mircea_popescu: step 1 : build perfect radsuit. step 2 : glass the place.
asciilifeform: can somebody (preferably mircea_popescu, whose idea this was) describe - roughly - the point of this ?
asciilifeform: whole point is to blur the distinction between 'human text' and pgpgram, no ?
asciilifeform: (which presumably was the point of the proposal - make the enemy expend human labour to distinguish pgpgrams, rather than the present condition of being able to do so mechanically)
asciilifeform: for the record, imho this is a disastrously bad idea
PeterL: would just require a couple more lines of code when opening the wordlist file
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 03:00:57; mircea_popescu: that is the idea, yes. but the other idea is that it's not safe to use more than a few hundred words because natural language usage does not normally distribute.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-12-2015#1342638 << the solution to this is to use a corpus distilled from your own logz
asciilifeform: use however you like, but any public agreement re: precisely what to do kills the whole point of stego
PeterL: use the resulting words as first words in lines of a poem?
asciilifeform: and it grates on the nerves, even. esp. if you were on usenet in the late '90s and suffered through the 'hipcrime' crud
mircea_popescu: a grammarizer might help put the comma in better, but yeah.
PeterL: two lines each for the same message, but with different lists
PeterL: mircea_popescu: it actually looks better when i use the short list i pulled out of my head, simple.dict, rather than the full list
PeterL: the one problem i am still trying to fix is that it seems to ignore using a specified dictionary and always uses whatever defalt is in the config , I think i might have something wrong in the python logic
PeterL: the idea is you use whatever dictionary you want, i included 3
mircea_popescu: that is the idea, yes. but the other idea is that it's not safe to use more than a few hundred words because natural language usage does not normally distribute.
PeterL: that could certainly use attention, the idea is to have several lists to choose from
mircea_popescu: yeah the word list.
assbot: Why donors demand immediate elections after unrest in developing countries - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1YdSzjZ )
PeterL: oh, the word list?
mircea_popescu: oh, the fishwrap got a spin to contribute ?
assbot: A surprising number of Americans endorse violence against the government. Here’s why. - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1NOGv7h )
asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/11/a-surprising-number-of-americans-endorse-violence-against-the-government-heres-why << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: http://www.josuttis.com/cppcode/allocator.html << src from the b00k where i even saw this
asciilifeform: ^ more to the point
assbot: The Standard Librarian: What Are Allocators Good For? | Dr Dobb's ... ( http://bit.ly/1Y8vgNL )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/4795/C-Standard-Allocator-An-Introduction-and-Implement << possibly relevant to the mega-pr0bl3m
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://qntra.net/2015/12/the-mit-administration-infiltrates-bitcoin-projects/#comment-82629
Bingoboingo: One of these days Qntra is going to have to find an editor which can Engligh.
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for birdman from 3 to 5 with note: many years in my meat-wot; fellow Eulorian; greatest gatherer
mircea_popescu: "MIT's hostile actions towards Bitcoin doesn't by any means stop there" << ungrammar
Bingoboingo: * asciilifeform did not actually know how far gone the mit thing were << Kinda why Qntra research requires not just wallowing with the eagles, but wallowing with pigs as well
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for mod6 from 2 to 3 with note: fellow Eulorian; did some crafting for me
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for diana_coman from 1 to 2 with note: fellow Eulorian; gatherer of groceries, and builder of bots
asciilifeform: oatman's business card fell out when i opened the thing. which is a new sp4mz0r record in my personal memory.
asciilifeform: e.g. 'the art of executive elimination'
asciilifeform: it would be quite interesting to read a version of this book with the sign bit flipped
asciilifeform: from the lulzy old b00k of the day/week/epoch club: 'The Art of Executive Protection' ( R.L. Oatman & Associates, Inc.)
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 23:22:38; gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 49 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
asciilifeform: interestingly, there does not appear to be ANY record of them having existed, on the whole net.
asciilifeform: ^ i recall the ads in 'scientific american' re: same. anybody ?
ben_vulpes: 'clever' fucking developers and their miserable abstraction naming schemes
ben_vulpes: laird pete_dushenski chased him off with the +1 blog of intimidation
gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours, 49 minutes, and 32 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
ben_vulpes: the latter, and has been for many years.
asciilifeform: and ben_vulpes & co. are drawing lots for the pots now ?!
asciilifeform: what's hunger to do with the use of strange puzzle langs ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform has yet to march in an army so hungry it's drawing lots for the pots apparently
asciilifeform: (and other, even more deservedly-obscure attempts at infixization of 'scheme')
asciilifeform: the one time i tried to use it, it reminded me unpleasantly of dylan
asciilifeform: hence the difficulty.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: got as far as actually building the llvm toolchain on one box
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: well yes, that was the nucleating input
asciilifeform: but don't expect to hear that one from the quacks
ben_vulpes: the whole SIDS thing reeks of idiopathic "we don't know what's going on but here try these things so that you feel in control"
asciilifeform did not actually know how far gone the mit thing were
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski are you taking this "no infants sleeping on their bellies" thing seriously?
asciilifeform: from their required reading: 'Why is Bitcoin forking' (mike hearn)
asciilifeform: wasn't 'stellar' some idiocy last seen in the defunct dead tree 'bitcoin magazine' ?
asciilifeform: '3 30-minute student-led presentations (in pairs) on Ethereum, Stellar Consensus, Stellar ... Proof-of-existence (IP, contracts, etc ...); MIT Certificates' << ahahaha l0ltr0n1c
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell Bingoboingo 'The make a specify point of emphasizing' << ??!
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 21:25:08; mircea_popescu: who the fuck gets acquihired by "hootsuite"
assbot: The Newman School -> IB Economics Students Meet with MIT Bitcoin Club President ... ( http://bit.ly/220hgVK )
whaack: BingoBoingo: At the time, this amounted to approximately .290 Bitcoins per student. With roughly 4,500 undergraduates, this was MIT's way of showing that they were in a position to easily let go of about 1,300 Bitcoins at the time. << I think the double "at the time" reads weird, but not too big a deal.
deedbot-: [Qntra] The MIT Administration Infiltrates Bitcoin Projects - http://qntra.net/2015/12/the-mit-administration-infiltrates-bitcoin-projects/
BingoBoingo guesses he will have to do another draft of the Qntra style guide, "Bitcoin" gets capitalized.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck gets acquihired by "hootsuite"
mircea_popescu: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/22/hootsuite-buys-ubervu-to-add-analytics-to-its-enterprise-social-media-management-platform/ << apparently they ended up in a 2nd line acquihire last year
mircea_popescu: the notion that teenager kid that beat up some fatty in his class needs therapy, but this nutjob with sirens and perimeter fence does not strikes me as outright self-parodic.
punkman: "In fact, I was (and am) a GOLD STAR GAY ie a gay man who's never had sex with a woman" except all these persons with vaginas
punkman: asciilifeform: [...] << makes EXACTLY the same amount of sense as the 'oh noez gmo!111' thing. << dunno, I'd rather not eat DowDuPont for breakfast
mircea_popescu: dun forget the salt.
asciilifeform: getting to be a bother.
asciilifeform: on a not-unrelated note, i neglected the grounds for so long that an OAK actually grew INTO my front gate.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342422 << this goes way back, to legends of 'and he had a sword that no other bloke could even motherfucknig LIFT!11111' etc
mircea_popescu: this is why anal sex being painful to teh woman is actually THE REASON it's practiced and so on
mircea_popescu: note how this also happens to be exactly the male expectations of females, generally. "she should be pliable to no one but me", which then gets repackaged in weird things like madonna/whore compelx by sick societies, which is how "slut" works : to indicate that she's exactly the antiwoman (ie, pliable to all but me) and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: and so... we industriously retrain their youth. it's slow and unrewarding, but then again what else is the human condition, idem since forever.
asciilifeform: brick is even better 'undomesticated', then! as there have been trained mice, but never brick.
mircea_popescu: or rather, undomesticated.
mircea_popescu: it's, as the polite expression goes, "uncivilised".
mircea_popescu: or to bring the captive mouse back into all of this, whether it succeeds or not at chewing its way through plain steel and glass, and whether it has any chance at succeeding or not aren't considerations. it simply lacks any capacity of being my puppet, and for this reason it can't be, and that's that.
mircea_popescu: sure, back then white didn't yet mean castrated.
asciilifeform: iirc the peace pipe folks went to meet quetzalcoatl first. followed by the rape-the-wife ones.
mircea_popescu: that red indians wanted to sit around and smoke peace pipe, whereby these guys wanted to rape your wife.
asciilifeform: (who were also quite the set of 'active tribes')
asciilifeform: let's say usg had not supplied the goat fuckers with modern rockets, infinite ammo, food, etc. then what, precisely, would've distinguished them from the red indians ?
mircea_popescu: this is the relationship of actual active tribes with soi-dissant empires.
mircea_popescu: but, to be perfectly clear, the man who goes to work hard so he can buy a diamond ring so he can "muppet" a woman into staying put for sex is not some sort of mastermind.
asciilifeform: muppet can put on a good show of, e.g., biting the puppetteer
mircea_popescu: and im not sure what the diff between m and p is here.
mircea_popescu: ru and su were the actual puppets in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: the fallacy here is that you wish to attribute action to "ownership" because this is a fundamental pillar of your otherwise broken "action is not the measure of phenomena". if only it were possible that the mujahedeen were "a puppet" then so many things you wish to be true would also perhaps be attainable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dawg get the hell out with this "everything is an arm of the meta-hittite empire"
mircea_popescu: in other news, successful talented businessman or woman rapper sport musical politician illustrated : http://45.media.tumblr.com/f97d70e2546f16755d1938224bbd6aa9/tumblr_mwka8svL5k1t0c5aso8_250.gif
mircea_popescu: anyone wanna join the illuminatarians ?
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 13:06:20; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342262 << this very strange stupid number games thing. "they've commited a billion they'd never pay and i'll do things i'm never actually doing". мы делаем вид что работаем а государство делает вид что платит нам зарплату for the new soviet generation.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342316 << this describes virtually the whole 'office chair' half of usa !
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342348 << i must be the only fella alive who doesn't care a whit for the 'sexy shoe' thing
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 13:21:57; assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 07:28:56; punkman: "She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing."
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342329 << makes EXACTLY the same amount of sense as the 'oh noez gmo!111' thing.
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 13:21:05; mircea_popescu: but hey, don't look at the paris attack and say "lol, i guess we can dismantle all us secret services". say something else! anything else! how about "o noers, should be giving the slow, inept macfhine more $$$!"
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342327 << you mean the attack by the arab auxiliary arm of usg on the idiot euro auxiliary arm of usg ?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342324 << we already know that nsa doesn't spy, in the usual sense. usg prefers sabotage.
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 19:06:33; asciilifeform: bip64, aside from complicating the protocol and giving relevance to the gavin shitgang, is also a jam-tomorrow chumpatronic engineering structural element
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 08:42:51; BingoBoingo: Apparently this is the LSD that pairs with Jim Crow https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://45.media.tumblr.com/2a2a7a1318260e58231613c5ab9f00de/tumblr_mmmp2cj9bC1s4e6uzo1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: funny thing, apropos : pharisees used to be a nation. you know, like the ustards used to be a nation. today they only thing they're remembered for is their manner of living, they're a byword for hypocrisy and a delusional magical belief in empty ritual and naming things.
mircea_popescu: and as the de-turdification process continue, expect more and more of these "highly principled" shitheads crawling out of the woodwork. because this is what ethics means to the present crop of retarded kids, it's just a word, and it ain't got jack shit to do with what one does. just as long as the pharisee does his ablutions right all's good.
mircea_popescu: tuff you build upon has the consistency of smoke and the life expectancy of... well, I was going to say ephemerides, but I guess we could just as well say Pieter Wuille.", because what mp says goes.
mircea_popescu: and seriously, see the part where the mp of this space says "This can not be emphasized enough : you can not be building any type of business on any sort of Gavinism, because they will not survive on the middle term. It's not just the Bitcoins, that you would have lost had I not murdered "XT". Everything - every hour you spend "developing" atop the crud USG agents try to stick in Bitcoin is a wasted hour, because the s
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for btcdrak from 1 to -1 with note: it's one thing to have opinions. it's another to misrepresent yourself. next time you want to discuss the stupid shit you do, start with linking https://archive.is/760r4 rather than silently pretending you're not an idiot.
mircea_popescu: !rate btcdrak -1 it's one thing to have opinions. it's another to misrepresent yourself. next time you want to discuss the stupid shit you do, start with linking https://archive.is/760r4 rather than silently pretending you're not an idiot.
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 07:28:56; punkman: "She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342286 << imagine the ten thousand kids she "taught" "science"
mircea_popescu: but hey, don't look at the paris attack and say "lol, i guess we can dismantle all us secret services". say something else! anything else! how about "o noers, should be giving the slow, inept macfhine more $$$!"
mircea_popescu: they just never could have predicted. anything.
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:48:43; asciilifeform: (why would the smaller machine fall into the net dragged by the larger - slower - one ?)
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:46:40; asciilifeform: one day i would like to read a cookbook published by mircea_popescu. which will show the foods not only as they are on the table, but as they are in the stomach, small intestine, large, and onward...
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:40:55; asciilifeform: 'We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely.' << interesting turn of phrase
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 06:39:45; asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342262 << this very strange stupid number games thing. "they've commited a billion they'd never pay and i'll do things i'm never actually doing". мы делаем вид что работаем а государство делает вид что платит нам зарплату for the new soviet generation.
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/7rXTw << typical 15yo doing the typical 15yo thing : put two-three stories together in a new combo, passes them off as "real" to adults to see what they say.
BingoBoingo: Apparently this is the LSD that pairs with Jim Crow https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0112.mediawiki
punkman: "She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her that solar panels didn’t cause cancer."
punkman: "She is a retired Northampton science teacher and is concerned that photosynthesis, which depends upon sunlight, would not happen and would keep the plants from growing."
asciilifeform: (why would the smaller machine fall into the net dragged by the larger - slower - one ?)
assbot: Logged on 13-12-2015 05:23:44; punkman: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CWBpWv4U4AA3g1p.mp4 the drone catcher
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342238 << this has all of the hallmarks of a first-class rigged demo absurdity
asciilifeform: one day i would like to read a cookbook published by mircea_popescu. which will show the foods not only as they are on the table, but as they are in the stomach, small intestine, large, and onward...
asciilifeform again sees '7.95260000' and thinks 'not bad...' then remembers it isn't a bits'o'entropy/bt figure
asciilifeform: 'We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely.' << interesting turn of phrase
asciilifeform: how many russia did they buy yet.
asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy
asciilifeform: --> 'can verify the'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'that actual Bitcoin clients can the entire blockchain including transaction signatures during initial sync' ???
mircea_popescu: "Together, we've shown what's possible when the world stands as one," he said. << doom. the only thing possible when the bureaucrats unite is doom.
mircea_popescu: other than "probably still a better option than dan quayle"
punkman: "President Obama, who regards tackling climate change as a central element of his legacy, spoke of the deal in a televised address from the White House. “This agreement sends a powerful signal that the world is fully committed to a low-carbon future,”"
asciilifeform: ' I drove to my next loop and sobbed aloud as I tried to shove thick magazines through thin, razor-sharp mail slots that made my fingers bleed. I kept crying, from exhaustion and frustration, as I walked through hedges and tree branches. When I finished and arrived at the station, my supervisor asked if I had been crying. I told her my allergies were terrible. Another carrier had already told me to never, ever show them what t
asciilifeform: so there is something to be said in his favour.
asciilifeform: bbbut he wears a pith helmet, and is thereby entertaining.
asciilifeform: my current postman routinely drops parcels at the wrong house.
BingoBoingo: USPS delivered parts for the AmazingPlasticar over priority mail just fine.
asciilifeform: (these are - or rather, were until recently - the only cash-positive ministries other than irs (tax collectors) in usa.)
assbot: Logged on 12-12-2015 23:08:21; ben_vulpes: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/blues-on-wheels << "a writer becomes a carrier for the USPS out of a complete lack of options. what she discovers is that government jobs are actually miserable." ftfy
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-12-2015#1342149 << there's government jobs and then there's government jobs.
punkman: asciilifeform: from recent ghost in the shell actually
asciilifeform: punkman: pretty sure that's the intro to 'system shock' !
ben_vulpes: tbqh every time i hear about what the wizards are up to it sounds like something from a parallel universe
BingoBoingo: lol "no one goes postal anymore (they go, as my trainer said, high school, like Columbine instead)"\
mircea_popescu: in other news, the other heartbeat http://49.media.tumblr.com/b35f312ce1c4f79e55c98dc5e5be482c/tumblr_n1vdwuvl4P1t8bkhco1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> heh i'm mcguyvering out in the field as i oversee my employee building spicy moss ordinaries << in eulora news, the cotton pickin' is real!
ben_vulpes: http://www.themorningnews.org/article/blues-on-wheels << "a writer becomes a carrier for the USPS out of a complete lack of options. what she discovers is that government jobs are actually miserable." ftfy
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://49.media.tumblr.com/109d1b9bb42bbcb593d3b31f098b7731/tumblr_mt0vel9QJd1szhixio1_400.gif
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wouldn't you expect gov.cn to be better policed ? << It's not. I've only seen spam links from there.
asciilifeform: and the only reason why spam from .gov/.mil is a rarity is the fascist filtering on the head end
pete_dushenski: not impressive ? you shoulda been there !!
asciilifeform: but it was not very impressive, the condemned was doped with opium
asciilifeform: iirc the last known public ling chi was in 1907
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: re: link, i have always found 'ling chi' interesting. by all indications, the condemned remained alive almost until the very end. this must have taken considerable skill on part of the executioner.
asciilifeform: in su this was done with the state monopoly on liquor
asciilifeform: the second half of this particular engine's cycle is, of course, repossessing the bezzlars so they do not circulate and spread chaos
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it isn't even a matter of 'we'll try to reallocate some of our other budgetary items'
asciilifeform: sorta like a hard drunk, or better yet, a costly dope addict - where does he get the coke money ?
asciilifeform: somebody moved a magical pencil, and - bam - there were fewer rolls of tp to be had. but chips appeared, aha.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1539 << obligatory illustration. where do you suppose these originally came from ?
pete_dushenski: basically, more zeros from one excel cell to another and voila ! chips.
pete_dushenski: from outside, there's no cost. from inside, 'dunno yet, but we'll try to reallocate some of our other budgetary items to accommodate asic production'
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 01:03:09; mircea_popescu: in the sense of, "put on provision slip, sign, costs nothing"
pete_dushenski: i thought there was no 'serious cpu' ;/
asciilifeform: serious cpu is one of the very few remaining american monopolies.
pete_dushenski: ok, and how many iphones does usg have to buy off china to pay the israelis for 100k asic chips ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: why do you imagine that the consumer prices have anything to do with the actual cost to a geopolitical player ?
pete_dushenski: but really, a terahash is running ~1 btc atm (or was last month), which'd mean that 50k btc of ~just equipment~ is popping on and offline PER DAY. though the measurement problems inherent in ;;nethash may account for the majority of that...
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: there is no reason (aside from laziness and idiocy) for there to be any geographic concentrations of miners whatsoever
pete_dushenski: those cf-18s might not be able to hit the side of a barn in syria, but why not a stationary and defenseless mining farm in iceland ?
pete_dushenski: 50 petahash here, 50 there... what's a few hundred acres of mining farms between friends ?
asciilifeform: 'it is on the screen, ergo it matters even if it is nonsense'
mircea_popescu: so wait. the wikipedia page on the "cultural impact" of some random network anchor dude consists of 'things named after him' such as obscure sports teams and various pets ; and a large chapter on "wikipedia references" ?
mircea_popescu: enough*, the answer is recursion.
assbot: Logged on 12-12-2015 13:42:05; mircea_popescu: (i did find the answer, a half hour of labour later, and exactly in the "basic science upon the software" sense djikstra was discussing. and i'm betting you don't know either. pos html omfg.)
assbot: Cultural impact of The Colbert Report - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1Oo1v18 )
punkman: daniel tosh is pretty bad but I've only caught the odd youtube featuring him
mircea_popescu would almost watch a best-of if curated by someone in the wot
pete_dushenski: punkman: looks like you're not alone. no one wants the ~actual~ stephen colbert, they want to see an overwrought fauxpublican.
punkman: colbert had some pretty good bits over the years
pete_dushenski: and colbert's up there with ali g and daniel tosh in the "lulzy interview that audience and interviewer understand but interviewee maybe not so much" game.
assbot: "Parody" is not there for you cancerous fags to try and hide your cancer behind it. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1T9xolV )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/parody-is-not-there-for-you-cancerous-fags-to-try-and-hide-your-cancer-behind-it/
punkman: there's probably two dozen ways to do that
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-12-2015#1341197 << at least it seems that colbert isn't quite so funny when libertards aren't watching him with the (almost assuredly) mistaken statistic in mind that "half of viewers don't even know he's kidding!"
trinque: that one makes it "absolute" "relative" to the parent div
mircea_popescu: you can't have absolute coords. it's the web.
trinque: ... the shit that fills my head
trinque: mircea_popescu │ in other news : how do you superimpose two images for the web, but exactly ? << you put them both in a position: relative div, give the two images position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;
mircea_popescu: (i did find the answer, a half hour of labour later, and exactly in the "basic science upon the software" sense djikstra was discussing. and i'm betting you don't know either. pos html omfg.)
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Qntra called it https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CV-Fee1UYAA96fL.png << bullshit story of all time. "oh i was hacked". the faux satoshi has everything in common with the fiat-based wanna-be bitcoin scammer.
adlai: from the "dear usg, please send more clowns." department: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3why40/im_done_with_bitcoin_fees_are_too_high/cxwcftq
adlai: ok that's all from the broken record department (for tonight, folks)
gribble: mike_c was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 weeks, 1 day, 8 hours, 1 minute, and 40 seconds ago: <mike_c> let's get that thing out the door and get alf some goddamn bitcoin already
adlai: but the tool still needs a couple more trials before pressing blueprints
adlai has a gist floating around that may be welcome (after some digestion) in bitbet.py, under the "betting both sides" department
adlai: they tend to either encourage me to keep playing around with my play-btc, or feign interest in the hope of nucleating a tradable price signal out of my sykobabble
adlai: unfortunately my meatspace acquaintances, even the ones controlling enough btc to make them worth referring, think they know where and how to best invest it - themselves
punkman: mircea_popescu: what's the mpex referal fee now?
adlai hopes somebody has a Plan around effigy-attributed trb vpatches, because i know enough C++ to swear myself fit to neither generate nor verify that bullshit
adlai: he's now gone parroting this on to other jooz, even in the same discussion as "so uh is it a good time to buy bitcoin maybe because it's regulated?"
adlai: mircea_popescu: did i ever mention one of my meatspace drink buddies who denies that i quote anybody but him when referencing the "problem of too much money"?