mircea_popescu: the man that has so shot one, is not by this ineffectual, even if invaders left.
mircea_popescu: the man who has not shot an invader in his livingroom is not by this a man who will not. just a trap no invader has stepped on yet, is all.
mircea_popescu: at that time the first trap to ever spring sprung, and the second had not : a) were the other eleven effectual or ineffectual ? b) was the one that sprung effectual or ineffectual ? note that still badgers around, AND FROM THE POINT O VIEW OF THE BADGERS, every item is just as much a trap as the traps.
asciilifeform: when the nostalgiacs stop.
asciilifeform: re: the question of 'when prospered', little story. today i went again to the argentinian fella (who was thrilled that i had visited his home town) to get major work on my car. took a while, and as i always do, went to the antique shops which surround the place for miles around. and, as before, noticed that the artifacts are chronologically upper-bounded around 1955.
mircea_popescu: the infestation is no longer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me approach the matter this way : you have an infestation of badgers in your living room. so you set down a dozen traps. overnight, two traps have sprung.
mircea_popescu: hitler&gobbles' inane insanities certainly do not constitute more of a nordic system than the current socialism.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only marginal avenue for all that is claiming mussolini's claimed italian revival was genuine. i speak the language and do not believe the theory, in agreement with the vast bulk of native speakers.
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps, at the latest, when it feasted on the ashes of the remaining planet it burned in the world wars ?
mircea_popescu: definitely the gilded generation.
mircea_popescu: the man who doesn't steal - also "ineffectual".
mircea_popescu: sane + civilised is only available at times when a civilisation prospers. these aren't these atm.
mircea_popescu: but the comparison can not be properly carried in civilisational terms - there aren't any. the only common ground is natural, and that's what yields there.
mircea_popescu: because what a dead and decaying civilisation does to the brain is indistinguishable from the early stages of mental illness.
mircea_popescu: so the word's backwards.
mircea_popescu: the ascendancy of ideology does not actually bring anything into being but its own zombies.
asciilifeform: btw it is no accident that this term appeared around the same time that these creatures were actually brought into being
mircea_popescu: ie, a being not informed by the rote assumptions of your culture.
mircea_popescu: what if - to him, hungry is the subjective sense of lack induced by watching tv without a milk glass in hand like ... every single case of people watching tv he's seen on tv ?
mircea_popescu: take the easier to digest example of the child who earnestly thinks milk comes from the supermarket.
mircea_popescu: but look : the standard european mecanicism is not a universal ideology. actually, plenty of people have never even heard of it. they regard things - often the same things, yes - but that does not necessarily mean they see themwith the same eyes.
asciilifeform: say he had beaten his brains out against the glass, while attempting escape. while in a sense this is 'honour', what has mouse accomplished ?
asciilifeform is labouring under a very palpable feeling of failing to get his teeth around the enigma here
asciilifeform: 'the scum must die' is an example of an actionable doctrine
mircea_popescu: they do not have concrete aims in your definition of such.
mircea_popescu: no. i don't think your idea of "aims" actually applies to them.
asciilifeform: they have concrete aims, however simplistic
asciilifeform: even the 'jihad' folks don't work this way
mircea_popescu: yes, she was black. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: one certainly can not attempt to apprehend the death of cesaria evora by saying "niggers"
asciilifeform: i'm balking at the idea that the 'how' is this mystical thing that one cannot even attempt to apprehend
mircea_popescu: if your observation about a fact is a word that applies to all facts, you've not even attempted to study the peculiar of the fact.
mircea_popescu: nono, the idea is that calling everything the same thing is the opposite of trying to understand. you can't analyse by synthetic means.
mircea_popescu: well then it's a meaningless concept.
mircea_popescu: let's return to gorgo, the woman that allegedly "spartan women can rule men because they can squeeze them out". her husband famously told her to "mary well and serve her man". also, partizan motherland ?
mircea_popescu: i dun think any of these actually works in this context.
asciilifeform: job of partizan, however, is not simply to 'die with honour', but take some of the scum with him to hell
asciilifeform: i'd like to believe that 'happened.' but want to know ~how~. e.g., are there fewer usg cops today than last week? is the fed printing fewer usd ? what, precisely, is this mark.
mircea_popescu: you have to dig no further than right here. the fact that you feel teh need to sell me on the idea he never happened is pretty much good enough.
asciilifeform digs for the original link / stats / corpse count
mircea_popescu: obama has left no mark on the world. this man - has.
asciilifeform: respectable perhaps in the chechen 'died a good death' sense
asciilifeform: or, on other end of the spectrum, 'isis' et al - also run by & for tards (and usg stooges)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so where are the non-retarded 'postal' ?
mircea_popescu: imo, eunuchs understand... futility. and for bonus lol points, fut is the present indicative of to fuck in romanian.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 12:24:13; mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how greenspun keeps from going on a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
asciilifeform: (these 'alt right' folks have blended into 'indistinct mass' in my head, sadly)
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 17:04:21; pete_dushenski: been following that spandrell character that decimation put the chan onto a few weeks back and i have to say that i enjoy and appreciate his historical research and perspective, but it's a shame how badly the kid still cowers in fear of his own shadow
asciilifeform: (there is an apocryphal story where feynman was invited to spoodge into william shockley's 'sperm bank of genius.' and he said 'you have the wrong address! go call my father'
asciilifeform: 'regression to the mean' ~is~ a thing
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'children of special people' ~do~ tend towards 'indistinct mass.' yes, dynasties of thinking folks existed, e.g., the bernoulis, etc. but most are more like feynman's daughter
asciilifeform ran into a number of 'home school' veterans at uni. did not notice anything peculiar about them as people, neither for better or worse.
asciilifeform: ditto for public schooling vs whatever other kind
asciilifeform: in the past, there was a great deal of noise esp. in usa re: how slum children, in their rookeries, were the way they were solely on account of lead poisoning. well, where is the lead now? and how are the rookeries ?
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 12:23:56; mircea_popescu: some other schmuck by the name of "jim" explains that he would really really want everyone to beliueve that hte children of special people are not in fact special by this fact, but merely indistinct mass, because everything's equal, and moreover that kids who didn't go through the everything's equal idiocizer "lack the ability to empathize with their peers", which is codetalk for "do not credit the i
asciilifeform: did i write here re: how a keyboard (esp. a decent 1980s 'ps/2' one) can be 'heard' from across the street ?
punkman: yeah I'd rather do airgap on laptop with battery than desktop
asciilifeform: (yet another reason to run on a double-converter 'ups' or at least an isolator transformer!)
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 11:45:17; mircea_popescu: punkman antenna has to be very close and the reason they use it on laptops is that it doesn't actually work on metallic chassis desktops.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 15:19:52; mircea_popescu: the us is no longer governable. they can do all usual the song and dance about how "crazy" etc the guy was,
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-06-2015#1169637 << 'not governable' is when the tax receipts dry up, and the cities burn. not when schmuck #xxxxxx fires a few pot shots at cop and dies same day
pete_dushenski: and it's too beautiful to not be outside right now so ima be gone with the wind !
pete_dushenski: if there is a lizard hitler, he's struggling for air beneath his 1000kg cloak of redditardation
pete_dushenski: a buncha unmotivated, uneducated, unincentivised, uncivilised deskjockeys make up the most 'powerful' arms of the firstbestlargestfastest state in the world
pete_dushenski: "I understood that a career spent in a careerist organization has the effect of undermining character and training/selecting for poor moral courage, and that nobody in the US military with the rank and position to plan and launch a coup had the courage to do so successfully."
pete_dushenski: "The French generals were a lot tougher and better educated than almost anyone in US uniform today. They'd started off doing Jedburgh team jumps into occupied France in WW2, went on through the meat grinder of Indonesia (many through Dien Bien Phu) and Algeria. In the meantime, they'd gotten real educations, not degrees in Business Management from West Dickhole State like your typical US officer."
pete_dushenski: i still keep reading him. but he really ought to show up here. i'll have to invite him around one of these days.
pete_dushenski: i left him a comment trying to wipe the shit from his eyes but i dun think it was particularly effective
pete_dushenski: been following that spandrell character that decimation put the chan onto a few weeks back and i have to say that i enjoy and appreciate his historical research and perspective, but it's a shame how badly the kid still cowers in fear of his own shadow
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-06-2015#1169607 << haha. any other gems to share with the class ?
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 11:52:26; mircea_popescu: There are still attacks that can be mounted from large distances. Laptop-chassis potential, measured from the far end of virtually any shielded cable connected to the laptop" << tells you all you actually wanted to know.
pete_dushenski: "Using fossil records and extinction counts from a range of records" << not the most complete picture, this. sorta hard to draw conclusions on how many cheeses there are in the world based on the ones at your local grocery store
mircea_popescu: the minds are scarcely the problem. which is part of why i credit so little the entire "iq" verbiage. if iq were the determining factor in anything we'd be living on the moon already.
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out and lost forever. But I believe enough great White minds are out there already."
mircea_popescu: if the old whore has enough in her to take it.
mircea_popescu: there's going to be weeks with a thousand shootings,
mircea_popescu: the us is no longer governable. they can do all usual the song and dance about how "crazy" etc the guy was,
assbot: The SOPS, or what might you expect from government clerks on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1K2Phfq )
mircea_popescu: chomsky warned it will, there's http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/#selection-349.0-349.11
mircea_popescu: "I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940's American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion." << holy shit, by the time a guy with serious respect for opinions as a mental construct and a preference for historical us over nazi germany goes shooting up the police station you know the sops problem hath come full circle.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck ?
mircea_popescu: "I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem." bwahaha dude...
mircea_popescu: the multicultural proposition is idempotence, not identity.
mircea_popescu: "A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same. " << this is actually a flawed argument on multiple levels. first off, the mule is sterile. second off, the ability to conceive is a very good measure of species proximity. thirdly, there's no proposition of "identity", there's no such thing as bio
mircea_popescu: The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words �black on White crime� into Google, and I have never been the same since that
mircea_popescu: "Nevertheless, if at issue is to find out if FartFarer was the DukeDickwalker's father or uncle one can always trust the wikidorks got it right."
assbot: The definitive tract on sociopathy on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1fnGysY )
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how greenspun keeps from going on a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
mircea_popescu: some other schmuck by the name of "jim" explains that he would really really want everyone to beliueve that hte children of special people are not in fact special by this fact, but merely indistinct mass, because everything's equal, and moreover that kids who didn't go through the everything's equal idiocizer "lack the ability to empathize with their peers", which is codetalk for "do not credit the idiotic propositiopn
mircea_popescu: anyway, the comments on that article are particularly retarded. one schmuck that can barely spell brings the entire "football team fan" argument, without a trace of irony or even the faintest hint of self awareness. he honestly believes that since "technology" today is better than 100 years ago, while the math kids could do out of highschool back then was 10x harder, it then follows that studying hard has no payoff.
mircea_popescu: was in the log earlier
mircea_popescu: "[How is it possible for an adult American to need to spend full-time maintaining a 20-year-old house? I got some insight into this the other day. << holy shit the us has turned into 80s romania.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
PeterL: ;;later tell williamdunne want me to give you the nick "scoopbot" for your bot?
mircea_popescu: all these things which exist...
mircea_popescu: ;;google anastasia the make-up mogul
mircea_popescu: how's the new job ?
mircea_popescu: There are still attacks that can be mounted from large distances. Laptop-chassis potential, measured from the far end of virtually any shielded cable connected to the laptop" << tells you all you actually wanted to know.
mircea_popescu: "Q5: What if I can't get physically close enough to the target computer?
mircea_popescu: yes, further, but logarithmically. the next 1k spent adds 10 cm. the next 100k spent adds another 10 cm. etc.
mircea_popescu: "In order to extend the attack range, we added a 50dB gain stage using a pair of inexpensive low-noise amplifiers (Mini-Circuits ZFL-500LN+ and ZFL-1000LN+ in series, 175$ total). We also added a low-pass filter before the amplifiers. With this enhanced setup, the attack can be mounted from 50 cm away. Using better antennas, amplifiers and digitizers, the range can be extended even further."
mircea_popescu: (not even going into the details of how running bitcoin in the background provides nearly perfect defense for all this, because good luck distinguishing)
mircea_popescu: punkman antenna has to be very close and the reason they use it on laptops is that it doesn't actually work on metallic chassis desktops.
jurov: hush, lest you cause alf to start measuring cardano emanations and delay the project 10 years
mats: > the team is disclosing full details of the Microsoft Internet Explorer research submitted after receiving confirmation that Microsoft does not intend to patch the Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) flaw involved.
assbot: There and back again: a journey through bounty awa... - HP Enterprise Business Community ... ( http://bit.ly/1GpcGCp )
mats: http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/There-and-back-again-a-journey-through-bounty-award-and/ba-p/6756465
decimation: they could be doing something useful, like cleaning toilets
decimation: "However, the mother now has to spend nearly all of her time managing household affairs. ?We had three people to help us in Shanghai,? said the father, ?but here just weekly cleaners.?"
decimation: " In Shanghai the children, age 5 and 11, had attended an international school that was so demanding the parents had to stay up tutoring until 11 pm some nights. Public school in the Boston suburbs, by contrast, is so easy that the children don?t need any after-school help."
decimation: mats: the low line density?
indiancandy1: the makeup mogul
indiancandy1: so u out the game now
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i fucked plenty of them, dun worry.
indiancandy1: so you were on set watching the talent
mircea_popescu: the director's more like the spiritual leader of teh tribe. the producer just makes sure they have enough food and don't fight with it.
indiancandy1: producer is the finance i belive
mircea_popescu: a producer is traditionally more like the adult in charge of the children on the set.
mircea_popescu: memory is getting hazy after all the years, but i dun think i actually directed anything
mircea_popescu: well so then that's why i didn't tell you, because i told them. i can't do everything myself.
mircea_popescu: how did you find out in the first place ?
mircea_popescu: not at the time yet, but anyway
asciilifeform: phun phakt: 'scheme' programming language has its 'call-with-current-continuation', perhaps the oddest and 'most generic' control structure known, which takes the current place in execution and turns it into an assignable (yes) closure (i.e. callable function!) -- typically it is implemented using setjmp().
asciilifeform: (it rubs the reader's face in the fact that all c control structures translate into jumps, which are quite the same as the much-maligned 'goto')
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 00:42:54; asciilifeform: of course, folks who regularly deal with the output of c compiler cannot be surprised by duff's device
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 00:50:54; mircea_popescu: anyway : the do doesn't exist when it appears in the code, but when the returning while is looking for it. much like the tits on the girl don't belong to the girl.
asciilifeform: at ~5 usd / round, one has to really like the music.
asciilifeform: iirc most of them were handed out to police by pentagon, for 'free' (gulfwar2 surplus)
decimation: but this will be the one corner case that will justify $mil in usg 'requirements'
asciilifeform: at any rate, u.s. police love these things. for shooting through cars, boats, walls
asciilifeform: in nato armies, 'sniper' is often used interchangeably with 'designated marksman' which are rather different jobs
decimation: taliban/isil with .50 cal dshk can outrange them
assbot: Why the Marines have failed to adopt a new sniper rifle in the past 14 years - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1IpmuO7 )
decimation: asciilifeform: apparently the marine snipers use .308 with only 1000 yards range http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/why-the-marines-have-failed-to-adopt-a-new-sniper-rifle-in-the-past-14-years/2015/06/13/cb924d96-0eaf-11e5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html
asciilifeform: there are a few ludicrously heavy pistols that fire .50ae. for some reason mircea_popescu seems to like'em.
decimation: it's not really strong enough for that either
decimation: the .50 ae?
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50_Action_Express#/media/File:50_AE_and_32_ACP.jpg << left side - the cartridge mircea_popescu may have been thinking of
decimation: apparently after the round is shipped too many times, the powder becomes too fine and burns off too quickly
decimation: he told me the cheapest way to get ammo is to buy usg surplus
decimation: I have a friend who has one, they are fairly common among shooting enthusiasts
decimation: yes and the armor piercing .50 bmg rounds are common.
asciilifeform: if anyone recalls, a while ago i posted photos from my town's police expo. they had just such a rifle, and introduced it as 'for cars'
trinque: joe stack et al, glory to them all
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah but the desert eagle round is only 33 mm long
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:12:39; trinque: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/06/13/dallas-police-shooting-zombie-apocalypse-assault-vehicle-and-troop-transport/ << looks to be the one
trinque: asciilifeform | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1169198 << umpteenth 'usg vs. clinically retarded schmuck' match. wake me up when the 'usg vs. smart folks' match is being played. << weather's getting hotter all the time
decimation: "Their covering fire kept Whitman down and limited him to shooting through a drain opening, pretty much stopping the killing and giving officers the opportunity to get into the building. The officers also deputized one of the citizens to go with them into the tower to give them a bit more firepower, although he didn't end up facing Whitman.
decimation: "What struck me as most fascinating were the accounts from several sources of how the police dealt with the lack of covering fire that a SWAT team would provide today. They just went to citizens in the area and asked them to bring their rifles and shoot at the tower, and they all went to their pickups, got their deer rifles and did what they could to help."
decimation: https://web.archive.org/web/20070106181008/http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/08/02/152847.php < nearly 50 years ago, before swat teams, police just asked local folks come with their guns and help
decimation: "I cannot quote chapter and verse, but Larry Rosler, who was chairman of the language subcommittee (I think), has assured me that X3J11 considered it carefully and decided that it was legal."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Police disabled the vehicle with a .50 caliber rifle shot to the engine block."
mircea_popescu: anyway : the do doesn't exist when it appears in the code, but when the returning while is looking for it. much like the tits on the girl don't belong to the girl.
decimation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_number < shannon and others estimated number of chess positions to be around 2^155
mircea_popescu: decimation the only way that wouldn't compile is if you specifically put custom code in tyh4e compiler to complain about it
asciilifeform: sorta like the machine doesn't care if such-and-such is getting jumped to because a d00d munged the return address through buffer overflow, etc
mircea_popescu: if the while has where to return, it is happy.
mircea_popescu: but it is a powerful indictment of the "colored bits" concept. because lo! the compiler doth NOT CARE whence this executionable bitcoin went. merely what it says
mircea_popescu: actually, any half good lawyer wouldnt be surprised either.
asciilifeform: of course, folks who regularly deal with the output of c compiler cannot be surprised by duff's device
asciilifeform: the ultimate stage of this development is to realize that the tramp was already dead, cut up by a long series of maniacs previously, and one's job is to in fact stitch its parts together into a frankensteinian creature of one's own conception
mircea_popescu: "why should the machine put out the right numbers regardless ?!?! BECAUSE IT IS THE MACHINE"
mircea_popescu: "they who imagine the computer is god" from "they who imagine the computer is this tramp they picked up hitchhiking and will fcuk her a little before cutting her up to pieces"
asciilifeform appreciates mircea_popescu's quickness on the uptake
asciilifeform: there we go
mircea_popescu: this is a subtle but perhaps excellent test for distinguishing the categories you proposed
asciilifeform: 'wires cross that must not cross' or the like.
mircea_popescu: this isn't how the compilers [used to] work
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:08:30; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168375 < actually sennheiser is meh. here i have a 20$ headphones that beat the shit out of 200 and 350$ sennheisers.
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1169188 < yeah sennheiser has gone down in quality over the past few years too, they have to try to milk the idiot-herd too I guess
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:04:20; ben_vulpes: wai wut how do they not break backups.
asciilifeform was not one of them, cannot answer
mircea_popescu: "It amazes me that after 10 years of writing C there are still little corners that I haven't explored fully. "
asciilifeform: 3, or 33, just the same.
mircea_popescu: "A second poster tried the test, but botched the implementation, proving only that with diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly."
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:12:39; trinque: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/06/13/dallas-police-shooting-zombie-apocalypse-assault-vehicle-and-troop-transport/ << looks to be the one
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1169198 << umpteenth 'usg vs. clinically retarded schmuck' match. wake me up when the 'usg vs. smart folks' match is being played.
scoopbot_revived: Changing the BitBet resolution process. http://trilema.com/2015/changing-the-bitbet-resolution-process/
mircea_popescu: honestly i never saw someoine who could code call themselves "code literate in x". sounds more like something i'd say.
cazalla: you'll be needing yourself a lobster girl then trinque
mircea_popescu: (this was on the boston wharf, so a seafood choice perhaps more easy to understand)
mircea_popescu: i had... the sushi :D
cazalla: that also doesn't really fit with yum cha and the one i ate at was full of chinese so you'd think it was the good one
mats: sure. on the other hand, you are a white man, and server or chef might choose to whitewash the meal to appeal to some sense of your palette
mircea_popescu: mats while food is obviously a personal matter, whether one has legit or not legit X food should be verifiable experimentally neh ?
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 17:17:56; BingoBoingo: tldr: Pool implements a replace by fee patch, derps herp because it means People can double spend before the transaction is committed to a block!
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168597 << im not so sure the replace by fee thing is intelligent.
mircea_popescu: the entire "consensus" bullshit collapsed because i said back in january exactly what the plan is.
mircea_popescu: this shit redditards pull where they go about blathering for three months and then pretend like nothing happened and questions can be asked as if just discovered may work on reddit, but it'll give all of them a busted lip irl.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 10:54:47; wyrdmantis: I was asked if there is a "defense" plan to "isolate" the Bitcoin XT nodes or something similar. I thought this is a non-issue for you guys...
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168587 << people asking these types of questions have not done their reading.
mircea_popescu: cazalla that said, a chinese guy had a decent restaurant a mile from my place in ro (actually, conference went there). guy made some incredible baked eggplant
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168568 << i can always tell, because of the tell-tale "metallic" aftertaste a half hour to an hour later, coming from all the exhausted overfired neurons.
mircea_popescu: in truth i don't care much about most chinese cuisine either, but not because it'd be bland. because they can't cook. some stuff is actually excellent, but plenty of stuff is "hey, let's throw everything in the kitchen in the same pot. vinegar, oil, sugar, what the hell."
kakobrekla: taht got lucky with the end result.
kakobrekla: they are a chinas copy of some akg model
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 08:06:30; copypaste: they flipped their shit when i told them in the US that if their boyfriends took the pictures that means the boyfriends own the pictures and only they can write DMCAs
trinque: http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/06/13/dallas-police-shooting-zombie-apocalypse-assault-vehicle-and-troop-transport/ << looks to be the one
mircea_popescu: btw, did we discuss the dude that drove an armored vehicle into some texas something or the other ?
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168375 < actually sennheiser is meh. here i have a 20$ headphones that beat the shit out of 200 and 350$ sennheisers.
mircea_popescu: the only way for the hundred million idiots to not impose their britney spears over anything and everything else is for the hundred million to not have as much as a single cent disposable income.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 04:28:39; decimation: funkenstein_: yeah I know, people here bitch about the lack of 'adult' products. glitzy candy beats serious in the market every time
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168397 << because idiots "should have money too", then there's an infinity of them, before you know it they drive the market. "inequality" is actually a stupid word to describe a functional society, where shit is not being promoted by shitheads.
ben_vulpes: oh because a wallet is really a collection of the inputs that a key or set of keys can sign on and so a 'wallet' in the satoshi client parlance is actually not back=up-able if in use?
ben_vulpes: wai wut how do they not break backups.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i agree they're stupid. originally it was "they must go out because they break backups". turned out they don't. now it's "they should go out because they're stupid", which is valid, but also an aesthetic judgement. we're not at aesthetics yet. but eventually, whole wallet scheme needs to be made by someone who's not retarded in the fucking head.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 04:19:54; decimation: mats: the beats thing still pisses me off
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168374 << quite exactly. fine example of the bezzle moral hazard.
mircea_popescu: the argument was presented last we discussed this. "you can do the things you want to do once you've done the things that must be done and the result works"
ascii_field: i'd like to see someone present a coherent argument for the negative here
ascii_field: personally i see the random-change-addr thing to be as screamingly retarded as memory leak
ben_vulpes: is the incurred complexity needed?
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i could shoot the change-addr thing in the head in ten minutes, but mircea_popescu wants to keep it for some reason
ben_vulpes: re: accounts thread and data structures, this imho is why the change addr behavior mneeds a zappin
ascii_field: 'A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of
mircea_popescu: teenage boys go in the garbage.
mircea_popescu: lack of women in tech is not a problem of women or of tech, but merely of a bunch of dorks going around looking for women in tech in the garbage. well duh, why'd they be in the garbage ?
mircea_popescu: and what a chicklet does is "piuie", ie, "makes the piu sound"