mircea_popescu: space of existence from whence this difference is genuinely not visible, nevertheless it must be pointed out that their inhabitants are definitionally called troglodytes.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> starve.' << how does this differ from mircea_popescu's classical prescription 'go shoot a policeman' ? <<< this question is indistinguishable from where i sit from asking "how does saying 'you see a girl you like ? go fuck her.' differ from saying 'you see a girl you like ? go raise her children by another man!". while i grant that there could in point of fact truthfully exist nooks and crannies in the
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 02:47:47; asciilifeform: ( aaand if you know why, you're prolly as ready for the glue factory as i am... )
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345275 << i've seen -1st element used as length of the array. dunno if that's the "why" answer, prolly gotta waterboard k&r
BingoBoingo: In other news Qntra has now passed the 300 more comments than posts mark. Had been flirting with this line, but now its happened.
BingoBoingo: From the mines https://i.imgur.com/zRPrDaK.jpg Why even go on blast with a back that looks so "Do you even lift bro"
asciilifeform: 'Han is sorrow caused by heavy suffering, injustice or persecution, a dull lingering ache in the soul. It is a blend of lifelong sorrow and resentment, neither more powerful than the other. Han is imbued with resignation, bitter acceptance and a grim determination to wait until vengeance can at last be achieved.'
asciilifeform: 'Han denotes a collective feeling of oppression and isolation in the face of insurmountable odds (the overcoming of which is beyond the nation's capabilities on its own). It connotes aspects of lament and unavenged injustice.'
asciilifeform: because it's a motherfucking ETHNOSTATE
asciilifeform: incidentally, do you know why nk survived the destruction of su ?
asciilifeform: nk was a successful exporter of heavy machinery prior to usg proclaiming it excommunicated and anyone trading with it likewise excommunicated from the mother church
nubbins` had another friend who is now major-label rock star in sk o.O
asciilifeform: anyway the nk to go to is prolly the pre-1980 one. which is approx. when the 'internashinal komyoooooniti' blockade started turning it into what it is now.
nubbins`: 3-4 feet into nk is as far as they let you
nubbins`: i visited the dmz
asciilifeform: nubbins`: didja ever go to nk? or only to the nato muppet kr ?
asciilifeform: possibly the only one.
asciilifeform: one of the very few remaining sovereign nations on planet3
asciilifeform: the REAL kr.
asciilifeform: i prolly ought to have translated, it was a concert in honour of 81st anniversary of the korean people's army
BingoBoingo: impossible to get the president to actually write any code that year the administration had just launched its Healthcare.gov website, and after the infamous technical failures, nobody wanted the visual of website failing while the President is learning to code.""
BingoBoingo: "Interestingly, according to a recent Quora post by Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi, plans to have President Obama 'learn to code' a year earlier were torpedoed by the Healthcare.gov debacle. "We launched the first Hour of Code campaign, in 2013," explains Partovi. "We launched the first Hour of Code on the home page of Google, in every Apple Store, and we had convinced the President to issue a speech about computer science. But it was
nubbins`: the world doubts its eyes
nubbins`: the dress
asciilifeform: i see no particular diff b/w this and 'die for the motherland to build bright komyooonist fyootoor'
asciilifeform: '...Just as long as the factories kept going up, it made no difference whatsoever they'd work for a different set of people than the set building them.... You know, "abstract principles" such as the notion that if you take half a million tons of grain's worth of labour out of some people to do something, that something they do at your behest will return them at the very least half a million tons of grain so they don't fucking
asciilifeform: 'Strictly the only difference between Argentina and Soviet Romania isn't that the Argentines "did it to themselves" while the Russkis did it to the poor Romanians (always there guarding the West from the barbarians so the French could build their cathedrals bla bla)' << l0l
assbot: Be Cool, or the multilayered cake of things I don't give a shit about. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1P8iBmv )
BingoBoingo: AH, Mizzou http://trilema.com/2015/be-cool-or-the-multilayered-cake-of-things-i-dont-give-a-shit-about/#footnote_4_64323
deedbot-: [Trilema] Be Cool, or the multilayered cake of things I don't give a shit about. - http://trilema.com/2015/be-cool-or-the-multilayered-cake-of-things-i-dont-give-a-shit-about/
mircea_popescu: aww shit mod6 only now i saw your whisper. listen, youj gotta talk to me here or in #eulora, i dun much read the ingame chat.
asciilifeform: i.e. the shitgnomatic grub
asciilifeform: NOTE how grub2 (specifically!) is the affected ver
asciilifeform: and from this we learn MOTHERFUCKERS why dulap cycled mains...
asciilifeform: what does enemy then see? grub...
asciilifeform: actually the above is conventional wisdom but might well be false:
asciilifeform: but illustrative of the 'open sores' thing in general.
asciilifeform: not all that interesting to a literate person, considering how it involves the 'can walk away with the machine' sort of enemy
asciilifeform: 'A vulnerability in Grub2 has been found. Versions from 1.98 (December, 2009) to 2.02 (December, 2015) are affected. The vulnerability can be exploited under certain circumstances, allowing local attackers to bypass any kind of authentication (plain or hashed passwords). And so, the attacker may take control of the computer.'
asciilifeform: in other nyoooz,
asciilifeform: ( aaand if you know why, you're prolly as ready for the glue factory as i am... )
asciilifeform: a noteworthy fella from ro other than mircea_popescu ! even
asciilifeform: one time i threw in what must've been a whole b00k and then penaltykick
asciilifeform: perhaps ben_vulpes will do another paste oops and we'll find out moar
asciilifeform: (fine points and exquisite abuses thereof)
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 02:03:42; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within a 1% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
mircea_popescu: i was into high fantasy. really, still am, da fuck with all the sci fi crap
asciilifeform: now to be fair this was not commonlisp but a miniature thing created just for the game
mircea_popescu: nah there's a magical version frozen in time
mircea_popescu: problem is the whole stack is in c++ and i'm not about to manage language interfaces.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within a 1% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
mircea_popescu: provided of course ben manages to not get himself fired from his own company over the buffer incident :D
assbot: You rated user punkman on 27-Nov-2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Hangs around in #b-a.
punkman: in the interests of working with less wotless derps in 2016: You can rent punkman for $30/hr (can even get discounts if I like you), can operate git per your style guides, can't compile C with pen and paper.
asciilifeform: (unless ok with india, but then doesn't get to enjoy chair parade)
asciilifeform: but srsly, he's stuck paying them in actual money unless he wants to house'em.
mircea_popescu: are you going to argue to the merits or just gonna keep trying to squeak by on technicalities ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think if he pays less he will have to keep them chained in own house
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, the chicks should bag groceries and make ~10.5 and the dudes should dfick around with javascript and make more than 9 ?!
mircea_popescu: 30 an hour ? it's scandalous. who the fuck pays code monkeys over minimum wage ?!
asciilifeform boggles mind at the starvation wages ben_vulpes pays his hirelings
trinque closes his laptop obediently, told planes can't land otherwise.
mircea_popescu: i'm actually willing to bet that his buffer sat there quietly, only flew once he hit enter.
trinque: I don't use erc, but apparently there's erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds
asciilifeform: just like the ill-fated turdatron
mircea_popescu: then it gets displayed with one slash extra i guess.
asciilifeform: and if that's in the paste ?
mircea_popescu: contained \n, only went once i pressed enter at the end.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344551 << first there is a faux test to set the bar low
asciilifeform: aaaha that could've been the launch codes ben_vulpes
asciilifeform had a chat with a very old and long-ago last seen phriend, who threatened to use asciilifeformisms in a linguistics phd thesis
asciilifeform: l0l do we want to know what other atrocities i'm responsible for
gribble: Error: The "Later" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "ben_vulpes" in it. Try "list Later" to see the commands in the "Later" plugin.
mircea_popescu: if they take off currency controls, it's going to go to a 10 or something and that's that.
ben_vulpes: If the notion appeals, let me know that you're game. It would be fantastic to get the git exercise wrapped up by Jan 1, and yourself into the office as soon as you can make it after your return from Indiana.
ben_vulpes: well with the team, and (should we extend an offer to transition from contractor to employee) ascend our internal talent ladder.
ben_vulpes: Should you demonstrate speed of self-education, willingness to reach out for support if you need it, and the ability and willingness to cultivate your own beautiful little commit-trees, we'll offer you a contracting position paying $30/hr. This rate affords us the luxury of budgeting training and study time for you. Our hope is that as you build familiarity with the ecosystems and projects, that you'll demonstrate productivity, mesh
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1345078 << rather simply, currently they're raping the producers by taking their dollars in exchange for ~9 pesos each. meanwhile the open market rate for the dollar is about 15 pesos.
ben_vulpes: A huge part of the work that we do while building software is cultivating beautiful little trees of commits with Git. To that end, we want to resolve a concern on our end about getting you up to speed on our favorite version-controlatron (Git), and so we cooked up two exercises for you to work through over the next few weeks (see attached).
ben_vulpes: Thank you for stopping by and meeting the team—we had a blast and hope you did as well.
asciilifeform: (if i had to guess why - the extinction of hearn's riverz-of-meat crud)
asciilifeform: in other, not quite unrelated nyooz, the number of detectable nodez in the wild has been steadily dropping
trinque: lets drown this motherfucker in complexity then carve our names into the corpse. I'm told this is what glory is.
punkman: It's ANYONECANSPEND. In a soft-fork, we can add a new rule that restricts what's valid. We can add a rule like, whenever we see, we could say it's a new type of script that is able to instead of updating its inputs from the signature field, it takes it from the witness instead. The witness becomes a third part of the transaction in addition to the inputs and outputs of a transaction. For
punkman: actual output that requires a signature. Instead, the outputs do not push these scripts that we required to be satisfied, they would be encapsulated, it would be pushed as a piece of data. This allows us to, this effectively to every node, and every node not using this system, it's an ANYONECANSPEND. It's just an output that pushes data on the stack, the output doesn't do anything else.
punkman: "This seemed like a hard problem. I personally dismissed this as a solution for a long time as something non-viable, until Luke-Jr discovered that it's possible to do this as a soft-fork. What we're going to do is inputs, we just deprecate the signature field inside of inputs. It's going to be an empty string from now on. Obviously, an empty signature is not going to be able to spend an
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: "soft" literally in the sense old nodes verify blocks and absolutely not a thing else.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1345071 << how the fuck is the 'segregated' nonsense ~not~ a hardfork ?
punkman: yeah and js disabled means empty page, aka the blogspot experience
asciilifeform: gotta love how this bomb is buried halfway into the turdocument
asciilifeform: 'That Google approves the javascript in AMP is a tradeoff. You want the javascript to be minified, secure, compact, and standardized. But you also want new things in AMP and theres an open process for that.' <<< ahahahahaha
BingoBoingo: Still more related: "I had the exact same problem with medium leggings - I'm 5'10" and 138lbs. 34-25-38 and should be a medium. When I got the leggings there was no tag indication front or back so I tried them on both ways. A large baggy pocket ballooned out in the front either way. A FUPA pouch? I cant wear them because they wont stay up, even with my bootie. :( Fat people privilege is being able to wear clothing front or back be
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: just like jim crow was in southern states ! "no one in this room doesn't agree!"
pete_dushenski: he's still dumb enough to think that he can squeek through this affair unscathed, but my god he's an oily eel.
pete_dushenski: it from others." ~wuille
pete_dushenski: "Hard forking changes require that ultimately every participant in the system adopts the new rules. I find it immoral and dangerous to merge such a change without extremely widespread agreement. I am personally fine with a short-term small block size bump to kick the can down the road if that is what the ecosystem desires, but I can only agree with merging it in Core if I'm convinced that there is no strong oppositio
punkman: if only one of the paypal wannabes could accept credit and pay out in bitcoin
punkman: "I played cat-and-mouse with the fraudsters for a bit, adding various checks such as e-mail confirmation, IP bans etc. but it only took hours for the criminals to adapt to these. Eventually I just ragequit and switched off credit cards, going back to PayPal-only."
BingoBoingo: "James Bond kills for the global Anglo-American bankocracy, whose most loyal thugs have been, and will be, members of our world-wide underclass, who might best be trusted with heaping injustice upon those above them and below their masters who might oppose the global good. " >> http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3461
pete_dushenski: twas a thing in the 70s around here.
mircea_popescu: wtf oh it's just AGW for a DDL when theres MoLE aFOOT
assbot: Lejitz comments on "In a $6.6B economy, it is criminal to let the Service undergo an ECE without warning users loudly, months in advance" - Jeff Garzik ... ( http://bit.ly/1T2q2fV )
ascii_field: esp. after anglos (brit first, then modern usg) had the brilliant idea of nurturing a counter-ru bantustan there
mircea_popescu: mmm. you know they invented russian-ness right ?
ascii_field: poor schmucks were on the fringes. it wasn't sweet, no. had all kinds of misadventures.
mircea_popescu: afaik, the ukrs were actually the only people who had jews in govt etc after the ww1.
ascii_field: phun phakt - 'u kraina' == 'on the fringes'
ascii_field: it counts! for the poles.
mircea_popescu: so the trashing pilsudski administered to the oh so clever & brave bolsheviks doesn't count for the ukrs ?
mircea_popescu: well... you mean as part of the commonwealth or somehow before ?
ascii_field: the poles had an actual culture.
mircea_popescu: this notion extends to the poles ?
ascii_field: but here it is, on the map..
ascii_field: about the same cultural weight as zimbabwe, and for very similar reason
ascii_field: ukr nation is sitting right there, for whoever wants
mircea_popescu: but colorful enough to support the notion of a bona fide ukr nation ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the fella who ran on liquid jew ?
ascii_field: when i think about what something costs to buy, i think 'with money' rather than 'with Hero Mother Award vouchers from zimbabwestan'
mircea_popescu: maybe they'd give you black sea tickets too.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field yea well... go to the party night meetings more often, comrade.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: only to participants in good standing in the mortgage racket
mircea_popescu: but the car cost ~1mn worth of turkey dollars to make.
assbot: [bitcoin-dev] Segregated Witness in the context of Scaling Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1T2pd6P )
BingoBoingo: For the cophrologists https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011976.html
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: vs what other kind of radiator
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344918 << the part he neglects to mention of that discussion is where i said that well, depends if technology improves. and that such investments are always a good idea to date, for this reason alone.
pete_dushenski: in the last century.
ascii_field: (plumbing was a retrofit! gurgling shitpipes right in the rooms)
pete_dushenski: maybe when i move into house and have the space, pinball machine will make its way back to life. a house like this would suffice : https://www.realtor.ca/Residential/Single-Family/16305474/6-Ruskin-Row-Winnipeg-Manitoba-R3M2R6-Crescentwood#v=d
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nah, the cultivar is a hybrid, called something like fragaria x or w/e.
pete_dushenski: i think it's still in storage afaik. 'surfer' theme.
pete_dushenski: by the time heartbreak healed and we looked around for another repair shop, there were none.
pete_dushenski: pinball machine was then sent to only shop in town who could fix ~40 year-old machine, but delivery was same as cost of repair, so parents borrowed pick-up truck, from whence the machine fell off the back and broke, again, on the very. last. corner. to. our. house.
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 22:01:53; pete_dushenski: fuck the idiots who only post first names on their company directory.
kakobrekla: arent the store bought same as wild but bread for quantity (size) ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344873 << might also be a species issue. there's two kinds, the common strawberry and the tiny one.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field pinball. the idea there is you can get the machine in a state where it "pays" you for free.
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 21:48:15; kakobrekla: im confused, i tell him how they taste like and he prints posters in such taste?
ascii_field is curious whether 'tilt' usage appeared first in poker or in 'pinball'
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 22:33:59; mircea_popescu: they gotta matter god dangit! through work!
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344825 << funny, romania had the same thging.
mircea_popescu: they gotta matter god dangit! through work!
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 20:49:21; ascii_field: premining not good enough for these folks ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344822 <<< apparently the death of wuille coming so soon after the public rape of gavin and hearn really stung the monkey brain.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is how the catholic church was born.
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 20:48:04; ascii_field: ' Self-funded development via block subsidy - In order to have an ongoing source of funding for development work, a consensus rule has been added to allocate 10% of each block subsidy to a development organization. This entity is transparent and responsible for funding development work performed by current and new developers so that the project remains sustainable without a funding dependence on outs
assbot: PVCalc - The Return (ROI) Calculator for PV solar energy investments | PVCalc.org ... ( http://bit.ly/1YihCaU )
nubbins`: may make sausages over the holidays
jurov: so manufacturing the 1m2 piece of silicon needs much more than 8 GJ?
ascii_field: but the possibly novel thought earlier was, that photovoltaic could be a useful thing even if ~heavily~ -ev in the thermo sense
ascii_field: jurov: if you feel like putting in the sweat and re-crunching the numberz for modern input, we will learn something useful
ascii_field: jurov: back of envelope calculation, somewhere in the logz
jurov: ascii_field: what do you mean thermodynamically -ev?
pete_dushenski: and of course, no mailing address on 'contact' page. godfuckdamnallyourdumbmothers!!!1
pete_dushenski: like a give a shit about how cool and informal your company is. but i guess this speaks to how fungible your retarded staff are eh. "oh, matt left, but we got a new matt, just like the old one". keep being washing machines, i'm sure you'll be mega profitable.
ascii_field: (photovoltaics are thermodynamically -ev, but economically interesting because they... work while they work. and hence 'lock in' some joules for the owner)
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Cow town already has plenty of solar farm for themselves. It's Raleigh that has none.
ascii_field: l communities with cheap farmland near electrical substations where solar farms can interconnect to the power grid..'
ascii_field: 'In the past few years, about two dozen solar farms around the state have become targets of public ire, usually over aesthetics and property values. Facing local hostility, several of these energy projects were voluntarily withdrawn by the developers, said Daniel Conrad, a staff attorney for the N.C. Utilities Commission. The resistance often flares up in areas that have become magnets for solar farms – agricultura
kakobrekla: the thing is, big things lose on quality
kakobrekla: im confused, i tell him how they taste like and he prints posters in such taste?
BingoBoingo: So we really do need to make them bigger.
kakobrekla: the dms fat has some very nice healing qualities tho
BingoBoingo: Perhaps what the world needs is doormoose.
kakobrekla: doormouse is a delicacy here and you cant really get it in large quantities, also it has very poor meat to bone ratio - and because of the doormouse diet, meat has a quite strong and specific taste - i prefer horse indeed
BingoBoingo: Were not opposed to the solar farm itself, just that particular location, Lane said. We wanted to make sure they didnt overtake the town. << Translation: 3 in our backyard already, stop forcing them down our throats if you won't even have one of your own
pete_dushenski: otherwise, dude's out 1.2 btc.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Not such big balls. risking only fee if hit on any other days.
pete_dushenski: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.20000000 BTC on 'Yes' - Bitcoin to top $600 before Jan 2016 << waitwut! 'When the difference between a given "Yes" bet time and the event time is less than two weeks, that bet will be refunded less BitBet's fee." means this guy is shooting for december 30 and 31 EXCLUSIVELY. that's some kinda aim lol
kakobrekla: even i got the shares of some companies, which i later sold for btc
ascii_field: this is sorta the definition of being poor - to not have anything that you might not end up 'having to sell for mcdonalds'
kakobrekla: what if its worth something one day and they used it all for mcdonalds already?
ascii_field: premining not good enough for these folks ?
kakobrekla: devs feel they should get paid for derp work
ascii_field: future. Decred therefore improves with growth in a sustainable way and is accountable only to its users.'
ascii_field: ' Self-funded development via block subsidy - In order to have an ongoing source of funding for development work, a consensus rule has been added to allocate 10% of each block subsidy to a development organization. This entity is transparent and responsible for funding development work performed by current and new developers so that the project remains sustainable without a funding dependence on outside forces in the
kakobrekla: >Possible bitcoin implementation/compatibility due to the main contributors being those behind the development of btcsuite. <what
kakobrekla: you came further than i
ascii_field: 'A hybrid proof-of-work and proof-of-stake technology-based consensus system that will balance consensus between miners and voters... [buncha crud snipped] ... Bottom-up non-financial decision making through the Decred Assembly by community members contributing to the project through work and effort.'
fluffypony: kakobrekla: that's a PR overstatement, it's the Conformal / btcd guys
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 19:59:13; BingoBoingo: Also from mines: "Donald Trump, who claims to be the best on the military among the 2016 Presidential candidates because he is the best at everything, apparently has no idea what the nuclear triad is."
BingoBoingo: In the same way turds "are" something
mircea_popescu: these derps "are" something now ?
mircea_popescu: "The Node/JS ecosystems are experiencing a Cambrian explosion in technology, with all that implies. If you don't like it, don't worry. It probably won't take 20 million years this time to settle in on the "best" ways of doing things."
mircea_popescu: The only thing you can do is npm shrinkwrap and never update your dependencies ever again << doh.
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 19:49:53; nubbins`: telling people to shut up and drink their oil
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 19:25:52; ascii_field: punkman: and mircea_popescu is puzzled why i'd rather be shot in the head six times than do www wurk
BingoBoingo: Also from mines: "Donald Trump, who claims to be the best on the military among the 2016 Presidential candidates because he is the best at everything, apparently has no idea what the nuclear triad is."
BingoBoingo: From the tard mines: "Among the strongest creations of Team Abrams, Kylo Ren is a kind of baby Darth Vader who throws tantrums in inky-black robes while wearing a leather-and-metal-head appliance that looks like a domination mask by way of the grille of a 1952 Chevy." -NYtimes
BingoBoingo: <nubbins`> telling people to shut up and drink their oil << When plasticar was geared up in "Mad Max" mode with duct tape everywhere it was the mega trucks which offered it the widest berths.
nubbins`: telling people to shut up and drink their oil
nubbins`: in ford f350s and big suvs, neutral gear, gassing it to the redline
nubbins`: i didn't think they used robusta
pete_dushenski: without philipinos (the actual, irl kind), these tim hortons operations would grind to a halt.
ascii_field: punkman: and mircea_popescu is puzzled why i'd rather be shot in the head six times than do www wurk
ascii_field: doesn't seem to be connected with the 'home automation' derpery
ascii_field: the 'lumos' link is to a still-alive photovoltaic maker !
ascii_field: y customized hardware without any electronics know-how, all within their browser. Of course, things didn’t exactly play out that way. But why?'
ascii_field: 'We wanted to make it so creating and selling hardware was as easy as writing and publishing a blog post. You shouldn’t need to be an electrical engineer or an industrial designer to create electronic devices. Nor should you have to worry about supply chain or distribution if you wanted to sell them. We believed it was possible to eliminate all of that complexity, so the average person could easily create highl
pete_dushenski: actually the comments in there are pretty golden, mainly because a couple of our old boys - pankkake and thickasthieves - make appearances.
jurov: i did not put these online yet
ascii_field: jurov ^ were these your arm boxes ?
ascii_field: 'In [Calxeda's] case, we moved faster than our customers could move. We moved with tech that wasn’t really ready for them – ie, with 32-bit when they wanted 64-bit. We moved when the operating-system environment was still being fleshed out – [Ubuntu Linux maker] Canonical is all right, but where is Red Hat? We were too early.'
ascii_field: and one of the dead adults,
ascii_field: from earlier lul, 'Bitcoin remittance startup 37coins closes its doors... At the time of our launch, few bitcoin services actively catered to the underbanked and unbanked. Fortunately that is no longer the case. There are now many amazing bitcoin companies like BitGive Foundation...'
mircea_popescu: surprisingly, the end-of-life of a place which everyone uses as a mine is... being a garbage dump
ascii_field: nubbins`: every other bus in d.c. region now has a HUGE 'see sumthing say sumthing' on it
mircea_popescu: everyone there is either a midwesterner or else "only here for a few years to make enough money to run off to argentina / send back home to laos"
nubbins`: If You See Something Say Something™ used with permission of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: my understanding is that the fella in k's thing ~did~ (past tense) own them. and then descended into 'trooper' class, and wallows in self-pity
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> ;;later tell BingoBoingo so chuck lee makes it an entire thousand words without sounding like a complete momo, only to finish with "P.S. Im currently in favor of scaling Bitcoin via 248, SegWit, and LN." like, wtf. << But he also took the castle analogy from a contravex it seems
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 18:17:06; mircea_popescu: not having owe's own horse i could see, on the grounds that, well... it;'s the town.
mircea_popescu: i know the poem, i'm just not following what you're saying here!
ascii_field: 'Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses!' -- kipling
mircea_popescu: i am trying to introduce it on the basis of le logique~
ascii_field: well i live on mouse planet with the other mice and so anything mircea_popescu tells us about the man planet, i'll prolly believe
mircea_popescu: i mean, i myself am a pervert, use females for the role. but this notwithstanding...