ascii_field: thing is, classic js, for all the turdaliciousness, was 'too debuggable' for usg tastes.
BingoBoingo: trinque: No, not so long as lynx lives. This is just the next stem from js.asm
ascii_field: l0l microshit at the table
assbot: Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web | TechCrunch ... ( http://bit.ly/1d2DAZ2 )
trinque: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/17/google-microsoft-mozilla-and-others-team-up-to-launch-webassembly-a-new-binary-format-for-the-web/
BingoBoingo: I offer lafond fumbling over the corn plan in action http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=2533
ascii_field: i'd still rather read trilema
pete_dushenski: the dinner guests (rare treat, this) will be here momentarily so i must depart for the evening. bon soir a tous !
ascii_field: and convenient sack of 'crown jewels' for whoever pwns the box
ascii_field: like the 'yubikey' turd mtgox shipped ?
pete_dushenski: "The Royal Bank of Scotland said on Wednesday that about 600,000 customer transactions had not been processed as a result of a technology failure overnight. The issue affected transactions at the company’s R.B.S., National Westminster Bank, Coutts and Ulster Bank brands." << wasn't there an old meme about 'bitcoin users not affected' ? seems appropriate here.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The+American+Fist | The American Fist. * When you fist a girl so hard and so deep it causes her to pass-out. * Shove it loud, and shove it proud. I really should have token my ...
pete_dushenski: "Jimmy Lee was a vice chairman at JPMorgan Chase and was widely credited with developing the leveraged loan market in the United States." << dead at age 62.
BingoBoingo: But what if you need to torch dupont circle? Will a tiny butane flame from a bic catch of the straw roofs in humid conditions?
BingoBoingo: naptha/petrol lighter dries out within 2 weeks. Bless that the fuel is cheap.
ascii_field: thing should come with a suggested config, yes. and it is the responsibility of the installer (gentoo 'emerge' or whatever) to emplace it.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-06-2015#1161193 << The entire just get a bic and why not butane business is what's wrong with computing. Experimental pocket firebox (in contrast to one with the girl and the ass) has lit when offered everything from 40% ETOH to decade old Kerosene
ascii_field: was thinking of tearing out the hardcoded hostname in favour of ip:port read from config
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: at present time the irc routine is, notice, still in. complete with idiot hardcoded hostname
ascii_field: and it is entirely insufficient to have merely one or two of them.
ascii_field: but yes, the initial seeds ~must~ work.
mats: i'm under the mistaken impression that USG only gives contracts to US corps
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/a0b21db7f61f3860f5eac1b1e51afd35/tumblr_nq3kdrsamT1sgfmbuo2_500.jpg
mircea_popescu: very similar situation to the entire "we don't spy on citizens, the brits did, as part of an agreement we made with them, so whatcha gonna do"
mircea_popescu: <mats> mighta had a chance if privately owned by black disabled lesbian << no. belgian firm has to import weapons, so they can be kept off mnarket. colt does not hyave to import anythinfg, can just turn around and sell. the usg will award no further contracts for anything to anyone who can also sell to us civillians, jus watch.
mircea_popescu: user has the option to provide input, program that depends on input to run was shipped broken
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i suspect the usg policy against private small arms has finally found the chokehold : drive the manufacturers out of business. << Most of the good "Colt" designs are now made better by others. Argentinas Taurus is one.
mircea_popescu: never, ever, EVERY may any input be required from the user imperatively.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> this will be a substantial change in default behaviour, because the thing ~will~ have to be given irc server params on command line, and/or seed ips, or ~will not run~ << this is the wrong approach. config file, with sane defaults.
ascii_field: afaik colt did not actually manufacture anything, in own factories, other than usg orders, for some years (decades?)
mircea_popescu: i suspect the usg policy against private small arms has finally found the chokehold : drive the manufacturers out of business.
ascii_field: but now they're something like 'atari'
BingoBoingo: I tend to just... clean up the blood. They are disease carrying organisms and deserve nothing but lethal intent.
ascii_field: i encountered a good number of mosquitoes in b-a but none bit me. couldn't help but think of the old sf stories re: creatures on alien planet unable to eat (or be eaten by) us on account of wrong protein chirality
ascii_field: perhaps the new ones have harder carapace
mircea_popescu: so there was a blood gorged mosquito on the wall. as i didn't want to leave a splotch, i hit it in such a manner as to only dizzy it. i can now disable-shot mosquitors.
BingoBoingo: Nebraska, like Ohio a place that when USia is scrapped can be sold to the dirt
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hanbot: the only female in that office.
mod6: <+ascii_field> sometimes i log in from the car. << i can just imagine you driving around the beltway with your knee irc'ing from a phone.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 21:55:45; mats: http://time.com/3923842/putin-kubinka-moscow-patriot-park-russia-opens-a-military-playground-for-the-patriotic
pete_dushenski: then YOU ARE SHIVA
ascii_field: sometimes i log in from the car.
pete_dushenski: on the highway, 2-4 hours per day
ascii_field: it's roughly half the price of a cab pretty much everywhere, by design.
pete_dushenski: "illegal" there.
pete_dushenski: uber is easily half the price of a cab here.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 21:15:16; mircea_popescu: ascii_field myeah, uber does seem like the usgs last gasp effort to "socialism" the cabbuie business
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:46:46; mats: yes the executions are a big plus
pete_dushenski: btw, wd on the logs today, gents. solid reading material.
pete_dushenski: pretty sure he had half the listings last i checked
pete_dushenski: i recognise 'thebutterzone' from -otc
cazalla: copypaste, front page of the #1 aussie tabloid http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/intimate-photos-of-around-400-adelaide-women-have-been-posted-on-a-us-site-in-revenge-porn/story-fnjwmwrh-1227403257763
assbot: Logged on 06-05-2015 17:21:23; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-05-2015#1122612 << it's actually a fine entry point to explain to anyone why exactly tcp/ip is so broken. because this IS NOT a trivial task. the price for ipv4 and it's undocumented, buggy, slow and haphazardously ad-hoc nat-routing model is that you can't find out by inspecting yourself. the half-assed, quarter-baked lazy slothful and aol-windowesque implement
shinohai: I mean, their must be some way to identify trusted clients
mod6: <+ascii_field> << you can ~already~ specify seeds on cmdline and config! all that remains is the removal of the built-in seeder crap << sure, you can do addnode or whatnot to connect to other nodes. but isn't the dyndns thing to tell others what your nodes ip address is? maybe i misunderstand ...
shinohai: ascii_field: are you limited as to what data you can put in the version string?
shinohai: I failed to see that before BingoBoingo pointed out the obvious benefits of finding pre-gavinized nodes with it.
ascii_field: i expect this will change, suddenly and possibly undetectably, once they start fucking with it
ascii_field: shinohai: just the ability to specify what it connects to
shinohai: Earlier you mentioned the ability to specify peers, etc and use raw irc commands correct?
shinohai: I'm down for the irc mechanism, i really like it but not as it is now
ascii_field: of these, we now have only irc remaining
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 23:10:19; mod6: <+mod6> <+ascii_field> i'm in favour of keeping the irc mechanism for now, because it will handily transplant to gossipd << i'm with you here... although, just looking through irc.cpp again.. im not sure how much of that would carry over anyhow. << regardless, it doesn't mean we have to rip it out this minute. how insane of an idea is it to just snip out the checkip.dyndns.org parts and add a commandline/confi
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166884 << you can ~already~ specify seeds on cmdline and config! all that remains is the removal of the built-in seeder crap
ascii_field: and it makes no sense to even try before the leak-stoppage patches are ratified
mod6: <+kakobrekla> would a dedi ba seed be welcome << yeah, i think that's the idea eventually.
mod6: <+mod6> <+ascii_field> i'm in favour of keeping the irc mechanism for now, because it will handily transplant to gossipd << i'm with you here... although, just looking through irc.cpp again.. im not sure how much of that would carry over anyhow. << regardless, it doesn't mean we have to rip it out this minute. how insane of an idea is it to just snip out the checkip.dyndns.org parts and add a commandline/configfile arg to specify external ip for
ascii_field: after this, there will be no default seed
mod6: <+ascii_field> i'm in favour of keeping the irc mechanism for now, because it will handily transplant to gossipd << i'm with you here... although, just looking through irc.cpp again.. im not sure how much of that would carry over anyhow.
mats: not the first time Colt has lost a contract to F.N. Herstal
mod6: <+ascii_field> to fully scrub out the dns invocations, will have to make the irc connector configurable on command line << not that this has to be the case now, but perhaps this could be done in the config file too.
ascii_field: i imagine they will have to ask for new bids.
ascii_field: 'Following a drawn-out and contentious bidding war, Colt lost its contract to provide the Pentagon with M4 rifles in 2013. The $77 million contract went instead to a Belgian company, F.N. Herstal.'
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 21:55:45; mats: http://time.com/3923842/putin-kubinka-moscow-patriot-park-russia-opens-a-military-playground-for-the-patriotic
ascii_field: but if anyone can make a good case for its removal (remember that presently it is also the source of node knowing own external ipv4 !!!) please say.
ascii_field: i'm in favour of keeping the irc mechanism for now, because it will handily transplant to gossipd
ascii_field: this will be a substantial change in default behaviour, because the thing ~will~ have to be given irc server params on command line, and/or seed ips, or ~will not run~
ascii_field: to fully scrub out the dns invocations, will have to make the irc connector configurable on command line
mats: 'Obama admitted that nine months into the U.S.-led coalition's campaign against the IS, there is not a complete strategy to combat the group. "We don't yet have a complete strategy," Obama said at the end of a G-7 summit in Germany'
mod6: np. so, i'm gonna keep focus on this Gentoo GCC patching stuff for the time being. But meanwhile I do that on my POS box (Now running Gentoo AMD64 hardened w/uclibc), I can shutdown the Gentoo aws instance and fire-up a deb6 test with these new patches before the end of the month I'm sure.
ascii_field: i.e. everything inside a patch file must pertain only to what was 'printed on the box', and vice-versa.
ascii_field: these are given in separate patches for ease of review
ascii_field: this is part of a sequence of patches which depend on one another
assbot: Russia Opens 'Patriot' Theme Park to Showcase MIlitary Prowess ... ( http://bit.ly/1N3XkbR )
mats: http://time.com/3923842/putin-kubinka-moscow-patriot-park-russia-opens-a-military-playground-for-the-patriotic
shinohai: Nah the Debian one, I built Ubuntu on a friends server
mod6: <+shinohai> mod6 my nide is still humming fine << cool. is that the ubuntu one?
mod6: lemme find the logs..
mod6: So once the Guides are handed over to hanbot, I'll refocus my attention to patching gcc 4.8.4 on Gentoo to see if we can get around that bug that we were discussing the other day.
mats: We were told in an interview that OPM's Network Management Group (NMG) performs monthly vulnerability scans using automated scanning tools. The OIG is unable to independently verify that OPM has a mature vulnerability scanning program. However, we have been unable to obtain tangible evidence that vulnerability scans have been routinely conducted for all
ascii_field: kakobrekla: the sad is in having to leave home at all. everything else is just little cherries on top of the sadcake
mod6: <+ascii_field> mod6: how are those test rigs doing ? < << If you mean the bitcoin-v0.5.3.1-RELEASE + patch(s) { Orphanage Thermonuke + TX Orphanage Amputation }, they were performed on AWS deb6 instance and have since been shutdown after full sync & performance tests completed. Main reason being to dig into compiling v0.5.3.1 + gentoo sanity patches with uclibc on Gentoo on AWS Gentoo instance. I try to only run one instance at a time to keep mo
ascii_field: thestringpuller: so much traffic 'can eat with arse'
thestringpuller: is there traffic?
ascii_field: thestringpuller: i drive 2-4 hrs/day.
ascii_field: opening the fucking door costs >5bux
mircea_popescu: the half hour typical ride is what, five bux
ascii_field: the cabs in b-a blew my mind
ascii_field: so there you go
mircea_popescu: how much would they have to pay ME to spend an hour in a cab with any regularity ?
mircea_popescu: germany is ridoinculous with their 5 euro a km bs, but then again germany is usually walkable.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: know that 'uber' etc. is an attempt to 'proletarianize' cabs. as they normally are so costly here that they are beyond the regular use of all but the richest
mircea_popescu: the west coast never interested me much
ascii_field: the cabs in usa sucked before.
mircea_popescu: which i would loathe, as i routinely reject living anywhere with shitty cabs
mircea_popescu: ascii_field myeah, uber does seem like the usgs last gasp effort to "socialism" the cabbuie business
ascii_field: i'd get toilet paper, etc. on 'amazon' if it weren't for the fact that everything you buy affects your 'recommendations'
cazalla: shinohai, the two main supermarket chains in australia do this.. and it's how they get rid of the rest of their shitty produce
ascii_field: i barely ever get anything in any other way
mircea_popescu: tbh i never ordered anything online in romania, either.
ascii_field: said the fella living in can't-order-anything-online-land
mircea_popescu: this is how the locals know if it's any good
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:57:39; asciilifeform: can i get real (read: ru or identical) chocolate there? at what cost/gram ?
mircea_popescu: "my car crashed because there was a flyer in a window painted in green letters"
ben_vulpes: most recently, boost failed to install because its html document rendering facility was b0rked in ubuntu somewhere and the whole thing fell over
ben_vulpes: i'm still working to get the damn thing to build on ubuntu
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:47:41; jurov: also, i don't get how anyone in this age can *not* have some foreign acquaintances that one can be sure to not throw him under the bus
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166066 << this is a strict function of sexual promiscuity in my experience. being chaste is pretty suicidal at all times other than during the age of boredom
ascii_field: shinohai: the linked patch is 5 minutes old
mircea_popescu: read the logs :D
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> also the gurl has valuable illiquid asset. << not so valuable if illiquid
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal not worse or better than ever
ascii_field: TheNewDeal: ltc still exists ?!
ben_vulpes: hey, the tradetalk's back!
cazalla: shinohai, lol that image reminds me of another which someone on bitcointalk claimed to be a police report regarding asicminer thefts.. turned out to be a birth certificate or something
assbot: Draft signed by F2Pool, Antpool, BW, BTCChina, Huobi committing them to a 8MB increase. : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ggc6qu )
ascii_field: it was the diffusion pump (esp. langmuir's improved one) which allowed the whole vacuum tube thing to happen in the first place.
thestringpuller: "It’s like an economy where the investment is coming from some external country where Silicon Valley becomes like the Bitcoin equivalent of People’s Bank of China." << because Nefario ruined it for everyone
ascii_field: speaking of vacuum 'diffusion pumps' - apparently there are firms selling them, from old uni chem kits, as 'bongs' to smoke weed from
mircea_popescu: why stop there.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field is emerging like quite the tragic, byronian hero. on one hand, wishes to drive the dozer, on the other hand, wishes to have a place for noli tangere.
ascii_field: i specifically wish to drive the bulldozer personally
ascii_field: '(875 – 884 AD) when Huang Ch’ao, a powerful young heir to a family fortune, was unable to pass the rigorous exams needed to become a licentiate. He responded by selling salt on the black market and using the funds to organise a secret society with which he incited rebellions that massacred nobles and officials and nearly, thought not quite, brought down the ruling entire dynasty.' << this has been my secret crackp
cazalla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166044 <<< check the aussie national skill shortage and come down under.. i've never been to choina but i'm guessing down under is a bit better
mircea_popescu: always a pleasure to see people able to refer to the right source material.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski the hunag fellow is exactly the right example. i even hinted at him but never mentionmed the name when discussiong o'brian idiocy in 1984 and how the rebellion properly works.
ascii_field: there was some utterly deranged bloke yelling 'buy me a bed!!!'
scoopbot_revived: Examinations vs. the Yeshiva http://www.contravex.com/2015/06/17/examinations-vs-the-yeshiva/
ascii_field: in other news, i dreamed last night that ft meade had been turned into a kind of city-state, and i came through it for some peculiar reason. it very crowded and full of rough-looking folks, like d.c. subway. went into a pub, full of demented old beggars, and pulled out a wad of 'nsa money' - shit-brown 'hundies' with portraits of some senator on them. in return got glass of water.
ascii_field: (along with other room crud)
mircea_popescu: is this the very thick water ?
assbot: Polywater history and science mistakes: The U.S. and USSR raced to create a new form of water. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPwcfK )
ascii_field: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/polywater_history_and_science_mistakes_the_u_s_and_ussr_raced_to_create.html << a not-especially-great english review of the 'polywater' story.
mircea_popescu: (for fun and games the trainee qm folk in attendance are invited to set up either the matrix or the waveform so that probability of solid losing atoms into gas at border is zero, see what happens)
ascii_field: see the epic saga of 'polywater'
mircea_popescu: should go in there same pile as ideal conductor
ascii_field: (vapour pressure in the tube ~will~ go up with time unless the gas has somewhere to get stuck in)
ascii_field: important not only for residual gas in the tube after pumping, but also because the electrodes sputter
ascii_field: this is done in the craft of making vacuum tubes. (recall the shiny metal in the top of the tube?)
ascii_field: react endothermically, and forming a solid ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field vacuums not my forte, but is the following ever done : have a solid cylinder separated into two closed rooms by piston. fill one room with chemical compounds in liquid pahse which react, so the resultant volume is lower.
ascii_field now wonders what mircea_popescu gets from cn by the tanker-load
thestringpuller: I like how they publicized BIP-100 with "This won't require a hardfork" while the PDF clearly states "Oh yea guise we need to remove the cap completely to make this change."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166007 << the junior high alf went to... :D
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'll allow the shitmedia to set the discussion agenda the morning after i let gavin impregnate my wife.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it reads to me like a very plain "let's try and hijack b-a by pretending a bigger ba exists somewhere exotic and we are the only ones able to translate its red star stamps"
gribble: The operation succeeded.
menahem: not sure why I got the error, lemme double check quick. my apologies.
ascii_field: what, precisely, would be the mechanism for encrypting airplane callsigns ?
ascii_field: other thing is
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 19:10:50; mircea_popescu: from the log, "I think we will close this thread as there is nothing more to discuss. This is not about democracy or censorship, but about keeping our hobby alive without authorities enforcing new laws in order to limit ADS-B usage."
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166571 << many usg subjects see the crown in much the same light as little children see their demented violent alcoholic father
ascii_field: 'speaks volumes for the actual “democracy” in the system. (Namely, there isn’t any. China — the Saudi Arabia of bitcoin — dominates.' <<< l0l!!! this of course is same party line as in mike hearn's blatherings about 'let's separate the economy majority of bitcoin from the whims of the hashing majority'
ascii_field: (point of that observation was, 3-phase mains and climate-controlled floor sq. metrage do not become cheaper no matter how 'surplussy' the equipment gets)
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:58:39; asciilifeform: and often there are interesting hidden costs. for instance, i am somewhat limited in what surplus junk i can use on account of lacking 3-phase mains power
mircea_popescu: who ever heard of this, change the rules of the sport so people following at home can be more comfortable.
mircea_popescu: the world does not belong to people "doing it ironically"
mircea_popescu: from the log, "I think we will close this thread as there is nothing more to discuss. This is not about democracy or censorship, but about keeping our hobby alive without authorities enforcing new laws in order to limit ADS-B usage."
mircea_popescu: i remember a day, not so many years ago, when people actually went on trips to check out claims of "hey i goit some images in photoshop" miners. how much things have changed in these few short years...
funkenstein_: looks to me like they are saying they won't take anything bigger than 8MB, because their tubes are too small
mircea_popescu: ascii_field we are dealing with ~= the same idiots.
mircea_popescu: iirc according to financial times, they took over cyprus right ?
ascii_field: and did i just land in my grandfather's office in 1985 , fell through time warp? how did we come to wonder about authenticity of fucking soviet rubber stamps ?!
mircea_popescu sits here and wonders if neobee, king of cypruss, agrees for cypruss to join the increase movement.
ascii_field: even a schmuck like me has a fat manila full of these stamps.
mircea_popescu: unlike apparently everyone on the retard side, i actually have some business experience
mircea_popescu: but 500 failures in... hey, wasn't ethereum all over everything ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the validity of the stamps would be trivial to verify, if of course anyone still gave a shit about the nonsense scampress publishes.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha what the shit red star stamps srsly ?!
mircea_popescu: generally speaking they are both.
mircea_popescu: you'd be in a better position to grasp the depth of this chasm of a dilemma
ascii_field: how do you know washing machine is plugged in if you don't get shocks from touching the chassis ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "the bitcoin miners of china" say that they never saw software that doesn't crash
ascii_field: other sappers ?
ascii_field: (other than us)
mircea_popescu: in other news a display campaign for eulora started today, if any people called Eulorian show up treat 'em mildly. and if no such show up, well... it just goes to show the value of advertising.
ascii_field: 'The bitcoin miners of China agree that the blocksize must be increased' << l0l wat? said who ?
ascii_field: more like the diff b/w/ mild eccentricity and full blown schizo
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of difference between the mild idiocy of hearst and the down syndrome of "ft alphaville" etc
ascii_field: just that they previously had more luck with gluing pseudoreality-display helmets on people's heads
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: and they were not, 2+ yrs ago ?
mircea_popescu: by now they're reporting nonsense out of a whjolly imagined pseudoreality
mircea_popescu: can these gawker-clones be any more fucking retarded already ?>
ascii_field: www.opec.org << the usual opec ?
ascii_field: and what of the bitcoin vatican ?
mircea_popescu: the ocean has nothing to do with it.
ascii_field: but i don't imagine that i'll learn to breathe water and become kind of the ocean in a few weeks. and if mircea_popescu can do this, we should all learn from him.
mircea_popescu: so then
mircea_popescu: compute the dollar value ?
mircea_popescu: never have to wonder either because you know or it can't happen, but never have to wonder.
ascii_field: ever contemplate what you'll do 1km below the sea?
mircea_popescu: otherwise, a dollar a day.
mircea_popescu: the notion that you are anything different from the calcutta beggar may be contemplatef IF and ONLY IF you never have to wonder what'd you do in calcutta.
funkenstein_: the calcutttan has no option to go to supermarket dumpster
ascii_field: he cannot funciton in my element. or i - in his. like the fish.
mircea_popescu: you are proposing the indian is not human now ?
ascii_field: on how many dollars a day does pufferfish live in the sea ?
ascii_field: he is living on $1 of rice + $xxxx of other-things-which-aren't-available-to-me-if-i-get-parachuted-into-calcutta
mircea_popescu: instead, you either have tyhem or fucking die.
mircea_popescu: and you don't "compute the dollar equivalent value" of non-dollar things, because you're not trying to recreate the bezzle.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field seinfeld has an episode about this fundamentally female method of authentication ("i always wanted for him to drag me by the hair in this alley and stretch my anus"). elaine explains that "Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just a beautiful moment between two lovers"
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166431 << ftr the 'dollar a day' thing is nonsense if you compute even the most conservative monetary estimate for the 'systematic' things the beggar was born with.
ascii_field: can't wait for the fake ones
mats: har, acquaintances are receiving emails about their OPM file being compromised
ascii_field: or what, he likes the smell of diesel smoke ?
ascii_field: apparently now is not yet the time to practice this ?
ascii_field: he wrote a whole piece about how he threw the decrepit diesel out of the original boat's bilge to make a storage room
ascii_field: (and perhaps doesn't quite have the stamina to single-handedly operate the sails any more ?)
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall this, like i vaguely recall his being the sort that's "correct in the broad strokes but entirely out of small change" as the expression goes.
ascii_field: i don't think they've invented begging yet
mircea_popescu: iirc baseline is a dollar a day, so... there's his lifetime income
ascii_field: i don't think they have bitcoin on his planet yet, though
ascii_field: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-magical-content-tree.html << where herr orlov contemplates cribbing mircea_popescu's 'pay per article' thing