ben_vulpes: https://gcaptain.com/europes-latest-solution-for-the-refugee-shelter-shortage-cruise-ships/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Gcaptain+%28gCaptain.com%29 << 360k refugees 'estimated' for sweden and 870k for germany
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: It's a speculative synthetic asset, with only synthetic actual connection to Bitgo. It's basically betting.
gribble: BitGo Bug Results In Loss Of User Funds By Way Of 85 BTC Fee ...: <http://qntra.net/2015/04/bitgo-bug-results-in-loss-of-user-funds-by-way-of-85-btc-fee/>; BitGo Files MultiSig Patent Application Joining Other Bitcoin ... - Qntra: <http://qntra.net/2015/05/bitgo-files-multisig-patent-application-joining-other-bitcoin-patent-parasites/>; BitGo Offers Insurance The FDIC Way | Qntra: (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: Honestly if his prolactin is that high he prolly needs more than cabergoline. Prolly needs crack, but I really dun wanna meet anyone on tren and crack at the same time.
BingoBoingo: What's the point of having all those muscles when you are making dairy?
asciilifeform: among other oddities which link to my site,
asciilifeform: http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/realwork/EXPORT/projects/bitcoin/wikipedia/Mircea%20Popescu%20-%20Wikipedia,%20the%20free%20encyclopedia.html << l0l, this exists still in some forgotten pit
mircea_popescu: the whole population of yurp was less than the bay area. not to mention the land value.
mircea_popescu: moreover, at the time lavoisier was working on these things they had fucking kings!\
mircea_popescu: why should the great march of liberty stumble on ancient nonsense like laws that were perhaps valid in the middle ages, but no longer satisfy the needs of an ever progressing humanity ?
mircea_popescu: if marriage could change, if we've progressed past narrow views of the past on so many topics from what science means and how to collect data all the way to you name it,
mircea_popescu: no more of this sterile reinventing the same things over.
mircea_popescu: about damn time technology brings solutions to the actual pressing problems of manking
asciilifeform: and can we revoke 2nd law of thermo and 3rd law of newton! i'd like to fly around on a reactionless perpetuum mobile fart pack
mircea_popescu: there is much i don't know./
asciilifeform: 'How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data.' Shafi Goldwasser & bunch other schmucks. << apparently impossibility proofs don't apply to some people !!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and didn't the scam go bust since...? << Nao has second wind. FDA Approval of some medical things.
mircea_popescu: curious who ends up with the copyrights over particularly valuable genotypes.
BingoBoingo: '<adlai> BingoBoingo: next time link actual code, not 'science.slashdot.org' pls kthx << Sometimes the quick chuckle passes too soon to dig so deeply
adlai: (re: "inclusion would be voluntary"... they already have every POTENTIAL recruit's biometrics, even the ones that don't get drafted. pls forget them kthx)
adlai: good thing non-criminals don't have to worry either! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Database_Law
asciilifeform: can't wait for the first conviction
asciilifeform: aha, the genetic arm of the 'you will give all of your bits to usg not because hanging upside down over pirannha pit but because you are stupid and gullible' brigade.
phf: no idea, probably have something to do with their "compliance with law enforcement requests"?
asciilifeform: phf: any idea what concession they made ?
phf: asciilifeform: 23andme i still operational, they were recently approved by FDA to re-enable their health section even
asciilifeform: it was some last-ditch 'any pr is good pr' gambit on the part of the sc4mz0rz ( (ex?) wife of sergey brin and co.)
adlai: "Ethnoreligious sects may wish to limit membership, e.g. Hasidic Jewish groups restricting access to Ashkenazi or Sephardic maternal haplogroups with the "Cohen" gene
asciilifeform: and didn't the scam go bust since...?
adlai was on the verge of daily [originally hourly, but that would probably get him negrated by deedbot- itself] orderbook deeding, but then he realized the venture's futility
asciilifeform: adlai: remember the reactor rods?
adlai: there's zero theoretical reason trade engine couldn't give proxies signed orderbooks, but y'know what they say bout theory and practice
adlai: actually i don't and i'd rather stay uny'knowing
asciilifeform: y'know, the one with menstrual cookies
asciilifeform: worthy addition to the pheminist cookbook
adlai: << And according to Stavri – whose Twitter name is Another Angry Woman – she just wanted to see if it would work, because it “might as well make itself useful.” >>
mircea_popescu: incidentally : thinking of the cobalt parity violation. somehow im reminded of the spin engine discussions last year
assbot: Logged on 08-01-2015 21:32:41; asciilifeform: thestringpuller: there are multiple reasonably well-documented corpses of thieves, poachers, metal hunters, killing themselves on rtg
gribble: Kramatorsk radiological accident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident>; Kramatorsk source accident, 1982 - Johnston's Archive: <http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1982USSR2.html>; Kramatorsk nuclear poisoning incident - research.omicsgroup.org: (1 more message)
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 23:57:51; pete_dushenski: "Gambetta and Hertog painstakingly gather together data on individuals belonging to a variety of terrorist groups in the Muslim world. Where they are able to get the data, it displays a compelling pattern – engineers are much more prone to become members of violent terrorist organizations."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1331171 << and the explanation is that the engineers are the ones from whom the western governments steal to support their "social sciences" catamites.
adlai: well what do you think would've happened to eussrope once the latter went former? or would it not have?
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of clark gable, "a good whipping would benefit oyu immensely my dear"
mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
mircea_popescu: jurov i'll remind you of "Three woodcutters in the nation of Georgia found two warm canisters near their camp and spent the night beside them. The canisters were discarded and unshielded heat sources from Soviet radioisotope thermoelectric generators, containing 30 kCi (1.1 PBq) of 90Sr each" not to mention http://trilema.com/2013/a-simple-example-as-to-why-fiat-institutions-cant-stand/
pete_dushenski: "Africa looks more like India. In South Africa, manufacturing was 15% of output in 1962 and peaked at 25%—in 1981. By 2011, the share was closer to 18%. Factory activity in fast-modernizing Ethiopia hasn’t managed to grow beyond 6% of the economy. In Tanzania, it peaked at 13% in 1976 and dropped since to around 10%."
pete_dushenski: ncomfortable truths lest they offend their dear sweet old mothers, indians are no better than africans and both are markedly lesser peoples than europeans and chinese.
pete_dushenski: "Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, who began compiling data on manufacturing world-wide a few years ago, says he is seeing growing evidence of what he calls “premature deindustrialization”—the idling or shrinking of manufacturing sectors as a share of the economy in poor countries like India that never industrialized very much in the first place." << in other not-nyooz where idjits with 'pc' blinders don't want to
assbot: The Oxford Economist Running the Fed’s Interest-Rate Machine - WSJ ... ( http://bit.ly/21eQZm8 )
pete_dushenski: "The team trades securities to keep rates in line with Fed policy decisions. At 12:45 p.m., a window pops open on a system called FedTrade and plays a sequence of musical notes—F-E-D—to open trading, traders said. A clock counts down the remaining time, turning from green to yellow in the final three minutes and then to red as the last 30 seconds tick off. The music plays again when the operations’ results are
pete_dushenski: "Engineers are more likely to become terrorists because of mindset and lack of opportunity" and "engineers combine these political predilections with a marked preference towards finding clearcut answers."
assbot: This is the group that’s surprisingly prone to violent extremism - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1TdvzAQ )
pete_dushenski: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/17/this-is-the-group-thats-surprisingly-prone-to-violent-extremism/
pete_dushenski: "Gambetta and Hertog painstakingly gather together data on individuals belonging to a variety of terrorist groups in the Muslim world. Where they are able to get the data, it displays a compelling pattern – engineers are much more prone to become members of violent terrorist organizations."
pete_dushenski: speaking of planting the seeds...
pete_dushenski: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/24/us-costco-wholesale-ecoli-idUSKBN0TD2UZ20151124 << good ol' O157:H7 beating back the pre-packaged mobs.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:53:01; adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE" than "we are still in the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:39:59; mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insani
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330898 << 'insanity' aka. 'economic growth' aka frivolous shit for the sake of frivolous shit. damn the externalised consequences as long as costs are incured. after all, moar broken windows and moar car accidents == gdp growths !!
pete_dushenski: http://www.elightbulbs.com/catpics/ge/20641alg.jpg << ftr, this was the type of 'semi-circular' halogen in question.
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 15:25:24; BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits
pete_dushenski: or if they do, 'search engine' doesn't know about it.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330859 << i was laughed at last night for telling door installer, who was trying to adjust semi-circular halogens in kitchen so that he could find a screw or bit or something, NOT TO TOUCH THE BULBS WHILE THEY WERE ON AND HOT.
pete_dushenski: but most likely explanation is that alternative, cuba, just had shittier hotels for the same price.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: what you doin on the field? you never take vacation?
cryptone: and thanks for the +v
SuchWow: freenode used to give affiliated cloaks back in the day, if you were affiliated with an open source project
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:54:52; mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
ascii_field: organic compounds of Hg - another matter entirely
assbot: Logged on 24-11-2015 19:41:30; punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not the looming threat of war with Russia."
adlai: actually the mercury may have even imbued you with double astrological fortune
jurov: dunno really, how i could look better. even the hair refuses to fall out as much as predicted
jurov: nothing was ever done with the carpet
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The clever gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha and his trusty sidekick Andrei Pippidi, translated. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/24/the-clever-gentleman-don-quixote-de-la-mancha-and-his-trusty-sidekick-andrei-pippidi-translated/
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330846 omg, i broke mercury thermometer near bed over a table, with drops likely fell to a carpet
adlai: this isn't even worth a whole qntreatment, the headline says it all: "Zapchain Growth Proves Bitcoin Tipping Viable Social Media Model"
BingoBoingo: I don't think they mine fast enough to fund such a bounty
punkman: isn't forever21 the one that makes pants
deedbot-: [Qntra] Forever 21 Inc Tries Preventing Other Raspberry Pis From Running Software - http://qntra.net/2015/11/forever-21-inc-tries-preventing-other-raspberry-pis-from-running-software/
gribble: The operation succeeded.
phf: kesey couldn't care less about plight of the mentally disabled, or helping you relate to a mental patient or anything like that. it's kind of obvious from reading about him. guy was just having interesting experiences at a mental ward, writing them down, and selling the result on a threadbare socially conscious theme.
phf: (experience of The Combine as a palpable thing for example, during his pranksters period turned into attempts at active manipulation of others, i.e. The Consensus, through Control, which pranksters called "putting them into our movie". if you can put them into our movie, you can make them read our lines. etc.)
mircea_popescu: should be pretty amusing to see how greece'd have looked in alt-history where CCCE dominated the small continent. "oh we won't pay".
mircea_popescu: zee germanz don't have the balls to slap heads.
mircea_popescu: ironically also better for yurp, a russian-run eu would have worked where the german-run eu is barely screeching around.\
adlai: "we've always been at war with Eurasia" is a much more effective "WAR IS PEACE" than "we are still in the desert" (last line of Jarhead)
mircea_popescu: they'd have just abandoned europe like the whores that they are and under pressure they'd have stayed in a better state of preservation for longer.
mircea_popescu: punkman ironically war with russia would have been much better for the us than this crap.
phf: one flew narrative is a just a vehicle for kesey to share his first explorations of acid altered perception, which are further elaborated on in electric kool-aid, second hand, by tom wolfe.
punkman: "When I said I want what my parents had, I meant loan-free education and a nice house, not the looming threat of war with Russia."
assbot: Logged on 08-07-2015 19:34:29; ascii_field: far more interesting is the trait hasn eysenck called 'psychoticism'
adlai also found that the book shines in its portrayal of http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=08-07-2015#1193607
punkman: well I just grabbed the dead tree and reread last two pages. looks pretty stupid now.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a straight answer, but i will say that having been in argentina for a while now and having observed the assorted insanities they sport here, grouped for convenience under the "inseguridad" thematic, i understand a lot more of the fate of the new world.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's a path less traveled that should be. WHY is it that redskins in the continental us HAD TO be massacred ? is it because they "couldn't fit" in its future, somehow, mysteriously ? is it perhaps because white guys wanted the depopulation to support higher wages and liberty [aka the fronteer lifestyle] ? is it perhaps because the wives of farmers "didn't feel safe" with them around ?
adlai: that's not the book ending, that's wikipedia :(
mircea_popescu: punkman whadda you like about this ? the christic parallel ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that they can actually jointly own it just fine is a stronger indictment of the female-mitigated insanity than anything else could ever be.
punkman: imagines an argument with God over human nature. The book ends with the narrator's being approached by hospital employees who reveal themselves to be Project members. They tell him their plans still continue, and that they are expecting Tyler to come back."
punkman: book ending: "With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. The bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives. Still alive and holding Tyler's gun, the narrator makes the first decision that is truly his own: he puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some time later, he awakens in a mental hospital, believing he is in Heaven, and
mircea_popescu: so does the [resuscitated, through this] indian.
adlai: they're both about identifying and responding to 'doomed situation'. palahniuk says, set fire to the hospital, while kesey just laughs all the way to the ECT
mircea_popescu: all i see is disproportionate violence (note that mcmurphy doesn't set fire to the fucking hospital - heck he doesn't even LEAVE when he has the chance, because reasons.) and disavowal (really, the voices in your head told you to, maybe, who knows ? what are you, a dumbass us girl that has to get herself drunk to be able to have sex ?)
adlai: i really disliked fight club because it lets the infantile 'rage' overshadow the parts that it shares with oneflew
punkman: thestringpuller: adlai: didn't that happen with fight club as well? << I thought epilogue of the book was better than movie ending
mircea_popescu: the notion that fight club is productive in any sense is pretty lulzy to me.
adlai: fight club's message, otoh, is a bit more in the "this is how you win" direction, rather than just "here's a problem, have fun dealing with it"
mircea_popescu: other than this mediated sort of approach, straight book-film comparisons are pretty meaningless anyway.
mircea_popescu: the film does a better job of this as a film than the book does a job of it as a book. arguably this is because film has less space to do it in ; countrariwise, film is more of a "tower of babel" sort of artifice, so it's harder to get anything done.
mircea_popescu: way i see it both try the same thing, in their own medium : describe the doomed situation of a society which has lost male force and is now going into castration mode at the hands of the decaying female biomass. it's a failure mode of human populations, well known, well understood, amply documented.
adlai: the movie was good because it didn't try-and-fail to capture what the book does, which boils down to the power of humor
mircea_popescu: notably, he didn't hate it for any reason, other than being a vocal leader in the "book was better" chorus ; and for the director very sensibly removing the chief narrator clingwrap.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, palahniuk loved the movie adaptation ; kensey hated it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dunno if you did this deliberately or not, but really, it's too smooth to not credit you with it.
adlai hasn't read the book
mircea_popescu: i suppose all the lsd and mental hospital moonlighting are there because he's all secure in his dominion, right.
adlai: what do you mean by "insulate the author"? ken kesey's writing process was a rather uninsulated anthropological investigation...
mircea_popescu: forman blessfuly caught on eventually that the personification of evil has to be familiar, not visibly "evil".
mircea_popescu: also mildly interesting, how that toothpaste-commercial-and-soap-opera extra got the nurse part.
mircea_popescu: anyway, stroke of luck mostly, god only knows what'd have happened if one of the douglas hack clan ended up with the role.
mircea_popescu: the chief narrator device is mostly there to insulate the author from tyhe material, best i can tell.
adlai: well i guess mcmurphy is the "main character", but the book has a narrator. i'm not sure i've seen a movie yet where narration didn't interfere with the story
mircea_popescu: imo this is one of those situations where the better movie makes the book its bitch. yes the book is longer and goes into more detail, as a book has space to do. but this is a twin edged sword
adlai: the book is quite different from the movie, in that the movie merely tells a story, whereas the book takes the slightest baby step towards actually placing you inside the main character's head
adlai almost wishes One Flew would've been a mediocre movie, then maybe more people would read the book
thestringpuller: phf: that's fucking brilliant. also astute observation of why people send requests the day before a vacation begins. funny how many disorganized people end up in an ofice.
mircea_popescu: i've just had the world's worst peach. what the fuck this tree should be ashamed of itself.
phf: those who matter will know the right date anyway, but the ones that have "needs" are so disorganized they would think they misunderstood you
phf: the trick is to leave on vacation two days before you told everyone you're going
deedbot-: [Trilema] One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - http://trilema.com/2015/one-flew-over-the-cuckoos-nest/
mircea_popescu: truth be told the wot is not old enough yet.
mircea_popescu: it's a reasonable condition. iirc the bitbet thing was a straight meeting of the minds, i wasn't going to do it with anyone else as treasurer anyway.
kakobrekla: here the story was different, it was my condition that i am the treasurer if we are doing this
mircea_popescu: most people are used to getting raped by banks, and have enough respect to stfu and kiss the bloodied, dripping penis in thanks.
kakobrekla: anyway, when we were doing bitbet i was explicit about not wanting to handle other peoples money
kakobrekla: if this was a fiat company there would be no such issue
mircea_popescu: myeah. one classical problem the corporations were for is that usually ventures require a lot of dedication, and people got lives to live.
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330741 < one problem is that i am, among other things, the sole treasurer for the company and i am getting tired of it
mircea_popescu: "most advanced rust bucket on the high seas"
BingoBoingo: I mean enough US gears is in ISIS hands Russia had to assume the US infared IFF market meant ISIS had taken that warship as loot
mircea_popescu: http://www.zerocensorship.com/t/uncensored-syria-war/194992-u-s-backed-rebels-down-russian-helicopter-in-syria << seeing how us airships made of paiper mache, curious what the russians do next.
asciilifeform: the first, biggest, best, third world!
BingoBoingo: Albeit, the better corner of Illinois
BingoBoingo: This is the third world.
mircea_popescu: used to be what distinguished the third world, too.
mircea_popescu: the notion that government agents/agencies have ANY right to privacy is the highest grade of lulz.
mircea_popescu: "The Cooperative is declining to name the Illinois state agencies and buildings which will be affecting by" why the fuck ?
mircea_popescu: wait for the "new, cooler, XPOWER bla bla"
asciilifeform: no fan in these
mircea_popescu: now the lightbulbs need fucking fans.
asciilifeform: eventually the rectifier melts.
asciilifeform: the heat sink, likewise, needs airflow
asciilifeform: punkman: the one downer is that none of the high-brightness (equiv. to 100+ W edison bulb) led lamps fit in a traditional glass dome designed for classic lamp
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the discussion of "philips desperate to stick its shitendrils in here before led takes over" i think
punkman: I'm considering getting some proper LEDs, they high-wattage ones don't look too bad
mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insanity it is.
asciilifeform: and look for the spectral lines.
asciilifeform: iirc it's something like a cockcroft-walton 'ladder' in there
asciilifeform: the one with the coiled tube, chinese transformer, and cock that screws into standard edison socket
asciilifeform: look for hg in the traditional fluorescent lamp, incl. the 'craplamp' mircea_popescu was probably thinking of earlier
mircea_popescu: yes i man the cock. i was reasurring you.
mircea_popescu: the br.
mircea_popescu: punkman if it doesn't get up as much as before for a few weeks the effect's supposed to go away.
mircea_popescu: well, br exposure, not the end of the world. wash the place, but at leasr you get to keep your clothes.
BingoBoingo: ns the money.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years. << Aha. The scam is rates to renew policy gradually increase up until 40-50 years of age and then insurance company is all "lol, nope" which makes derps wonder where "affordable" life inurance went when they had no such thing before. Customer backloads their risk, insurance company frontloads theirs and whoever quits the game of chicken first wi
asciilifeform: typically the cover is only a half-cylinder and frags get around it
mircea_popescu: yes. but when they do they don't cut through the fucking glass protector and burn the floor!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: halogen lamps routinely pop, for same reason as the fact that you can cut a glass bottle with a rope, some petrol, and a match
mircea_popescu: punkman those aren't the kind that cut through teh glass
asciilifeform: there is I and Br
punkman: it did burn the wooden floor
asciilifeform: the long, narrow, yellow light thing that explodes
asciilifeform: oh for fucks sake there is no hg in a halogen tube !
mircea_popescu: punkman they pretty much all have ; the other heavy metals they could have are not much better.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, if you didn't know - this is pretty much the only thing where a vacuum cleanner that was supposed to have its bag changed weeks ago is good for - but boy is it great for it.)
mircea_popescu: remove and seal all clothing, wash in abundant water, have air in space vacuumed throw out, wash the surfaces in acid
punkman: mircea_popescu: what's the cycle?
mircea_popescu: oh nm, it's the ancient su
mircea_popescu: <wyrdmantis> Turkey is playing with fire http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/24/ruaf-su-24-shot-down-by-turkey/ << well at least it shows the damned things to be vulnerable.
funkenstein_: this rainmaker piece is anecdotal evidence of ghandi's behavioral hypothesis
funkenstein_: how many months of USan salary were saved to pay to rip out the olive trees of palestine?
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-11-2015#1330787 <-- hint: how many hours of wages were saved up to build the three gorges dam?
punkman: so one of those linear halogen bulbs exploded next to me and rained hot glass. almost got me even though bulb was facing the wall and had a half-cylinder glass cover.
wyrdmantis: Turkey is playing with fire http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/24/ruaf-su-24-shot-down-by-turkey/
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you will note that the thing discussed in my article was health insurance, which is a contingency sort of deal. life "insurance" has nothing to do with this, as everyone dies. as practiced it is moreover a sort of heavily discounted investment plan\
pete_dushenski: and with that, i wish thee all a good night :)
pete_dushenski: go ahead, go, buy, another me. here's 500k. start shoppin' !
pete_dushenski: "rich people all buy it" he tells me, "ask any old person and they'll tell you to do it too !"
pete_dushenski: "If you make it half a million you just happen to be at the cusp of what the scum perceives as "Oprah rich" and they just almost kinda go for it," << coinkidink of coinkidinks, the token insurance salesman in my choir has recently set his eyes on me and yesterday pitched me EXACTLY 500k of life insurance coverage in exchange for $25/mo.
gribble: mats was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 3 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes, and 16 seconds ago: <mats> rolling off the cheeks of the slaves doncha know
mircea_popescu: fortunately rakim has no say in setting the narrative.
pete_dushenski: "Google received more than 65 million removal requests for search results containing alleged copyright violations in the space of the past month." << in other nyooz, the equivalent of vw's emissions bypassing tech is pirating musak so many times that the 'regulator' just throws up his arms in dismay and walks out the door without saying another word, never to return.
assbot: Superfish 2.0 worsens: Dell's dodgy security certificate is an unkillable zombie • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1NMFWqC )
pete_dushenski: quotes via http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/23/dell_security_nightmare_gets_worse/
pete_dushenski: "The cert, we're told, is used with the plugin for receiving cryptographically signed telemetry requests; said telemetry includes things like the machine's service tag, a seven-character serial number that identifies the computer model, if not the individual machine."
pete_dushenski: "According to an analysis [PDF] by Duo Security, a bundled plugin reinstalls the root CA file if it is removed. First, you must delete Dell.Foundation.Agent.Plugins.eDell.dll from your system (search for it) and then remove the eDellRoot root CA certificate."
pete_dushenski: "The rogue root certificate in new Dell computers – a certificate that allows people to be spied on when banking and shopping online – will magically reinstall itself even when deleted."
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:33:29; kakobrekla: right now there are more urgent things on the plate, once api is working as id like we can do something like dat. until then you can run the platform with wine.
pete_dushenski: lulziest part is how 'noahpinions' can't find a single supporter who agrees with his dumb puppet mouth in the 124 comments. even the english-speaking male internetists knows enough to call a fraud when it sees one.
mircea_popescu: this figures way higher than "oh, president bahamas of london 1715 - what do you mean he didn't exist, not like he's a recent invention dun be racist! - forced companies to pay more in wages which is why manna fell from the heaven as it certainly will now!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "productivity" claptrap is irrelevant. england just had a good moat.
pete_dushenski: more likely : your ancestors lived off the table scraps of the adventurers and businessmen, then as now.
pete_dushenski: well 'hudson's bay co did this' and 'east india company did that' is pretty much as far as the minds of american tv watchers go.
pete_dushenski: at the turn of the 19th century, european INDIVIDUALS - (companies shmumpanies) - invested in technology because they had the freedom and inclination to do so, unlike the chinese, apparently.
mircea_popescu: which... whatever. you can pay ustards any amount of fake money you want, up to and including infinity. they're still goners.
pete_dushenski: " the Industrial Revolution began in Europe, rather than in China, because European employers were forced to pay more for labor. Since labor was more expensive, companies invested in technology, which then raised productivity so much that it boosted wages even higher," << this is actually just lulzy
pete_dushenski: . In the past, automation has always complemented human beings instead of making them irrelevant. That might change in the future, but so far the old pattern is still holding." << mr. 'noahpinion' on the history of innovation, in a nutshell, and pretty much straight from his 'social studies 10' textbook. because that's where facts come from : the dumb mouths of high school teachers and the sputum-cum-textbooks t
pete_dushenski: "In the past, when companies implemented labor-saving technology -- whether assembly lines or computers -- their workers didn’t simply go on the unemployment rolls. They became more productive than before, and commanded higher wages. If they got laid off, they eventually found jobs at other companies -- and since the economy overall was more productive because of the innovation, more new companies were started
mircea_popescu: Jay Hathaway said something with numbers in it once so Jay Hathaway is mathematician ? something like that ?
pete_dushenski: as long as she doesn't twitch and break the table, so nothing.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the top girl's calfs will cramp in no time in that position
pete_dushenski: "if the community tells me my ideas are valuable, a magic wand is waved and so it becomes ! and with it so too do i become a real boy !"
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/b8f24f5f80771946a787a616d659afb5/tumblr_nugt61ZEzR1rz3qjvo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: that dude is pretty lulzy tho. "i like thinking outloud on shitter, it helps me gauge how deep in the latrine i am"
gribble: brendafdez was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 34 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes, and 3 seconds ago: <brendafdez> mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
trinque: good screaming too. you gotta hope that if you get blown apart there's at least someone there to scream over the giblets.