BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But this time they save themselves the trouble of actually broadcasting tx
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: except then it was to brainwallets (using the classical hash algo) with words like 'password'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they did almost exactly this last time
mod6: <+analmaster> why boxes << oh, yeah it is im sure, but i heard that if you're short on horizontal planting space, you can do the boxes and get them to grow vertically so you can produce more in a smaller space. maybe I'm wrong though?
analmaster: oh the rocker. i quite enjoyed that movie.
analmaster: the drummer
assbot: Elon Musk reveals plan to drop thermonuclear weapons on Mars to prepare planet for humans - News - Gadgets and Tech - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1JXwYWj )
jurov: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-reveals-plan-to-drop-thermonuclear-weapons-on-mars-to-prepare-planet-for-humans-10494346.html fuck yeah, let's assemble some nukes on orbit!
analmaster: the beetles just left my back yard a few weeks back.
analmaster: i would buy a handheld hitler for sure. will leave no stone unturned in search for the filth.
analmaster: they are slowing taking over our country.
analmaster: i also get raped by the japp beetles. my suggestion, every morning ( and night during peak season) take a hand heled vacuum and suck them off
mod6: apparently, "asian beetles" or something. they were fucking all over the leaves of the cukes, zucchs and rasberries. little bastards.
mod6: 60 days of melons tho, that's some fortitude right there.
analmaster: i almost completed the melon challenge this year.
asciilifeform: mod6: analmaster toils with me in the minez. but he is also a mega-farmer in his off hours.
asciilifeform: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-10/bullying-allegations-against-monash-senior-surgeon-upheld/6766046 << linked from one of the earlier items
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 05:18:31; mircea_popescu: (this in particular is a very clever ddos vehicle for the bitcoin tx relay network, because the inept implementation generates a lot of such spurious nonsense anyway)
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269408 << betcha no one would bother if this weren't one of the only two working public therealbitcoin nodes
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 04:41:05; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they actually tried to force the kidz to memorize key sequences for various statistical ops
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 04:29:54; ben_vulpes: and the misfortune of replacing it with the 89 'titanium'
punkman: cazalla: seems like the winner was a deedbot
cazalla: i guess asciilifeform didn't win the makeathon :\ http://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-insurance-consensus-2015-makeathon/
punkman: fwiw, the new, fixed, improved, amazing Firefox likes to crash several times a day on me.
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 00:05:33; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1269003 << even here we have the fake cn drives, in all form factors even, from doctored thumb drive to hollow laptop ssd containing lead weights and sd reader, etc
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269012 << I guess I don't buy enough SSDs (and/or the local vendors are not fucktards). I've never chanced upon usb flash or sd card with fake capacity though.
assbot: So I'm running out of space on my home directory and the btc blockchain is like 50Gb, How do I move it to another drive? : Buttcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1OepfIs )
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3k8mmx/so_im_running_out_of_space_on_my_home_directory/ << meanwhile at the lolfarms.
mircea_popescu: (this in particular is a very clever ddos vehicle for the bitcoin tx relay network, because the inept implementation generates a lot of such spurious nonsense anyway)
mircea_popescu: also getting spammed with unsolicited old blocks. about 2k/hour or so. all in the 200k range.
ben_vulpes: argh and google maps has nuked the "type anything and get directions function"
ben_vulpes: i drove from my office to the heart of downtown in ten minutes today in the middle of rush hour
ben_vulpes: you and alf with the gawdawful quality-of-life, i swear...
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: No seriously at the time the local FTTH gig, the cable co, and the phone co all rented the same inbound fiber line.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski or from the days before logs : http://trilema.com/2013/squares-do-morals-a-porno/#footnote_9_49613
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 01:50:19; BingoBoingo: shinohai: My hometown made a FTTH project a few years ago, obliterated themselves and the other ISPs by installing the big laser backwards
ben_vulpes: not much i can explain to a man sinking into quicksand about the joys of hard land.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> does mazerati idle more luxuriously at the red light than ford pinto ? << Moar cylinders, smoother idle #truefax
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if there's black chicks working the street next to you they'll look at you ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: the ti game, snake ;)
asciilifeform: does mazerati idle more luxuriously at the red light than ford pinto ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: one day someone will explain to me the point of buying a $megabuck machine to sit in traffic jam in.
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 01:22:43; BingoBoingo: $12,000-$15,000 also fits the sweet spot for "toy" vehicles. Less than people pay for a boat and more than they can sell it for.
mircea_popescu: oh chgeck im out, he's the prodean now!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the funnier part still is that the childrenz cooperated eagerly, because you could play 'tetris' and 'dope wars' on the thing
mircea_popescu: we were doing the cantor proof in 10th grade. what's the use of a calculator for that ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. << i never had a calculator in school. of any kind. << I college math calculators became verboten
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: unless 'off-road' is baja dunes, then same.
mircea_popescu: see, school i went to took the exact opposite path.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they actually tried to force the kidz to memorize key sequences for various statistical ops
mircea_popescu: couldn't be bothered to
asciilifeform: trinque: there are several versions floating around, including v6 for winblowz
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. << i never had a calculator in school. of any kind.
trinque: asciilifeform: interesting; I found another one on some math uni site
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: didn't have the grades to stay in canada, decided to make most of opportunities closer to home. not entirely 'for girl' but in no small part was this the consideration.
BingoBoingo spent two weeks of dishwashing checks on ti-89 senior year for the AP calc test
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> and the misfortune of replacing it with the 89 'titanium' << I made this mistake in college. Sold my 'titanium' at a loss
ben_vulpes: whence the fork, pete_dushenski?
asciilifeform: i think all the ti widgets had stats
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. but normally the warde^H^H^H^teacher wouldn't notice if you had something vaguely shaped like '83'
ben_vulpes: quite adequate, rather nifty
assbot: Bitcoinica Theft with unusual transaction to Theymos - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1LljvHO )
ben_vulpes: despite having nominally progressed through the *exact same curriculum*, my 'peers' never mastered this 'one simple trick'.
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 00:25:20; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'equation solver' is actually half of why people bought the thing
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269052 << i routinely aced ME tests simply by virtue of knowing basic linear algebra transformations and how to solve sets of equations with the calculator.
pete_dushenski: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3k8uez/youth_are_the_killer_app_of_bitcoin/ << "After many failed attempts at convincing friends/family/co-workers that Bitcoin is beneficial, one of my Minecraft server players asked me about it. I decided to send over $10 worth on Circle just so he could experience it first-hand. I didn't expect much, since he's young he might not understand even some basic financial c
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: that recent piece isn't half bad
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 04:09:34; mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ka7ic/bitcoin_is_not_visa/cuwcz3y << why the fuck is reddit so racist ?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269269 << Because, they see you rolling, they hating
ben_vulpes: the numbers-fudging piece
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ka7ic/bitcoin_is_not_visa/cuwcz3y << why the fuck is reddit so racist ?
BingoBoingo: Raptor is also rather wide and long for an off roader
BingoBoingo: And fret the expense of every scratch versus having expendable machines plural at the ready?
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: you'd love the f-150 raptor
BingoBoingo: Hard to beat the Ford exploder for rollover champion, but the early 70's GTO pony car is a serious competitor
pete_dushenski: aha, the rollover kings those things
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Since I missed my last fiat window I've been looking also at the basic Chevy Blazer ZR-2, cheap 2 door beasts
pete_dushenski: gotta capture the moment
mircea_popescu: it's for in case they get raped.
pete_dushenski: so yes, hanging out with girls and their iphone 6s' is a liability. welcome to the future.
BingoBoingo: some years, usually if I go for the big tractors
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Every year I've got a combine (as in the farm equipment) and car demolition derby on back to back days hundreds of feet aways
BingoBoingo: Nah, They've got cultural standards to conform to.
pete_dushenski: "The Wembley Demolition Derby is Proud to announce our 10th Anual Demolition Derby which is taking place on September 12th, 2015 at 11:00 a.m until 6:00 p.m."
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Well, the best band for buck autocontacts I know are the demolition derby crowd. They know the parts and cars that fail.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268238 << would be far more interesting if their website could be navigated. like at all.
pete_dushenski: but expensive to maintain any contacts if you don't need them
BingoBoingo: It's just an extension of the engine's cooling system
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: How does the heater not work in a way that wouldn't be cheap to fix?
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 01:20:40; BingoBoingo: And the military hummer has a certain stotting value the Ford "King Ranch" doesn't
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269147 << it's really quite bad ass, the hummer. assuming the heater worked, i'd pick one up for $15k
pete_dushenski: "The Yamaguchi-gumi still boasts some 23,000 core and associate members, around 44% of all yakuza in Japan, according to police estimates. But membership has been shrinking along with an overall decline in yakuza groups, and Mr. Shinoda’s control has grown shakier. “The prolonged economic stagnation steadily chipped away at the yakuza’s financial clout,” "
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Predator II is actually one of the classics of its time
BingoBoingo: Only in the sense that the predator in Predator II was a landmine for Danny GLover and the drug gangs
pete_dushenski: didn't dragons fight men noticably more heroic than the power ranger derp brigade ?
mircea_popescu: it functions somehow. mebbe in in the wrong box
asciilifeform: it won't even function. lacks the db locks correction
mircea_popescu: h < asciilifeform_dns_thermonyukyoolar_kleansing_691f046b0a66c2c80deecd8df0b42d11665b0396.patch < asciilifeform_ver_now_5_4_and_irc_is_gone_and_now_must_give_ip_ebed1af0253ef629bbef4bf2b2d1a94742a81f0e.patch
mircea_popescu: bitcoin < asciilifeform_dnsseed_snipsnip_192f7bc7c14c1d31c7b417c9cd77be51c4d255f2.patch < asciilifeform_orphanage_thermonuke_2d219fdd1a0da960be38797566e9c0820df11ce6.patch < asciilifeform_tx-orphanage_amputation_6ed529e594301a791fb2f8becbe344dd2de9c45f.patch < asciilifeform_zap_hardcoded_seeds_a367b89765d0b82ce2c7f8043f52006399a1e0b8.patch < asciilifeform_zap_showmyip_crud_ebf527ba3b180b1952c4c8b5af990c1fd61e04da.patc
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000161.html << sequence displayed here is current.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ^ which head did you press to ? << wait theres multiple ?!
BingoBoingo: shinohai: My hometown made a FTTH project a few years ago, obliterated themselves and the other ISPs by installing the big laser backwards
BingoBoingo: $12,000-$15,000 also fits the sweet spot for "toy" vehicles. Less than people pay for a boat and more than they can sell it for.
BingoBoingo: Even when they run
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not really. It is hard to get a road worthy title on the things
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lulzy. i'm slightly surprised the thing sold at all other than to a junkyard
asciilifeform: mod6: i was recently in a slightly awkward situation of explaining therealbitcoin to an intelligent n00b, but not able to recommend anything hosted at therealbitcoin.org for actual use
asciilifeform: shinohai: please consider using a civilized pgp key in the future
asciilifeform: shinohai: i guess hitler can decrypt it also, and use the rom.
mod6: <asciilifeform> please consider updating therealbitcoin www to include the actually usable version thereof ? << The only reason I'm holdin' back here is we don't have a certified release as of yet. Will consider putting up v0.5.4-TEST2
asciilifeform: interestingly, ti is (or at least was) one of the most tightfistedly-drm-besotten hardware makers; to the point that PEOPLE GANGED UP AND FACTORED THEIR RSA KEY - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145273.html
asciilifeform: (if you need the rom, ask me)
asciilifeform: i'll leave it there.
BingoBoingo: Everything has a price. Even the bad ideas. Someone has to present the possibility to them.
asciilifeform: it's like cutting somebody open to count their tree rings or sumthing.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << so guy wants to meet a guy with girls and pencils. << mircea_popescu gets it
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can. << Seriously on the AP Calculus test machine and knowing how to use it was THE trump card.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << so guy wants to meet a guy with girls and pencils.
asciilifeform: complete with the 3d grapher thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can.
asciilifeform: believe or not, they let u.s. schoolchildren use '89' on exams.
asciilifeform: it is ~identical~ to the 92 but has no qwerty
asciilifeform: shinohai: if you're not a schoolboy, avoid the 89.
asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tiprog/tiprog.htm << even the asinine 'basic' of these things beats just about anything given to pc novices now
asciilifeform: shinohai: some folks even today do crypto on these
asciilifeform: i regard it as the mark of a thinking man's computer
asciilifeform: greek appeared on the early lisp machine keyboards, as well
asciilifeform: btw these humble machines were superior to pc in a certain respect - greek symbols on kbd !
asciilifeform: shinohai: didja have one of these as a boy ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad. << Other reason for oppresive minimum cost
asciilifeform: if it isn't, it is rather like merely an expensive sort of 'sybil'
asciilifeform: the thing is supposed to sync itself, that is part and parcel of how bitcoin is meant to work.
asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what is the purpose of this? i mean, you can transmit a pgp sig and post the disk
asciilifeform: ditto the famous teapot
asciilifeform: but somehow they only ever get sold to folks who aren't me
shinohai: Remember cn already has the usb chargers that call home
asciilifeform: it will be quite the ideal nsatron
asciilifeform: shinohai et al: i keep waiting for that magical day when these fakes become something like the real thing in the sense of having an embedded wireless nic, silently storing blocks in 'cloud' somewhere
BingoBoingo wonder what interest there would be for physical media containing a WoT attested Blockchain shipped. Rates roughly 0.3 BTC for the media and shipping prices 4 BTC to 400 BTC depending on where the media needs shipped
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2015 00:05:33; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1269003 << even here we have the fake cn drives, in all form factors even, from doctored thumb drive to hollow laptop ssd containing lead weights and sd reader, etc
shinohai: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269012 <<< I actually got one of these abt a year ago, a thumb drive with a couple of cheap bolts hot-glued to the case.
asciilifeform: iirc the shop boss claimed that 'someone returned the package with this fake re-shrinkwrapped into it'
asciilifeform: and no, you will not read about it in the birdcage liner or the fishwrap, because It Never Happened
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1269003 << even here we have the fake cn drives, in all form factors even, from doctored thumb drive to hollow laptop ssd containing lead weights and sd reader, etc
BingoBoingo: Look who returns, the whale clubber http://qntra.net/2015/09/consumers-begin-revolting-bitcoin-is-not-visa/#comment-54127
Birdman: Ah, i'd been inactive as there wasnt anything i could do until i get my bank roll up
mircea_popescu: yo Birdman everyone's looking for you like the 2nd coming in eulora on account of those recipes.
mircea_popescu: oh shit, 2.2k linmes today . no wonder the log seemed endless.
mircea_popescu: tho maybe on the more 500 side of 600.
assbot: HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the distributed, permanent web ... ( http://bit.ly/1L30w9d )
shinohai: Heh: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1/its-time-for-the-permanent-web.html
mircea_popescu: Lets get serious here if you think the government is cooking all manner of economic releases, you need to explain the LFPR."
mircea_popescu: "My commitment to the American people is both simple and straightforward: I will cook any and every number that needs to be cooked. Well see continued job growth, probably an unemployment rate under 2 percent. You also have my word that Ill keep the LFPR above 66 percent. With a little help from my friends, we can probably run a surplus within a year or so, and pay down all our debt over the next decade or so. No
mircea_popescu: but anyways. he does get the point about how there's no thieves and police, but unsanctioned criminals and sanctioned criminals.
mircea_popescu: guy's a boxer. what do you want from him. either he gets a master or flails around helplessly, not like he's going to you know, concentrate really hard and attain enlightment.
mircea_popescu: no locals engaging ? of course no locals. don't worry abut it, usg will ship foreign armed thugs across the border for as long as it takes you to kill it.
mircea_popescu: lol poor lafond, he could be in rhodesia and not know the difference.
mircea_popescu: "On the eve of what may likely be another effort by the white liberal media to fan the flames of race war in Baltimore, Im not seeing as much flammable human material as the media priesthood would have us believe. Surely there will be enough entitled racist foot soldiers to set another 154 fires at least, to empty another four dozen pharmacies and liquor stores, terrorizing more of their fellow blacks than anyone.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Seemingly. Seemingly, to the untrained eye, I can fully understand how you got that impression. What looked like pushing...what looked like knocking down...was a safety precaution! In a fire, you stay close to the ground, am I right? And when I ran out that door, I was not leaving anyone behind! Oh, quite the contrary! I risked my life making sure that exit was clear. Any other questions?
mircea_popescu: ROBIN: But I saw you push the women and children out of the way in a mad panic! I saw you knock them down! And when you ran out, you left everyone behind!
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Because! Because, as the leader...if I die...then all hope is lost! Who would lead? The clown? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave men as cowards?
mircea_popescu: GEORGE (voice is hoarse from screaming): I...was trying to lead the way. We needed a leader! Someone to lead the way to safety.
mircea_popescu: "We are all now well aware that the authorities will do absolutely nothing to protect citizens or businesses and will dedicated %100 of their resources to protecting the police and government personnel and facilities."
BingoBoingo: I thought for true butthurt you needed [=========]~~~~~~ tampons instead to apply pressure to the bleeding. WTF is a bandaid going to do?
mircea_popescu: "we're very butthurt at how bitcoin excluded us. it should not do that. we're important. and the place we left to failed."
mircea_popescu: "the dogecoin derps are experts in what bitcoin should be doing"
cazalla: because, you know, earning the label requires taking your kid to the gp, to a specialist, to an expert, a support group, filling out paperwork for gov autism assistance bezzlars.. wow look at all this attention my kid is getting, must be special and therefore, so am i as a parent, please Like and subscribe
cazalla: an anecdote, but parents want to label their kids autistic as adhd has been done to death
shinohai: Maybe their nest monitor went down and the kids got autism when they weren't being watched.
assbot: Is autism permanent? Some children diagnosed with autism seem to grow out of the core symptoms. ... ( http://bit.ly/1IYWHvJ )
shinohai: Now the dogecoin derps are experts in what bitcoin should be doing: http://digiconomist.net/interview-ross-nicoll
mircea_popescu: "Is it saved in RAM anywhere or perhaps in the java?" << ironically it prolly is lol
ascii_field: titled 'Turns out the current crisis was predicted back in early 2013. Goess by whom.'
ascii_field: kakobrekla: the streamer box
shinohai was flabbergasted these ppl are so upset over such a trivial thing.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 15:11:20; shinohai: Who allows these people to reproduce?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1268077 << nature. for the same reason smart people have idiot kids, idiots usually have smart[er] offspring.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 14:21:26; asciilifeform: the conflation of 'owning gold' and 'using xyz vault' is also reminiscent of the mtgox mediatronic idiocies
thestringpuller: the spam has begun!
thestringpuller: trinque: this is how CS students are taught tho sadly. Oracle doesn't with this either.
mircea_popescu: because rather than paying dues where they are due, how about we just steal their history and pretend it's this guy's instead. he's cheaper)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'hagana' et al set the gold standard for blowing up brits, aha
mircea_popescu: (they also blew up bernadotte. who, amusingly, is very much the character schindler's list is based on, except not named.
mircea_popescu: (btw, the lehi/jdf thing above ? nazi ally, originally. yes, that's right.)
mircea_popescu: "we have no answers and are too fat and lazy to move, so let's just agree they will be supplied for free from the ethers as we need them"
mircea_popescu: So yes, I think they will survive."
mircea_popescu: I bet they've abstracted out the fact that languages are not all that important; they're just the tip of the iceberg of complexity.
mircea_popescu: Now I guess one could argue that those sorts of heroes are what MIT is supposed to produce, but as has been mentioned, this course is not just for CS students. So the real question is, can the CS heroes of tomorrow survive an introductory course in Python? Well, consider that they have probably been modding games since 10, hacking PhP at 12, realizing at 14 they need to learn a 'real' language (C#, Ruby, Python), by 15
mircea_popescu: "The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media that are idiosyncratic. It's a different mindset. I see the reddit-gen programmers talk about things on a completely meta-level. To them, MySql is the hardware. Is it a bad thing? Not necessarily. Some of them hopefully will dig down the stack and be the low-level heroes. But that should (and probably can) only be a small percentage.
mircea_popescu: they should just buy it and run it togeoops nevermind.
mircea_popescu: The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media that are idiosyncratic.
mircea_popescu: "What creativity can there be when your medium is shit mixed with sawdust?"
ascii_field: but unless you need 1,001 of them - no reason to
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: you could probably get'em even cheaper if you figured out where they are and why
mircea_popescu: (and since we're doing historical recovery here : the "shame and war" quote comes from churchill, but specifically - it was in a letter to walter guiness. who was assassinated in 1944. by lehi, which was a sort of jdf of the time)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field besides the point.
ascii_field: everything else - straight to the fermenter vats.
ascii_field: everything about mit worth preserving even theoretically costs about 100 usd and is on my bookshelf.
mircea_popescu: oh, there isn't a word for that so it isn't a thing ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: and then funkenstein wants to talk about "the library of alexandria". because branding.
ascii_field: it is ~there~, like washington
ascii_field: who said there was a point ?
mircea_popescu: so what is the point of mit ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think the mexicans will allow that.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: aaaahahahaha. jesus it must suck to live in the us. << we usians are pretty much living in idiocracy. soon we'll see mass famine due to watering crops with electrolytes.
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 13:33:50; funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267185 <-- I'm told the phrase is antiquated and mostly used in jest today. Perhaps interesting that the translation of "revolution" is more akin to "molting" than "spinning".
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267982 << from what i gather it's "antiquated" and "only used in jest" the same sig heil is.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: one of my secret pleasures is to track historical patterns of linguistic theft by pseudoscience from the genuine article
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267975 "energy". it's getting to where the use of a term without actual equations in the text is a macula of idiocy.
cazalla: i always find these threads amusing tbh
mircea_popescu: aaaahahahaha. jesus it must suck to live in the us.
mircea_popescu: Eventually, it is utterly hopeless. You stand and try not to lose any of your possessions as the crowd crushes in around you."
mircea_popescu: With time, new arrivals stand around you, generally trying not to step onto your blanket. As the beginning of the event approaches, you find yourself staring into the rather private areas of those who arrived after you, and might even feel a bit of resentment at their impertinence.
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who has arrived early at a general admission event will recognize the feeling. You lay out your blanket, thus marking off a small piece of territory for yourself. The other early arrivals do the same. After a while, you start to feel as though that patch of land is yours by right.
mircea_popescu: "We saw this kind of thing a quarter-century ago, when debates raged over whether commercial activity should be tolerated on the Internet. To those, for whom the World Wide Web and WiFi have always existed, such a question might seem unthinkably naive, but back then the idea of Suits playing in Propellerheads' sandbox was the stuff of epic flame wars."
mircea_popescu: must read reddit more, they know from history.
mircea_popescu: staunch defender ? and here i thought i fucking started the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: help reduce carbon footprint with their potential.