mircea_popescu: "ARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// -->"
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, dumbass host currently hosting qntra went into the same "js app" mode that sunk namecheap.
BingoBoingo: "Her homeopathic doctor suggested mayonnaise and tea tree oil. But Tallulahs mother refused, insisting her daughter be bathed from head to toe in the most potent, toxic insecticide available. 10 times."
assbot: Anti-vax, non-GMO, organic, gluten-free mother wants “strongest possible s**t” to rid her child of head lice | GomerBlog ... ( http://bit.ly/1YdlRkC )
BingoBoingo: A teddy bear that is one foot tall correlates exactly with a Dilaudid demand of 1 mg IV every 4 hours as needed irrespective of whether the bear is naked or wearing a matching outfit,
mircea_popescu: in better news than anything the associated press got today, white sluts can't dance. http://41.media.tumblr.com/374f7112ee5884a712db2cdc5c1fed13/tumblr_myucpcDqof1t158uso1_1280.jpg
BingoBoingo: But seriously, I told you the Mizzou stuff wasn't going to be news this week.
mircea_popescu: this is their big story ?
BingoBoingo: http://www.stltoday.com/travel/the-lowest-gas-prices-in-st-louis/html_31158c8e-69c2-11df-bb02-0017a4a78c22.html
mircea_popescu: it could be called "The Watermelon Wake." or some shit.
mircea_popescu: and then go hang out in the field (which is really just like a corn field, nobody goes there) and watch them pop.
mircea_popescu: so there's fields full of these assholes, and the hacker past time is to hack the control units to make them pop, ie, explode
mircea_popescu: i dunno if anyone's ever seen a watermelon field, but : in the future [like, next year ?] they have this arrangement where there's central piping out in a filed, and fat people go to live in a conected bubble. think "van camping" except without the wheels. they're marketed as you know "reduce your carbon footprint and care for the environment" etc, but basically it is is a suit with lcds and a shitpipe.
mircea_popescu: anyway : the delegation is correct, the whole node just happens to be down. http://www.intodns.com/qntra.net
funkenstein_: meanwhile people-are-either-black-or-white soft porn comes through fine :)
mircea_popescu: while i have nfi why he gets that (it's usually a busted router), the site itself is down.
mircea_popescu: * ben_vulpes is still planning to scrape metals off the seafloor <<< alf thinks tmsr silicon is a huge commitment, wait until he finds out about the materially-independent ocean factories.
BingoBoingo: From the comments: "We mustn't let this fat fuck fork the blockchain. Death to Bitcoin XT! Long live freedom and anonymity!"
assbot: If you turn Marc Andreessen's head upside down, it would look exactly the same | fatpeoplehate ... ( http://bit.ly/1PJTLdW )
BingoBoingo: Oh, look who got the FPH treatment while I was sleeping https://voat.co/v/fatpeoplehate/comments/660055
asciilifeform: and did the schmuck really go with dsa + sha1 ??!!!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: THey are still works in progress. There's myostatin antibodies being tested in rats that... have some serious side effects. Turns out at a certain point being "muscle obese" is not that different from being "fat obese" when it comes to cardiac outcomes
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 04:01:37; BingoBoingo: dbol is dianabol, the stuff Arnold ate like candy. drol is Superdrol which never made it as a drug because liver death, but was sold as a dietary supplement for all of 2005
mod6: if we did, i guess we'd have to rewrite the build script for buildroot.
mircea_popescu: actually one of the more substantial theories as to the origin of schizophrenia is hormone storm in 2nd trimester.
BingoBoingo: From the same zoo: "The title says it all. My ladyfriend wants baby but skipped a cycle on mast and eq. Does this sound right? Should she stick to test c?" << That baby is going to be born with a bigger dick than its father
mircea_popescu: that thing reads to me like a completely crazy repressed faggot pushing the poor woman into insanity.
BingoBoingo: Then again these are the people who if participating in drug tested sports fail the tests because they load up on exotic shit and depot injections, instead of pulling the Alex Rodriguez and using fast acting gels and troches
mircea_popescu: good thing you have a special safe for the passwords!
mircea_popescu: derp spent ten pages discussing the minutia of irrelevant theatre, and then... "laptop booted from a dvd".
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2015 07:33:36; mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD" << example of "security".
mircea_popescu: this is a fundamental problem of the monkey brain. to quote :
BingoBoingo: There's this odd cognitive dissonance in internet drug users where they will make an earnest effort to derp about the medical mineutia that distinguishes very similar compounds, yet they will rarely get a $20 rapid test to make sure the compound they are about to consume is actually what they anticipate consuming
BingoBoingo reads /r/SST as a proxy for understanding the derpage that happens in darknet market discussions
BingoBoingo: No, they take it with bear bile
mircea_popescu: do they take it with tylenol ?
BingoBoingo: "I ran his sdrol of the first batch he came out with, and it was def sdrol. I can't say anything about the following batches however" << Because the way to identify chemicals is with one's fee-fees
BingoBoingo: dbol is dianabol, the stuff Arnold ate like candy. drol is Superdrol which never made it as a drug because liver death, but was sold as a dietary supplement for all of 2005
BingoBoingo: because they haven't been testing their product until this guy they take the wrong side effect controlling drugs, and end up getting boob gains
BingoBoingo: tldr; redditors think they've been getting the hard on liver easy on boobs roid, end up with easy on liver hard on boobs one.
BingoBoingo: Reddit actually tests their shady dietary supplements, commenters still in denial about being scamzored https://archive.is/ef3rD
assbot: Mother & Earth Baby Boutique Lansing, Michigan, Eco-friendly, American ... ( http://bit.ly/1H3M5ln )
PeterL: http://www.motherandearth.com/ << this place
PeterL: my wife and her sister do piecework baby items (bibs, ties, bows) that get sold at a "baby boutique" in Lansing where hipster moms go to spend waaay too much on their kids
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 00:31:20; mircea_popescu: in this line, there was a time in central/eastern yurp when married woman HAD to have sewing machine.
PeterL: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324455 << My daughters both have their own sewing machines, though I admit is an uncommon asset for girls under 10
mircea_popescu: and in other european news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/540071b4a379994f097132643c0a43d0/tumblr_n5urstqwCU1sru3j8o1_1280.jpg
adlai: "but it only takes zero to just sit there with a dumb look on your face"
testingthisstuff: adlai: i admit that i don't practice my ideology in the real world to the full extent and am afraid it's frowned upon here. but i shouldn't care, i guess. people frown all the time.
assbot: You rated user trinque on 17-Oct-2014, with a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: Nice work on the deedbot.
adlai: testingthisstuff: just use your real self, then you don't have to be gay-for-trip-to-spacestation
testingthisstuff: adlai, mircea_popescu: thank you. i don't mind being my real self. i want to get into the WoT and start participating, looking for the best ways. always thought tor was a good idea but it seems not. I'll start reading at least 6 months of logs, as per the instructions, to catch up
adlai: there's a difference between "we don't support tor becgause they suck at <reasons>" and "we don't support tor because 'reasons'"
mircea_popescu: didn't give a good reason for stopping at just about the same time they didn't give a good reason for why they never published the results of the supposed inquiry they were going to make into that time when all their servers got compromised.
trinque: jurov: ty, perhaps that ran up against the max message length?
adlai: testingthisstuff: also fyi, even the tor developers admit to the ease (~$1M) with which a large-scale sybil attack can be mounted against the network
adlai: used to work, they even ran onion endpoints, but they got sick of... dunno. never gave a good reason for stopping.
adlai: testingthisstuff: tor doesn't work on freenode, they actively prevent it
testingthisstuff: mircea_popescu, thanks, I'm lurking and, at the same time, trying to find out how to connect to freenode with Tor.
ben_vulpes: "not deploying giant militaries to bomb targets and wave banners, or propping up regimes and helping them "suppress insurgencies," but working on the long-term realities of helping locals build a government that they're invested in" << not that anyone is capable of doing this any ore
kakobrekla: so, i made the mistake of visiting bitcointalk again. got banned 8 minutes after the mention of mpex and had all the previous non related posts deleted. new record for sure.
mircea_popescu: i blame the republic.
mircea_popescu: so at 20:40 mp makes an off the cuff reference to an obscure nitpick in a two decade old game franchise. at 21:00 he finds an even more in-depth resource for that thing than he imagined existed, and at 21:52 theres http://www.crossbrowsertool.com/s/1006147 ie eulora ads running on said property.
ben_vulpes is still planning to scrape metals off the seafloor
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mircea_popescu: ving away from a "frontier" worldwiew and toward a "cargo cult"/scavenger world view. consequently the notion that new things can be made is being gradually abandoned.
mircea_popescu: and re the oil discussion : the matter is very complex, notwithstanding how important it is. and yes, broadly speaking it's correct to say that the trend is to move "technical basis" of price away from "marginal cost of new capacity" to "operating cost of extant capacity". the reason for this however i propose is not by a longshot policy, but purely existential (in simple terms, we, ie the world, ie white people are mo
phf: jurov: apparently most irc clients try utf8, if invalid, then cp1252 fallback: http://xchat.org/encoding/ << yeah, that's basically the hack that i'm using in my homegrown log reader. read the stream, if it errors out on encoding issues, rewind back to last known good position, read again with latin-1, switch back to utf-8
mircea_popescu: the wonder whether a repeat is likely at all is on one hand legitimate , and on the other lightyear beneath what we'd consider security.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes re the entire "PR strategy of attaching oneself to a hot story" angle : the terrain on which this happens has been set by mitt "the imbecile" romney and his orca campaign fiasco.
mircea_popescu: anyone remeber the dwarf in baldur's gate ?
jurov: i guess to stop overlong URLs, we gotta genocide the cascadians, too.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 02:10:59; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you don't. there are no urls, there's a javascript application that stands on the dom.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell naphex http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=14-11-2015#1323389 << yo where does xotika's design land in the context of this conversation?
jurov: apparently most irc clients try utf8, if invalid, then cp1252 fallback: http://xchat.org/encoding/
trinque: I am certain they will.
mircea_popescu: and whatever pains you took, you still can't sleep easy in the knowledge that more pains won't be requisite in the future.
phf: i suspect that your client is 8bit clean and simply passes things through as they are given to it
mircea_popescu: moreover, the text i fucking used as a base is latin-1.
phf: the easiest option is for mp to make sure that his client is sending utf-8 at all times, but i've no idea what ungodly combination of xterm/xchat settings achieves that reliably
phf: fwiw kakobrekla's log is not fucking up the text. mp is sending latin-1, so kako's utf-8 reader substitutes ? for broken utf sequences. there's not much that can be done. could try and guess the encoding on a per-message basis, could also just pass through the messages 8bit clean and let the browser complain. the last option allows you to play the good old "guess the page encoding by switching between them until the right one comes out"
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is a perfect task for the apprentice with a desire to figure out "the russian novel", as the typically eastern stupidity is politely called.
asciilifeform: gonna have to keep these records in what, an unburned parchment in an unburnable library of not-alexandria ?
mircea_popescu: at least this time around we're keeping records, so next time around when marya timofeevna/julia mikhaylovna (no fucking idea why these are different characters - no, wait, OBVIOUSLY. gotta not-implement proper search!) start with the "oh the poor peasants, how they die in the mud and their children are hungry" nonsense we just strip them, tie them to a tree, whip them bloody and leave them there.
mircea_popescu: in other words, turns out i hate contemporary europe a helluva lot more than i hate muslims. which i suppose makes me exactly a libertard, politically.
mircea_popescu: once 100 young male able bodied orcs move in, there's going to be 500 more kids the next decade, and not enough money to pay for halfd that many abortions
asciilifeform: http://thewildones.faketrix.com/content/pictures/page-2/original_files/feeding-rats-milk-Karni-Mata-Temple-Rajasthan-India.jpg
asciilifeform: afaik the 'refugee' horde is a much more effective, in the aggregate, idiot money magnet than, e.g., fr
mircea_popescu: all the problems of idiots come from idiots having been given money.
asciilifeform: earnest orcs aren't a neutron bomb, they don't do 'clear', they leave behind writhing mess of breeding scum and 'international komyooonitiiii' charitycase
mircea_popescu: this isn't a confrontation between orcs and culture. this is a confrontation between earnest orcs and pretentious orcs, and my heart goes out to the earnest set.
mircea_popescu: meanehile ina.fr takes a week to load main page, you know what shitheads, i hope they bomb you too.
mircea_popescu: buncha idiots these people.
asciilifeform: would rather work in jp kanji than latin with crud sprinkled on
mircea_popescu: obviously searching for just "colombey-les-deux" happily yields 5000 fucking references to the guy's birthplace on that site, but not the actual relevant speech.
mircea_popescu: "why bother with shitmarks when search runs on sanity anyway"
mircea_popescu: do you know why ? because it would have proven in practice the stupidity/irrelevance of the shitmark scheme
asciilifeform: and yes there was somehow supposed to be a logical reduction of the бнопня (look it up) to actual latinate
mircea_popescu: who the fuck grrrr
mircea_popescu: if i use plain letters "oh, it's not found", if i use shitmarks, either.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile it has all the irrelevant crap, such as http://fresques.ina.fr/de-gaulle/fiche-media/Gaulle00271/voyage-en-roumanie-visite-a-craiova.html
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually... check out the obscurantism engine. "No se han encontrado resultados para tu búsqueda (site:http://fresques.ina.fr/de-gaulle/ "Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées")."
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sharpton shows up repping the FBI, like Ferguson
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 16:01:46; BingoBoingo: Anyways the Mizzou stuff seems set to do the long drawn out irrelevance thing now as occupy did, unless they do some actual rioting
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324800 << let's say they do? then what
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the ezeiza airport has a humongo printout of the guy's speech the one time an euro head of state visited.
mircea_popescu: i mean, not having any idea what hitler said, whatever, they're stupid. but not de gaulle either ? not anyone ? "i have a dream" an' thassit ?
mircea_popescu: aha. it shocks me, by the way, that supposedly college educated anglos lack the ability to recall major speeches.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, followed the next year by
btcdrak: BingoBoingo: I would love too, finding time is the problem atm.
mircea_popescu: Those who organized, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite, Agence-France Presse quoted Mr. Juncker as saying. And so there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees.
mircea_popescu: in other win,
BingoBoingo: Anyways the Mizzou stuff seems set to do the long drawn out irrelevance thing now as occupy did, unless they do some actual rioting
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i can also interview mental patients and then transcribe the results and publish them as "the crazy ramblings of us libertards". this is probably more factual than the breitbart butthurt. << Seems valuabru
assbot: These beans is shit.
mircea_popescu: i can also interview mental patients and then transcribe the results and publish them as "the crazy ramblings of us libertards". this is probably more factual than the breitbart butthurt.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, just because "the press" that got kicked off campus is claiming some derps as representative for a group they hate doesn't mean all that much.
shinohai: Looks like a new crop, but may have received 3-d printed diplomas from "Crypto University" at the Embassy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla oh i see, THERE it's about the version. if it were a different version than 3.1 it'd have been fine, because windows is usgtronics. MEANWHILE the problems with gpg-hijacked are really problems WITH PGP.
mircea_popescu: shinohai are these the same imbeciles of inexistent "bitcoin embassy" fame or a new crop of hollow if pretentious garglemeisters ?
BingoBoingo: Also those college activists really know how to hurt their cause http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/14/mizzou-campus-activists-and-black-lives-matter-complain-about-paris-stealing-the-spotlight/
shinohai: http://cointelegraph.com/news/115645/bitcourt-of-argentina-to-validate-diplomas-on-the-blockchain
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 00:46:50; mircea_popescu: the truth of this point can be appreciated by the incredible expansion of lohn in the 90s in eeu.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the metabolites gc/ms great.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/52be874528a8c31822eba36e6e23d4bc/tumblr_n71r35HBo81r59rt8o1_1280.jpg
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 00:32:21; mircea_popescu: it is a craft tho, the expectation you spend the 1500 dm and wife can now make clothes is out of place.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 22:08:54; ascii_field: 'Ministers have no plans to ban sex because it has an important role in the protection of legitimate economic activity such as creating bank users and lottery players. But there is concern over some aspects of so-called end-to-end fuck where only the thruster and recipient of thrust can feel it.'
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:42:10; phf: and to tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement, http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication. This is a three-year award for $496,900. The goal of this research is to develop a trust platform that consolidates the decision-making process into a single location to provide a correct, consistent, and usable service
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 22:40:42; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324119 << there is a very strict limit for testing, specifically that you can't test without reagent, and the reagent must react with something. ergo every single substance tested requires some blood. you can't take eight pints out of athletes, much less infinity pints, so you can't test for infinity things.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324238 << this is catastrophically wrong, in that modern testing is almost entirely gc/ms which - yes - tests for 'all at once' - you don't need moar blood to look for additional peaks in the plot
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 01:18:00; mircea_popescu: maybe i'm not holding it the right side up or something.
BingoBoingo: Mizzou beats BYU 20-16, expect the drama in Missouri to stop being news, or at least stop being local news
phf: this is the default approach, but i've never looked at this sort of papers before. it's more like a shimmering mound that you saw from the window of your house upon closer inspection turned out a pile of shit covered in flies. "omg there's shit everywhere! and flies!"
asciilifeform: which i try to leave to the mega-entomologists
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:30:48; phf: i've not looked at the original why johnny can't, but after my recent in-depth exposure to "conscientious programmers" rabbit hole decided to look at the paper's methodology. linked arxiv is a new addition to the subject, oct 29th
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324696 << it is generally safe to 'set the bozo bit' on the whole gaggle of idiots
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-11-2015#1324698 << usg ! implementing the t3rr0ristz!!111 winning since '01 ! accept no substitute !11
asciilifeform: but at least 1.x doesn't (i shit thee not) invoke x11 crud
asciilifeform: in most of the same ways, also.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:20:51; mircea_popescu: the conclusion is remarkably not "pgp 2.x is a scam"
phf: and to tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement, http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication. This is a three-year award for $496,900. The goal of this research is to develop a trust platform that consolidates the decision-making process into a single location to provide a correct, consistent, and usable service for all existing and
phf: disadvantage of key escrow is that the key es- crow server has access to users’ keys, which is a recognized trade-off to get the other usability benefits"
phf: from the same muppets, "Confused Johnny: When Automatic Encryption Leads to Confusion and Mistakes", "This paper gives an overview of Pwm (Private Webmail), our secure webmail system that uses security overlays to integrate tightly with existing webmail services like Gmail. Pwm’s security is mostly transparent, includ- ing automatic key management and automatic encryption." ... "A key escrow server handles key management. ... The
pete_dushenski: "The NFL says it will increase security inside and outside its stadiums for Sunday's games, two days after the Paris terrorist attacks." << lolwut. dear nfl: you're irrelevant. not even isis cares about you. don't waste your breath and your money chasing away your remaining fans by making irl games even MORE of a hassle to attend.
phf: i've not looked at the original why johnny can't, but after my recent in-depth exposure to "conscientious programmers" rabbit hole decided to look at the paper's methodology. linked arxiv is a new addition to the subject, oct 29th
BingoBoingo: Looks like Mizzou's whatever problems will resolve soon. 10 point lead with less than 10 minutes on the clock
pete_dushenski: "Some derp at John Hopkins University, who calls himself a “Cryptographer and Research Professor” instead of the more apt “USG mole.”" << lel. my footnoted description of mr. green.
mircea_popescu: the principal sleigh of hand here is the implication, unspoken but universally pushed, that you would want "automatic" encryption. ie somehow the "standard" shouild be a "browswer extension" or other such crap.
mircea_popescu: "let's pretend like the patently untrue bullshit we want to push is not arbitrary but necessary"
mircea_popescu: phf it's research in the sense "earth sciences" are research.
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2014/08/26/infosec-education-because-stephane-bortzmeyer-is-lazy-and-im-not-2/ << matthew green referenced in here, as is that 1999 'johnny' article
mircea_popescu: "(Let's not get into the NSA's collect-it-all policy for encrypted messages. If the NSA is your adversary just forget about PGP.)" << yeah, right. THAT is why i read their stuff and they don't read my stuff, because i take advice from john hopkins fucktards.
mircea_popescu: the only conclusion of that piece of nonsense is that Matthew Green must die. nothing more.
mircea_popescu: but "pgp is bad" which was the entire point of the 2.x branch of "developlent" in the first fucking place.
mircea_popescu: the conclusion is remarkably not "pgp 2.x is a scam"
mircea_popescu: "Except maybe not: if you happen to do this with GnuPG 2.0.18 -- one version off from the very latest GnuPG -- the client won't actually bother to check the fingerprint of the received key. A malicious server (or HTTP attacker) can ship you back the wrong key and you'll get no warning. This is fixed in the very latest versions of GPG but... Oy Vey."
assbot: A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: What's the matter with PGP? ... ( http://bit.ly/1QE27o9 )
phf: couldn't find it in logs, but i'm fascinated by this "research". top comment on lobste.rs where it got posted links to http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter-with-pgp.html which was pretty discussed. "there's consensus!" somebody ought to publish meta study of "gpg poor usability"
phf: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.08555.pdf "Why Johnny Still, Still Can’t Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of a Modern PGP Client". wtf is the point of these "studies"? "We elected to test Mailvelope, a modern PGP tool, for our study. Mailvelope is a browser extension that integrates with users’ webmail systems." "Participants were allocated sixty minutes to com- plete the study, with about 35-40 minutes spent using Mail- velope."
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 01:10:22; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down the fabled papers this insult to culture has defecated upon the language of his father's masters, i'd like to hear a summary.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 22:40:42; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324119 << there is a very strict limit for testing, specifically that you can't test without reagent, and the reagent must react with something. ergo every single substance tested requires some blood. you can't take eight pints out of athletes, much less infinity pints, so you can't test for infinity things.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324238 << Generally they do urine. But yes can't test for infinity things, but testers only need to go to reddit to discover which research chemicals the kids are eating as "dietary supplements." There's actually a range of chemicals called SARMS going through pre-clinical to Phase III trials as drugs being sold as supplements. God bless China.
jurov spent the day porting his external brain (foswiki) from perl to common lisp
pete_dushenski: the effect would benefit immensely from some snow on the ground, which, incredibly, we don't have yet.
pete_dushenski: or what to do when you have too much money in the public coffers and a lot of young families with jack all to do on a saturday night
pete_dushenski: "Mayor Don Iveson will welcome Santa from the North Pole, to officially light the 72-ft Christmas Tree! The tree is adorned with 14-thousand LED lights, cascading snowfalls, sparkles, and stars. After the tree ceremony, a spectacular, fireworks show will light up Downtown skies."
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pete_dushenski: http://www.yelp.com/events/edmonton-holiday-light-up-christmas-on-the-square-santa-and-fireworks << la raison
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: like "o noes, accidentally hercules carrying 200 tons of gold was downed by the brave men of air defense".
mircea_popescu: but bitcoin is by its nature EXACTLY the heroin usg individuals want.
mircea_popescu: the only impediment being that nobody had made essence of jeans and toiletpaper in weightless form, back then.
mircea_popescu: end it right there.
asciilifeform: like phalaris into the bull ?
mircea_popescu: the actual boulder of irony in here is that if the usg actually got the stash, it'd crash it.
asciilifeform: to form whatever it takes to actualize the cokemachine.
asciilifeform: i suspect that this'd be one of those cases where the constituent parts would spontaneously rearrange themselves on the sheer strength of the premined coin
mircea_popescu: this ain't how the thing works. if it abhors anything, it's actual meat. for some reason.
asciilifeform: well, the double
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and that's what they'll make him, too.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather work as an orderly at some establishment dedicated to humor research on public moneys (also known as insane asylum) than be a fucking professor in the us.
asciilifeform: there are several kinds of 'professorship' some of which don't include actually clocking in
asciilifeform: i suppose it can also be inferred that the coke machine is ready
mircea_popescu: "oh, if i take a million bux and one plastic golden medal from the nobel pocket and put it intop the ucla pocket, someone's going to take it at face value!11"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what strained whey must be found in their brainboxes to imagine someone actually gives half a rat's arse what the usg CALLS the moving of moneys from one pocket to another.
mircea_popescu: but if it helps you any, the secret production of the river of meat is no more readable (or worth reading) than its visible outpour.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm not holding it the right side up or something.
mircea_popescu: i have this pile of very secret derpage here including the very expert "profile" of some random derp explaining how an elderly, principled gentleman is perhaps going to react crazily to the crass injustice of this entire scheme.
asciilifeform: esp given as the latter comes with guaranteed einsatzkommando and gasenwagen
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the entire exercise shows you that the previously discussed reserve powers bother the derps.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's something juicy in there like you know, plagiarism (for sure there is), and like mathematica stealing of stuff from people (almost willing to bet)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down the fabled papers this insult to culture has defecated upon the language of his father's masters, i'd like to hear a summary.
mircea_popescu: been at ucla since 1988 (that's 27 years for the mit-educated log readers), and what he has to say for it is "oh, i heard of bitcoin recently".
asciilifeform: (usg-rich, rather than mircea_popescu-rich, but still)
mircea_popescu: this guy did nothing his entire fucking life, outside of being a coolie for who the fuck knows what highly placed usg libtard.
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry is the co-founder (with Professor Ivo Welch) and Executive Editor of a new publication Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe) that makes academic research more accessible for MBA and PhD students, journal"
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has recently proposed Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account to guarantee that everyone in the world will have access to financial services in a few decades.You can read about the initiative by clicking here..
mircea_popescu: Microfinance has been his recent teaching, research and applied interest. He has supervised several MBA student projects in Microfinance in the last several years and has taught an undergraduate seminar class and an MBA elective on the subject. He has developed a new model for "Franchising Microfinance" on which he has written a research paper and is studying the feasibility of implementing the model with a Microfinanc
mircea_popescu: His research interests, on which he has published several papers in finance and economics journals, are in International Finance and Corporate Finance and Strategy. He has been on the editorial board of a number of finance journals. He teaches International Finance, Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at Anderson. He has also organized and taught Executive Education programs on Financial Derivatives, Corporate
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has also taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Indian School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also has an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
pete_dushenski: i'm losing touch either on account of family, internets, or... something. but a regular on 'the scene' is not me. not anymore.
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mircea_popescu: if you're nto going to be beating the monkeys into working, you'll be stuck tricking them, because the cock ain't gonna suck itself.
mircea_popescu: hence all the "do what you love" "work while you're sleeping" "you won't believe it's actually work not butter" etc.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, again : this is how this goes. the entire point of "economy" is the redefinition of work.
mircea_popescu: seems to me they work at producing poorly strung together sentences by the boatload.
pete_dushenski: right, also not reddit, who couldn't be made to work with a pitchfork poking them in the ass
mircea_popescu: (ie, working the street)
mircea_popescu: well, lohn was for the derpy chicks that weren't willing to be ACTUALLY working, also.
pete_dushenski: as long as they're not actually working, yes
mircea_popescu: granted, they obey stupid people saying stupid things, but ...
pete_dushenski: except for the 'obedient' element, which reddit utterly lacks
mircea_popescu: there's really no good way to describe it outside of "here are stupid people in a historical valley". i it's a mix of factoring, leasing and outsourcing supply provisioning + financing in one package.