mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i lolled at the "death cult", but i lolled more at the observation that the ~only article of interest to the "our community" anon commenter is... something about obscure shitcoins. that... that touches close to home.
mircea_popescu: and check out phf becoming a study in republican performance. "participation forces you to think about things completely, which results in either a decision you're not ready yet or else a sane implementation, both of which are perfect responses in and of themselves."
a111: Logged on 2017-02-04 08:06 phf: so i was inspired by tmsr in 2014 to send out my gpg pubkey to a bunch of services that i use. most places simply ignored it, but today it paid off with the epic uptime machine. all i had to do was to point at an old email, pubkey in /root/ and send a signed request for a ssh pubkey replacement to recover a machine in barely amount of time it took to send three emails
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-04#1611353 << sounds like this ip should be advertised, i wouldn't mind getting a box or two there. epic uptime + gpg awareness = win
mircea_popescu: kinda a half-step against the idiocy of iron today, build remote services. of course this also has the drawback that it may encourage a very retarded view where every lord vies for pushing his own walled garden above the others, but i'm hoping thinking people can innoculate themselves against that idiocy for long enough
mircea_popescu: shinohai since the bot repls, you don't depend on running it locally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes add the ho to #eulora while at it ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaha check out danielpbarron lisping on the lispslut!
mircea_popescu just used Framedragger 's logger on other machine to get the link ben_vulpes sent him to his own log via shinohai 's bot.
mircea_popescu: sorry about that, was going to say something but then with this bullshit.
mircea_popescu: but yes, good thing mp doesn't have derpy kids for "partners" in actual business, or else he'd be stuck against the wall over you know, overbuying not needed ips and other gestures of rank and explosive megalomania endangering the welfare of the shareholders.
mircea_popescu: o did you figure out the mystery meanwhile shinohai ?
mircea_popescu: the old one, STILL 10000ms +
phf: i think of him as one of the archbishops of scientism, enough legitimate research to lend credibility to things like https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1791v3
asciilifeform: phf, ben_vulpes : largely for the astonishing array of pathologies on display !
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 17:51 asciilifeform: in quite other noose, moldy returneth! e.g., http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167#comment-1731729
ben_vulpes: even 'operator' is short for 'respected gentleman who understands how to work all of the machines in our shop, produce all of our parts, be trusted with plans and some degree of autonomy in problem-solving on the fly"
ben_vulpes: i cannot fathom what is going on in the mind of somoene who is a <lang>"dev"
asciilifeform: phf: apparently concerns some shitcoin or other.
ben_vulpes: trinque: i don't think that anyone's using the sexp
trinque: ben_vulpes: was somebody using the sexp? I can't remember now.
shinohai smiles seeing oglafbot in the logs again .....
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that's what 'boldmug' calls the 'hilarious lie that there is a nice left and a nasty left'
jhvh1: ben_vulpes: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: See the log first, I left an offering earlier but jurov informed me it was unacceptable
rg: well the offer stands for anyone else..
BingoBoingo: lel "A rabbit on a rebel flag? Horrible english? What the hell is this shit? oh god an MPex listing... this blog reads like the bitcoin equivalent of zerohedge"
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/02/bitcoin-mining-difficulty-climbs-7-43-in-latest-adjustment-yet-another-all-time-high/ << Qntra - Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Climbs ~7.43% In Latest Adjustment – Yet Another All Time High
shinohai: These days I'm happy to look at any pic that doesn't have a goddamned snapchat filter on it.
Ubicq: is unknown for the world, not for me :)
BingoBoingo: Oh, just the usual
shinohai: I see what you did there.
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/02/obamacare-enrollment-dropped-by-400000-with-hussein-bahamas-on-the-way-out/ << Qntra - Obamacare Enrollment Dropped By ~400,000 With Hussein Bahamas On The Way Out
Framedragger: may be possible to do things without full reinstall - will see. good news, not many things run there, not too much work.
trinque: Framedragger: what happened there?
Framedragger: (`!$ssh` won't work for a bit, database server which scriba connects to needs to be reinstalled from the ground up)
asciilifeform: in very other vintage lulz, 'As Technical Lead on a Air Force major command and control system, our initial implementation used textual representations for all the messaging between the distributed workstations and the central server. This got us a working product much faster than dealing with binary representations since the workstation and the central server hardware were so contrary to each other...'
a111: Logged on 2017-02-04 08:35 phf: on the other hand, things that suck. mbp trackpads don't work for shit anywhere outside of san francisco ACed offices
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: Ah gotcha .... my mistake then.
jurov: that one is 14iD6wJY4DFaaDnEkcjd66JWe3dabU2Fv7, yes (not done the withdrawal yet)
jurov: ie. you forgot the address for your most recent withdrawal?
shinohai: nah the withdraw address. I had 14iD6wJY4DFaaDnEkcjd66JWe3dabU2Fv7
jurov: the address to reset account?
shinohai: I was trying to figure out which address I put in on coinbr. The tx id mircea_popescu gave me isn't an address I control
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
phf: fwiw, i also opted out of a travel gpg key, because i realized my infrastructure is not sufficiently developed to support that mode. i have a hopefully reasonable alternative that i'm relying on, but rather not explain till i come back
phf: in yet other tmsr vs rest of world. things that i built with the correct mindset work perfectly on a dodgy cell connection in the middle of nowhere. not so much VC produced monstrosities. so much for "bitcoin in africa"
phf: in a mildly humid climate, outside, but under a fan, my cursor starts jumping all over the place, doing left and right clicks at will. wtf.
phf: on the other hand, things that suck. mbp trackpads don't work for shit anywhere outside of san francisco ACed offices
phf: so i was inspired by tmsr in 2014 to send out my gpg pubkey to a bunch of services that i use. most places simply ignored it, but today it paid off with the epic uptime machine. all i had to do was to point at an old email, pubkey in /root/ and send a signed request for a ssh pubkey replacement to recover a machine in barely amount of time it took to send three emails
ben_vulpes: in turing test inversions: https://medium.com/@NoraReed/the-saga-of-christianmom18-8ac09ceab9c6#.tr0yew72q
mircea_popescu: it is not physically possible for the barren fucking wastes to have such a thing as a university much like it's not possible for a two inch songbird to have "an erect penis"
asciilifeform: iirc pete_dushenski went there?
shinohai: What a waste of a perfectly good Adult theatre
mircea_popescu: and no, there IS NO fucking reason british columbia should even have a refurbished adult theatre which it pompously if pointlessly calls "university"
mircea_popescu: Précédent EDF, The University of British Columbia Enseignement
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Charlet:Arnaud << random nobody, did a coupla of papers in a decade, moved on to gay for pay or w/e it is they do to support themselves in europe these days.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: scarcely ever are these d00dz professor of anything
mircea_popescu: there is NO need of twenty "professors of philosophy".
mircea_popescu: here's the scoop : if you're a nobody-professor-of-something-or-the-other you aren't above the average barrista. there is legitimate need for many many girls working the bar, working the pole, working the spotlight, working the suckers, working the cock etc.
asciilifeform: unlike these chickens, hash splits nicely, and still pulls, like the housecats pulled freya's chariot
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why they're permitted to still exist.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the main problem with the world in general is this cloud of university plankton.
shinohai: Recall the `Classic` team did this already.
scriba: Logged on 2017-02-03: [22:13:54] <asciilifeform> 'Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Climate Minister Isabella Lövin appeared to mock the Trump administration with a photo of herself surrounded by women as she signs a climate law.'
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170203/#220 << pussy offering itself up for grabs, eh ? and then we're supposed to buy into this whole "i'm totally angry" narrative ? aww.
mircea_popescu: "Zhuoer, who speaks in broken English, therefore his quotes have only cosmetically been modified to make them grammatically sound, tells CCN that he learned" << epic ethic flavour! minorities know best!
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is "btc.top" mining pool ? did they put the toomim brothers back in the vat, took them out as green lantern or something ?
mircea_popescu: it certainly follows that if my pet takes a liking to someone else i'll shoot it, wtf is it my pet for ? there's no pet divorce.
scriba: Logged on 2017-02-03: [19:20:50] <asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611054 << i'd be curious to read what a hypothetical 'nonparticipation' would look like -- carmack no-shows, judge awards default? carmack burns own factory, a la 1918 ? or which.
mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170203/#161 << carmack moves out of the us, spends the rest of his days mailbombing us military bases.
mircea_popescu: wait, the aircraft cannon ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine they have a dentist specializing in bucktooth palleatives with a fabulous practice
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, there's apparently a city in pennsylvania called "california", which has a university, which is called... california university. in pennsylvania.
mircea_popescu: hey, "law abiding" right ? all it takes for the empire of rogues to exist is a bunch of law abiding dorks.
mircea_popescu: so yes, the tap went to fleanode.
mircea_popescu: i do not use this box for any other prupose.
asciilifeform: a tap on any of a dozen boxes (e.g., archive.is) will reveal ip used by any of the folx here on a particular day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the box pings alright. but hey, "can't hear lalala".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform using the same verne yes.
ben_vulpes: i don't really want to know any more about the irc protocol than i already do
mircea_popescu: because totally, that's how the internet works.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: kicked by nick? ip? other fingerprinting?
mircea_popescu: these dorks are barely qualified to partiicpate in highschool./
ben_vulpes: the subterfuge grows ever more obvious
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: We are currently working with law enforcement on our website. The violent hate-filled people who did this will be brought to justice."
asciilifeform: 'Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Climate Minister Isabella Lövin appeared to mock the Trump administration with a photo of herself surrounded by women as she signs a climate law.'
asciilifeform: While Krypton-Dev and I disagree on fundamental ideologies (Me: “America First”, He: “I trust China more than the US.”) I understand that they are paying him well and I wish him the best of luck.' << lel!
asciilifeform: (it can die at the hands of new miners, from disuse, from boredom -- but in no way from the efforts of traditional asic operators)
asciilifeform: 'In any event, there would be no incentive to attack rather than earn the reward, but for a PoW fork of bitcoin, miners, who have invested hundreds of millions, if not more, in their hardware, would have a clear incentive to make the forkcoin inoperational.' << how does this work?
shinohai: "We have prepared $100 million USD to kill the small fork of CoreCoin, no matter what POW algorithm, sha256 or scrypt or X11 or any other GPU algorithm. Show me your money" http://archive.is/gHLrS
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 19:08 mod6: <+jhvh1> shinohai: Time since last block: 1 minute and 47 seconds << I'm not sure who is the admin for this one off hand, but is there any opposition to adding the current block height on there along with the time?
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611199 <<< tis mine mod6, but that's a good idea. I haven't changed much of the historical gribble functionalities.
ben_vulpes: huh turns out the individuals are on the hook for damages, i missed that on the first pass.
asciilifeform: exactly same. carmack et al sold id co. for $bagoffiatola. which they, quite likely, delusionally thought to be capable of buying such a thing as a defense against the new owner in case of arse claim.
ben_vulpes: or did i miss out on yc making bank from all of the devs the rights to whose work they now own a fractional slice of
ben_vulpes: 'like' how? isn't the yc racket a straightforward "give us a large fraction of your eyeballcorp for a pittance and some quite likely useless advice"?
asciilifeform: aha. sorta like the racker pg et al run.
asciilifeform: i've nfi. but would be surprised if he is not 'made example' of, to remind other carmacks that anal virginity can be sold ~once~
ben_vulpes: even if carmack is still extracting the remainder of his golden handcuffs at facebook, does the penalty impact him terrifically, beyond the decline in asset value of fb stock?
ben_vulpes: i'm not the kind of guy who "just wants to keep making video games", so i'd never have stuck around in the first place.
asciilifeform: now -- it was claimed by the purchaser.
thestringpuller: Carmack lost control of the machine and it ate him.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: elaborate ?
asciilifeform: (or, in some cases, a pig -- raised for the table to begin with. i do not know enough re carmack to say which type of farm animal he was groomed as)
asciilifeform: the latter plays the part of a draft horse -- housed and fed while he continues to do as he is told, otherwise, whipped, and if incorrigible, sent to butcher
asciilifeform: a fat balance in an 'international komyoonity'-compliant fiatola bank is quite like, e.g., fleet of winblows boxen, or iPnojes, etc. -- a golemtronic appendage of usg, rather than instrument of the supposed owner
ben_vulpes: by virtue of it being fiatola, the possessor is a tentacle?
asciilifeform: the ~pile of usd~ is a tentacle
ben_vulpes: at this point the obvious rejoinder is "if not in wot -- tentacle"
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: carmack is not unlike kamenev and zinoviev -- a creature of the system that in the end devoured him
asciilifeform: as for the trial, the description reads quite like every other 'seekrit evidence' affair.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 01:13 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-02#1611044 << simply participating in the us masquerade of justice by this point is tantamount to "asking for it".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611054 << i'd be curious to read what a hypothetical 'nonparticipation' would look like -- carmack no-shows, judge awards default? carmack burns own factory, a la 1918 ? or which.
mod6: <+jhvh1> shinohai: Time since last block: 1 minute and 47 seconds << I'm not sure who is the admin for this one off hand, but is there any opposition to adding the current block height on there along with the time?
mircea_popescu: which "the republic" ? wut is this about ?
asciilifeform: 'I love how when you scrape away the “reality-based community” and “I fucking love science,” all you’re left with is “the Republic has no need of savants,” or possibly “please continue talking after I shove you in this locker.”'
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 17:48 asciilifeform: guilt,” anti-feminist organization. When NYC Antifa began to share information about members of the group with their employers (in many cases leading to job loss), McInnes urged the Proud Boys to attend an Antifa concert and ‘wreck the s–t’ of the ‘f–gots.'”'
mircea_popescu: in other news * Your host is verne.freenode.net[185.30.166.37/8001], running version ircd-seven-1.1.4 is an utter piece of shit, disconnected me what, a dozen times past few days ?
asciilifeform: in quite other noose, moldy returneth! e.g., http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3167#comment-1731729
asciilifeform: guilt,” anti-feminist organization. When NYC Antifa began to share information about members of the group with their employers (in many cases leading to job loss), McInnes urged the Proud Boys to attend an Antifa concert and ‘wreck the s–t’ of the ‘f–gots.'”'
asciilifeform: '“Come to Kimmel, Rosenthal Pavilion to let NYU know that we will not stand for bigotry, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny on our campus,” the event page reads. “Gavin McInnes has a long track record of using incendiary language to attract media attention and frenzy…Most recently, in December 2016, Gavin McInnes launched an informal group called the Proud Boys, an “anti racial
asciilifeform: 'The protest was apparently organized on Facebook, under the name “Disrupt Gavin McInnes at NYU.”'
asciilifeform: http://archive.is/EuvsR << in other lulz. 'Protesters storm NYU over conservative speaker’s seminar'
mircea_popescu: yes but sadly they're all on phuctor's page nao.
asciilifeform: the one 'quantum comp' that is a reasonable possibility is the perpetuum mobile sort. where, e.g., a class of weak (i.e. cheaply breakable from birth, or from a few published signatures) rsa keys is discovered in the dungeons, and dressed up into a 'we haz magical rsa breaker box, go switch to $shitcrypto'
mircea_popescu: (nobody seems to remember, by the way, that the downing of the f117 "invisible" wasn't JUST THAT. the serbs had also CRACKED NATO CODES. the fucking serbs. there's barely enough of them to play football.)
asciilifeform: wasn't that after the 'vietnamization' of iraq ? (what they called the last handover-of-quagmire-to-aboriginals)
mircea_popescu: i dunno ; the "two weeks to take mosul" worked even better than that.
asciilifeform: well normally it works like stage magic, 'looksee, we broke! rabbit from hat' 'oh noe we didn't put the rabbit in beforehand'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're apparently unfamiliar with how the usg works ?
asciilifeform: every other week, a crackpot, 'i broke!'
mircea_popescu: if it worked with the "sorry we didn't know it was invisible", then why not quantum something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only possible follow to the idiocy is, of course, the usg declaring that it HAS!11 qc, and the ustards also believing.
shinohai: No one expects the Spanish inquisition
mircea_popescu: ~same as an island full of monkeys going "and if the spanyards come and burn down all our houses ? WE MUST BUILD SPANYARD PROOF HOUSES"
mircea_popescu: wtf is wrong with these idiots.
asciilifeform: 'One softfork, which would activate ASAP, would assign an OP_NOP to OP_LAMPORT (or whatever QC-resistant crypto will be used). Everyone would be urged to send all of their bitcoins to new OP_LAMPORT-protected addresses.' << lel, did d00d learn of lamport's sig algo from pediwikia, or wat
asciilifeform: '...there is a possibility that security researchers will be able to break ECDSA-protected bitcoin addresses in the future. If this were to happen, they could gain access to the coins belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto, and dump them on the market...' << why does it follow that 'let's dekulakize satoshi' but not someone else?
mircea_popescu: one year seems a reasonable polling interval considering the relative importance of the object.
mircea_popescu: i am unsure about that part ; left to their own devices female gender expression is what you see in 1970s pornos.
shinohai: So it appears Theymos is now calling for Satoshi's coins to be destroyed.
trinque: they're ruining gender expression for everyone
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 15:41 mircea_popescu: in other news from the lands of the retards, it is now impossible in argentina to buy normal male underwear. all they have on sale, ANYWHERE (because yes it's 10mn strong, but no there's no five distinct shops, just 10k clones of the same one) is male stripper underwear. because hey, faggots won the culture war or some dumb shit.
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611101 << more than one lady friend has lamented that the gays took over female fashion too. sexual ideal is a teenage boy? mkay
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: your lambda here is not linear, is the only change.
mircea_popescu: poisson was actually a doctor, and clasically his thing is applied to the question "if on average the er sees six patients a day, what are the odds of it seeing 74 this monday morning"
mircea_popescu: in which we find python uses () incorrectly : it's inclusive on the bottom and exclusive on the top ? shouldn't it be [) then ?
PeterL: (actually, first I solved it in excel, then I thought it would have been simpler to write a python function, so I did that )
a111: Logged on 2017-02-02 17:39 mircea_popescu: oh and for the aspiring statisticians, here's a question : given that there's 40 different trilema headers, and one's picked each day randomly, how many days needs one visit trilema in order to have better than 50% chances of having seen all of them ?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 15:26 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611084 << it is approximately as useful as trb's wallet encrypter, and for the same reason
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611095 << this is not actually true. trb wallet encryptor is pretty strong. not ideal, but there's no actual cause of worry if you lose an encrypted bitcoi nwallet (still, doesn't encrypt metadata, has many other warts discussed in http://trilema.com/2016/the-ideal-bitcoin-wallet/ ) ; i wouldn't say same re gpg keyring.
asciilifeform: (or any other unixlike)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611088 << there is not a simple and hygienic way of doing this on linux
mircea_popescu: then have him drop his pants to check, and cut off his penis once the inevitable COLORED ; WEIRD pair of GIRL panties shows up.
mircea_popescu: in other news from the lands of the retards, it is now impossible in argentina to buy normal male underwear. all they have on sale, ANYWHERE (because yes it's 10mn strong, but no there's no five distinct shops, just 10k clones of the same one) is male stripper underwear. because hey, faggots won the culture war or some dumb shit.
asciilifeform: (if password is entered into the same machine as where the key is stored, a patient enemy simply has to remotely listen for a while, rather than walking away with machine like illiterate orc police)
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 06:10 mircea_popescu: phf they're pretty shitty. tmsr pgp should prolly use a better scheme
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611087 << there is no fundamentally better scheme, because the task as traditionally posed is braindamaged. as discussed in the old trilema re hdd crypto.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 05:46 phf: it's a combination of passphrase mangling (by default sha-1) to derive the key, and symmetric algorithm (be default aes-128) to encrypt the privkey. i don't think we had any discussion about this..
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611084 << it is approximately as useful as trb's wallet encrypter, and for the same reason
mircea_popescu: phf they're pretty shitty. tmsr pgp should prolly use a better scheme
phf: it's a combination of passphrase mangling (by default sha-1) to derive the key, and symmetric algorithm (be default aes-128) to encrypt the privkey. i don't think we had any discussion about this..
phf: unrelatedly i was wondering if gpg passwords are promisetronic. how do they even work? there's some symmetric encryption scheme used to encrypt the privkey, or can passwords be somehow integrated into rsa scheme?
phf: my mom had one of those "papa escaped the purges by burning all paperwork but life got tough when they took our governess" piano teachers, who would lament about being forced to teach peasants and brown folk, not on racial grounds as much as "you have to have a bidet in your house for 3 generations, before you can touch a piano"
phf: moscow universities had explicit quotas for the applicants from the -stans, but it was probably not as obvious elsewhere
phf: parents obviously remember "friend of steppe's kalmyk" soviet agenda, and the affirmative action that came with it
mircea_popescu: to trotsky's hillaric linton let's say. for the sake of forcing history into the exceedingly narrow figures available to the ustard.
mircea_popescu: stalin was a rather obama like fellow.
mircea_popescu: amusingly there was some unspoken subtext of "diversity" back in the days right around lenin's final sickness.
phf went through that exercise recently. one of the guys went checking wikipedia (of course) etc.
mircea_popescu: just send the judge a letter explaining that he's not qualified to answer any question, including what he wants for breakfast and invite him to stfu or else.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the alf dream hits an important point. Lords of TMSR are not mere terrorists, but supervillains complete with arcane artifacts (80's computers, etc) and powers (math, etc).
a111: Logged on 2017-02-02 22:13 ben_vulpes: poor john carmack, thought juries could be reasoned with and that "expert witnesses" wouldn't lie through their teeth for a check: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/3jI4f/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-02#1611044 << simply participating in the us masquerade of justice by this point is tantamount to "asking for it".
a111: Logged on 2017-02-02 05:54 phf: simple, cat /dev/mem > /dev/printer, and then make slave girls go over the result with pen until "get me all peers"
BingoBoingo: lol shinohai can't hook the famous client
ben_vulpes: in point of fact there is! just not for people engaging in fiatola show trials
ben_vulpes: "there should be a danger to your reputation if you are imprudent" << obvious republican rejoinder is obvious
ben_vulpes: poor john carmack, thought juries could be reasoned with and that "expert witnesses" wouldn't lie through their teeth for a check: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/3jI4f/?raw=true
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: phf: appcode is a mega improvement over xcode in many ways except for how i think i'm going to have to restart my ios dev box to get ac to recognize the device
asciilifeform: btw dream-mp 'never took it off', had the long black thing on his right hand in every dream-trilema photo, etc.
asciilifeform: btw in mega-dream i did not believe him, that it works, and so he lifted me into the air with it (scene was in a train station) and it was strange sensation, a sort of electric shock in my right arm, quite distinct.
asciilifeform: Come To The Glove!!
a111: Logged on 2017-02-02 05:52 pete_dushenski: though i'm still curious how mp obtained the same info using a pre-0.7 version of bitcoind
asciilifeform: bonus is also that if you only connect one of the tx-rx pairs, it is a 'data diode' for phree.
asciilifeform: in other noose, my http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-30#1609892 is here and it is mighty spiffy.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-perennial-nature-of-tolerance/ << Trilema - The perennial nature of tolerance
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, google quietly dropped the linkto: operator at some point. slowly and hiddenly.
mircea_popescu: oh and for the aspiring statisticians, here's a question : given that there's 40 different trilema headers, and one's picked each day randomly, how many days needs one visit trilema in order to have better than 50% chances of having seen all of them ?
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: lady gaga to make the announcement?
mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/dhIpO/?raw=true << for the amateur entomologist, 2014 bannon speech which terrified lefties.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> was five days ago. << Why would English language anouncement of Make World Great Again be announced anytime other than the Superbowl?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what ever happened to medveev btw ? funny how nobody in the fake news circles seems even dimly aware the dude was ru president and is now pm
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo broken link in the pork belly article ?
mircea_popescu: everyone wants to replace the two page actual item with their five page droning on commentary, "I was talking with Razvan somewhat ago on messenger and I was saying that I want first of all for my readers to know my opinion about something, and not that I should always come up with something new."
BingoBoingo: likely waiting for the big television event?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically the whitehouse is a seo spam siter << Some parts of Hussein Bahamas legacy take longer to cast away than others
mircea_popescu: http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20170201&t=2&i=1171009855 << in other news, it'd seem the party's over for darkies, brownies, trannies, furries, latinos etceteras.
mircea_popescu: basically the whitehouse is a seo spam siter
mircea_popescu: in other news, the whitehouse.gov is in google for a "readout of call with putin", which then links to /transitionsplash/ which then links to root.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Milo sold a derpy media startup to another media startup to make some money and now blawgs for Breitbart
trinque: aha, going around playing victim on the usg.repub side every time people show up with signs at his events, which alternate between calling trump daddy and "ohmygod I'm so gay look look"
mircea_popescu: trinque is this the "i am twitter famous" "meaning ?" "not famous" dude ?
mircea_popescu: kinda conflix with the whoe "i am the alpha and the omega and there is no life outside of me" usg preferred slant
mircea_popescu: the narrative whereby pleabargain = you're fucked really doesn't get much airplay in the english pravda.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform of course it's not reported in the anglomedioa
asciilifeform: the 'four ways' thing.
trinque: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/02/ex-obama-official-suggests-military-coup-trump/ << meanwhile the donald has sluggish schizophrenia / soros instigates civil war
BingoBoingo: In other news the Brussel Sprouts are starting to look vaguely like plants 5 days after seeding
BingoBoingo: Named for the "Log Cabin" or square circle jerk
BingoBoingo: <trinque> milo yiannopoulos isn't even far right. he's just a republican in the USG sense, and also flamingly gay. << "Log Cabin Republican"
trinque: I had a dream last night where I was in russia at some diplomatic event, and I was drinking with Putin and asked him about the Elbrus
trinque: this apparently eggogs the poor lives matter people
trinque: milo yiannopoulos isn't even far right. he's just a republican in the USG sense, and also flamingly gay.
asciilifeform: 'Some motorists said they were alarmed by military units flying the flag of a national leader rather than the country, which they said is reminiscent of a fascist government or banana republic.'
asciilifeform: in related lulz, http://archive.is/8rU8I >> 'LOUISVILLE — It's official: The military convoy seen flying a Trump flag in Louisville on Sunday belonged to a Navy Special Warfare unit, and the flag was "unauthorized," a Navy spokeswoman said.'
asciilifeform: ''President Trump early Thursday threatened to cut federal funding to the University of California, Berkley after violent protests broke out on its campus Wednesday in response to a planned appearance by a far-right commentator.'
mircea_popescu: apparently everyone but the usians is a peace loving, respectable sort of fellow.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 18:48 mircea_popescu: anyway, to be fair here : the russians have no interest in waiting ; putin might be uncharacteristically meek, but in general a half dozen us ambassadors starting with the resident in manilla within the next week-10days is perfectly possible. at which point obama actually having the gall to call natl emergency and set aside the transfer of power is not entirely inconceivable. after which the russians WILL sink all the us carr
mircea_popescu: well i guess you win then because closest shinohai :)
mircea_popescu: speaking of such wonders, let's play the game whereby i go eat breakfast and whosoever feels oracle-y attempts to guess what i'm having. then when i'm back in 15 minutes we'll see who won.
asciilifeform: almost. in this dream-trilema , mircea_popescu often used phrase 'chick Came To The Glove' and i always assumed -- literary device
mircea_popescu: and did this dream mp call it the "fuck you rekt an' proper at a distance" glove ?