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billymg: asciilifeform: in light of deedbot wallet's pending closure, would you be open to invoicing me for one additional full year of ISP service?
billymg: asciilifeform: and as much as i'm aware of that it still feels like more "attention"
billymg: asciilifeform: and as the exchange rate shifts the threshold for +ev gets lower, which i think has something to do with this thread coming up again today
billymg: asciilifeform: makes sense
billymg: i.e. let's collect as much as we can from behind our terminals before we start expending real resources on collecting
billymg: i now see those as more shit tests, similar to fud letters sent out by three letter agencies
billymg: me*
billymg: asciilifeform: very familiar, yes, it's what originally brought be to trilema in the first place
billymg: asciilifeform: that's a good clarification. what i had in mind re: 'zuckerbrin can control supply cap' falls more in the category of 'can persuade 1e7 lamers to use $fork instead of bitcoin' than 'break bitcoin as it exists as software'
billymg: asciilifeform: out of those, yeah, none seem to be quite as threatening now as they theoretically seemed to be back in e.g. 2014. if that is all that is meant by "control" then i could live with it
billymg: if control like fed controls usd, then i have no interest in it
billymg: i agree it depends on definition of "control"
billymg: asciilifeform: i was sort of correcting myself mid thought, as what i laid out in the previous lines didn't sound much like 'control' at all
billymg: can manipulate exchange rate to some degree
billymg: but controls in sense of, i guess, has the most?
billymg: sorry, as in, can't alter those properties
billymg: can't stop asciilifeform from holding/receiving/sending whatever/whenever, 21 million remains 21 million, etc.
billymg: asciilifeform: in this scenario, does it matter to you if zuckerbrin/mp/et al control so long as original promise (found key? keep car) remains intact?
billymg: asciilifeform: to me too, yes
billymg: it's something i think about on a personal level but haven't figured out the answer to yet
billymg: if you're not in the wot how can you make any claims to ownership in the first place
billymg: asciilifeform: right, the point about about need to be in the wot to own anything of value
billymg: someone has to marry their daughters after all
billymg: my theory is that the lizard men of the last century need someone to pass the torch to, and it's getting passed to tech bros via unevenly distributed inflation and bitcoin
billymg: asciilifeform: to say nothing of fact that killing you would certainly yield the 25 tonnes of refined pu but may cause the btc to become locked forever
billymg: asciilifeform: i see your point, and do agree "peasant can't have rembrandt", but holding bitcoin for decade+ without losing is a tad more than luck, no?
billymg: but point was more that to the even fewer few who do have what qualifies: congratulations, you're one of us now
billymg: asciilifeform: may have been off my some orders of magnitude
billymg: the hypothesis i was trying to lay out earlier is that anyone successfully securing some coin has already been inaugurated into their ranks
billymg: asciilifeform: was simply quoting trinque's words in that case
billymg: in that sense, unwillingly
billymg: from*
billymg: i'm not saying it is necessarily "willingly", but it might be the option that makes the most sense form cost/benefit pov
billymg: could just be wishful thinking on my part but i do think it has some advantages for them. they avoid the mess of having to go door-to-door and they placate a small but potentially adversarial part of the population
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-17#1026504 << my point here was that on the other side of the equation some more of the pie is being freed up. elites can keep their same share (and even gain some) while still giving a little extra to those who adopted bitcoin
billymg: asciilifeform: sure
billymg: from the tax filing forms, a yes/no "have you held/bought/sold digital currency at all in prior year"
billymg: asciilifeform: ah, right
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-17#1026535 << mere "sitting on" doesn't require any tribute that i know of, at least at the moment (though this is surely next)
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billymg: which is why the "send fud letters, wait for chumps to voluntarily give it up" is the far more favorable method
billymg: the way i understand it is gov collection is still done based on some calculation of overall ROI
billymg: and if you take the cyanide before they get your stash their return is 0
billymg: but this costs money to do
billymg: asciilifeform: sure, they can show up with guns and take whatever for whatever reason, not arguing that
billymg: i can't seem to find what the "windfall" tax rates are, i thought they were the same as capital gains only assuming a 0 cost basis
billymg: asciilifeform: even in reich, top capital gains rate (currently) is "only" 20%
billymg: i guess neither
billymg: asciilifeform: when comparing amzn/goog to USD i'm not sure which i'd consider the "actual pay"
billymg: asciilifeform: yeah, that makes sense, the 'feeling rich' assumes too many of them don't all start selling at once
billymg: asciilifeform: you don't think that only a relative handful of people being compensated this way, compared to the other 99% effectively getting a big pay cut year over year, will cause the former to have at least a larger share of whatever small pie?
billymg: could be due to pricing out those with packages *not* denominated in stock, which eases demand and keeps prices from rising too fast
billymg: asciilifeform: i do see cost of living increase along with the stocks, but what i witnessed was that comp package grew faster
billymg: it's redivision of the pie as placation, and i think it could be the same calculation for bitcoin
billymg: but because it happens "organically" (hey, who knew stocks would inflate after all this money printing) there's less uproar than would be if HR simply added a zero to every programmer's cash salary
billymg: you can see this playing out with silicon valley compensation too. anyone who can write even the shittiest code is compensated in stock options, which over a few years turns an average programmer's salary into a million+ package
billymg: this could be a way for the elite to secure their continued survival by absorbing a few new members into their ranks, while spitting out a few that are no longer useful (namely those of the hapless geriatric bureaucracy)
billymg: there can't be that many people out there with > 10 btc and capable of managing their own keys to really upset the order of things, so why worry?
billymg: with their Great Reset they seem to be more focused on flattening the 99% of the world, and ensuring they don't consume anymore than a bare subsistence-level of resources
billymg: re: discussion of the elite and bitcoin, has it been discussed yet that perhaps the elite decided that allowing the 0.01% of the world pop capable of getting their hands on some coin (and managing to keep it) to join their ranks was not actually such a bad thing?
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-16#1026433 << re: mining (de)centralization, there are at least two north american companies selling gas powered bitcoin miners to oil fields: https://www.upstreamdata.ca https://gam.ai
billymg: it's a handy feature and i noticed mp-wp doesn't have it (or at least it isn't obvious to me yet where it's buried if it does indeed exist somewhere in there)
billymg: asciilifeform: what do you use to generate the list of popular articles in your www's sidebar? is it automated based on view count? hand rolled functionality or off-the-shelf wp plugin?
billymg: they've*
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-16#1026239 << tbh anything below $100k is a bit of yawn, given all the printing they done and how much the stock market has inflated as a result
billymg: !!v 2C1379DE196D1006D81261B7BB39AF50A9171FCD58E842A3CD176BA067493479
billymg: feel free to invoice for another quarter and i will take care of it as soon as i can
billymg: asciilifeform: would very much like to continue, thank you
billymg finally got real internet just now, coming to the house via cable and not from distant tower
billymg: asciilifeform: ty
billymg: testing znc on the new rockchip... took a minute to figure out all the znc setup/config stuff again (seems to be working though)
billymg: asciilifeform: made that mistake once a long time ago, Never Again(TM)
billymg: asciilifeform: likewise, and will do
billymg: asciilifeform: excellent, works for me
billymg: asciilifeform: noted
billymg: ok, got it
billymg: asciilifeform: perfect, sounds good
billymg: asciilifeform: none i can think of, my old pizarro unit was fine so as long as this one is roughly the same that's all i need
billymg: asciilifeform: awesome, tyvm
billymg: !!v AE66750204D61048CD7626253A3B2D74B5DF3E9BFEB1B8959A1B59793B100AE2
billymg: asciilifeform: sure, the 256 is fine. will send a pgp gram to officially request
billymg: asciilifeform: i'm interested in a rockchip w/ 128GB ssd. need to finally move my blog off anyserver and my bouncer off amazon. as i understand from the price calculator it'd be about $55 quarterly?
billymg: asciilifeform: hrm, at least in my situation, though the quiz material was bordering on satire, no employee dared openly joke about it
billymg: asciilifeform: i've done the anti-"harassment" ones as well, agree it's just test taking
billymg: asciilifeform: sure, but what happens when place where asciilifeform earns his bread announces mandatory "anti-racism training" or whatever. do you keep your dignity and quit, or submit and continue collecting salary?
billymg: shinohai: lol
billymg: and as my grocery store example points out: like violence, even if you're not interested in it, it is interested in you
billymg: i think i check it mostly to see how the culture war is going
billymg: asciilifeform: i dunno what it is about twitter, it's an unhealthy addiction for sure
billymg: shinohai: lol, quit reading that entirely as well, don't even skim the headlines anymore
billymg: to idiots
billymg: but the chart of cumulative cases sure looks scary
billymg: though even by their own numbers only a 0.4% mortality rate, and of those mostly elderly/sick
billymg: shinohai: yeah, this particular store, in a heavy gringo tourist area, has been especially draconian in their policy since the whole thing started. also for whatever reason the "ministry of health" here has been amping up the fear lately
billymg: speaking of the ever-creeping insanity, had to buy and then wear a mask for the first time yesterday simply to get into a nice grocery store
billymg: there's still some sane individuals on twitter, but every couple of months twitter purges a few more of them
billymg: i quit checking reddit completely around five years ago, agree it's much worse
billymg: shinohai: i don't know how you have the stomach for it. it's something i regrettably check now and then, out of a sort of habit/addiction, to see what the current hysteria is, but extended exposure is noticeably corrosive
billymg: shinohai: no worries, just wanted to follow for the occasional lulz
billymg: shinohai: what's your handle on there?
billymg: annotation*
billymg: i mean the method annotatoin type comments, used for autogenerating documentation
billymg: which seems like it's fine to leave in
billymg: asciilifeform: there are also a lot of comments for auto-gen'd documentation. i haven't counted up to see how much of the weight comes from comments specifically yet but could add up to 10-20% maybe
billymg: asciilifeform: regarding empty directories not deleted by V, has this been discussed before?
billymg: (which i have listed in my head for removal)
billymg: asciilifeform: can't say for sure, possibly with the "upgrade my version of wordpress" feature
billymg: few*
billymg: i'm sure there are a fe
billymg: (if anyone has one handy, plz let me know)
billymg: i was also going to take a stab at writing a static analysis script to identify methods that are defined but never called
billymg: those look like easy candidates for a future slimming patch
billymg: 96kB for a text diffing engine, and 188kB for images (smilies and such)
billymg: asciilifeform: 220kB in empty directories, at least the way `du -h` counts it on my machine
billymg: i'm confident *much* more can be cut though, yes
billymg: asciilifeform: i wish i could say for sure but have not yet looked closely enough at what remains
billymg: that's my best guess, if it's still not working let me know and i can look closer
billymg: thimbronion: if you're running mp-wp off of version 631542 then server-side select should work out of the box. maybe double check the root .htaccess file to make sure this line is present?
billymg: what is now the "parse and format my posts" plugin (formerly footnotes only)
billymg: thimbronion: jfw published the patch for finally removing the old js selector from the trunk of mp-wp, and then i followed that up with adding the server-side select mechanism to
billymg: and i'm a bit biased but imo using the admin UI in this version feels much more pleasant as well
billymg: if anyone is interested in a fresh version of mp-wp weighing half the size of the original genesis i just published a patch for it here http://billymg.com/2020/06/the-mp-wp-weightloss-program-removing-javascript/
billymg: from the site: "We believe that Emojis have expressive force. Let’s use that to make programming more fun and accessible."
billymg: trinque: it exists: https://www.emojicode.org/
billymg: and watch them rewrite compilers and runtimes to support "localized" code
billymg: would be funny to get a troll campaign going against programming langs being written in english (language of colonialists and opressors)
billymg: iirc i vaguely remember the "argument" against the term master back in the early 2000s in relation to hard disk jumper settings
billymg: shinohai: i suspect they won't stop until every thinking engineer either quits or goes insane
billymg: asciilifeform: will read, brb contractor just got here
billymg: but with own chip fabs, and fiber optic cable? or just the separation part?
billymg: ah, gotcha
billymg: asciilifeform: not sure i follow, what means "copy 'technology' of closed-loop folx"?
billymg: asciilifeform: man, black pill indeed
billymg: but with the closed loop groups (amish, etc.), aren't they fully "opted out" of the sanctioned economy?
billymg: asciilifeform: that's a good point, serfs need livelihood, and only livelihood on offer is from other allies anyway
billymg: asciilifeform: aha
billymg: if one or two cows wander off the farm, farmer might not notice, or care. if half do, goes to check where they went
billymg: asciilifeform: perhaps nothing, but just no longer doing what they are supposed to (taking out loans and shopping, warming office seat, etc.)
billymg: as does (did) tmsr
billymg: likewise if masses all decided to tmsr (to the best of their ability)
billymg: but i mean, if john/jane doe all started dropping out of usg.college to go live amish lifestyle, then they'd suddenly start getting attention
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-06-08#1014481 << not sure if that's what i'm referring to, though familiar with concept
billymg: asciilifeform: same situation here for bandwidth, about 10x
billymg: asciilifeform: yes, fully believe it's an roi calculation
billymg: asciilifeform: i think there might be a common element between hassids (and amish, etc.) carrying on unmolested, and e.g. alf not being gassed -- members of the herd are not dropping out of school/office life to go join
billymg: asciilifeform: re: available items, bandwidth, etc. - definitely true. and when can be had, always at significantly higher cost
billymg: costa rica, on the pacific coast side
billymg: failure to build*
billymg: but this can also be seen as my failure to not build a decent meat-wot consisting only of sane people
billymg: something else i personally like about being socially distanced from the US is not having to interact daily with the inmates. especially now with their mask-wearing, blm-kneeling campaign going on. i think there's some mental health value in just not being steeped in the madness 24/7
billymg: asciilifeform: as in, connections matter? of course, wouldn't disagree with that
billymg: so this i see as another bullet for thimbronion's list, country outside (at least physically) of zone increases costs again
billymg: increases cost to usg
billymg: asciilifeform: yes, ideally ranch with some neighbors you know well and see you at church every week
billymg: asciilifeform: i agree in general with "there is no outside", but i think there are degrees to the inside-ness, which mostly have to do with the usg's cost to harass vs. result of harassment. e.g. it costs little to go bother the person living in a big city high rise (doorman working for building corp just hands over keys), whereas bothering the guy living on a ranch in texas costs slightly more
billymg: asciilifeform: none scheduled, but seems to be spreading to other areas with high orc populations
billymg: any signs of the riots starting in your area yet?
billymg: morning asciilifeform
billymg: gotta run now, irl tasks
billymg: cool, will have to look into it further then
billymg: asciilifeform: was gonna ask if it was mostly a matter of time, makes sense
billymg: i see now it relies on geshi as a dependency too (i'm not familiar with this library yet)
billymg: asciilifeform: ah, got it
billymg: but way it works is just calls a highlighter function, so would simply call out to a more complex highlighter in the case of other langs
billymg: and diff was easy to support, since coloring is only at the line level
billymg: well currently it only supports plaintext and diff (note also this version is already out of date, with indexes instead of strings for lang keys)
billymg: asciilifeform: the code embed thing works similar to footnotes, but with [langname[...]] as the open/close tags
billymg: asciilifeform: oh nice, yeah i'll start looking at it and think of how to integrate into the codeblock formatter
billymg: > autogenned << ah, fair
billymg: asciilifeform: true, and i find table very useful still (am using it for the codeblocks actually). i guess nothing wrong with font tag, but <span class="variable"> rather than <font color="red"> makes it so you can later update your highlight color with one line of CSS rather than run old files through sed
billymg: asciilifeform: lol at the <font> tag, haven't seen one of those in two decades probably
billymg: from this, could add start/end column numbers. combination of line and column numbers for selecting down to char level
billymg: this only applies to embeddable code patch i'm working on, but line numbers already linkable, e.g. http://billymg.com/2020/04/updated-patch-code-embed-plugin-for-mp-wp/#S1-L9
billymg: right
billymg: asciilifeform: ah, selecting individual characters will require something different
billymg: i have an idea for a fix but given how long this patch has been pending i will likely first publish as is and hold the cross-paragraph selection fix for a future patch
billymg: though it still suffers from this same current limitation, which is more pronounced in code blocks (can only select one line at a time)
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-05-10#1011917 << was under the impression that he outsourced this. in any case i have working locally the server-side select mechanism inside codeblocks
billymg: shinohai, asciilifeform, trinque: thank you again for the responses, left a reply just now. sorry for the delay, was catching up on a few irl things
billymg: shinohai, asciilifeform: ack, ty
billymg: PeterL, whaack, asciilifeform, verisimilitude: thank you for taking your time with the survey, just left a response to each of your write-ups
billymg: asciilifeform: np
billymg: asciilifeform: fixed one link and one 'WWW' string that wasn't intended as a link, let me know if anything else is off
billymg: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-04-17#1010319 << thank you, approved your response along with alf's
billymg: shinohai: sounds good, thank you. and yes, definitely, non-mp-wp users wanted as well
billymg: PeterL: approved, ty!
billymg: asciilifeform: tyvm, looking forward to reading
billymg: PeterL: sure, much appreciated. link is here: http://billymg.com/2020/04/mp-wp-user-survey/
billymg: would either of you have any interest in taking a look / potentially responding?
billymg: asciilifeform, shinohai (and anyone else for that matter): i put together a short survey to help me better understand how people here use their blogging software. it includes a set of questions specifically for people *not* using mp-wp because to me this input is just as valuable as that from current mp-wp users in developing my perspective
billymg: asciilifeform: will do. and ack re: no 'emerge --sync'. i remember being reprimanded for this on my first gentoo build a year or so back and have not forgotten the pain it caused
billymg: vs. trying to fight with all the garbage in upstream gentoo
billymg: as someone new to using proper linux OS's this was a godsend
billymg: heya asciilifeform, just wanted to drop by and mention i've now used your dulap successfully on two machines, an amd FX desktop and a lenovo E545. in both cases it worked like a charm without any modification to the kernel config
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