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assbot: White House admits: we didn't know who drone strike was aiming to kill | World news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1OMMsyv )
trinque: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/23/drone-strike-al-qaida-targets-white-house << pretty damn amusing word choice in the URL if you ask me
mircea_popescu: davout got the job btw ? :D
mircea_popescu: basically... fetlife is the size of my 3rd degree social circle.
mircea_popescu: basically, they claim 3mn users but from what i've seen it's < 1% eligible womenz, nominally
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The part where their userbase consists of so many accounts that haven't been used in years
scoopbot_revived: News! Explore the Web of Trust URL: http://www.btcalpha.com/blog/2015/explore-the-web-of-trust/
BingoBoingo: Eh, meatlist contents... rather disappointing
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i doubt hanbot cares enough. but, part of the perks of this deal - qntra now has bulletproof hosting as part of the package.
mircea_popescu: either my way or "lack of justice". kinda dilutes the point for all those who fiund themselves bona fide in this situation.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck is it that people can't ever just you know, be wrong anymore ?
mircea_popescu: er shitty case where women must protect themselves from what boils down to a lack of actual justice."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "This guy is a rich bored misogynistic scumbag looking to stir shit up. This is CEO-level Trolling. What he's doing is technically legal, and even if it weren't, he has the money to keep it tied up in courts forever if not win outright. Unfortunately the worldwide legal system is run on money rather than justice, and Fetlife HAS tried to take appropriate legal action against him to no avail. This is yet anoth
ben_cash: the indignity.
ben_cash: anyways, meticulously designed. can be carried through pouring rain, and due to the excellent design of the strap mounting points not. a. single. drop. ever. reaches. the. interior.
ben_cash: that bag is actually the best example of inflation in action i've yet seen
ben_cash: has survived nearly an entire decade, with only one modification: additional hole in the shoulder strap for bike-compatibility
ben_cash: pete_dushenski: http://www.josephhannaleather.com/collections/briefcases-laptop-cases/products/briefcase << the precise model, if you're curious
ben_cash: right up there with home-rolled entropy pool.
ben_cash: also leather, well-crafted,
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard privilege and elitism should also be in there
asciilifeform: ''tis a privilege to pee! you come down and pay the fee!' (tm) (r)
pete_dushenski: ben_cash what's a 'diplomat' other than a well-connected wine drinker ?
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 20:38:53; cazalla: http://fusion.net/story/124655/why-bitcoins-male-domination-will-be-its-downfall/ "The lack of women in Bitcoin isnt just an issue of equality. Its a fundamental weakness of the currency itself." ok guy whatever
Pierre_Rochard: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-04-2015#1108605 < is the preferred term “crypto-patriarchy” or “crypto-feudalism”? I like both
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 22:03:43; Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: what about a compliance officer that flies around the globe verifying and signing client’s and counterparty’s GPG keys?
asciilifeform: ben_cash: it, or another, aha
ben_cash: asciilifeform: aha the curse?
ben_cash: also the 17" won't fit in my diplomat.
asciilifeform begins to feel the microbes catching up with him
ben_cash: pete_dushenski: i have 2 24" monitors at the workstation...
pete_dushenski: Pierre_Rochard there's tryouts ?
ben_cash: once i get the requisite harnesses you can put your butt in it as well
trinque: and also generally to hear of the rumored land beyond
trinque: shall dispatch on the hour
pete_dushenski: another one..
ben_cash: well i found that old guitar players corpse in recoleta and in the grandest tradition of self-important argentines dug him up had my way with him (using court papers, of course), and then put his body elsewhere for political legitimacy
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell thestringpuller glad to hear you're alive! come home again soon.
mircea_popescu: at least they're honest...
mircea_popescu: usually the older dudes
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 22:43:36; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> whores lotta more fun that way anyway. << Couples night tends to be one of the busiest at the strip clubs
ben_cash: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-04-2015#1108811 << people go to the strip club without girls???
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 22:15:47; mircea_popescu: "I have decided I've had enough. I'm never going to transition successfully, even when I move out. I'm never going to be happy with the way I look or sound. I'm never going to have enough friends to satisfy me. I'm never going to have enough love to satisfy me. I'm never going to find a man who loves me. I'm never going to be happy. Either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 22:03:43; Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: what about a compliance officer that flies around the globe verifying and signing client’s and counterparty’s GPG keys?
ben_cash: but she got off the clock at six
ben_cash: i finally found the pet who wanted to come home
mircea_popescu: like it's hard to find a lithe feminist.
ben_cash: anyways, burned the last pesos on a bottle of trumpeter
mircea_popescu: "@FLAdmin: Step 1 is to disallow incoming traffic from the trilema domain (23.235.235.243). This prevents people from using the hyperlinks on his page."
hanbot would like to see people physically manifested as the sum of the handicaps they imagine they're stuck with.
trinque: I've noticed gay guys for example that feel they can grab tits because "not playing the game!!"
trinque: maybe it's a way to sort of sneak by the normal game of trying to get female attention
trinque: though the overflow idea has me thinking
trinque: I'm from the andromeda galaxy
asciilifeform: from the actual statements.
assbot: 1 results for 'the man who would be queen' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=the+man+who+would+be+queen
asciilifeform: !s the man who would be queen
asciilifeform: well curiously, according to (fuck, what his name) that is only one of the two phenotypes
mircea_popescu: or a flavour thereof.
asciilifeform: the m2f thing is a much harded nut to crack
asciilifeform: then sop
mircea_popescu: usually driven by "but mo-ooo-ooom!!11 i don't wanna protect my underskirt, i wanna climb in the cherry tree!!1"
asciilifeform: as in, did they want to 'wear boy clothes and do boy things' or actually swing a cock
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i originally thought you'd have to be extremely bored to care, but then i discovered most females actually spent some time wanting to be male in their childhood.
asciilifeform: i will not spoil it here. (he had two hypotheses, both strongly predictive)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo one of the better arguments pro harem : women know how to churn the butter outta women.
asciilifeform: that fella (psychologist) wrote a mega-book on the subject
asciilifeform: the transexual thread:
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> whores lotta more fun that way anyway. << Couples night tends to be one of the busiest at the strip clubs
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got the gpgram, finally
mircea_popescu: see, next time bring her along, you can do it together.
asciilifeform: said: 'you should have attempted them'
mircea_popescu: didja tell her about the whores ?
asciilifeform petting pet and about to settle in for the one item we have here that is not to be found in arvalhalla - sprats!
asciilifeform: ~40 there/back
trinque: jurov: I tend to think the stupid concepts in the ideology have long outlived the actual belief in sky-dad
trinque: at least the american version I'm well acquainted with has a highly corrosive effect on one's thinker
mircea_popescu: is the throne = toilet thngfunctional in english too ?
mircea_popescu: eh the women have no soul thing was never mainstream.
mircea_popescu: jurov i'd be very suspicious of the mental health of an adult intellect that never considered it.
trinque: yet someone who claims to follow the thing may not see how the beliefs therein lead directly to their tranny son
mircea_popescu: same nonsense as in the previous "rape" thing, "you may not dispute my feelings, you may only feel sorry for them". herp.
trinque: the self-destructiveness could be incidental
trinque: mircea_popescu: I can see it from a completely other angle too; the culmination of this american self-starter be the change you want to see bullshit
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard trinque i dunno doods. seems to me the "i am not interested in participating in this world" as a perfectly valid reason.
trinque: death being of course the best way to depart reality
Pierre_Rochard: The problem isn’t*
trinque: mircea_popescu: invents impossible alternative that he must have, or else why live! as a sort of rationalization to finally get over the fear of doing it
Pierre_Rochard: seems to me that suicide would be a rather unhealthy response to this severe depression - some therapy, medication, and meditation would go a long ways. The problem is (its) sadness - its the fervent desire to deny and escape the sadness
Naphex: i'm authed with assbot, but it keeps devoicing me at timeout. wonder how long i can keep it going :P
trinque: that whole thing seems like the suicide drive half-engaged to me
mircea_popescu: my life as a lonelier woman who hates herself. There's no winning. There's no way out. I'm sad enough already, I don't need my life to get any worse. People say "it gets better" but that isn't true in my case. It gets worse. Each day I get worse. That's the gist of it, that's why I feel like killing myself. Sorry if that's not a good enough reason for you, it's good enough for me."
mircea_popescu: "I have decided I've had enough. I'm never going to transition successfully, even when I move out. I'm never going to be happy with the way I look or sound. I'm never going to have enough friends to satisfy me. I'm never going to have enough love to satisfy me. I'm never going to find a man who loves me. I'm never going to be happy. Either I live the rest of my life as a lonely man who wishes he were a woman or I live
mircea_popescu: i suspect age thing may be much more an issue in the us, because of idiotic alcohol laws
Pierre_Rochard: To answer your million dollar question - may be both but I’d lean towards the latter, combined with the lack of emotional regulation prevalent in society
Pierre_Rochard: absolutely! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OROFfLYQ0b0 (listening to lyrics, you’d think Sinatra was talking on the subject of trannies)
mircea_popescu: so the million dollar question : are trannies self-harming for the same reason they're trannies, which is to say, broken fenotypes that failed to abort, like a mongoloid or a schizo ; or are trannies self-harming because being a tranny is so traumatic they get fucked up through childhood ?
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mircea_popescu: actually... if i were a hooker, what i'd do is exactly this : fly around the globe, swallowing peeps' loads and signing their keys
Pierre_Rochard: “comply with corporate policies” - rather than “comply with govt mandates"
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: what about a compliance officer that flies around the globe verifying and signing client’s and counterparty’s GPG keys?
fluffypony: because half of the exchange has to deal in some government regulated shitcoin
mircea_popescu: the very notion that bitcoin would have a compliance officer. bitcoin does not comply.
Pierre_Rochard: operating positions within them.”
Pierre_Rochard: “The bank application for itBit Trust Company LLC lists three bigwigs in government and regulatory circles as "organizers," including former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Sheila Bair, former Financial Accounting Standards Board director Robert Herz and former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. Organizers are responsible for setting up limited liability companies in New York, but do not necessarily hold
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TERF | With books and writings by TERFs like Mary Daly and Janice Raymond, feminism in the west has resulted in the denial of necessary medical care to ungodly ...
mircea_popescu: meanwhile from the yes means yes department, http://41.media.tumblr.com/8d34c556433cbde056f9ca13022b028e/tumblr_ndk9d0EwGF1tkop9po1_500.jpg
Naphex: which were paying the girls on behalf of jasmin i think
Naphex: also there was some raid a month ago and basicly disbanded some wierd paxum companies
bitx: nope, no association with them
fluffypony: bitx: no associate with the South African exchange, eh?
williamdunne: fluffypony: The groupies have hairier necks too
williamdunne: bitx: Ah okay, I assumed you were from one of the bitx companies
bitx: williamdunne, don't usually use this name - not associated with any other bitx's
williamdunne: Naphex: Got the girls ready?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that'll teach you to stray from the cult!
williamdunne: Get it polished for the big day
Naphex: williamdunne: yeah, and most of the advertising and promo starts in june to match with some conference. so why rush it
williamdunne: Naphex: Ah yeah! Its always the last tweaks that take 2/3rds your time
Naphex: williamdunne: pretty good. been doing lots of working and on the last mile for xotika
fluffypony: btw for any b-a'ers in Europe I'm going to be there for the next month, would love to meet up, or you could come to one of the Monero meetups I'll be presenting at (Brussels on May 19th, Paris on May 21st, Berlin on May 24th) or else I'll be presenting at Bitcoinference in Amsterdam on May 30/31
Naphex: mircea_popescu: great! getting ready for launch on the last run. been busy as hell. how was the conference? sorry i couldn't make it :/
trinque: bon voyage, see ya in the asylum
hanbot: trinque yup. plenty of places online i have the distinct feeling of waving my hands around in front of the auto paper towel dispenser, to no avail, spits an ungrippable corner now and then...so -futuristic-.
trinque: indeed, for many sites it's exactly the right way
trinque: yes and paper should be printed right as you are turning the page
trinque: I tend to prefer static sites where they can be had
hanbot: i see. well, at least this is an argument against the thing itself rather than its possible outcomes.
mircea_popescu: it was born essentially as the first bezzle thing, "we'll make you a Content Management System" to justify X agency spending more on a website than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: cms-ing moar generally. ben_vulpes prolly has the right idea.
hanbot: so what, that which can be frankensteined into working doesn't deserve to be made as a whole, from the start?
mircea_popescu: hanbot honestly it's kinda not worth the effort. a wp 2.x can be hacked into enough blog platform for what one could conceivably need.
hanbot: williamdunne> BingoBoingo: Considered it, could just create my own blogging platform but thats probably more effort than its worth. Only got like 3.5k views in the week << it's either worth the effort or not on its own merits, effects have no place in the consideration there, eh?
mircea_popescu: somehow the idiots have lost all humility, and have absolutely no conception that yes indeed, in most situations going on your knees and begging is the correct response.
trinque: fluffypony | "Why computing's male domination will be its downfall" << now the real reason for the forced feminization of Turing took place; moar women in tech!
mircea_popescu: anyway. bitcoin's elitism and the horde's pretentiousness is setting the stage for some pretty hardcore raping and pillaging down the road.
fluffypony hands them a sports bra and a fuck off
mircea_popescu: o srsly, you swear never to get involved with boys because they're mean ? that's nice honey.
mircea_popescu: the english internet sounds more and more like a 11 yo girl's summer camp.
mircea_popescu: they are kinda lulzy.
fluffypony: so looking forward to everyone abandoning computers for the abacus and typewriters
cazalla: http://fusion.net/story/124655/why-bitcoins-male-domination-will-be-its-downfall/ "The lack of women in Bitcoin isnt just an issue of equality. Its a fundamental weakness of the currency itself." ok guy whatever
williamdunne: BingoBoingo: Considered it, could just create my own blogging platform but thats probably more effort than its worth. Only got like 3.5k views in the week
mircea_popescu: in other news,
williamdunne: Fetch the holy hand grenade
fluffypony: I still have nightmares about the rabbit of Caerbannog
williamdunne: Emperor Pilate is one of the handles I use online
mircea_popescu: what is with the popped collars @girl!
jurov: http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=49029980379 hahaha you can use this for the bdsm job
thestringpuller: yup. learning requires lessons which each have their various costs.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller dude, listen up. i'm not going to whack you, but you gotta learn to underpromise and overdeliver.
assbot: You rated user thestringpuller on 01-Feb-2014, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: I dunno that he's ever pulled any strings..
mircea_popescu: !rated thestringpuller
williamdunne: eris industries thats the one, christ
williamdunne: They've been doing that for a while now
mircea_popescu: the crunch is on, bejesus.
williamdunne: Like it could be done via a separate system like facebook uses which uses a queue to commit to DB, but can be received before committed to the DB
williamdunne: trinque: Either way, it anything high volume like that can be done in interesting ways
trinque: code gets littered with message v1 v2 v3 handling code, and you become less and less able to reason about the concept "message"
trinque: sure, everyone always thinks they can handle reimplementing the database until complexity grows to a point where it falls inward on itself
williamdunne: Exactly, so we could shard the database a stupid amount, and stick half of it in NoSQL for things like private messages
mircea_popescu: this promises to be the worst mix.
williamdunne: I don't have any statistics about performance but I've found it works pretty well. I've only done basic clustering before using it tbh, doing things like sharing secrets for authentication
mircea_popescu: or we the clustering thing is called, gaproxy ?
mircea_popescu: the other is that well, we don't know how efficient it is. ie, how much bw/packetage/userbase it can support per mm of hardware.
mircea_popescu: there's two problems here. one being that if nobody has windows servers nobody can, in an emergency say, provie a backup.
mircea_popescu: it's a good thing alf's in the air.
mircea_popescu: certainly the first time i heard this one proposed.
williamdunne: Ah sorry, well it depends. Obviously its a pretty lose spec but I'd probably go for something that has all the basic functionality built on a probably ASP stack, rather than doing anything too fancy with pretty colours everywhere
williamdunne: Well dependent on the business model it could be easy or complex
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Well either I'd make it so it almost completely handles itself, or let someone else run it after I build it
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: thats the ISP I used to have?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Was the name of an exchange I am working on
mircea_popescu: mats understand, the bdsm thing is not drastically intended to be secure.
mats: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.07373v2.pdf 'The Spy in the Sandbox: Practical Cache Attacks in JavaScript'
mircea_popescu: mike_c what'd they specifically say tho ? "we guarantee this code with ..." ? what ... ?
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> Awesome, yeah, I've been hoping for more articles. Anyone got any objections to adding the nakamotoinstitute to scoopbot? << it all depends on whether they continue pushing insanities a la gavincoin.
mircea_popescu: lol Pierre_Rochard. these twerps are all on the same rubber band. 1. mp wrote we're shit because mp's jealous, not because we're shit. 2 ??? 3. bitcoin doesn't exist.
cazalla: i wonder if there is a small business to be had recovering family photos/video for people infected by that shit? charge them twice the amount of the ransom (paid upfront of course)
mircea_popescu: i mean obviously, they want access to the walled garden of idiots, but this is a mirage.
cazalla: imagine taking your kids to some junk toy store for some made in china plastic shit only to find grown ass men clamouring over your daughter to reach the toys before she can get to them
mats: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/world/asia/2-qaeda-hostages-were-accidentally-killed-in-us-raid-white-house-says.html << so, when's the trial and who's gonna hang?
mike_c: do foundation emails have a disclaimer at the bottom telling me to delete it if i got it in error?
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 16:36:57; Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: actually got a text message from thestringpuller this morning, he’s still alive!
mats: an intimate moment where two butts reach across the cosmos and touch for an instant
mats: that feeling when you sit down and the seat is still warm
Pierre_Rochard: williamdunne: I’m also putting together my own personal blog, I’ll let you know once I have an RSS feed put together
Pierre_Rochard: ah forgot that sentence was in there! unacceptabru
pete_dushenski: kid never read the logs, what can you expect ?
pete_dushenski: "An upgrade which allows for larger block sizes is also likely to be adopted because the current limit of 1 MB will eventually limit Bitcoin's value as a form of money." << idem.
pete_dushenski: he can 'teach the controversy' all he wants but he's going to end up grouped alongside monsanto for it
williamdunne: pete_dushenski: Would you have preferred it had he worded it as your choice is based upon the choices of those superior in your WoT? i.e if BitPay is at the top of my WoT (lol) and they are on newcoin, I'll be on newcoin
Pierre_Rochard: I thought it was a fine post, the only issue being it’s context and subtext
williamdunne: Seems like a fair statement, if there is a change everyone agrees on the only issue is those too lazy to update
pete_dushenski: "We'll assume that there is some real disagreement about whether the upgrade is a good idea because if there was not, then there would be no problem."
williamdunne: Pierre_Rochard: Thanks for the link to his personal blog, I'll have a read
williamdunne: pete_dushenski: Oh yes, I remember the article now. What did you object to in it?
pete_dushenski: Pierre_Rochard: true, but he's hoisted himself on his own petard on a few other topics
williamdunne: Pierre_Rochard: Sure thing, I won't add it then. It doesn't really use any resources in particular to add it but your call
trinque: mike_c: dunno why they'd vouch for the quality of something they haven't rewritten fully yet
Pierre_Rochard: williamdunne: I would say neh just on account of inactivity for the time being
mike_c: bingo is the one who pointed it out :D
mike_c: ben_vulpes: don't get mad at me because the foundation has tiny balls.
Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: daniel has not written on the block size issue specifically at SNI
williamdunne: pete_dushenski: Technically I can filter by author, but I know I personally like all of their writing
williamdunne: Awesome, yeah, I've been hoping for more articles. Anyone got any objections to adding the nakamotoinstitute to scoopbot?
williamdunne: does the nakamoto institute have an RSS feed?
Pierre_Rochard: williamdunne: swears loudly that he’ll never play the lottery again. such threat. very wow.
BingoBoingo: mod6: On the foundation page "This sotware is provided by The Bitcoin Foundation `as is' and any express or implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed."
assbot: WordPress.org Now Requires Theme Authors to Use the Customizer to Build Theme Options ... ( http://bit.ly/1yXoaQI )
BingoBoingo: Look at the derps herping that nopeone wants their terp http://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-now-requires-theme-authors-to-use-the-customizer-to-build-theme-options
lobbes: create a blogspot or something? I have no idea if blogspot outputs data in the same way that scoopbot reads the others, but it is free and fairly quick to create one
williamdunne: Yeah, that'd be the easyish way, don't have a blog I can use to test it on atm
lobbes: can't you put a dummy blog in the list and test?
williamdunne: Can't test until there is a new post unfortunately
felipelalli: pete_dushenski: I didn't know the shortcut "!v", I always type "!verify", thanks.
Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: actually got a text message from thestringpuller this morning, he’s still alive!
pete_dushenski: then tell assbot '!v <decrypted string>'
diatonic: I can decrypt the string
gribble: thestringpuller was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 weeks, 6 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes, and 1 second ago: <thestringpuller> ^- close the bet
pete_dushenski: ;;seen thestringpuller
diatonic: I can't figure out the new process to !up myself with assbot
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have the top floor of la poesia entirely to myself
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: let us not neglect the headache of coordinating a blocksize change
mircea_popescu: it's just that the "larger = better" argument is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: much like paper dollars can only exist if there's no strong currency and "welfare states" in a world without rhodesia and so on.