punkman: "they did a trawl pull the outer part of Lyngen in an area they normally receive both fish and shrimp. Trawler came up with large amounts of jellyfish and virtually no fish or shrimp."
punkman: "15-30 meter thick layer of jellyfish on the seabed"
pete_dushenski: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n21/patrick-cockburn/too-weak-too-strong << plausible sounding report on syria/isis these days
pete_dushenski: not one such 'graphics adapter' that i could find was produced by a manufacturer that i'd ever heard of. all seemed to be chinese 'brands', the type that horribly misspell labels
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-11-2015#1320121 << /me has a usb 2.0 version on order. eager to add third monitor to set-up but not surprised to learn that they all use the same chip.
pete_dushenski: ...of their office
pete_dushenski: punkman: if it mobile/touch wasn't teh future, they'd have to start looking for jobs that didn't require them to live in truck trailers in the parking lot
punkman: even the Google engineers don't want to use Android, while insisting mobile/touchscreen is teh "future".
trinque: phf: thanks for the example code for cl-irc; works well. I'm now porting over the deed handling code from my wad of python.
punkman: except they stop working after a couple years
pete_dushenski: which is why apple rules the roost
pete_dushenski: i thought it was one of those 'fun' prototypes for wanking each other off to. but it's actually being implemented.
pete_dushenski: We’re actually pretty amazed at how well this works. We’ll be rolling this feature out on Inbox for Android and iOS later this week, and we hope you’ll try it for yourself! Tap on a Smart Reply suggestion to start editing it. If it’s perfect as is, just tap send. Two-tap email on the go -- just like Bálint envisioned."
pete_dushenski: so the system would lean on them as a safe bet if it was unsure. Normalizing the likelihood of a candidate reply by some measure of that response's prior probability forced the model to predict responses that were not just highly likely, but also had high affinity to the original message. This made for a less lovey, but far more useful, email assistant.
pete_dushenski: "Another bizarre feature of our early prototype was its propensity to respond with “I love you” to seemingly anything. As adorable as this sounds, it wasn’t really what we were hoping for. Some analysis revealed that the system was doing exactly what we’d trained it to do, generate likely responses -- and it turns out that responses like “Thanks", "Sounds good", and “I love you” are super common --
pete_dushenski: http://googleresearch.blogspot.ca/2015/11/computer-respond-to-this-email.html?m=1 << good god what is wrong with the heads of google employees
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 16:45:02; mircea_popescu: hilary doesn't stand a chance, in this atmosphere. for that matter, it wouldn't be surprising if the democratic party splits up, in multiple bits even.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-11-2015#1319928 << it's the exact same type of insane optimism that saw me blindsided by the last provincial and national election here, both of which went further left.
pete_dushenski: though this similarity in the coefficient of expansion assumes a triple-glazing, which is relatively common here, whereas milder climates will use double, even single-glazed windows
pete_dushenski: also, because it expands and contracts at essentially the same rate as the glazing, the window seals are stressed markedly less, improving the system's longevity by reducing condensation and air infiltration
pete_dushenski: maybe replace them with fibreglass ? or tell landlord to ?
pete_dushenski: sounds like the protective anodised coating on your aluminum frames has lost the battle against mother nature
pete_dushenski: "Christakis hasn’t checked in on any of us. He hasn’t given us any indication that he is going to or wants to heal the community. If you know I’m in pain and you aren’t doing anything to try to help me, then how can you be sorry? Christakis is the Master of Silliman College, it is his job to take care of us, and he is failing." << so much lose it wins.
punkman: so question for engineers: I have an aluminum window casing that's corroding in a couple spots around the edges, and corroded part is growing outwards something like puffy/powdery flakes. been trying to find the technical term to no avail.
pete_dushenski: https://web.archive.org/web/20151107010454/http://yaleherald.com/op-eds/hurt-at-home/ << ftr. this is the original 'hurt at home' piece as published in, and since withdrawn from, the yale herald
mod6: However, the head proved an irresistible target for students, especially from King's College London, who stole the head in 1975 and demanded a ransom of £100 to be paid to the charity Shelter. UCL finally agreed to pay a ransom of £10 and the head was returned. "
asciilifeform: sion of the story asserts that the Auto-Icon does vote, but only on occasions when the votes of the other Council members are equally split. In these cases the Auto-Icon invariably votes for the motion.'
asciilifeform: 'Not surprisingly, this peculiar relic has given rise to numerous legends and anecdotes. One of the most commonly recounted is that the Auto-Icon regularly attends meetings of the College Council, and that it is solemnly wheeled into the Council Room to take its place among the present-day members. Its presence, it is claimed, is always recorded in the minutes with the words Jeremy Bentham - present but not voting. Another ver
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform tries, fails, to recall the name of the british prof who had himself embalmed and wheeled into faculty meetings long after his death << Bentham
asciilifeform tries, fails, to recall the name of the british prof who had himself embalmed and wheeled into faculty meetings long after his death
asciilifeform: ... are there any published recordings of knuths's organ ?
phf: i thought at mgu they just self-embalm, как завещал тов ленин
asciilifeform: i dun think they have a millenarian cliff at s.
phf: otherwise no relation to stanford
phf: in any case that's, so far, the best option i found for keeping the evils of c at a slight distance. at least interested parties can read and inspect the code, without skipping tricky parts
phf: it doesn't necessarily has to be particularly intrusive, i've looked at some of his "hacks", and they are very lightly annotated, but the partitioning still makes more sense that the direct flow of a c file
phf: i like that the end result can be wholly signed and produces a spiffy dvi for printing
asciilifeform: only if the thing is entirely self-carrying.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the only case where a "source is the spec" could be excused, is properly written knuth c.
mircea_popescu is rather partial to the concept of "god damned it source code should be written in essay form what is this machine serving bs"
trinque: jurov: links in the declaration and qntra piece are afaik pointing to the right place, pending punkman's indication on how to generate the values he was using for URLs
phf: knuth literate thing, yes, the translator produces c files with relevant bits interpolated
asciilifeform: when i say 'program is to be read', i do not mean in a metaphorical sense of 'most of it' or 'the important parts'
mircea_popescu: this is rather ideal.
asciilifeform: as in when the thing gets planted on a micro we change 3 lines.
mircea_popescu: another mystery revealed.
phf: not the best examples, i agree :>
mircea_popescu: none of these work
phf: it's a tried and true strategy, original javascript has been done that way. i recently learned that that's the way dot-net garbage collector was written
asciilifeform: your unix box doesn't have such a thing. and neither did mine. or anybody else's.
asciilifeform: phf: the 'translation is trivial' is the mega-mistake. go and bake, e.g., a sane allocator.
phf: i'm pretty bad a dijkstra programming, i need to see the system behave to reason clearly about it, and c is not it. besides the translation is the tirvial part
asciilifeform: phf: but skipped straight to the c on account of realizing that 99+% of the work is precisely in getting this to behave sanely
phf: as far as lisp, yeah, not practical for deployment, but i started getting bogged down in trivial serialization questions, before i understand clearly how the whole system is supposed to work. once i get the spec as is up, i want to start working through those comments to modify it into a udp lower level system. in any case lisp is better option for gossip prototype, because the spec is so open ended
asciilifeform: already there.
mircea_popescu: if we manage to avoid the insane state of importing openssl bondogle to do crypto we're so far ahead of the game...
asciilifeform: 'i wrote enough in c to be able to prime gpg machinery and send packets over the wire' suggested callout. but why not wait till phf wakes up and clarifies.
mircea_popescu: he didn't use the word.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense the design is sane, as he has it. callout to "gpg", to be replaced by p
trinque: punkman: what did those values in the URL stand for, and I can just regenerate them from what I pulled from your sqlite
mircea_popescu: rather than five different reimplementations
mircea_popescu: standalone in the sense that ... well yes.
asciilifeform: standalone in the sense mpi was in gpg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're not a dead end for the following reason : the P must be a stand-alone building block anyway.
mod6: maybe it was the charter
mircea_popescu: publish a prototype, im sure alf will be more than happy to look through it, plenty other people will test it etc.
mircea_popescu: re the meat : all of these are major projects, the expectation, imo reasonable, is that whoever decides to work on one starts by publishing code, which will vehehehery likely need refactoring perhaps even redesign. because we're here shooting in the dark. so rather than managerial idiocy, i much prefer somnething like how v worked out.
mod6: might be worth a look to see what's what there.
mod6: yeah, i don't recall. i had thought that maybe that deed was intended to point at the treasurers doc since it has the foundation donation address in there.
mod6: eh, i think that was supposed to point at the treasurers document
trinque: jurov │ kakobrekla or whoever, pls make http://deeds.bitcoin-assets.com/deed/9ULZPc7yeZ9fQEA1aZ73H6mcv1s2C4gYFAbNTb5urovj working again << I believe I have that link pointed to the correct place now.
phf: support of gpgme. the bindings come standard with gpgme release, but what's there was not updated since 2008. officially artifex is still working on that, but i take it nobody's heard from him in a while?
phf: i have some code for gossipd, i'm going to by the spec that's published on trilema, rather then follow up conversation about udp and first packet validation. i wrote enough in c to be able to prime gpg machinery and send packets over the wire (which basically coveres things that i wasn't sure how to do before i started), then i switched to common lisp to get a prototype up. what came out of that so far is updated bindings for lisp
phf: which brings me to the point that i have folders for all but "make new hardware" item in that list of b-a scope in various states of disarray, and it would be great if there was some prioritization, like it was the case with eulora "oh we need this done, you do it".
phf: mircea_popescu: sorry about not picking up mushrooms, right after i finished the port, i did a move to DC area, and then, after few days, left for a trade show, which i just came back from. i started working on a text only client for eulora, but i didn't get far enough to claim my items with it.
mircea_popescu: they better be spending half the day on knees praying mr toupe wins, because if he does there won't be power vacuum for young corporal/painter to take over.
BingoBoingo: Though the US Presidency hasn't been a win in a long time
BingoBoingo: It's looking like the only way the 'Murican left survives to 2020 is a Ben Carson or Ted Cruz win.
BingoBoingo: Seriously. Might go to bed early tonight for the Monday Funday drama
BingoBoingo: But that now only typically gets as violent as the occasional vandalism or isolated mugging/curb stomping
BingoBoingo: I guess, though some of the US sports rivalries carry over sentiment from border skirmishes like Missouri/Kansas
asciilifeform: supposedly, la guerra del futbol was the last engagement of piston-engined fighters on both sides
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in our own time - there was 'la guerra del futbol'
assbot: Blue versus Green: Rocking the Byzantine Empire | History | Smithsonian ... ( http://bit.ly/1MRgaXD )
asciilifeform: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-rocking-the-byzantine-empire-113325928/?no-ist << summary picked at random
assbot: Logged on 09-11-2015 02:40:47; BingoBoingo: A lotta bipeds take the sports thing pretty srs in spite of alf's protests
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-11-2015#1320381 << do you know about the nika riots ?
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 21:44:33; mod6: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-November/000179.html
BingoBoingo: The University system is probably going to get a black president, drunk white kids will keep being drunk white kids, and that's that
BingoBoingo: Seriously the two episodes which triggered this were drunk white kids who said "nigger". Fighting that is like fighting entropy. It's just going to keep happening.
ben_vulpes: "they're white! you're black! what else do you need?!"
BingoBoingo: Classes weren't happening? Eh, no big deal. Having to field a white football team? Holy shit the sky is falling!
BingoBoingo: A lotta bipeds take the sports thing pretty srs in spite of alf's protests
shinohai: I'm fairly certain that in my quest for anal penetration I could find a device decidely less splintery, but to each their own.
ben_vulpes: hah! the lengths to which some people will go.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/47309ce38d67b2a3985fe21718362d1a/tumblr_n7olpi42FM1rl2t88o2_1280.png
mircea_popescu: admire the bs us infrastructure omfg.
mircea_popescu: btw, am i the only one to prefer tracepath ?
mircea_popescu: "look at me masturbate! everything fits the pink box in retrospect!"
asciilifeform: but in the trenches, deep.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dossiers, dossiers, but once they start coming out you know there's at least a guard change afoot
asciilifeform: write an agitprop for 'v', explaining the ~why~ to n00bz
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 21:44:33; mod6: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-November/000179.html
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-11-2015#1320288 << author forgot to have a thesis ?
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 23:14:50; mircea_popescu: anyway, iac certainly stands to gain the most should the general gullible public be persuaded that normal social interaction "could be" rape.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-11-2015#1320302 << the maggots are not the murder knife
jurov: the URL of "coffers of the Bitcoin Foundation" here is broken: http://qntra.net/2014/11/bitcoin-declaration-of-sovereignty-filed/
jurov: in other news, our city currently lives by unknown hero, who literally smears shit on womens' faces on streets and buses
mircea_popescu: anyway, iac certainly stands to gain the most should the general gullible public be persuaded that normal social interaction "could be" rape.
mircea_popescu: they own zillions of spamsites, pretty much in every language iirc.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes match.com, plenty of fish, okcupid tinder and the rest of the lesser known implementations of the social media dating scam are all owned by iac.
ben_vulpes: it's one of the few wobbly pillars left supporting facebook.
assbot: The Hackers Who Obtained The CIA e-mails Claim Breaching The FBI Servers ... ( http://bit.ly/1XYhF88 )
shinohai: You can use the leftover alum from pickling to tighten vaginas apparently: http://www.vaginal-tightening.com/alum-for-vaginal-tightening.php
deedbot-: [Qntra] The Most Serene Republic Celebrates First Birthday - http://qntra.net/2015/11/the-most-serene-republic-celebrates-first-birthday/
BingoBoingo: How do you not have horseradish? In these parts we have festivals to celebrate it. http://www.internationalhorseradishfestival.com/
BingoBoingo: Ty all for the reminder
mircea_popescu: they have no fucking HORSERADISH
mircea_popescu: these schmucks know nothing of anything. i can't pickle cabbage because in spite of not having proper picking barrels, yet i found something, and in spite of not having picking salt, except i found some (they use it for curing meat!) and in spite of not having etc etc,
mod6: New version of V, 99998 K has been posted. Details of changes are outlined in the email. Version 99999 K has been pulled from thebitcoin.foundation mirror, and version 99998 K is now available.
mircea_popescu: the problem is they've lost control, the orcs are running amok, and as a result there's not going to be any donations, there's not going to be any electoral support and moreover the opposition can mop up the entire democrat tammany hall machine.
mircea_popescu: protection racked overheated, and i somehow doubt they'll manage to moderate it back to usable envelope. used to be hillary got donations and grassroot support from wolfe n1...1k on the promise of protection from the democrat footsoldiers and/or hitting the opposition.
BingoBoingo: Because when the coach signs off on it who is some $400k a year president compared to a $2mil+ coach
BingoBoingo: I fully expect to see a lot more Universities go through this over the next year or two as crazy realizes the football time striking trick works.
BingoBoingo: What is the US coming to though when a well scaled lizard like Wolfe can't use a university gig as a more relaxing way to keep drawing a paycheck in effective retirement.
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/b51c7167d6ec495a7a109df4056504c3/tumblr_n81s5bghWL1rl2t88o1_1280.jpg
BingoBoingo: With the MIzzou situation personally I feel the best outcome would be for all parties involved to fuck each other to death. Literally until their spirits leave their bodies.
mircea_popescu: gee whiz, sounds like team obama got the country well under control.
mircea_popescu: "In the dying days of April 2015, the student body of a City High school picked a fight with the entire Baltimore City Police department, and, as the world watched, won. In the meantime, as these kids basically tried out for membership in the three drug gangs that conspired to set the city on fire while they trucked in unprecedented weight of dope, and gangs of armed black man fanned out across north, northeast, and ea
mircea_popescu: anyway, gotta try. one of these days you're gonna manage to connect a mad dog, and it might even do some damage.
BingoBoingo: Yeah. They didn't like him earlier because he came into University Presidenting through business.
mircea_popescu: roughly in the position of that fucktard shrem, "has a lawyer"
BingoBoingo: Right now the Wolfe guy has a press office.
mircea_popescu: (should prolly be standing policy - whenever the horde picks a scapegoat, give the scapegoat a forum. if for nothing else then to bother the machine.)
BingoBoingo: They wanna get rid of the Wolfe dude for being white, male, and busy. Chance of snagging the interview is slim, but I may as well try.
mircea_popescu: offer the guy a honest chance to tell his story plain. im pretty sure he has no offers. get qntra to break the libtard media embargo.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Has more to do with coach Gary Pinkel actually having more leverage with the Board of Trustees than any University or System president.
BingoBoingo: "However, it seems the giant pile of heroin I have theorized came into Baltimore in late April, did in fact exist, had been referred to by local low level players as Smaugs Shit after the legendary hoard of the dragon that was the giant villain in J. R. R. Tolkiens Hobbit story, and has since been plundered by Dem muvafuckin PoPo Dwarf shits."
btcdrak: did anyone read the Mike Hearn AMA?
hdbuck: am all ears for a btcdrak qntra article regarding the latest xt comedy
gribble: The operation succeeded.
hdbuck: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i think you 'withdraw your objection', rather than 'rest your case'. http://qntra.net/2015/10/uber-provides-alibi-for-armed-robbery/#comment-67516 << probably, yes :)
hdbuck: nothing to report so far, mostly enjoying the show :)
hdbuck: bingoboingo oh hello there
BingoBoingo: "The verified Twitter account for Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel has posted a picture of the team and coaches locking arms." << I am more certain Wolfe is out this week, probably Monday, than I am Bitcoin is crossing $400 again this month.
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asciilifeform: the tricky bit is that ru can't even make kalash at scale without 'pentium' now. much less tmsr multiplying primes without all-seeing eye of hitler in the mix.
mircea_popescu: meh, the rhine. who cares.
mircea_popescu: anwyay. the only actually feasible approach is to unfortunate boating accident him, after which yeah, linux'll be all concern trolled into oblivion.
mircea_popescu: kidnap women in the steppes of washington, dc, for sale in the slave market at saigon ?
asciilifeform: recall the 'violence without recourse' thing ?
mircea_popescu: the moment that happens intel is so dead...
asciilifeform: yes, you can desolder the rom and rewrite, and have something like a normal box
asciilifeform: the extant version is a kind of draft
mircea_popescu: or w/e the magical measure defeated by magic marker were called
mircea_popescu: that ahppened in the sense "securom" happened.
asciilifeform: the 'secure boot' thing, that is
asciilifeform: y'know, the ones who 'just want it to work'
asciilifeform: at some point it will be 'unless violet purple signs this kernel, pc you bought at the store won't boot it'
mircea_popescu: besides the point. under discussion here is specifically the unseating of linus from linux.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't wedge linus from linux, it wedges linux from the usg world (or vice-versa)
asciilifeform: e.g., the traditional standby of 'this vga card WILL work' is... intel's cheapo thing, as in mircea_popescu's thinkpads.
asciilifeform: and the items which work, or appear to, are hanging on by a thread
asciilifeform: so, as with the fall of the original byzantium, it will be an implosion of an already rotten husk
asciilifeform: and just about every time i try to plug in a piece of hardware too young for the white plastic to have turned a deep spittoon yellow, i encounter them.
asciilifeform: these idiocies - are legion.
asciilifeform: for reasons that no one was ever bothered to discover.
asciilifeform: turned out, they ~~ALL~~ use the same chip. and the vendor 'finally knuckled under and released linux drv!!!' to 'great rejoicing of the proletariat.' EXCEPT...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yours is the $64-quadrillion-bezzollar question - what weapon
asciilifeform: 'dbus', 'kernel systemd', and other filth will be insta-merged in (or rather, usg's pre-readied fork becomes 'blessed')
asciilifeform: but i imagine they'll install some 'sjw' chick in 'his' place
asciilifeform: i must confess that i do not know about re: the modus operandi, to say precisely
asciilifeform: befouling 'node js' and other things which i've never even heard of until their mention in here
asciilifeform: will be interesting to see the 'fall of constantinopol' moment when linus t. is finally purged
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the good news department - progressing illiteracy means they've moved on from featuritis to fixing comments in the code so it no longer includes the string "retarded" and all " he" is replaced with "erzsjebet".
mircea_popescu: i vaguely remember the thing but i can't tell you which article
asciilifeform: even (especially) if the addition is of his own shit
asciilifeform: 'featuritis' is an inevitable outgrowth of this particular flavour of insanity, where the sufferer believes that adding anything whatsoever, so long as his 'intentions were pure' or whatnot, is a 'contribution'
asciilifeform: yes but there was a particular exposition
mircea_popescu: calling this mp is a gross misattribution, the idea's old and well discussed/accepted
mircea_popescu: basically the problem of all these idiots stems from the twin grasp of a) design is not a deliberate activity but "should arise naturally", like their delusional view of identity, love, hapiness et all ; b) 0 actual experience, entire life lived in the narrow constraints of for-play reality.
mircea_popescu: "why is this a good function ?" "because for hiding" "why is something good is not accepting something exists and seeking the ex post facto rationalization of that existence, this isn't fucking school." "oh"
mircea_popescu: for the same reason old tripod web pages got a "guestbook"
asciilifeform: but of gpg, but secondarily, the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: iirc the decision libc is not salvageable is months old by now
asciilifeform: this salvage op is not raising a fishing trawler that went down last business quarter. it is not raising 'kursk' submarine. it is not raising 'titanic', even. it is raising the empty treasure chest on a spanish galleon that sank in 1600s and colonized by little fish.
asciilifeform: oh and, phun phakt of the day, gpg 1.4.10 will link in 'gettext' if it finds it
asciilifeform: the sheer elephantiasis
mircea_popescu: worst fucking idea in the history of bad ideas.
mircea_popescu: "Here's a transcript of an illegal recording not done by the NSA that therefore everyone is ok with, consistent with our new standard of conduct: it is not illegal to make an illegal recording as long as it is given to the media and they profit from it and we can use it to rationalize our lives. Got it."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes, that's exactly the problem : slavery without a master is hollow. hence all the matrix stuff.
mircea_popescu: liably oppresses another; but that the entire system is based on creating a lack. This lack is not a bottomless hole that nothing could ever fill, but a tiny, strangely shaped divot in your soul into which nothing could ever fit: not money, not sex, not stuff, not relationships. Nothing "takes." Nothing counts. Nothing is ever right. Only novelty works, until it wears off."
mircea_popescu: "Hess yells about a world of masculine power because she has the power to yell at it. But of course her power is limited only to yelling, she is impotent against a troll who yells at her. But her mistake is in thinking he has the power. No one has it, the system doesn't allow it. Even the mighty Economist demo feels impotent. Are they all delusional? This is the true critique of the system, not simply that one group re
mircea_popescu: " A former night-club dancer tells dirty stories about her ex-colleagues to the refined Orthodox language teacher, who does not know whether to block her ears or to laugh." << this is the gain.
assbot: Adnotated words of wisdom on the topic of online fraud on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1OxEu17 )
mircea_popescu: something like http://trilema.com/2012/adnotated-words-of-wisdom-on-the-topic-of-online-fraud/
mircea_popescu: just like if you get the wrong 10% of the rent market you're out of busienss as a landlord ; or if you get the wrong 10% of patrons your pizzeria's dead etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's not much substance there. not only is only 10% of the money in alts, and not only does this mean a billion alts, but the important point is that it's a selected 10%, and selected badly/for stupidity.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well recently reread: http://trilema.com/2012/what-are-the-bitcoin-market-drivers/; and recently saw that all altcoins combined have less market cap than bitcoin; same feeling luke wilson has in Idocracy i 'spose
asciilifeform: rs there is never a minute's silence...'
asciilifeform: boy begs his mother not to beat him because in his sleep he wet the bunk he shares with her. She does and he squeals. A former night-club dancer tells dirty stories about her ex-colleagues to the refined Orthodox language teacher, who does not know whether to block her ears or to laugh. A spoilt rich wife has hung her clothes on all available nails, leaving no room for anybody else. The passage ends with: "In 24 out of 24 hou
asciilifeform: 'The rabbi's wife tries in vain to stop her children, aged four and eight, fighting in her bunk. Her neighbours, kept awake by the din, swear at them. A woman screams because a mouse has run over her face. Bedbugs drop from the higher bunks onto the lower. Another woman screams because the little boy in the bunk above her has spilled the jam jar he uses as a chamber pot all over her. Somebody has whooping cough. Another little
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller okay, but kinda contextless like this... i mean, some nobody on some obscure site somewhere on the internet is all timecube into his alt-reality. ok... kinda you know, slapstick-y.
mod6: haha, i just fixed a bug in the old perl 5.005_04 makedepend.SH script.
mircea_popescu: nd NOT being able to do anything with it except spend it on the system-wide approved gimmicks: Trading Up, college educations, the National Bank of S&P 500."
mircea_popescu: "Why would the The Economist's rich and powerful demo want to be ruled? Because they aren't powerful, only rich, all that time getting rich did not translate to any power, only the trappings of power. So they've postulated a fantasy power structure/NBA owners that explains why they can't enjoy their lives as they think they should-- to absolve themselves of the guilt they feel for having money/intellect/opportunities a
mircea_popescu: the what ?
asciilifeform: 'theymos and whoever else opposes the upgrade to make a last-ditch effort to destroy bitcoin by taking 33% of XT pools offline so that 50% would be running the old code. I wouldn't be surprised to see the largest DDoS attacks in the history of the Internet when the network commits to the upgrade two weeks later.' << wut
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller so why do we care ?
mircea_popescu: so you're losing relevance. who the fuck is "you" anyway, i have no idea who Steve Sokolowski is supposed to be and that mug doesn't say anything other than "future unemployed college grad" to me.
asciilifeform: 'f I had to guess which coin would become the world reserve currency in this scenario, I would go with dogecoin.' << tr0l0l0l ?
mircea_popescu: for someone who knows enough of pgp to say "Besides, theres no power in abolishing anonymity, the power is in giving everyone the pretense of anonymity while secretly retaining the PGP keys to the kingdom."...
asciilifeform: whether eating, fucking, writing
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, check out the miserable shape of tlp's html
mircea_popescu: You’ve taken the bait and put all your <a id="itxthook2" class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2014/05/cyberbll.html#" rel="nofollow"><span id="itxthook2w" class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap">energy</span></a> into accepting the form of the argument.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, somewhere deep in the african savanna, a hyena stole a piece of a dead lion verbatim.
mircea_popescu: I'm a writer based out of East Village, Manhattan. I work from my condo and local coffee shops (and a few restaurants with menus that are more unhealthy than licking a subway railing), meeting friends who have boats or boat access, touring the zoo for the zoo to visit my ex-boyfriends, and forcing my political beliefs on others at social events (kidding, don't be one of those people."
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is this supposed to work.