
mircea_popescu | i guess it's "good for the economy". heck, they're tracking "uniques", for all the good that did anyone. we still have to see the extra ounce of soap or w/e that was sold because of it, but hey. | [14:24] |
nubbins` | this is like pasting up a leaflet that says "main street intersects 3rd avenue" and then arguing that's the intersection you lost your wallet, even though the map says impossible | [14:24] |
nubbins` | because main and 3rd run parallel | [14:24] |
Adlai | one approach to combating terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized, on a societal level. another, on an individual level, is not to "ask for it". these are not mutually exclusive. | [14:24] |
nubbins` | "but the leaflet says this intersection exists, so we must investigate the crime" | [14:25] |
nubbins` | geez, where'd the counter-argument go | [14:26] |
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mircea_popescu | Adlai wait, what ? | [14:26] |
mircea_popescu | what you're describing is the exact avenue to encourage terrorism. | [14:27] |
trinque | look at how she was dressed; the slut was asking for it -> niqab | [14:27] |
nubbins` | hm | [14:28] |
nubbins` | is the intersection of these two approaches to STFU and take whatever happens? | [14:28] |
nubbins` | do you measure your other-cheek-turning in x1000 rpm or what? | [14:28] |
Adlai | in the case of 'taint', it's: treat bitcoin as fungible, but don't make life easier for those who don't | [14:29] |
nubbins` | <+Adlai> there are a bunch of different concepts which are getting wrapped up together as "taint" so let's stop using that word, it's about as helpful as "jew" | [14:29] |
nubbins` | try again | [14:29] |
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nubbins` | protip: if you can't state your position... | [14:29] |
* | Adlai used that word intentionally | [14:29] |
mircea_popescu | im pretty sure no-ones making life easier for idiots, here. | [14:29] |
mircea_popescu | hence the bitbet model, hence the reusing of addresses etc etc, numerous specific measures to hinder the little solace idiots a la power rangers etc are trying to give the "defungibilize bitcoin" party. | [14:30] |
nubbins` | my being here is probably making life harder for at least a handful of people | [14:30] |
mircea_popescu | not that any of these are critical, but yes, some hopes are fun to ruin. | [14:31] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 80218 @ 0.00027598 = 22.1386 BTC [+] {2} | [14:32] |
nubbins` | occasionally i burn fun-sized blocks of btc just to make things a bit more tangly | [14:32] |
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asciilifeform | the "this is just text on a betting website" doesn't get the 'electric anthill' any further from your anus << aha. this was also my objection, if anyone recalls. | [14:38] |
asciilifeform | list tim draper's stash as the output? his coins will be ruined << no, they won't. because he's aryan. | [14:38] |
asciilifeform | are you discussing rule of law or rule of thugs << thugs | [14:38] |
asciilifeform | not interested in persuading thugs of anything through any method other than clubbing to death << what exterminator do i call. we're overrun. | [14:39] |
Adlai | G.BUST | [14:40] |
asciilifeform | random thug is going to make randomly unsubstantiated claims << here lies the boojum. it isn't unsubstantiated. mr thug is looking for which arse to stuff the soldering iron in, rather than trying to prove something to a jury | [14:40] |
asciilifeform | the info on, e.g., 'bitbet' www, -could- be random garbage - but it -isn't- | [14:41] |
asciilifeform | this isn't, again, a jurist's 'reasonable doubt' standard | [14:42] |
asciilifeform | it's thug logic, and some of us live in thugschwitz | [14:42] |
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nubbins` | then i guess you better not use bit(bet/coin) | [14:43] |
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nubbins` | XD | [14:43] |
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mod6 | <+funkenstein_> some testing notes for mod6 http://dpaste.com/1EP63W5 << thanks for the testing notes! | [14:45] |
assbot | dpaste: 1EP63W5: release notes, by funkenstein ... ( http://bit.ly/1C9ZpzN ) | [14:45] |
danielpbarron | oh mod6 just the guy i want to see | [14:46] |
danielpbarron | how would i go about compiling your bitcoind for macppc? | [14:46] |
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mod6 | <+nubbins`> so 0.5.3.1 auto.sh will compile everything up to bitcoind itself << ah! ok. log/breadcrumbs help here : log output with uname -a and other important info is good to capture for a solid bug report. | [14:47] |
mod6 | thanks for testing nubbins` | [14:47] |
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mod6 | danielpbarron: hmm. well, first, you'd have to get the libs to build for the correct arch. does mac still use ppc? thought it was x86? but either way, you get the libs built, and then there might be some tweaks that can be done to get the makefile into shape for osx or w/e. | [14:49] |
* | mod6 looks | [14:49] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33835 @ 0.00027237 = 9.2156 BTC [-] | [14:49] |
danielpbarron | i have some old macs | [14:50] |
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mod6 | ah so PPC | [14:52] |
mod6 | well, we'd have to spend some time just making sure we have the correct configure/compile flags set for openssl/bdb/boost and then create a patch or derivative of auto.sh for ppc-mac | [14:53] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 53478 @ 0.00027683 = 14.8043 BTC [+] {2} | [14:54] |
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mod6 | then a makefile.osx would have to be modified and re-added to the package once working. | [14:54] |
mod6 | im probably least clue'd on the mac side. if I had an environment to play on for a while, i could probably get it to work. | [14:55] |
asciilifeform | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/19/cansecwest_talk_bioses_hack << mega-l0l | [14:55] |
assbot | Noobs can pwn world's most popular BIOSes in two minutes • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1BFRvJw ) | [14:55] |
mod6 | but others might have faster/better-luck/more knowledge on that than ole mod6 | [14:55] |
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mod6 | http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_52_0.html << so it says that osx is supported here, but does this only indicate that it supports x86 of OSX? | [14:58] |
mod6 | looks like it :/ | [14:59] |
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danielpbarron | what about VAX ? | [14:59] |
danielpbarron | http://www.openbsd.org/vax.html | [14:59] |
assbot | OpenBSD/vax ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ca1PhR ) | [14:59] |
danielpbarron | OpenBSD still supports this for the purpose of finding bugs that would otherwise go unnoticed on modern speedy systems | [14:59] |
mod6 | eh, i'm not sure on VAX either. i've never used it. it doesn't look like boost supports it. | [15:00] |
mod6 | but maybe someday we can get builds/patches created to build/configure for these seperate arch's. who knows. | [15:01] |
danielpbarron | https://books.google.com/books?id=PN6Xy9zWAbsC&pg=PR36&lpg=PR36 | [15:01] |
assbot | Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition: UNIX for the Practical Paranoid - Michael W. Lucas - Google Boeken ... ( http://bit.ly/1BFRIwk ) | [15:01] |
danielpbarron | https://i.imgur.com/nup9VqD.png << for those who hate google | [15:03] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1BFRKo2 ) | [15:03] |
mod6 | yeah. ok. so supporting stuff like VAX/Amiga/SGI/Sparc etc are going to take time and resources ... maybe someday we get there, who knows. but first we just wanna get it working for like x86 obsd, and other Tier1 platforms first. | [15:04] |
mod6 | heck, i'd love to get an R.I. running on an UltraSPARC II box or something. | [15:05] |
mod6 | it's just not time well spent for me atm since no one even has that stuff any more. :] | [15:05] |
danielpbarron | yeah obviously get it working on whatever most people use these days | [15:05] |
mod6 | i saw thay you're getting close to 300k blocks on pogo, that's great work. keep it up! | [15:06] |
danielpbarron | and if you liked that paragraph i quoted there, it's from "Absolute OpenBSD" by Michael W. Lucas | [15:06] |
mod6 | i feel like the pogo is hugely important for getting a large amount of nodes out there with 0.5.3.1, that's really exciting. | [15:06] |
danielpbarron | i own this book and recommend it to others | [15:06] |
mod6 | i've gotta get one going here myself. | [15:07] |
mod6 | yeah I read the two paragraphs there "portability" and "power". | [15:07] |
danielpbarron | apparently you can read the book on google? idk how that works | [15:08] |
mod6 | it seems like a decent read. i feel like i my have read that book like a million-internet years ago. | [15:08] |
danielpbarron | says you can buy it for 30+ USD on the side | [15:08] |
mod6 | im old-school. i like real books. | [15:08] |
mod6 | but yeah, i've certainly seen it in stores. | [15:09] |
danielpbarron | maybe it's because that particular section is part of the pre-page numbers section | [15:09] |
danielpbarron | roman numeral page numbers | [15:09] |
mod6 | yeah, i saw that. usually on-line, you get a certain amount of sections to preview. | [15:09] |
mod6 | (for free) | [15:09] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform there's no relation between addresses and identities. | [15:10] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: except when a man is sitting on a stake, and they have his decrypted wallet ? | [15:10] |
mod6 | huh, weird, this one looks like you can read a lot of it... | [15:10] |
mircea_popescu | but this is ex post facto. | [15:10] |
asciilifeform | or, say, sr is busted and a number of addresses turns up there. then link between them and sr. | [15:11] |
asciilifeform | am i missing something ? | [15:11] |
mircea_popescu | "them" addresses. so ? | [15:11] |
mircea_popescu | you gonna arrest an address ? | [15:12] |
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mircea_popescu | "The point is less about how vendors don't fix the problems, and more how the vendors' fixes are going un-applied by users, corporations, and governments." << orly. how about the point is all about how "vendors" create bugs. | [15:13] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16500 @ 0.00027237 = 4.4941 BTC [-] | [15:13] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: need the magic eyeglasses to see that point, apparently | [15:13] |
asciilifeform | because nobody but us appears to | [15:13] |
asciilifeform | 'apply fixes, fixes, now!111!111' | [15:14] |
mircea_popescu | "The LightEater attack would take an unskilled attacker such as a maid or border guard two minutes of physical access to a target laptop." | [15:14] |
mircea_popescu | ahem | [15:14] |
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mircea_popescu | anyway, since this "taint" bs keeps popping up, maybe a retrospective is a good idea. like http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-06-2014#716247 | [15:18] |
assbot | Logged on 13-06-2014 02:34:16; mircea_popescu: anyway, the fact that bitcoin is not actually traceable, and all the sophistry of taint can at most produce persuasion is one of the largest points of pressure applied by bitcoin to human society. it may result in the "reasonable doubt" standard being taken out. | [15:18] |
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mircea_popescu | and where the heck's that 2013 bitbet discussion | [15:21] |
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mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-01-2014#470127 still not it hot damn | [15:24] |
assbot | Logged on 31-01-2014 16:43:16; mircea_popescu: since you can by design make zero-delta bets, and since the fee is 1%... bitbet is partly the reason why mixer services sort-of died last year, i'd guess. | [15:24] |
asciilifeform | re: bios: every portable computer i've opened in the past decade or so had the system bios stored in an eight-legged spi eeprom. one of the legs is a write-enable. in principle, not so hard to desolder & ground it. | [15:27] |
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danielpbarron | in looking for a link, i found a typo in this page -> http://trilema.com/2014/guidance-there-is-no-such-thing-as-bitcoin-taint/ | [15:28] |
assbot | Guidance : There Is No Such Thing As Bitcoin Taint. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ca77d8 ) | [15:28] |
mircea_popescu | whats the typo ? | [15:28] |
danielpbarron | Retarded pieces like what Matonis is retweeting of late (shame on you man, seriously) are powerless in this matter, << links to trilema instead of twitter | [15:28] |
danielpbarron | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-02-2014#520177 | [15:29] |
assbot | Logged on 20-02-2014 19:47:58; mircea_popescu: why "you" ? | [15:29] |
mircea_popescu | ah yes danielpbarron has it. | [15:30] |
mircea_popescu | ty | [15:30] |
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mircea_popescu | http://trilema.com/2014/guidance-there-is-no-such-thing-as-bitcoin-taint/#footnote_3_52853 <<< ahahaha. | [15:37] |
assbot | Guidance : There Is No Such Thing As Bitcoin Taint. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1HfJIGW ) | [15:37] |
mircea_popescu | anyone guess what that hinted at ? | [15:37] |
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danielpbarron | USG asking MPEx if so-and-so is a customer? | [15:42] |
danielpbarron | or if such-and-such a bet was from whatever exit scam ? | [15:43] |
mircea_popescu | http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a-guide/ | [15:44] |
assbot | Interacting with fiat institutions, a guide pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1HfLckB ) | [15:44] |
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danielpbarron | or uh.. USG guy joins IRC and identifies himself as such | [15:45] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-04-2014#643118 << and since we're digging through logs... remember back when the scam foundation was "giving generous grants" ? | [15:45] |
assbot | Logged on 25-04-2014 17:49:10; mircea_popescu: "After scoring a major grant awarded by the Bitcoin Foundation, Coinpunk’s beta version is finally available. The project, which is being developed by the veteran startup founder Kyle Drake, intends to build the first fully open-source, self-hosted do-it-yourself Bitcoin wallet service that you can run on your own server." | [15:45] |
danielpbarron | signs message with GPG key hosted on a .gov | [15:45] |
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felipelalli | mircea_popescu: thank you for the answers and the link. I'll have a look on it before comment again. | [15:53] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40600 @ 0.00027624 = 11.2153 BTC [+] | [15:54] |
mircea_popescu | np. | [15:54] |
nubbins` | i'll probably get a makefile.osx done up at some point | [15:54] |
nubbins` | in order for it to compile all the deps, there's only a couple trivial changes to make | [15:54] |
nubbins` | s/sha256sum/shasum -a 256/ etc | [15:55] |
mircea_popescu | http://40.media.tumblr.com/d680f19e948db3a6f204280efa2bf7a5/tumblr_mwq1dag5pw1t1c22co1_1280.jpg << dat tit hang. | [15:55] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1HfNqQP ) | [15:55] |
nubbins` | s/MSG_NOSIGNAL/SO_NOSIGPIPE/ in irc.cpp and net.cpp | [15:55] |
nubbins` | 'bout it | [15:55] |
felipelalli | mircea_popescu: just one question mark: do you call fraud what does not have the "min. quality expected for that service" or something else? | [15:56] |
nubbins` | mod6 the rest of the issues seem to be differences between bsd/osx 'ld' and linux 'ld' | [15:56] |
nubbins` | flags missing etc | [15:56] |
mircea_popescu | felipelalli there's a difference between making cars as in, making a trabant, making cars as in, making a cardboard cut-out of a car, and making cars as in, making ford pintos, which explode killing their passengers. | [15:57] |
nubbins` | mostly surrounding the static-build part of it, fwiw | [15:57] |
nubbins` | *static-link | [15:57] |
mircea_popescu | the main problem in commerce is that the most dangerous of these is the last, and the most readily identified by the consumer is the first. | [15:57] |
felipelalli | mircea_popescu: got it! | [15:57] |
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felipelalli | makes sense. | [15:58] |
mircea_popescu | so you know, "it seems to be working" is a very bad heuristic for stuff like this. | [15:58] |
mircea_popescu | the fact that it's not intuitively obvious is not accidental, but part of the problem. | [15:58] |
mircea_popescu | the only similar situation i can imagine is self medication in medicine, where person goes to pharmacy swallows random pill for random ailment. | [15:59] |
mircea_popescu | it "seems to be working" because placebo effect, a sugar pill "seems to be working", and then six months later guy with tb is dead of iodine poisoning or w/e. | [15:59] |
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felipelalli | but sometimes is hard to point objectivally where is the "bomb" inside the car. Sometimes we have just some clues. And they'll know only after explode. | [16:00] |
felipelalli | the same to your pharmacy example. | [16:00] |
felipelalli | you can say "this box seems weird" (like violated e.g.) but you'll only know after die. | [16:01] |
felipelalli | I read your BTCJam article on trilema | [16:01] |
felipelalli | and I didn't find anything very objective, but I guess you're trying to find clues that points something is weird. But after using the system, you can understand for example how joke is they reputation system. | [16:03] |
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felipelalli | is *their | [16:04] |
felipelalli | mircea_popescu: a P2P lending system totally based on OTC WoT system would you consider a fraud as well or it could be something good? | [16:07] |
felipelalli | I mean, rabbit out of this hat or not? This type of service is lost case? | [16:07] |
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thestringpuller | felipelalli: the scam is that reputation is built nominally on btcjam vs. WoT | [16:16] |
thestringpuller | s/the/a | [16:18] |
thestringpuller | another scam is the repayment rate | [16:19] |
thestringpuller | it's just scam on top of scam | [16:19] |
thestringpuller | !up vorandrew | [16:20] |
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vorandrew | thanks... the problem with p2p lending - it one sided market | [16:20] |
vorandrew | for example.. I wan to get loan... I want to get $95 and repay $100 in 2 months | [16:21] |
vorandrew | If somebody can bet money that I will not pay it back - it will be incentive | [16:21] |
vorandrew | for example bid/ask for Mr.X loan is .89-0.93 | [16:22] |
vorandrew | means he wants to sell his debt for 93 cents a dollar | [16:22] |
vorandrew | and somebody wants to buy his debt for 89 cents a dollar | [16:22] |
vorandrew | let's say I'm sure he is not going to repay | [16:23] |
vorandrew | If I have opportunity to put aside with escrow 1 dollar and sell his debt for 89 cents | [16:23] |
vorandrew | I will be risking 11 cents if he is gonna repay | [16:24] |
vorandrew | and 89 cents in profit in case he is in default | [16:24] |
vorandrew | so this BTCJAM (or any other one way market) | [16:24] |
vorandrew | is kind of pump and dump scheme | [16:24] |
vorandrew | you repay all year just to get max rating | [16:25] |
vorandrew | and boom! - just default on 660K BTC :) | [16:25] |
vorandrew | now imagine - 1 day before debt expiration - prices should be near 0.99 | [16:26] |
vorandrew | risking 1 cent in order to get 99 - not to shabby risk/reward ratio | [16:27] |
* | asciilifeform walks in and #b-a is about... assets! wonders if he fell into a time warp | [16:28] |
thestringpuller | asciilifeform is actually the flash | [16:29] |
thestringpuller | and ran to fast and it now in 2012 | [16:29] |
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nubbins` | http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/odin-s-birthday-celebrated-by-social-media-supporters-1.3004041 | [16:42] |
assbot | Odin's birthday celebrated by social media supporters - Toronto - CBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1xopTNX ) | [16:42] |
nubbins` | smh | [16:42] |
mod6 | <+nubbins`> mod6 the rest of the issues seem to be differences between bsd/osx 'ld' and linux 'ld' << ah ok, yeah. | [16:42] |
nubbins` | what happens next year? | [16:42] |
vorandrew | ;;price | [16:42] |
gribble | Error: "price" is not a valid command. | [16:42] |
asciilifeform | nubbins`: mega-disappointment | [16:42] |
asciilifeform | -that-'s odin!?! | [16:43] |
nubbins` | https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1118/_index.html | [16:43] |
assbot | Technical Q&A QA1118: Statically linked binaries on Mac OS X ... ( http://bit.ly/1xopXNH ) | [16:43] |
nubbins` | admittedly not sure if related ^ | [16:43] |
nubbins` | asciilifeform right? | [16:43] |
asciilifeform | 'Apple does not support statically linked binaries on Mac OS X. A statically linked binary assumes binary compatibility at the kernel system call interface, and we do not make any guarantees on that front. Rather, we strive to ensure binary compatibility in each dynamically linked system library and framework.' | [16:43] |
asciilifeform | ahahahahaha. | [16:43] |
vorandrew | ;;help | [16:43] |
gribble | The bot responds when you start a line with the ! character. A good starting point for exploring the bot is the !facts command. You can also visit the bot's website for a list of help topics and documentation: http://gribble.sourceforge.net/ | [16:43] |
asciilifeform | waitasec why do we even care | [16:44] |
vorandrew | !facts | [16:44] |
asciilifeform | what apple does | [16:44] |
nubbins` | we don't, i've got a passing interest | [16:44] |
nubbins` | at least they point you in the direction of what to do should you choose to ignore dad advice | [16:44] |
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asciilifeform | i used to have a passing interest, long ago. but for all i know you have to sacrifice a son to the crocodile god to get blessing from cupertino to distribute 'app' now. | [16:45] |
* | nubbins` idly wonders what sort of install base Darwin has | [16:45] |
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asciilifeform | nubbins`: probably somewhere below that of 'plan 9' | [16:45] |
nubbins` | heh | [16:45] |
asciilifeform | if you're thinking of raw 'darwin' | [16:45] |
asciilifeform | at one point i had a machine going with each. | [16:46] |
nubbins` | i know there is/was an "opendarwin" project | [16:46] |
nubbins` | anyway, homebrew lets me install sane gcc, but apparently sane ld is off-limits? | [16:46] |
asciilifeform | conflicts with the idiot ld on the box, or what | [16:46] |
nubbins` | in theory there'd be conflicts with the idiot gcc | [16:47] |
nubbins` | so brew installs things in a specific location | [16:47] |
nubbins` | then i go rename the originals and ln -s | [16:47] |
nubbins` | but check this out: | [16:47] |
nubbins` | $ brew install ld64 | [16:47] |
nubbins` | ld64: OS X Snow Leopard or older is required. | [16:47] |
nubbins` | OR OLDER | [16:47] |
asciilifeform | nubbins`: you might actually have more luck cross-compiling on that box | [16:47] |
nubbins` | hmm | [16:48] |
nubbins` | in what fashion | [16:49] |
asciilifeform | say, for armv5 | [16:49] |
asciilifeform | (crosstoolchain has prefixes in names) | [16:49] |
asciilifeform | but i dare say this is a waste of time | [16:50] |
asciilifeform | find a real computer | [16:50] |
nubbins` | no kidding hey | [16:51] |
nubbins` | brew install ld64 pulls down the following file: | [16:53] |
nubbins` | https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ld64/ld64-97.17.tar.gz | [16:53] |
nubbins` | o.O | [16:53] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1xoqGyB ) | [16:54] |
nubbins` | how is this useful | [16:54] |
danielpbarron | ftr I do not intend to acutally use apple software; i've been putting OpenBSD on old iMacs | [16:54] |
asciilifeform | then no need for the weird apple minutiae, no ? | [16:55] |
asciilifeform | is anyone actually trying to build on apple's os ? | [16:55] |
danielpbarron | i think nubbins` has other plans | [16:55] |
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asciilifeform | i meant was, is anyone planning to -run- on apple's os | [16:55] |
asciilifeform | because now that's just bizarre | [16:55] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20591 @ 0.0002754 = 5.6708 BTC [-] {2} | [16:56] |
nubbins` | that's what i'm trying to do, yes | [16:56] |
nubbins` | not that i'm going to be running a node on this machine | [16:56] |
danielpbarron | i plan on using nothing but OpenBSD whereever possible :p | [16:56] |
nubbins` | just killing a saturday seeing how much work is involved | [16:56] |
asciilifeform | i'll build for apple shortly after i build for 'super nintendo' | [16:56] |
danielpbarron | although still using gentoo on this laptop and debian on my irc server and ArchLinux on the pogo node | [16:56] |
nubbins` | 2 more pogos on the way here | [16:56] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 40761 @ 0.00027223 = 11.0964 BTC [-] {2} | [16:57] |
asciilifeform | nubbins`: get a mega-crate while they're still around | [16:57] |
asciilifeform | i have reasons to suspect that the pogo-4 is not long for this world | [16:57] |
danielpbarron | they are selling the things at like 80% off because they think people will pay them 5 USD a month for cloud services | [16:58] |
nubbins` | reasons that include dumping the hardware below cost? ;p | [16:58] |
asciilifeform | and the cheapest entirely equivalent machine i was able to find on the market, anywhere on planet, is roughly 4x the cost | [16:58] |
nubbins` | danielpbarron i'm still not sure how much is mfg subsidy and how much is dumping eol product | [16:58] |
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nubbins` | the msrp on the things is like $99. | [16:59] |
asciilifeform | there are inexhaustible many similar machines -without sata- for around 2-3x the cost of 'pogo4' | [16:59] |
asciilifeform | but it is precisely the sata - and the Gb ethernet - which make the pogo what it is | [17:00] |
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mircea_popescu | felipelalli it actually already works like that. | [17:15] |
ben_vulpes | [17:16] | |
ben_vulpes | mod6 will be too polite about this | [17:16] |
mircea_popescu | the reason you're not seeing "anything very objective" is because you don't know all sorts of things you don't know, and so they don't trigger for you. for instance : in a village where there's no bank, someone offering loans is one thing. in a town where banks exists and works, someone offering "loans" is called a loanshark. | [17:16] |
ben_vulpes | but macos is marginal, and not at all a thing that i'm interested in hosting bitcoind on. | [17:16] |
mircea_popescu | for fundamental or practical reasons ? | [17:17] |
mircea_popescu | ie, macos too stupid to run software ? or, not enough people actually running it to bother with ? or what ? | [17:17] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: it has weird and very annoying quirks. just like actual unixen but not exactly, is the best description | [17:20] |
asciilifeform | i think the japanese call this situation 'uncanny valley' | [17:20] |
mircea_popescu | aha | [17:21] |
trinque | situation will likely involve installing some mess like brew | [17:21] |
ben_vulpes | where's that bash | [17:21] |
* | nubbins` did install some mess like brew | [17:21] |
ben_vulpes | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-10-2014#896379 | [17:22] |
nubbins` | fwiw brew is *just* a package manager ;p | [17:22] |
assbot | Logged on 26-10-2014 03:33:41; decimation: osx looks good from the outside, but when you walk into the engine room you find chairs glued to the ceiling and rotating clown cars | [17:22] |
trinque | nubbins`: I recall several instances of having done *dunno what* to fuck up my brew/macports/fink install | [17:22] |
ben_vulpes | well a) marginal in that if you can hack an os x box, you are able to hack a linux or bsd box, and why prefer the consumer os to something designed for use by professionals | [17:22] |
nubbins` | trinque my understanding is that installing brew and macports is a recipe for disaster | [17:23] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: betcha 9 out of 10 times it is used because laptop. | [17:23] |
ben_vulpes | b) it is the product of the devil, with all sorts of odd shit going on under the hood | [17:23] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30800 @ 0.00028006 = 8.6258 BTC [+] {3} | [17:23] |
nubbins` | asciilifeform +1 | [17:23] |
ben_vulpes | asciilifeform: invariably | [17:23] |
ben_vulpes | 'tis why i use it. | [17:24] |
ben_vulpes | i'd like to build out a workstation this year. | [17:24] |
ben_vulpes | doubt that i'll have time, though. | [17:24] |
thestringpuller | workstation isn't portable | [17:24] |
ben_vulpes | anyways. | [17:24] |
jurov | 36 quotes waiting for bash... looks like rs work, guess i'll start asking for donations :D | [17:24] |
ben_vulpes | thestringpuller: you don't say! | [17:24] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: the parts aren't getting any more findable. | [17:24] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: i've been wanting to build a successor to my '07 machine for a few yrs now, and at this point not sure that it will happen at all | [17:25] |
asciilifeform | there are how many manufacturers of amd boards with support for ecc ram? 2? 1? | [17:25] |
* | asciilifeform goes through this ritual every year or so | [17:26] |
ben_vulpes | i honestly don't even know how to build a workstation. | [17:26] |
* | asciilifeform with same result | [17:26] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: you buy a number of things and bolt them together... | [17:26] |
ben_vulpes | for example: why ecc ram? | [17:26] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: this was actually discussed in #b-a on several occasions | [17:26] |
asciilifeform | !s ecc | [17:26] |
assbot | 63 results for 'ecc' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ecc | [17:26] |
thestringpuller | asciilifeform: cannot tolerate errors in memory for any reason, whatsoever. | [17:27] |
jurov | can't one just use some server mobo? | [17:27] |
asciilifeform | jurov: -must- | [17:27] |
asciilifeform | jurov: but not so many for amd. | [17:27] |
asciilifeform | esp. if you want expansion slots | [17:27] |
asciilifeform | (for human use, typically want video boards, for instance.) | [17:28] |
* | jurov is uninformed grunt with athlonII 630 fourcore with no upgrade plans and sadly no ecc | [17:28] |
trinque | asciilifeform: do you find AMD more trustworthy or is it a technical preference? | [17:28] |
asciilifeform | last i checked, i actually found an appropriate board. about 1k usd for mobo alone. | [17:28] |
asciilifeform | trinque: amd is, recall, also american. but it does not have the history of outright warfare against its customers, or the surreptitious collaboration with microshit, that intel does. | [17:29] |
trinque | yep knew they're american, hence curiosity | [17:30] |
asciilifeform | there is no 'clean' cpu vendor on the planet today. | [17:30] |
asciilifeform | even chinese 'loongson' is built with american w4r4z fab tools. | [17:30] |
trinque | heh sorry to constantly remind you of this fact with my questions. | [17:31] |
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trinque | I am still curious why davout uses win 3.1 to do his encryption | [17:32] |
asciilifeform | trinque: there are other useful facts to know about intel | [17:32] |
asciilifeform | trinque: for instance, that recent intel server boards all include -prominently advertised- hardware rootkits | [17:32] |
asciilifeform | 'remote management' | [17:32] |
asciilifeform | supposedly user-controllable, but srsly l0l | [17:32] |
trinque | yeah, saw that feature on this lenovo | [17:32] |
trinque | "feature" | [17:32] |
asciilifeform | as for 'consumer' junk, recent intel boards have nintendo-style signed boot preventing use of linuxbios | [17:33] |
asciilifeform | this should tell you everything you need to know. | [17:33] |
cazalla | danielpbarron: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zrdxz/withdrawals_halted_as_stolen_evolution_coins_make/ << is this a qntra article? <<< as far as i could tell, it's just a screenshot from btc-e chat, nothing came from btc-e themselves on the website, twitter etc etc, btc-e's email server was down too so people couldn't confirm withdrawal, so nfi if that link is even factual | [17:33] |
assbot | Withdrawals halted as stolen evolution coins make their way to BTC-e : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1DISeAt ) | [17:33] |
trinque | asciilifeform: indeed | [17:33] |
asciilifeform | trinque: amd is not 'angelic', it is simply behind the usg schedule because, elementary, smaller market share | [17:33] |
asciilifeform | and is the 'younger son' | [17:33] |
asciilifeform | so not favoured by microshit | [17:34] |
asciilifeform | but we all know where the train is going | [17:34] |
asciilifeform | so if you want to buy hardware, do it while you can. | [17:34] |
nubbins` | ;;google hear my train a-comin' | [17:34] |
gribble | Hear My Train A Comin' - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: [17:34] |
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jurov | http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/ i dug out this | [17:36] |
assbot | Motherboards - M5A97 R2.0 - ASUS | [17:36] |
asciilifeform | jurov: own this one ^ ? | [17:36] |
cazalla | plus the mods for btc-e chat are well known for trolling so who really knows | [17:36] |
jurov | no, just could not believe there is nothing avail | [17:36] |
asciilifeform | jurov: be careful with the ecc thing. many boards will take the dimms, but won't actually -use- ecc | [17:37] |
asciilifeform | generally only 'server market' boards that -require- ecc, actually work with it. | [17:38] |
jurov | wow, such scam | [17:38] |
asciilifeform | other than that, i cannot comment on the linked item | [17:38] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 44350 @ 0.00027708 = 12.2885 BTC [-] | [17:38] |
mircea_popescu | felipelalli http://trilema.com/2015/autotranslated-spam-for-the-lulz/ << here, for you. | [17:38] |
assbot | Autotranslated Spam For The Lulz pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1DISIqh ) | [17:38] |
mircea_popescu | http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062597 << that's just the tenth of it, but yes, a major reason this doesn't work. | [17:42] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 19:21:00; vorandrew: and boom! - just default on 660K BTC :) | [17:42] |
asciilifeform | jurov: i generally buy boards that require 'buffered ecc' | [17:45] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform: i'll build for apple shortly after i build for 'super nintendo' << ahahaha. nintendo! | [17:45] |
asciilifeform | the solidest gold toilet available | [17:45] |
asciilifeform | trinque, jurov: see also recently publicized 'rowhammer' effect. | [17:46] |
jurov | it hits unbuffered harder? | [17:46] |
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asciilifeform | not that i know of. unrelated | [17:46] |
mircea_popescu | http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062676 << ayup. | [17:46] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 19:54:27; nubbins`: the msrp on the things is like $99. | [17:46] |
asciilifeform | though i'm uncertain re: whether ddr3 even exists in buffered-ecc variant | [17:46] |
mircea_popescu | and since i'm off, i leave you with http://41.media.tumblr.com/8a8fca439ee8052b65b75202e77950b0/tumblr_mw45rs1ptf1t16d43o1_1280.jpg | [17:47] |
asciilifeform | (ddr3 is the type of dram affected by 'rowhammer') | [17:47] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1DITzHB ) | [17:47] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21600 @ 0.00028206 = 6.0925 BTC [+] {2} | [17:48] |
asciilifeform | http://www.servethehome.com/unbuffered-registered-ecc-memory-difference-ecc-udimms-rdimms << likbez re: ecc & buffering | [17:50] |
assbot | Unbuffered versus Registered ECC Memory - Difference between ECC UDIMMs and RDIMMsServeTheHome – Server and Workstation Reviews ... ( http://bit.ly/1DITN1u ) | [17:50] |
ben_vulpes | neat likbez, asciilifeform, thank you | [17:54] |
scoopbot | New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/autotranslated-spam-for-the-lulz/ | [17:55] |
jurov | good. so we now know alf needs 100+G of RAM | [17:56] |
asciilifeform | jurov: even something very modest like 16 begins to suffer from buffering problems if actually used in anger | [17:59] |
* | trinque wonders what relevance running from ramdisks might have to the situation involving hd firmware | [17:59] |
asciilifeform | trinque: hd firmware diddling is usually interesting at boot | [18:01] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26718 @ 0.00028261 = 7.5508 BTC [+] | [18:02] |
trinque | asciilifeform: boot from cd, decompress an image into ram? | [18:02] |
trinque | not that it avoids any other diddled components | [18:02] |
trinque | also where do you make your "clean" CD | [18:03] |
asciilifeform | trinque: most cdrom drives have reflashable fw, incidentally. | [18:03] |
asciilifeform | (why? don't ask me) | [18:03] |
nubbins` | my first cdrw drive required a firmware update | [18:04] |
nubbins` | well, "required". too long ago to remember what it did | [18:04] |
nubbins` | ostensibly it's there for later when they discover bugs in their code | [18:05] |
asciilifeform | the option of not having the bugs is presented as not even thinkable. | [18:05] |
nubbins` | those drives, you prolly can't reflash the fw 8) | [18:05] |
trinque | asciilifeform: "ship it!" (tm) | [18:06] |
asciilifeform | incidentally, buggy+nonflashable is common as dirt. my car, for instance, has a buggy cabin thermostat controller. | [18:06] |
nubbins` | they shoulda made it reflashable! | [18:06] |
nubbins` | http://imgur.com/GY0nn5n | [18:07] |
assbot | Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1DIVufs ) | [18:07] |
nubbins` | ^ homemade kimchi on the menu tonite | [18:07] |
trinque | yum! | [18:07] |
asciilifeform | actually i have no idea if flashable. could very well be. but no vendor upgrade has ever been released, nor is there any obvious means of applying one | [18:07] |
nubbins` | nod | [18:07] |
nubbins` | been fermenting on the counter for 6 days | [18:07] |
asciilifeform | (some newer cars can actually be reflashed through the music player, famously.) | [18:07] |
nubbins` | just fried up a test piece; wept | [18:07] |
nubbins` | asciilifeform some synths i have can be reflashed modem-style via audio jack | [18:08] |
nubbins` | update is released as wav file | [18:09] |
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nubbins` | http://pastebin.com/uP8n9kkD | [18:20] |
assbot | g++ -pthread -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -DNOPCH -I/Users/jonkeefe/Downloa - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1DIWY9x ) | [18:20] |
nubbins` | anyone have a suggestion as to where i start figuring out *which* file/directory it can't find? | [18:21] |
nubbins` | everything in prior stmt appears to be present | [18:21] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12200 @ 0.00028483 = 3.4749 BTC [+] | [18:25] |
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jurov | i'd strace it | [18:36] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45530 @ 0.00028152 = 12.8176 BTC [-] {2} | [18:38] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25800 @ 0.00027616 = 7.1249 BTC [-] {2} | [18:40] |
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nubbins` | jurov good idea, nothing useful tho | [18:45] |
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decimation | asciilifeform: I tried to compile an 'open source' app using the osx devel tool once | [18:51] |
decimation | the developer in question had already made a deal with apple to publish the app apparently. I couldn't even compile my own version unsigned for my own personal use | [18:51] |
decimation | Xcode insisted that I required a paid apple developer account before I could consider such a thing, it appears | [18:53] |
nubbins` | o.O | [18:55] |
decimation | now, perhaps I was just unaware of the proper method of 'unsigning' someone else's code, but it wasn't an obvious feature if it existed | [18:55] |
trinque | yeah, it can be done | [18:56] |
nubbins` | is this a mac app or an ios app? | [18:56] |
trinque | or at least years ago when I did this | [18:56] |
decimation | mac app | [18:56] |
nubbins` | ah, haven't ever used xcode for this | [18:56] |
trinque | you have to set your ios device up as one of your dev devices | [18:56] |
decimation | no, it was a mac app | [18:56] |
nubbins` | as you can imagine, ios apps are under almost total lockdown | [18:56] |
trinque | whether this much fuckery should be involved aside, it can be done | [18:56] |
nubbins` | seems kinda weird that some random code won't compile tho. | [18:56] |
trinque | you make your own self-signed cert then flip a setting that allows you to run such things | [18:57] |
decimation | trinque: I did attempt that | [18:57] |
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nubbins` | best batch of kimchi yet, btw | [18:57] |
nubbins` | so goddamn sour | [18:57] |
decimation | at any rate, it does appear that with each release of osx/xcode, apple subtlety changes what is 'allowed', without much explicit explanation | [18:59] |
trinque | decimation: a friend of mine always says it's a matter of time before they remove the terminal entirely | [18:59] |
nubbins` | http://pastebin.com/kdybufC5 | [18:59] |
nubbins` | ^ fwiw | [18:59] |
assbot | 87105/0x2a6df: stat64("/Users/jonkeefe/Downloads/bitcoin-v0_5_3_1/ourlibs/inclu - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/18Po7Kg ) | [18:59] |
decimation | yes, the path is obvious | [18:59] |
nubbins` | ran via "dtruss" | [18:59] |
nubbins` | nothing useful afaict | [18:59] |
decimation | apple could quite easily lock down osx just as hard as it locks down ios | [18:59] |
trinque | decimation: pretty far from their roots these days | [19:00] |
nubbins` | decimation a couple releases ago (maybe 1-2), the default behaviour for applications downloaded by "unknown developers" requires you to right-click,open | [19:00] |
nubbins` | for first run | [19:00] |
decimation | nubbins`: that's still the case | [19:00] |
nubbins` | double-click turns you down | [19:00] |
nubbins` | fwiw it's fairly non-intrusive and can be disabled | [19:00] |
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decimation | right, but apple just wants you to know that it sees what you are doing there... | [19:01] |
nubbins` | :D | [19:01] |
decimation | on the other hand, perhaps apple is just trying to 'enumerate goodness' in its 'forced wot' | [19:01] |
nubbins` | <+trinque> decimation: a friend of mine always says it's a matter of time before they remove the terminal entirely <<< a friend of mine says obummer is a reptilian | [19:01] |
decimation | except apple doesn't really have a wot so much as it has a slave harem | [19:01] |
trinque | nubbins`: heh, I tend to argue the contrary | [19:01] |
trinque | but he has a point | [19:02] |
nubbins` | like, remove Terminal.app from the default install, or remove the ability to run bash? | [19:02] |
nubbins` | or something more nebulous | [19:02] |
nubbins` | like "just remove" | [19:02] |
pete_dushenski | if apple has a slave harem, they win the award for 'dumbest slave harem' | [19:03] |
decimation | pete_dushenski: well, they apparently can charge people for the privilege of signing up | [19:03] |
trinque | nubbins`: remove the ability to interact with anything other than signed cocoa apps | [19:03] |
pete_dushenski | or maybe windowz wins. but w/e | [19:03] |
nubbins` | well, y'know. | [19:03] |
nubbins` | let em. | [19:03] |
nubbins` | it's their hw/sw | [19:03] |
pete_dushenski | decimation: they charge ppl for all the privileges! | [19:04] |
trinque | sure, that was my reaction to the latest win10 signed boot bullshit | [19:04] |
nubbins` | *i* won't buy it, but since when does the market cater to rational actors? | [19:04] |
pete_dushenski | that's how you know it's lvmh territory | [19:04] |
pete_dushenski | nubbins`: not since the state stuck its fingers in | [19:04] |
decimation | as in maker of fancy trinkets for rich folk? | [19:04] |
pete_dushenski | right | [19:05] |
decimation | I recently heard an argument that apple's only recourse to 'grow' its revenue stream is to sell super-luxury goods | [19:05] |
pete_dushenski | nubbins`: which would've been what, 1915 ? | [19:05] |
trinque | decimation: the apple watch gadget etc | [19:05] |
trinque | tv... so on | [19:05] |
pete_dushenski | decimation: new product offerings grow their pie just as well | [19:06] |
decimation | the argument being that even if every 'middle class' person in the world purchased a new apple device they would still only be 'holding steady' | [19:06] |
trinque | I admire the way the company got started; someone needs to do *that* again | [19:06] |
trinque | because now they're the IBM | [19:06] |
pete_dushenski | not necessarily more premium, just... branded | [19:06] |
nubbins` | mildly surprised there's no market for os-free laptops of somewhat rugged construction | [19:06] |
nubbins` | but only ever so mildly | [19:06] |
decimation | which explains the need to sell 10k watches, and cars, bespoke helicopters, etc | [19:06] |
trinque | asciilifeform tells me there are no trustworthy components with which to re-do the garage build, and I don't doubt him | [19:06] |
pete_dushenski | nubbins`: like engineless car market | [19:06] |
pete_dushenski | buy a honda, insert own custom ferrari engine | [19:07] |
pete_dushenski | uh, sure | [19:07] |
decimation | nubbins`: there's the 'toughbook' | [19:07] |
nubbins` | my next laptop will probably be a cheap desktop + chromebook | [19:07] |
decimation | but I think it comes with winblows | [19:07] |
nubbins` | decimation what am i, a cop?! | [19:07] |
decimation | hehe | [19:07] |
nubbins` | dell usually offers one or two linux laptops | [19:07] |
nubbins` | hopelessly outdated and overpriced | [19:07] |
nubbins` | otherwise, your choices are (a) give MS $25 or (b) fuck off | [19:08] |
decimation | my recommendation is you purchase a laptop on the 'coreboot' list & flash your own bios | [19:08] |
trinque | I've seen a system76 in person, seemed like a piece of shit | [19:08] |
pete_dushenski | or buy old thinkpad | [19:08] |
pete_dushenski | which i'll get around to myself at some point | [19:08] |
nubbins` | trinque i researched those | [19:08] |
decimation | be prepared for shitty device support | [19:08] |
nubbins` | i honestly abhor the idea of a plastic laptop | [19:08] |
trinque | pete_dushenski: I'm on a lenovo turd currently, do not recommend | [19:08] |
trinque | thinkpad in name only | [19:08] |
pete_dushenski | mm, ok so pre-2011 or w/e | [19:09] |
trinque | yeah | [19:09] |
pete_dushenski | update ram, new os, go | [19:09] |
nubbins` | haha, i actually have a laptop w/ coreboot: OLPC XO-1. | [19:09] |
trinque | my cellphone gets too close to this machine and the display starts flickering, disk remounts read-only | [19:09] |
decimation | if you want 'cheap, don't care', you could buy a chromebook and reflash | [19:09] |
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nubbins` | my criteria are (a) not plastic body (b) no money given to MS | [19:10] |
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pete_dushenski | several ways to skin cat, hard to argue that any involve apple | [19:10] |
decimation | well, the 'plastic body' fails almost everything | [19:11] |
nubbins` | ^ | [19:11] |
decimation | macbookpro or toughbook | [19:11] |
nubbins` | mbp = soldered ram, glued battery | [19:11] |
pete_dushenski | only newest ones | [19:11] |
nubbins` | too troo | [19:11] |
nubbins` | used laptops = ehhhh | [19:11] |
pete_dushenski | glued battery wasn't there 3 years ago | [19:11] |
nubbins` | who knows how they were treated | [19:11] |
pete_dushenski | not sure about ram | [19:11] |
decimation | yeah, you could buy an old g4 macbook pro | [19:12] |
pete_dushenski | 17" screen! | [19:12] |
nubbins` | maybe i'll just try stocking up on a full set of spare parts for this late-2008 macbook | [19:12] |
decimation | replace battery, replace hdd | [19:12] |
nubbins` | prolly no easier | [19:12] |
pete_dushenski | maybe no easier, but that's not the point, the point is what's saner | [19:13] |
nubbins` | this is actually the longest i've ever used the same laptop | [19:13] |
pete_dushenski | well then why stop | [19:13] |
nubbins` | planning for the future, yo | [19:13] |
pete_dushenski | dollars to donuts a newer one won't last 7 years | [19:13] |
nubbins` | one day this will die | [19:13] |
pete_dushenski | but unless it's too slow for your needs, like decimation said, a new hdd or battery is all you'll likely need | [19:14] |
pete_dushenski | what, maybe fan | [19:14] |
nubbins` | got a new battery and upgraded to 8gb ram a couple months ago | [19:15] |
nubbins` | breathed some new life into it | [19:15] |
pete_dushenski | next: ssd | [19:15] |
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decimation | they might not have sata drives, you might need an ata ssd | [19:16] |
nubbins` | ssd i can do w/o | [19:17] |
* | nubbins` doesn't do much disk thrashing | [19:17] |
decimation | the issue is that it might suck if you don't run osx | [19:17] |
nubbins` | that's what my iphone said when i walked into best buy | [19:18] |
nubbins` | 8) | [19:18] |
PeterL | so I applied for grad school today | [19:22] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24600 @ 0.00027425 = 6.7466 BTC [+] | [19:22] |
pete_dushenski | PeterL: what program ? | [19:23] |
PeterL | Central Mich chemistry | [19:24] |
pete_dushenski | nice. gl! | [19:24] |
PeterL | thanks | [19:24] |
PeterL | it's the only place close enough to be commutable | [19:25] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42600 @ 0.0002721 = 11.5915 BTC [-] {2} | [19:26] |
nubbins` | PeterL congrats/condolences | [19:29] |
PeterL | lol | [19:29] |
PeterL | asciilifeform:the same folks who were paying the parasites (i will not call them publishers, they withhold only - performing not a single one of the traditional functions of a publishing house save the physical printing) - will continue to pay. << what is this "physical printing"? everything is online now | [19:32] |
PeterL | btw, I'm a couple days behind in the logs | [19:32] |
decimation | PeterL: it doesn't matter that it's all online | [19:33] |
nubbins` | facepalm | [19:33] |
decimation | in fact, it makes things worse, because they can positively identify to whom 'reading privileges' belong | [19:33] |
nubbins` | http://imgur.com/oa5lj23 | [19:34] |
assbot | Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1HgBDli ) | [19:34] |
PeterL | decimation: in fact, it makes things worse, because they can positively identify to whom 'reading privileges' belong << people share files, right? | [19:34] |
decimation | sure, let me know if you find an open repo with all academic pubs present, updated regularly | [19:35] |
PeterL | asciilifeform:and to the extent it isn't a problem, it is solely because academia is mostly dead as a going concern << and here I go trying to get back into it :( | [19:36] |
decimation | PeterL: it's not a bad idea if you can scam someone into paying for it | [19:36] |
nubbins` | fwiw "everything is online now" people generally miss out on a broad spectrum of opportunity | [19:37] |
asciilifeform | fact is, i can go and read print materials at uni library | [19:40] |
asciilifeform | online ones - no. | [19:40] |
PeterL | no university password? | [19:40] |
asciilifeform | nope | [19:40] |
asciilifeform | and i pay actual money just to be permitted in the library | [19:40] |
nubbins` | even if you could read 'em online, look what happens if you read them too fast | [19:41] |
asciilifeform | there has been a very sharp decline in the past few yrs in what i am able to access at the library | [19:41] |
asciilifeform | because even the things still issued in print - many of the print subscriptions at this place were allowed to lapse | [19:42] |
nubbins` | ^ | [19:42] |
asciilifeform | because 'anyone who's anyone can read on www' or the like. | [19:42] |
asciilifeform | and no, none of it is on warez of any kind | [19:42] |
asciilifeform | (who would put it there, and why?) | [19:42] |
nubbins` | ^ | [19:42] |
PeterL | get an undergrad girlfriend who can print it for you? | [19:43] |
nubbins` | "everything is online" is a fine premise for commodity data | [19:43] |
nubbins` | rare data, not so much | [19:43] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: someone suggested bribery & shills before. it doesn't work, because my use pattern is 'grep at 3am when moon is full' | [19:43] |
asciilifeform | rather than 'fetch me XXXXX' | [19:43] |
nubbins` | i've downloaded bootlegged concerts, since lost, that i will never, ever, ever find again | [19:43] |
PeterL | you grep the dead trees? | [19:43] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: approximately. | [19:44] |
asciilifeform | speaking of the online stuff, really | [19:44] |
asciilifeform | i browse. | [19:44] |
asciilifeform | most of the time when i go to that library it isn't even for a specific rational purpose | [19:44] |
asciilifeform | but just to massage brain | [19:45] |
asciilifeform | this is easy with print, difficult with www, but absolutely impossible with www that someone else is cranking for you | [19:45] |
PeterL | browse through google scholar? | [19:46] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: browsing for me implies instant access to full text | [19:46] |
PeterL | good point | [19:46] |
asciilifeform | not idiot 'winamp playlists' of titles | [19:46] |
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asciilifeform | nubbins`: mildly surprised there's no market for os-free laptops of somewhat rugged construction << iirc the term of art is 'lemon market' | [19:51] |
decimation | it's not like several day delay involved in informing whatever patsy to do what is needed is great for your train of thought | [19:52] |
asciilifeform | !s ooda loop | [19:52] |
assbot | 2 results for 'ooda loop' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=ooda+loop | [19:52] |
decimation | and then if patsy discovers the volume/paper/whatever wasn't useful, how do you think they will react? | [19:53] |
asciilifeform | the whole point of a library, originally (ancient and medieval worlds) was so you don't have to write to phriend across the sea 'please send me work xxxxx' and get it two years later when you forget what it was even for | [19:53] |
decimation | ie a cache | [19:53] |
asciilifeform | to 'shorten the ooda loop' | [19:53] |
decimation | but that was when only people who knew wtf they were doing could even read | [19:54] |
asciilifeform | today 'library' could be anywhere with a net connection - but isn't | [19:54] |
asciilifeform | and if it takes ww3 to eliminate the reasons for this - then i am enthusiastically in favour of ww3. | [19:55] |
decimation | asciilifeform: publishers/authors have 'come to expect' royalties | [19:55] |
PeterL | new #B-A need: print off all the articles and store in a library | [19:55] |
trinque | ahem... deedbot- | [19:55] |
decimation | online repo is fine, as long as it is properly organized and indexed | [19:56] |
asciilifeform | decimation: the authors virtually never see any positive cashflow | [19:56] |
nubbins` | PeterL dat cutoff of comments | [19:56] |
decimation | note that attempting to accomplish this task was why whats his face hung himself | [19:56] |
asciilifeform | i'm not even satisfied that he did it himself | [19:56] |
asciilifeform | but yes | [19:56] |
decimation | heh | [19:56] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9035 @ 0.00027384 = 2.4741 BTC [+] | [19:56] |
PeterL | nubbins`: what cutoff? | [19:57] |
nubbins` | waitnow. what articles? | [19:57] |
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PeterL | all the articles asciilifeform wants to read later | [19:58] |
asciilifeform | most of what i read is '70s-'90s and a good chunk of it is book | [19:59] |
PeterL | would deedbot be a suitable place to publish scientific research? | [19:59] |
decimation | sure, or at least a hash/pointer to the same | [19:59] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: so it isn't merely or even primarily about recent publications | [20:00] |
nubbins` | o | [20:00] |
asciilifeform | but this is a case of 'the spittoon' | [20:00] |
asciilifeform | !s spittoon | [20:00] |
assbot | 21 results for 'spittoon' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=spittoon | [20:00] |
trinque | PeterL: depends on licensing I guess; I don't have the bankroll to get into any copyright battles for anyone | [20:00] |
trinque | nor the interest | [20:00] |
asciilifeform | the frustration of the activity is directly proportional to how often i end up 'following a dead link' - that is, trying to access something - anything - referred to in any work, and finding out that it isn't in the collection or i'm not cleared for it | [20:00] |
asciilifeform | and generally the answer is 'constantly' | [20:01] |
decimation | ^ me too | [20:03] |
asciilifeform | since mircea_popescu is out, i will have to fill in for him and point out that yes, 99.9999% percent of the material is crud | [20:03] |
asciilifeform | but this changes nothing | [20:03] |
decimation | and I even pay for an IEEE membership w/societies (mostly IEEE papers) | [20:03] |
asciilifeform | we don't have a mechanism for producing the good stuff separately, yet. | [20:04] |
asciilifeform | to anyone who ever wondered about what the net would look like if it were controlled by publishers, rather than telecoms: it would look like the academia web. | [20:05] |
trinque | part of the interest for me working on deedbot- was to see how hard the next thing would be, publishing magnet link hashes, dht keys, something like that | [20:05] |
trinque | that idea is better off being a tool you run against your own bitcoind | [20:06] |
asciilifeform | trinque: warez only really works for popular things | [20:06] |
trinque | asciilifeform: yeh, people here would have to run it | [20:06] |
trinque | *seed | [20:06] |
asciilifeform | for instance, go find peter kogge's 'symbolic computers' on warez. | [20:07] |
asciilifeform | it isn't there | [20:08] |
asciilifeform | and if it is ever there, it will almost certainly be because i will have found the time to scan it & post it. | [20:08] |
trinque | asciilifeform: I have long wanted a system where member nodes can all publish wads 'o gpg stuff, peers don't know the contents of the wad, give each-other redundancy | [20:09] |
decimation | asciilifeform: https://books.google.com/books?id=ruhQAAAAMAAJ < this? | [20:09] |
assbot | The Architecture of Symbolic Computers - Peter M. Kogge - Google Boeken ... ( http://bit.ly/1HiVST5 ) | [20:09] |
trinque | there are a few attempts at doing it with a shitty alt-coin | [20:09] |
PeterL | trinque: isn't that what bitmessage is supposed to do? | [20:10] |
trinque | PeterL: in the ballpark; there's storj, also ballpark | [20:11] |
asciilifeform | decimation: yes, it | [20:11] |
trinque | needs to be built on bitcoin | [20:11] |
decimation | the g00g has it in their repo... | [20:11] |
PeterL | why need to build on bitcoin? | [20:11] |
asciilifeform | decimation: they have almost everything | [20:11] |
decimation | aye | [20:11] |
asciilifeform | decimation: but fat lot of good it does anyone else | [20:11] |
asciilifeform | it's as uninteresting as the fact that the author might still have it on some ancient 8mm tape | [20:12] |
trinque | google, one of the things which will survive the fall... | [20:12] |
asciilifeform | trinque: see their usenet archive to learn what happens to material that the 1990s-birthdayed morons don't give a damn about | [20:12] |
decimation | perhaps one day google will be 'snowdened' | [20:13] |
asciilifeform | go steal 10000tB. | [20:14] |
decimation | heh yeah | [20:14] |
decimation | something tells me google security would notice the racks going out the door | [20:14] |
asciilifeform | the only way it could really change hands is physical conquest of entire continent | [20:14] |
asciilifeform | in the course of which most of it would be destroyed | [20:14] |
asciilifeform | since mircea_popescu is out, i will fill in for him and observe that library of alexandria burning is no loss, when cockroaches evolve and replace man they will rediscover everything. | [20:15] |
asciilifeform | i kinda wish i could think myself into the mindset of 'immortal olympian' that way | [20:16] |
asciilifeform | but i happen to live here. and to me the availability of this or that piece of dead tree - matters. | [20:16] |
decimation | agreed, me too | [20:17] |
decimation | asciilifeform: how do you 'scan and post' a book? I just fujitsu scansnap | [20:17] |
decimation | s/just/use | [20:17] |
asciilifeform | decimation: tripod | [20:18] |
asciilifeform | like the old spies with their 'minox' cams. | [20:18] |
decimation | do you have a collection of custom scripts to turn a pile of images into a pdf/djvu | [20:19] |
trinque | asciilifeform: is the situation that google bought deja news then didn't put up the whole archive? | [20:19] |
trinque | I'm not old enough to have experienced a usenet golden age | [20:20] |
PeterL | I used a couple "google groups" for a while, before I moved up to the bitcoinTalk forum | [20:21] |
decimation | trinque: in the olden days it was expected your local isp would provide a usenet server and collect archives | [20:21] |
asciilifeform | trinque: nope | [20:21] |
asciilifeform | trinque: it's in there, as far as i can tell, but quietly stopped being searchable a year or so ago | [20:22] |
trinque | ah | [20:22] |
asciilifeform | and before that, they glommed it into their idiot 'google groups' thing | [20:22] |
decimation | 'deja news' was kinda like the original 'stack overflow' in terms of its usefulness to troubleshooting common computer issues | [20:22] |
asciilifeform | then they stopped making them searchable separately | [20:22] |
asciilifeform | then - at all | [20:22] |
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asciilifeform | i still can't tell if it was mere neglect, or shitgnomery, or specifically the folks who posted silly things on usenet in the '80-'90s are trying to run for political office, or what. | [20:23] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45800 @ 0.00027377 = 12.5387 BTC [-] {2} | [20:23] |
trinque | quip above about the fall was that I'm sure inside google it's easy to access all this information, regardless of what levers the external surface has | [20:23] |
decimation | I doubt 99% of folks inside google even know/care | [20:24] |
asciilifeform | trinque: they bought up the dejanews optical disks. and i'm be rather surprised if they didn't still have them. | [20:24] |
trinque | decimation: probably doesn't matter | [20:24] |
decimation | the assumption of competence when it comes to a big bureaucracy is generally a poor one | [20:24] |
asciilifeform | say what you like about library of alexandria, but usenet '85-'2000 was home to virtually all of the technically competent folks who exist today. | [20:25] |
trinque | asciilifeform's two govts observation about the US I think applies to Googles as well | [20:25] |
trinque | who gives a fuck who's working on gmail | [20:25] |
trinque | the company has more information than arguably any other, and is building a robot army | [20:25] |
trinque | haha | [20:25] |
trinque | they'll be powerful for a long time. | [20:26] |
decimation | I don't buy that there is a meta-google | [20:26] |
trinque | I don't buy that such overtly, cynically powerful entities have not a single functioning brain within | [20:26] |
decimation | the same could be said about the us in general | [20:27] |
trinque | "don't be evil" has to be the cheesiest wink at the camera of all time | [20:27] |
decimation | I like moldbug's theory: those 'with a brain' are generally engaged in spending all their time battling each other | [20:27] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 23544 @ 0.00027425 = 6.4569 BTC [+] {2} | [20:28] |
PeterL | I wonder if google is cacheing the info on servers outside the US, so they could outlast a US collapse? | [20:28] |
trinque | lockheed martins and googles are what I expect to remain in the ashes | [20:30] |
trinque | which ones are actually prepared for the collapse, we'll find out then | [20:31] |
trinque | but to think none of them are, that's naive | [20:31] |
trinque | day two, and we're back to clubs and wearing skins | [20:31] |
jurov | if the collapse will look like anything in the ostbloc | [20:31] |
jurov | all gear will be gon to scrap metal or so | [20:32] |
asciilifeform | the 'fine things of life' invariably are destroyed in a proper collapse. | [20:32] |
asciilifeform | where is soviet physics? mathematics ? | [20:32] |
pete_dushenski | like... twin studies | [20:33] |
trinque | asciilifeform: silos are still there, as far as I know | [20:33] |
asciilifeform | the folks not dead of drink have been driving cabs in nyc for so long as to have put their generative years firmly behind. | [20:33] |
asciilifeform | trinque: not speaking of the rusty rockets at all | [20:33] |
pete_dushenski | unless someone can point me to mengele's published paper | [20:33] |
trinque | asciilifeform: I am | [20:33] |
pete_dushenski | paper* | [20:33] |
trinque | rustry drones maybe | [20:33] |
trinque | *rusty | [20:33] |
asciilifeform | but of the absolutely first-rate, never-equalled academic work | [20:33] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: wrong twin studies | [20:34] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: speaking here of the longitudinal studies of adopted children in usa | [20:34] |
asciilifeform | (re: twin studies from last night's thread.) | [20:34] |
pete_dushenski | aic | [20:34] |
asciilifeform | l0l re: pete_dushenski immediately thinking of mengele's twins | [20:34] |
pete_dushenski | also interesting, i suppose | [20:35] |
pete_dushenski | haha what... i was trying to hunt down some nazi scientific papers last night | [20:35] |
pete_dushenski | in english, found nothing | [20:35] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: all the good stuff was taken to usa and is, for the most part, still secret | [20:35] |
asciilifeform | (not because it included superweapons but to conceal the amount of u.s.-nazi cooperation from day one) | [20:36] |
pete_dushenski | i'm generally curious about the merits of their decade and change of research | [20:36] |
pete_dushenski | asciilifeform: ibm, i know of | [20:36] |
asciilifeform | not about ibm | [20:36] |
pete_dushenski | what other cooperation do you refer to ? | [20:36] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: chemical industry, for instance | [20:36] |
pete_dushenski | sarin ? | [20:37] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: plus the post-war rescue of virtually all of the weirdos (most famously von braun but many others) | [20:37] |
pete_dushenski | my digging was more concentration camp focused, but i guess you bring up a good point that there's was a huge breadth of inquiry at the time | [20:38] |
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pete_dushenski | chemical weapons, v2 rockets, many things i have still to learn of | [20:38] |
pete_dushenski | *there was | [20:39] |
asciilifeform | unfortunately pete_dushenski is right about the unavailability in english of most of the interesting material. | [20:40] |
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pete_dushenski | hm well alexandria may have been replaceable/rediscoverable, but if nazi work goes down with usg, how long do we wait ? | [20:40] |
pete_dushenski | if anyone can point me towards interesting work in german, i'll translate it for cripes sake | [20:40] |
pete_dushenski | unrelated: http://www.contravex.com/2015/03/21/cool-hand-luke/ << asciilifeform did i get the right grigorenko ?? | [20:41] |
assbot | Cool Hand Luke. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bk0oZu ) | [20:41] |
* | asciilifeform is not convinced that there was anything interesting in 'nazi academia' that we aren't already using in consumer tech (german chemical work, mostly, manufacturing techniques) | [20:41] |
decimation | pete_dushenski: sprechen Sie Deutsch? | [20:41] |
pete_dushenski | asciilifeform: how about medicine ? | [20:42] |
pete_dushenski | decimation: nein... | [20:42] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: him. he has a book, about his life and how he was tormented in punitive psych hospitals | [20:42] |
decimation | asciilifeform: I know that the german chemical industry was also generally transported to usg | [20:42] |
pete_dushenski | in german, i have hello, goodbye, sorry, counting to 10, and a few other random words | [20:42] |
pete_dushenski | about on par with my hebrew | [20:42] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: you would do just as well to learn ru | [20:43] |
pete_dushenski | i can see it | [20:43] |
pete_dushenski | though if i could add any 4th language, just for reading comprehension even, it'd be german | [20:44] |
trinque | pete_dushenski: ich lerne deutsche mit duolingo | [20:44] |
trinque | barely toddler level, but the app's fun | [20:44] |
decimation | unfortunately german isn't as useful today because germany has been well-anglicized | [20:44] |
pete_dushenski | trinque: haha i actually did a few lessons on there ! back when i started 'sabbatical' | [20:45] |
pete_dushenski | on the spendier side, there's always rosetta stone, but having someone to speak to other than my mother would be nice | [20:46] |
pete_dushenski | i really don't know any other german speakers with whom to converse | [20:46] |
pete_dushenski | but as i said earlier, reading comprehension would be the most valuable for my purposes | [20:46] |
pete_dushenski | i mean, causes ;) | [20:46] |
asciilifeform | pete_dushenski: the quoted log in your post reads with great difficulty because of the choice of snips | [20:47] |
pete_dushenski | hm. let me try again | [20:47] |
pete_dushenski | one of the trickier conversations to break up, i admit, but it's a little better now. | [20:52] |
pete_dushenski | http://www.contravex.com/2015/03/14/the-world-is-fundamentally-hostile/#comment-13298 << heh. 'what makes me superior ?' | [20:53] |
assbot | The world is fundamentally hostile. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/19He3nK ) | [20:53] |
pete_dushenski | good question, really. | [20:53] |
pete_dushenski | i guess teh jooz can always be blamed, right ? | [20:54] |
pete_dushenski | so qntra business cards... i can dig it. | [20:57] |
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felipelalli | thestringpuller: but "the repayment rate" does not depends (also) on the investor? He can choose the investments he wants to make. I was being lucky, or I made good choices. | [21:18] |
felipelalli | vorandrew: thanks for explain your point. | [21:18] |
felipelalli | mircea_popescu: "felipelalli it actually already works like that." << what exactly "works like that"? Sorry, I couldn't link it. --- And thanks for the links, I'll read it. | [21:18] |
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felipelalli | thestringpuller: but "the repayment rate" does not depends (also) on the investor? He can choose the investments he wants to make. I was being lucky, or I made good choices. | [21:40] |
felipelalli | mircea_popescu: "felipelalli it actually already works like that." << what exactly "works like that"? Sorry, I couldn't link it. --- And thanks for the links, I'll read it. | [21:40] |
felipelalli | vorandrew: you said "you repay all year just to get max rating" << no, no. The service does not work like that. Actually, if you get too many loans your score can decrease. The score is very bad implemented / executed yet, but it is not SO bad like that. And 660K BTC? Well, they played in TOTAL until today 44K BTC. Total. I like the idea of P2P lending: it is not the most secure investment ever but at least is fun play choosing the | [21:40] |
felipelalli | right lists, and the right rates. I really want to understand better why you guys dislike it so much. In my country the interest rates are very high. In my bank, for example, I can get a loan with 7% per month MIN! APR 125% and in BTCJam I made some tests and I could get my first loand with 3% per month (42% APR) and then the second 2.8% (39% APR). The loan is so fucking high in bank that I can say like mircea_popescu said: "we are | [21:40] |
felipelalli | like a village without bank". You guys forget that I live in Brazil, shit of country. | [21:40] |
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Pierre_Rochard | You guys forget that I live in Brazil, shit of country. << Is btcjam really a better borrowing option than, say, https://www.itau.com.br/creditos-financiamentos/credito/ | [21:57] |
assbot | Itaú - créditos e financiamentos - crédito ... ( http://bit.ly/19HiBud ) | [21:57] |
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felipelalli | Pierre_Rochard: yes. Itaú is my bank. | [22:09] |
felipelalli | Itaú normal interest rate: 7% PER MONTH. My interest rate in Itaú (because I am an old client): 4.8%. BTCJam: 2.8%. It makes a huge difference when you calculate the compound interest per year. | [22:10] |
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felipelalli | But now, BTCJam simply eliminated the free market where the user could choose its own interest rate (and let it free to investors fund or not), and they automagically calculate the interest rate. With this new rule, I can get by 3.5% per month. That is not a huge problem for me, actually, I was using this more like a test. But they simply buried the "service". Even if it was a zombie's forehead shot. | [22:13] |
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PeterL | asciilifeform: on the topic of browsing lit, have you looked at open access journals like http://www.hindawi.com/ ? | [22:15] |
assbot | Hindawi Publishing Corporation ... ( http://bit.ly/19HjHWM ) | [22:15] |
felipelalli | I'm sure I could set 2% rate or less and my list would be fund, because my reputation in Brazilian bitcoin community is very good. But now I have no choice rather than get 3.5% calculated like magic by them. That's why I was disgusted. I would write an article about that, but after talking with you guys in this channel I was unmotivated. | [22:16] |
felipelalli | I had never thought that they did not deserve even taken seriously, but it seems to make sense. | [22:18] |
felipelalli | PeterL: what is the rate per month you can get where you live? I heard it is much less than here. | [22:18] |
felipelalli | PeterL: sorry, the question was to Pierre_Rochard | [22:19] |
Pierre_Rochard | Pierre_Rochard: I think the worst credit cards run for 2% per month, 30 yr fixed rate mortgage with good credit will cost you 0.33% per month | [22:22] |
Pierre_Rochard | ehrm felipelalli | [22:22] |
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ben_vulpes | felipelalli: aha, that's why all the butthurt | [22:26] |
felipelalli | ben_vulpes: yes! :) | [22:26] |
felipelalli | ben_vulpes: I thought it was a global problem, but I learned here that: 1) there are rich guys (you guys) that really don't care about it. 2) there are guys with rich friends :) 3) your interest rate are ridiculous cheap. BTCJam really don't solve anything to you. | [22:30] |
felipelalli | and, of course, 4) there are better investments than BTCJam to you. | [22:31] |
ben_vulpes | aside one can't actually invest in BTCJam as such. | [22:31] |
felipelalli | They could invest on me there. I was a very secure investment, e.g. | [22:32] |
felipelalli | So, this: http://blog.btcjam.com/2015/03/19/btcjam-introduces-risk-based-pricing-interest-rates-set-automatically-by-credit-score/ makes me "cry". I ran to qntra.net to read something about that and for my surprise I didn't find anything. But now I understand why. Not fully yet, but I can at least understand your point of view. | [22:35] |
assbot | BTCJam Introduces Risk Based Pricing (Interest Rates Set Automatically by Credit Score) | BTCJam Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hhcebi ) | [22:35] |
PeterL | you might be a fine investment, but btcjam is not | [22:35] |
felipelalli | But I could easily be found there. And I have personal friends there, that I know it is a secure investment. That's why I only had profit, very few lost. | [22:37] |
felipelalli | Actually it was easy to find red flags in the lists. Unfortunately their system does not help that much, but if you are smart, you can see the clues. | [22:38] |
PeterL | see, you had wot ouside of btcjam that made those investments worthwhile | [22:38] |
felipelalli | Yes! PeterL Exactly. | [22:38] |
felipelalli | They were just like a tool to make easy contact 30 friends at the same time, and make it in 5 min. (actually in this 30 friends there were friends of friends, like level 2 in WoT)) | [22:39] |
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felipelalli | And it makes more impersonal and passive. Instead to make a spam asking for money to your family and friends (active and personal), you can just publish the list (passive and impersonal) and anyone can invest if they want, or just ignore. Like 5 people I know personally invest their first 30% and the rest was "friends of friends". It just worked to me because I had a good "outside WoT". | [22:43] |
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ben_vulpes | a good scammatron has totally legitimate uses and users. | [22:47] |
ben_vulpes | well | [22:47] |
ben_vulpes | one breed of good scammatrons. | [22:47] |
felipelalli | LOL | [22:47] |
PeterL | it is easier for scammers to hide if there are legitamate users around them | [22:48] |
felipelalli | PeterL: ugly truth. | [22:49] |
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danielpbarron | felipelalli, get your friends in here | [22:54] |
danielpbarron | no reason you guys have to stop lending at your prefered rates | [22:55] |
PeterL | do the speak english? | [22:55] |
felipelalli | PeterL: no, Portuguese. | [22:55] |
felipelalli | danielpbarron: I'm trying to convince some of them to use OTC system at least. | [22:56] |
ben_vulpes | at the very least they need to be in the WoT | [22:56] |
ben_vulpes | for their own continued health. | [22:56] |
felipelalli | But did you understand my point of make it automatic, fast, impersonal and passive? It is different. | [22:56] |
scoopbot | New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/03/users-of-evo-marketplace-btc-e-are-like-two-peas-in-a-pod/ | [22:56] |
ben_vulpes | all of the above is why btcjam is a scam from the -assets perspective. | [22:57] |
ben_vulpes | trust cannot be automatic, is built slowly, must be on personal terms, and contracts are always active. | [22:57] |
ben_vulpes | this "passive investment" routine is a holdover from the fiat days. | [22:57] |
ben_vulpes | of necessity, it must die. | [22:57] |
felipelalli | I am not saying the trust should be automatic or fast. But the funding process. | [22:58] |
PeterL | but you can passively invest with a broker who is in the WoT | [22:58] |
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felipelalli | Like jurov ? | [22:58] |
ben_vulpes | funding is as fast as a confirmation. | [22:58] |
ben_vulpes | PeterL: who's taking investment? | [22:58] |
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PeterL | I was thinking like Jurov, yes | [22:59] |
felipelalli | He said something like that to me one day. | [22:59] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: have you looked at open access journals like http://www.hindawi.com/ ? << even if, through divine intervention, everyone suddenly began to publish there (they won't) - this doesn't solve the 20th century | [23:00] |
assbot | Hindawi Publishing Corporation ... ( http://bit.ly/1HhgTdo ) | [23:00] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: where most of the things i take an interest in actually happened. | [23:00] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: what do you mean by 'passive investment' ? | [23:01] |
PeterL | you just need a couple slave girls with some cameras to tour all teh libraries | [23:01] |
asciilifeform | PeterL: see 'ooda loop' discussion | [23:01] |
ben_vulpes | asciilifeform: something like MPIF | [23:02] |
asciilifeform | even aside from the ooda loop, the #1 thing in a library is serendipity | [23:02] |
felipelalli | Let me ask one think out of the context: isn't gpg contract useless without some "proof of existence", published in Blockchain, e.g.? | [23:04] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: what would be an example of an active investment ? | [23:04] |
PeterL | MPIF is sorely lacking in places to put its money | [23:04] |
ben_vulpes | asciilifeform: allocating capital oneself between MPOE/BBET/BTC | [23:04] |
ben_vulpes | am i misusing these terms? | [23:04] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: so is your hypothesis that allocating btc between investments is so difficult and/or uninteresting that no one can do it for you for a fee and there still be anything left over to work with ? | [23:05] |
* | asciilifeform is eminently unqualified to comment on the hypothesis itself, if this is it | [23:06] |
ben_vulpes | no, my hypothesis is that the current us style of "just stick the money in the market and get returns" is slated for the guillotine under the new regime. | [23:06] |
mircea_popescu | ^ | [23:07] |
PeterL | You don't see a niche for a mutual fund covering MPEx? | [23:07] |
ben_vulpes | in practice, i'm unaware of anyone offering to manage btc between MPOE/BBET/NSA/BTC for a fee. | [23:07] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: i was thinking about a hypothetical larger world where there are many worthwhile things | [23:08] |
ben_vulpes | some day, ideally. | [23:08] |
asciilifeform | say, S.USFAT | [23:08] |
PeterL | once a few more stocks show up on the exchange | [23:08] |
asciilifeform | (rendering various organisms for soap, a growth industry in the near future) | [23:09] |
mod6 | :D | [23:09] |
PeterL | maybe I could run that? pretty simple chemical reaction, really | [23:09] |
asciilifeform | http://cryptome.org/2015/03/google-adsense-spying.htm << mega-l0l | [23:09] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1HhiMqr ) | [23:09] |
mircea_popescu | what's usfat ? | [23:10] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: u.s. fat. | [23:10] |
mircea_popescu | lol | [23:10] |
PeterL | organisms, like tilapia? http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jchem/2015/265160/ | [23:10] |
assbot | Characterization of the Fatty Acids Present in Wastewaters from Production of Biodiesel Tilapia ... ( http://bit.ly/1HhiYpB ) | [23:10] |
asciilifeform | no, like homo redditicus | [23:10] |
mircea_popescu | i know a girl that makes soaps and stuff. she wouldn't touch the coarse stuff. | [23:11] |
mircea_popescu | contrary to what they claim in fight club, best fat base is like, various nut oils etc. | [23:11] |
asciilifeform | then diesel. | [23:11] |
mircea_popescu | maybe. | [23:12] |
* | asciilifeform firmly convinced that there are no entirely useless things in this world | [23:12] |
mircea_popescu | oil at 45 a barrel tho... | [23:12] |
asciilifeform | not even redditors | [23:12] |
ben_vulpes | by the time the corpses are available, they'll have scavenged their own fat prior to dying. | [23:12] |
mircea_popescu | how about sitching footballs ? | [23:12] |
ben_vulpes | you've seen the auschwitz photos... | [23:12] |
asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: there is a hypothesis that this will not happen this time around. because of sudden release of fat-soluble poisons | [23:13] |
asciilifeform | that weren't there in '40s | [23:13] |
ben_vulpes | oh yeah? | [23:13] |
ben_vulpes | i'm unfamiliar with this hypothesis | [23:13] |
asciilifeform | aha. has not been tested in practice, afaik | [23:13] |
asciilifeform | and i forget who suggested it to me | [23:13] |
ben_vulpes | what's the gist, though | [23:13] |
ben_vulpes | mustard gas...again? | [23:13] |
asciilifeform | the gist is that folks will croak long before they turn auschwitz-thin | [23:13] |
asciilifeform | on account of various strange in their american diet | [23:14] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform that's exactly it. american fat is more like, chemdump | [23:14] |
mircea_popescu | everything the liver culdn't cope with, got stored on the thighs | [23:14] |
mircea_popescu | and yes it has been tested in practice. | [23:14] |
ben_vulpes | blee | [23:14] |
mircea_popescu | by me. on actual live womenz. | [23:14] |
asciilifeform | and malnutrition turns the organism uniquely underequipped to deal with the released crud. | [23:15] |
PeterL | so we need to render and extract the usians before making them into soap | [23:15] |
mircea_popescu | not even malnutrition. simple sane diet will make the woman sick, anemic, the works. | [23:15] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: what happens, roughly ? | [23:15] |
ben_vulpes | an exercise in slimming down a rubenesque babe lead to...liver prazlems? | [23:15] |
asciilifeform | aha | [23:15] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform all the classical symptoms of light poisoning. | [23:15] |
ben_vulpes | mircea_popescu: what was diet prior? | [23:16] |
mircea_popescu | "us food" | [23:16] |
PeterL | us "food" | [23:16] |
mircea_popescu | also. | [23:16] |
ben_vulpes | "us" "food" | [23:16] |
ben_vulpes | (for symmetry) | [23:16] |
felipelalli | "us" food | [23:16] |
asciilifeform | 'eat recycled food!' (TM) | [23:16] |
mircea_popescu | "us "food"" technically. first set because answer to q, 2nd set because well... | [23:17] |
ben_vulpes | heh. | [23:17] |
mircea_popescu | but you can readily notice the pure chemical osmotic source of "weight gain" when the woman eats 50% more calories and loses weight. | [23:17] |
ben_vulpes | body building fat reserves to park toxic crap in? | [23:18] |
mircea_popescu | in general, you gotta overfeed to lose weight. because the only way the body is even touching some of that stuff is if the liver is full of all sorts of micronutrients to render it with | [23:18] |
mircea_popescu | yup | [23:18] |
ben_vulpes | what are the limiting reactants? | [23:19] |
mircea_popescu | then after a year or two as the body re-learns to associate food with micronutrients - all sorts of urges, as it approaches various layers of problems | [23:19] |
asciilifeform | almost sounds like the '80s 'chelation' theory | [23:19] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform i honestly think it's exactly accurate. | [23:19] |
* | asciilifeform suspected but did not know | [23:19] |
mircea_popescu | ben_vulpes i dunno dood. milk's a big thing. various fats, various vegetals. | [23:19] |
PeterL | I'm guessing colorful vegtables help? | [23:20] |
mircea_popescu | one chick went through a chickpea phase where she ate > 100 cans over about a year. half of it within the first season. | [23:20] |
mircea_popescu | "what do you want to eat today ?" "chickpeas" | [23:20] |
* | asciilifeform looks for al schwartz's table of plant toxins; can't find at the moment, but recalls that chickpeas were near the top for something or other | [23:21] |
mircea_popescu | i think it was either a protein or fat that was needed for god knows what. because phase passed. | [23:22] |
mircea_popescu | sadly i don't have the patience or the tools to actually get into the microchemistry of it | [23:22] |
asciilifeform | ;;google lathyrism | [23:22] |
gribble | Lathyrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: |
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asciilifeform | hm not chickpeas | [23:22] |
mircea_popescu | im 100% sure this is where all the "Fad diet" stuff comes from too. | [23:23] |
mircea_popescu | people still stuck in the soup get at the margins various such desperate cries from body. | [23:23] |
mircea_popescu | some make it through | [23:23] |
mircea_popescu | hence the idiocy of "eat nothing else but ...." | [23:24] |
mircea_popescu | really it should be "leave the states and eat ... to your fill". | [23:24] |
mircea_popescu | but o may gawd, leaving THE COUNTRY, unthinkable. | [23:24] |
ben_vulpes | STEAK | [23:24] |
ben_vulpes | VINO | [23:24] |
mircea_popescu | i have no experience with men. | [23:24] |
* | asciilifeform wonders if anyone ever polled, who would leave if could | [23:24] |
asciilifeform | or whether such a thing even makes sense | [23:24] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform just sayin', doesn't occur to them. | [23:25] |
asciilifeform | doesn't occur !?! | [23:25] |
ben_vulpes | nope. | [23:25] |
asciilifeform | how many folks in usa went on an airplane even once? did it not occur to not buy return ticket? | [23:25] |
asciilifeform | even as thought experiment | [23:25] |
PeterL | this is the best country evar, why would I leave? | [23:25] |
ben_vulpes | "but muh jerb" | [23:25] |
mircea_popescu | PeterL it has its disadvantages. | [23:26] |
asciilifeform | 'Kazakhstan! greatest country in the world! all other countrys are run by little girls...' (tm) | [23:26] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform the problem with jurisdictions discussed recentlier is deeper than it seems. plenty of usians do not think other places are "real places". | [23:26] |
PeterL | plus, most of them would say they *could* leave, if they wanted to | [23:26] |
ben_vulpes | lol | [23:26] |
ben_vulpes | i *would* leave if i *could* | [23:27] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: this is not accidental. folks who travel from usa to english-speaking (or most western eu in general) aren't actually leaving the empire | [23:27] |
mircea_popescu | which is why stuff like "putin doesn't understand how thw world works" can be said with a straight face | [23:27] |
asciilifeform | and hence 'not real places' is factual | [23:27] |
mircea_popescu | for a good chunk of the audience, this is actually so. it's not even a real country. | [23:27] |
mircea_popescu | asciilifeform no, because they stick to the touristy traps anywhere. stopped for coffee earlier at whorehouse cafe, table across two lost derps with ipad propped on "south america on a shoestring". muy confused. | [23:28] |
asciilifeform | 'Ist dis Nazi Land so good? Would you leave it if you could? Ja, dis Nazi Land ist good! We would leave if we could.' ('der fuhrer's face', 1942) | [23:28] |
ben_vulpes | mircea_popescu: oh hey can we do the whorehouse cafe? | [23:28] |
mircea_popescu | haha, re that, must has animaniacs | [23:28] |
mircea_popescu | ben_vulpes sure. | [23:28] |
asciilifeform | that was a 'donald duck' | [23:29] |
mircea_popescu | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3tGgD4nMk | [23:29] |
assbot | Animaniacs - Schnitzelbank - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1HhmK2g ) | [23:29] |
mircea_popescu | remake. | [23:29] |
asciilifeform | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH1iaKVsBM << classic | [23:29] |
assbot | Donald Duck der Nazi - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1HhmX5r ) | [23:29] |
ben_vulpes | [23:32] | |
assbot | Animaniacs - Schnitzelbank - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1HhnxQO ) | [23:32] |
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asciilifeform | ben_vulpes: "but muh jerb" << when you open a metal shop in #b-a, perhaps i can go and work sweeping floor there. | [23:32] |
mircea_popescu | ben_vulpes lol | [23:32] |
ben_vulpes | myeah she's a chuckle. | [23:33] |
ben_vulpes | asciilifeform: it'll probably be well outside of city limits | [23:33] |
ben_vulpes | nearer that southern port city | [23:34] |
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asciilifeform | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nknPYKw2QM | [23:36] |
assbot | U.S. Army - Booby Traps - Banned Cartoons - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1DJqk7y ) | [23:36] |
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mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062798 << you know ? just as unthinkable as the http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2015#1063368 | [23:39] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 21:00:49; asciilifeform: the option of not having the bugs is presented as not even thinkable. | [23:39] |
assbot | Logged on 22-03-2015 02:22:03; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with jurisdictions discussed recentlier is deeper than it seems. plenty of usians do not think other places are "real places". | [23:39] |
mircea_popescu | lots of "unthinkables" needed to keep the soviets going. | [23:39] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062825 << how the fuck is this open source. | [23:41] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 21:47:01; decimation: the developer in question had already made a deal with apple to publish the app apparently. I couldn't even compile my own version unsigned for my own personal use | [23:41] |
mircea_popescu | apple "open" : we'll give you some fiction to read while the thing boots ? | [23:41] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: rms has a term of art for it, 'tivoization' | [23:41] |
mircea_popescu | mhm | [23:42] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062860 << except a)nobody trusts it and b) it doesn't actually trust anyone. lots of scammy devs make it on account of w/e fee. | [23:43] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 21:56:58; decimation: on the other hand, perhaps apple is just trying to 'enumerate goodness' in its 'forced wot' | [23:44] |
mircea_popescu | heck, zinga still exists on apple right ? | [23:44] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062877 << since no more welfare, so idiots either starve or slave. | [23:45] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 21:59:40; nubbins`: *i* won't buy it, but since when does the market cater to rational actors? | [23:45] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062896 << this is kinda how the illegal racing world works. | [23:46] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:02:30; pete_dushenski: buy a honda, insert own custom ferrari engine | [23:46] |
cazalla | felipelalli: I ran to qntra.net to read something about that and for my surprise I didn't find anything. But now I understand why. Not fully yet, but I can at least understand your point of view. <<< fwiw i would never lend bitcoin to people on btcjam regardless of their ability to pay back, i'd never use the site to borrow either, so i guess it's not so difficult to see why i would not write a story on it either | [23:47] |
cazalla | felipelalli, if you only use it to borrow, i don't really see the problem with you using it, but i'd never lend | [23:48] |
mircea_popescu | how are silk road copycats supposed to make enough to run away with if you won't give the pillheads "loans" yo ? | [23:48] |
mircea_popescu | think of the children! | [23:48] |
ben_vulpes | we've been looking into the apple "enterprise deployment" story of late | [23:48] |
ben_vulpes | always keeping in mind that it is a rug | [23:48] |
mircea_popescu | ^ | [23:49] |
ben_vulpes | and the ghost of steve is yet prepared to rip it out from beneath us | [23:49] |
mircea_popescu | i briefly considered adding an apple apps thing for s.mg | [23:49] |
mircea_popescu | the idea... died. | [23:49] |
ben_vulpes | apple is pretty much anathema to the #b-a approach to compute. | [23:49] |
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mircea_popescu | or to any approach that includes anyone but apple making money. | [23:50] |
ben_vulpes | one of the reasons i'm not targeting macos for RI builds. | [23:50] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062973 << isn't that how that kid got shot with a nailgun by andreas antonoderpopolous ? | [23:51] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:31:05; decimation: sure, let me know if you find an open repo with all academic pubs present, updated regularly | [23:51] |
assbot | [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47650 @ 0.00027195 = 12.9584 BTC [-] | [23:51] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1062976 << in this vein : http://40.media.tumblr.com/982abc36543d4b8bab3d12582b23fab6/tumblr_mw5pbmKA9N1t16d43o1_1280.jpg | [23:52] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:33:07; nubbins`: fwiw "everything is online now" people generally miss out on a broad spectrum of opportunity | [23:52] |
assbot | ... ( http://bit.ly/1Hhr7dM ) | [23:52] |
asciilifeform | mircea_popescu: reminiscent of anthill chick | [23:52] |
mircea_popescu | notrly. this is fun. | [23:53] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063000 << alf was wikibinging before it was cool. | [23:53] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:40:21; asciilifeform: most of the time when i go to that library it isn't even for a specific rational purpose | [23:53] |
danielpbarron | in comments for that disney nazi thing: "Who im german and I dont like this we are nice and hittler whs the only bad german" | [23:54] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063019 << nah, only some of them. we're ignoring most of it : http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-deal-with-pseudoscience/ | [23:55] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:51:01; PeterL: new #B-A need: print off all the articles and store in a library | [23:55] |
assbot | How to deal with pseudoscience ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1zdlojA ) | [23:55] |
mircea_popescu | but i can envisage the day when a) all science is published via b-a, and to read... get in wot | [23:55] |
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mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063033 << at least originally. prolly split off on its own thing once it gets big. | [23:56] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:55:01; PeterL: would deedbot be a suitable place to publish scientific research? | [23:56] |
mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063048 << same mechanbism as to produce the good code separately. sign and wot. | [23:57] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 22:59:27; asciilifeform: we don't have a mechanism for producing the good stuff separately, yet. | [23:57] |
asciilifeform | nono not that part | [23:58] |
asciilifeform | the what-do-they-eat. | [23:58] |
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mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-03-2015#1063058 << that's basically gossipd. | [23:59] |
assbot | Logged on 21-03-2015 23:04:58; trinque: asciilifeform: I have long wanted a system where member nodes can all publish wads 'o gpg stuff, peers don't know the contents of the wad, give each-other redundancy | [23:59] |
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mircea_popescu | asciilifeform eat ? | [23:59] |
mircea_popescu | what is this, the future ? | [23:59] |
asciilifeform | aha | [23:59] |
mircea_popescu | geniuses don't eat | [23:59] |
mircea_popescu | geniuses starve. | [23:59] |
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