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ben_vulpes: i can't even imagine a world in which bits are expensive
ben_vulpes: there were 4 lines of lcd (or maybe only 2, i was a wee one at the time) and then transmitted them to the poo-snaper via fax iirc
ben_vulpes: my mother once wrote her articles on a 4 line typewriter-cum-puter thing
ben_vulpes googles frantically
ben_vulpes: frequency shit keying...
ben_vulpes: there's like 80 years of decisions in this thing.
ben_vulpes: computers are fascinating devices.
ben_vulpes: lol decimation i have that precise url open right now already
ben_vulpes: teletype, which...ancient transmission of text hardware?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: yeah, i figured tty was involved but what does that first 't' stand for?
ben_vulpes: is this one of those "tar" -> "tape archive" things?
ben_vulpes: on a radically different topic (if nobody minds), when miscellaneous computerboxen tell me "falling back to teletype" is that a reference to the Teletype Corporation of the thirties?
ben_vulpes: yeah.
ben_vulpes: (sense of)
ben_vulpes: in the "socialize the losses, privitize the gains"?
ben_vulpes: i mean i have no clue. perhaps communism is just a thing that the us progpagandacrats came up with to point at to distract the proles from that as what was going on on the daily at home
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what distinguishes 'socialism' from 'communism'?
ben_vulpes: that's a tidy duality.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: for the poor student - what is a real economy?
ben_vulpes: with a heavy dose of "also we can handle with a fair degree of politeness anyone in your business who feels compelled to comment on the quality of our work"
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: best as i can tell, my business' sole selling point is "we're not fucking retarded and won't flake on you as soon as something more shiny comes along"
ben_vulpes: i'll let you know if i ever figure it out
ben_vulpes: no gold's bullshit as an index due to its captivity in government vaults and its absurd inflation via notes
ben_vulpes: decimation: now normalize it against m3 ;)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what do you mean by "fascist" in this context?
ben_vulpes: us kids get down, tho
ben_vulpes: ears may bleed etc
ben_vulpes: listener beware
ben_vulpes: "techno"
ben_vulpes: "klezmer"
ben_vulpes: a sample of some horrible modern klezmer techno
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: beats antique is sort of in the genre of mention
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: on a first listen?
ben_vulpes: the gypsy dubstep fusion is about as close as it gets right now
ben_vulpes: y'r also not a filthy kike
ben_vulpes: not unexpected, asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: do you understand black american music as sung/read/rapped?
ben_vulpes: actually better question
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ever listened to the album in question?
ben_vulpes: i figure this is related to why i can't make any money scamming "nobody will ever fall for that!"
ben_vulpes: i can't wrap my head around how these people would give dryuns kids jobs and not see this coming ten miles away
ben_vulpes: landlord of record has 2? 3? kw of sound equipment for my pleasure.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i'm now playing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill loud enough for the bums outside the warehouse to hear
ben_vulpes: sure, that
ben_vulpes: how was dryun coerced though?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell ognasty do stop in to the channel of record and explain how i'm abusing the WoT rating system.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: negrated him for pimping pirate
ben_vulpes: i got my first negrating this month guys
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust danielpbarron
ben_vulpes: of fucking course bingo, the latter is black and makes better music
ben_vulpes: hook from the latter "i guess that cunt gettin' eatin"
ben_vulpes: OLD NOOZ, KAKO
ben_vulpes: the rules for firearm handling at us airports are pretty cut-and-dried.
ben_vulpes: that's not so unbelievable.
ben_vulpes: cream coulda been derpslosives tho!
ben_vulpes: all hail the benevolent socialist state of oregon
ben_vulpes: our local state-owned booze monopoly
ben_vulpes: Oregon Liquor Control Commission
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: have ye heard tell of the OLCC?
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> ;;later tell vexual that's wonderful that you *can* now *may* you recommend some restaurants in syd/mel? << *would*
ben_vulpes: they bill the same for choose your own adventure degrees
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "nominally"
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> it'd be a sad world if white chicks were all fucktarded, << we're all born so, and either have it beaten out of us or...
ben_vulpes: that's barely a single year at a nominally high-end school
ben_vulpes: << 50k's a pretty low bar these days
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> 50k in debt, social sciences degree and a history of opining in the press is the qualification.
ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> that convinced me they were too fragile and i ended up with a 350z for a few years << how was it? >? new subies?
ben_vulpes: allo pete
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: it'd be her butt and legs were she bent over
ben_vulpes: well mpex, trilema...
ben_vulpes: now i have this image of mp sitting watching trilema logs scroll by on slow days in #b-a
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron is a maple syrup?
ben_vulpes: heheh
ben_vulpes: "you must have an iq of less than 115 to actually pass the tests and be a cop"
ben_vulpes: i've heard some great rumors on the hipster conspiracy circuit lately
ben_vulpes: way2go
ben_vulpes: framing retards
ben_vulpes: WHERE'S MY LULZBOUNCE
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes sez "wat"
ben_vulpes: well with all this drama i should be a millionaire any day
ben_vulpes: the house might get wet though!
ben_vulpes: where's that from, mircea_popescu ?
ben_vulpes: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=instagram&src=typd << millions cry out in pain and are not yet silenced
ben_vulpes: jurov: "web scale"
ben_vulpes: qui bono
ben_vulpes: *shrug*
ben_vulpes: then later "hey did you get my message?"
ben_vulpes: i grab pete's key off gribble or, you know, ask him
ben_vulpes: but i want to send an email to pete
ben_vulpes: i suppose that makes me an uneducated barbarian
ben_vulpes: i don't get the furor over key distribution
ben_vulpes: bitcoin-core is hilariously poorly managed
ben_vulpes: pretty funny that 38 is still marked as draft
ben_vulpes: i'd be surprised if 37 hadn't
ben_vulpes: 61 neither?
ben_vulpes: 62 doesn't appear to have made it past draft?
ben_vulpes: 70-73 are all wallet-app stuff if i'm reading this correctly
ben_vulpes: 73 is not a btcd feature
ben_vulpes: now i'm looking over the past few bips as well
ben_vulpes: not 64
ben_vulpes: punkman: "btcd won’t be supporting the command because it is completely unauthenticated and insecure as pointed out numerous times on the initial pull request."
ben_vulpes: mpoe's back y'all
ben_vulpes: this student can't even do c-grade security
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't get how bip0064 compromises nodes
ben_vulpes: i betcha actually jbork's feed huh
ben_vulpes: penguirker!
ben_vulpes: i don't have to say nuffin :)
ben_vulpes: publically logged chan
ben_vulpes: oaks bottom
ben_vulpes: https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4858646,-122.6641519,14z << ThickAsThieves notes that Portland is built around a giant vagina
ben_vulpes: it's a non-sequiter
ben_vulpes: nuh uh
ben_vulpes: "you're the one who told me to put it in the garbage, you should be the one to take it out, jerk"
ben_vulpes: "By using the global PHP $_FILES array you can upload files from a client computer to the remote server."
ben_vulpes: i found fractals in the fractals
ben_vulpes: php_file_upload
ben_vulpes: no you're not
ben_vulpes: <jurov> and no, i won't blog it, it was underwhelming in the end << my experience with haskell writ large
ben_vulpes: COBOL?
ben_vulpes: javascript?
ben_vulpes: what tools?
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust devthedev
ben_vulpes: yourself as well
ben_vulpes: sounds exactly like me then
ben_vulpes: devthedev: who're you?
ben_vulpes: but yeah not a bad thing
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes hey, how about offering teh interested people a nice drawing of their gpg wot ? they gotta put the address in anyway, you got the dependencies anyway... << like i ain't got enough to do with van already
ben_vulpes: don't let it staple your intestines together...
ben_vulpes: hm, what's that magnet company the usg's trying to put out of business?
ben_vulpes: ibeams, hydraulics, maybe some guides...
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: principles are pretty simple. lotsa force, high rigidity.
ben_vulpes: dumb shit like that's why i mute fab videos
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: pardon?
ben_vulpes: milling's necessary for the forging molds, but forging is inescapable
ben_vulpes: the jungle toolchain involves lots of cold forging too
ben_vulpes: SLANDER
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i'm a nix hacker, i use a mac 'cause its chassis is aluminum
ben_vulpes: lol have i ever touched a 'scsi' anything
ben_vulpes: that was a complex bit of hardware
ben_vulpes: my only experience with that sort of stuff is echoes in wafer probe signal lines
ben_vulpes: but expected
ben_vulpes: that is weird as fuck
ben_vulpes: i do recall
ben_vulpes: ballscrews are rad
ben_vulpes: jokes aside, the ball bearings in the races are going to be tricky for jungle operators.
ben_vulpes: the races, for example :D
ben_vulpes: some things are going to be hard no matter what
ben_vulpes: zero radius corners
ben_vulpes: no consideration of programming costs or tooling complexities or anything.
ben_vulpes: all the kids i did my m.e. studies with designed stuff with crazy tolerances and absurd geometries - "because the machine can do it"
ben_vulpes: best part of building stuff with hand operated tooling is the hard requirement of simple geometric shapes and wide tolerances.
ben_vulpes: oh man
ben_vulpes: nice.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: how jungle?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i thought vulpes was a blowupitem-ist << also blew some stuff up, also built some "rockets", also designed some components for rockets.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> or was that vulpes << don't know that i ever achieved the kind of skills that an actual machinist can lay claim to, but i've operated the whole standard library in production settings.
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes , for the record, doesn't even hold the money
ben_vulpes: /me, for the record, doesn't even hold the money
ben_vulpes has not run with the money
ben_vulpes: thanks boss
ben_vulpes: lol jborkl graduated van to beta
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: grains today
ben_vulpes: myeah.
ben_vulpes: else a continent?
ben_vulpes: back to this "what is the value of a bitcoin" thing again
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform it's just thatr i can't locate any data showign they are succesfull to any degree. but anyway. << crickets i tell ya crickets
ben_vulpes: * asciilifeform not a believer in 'один раз не пидарас' :(
ben_vulpes: well, curve.
ben_vulpes: different points on the trajectory
ben_vulpes: this whole thing's been a really eye opening exercise in pricing
ben_vulpes: he also doesn't need as much to pay for the space, emotionally, as asciilifeform does
ben_vulpes: see BingoBoingo's looking at the long term. patience, stamina...
ben_vulpes: bitcoins at all times.
ben_vulpes: cookies today, dubloons tomorrow.
ben_vulpes: ;;calc 0.0015 * 365 * 0.01
ben_vulpes: and a complicated optimization problem to boot.
ben_vulpes: tanstaafl, so to speak.
ben_vulpes: mind you van still takes 1% of your baseline pool, even though the rest goes back directly to you.
ben_vulpes: but you can run your own ad whatever fraction of the time you're willing to pay for...
ben_vulpes: and it's not strictly a minimum.
ben_vulpes: well its not free.
ben_vulpes: even all i know is the gpg key the user uses to sign up and any funding addresses
ben_vulpes: all you know are the links they're linking.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: actually, you don't know the people.
ben_vulpes: (don't complain if it gets wet when i put it out...)
ben_vulpes: all i know is that the house is on fire
ben_vulpes: who cares
ben_vulpes: i do what i want
ben_vulpes: <BlueMeanie4> thats how a money supply expands << i'm quite excited about this monetary system without insane expansion all the time.
ben_vulpes: mike_c's on vacation yo
ben_vulpes: bang-up programmers work well in a myriad of environments.
ben_vulpes: ;;ud pederasty
ben_vulpes: it's supposed to be a win-win.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i think we all understand where your ask is and where the bids currently are. as much as i'd love to have the slot, you have to want it as well for the deal to make any sense for both of us.
ben_vulpes: venue operators rake in 99% of the bids. we take the bitcoin gold standard 1%.
ben_vulpes: each ad runs proportionately to its bid relative to the rest of the pool
ben_vulpes: every day has a pool, the sum of coins bid on it for that day
ben_vulpes: ah well you see people bid what they're willing to pay for a day
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: it's not any kind of a denigration
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: the purist
ben_vulpes: yeah fluffypony you gotta make some posts b
ben_vulpes: eightyeight: WHAT---is your quest?
ben_vulpes: eightyeight: WHAT---is your name?
ben_vulpes: not that those are umbers that really matter
ben_vulpes: !up eightyeight
ben_vulpes: oh twenty hey
ben_vulpes: dun know by how much but
ben_vulpes: hey at least bitbet has > 10% uptime
ben_vulpes: its a pretty dumb-dumb implementation of impression tracking too - bitbet's numbers are only going to go up for the next 5 days or so
ben_vulpes: ^^ that's true enough
ben_vulpes: running on bitbet now, coinroll's advertising a bit now
ben_vulpes: jborkl: some amount of market validation. still mostly insiders.
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> there's a dick surgery song about this very thing << where's the dick surgery album?
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust Jborkl_
ben_vulpes: do you have a wot handle?
ben_vulpes: salud jborkl
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: no fun, you
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what's the deal with your rating of bluemeanie4?
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust bluemeanie4
ben_vulpes: did he ever get it?
ben_vulpes: <BlueMeanie4> make your system usable for christ sakes << paha cs-folken can't in2 gpg and gribble?
ben_vulpes: <BlueMeanie4> i have a degree in CS
ben_vulpes: be leeeeeeving
ben_vulpes: don't stop
ben_vulpes: ah, i missed the marmot.
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron: tell preston he's not a lost cause
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