mircea_popescu: in fact i just made this point to cab driver here who wanted to know "how the us really is" :
mircea_popescu: yaya. we wish them a glhf.
mircea_popescu: take your obamas, bhararas and whatever other oratanii and go the fuck back to kenya, dear usg.
mircea_popescu: here's what : the greatest growth potential for usg & associated retardation is ... subsaharan africa.
mircea_popescu: what will bitcoin ever do without them!111
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin price volatility in 2015 is roughly half what it was in 2014." << oh we so desperately need the usg tards.
mircea_popescu: "The New York Department of Financial Services "BitLicense" scheme was a flaming disaster that drove out no less than 15 bitcoin-related businesses from the state and cost leader of the charge, Ben Lawsky, his political career."
assbot: BitBet - The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 73.95 B (35%) on Yes, 135.57 B (65%) on No | closing in 1 month 1 week| weight: 57`770 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1M9GRXm )
assbot: Logged on 11-06-2014 03:07:22; asciilifeform: david lives in a little house, generously stocked with parts, and fixes the remaining machines for a modest fee.
ascii_field: Congratulations on downloading the finest software development environment ever created. If you want to find out more about Genera or would like to have a Symbolics Lisp Machine, check out the Symbolics website at www.symbolics.com or contact sales@symbolics.com.
ascii_field: https://tpbonion.com/torrent/3769989/Symbolics_Open_Genera_2.0_for_Alpha_-_complete_package_with_Lisp << afaik the 1st comment on this mega-t0rr3nt was the only thing dks ever said in public
ascii_field: i met schmidt twice, once to buy machine, then some parts
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: and other dickensisms
mircea_popescu: copying what works is so high up on the "never EVER do" list it might as well be racism.
mircea_popescu: the only thing you may expect groups of muricans to do is a) whine and b) ask for govt money.
ascii_field: (if it did, one might expect to see it copied by other firms)
mircea_popescu: besides the point, really.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: from my distant perch i cannot say whether the butugychag school of thought has given amazon any advantage vs the other great halls'o'humancompilers.
deedbot-: [BitBet Bets Bets] 1.00000000 BTC on 'Yes' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 - http://bitbet.us/bet/1199/the-eth-scam-wont-see-2016/#b50
mircea_popescu: they're redditards.
mircea_popescu: jurovconsider i have there one cdg with q 465, storage shows 240 << grass is 60, q 100, and cft is 180, q 100. no idea why it shows 240, atm. but we KNOW that the prices shown are broken atm, and chetty was going to fix them, but then got some health problems. it's still on the list to fix, and will be fixed asap.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i only met a few of these folks. but they all said strictly same things, described something quite like the practices that breathed life into the labour unions of 100 years ago...
mircea_popescu: until then, work conditions are too soft.
mircea_popescu: as you say, wake me up when inept woman is stripped, whipped and left tied to the office door over the weekend.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i am willing to bet the complaints are ALL "oh we were defrauded, landlord kept our deposit and we didn't really piss on the parquet. it was not our fault!"
ascii_field: amazon has not, for most of its existence, turned a profit in the customary sense of the word.
ascii_field: 'Bezos runs a company, not a playground for millenials. He runs it to make a profit...' << the last bit is technically a mistake...
ascii_field: rather than packed into vans and forcibly pressed, yes.
mircea_popescu: not bezos' fault they're essentially rus empire peasants.
mircea_popescu: that's the only way you can run something with muricans.
mircea_popescu: but, i dun want you to walk away poor from the exercise either, so post an address an' i'll send you a bitdime or something.
ascii_field: ah and there is ben_vulpes himself
mircea_popescu: but also, you shouldn't take this as a bad light on yourself, i think you did a reasonable job, just, the requirements are insanely tight.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: ;;later tell ben_vulpes re: article: usg won't 'hand out cash' for the same reason that comcast et al doesn't actually promise 1Gb/s at 100% dutycycle. (the rest of it, i have failed to make sense of)
mircea_popescu: well, sadly, i can't use any of the stuff you produced so far. going through this latest one, it's still easier / faster for me to do the whole translation than to correct it.
gabrielradio: what say you mircea_popescu? am i suited for translating the old testament of trilema?
deedbot-: [cascadian hacker] The myths of "the good life" and that work should be fun and happen in a fun place only serve to enslave you to the progressive's hedonic treadmill - http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/10/21_the-myths-of-the-good-life-and-that-work-should-be-fun-and-happen-in-a-fun-place-only-serve-to-enslave-you-to-the-progressives-hedonic-treadmill.html
gabrielradio: but in the case of the poem, time isn't the issue, and if he deems it unfit for translation in his own hand, i doubt it would make sense for me to try & translate it
gabrielradio: not sure about the poem tho. the way i saw this whole translation thing was that mircea_popescu wanted the ro articles translated because he didn't want to spend the time to do it himself, so that's where i would come in
ben_vulpes: anyone tracking the safe harbor shitshow?
ascii_field: gabrielradio, mircea_popescu: lulzy piece. ought to be accompanied with a drawing of 'man of the future' - a two-metre cock with small legs (like caterpillar's)
pete_dushenski: aps in lawyers earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 percent of the earnings gap, the inclusion of performance measures explains a substantial share of the remainder. Performance measures also explain a sizeable share of the gender gap in promotion."
pete_dushenski: "Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours and bring in more than twice the new client revenue than do female lawyers. We demonstrate that the differential impact across genders in the presence of young children and differences in aspirations to become a law firm partner account for a large share of the difference in performance. We also show that accounting for performance has important consequences for gender g
pete_dushenski: and speaking of jlaw and the gender pay gap, i'll leave you with a research abstract
pete_dushenski: you'd think a comment about dick pills would've ended up in the 'how to suck a cock' but nope, ended up in 'jennifer lawrence needs to grow up' piece :)
pete_dushenski: i'm always amazed how many people don't even read them
pete_dushenski: "BMO’s annual debt report pegged average household debt in the province at $124,838 in 2014 (compared to a Canadian average of $76,140.) Among Albertans, half held credit card debt, 53 per cent had mortgages, and 17 per cent held student loans."
pete_dushenski: sorry, i exajamarated : "average Albertan owes $24,271 not including their mortgage."
pete_dushenski: i dunno, ask them.
assbot: The problem. It’s not “in the industry.” It’s inside of you. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZYdk73 )
pete_dushenski: shinohai: http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/16/the-problem-its-not-in-the-industry-its-inside-of-you/#footnote_7_5627 :)
ascii_field: just about everybody in usa gets these.
ascii_field: it goes in the grinder
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: lulzy, i get this crud by the shovel-full
pete_dushenski: "Mileage cards tended to be marketed at college graduates, while cards with teaser APR rates were sent to the less educated. Cash-back and point-reward cards were offered equally to people at every education level."
assbot: How your junk mail shows if you’re rich or poor - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1QUbo9w )
shinohai: Thanx kakobrekla, probably not worth the time since he still hasn't named a price that he will pay for testing.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not that the guy lies, but that the guy exists because the system needs a guy like that to exist.
kakobrekla: shinohai iirc the guy is retarded
jurov: and the box is bought extra?
mircea_popescu: the box is like a grand.
mircea_popescu: the colocation.
jurov: do i understand right, the bisp box is 1btc/mo?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: It was not just the hardware, or the software, or the culture, or the interestin... | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1QU6XLO )
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: d'you recall which piece of ballas' had the line about the "if it weren't this highly credentialed person, it'd be someone indistinguishable from him"?
ascii_field: in other nyooz,
mircea_popescu: the thing being... if it's any good it won't be going anywhere, and if it goes away just means you saved a penny.
diametric: okay. i'll give this some thought. the colo offering is tempting.
diametric: is the previous managed provider being phased out in favor of colo?
mod6: better not for the time being.
mod6: ben_vulpes: should we get one for the foundation?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if anyone else was wanting these... now when i have the pen in hand, i can write five like i write one, so speak up.
ascii_field: phun phakt of the day: gnupg 1.4.10 permits dynamically loaded turds, in a manner similar to openssl.
mircea_popescu: alright, then it can be tangibles obviously.
mircea_popescu: you want the box in case this blows up ?
mircea_popescu: i think the colo price is a little overboard, myself, but hey, maybe they're worth it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so the deal im ok-ing here is,
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: the who now ?
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 17:49:22; mircea_popescu: since you're doing the whole translation shtick, here's another super-hard one : http://trilema.com/2011/sfinta-inocenta-puberala/
mircea_popescu: since you're doing the whole translation shtick, here's another super-hard one : http://trilema.com/2011/sfinta-inocenta-puberala/
assbot: The People We Trust to 'Save' Women From Prostitution Keep Paying Them for Sex—and Worse - Hit & Run : Reason.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSMqbn )
pete_dushenski: https://reason.com/blog/2015/10/17/sex-traffickers-in-blue?utm_campaign=naytev&utm_content=56229484e4b037e37ef20fa7 << prolly on this list somewhere, the brothel
ascii_field: wasn't there a thing where chicago police dept. had one.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: how is this any different than a ghetto brothel?
mircea_popescu: prolly make pretty decent rent off all the state kid support.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if i wanted to be a usian slumlord, i'd buy a decrepit building, hold auditions for (nude) black women under 25, on the premise that they get to stay there free, but they don't get to say no to any cock.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: not a bad gig, really. actually does more for 'the people' than gov't ever did.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and you can make it norse! swap out the t's for ð's.
mircea_popescu: but specifically with the ы not i.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the romanian vernacular unarticulated agreement is ihi
ascii_field: laugh, but this is the language most of the actual ukr elite speaks (into the microphone. ru at home, without exception)
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: ukr is not so hard. just learn ru and swap all the vowels with ы !
ascii_field: with the Wand of Curative Thrust ?
mircea_popescu: you know, in my experience beauty is A LOT more isolating. i spent my fucking youth doing psychotherapy on six foot, one gallon titted blond 17 to 22 yo beauties who wanted to be PEOPLE
ascii_field: 'wealth therapy' ?!
assbot: Wealth therapy tackles woes of the rich: 'It’s really isolating to have lots of money' | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1OSJOKz )
pete_dushenski: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/17/wealth-therapy-tackles-woes-of-the-rich-its-really-isolating-to-have-lots-of-money
punkman: @wikileaks ANNOUNCE: We have obtained the contents of CIA Chief John Brennan's email account and will be releasing it shortly.
mircea_popescu: this is how this thing works : always better than you expect it to, and the inconvenience is never quite as significant as you imagined.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but the important point you're not making re mexico is that... it worked.
mircea_popescu: these fucktards already gave humanism a bad name, they'll manage to shit simple "human" too ?
mircea_popescu: "he could have at least apologized so i could say "hey, someone doesn't apologize if they didn't do anything" instead of this weak sauce "they don't get arrested if they didn't do anything".
mircea_popescu: Generally, if someone doesnt do something wrong, they dont get arrested, he said. Just the simple human aspect of it, he couldve apologized
for doing what he did.
punkman: "Neighbors reported seeing a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to scale an 8-foot-high wall that surrounds the property at the end of a cul-de-sac"
ascii_field did not know that these were today rare enough to make nyooz
assbot: Logged on 05-07-2015 21:37:26; mircea_popescu: war means, i fear i have to remind, spending the next 5 years without a woman eating your belt and shitting in a hole you dug yourself.
ascii_field: to take up guerilla arms, your life needs to have meaning outside of the electric grid.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:48:08; mircea_popescu: someone, somewhere, actually took up arms to resist nafta. and the respect they're paid is, "oh, goatfuckistan". who in oregon ? who in california ? who, anywhere ?
pete_dushenski: i won't wander too far down that path then
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski sure, but that'd be their problem.
pete_dushenski: they're perfectly persuadable by threats
mircea_popescu: what might ? there's no might.
pete_dushenski: their 'right' is might.
mircea_popescu: and if real estate holders think pooling THEIR moneyt is such a great idea, guess what ? they will.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, no.
mircea_popescu: THEN we might turn the other way for a little time over a little tax leftovers to make the transition smoother.
pete_dushenski: i can see renouncing taxation of income and capital gains, sure, but real estate tax would still seem to be on the table, no ?
mircea_popescu: read up on the original merchant's guilds for a broad idea.
mircea_popescu: recognition of b,tmsr~ supremacy in commercial legal matters ; personal immunity to members, the lot.
mircea_popescu: and no bitcoin investment into "vc companies" or any other fiat bullshit is going to happen until we get some serious structural reforms.
deedbot-: [Trilema] The sad story of Sacrifice - http://trilema.com/2015/the-sad-story-of-sacrifice/
mircea_popescu: it will drop a lot more before we're done with them.
pete_dushenski: "VC investment in bitcoin companies dropped 41% from $145m to $85m – the lowest total of the last four quarters" << in more than one place.
pete_dushenski: "Chinese cross-border investment in greenfield projects and in expansion of existing projects in Africa fell by 84 per cent in the first half of this year compared with a year earlier, from $3.54bn to $568m." << the waterfall is drying up.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 15:06:41; asciilifeform: sounds appealing. what does a 4GB SDRAM stick cost there ?
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304509 << the enduring depth of the prison of the mind...
assbot: The Wizard of Oz (5/8) Movie CLIP - Finding The Tin Man (1939) HD - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1PAplMa )
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304455 << speaking of islamic state, looks like canuckistan is pulling out of their aerial offensive
pete_dushenski: well, it's the same thing in the sense that u.s. wanted tightly controlled and self-advantageous 'free trade'. canada complied. argentina didn't.
mircea_popescu: quite not the same thing.
pete_dushenski: actually, the 'softwood lumber agreement' expires this month.
pete_dushenski: canadian provinces wanted to subsidise their industry via 'stumpage fee' but usistan said that this was 'unfair' and imposed a compensatory duty on canadian softwood lumber. much fur flew but canada eventually agreed to 'anti-dumping' price schemes.
pete_dushenski: this was the essential dispute over canadian softwood lumber vis-a-vis regulatory jurisdiction under nafta
mircea_popescu: someone, somewhere, actually took up arms to resist nafta. and the respect they're paid is, "oh, goatfuckistan". who in oregon ? who in california ? who, anywhere ?
lobbes: <mircea_popescu> also, in 1994, they rose up in armed rebellion. you know why ? << looks like they weren't having none of that NAFTA stuff, huh?
mircea_popescu: look up the why.
mircea_popescu: so no, the free and sovereign part is no joke.
mircea_popescu: also, in 1994, they rose up in armed rebellion. you know why ?
mircea_popescu: bout the same as everywhere else.
asciilifeform: sounds appealing. what does a 4GB SDRAM stick cost there ?
mircea_popescu: oh also, it's "the free and sovereign state of chiapas"
mircea_popescu: thanks fucking god i had the presence of mind to do that when i was 20
asciilifeform: but you went there while being mircea_popescu, no ?
mircea_popescu: how trhe heck would you know. fucking chiapas is one of the best places on earth.
asciilifeform: have not been there in person, no.
mircea_popescu: what do you even know of mexico ? you ever been there ? and i don't mean fucking cancun with arizona university sluts.
mircea_popescu: you can't even afford to analyse them, apparently.
asciilifeform: my attempted point was precisely that, not being escobar, many more places are uninhabitable from my pov, because i cannot afford to terraform them.
asciilifeform: point was, if you are escobar, the middle of the sea can be a civilized country for you, because you can afford to re-create it.
mircea_popescu: fact is they survive, and if asked to discern what is and isnt a goatfuckingstan i'd take their word above yours
mircea_popescu: of the 12 mn people living here, NONE owns personal reactor.
mircea_popescu: (you realise "goat country" is a proxy for disability right ? we don't call them cruthces, we call them mechanical mobility aids! )
asciilifeform: i do not, for instance, own personal reactor. rely on other folks', believe.
asciilifeform: but they do not make for an alt-civilization
asciilifeform: at least, not the part that hangs.
asciilifeform: for so much as setting foot there.
asciilifeform: interesting moar for the fact of malaysia enabling arbitrary kidnapping by usg of whoever
assbot: Breaking 512-bit RSA with Amazon EC2 is a cinch. So why all the weak keys? | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1RW95nf )
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/10/breaking-512-bit-rsa-with-amazon-ec2-is-a-cinch-so-why-all-the-weak-keys
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: washing doesn't remove substance taken up by the plant while it was alive (nor insecticide secreted internally)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304415 << considerably more than 10k: an appraiser would have to show up and ascertain that the thing still works, before it is shipped; and it'd have to be crated (wood) and packed in air
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 07:08:42; mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/01/is_genetically_modified_food_s.html << o look, there was a study about gmo toxicity. oddly i never heard of it.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304392 << 'gmo' == monsanto/roundup in precisely the same sense as 'pc' == winblowz.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 06:29:41; mircea_popescu: from the notrly news dept : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/20/western_digital_bad_hard_drive_encryption/
punkman: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/20/alabama_judge_orders_poor_defendants_to_give_blood_to_avoid_jail.html
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 04:13:01; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304285 << i've considered many things, but the cost of any of them eclipse the worth of the box
HeySteve: #InternetOfThings is when your toaster mines bitcoins to pay off its gambling debts to the fridge (twitter.com)
HeySteve: crumbs, the new buttcoin desktop background
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/01/is_genetically_modified_food_s.html << o look, there was a study about gmo toxicity. oddly i never heard of it.
assbot: WordPress blogger patch foot-drag nag: You're tempting hackers • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZWhrAo )
mircea_popescu: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/20/wordpress_security_flap_xml_rpc_brute_force/ << notice the one missing thing in the laundry list.
assbot: Western Digital's hard drive encryption is useless. Totally useless • The Register ... ( http://bit.ly/1ZWhhZL )
mircea_popescu: from the notrly news dept : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/20/western_digital_bad_hard_drive_encryption/
mircea_popescu isn't gonna forget those bitcoin they stole.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://38.media.tumblr.com/c2ba427794f9125fa67e4c873463f556/tumblr_ng2ody7eLR1soqeaqo1_400.gif
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo is a candidate for single-handedly reviving the mega-newsgroup alt.tasteless ?
BingoBoingo: ;;google Until then, Id only heard of alcohol showers. Turns out 70% isopropyl alcohol is about the only thing that can even touch a scent like that once its soaked into your skin. It takes four or five bottles to get really clean, but its worth it. Its probably the only scenario I can honestly endorse drinking a little of it, too.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304285 << i've considered many things, but the cost of any of them eclipse the worth of the box
asciilifeform: 'bread of the sieve cable.'
asciilifeform: there we go.
mircea_popescu: comes from br, the ancient ur word for sawdust, and ead, which is rat droppings in maori.
asciilifeform: the only reason i mention the cable tidbit is the sheer mindfuck of learning of the 'copper-clad aluminum' fraud
asciilifeform: the price of this humble construction material has nearly doubled since i last had to buy.
BingoBoingo: Same for electical cable. I pity the fire departments.
asciilifeform: today i learned (tm) that most ethernet cable presently sold is a fraud - copper-plated aluminum. and that if you want actual copper - it'll be ~150 usd / 300 metre bobbin, or so.
mircea_popescu: shit, they do this already.
mircea_popescu: generated the same way, of course.
mircea_popescu: but, in the interest of postmodernism, the kernel should have a futher /u/bias/ which should contain bits describing the bias-ness of the /u/rand
mircea_popescu: the source talking about bias is not a legitimate debiasing approach.
mircea_popescu: "Medical journals are rarely accused of ideological bias, they are accused of financial bias. The press are rarely accused of financial bias, they are accused of ideological bias. If you studiously spend one month looking for the opposite bias in both, what will happen is that you will become an alcoholic. "
ben_vulpes: "Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money"
assbot: Of skimmed milk and skimming the milk on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GhlBfL )
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: which is the article in which you discuss what a "supermarket" is?
gribble: Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/>; Strategic superiority, a saga on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/2012/strategic-superiority-a-saga/>; The "Christian Europe" and other aberrant notions on Trilema - A ...: <http://trilema.com/2015/the-christian-europe- (1 more message)
deedbot-: [Qntra] Operation Cyber Juice: Police and Their Favorite Drug of Abuse, Part 1 - http://qntra.net/2015/10/operation-cyber-juice-police-and-their-favorite-drug-of-abuse-part-1/
mircea_popescu: derpy "social worker" just gave himself a monopoly. he is needed, don;'t you know, because parents aren't "political proxies" for their children. heck, parents don't exist at all.
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 00:47:53; BingoBoingo: Need the trifecta of over weight item, hard to insure, actually demands delicate treatment beyond UPS or USPS can provide
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: 50% of American Kids Receive Food Stamps ... ( http://bit.ly/1KnyH6b )
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/11/50_of_american_kids_receive_fo.html << check out this crazed shitthink! "In meeting the basic needs of children, the only real alternative to the family is the state, an alternative that is increasingly incapable of meeting the growing need." / "Children depend upon political proxies to advance their societal claims."
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 02:30:16; asciilifeform: forgot the title
BingoBoingo: And if asciilifeform gendarmie predictions come true the still will like...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Tis a new site. The biological limits part involves US Law enforcement and clearnet markets they seem to like vs dislike.
asciilifeform was not aware of there having appeared new biological limits...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Actually right now I'm working on a qntra piece on biological limits. originally targeted it for end of the month, but should be out by end of the week
assbot: Logged on 21-10-2015 01:28:08; BingoBoingo: Also a wouldn't a 250 GHz chip cooled by having a small jet engine intake pull away the hot air be cool?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-10-2015#1304253 << perhaps BingoBoingo should look into the LN2 pc recipe.