mircea_popescu: it's not even "gotta have happy endings", that's not it. it's "gotta have PLENARY happy endings". as usual the actual disease agent is hidden from examination by the very workings of the disease.
mircea_popescu: the us is one, because it fails to be what it DECLARES it wants to be. so was the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: but i know why, now. there IS such a thing as a failed state.
mircea_popescu: your observation re a failed state a few days ago has bothered me hence.
ascii_field: the canonical 'two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner'
mircea_popescu: the alternative being, obviously, usistan. "democracy" if you don't look too closely. such as by living there, or thinking about it any.
mircea_popescu: (which is why democracy is always born and only ever seems to work in states built atop homogenuous nations. if you have multiple distinct social groups, it is strictly impossible to actually represent them while at the same time having a working democracy. which is why mass murder and ethnic cleansing always appears reasonable to the people doing it : they have to choose between democracy and multiculturalism, and the
mircea_popescu: somehow no political "scientist" of the anglosphere figured out yet that democracy and representativity are sides of a field, and when you increase "participation" you generally degrade representativity.
ascii_field: usg lives & breathes embrace&extenduish via 'STANDARDS!!!111'
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and you're not gonna answer "no, they include unenhanced security measures. shithead."
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 21:44:17; thestringpuller: shinohai: http://qntra.net/2015/02/new-security-standard-announced-at-devcore/ << reported on qntra
ben_vulpes: from the lulzmine: "Do specialized systems include enhanced security measures consistent with risk analysis?"
punkman: jurov: where was the quote from?
jurov: it would be yet more hilarious if it said "loaded coins" as it was demonstrated there's no such thing
jurov: yes, the argument flied off in bad direction. i found the recommendation(to check for loaded dice or cards) hilarious in that context
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277872 <<< this is good news, because unbiased randomness sources come in the same box with non-drifting quantum clocks and other goodies.
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i know i ran the numbers at some point, loled and forgot about it.
jurov: why weird. coinbr had a ddos, so I just fired beefier instance to filter the crud that made through load balancer
kakobrekla: i never used aws so i dunno what they have but aws users usually end up using clouflare or smth (see buttstamp)
jurov: Their caching initially caused so much grief to mod6 that he moved foundation stuff out
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't imagine anyone seriously uses them for ddos mitigation. maybe in obscure corner cases.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 04:30:45; copypaste: AWS is quite expensive, but the great thing about it is you never get down due to DDoS.
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277623 AWS is not just virtual servers, but for DDoS resistance one needs their opaque CDN or loadbalancer with considerable learning curve.
mircea_popescu: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/first_steps_in_bitcoin-assets << see there halfway down, it's not hard to register.
mircea_popescu: assbot is on a different wot. they got forked last year.
kakobrekla: > It's up to glibc to return it to the kernel and it is poor at that. < ahhh
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stripclubmc: next up, no that wasnt tux misusing the prison toilets, staright from some forgotten ward in tokyo, hold on tight, it's yuuuurei
mircea_popescu: oh god, the ironee.
assbot: British Isis member complains of 'rude Arabs' who steal his shoes, eat like children – and won't queue - Middle East - World - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1KiRbWM )
mircea_popescu: "Earlier this month, Dell pledged to spend $125 billion in China over the next fiveyears, which is about five times the companys value when it was taken private in 2013. " ahahaha mkay.
mircea_popescu: In a recent speech, Travis Kalanick, chief executive of the ride-hailing company Uber, said that progress brought by his company had to be in harmony with stability, words often used by Chinese officials to signal the dangers of social and political unrest. IBMs China marketing materials use phrases like building a harmonious society and the Chinese dream, the latter a phrase coined by Xi to signif
mircea_popescu: "The first issue is defining an identity. In OpenPGP, the identity is, by convention, an RFC 2822 name-addr, which has the form "John Doe <jdoe at example.com> (comment)" (without the quotes)." << not only is openpgp completely idiotic on this score, but also. wut ?
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punkman: there's also a slight problem when you have identical files with different filepaths, I was thinking of doing path+sha512 in my mappings
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277426 << we might need a rule to not do that without the patch also touching an existing file
BingoBoingo: There's too many bowl games, only way to win the bowl game naming game is pony up for a January 1st game or have the cash reserves
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BingoBoingo: I mean ESPN can do more than the Department of Education to make or break bezzle institutions
BingoBoingo: The Disney empire is viscious, but no arm is a viscious as ESPN
BingoBoingo: ESPN doesn't simply cancel contracts though. To cancel the three game contract BitPay almost certainly had to settle forst just under the cost of the first two games.
BingoBoingo: Given the lack of WoT for all I know this "hack" was just Tony building up his buget for bricks of cocaine while some for of money was there.
BingoBoingo: everythign BitPay is a mess, nothing BitPay makes sense, and the worst damage inflicted upon BitPay still seems explicitly self inflicted
BingoBoingo: Still less of a thing than their Bowl game loss
mircea_popescu: just they filed paperwork or w/e
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so is this in fact the jan one ?
BingoBoingo: Search engine burps prolly make bigger blips on the data transfer graph
mircea_popescu: ahh the coast.
BingoBoingo: Why would it look like anything there compared to complete pipe saturating DDoS
BingoBoingo: Oh shit, https://archive.is/kMu5r also watch the confused USG Phillipenis https://archive.is/Qm4uB
mats: mods asleep at the wheel
assbot: Chile earthquake: one million people evacuated after 8.3 magnitude quake – rolling report | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1OgIiTw )
punkman: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/17/chile-earthquake-massive-83-magnitude-tremor-strikes-santiago-live-updates
BingoBoingo: So far tonight I watched the South Park premier (great) and the MasterChef finale (hiss), next up is the inside of my eyelids
mats: I thought you watched the shit tonight
BingoBoingo: mats: Numbers aren't solidly sourced yet, but looking like "no" on the Paul bet was bank
mats: I put up 2btc on Yes for the eth bet
BingoBoingo: We have the opposite of survival skills floating around here
BingoBoingo: 'Murica http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3237065/The-obese-THREE-year-old-Texas-type-2-diabetes-weighs-5st.html
BingoBoingo remembers first coming to #b-a early 2013 then returning late 2013 and butting heads with benkay
mircea_popescu: the new deedbot- functions are pretty spiffy
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gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: I might not wish well the USG, but I don't want them to get Trump... Where is the challenge in that
BingoBoingo: Is cuckservative really worth supporting that nappy headed impotent bankruptcy specialist over the younger Dr. Paul???
BingoBoingo: But yes less Wotted peeps not that Trump enthusiams has taken from the one candidate who would use executive power to stop spending http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/quick-report-card-a-for-carly-c-for-trump/article/2572288
assbot: Rand Paul Supports Gun Violence Against the US Tax Code - News JS ... ( http://bit.ly/1Md3JSc )
BingoBoingo: A candidick I can stand behind http://www.newsjs.com/us/rand-paul-supports-gun-violence-against-the-us-tax-code/
BingoBoingo: The right oil can seem stick until it is slick
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: didja miss the 'no despair without hope' thing
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I would oil the bricks if I had one of those though
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Pit << apparently even this has a www.
BingoBoingo: copypaste: But they would still have to charge CPU
copypaste: As in, I think they don't charge traffic if it originates within Amazon's network
copypaste: It would be the same.
BingoBoingo: Oh but what if you get DDoS from other AWS instance?
asciilifeform: then light it
copypaste: Your site will be up the whole time.
copypaste: Even if you have to pay $10K for the traffic.
copypaste: AWS is quite expensive, but the great thing about it is you never get down due to DDoS.
asciilifeform actually saw the film, but has forgotten ~everything~ other than the scene with the jail
BingoBoingo: He's the first USG stooge to die
asciilifeform: no, the first link
BingoBoingo: He's the next Kenyan in line
BingoBoingo: In the last one under tha mask, prolly
asciilifeform: am i supposed to recognize the fella in that picture ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i lack the correct lsd for this site.
assbot: /bane/ - IS DONALD TRUMP JUST ANOTHER HOTHEAD??http://vine.co/v/eU59mHr0b5PHE'S NOT IN CHARGE HERE ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lzt71G )
BingoBoingo: copypaste: I love your twitter dispatches from the Islands. Keep on rolling on!
asciilifeform: unrelated (or perhaps not), i found the source of the peculiarly retarded nonstandard tx floods
mircea_popescu: but like an indian's hands are both tendrils of the same filth,
mircea_popescu: that may or may not be the case.
asciilifeform: aren't they all tendrils
asciilifeform: and wai wut, where is the worse alternative to 'bitpay' ?!
mircea_popescu: i dunno what sort of retards these people are, but it's not naturally orcuring.
mircea_popescu: is going to make me give coins to some of the worst idiots in that same space
mircea_popescu: the inept handling of coins by bitpay, perhaps the most washed of the entire fiat crowd masquerading around bitcoin
asciilifeform: but why the fuck would i live out of range of a university with a maths library.
asciilifeform: yeah, i get it, grandfather lenin did say, 'intellectuals are not the nation's brain but it's starfish'.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 04:06:24; mircea_popescu: be it wash dc or the "capital of africa", he gotta be next to the fucking un building.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> na the arse of sa is prolly venezuela << Venezuela is more of a fistula
mircea_popescu: na the arse of sa is prolly venezuela
asciilifeform: where are the arse, mouth, cock, of south america ?
BingoBoingo: It's debateable whether DC with the potomac river outflow is more anal than New Orleans with the Mississippi river outflow...
asciilifeform: wait that continent has ~other~ organs ?!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically alf wants to live in the asshole of a continent << He already does
mircea_popescu: be it wash dc or the "capital of africa", he gotta be next to the fucking un building.
mircea_popescu: basically alf wants to live in the asshole of a continent
asciilifeform: they have statue of pushkin, even.
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asciilifeform: perhaps he can tell you the difference.
BingoBoingo: I'm kinda starting to think the more I read that Tanzania might not be joke for too long. Seriously looking like hardware #b-a candidate
asciilifeform: blasting heathen scum to hell with death ray
asciilifeform: (~that~ particular topologist would work great in tanzania. on his atomic dirigible ! for all i know, it is parked there ~right now~)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to footballists. << Now that is purely the domain of grad students who know they can starve, not immigrants who could Tanzania
BingoBoingo: No there isn't
asciilifeform: only then promoted to people
assbot: Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KrjJ3C )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/lets-address-some-of-the-more-common-pseudo-arguments-raised-by-the-very-stupid-people-that-like-the-gavin-scamcoin-proposal/#comment-115361 << i am suspek this will be one of those articles where people come to cry their hurt butts long after anything.
asciilifeform: (found on www, unattributed. but this was brin the elder! he utters this a few weeks into the class.)
mircea_popescu: triple are worse then ?
mircea_popescu: heh. srsly, what's the big deal ?
asciilifeform: in other nyooz,
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or merely stupid. <<< it's a product. best results (area) for equal sides. but astounding performance can be obtained even with only one of the two
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. << cstropes done by naggum. now that'd be a sight.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: All in the same fire, add more coal.
asciilifeform: the original ultra-strong-typed lang
BingoBoingo: Stupid is prolly more somewhere along the lines of preference. Stupidly obeast though has physiolocical characteristics which necessitate identifying as fat-gendered among the afflicted
asciilifeform: Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. It means that they do not have to cope with anybody else's ideas. They may hope to garner support behind them, but th
BingoBoingo: Well most mitochondria are capable of being culutred on their own in the manner of bacteria (what anyone seriously though 'mitochondiral dna' test were for any reason other chan cheaper?)
pete_dushenski: aha. other life form internalised.
pete_dushenski: "t the intracellular level, discoveries now reveal the existence of 'mitochondrial synapses' establishing mitochondrial networks, with defined chromatin-modifying mitochondrial output signals capable of orchestrating gene expression across the genome. These discoveries raise the possibility that in addition to their role as powerhouses and neuromodulators, mitochondria behave as intracellular signal-processing n
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 20:54:27; mircea_popescu: go break into their trunk box, cut the connection to home, install your own firmware ?
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277196 << this is evidently the definition of terrorism. no different than http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276902
asciilifeform: this was suggested by the three finger-shaped ridges on each side.
asciilifeform: hm, discovered that grasping the thing from both sides on top and mildly flexing towards the center makes it pop cleanly off.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: another conundrum that bedevils me, what is the 'correct' way to open the -92 !?
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:19:09; mircea_popescu: "the other residents of the drab soviet prefab block of flats always envied ivan ivanovich, for this inept pretense of normalcy that he found himself on the receiving end of, even if in all fairness it was not really his fault."
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277129 << i can't read 'ivanovich' without thinking of anna karenina, but there was no ivan there iirc. where's this from, mircea_popescu ?
asciilifeform: other thing worth noting is how it would behave with multiple root ('genesis') nodes
asciilifeform: a 'press' of, e.g., bleeding-edge would take asciilifeform_maxint_locks_corrected.vpatch and asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option.vpatch as the 'head' arguments.
asciilifeform: btw this is the picture i needed to finally say clearly how 'v' ~was meant to work~
BingoBoingo humbly requests a knowledgeable party write a qntra on the recent v-gasm
mircea_popescu will send 1 btc to the foundation donation nao, because srsly.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i take it that the idea of making V the epicenter of bitcoin releases going further is aprpoved by the foundation ?
mod6: that part of the code is gnarly. gotta re-work a bunch of this.
asciilifeform: i officially take back the thing i said re: things not getting done until i do them ...!
asciilifeform: woah the arrow mouseovers work !!
mircea_popescu: this would indicate that of the collection of people who signed, the 2nd 4th 6th 8th 9th 11th 13th etc signed it
asciilifeform: set the text to be negated 24 bits of this, to remain readable
mod6: im sure something can be done there.
mircea_popescu: there are what, 24 bits of color ? take the 24 signatories most highly ranked by mike and set or unset bytes accordingly.
mircea_popescu: mod6 no, do this : use the color bits!
asciilifeform: mod6: possible idea for future graph: colour the patches officially blessed by mod6+ben_vulpes green
asciilifeform: (and would he have to use a full katana, instead of the usual wakizashi ?)
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i suspect that ~this~ magical apogee is not reached until you get to 'too big for the crematorium' max level. << Apparently not even that big
asciilifeform: all that remains is to bolt a patch-eater onto it and then the classical turdatron can enjoy a quiet retirement
assbot: You rated user mod6 on 27-Nov-2014, with a rating of 4, and supplied these additional notes: The cave, age, tace school of thought. Nice work with the Bitcoin Foundation..
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:42:58; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make a shitty lesser something
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:23:59; mircea_popescu: good people come from eve and bad people spawned off lillith, but americans all crawled out from between the thighs of one mae pollitt!
mod6: put the leafs to the same rank, and added the source file names to the arrows. some of the arrow heads come together, so just zoom in and hover over the line if need be.
asciilifeform: i suspect that ~this~ magical apogee is not reached until you get to 'too big for the crematorium' max level.
mod6: ok. try out http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/vpatch-nodes.html
mircea_popescu: there's male, female and stupidfat.
mircea_popescu: dude no wonder they're misrepresenting themselves as "gay" and "transsexual" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: which doesn't have any of the antibacterial and drainage benefits of the female version
mircea_popescu: so basically dudes get so fucking fat there's an ad hoc slit created around their cock
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: is there a magic point, one wonders
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz. << You forget the FUDA: Fat Usurped Dick Area... Basically when the pubic fat is too much for the dick to be externally visible
mircea_popescu: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemontgomery/2015/09/15/bitcoin-is-only-the-beginning-for-blockchain-technology/ << still with this ? seriously ?
mircea_popescu: and you know, once they get their bad boy issues sorted, he'll be the only one ready, lubed up and with a (6 inch!) erection going!
mircea_popescu: i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz.
mircea_popescu: "We have plenty of time to see how this debate plays out. There is overwhelming support from the community, the merchant ecosystem and miners for a blocksize increase. If Core fails to sort out its governance issues, then by the time this problem really comes to the fore, XT will be the only solution implemented and readily available,"
mircea_popescu: which is why they call them "traveling people" historically, or "conference scum" more recently.
mircea_popescu: but the shit artists are, of course, "traveling".
mircea_popescu: The rest of us are busy working, and also a lot of people starting school and stuff so this is a slow period in general."
assbot: So the broomstick fired. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1J3duik )
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://trilema.com/2015/so-the-broomstick-fired/ << there is a trilema << But the trilema is not their failure to pay
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: 'ddos mitigation' is virtually guaranteed not to help you. likely - the opposite. << ANd then move to one of the ten or so other providers
assbot: So the broomstick fired. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1J3duik )
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> apparently they DIDNT actually pay off all the 10-50mn they owed people for their most recent fraudulent move. << care to qntra it?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'ddos mitigation' is virtually guaranteed not to help you. likely - the opposite.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: https://macstadium.com/ and other cheaper options, leader at this point because apparently have "DDoS mitigation"
mircea_popescu: it's a full time job. of the nature and substance of learning to secure windows installations.
mircea_popescu: it's more complicated than that. a very complex balancing act of multiple separate agencies and the overriding consideration of "is the image hit worth it" all evaluated through multiple layers.
asciilifeform: (that is, that 'crime pays' for so long as it involves moving btc to usg coffers and not otherwise)
asciilifeform: i do confess, i expected them to get away with it
mircea_popescu: the land of fictitious persons is mostly notable in a dire absence of death.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! they're still alive ??!!!
mircea_popescu: apparently they DIDNT actually pay off all the 10-50mn they owed people for their most recent fraudulent move.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why on earth would you buy crapple unless intending to run their bizarre os
asciilifeform: a good chunk of these is, likely, attempts at massage
BingoBoingo: Just waiting to see if Apel refreshes the Mac Mini to drop used prices some more
asciilifeform: i suppose this is the opposite magnetic pole from chicks throwing panties at you
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but somehow i don't think this applies to most folks afflicted with 'one-eyed' aim << The reason for closing one eye is reaction speed and avoiding "noise" that emerges in binocular vision when eyes are disparate in their image quality.
mircea_popescu: but "the intuition" thus formed is that you see better
mircea_popescu: THE DOCTOR MAKES YOU CLOSE ONE EYE
mircea_popescu: this mention of the snellen chart finally jarred my understanding of the very widespread misconception that closing eye improves aim accuracy
asciilifeform: 'you will receive the standard substandard education!' -- 'tron'
BingoBoingo: Up until that summer I used to be able to get all but the last line on the snell chart without effort. Last line could get about 75% nao cursed with 20/20 ish vision
mircea_popescu: i have perfect vision, in spite of being on computers since about age 9. nevertheless, that distance is still uncomfortable for the purpose.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the advent of crt ruined eyes << First summer after high school when exposed to computer monitors daily for extended periods of time first... Eyesight measurably worsened, kept myself to panel display only as much as I can after that
asciilifeform: fwiw, my brother, who did not see a computer until adulthood, has perfect vision.
asciilifeform: everybody's mother, turns out, was right.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the advent of crt ruined eyes
mircea_popescu: i bet they didn't even need glasses aged 12.
mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Bundesarchiv_Bild_133-075%2C_Worms%2C_Antisemitische_Presse%2C_%22Stürmerkasten%22.jpg << how the fuck can these people read newspaper print from two feet away.
mircea_popescu: so, "the warlike dough" so to speak
mircea_popescu: blat, in romanian, is the bread of a cake.
asciilifeform: eh, why even bother.
mircea_popescu: 13 yo performance, in the united states of america and the republic of congo, counts as scholarly engineering.
asciilifeform: i shit thee not, official communique