Forum logs for 29 Oct 2015

Sunday, 24 November, Year 11 d.Tr. | Author: Mircea Popescu
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mircea_popescu asciilifeform the reason this putative is seemingly without answer is because it is castrated. what tlp would do if he realised what's wrong with his head depends on WHY HE REALISED. what would the pubescent girl do if she matured ? nothing the pubescent girl can do BECAUSE maturation is DRIVEN by the VERY DEED! once she finds a boy she loves she will both be a woman and know what to do ; once tlp ACTUALLY understands [00:37]
mircea_popescu the suck he will both be free and able to act. [00:37]
mircea_popescu before that happens there necessarily isn't what either "can" do. [00:38]
mircea_popescu meanwhile http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-10-2015#1309798 is a much deeper problem than realised. yes, it's true that the adolescents see themselves as peers to the adults. NOT IT IS NOT TRUE THEY ARE. yes it is this false, unfounded identification that drives both DK and the insane notions of the adolescents as to the failures of both "the world" and adults (these two aren't even really different). [00:40]
assbot Logged on 28-10-2015 07:29:28; mircea_popescu: "This tension in anon culture, that every single person is empowered by the whole of the group and thus merits treatment as a peer, turns these individual hostile challenges into a storm of entitled demands for attention. Anons see themselves as peers to everyone, empowered by the support of the group, and thus entitled to participate in any conversation they aren’t forcibly prevented [00:40]
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mircea_popescu and now let's enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHA4Jh5jkw together! [00:43]
assbot Urge Overkill - Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1XAm2Gq ) [00:43]
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mircea_popescu ;;later tell gabrielradio http://dpaste.com/11YCGSW [00:58]
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assbot dpaste: 11YCGSW ... ( http://bit.ly/1XAnwAw ) [00:58]
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mircea_popescu ;;ticker [01:12]
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BingoBoingo http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-dating-women-slim-waists-lowers-mens-risk-erectile-dysfunction-244282 [01:14]
assbot Why Dating Women With Slim Waists Lowers Men's Risk for Erectile Dysfunction ... ( http://bit.ly/1XAprFg ) [01:14]
BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all [01:14]
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BingoBoingo ;;more [01:15]
gribble 309.754982278 [01:15]
mircea_popescu i hope that was a n>10k study. [01:15]
BingoBoingo Better be [01:15]
BingoBoingo Nope, 699 [01:15]
BingoBoingo "Researchers also recorded how often the 699 study participants - Czech men between the ages of 35 and 65 years old - had sexual intercourse." [01:15]
BingoBoingo "The first reason was that woman's abdominal body fat decreased their own sexual desire on a hormonal level, which would hamper libido. The second reason could be that men simply found slimmer women more attractive and thus had fewer problems in the bedroom." [01:16]
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pete_dushenski danielpbarron cheers ! [02:30]
pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310314 << it's all in the f-bombs [02:31]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 01:46:22; asciilifeform: (i mean, how the hell does the quoted thread re: intel relate to any of this...?) [02:31]
pete_dushenski "the personality trait most strongly correlated with programming ability was not introversion or conscientiousness, but openness: a trait that's related to being creative and imaginative" [02:34]
pete_dushenski "A meta-analysis on 19 independent samples (total N = 1695) highlighted that programming aptitude was associated with three personality traits, conscientiousness, openness, and introversion." [02:35]
pete_dushenski "In contrast to stereotypical beliefs, programming aptitudes were not associated with socially undesirable traits such as disagreeableness or neuroticism." [02:35]
pete_dushenski http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656615300052 [02:38]
assbot What makes a computer wiz? Linking personality traits and programming aptitude ... ( http://bit.ly/1Na30DL ) [02:38]
pete_dushenski basically fits the 'obedient, diligent coolies' alf describes in http://www.contravex.com/2014/12/29/immigration-policy-is-about-barriers-to-entry-not-fairness-or-how-paul-graham-thinks-programmers-are-inventors/ [02:42]
assbot Immigration policy is about barriers to entry, not fairness; or how Paul Graham thinks programmers are inventors | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVn3kX ) [02:42]
mircea_popescu this admitting there EVEN ARE 1695 programmers out there. [02:47]
mircea_popescu seems dubious. moreover what happened is, "back in 1965, people could actually code - and those people who could actually code were disagreeable neurotics. 50 years later we turned coding into a sort of welfard subdepartment of the ushs, and now those 'coders' are exactly like the rest of the welfare population : open and conscientious. which is why the line before the tsa anal fingering office consists of middleaged w [02:49]
mircea_popescu omen with their panties folded neatly in their hands." [02:49]
mircea_popescu science! [02:49]
assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26700 @ 0.00054823 = 14.6377 BTC [-] [02:49]
pete_dushenski lol it could easily be 1695 fresh compsci grads [02:51]
pete_dushenski 'they don't have any experience but gosh darn are they qualified on paper!' [02:51]
pete_dushenski heh. jack baruth riffs off my 'middle class' article : "We inmates of the middle class envy the rich for obvious reasons but we also envy the poor, because they have freedom." [02:51]
pete_dushenski though since he's firmly in the middle class, he ends up looking down to the LOWER class in envy [02:52]
pete_dushenski via this gongshow of a story, essentially: https://storify.com/public/templates/card/index.html?src=//storify.com/yomike/a-wild-weekend-in-florida [02:52]
assbot Storify [Slideshow] ... ( http://bit.ly/1Na4gXn ) [02:52]
pete_dushenski upper class too inaccessible, so what's left ? down. down's what's left. [02:53]
pete_dushenski "To be in the middle class is to perennially be under threat. But to be the main character of a Dylan or Grateful Dead song is to be poorer, and lower, and free." [02:53]
pete_dushenski jack's something of a musician so he's never short of usian 60s-present musical references, most of which are lost on me, but he's still a pretty astute cultural anthropologist [02:55]
mircea_popescu lol looking down in envy. that's a good one. [02:56]
mircea_popescu don't look back in anger (look forward ; and kill someone) and don't look down in envy (look upward ; and kill someone). [02:57]
phf i believe tlp has an article on meta-analysis studies [02:58]
phf " Programming abilities were quantified using an objective performance test (e.g.,number of errors in the program code); subjective evaluations of individual’s coding proficiency were not included." [03:00]
pete_dushenski lol [03:00]
pete_dushenski "But how can the author will a meta-analysis to show what he wants it to show? Maybe he could manipulate an individual study, wouldn't a "study of studies" be immune to his dark sorcery? Imagine a study of Prozac vs. placebo in 10000 patients, and Prozac is awesome. Imagine two more studies, each with 6 patients, and Prozac doesn't beat placebo in those. I now have three studies. My meta-analysis concludes: [03:01]
pete_dushenski "Prozac was found to be superior to placebo in only a third of studies." Boom-- Associate Professor. When meta-analyses look at only a few studies (e.g. N=4), if even one of them is a poorly designed study you can overwhelm-- or purposely extinguish-- what might actually be a real effect." << this one phf ? [03:01]
phf aye [03:01]
pete_dushenski from http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/the_decline_effect_is_stupid.html [03:01]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: The Decline Effect Is Stupid ... ( http://bit.ly/1O6FngU ) [03:01]
mircea_popescu that's a great article too. [03:01]
mircea_popescu phf imagine the sort of unredeemable imbecile who imagines "errors in program code" is objective measure of anything. [03:02]
mircea_popescu like, you know, programming has this closed form solution, it's like solving ax+b. [03:02]
phf includes such wonderful papers as Personality predictors of performance in an introductory computer course. (1982), MBTI personality type and student code comprehension skill., Predicting student success in an introductory programming course., The effects of openness to experience on pair programming in a higher education context., Identifying predictors of programming skill. [03:03]
mircea_popescu this is what they think programming is. [03:03]
phf i like this one, Personality and learning FORTRAN. (1985), i almost want to trick that one down [03:04]
phf *track rather [03:04]
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mircea_popescu late too. [03:04]
mircea_popescu fortran in 1985 ? [03:05]
vulpes_a_hopital pete_dushenski: share a copy? [03:05]
pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital you CAN handle watching a birth dude [03:05]
pete_dushenski copy of... [03:05]
vulpes_a_hopital that science direct piece [03:05]
vulpes_a_hopital the thing i'm already retching over [03:06]
mircea_popescu how's life vulpes_a_hopital ? [03:06]
* pete_dushenski did not spend $usd 35.95 for this... [03:06]
vulpes_a_hopital slow. [03:06]
mircea_popescu i bet the woman agrees. [03:06]
vulpes_a_hopital oh, we're just discussing the abstract, then? [03:07]
pete_dushenski mhm [03:07]
phf mircea_popescu: just more academia inbreeding in this "metastudy". only time i saw fortran code is when helping computation chemistry grgrad students code up their models [03:07]
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pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital how long's the labour been thus far ? [03:07]
phf vulpes_a_hopital: http://timo.gnambs.at/sites/default/files/gnambs2015-programming.pdf [03:07]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Na5y4H ) [03:07]
mircea_popescu phf one of the numerous women i proposed marriage to was actually a chainsmoker fortran programmer. [03:07]
mircea_popescu in the 70s this was an entire subculture i think. [03:08]
vulpes_a_hopital mk. well as someone who actually reviews, teaches and issues canings over code, and knows the personalities involved intimately, i'm going to not give a shit. [03:08]
vulpes_a_hopital mircea_popescu: what labor. [03:08]
mircea_popescu hm ? [03:08]
vulpes_a_hopital how do you define 'labor'? [03:09]
vulpes_a_hopital arbitrary combo of frequency and duration? [03:09]
mircea_popescu in what context ? or did i use it somewhere ? [03:09]
vulpes_a_hopital a sorry [03:09]
vulpes_a_hopital pete_dushenski: what labor. [03:09]
mircea_popescu well you just made pete's day :D [03:10]
pete_dushenski i think it's 5 mins apart [03:10]
vulpes_a_hopital howzzat? [03:11]
vulpes_a_hopital ah yes, i recall why mircea_popescu was queued up [03:12]
vulpes_a_hopital mircea_popescu: you've proposed marriage? [03:12]
pete_dushenski and multiple times ?! [03:12]
* vulpes_a_hopital falls over [03:12]
vulpes_a_hopital i must not understand how this marriage was to have worked. [03:12]
pete_dushenski i think our collective leg's being pulled [03:12]
vulpes_a_hopital or its some novel broomaaple of a marriage. [03:13]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital ages 5 to 7 or so, yeah. half my mother's friends! [03:14]
mircea_popescu not my damn fault bitchez were crazy hawt. [03:14]
vulpes_a_hopital happy to tee it up for you, boss [03:14]
mircea_popescu for any 5yos reading b-a : do this. the women love it, and then later they'll be like, in your exams and shit. plus mothering the chicks you actually DONT want to marry. [03:15]
phf shoulder pads, a "perm" and yellow cigarette nails? "do you like our owl?" [03:15]
mircea_popescu phf nah, no perm. [03:16]
mircea_popescu but i think you'd get kicked out of the 70s if no shoulder pads. [03:16]
phf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AXOjlPF0Y [03:16]
assbot Deckard meets Rachel - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVrf3Y ) [03:17]
vulpes_a_hopital mircea_popescu: does your absurdly broad knowledge bank have anything interesting on the topic of long pregnancies? [03:19]
mircea_popescu nah, rachel looks soft and dumb. [03:20]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital you know the medieval cases of undelivered babies calcified in the woman and found at autopsy ? [03:20]
* vulpes_a_hopital does not [03:20]
vulpes_a_hopital how long would those've been? [03:20]
mircea_popescu lifetime ? [03:20]
mircea_popescu she just never delivered, died 70 or w/e. who knows when she might have conceived. 20s ? 40s ? [03:21]
* vulpes_a_hopital frowns [03:21]
pete_dushenski and don't forget pantagruel : 14 months was it ? [03:21]
pete_dushenski (not mine, rabelais') [03:21]
mircea_popescu that account might be made up :D [03:22]
pete_dushenski waiwut [03:22]
vulpes_a_hopital udunsae [03:22]
pete_dushenski yousundae [03:22]
mircea_popescu i always had this suspicion that rabelais was not always sticking to the true objectivity of science. [03:22]
pete_dushenski ;) [03:22]
mircea_popescu although a meta-study conducted in 1999 showed him to be no worse than average [03:22]
vulpes_a_hopital n=4 tho [03:23]
mircea_popescu more like 4 million. [03:23]
vulpes_a_hopital not over nine thousand [03:23]
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phf i liked her as chani in dune [03:24]
mircea_popescu phf but that role specifically is soft and dumb. [03:24]
vulpes_a_hopital how the fuck does chani have a wikipedia article. [03:25]
mircea_popescu it's pop culture yellowpages. [03:25]
mircea_popescu what, you thought it was an encyclopedia ? [03:25]
pete_dushenski and in other news, "Walmart discontinued the sale of its "Israeli soldier kids costume" and "Sheik Fagin nose" Halloween costumes after facing widespread backlash, including boycott calls on the chain store's Facebook page." [03:25]
* vulpes_a_hopital can't recall thinking [03:25]
vulpes_a_hopital sheik fagin lol [03:25]
vulpes_a_hopital walmart as pop culture blender [03:26]
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mircea_popescu ahhh life is good [03:26]
pete_dushenski gl ben ! [03:26]
pete_dushenski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHL-0N07rxo << mega-weird china propaganda [03:27]
assbot Pay Attention to the 十三五 (shi san wu) - Xinhua News - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVsgJx ) [03:27]
mircea_popescu "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" pretends to be a PSA against child sex slavery. What it really is an effort in rebranding. In this clip, you see Ashton Kutcher. If you had to find 300M Americans to be on a list of "Real Men," and every person in America except for Ashton Kutcher had been eaten by a giant squid, Ashton Kutcher would still not make that list, ever. [03:27]
mircea_popescu i agree. [03:27]
mircea_popescu and I don't know any guy in the world who has an extra pack of socks available "just in case." << now you do. chicks (that don't even wear underwear!) carry spare socks and similar stuff around for my convenience. so there! [03:29]
assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32046 @ 0.00054762 = 17.549 BTC [-] {3} [03:32]
pete_dushenski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfgsoETPe-I << another interesting pro-chinese piece, by south and north carolinians no less ! [03:33]
assbot When China met Carolina - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVsUqk ) [03:33]
phf one of the quoted studies only looks at consciousness (for pair programming in class setting), and finds correlation. shouldn't that be removed from the metastudy stats on account of scewing one variable. [03:36]
phf but they say [03:36]
phf "There are some uncontrolled variables which may have affected the validity of the experimental results. One of these was students’ previous programming experience. We noticed that some of the students who already had a few years of programming experience achieved high scores in their test, but scored somewhat low on conscientiousness. They were strong programmers with appropriate knowledge and know-how of programming as compared with [03:36]
phf other students. Being highly conscientious may not be necessarily for these students in order to obtain good academic results in this particular course." [03:36]
phf you don't say! [03:36]
mircea_popescu this, as ben aptly pointed out the obvious to anyone who ever competently managed, or even sanely lived in proximity of programmers, is an outrageously clueless exercise in reductionism to the point of meaninglessness. [03:37]
BingoBoingo Oh, so it wasn't a twee portland meeting of two bicycles [03:38]
mircea_popescu "conscientiousness", really ? might as well score 19yo hussies by their understanding of the theses of the 18th congress. [03:38]
vulpes_a_hopital joke's on me. again. [03:39]
mircea_popescu is the assassin eating cake for breakfast at 11 am with a well oiled, well cleaned rifle in his lap - that he cleans and oils properly, every time, and has, irrespective of howp his profession makes it a dispoasable item - conscientious or not conscientious ? [03:39]
mod6 vulpes_a_hopital: i've been told first babys take time. hang in there :] [03:40]
phf i naively went there to see how exactly they measured "programming aptitude" expecting some bogus methodology involving bug counts, the reality is just so incredibly bad, i'm now tracking original papers purely out of morbid fascination [03:40]
mircea_popescu "if he were ~~~truely~~~ conscientious he'd take better care of himself. plus he wouldn't go around killing people." yeah im sure. [03:41]
vulpes_a_hopital phf has found his turdpile, will now entomologize [03:41]
vulpes_a_hopital ty mod6 [03:41]
mircea_popescu phf maybe it's time to start a blog. [03:41]
BingoBoingo ;;later tell thestringpuller http://qntra.net/2015/10/interview-with-david-francois-on-building-a-real-bitcoin-business/#comment-71537 [03:41]
gribble The operation succeeded. [03:41]
assbot Interview with David Francois on Building a Real Bitcoin Business | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1OZOgc1 ) [03:41]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital seriously, labour under 12 hours is not even uncommon. can start worrying next month. [03:42]
mircea_popescu o hey i gotta read this. [03:42]
vulpes_a_hopital labor under 12 hours? [03:42]
mircea_popescu what i mean is. for as long as it stays under half a day it's not even a moderately big deal. [03:42]
vulpes_a_hopital thestringpuller: howdja get to france if you couldn't make it to con3? [03:43]
vulpes_a_hopital mircea_popescu: again, what labor. [03:43]
mircea_popescu aren't you a l'hopital to pick up the young vulpes ? [03:43]
vulpes_a_hopital myeah, if he ever decides to descend. [03:43]
mircea_popescu so that labor! [03:43]
pete_dushenski lol [03:43]
mircea_popescu is he trolling us ? [03:43]
vulpes_a_hopital also i ain't even worried yet [03:44]
vulpes_a_hopital as labor has yet to begin! [03:44]
vulpes_a_hopital just...bored. [03:44]
mircea_popescu well why;'d you go early ? [03:44]
vulpes_a_hopital 42 weeks is early nao? [03:44]
pete_dushenski water broke early perhaps ? [03:44]
mircea_popescu who the fuck takes the woman to the hospital before she floods the room i want to know! [03:44]
mircea_popescu (quote from actual father, many years ago "dude you will not FUCKING BELIEVE how much water is in there!") [03:45]
vulpes_a_hopital so riddle me this: where are the statistics for > 43 week long pregnancies [03:45]
BingoBoingo who the fuck takes the woman to the hospital before she floods the room i want to know! << Person who has to clean the room? [03:45]
pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital for first birth, like 20% at least [03:45]
vulpes_a_hopital but /where are the statistics/ [03:45]
vulpes_a_hopital that's a great sounding number [03:46]
BingoBoingo vulpes_a_hopital: Baby's prolly going to give pete's a run for the money on size, or already has mommy issues [03:46]
* pete_dushenski has seen flooded sidewalks and soaked flip-flops [03:46]
pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital i'll get you the name of the book in the morning [03:46]
pete_dushenski and the figures [03:46]
mircea_popescu anyway. let it be said real women deliver around the time strip clubs close. 6am, that sorta thing [03:47]
pete_dushenski BingoBoingo no. chance. ben and lady v are markedly smaller parents. [03:47]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital those don't exist. if she goes over 42.5 or so the doctors usually go in. [03:47]
BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: But if they bake it longer [03:47]
vulpes_a_hopital right, and tell pete_dushenski why that is? [03:48]
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mircea_popescu maybe he gets triplets :D [03:48]
pete_dushenski 2 lbs each ! [03:48]
BingoBoingo dodecuplets!!! [03:48]
BingoBoingo 12 pounds each [03:48]
pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital why what is ? [03:48]
mircea_popescu it's not his van giving birth BingoBoingo it's his wife. [03:49]
BingoBoingo I thought that was in November, pretty sure this was his van [03:49]
vulpes_a_hopital decline in placental health. [03:49]
mircea_popescu BingoBoingo (archived). << butg no link [03:49]
vulpes_a_hopital an apparently healthy baby at 43 weeks may endure labor entirely differently than the 42 weeker, much less the 40 weeker. [03:50]
vulpes_a_hopital and there is /no way to predict/. [03:50]
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BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Fixed, my bad [03:51]
pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital i'm missing something, not the least of which was that i read 42 and thought "oh, that's term!" lol [03:51]
vulpes_a_hopital moreover, *because* the doctors start insisting on going in at 42.5ish, there are very poor statistics on uninduced labor past 42 weeks or so. [03:51]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital do yourself a favour and read something else. [03:51]
mircea_popescu you'll drive yourself nuts. [03:51]
vulpes_a_hopital what i'm reading qntra [03:51]
mircea_popescu aok [03:51]
vulpes_a_hopital i scoped the stats, made my call. [03:52]
vulpes_a_hopital now i'm bored. [03:52]
mircea_popescu anyway. there is respectable research into this, they actually make sense, going in after 42 is the right move. [03:52]
* vulpes_a_hopital would love to see it, has been unimpressed so far [03:52]
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BingoBoingo Anyways that procedure has at least two millenia of safety behind it. Some women do it to themselves [03:52]
pete_dushenski anyone taken #bitcoin-birthing yet ? [03:52]
pete_dushenski not that i mind the subject matter.. [03:53]
vulpes_a_hopital feature bloat, fueled by what consumers have come to expect, << top kek [03:53]
vulpes_a_hopital lol pete_dushenski you're blocked as "adult and pornography" [03:55]
mircea_popescu i actually like davout's answering style. [03:55]
vulpes_a_hopital that use of consensual threw me for a loop [03:55]
pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital your hospital, canadian banks, what's next ! [03:55]
vulpes_a_hopital trilema, however, totally ok. [03:55]
mircea_popescu i can see the logic of htis. [03:55]
pete_dushenski weird, same as my buddy at his td office in calgary.... [03:56]
vulpes_a_hopital "that the fucked up" << attn bingoboingo [03:56]
pete_dushenski mircea_popescu you do ? [03:56]
mircea_popescu yes. while it's true that trilema hosts one of the largest porn galleries in the western world, [03:56]
BingoBoingo vulpes_a_hopital: Fixed [03:56]
mircea_popescu your odds of finging it amonmg all the words are negligible. [03:56]
vulpes_a_hopital BingoBoingo: i think you want to insert a [sic] there and not correct the quote. [03:57]
pete_dushenski hm. i lack the words in which to cloak my true intention of spreading porn to the four corners of the digital world [03:57]
BingoBoingo it was an interview, transcription errors happen [03:57]
vulpes_a_hopital ah [03:57]
vulpes_a_hopital "rarely amount to any longevity" [03:57]
vulpes_a_hopital i'd say "enjoy" but that's just me. [03:58]
* pete_dushenski checks contravex word count... 417,967. [03:58]
pete_dushenski need moar ! [03:58]
vulpes_a_hopital this brings up such sweet memories of wandering along the remodeled docks talking to davout about how great of a business paymium was [03:58]
vulpes_a_hopital er [03:58]
vulpes_a_hopital is [03:58]
mircea_popescu no, was is the right verbal form there. it's not tense, it's aspect. [03:59]
mircea_popescu a frenchman would understand. [03:59]
vulpes_a_hopital and perhaps a link to "so you want to start a bitcoin business" there at the end [03:59]
vulpes_a_hopital https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.0 << classic [04:00]
assbot So you think you're going to start a Bitcoin business, right? ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVvoFd ) [04:00]
BingoBoingo and perhaps a link to "so you want to start a bitcoin business" there at the end << It is at the start [04:00]
mircea_popescu mpoe-pr. her stuff is still remembered long after everyone forgot wtf gavin is supposed to have done last year. [04:01]
pete_dushenski she really set the pr bar [04:02]
vulpes_a_hopital BingoBoingo: with the obscurantism! [04:02]
vulpes_a_hopital okay so riddle me this [04:02]
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vulpes_a_hopital shithub will render markdown, org, jpeg, gif [04:03]
mircea_popescu !up kroko2 [04:03]
-assbot- You voiced kroko2 for 30 minutes. [04:03]
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vulpes_a_hopital BUT NOT HTML [04:03]
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vulpes_a_hopital https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre/blob/master/doc/index.html [04:03]
BingoBoingo Heresy [04:03]
assbot cl-ppcre/index.html at master · edicl/cl-ppcre · GitHub ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVvNYb ) [04:03]
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mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital do you have ANY IDEA what's involved in rendering html ? [04:03]
vulpes_a_hopital they're rubros, stick it in an iframe [04:03]
mircea_popescu ha [04:03]
mircea_popescu HAHAHAHAHAHA [04:03]
mircea_popescu ooomaygerd. [04:03]
mircea_popescu if that worked we wouldn' even know what "conscientious" programmer means. [04:04]
vulpes_a_hopital further lulz [04:04]
vulpes_a_hopital https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edicl/cl-ppcre/master/doc/index.html [04:04]
assbot CL-PPCRE - Portable Perl-compatible regular expressions for Common Lisp ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVvWuT ) [04:04]
mircea_popescu hehehe [04:04]
mircea_popescu that should bother some ppls. [04:04]
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vulpes_a_hopital dafuq am i supposed to do [04:05]
vulpes_a_hopital write it to a tempfile and crack it open? [04:05]
vulpes_a_hopital install the package to read its documentation? [04:05]
fluffypony it's annoying as fuck when github renders markdown [04:06]
fluffypony especially for Jekyll projects [04:06]
fluffypony like I get that it renders README.md, but leave the rest of my files alone [04:06]
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BingoBoingo Sobriety on a Wednesday night is weird. [04:07]
mircea_popescu ;;google and there's nothing short as dying that's half as lonely as the south [04:07]
gribble Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down - YouTube: ; Classic Cash- Johnny Cash - ManinBlack.net: ; South Park Quotes - Eircom: [04:08]
vulpes_a_hopital fluffypony: call me when it renders latex [04:08]
BingoBoingo vulpes_a_hopital: Which LaTex [04:08]
BingoBoingo Gotta pick a subset, or you'll go insane [04:09]
vulpes_a_hopital BingoBoingo: eeeeeeeeeee [04:09]
BingoBoingo ;;ticker --market all [04:12]
BingoBoingo ;;more [04:12]
gribble Error: That's all, there is no more. [04:12]
gribble Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 305.26, vol: 29103.54531666 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 298.649, vol: 10092.94027 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 305.86, vol: 27487.13828773 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 310.0, vol: 3.84156741 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 317.578584, vol: 57620.95010000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 299.0, vol: 154.35587978 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 295.056, vol: 158.6084734 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message) [04:12]
BingoBoingo ;;more [04:12]
gribble 310.53204778 [04:12]
pete_dushenski in other nyooz, "The police department in Anderson, north of Sacramento, announced this week that it plans to equip and train its force of 20 officers with the weapon, also called nunchuks, as a new means to detain uncooperative suspects while “limiting injuries”." [04:18]
mircea_popescu was in the logs. [04:19]
pete_dushenski my bad [04:19]
assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29950 @ 0.00054336 = 16.2736 BTC [-] {3} [04:22]
pete_dushenski in other nyooz that actually is, "Google has teamed up with three Indonesian telecommunications companies to expand Internet access in that country using solar-powered balloons." [04:23]
pete_dushenski maybe not what you'd want to annouce of 'dc dirigible on the loose' day [04:23]
pete_dushenski "The project sends solar-powered balloons 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) into the air to deliver Internet access through radio frequency signals to antennae connected to buildings on the ground. The balloons use algorithms to find the best winds to carry them along their charted course." [04:24]
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vulpes_a_hopital re announcement maybe [04:29]
vulpes_a_hopital http://www.wired.com/2013/08/googlex-project-loon/ [04:29]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1OZP0hw ) [04:29]
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pete_dushenski vulpes_a_hopital that'd be the one. [04:31]
* pete_dushenski to bed. cheers ! [04:31]
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mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/04/hop_with_russell_brand.html << rather interesting. [04:42]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: Hop, With Russell Brand: A Life Lesson For 4 Year Olds ... ( http://bit.ly/1KHcBeY ) [04:42]
mircea_popescu Where have you ever heard the words, "by the power vested in me?" That's right, it's a domestic partnership, a marriage of sorts, and rather than try and un-pc figure out which one's the girl and which one's the boy simply observe that person B finds actualization by completely subsuming his own identity into the business of person A, who in turn gets the leisure time to pursue other interests (like drumming.) That, [04:42]
mircea_popescu my fellow 4 year olds, is an American fairy tale. [04:42]
mircea_popescu so the plan, if we lend credence to tlp's interpretation, and if we believe the data to be illustrative, is EXACTLY http://trilema.com/2014/the-idea-for-a-great-film/#selection-81.0-81.481 [04:43]
assbot The idea for a great film... on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KHcErm ) [04:43]
mircea_popescu but EXACTLY. minus, of course, the violence, the act of will. a negotiated, agreed upon, "by the power" deal. [04:43]
mircea_popescu curious if it works. [04:43]
mircea_popescu "0. The diagnosis will make the parents want to try and help the child. This is axiomatic. No parent with access to services will be told their kid has a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait a few years and see how this goes." Once a diagnosis is made, the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. " << no MOTHER. [04:49]
mircea_popescu that's why the fuck there are two parents : so they're not both mothers, and so that one of them says exactly that, and on occasion actually prevails. [04:49]
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punkman https://www.nobilified.com/ [05:13]
assbot Nobilified | We paint your face on history! ... ( http://bit.ly/20c3COt ) [05:13]
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stefek99 Why I was voiced? What does it mean? [05:19]
stefek99 (I very rarely use IRC) [05:19]
mircea_popescu it means that you can say things. [05:19]
punkman https://www.instapainting.com/blog/company/2015/10/28/how-to-paint-10000-paintings/ [05:23]
assbot How Do You Paint 10,000 Paintings a Month? ... ( http://bit.ly/1RCKK4V ) [05:23]
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mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/05/how_to_write_a_college_applica.html << wow. now this is a valuable tidbit : "Still don't see it? There's a very good chance that the only person who will ever read your college essay is 25 years old. [05:26]
mircea_popescu II. [05:26]
mircea_popescu In every college admissions website, they are referred to as "Admissions Officers." While I didn't assume they were in the military, I suppose I did assume they were... old. er. [05:26]
mircea_popescu And some are, I guess, there's got to be an Admissions Dean in the building somewhere. But the average applicant is writing an essay that he thinks an adult with a suit and three kids would want to read. Instead, it's probably being read by someone who can't wait for the new iphone and still bites their nails. Ten grand says they think Jon Stewart is "a freakin' political genius."" [05:26]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: How To Write A College Application Essay Or Personal Statement ... ( http://bit.ly/20c5mY0 ) [05:26]
mircea_popescu i wonder how many kids actually earnestly trying to play that lottery know this is going to be the case and write to that audience (barristas) [05:27]
mircea_popescu "hool teacher to determine the curriculum's rigor. But the samples also tell something about the readers. "I had one essay that said how awful Twilight was"--the essay was about damaging themes of female submissiveness in the series--"and I was like, 'Admit her!' " says Melissa Faulner, a 2006 grad on the committee." [05:27]
mircea_popescu so very damaging, the themes of female submission. to otherwise unemployable, wasted-life-is-only-a-matter-of-time 13yo girls trapped in 25something female bodies. [05:28]
mircea_popescu they damage the protective shelling they secreted! [05:28]
mircea_popescu " They don't give his age, they give a physical description. Media-- and The New Yorker is probably the wost offender of this-- offers a physical description of their subject as a code about their character in exactly the way the media would never allow a regular person to do." <<< right, because it's not about anythihng but trying to misrepresent themselves as powerful. the only reason random derp can't say "nigger" [05:31]
mircea_popescu in the restaurant is so that random fishwrap can say "upscale neighbourhood" like it means something. [05:31]
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mircea_popescu this is, incidentally, a fundamental point to be considered for those inclined to interact with the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters), a point which that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in the logs - something about how he went on a "live" show where the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want to control their codes. because you must project your own ownership of reality, and of their sorry pe [05:35]
mircea_popescu rsons. they might write IN the washington post, but for as long as they write ABOUT you they write FOR you. so they can write whatever they want, but they do NOT get to write "upscale neighbourhood", or, as tlp's apt example goes "If they profiled me it woudl start, "Wearing a disheveled undershirt clutching a rock..." and leave it to you to make an objective assessment (="drunkard, likely unbalanced.")". [05:35]
mircea_popescu and if they won't not let you, if they won't be EAGERLY complicit in your control of "their" codes, you punish them. [05:35]
mircea_popescu badly. [05:35]
mircea_popescu (which is code for, you publicly humiliate them. that's the worst that can happen to a wanna-be journo. and in 2015 there exists nothing other than wanna-be in that biz.) [05:36]
mircea_popescu this one single thing is about 130% of what -the best of the best!- pr does, so let's put pete_d on notice about it. [05:37]
mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/images/college%20essay.PNG :D [05:43]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1RCLJ5o ) [05:43]
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mircea_popescu "There is something presumptuous, not to mention deluded, about a print magazine that no one reads claiming that a movie no one will see is a peerless window into something anyone can access anytime they want." [05:50]
mircea_popescu win. [05:50]
mircea_popescu "Ponder that flippant run-on sentence for its hidden truth. Who judges whom? What are the criteria for becoming a judge? It's not popularity; nor the sophistication of the staff and writers; or the insight of a director. In the hierarchy of authenticity and truth, which one is at the top? Why can Variety call someone "internet obsessed" but no one can call Variety a "comic book" which, as I am about to show, it is [05:50]
mircea_popescu ?" [05:50]
mircea_popescu they CAN. and they should. the reason they don't has a lot to do with that peerless question of "what would tlp do if he individuated". [05:51]
mircea_popescu stop playing with the toys ? likely, but not necessarily. stop thinking the toys were actual things ? definitely, foundationally. [05:51]
mircea_popescu while there's nothing wrong with a 20yo playing with a dollhouse in her hoisiery, there IS something very very wrong with a 20yo that actually thinks of dolls as if they were people. or that "animals have rights too!", which is exactly a proxy for that. [05:52]
davout i haz an article [06:14]
davout an interenet celebraritee is me [06:14]
mircea_popescu eh, that's nothing. [06:15]
davout ugh, stop your micro-aggressing [06:16]
mircea_popescu until butthurt somethingawfulers add your name to the list of the various idiots you either personally sunk or otherwise frontrun the sinking of, you've not really made it! [06:16]
davout well, i do have a june something 2011 video going around where i, i essence, tell karupuresu he has no fucking clue how to run an exchange :D [06:17]
mircea_popescu lol [06:18]
mircea_popescu there is hope for you! [06:18]
mircea_popescu but did you even get banned from fetlife irl or something ? [06:19]
mircea_popescu brigading is a prerequisite to celebrity! [06:20]
davout i did get demoted by theymos from my mod position for basically calling him a derp. i think that counts!11 [06:22]
mircea_popescu yeah there is hope for you. [06:25]
mircea_popescu o wait you're no longer oppressing alt-language tards/noobs over at tardtalk ? [06:25]
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davout nah, bad_duck is doing it now [06:28]
mircea_popescu well... can't be 16 forever. [06:29]
davout anyway, i had a look around yesterday about deterministic signatures, and didn't find anything regarding the official cult position [06:29]
mircea_popescu what are you trying to fix, the atrocious gpg malleability issues ? [06:29]
davout nah, i was trying to figure out exactly, at what points should sane software accept user-generated entropy [06:30]
mircea_popescu this is actually an excellent question. [06:31]
mircea_popescu i want to add a reference to http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=18-09-2015#1278807 [06:31]
assbot Logged on 18-09-2015 20:57:58; mircea_popescu: any program which allows for the attacker to read in any sense the rng is not necessarily owning the box, but necessarily not part of the not-owning-the-box set either [06:31]
punkman davout, here's a thread http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-12-2014#948829 [06:32]
assbot Logged on 08-12-2014 23:27:03; punkman: from linked paper: "The analysis is very disturbing: it appears that the bitcoin core client has NOT yet finalized the process of several security upgrades which propose a solution to this problem (deterministic random generation) event though a first solution was already submitted in January 2013" [06:32]
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mircea_popescu A LOT more research is needed before the cult will be happy with the cult's own understanding of what RNG even fucking means (ie, stands for) in a computing environment. [06:32]
davout punkman: i shall read it, tyvm [06:32]
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davout mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, the intuitive understanding i reached, is that unless your computer is behaving like a dumb calculator, something is wrong [06:33]
davout in the sense that, if you depend on it for 'generating' random numbers, as opposed to simply behaving like a strictly deterministic machine, you're fuxxored [06:33]
mircea_popescu yeah. you know what's wrong ? that you want to fuck it, is what's wrong. sadly, there's not going to be any solution to people wnating to fuck their computers. [06:34]
mircea_popescu so we're stuck figuring out the rng issues. [06:34]
mircea_popescu calling a computer "a box" is perhaps the most telling of all freudian seepage ever. [06:34]
davout i want to fuck my computer? [06:34]
mircea_popescu you do. [06:34]
mircea_popescu you are NOT content with it being a simple calculator. it gotta wear fucking heels and lipstick for you. [06:35]
mircea_popescu you want to play fucking games and whatnot. [06:35]
mircea_popescu you want to fuck your computer, that's all there is to it. [06:35]
davout lolwut [06:36]
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mircea_popescu i'm actually serious, tho it sounds pretty nutty. [06:37]
mircea_popescu the usecases for "computer" precludes the calculator model, let's put it this way. [06:37]
mircea_popescu and i'm not judging anyone for wanting to fuck their box. i understand the impulse, and hey, it beats trying to fuck your station wagon. or mains socket. [06:38]
davout you're the one doing the freudian slips tho [06:39]
mircea_popescu probably. where ? [06:40]
davout the box thing [06:40]
mircea_popescu why do you suppose it is we don't all run dos ? [06:40]
mircea_popescu "not good enough". really ? not good enough for what ? "networking!!1". o ? [06:41]
mircea_popescu i got a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ? [06:41]
mircea_popescu "sure, if you're mp you can get by with this, but..." [06:42]
davout i'm not saying that being a calculator should be the alpha and omega of computing, just that for crypto purposes it's probably better to not think of a RNG as something acceptable [06:43]
mircea_popescu well, acceptable or not im pretty much persuaded it's something that must be in there. [06:43]
davout the RNG in the computer? [06:43]
mircea_popescu but the more interesting question is twinfold : a) why would you not think of a calculator as the omega of computing and b) what would be the omega of computing then ? [06:44]
mircea_popescu b) is obviously "a girlfriend that's also god". of course. [06:44]
mircea_popescu davout yeah the rng. [06:44]
mircea_popescu (also, the RNG content of a computer is not strictly found in a box labeled such). [06:45]
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mircea_popescu anyway, all this aside : digging out the whole rng story is a huge hot core of useful, important inquiry. [06:47]
mircea_popescu insist. [06:47]
davout i don't really see why there should be only one kind of computer [06:48]
mircea_popescu or, for that matter, only one kind of state. [06:48]
mircea_popescu right ? [06:48]
davout mebbe [06:49]
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mircea_popescu "most hot chicks, in order to be hot, copy something a celebrity wears; remember the Rachel-do? No problem, they look hot in it; but their delusion is that they are referencing Jennifer Aniston and not the millions of other women with the exact same haircut, i.e. that they draw their identity only from the celebrity's identity-- "This look really says me!" Yet sit along the wall of the bar and the conclusion is inevi [06:49]
mircea_popescu table: yes, you're hot, but you don't look like Rachel, you look like the other hot chick right next to you. And, bafflingly, you did it on purpose." [06:49]
mircea_popescu globalization's a thing. market competition is a thing. there will be always a dominant type of anything. [06:50]
mircea_popescu and generally, the more power, the more power law. [06:50]
mircea_popescu the reason there existed ten thousand types of typewriter and exactly one ibm xt is that typewriters suck. [06:51]
mircea_popescu "That's the difference between Wikileaks and the regular press. For the reporter, climate change is not a scientific question, or else it wouldn't matter what cables get released. It's a political one, in which competing narratives are bolstered by circumstantial evidence and appeals to authority and control of the debate." << epic. from http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/05/3_important_things_about_the_n.html [06:59]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: 3 Important Things About The New Wikileaks Controversy ... ( http://bit.ly/1LDHYew ) [07:00]
mircea_popescu wherein tlp sides with alf in the alf-mp debate over assange/wikileaks etc, but wherein tlp also SHOWS (do, don't tell!) the fundamental weakness of that position. "oh truth without context isn't truth [and let's not mention how this is only because our science isn't actually science - if it were this problem wouldn't exist, but since it isn't then NECESSARILY wikileaks can only be true]". [07:02]
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asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310480 << substitute 'human compiler' for 'programmer' and suddenly it all makes sense... [10:43]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 06:35:59; mircea_popescu: "conscientiousness", really ? might as well score 19yo hussies by their understanding of the theses of the 18th congress. [10:43]
asciilifeform yes, man doing the job of a machine because he is cheaper than the requisite machine - like the barge-men of the volga, pulling the rope with their own muscle, were cheaper than mules - needs to be 'conscientious' [10:44]
asciilifeform see also my old article, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=388 [10:44]
assbot Loper OS » Steam Lisp ... ( http://bit.ly/1PWqkWp ) [10:44]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310319 << how's this work? tlp is not a cocooned insect / teenage gurl, waiting to transform into some other type of creature, but - at least if his writing is any clue - a grown man with many-figured bills to pay. [10:47]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 03:35:30; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason this putative is seemingly without answer is because it is castrated. what tlp would do if he realised what's wrong with his head depends on WHY HE REALISED. what would the pubescent girl do if she matured ? nothing the pubescent girl can do BECAUSE maturation is DRIVEN by the VERY DEED! once she finds a boy she loves she will both be a woman and know what to [10:47]
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asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310341 << dan mocsny got there first. (along with prolly every single fella who took the pill, knowing the secret of the why.) [10:49]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 04:14:23; BingoBoingo: "The first reason was that woman's abdominal body fat decreased their own sexual desire on a hormonal level, which would hamper libido. The second reason could be that men simply found slimmer women more attractive and thus had fewer problems in the bedroom." [10:49]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310642 << phun phakt - if you have children in usaschwitz, and aren't rich - this is SOP and there is FUCK you can do about it [10:50]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 07:47:18; mircea_popescu: "0. The diagnosis will make the parents want to try and help the child. This is axiomatic. No parent with access to services will be told their kid has a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait a few years and see how this goes." Once a diagnosis is made, the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. " << no MOTHER. [10:50]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310644 << goes great with mircea_popescu's 'everyone thinks he's a baron now' thing [10:51]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 08:10:57; punkman: https://www.nobilified.com/ [10:51]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310695 << basic idea: go and try to actually TEST, e.g., gpg key generator. as in, deterministically. this is nontrivial - gotta saw off the entropy collector and replace with something. [10:55]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:27:34; mircea_popescu: what are you trying to fix, the atrocious gpg malleability issues ? [10:55]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310702 << i don't regard the subject as a box of mysteries. [10:57]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:30:04; mircea_popescu: A LOT more research is needed before the cult will be happy with the cult's own understanding of what RNG even fucking means (ie, stands for) in a computing environment. [10:57]
asciilifeform see, e.g., http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-11-2013#391471 [10:57]
assbot Logged on 25-11-2013 03:41:29; asciilifeform: the essential, non-negotiable property of an rng suitable for crypto is that its output must not be readily available to the enemy. [10:57]
asciilifeform there is the basic truth, and there is, on top of it, a massive 'field' of exercises in self-delusion (e.g., 'whitening.') [10:59]
asciilifeform that's pretty much it. [10:59]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310704 << the n00b put in front of von neumann machine is told that the deterministic circuits will behave... well, deterministically. then five minutes later he learns about threads and the scheduler, and then never believes anyone again.. [11:01]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:30:47; davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, the intuitive understanding i reached, is that unless your computer is behaving like a dumb calculator, something is wrong [11:01]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310723 << your thinkpad is faster than half of the machines in the room from which i'm posting. but 'workstation' has specific meaning. [11:02]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:39:35; mircea_popescu: i got a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ? [11:02]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310724 << MP DOES NOT WRITE SOFTWARE [11:03]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:39:46; mircea_popescu: "sure, if you're mp you can get by with this, but..." [11:03]
asciilifeform how much of his life does mircea_popescu spend waiting for compiles? for numbers to crunch? and i specifically mean WAITING FOR A MACHINE not for a human operator to get his shit together [11:03]
asciilifeform ~this~ is part of what 'workstation' means. minimizing the hours of your life BURNED waiting for a cpu. [11:04]
asciilifeform the other half of what it means is NUKING as much as possible of the share of your life spent waiting for your hands to move viewports around, and the like. [11:05]
asciilifeform this means a ROOM full of displays if you can swing it [11:05]
asciilifeform and the requisite hardware to drive it. [11:05]
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asciilifeform i still recall the days when a developer would spend an hour a day WAITING FOR REBOOTS [11:07]
asciilifeform because the box COULD CRASH [11:07]
asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ^ THIS is why not msdos. [11:07]
asciilifeform if for no other reason. [11:07]
asciilifeform though perhaps this is a good time to remind people that a sane computer would look quite like an msdos box in some ways [11:08]
asciilifeform e.g., if you can have 48 'cores' there is NO REASON TO HAVE A SCHEDULER [11:09]
asciilifeform just populate them with whatever needs to be running, ever. preferably at boot. [11:09]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310745 << i read this piece but do not grasp how it relates to my position on *leaks [11:10]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:59:49; mircea_popescu: wherein tlp sides with alf in the alf-mp debate over assange/wikileaks etc, but wherein tlp also SHOWS (do, don't tell!) the fundamental weakness of that position. "oh truth without context isn't truth [and let's not mention how this is only because our science isn't actually science - if it were this problem wouldn't exist, but since it isn't then NECESSARILY wikileaks can only be tr [11:10]
thestringpuller ;;later tell ben_vulpes via a series of tubes [11:10]
gribble The operation succeeded. [11:10]
asciilifeform (which is, roughly, that the 'leaks' thus far are 1% good stuff - e.g., the ANT catalogue, the ECI directorates list, and that's pretty much IT - while the remainder is 9 parts cheapo operational garbage to 1 part deliberate disinfo) [11:11]
asciilifeform nothing in there about 'context'. [11:11]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310734 << dingdingding winner [11:19]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:46:02; davout: i don't really see why there should be only one kind of computer [11:19]
asciilifeform a ~workstation~ is one particular kind. and it means different things to different people, yes. [11:20]
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asciilifeform e.g., to walk the blockchain, verify a raid array 24/7 in a loop, handle six parallel compiles; store and play the correct bach fugue depending on what emacs modeline is set; etc. [11:21]
asciilifeform it is not, i will note, essential that all of these things happen on the ~same~ cpu [11:22]
asciilifeform but if they do not, then the ~constellation~ of machines on which they happen, or at the very least, their control panels, are to then be called 'the workstation'. [11:23]
* asciilifeform bbl. [11:23]
davout "store and play the correct bach fugue depending on what emacs modeline is set" <<< i thought emacs could *generate* bach fugues [11:24]
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vulpes_a_hopital davout: http://overtone.github.io/ [11:27]
assbot Overtone - Collaborative Programmable Music ... ( http://bit.ly/1LEbaSH ) [11:27]
vulpes_a_hopital wankery aside, it's a nifty interface to the engine [11:27]
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vulpes_a_hopital http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310756 << perhaps i lose sight of what it is to "be rich", but all one must do is...not send the kids off to socialist day camp. [11:29]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:47:54; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310642 << phun phakt - if you have children in usaschwitz, and aren't rich - this is SOP and there is FUCK you can do about it [11:29]
davout vulpes_a_hopital: lol nice, the cheatsheet is like 4 pages long !1 [11:30]
vulpes_a_hopital davout: learning to play that software is a pretty long journey [11:31]
davout looks like it [11:31]
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phf hipster programmer, hates github, goes to github to read package documentation [12:03]
phf vulpes_a_hopital: edi weitz's code only recently got its own github repos when others took over the maintenance (mostly to ensure that it can be packaged into quicklisp). but a canonical place for cl-ppcre (and a handful of other lisp packages for doing "modern" programming) is http://weitz.de/lisp.html [12:06]
assbot Edi Weitz - Common Lisp code ... ( http://bit.ly/1PSL9D8 ) [12:06]
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davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310797 <<< its gay if panels are touching. i think you could hardly consider parts actually isolated from each other if they're in physical proximity [12:20]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 14:20:46; asciilifeform: but if they do not, then the ~constellation~ of machines on which they happen, or at the very least, their control panels, are to then be called 'the workstation'. [12:20]
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ascii_field http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310803 << last i heard, this costs money. [13:28]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 14:27:14; vulpes_a_hopital: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310756 << perhaps i lose sight of what it is to "be rich", but all one must do is...not send the kids off to socialist day camp. [13:28]
ascii_field (supposing that you're not a mexican peasant who can harness them to the plough when they're six y.o.) [13:28]
ascii_field http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310811 << if your shit is all plugged into the same mains breaker without isolation transformers you're equally incestuous... [13:36]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 15:17:46; davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310797 <<< its gay if panels are touching. i think you could hardly consider parts actually isolated from each other if they're in physical proximity [13:36]
ascii_field in other nyooz, for mircea_popescu et al, https://i.imgur.com/YHdmZTP.jpg [13:37]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1NDgUfT ) [13:37]
davout ascii_field: agreed [13:38]
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davout so today, i had a customer complain by e-mail that he had trouble getting in front of everyone in the order book, and that it was a bad experience [13:42]
davout because some bot kept... getting in front of him [13:42]
davout "ohai, i'm trying to do X, and i get frustrated because someone automated X and is therefore doing it better than me, pls to change the rules accordingly" [13:43]
pete_dushenski rage against the machine (tm) (r) [13:43]
pete_dushenski 'they took ur jobs !' [13:44]
davout "In my humble opinion: these bots create a false market. They represent institutional greed offering no substantial increase in value per point nor do they offer any noticeable increase in liquidity. I also believe that they will chase your average human customers away, who like us, were trying to get the best price we could while at least trying to offer a better market" [13:46]
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punkman davout: do the bots rapidly cancel orders? [13:59]
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pete_dushenski davout: reminds me of the 'market researchers' in http://www.contravex.com/2015/07/10/what-the-market-is-and-what-it-isnt/ [13:59]
assbot What the market is and what it isn’t. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1NDjm6j ) [13:59]
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davout punkman: not really [14:01]
pete_dushenski 'if a market isn't fair and equally distributive for all participants, it's not a market' [14:01]
davout pete_dushenski: lol, nice new pic! [14:01]
pete_dushenski davout: i think your besuited linkedin pic subconsciously inspired it [14:03]
davout #b-a is getting all corporate and shit I guess [14:03]
pete_dushenski !up ascii_field [14:03]
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pete_dushenski davout: as long as we don't all have to wear ibm blue corporate suits and plain white shirts ;) [14:04]
pete_dushenski and in further 'let's all get along mkay'/'#b-a attitude is mean' news, some more lulzy comments in my direction from that (not so) random car blog : [14:06]
pete_dushenski "Pete seems to think that by attacking any and everything that many people hold dear, he is showing himself a free thinker who is exposing hypocrisy. But I think jz78817 provides a much clearer and simpler explanation of the behavior: total @ss-holeness, used as a defense mechanism for a total inability to get along with most, if not all, people." [14:06]
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pete_dushenski "And if Pete’s ego gets fueled by what he might consider success in waging his “social experiments” amongst your other followers, I would expect that, like bad money driving out good, too much Pete D will result in a decline in participation by others who manage to take different viewpoints, and disagree, while not finding it necessary to insult each other, people’s countries, their religions, the attrac [14:06]
pete_dushenski tiveness of their children, and any and every other thing that might qualify as a button to press." [14:06]
pete_dushenski "To bad there isn’t such a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude." [14:07]
davout which conveniently boils down to "we need safe spaces to stop these micro-agressions" [14:07]
ascii_field since pete_dushenski is awake, i suppose i ought to try to explain to him whatever it is that he doesn't seem to grasp re: my being a slave. [14:07]
pete_dushenski davout: thus, facebook was born [14:08]
pete_dushenski ascii_field: shoot [14:08]
ascii_field let's start with the basics [14:08]
davout http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310847 <<< because obviously the team will happily be my personal army and not simply take my gf and point at me laughing [14:08]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:11; pete_dushenski: "To bad there isn’t such a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude." [14:08]
ascii_field how did pete_dushenski arrive at the notion that i was ~not~ a slave ? [14:09]
pete_dushenski davout: lol commenter dood can't even imagine such a thing ! [14:09]
ascii_field is it because i get to post weird shit on the net ? [14:10]
pete_dushenski ascii_field: never said you weren't, just that perhaps you're an upper class slave ? [14:10]
ascii_field newzflash: sometimes slaves are permitted their slave derpitudes in their cabins on plantation. [14:10]
ascii_field there is no such thing as 'upper class slave' [14:10]
ascii_field today i am permitted things, tomorrow - perhaps not [14:10]
davout ascii_field: after reading a bit about ancient rome i have to disagree [14:10]
ascii_field roman slavery has very little to do with the modern variety. [14:11]
ascii_field ;;later tell BingoBoingo https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/95069240?trk=vsrp_jobs_cluster_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A168653501446058347732%2CVSRPtargetId%3A95069240%2CVSRPcmpt%3Ajobs_cluster << add to the balloon story [14:11]
gribble The operation succeeded. [14:11]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/20dsTHZ ) [14:11]
davout it was explicit, but i'd be curious to hear more about how it's in effect different [14:12]
davout other than today's slavery being implicit [14:12]
ascii_field davout: this is how: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-10-2015#1305374 [14:12]
assbot Logged on 22-10-2015 16:54:16; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2015#1305362 << nobody abolished slavery, ever. but a few generations of ascendant industrial degenerates ~did~ find a way to dispense with the parts they disliked - the ones where you have to actually care for your pets [14:12]
davout that doesn't mean there's no hierarchy among slaves [14:13]
ascii_field there can be no ~stable~ hierarchy among them. [14:14]
ascii_field master can lower any slave into pederasty when he likes. [14:15]
pete_dushenski there can be no stable hierarchy. anywhere. [14:15]
pete_dushenski anytime. [14:15]
davout this. [14:15]
ascii_field idk, e.g., mircea_popescu's place above, e.g., mine, is pretty stable [14:16]
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pete_dushenski ascii_field: but you're not both slaves, nor both masters [14:17]
ascii_field well yes [14:17]
ascii_field my point is that 'anytime anywhere' is fucking nonsense [14:17]
pete_dushenski no one's saying that there isn't a fair degree of stability inter-class, rather intra- [14:17]
ascii_field some hierarchies are geologically stable. [14:17]
pete_dushenski that's a different argument than 'all slaves are low class slaves' [14:18]
pete_dushenski there are gradations in all things, classes idem [14:18]
pete_dushenski which is why some slaves become free-men, some don't [14:19]
ascii_field the basic idea in being a slave, [14:19]
ascii_field is that you DON'T HAVE CONTROL [14:19]
ascii_field over what happens to you. [14:19]
punkman relevant draft by nntaleb https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/employee.pdf [14:19]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1NDlqey ) [14:19]
davout ascii_field: you do have a fair level of control i'd say [14:20]
pete_dushenski ascii_field: you see that this would be a largely, if not completely, personal assessment ? [14:20]
ascii_field no. [14:20]
ascii_field it is a pretty objective thing. [14:20]
pete_dushenski yes, if someone has life and death control over you [14:20]
pete_dushenski as in, bullet [14:20]
davout and note that i'm extremely unqualified to speak on the subject, but it seems to me that as long as you behave, you don't get beaten up [14:20]
ascii_field or as in can't-make-rent [14:20]
pete_dushenski can't-make-rent means foodstamps and midnight line-ups at walmart [14:21]
ascii_field davout: ANY TIME i can end up in the position of having to do ANYTHING, how the fuck is this so hard to grasp [14:21]
pete_dushenski not death [14:21]
pete_dushenski 'but it feels like death' [14:21]
pete_dushenski ^wouldn't be terribly objective now would it [14:22]
ascii_field pete_dushenski: the subtraction of EVERYTHING that you care about from your life is different from death how? [14:22]
pete_dushenski in the material. breathing+heart beating = life. [14:22]
davout ascii_field: i guess i fail to see how, unless at gun point obv. [14:22]
ascii_field pete_dushenski: being places in a position where you can no longer meet your WoT obligations differs from death how ?! [14:22]
ascii_field *placed [14:22]
pete_dushenski this is no different than the position of the 'master' y'know [14:23]
pete_dushenski upper class too [14:24]
ascii_field wt [14:24]
ascii_field f [14:24]
ascii_field are you on lsd, pete_dushenski ? [14:24]
pete_dushenski one of us is ! [14:25]
davout lol [14:26]
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pete_dushenski https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_eth << heh. ginormous dead cat bounce. [14:32]
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pete_dushenski never surrender ! [14:32]
pete_dushenski https://bitbet.us/bet/1198/connor-mcdavid-will-live-up-to-the-hype/ << 10 points in 10 games. right on track for upset in 82 game season. [14:33]
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pete_dushenski may be of interest to gabrielradio^ [14:34]
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pete_dushenski ;;later tell gabrielradio have you seen this one ? http://trilema.com/2009/insarcinati-va [14:34]
gribble The operation succeeded. [14:34]
assbot Insarcinati-va! on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/20dwGoP ) [14:34]
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pete_dushenski ;;later tell funkenstein_ http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/28/how-to-tell-if-youre-middle-class/#comment-34086 [14:35]
gribble The operation succeeded. [14:35]
assbot How to tell if you’re middle class. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/20dwNAS ) [14:35]
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mircea_popescu o look, a log. [14:36]
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pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310643 << yin and yang. [14:38]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 07:47:35; mircea_popescu: that's why the fuck there are two parents : so they're not both mothers, and so that one of them says exactly that, and on occasion actually prevails. [14:38]
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BingoBoingo ascii_field: http://qntra.net/2015/10/billion-dollar-blimp-brings-destruction/#comment-71640 [14:40]
assbot Billion Dollar Blimp Brings Destruction | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/20dxLwP ) [14:40]
pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310668 << on notice is me :) [14:41]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 08:33:50; mircea_popescu: (which is code for, you publicly humiliate them. that's the worst that can happen to a wanna-be journo. and in 2015 there exists nothing other than wanna-be in that biz.) [14:41]
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mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310749 << not to mention hotter. I suspect the next step, 5th wave feminism, will consist on rounding up some men and making them pull barges for this benefit. [14:47]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:42:07; asciilifeform: yes, man doing the job of a machine because he is cheaper than the requisite machine - like the barge-men of the volga, pulling the rope with their own muscle, were cheaper than mules - needs to be 'conscientious' [14:47]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310752 << the two can coexist. and he IS a coccooned girl in many aspects [14:48]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:44:50; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310319 << how's this work? tlp is not a cocooned insect / teenage gurl, waiting to transform into some other type of creature, but - at least if his writing is any clue - a grown man with many-figured bills to pay. [14:48]
BingoBoingo ANd Google Fiber Dissapoint its first city: http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article41746446.html [14:49]
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thestringpuller BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/10/interview-with-david-francois-on-building-a-real-bitcoin-business/#comment-71571 << should would enable stupid? or let him reread the article a few times until he finds the link. [14:49]
mircea_popescu this "if only i won a war - then i'd be adult, which means with *women*, too" thing boys keep doing doth not work irl. yes, he's adult, he pays bills. he has all the weird of a 15yo girl in relation to the one year older "WHORES!!!! SLUTS!!!!" as in for instance http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/06/an_education.html [14:49]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: An Education ... ( http://bit.ly/20dzaU1 ) [14:49]
mircea_popescu omaigerd anyone who would invite a 16yo into life is a psychopath!!1. which really masks "omaygerd being 16 is so fucking scary!111" which he can't confront. because 15. but maybe next summer, after camp... [14:50]
BingoBoingo thestringpuller: I put it there [14:50]
pete_dushenski thestringpuller: excellent use of 'lemma' and 'palea' ;) [14:51]
mircea_popescu lol. tsp workin hard! [14:51]
ascii_field mircea_popescu: unless your intel folks told you something i don't know about tlp - his life is a pisspot because he lives and works in usaschwitz being veterinarian to the cattle, rather than because he fails to properly grasp the mechanics of 16 y.o. gurlz... [14:51]
mircea_popescu not grasp it. live it. [14:51]
mircea_popescu there is a difference. [14:52]
mircea_popescu i grasp flight and lo can not fly, either [14:52]
mircea_popescu is this because i live in argentina, where no one flies ? [14:52]
ascii_field what does this 'live it' look like in practical engineering terms ? [14:52]
mircea_popescu is it because i eat the tainted food of argentines, who are the sort of people who don't fly, and probably for a reason ? [14:53]
mircea_popescu if only i had better food! like say blue food. who hid all the blue food ? [14:53]
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mircea_popescu ascii_field live it looks like nothing in "practical, engineering terms" of people who do not, for that very reason. what does a mechanism that will allow you to step on the moon look in practical terms, of chairs and stacking strategies ? [14:53]
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ascii_field ^ this is precisely what i was trying to say ! [14:54]
mircea_popescu so then there we go! [14:54]
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Garmin thanks for the up [14:56]
pete_dushenski Garmin: are you a gps-bot ? [14:56]
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mircea_popescu sure. [14:56]
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Garmin nope, ima human meat bot lol [14:58]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310758 << speaking of which, i would ~love~ to find thatarticle where i explain that's the problem of fertility and marriage, that society can't afford to pay these delusional baronets what it used to pay the actual ones to mount woman. [14:58]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:48:58; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310644 << goes great with mircea_popescu's 'everyone thinks he's a baron now' thing [14:58]
mircea_popescu dja recall it ascii_field ? [14:58]
pete_dushenski Garmin: and what brings your meatness here this fine day ? [14:59]
ascii_field most recently in one with 'insanity' in the title iirc [14:59]
shinohai Don't believe him, Garmin resides in my radio [14:59]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310760 << would be VERY useful to fuzz the shit out of it, and actually we'd be doing this if gpg weren't slated for removal. trivial to instrument, replace /urand with a counter and let it run and compare the output. [14:59]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:53:11; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310695 << basic idea: go and try to actually TEST, e.g., gpg key generator. as in, deterministically. this is nontrivial - gotta saw off the entropy collector and replace with something. [14:59]
pete_dushenski shinohai: in your gabrielradio ? [14:59]
mircea_popescu ascii_field no months ago. maybe year+ [15:00]
ascii_field mircea_popescu: i have done this, fwiw. [15:00]
ascii_field and many other things. [15:00]
mircea_popescu to any notable result ? [15:00]
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ascii_field if i had a notable result, i might have posted it, no? [15:01]
mircea_popescu makes two of us. [15:01]
mircea_popescu all the work and expense that goes into not saying anything at all... [15:01]
ascii_field as it is, nobody gives a fuck about 'i have done this' and this is proper. [15:01]
Garmin pete_dushenski < is tricked by shinohai meat bot AI =) [15:01]
ascii_field 99.9% of what i do - never mentioned [15:01]
ascii_field because why?! [15:01]
mircea_popescu i do better than that, because sex. [15:01]
mircea_popescu but still, 80% ? [15:01]
* ascii_field doesn't post the sex either [15:01]
ascii_field except perhaps for that endoscope pic [15:01]
mircea_popescu same reason ? [15:02]
ascii_field aha! [15:02]
mircea_popescu kay hehe. [15:02]
ascii_field why share the things that compress so well with prior art. [15:02]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310766 << the problem is wider than just "what's a good rng" or even acceptable conceptually "As rng". such as, "why is one there ?" [15:03]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:57:12; asciilifeform: there is the basic truth, and there is, on top of it, a massive 'field' of exercises in self-delusion (e.g., 'whitening.') [15:03]
ascii_field iirc i discussed this at great length [15:03]
ascii_field (re: how rng-ness is not a mathematical property of the bits, etc.) [15:03]
mircea_popescu right [15:03]
mircea_popescu and we will be discussing it at length in the future. [15:03]
ascii_field for some reason some people find the idea a very tough nut [15:04]
mircea_popescu rng is imo least understood part of the box. a sort of equivalent of magnetism in physics. [15:04]
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mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310772 << then what's trilema! [15:05]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 14:00:48; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310724 << MP DOES NOT WRITE SOFTWARE [15:05]
ascii_field rng is merely ~one~ way to perform the function that it is for [15:05]
mircea_popescu it's not fucking hardware, is it ? [15:05]
ascii_field trilema is text. [15:05]
mircea_popescu what is this "text" ? [15:05]
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ascii_field hssssshsh. [15:06]
mircea_popescu yeees ? [15:06]
ascii_field khhhh. [15:06]
mircea_popescu it is my fault you use words like fucking Vogue ? [15:06]
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pete_dushenski bbl [15:06]
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ascii_field 'text' doesn't need to satisfy a compiler. [15:07]
mircea_popescu the ~ reason ~ "programming" decayed into its present shape IS THAT there is no difference to be had. [15:07]
mircea_popescu this sort of thing is what i MEAN when i say "understand rng". [15:07]
mircea_popescu nobody "in computing" seems to have understood or even wanted to think about "wtf is this text" [15:08]
mircea_popescu ascii_field then trilema isn't text. [15:08]
ascii_field let's do the basics then/ [15:08]
mircea_popescu let's. [15:08]
ascii_field can describe 'text' as a program as well. simply with much larger valid phase space. [15:09]
mircea_popescu so ? [15:09]
mircea_popescu and what is "larger" [15:09]
mircea_popescu is this a hilbert hotel sort of faux larger ? [15:09]
ascii_field no [15:09]
mircea_popescu did you count alphs ? do you have a definition of alephs ? [15:10]
mircea_popescu do not speak to me without backing, for i will eat your words. [15:10]
ascii_field simply that is is a program for a certain kind of apparatus, where the instructions correspond to throwing glyphs on a display [15:11]
mircea_popescu a "kind" ? what kind. [15:11]
mircea_popescu computers are a kind now ? [15:11]
ascii_field the kind that takes octets and turns'em into glyphs ? [15:11]
ascii_field (e.g., a vt100) [15:11]
mircea_popescu you mean, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310768 ? [15:12]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 13:58:56; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310704 << the n00b put in front of von neumann machine is told that the deterministic circuits will behave... well, deterministically. then five minutes later he learns about threads and the scheduler, and then never believes anyone again.. [15:12]
* BingoBoingo kinda with alf in that Trilema text kinda needs compiled after reading to really be understood. [15:12]
ascii_field before any of this, it was a 'program' for an ibm selectric [15:12]
mircea_popescu octets ftr simply means "numbers under 256". as if. [15:12]
ascii_field originally sextets, iirc [15:12]
ascii_field (64 hammers) [15:12]
mircea_popescu what, if you arbitrarily chunk content into "humbers under 256" you've now done something ? [15:12]
mircea_popescu is 1 an octet ? [15:13]
ascii_field nope [15:13]
ascii_field but 000001 is. [15:13]
ascii_field rather 00000001 [15:13]
mircea_popescu o i see. nominalism gonna save you from the buttrape ? [15:13]
mircea_popescu "by the power invested in me i hereby call him my 00000boyfriend! all is well now!" [15:14]
ascii_field what 'nominalism', it's a physical recipe to make the correct hammer fall [15:14]
ascii_field because apparently it is 1948 again and we need to [15:14]
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ascii_field https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/75/b4/1f/75b41f41ad261cb7da8cf40e749ae99c.jpg << the original octets. [15:16]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/20dFB9E ) [15:16]
ascii_field (those in question.) [15:17]
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ascii_field http://www.samhallas.co.uk/museums/henlow/07b_creed_444.jpg << and where to put it. [15:18]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/20dFVoZ ) [15:18]
ascii_field recall the thread about the line feed characters ? [15:18]
ascii_field we are still emulating the vt100, which in turn emulated this simple machine, telex. [15:19]
mircea_popescu hey, you wanted it to be 1948 again [15:19]
mircea_popescu remember ? [15:19]
ascii_field aha [15:19]
ascii_field though telex existed in the 30s, there are nazi examples preserved [15:19]
ascii_field so we can go there if we like. or to van kempelen's musical boxes if we must. [15:19]
ascii_field 1700s [15:20]
mircea_popescu what, definition by example ? [15:20]
mircea_popescu that's how we got in the fucking mess in the first place, if that's all you wqanna do how about we just microsoft. [15:20]
ascii_field what would a mircea_popescu-spec definition look like ? [15:21]
mircea_popescu dude if i knew i'd know and say something. [15:21]
ascii_field and what better example can there be of illustration of the concept of 'program' than a music box ? [15:21]
mircea_popescu forget illustrating [15:21]
mircea_popescu i thought you wanted to proceed correctly. [15:21]
mircea_popescu rather than the quick new jersey hacks [15:21]
ascii_field what is missing ? [15:21]
mircea_popescu provable, yes ? [15:21]
mircea_popescu you could start with having actual definitions. [15:22]
mircea_popescu as opposed to illustrating what you see of the world with examples. [15:22]
mircea_popescu the problem of examples (symbols, generally, whichy is what they are) is that everyone looking at them understands their own thing. [15:22]
mircea_popescu whichy is how "EVERYONE" loved obama in 2009 and everyone hated him in 2011. [15:22]
mircea_popescu what, he changed ? [15:22]
ascii_field what's wrong with, e.g., 'program' == 'sequence of symbols, each of which corresponds to one particular action' [15:23]
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mircea_popescu that then you want to exclude trilema. [15:23]
ascii_field and yes, this is a kindergarten summary, and yes, if somebody pays for it, i can go and teach 'theory of computation' where we do 'symbol', 'language', 'formal automaton', etc. as rigorously as we want [15:24]
mircea_popescu for starters. [15:24]
ascii_field to rigor mortis if we like [15:24]
mircea_popescu wait, you're going back to the old paradigms ? [15:24]
mircea_popescu again : if you're willing to do that TO BE SAVED from adversity in the field, why even bother taking the field! just continue the paradigm. [15:24]
ascii_field we can do any isomorphism we want - wanna do church numerals? [15:24]
ascii_field peano arithm? [15:24]
mircea_popescu i dunno dude. maybe we do. do you know ? [15:24]
ascii_field depends what kind of nut we want to crack, no ? [15:25]
mircea_popescu doesn't seem we have a good idea of that, either. [15:25]
mircea_popescu damned thing keeps changing, we started wanting to fix bitcoin [15:25]
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mats http://uk.businessinsider.com/riksbank-increasing-qe-in-sweden-2015-10 [15:41]
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BingoBoingo Fiat world is really suffering today [16:51]
jurov BingoBoingo: how is the batman exceptional? [16:51]
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thestringpuller jurov: the character or the game? [16:54]
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jurov the game, so it deserves qntra mention [16:55]
thestringpuller the game is unplayable on windows [16:55]
thestringpuller cause it isn't optimized for PC [16:55]
jurov if it had linux port, it could excessively swap or crash the kernel via gpu turd, too [16:56]
jurov so you said every failed port is now qntrable? [16:56]
thestringpuller good point. dunno. [16:57]
jurov and saying that vuln in truecrypt management utility makes whole thing "fatally flawed to an unusable extent" is... [16:58]
jurov just an artistic licensa [16:59]
jurov *licence [16:59]
mircea_popescu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth << check it out, a wikipedia article that's not terrible. [16:59]
assbot Monomyth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1inc1fV ) [16:59]
mircea_popescu mostly on the grounds of being 100% stolen from cambell and co, but anyway. [16:59]
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jurov if BingoBoingo aims to demask sordid state of the IT "industry", describing the intel mandatory rootkit would do more than failed windows port of some obscure game [17:04]
mircea_popescu gotta start somewhere tho. [17:06]
jurov guess i should learn to submit such bits while they're hot myself [17:06]
mircea_popescu can't hurt. [17:07]
mircea_popescu Campbell: "Atonement consists in no more than the abandonment of that self-generated double monster—the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult. One must have a faith that the father is merciful, and then a reliance on that mercy. Therewith, the center of belief is transferred o [17:07]
mircea_popescu utside of the bedeviling god's tight scaly ring, and the dreadful ogres dissolve. It is in this ordeal that the hero may derive hope and assurance from the helpful female figure, by whose magic (pollen charms or power of intercession) he is protected through all the frightening experiences of the father's ego-shattering initiation. For if it is impossible to trust the terrifying father-face, then one's faith must be ce [17:07]
mircea_popescu ntered elsewhere (Spider Woman, Blessed Mother); and with that reliance for support, one endures the crisis—only to find, in the end, that the father and mother reflect each other, and are in essence the same. The problem of the hero going to meet the father is to open his soul beyond terror to such a degree that he will be ripe to understand how the sickening and insane tragedies of this vast and ruthless cosmos are [17:07]
mircea_popescu completely validated in the majesty of Being. The hero transcends life with its peculiar blind spot and for a moment rises to a glimpse of the source. He beholds the face of the father, understands—and the two are atoned." [17:07]
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ascii_field jurov: intel's rootkit unfortunately in no way qualifies as nyooz [17:13]
ascii_field now, if, e.g., jurov dusted off his electron microscope & reversed the blob, ~that~ could be nyooz [17:13]
jurov oh, i have electron microscope? [17:14]
ascii_field supposing! [17:14]
ascii_field the interesting bit is that the 'me' turd is not encrypted in the usual sense of the word [17:15]
ascii_field but merely compressed - with an unknown dictionary (the latter, in mask rom) [17:15]
ascii_field conceivably one could determine the actual instructions executed by the me coprocessor with dpa [17:15]
mircea_popescu now that would be news. [17:15]
mircea_popescu publish that, let me get my money's forth for all the "bulletproof" bs qntra is on. [17:16]
ascii_field if someone pays for this to happen - it will happen. right here on my desk [17:16]
ascii_field but it's a bit thick for 'after dinner hack.' [17:16]
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jurov how much? [17:16]
ascii_field more than anyone wants to pay for this. [17:17]
jurov what if S.NSA would wish to? [17:17]
ascii_field i'd put together a formal quote if i had the least reason to think anyone seriously were asking. [17:17]
ascii_field jurov: we're talking about 6 mo. to a year of full time wizardry. [17:18]
ascii_field approximately. [17:18]
mircea_popescu ascii_field what does it cost to happen iyo ? [17:18]
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mircea_popescu ah so like 50k sorta thing ? [17:18]
ascii_field no fewer than 100k. [17:18]
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mircea_popescu 6 months, tax free, self directed costs more than one year, pre tax, have to commute sort of job ? [17:19]
ascii_field costs same. [17:19]
ascii_field i must also point out, out of ordinary scientific integrity, that there could be no guarantee of finding buried treasure in that blob. [17:21]
ascii_field could be that it is merely a placeholder. [17:21]
jurov btw, sounds weird to me that no one'd pay 100k to try for such potential treasure [17:21]
mircea_popescu obviously this is a discussion at the wrong end of "everything costs more and takes longer" type of process. [17:21]
ascii_field or makes use of further, inner obfuscations yet unknown. [17:21]
mircea_popescu jurov why ? [17:22]
ascii_field it is a discussion of a very unlikely thing. i can't picture why anybody would order this. [17:22]
BingoBoingo BingoBoingo: how is the batman exceptional? << Dollars sunk into broken software. [17:22]
mircea_popescu you are essentially going "i wonder why nobody at the all-girls catholic school is willing to have sex in exchange of footage of other girls in the shower". [17:23]
BingoBoingo if BingoBoingo aims to demask sordid state of the IT "industry", describing the intel mandatory rootkit would do more than failed windows port of some obscure game << This has to go "bigger" [17:23]
mircea_popescu wh ythe fuck would they ?! they need to see another cunt like you need a hair in your yoghurt [17:23]
BingoBoingo guess i should learn to submit such bits while they're hot myself << Please do. [17:23]
ascii_field mircea_popescu is correct [17:23]
mircea_popescu all the derps that this'd be interesting to are essentially on the same side of the same market : wanna make money (sex) out of their "skillz" (having a cunt) [17:24]
jurov at least china would be doing it, no? [17:24]
ascii_field china has own r.e. folks. [17:25]
mircea_popescu again - everyone to whom this would be useful has own re folks. [17:27]
mircea_popescu whether they're any good or this good or good i nany sense is aside, and really not the point. [17:27]
ascii_field aha! [17:28]
ascii_field mircea_popescu gets it! [17:28]
ascii_field and ~now~ possibly he also gets why i am chained to my meatwot [17:28]
ascii_field and expect to starve when it gives out. [17:28]
mircea_popescu fancy that i do not. [17:29]
ascii_field you almost grasped it [17:29]
mircea_popescu think : how come i get it ? [17:29]
ascii_field notice that nobody who needs something expensively reversed needs strangers for anything [17:29]
ascii_field or am i mistaken that you noticed this, earlier. [17:29]
mircea_popescu i'm niether china nor korea nor etc. [17:29]
ascii_field because intel squad ? [17:30]
mircea_popescu but HOW COME ? [17:30]
ascii_field or possibly out of general grasp of the mechanics [17:30]
mircea_popescu see, why didn't I starve once my original meatwot gave out ? [17:30]
ascii_field because meatwizard. [17:30]
mircea_popescu how come i wasn't even there for that event ? [17:30]
mircea_popescu oh i see. in a world of lizzards and wizzards, what's a girl to do! [17:31]
jurov mircea_popescu: you have had something expensively reversed? [17:32]
mircea_popescu on occasion. [17:32]
mircea_popescu most recently, yesterday. [17:32]
ascii_field but - unsurprisingly - he has his own people for this. [17:32]
ascii_field in the same way as he has the intel dept, mircea_popescucoin squad (whoever maintains that 0.6-compat. thing), etc. [17:33]
ascii_field this is all entirely reasonable. [17:33]
mircea_popescu ascii_field the important thing here being that it is not even expensive. it's free. for me. which is a large part of the problem - medieval knights didn't get paid in cash nor did they pay cash for the fees. [17:35]
ascii_field free in the way your flat is ? [17:35]
mircea_popescu capitalism works well, but is not well suited to the tasks that feudalism requires. [17:35]
ascii_field or didja have a gurl do it, or what. [17:35]
mircea_popescu ascii_field it is complicated. [17:35]
ascii_field if you ever feel like explaining, i promise to listen. [17:35]
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ascii_field in case n00bz are reading this: nobody pays 100 tonnes for a reversing gig to some unknown for the same reason all 'assassination markets' are usg hoaxes [17:37]
jurov i never meant it that way [17:37]
ascii_field jurov: out of curiosity, what did you have in mind ? [17:38]
jurov i understand there must be a pool of scientists, as staff or in wot that must be reassigned to this [17:38]
jurov which pool must first exist in some form [17:39]
mircea_popescu not some form. specifically the following form : if you fail we all die. [17:39]
jurov O.o [17:39]
mircea_popescu myeah. [17:39]
jurov why it cannot happen such that mossad goes to tel aviv university and places an order? [17:40]
ascii_field it could [17:40]
ascii_field but i don't work in either. [17:40]
ascii_field nobody invited me there. [17:41]
mircea_popescu jurov why can't it happen you go to neighbour's wife and place an order ? [17:41]
ascii_field ^ [17:41]
jurov nonsense [17:41]
mircea_popescu why ? [17:41]
jurov how is that comparable< [17:41]
mircea_popescu not how this works. if you wanna call it nonsense, show where it doesn't work. [17:41]
mircea_popescu all you need is a point. [17:41]
jurov what you describe would be mossad going to german uni [17:42]
mircea_popescu and how do they know this ? [17:42]
jurov mossad has files on all the professors? [17:42]
mircea_popescu maybe "german" is next apt building. [17:42]
mircea_popescu so what if it does ? [17:42]
mircea_popescu stalker has files on all the celebs, does that mean they're sexually intimate now ? [17:42]
mircea_popescu (i suppose the deeply lame situation of secret servicemen in this regard has escape all notice prior ?) [17:43]
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ascii_field jurov: one of the things to understand is that a, e.g., 100k r.e. job is really a transaction in ~silence~ far more so than in the deliverable as conceived of in this hypothetical. [17:45]
ascii_field see the old 0day market threadz, for instance. [17:45]
mircea_popescu well no, this is not even the angle here. [17:46]
mircea_popescu one of the major wins of /me style b-a governance is that it actually nulls THAT ENTIRE silence cost bs. it's in the logs. [17:46]
ascii_field who the hell would pay for 100k reversing only to have the result made public ? [17:46]
mircea_popescu (and yes, cwcd, not possible w/o bitcoin, gpg, people involved, an actual infrastructure) [17:46]
mircea_popescu ascii_field i did not say nor was it implied that i'll make it public. merely that it is had. [17:47]
ascii_field you did say 'nulls the entire silence cost bs' ? [17:47]
ascii_field or am failing to grasp what this means [17:47]
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mircea_popescu there's a difference between getting to see the koh i noor and knowing lord x owns it. or, to quote popfictionikia, "Another consideration was education. Before the late 1950s and the advent of the stately home business, very few working-class people had seen the upstairs of these great houses; those that had were there only to clean and serve, with an obligation to keep their eyes down, rather than uplift them and be [17:48]
mircea_popescu educated. " [17:48]
ascii_field i'm not sure there ~is~ a difference re: e.g., an 0day [17:48]
ascii_field can't prove ownership without giving it away. [17:48]
mircea_popescu no. but in THE CASE WE'RE DISCUSSING [17:48]
ascii_field in that case likewise. [17:48]
mircea_popescu obviously no tool works for any purpose in any context. [17:48]
mircea_popescu actually, the thing is more valuable once known to exist. [17:49]
jurov i'm utterly lost on the sexual metaphor, but if mircea says no one is going to look closely to intel's silicon except under threat of death, i gotta believe him [17:49]
ascii_field but how is it to be known to outsiders ? [17:49]
mircea_popescu do you grasp this or want me to model it ? [17:49]
mircea_popescu jurov i am actually saying something very much like that, yes. [17:49]
ascii_field now i'm also lost [17:50]
mircea_popescu ascii_field outsiders are utterly a red herring. there exist no outsiders. reddit might as well not exist and everyone else reads the logs. [17:50]
ascii_field so idea is, mircea_popescu pays to have the koh-i-noor dug up, the fact of this matter is chronicled in the logz, and anyone who's anyone is to simply believe ? [17:51]
mircea_popescu let me model it for you then. [17:51]
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mircea_popescu situation a) item is shown theoretically to possibly exist ; situation b) item is alleged to physically exist in vaults of lord X. [17:52]
mircea_popescu in situation a, the value of item is to be calculated theoretically ; in situation b, the value of the item is "a little less than it costs me to get one myself". and it is VERY practical. because yes, you MUST keep up with the Xs. [17:53]
mircea_popescu and so therefore, going from a to b actually increases the market value of item. through a process known as "creating a market". [17:53]
mircea_popescu the equivalent approach is to say item acquired a new property in going from a to b. in both it's the same thing, but in b it is also an exclusive good [17:53]
mircea_popescu whereas nobody can exclude another from possession of a theoretical item. [17:53]
mircea_popescu and that extra property means extra moneys. [17:53]
BingoBoingo * ascii_field stands up ears << /me imagines https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d8/ab/16/d8ab1625fc56226793fe649e7f1b2177.jpg [17:54]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1M0aMM3 ) [17:54]
mircea_popescu and now with exaples : aluminum is a theoretical metal. [17:54]
mircea_popescu the first box, gifted to napoleon, has no value (!= is worthless) [17:54]
mircea_popescu the NEXT box has a price. would napoleon have paid that for his box ? never. [17:55]
ascii_field mircea_popescu: didja ever see the teaspoons ? [17:56]
ascii_field or the little Al pyramid on washington's monument? [17:56]
mircea_popescu neither. [17:56]
ascii_field same idea though. [17:57]
mircea_popescu aha. [17:57]
ascii_field BingoBoingo: more of http://www.brockettsfilmfauna.com/images/Mammals-Birds/SIBERIAN%20LYNX%20HEAD%20SHOT.jpg [17:58]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1M0b6uh ) [17:58]
BingoBoingo ascii_field: Aha [17:59]
ascii_field mircea_popescu: back to the conundrum, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311225 [18:00]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 20:43:37; mircea_popescu: well no, this is not even the angle here. [18:00]
ascii_field what ~was~ the angle ? [18:00]
ascii_field also would like to understand http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311201 [18:01]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 20:37:02; mircea_popescu: not some form. specifically the following form : if you fail we all die. [18:01]
mircea_popescu the angle here is that 6 months is a waste of time/resources in the present configuration to go chase that thing. pure scheduling matter, yes, it's valuable, no we can't fill the larder with brontosaurus. [18:01]
ascii_field this - yes. [18:02]
mircea_popescu and im not sure what's to be explained of the latter. [18:02]
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thestringpuller Blythe Masters and The Fiat Puppets acquire blockchain SDK company: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3qpesp/blythe_masters_digital_asset_holdings_acquires/ [18:13]
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mircea_popescu o wait, the dude that failed to get tenure at j p morgan university ? [18:14]
ascii_field chick [18:15]
thestringpuller this chick who claims invented CDO's [18:15]
thestringpuller to have invented* [18:15]
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mircea_popescu i thought the winkletoss twins invented cdos [18:15]
mircea_popescu you sure she didn't invent facebook ? [18:15]
thestringpuller me too [18:15]
thestringpuller i guess I'm confused [18:15]
mircea_popescu yeah, plox to not insult the derps. gotta reference them correctly, whenever it's one of those idiots it should be "Blythe Masters, who claims to have invented Facebook", or "Erin Twinkletoss, who claims to have invented CDOs" etc. [18:16]
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mircea_popescu gotta give the public context for the news! [18:17]
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mircea_popescu it was erin was it ? or taylor ? what was the guy's name ? [18:17]
mircea_popescu or wait. is this also a she ? [18:17]
thestringpuller Cameron and Tyler [18:18]
mircea_popescu apparently it's tyler. [18:18]
mircea_popescu aha. [18:18]
mircea_popescu did the cameron one get a sex change ? or is that the wachowski [18:18]
thestringpuller that's wachowski [18:19]
thestringpuller larry wachowski is now lana wachowski [18:19]
thestringpuller ;;google lana wachowski [18:19]
gribble Lana Wachowski - IMDb: ; The Wachowskis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: ; Lana Wachowski Reveals Suicide Plan, Painful Past in Emotional ...: [18:19]
mircea_popescu well... zhe still has time. [18:19]
mircea_popescu cameron makes a great girl name. [18:19]
mircea_popescu could marry cameron diaz, they could go to conferences as cameron & cameron diaz-tinkletoss [18:19]
thestringpuller you're on a roll now! [18:20]
BingoBoingo In other news: http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/television/gail-pennington/archdiocese-warns-of-dangers-in-exorcism-live/article_f0ddc4d9-2b2d-5f5e-83c6-cdcdce29b5ae.html [18:21]
assbot Archdiocese warns of dangers in 'Exorcism: Live!' : Entertainment ... ( http://bit.ly/20e7Bdg ) [18:21]
mircea_popescu do you rthink they got paid for that ? [18:21]
BingoBoingo mebbe? [18:21]
mircea_popescu "10 year study of inpatient kids: 44% got antipsychotics. Is that a lot? Yes. It's a lot." [18:21]
mircea_popescu hot damned ?! seriously ? almost half ?! [18:21]
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ascii_field mircea_popescu: what self-respecting психушка serves up something other than neuroleptic ? [18:22]
mircea_popescu You can wrack your brain trying to figure this out or blame the usual suspects, but the answer is right there in the article: [18:22]
mircea_popescu "Variables associated with antipsychotic use [included] male gender, age 12 years and under, being nonwhite, and a length of stay 13 days or longer." [18:22]
mircea_popescu You'll observe that none of those words is "diagnosis" or "severity." [18:22]
mircea_popescu The cause of these high levels of medications is so simple you'll recoil from the truth of it, but pour yourself a drink and take it like a man: the kids showed up. That's it. The kid is in front of you and you have to do something, now, that results in an acute change. Not better grades 4 years out, or less sadness over the teen years; change the sleep tonight, make the kid less hyper now, and when it "stops working [18:22]
mircea_popescu " you can up the dose or change the med. [18:22]
mircea_popescu ascii_field seems it's not even it. [18:23]
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ascii_field nobody canceled the good ol' chemical straightjacket [18:23]
mircea_popescu "When a kid is presented to a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist is pressured, obligated, to do something pharmacological. If a psychiatrist looked a single parent a joint away from a nap right in the eye and said, "nope, he's acting out because of X, Y, Z, and medications aren't going to fix this" that doctor will get his head handed to him by parent or by lawyer. Justice will be done, you negligent elitist." [18:25]
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mircea_popescu i wonder how much of this is jenuine and how much mere malingering. [18:25]
mircea_popescu obviously i have no us clinical experience. i also have an apparent inability to represent how this'd work. seriously, doctor says "nope, he's acting out because of X, Y, Z, and medications aren't going to fix this" and the parent argues the point ? with the doctor ? just.... how ? [18:25]
ascii_field say a fella at butugychag stuffs his boot full of ammonal and blows off his toes, to avoid work detail in the quarry [18:26]
ascii_field is that 'real' or malingering ..? [18:26]
mircea_popescu but this isn't what this is. this is a doctor claiming he's being a contemporary rendition of fucking mengele because "the jews and the dogs expected it" [18:26]
mircea_popescu rrrrrheally ?!?! [18:26]
ascii_field but he's not mengele. he's an assistant. [18:26]
mircea_popescu no, he's mengele. [18:26]
ascii_field 'inject this blue paint in the eyes of this here 100 prisoners before you clock out' [18:27]
mircea_popescu i have no objection to anyone who ever prescribed neuroleptics in virgins to be taken straight off to death row. [18:27]
ascii_field they do 5 y.o. and possibly below, now [18:27]
ascii_field in fact i'm pretty certain that it is happening as we speak a floor or so below where i sit [18:28]
mircea_popescu should be part of the test. no sexual history, no meds. [18:28]
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ascii_field tlp's point, i think, was precisely that he isn't mengele and if he won't vivisect the screaming prisoner, he'll take his place [18:29]
ascii_field and somebody else - will. [18:29]
mircea_popescu the mengele who knows he's doing wrong anf the mengele who "doesn't" are both mengele. [18:29]
mircea_popescu there is no "resistance through culture", you don't get to tell me "hey i knew all along X was a scam, i just promoted it ironically" [18:29]
ascii_field yes, 'following orders' defense failed at nuremberg [18:30]
ascii_field but on the other hand, they didn't hang all of germany [18:30]
mircea_popescu well most of it was dead. they however, you will note, RAPED THE REMAINDER. [18:30]
mircea_popescu for a good few years. [18:30]
ascii_field aha. [18:30]
mircea_popescu this is how education works, in cunts. [18:31]
mircea_popescu the sort that go "oh wait, i was just ... being a woman" [18:31]
mircea_popescu fine, be a woman over there then. [18:31]
ascii_field point in making the distinction was to divide whom it makes sense to feed to giant squid, and whom - to 'reflash firmware' [18:32]
ascii_field this also calls to mind mircea_popescu's article about the fat train riders [18:33]
mircea_popescu myeah. [18:33]
ascii_field becoming mengele's assistant, or tlp, or me - is a product of a long series of 'bad life choices' [18:33]
mircea_popescu i guess it must be. [18:34]
ascii_field none of which, taken individually, are necessarily '~the~ losing move' [18:34]
ascii_field just as no individual 'big mac' made the fat fella what he is [18:34]
mircea_popescu word. [18:34]
mircea_popescu "so then... big macs are bad but hey i gotta eat and this one is not that bad right ?" sure. [18:34]
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ascii_field as, i think, was discussed in old thread, [18:35]
ascii_field a great many folks in this jail have literally no choice but to eat 'big mac' or die. [18:35]
mircea_popescu life's worthless in and of itself. [18:36]
ascii_field (it does not follow that they must eat 5,000 cal/day of them) [18:36]
mircea_popescu if that's the choice, waht choice is there ? [18:36]
ascii_field sorta what i tried to explain to pete_dushenski earlier today. [18:36]
BingoBoingo but this isn't what this is. this is a doctor claiming he's being a contemporary rendition of fucking mengele because "the jews and the dogs expected it" << "Standard of care" [18:37]
mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/images/map%20of%20psychiatry%20today.jpg << interesting worldmap [18:38]
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BingoBoingo So what if the kids end up fucked in adulthood by a couple months or years of neuroleptic induced hyper-prolactinemia, telling the parents they suck would make the doctor the "uncaring monster" to the rest of the system [18:39]
mircea_popescu BingoBoingo no. standard of care is specificallty made to resist this, by the few people that are old enough to not want to soon have to explain it. the standard is "as practiced by reasonable minority" [18:39]
BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Aha. You assume this is a medical system and not a medium of social control. [18:39]
ascii_field actually in usa 'standard of care' is now this. [18:39]
mircea_popescu ascii_field obviously, as the people in question die. [18:40]
BingoBoingo Dead, retired, gone [18:40]
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ascii_field has mircea_popescu ever read the memoir of general piotr grigorenko ? [18:40]
BingoBoingo Or ridden out on the rail by crowds [18:40]
mircea_popescu have not. [18:41]
ascii_field mircea_popescu: prolly highest ranking псиxушка victim. [18:41]
mircea_popescu ah aha [18:41]
ascii_field 'В подполье можно встретить только крыс' << mega-b00k. 'in the underground one meets only rats.' [18:41]
ascii_field http://militera.lib.ru/memo/russian/grigorenko/index.html [18:41]
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mircea_popescu o look, online. [18:42]
ascii_field because ru! [18:42]
ascii_field aaaaanyway he describes his whole life, but i note him here for featuring the 'sane old generation' of shrinks who did not go along. [18:42]
ascii_field and because of whom he remained alive. [18:42]
ascii_field and in reasonable possession of most of his wits. [18:42]
thestringpuller http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=31&art_id=162657&sid=45464435&con_type=3 << hey kidnpping for bitcoin. this channel is good at predicting da-future [18:43]
phf conversation keeps arriving to the same point that the solution to local maximum is death. tlp makes those conclusions in "how to not be a narcissist", but then fails to see how it applies to himself with his own mengel situation. or to quote orr from catch-22 "How can he see he's got flies in his eyes if he's got flies in his eyes?" [18:44]
mircea_popescu i am kinda expecting to see "behavioural doping" or somesuch. if industrial pollutant is so cheap/abundant it actually creates an ecological problem, it is obviously only a matter of time before the large amts of discrete data (google db, cctv db, etc) are meshed together with substance dictionary to create optimized diets for advertising. [18:44]
mircea_popescu "we have noticed that if we spray X on Y the purchase of flat screen tvs goes up 15%" [18:44]
ascii_field phf: i'd not be surprised if he 'solved' himself already. [18:44]
mircea_popescu phf "death". http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311123 and prev. [18:45]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 20:05:19; mircea_popescu: completely validated in the majesty of Being. The hero transcends life with its peculiar blind spot and for a moment rises to a glimpse of the source. He beholds the face of the father, understands—and the two are atoned." [18:45]
mircea_popescu this is principally why women [used to] have an advantage over men. they actually experienced socially mandated death, to their benefit. it was the system which produced usable old bitties of the sort that kept say the jews alive. [18:46]
mircea_popescu kinda what the eleusine mysteries for instance tried to provide as a public good. [18:47]
mircea_popescu why the church ever caught on in god forsaken wastes such as those inhabited by the ru speaking folk. etc. [18:47]
mircea_popescu (yes there's a deep reason for the schism, no it has nothing to do with politics. the western church mostly provided laas, the eastern church baas.) [18:48]
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ascii_field laas ? [18:51]
ascii_field http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311386 << this is sop! since, idk, 1950s ?! [18:51]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 21:42:20; mircea_popescu: "we have noticed that if we spray X on Y the purchase of flat screen tvs goes up 15%" [18:51]
ascii_field ever smell a new high-end laptop ? [18:52]
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pete_dushenski smells like car ? [18:52]
ascii_field nope [18:52]
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asciilifeform !up ascii_field [18:53]
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ascii_field (assuming pete_dushenski is thinking of the usual formaldehyde 'smell of new car') [18:53]
pete_dushenski general plastic voc off-gassing [18:53]
ascii_field then no. [18:53]
ascii_field specially-made perfumes. [18:53]
ascii_field not so much in fashion now as before [18:54]
ascii_field (sony was a frequent offender) [18:54]
pete_dushenski it's a testament to their branding efforts that sony electronics make me think only of recent james bond movies [18:54]
pete_dushenski when's the last time you say a sony laptop irl ? [18:54]
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ascii_field pete_dushenski: when i was cleaning my shed. [18:55]
ascii_field 'vaio' circa 1998. [18:55]
ascii_field or rather the pieces of six or so of'em [18:55]
pete_dushenski aha. and in wild ? [18:55]
ascii_field in the wild - can't recall. [18:55]
ascii_field long ago. [18:55]
* pete_dushenski remembers that vintage of vaio for being incredibly spendy [18:55]
pete_dushenski and sleek ! [18:56]
ascii_field l0l you actually bought'em new ?~! [18:56]
ascii_field but yeah, the ones with the blue battery [18:56]
pete_dushenski never bought. too young. and out of my price range. [18:57]
pete_dushenski admired the design ? and specs ? yes. [18:58]
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phf vaio was the last laptop you could jack into cyberspace with [18:59]
pete_dushenski this was when pentium badly outperformed ppc. intel easily had +30% clock speed. [18:59]
ascii_field https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/qJiI0Wk63-Pgu6gUocN1PZbJFA0=/1020x0/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2818214/03_pcg505.1391682320.jpg << it [18:59]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/20ecOls ) [18:59]
ascii_field i still miss these things. [18:59]
ascii_field believe or not, linux WORKED !! [19:00]
ascii_field yes, with lid suspend mode! [19:00]
ascii_field and sound card. etc. [19:00]
phf i had a picturebook, one of the c1 models [19:00]
ascii_field and FUCKING LINUX not ubuntu. [19:00]
ascii_field http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/6/5385716/sony-vaio-iconic-pcs-photo-essay << historical interest re: the series [19:01]
assbot A look back at Sony's iconic VAIO computers | The Verge ... ( http://bit.ly/20ed3gt ) [19:01]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310777 << i probably have the fewest displays in b-a huh [19:01]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 14:03:07; asciilifeform: this means a ROOM full of displays if you can swing it [19:01]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310786 << he, like you, propose that they are not "true" [19:02]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 14:08:24; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310745 << i read this piece but do not grasp how it relates to my position on *leaks [19:02]
mircea_popescu in the efficacious sense of truth. [19:02]
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mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310831 << this is very amusing specifically because of the relation to eulora and its bots. [19:09]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 16:44:39; davout: "In my humble opinion: these bots create a false market. They represent institutional greed offering no substantial increase in value per point nor do they offer any noticeable increase in liquidity. I also believe that they will chase your average human customers away, who like us, were trying to get the best price we could while at least trying to offer a better market" [19:09]
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mircea_popescu !up Namworld [19:10]
-assbot- You voiced Namworld for 30 minutes. [19:10]
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mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310847 << lolwut ? [19:11]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:11; pete_dushenski: "To bad there isn’t such a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude." [19:11]
Namworld Ah, didn't even have to auth [19:11]
Namworld I got an email. I get it the game development has progressed [19:11]
mircea_popescu the proof that reddit is not the problem, i guess. random reddit nobody knows about waiting in the wings, to maybe one day be the reddit derps know about. [19:11]
mircea_popescu Namworld how's life been treatin ya ? [19:12]
Namworld Coinroll hasn't seen as much development as I would have liked, but jurov and wao are now on it. [19:12]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310848 << more like "state promised us that if we smoke the pipe all will be fine. well... pipe is going out and what is this!11" [19:12]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:20; davout: which conveniently boils down to "we need safe spaces to stop these micro-agressions" [19:12]
Namworld Otherwise, relatively well. [19:13]
mircea_popescu cool. [19:13]
Namworld I don't mind testing the game whenever I have some free time. [19:15]
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BingoBoingo ... << more like "state promised us that if we smoke the pipe all will be fine. well... pipe is going out and what is this!11" << I refer to this phenomena as Shrem's Bong [19:18]
pete_dushenski lel [19:18]
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Namworld jurov, you never talked much about this [19:23]
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pete_dushenski ;;nethash [19:27]
gribble 457174667.081 [19:27]
mircea_popescu Namworld well, install it, ima make you an account then. [19:28]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310853 << you don't understand how for great justice works. they have to be supporting cast in his movie because otherwise it's microracist. [19:30]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:06:26; davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310847 <<< because obviously the team will happily be my personal army and not simply take my gf and point at me laughing [19:30]
assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42650 @ 0.00054236 = 23.1317 BTC [-] {2} [19:30]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310863 << strange that this should be possible. [19:32]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:09:03; ascii_field: roman slavery has very little to do with the modern variety. [19:32]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310874 << word. [19:33]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:13:01; pete_dushenski: there can be no stable hierarchy. anywhere. [19:33]
mircea_popescu stable hierarchy is for horses. [19:33]
pete_dushenski 'never step into the same river twice' (tm) [19:34]
pete_dushenski 'unless you're a horse' (tm) [19:34]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310877 << eventually i'ma die, and that'll be that. [19:35]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:13:50; ascii_field: idk, e.g., mircea_popescu's place above, e.g., mine, is pretty stable [19:35]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310888 << let me explain something to you. slave had some old bitties over for coffee, recounted the story to me. they wanted to know if she's married or has a man. she said no. i suggested she should have said he died in the war. "what war ?" "you know, the war". and then we joked about how it'd play from there, and eventually it came to me the thing to say to prevent fu [19:37]
mircea_popescu rther unwated inquiry is, of course, "that;s inappropriate". except... how do you say this in spanish. [19:37]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:17:00; ascii_field: is that you DON'T HAVE CONTROL [19:37]
mircea_popescu answer : you do not. which takes us right to the reason most people do not learn a foreign language, or enjoy interacting with people whose language they do not speak. [19:37]
mircea_popescu as far as average person is concerned, their safety from being, eg, raped, is built entirely out of their belief in the magical power of a construct like that. it is not meaningful, but magical, in that it projects will and controls "the universe". [19:38]
mircea_popescu inasmuch as there's no spanish equivalent, what's to keep some dudes from busting into your house and taking all your holes on the kitchen table ? [19:39]
mircea_popescu same thing that prevents them anywhere else, obviously. but the subconscious does not really comprehend locks, or rifles, or anything so complex it needs a factory. [19:39]
Namworld okay... [19:39]
Namworld It looks like it starts [19:39]
mircea_popescu it does however understand magic. especially because magic specifically exists as a result of the subconscious' poor grasp of everything. [19:39]
mircea_popescu Namworld ok 1 sec [19:39]
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mircea_popescu Namworld http://dpaste.com/0T03XD6 [19:42]
assbot dpaste: 0T03XD6 ... ( http://bit.ly/1GNzank ) [19:42]
mircea_popescu but other than this, to continue the prev thread, no, you do not have control, in the sense that there isn't a magical write-protect bit you set or unset at your will and unless you've unset it nothing can ever affect you. [19:44]
mircea_popescu it's often seen as a problem in idiots who imagien they can keep bitcoin at bay by saying (in some magical correct form, i guess) that "i do not agree" or "i am not inviting this devil in my house" or whatever. "that is not how debates work", what have you. [19:45]
diana_coman I'd have though it was much simpler than that mircea_popescu: most people don't like learning. [19:46]
mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310905 <<< in that it's called marriage. [19:46]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 17:19:56; ascii_field: pete_dushenski: the subtraction of EVERYTHING that you care about from your life is different from death how? [19:46]
mircea_popescu diana_coman but why wouldn't they ? children love it. [19:46]
pete_dushenski even the established ~concept~ of regicide demonstrates the limited nature of 'control' [19:46]
diana_coman because they already have automated patterns ("learnt") on which they can operate in familiar situations [19:46]
diana_coman hence they don't like the unfamiliar, full stop [19:47]
diana_coman children basically have nothing [19:47]
diana_coman so yes, they love learning, of course [19:47]
mircea_popescu diana_coman quite exactly. "this wand doesn't even vibrate, what use is it!" [19:47]
mircea_popescu "well... it's not a vibrating wand, it's a firebolt wand" "CONSUMERS HAVE COME TO EXPECT!" [19:48]
mircea_popescu next thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of the mage business. [19:48]
diana_coman well, come to think about it: children ask "what is that?" all the time and guess what do they get mainly as answer [19:48]
diana_coman an explanation or experience of what the damned thing IS [19:49]
diana_coman OR [19:49]
diana_coman the name of it [19:49]
diana_coman ? [19:49]
mircea_popescu the name of it thing is correct however. [19:49]
diana_coman it is correct but not really sufficient [19:49]
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mircea_popescu if it is not sufficient child will ask again [19:49]
mircea_popescu they ask how babies are made, do they get a story or a demonstration ? [19:49]
mircea_popescu "oh but story is not sufficient" [19:49]
diana_coman well, no, not really, listen [19:49]
mircea_popescu well... for now it'd better be [19:49]
diana_coman they ask what is that and what is the other [19:50]
diana_coman and every time they get...a name [19:50]
diana_coman so they will logically derive at the same time [19:50]
diana_coman that the name is what things are [19:50]
diana_coman if it's not called a tree [19:50]
diana_coman it's not a tree anymore! [19:50]
diana_coman your problem above [19:50]
mircea_popescu do you trick your kid any ? [19:50]
diana_coman yes [19:50]
diana_coman it's fun anyway :D [19:50]
mircea_popescu well, that takes care of that. but otherwise, yeah. [19:50]
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Namworld ok, voicing myself [19:52]
Namworld I could see accidents happen with those 2 features combined [19:52]
mircea_popescu which ? [19:52]
Namworld [18:46] <+mircea_popescu> next thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of the mage business. [19:59]
mircea_popescu lol. nah, it'll just create a market for carpal tunnel potions. [20:00]
mircea_popescu win-win [20:00]
Namworld I meant a different kind of accident, but sure [20:01]
mircea_popescu iirc there was some guy burning his beard off with "revolutionary laser shaver" in the logs [20:02]
Namworld Hmm, maybe I'm too stupid to enter a password... but this doesn't seem to work. [20:03]
Namworld I tried both email and username with that password [20:03]
shinohai !s "revolutionary laser shaver" [20:03]
assbot 0 results for '"revolutionary laser shaver"' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=%22revolutionary+laser+shaver%22 [20:03]
mircea_popescu Namworld lemme see 1sec [20:04]
hanbot Namworld btw check out #eulora [20:04]
pete_dushenski !s kickstarter [20:07]
assbot 246 results for 'kickstarter' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=kickstarter [20:07]
pete_dushenski ^lazr was on there [20:07]
pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311393 << as in the sung notes ? [20:15]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 21:46:21; mircea_popescu: (yes there's a deep reason for the schism, no it has nothing to do with politics. the western church mostly provided laas, the eastern church baas.) [20:15]
mircea_popescu literacy as a service / baptism as a service [20:16]
shinohai thx pete_dushenski .... might buy a few hundred, duct tape them together and melt the white house [20:17]
pete_dushenski mircea_popescu aha. [20:18]
pete_dushenski shinohai if you could buy them, sure [20:18]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311529 << by all indications, it was ~actually~ with a red-hot nichrome wire. [20:31]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 22:59:54; mircea_popescu: iirc there was some guy burning his beard off with "revolutionary laser shaver" in the logs [20:31]
asciilifeform but he decided, for some chumpatronic reason, to pretend that it is a 'leaking fiber' [20:31]
asciilifeform and it wasn't beard, but the hair on his arm. [20:32]
asciilifeform (his beard remained attached) [20:32]
asciilifeform eventually the thing earned the rare distinction of being a sufficiently outrageous fraud to be... booted off 'kickstarter.' [20:32]
mircea_popescu vaguely reminds me of the dude nubbins prosecuted, with the "hand made" laser etched wood clunks [20:33]
asciilifeform wood collector ! [20:33]
asciilifeform l0l [20:33]
asciilifeform was kinda the opposite [20:34]
vulpes_a_hopital http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310818 << if you've swallowed the spittoon of east coast usthink, the alternative could only be "private school", which yes—"if you have to ask" is "expensive" [20:34]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 16:25:51; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310803 << last i heard, this costs money. [20:34]
asciilifeform vulpes_a_hopital: the alternative is either 'home school' or be an outlaw [20:34]
vulpes_a_hopital otherwise, the kids have a mother, and if she can't outperform the daycare you dun fukked up. [20:34]
asciilifeform and keep the spawn in your cellar [20:34]
vulpes_a_hopital what outlaw. [20:34]
asciilifeform (if anyone notices you have them, and they aren't taking the usg exams, you will have problems) [20:35]
vulpes_a_hopital there are seven year olds wandering my neighborhood at all hours of the day. unattended. [20:35]
asciilifeform try 14 y.o. [20:36]
asciilifeform where i live, there are even vans, marked 'truancy police' [20:36]
asciilifeform https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/DC_Police_Truancy_and_Curfew_enforcement_vehicle.jpg [20:37]
assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1M3XtOg ) [20:37]
asciilifeform of course, vulpes_a_hopital could paint his son brown and make sure he learns correct sp pronounciation - then he will be left alone. [20:38]
mircea_popescu ahahahaah truancy police omfg [20:39]
mircea_popescu and the kids don't burn them up ? [20:39]
asciilifeform aha [20:39]
asciilifeform how would i know, i don't drive one of these things [20:39]
shinohai In popular culture, known as "Paddy Wagons" [20:39]
asciilifeform but i've seen it at work [20:39]
mircea_popescu it is inconceivable that they exist. [20:40]
asciilifeform shinohai: 'paddy wagon' refers to all policewagen as a class [20:40]
mircea_popescu if i had kids there and they wanted money i would go "you can't have a penny until all those atrocities have been burned down" [20:40]
asciilifeform 'black maria' to brits [20:40]
asciilifeform black raven, in sov world [20:40]
asciilifeform but in usa - white! [20:40]
asciilifeform pr0gr3ss!!111. [20:40]
shinohai In Southern culture they use the term to exclusively refer to vans that haul off truants .... [20:41]
shinohai At least in Atlanta [20:41]
mircea_popescu "Scholars have questioned the validity or usefulness of the monomyth category. [20:41]
mircea_popescu According to Northup (2006), mainstream scholarship of comparative mythology since Campbell has moved away from "highly general and universal" categories in general.[13] This attitude is illustrated by e.g. Consentino (1998), who remarks "It is just as important to stress differences as similarities, to avoid creating a (Joseph) Campbell soup of myths that loses all local flavor."[14] Similarly, Ellwood (1999) stated " [20:41]
mircea_popescu A tendency to think in generic terms of people, races ... is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking."" [20:41]
mircea_popescu anyone wants to know what happens if one dares END a field ? [20:41]
asciilifeform at any rate, in practice the thing never shows up unless there's a gang of chimps making a public mess. [20:42]
mircea_popescu answer : a bunch of ustards will swoop in, pretending the field didn't end and insisting field enders are badmkay and raceys on top of everything [20:42]
mircea_popescu "This model has very poor grantmanship value" [20:42]
mircea_popescu "Others have found the categories Campbell works with so vague as to be meaningless, and lacking the support required of scholarly argument: Crespi (1990), writing in response to Campbell's filmed presentation of his model characterized it as "...unsatisfying from a social science perspective." [20:43]
mircea_popescu there's a "social sciences perspective" now, and i'm supposed to believe it is != granstmanship. [20:43]
asciilifeform pet: 'like many systematicists, campbell overstates the universality of his patterns' [20:44]
mircea_popescu funny, that objection is in the wikipedia verbatim [20:44]
asciilifeform srsly? [20:45]
mircea_popescu editor Alan Dundes dismisses Campbell's work, characterizing him as a popularizer: "like most universalists, he is content to merely assert universality rather than bother to document it. […] If Campbell's generalizations about myth are not substantiated, why should students consider his work?" [20:45]
mircea_popescu not unlike the ridiculous view of field grunts that hey, they know better than the chief of staff what's what, antin-intellectual "social scientists" a la dundes would like best an unsystematic AND UNSYSTEMATIZABLE "science" [20:46]
vulpes_a_hopital lol dafuq indeed [20:46]
asciilifeform pet: 'he's a popularizer, but not an especially good one, vs. an expert - would you call carl sagan or r. dawkins experts?' [20:46]
mircea_popescu because - obviously - it pays the best. from the perspective of the horde of chimps wishing to be professors of nothing in particular just as long as professors. [20:46]
vulpes_a_hopital cop stopped me and three friends skating in a church on a day off from school [20:46]
vulpes_a_hopital "what are you doing?" [20:46]
vulpes_a_hopital "skating!" [20:46]
mircea_popescu asciilifeform pet could just come over argue her stuff herself! [20:46]
vulpes_a_hopital "shouldn't you be in school?" [20:47]
vulpes_a_hopital "uh, no?" [20:47]
vulpes_a_hopital "well okay then." [20:47]
mircea_popescu lol [20:47]
vulpes_a_hopital and re problems in your world people can have problems for using linux [20:47]
vulpes_a_hopital get /out/, man [20:47]
mircea_popescu this is whyte priviledge [20:47]
asciilifeform mircea_popescu: pet: 'i dontwanna, busy reading about alexander hamilton' [20:47]
mircea_popescu kaythen [20:47]
* pete_dushenski lives quite close to 'whyte ave' [20:47]
vulpes_a_hopital asciilifeform: this might trip a bit or two for you [20:48]
pete_dushenski http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g154914-d156146-Reviews-Whyte_Avenue-Edmonton_Alberta.html << real place ! [20:48]
assbot Whyte Avenue (Edmonton, Alberta): Address, Point of Interest & Landmark Reviews - TripAdvisor ... ( http://bit.ly/1MXThfa ) [20:48]
vulpes_a_hopital there is a skate park cum day care in my neighborhood [20:48]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital there's a bar cum laundromat somewhere in ohio [20:49]
vulpes_a_hopital no kid under 19 with a skateboard within twenty blocks of the thing is ever EVER bothered by the cops [20:49]
vulpes_a_hopital mircea_popescu: yeah we have one too [20:49]
asciilifeform 'used book & food shop' [20:49]
mircea_popescu ok, let me try and win this. [20:49]
mircea_popescu there is, in this town, a place where they sell food by the pound. and you can get a pound of cooked shrimp for ~2 dollars. [20:49]
vulpes_a_hopital great pickup spot if you like socializing with people who a) do their own laundry and b) have it done somewhere far away from their place [20:49]
vulpes_a_hopital why would you eat $2/lb cooked langostinas [20:51]
vulpes_a_hopital sounds like a cheap ticket to food poisoning [20:52]
mircea_popescu better than anything they got in wash dc! [20:53]
vulpes_a_hopital pretty low bar. [20:54]
mircea_popescu ok. there's a gym - and - peluqueria combo. [20:55]
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vulpes_a_hopital a but harnessing customers output to reduce the electrical bill has gotta be beyond any argentine [20:56]
mircea_popescu https://web.archive.org/web/20150319183556/http://partialobjects.com/2011/06/staggering-thought-of-the-day/ nb. [20:56]
assbot Staggering Thought of The Day | Partial Objects ... ( http://bit.ly/1MXUgfv ) [20:56]
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mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital it'd be so great tho, Cuckolds' Gym and Hair Salon. [20:56]
mircea_popescu only accept couples, make the dudes work butt off on stationary to power wifey hair dryer. [20:57]
vulpes_a_hopital ahahaha [20:57]
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pete_dushenski power hair dryer + tv + smartph0ne charger [20:58]
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mircea_popescu make a uniform for working out, too [20:59]
mircea_popescu something demeaning, maybe a la borat. [20:59]
pete_dushenski borat over-the-shouler g-string in prison black and white stripes [20:59]
pete_dushenski complete with prisoner number over breast [20:59]
mircea_popescu a choice of either that or the same in hot pink, or rainbow. [20:59]
mircea_popescu ironically, this would prolly be a killer business in portland. [21:00]
pete_dushenski with built-in anal dildo [21:00]
mircea_popescu nah. [21:00]
vulpes_a_hopital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4O5voOCqAQ [21:00]
assbot Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can He Power It? - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1MXUIdN ) [21:00]
mircea_popescu vulpes_a_hopital do what the usg does : differential leverage. [21:00]
vulpes_a_hopital for perspective. [21:00]
pete_dushenski dildo makes costume too much fun ? [21:00]
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vulpes_a_hopital differential leverage? [21:00]
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mircea_popescu ie, he has to provide 3% of the wattage, "we'll match your output 30:1!" [21:01]
vulpes_a_hopital ehehe [21:01]
vulpes_a_hopital http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/novena-a-laptop-with-no-secrets << tell me stan, where's the scam in this one? [21:01]
assbot Novena: A Laptop With No Secrets - IEEE Spectrum ... ( http://bit.ly/1MXUTpv ) [21:01]
vulpes_a_hopital fpga aside, we've done the fpga thread to death [21:02]
asciilifeform 'his death aside, how's his health ?' (tm) (r) [21:03]
asciilifeform and i see a 'freescale arm' [21:03]
pete_dushenski speaking of costumes, i've pulled off the most magical trio for the family for this halloween : papa is the beplaided farmer, mama the milky moo-cow, baby the curious calf ! [21:03]
pete_dushenski 'not that women are cattle' (tm) [21:03]
asciilifeform 'Another advantage was Freescale’s policy of distributing a very detailed reference manual covering most of the chip’s real estate without requiring a nondisclosure agreement.' >> 'most' ?! [21:03]
vulpes_a_hopital ding ding ding [21:04]
pete_dushenski and on that bombshell, i'm off for a night out ! [21:04]
vulpes_a_hopital pete_dushenski is the joke there that the girl's the one working? [21:04]
mircea_popescu pete_dushenski you took your wife out on the town dressed as a cow ? [21:04]
vulpes_a_hopital my halloween costumes for the next seven years are all cock themed [21:04]
pete_dushenski lol will explain more later gents, gotta jet [21:04]
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vulpes_a_hopital dictopus cocktopus, the octopus with cock tentacles in a toga [21:05]
vulpes_a_hopital a cock-shaped rocket [21:05]
vulpes_a_hopital etc [21:05]
asciilifeform aaand then we get to where they put modern systemdized linux on the thing, etc. [21:05]
asciilifeform snore. [21:05]
mircea_popescu but... why ? [21:05]
vulpes_a_hopital gonna try to get kiddo dressed as a sperm for at least one [21:05]
vulpes_a_hopital does it actually need the d, asciilifeform? [21:06]
asciilifeform 'A Laptop With No Secrets' << lies even in the title [21:06]
asciilifeform vulpes_a_hopital: forget about 'needs' [21:07]
asciilifeform speaking of what the authors see as sop [21:07]
vulpes_a_hopital and so 'what other eldritch horrors lurk'? [21:08]
asciilifeform whole thing is an elaborate exercise in delusionism [21:08]
asciilifeform and imho uninteresting. [21:08]
vulpes_a_hopital wait but what if we put mats trimmed down linux on it [21:08]
vulpes_a_hopital i think i can see the smoke from here [21:09]
asciilifeform vulpes_a_hopital: it's essentially a pogo with a buncha weird turds welded on... [21:09]
asciilifeform go, put. [21:09]
mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/images/dilbert%20vs%20jezebel.jpg [21:11]
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mats har har [21:17]
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phf i was at bunnie's talk (the guy behind novena) at 2005 toorcon, the subject was hardware r.e. and it covered the end to end process of discovering and extracting something like intel's rootkit from the die. the approach is to remove the outer plastic cover from the chip using some form of etching, image the exposed circuit with increasily higher resolution devices culminating with electron microscope and then figure out what the [22:25]
phf different parts of the silicon do, where the relevant parts are located and what might be strategies for getting to them. unfortunately there was no video, but i found the slides for the curious log readers https://infocon.org/cons/Black%20Hat/Black%20Hat%20DC/Black%20Hat%20DC%202007/Presentations/JoeGrand_HardWare_Hacking/Papers/Die%20Analysis/bunnie-hackingsilicon.pdf [22:25]
phf i think back then he was still at MIT so had access to useful hardware and free time, he'd probably reversing intel die for the lulz, but now he's in Singapore with presumably reduced resources, doing "open" hardware. [22:30]
phf some u.s. maker group did an interview at his singapore workshop in 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt7WVF5UfnA [22:32]
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mircea_popescu interesting. [22:40]
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mircea_popescu http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/07/why_we_are_terrible_at_math_an.html [23:07]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: Why We Are Terrible At Math (And Reading Comprehension) ... ( http://bit.ly/1LFjJwu ) [23:07]
mircea_popescu "and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too primitive to work. Now suddenly you have a 6th grader who appears to falling behind. But he was never really caught up. I suspect that this almost entirely explains Americans' universal hatred of word problems." [23:07]
mircea_popescu check it out, tlp knows about word problems. [23:07]
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mircea_popescu "I'm told that the system of the day is "Everyday Math." I have no idea what that is, but my worry is that every system of teaching is designed not to maximize learning, but to facilitate the teaching." [23:11]
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mircea_popescu ;;later tell schmidty please fix your connection so you don't do a lot of join/part [23:14]
gribble The operation succeeded. [23:14]
asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311696 << dpa is far more likely the answer, rather than imaging [23:15]
assbot Logged on 30-10-2015 01:23:25; phf: i was at bunnie's talk (the guy behind novena) at 2005 toorcon, the subject was hardware r.e. and it covered the end to end process of discovering and extracting something like intel's rootkit from the die. the approach is to remove the outer plastic cover from the chip using some form of etching, image the exposed circuit with increasily higher resolution devices culminating with electron micro [23:15]
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* asciilifeform used to have some respect for huang BEFORE the whole novena thing [23:16]
asciilifeform after - i find it quite impossible. [23:16]
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asciilifeform 'The problem is that as long as he completed the worksheet, you wouldn't know there was a problem with doing math until it was way too late. If the kid is clever in other ways-- say, fast at finger counting-- he could easily convey the impression that he understands how to add 2 digit numbers, and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too pr [23:18]
asciilifeform imitive to work.' << this IS what school IS. [23:18]
asciilifeform how many people ~understand~ ANYTHING AT ALL ? [23:18]
asciilifeform per the not-merely-finger-tricks definition of the word. [23:18]
asciilifeform http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/07/why_we_are_terrible_at_math_an.html#comment-17994 << woah, a non-retarded comment on tlp's www... [23:23]
assbot The Last Psychiatrist: Why We Are Terrible At Math (And Reading Comprehension) ... ( http://bit.ly/20eGjUf ) [23:23]
danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310664 << Dick Masterson? http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115020 [23:30]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 08:32:51; mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, a fundamental point to be considered for those inclined to interact with the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters), a point which that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in the logs - something about how he went on a "live" show where the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want to control their codes. because you must project your own ownershi [23:30]
assbot Logged on 29-04-2015 00:43:55; danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, that guy is a wimp. that kinda situation doesn't have to end so poorly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0xoKiH8JJM [23:30]
danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310709 << what about 'machine' ? although I do name my computers after women of the Bible [23:31]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 09:32:26; mircea_popescu: calling a computer "a box" is perhaps the most telling of all freudian seepage ever. [23:31]
danielpbarron http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1311251 << I feel as though this is a concept I have recently experienced in Eulora [23:32]
assbot Logged on 29-10-2015 20:50:56; mircea_popescu: and so therefore, going from a to b actually increases the market value of item. through a process known as "creating a market". [23:32]
mircea_popescu danielpbarron nah was some nick thing. [23:32]
mircea_popescu and yes, eulora is a FABULOUS econ lab. [23:32]
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mircea_popescu asciilifeform in fairness, math is an AWFUL example for this matter. because, well, in honesty a "simple" notion such as the notion of a number is still patently ununderstood by the species altogether. and for that matter minimal effort to even comprehend it starts with what, frege ? a coupla centuries ago ? [23:36]
asciilifeform aha [23:36]
mircea_popescu on the other hand, stuff that isn't math, such as whatever, "ecology" don't even HAVE concepts, at all [23:36]
asciilifeform frege, peano, church, et al. [23:36]
mircea_popescu there's nothing there to understand. [23:36]
mircea_popescu so... the expectation that there'd be understanding happening in school is not unlike the expectation that there'd be salvation happening at the brothel. [23:37]
mircea_popescu salvation does not happen. [23:37]
asciilifeform but it once was the case that people carried through life a ~useful~ concept of what they were ~doing~ when working those columns [23:37]
mircea_popescu but the notion of useful is predicated on society. [23:37]
asciilifeform aha [23:37]
mircea_popescu yes at some point going to college was useful. this BECAUSE at that time people lived in a society that allowed for it [23:37]
mircea_popescu ie, no upwards mobility and a solid understanding of the value and importance of inequality. [23:38]
asciilifeform http://www.themathlab.com/writings/short%20stories/feeling.htm << obligatory [23:38]
assbot The Feeling of Power ... ( http://bit.ly/1ScHrm1 ) [23:38]
mircea_popescu now there's plenty of mobility but no upwards, and plenty of inequality but no understanding thereof. [23:38]
mircea_popescu blaming a college / all colleges / anyone for this is rank nonsense. [23:38]
asciilifeform anyone?! [23:39]
mircea_popescu anyone. [23:39]
asciilifeform what, martians came, did it, left ? [23:39]
mircea_popescu not even. [23:39]
mircea_popescu there was no deed. [23:39]
asciilifeform malthusian degringolade ? [23:39]
mircea_popescu yes. [23:39]
* asciilifeform can see it [23:39]
mircea_popescu there is just the stopping of some deeds. [23:39]
mircea_popescu "an end to opression" aka "you're not even worth beating up" [23:40]
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asciilifeform nobody but thoroughbred tards ever bought into the 'end to oppression' claptrap [23:44]
mircea_popescu yea well [23:45]
asciilifeform (it was really engineered to distract the easily-distracted from their entirely genuine serfdom, e.g., rent existing) [23:45]
asciilifeform so what if paycheque is given to the schmuck for ten minutes 'to keep it warm' and then goes right back. at least he wasn't beat up in grade school ! [23:46]
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asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311697 << almost forgot to point out: this generally won't read a modern rom, certainly not a 16nm one that was built by folks who didn't want it read. you need an ion beam machine and much sweat, to strip away the layers. [23:58]
assbot Logged on 30-10-2015 01:23:25; phf: different parts of the silicon do, where the relevant parts are located and what might be strategies for getting to them. unfortunately there was no video, but i found the slides for the curious log readers https://infocon.org/cons/Black%20Hat/Black%20Hat%20DC/Black%20Hat%20DC%202007/Presentations/JoeGrand_HardWare_Hacking/Papers/Die%20Analysis/bunnie-hackingsilicon.pdf [23:58]
* asciilifeform suspects that in the vast majority of cases, getting the rom contents via humint is cheaper [23:59]
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