assbot: Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on your home - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1mfhiJ8 )
ben_vulpes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/12/28/federal-judge-drinking-tea-shopping-at-a-gardening-store-is-probable-cause-for-a-swat-raid-on-your-home/
asciilifeform: my 386 had no flashables. but that wasn't the point.
assbot: Logged on 29-12-2015 00:03:37; asciilifeform: 'The main principle introduced below is the requirement for the laptop hardware to be stateless, i.e. lacking any persistent storage. This includes it having no firmware-carrying flash memory chips. All the state is to be kept on an external, trusted device. This trusted device is envisioned to be of a small USB stick or SD card form factor.' << batshit lunacy on x86
mircea_popescu: as per nubbins rules of engagement, this has resulted in no collegiate sluts doing their job.
assbot: The Gentlemen Prefer CoEds Club on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1JxR3lb )
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355510 << the one thing i did was, get a buncha students put 100s of printed posters of http://trilema.com/2013/the-gentlemen-prefer-coeds-club/ in a few dozen campuses throughout the us and canada.
BingoBoingo: Could still make a security company if they had some welding background
thestringpuller: Watching Shark Tank - D00ds want to make a security company to compete with lastpass. Mark Cuban asks them "Do you have a crypto background?" "Uh we're not techies" "I'm out".
punkman: asciilifeform can't be bothered to read any more of the claptrap << aww you missed the part where the stick does wifi and tor
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: (if there is ANY POSSIBLE means for the debuggee to sense the fact of debugging - in band.)
asciilifeform: with the specific chumpatronic purpose of distracting from the nature of the turd thereby.
asciilifeform: what part of pwned-at-the-factory is unclear ?
asciilifeform: 'Admittedly such an approach would not be able to detect sophisticated attacks which replace the original laptop board with identically looking one ... ' << again, this odd presumption that the original ~needs~ to be surreptitiously replaced
asciilifeform: 'We thus see that, while we cannot fully eliminate the problem of subversion of the host OS security by potentially malicious processor, the construction of the stateless laptop allows us to force the adversary into a very dangerous territory, requiring them to take high risk and also making the attack very complex.' << mno.
asciilifeform: (how about good ol' kleptography ? cp planting ? etc. i can think of 101 other items which have nothing to do with 'malware')
asciilifeform: or the sophomoric reduction of attack vectors enabled by intel ME to 'inject malware'
asciilifeform: so the basic lie-by-implication baked into this paper, is that the firmware that ships with the box is 'trusted'
asciilifeform: can't initialize the dram controller, much less usb etc. without a proprietary turd
asciilifeform: 'The main principle introduced below is the requirement for the laptop hardware to be stateless, i.e. lacking any persistent storage. This includes it having no firmware-carrying flash memory chips. All the state is to be kept on an external, trusted device. This trusted device is envisioned to be of a small USB stick or SD card form factor.' << batshit lunacy on x86
punkman: asciilifeform: I posted the video and this should be the paper https://github.com/rootkovska/state_harmful/blob/master/state_harmful.md
BingoBoingo: Substantial props go to adlai and mats for the proofreading help
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355447 << Nope, don't have one without credit either
mats: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=intel-trace-hub-for-linux p interesting, oughta materialize in the next year (still R&D afaik)
ascii_butugychag: i shit thee not
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2014 03:50:12; asciilifeform: there is already a hard impossibility proof of turing-complete computation in a homomorphic turd.
ben_vulpes: how the world works
ben_vulpes: the number of related codes?!
punkman: or that we can't even trust own mother
punkman: mats, do you think persistence is the problem?
mats: in other news, https://49.media.tumblr.com/a84cd0541073dad3810d2d0f0f6327a7/tumblr_nzoibvdfMJ1qg39ewo1_500.gif
mats: >has uncovered a database sitting on the Web containing various pieces of personal information related to 191 million American citizens registered to vote... [the data] includes names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, party affiliations, and logs of whether or not they had voted in primary or general elections.
mircea_popescu: these people are fducking retarded already
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin-related code written by developers reached 7,000 in December, up from 1,000 bitcoin codes in mid-2013. The number of PayPal-related codes is below 3,000 (based on Github depository references)."
mircea_popescu: the saudis have a shitton of cash to throw around before they need to notice the hole.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355381 << there's a huge difference between fully financed deficit (such as sae runs) and fully uncovered deficit, such as the us (or argentina) run.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 15:49:52; ben_vulpes: Softforks that explicitly create an incentive for their own revocation create an extraordinary moral hazard. << rather
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355361 << quite. all this verbiage about how "oh lalala, if miners stop enforcing X fork they will be excluded" fails to account for the fact that unlike the various PRBs, TRB does NOT actually implement any of the soft forks. so no, they won't be "excluded". nobody will notice they stopped.
mircea_popescu: ryone will continue working on Roger Ver projects that will help make the world a better place."
mircea_popescu: because of a lack of liquidity at Roger Ver. The traditional banking partners that Roger Ver needs to work with are not able to keep up with the demands of the growing Roger Ver economy. The dozens of people that make up the Roger Ver team are hard at work establishing additional banking partners, that eventually will make dealing with Roger Ver easier for all their customers around the world. For now, I hope that eve
mircea_popescu: "I'm Roger Ver, long-time Roger Ver advocate and investor. Today, I'm at the Roger Ver world headquarters in Saint Kitts and Nevis. I had a nice chat with Roger Ver CEO, Roger Ver, about their current situation. He showed me multiple bank statements, as well as letters from banks, lawyers and Roger Ver. I'm sure that all the current Roger Ver problems at Roger Ver are being caused by the traditional banking system, not
mircea_popescu: http://www.fyrstikken.com/uploads/6/6/1/3/66137739/9262349_orig.png << there's a DERP fee.
mircea_popescu: "These are all public records and there are tons more if you want to dig deeper into the criminal life of Kaseem Sarad Simpson, AKA @Kazonomics on twitter" eh srsly, dude's can't drive and had a falling out with some weisz chick.
mircea_popescu: somehow "hardforking the blockchain to accomodate dust transactions" wasn't a concern, back before hussein bahamas climbed atop mit and started throwing meatballs and chicken nuggets at the rotinculo chorus.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 13:50:37; junseth: This is good I'm kin dof fed up with the people who didn't care about block size 5 months ago, and then Gavin told them to care, and now they care.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355331 << no, actually : the whole charade of muppets, with that despicable bfl shill Luke-Jr front and center, was derping ON AND ON about how gotta keep the blockchain small back when MPEx:S.DICE was the largest economic activity in the whole currency.
mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2015/12/the-false-dilemma-of-xt-versus-blockstream/ << check out BingoBoingo! getting quite adept at splitting teh narrative huh ?
mircea_popescu never liked the shits.
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 15:52:00; ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform how are the new minez?
pete_dushenski: punkman: the fat one looks awfully familiar but i can't place him.
mod6: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-December/000186.html << re: footnote [2]; jurov, maybe this was the issue I ran into -- i'll have to try this.
punkman: pete_dushenski: the set design is the ~only~ redeeming quality of that show. << isn't that why they call them costume dramas
pete_dushenski: and... apparently the show is 3 years old and already on its fourth season. fancy that.
pete_dushenski: mr. selfridge << the show in question
pete_dushenski: though the few bits about jobs being hard to come by, and only the handsomest men and prettiest women being able to snag jobs, and the employers turning applicants away because they have dirty fingernails was kinda neat, if only because that's the way the world works outside of the narrow historical confines of "we print the bezzlars"-istan.
pete_dushenski: tried watching some jeremy piven show on netflix last night where he plays an american entrepreneur in london who starts his own department store circa 1909 and the only way i could stand it was with the volume off. the set design is the ~only~ redeeming quality of that show.
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assbot: throckmortonsign comments on The False Dilemma of XT Versus Blockstream ... ( http://bit.ly/1knTb9i )
BingoBoingo: Also some of the saved boozelars have gone into the gas tank, because some days there isn't a storytime club meeting in reasonable walking distance.
pete_dushenski: "Saudi Arabia, its finances hit by low oil prices, announced plans to shrink a record state budget deficit with spending cuts and a drive to raise revenues from sources other than oil. The government of the world's top oil exporter ran a deficit of 367 billion riyals ($97.9 billion) in 2015, the Council of Economic and Development Affairs said on Monday." << i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a regime change in t
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: way to break in past the reddit censors. wd.
pete_dushenski: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/28/only-one-global-currency-trounced-the-dollar-this-year.html
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell asciilifeform how are the new minez?
ben_vulpes: rather nice qntra, BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: Softforks that explicitly create an incentive for their own revocation create an extraordinary moral hazard. << rather
assbot: BlockchainOfFools comments on The False Dilemma of XT Versus Blockstream ... ( http://bit.ly/1knQl4n )
shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3yiumz/the_false_dilemma_of_xt_versus_blockstream/cydulxc <<< kek
BingoBoingo: shinohai: It's making it there
assbot: Roger Ver rallies around Coinbase. What could possibly go wrong this time around? I mean the last time Ver vouched for someone, new captains of industry were created right? : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1knNubr )
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355349 <<< This is what *should* be at top of page, instead of all the other "censorship!" nonsense.
junseth: All right, I'll be back in a few months to make sure that ya'll are still the weirdest enclave in the space. Just doing the prison rounds, wanted to take a count of the inmates. Time to pretend like real life is real life.
BingoBoingo: But you definitely can see the positive effect all this drama is having on price, right?
BingoBoingo: Seriously. But on the other hand can't let blockstream get an ego and think they can Gavin themselves.
junseth: This is good I'm kin dof fed up with the people who didn't care about block size 5 months ago, and then Gavin told them to care, and now they care.
junseth: Haha, nice. Gotta say, the thing i like about bitcoin-assets is that whether or not I agree with ya'll, you keep shit weird.
junseth: God the XT-ers
BingoBoingo: Oh, a little bit of everything. Picking fights with XT and blockstream at the same time
mircea_popescu: (that very useful piece of furniture for anyone that keeps cocksuckers in the house)
mircea_popescu: for the record, ottoman fashion's pretty cool. they invented a lot of things above and beyond the ottoman
BingoBoingo: "Down river, the Mississippi was forecast to reach or surpass the 1993 record of 49.74 at Chester, Ill., on Friday. That level would impact Menard Correctional Center and comes within inches of the top of the levee protecting St. Genevieve, Mo."
BingoBoingo: "Mississippi river levels at Alton are expected to reach nearly 39 feet by Thursday, only 3.7 feet lower than the 1993 record. In St. Louis, the water is expected to crest just shy of 45 feet, which would rank only behind the 49.6 feet recorded during the flood of 93."
BingoBoingo: "On Sunday afternoon, as rain continued to pummel much of the St. Louis region, 2015 officially became the wettest year on record. It came amid reports of widespread flooding, a plea by officials in West Alton to evacuate and the closure of Interstate 70 through the heart of St. Charles County. And with rain continuing Monday, river levels throughout the region are expected to hit near-record crests by New Years Eve."
BingoBoingo: In other news, SUCK IT CALIFORNIA http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/emergency-declared-as-rain-keeps-falling-concern-turning-to-rising/article_592378ee-58c5-58bf-844f-7192031de91f.html
assbot: The Empire Files: Ralph Nader & Abby Martin on the Corporate Elections - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1YMm4K7 )
deedbot-: [Qntra] The False Dilemma of XT Versus Blockstream - http://qntra.net/2015/12/the-false-dilemma-of-xt-versus-blockstream/
adlai tl;dr's his guerrilla transcription: "would-be entrepeneurs, don't waste your time building companies. fuck shit up and send me the datapix, maybe i'll like them and buy some more"
punkman: then she turns around, "oh we must change the game", "state considered harmful", "do you want my trusted stick?"
punkman: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7352-towards_reasonably_trustworthy_x86_laptops << poor transcript follows: "I used to think we could sandbox ME with VT-d, unfortunately it turned out this doesn't work, which brought me to the sad conclusion that perhaps if we look at the Intel x86 platform, the war is lost. It truly is hopeless, even if ME didn't exist. It bothers me since I spent the last 5 years
adlai: he does fall for the fallacy of ascribing relevance to bubble inflation velocity in a post-fiat-escape-hatch market
assbot: A year of Taliban gains shows that ‘we haven’t delivered,’ top Afghan official says - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1JbPMpP )
adlai: i'd link him but he has the word "maidsafe" on his slides but says "failed" in hebrew,people might ge tthe wrong message
adlai: ahaha i love this guy, "it takes twelve years, circa six governments in the state of israel"
assbot: 19th-Century Album of Ottoman Fashion | The Public Domain Review ... ( http://bit.ly/1JbOuv9 )
BingoBoingo: Ah adlai's on it, but I'll get you the preview too
adlai: at least the leddit captions that with a real cobra
adlai realizes maybe if he wants people to listen to him, he should speak meat or blockchain at them rather than #b-a :(
adlai: at least STRML's casino doesn't touch the stuff, not even give it out for free if you keep hitting
adlai figures he's got to skin the fiat cat someday
gribble: You rated user STRML on Mon Dec 28 03:56:10 2015, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: epsilon risked, nothing gained (nothing lost).
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user adlai to user STRML: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=adlai&dest=STRML | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=STRML | Rated since: never
adlai: can't you let the man !up himself? some cultures consider it rude to help
adlai: "i love regulation, because it causes fat, and then you slim it off and make bank" (rough translation parahrpase)
adlai: "they say a lot of things about whoring being the oldest profession, but somebody had to pay, so Finance was First." - eden shochat, local vc chump pumper. has a good talk i'd link but nobody else medaber ivrit...
adlai: also who on earth beatifies their comment troll alts
adlai: "> If the lightning network ends up sucking (let???s hope it doesn???t), then so will bitcoin as we will have no choice but to use it by that point. // Or finally raise the blocksize" who'da guessed, comments better than the article itself
adlai: from the not-so-lulz mines: https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/lightning-network-skepticism/
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 06:59:44; mircea_popescu: if they're worth a shit they'll find and if not, a well. most stuff developing in an uterus is meant to abort sooner or later anyway.
BingoBoingo: You're right. Gotta leave the scabs alone so they can keep undercutting lazy union parasites on the labor market.
BingoBoingo has already lost a substantial amount of liver weight since the sobriety experiment began as measured by poking the upper right quadrant of my abdomen and contemplating the size of the organ I just pissed off.
BingoBoingo: Well, how else to you handle alcoholic fatty liver than by... chasing the fat out of the liver?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Well, I'm still cutting to the point where I can start getting swole without also getting fat at the same time.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> but on the other thread, from what pool are 'they' to 'pick their own'? must i not provide? << The pool that knows wheeties actually isn't the breakfast of champion, because that is two scoops of whey and a scoop of dry instant coffee in an shaker.
mircea_popescu: if they're worth a shit they'll find and if not, a well. most stuff developing in an uterus is meant to abort sooner or later anyway.
mircea_popescu: there is no pool.
ben_vulpes: but on the other thread, from what pool are 'they' to 'pick their own'? must i not provide?
mircea_popescu: ie, all the factual bits DID fall into place.
mircea_popescu: well... they figured that's it.
mircea_popescu: nah, it's not even that. it's ... you know how the sort of fucktard that writes sf and like... lives off juices and shit [we're talking 70s here] always represents "the future" with these robed floating aliens of "twu ewolwed" ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: old enough to pick, old enough also to have the wot to select from?
ben_vulpes: well i did think about it for a few weeks before bringing it up. 'was cool' is a simplification of the whole 'semantic web' trip.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, the facts fell in, but their interpretation of "what it'll be like"... heh heh
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : not your call to make. by the time they need or can benefit from that sort of thing, they're old enough to pick their own/
ben_vulpes: but never fucking ever will i readily consent to stick my offspring in a daycare for an amount of attention outside of my control to be paid to them.
ben_vulpes: perhaps a slice here or there, like latin or ballroom dancing
ben_vulpes: i have yet to meet a teacher i'd entrust the whole of any educational program to outside my wot
ben_vulpes: the curricula are purchaseable for like 500 dollars
mircea_popescu: adlai> satoshi says, "the world is malleable and so is bitcoin!" sipa says "maybe not", so we shoot him before he starts giving any really dangerous ideas << you really should lay off the sauce.
trinque went to the overly expensive preschool in question
BingoBoingo: You make up for that though by being a jew who knows better than to blow all of the money on the smaller person's preschool.
ben_vulpes wonders if anyone got the implicit self-deprecatory 'hack' joke
mats: there goes ~4btc
mats: the not-usg remora collective that bought into eth ipo is broke as fuck and are incapable of triggering share dump despite sizable payout from bitbet for this service
ben_vulpes: what's the story?
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> i got the hazy notion that someone wanted to implement something that involved...not validating the whole blockchain. tuned out. << Appears to be new soft phork tx type. details aren't clear to me yet
ben_vulpes: i got the hazy notion that someone wanted to implement something that involved...not validating the whole blockchain. tuned out.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: the seg wit stuff
adlai: satoshi says, "the world is malleable and so is bitcoin!" sipa says "maybe not", so we shoot him before he starts giving any really dangerous ideas
adlai: there's a connection here, hamevin yavin
adlai is talking about the jim crow tardation
ben_vulpes: individuals may on occasion change the world of their own accord, but teaching the normie that such is within his grasp is the height of stupid
adlai: ;;later tell ben_vulpes: "Teaching people to look at the world as a malleable thing is one of the foundations of socialist brainrot" << so satoshi was a communist now too? and get a comment section already willya, it's blogging 101
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ty. i will get to the bottom of this crud when i get back.
asciilifeform: sadly i gotta go to bed, starting at new uranium mine tomorrow, catching the old-fashioned train at sunrise.
kakobrekla: so you wont get a cold riding outside the train.
kakobrekla: until further notice.
asciilifeform: but most particularly this http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-December/000187.html
adlai: i'd leave my nickels in the tipjar but it does seem awfully full
assbot: BitBet - Luke Skywalker Turns To The Dark Side In Episode VII :: 1.61 B (81%) on Yes, 0.37 B (19%) on No | closed 2 weeks 6 days ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1kmUAwY )
adlai: https://bitbet.us/bet/1218/luke-skywalker-turns-to-the-dark-side-in/#c5444 is right on the money though, bet should've been a tossup
asciilifeform: or the aws-killer script could not have been posted.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: try verifying something i signed with the new key
adlai: damn Anonymous is an impatient customer... double-check, payout payout... people need to rethink their liquidity
adlai is the expert in brainfuck, not assbottery
adlai: (in king's english, what the hell were you using before?)
kakobrekla: well then wtf.
asciilifeform: appears to be the new one
kakobrekla: seems like 2016 is the new one, no?
adlai: fwiw back when i had to cull a key, something to do with revocation certificates seemed to do the trick
asciilifeform: the new key was sent to several different sks boxen
asciilifeform: (which is to say, same key, but lacking the renewal packet i added on 25th)
adlai: re:bundle-390596, if it ever shows up: it's the best kind of snr amplifier, fueled by the tears of gamblers and the sweat of 'investors'
asciilifeform: ty kakobrekla. it is not assbot's fault, but the keyring's
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell mike_c ty for the return of web
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: CVE-2015-3641 - Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures - The ...: <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3641>; [bitcoin-dev] Upcoming DOS vulnerability announcements for Bitcoin ...: <https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-June/009135.html>; CVE-2014-3641 - NVD - Detail: <https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-3641>
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for asciilifeform from 2 to 3 with note: implementational in instrumenting the new key management paradime
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for trinque from 2 to 3 with note: i used his tool so much it broke
adlai: here, there, in between
adlai would build it, and they'd come, but he is le lazy...
adlai: but i thought wot mathematics was incommutable :(
BingoBoingo: "No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one. Alcohol, now become the rapacious creditor, bleeds us of all selfsufficiency and all will to resist its demands. Once this stark act is accepted, our bankruptcy as going human concern is complete." - 12&12 page 21
BingoBoingo: adlai: Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol that our lives had become unmanageable. "WHO cares to admit complete defeat? Practically no one, of course. Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness. It is truly awful to admit that, glass in hand, we have warped our minds into such an obsession for destructive drinking that only an act of Providence can remove it from us."
trinque: coupla more weekends and I'll shoot the python one in the head, then make the CL one eat his own code
trinque: in other deedbot news, I've got a CL bot that knows how to ghost and get his name back
adlai checks every now and then, sweeps
adlai: the beautifyl thing about deedbot-algo is that you can verify without spending
BingoBoingo: That's like the exact opposite of step one.
adlai: BingoBoingo: because it has rule #1, so you need to source the drugs yourselrf
adlai: kick a troll in the nuts faster than you can say "why would you do that here"
BingoBoingo hopes that the ipad ben_vulpes gets to shut his kid up is a vaxstation
assbot: Logged on 12-12-2015 04:47:27; *: BingoBoingo wonders if there is a 12 step group for LSD adlai can explore, remembers medically induced ibogaine hallucinations likely conntributed to Bill's spiritual experience
gribble: The operation succeeded.
adlai: ;;later tell trinque deedbot- ate my thingy in the bad sense
ben_vulpes: the canonical #b-a thread to reference here is that "americans, no matter how they slave, cannot even begin to approximate that which their fathers took for granted".
adlai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-12-2015#1354903 << by this logic, you should never trust a guy who writes tradebots for a living further than you can chuck him, because they all list the physics phd on the resume right underneath the eighteen bankruptly IPOed tradeshops
ben_vulpes: the tuition for which was 16K (for hs, and only a moderate hike from the lower school rates) in 2004, and most likely has doubled since.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: were i to actually want to spend the money, it'd be the tution for the quality schools in the area *i* attended, not the fashionable ones i *didn't*.
ben_vulpes: "yes, this is the best flour your father can afford, and the best bread your mother can bake. be glad there is bread on the table and not the shit your little friends must eat."
ben_vulpes: nor will i feed my family shit and demand they call it bread.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 22:00:39; mircea_popescu: Sol Nazerman: You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you... you want to learn the secret of our success, is that right? Alright I'll teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several thousand years, during which you have nothing to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land to call your own, to grow food on or to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: why not send the kiddo to montessori ?
pete_dushenski: "The philosophical foundation of the Waldorf approach, Anthroposophy, underpins its primary pedagogical goals: to provide an education that enables children to become free human beings, and to help children to incarnate their "unfolding spiritual identity," carried from the preceding spiritual existence, as beings of body, soul, and spirit in this lifetime"
ben_vulpes: sixth grade was my last there.
thestringpuller: just gotta rip the plugin code bingoboingo gave me for archives and categories and have pages for that and it'll be ready for action.
ben_vulpes: but in the meantime, must tend to $bezzlecorp, meatwot, $product, fambly etc.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: how do you figure ? the auto-car thread is just a good example of wishful thinking that some prototype is the guaranteed fyootoor. no different than google glass, e-books, iot, etc.
ben_vulpes: the list of onanistic projects is bounded only by one's imagination, savvy?
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: write a curriculum, write incorporation docs for the federated states of cascadia, tango, the odd simulation problem that's been nagging, low-profile nearly-submersibles...
assbot: She-santa brings the toys, robo-reindeer bring the pain. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1QVopTA )
ben_vulpes: http://www.contravex.com/2015/12/27/she-santa-brings-toys-robo-reindeer-bring-the-pain/#footnote_3_6479 << lol the car thread really got under your skin huh?
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351342 << note how only one of the reinderps are actually doing any work
pete_dushenski: actually osborne's tax might minimise the blast radius of a black swan by pushing wanna-bes to the exits before the next "no one could've predicted"
ben_vulpes dreams of the popescuian luxury of time
pete_dushenski: good fuck riddance to all the wanna-be land barons.
pete_dushenski: " In fact, contrary to Mr Osborne’s suggestion, the only buy-to-let investors who will not be hit are the very wealthy who buy property in cash and who don’t need a mortgage."
pete_dushenski: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/buy-to-let/11816720/Death-of-buy-to-let-landlords-wake-up-to-Osbornes-150pc-tax.html << "Connie Cheuk (pictured above), a landlord with five properties, will see her tax bill rise by almost 40pc. She is even contemplating giving up her 18-year career as a teacher as a means of reducing the tax impact"
assbot: Logged on 28-12-2015 01:36:22; mircea_popescu: fucktard. i'd be worried about the sms from the bush a lot more if i was dealing billions with this schmuck.
kakobrekla: the usual.
adlai: shame, i'd have paid to see how high the head flew
asciilifeform: adlai: therealascii was beheaded some time in early 1500s
gribble: The operation succeeded.
adlai: ;;later tell therealascii fix dat key thing! or is it kako's fault
mircea_popescu: fucktard. i'd be worried about the sms from the bush a lot more if i was dealing billions with this schmuck.
mircea_popescu: I dropped my bike in a bush and texted our salesperson about the idea. <<< re the entire chechens thread.
asciilifeform: nor will lawyer brag about passing the bar, etc
mircea_popescu: i have never met any even half-competent physicists that were proud of their... paper certifications.
mircea_popescu: the actual bones under the abomination are mostly "this is everything" and "all people are equally, each individually, the complete and proud representation of all humanity" and bla bla.