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asciilifeform: 'cat' is 38 lines.
asciilifeform: isn't it a marvel, what these looked like before the cancer ?
asciilifeform: i wonder if anybody's ported fabrice bellard's tinycc compiler to this.
asciilifeform: because then it's a complete and almost usable os.
asciilifeform: which could handily compile itself in a few mSec on boot.
asciilifeform: adding tcp would prolly double or triple the mass, though.
asciilifeform: ditto drivers for any kind of actual iron beyond the interrupt controller and bare bones ata
asciilifeform: interestingly, multiprocessor is supported.
asciilifeform: reading this thing i - astonishingly - don't feel like i'm chewing on gravel
BingoBoingo: LIVING
asciilifeform: which is what reading, e.g., linux kernel, or gpg, feels like
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all --currency eur
gribble: Bitstamp BTCEUR last: 380.387742, vol: 105198.11150770 | BTC-E BTCEUR last: 385.119, vol: 828.06894 | BTCChina BTCEUR last: 422.675, vol: 122629.81590000 | Kraken BTCEUR last: 379.0, vol: 36666.8323811 | Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR last: 377.0, vol: 744.07905649 | Volume-weighted last average: 399.691877425
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 413.42, vol: 105197.42750770 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 404.829, vol: 59697.13119 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 414.81, vol: 276471.40389639 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 422.0, vol: 15.52203902 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 459.404, vol: 122609.60230000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 409.45669, vol: 439.20838303 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 409.7613, vol: 744.07905649 | Volume-weighted last (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: ;;more
gribble: average: 423.160688002
assbot: US Navy Poised To Order New Boeing Fighters, F/A-18 Super Hornet Jets Could Be Ordered Soon ... ( http://bit.ly/1kcbejJ )
mircea_popescu: " It compiles in a couple of seconds and is trivial to boot up in QEMU." o.O
mircea_popescu: you know this actually sounds rather interesting. why is it that it's not good for us ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> adding tcp would prolly double or triple the mass, though << the challenge would be to not write the worst piece of the completed assemblage.
mircea_popescu: "could be ordered soon" wtf news is this
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1316953 << add a network stack, nic driver, disk caching (without which no real time bitcoin), then the unspeakable horror of even the smallest known incarnation of libc...
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 05:37:58; mircea_popescu: you know this actually sounds rather interesting. why is it that it's not good for us ?
asciilifeform: and you get linux.
mircea_popescu: why do you need libc again ?
asciilifeform: to build bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: network stack could actually be purpose built.
asciilifeform: the smallest known tcp stack is that swedish one
asciilifeform: and it's still a mega-turd
mircea_popescu: not what im saying.
mircea_popescu: purpose built. it does bitcoin and nothing else.
asciilifeform: bitcoin as presently existing rides on top of tcp.
mircea_popescu: fuck that.
mircea_popescu: it rides on top of qt and bdb, too.
asciilifeform: let's rephrase, it relies on the pipe abstraction
mircea_popescu: and on the boost "abstraction"
asciilifeform: ('can throw bytes from point a to point b and back and they get there in order')
mircea_popescu: these aren't abstractions as much as they are infections.
asciilifeform: anyway i'll be the last to cry for tcp.
mircea_popescu: seems this v6 thing would be a great starting point for a great many things.
mircea_popescu: encrypted conn for one.
asciilifeform: thing is, it only looks sexy because there is nothing sitting on it
asciilifeform: it is sorta like minix1
asciilifeform: if it were to be sat upon actual iron, it would very quickly come to resemble minix3.
mircea_popescu: " the challenge would be to not write the worst piece of the completed assemblage."
mircea_popescu: because why ? and don't say gfx card.
asciilifeform: even if you make the networking go over slip (yes, it has uart driver! behold)
asciilifeform: you still gotta cache the disk.
asciilifeform: no way to weasel out of it, if you want to keep up with the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: so you cache the disk.
asciilifeform: and you need a memory allocator.
asciilifeform: which is absent.
asciilifeform: which is actually how i found this thing at all.
asciilifeform: was looking at ancient 'malloc's
mircea_popescu: right. you get one you can trust.
mircea_popescu: like, a rowhammer immune one.
asciilifeform: no such thing on the pc.
asciilifeform: for so long as somebody can lead you to walk contiguous path in ram, you can rowhammer.
asciilifeform: (if you own that particular type of iron)
mircea_popescu: but they can't.
mircea_popescu: because you write your own allocator.
asciilifeform: it still creates contiguous swaths
asciilifeform: because the pc, unlike the lisp, doesn't have 'broken hearts'
asciilifeform: (these were magical bits that one could set in any memory word, that would cause it to transparently redirect to another word)
asciilifeform: it abolished the need for actual continuity in allocated segments.
asciilifeform: but at the obvious cost of... well, having such things kicking around.
asciilifeform: like so many little wormholes.
asciilifeform: *the lispm
mircea_popescu: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 382118 | Current Difficulty: 6.225398244976082E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 383039 | Next Difficulty In: 921 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 days, 4 hours, 20 minutes, and 56 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
asciilifeform: at any rate, the correct way to build memory is - cons cells. as in, every addressable unit actually contains a word followed by another which acts solely as an address of 'next word.'
mircea_popescu: but that aside : if you build your own allocator you can do a lot of things you wish you could have done.
asciilifeform: when you desperately need speed / compactness, you use 'cdr coding' which is a cheat whereby you set a bit in the former word which signifies 'next is not an address but actually the next word.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in so far as the code is c code and the allocator needs to return contiguous regions of ram, you end up with malloc.
mircea_popescu: you end up with WHAT YOU THINK MALLOC IS.
mircea_popescu: but dollars to donuts that is pointedly not what malloc actuyally is.
asciilifeform was researching this very this
mircea_popescu: "this very this" lol. i'm not going to even research it. i know it's what the nexus of all diddlery would have to be if i was running the diddle department.
mircea_popescu: subtle, yes. there. has got to be there.
asciilifeform: if you want to laugh, cry, read the one in gpg 1.4.10.
asciilifeform: (which has fudge factors, even, yes!)
asciilifeform: and rides on top of the system malloc at the same time (yes)
mircea_popescu: larger amt of phone number is always best
asciilifeform: this is one of the problems i've been fighting with for perhaps a year now.
asciilifeform: and the only promising heuristic thus far is a somewhat mircea_popescuine one - namely, to de-generalize the problem
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: myes, although mayhap we talk of different things
asciilifeform: (don't guarantee any arbitrary allocs whenever, but only bignums and only in strictly defined progression)
mircea_popescu: there should, i imagine, be a way to extract significant cheating out of the fact that we don't intend to support random gunk.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what do you have in mind ?
ben_vulpes: various kinds of salaried and hourly employment. yourself?
ben_vulpes: "employ" in the states is a peculiar contractual arrangement where the employer agrees to remit taxes on behalf of the employed.
mircea_popescu: well, ok, but specifically. sf salary + benefits ? oregon salary + sorta ? low salary + equity ?
mircea_popescu: and doing what, webstuff in java only ? or ?
ben_vulpes: i pay technical staff hourly rates such that should staff choose to work a 35+ hour week, they'd make depending on their value to my org ±10% of a bigcorp salary.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, im running into a whole fucking list of problems with all the shitty dust people send to bitbet. do you suppose we put in a progressive fee structure ? like "fee is a minimum of 0.0001, + 10% of everything under 0.01 + 1% of rest ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: l0l srsly, 10%?!! what are they, legless cambodians, hanging in nets ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and do you have workload they can actually work 35 hour weeks every week ? and doing what, tech wise ? js ? ruby ? py ? perl ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform +-10% means 90 to 110%
asciilifeform has been, perhaps, out of bed for too long
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: heh.
ben_vulpes: re technologies, we do mobile in obj-c, swift (i guess theoretically), java, server stuff in python/django/whatever, ruby/rails/whatever, java/clojure/{it's all algol you know}, and actual web stuff in whatever hodgepodge of html/css and js is already in place or pretty well-curated tools that...abstract over the hodgepodge to one degree or another.
mircea_popescu: well... asciilifeform meet ben_vulpes ; ben_vulpes meet asciilifeform
asciilifeform: i think i met ben_vulpes somewhere
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: staff are guaranteed 32 hours/wk, client work backstopped out of my pocket.
ben_vulpes: i can always cook up work for people to do on my own tooling.
mircea_popescu: alfie grew an extra hand, was looking for exactly this type of flexible deal to help pay for his latest nuclear missile arrangement.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're familiar with stan's line about "working on anything not of my own mind is only slightly better than suicide"?
mircea_popescu: eh fuck him, what, he gets a say now ?
asciilifeform: eh i do items like 'port $proggy to $toaster'
asciilifeform: or 'determine if this hdd is able to serve up diddled boot sector.'
ben_vulpes: well should i need someone to port eulora to ipad i'll ring him up
asciilifeform: will port to supernintendo if someone wants.
ben_vulpes: as it stands, he hates the kind of work my shop does, and i have a list of people who also hate the kind of work that we do but also find the company company so beguiling that they're willing and sometimes even eager to do it anyways.
asciilifeform cannot compete with coolies either in cost or in enthusiasm
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform knows: life in the galleys is marginally less miserable with phri3ndz
ben_vulpes: not eager to do it, i misspoke. eager to spend time in our mines rather than wherever they slave normally.
ben_vulpes: oh and shut the fuck up
ben_vulpes: i know your rates, and you could live comfortably out here.
ben_vulpes: 220V, 3 phase, a poured pad, and nobody would bat an eye if you weather-proofed the ADU.
asciilifeform: not looking for indenture with quarter. more of an old-fashioned thing-with-deliverables
ben_vulpes: d'you know? i only landed my first of those within the past month.
asciilifeform: congrats ben_vulpes
ben_vulpes: operating as a corporation rather than an individual has benefits like that.
ben_vulpes: much like picking up chixx, it's easier if you have a few in tow already.
ben_vulpes: also worth mentioning that gracefully handling rapidly shifting requirements is core to how the business operates.
asciilifeform: i suppose this means that ben_vulpes is also ready to port to supernintendo.
ben_vulpes: port natoblock $thing, sure.
ben_vulpes: !s bezzlecorp
assbot: 2 results for 'bezzlecorp' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=bezzlecorp
ben_vulpes: it is purpose designed, asciilifeform.
asciilifeform remembers very well what ben_vulpes's shop makes, from hanging out at c3.
ben_vulpes is unsure if this is wankery or pricing exercise
mircea_popescu wonders himself.
asciilifeform: prolly the former
ben_vulpes: if i find anything, i'll let you know
asciilifeform: or wake me up if folks start paying for sunlight, aha.
ben_vulpes: if you want intros to indenturitude, i can provide this as well.
asciilifeform: no but ty.
ben_vulpes: culture out here is such that you can skirt by for ~30/wk and a relatively cheap commute, with no "lifetime commitment".
ben_vulpes: this provides for some small amount of thinking time.
asciilifeform: not interested in indenture.
mircea_popescu: 30 whats ?
asciilifeform: at any rate, i must confess that i don't do www or ipnohe for any amount of pay.
ben_vulpes: do consider the improvement in the serf's quality of life when biking (or walking!) thirty minutes to and fro the galley each day, compared to the hour in the wheelbox each direction that can be had in other places, composed with the shorter work week that is possible.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: for log readers only, this confession.
ben_vulpes: and googOS?
asciilifeform: ^ aha this is a good picture of www programming.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this "can't have X, can't have non-X" sorta thing will necessarily resolve itself in time. there's no other way.
asciilifeform: guess what, i don't give milk either.
asciilifeform: or lay eggs.
mircea_popescu: also liable to resolve in time
mircea_popescu: random thought of the day : wtf is this "boyfriend" bs. girlfriend i can see, but it's manfriend innit.
asciilifeform: why not 'cockfriend'
mircea_popescu: maybe if you're gay.
asciilifeform: does have that flavour, doesntit
liquidassets: Boyfriend suggests, ‘he’s not fucking other women just me’ Manfriend, not so.
BingoBoingo: Boyfriend suggest alterboy being buggered over the altar
punkman: guten morgen
assbot: Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia - The Daily Beast ... ( http://bit.ly/1HsLbJM )
thestringpuller: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 383.52, Best ask: 383.97, Bid-ask spread: 0.45000, Last trade: 383.52, 24 hour volume: 286173.58836608, 24 hour low: 366.66, 24 hour high: 504.0, 24 hour vwap: None
davout: messieurs dames
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [BTR] 2360 @ 0.00059225 = 1.3977 BTC [+] {7}
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [BTR] 2246 @ 0.00073859 = 1.6589 BTC [+] {11}
punkman: dat havelock action
jurov: i tried to sync my 0.5.4 to core 0.11, it won't sync
jurov: returned to 0.10 which works
shinohai: ;;later tell SuchWow Your quit message is atrocious. "This too is temporary, as most things are" reduces your comma usage and makes you not sound like a hippy.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: jurov: I have had same results. it won't sync against new core.
punkman: what happens with 0.11?
shinohai: I can't get core to not crash 0.11 xD
shinohai: I have an old 0.10.0 binary that does.
jurov: punkman, on superficial look it does not return getblock() data anymore
punkman: jurov, does the 0.11 instance ban the 0.5.4?
jurov: at first it did
jurov: then i tried to set MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION = 0 in 0.11
jurov: then 0.5.4 connected but could not get data
jurov: then i returned to 0.10 and left further research for later
shinohai: I can't say for certain until I clone my drive, had to idle it for a bit.
shinohai: Got new shitty 500 mb drive yesterday from china! :D
assbot: Baidu found China’s “ghost cities,” but it is keeping their locations mostly a secret - Quartz ... ( http://bit.ly/1LRCXz2 )
assbot: Mexico’s Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Personal Marijuana Use - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/1LRDDEx )
asciilifeform: jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317133 << out of curiosity, what are you using the usg client for ?
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 13:24:30; jurov: then i returned to 0.10 and left further research for later
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317131 << might want to patch trb's version thing instead
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 13:23:33; jurov: then i tried to set MIN_PEER_PROTO_VERSION = 0 in 0.11
mircea_popescu: liquidassets which is the point.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia - The Daily Beast << ahahahaha no, really ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> i tried to sync my 0.5.4 to core 0.11, it won't sync << this is a horribru error message.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> punkman, on superficial look it does not return getblock() data anymore << nuts. so 0.11 is forked off the network then ?
assbot: Bitcoin Total Output Volume ... ( http://bit.ly/1WCGRyD )
thestringpuller: what's with reddit complaining about the blocksize bullshit again?
trinque: The Department of Defense's posture on cybersecurity ultimately affects national security. << There's a deep cultural flaw in this sentence emanating from the word posture.
mircea_popescu: why ? the country admits it's posturing.
trinque: the notion that merely looking like the thing you wish to be is sufficient has seeped into everything
trinque: right
mircea_popescu: this is good.
mircea_popescu: thank you for your leadership.
punkman: so according to that chart 11million btc moved in a day?
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't think it's worth a crap in absolute terms.
mircea_popescu: "~5x more than previously average"
mircea_popescu: within an unknown error margin.
punkman: days destroyed is much smoother
mircea_popescu: which indicates that it's mostly people moving the same btc back and forth.
mircea_popescu: ie, that same 1-2% of the coins that are in hands of self important usg ceo/vc types.
mircea_popescu: my god, ceo is going to go the way of nigger and handicapped within my lifetime isn't it.
mircea_popescu: it already is practically an insult.
mircea_popescu: and mpex is back. sorry for the downtime everyone.
adlai is surprised nobody has yet accused the marshals of building the recent eiffel tower, as auction optimization
punkman: the what?
adlai: patternspeak for up-and-down. i'm probably misusing it, iirc it's only an eiffel if the down returns to levels before the up
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 29200 @ 0.00054231 = 15.8355 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2360 @ 0.00053447 = 1.2613 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 43750 @ 0.00053447 = 23.3831 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: adlai because it's not true. they get accused of the scams they actually pull.
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mircea_popescu: jurov : qntra shares added.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42793 @ 0.00054238 = 23.2101 BTC [+] {7}
PeterL: mircea_popescu: so what was the problem with MPEx?
adlai: !b 2
assbot: Last 2 lines bashed and pending review. ( http://dpaste.com/39NEZA9.txt )
deedbot-: [Trilema] Qntra (S.QNTR) October 2015 Statement - http://trilema.com/2015/qntra-sqntr-october-2015-statement/
PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315952 << You are saying chemistry is not still alive? Seems to me that there is alot going on in chem right now?
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:01:40; asciilifeform: which more or less died out as a scientific field in the 'civilized' world.
mircea_popescu: jurov ^ qntra shares added, also.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: my broadcast later tonight when i get out of the pit
mircea_popescu: cool ascii_field
ascii_field: PeterL: most of what's happening in chem is a) usg grantsmanship b) monkey tricks to extend pharma patents. and most of what remains is being done by folks who grew up with hobby chemistry.
PeterL: There is also chemistry research at, for example, Dow Chemical, which they don't publish but instead use to make themselves money, does this not count?
ascii_field: PeterL: in so far as i can see from my perch, nothing fundamental has happened in at least a generation.
ascii_field: whole thing runs on 1960s fumes.
mircea_popescu: we were just discussing tropsch last week!
mircea_popescu: lots is happening.
ascii_field: nothing fundamental.
ascii_field: e.g., nylon.
mircea_popescu: catalysts are fundamental enough.
ascii_field: it's massage.
ascii_field: e.g., +10% yield, -10% cost
ascii_field: like semiconductors.
mircea_popescu: yes well nothing fundamental has happened in physics since mendeleev
mircea_popescu: what the fuck's gonna happen, invent a new electron load ?
PeterL: there is alot of organic synthesis space that has been investigated since then
ascii_field: fission's pretty fundamental. even something like tunnel diode.
mircea_popescu: so then catalytic chemistry counts.
PeterL: a bunch of small improvements adds up over time
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do you think you have genome sequencing, otherwise, and why the fuck do you think woman's stockings is a bigger deal.
ascii_field: it'd be fundamental if it opens up a whole concept that was previously closed. e.g., if a catalyst were to be found that makes electrolysis of h2o reasonably efficient
ascii_field: or room temp supercon.
PeterL: I see, if you push the goal posts far enough away then nobody will ever score
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yer looking in the wrong end of the funnel. yes, women still wear stockings, but american south no longer can have plantations, because the fiber doesn't grow out of the ground.
ascii_field: but comes out of a nozzle in cn.
ascii_field: PeterL: there is such a thing as invention.
ascii_field: and it - for the most part - isn't happening.
PeterL: but you are saying only super-invention counts?
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense, srlsy. the 70s-90s in catalysts are more important than anything that ever happened in chemistry.
ascii_field: didn't say 'useless'
mircea_popescu: you can fucking go around looking for biosynthesizers now, for this reason
ascii_field: just - not fundamental.
ascii_field: 'fundamental' is an actual thing. it doesn't resolve to 'very spiffy', it has a meaning
mircea_popescu: it IS fundamental.
ascii_field: as in, you can build ~new~ structure on it
mircea_popescu: what is your definition ?
mircea_popescu: yes, new structure.
ascii_field: the 17th floor of empire state bldg is not a fundament.
mircea_popescu: but the FACT that now there are 17 floor buildings IS fundament.
PeterL: but without the 17th floor you can't build the 18th floor
mircea_popescu: i don't care you sat on your tatched roof in mongolia and thus "dreamed" of skyscraper.
ascii_field: bldg has a foundation. it is different from the other parts of the structure in that it lets you start having floors where prior you could only sit down in the dirt.
ascii_field: this is not a moral judgement, just an observation - you need different people for the foundation of a concept, than for 17th floor
ascii_field: poor old j.c.maxwell gets no rest when this comes up, but i'ma have to use him as example again. he didn't even bother ~trying~ to build a radio...
mircea_popescu: you've still not defined your "fundamental" "actula thing"
ascii_field: though he derived all of the maths that have or will ever apply.
ascii_field: ~that~'s fundamental.
ascii_field: yesterday no one knew em wave was a thing. and then - it is.
mircea_popescu: and you expect this to happen in chemistry ?
mircea_popescu: it never happened in chemistry. it was always physics.
ascii_field: it was happening as late as 1960s
mircea_popescu: was not.
mircea_popescu: this is like complaining electric engineering didn't invent any new type of electron.
ascii_field: belousov-zhabotinsky reaction.
mircea_popescu: of course it doesn't. it's engineering.
mircea_popescu: THAT is fundamental, catalythics are now ?
mircea_popescu: not* ? what are you, hungarian ?
ascii_field: it was utterly fundamental
mircea_popescu: less words more proof.
ascii_field: startling to the point that nato lands shelved it as sov disinfo for decades
mircea_popescu: what nato does informs no one to no degree.
ascii_field: proved that thermodynamics is only stochastically applicable.
ascii_field: (that energy is only conserved on a large enough time scale)
ascii_field: aww i ~liked~ kakobreklaa
ascii_field: so finnish
mircea_popescu: but by your very definition this is not a fundamental result.
mircea_popescu: it is merely the experimental verification of the theoretically obvious
mircea_popescu: ever since qm reduced macro tm to the status of macro tm
mircea_popescu: !up kakobreklaa
kakobreklaa: fuckin chanserv
kakobreklaa: nickserv i mean
mircea_popescu: this inspires me! tonight ima have one girl write nickserv on her pubis, and the other chanserv
mircea_popescu: boi o boi am i hgonna have a fun
assbot: BZ-Phenomenology ... ( http://bit.ly/1PdhdBA )
mircea_popescu: "In its classical form the BZ reaction consist of a one-electron redox catalyst"
mircea_popescu: aka "let's ignore what's being said and run off with one marginal example of the broad category discussed".
kakobreklaa: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317035 < i dont see how this fixes your dust problems - you may feel better handling it but you still need to handle it. i suspect you let some retarded algo chose your tx outputs for you amirite?
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 06:14:54; mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, im running into a whole fucking list of problems with all the shitty dust people send to bitbet. do you suppose we put in a progressive fee structure ? like "fee is a minimum of 0.0001, + 10% of everything under 0.01 + 1% of rest ?
ascii_field: iirc mircea_popescu was speaking of petro cracking catalysts earlier ?
ascii_field: which are '% massage' rather than 'new field'
mircea_popescu: no. speaking of catalythic chemistry. as a thing. which it is.
mircea_popescu: and my examples were around genome research and biosynthesizer identification
mircea_popescu: neither of which can be read reductionistically to "petrochem".
mircea_popescu: kakobreklaa it will discourage people from sending them.
kakobreklaa: lol, like poorfags read
ascii_field: these last two, i had the misfortune to be involved in.
mircea_popescu: it's also a problem of cost. dust txn impose a cost on us.
mircea_popescu: currently this CAN work as an extraction engine - it costs me more to make the payouts than i take in.
ascii_field: l0lwut, bitbet is undergoing shitburial ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so you hate them, that's fine, but you can't impugn the whole subdiscipline just because idiots somewhere
kakobreklaa: if you leave dust sitting long enough and at some point flush all the dust in a single tx to a nondusty result ?
mircea_popescu: "long enough" = cost ; flush = cost. etc.
mircea_popescu: it is not worth my time to handle 10k satoshi txn for less than 10k satoshi. this is a fact.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don't hate'em, but i did search in vain for signs that somebody was ~thinking~ rather than merely piling intel xeons ten metres high
ascii_field: and doing dynamics sims
kakobreklaa: the long enough cost on dust is dust.
mircea_popescu: think that i have to keep SOME dust over here while idiots get aggitated because "o noes it's been 25 hours" so im now creating more dust
mircea_popescu: which will come back to me, and i have to sit on it, and create more dust to payout.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you prefer i can instead make it a time rule, and be like "bets under 0.0001 are paid in a year. bets under 0.01 are paid in a week"
mircea_popescu: seems it is saner to be paid in money than in time, to me.
kakobreklaa: so you wanna make poorfags even poorer to a point where they no longer send a satoshi, is this the idea?
mircea_popescu: they can save up.
mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions.
phf: v6 is a beauty, but for the amount of stuff that's required to be written why not lisp os?
punkman: why not a minimum bet amount, everything else gracious donation
mircea_popescu: it's just not worth anyone's time for them to exist.
mircea_popescu: punkman kinda what i was proposing, a progressive scale. imo the way i stated it is better pr, but whatevs.
ascii_field: phf: i was trying to see if anyone comes to this conclusion independently of my saying it.
mircea_popescu: phf because unix runs on 486 and lisp does not.
ascii_field: phf: THE SIMPLEST malloc() is 10x more complicated than, e.g, the gc engine in 'tinyscheme'
ascii_field: and it sure as fuck runs on 486
mircea_popescu: anyway, im off will bbl.
ascii_field: and even 16bit micro.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field god damned weren't you going on about how it needs sbcl machine bla bla ?
ascii_field: for periphs
mircea_popescu: this goalpost moving is giving me spots on the spleen.
ascii_field: if you want to use it as a graphical terminal
ascii_field: let's not mix the warm and the soft
ascii_field: i have raw scheme going on x64 metal right now
ascii_field: just no useful i/o.
phf: mircea_popescu: i'm just stirring shit up
PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
mircea_popescu: anyway bbl fo reals.
kakobreklaa: way cooler to just do it arbitrarily.
lobbes: !up ascii_field
phf: ascii_field: my undergrad "thesis" was putting a malloc on a one of those teaching os's, it was interesting in that "wrestling with bare metal" sort of way, but then i learned how lispm does it, and realized that i was lied to
ascii_field: phf: i tried to explain some of this in last night's thread
ascii_field: but realized that my interlocutors did not know the fundamentals involved (because scarcely anybody does, and not everyone is an archaeologist)
thestringpuller: phf: ugh they made you do that shit too? we had to write malloc for the game boy advance, or a game boy advance game for a final project for course in C
phf: ascii_field: that's the problem with a lot of lisp conversations here, your interlocutors have some vague idea about how things are done right now and in unix world. even unixisms are used not in their "pure form", but in their final gnu/linux state. there's complete lack of semantic match between that and historical lisp. ultimately debates are reduced to "macros are bad because cpp is bad"
ascii_field: or 'gc sux because java'
phf: right
kakobreklaa: live and learn
thestringpuller: !up kakobreklaa
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assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 15:08:18; asciilifeform: jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317133 << out of curiosity, what are you using the usg client for ?
ascii_field: jurov: do i understand, this needs a heavily patched client ?
ascii_field: and only available presently for the heathen one ?
lobbes: kakobreklaa: fuckin chanserv << I know what you mean. I had to ghost my nick off earlier
phf: thestringpuller: it wasn't actually forced. started as a final project in william arbaugh's (the guy who did the smooth handover wireless implementation at umd) class, where we were writing a malloc for the teaching os as a final project, only three mallocs came anywhere near the spec, since mine was one of them i had the opportunity to say that the whole thing was a sham "shit code written by retards", etc. and that you can have orders
phf: of magnitude improvements and that the whole thing is not even funny. he suggested that i do an implementation as an indepedent study for another semester and that's what i did
ascii_field remembers this os
phf: i've been trying very hard for the past 15 minutes to remember its name or anything about it, and even though i spent 8 months with it, i'm completely failing to
ascii_field: that was where i learned to despise unix.
ascii_field: in my era it was named 'geek os' but it had some earlier name.
PeterL: if unix is so horrible, why is there no alternative taking over the world?
PeterL: oh, wait, windows already did, right?
ascii_field: PeterL: iron
PeterL: the element?
ascii_field: no, the element is mainly si
trinque: PeterL: are you arguing from the wisdom of the mass market customer?
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: i'ma do a worked example for PeterL
ascii_field: so here goes.
ascii_field: your NIC, regardless of who built it, operates with ring buffers, roughly like this
PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-11-2015#1316588 << when I was in middle school we went on a field trip to the Warren (MI) Army Tank Plant, tour included the Cray II, cool looking room sized machine with liquid cooling fluid bubbling over its brain
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 01:07:56; asciilifeform: at any rate, i (and $maxint others) will port $whateverthefuckyouwant to, e.g., cray II. for a fee.
ascii_field: when a packet comes in over the wire, it gets thrown into a buffer pointed to by a particular register in the card's cpu, and the latter reads the addr of the next buffer from a pre-baked list
ascii_field: and rotates through said list.
ascii_field: ditto for transmission.
PeterL: trinque: yes, sarcasm flag operational, mostly
ascii_field: but what if - per last night's thread - you decided that you DON'T WANT TO REPRESENT STRINGS AS CONTIGUOUS BYTES ?
ascii_field: but rather, as cons cells?
ascii_field: where each character is stored in half of a word, with the other half being a pointer to the next char ?
PeterL: wouldn't that make strings take up twice as much memory?
ascii_field: suddenly you need a massive 'bureaucracy' to convert between the contiguous blobs your devices eat and shit, and your notion.
ascii_field: PeterL: see 'cdr coding' for why this does not have to be the case
ascii_field: i picked this example out of a tall hat with many others, to demonstrate the impedance mismatch between the lisp way of doing things and pc iron
ascii_field: and how it cannot be cleanly papered over in software.
ascii_field: AND this is a device for which we HAVE the specs !
ascii_field: for most pc iron - we do not...
ascii_field: and worse, ~think~ that we do.
ascii_field: !s intel me
assbot: 21 results for 'intel me' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=intel+me
ascii_field: i am deliberately not even mentioning gpu, because it is possible to have a useful computer with no vga board (e.g., you can speak x11 over tcp)
ascii_field: but you do need the nic.
ascii_field: likewise, pc arch is braindamaged in 1,001 ways which are NOT realistically correctable, and certainly not in software
ascii_field: e.g., there is no powerfail interrupt
ascii_field: nor any built-in provision for battery-backed transactional ram
PeterL: so the only way to get a better operating system is to start with purpose built hardware?
ascii_field: i learned this the hard way.
ascii_field: and all questions of os aside, you will need to bake own silicon if you don't like running usg blobs.
ascii_field: (the odds are very good that your southbridge is running just one such as we speak.)
ascii_field: even if we ignore the profound braindamage of the x86 arch - instruction set, memory structure, clumsily retrofitted multiprocessor, etc. -
ascii_field: the basic fact is that no two x86 pc boxes can be relied upon to have the same iron
PeterL: If you hypothetically could make your own silicon, and "real computer", do you think it could ever displace the entrenched systems everybody is currently using?
ascii_field: so now you have to constantly chase the largely nonexistent docs for new southbridge, etc
ascii_field: PeterL: no likelier than bitcoin displacing usd
ascii_field: or 'mazerati' killing 'ford'.
ascii_field: and you can't somehow beat microshit and crapple by competing on an imaginary playing field
ascii_field: there is no playing field
PeterL: derpiest will continue running winblows
ascii_field: there is usg diktat and that's it.
ascii_field: it'd have to be a computer for 100 people.
trinque: PeterL: this assumes that the same group of derps will continue to exist forever
ascii_field: i do not know how to make a cpu for 100 people.
PeterL: lacks a certain "economy of scale"
trinque: sounds more like "will this superior military weapon ever supercede this other weaker weapon in terms of market penetration?"
trinque: well. yes, but not that way
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 19974 @ 0.00053447 = 10.6755 BTC [-]
PeterL: military weapons measure penetration by inches of steel, not percentages of market
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6600 @ 0.00053447 = 3.5275 BTC [-] {2}
trinque: that was not the point.
trinque: if I have 10 nukes and you have 100 artillery in a fortress, and I nuke the fortress, does a nuke silo spring up in its midst?
trinque: quantity is not the only consideration, nor is everyone on the same side
PeterL: so "real computer" takes over when "winblows users" all die off?
trinque: takes over what? who cares if some poor guy still has an iPhone?
ascii_field: PeterL: the notion of 'takes over' is broken
ascii_field: so you are reasoning with broken priors.
PeterL: trying to fit trinque's nuke-artillery metaphore onto computers, clearly failing
assbot: Re: Is LISP dying? - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1GNEnfd )
ascii_field: in particular,
ascii_field: 'when mass markets develop, pluralism suffers the most -- there is no longer a concept of healthy participants: people become concerned with the individual "winner", and instead of people being good at whatever they are doing and proud of that, they will want to flock around the winner to share some of the glory.'
ascii_field: microshit's very existence has deformed thought processes of a great many people.
PeterL: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: PeterL: one of the things to understand is that your computer is the way it is because the 'computing industry' consists of 1,001 people mutually sucking one another's cocks and profiting off the braindamage to every fella actually trying to get useful work done.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 15:31:19; asciilifeform: this keeps in perfect fitting with the 'computing industry'-as-a-protection racket business model of the last 20+ yrs, where it 'solves' exclusively those problems which it, itself, creates.
PeterL: I'm off to get the kids from school, mostly I lurk by reading the logs
ben_vulpes: phf: where's a sane place from which to procure gpg-error? i've found some text files scattered about the web but nothing in the gpgme lang/cl dir
ben_vulpes: aha libgpg-error i guess, derp.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: the thing is shaky beyond belief
ascii_field: not entirely unrelatedly,
ascii_field: i have a puzzle for ben_vulpes, who is awake, and mircea_popescu, who might soon awaken, and the rest:
ascii_field: this being:
ascii_field: what is 'v' worth ?
ben_vulpes fails to find the logline wherein asciilifeform claims that common lisp packages "tend to work unlike in other languages"
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: when they ~are~ common lisp packages
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: don't mind me, i'm just trying to learn the violin.
ascii_field: ffi turds stink
ascii_field: invariably.
ascii_field: the author of an ffi pkg has no control over what c turd is on your box
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: any "v", your "v" or "v" in the abstract?
ascii_field: part II of puzzle for ben_vulpes and mircea_popescu - what was the continuity bridge worth ? - http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-08-2015#1225544
assbot: Logged on 05-08-2015 13:54:55; mircea_popescu: the stator saving of the continuity feeling was too narrow for my liking.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: in the abstract.
ascii_field: or rather, the concept+the working mechanism (ver 99)
ben_vulpes: possibly unvaluable and invaluable
ascii_field: these aren't things.
ascii_field: 'valueless' is a thing
ascii_field: 'valuable' is a thing.
ben_vulpes: well, what is the value of bitcoin?
ascii_field: to whom?
ascii_field: it is very valuable to, e.g., mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: are you then asking what the value of 'v' is to me, then?
ben_vulpes: then then then
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: the thing i'm trying to figure out is whether i'm smarter than a chicken.
ascii_field: so far the evidence points to the negative
funkenstein_: what's the value of a bach partita?
ascii_field: funkenstein_: to his patrons, his ability to produce'em was valuable
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: I don't follow. again, as though I were five?
ascii_field: in the genuine sense of 'paid for.'
punkman: loper machine needs patrons too
ben_vulpes: !t s.nsa
assbot: You know, I've had it up to here with this Indian malarkey.
ascii_field: punkman: and mars needs women
ben_vulpes: !t m s.nsa
assbot: The round stones beneath the earth... have spoken through the fire.
ben_vulpes: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: / / ( shares, BTC), 30D: 0.00015 / 0.00022294 / 0.00023879 (7865 shares, 1.75 BTC)
funkenstein_: aha, proggys need patron model not box in store model
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: do you understand why chicken in particular ?
ben_vulpes: !up ascii_field
ben_vulpes: not in the slightest.
ben_vulpes: in the sense of grown to be eaten?
ascii_field: in the sense that dumb bird lays eggs for free.
ben_vulpes: what the ever loving fuck is this mkerrorcodes.awk
ben_vulpes: well, "free". bird is fed.
ascii_field: aha. bird is smarter than ascii_field.
ben_vulpes: ascii_field is the proud owner of some equitytoiletpaper?
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: specifically discussing other works.
ben_vulpes: right.
ascii_field: summary of what punkman thought of the other works ?
jurov: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 "if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference."
assbot: From kafkatrap to honeytrap ... ( http://bit.ly/1ktx7KJ )
ascii_field: jurov: its in the logz
ascii_field: whole thread
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: chicken cannot learn from its mistakes.
trinque: ascii_field: this is why I spoke of military hardware; it's only valuable if it's a) used and b) the user wins something of value
assbot: Re: realistic but short and simple LISP examples? - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1OKBnPu )
punkman: ascii_field: summary of what punkman thought of the other works ? << not at all
ascii_field not trying to troll people, but wants to get some sort of big picture view
ascii_field has a very distinct feeling, prompted by last night's thread, that he is failing a kind of economic iq test
phf: ben_vulpes: libgpg-error, and share/common-lisp is installed with brew version, but
phf: gpgme bindings are broken, since they've not been updated since 2008 or so, i'm surprised they are in the source tree at all
ascii_field distinctly recalls warning people about this a while back
ascii_field: gpg is ~extremely~ librarization-resistant, much like gcc.
phf: luckily for you today only you can get a new and improved PATCH from me that will at least let you create context, since i only finished it like last night, i don't yet know if it will actually encrypt, but it might
ben_vulpes: nifty, phf.
trinque: ascii_field: gotta invent the path which leads to the thing desired, not just the thing itself
trinque: there are plenty more knowledgable on this than myself, but this is why I ask periodically about smaller components of the thing, if such a thing exists at all
ascii_field: the most elementary component
ascii_field: is time.
ascii_field: my time.
ascii_field: there is not, it turns out, in many of these cases, any substitute for it.
trinque: that is certainly so
ben_vulpes: high performance individuals can hobble a team like this.
ascii_field: also there is no means of getting more than 24 hours of it per day.
ben_vulpes: "ah fuckit, get out of my way, i'll do it in a tenth the time and it'll be twice as good."
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: we are speaking of cases where there isn't even an 'it' prior.
ben_vulpes: separate the doing of it from the thinking up of the it to do.
ascii_field: and at any rate, i'm not a 'high-performance' anything.
trinque: could very well be that the mechanism by which a central govt steals from a large population via fiat monetary systems got us the CPUs we use today far earlier than they'd have been had without the theft
ascii_field: trinque: even the hypothetical of 'without the theft' is rather like asking for 'without scurvy'
trinque: it means without bitcoin
ascii_field: at a certain stage of tech development, widespread scurvy is more or less certain
trinque: rather, before bitcoin this theft was possible
trinque: there was the thread about mathematics in the USSR which rings a bell here
ascii_field: multiple threads.
ascii_field: where i was trying to say more or less the same thing each time.
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: what's more valuable: a honed and tidied 'v' implementation or several different implementations from wotmembers?
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i was speaking of neither
ben_vulpes: no i know. but i'm asking you another question of value.
trinque: sure, that market distortions happen doesn't mean they don't happen in a useful direction. it only means that other things will suffer greatly, that things are imbalanced.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: but of the system consisting of the invention plus the demonstration of its feasibility.
ascii_field: i.e. the thing i made.
trinque: ascii_field: it's simply this, that other than via magical thinking and zealotry, your thing will only happen when it costs less than someone is willing to pay to solve a problem he has
ascii_field: trinque: aha
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: 'value of ideas'?
ascii_field: not of motherfucking 'ideas'
trinque: ascii_field: so you should go cause problems for people meantime!
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: of the working item
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7852 @ 0.00053447 = 4.1967 BTC [-] {2}
ascii_field: which the other implementations are using as a crib sheet
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: or take the example of my trb patches.
ascii_field: (and the research that went into them)
ascii_field: this work had nothing to do with s.nsa product.
ben_vulpes: while noble, i do not see much turkey-buying value in pogoquest.
ascii_field: how about trb as a whole ?
ascii_field: or the continuity bridge, from old thread linked earlier ?
ascii_field: or the removal of the 'orphan' blk and tx dos vectors ? etc
ben_vulpes: what is the value of a put on facebook expiring 5 years from now?
ascii_field: see, it is this 'noble' thing that i don't grasp
ascii_field: because so far what it appears to mean is 'that's nice, chicken, keep laying eggs, but go and look for food ~somewhere~'
trinque: do you benefit from a world where bitcoin functions or don't you?
trinque: it's not rhetorical, it's *the* question
ascii_field: i happen to think that i do.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12808 @ 0.0005402 = 6.9189 BTC [+] {2}
ascii_field: but i could be wrong.
trinque: this I think is the value in doing "world-building" work
ascii_field: and anyway nobody asked me whether it 'ought to exist'
ascii_field: it exists.
trinque: not that there's immediate pay; it's a long position
trinque: whether it exists theoretically is distinct from whether this run of the idea takes now or after the next dark age
ben_vulpes: so you've captured the value. bitcoin survives, and you benefit from its survival. so do other people, but when you advertise you also pay for people to learn about the solutionspace in general, including your competition.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 24397 @ 0.00054354 = 13.2607 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: doesn't necessarily mean it's -ev to advertise, just that someone else is deriving value from your media buys as well.
ben_vulpes: there's an old thread around the shop: "ain't nobody motivated by money in the bank"
ben_vulpes: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: that sentence is incomplete
ascii_field: add '... until rent is due'
ben_vulpes: go, complete.
ascii_field: completed.
ben_vulpes: but then the money's not in the bank anymore!
ascii_field changes gas mask canister
phf: hehe
ben_vulpes: dafuq do you breathe, anyways.
trinque: ben_vulpes: at his next cartridge change, slip him one with something that knocks him out, and make sure that he wakes up at your hq
trinque: heh!
phf: i think v is pretty cool
ascii_field: phf: but, as i think has been well established, not money-cool.
ascii_field: ditto trb.
phf: i don't know what that means, money's not cool, it's barelly adequate at purchasing cool (a highly debatable point)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field about the same that the us court system is worth.
ascii_field: money-cool means something that economically stands on its own
mircea_popescu: you can't sell it. if you keep it functioning well and in good shape, you can have an empire on the basis of it.
ascii_field: aha! mircea_popescu gets it.
phf: nobody's going to pay for v, but i thought that v is a dna level building block in a construction process of something that's beyond "money-cool", or bezzle cool as that's really what you're talking about ("rent is due")
ascii_field: nobody's ever paying for trb either. not even on lsd.
ascii_field: sunlight.
mircea_popescu: you're approximately in the position of a 20something woman who wants to be part of the cast of friends but doesn't have the rent.
ascii_field doesn't get the ref
mircea_popescu: you can't be in this cast if you can't make rent. and no, wondering "What my youthfull good looks are worth" does not work with that show
mircea_popescu: it's for a different show.
mircea_popescu: ;;google Friends
gribble: Friends - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends>; Friends (TV Series 1994–2004) - IMDb: <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/>; The Original Friends Site: <http://www.friends-tv.org/>
ascii_field: they charged the actors money ?
mircea_popescu: not the show. the ACTUAL thing.
ascii_field reads the pediwik in search of 'actual thing'
mircea_popescu: "hip cool young people and the things they do"
mircea_popescu: "the in crowd"
ascii_field: anyway i'm safely not these, already.
mircea_popescu: no, you're breaking the comparison.
mircea_popescu: ok, lemme go into painful detail.
mircea_popescu: there was once a group of 20something chicks that lived in so and so apartments and did so and so deeds and things. their history became the controlling factor for an entire generation of english speakers, who went and got rachedo's and so on and so forth. part A of comparison.
ascii_field escaped knowing any of this, somehow
mircea_popescu: there is today a group of people that do so and so with encryption and bitcoins and etc. their history will be the controlling factor for an entire generation [of mostly chinese and russian speakers], who'll go about calling themselves the MP of cmpany X, because ceo is uncool now. this is part B of comparison.
mircea_popescu: your notion that "oh, what is my participation in B's cool worth" is akin to the dumb polack chick in A going "what are my good looks worth, i can't make hollywood rent control"
mircea_popescu: nonsense.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu seems to think that i was looking for an answer other than the one i already derived.
ascii_field: i know full well that it is worth nothing.
mircea_popescu: you asked me. if you weren't looking for an answer, wh yask me ?
mircea_popescu: nothing is not the word.
ascii_field: wanted to see if anyone, incl. mircea_popescu, might find an error in my reasoning.
ascii_field: e.g., do i contribute something in particular, or is it fungible like the 'good looks of a 20yo cunt'
trinque marvels at both the output of this guy and his assessment of it
mircea_popescu: neither of these approaches is actually meaningful, you're just murking up the material.
mircea_popescu: sorta canine, i always thought.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to put the thing in more distant, and thus perhaps more comprehensible terms even if you'll likely not be able to resist the temptation to crush naisl with the microscope : "what is the value of rsa to kenyan ?" and "obviously all this 'crypto work' is general 20yo cunt good looks" to kenyan.
mircea_popescu: all this is rank nonsense.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317308 << As long as it is not inflamed and angry it should be fine
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:02:01; mircea_popescu: this goalpost moving is giving me spots on the spleen.
mircea_popescu: if i cared what kenyans value anything i might ask them. as it is, they don't even get a voice in blockchain size.
ascii_field: anyway i know very well that mircea_popescu runs a roman army, where you gotta bringe the horse, and the armour, and not a soviet army.
mircea_popescu: soviet armies are evil.
ascii_field was not advocating the merits of soviet armies.
mircea_popescu: nothing, least of which me, keeps you from running your own hoisehold soviet army style or any other style.
mircea_popescu: but in the forum there's no place for anything else.
ascii_field: no argument
mircea_popescu: alrightythen!
ascii_field: i suppose i ought to cut to the chase:
ascii_field: my main project is cardano. which i would like to roll out before i get 'accidented', starve (which may happen quite soon), or exhaust the patience of my co-author or of the shareholders. and thus,
ascii_field: from this point on i will have to ignore everything else, until rollout.
ascii_field: BUT if trb foundation really wants various things, it can make'em happen by... paying.
mircea_popescu: in other news, ima make myself some romanian style pickled cabbage!
ben_vulpes has been waiting for this particular old tomato for some time
mircea_popescu: eh, relax wouldja. do what you can and let others do what they can and that's the whole story.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: that's really the lot of it
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317424 << Like bitcoin I am going to have to value it as an Aleph, just dunno which one
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:19:33; ascii_field: what is 'v' worth ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i posted all of this to add another 'can' to the list: services for pay. if anyone is interested in such.
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mircea_popescu: what's foundation got, like 10 btc or so ?
assbot: [BTC-dev] Treasury October 2015 statement ... ( http://bit.ly/1HdlXV4 )
mircea_popescu: iirc they were disinclined from getting servers even, for yet
ascii_field: 13.82746102.
mircea_popescu: neway. voluntary is voluntary. has its upsides an' its downsided.
mircea_popescu: and as always is the case in life, if one doesn't manage to make one thing work, one'll sooner or later meet the same thing later on, with worse downside and less upside.
mircea_popescu: after all, soviet armies even are a thing because the reason prefers to sleep, or how was that quote.
ascii_field: again, not trying to troll people, but fact of the matter is that i only got so much 'voluntary'. and gotta prioritize.
ascii_field: 'cause if i starve, this cheats the shareholders.
mircea_popescu: makes sense.
mircea_popescu: i dun think anyone was really going "hey, alf is not doing enough works!" or anything ?
ascii_field: wouldn't surprise me
mircea_popescu: a part of your problems are in your own head, alfie.
mircea_popescu: !s it's a job not a conviction
assbot: 1 results for 'it's a job not a conviction' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=it%27s+a+job+not+a+conviction
phf: ascii_field: you're producing the most output by a margin of anyone here
mircea_popescu: assbot rules.
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
phf: kek
ascii_field: they're only in my head in the sense that i'm not clever enough to be 'stand on own' economically as described in mircea_popescu's article re: same.
ascii_field: gotta work, pretty much every day of the year.
mircea_popescu: it'll come.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate the sentiment, i really do, it's pure love "oh im sorry i couldn't do more". fine, but don't let it consume you.
mircea_popescu: do what you can, when you can, you got a lifetime ahead o you.
ascii_field: pretty sure i got maybe a year or two
ascii_field: but aside.
mircea_popescu: a lifetime is not temporally specified.
ascii_field: anyway my objective wasn't to 'emo' people - recall, i have two bits of emotion register.
mircea_popescu: the objective emotion, in 28 days!
ascii_field: but to state 'various xxxxx is now available for a fee, unless at some point i get rich enough to afford the armour without having to pull own plow.'
ascii_field: and no, i don't expect any takers. and don't intend to 'emo' the non-takers
ascii_field: because i'm not (imho) retarded.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50950 @ 0.00054456 = 27.7453 BTC [+]
ascii_field: http://pastebin.com/DPLFCgps << meanwhile schmucks advertise 0days 'FOR RENT!!'
assbot: Exploit kit! RIG v4.0 i am make Service Regular Updates Rebu - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7sTGf )
ascii_field: wtf, how does this work.
mircea_popescu: well... tghey get more rooted boxes.
ascii_field: but it never made any sense how one could evict a 'tenant' on one of these.
ascii_field: you'd end up playing 'core wars'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317314 << dollar is only in this discussion because trying to give a newfag dimension to it. otherwise, the transaction fees/limits are established byt miners.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:03:04; PeterL: mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
ascii_field sees 'newfag' for 1st time in engl.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317323 << i think this is a drastic reduction that entirely misses the point. i'm generally careful not to discuss things i don't understand.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:21:12; phf: ascii_field: that's the problem with a lot of lisp conversations here, your interlocutors have some vague idea about how things are done right now and in unix world. even unixisms are used not in their "pure form", but in their final gnu/linux state. there's complete lack of semantic match between that and historical lisp. ultimately debates are reduced to "macros are bad because cpp is bad"
ascii_field: ^ i think he was referring in general to judgements on ~the possible~ based on ~the extant~
mircea_popescu: yeah well that never fucking worked.
mircea_popescu: but the spots on my spleen were because we can't seem to pin this down for five minutes.
mircea_popescu: keeps shapeshifting.
ascii_field: which this
mircea_popescu: actually, this is probably long overdue and a major public service. so i ordered teh gals bring cognac and i shall proceed
ascii_field: i'm seein' five or six thises
mircea_popescu: to ennumerate whatever the fuck we're even doing.
ascii_field: 571st regiment of cat reports for catuty!
mircea_popescu: Thing 1. We're trying to reduce bitcoind to a form where it's actually worth cutting trees to print it ;
ascii_field: ^ what asciilifeform wanted!!
mircea_popescu: Thing 2. We're trying to create an actually statically linked, weaponized bitcoind that's suitable for the pogo.
ascii_field: so he can write his.
mircea_popescu: Thing 3. We're trying to re-create a software management system that's based on sanity (=crypto). this mostly exists gratia alf & mod6 efforts, and it's called v.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was referring to those instances where it's ascii fielding objections from assorted people, not necessarily debates between you two
mircea_popescu: Thing 4. We're trying to create a proper (=crypto) communication system ; as part of this gpg was cut up and we're still barfing at the results. this is a huge task and if thee end product is reasonably well understood, the design's still widely open.
mircea_popescu: Thing 5. We're trying to create a sane os. This led to gentoo being cut open, libc being cut open, gcc being cut open, and we're still barfing at the results. I don't even want to think about it.
mircea_popescu: Thing 6. We're trying to create a sane computer (other than pogo). Part of this consideration is some in-principle fundamental research work into ternary to be maybe attached to Thing 3.
mircea_popescu: Thing 7. We're trying to create a pr core, which is roughly in the spot Thing 4 was a year ago, ie, when artifex got somehow married to it.
ascii_field: !seen artifexd
ascii_field: ;;seen artifexd
mircea_popescu: other than that there's other things (ie, a bitcoin game etc etc) but i got those.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 28 weeks, 0 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes, and 45 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: this about it ?
shinohai: Very succinct
mircea_popescu: yeah, succint like 82 life sentences to run concurrently.
ascii_field: 1-6 are actually subdirs on my hdd.
mircea_popescu: alright.
mircea_popescu: and cardano is vaguely bolted into either 7 or 4. in fact the entire anthill got opened mostly through there.
mircea_popescu: basically far from ascii_field getting paid, i think the thing here is, s.nsa should be hiring.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15000 @ 0.00054456 = 8.1684 BTC [+]
ascii_field falls down l0lling
ascii_field spins, like turtle
phf: we lost him
mircea_popescu: we pee on him to put him out ?
ascii_field: eh, me console is designed for this
ascii_field gets up
ascii_field: kakobrekla no more finland ??
kakobrekla: finland is a fallback
mircea_popescu: anjyway. while this... project is epicly delayed and way the fuck over budget, i am not particularly worried .
ascii_field: kakobrekla: 'Finlandia, Finlandia, sinne taas matkalla oli Iivana.'
assbot: Njet Molotoff lyrics + English translation ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7tKXo )
mircea_popescu: who is bobrikov
kakobrekla: some su dude sounds like.
ascii_field: viceroy in fi under late ru empire
ascii_field: plugged in 1904.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: http://heninen.net/njet/index.html << ru ver. and link to (i think) original audio.
assbot: Нет, Молотов ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7tSGi )
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: supposing for a moment that the notion was a serious one, who should we be hiring ?
ascii_field: (and with what)
mircea_popescu: with stock.
mircea_popescu: adn who, i dunno.
ascii_field: and to what
mircea_popescu: take your pick of the items in there.
mircea_popescu: not like there's not work to do.
ascii_field: so far, other than pieces of #3, and the whole of #7, it's all things that sit still except when i push'em.
mircea_popescu: well we can't hire mod6 mostly because if we do the foundation ends.
ascii_field: (7 is black magic and i won't even come near it)
ascii_field: what does mod6 do for living anyway
mircea_popescu: same as you.
mircea_popescu: works in some mine.
mircea_popescu: except he also raises some kids.
ascii_field: ah in that sense
ascii_field: aha this i recall
mircea_popescu: and hunts!
ascii_field: and prolly other interesting things.
thestringpuller: mod6: has kids?
thestringpuller: news to me
mircea_popescu: iirc he also judges new stripper in a six county area.
mircea_popescu: maybe phf, but the dude's not even bothered to collect the pile of mushrooms he earned doing i don't recall what for eulora
mircea_popescu: ah, mac porting was it.
jurov: qntra shares adistributed
jurov: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0 / 0 / 0 (0 shares, 0 BTC), 7D: / / ( shares, BTC), 30D: 0.00015 / 0.00022294 / 0.00023879 (7865 shares, 1.75 BTC)
BingoBoingo: Foodstamp culture: "I saw an episode of Bridezillas that she wanted to use EBT for her wedding cake. Except it was her friends card and it was not a store she was getting it from it was a lady baking out of her house and the baker lady was going to buy the stuff for the cake and like $700 in groceries as her 'payment'. They all got fines, the baker got shut down and the friend lost her ability to receive stamps and I think lost cu
BingoBoingo: stody of her kids to their dad because she had the kids on her case but because she was filmed letting her friend use the card they said she was neglecting to 'use state resources alloted for her kids' on her kids, so they opened a case against her and the judge let the kids say who they wanted to be with and it was dad. "
mircea_popescu: rape and microaggression.
BingoBoingo: So pete still working on a PR setup? How does their compensation work? One share per tard tear?
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: "with liquid cooling fluid bubbling over its brain" << if the coolant bubbles you got serious problems. it's not supposed to do that.
ascii_field: fluorinert boils
ascii_field: this was part of the design
ascii_field: (heat of phase change)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33400 @ 0.00054309 = 18.1392 BTC [-]
ascii_field: somewhere north of 50c
ascii_field: hence the bubbles
mircea_popescu: check it out, "two phase collant", it's a thing
ascii_field: big bux
ascii_field: iirc recently somebody opened a btc mine under f.
ascii_field: (or claimed to, at any rate)
assbot: Cooling system of Cray 2 super-computer - Stock Image T450/0126 - Science Photo Library ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7uKe5 )
ascii_field: operating.
ascii_field: from http://www.0x07bell.net/WWWMASTER/CrayWWWStuff/Cfaqp2.html which is pretty spiffy historical pile
assbot: Cray Faq Part 2: Tales from the crypto and other bar stories ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7uOuh )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317405 and http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317404 control. has "industry" "taken over" "farming" ? no, it has not, people still farm. except, people who farm (argentina) get to suck the cock of people who industry (romania). but otherwise, feudalism continues unimpeded both as a thing in itself in east asia and as a thing to look forward to, maybe one day
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:06:20; ascii_field: PeterL: the notion of 'takes over' is broken
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:05:36; trinque: takes over what? who cares if some poor guy still has an iPhone?
mircea_popescu: they develop it, in africa and venezuela etc. see also http://trilema.com/2012/bitcoin-and-the-poor/#comment-114814
assbot: Bitcoin and the poor on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q7uOKE )
ascii_field: linked site claims that the last known cray2 was not thrown out until '99.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317411 << this, ftr, is deeply wrong. pluralism does not suffer because "mass markets". it would benefit from them, if the [people who were supposed to be the] elite weren't fucktards.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:08:16; ascii_field: 'when mass markets develop, pluralism suffers the most -- there is no longer a concept of healthy participants: people become concerned with the individual "winner", and instead of people being good at whatever they are doing and proud of that, they will want to flock around the winner to share some of the glory.'
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "abundance makes lazy apes want to watch tv". guess what ? it doesn't have to! nobody forces you to misuse your freedom!
ascii_field: recall the meth thread ?
ascii_field: so then.
mircea_popescu: so then what ?
ascii_field: they could all be erdos
mircea_popescu: all that discussion was about the mass.
ascii_field: if they wanted
mircea_popescu: no, they couldn't.
mircea_popescu: not ALL. there is no all.
ascii_field: sure. then where did we get the retarded elite?
mircea_popescu: until and unless you come to terms with the simple fact that you're special, you'll be stuck trying to explain friends to me.
ascii_field: martians came and put them in?
mircea_popescu: i blame the parents.
mircea_popescu: (not for maleducation. for poor sexual hygiene. fucking all the roadkill and such.)
mircea_popescu: lemme find this ad, maybe i manage.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: don't have the thread handy, but at one point i explained how computing is tricky because its very existence as its current thing - that is, vlsi - is predicated on mass uptake
ascii_field: and how this is the root of the sux
ascii_field: still is, until mircea_popescu or i figure out how to make 100 cpus.
mircea_popescu: well i can't find it. anyway, fucktarded outdoor thing in ba, "siempre se vuelve al primer amor" trying to sell italian classes. depicts an ugly chick in flats holding a huge red heart.
ascii_field: or even 1000.
mircea_popescu: that stupid bitch didn't look like something dogs would fuck
mircea_popescu: yet these idiots think she's someone's first love.
mircea_popescu: stop fucking all the ugly inept women. that's how you get stunted kids.
ascii_field: hey a sack of potatoes with a hole augered in is prolly somebody's 1st luv
mircea_popescu: not a matter of "someone".
mircea_popescu: a matter that the top male of 1015 (ie, STRONG) fucked hotties and had good children. whereas the top male of 2015 (ie, SMART) fucks horsefaces and is happy for it.
mircea_popescu: that's the martians that put the chlorotic non-elites on earth.
mircea_popescu: go for the hot ones like you own their mothers.
ascii_field: not enough war.
ascii_field: (how else do you resolve the problem of there being 1000 takers to each)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field we can make 100 cpus TODAY, and on tech that didn't even exist in 1960.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly how bitcoin mining got started.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in all srsnes i'd like to know how.
mircea_popescu: so no, the problem is not an absent "mass market". the problem is that there's work to be done for future uncertain benefit.
ascii_field: teach me how to make 100 cpus.
mircea_popescu: umd will let you tack on 100 cpus to some prototype run they got, won't it ?
ascii_field: those ain't cpus
mircea_popescu: shut up.
ascii_field: they won't package or test or guarantee so much as 1 working unit.
ascii_field: and you can't package in a kitchen.
ascii_field: i tried.
mircea_popescu: and no, i wont bother the bitfury guy, or anyone actually involved in doing things with this inept nonsense. for the same reason i shouldn't have queried ben_vulpes yest.
ascii_field: (tried how? you can buy bare dies)
mircea_popescu: entertaining anal child resistences is a bad plan.
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact, incontrovertible and above your ability to contest, that you can do 100 cpus, and it doesn'rt even cost that much.
mircea_popescu: moving on.
ascii_field: also we don't need z80 for anything.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13050 @ 0.0005422 = 7.0757 BTC [-] {2}
ascii_field: (show me where we can do a 486 or a dram of the time, for something like what the shared die folks charge.)
mircea_popescu: so i guess this can wait a few years then.
ascii_field: the base cost of doing any of it is only moving up.
ascii_field: esp. as the old 'secondhand' fabs fold.
ascii_field: recall the thread re: 'the middle dies' ?
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 17:27:26; mircea_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
ascii_field: ^ was actually about this fab
mircea_popescu: looky, if we miss the window to civilisation we'll have missed the window to civilisation, that's all.
ascii_field: would still rather not, no?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317412 << and mcdonalds' existence has kept alive a great many people that belonged dead. and all this has some ~statistical~ influences. it is not relevant on a case by case basis and it can't be an excuse for you.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:08:35; ascii_field: microshit's very existence has deformed thought processes of a great many people.
ascii_field: ftr it is my considered belief that if tmsr is sunk, it will be because it was unable to fab si.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't, personally, give a rats ass either way. if yes, sure. if not, whatever, i have no problems riding a horse.
ascii_field: horse while enemy has gamma ray blaster.
ascii_field: in orbit.
mircea_popescu: eh nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i'm fucking "the enemy" ie some conclave of old fart's both daughters and occaisonally wife. always have.
mircea_popescu: i pointedly couldn't care less.
ascii_field: you might be fucking the wives of his dead skin cells
ascii_field: but i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: i keep getting sucked into discussing science fiction movie scripts with this guy.
mircea_popescu: i don't even like science fiction.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317425 << the one that went "this works [because nobody's ever used it, like you know, burning man before it got populat]" ?
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:20:06; *: ben_vulpes fails to find the logline wherein asciilifeform claims that common lisp packages "tend to work unlike in other languages"
ascii_field: the ones that don't reference items in the sea of c shit - work.
mircea_popescu: for now.
ascii_field: for ever.
ascii_field: that's what ansi cl means.
mircea_popescu: and once they become popular, they will BE the sea of lisp shit.
mircea_popescu: c worked in the 70s just fine, also.
ascii_field: common lisp did not exist in the 70s
mircea_popescu: the problem here is keeping the herd out of computing, nothing else.
ascii_field: it was actually an answer to the tower of babel which prevailed then.
mircea_popescu: and it continues to appear to work for as long as it fails to appear interesting.
ascii_field: a kind of 'trb cleanup' of its time
mircea_popescu: because it has no mechanisms of institutionalized opression of the median.
ascii_field: but yes, the machines were expensive and the room temp iq folks were kept out.
ascii_field: on other side of locked doors.
mircea_popescu: that accidental, happenstantial mechanism is crap.
mircea_popescu: originally worked for unix, also.
ascii_field happens to agree
mircea_popescu: so now you know why you must go stand on own, with one go.
ascii_field: not exactly
mircea_popescu: of course not, god forbid.
ascii_field: what i meant was, what does it mean, 'with one go'
mircea_popescu: that in the same go, as you understand one, you understand the other. they being the exact same thing.
ascii_field: i don't see the connection
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes whty is the painter with ebola chick wearing high heeled platforms ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317481 << the thing that has haunted alf for years now.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:50:29; ascii_field: required reading for context: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3217750625724755@naggum.net.html
mircea_popescu: same thing happens to me, i get various bits i end up keeping for a long time.
ascii_field: see also my observation about being dumber than a chicken.
mircea_popescu: 1023 more of you , we could almost have a cpu.
asciilifeform: !up ascii_field
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don't think it is 'emo' to question my priorities when, after giving away my work to apparent applause for a year, i mention starving and audience suggests 'web dev'
ascii_field: audience collectively worth what, $1B ?
ascii_field: to me 'web dev' means 'work 17y.o. does' and is exactly equivalent to 'you are worth your weight in pork'
mircea_popescu: this is entirely besides the point. how you organise your own affairs is your own call. b-a is an equity play : you do things ; when and if they bring money in, you can have money ; when and if they bring chicks in, you can have chicks. that's how equity plays work : you get a claim to whatever future brings.
ascii_field: no argument
mircea_popescu: i understand that salaried work is both more common and more convenient, but i have personally no patience for salary types, and more importantly, there's no room in b-a for such, because it's not a fucking ewmpire, it's a republic,
mircea_popescu: \and in the early revolutionary phases at that.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: wasn't speaking of 'salary types'
ascii_field: what did you pay that plumber in anyway
ascii_field: chocolate ?
mircea_popescu: which plumber ?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 22216 @ 0.00054456 = 12.0979 BTC [+]
ascii_field: the fella with the angle grinder
mircea_popescu: im either doing too many things at once or whatever. who ? link ? what ?
ascii_field: the hand-held one
mircea_popescu: oh, i don't recall, 200 pesos for the labour or something it was
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 21:01:03; mircea_popescu: ok this is the most insane thing i ever saw. so plumber, looks like he escaped comicon or something, dorkiest dude ever. but THEN he proceeds to CUT THROUGH METAL PLATE FREEHAND
ascii_field: that one
ascii_field: just random example
mircea_popescu: right. ~200 pesos.
ascii_field: aha. fella did something that needed doing
ascii_field: does that make him 'salary type' ?
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as he doesn't get to put his name on the thing.
ascii_field: but i thought mircea_popescu didn't care for those
mircea_popescu: i don;t.
ascii_field: ought to have used a republic plumber
mircea_popescu: which is why if he came to have a chat with me i'd have the girls send him off.
ascii_field: who works for glory?
mircea_popescu: but i'm not fucking insane.
mircea_popescu: nor do i hire plumbers to do the code nor do i hire usian kids to do my plumbing.
ascii_field: what am i missing here
mircea_popescu: you are stubbornly missing here that what you'd like the world to be does not matter one whit, and whatever way you dress that masturbation up doesn't change its masturbatory content.
mircea_popescu: it's either or, pick one or the other and enough with it already.
mircea_popescu: you don't want to do webwork, don't. do not expect any sort of actual pay.
ascii_field: this might be asking the mega-s33krit, but what kind of people ~does~ mircea_popescu use to, e.g., maintain mircea_popescucoin ?
mircea_popescu: you don't want to be in start-ups, don't. do not expect you get to open your mouth.
mircea_popescu: either way, pick one live with it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu is, i think, accustomed to smashing idiots' skulls and instinctively reaches for the designated hammer. but i'm not an idiot and don't expect things.
mircea_popescu: most people live with a mix of the two, which is fine, pick a mix you like and stick to it.
mircea_popescu: well so then!
ascii_field picked.
mircea_popescu: so then what is teh problem!
ascii_field: none afaik.
ascii_field: but wanted to take a proper shit into the record
ascii_field: in case anyone is later confused.
ascii_field: mainly i gotta live out the oath that i swore.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30400 @ 0.00054456 = 16.5546 BTC [+]
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:59:46; trinque: could very well be that the mechanism by which a central govt steals from a large population via fiat monetary systems got us the CPUs we use today far earlier than they'd have been had without the theft
mircea_popescu: the russians got steel plants faster with stalin then they'd have without.
kakobrekla: doenst this apply to pretty much everything govt made
kakobrekla: the bad and the ugly
shinohai: !up Cristina
shinohai: vez eso? lo puedo hacer porque *ya he verifcado*
Cristina: ya me deja jeje
shinohai: The things I go through ...
shinohai: If Cristina has done anything, she has proved to me that winblowze is never going to be the correct tool for anything related to gpg
BingoBoingo: !up Cristina
mircea_popescu: this wasn't terribly controversial shinohai. howdja meet her anyway.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah. baltimore'd have never had such good crime without govt.
Cristina: +BingoBoingo nice
shinohai: mircea_popescu: met her trollin about ... found out about camwork, decided to ask her to look into your offer.
shinohai: jugs for all !
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all --currency eur
gribble: Bitstamp BTCEUR last: 356.5332, vol: 60091.75104089 | BTC-E BTCEUR last: 363.39999, vol: 466.47868 | CampBX BTCEUR last: 358.371, vol: 16.12998791 | BTCChina BTCEUR last: 381.246816, vol: 86760.53440000 | Kraken BTCEUR last: 355.13, vol: 19397.1056119 | Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR last: 350.0, vol: 246.96771636 | Volume-weighted last average: 369.220833122
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 388.0, vol: 60074.75104089 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 382.23, vol: 33094.06971 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 387.1, vol: 157816.51835699 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 390.0, vol: 16.12998791 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 415.261816, vol: 86711.68480000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 380.0, vol: 193.92428549 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 380.94, vol: 246.96771636 | Volume-weighted last average: (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: i was like... wtf it moved 10% within two queries ?
mircea_popescu: that euro thing always throws me.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 22:42:27; ascii_field: from http://www.0x07bell.net/WWWMASTER/CrayWWWStuff/Cfaqp2.html which is pretty spiffy historical pile
kakobrekla: ** This section not available for public distribution. **
kakobrekla: how great.
shinohai: !s android 2fa vulnerabilities
assbot: 0 results for 'android 2fa vulnerabilities' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=android+2fa+vulnerabilities
shinohai: o rly
mod6: <+ascii_field> what does mod6 do for living anyway << professional shit shoveler
mod6: <+thestringpuller> news to me << they're the gf's
mod6: had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place.
mod6: first day was last friday. so been a bit swamped since then.
shinohai: Thank you, come again!
mod6: exactly. lol
shinohai: ^_______________^
BingoBoingo: State of Aztlan: https://www.thefix.com/content/crystal-meth-new-crack-cocaine "They stopped the bomb powder. We got our own weed, it's damn near legal out here. The only thing the Mexicans got to push is this and they pushing it hard."
assbot: Is Crystal Meth the New Crack Cocaine? | The Fix ... ( http://bit.ly/1PqN404 )
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> iirc he also judges new stripper in a six county area. << my speciality
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 13250 @ 0.00054152 = 7.1751 BTC [-]
mod6: i would like to help out with s.nsa. but yeah, right now foundation stuff is about all i can handle outside of mines. once I don't need the mines any longer, then I'll have some extra time perhaps.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 3786 @ 0.0005386 = 2.0391 BTC [-]
shinohai: I got plenty of time but I'm not good at anything.
mod6: that's not true. you've been doing some awesome testing for me at the drop of a hat. a lot of this stuff just takes time to dig into it, etc.
mod6: and rome wasn't built in a day. or 5 years or whatever. takes time.
mod6: but believe me, there's nothing more than I want to do than work on this stuff all day. just not quite there yet.
hanbot: ascii_field should you ever actually find yourself on the brink of starvation put whoever is doing your cooking in touch with me. i am well acquainted with forced frugality. it happens, and while your merits might not prevent it from grabbing at your feet, they can keep you from succumbing.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
mircea_popescu: i must confess buffett sold me on his "hay mas futuro por norteamerica" or whatever it was.
BingoBoingo: Who knew sobriety was such big bsns, fuck AngloLandia is broken https://www.thefix.com/content/lifestyles-rich-and-sober-6588
assbot: Lifestyles of the Rich and Sober | The Fix ... ( http://bit.ly/1PqPdZz )
BingoBoingo: "If the idea of entering a facility, even a luxury one, is too much to bear, you can always follow the lead of true ballers who detox in style at luxury suites at Claridge’s in London or Trump Tower in NYC to the tune of about $3,000 per night. For the roughly week-long experience, they’ll then hire an on-call doctor to administer a detox program and medication (an estimated $15,000 per week), a 24-hour nurse to facilitate it
BingoBoingo: (roughly $3,500 per week), and a round-the-clock sober companion to oversee the entire operation (approximately $10,000 per week). The final total for a week of the most luxurious stint of detox known to man? Around $50,000. Room service not included."
BingoBoingo needs to get a pet bear
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, they annouced the news of the acquisition on the 2nd of october, had a new deal closed by the 17th. was glad to find something new anyway, was really tired of working at the old place.
mircea_popescu: good for you then
mod6: certainly was a good thing to get back to work so quick.
mod6: got more vacation days and a raise.
mircea_popescu: what do you do there, sysadmin like ?
mod6: software development - mostly java stuff.
mod6 ducks
mircea_popescu: well at least it';s not webdev right ?
mod6: exactly.
mod6: no, this role I'm workin on a data access layer.
mod6: buncha hibrernate bullshit
mod6: but I don't work in these mines for the thrill of victory, i do it for the cash.
mod6: I pretty much keep my head down, work hard. I don't get emotionally invested in the mines.
mod6: when I was younger I used to be a lot more idealistic about my job... now, couldn't care less as long as the money is wired on a regular basis. haha.
mod6: bitcoin is the thing i care about.
mod6: i put up with all that bullshit all day every day so I can keep the lights on and do my real job: the foundation :]
trinque: I'm not much concerned with dignity at the end of the world.
mircea_popescu: just as long as the world ends, eh.
trinque: yes sir
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 12814 @ 0.0005386 = 6.9016 BTC [-]
mod6: well, to some extent for me I have to be able to be honest and have integrity in my job or I wouldn't respect myself in the morning.
trinque: mod6: I mean fretting about doing java, webdev, or pole dancing
mod6: *nod*
mircea_popescu: pole dancing is actually great for you.
mircea_popescu: almost as good as walking.
mod6: I'm just sayin, some guys are cool with being fucking scammers. Not me.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28686 @ 0.00053738 = 15.4153 BTC [-] {2}
mod6: Yup, nothin wrong with shakin' it for cash. That's honest.
mod6: Ripping people off for vaporware or whatever other bullshit isn't.
mod6: I guess, another factor for me is doing manual labor. I used to cut down trees from when I was about 10 to 18. And very quickly in a job like that you learn the value of the earned dollar.
mod6: So, I'd hate to do webdevelopment or whatever, but it sure beats humping logs all day.
mircea_popescu: a lumberjack ?!
trinque: deedbot-'s blockchain has caught up thanks to mircea_popescu's node
mod6: And sure, I liked cutting down trees, good exercise, decent guys to work with, but fuck, that shit wears on you.
mod6: Yep. My good buddy's dad has a tree care company. My old man set me up with a job working with them when I was like 10, big enough to haul sticks and roll logs.
mircea_popescu: "i cut down trees, i wear high heels" now resounding in mp residence
mod6: haha
mod6: Only thing I really regret about it is not wearing ear protection back then.
mod6: When I wasn't cutting down trees, I would blow up an air matress and float down this creek that ran through a private golf course. Where I would fish the golf balls out of the creek, shine 'em up and sell 'em back to the guys who just hit 'em in there for like $0.25 per ball.
mod6: always was a way to make money.
mircea_popescu: not bad.
mod6: probably gave that up when I was about 13 though.
mircea_popescu: at some point at that age i used to go trouting in this stream. the trout likes to sit under the rock sort-of mid evening, you can catch it with your hands just loop either end in.
mod6: yeah! never had to ask my folks for a nickle after I was 10.
mod6: ah! cool.
mircea_popescu: very much like picking up women, actually.
mod6: wrangle 'em up :]
mircea_popescu: always suspected the trout doesn't actually mind being caught.
mircea_popescu: only starts squirming once out of the water.
mod6: !up ascii_field
BingoBoingo: Around here similar hand fishing arts exist, but usually they focus on the catfish Basically get it to swallow your hand and try to grab the gill plates as you pull your hand up
mod6: they're called "noodlers" right BingoBoingo?
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:31:57; hanbot: ascii_field should you ever actually find yourself on the brink of starvation put whoever is doing your cooking in touch with me. i am well acquainted with forced frugality. it happens, and while your merits might not prevent it from grabbing at your feet, they can keep you from succumbing.
mircea_popescu: in other news, johnny cash is fucking great.
mod6: very much so. only framed picture I've got is of Johnny Cash.
mircea_popescu: aged splendidly too. im not even sure if his best work isn't his last album
mircea_popescu: \how many bands can say this ?
mircea_popescu: sure, say aerosmith has the same longevity. but gimme a break with the bubblepop crap they been doing for mtv this side of the mllenium.
mod6: yah, usually it's a big early career, and then a slow decline. he just kept making great, if not even better, music.
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] Good Afternoon ISIS - http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/05/good-afternoon-isis/
mod6: yeah. steven tyler did not age well. i saw a picture of him and he looks like a chinese woman
mircea_popescu: i think he always was a chinese woman.
mircea_popescu: he certainly did enough dope for one.
mod6: speaking of which, Axl Rose looks really bad too. haha
mod6: "Welcome to the bakery, we've got cakes and pies..."
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 21:35:29; ascii_field: from this point on i will have to ignore everything else, until rollout.
mike_c: Amen!!
mod6: mircea_popescu: haha
mike_c: let's get that thing out the door and get alf some goddamn bitcoin already
mod6: sounds good to me.
mircea_popescu: not a bad plan.
jurov: ascii_field: electrum-server depends on bitcoin having "txindex" which 0.5.4 not sure if has, 0.7 had and the el. patch was not heavy
jurov: no patch needed since 0.8
mod6: !up ascii_field
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:32:40; mircea_popescu: <mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
ascii_field: was 'startup'
ascii_field: with hardware.
mircea_popescu: you really shouldn't stack the same play. if the wife's a lascivious blonde don't get ANOTHER one for a mistress. get a spirtous brunette sarah silverman sorta chick.
ascii_field: wot went, so no choice
ascii_field: only other option was- usg
mircea_popescu: "But if Echo was no longer a projection, she was still a reflection. Echo, like all women, offered her man a peek inside his soul, all he had to do look: What kind of a man am I, that attracts this kind of woman? What kind of a man am I that attracts the kind of woman who only likes me for how I look? Despite how I treat her? What kind of a man am I that only attracts the kind of women who like me for X? Is it b
mircea_popescu: ecause there is nothing else of value inside me except X? But he was never taught to ask questions like this. In fact, he was taught never to ask questions like that. What kind of a man attracts a woman who can only echo him? There must be a name for that kind of person, and he already had it."
mircea_popescu: lol, tlp trying to be feminist by making men as dumb as women.
mircea_popescu: orly, neurosis is the answer ? i had no idea anyone even asked the question!
mircea_popescu: How do you make a child know himself? You surround him with mirrors. "This is what everyone else sees when you do what you do. This is who everyone thinks you are." <<< mno, that's how you make a child become a girl.
mircea_popescu: "Lesson one at the academia should be the importance of separating vocation from avocation, as character actor Fred Thompson and electrical contractor Benjamin Franklin both understood."
mircea_popescu: "When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as ir
mircea_popescu: relevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn't care about intelligence, at all, it doesn't care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer ............
mircea_popescu: ...................................... and spouse of a capitalist.
mircea_popescu: Of course I'm not happy about this, I like smart people, but that's the new reality. There was a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happene
mircea_popescu: d in college. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even
mircea_popescu: nightclubs let ladies in for free."
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50214 @ 0.00053536 = 26.8826 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: aaannd... "if we had a system of healthcare in which doctors were paid the exact same regardless of diagnosis or severity, then there'd be little attention paid to "correct" diagnosis, all of our epidemiological data would be totally invalid, and the number one drug in America would be Xanax. "Wait, isn't that the situation now?" Huh, nailed it."
mircea_popescu: "why is all us epidemiological data null and void ?" "because us doctors a) have to write down a diagnosis and b) are paid the same no matter what is is".
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10007 @ 0.00053447 = 5.3484 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38643 @ 0.00053447 = 20.6535 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10450 @ 0.00053483 = 5.589 BTC [+]
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.50000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $800 before Jan 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1219/bitcoin-to-top-800-before-jan-2016/#b14
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 47300 @ 0.00053483 = 25.2975 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "See also Princeton, where you will pay them more to get the degree that they will then pay you less to use for them, in no other profession is learning how to do something more valuable than actually doing it. Is that ironic? " << it's not a profession, it's a fandom. and in all fandoms, you pay them more than they pay you, that's the definition.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'No' - Bitcoin to top $800 before Jan 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1219/bitcoin-to-top-800-before-jan-2016/#b15
punkman: bon dia
mircea_popescu: the moment he blurred the genitals he lost.
punkman: he didn't, some other tard did
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 32900 @ 0.00053483 = 17.5959 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, germany needs moar refugees.
mircea_popescu: anyway, cockring and flag in asshole guy will make a great daddy i'm sure.
assbot: LiveLeak.com - Redefining the Media - Expired File ... ( http://bit.ly/1MfHclP )
punkman: fuck you
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: "Well, feminism has emasculated men." Really? A girl did that to you?
mircea_popescu: ahaha tlp delivers.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 26100 @ 0.00053447 = 13.9497 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 18500 @ 0.00053395 = 9.8781 BTC [-] {3}
punkman: mod6: So, I'd hate to do webdevelopment or whatever, but it sure beats humping logs all day. << I'll second that
trinque: the web's not so bad. if you overcomplicate it that's your problem
punkman: it's fine when you are not working on someone else's vomit painting
trinque: now that's for sure, but I thought these were ass-paintings
punkman: I covered all three (ass, vagina, mouth)
trinque: eh I'll take your word for it, lol
punkman: though that last one was pushing paint-filled eggs out her vag
trinque: "anti-hotlink protection" on the liveleak
mircea_popescu: l'etude punkman, peinture a l'oriffice.
punkman: heh
mircea_popescu: in unrelated not-news, ""For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually movi
mircea_popescu: ng." How can you work in media and not understand media? The fact that feminism is in the mainstream means that it doesn't exist, it is no longer real, in the same way that when you hear "gun control debate" it's a lie and "fiscal cliff" is an easy to market, safe distraction from the structural problems that can never be named, here's one: for any heterogeneous population, the expansion of a "welfare class" is logi
mircea_popescu: cally inseparable from the entrenchment of an aristocracy, can't have one without the other once you get bigger than 20M, ask Bismarck. "Does he write for Time?" No. But keep this in mind every time you hear how great it is Bill Gates is curing malaria after leaving us all with Windows.""
mircea_popescu: god damned i want this guy to write for qntra already where is he!
mircea_popescu: what's with all the amateur cameramen
mircea_popescu: "i saw a naked lady in the street - i have nothing to say to her but i'd like to talk to my friends ABOUT her"
assbot: LiveLeak.com - Artist Milo Moire, naked on public transport.. ... ( http://bit.ly/1QigrTd )
mircea_popescu: i honestly liked this stuff better a decade-two ago back when donna was doing it in between being hassled by police
punkman: aha
mircea_popescu: by now it's ... meh, whatevs.
punkman: which Donna btw?
mircea_popescu: kink.com donna
mircea_popescu: ugly brunette chick
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