ascii_field: '...the Venture Capital Firms which made Superfish possible...' << lol! amerika where even spamware tr0j4n needs vc investment
mircea_popescu: programming, this time. clearly it's happening without the subreddit mod's knowledge, there's no overlap about bitcoin tards and programmers.
mircea_popescu: funny how the otherwise very competent psych does not feel comfortable taking off the coat and hat, and waddling in the mud modestly like http://38.media.tumblr.com/7c2d7566582a69867da0b68c13787462/tumblr_ngsc6rN6OV1ty4fj6o1_500.gif any amateur.
ascii_field: the clock ad on that site is hilarious
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2008/03/economy_where_we_go_from_here.html << tlp's sufferances as an amateur financier on an etrade account, and his efforts to cope and come to terms with it is a whole opera in and of itself.
ascii_field: iirc there was once support for 128b md5 fp
ascii_field: ELL ME - TELL ME - / TELL ME - TELL ME - TORN - MORNING / E4A966FF04DD296A41F5AAD497C64494 / THAT KEY should SCARE THE LIVING HELL OUT OF CIA / GO AHEAD - PUSH IT
mircea_popescu: i skimmed. was curious more in the method of separating the two, if meaningfully applicable.
pete_dushenski: "Monsanto said Wednesday its earnings fell 34% in its first fiscal quarter" << fucken derps following cisco to the grave. such paper signers.
ascii_field: separate the two
ascii_field: in these
ascii_field: usually there are obvious technical gaffes
mircea_popescu: he sounds like run of the mill overstimulated geek to me.
mircea_popescu: you mean the commenter's ?
ascii_field: of the fantasy.
ascii_field: to see in what kind of studio the production was filmed.
mircea_popescu: "oh what if i make it a chocolate tape then!!1"
mircea_popescu: "That's what it is. There's no such thing as "an idea", for damn sure."
ascii_field: therefore almost certainly, a 'u-matic'
mircea_popescu: lol. they don't, obv.
pete_dushenski: my foggy memory of the romanian countryside is now clearning up..
mircea_popescu: (france supported ro bid to eu chiefly because they needed ro heavy water).
mircea_popescu: putin is hurting the west with cheap energy about 10x more than whatever "sanctions"
pete_dushenski: "Areva, the French nuclear technology giant, warned on Monday that it was facing a loss of a magnitude that raises doubts about its ability to continue operations without an injection of state funds to restore its capital. The state-controlled company expects a 2014 net loss of about 4.9 billion euros, or $5.6 billion, from a loss of €500 million a year earlier." << blame the japs!
punkman: pete_dushenski: what would that get them?
pete_dushenski: "The Pirate Bay is bringing back moderators to delete spam accounts and fake Torrents" << agents finding new day jobs ?
assbot: Hackers Cut in Line at the Burning Man Ticket Sale—And Get Caught | WIRED ... ( http://bit.ly/17r7Udw )
punkman: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/hacking-burning-man-tickets/ "I need to have a ticket to go camping in the desert"
mircea_popescu: "Since cocaine must dissociate from antibody before it can be metabolized, either in plasma or liver, such results seem surprising. " I'm willing to bet they misread the data, dun actually have a response at all, but hey.
punkman: nubbins`: well, shitty dope doesn't have that, but if you spritz it with saline... << if only the retards came up with saline. I've read about some assholes using spray with glass beads (the kind used to make shiny road paint) that would penetrate the flowers.
punkman: (one of the cocaine vaccines uses big cholera protein to deliver cocaine molecule)
mircea_popescu: by far the vast majority of immune response is to proteins. the difference is about two degrees of magnitude in molecular weight.
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought the principle was to trigger immune response against cocaine molecule, not reward centre <<< you don't understand how immune works! << nuh uh I went to school and even paid attention sometimes!
cjc: One of the problems with the 90s was... when I bought Pulp Fiction as the first DVD I purchased ever... it was in letterbox format.
thestringpuller: you guise are making me miss the 90's
thestringpuller: Yea I mean Wallace gets butt raped after he retrieves the suitcase. If that has any significance...I dunno
thestringpuller: yea that interlude is only connected after jules retires and delivers the suitcase
cjc: BingoBoingo, thanks for the !up
mircea_popescu: and in the daily wtf : http://38.media.tumblr.com/7c2d7566582a69867da0b68c13787462/tumblr_ngsc6rN6OV1ty4fj6o1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: "The most reliable street test in my opinion is actually the smell of cocaine, as it has a very distinct aroma that none of the additives possess. Unfortunately, for reference, this requires you to have smelt a lot of different cocaine of certain purities, and very few people have had that opportunity. Personally, I think I could estimate cocaine purity from its scent and from looking at and tasting a few milligrams, b
BingoBoingo: The countries with the healthiest diets overall were: 1. Chad 2. Sierra Leone 3. Mali 4. Gambia 5. Uganda 6. Ghana 7. Ivory Coast 8. Senegal 9. Israel 10. Somalia
mircea_popescu: motherfucker, why does everyone want to indemnify the vcs ? they're absolutely the only guilty party in all this.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The list is all African countries.
mircea_popescu: "Regarding the VCs, I would give them the benefit of the doubt as well. What where they pitched?"
mircea_popescu: then me discovered nitropaper.
asciilifeform: and the remaining filling in the flask, hasn't gone anywhere, but has to be removed somehow.
PeterL: alot of what I was doing the past 3 years involved trying to get %yields higher
asciilifeform: and hence are more or less stuck with 1840s state of the art
asciilifeform: and not only for dope. in usa restaurants have been selling 'fashionable' multi-grain bread. which i fully expect is made from shavings of cutting other kinds of bread at the bakeries
nubbins`: made from leavings of the coca process
nubbins`: asciilifeform when i was in colombia, there was a byproduct called "bazouk" or similar
asciilifeform: (anybody else here take o-chem in school... other than PeterL and i)
assbot: Revealed: the countries with the best and worst diets in the world - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1AnH69o )
chetty: and todays propaganda prize goes to: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/revealed-the-countries-with-the-best-and-worst-diets-in-the-world-10057363.html
asciilifeform: hence for every type of -synthetic- (vs. refined from vegetation) dope, there is at least one 'krokodilian' variant where the folks making it didn't see it fit to bother with this detail.
asciilifeform: some of the costliest operations in traditional pharma industry are recrystallizations/purifications
asciilifeform: the basic concept, as PeterL (chemist?) will attest, is that a synthesis doesn't necessarily (and most often) produce only one thing. each step will result in one or more unwanted substances, including everything that failed to react in previous steps
asciilifeform: 'the only winning move is: not to play'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to which there is no answer
mircea_popescu: methinks the consumer has a legitimate question
mircea_popescu: "So what the hell do we buy now? HP's quality has hit rock bottom and is starting to dig, Lenovo is doing their best to destroy the Thinkpad brand, Asus is incapable of making a device without at least one fatal flaw... is Apple the only one making laptops that aren't garbage anymroe?"
nubbins`: asciilifeform definitely was not an ingredient in the reaction they were trying to make occur.
nubbins`: the krokodil doc is gross enough to distract from it
nubbins`: "now we add the eye drops" "why?" "makes it stronger"
asciilifeform: fact is, every modern product 'for the poor' is a kind of krokodil
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my impression is that it isn't. just a very marginal synthesis with the byproducts left in, with various grotesque 'zombie' aesthetic of decaying user. makes up in sensationalism for what lacks in actual 'epidemiology.'
nubbins`: there's a short Vice documentary on it, if you can stand to watch
nubbins`: mircea_popescu seems like meth in the usa -- cheap, so poor destitute people in poor destitute towns love it
nubbins`: OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T
asciilifeform: not because harder to synthesize, but because not a performance-enhancer that sets one going strong in the kitchen thinking of new methods
nubbins`: and all the addicts just vanished
asciilifeform: nubbins`: when opiates took off, the approach failed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no idea. the woman - cooks
gribble: Krokodil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krokodil>; Krokodil (Desomorphine) Drug: Effects, Abuse & Warnings - Drugs ...: <http://www.drugs.com/illicit/krokodil.html>; The World's Deadliest Drug: Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse | TIME: <http://time.com/3398086/the-worlds-deadliest-drug-inside-a-krokodil-cookhouse/>
asciilifeform: (the first popular dope in ussr was what is today called meth, but there was no market in the usual sense. folks who took it, usually made it)
mircea_popescu: and speaking of which... everyone i suppose is familiar with the otherworldly beauty of potassium permanganate ?
nubbins`: y'know how good dope has that covered-in-crystal look from all the resin-y trichomes?
asciilifeform: i've always wondered why american dope aficionados don't follow the 1980s soviet example and all switch to making (or at least refining) what they use personally
nubbins`: reminds me of the time SWIM bought some adulterated marijuana
mircea_popescu: anyway, clean gets you rid of all the stupid shit, anti worm medicine, drywall, w/e the fuck
nubbins`: anyway, worth noting that most recording musicians who tried heroin produced some of their best work while in the depths
asciilifeform: nubbins`: opiate users typically od, paradoxically, after successfully quitting and then doing a bit again 'for old time's sake'
nubbins`: this is why the purity of coke will not rise
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the most common circumstance-driven attack is, older sedentary white male goes out to shovel snow.
nubbins`: but it looks the same
asciilifeform: nubbins`: folks also have heart attacks in exercise, in the shitter, while shovelling dirt, etc.
nubbins`: but for srs, people have heart attacks on coke all the time
nubbins`: that the girl snorted as coke
mircea_popescu: actually iirc pulp fiction revolves around guy getting a proper bag and dumb ho hitting it as if it were the stuff she normally gets in clubs
nubbins`: mircea_popescu pure being the only thing around is safest, sure.
mircea_popescu: otherwise you accidentally hit a 50% as if it were a 20% and bam
mircea_popescu: nubbins` pure is the safest by far.
nubbins`: someone who isn't me has witnessed dealers receive new shipment, open bag, set several spoonfuls aside for sef, then dump 8-10 tbsp of random white in there
asciilifeform: it is, as i understand, a severe taboo among them, to sell it undiluted
mircea_popescu: eh get out. they won't tell you this, but a good half of the captured stuff - on the street - is actually pure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think he're referring to the dilutants
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the coke 'barons' would be the first to push for 'vaccine' if it had any threat of working
nubbins`: that's gonna hit the glucosamine suppliers where it hurts.
nubbins`: asciilifeform so the cocaine sold in usa would now have to be 30-40% pure instead of 20%?
mircea_popescu: "So far, the arguments against it seem to have been "major numebr
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2015 13:00:01; punkman: " the numbers renouncing U.S. citizenship jumped 14% to a new record last year. While the official number is “only” 3,400, that number is apparently understated, and surveys suggest the number who may follow suit is in the millions."
asciilifeform read up on the cocaine vaccine thing. will note that even if it works as claimed (no blood-brain barrier penetration) - the net effect, if everybody were injected, is simply to multiply the standard dose of coke for man by 1.5x or so
asciilifeform: also the notion of deploying immune reaction against small molecule...
mircea_popescu: punkman: I thought the principle was to trigger immune response against cocaine molecule, not reward centre <<< you don't understand how immune works! you can only target particular proteins, which coke is not.
asciilifeform: everyone looked like the weakest monster from 'doom'
thestringpuller: nubbins`: 22yo college grad, now there's a thing you see less and less << took me 7 years to get through GATech. Failed Calculus like 9 times.
asciilifeform: when i worked for (not in, must note) u.s. army, the thing that always got me was the pixellation on their camos
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform traditional ru draft << plenty of derppathologies << yes. but they're pathologies rather than the fucking core.
nubbins`: well, looking like a slob was a lot less acceptable in the 50s-60s too
mircea_popescu: they're indoors anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, you could make some pretty epic uniforms for the drone flying division
nubbins`: double-button jacket w/ gold trim on the cuffs
asciilifeform: i occasionally dig into vintage u.s. newspapers, magazines. interestingly, army ads from the '50s-'60s dwell on the 'sharp look' of the uniform.
mircea_popescu: they're not even allowing those wisconsin and indiana poofters in.
nubbins`: the army is too?
mircea_popescu: mike_c apparently reading comprehension on the downtrend huh ?
assbot: Slogans of the United States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1AnwFmn )
mircea_popescu: aww, they missed out on the obvious neuroticism ? "be all you can be. and more." ???
asciilifeform: then dunno
asciilifeform: iirc the last one i saw was 'be all you can be'
mircea_popescu: imagine, you sign up for the military, you get the guarantee that you'll be pushing shit uphill for a coupla decades, then when you're fortysomething you get a farm and an ethnic bride.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nevertheless.
mike_c: he said when you conquer, the prince has got to go live there to make the locals happy. and it sounds right to me.
asciilifeform: traditional ru draft << plenty of derppathologies there despite the mega-curative 1yr painting grass green
mircea_popescu: it's the New Whiner York that i don't care for.
mircea_popescu: hey, i wouldn't have any problem living with these dudes.
mike_c: machiavelli would say that obama should go live there awhile.
mircea_popescu: either do it right or don't do it.
mircea_popescu: the ONLY way i'd have them fighting overseas is if congress approves this plan whereby a) all territory we step on gets granted territory status ; b) soldiers once veteranized are rewarded in homesteads there, and HAVE TO marry local
nubbins`: i'm talking about the "you" that doesn't exist, but in this alternate world where you'd be ostensibly an american in charge of american troops
nubbins`: mircea_popescu you most certainly wouldn't. you'd have them fighting overseas!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i meant "resources" as in warcraft2. whatever, vespene gas and the othe rone
mircea_popescu: i'd have them handpicking cotton if it comes to it.
Adlai: "paint rocks." << there's this idf saying: "if it moves, salute it; if it doesn't, pick it up; if you can't, paint it"
mircea_popescu: but i think it's the one derived from old warcraft 2, except you get a single hero and no "resources" per se, get wood/gold to level them by killing npcs
nubbins`: you think if the american military suddenly is awash in bodies, they won't start sending them places for the sake of doing it?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` 9 months with gunnery sargeant hartman, on the understanding that if you fail you get your balls chopped off and spend the rest of your life = the next few years chained to a wall in a brothel for arab fags.
nubbins`: a universal draft would fix the west?
mircea_popescu: i don't believe it's a bad idea. if shiva tasked me with fixing west, it's one of the first things i'd do.
mircea_popescu: many countries still do, esp in the east of russia.
nubbins`: a lot can happen in 6 months in the armed forces
mircea_popescu: 9 months IF you went to college. 15 otherwise.
nubbins`: i'm not sure what romania was like in the late 70s but i feel like the average age of post-secondary graduation directly correlates to how soft things are in that place
mircea_popescu: it was fucking shameful then to not have a degree by 22.
nubbins`: 22yo college grad, now there's a thing you see less and less
mircea_popescu: you know back before the world went nuts, my mother was in the maternity ward about to deliver me, as a 22 yo college grad.
nubbins` rubs hands together
mircea_popescu: besides by then dota 5 will be out
nubbins`: but by then he'll be 28
mircea_popescu: what the shit.
mircea_popescu: ahaha young father, is 27.
assbot: even thgough im Palestinian and these guys are Israeli, should we really be blam... | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1wfGUJD )
PeterL: asciilifeform: RE stuff made in Africa: some of my clothes are made in sub-saharan africa
chetty: <punkman> " the numbers renouncing U.S. citizenship jumped 14% to a new record last year. While the official number is only 3,400, that number is apparently understated, and surveys suggest the number who may follow suit is in the millions."// its very simply a new sort of 'wall'
punkman: "Because the people have spoken, and while most of it was complete gibberish, numbers don't lie. People preferred 4.0, and 4.0 it shall be. Unless somebody can come up with a good argument against it."
punkman: " the numbers renouncing U.S. citizenship jumped 14% to a new record last year. While the official number is “only” 3,400, that number is apparently understated, and surveys suggest the number who may follow suit is in the millions."
assbot: The U.S. government’s stupid tax war on expatriates - MarketWatch ... ( http://bit.ly/1ABwdjh )
chetty: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-us-governments-stupid-tax-war-on-expatriates-2015-02-20?dist=beforebell
BingoBoingo: <mats> 5:44:43 <+punkman> asciilifeform: ditto for the opiate 'vaccine' << from what I've read on the internets, suboxone is not such a bad thing << Suboxone is not vaccine, merely partial agonist, does not trigger immune response
mats: 5:44:43 <+punkman> asciilifeform: ditto for the opiate 'vaccine' << from what I've read on the internets, suboxone is not such a bad thing <<
punkman: asciilifeform: picture autoimmune destruction of the reward centres << I thought the principle was to trigger immune response against cocaine molecule, not reward centre
cazalla: punkman, i've had the left front tooth done about 10 years back, that one has lasted, right one around the same time but it got chipped months back, bit pissed off this one has chipped so early but i gnaw bones and shit too so who knows
punkman: BingoBoingo: cazalla: Once you need fillings in "working locations" the choices are metallic and durable or "natural" and the dentist's annuity << better dentist also helps. I have a couple front teeth chips with the "natural" fillings, never had to replace.
punkman: unbalanced: I can reduce the data cleaning chore << punkman occasionally does data-cleaning/dedupe/linkage/acquisition work for hire
punkman: unbalanced: Did I see a bitbet.py somewhere in the past month or so? That sounded neat. << you can find my bitbet calculator/tracker here https://bitbucket.org/abfg/bitbet.py
punkman: asciilifeform: ditto for the opiate 'vaccine' << from what I've read on the internets, suboxone is not such a bad thing
ben_vulpes: more software. just what the world needs.
ben_vulpes: is it one of those "virulent" licenses? that nominally made things into which their licensed source was rolled also "open" source?
ben_vulpes: on the face of it (and granted, i'm tired and slow), it seems this license would only ever prevent folks from using anything so licensed.
ben_vulpes: while i'm up and it's quiet, what is the point of this new 'license' of yours?
mircea_popescu: went in without a plan. rather typical of the entirely fucktarded level of these people lately.
mircea_popescu: note that he's actually not answered it, either.
ben_vulpes: (little, late and only with others' light)
mircea_popescu: he's going to get asked a few hard questions. such as, "who the fuck is paying your bills."
ben_vulpes rereads the article in question
mircea_popescu: you don't mean the gerald davis / death&taxes guy ?
ben_vulpes: some bitcointalk.org person who shuttered their own operation preemptively.
mircea_popescu: i'm only showing alf, he's got the ip on iot.
ben_vulpes: it's war, there's no winning.
mircea_popescu: the choices that all suck
ben_vulpes: makes me wonder what those of us desperately milking the bezzle of what drops it yields will be castigated with.
ben_vulpes: shutter your busines to play guitar and avoid feds risk: get exiled from la serenissima. play with the feds: get exiled. exile yourself from the us, wither on the vine of unprofitability.
mircea_popescu: the fucking shrem defense. "i'm not an asshole, i just had to behave like one. but my real me is still intact! i'm a narcissist, my actions don't describe me!"
mircea_popescu: break a bad law rather than comply with it.
assbot: But that's entirely because they have to comply with federal law, not because th... | Hacker News ... ( http://bit.ly/1vrw56L )
mircea_popescu: nothing new under the sun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the jew thing : so ho got her man. rest of the "respectable" cunts, ineffectual as all "respectable" cunts.
mircea_popescu: what do you think happened in the past half century, chemistry got HARDER ?
Adlai: that has zero relevance to ease of synthesis
Adlai lets the professional chemists weigh in, this is outside his pay grade
Adlai: "praziquantel is a simple molecule easy to synth." << easiest way to get accurate info on the internet is to spew nonsense and wait to be corrected? :P
mircea_popescu: re "100k/dose" : praziquantel is a simple molecule easy to synth. everyone'll just use the indian version and that's that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that site with the idiotic "from around the web" "weird tricks" etc spam
mircea_popescu: unbalanced: Instead of surfing Pinterest or trying to get Flappy Bird further along. << there's something fundamentally naive about one imagining he can extract useful work out of an assemblage of idiots.
assbot: /hashtag/Kamailio?src=hash and /hashtag/LibreSSL?src=hash does not play together. Problems with CRYPTO_set_mem_functions
ben_vulpes: ahaha and then ruby ecosystem just falls over en masse without libreadline6-dev on the machine. no warnings at compile or until i go to actually run this hellspawn rails app
assbot: Oscars best picture winner Birdman: Boyhood snub is the Academy’s worst mistake in 20 years. ... ( http://bit.ly/1AAy7Av )
BingoBoingo wonders if maybe he should have watched the oscars if it inspired this much butthurt this year http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/02/23/oscars_best_picture_winner_birdman_boyhood_snub_is_the_academy_s_worst_mistake.html
BingoBoingo: Hydrocarbon and flourocarbon polymers break down into their more flamable constituents
BingoBoingo: "The inmates broke out of their housing structures and converged in the recreation yard, setting fire to several kevlar domes, or tents, that serve as prison housing, the paper said."
assbot: Thousands of inmates to be transferred after unrest at Texas prison | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bb1hd3 )
BingoBoingo: Related http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/22/thousands-of-inmates-to-be-transferred-after-unrest-at-texas-prison
asciilifeform: the schizoid apathy, insensitivity and lack of empathy that could hardly be more extreme in a frank psychotic' << could be a description of virtually any
asciilifeform: 'In all of the discussions, Höss is quite matter-of-fact and apathetic, shows some belated interest in the enormity of his crime, but gives the impression that it never would have occurred to him if somebody hadnt asked him. There is too much apathy to leave any suggestion of remorse and even the prospect of hanging does not unduly stress him. One gets the general impression of a man who is intellectually normal, but with
BingoBoingo: "No firearms in the zoo" was a very German reform
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: plagiarizes - lol. where in the world were the first modern gassings? not germany
BingoBoingo: cazalla: Once you need fillings in "working locations" the choices are metallic and durable or "natural" and the dentist's annuity
BingoBoingo: And yet USia's jailing class plagiarizes their German predecessors without attribution
asciilifeform: incidentally modern jailers learned from this and other historical lulz
asciilifeform: re: solzhenitsyn's axe theorem