mircea_popescu: phf is out of the fucking band.
mircea_popescu: but all that is predicated on never actually engaging the real problems, of course.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger watch that not one single luminary of the "modern democracy" derpage is going to engage the elliot story. there's at least a million of these "officer & gentleman" idiots who think themselves intellectuals and with something relevant to say, and you know, understanding of nature and society.
mircea_popescu: BUT! the dissonance field is strong. safely keeps each egg slowly rotting by itself in its own wrapper.
mircea_popescu: there's at least two dozen articles on trilema of which any single one would be sufficient to end the world as it is among a thinking set.
mircea_popescu: and i can try to breach it any way i want. trilema is full of it. there's a "oh, you'e in online marketing ? here's how i got millions of ''clicks'' worth whatever you pay for them, free". mayn't notice. "can't say nigger ? here." mayn't!!11 "oh you think so and so about education/rape/whatever ?" MAYNT!!111
mircea_popescu: it's more than that. it's also a lengthy list of "technology". it goes like this : "to make the earth banana shaped, buy this and bury it in the desert. then the next full moon measure the parallax of neptune with this tool. then depending on that paralax go into any of these states...." and then there's an endless list of further instructions.
Framedragger: (in unrelated lol, a remittance solution / bank transfer service just emailed me with the words "Yeah! We’ve just sent your money!" in the subject line. i dunno, something about the tone resembling "fuck yah bro i just finished the vodka!!" doesn't inspire confidence)
mircea_popescu: take the general "entrepreneur", take paul biggar as a much better example. the kid is definitely intelligent. he wants to be an entrepreneur. which is a word, which has a meaning. he proceeds to usianize. this FAILS TO DELIVER, but a decade later he is STILL doing it. and apparently hasn't noticed ANYTHING about any of this. why not ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's really very little optionality involved. everyone has to approach everything on their own terms ~because that's all they have~. only god and anthropologists can approach things on THEIR own terms.
Framedragger: this particular type of lack of self awareness in a broader context of "where am i" really ties well with the elliott dude, i dunno, some kind of deeper similarity imo
Framedragger: she does seem insist on some form of deliberate unconciousness huh. the words of the people telling her things just kinda wash away
mircea_popescu: then her future comes to pass. and she's still too busy with the pretense to notice. because the one thing usianism does is give people something to be busy with. it's not particularly effectual at the direct effect, you know, doing something for them. but it is damned effective at KEEPING THEM BUSY so they don't notice. which is... just as good ?
mircea_popescu: then the republic proceeds to tell her the future. just like that, nude. but she's too busy keeping up the pretense of existence to notice this. besides, who's ready to interact with such ontologic monstrosities ? really, immediate access to fate, this is a thing ?!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the story of poor covertress is something else. so the woman comes here to you know, interact with the republic on her own terms. because she's a woman and a person ("an officer and a gentleman"!) and therefore may even have her own terms. everyone may! what's this, rape ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i think i'm finally... about to... get the point ://
Framedragger: (they're part of online.net, their peering is decent (though i've not used them much) http://map.online.net/ )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
Framedragger: ;;later tell phf you may consider https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ instead of digitalocean, or at least give it a try as one of them "bot mirrors" that you'd mentioned. there "BareMetal" (didn't try) and VPS (down below - works as advertised, no formal benchmarks tho). cheap.
Framedragger: finally the senior cop says that there is a procedure but ideally it should be raised with a neutral policeperson and he'd be "biased" here. he says this can be done online (and it indeed can). after some more back and fourth and with the fella still full of angst we decide to file the thing online and bid goodbye.
Framedragger: the fella then approaches us (and my friend in particular who is insisting on raising a complaint with the other cop), half a metre now maybe, and says "you take your watch off", "what are you thinking defending him", etc. the cops slowly react by gently pulling the fella away. not without a pause first
Framedragger: meanwhile the fella in question starts saying "he was too *tame*", and (sic) "in soviet times the guy would have had it so much worse!!" (with glee, etc.) (i don't know, this is kinda kusturica-like to me)
Framedragger: i recognize the middle of the three cops there who is (of course) the dude who did the tazing. he tells the shouting poor fella to calm down and that "they will change their mind when this happens to them". then grunts something and is dissatisfied obviously.
Framedragger: my friend continues to chat with the senior cop calmly. said cop asks "so did the guy really not resist [as in, maybe he did resist a bit]" - "no he really did not resist". ok.
Framedragger: meanwhile the most senior cop is chatting with my friend who has trouble discerning words due to said shouting. at one point i hear "wasting our time" (of course). the youngest of the three cops there comes to us, says "men, thank you very much for your help", and kinda extends hands to push us away (but no physical contact).
Framedragger: no we don't, this is a separate matter, [interjections with drunken shouts], the guy was arrested after all [interjections], the arrest was improper, etc.
Framedragger: the cops react slowly and uncertainly; not so with the poor fella sitting and obviously overhearing. "dudes! you what - what the fuck now. i was *attacked*! five hundred euro watch! [something, etc.] and you want to *defend* this guy??"
Framedragger: three of us enter and my friend asks the cop behind the counter whether it would be possible to get a complaint form and file a complaint regarding police behaviour / misuse of force.
Framedragger: arrive at small station which is nearby. a kind of kusturica scene unfolds: the victim of the robbery - or a friend of the victim, it was not ever clear as there was too much shouting and the guy was drunk - sits at a desk. three cops in the room.
Framedragger: we consider, then put a can of beer left in the bag somewhere in a corner just in case, and proceed to the police station to file a complaint because why the fuck not.
Framedragger: cop then asks for "reinforcement", we wait, another cop arrives, and they take the guy away, in handcuffs.
Framedragger: cop arrives, shouts something like (i think) "where's the watch?!!", there's maybe half a sec of a pause (guy's arms still in the air), then the guy is thrown onto the ground, cop takes out a device and tazes the fella who in turn bellows in pain. i start filming (but all too late as it is with these things).
Framedragger: kinda scrawny guy running not far from us, a cop chasing him from a distance. guy turns a corner, then suddenly stops, turns around, throws his hands in the air, and maybe thrice shouts clearly: "i'm sorry", "i yield". we wait.
Framedragger: oh btw, saturday night while walking around town (vilnius) with two other peeps i stumbled into a scene:
BingoBoingo: "Imagine if he actually had sex, somehow, and thereby discovered that most young girls could comfortably fit his sex as well as a friend's. It wouldn't even be stretching. Then what!" << Then she demands his whole hand inside her and he hecomes Eliot Slippyfist, and James lives happily ever after.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-nine/ << Trilema - The Story of Elliot Rodger. By Elliot Rodger. Adnotated. Part Nine.
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-nine << oh hey!
asciilifeform: the only, afaik, still working one.
asciilifeform: 'In objecting to proposed international control of Manchuria, he asked, "Would the American people agree to such control of the Panama Canal Zone; would the British permit it over Egypt?'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: now's the time
asciilifeform: ^ of interest to folks studying earliest cracks in the konsensooos reality of the international komyooonity.
BingoBoingo awaits next installment of the Elliot we call Elliot
BingoBoingo: Perhaps if USia can have Chiraq they can also have Iraqimore
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The "Mission Accomplished" banner? 1 down 199 to go!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun see what's interesting in there ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu didja ever have a piece re the albanian civil war ?
BingoBoingo: Well pokeweed demands and responds to glyphosate, or repeated applications of diquat. Other beg for triclopyric death, accelerated by snergy with glyphosate.
asciilifeform: these also.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You should have referred to them as hedges. Instead you called them "green hell" and as you live in a swamp I assumed the worst.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i must confess that i do not see the appeal of poisoning my hedges instead of trimming.
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> made the not-quite-news roundup :D << Roundup Xtend (TM)(R)!!!
shinohai: made the not-quite-news roundup :D
BingoBoingo: covertress: It's the kind of news that tends to not lead to more news
covertress: BingoBoingo: thank you for the qntra :)
BingoBoingo: Triclopyr with water carrier though also likely sufficient for most green hells. Nice side effect of sparing desirable grasses and browning the bermudagrass weed.
BingoBoingo: Then don't spray it on the trees. And if it gets on the trunk you can rinse it off. You are doing a folliar application. Not a basal application, for that you'r use the triclopyr that mixes with kerosene as a carrier oil. Not water!
Framedragger: asciilifeform: ah shit; it's actually not but it's probably a bug with utc and non-utc time. the latest is at http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160829 - will fix. (hey it was a hasty shit for myself!)
asciilifeform: dafuq BingoBoingo. my front yard is not vietnam, you don't get to poison the trees
asciilifeform fought out-of-control 'green hell' vegetation all afternoon, wishes that BingoBoingo lived nearby, would pay him handsomely to clear the crud away
ben_vulpes: after that you gotta be in the borg's wot
ben_vulpes: only until the gate opens
mircea_popescu: there, statu quo ante.
mircea_popescu: for the past fucking three minutes i've been trying to dig up how the fuck you do this. what a waste of evereyone's time.
mircea_popescu: i had the command ready. meanwhile i fucking lost it. god damned bullshit.
ben_vulpes: at least the fleanode implementation.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck was that even ;/
asciilifeform: was there ever a logical reason to keep 'o' off when not actively firing ?
ben_vulpes: covertress: y'see the parallels to 'woes of altcoin' yet?
asciilifeform: 'captain to engine room, juice more powetronium to the stabililators!11111'
ben_vulpes: covertress: what did your dev team do to "resolve the problem"?
ben_vulpes: "POS with POW" << because we have no idea how any of this works, bolt the laser stabilizer to the side of your kalash to keep rando pakis from walking off with it"
mircea_popescu: i heard. actually iirc alf pointed out to you teh reading material, as to the unsustainability of the thing.
covertress: ty for the music suggestion, mircea_popescu. happy sunday to you.
mircea_popescu: take your time. hurry up. the choice is yours, but don't be latte..."
mircea_popescu: "come... as you are... with tattoos or altogether bare... as a friend... as a friend. as an old enemy.
ben_vulpes: keeping ethernet cables away from tiny fangs
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 02:52 mircea_popescu: not much in the way of offers so far.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-28#1530625 << my theoretical aux dwelling unit is reserved for cute hippie chixx on baby duty
shinohai: swimming in the corn porphyry no doubt
mircea_popescu: and how goes the entrepreneurship covertress ?
mircea_popescu: it's not so far removed from the experience of fucking an old, well used web printing press.
mircea_popescu: you should see the muslim girls.
asciilifeform: the kabuki face is lulzy
asciilifeform: who break own noses all the time aha.
mircea_popescu: well, drawing, but yes. that's the typical pose of autoerotic asphyxiation victim.
asciilifeform: iirc they found him ~month later
asciilifeform: lolwat, the bloated carcass?!
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 06:58 mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform , is georgy gapon the first case of russian autoerotic asphyxiation ?
mircea_popescu: that's the most that can be said about it.
mircea_popescu: the "life is so cruel, my penis is small" half billion males out there are merely slightly-better-elliot, what.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 06:48 mircea_popescu: the minor tragedy of this major tragedy is that he would really have been very happy with james.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-28#1530781 << there is no mention of nonworking cock in rodger..
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 14:05 thestringpuller: When did Pump and Dump become a viable business strategy? It's like 1990's albania up in here.
mircea_popescu: though it goes well with his complete disinterest in you know, a brothel. i suspect even if he had had a "hot sexy girlfriend", she wouldn't have necessarily known it. prolly more hand-in-handwalks than handjobs on his menu.
mircea_popescu: yeah, very ridiculous that he left, it seems to me definite they'd have paired him forcibly.
diana_coman: bet in morroco he would have had all the caves to "gather" in and saved the shiny paint on that bmw
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform , is georgy gapon the first case of russian autoerotic asphyxiation ?
mircea_popescu: if you do that, they'll jsut gather in some cave / internet forum and bitch and whine about "hypergamy"
diana_coman: the womans race lol
diana_coman: yes, it is common; that still doesn't mean that they shouldn't be kicked to deal with it themselves; but clearly something to be started way before he was 20, there is that
mircea_popescu: male shyness is actually quite common, in all mammal species, and also with womans. if i had a satoshi for every historical case where the poor mother in law had to stick her worthless son's penis into some girl by hand, i wouldn't even be poor.
diana_coman: uhm, by the looks of it so that she can have a shit for a kid
mircea_popescu: IT IS THE LEAST SHE CAN DO!!1
diana_coman: he begs his mother to get married to a rich guy to ...save his (elliot's) life
mircea_popescu: the minor tragedy of this major tragedy is that he would really have been very happy with james.
mircea_popescu: how then ?
mircea_popescu: mayhap only a woman would see that in there. i can't readily discern what part is in the painting and what part is in the natural "i'll change him" eye of the beholderess.
mircea_popescu: i dun see that. you mean, "what to do" as in, how to arrange the curl on forehead so girls finally behave properly ?
diana_coman: he certainly wanted the money (well, any money) but to me he sounded more like he was in fact searching very much for someone to finally tell him what to do
mircea_popescu: diana_coman he sounds like he just wanted the money.
mircea_popescu: actually, by and large men are very much like fizz in soda. which is why the practice of keeping reserves in military conflict. after the first wave, fresh fighters can utterly wreak havoc on the other side.
diana_coman: similarly one second he is supposedly totally and absolutely disgusted with his father (ftr I don't know who wouldn't by the sounds of it) and the next second he makes friends again because... he has been asked to by his nan
asciilifeform: so there's that.
asciilifeform: though he did stab a bunch of ??? in the end
diana_coman: still, there are in fact inconsistencies in elliot's narrative: one second he's fighting off those boys in the truck (even with a knife!) and the next second he flees because one (ONE) boy...shouted at him
asciilifeform: (but in actuality afaik she was a hobo and probably won no beauty contest, but there is little record)
mircea_popescu: and very right and proper of a historical aristocrat, at that. like you know, the charge of whatever brigade.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, the guy with the crate seems to miss the "but I was SO worthy, how did the winning ticket DARE to choose someone else"
mircea_popescu: that's the clou.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was the man personally insulted when he didn't win ? the crate isn't the criteria here.
mircea_popescu: they take money that was thrown at them by idiot barbarians in foreign lands, and wisely expend it exactly thusly.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman you'll be pleased to find no doubt that the enitre population of that part of the world spends all its time doing exactly this :
diana_coman: ftr what I find more mind boggling is the degree to which nobody around him actually has anything to do really and I mean first his parents; at least from his account all they do is to throw at him money above what he can in fact handle; in one view I could almost frame this as poor kid got thrown into a station so much above himself that the difference between what he *knows* he is worth (nothing) and what he has been forced t
asciilifeform: this incidentally is not a necessary element. the other rodgers i know of, did not exhibit it.
mircea_popescu: he may be the last case of an intellect genuinely baffled at the process of lottery.
mircea_popescu: the process is evident throughout, "lottery exists, therefore it must have a winner. i am great, therefore i must win it."
asciilifeform: picture the fella cleaning a cage..
mircea_popescu: more like "recognize", like they were retina scanners that ceased working.
diana_coman: ah, there is that indeed, he uses to choose in a certain way
mircea_popescu: which explains the complete disinterest in any sort of inductive approach (which is also how he didn't end up one of those long term abduction rapists)
mircea_popescu: note that they don't get agency, he still knows how they ~should~ have chosen ; and the objection is they're malfunctioning in their alloted destiny.
diana_coman: hmm, doesn't it break this view of his right at the core when he expects then items to "choose" him?
asciilifeform: if it were 'forgotten' i missed the memo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is the meaning i learned in school
mircea_popescu: (enormity also means "monstruous nonsense", for the record. even if it's a secondary meaning forgotten on the web.)
asciilifeform: where's the hole?
mircea_popescu: yeah, but this leaves a pretty serious hole for the rest of us, who you know, have pleasant relations with women and don't quite grok this "not person" immensity.
asciilifeform: it is worth mentioning that i am a connoisseur of subj, since the performance of mssrs. harris & klebold, yet the showing of rodger was so lackluster that it slipped my attention entirely in '14
mircea_popescu: suppose we run a simpler tiered system : people with his killcount or more may speak against him. seems a pretty reasonable implementation of your "in the arena, with retiarii" idea of adjudication. and he doesn't come out too bruised from it, either.
mircea_popescu: well what sort of contest is this, where you get to decide the goalposts.
asciilifeform: in the arena, with retiarii
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the guy's work is that it is, in fact, quite reasonable in its own terms.
mircea_popescu: his objection is that for some reason the toilet in his bathroom keeps overflowing, while it seems to work fine for everyone else.
mircea_popescu: to quote that usg official, "what the azn wants are loose shoes, cheap lattes and a tight pussy to shit in"
mircea_popescu: obviously. it'd be like envying the toilet.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 05:58 mircea_popescu: an entire generation of jennifers and joshes being "actors" and "successful" in these dubious e!-like productions...
mircea_popescu: though tbh, since there's bluetooth, i'd do it with butt bullets.
mircea_popescu: they have a neon-buzzer assemblage.
asciilifeform: the one stalin used
BingoBoingo: "a crowd of pathetic fans who reminded me of sheep cheered from the other side" << Aka hired from craigslist. Beats McDonalds where burgers actually are not flipped, but "cooked" on both sides at once.
BingoBoingo: The perfect post-pre-post modern leading teenage girl played by a late something
BingoBoingo: She's got an average face that is disproportionately chubby compared to the rest of her body. Perfect synergy of girls in the audience feel pretty and teenage boys can still get off to the leaked n00dz
mircea_popescu: just looking through the publicists going to town with this jennifer lawrence chick. she's... marginally not ugly. best that can be said about her. dudes got her into fucking forbes, "most influential woman" etc blablabla. reheheheally ?
BingoBoingo: And this is how an aristocracy comes to necessarily be selected by GPG and IRC, the new one was too broken in its broken
mircea_popescu: an entire generation of jennifers and joshes being "actors" and "successful" in these dubious e!-like productions...
mircea_popescu: the people elliot envies, i swear...
BingoBoingo: Just think, if the late an hero only would have followed the path of other failed sk8er kids and went punk and heroin.
BingoBoingo: " I saw obnoxious slobs who dressed in basketball shorts and T-shirts walking with hot girls. And there I was, decked out in Armani, all by myself. It was preposterous!" << SHoulda dressed in carhart coveralls soaked in either mud or used oil
BingoBoingo: In the decades that come applicants to join the TMSR subpeerage will be made to audition by authoring Elliot/James slashfic
BingoBoingo: "I tried to ask him why he was overreacting about an argument we had two months previously, but he just glared at me coldly and told me to keep my proximity. I was highly offended." << Shoulda stuck it in James' pooper when he had the chance
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-eight/ << Trilema - The Story of Elliot Rodger. By Elliot Rodger. Adnotated. Part Eight.
BingoBoingo: If gabriel_laddel's stimulant habits didn't seem so threatening to the sobriety there might be an offer, but I doubt he'd approve of my rural spider hole.
mircea_popescu: not much in the way of offers so far.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-26 17:25 mircea_popescu: has anyone a spare bedroom/garage/whatever willing to rent to me for a reasoble sum and park gabriel there for a few months ?
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: young folk with time on their hands.
BingoBoingo: Oh the lawgz
hanbot is having a fit of ignatius j. reilly-isms doubtlessly conjured up by the current trilema rodger telenovella
asciilifeform does often wonder whether there exists a black market in old-new stock parts such as toilet valve.
hanbot: asciilifeform perhaps the mongoloids merely sealed your valve completely with their affronts to geometry.
asciilifeform: i dun make capacitors here, either,
BingoBoingo: Possible that mebbe your local water system sucks and the pressure spiked to break the plastic.
asciilifeform: i would bet that it is there still.
asciilifeform: the wc in the flat i grew up in, back on other side of ocean, was 100+ years old. and had ORIGINAL float when i met it. grandfather - cleaned it. copper thing, ancient with patina, quite functional
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's knife (i also had this knife) or my saw from 2 wks ago, these made sense, the mechanical forces on the atrocious dried snot from which they were made, were formidable
asciilifeform: never seen anything of the kind before.
asciilifeform: the plastic stem ruptured.
mircea_popescu: oh i thought you meant the actual floating device
asciilifeform: it's a float valve. it lives whatever pressure the water pipe supplies.
asciilifeform: re chinese engineering, i had a float valve, of the usual type, in toilet - EXPLODE the other day
mircea_popescu: community colleges still turn out the occasional useful bloke, but really, there's no comparison with china.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt there will be a signle employable engineer graduating from ivy league this year.
asciilifeform: 'The bigger problem for China is its workforce. Even though China is graduating far more than 1 million engineers every year, the quality of their education is so poor that they are not employable in technical professions. This was documented by my research teams at Duke and Harvard. ' << gold.
BingoBoingo: "James became deeply disturbed by my anger. I wished that he wasnt disturbed. I wished he could be a friend that felt the same way about the world that I did. But he wasnt that kind of person. He was a weakling." << Twu Wuv
BingoBoingo: "Their names were Ryan and Angel, and to my dismay they were of Hispanic race." << Gardening 101: to kill scale bugs use potassium soap, to kill fungi use copper soap, to kill Anglotards use sopapillas
mircea_popescu: ie, theguardian. sure, "because we saw chinese people there once", if you prefer this because. and if you'd like another, he got others. what ain't changing is teh fucking guardian.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but what he says he does and what he actually does are not so related. he only goes to the streets he'd be going.
mircea_popescu: they write "news" in theguardian about how the chinese should give them moar attentions, and a car.
asciilifeform: text contains multiple 'and then i went to this empty street because saw girl there once'
mircea_popescu: absolutely nothing more at all not in the slightest bit ever, at all.
asciilifeform: well yes. but elliot at least showed up where there were gurlz. not in refrigerator store.
mircea_popescu: dude, who the fuck cares about all that ? not elliot. he cares about what he WANTS
mircea_popescu: you keep going on about the wrong angle of this.
asciilifeform: but in what imagined universe said crew might conceivably ~need~ these remoras for something, is beyond me
asciilifeform: i could see'em positioning themselves as prospective gauleiters for chinese repo crew.
asciilifeform: that boat sailed in the 1890s.
mircea_popescu: ideally, if the chinese govt would just give them money to keep doing what they're doing.
asciilifeform: switch how? to move there?
mircea_popescu: no dude, the "feminism"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the tampons?! how?
mircea_popescu: it's yet unclear to them that china already has its own class.
mircea_popescu: it's clear to them survival depends on switching over to china - this boat they've managed to sunk.
BingoBoingo: "On weekend nights, I took a few shots from my vodka bottle and set out on walks around the town, desperately hoping that I would stumble across some opportunity to make friends. I often ended up sitting alone at some café, hoping girls would talk to me before I sobered up." << Doing it wrong. SHould have drank the whole bottle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not newsworthy per se, it's the aparatchicks boiling and festering over some means of jumping ship
asciilifeform: the 'great plague of 2001' is factual but wholly incomplete picture.
asciilifeform: re the capacitors, the chinese story is a lie of omission, i've been swapping caps routinely in hardware made since 1990 or so.
asciilifeform: i shit thee not.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-27 20:22 asciilifeform: in other lulz, invoking, md5 hash, using microshit winblowz api, apparently only saves ~half of the lines it takes to write the algo from scratch...
asciilifeform: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2016/aug/27/why-chinese-women-dont-use-tampons << apparently this is nyoozworthy
asciilifeform: 'We can sometimes see decades-old capacitors (such as ones made in the USSR) still working. They are bigger and heavier, but durable and not desiccating. Modern aluminium capacitors serve for about 11 years, if you are lucky, then become dry and quietly fail. I remember early 2000s devices where capacitors failed after 3–4 years of service, and not necessarily low-end devices (one example is E-TECH ICE-200 cable modem worth ∼ 240
asciilifeform: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/253976/what-happened-to-electrolytic-capacitors-in-the-21st-century << in other comedy
mircea_popescu: and in other high performance piston engine news, http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1lu2vlkzs1qgnlnoo1_500.gif and did you know the worldwide cunt economy is 18.5 liters / 100km ?
asciilifeform: (and about 10x the memory footprint. COST, not save. aha.)
asciilifeform: in other lulz, invoking, md5 hash, using microshit winblowz api, apparently only saves ~half of the lines it takes to write the algo from scratch...
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2016/the-story-of-elliot-rodger-by-elliot-rodger-adnotated-part-seven/ << Trilema - The Story of Elliot Rodger. By Elliot Rodger. Adnotated. Part Seven.
asciilifeform: count. Lawyers for Alfaro could not be reached for comment. An FBI official confirmed that agents were present at Alfaro’s home in Maryland but declined to elaborate. College Board spokesman Zach Goldberg said the leak of test questions constituted a crime. “We are pleased that this crime is being pursued aggressively,” he said. He dismissed Alfaro’s criticisms of the SAT test-making process as “patently false.”'
asciilifeform: 'Alfaro had contacted officials of seven state governments in recent months, accusing the College Board of making false claims about its tests when bidding for public contracts with the states. The College Board, he alleged, misled the states about the process it used to create questions for the new version of the SAT, resulting in an inferior exam. He also aired those allegations publicly, largely through postings on his LinkedIn ac
asciilifeform: moar recent völkischer beobachter lulz, https://archive.is/Y7pfH >> 'Federal agents searched the home of a former employee-turned-outspoken critic of the College Board, the standardized testing giant, as part of an investigation into the breach of hundreds of questions from the SAT college entrance exam.'
BingoBoingo: ~later tell pete_dushenski You would be pround to know I am now that asshole who brings his own oil to quick change place and tips the labor.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski You would be pround to know I am now that asshole who brings his own oil to quick change place and tips the labor.
mod6: <+mats> if there are any folks still looking to exit their s.nsa holdings, i would like to discuss buying your shares <+asciilifeform> mats: i would buy yours if i had in what to put. << looks like he's trying to buy, not sell.
asciilifeform: 'GnuPG maintainer Werner Koch presented the Sunday keynote at GUADEC 2016 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He used the session to push back against the present trends in Internet architecture ... '
mats: and on a similar subject, do you folks suppose there'll delivery of cardanos this xmas?
mats: if there are any folks still looking to exit their s.nsa holdings, i would like to discuss buying your shares
asciilifeform: i dunno that it even makes sense to attempt rigorous def of this 'identity', at least in any more detail than we define 'earth's crust' -- 'the layer we can drill without the drill melting'
mircea_popescu: but for everyone else, identity is a deductive result, which is why there can't be such a thing as "an example of you"