assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 21:09:58; pete_dushenski: and after actually reading up a bit on glibc instead of telling myself "oh that's nice, alf's done another miraculous thing, which'd be the third this week, each of which is so miraculous that idkwtf it is, if it even applies to anything in my universe", i found that one of the glibc maintainers is florian weimar of http://qntra.net/2015/09/many-network-appliances-leak-master-tls-private-keys-through
asciilifeform: then nfi
jurov: no, the mailinglist has nothing to do with /v/
asciilifeform: whereas, e.g., mircea_popescu's site, is neither
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 20:59:48; pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349421 << i've never understood this rather commonplace criticism of taleb as being anything other than "ow my fee-fees hurt. that's not nice and it's certainly not how we do things in usistan where being successful and coming from somewhere other than the sewers is bad because reasons mkay"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349591 << pointedly ~not~ what it is about. see thread re: brezhnev's book. the latter is not loathesome because i cry from failing to live up to brezhnev's imaginary heroism
BingoBoingo: Not necessarily. Maybe gargantua in legend was actually cuckolded, and pantagruel's real father was the Jew boy.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: lol if pantagruel's my boy, then i'm gargantua ;)
BingoBoingo: No, you're pantagruel in the bouncy harness pete_dushenski
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 19:53:52; jurov: commits to, carefully designed semantics for everything that's labeled "undefined" or "unspecified" or "implementation-defined" in the C "standard".
asciilifeform: jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349578 << this is not as simple as it sounds, there are machine and os braindamages baked in
pete_dushenski: in trblandia, i'm the 30 iq kid
pete_dushenski: for some kids, the existence of bitcoin is still news.
asciilifeform: (the de-glibc-ation)
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 21:09:58; pete_dushenski: and after actually reading up a bit on glibc instead of telling myself "oh that's nice, alf's done another miraculous thing, which'd be the third this week, each of which is so miraculous that idkwtf it is, if it even applies to anything in my universe", i found that one of the glibc maintainers is florian weimar of http://qntra.net/2015/09/many-network-appliances-leak-master-tls-private-keys-through
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-November/000179.html << mod6's far spiffier vtron
pete_dushenski: what do you expect from brits edumacated in the post-beatings era.
pete_dushenski: though 15 minutes of reading was all it took to appreciate the enormity of alf's glibcless netbsd.
pete_dushenski: THERE'S JUST TOO MUCH TO READ!
pete_dushenski: glanville's and blackstone's commentaries and treatises are also on their way from bookstores around the world.
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> is it just me or is the latest qntra from july 10, 2015 ? << New backup being loaded nao
pete_dushenski: this set of newly delivered readings is just some of the competition for my time that retards my learnings of trb and related subjects
pete_dushenski unwraps abdy's 'lectures on feudalism', herlihy's 'the history of feudalism', lessing's 'laocoon', and 'the world according to clarkson'
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: but your controlling point about whose dominion is a thing is well taken. the boundaries here are very loosely defined, and yet so broad that i'm bound to miss important things, but mostly as these important things relate to trb development, an area where my only experience was debian testing and v-verification this summer
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 09:57:30; mircea_popescu: it's to date the largest reply i ever had to make in an irc conversation, but it is in fact a reply in an irc conversation.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349278 << sorta hard to play the other side of the conversation when you simultaneously take every possible rebuttal or objection, pin it down, and kill it, like some kind of laboratory experimenter playing with a mouse in a hall of mirrors with no exit ;/
pete_dushenski: and after actually reading up a bit on glibc instead of telling myself "oh that's nice, alf's done another miraculous thing, which'd be the third this week, each of which is so miraculous that idkwtf it is, if it even applies to anything in my universe", i found that one of the glibc maintainers is florian weimar of http://qntra.net/2015/09/many-network-appliances-leak-master-tls-private-keys-through-forward-secrecy/
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628524/Climate-change-shock-Burning-fossil-fuels-COOLs-planet-says-NASA
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: "with the caveat that as the reunion of Ys starts approaching the universe, you're getting closer and closer to the nagant ending." << can you expand on this point ? is it that being overwhelmed on account of previous complacency and previous failures to eat the elephant one bite at a time, as those bites appeared, can only lead to suicide ?
trinque: oh wow, that's what's actually on qntra.net at the moment.
trinque: deedbot- knows what date/time it is... did someone touch the entropy dial?
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 16:52:46; asciilifeform: the man has problems reeling his monster ego even partly onto a spool
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349421 << i've never understood this rather commonplace criticism of taleb as being anything other than "ow my fee-fees hurt. that's not nice and it's certainly not how we do things in usistan where being successful and coming from somewhere other than the sewers is bad because reasons mkay"
pete_dushenski: is it just me or is the latest qntra from july 10, 2015 ?
deedbot-: [Qntra] Another Post BIP 66 Fork Dies after 3 Blocks - http://qntra.net/2015/07/another-post-bip-66-fork-dies-after-3-blocks/
jurov: commits to, carefully designed semantics for everything that's labeled "undefined" or "unspecified" or "implementation-defined" in the C "standard".
jurov: As a boring platform for the portable parts of boring crypto software, I'd like to see a free C compiler that clearly defines, and permanently
jurov: ben_vulpes: do you have publicly available sample outcome of the glorious process?
trinque: sometimes fleanode issues cause the poor guy to say things to no one but himself.
assbot: Development Costs of User Interface Development (and mitigating them with Clojure/Script) ... ( http://bit.ly/1RBbIxw )
ben_vulpes: yo trinque why did deedbot- miss this one? http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/12/21_development-costs-of-user-interface-development-and-mitigating-them-with-clojurescript.html
mircea_popescu: but other than that : the rivers of meat spawn from the generalized sanitation, and are fed by generalized refrigeration
jurov: in that line, medicine is really the 'closing technology' that unleashed rivers of meat
jurov: still, if it really was big % of population, the outcome would look like after wave of pestilence&co, which it did not
mircea_popescu: heck, they sent boatloads full of children.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the crusades touched pretty much every able bodied male
mircea_popescu: this is exactly counterfactual. the us is fighting the largest battle of a generation, fails to get ANY soldiers over at tikrit.
jurov: but they *did not* have million-armies. just gathered few thousands of derps, maybe 1% of pop... that could not have made a dent in gdp
jurov: certainly not the GDP
mircea_popescu: hence back when president bahamas of 1400 ran into "a crisis", what they did was a crusade
jurov: i suspect it isn't the case. let's say in middle ages 95% was the agriculture and 5% the religion ... and now the 5% remains under whatever guises (new age, dianetics, angelology, you name it) just the 95% moved on
mircea_popescu: this may not be the case in marginal, primitive lands, but then again technology diffuses on a gradient.
mircea_popescu: why is "someone perished" the criteria ?
jurov: i just don't make sense to apply the concept on church. did anyone perish due to church being displaced? no? then wtf we are having such virtual concepts?
jurov: so, if we break organized delusion and now there's 1000s of individual ones, we have released human resources and unleashed immense potential, etc.?
jurov: heh, you wish. they learned bo bezzle instead.
mircea_popescu: it may be rare or common in your environment, but the church sure as hell doesn't dare try and impose a tax, but instead fell back on the b-a taxation model.
mircea_popescu: well... the thing about rat poison is that the rats don't need to know about it for it to work.
mircea_popescu: what is "organised terrorism" ? a large enough group of people who think there's absolutely nothing wrong with setting things on fire if they were government things.
jurov: as i hardly know any such person, i suspect hard atheism is actually very rare thing.
mircea_popescu: a middle aged woman in queens going "when you die you die. that's it. you don't go anywhere." as overheard in "the conversion" seinfeld episode.
mircea_popescu: now, it's true that the self important ignoramus has not been discontinued by this ;' and it's true that he's found new crevices to hide and be gavin andersen in. nevertheless, this is not part of the definition.
mircea_popescu: well no, removed the entire religion thing, from the "must build cathedral" to "tithe" - speaking of which, you ever seen l'avare with de funes ? epic tithing scene in there - and on and on. review the literature of the 1800s, about half the drivel printed was various clerics opiniong self importantly on matters they thoroughly ignored.
mircea_popescu: not really. disruptive simply means that the industrial pathways have to be reconstructed. not different from war in this sense.
jurov: asciilifeform: isn't it same thing as "disruptive innovation" before derps ran off with the term?
asciilifeform: Closing technology leads to technical progress, which in this particular case disrupts the workings of an economic system, upsetting the balance of production and creating structural unemployment. From this point of view, closing technology is both a boon and an evil.'
asciilifeform: The first mention in the scientific literature of such a phenomenon is in K. Marx's discussion regarding the invention of the weaving mill, after which a great many weavers in Great Britain and India perished, having outlived their usefulness. In M. Delyagin's opinion, closing technologies are unprofitable to market economies and are thereby relegated to postindustrial and preindustrial nations.
asciilifeform: to replace an obsolete one, then the subject in question is merely 'disruptive innovation.'
asciilifeform: 'A 'closing technology' - is a category of innovation, where as a result of its advent the need for a resource (including human resource) shrinks. A closing technology leads to the disappearance of an entire profession or branch of industry without creating a similarly resource-intensive profession or industry in its place. If one is speaking only of a replacement of a technology with a new one (or of a field, or market niche)
asciilifeform: ah there he is
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 00:27:34; mircea_popescu: nobody cares to look at the root causes. "hey derps ? you're being as inefficient as humanly possible" "well of course, any other course would be an economic disaster" "your idea of economy is like a rat's idea of hygiene : the more sewers the better" "so ?"
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349033 << see also >> https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%89%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F (no, afaik there is no engl. discussion of this)
mircea_popescu: i can see the argument in favour of isolating all "cloud" crapolade anyway, from everything.
mircea_popescu: and there's really no rule on what a node owner does to maintain his own network. you want to cut off aws, cut off aws.
mircea_popescu: the latter, yes.
asciilifeform: and can anybody give me a good reason not to DROP all the aws/cloud crapola ?
asciilifeform: the alchemical matter is of interest to me because i do not (and afaik nobody does) adequately have a handle on the phase transition, if you will, between voodoo and science, of a young field
asciilifeform: i never get especially far with this, because the good sfuff is generally not on the net
asciilifeform: that is to say, the labours of thinking and honest men, albeit working on pre-scientific priors, from the 'climatologists' of their day
asciilifeform: recently i went on an alchemical archaeology kick, motivated partly by desire to distinguish the 'good drivel' (the kind that actually made meaningful context-reference) from the straight drivel
mircea_popescu: well i suspect the reason for that disinterest is simple fear.
mircea_popescu: and the list could continue. there's piles of patristics, all the way to the divine doctor himself, doing nothing else. what's plotinus exactly ?
mircea_popescu: ofcoursethereis!
mircea_popescu: is composed of one inch squares repeating ad infinitum (edison, gates, the us generally) or is actually a pattern as large as the wall itself (ie, cultivated)
mircea_popescu: to try and formalize this, imagine the question in terms of wallpaper. now you, being a sane individual, would never have wallpaper in the house. but, admitting for the sake of argument that you own a slavegirl together enough to be allowed to run her own household, and admitting she inexplicably wants some wallpaper, the difference between "whatever" and "you can't have that" mostly rests on whether the 900 dpi thing
mircea_popescu: huge books, utterly meaningless drivel, but nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: this is what makes the differece from, say, proust.
asciilifeform: (by all accounts he never showed the slightest symptom of having read 'his' b00k)
asciilifeform: y'know, the mega-ghostwritten backbreaker about how b. won ww2 with own two hands
mircea_popescu: i like the wesleyan fellow for the same reason, weirdass right wing fundamentalism notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: that's why the entire progressive bs even caught on in the first place. no causation.
mircea_popescu: these points are always extremely hard to establish. even in the golden age of cultivated, the argument never was causation, but mere correlation. "lucy, sit like a lady" "why!" "because sitting like a lady correlates with not marrying a bum"
asciilifeform: specifically, how far did his theories take him
mircea_popescu: or what, you mean with the ladies ?
asciilifeform: aha but mircea_popescu has a cable spool for the cock
mircea_popescu: and this doesn't bother you on his www ? or, for that matter, my www ?!
asciilifeform: the man has problems reeling his monster ego even partly onto a spool
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349134 << i like taleb's www and find it hard to disagree with his conclusions, but i simply cannot stomach his books. tried many times. reading his b00kz feels quite like having a titanic atomic cock shoved in your mouth; of such gargantuan proportions that it blots out the sun, moon, stars.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349331 << i wonder if these folks know the story of pavlik morozov
assbot: Logged on 21-05-2015 21:54:14; ascii_field: shitgnomes and their 'it didn't happen. if it happened, it doesn't matter. if it matters - one of -our- people did it first, of course!'
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:27:34; mircea_popescu: "it didn't happen, or if it did it shouldn't matter or if it does it has nothing to do wit them"
asciilifeform: an echo of the old derpwarz
asciilifeform: afaik the fella in question did not really have a chance. he had a bullet, but not the gun.
assbot: Logged on 20-12-2015 18:03:24; asciilifeform: now if camel fucker army had brains and used pgp and gave half a shit, one could send 0day to them and have at least the pleasure of knowing that it will be used to deal max damage.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:12:40; mircea_popescu: next time you have the opportunity to hurt coinbase - hurt coinbase. secure in the knowledge that you're not only hurting some 3rd removed assholes, but a whole system of evil.
mircea_popescu: prolly something more in line with "you don't get to comment on his impalement because who the fuck are you"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it's exactly what we'll say as they get impaled.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 02:04:44; asciilifeform: the scam is not in hitler's ability to 'cut off your lips if he doesn't like your face' but in the ~pretense~ at this strange 'rule of law' fiction
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:09:53; mircea_popescu: "I won't comment on the account ban for privacy or regulatory reasons. But I can say that the ban has nothing to do with this person's hackerone reporting. And unfortunately, we cannot be more lenient on him just because he has previously helped us. The 2 issues are independent. And plus, the team that works with banning has no access or knowledge of the hackerone cases. This separation protects our
asciilifeform: shinohai: trb node is already there, see thread
asciilifeform spent a good chunk of the last 2 days getting the multiprocessor phuctor werker into shape
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you would expect, from a very high on view, that bw is the bottleneck in p2p anything, and especially anything dealing with 200gb worth of stored data.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349209 << not strangely. cpu and disk i/o is the bottleneck, i determined this to arbitrary precision.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 09:07:36; BingoBoingo: Also does is anyone else peristently maintaining many more bitcoin connections then they were when the XT spamnodes flooded? Went from 12-19 range to 24-38 range
mircea_popescu: anyway, i happen to agree. there's absolutely no reason usg.jwz has any business touching bitcoin at any point.
mircea_popescu: usg gotta split the muppets off bitcoin chain. one way or another, but IT GOTTA BE DONE!!1
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 08:01:58; BingoBoingo: network message for relaying fraud proofs, a specification that SPV wallet developers can use to validate these messages and so know when to ignore the highest (but invalid) PoW chain...
gribble: The operation succeeded.
punkman: good theme
mircea_popescu: signatures don't matter ain't good enough, pow don't matter either now. idjits.
punkman: proof of work. Fraud proofs are a technique which provide honest full nodes the capability to conclusively demonstrate that chain is invalid regardless of the amount of proof of work backing the invalid chain."
punkman: "SPV clients can connect to multiple full nodes in the hope that at least one of the nodes is honest and will provide them with the best valid chain, however situations may arise where the non-compliant chain contains more proof of work than the compliant chain. In this situation, there is no way for the honest full node to signal to an SPV client that it should disregard the chain with more
mircea_popescu: soonish we'll need a dedicated index just to keep track of the various smackdowns we delivered.
mircea_popescu: did the "well we wanted to do xt but mp nixed it so i guess no xt" comunique appear as the last entry on bitcoinxt ?
mircea_popescu: did buffett have the audacity to claim no shorts could be found with millions riding against him in publicly visible ledger ? sure. ever fixed that ? no.
mircea_popescu: "it didn't happen, or if it did it shouldn't matter or if it does it has nothing to do wit them"
BingoBoingo: Because what non answer will the give for nodes using maxint versions being censored
BingoBoingo: But the alf experiment of see how many nodes trb needs before being censored is worth at least two chuckles
mircea_popescu: just pointing out that you know, "here's prb showing 35% (of 40% of the actual network)". which happens to be exactly the mtgox approach to lyf.
BingoBoingo: that list is just still fighting the move to 0.8 war it always has since it was born
mircea_popescu: fuck em, whose job it is to list, theirs or mine ?
BingoBoingo: Stop being polite. The appropriate word selection is "Morbidly Obese Chance"
mircea_popescu: consumers chose to revolt, will be raped, perhaps they learn (fat chance).
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 08:04:49; BingoBoingo: I'm more worried about the last six words
mircea_popescu: nstead, they depend on carriers like Maersk, CMA CGM, and Evergreen to ship their freight."
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Shouldnt we be surprised to learn that an importer owns and operates its own ships? Its probably not the comparative advantage for even the largest importers. And heres the thing: Dole isnt one of the countrys top three importers of containerized cargo. Instead its the fifth, after Walmart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes. But you wont see boxes or ships owned by these companies. I
mircea_popescu: next time you have the opportunity to hurt coinbase - hurt coinbase. secure in the knowledge that you're not only hurting some 3rd removed assholes, but a whole system of evil.
mircea_popescu: so i guess it's not merely "don't help coinbase, they'll fuck you up" as yesterday, but moreover, "don't help coinbase - they'll fuck you up and then display the unmitigated gall of pretending that it didn't happen, or if it did it shouldn't matter or if it does it has nothing to do wit hthem". herp.
mircea_popescu: if you promise me a banana and fail to deliver the banana as promised, whether this is related or unrelated, intentional or unintentional, for regulatory reasons or to protect the privacy, I'M SHORT A FUCKING BANANA.
mircea_popescu: the FACT still is as the guy described. who the fuck cares what your internal functioning is like ? "regulatory reasons" are no reasons.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is all this fucktardation supposed to accomplish ?
mircea_popescu: "I won't comment on the account ban for privacy or regulatory reasons. But I can say that the ban has nothing to do with this person's hackerone reporting. And unfortunately, we cannot be more lenient on him just because he has previously helped us. The 2 issues are independent. And plus, the team that works with banning has no access or knowledge of the hackerone cases. This separation protects our customers' privacy."
mircea_popescu: full frontal nudity miss america or get off the cables.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349175 <<and you're probably right - trump & partners've been pretty desperate to promote that show where young women inexplicably expect to attract attention while keeping clothes on. seriously ? get with the kimes!
mircea_popescu: some problems more verbose than others.
mircea_popescu: it's to date the largest reply i ever had to make in an irc conversation, but it is in fact a reply in an irc conversation.
mircea_popescu: gives a shit about the PRB.
mircea_popescu: Thinking in those terms, "Hey, TRB actually running on BSD as opposded to PRB sounds to me like it'd be huge, it must be made a point of public communication, I need datas to support me in discussing this with people, plox to help me here!" is a helluva lot more productive than "this is X's dominion". At the worst this will clarify that "nah, not really", at the best it'll help a lot of idiots understand why it nobody
mircea_popescu: X so I can Y", for x=printable bitcoin and y=read in bed. He's not gotten it, at least not yet, but you can't say anyone's been the worse for the experience.
mircea_popescu: on the OTHER hand however, you have to understand biology works on drivers, and b-a is very much a natural system, so biology applies. the whole shebang is driven by need, if you go "I NEED X and Y and Z to be able to do K!" you may or may not get X, Y or Z, or maybe a response as to the usefullness of K, but in any case the b-a itself gains. If you recall a primary driver for historical activity was alf going "I want
mircea_popescu: ds are you'll end up having to do it later anyway, and once you know this it's always better to do it at a time of choice than at a time of need. Obviously this leaves wide open the "well I just don't care so much about Ying", which is fine, with the caveat that as the reunion of Ys starts approaching the universe, you're getting closer and closer to the nagant ending.
mircea_popescu: It's also perfectly valid to go "I'm not about to Y, seems X's going to do it and they're probably better than me / I don't want to duplicate the effort". Note however that this is an extremely tenuous argument : if it's true he's better than you then you probably should duplicate the effort - that's exactly the only avenue to learning, duplicating the effort of your betters. If it's the case you're better than him, od
mircea_popescu: is X's thing", or in the more general "I'm not about to go into should mode - that's how you get hanged", but that's not so related.
mircea_popescu: To apply this to b-a affairs : it's not particularly useful to go "I'm not going to X because that's Y's dominion". For one thing, it's not terribly clear if this is even true (people are notoriously poor at communicating things this subtle, and consequently your love for Amy's not Amy's idea of your love for her, not ever, until the day you die). It is perfectly valid to go "i won't be telling X how to Y because Ying
mircea_popescu: rought and disposed of (either accepting it or rejecting it) because both sides are present. Conversely, if you set a boundry for Amy in the terms of "don't try and think honey, that's for men, just sit there and be pretty" she might listen, especially at 7, but you've set a boundry for her that has no upside. "Men" doesn't even exist per se. So this isn't an argument that can be considered, it only has one side to it.
mircea_popescu: ral agressivity, which will make him less of an Adam, but in exchange you're protecting Amy's identity, which will make her more of an Amy. The argument as to whether this is a good idea or a bad idea hinges on how you value the part of Adam that's lost and the part of Amy that's saved - because yes, wherever spheres touch something's gonna get flattened, that's unavoidable - but in any case an argument can always be b
mircea_popescu: on one hand, the "dominion" approach to thinking isn't particularly useful here, because all it does is provide the limiting (the disadvantageous) part of setting boundries, without delivering any kind of protective (ie, advantageous) offset. Specifically how boundries work is, suppose you have two kids, Amy aged 7 and Adam aged 6. If you set a boundry such as "Adam, never hit Amy!" you are in fact limiting Adam's natu
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 06:25:36; pete_dushenski: besides, is not trb news the dominion of mod6 'state of bitcoin addresses' or qntra ? i can certainly qntra, but i guess i'm not equipped to appreciate the significance of glibc-less-netbsd
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349141 << heh, things are only ever that clearly cut a) in retrospect and b) when discussing a cult. such as the catholic church. neither a or b applies here, and so... who's to know ?
mircea_popescu: i don't advise any man to take this course, but recognize that well... cattle ranching is in point of fact a legitimate line of work, and you don't always get the choices you want.
mircea_popescu: the only time an office is unavoidable is when/IF (and that's a big if) you're actually dedicating your time to squeezing useful work out of lazy stupid drones.
mircea_popescu: if you can't keep a schedule if you don't have an office, your problems are the adolescentine irresponsibility, not the lack of an office. fix the problem, as it's an absolute bar to being a businessman ANYWAY, office or no office.
mircea_popescu: specifically : if the strip club actually provides advantages to you, that is a sign of your sexual dysfunction(s). same thing with an office :
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 06:14:11; pete_dushenski: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Another piece of advice. Use an office only when it is strictly necessary. An office dulls the mind, invites cosmetic and circular work, and allows metastatic projects to take over."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349132 << the latter two should be the first. an office for work is like a strip club for sex.
BingoBoingo: Wait, what is the Mayo pronoun?
BingoBoingo: Relationship to Bahamas is jsut this past week People and the other supermarket Mass Ragazines were running pieces in defense of her. Actually though she's being hung out to dry now by the cows she scammed
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so scammer gets called out on history of scamming, proceeds to delete all that he can. fattardstalk.org ftw, but what's the relation to pres. bahamas ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349126 << "1. why have a benchmark if you're not trying to tell a story ? 2. why tell a story if you're not making a buck from the telling ?"
BingoBoingo: In other news the Obeast messiah Tess Monster has announced her surrender to FPH using her real name social media accounts https://i.sli.mg/738TTX.jpg
mircea_popescu: anyway. maybe time for kickstarter jokes. "yo kickstarter's so fat it wears the css on its javascript!"
mircea_popescu braces himself for a flood of young adults with self-reported "experiences" and "validation", and the ensuing tidal wave of women ready to shoot them
punkman: "Fortunately for us, we’ve had everyone say everything that you can possibly think of about our food, so we are past the point where we need the validation from anybody. I could give a fuck at this point, and we are just happy to try Alma again in the form of a three-month-residency at The Standard hotel in West Hollywood, whether it is critically acclaimed or not."
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is with these schmucks, "asking for community help" to keep a luxury restaurant afloat ?
mircea_popescu: aymor was just an inexperienced but hardworking 26-year-old when he started Alma as a pop-up concept restaurant in early 2012, not long after eating a fateful piece of lamb that, the press has repeated, set him on the path to cooking.
mircea_popescu: which is a restaurant in the same sense two bums with no prior business experience and no technology knowledge are "a tech company".
BingoBoingo: But 39 seats seems the right size for that
mircea_popescu: not because it's inconceivable the shah of iran would pay enough to keep it in business. but because its minuscule size stupidifies it through "reflection off the boundries" effects.
mircea_popescu: not even large. for the same reason a bike's not a bus, nor a fiddler an orchestra. a restaurant means, without exception, a chef, a sauce and a pasta sous, and at the very least 4 apprentice hands. that's 7 people in the kitchen doing the artwork. this is not counting the 3+ busboys, the 6 waiters and the maitre d'hotel in the salon, nor is it counting the people washing dishes, wiping the floors etc.
mircea_popescu: "their independent 39-seat restaurant in downtown Los Angeles that was a hit in the national food press "
BingoBoingo: Lots of things "aren't really problems" until they are
mircea_popescu: (ie the sort of thing we run, with its own actual dedicated server, ip, etc. aws instances and similar cloudcrud are more in the dozen range)
BingoBoingo: Also does is anyone else peristently maintaining many more bitcoin connections then they were when the XT spamnodes flooded? Went from 12-19 range to 24-38 range
ben_vulpes: i guess we don't need baby jebus to save the britneychain if the linux foundation's going to fork the phr33 w0rld off it
BingoBoingo: I'm more worried about the last six words
BingoBoingo: network message for relaying fraud proofs, a specification that SPV wallet developers can use to validate these messages and so know when to ignore the highest (but invalid) PoW chain...
assbot: coblee comments on Coinbase Bans me After i Help them fix major Exploit ... ( http://bit.ly/1Yvj1Wr )
punkman: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3xksss/coinbase_bans_me_after_i_help_them_fix_major/cy5t83p
assbot: Meta-metastasis, or how a dancing shark jumped the shark. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1S3RdZn )
pete_dushenski: specifically in the vein of http://www.contravex.com/2015/02/03/meta-metastasis-or-how-a-dancing-shark-jumped-the-shark/
assbot: Steve Harvey Announces The WRONG Winner of Miss Universe 2015 - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1S3R1th )
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: As penance you should fire up a trb node to test the new version string patch
pete_dushenski: and thank god it's only part of b-a because the trb-dev stuff is waywaywayway over my head
pete_dushenski: most of whom came here either 100 years ago or 25 years ago.
pete_dushenski: (western canada aka the prairies aka the breadbasket of the country has very large ukr, ru, and pl populations)
pete_dushenski: or at least the poor slavic farmers their great-grandparents were back in the old country.
pete_dushenski: anyways, looks like the canadians, like americans, are en route to becoming the africans they've so long wished to join.
pete_dushenski: even without the internet, you'd figure that there would still be huge swathes of the population (those with brains, pen, and paper) that can figure out that "10% inflation" shouldn't yield a doubling in food prices every 3 years, as we've essentially seen in the last 3 years with only a reported inflation of "under 2%"
pete_dushenski: i'd be curious to know (and so will endeavour to find out) if there were as many people calling "bullshit" in the late 70s and early 80s when reported inflation was ~10% and loan rates for cars and houses were 20-25%
pete_dushenski: though the number of people who rightly call out the cpi scam is worthy of some mention.
pete_dushenski: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/food-inflation-november-1.3371284 << see comments : canadians are none too pleased when their panem gets pricier. "we wunt moar cheep meet nao !"
pete_dushenski: this being the trb progress ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Works in progress tend to stay in the logs and occasionally get buried there
pete_dushenski: besides, is not trb news the dominion of mod6 'state of bitcoin addresses' or qntra ? i can certainly qntra, but i guess i'm not equipped to appreciate the significance of glibc-less-netbsd
gribble: The operation succeeded.
punkman: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/263836-paul-nobody-read-the-11-trillion-omnibus-bill
pete_dushenski: for anyone who reads the #b-a logs
pete_dushenski: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Another piece of advice. Use an office only when it is strictly necessary. An office dulls the mind, invites cosmetic and circular work, and allows metastatic projects to take over."
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: see http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=16-12-2015#1344231 and the resultant http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344736
asciilifeform: to the point of total unsurprise
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 05:23:54; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349086 << see the thread from 2 wks ago re: benchmarks and intel's 20 year record of elaborate fraud
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349114 << Aha. Yes, just this was the first time I saw such fraud on crypto benchmark other than AES
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 00:50:22; mircea_popescu: THEN when that boring shit goes nowhere, he convinces some misfortunate borderlines to... go live in thailand! because totally, shit'll make sense there.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-12-2015#1349056 << l0l, iirc this was the self-proclaimed (!) biography of ninjashogun