asciilifeform: incl. (at the time) bucharest
asciilifeform: incidentally, one of his first (or perhaps first?) works is a description of a voyage he took, to visit the major capitals of the communist world
mircea_popescu: i like a man who can use the text.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk if every 170k blocks it increases 35 times, and there's 365 days to the year and 24 hours to the day and 6 blocks in a hour
mircea_popescu: this is impressive. imagine, men before public smoking was banned, living to be 96! and able to articulate themselves!
phillipsjk: so I read http://trilema.com/2015/gerald-davis-is-wrong-heres-why/ , and have been having trouble parsing the math formula. I have figured out that 1.25TB (about 3 years from now) is approximately 35 squared.
mircea_popescu: "What, then, did I find to praise in Galbraith? In the first place, his personal example, which is encouraging for someone like me who has entered the later stages of his life. Galbraith wrote The Economics of Innocent Fraud when he was 96. That was the last of the approximately 50 books that he wrote, and he wrote them clearly, never giving the impression of wanting to be thought clever because of the difficulty of wh
assbot: The Galbraith Revival by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Winter 2010 ... ( http://bit.ly/16KPvZt )
mircea_popescu: "can't figure it out when a mater of abstract objects ? that's fine, do it over but with cunts and fucking this time. see if the carefully evolved mamallian brain isn't more a help than a hindrance in matters it's actually evolved to handle!"
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 06:31:43; asciilifeform: exercise for student: when you wake up, think of six entirely factually-correct - but disastrously intellectually-crippling - models for some commonplace thing or other.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty good, and an excellent display of why the reconstructive approach is so powerful in talk psychotherapy, and discourse generally.
mircea_popescu: For example, they do not say of the policemen who they allege (often plausibly) have beaten them up, Poor cops! They were brought up in authoritarian homes and now project the anger that is really directed at their bullying fathers onto me. They need counseling. They need their heads sorted out. On the contrary, they say, with force and explosive emotion, The bastards! They assume that the police act out of
asciilifeform: (anyone who enjoyed 'the knife went in' can see a bunch more, http://www.city-journal.org/author_index.php?author=47 )
asciilifeform: inks too much and gets involved in brawls. No, the Real Me is an immaculate conception, untouched by human conduct: it is that unassailable core of virtue that enables me to retain my self-respect whatever I do. What I am is not at all determined by what I do; and insofar as what I do has any moral significance at all, it is up to others to ensure that the phenomenal me acts in accordance with the Real Me.'
asciilifeform: 'Violent criminals often use an expression auxiliary to My head went when explaining their deeds: It wasnt me. Here is the psychobabble of the slums, the doctrine of the Real Me as refracted through the lens of urban degradation. The Real Me has nothing to do with the phenomenal me, the me that snatches old ladies bags, breaks into other peoples houses, beats up my wife and children, or repeatedly dr
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 21:53:25; mircea_popescu: this "'KGB: the Inside Story' by Christopher Andrew" string reminds me of the "stop sending niggers then" joke.
asciilifeform: at least, unlike the 'vicarious' engineering gurlz, she did not attempt to go and... apply
mircea_popescu: then i figured out... vicariously!
mircea_popescu: kinda what got my attention originally, i could read the girl's experienced, but it made little sense.
mircea_popescu: i had this girl... she was a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent three years as the prison shrink.
mircea_popescu: please is the word.
mircea_popescu: "The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong."
assbot: "The Knife Went In" by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Autumn 1994 ... ( http://bit.ly/16KJIDk )
mircea_popescu: i guess i'd do okay as a lord with his own court in some marsh cca 1300, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: i'd probably make a horrible judge, on the grounds that i'm generally inclined to let off everyone who kills purposefully.
mircea_popescu: it's strange, this unseemly ability of felons, to hide the substance of their felony. first of all from themselves, and even should they be blessed with remarkable observation powers.
mircea_popescu: lol@ filthy orwell, going full throtle into "the country is weakened by the war, now is the time to socialism!11"
mircea_popescu: the man's disarmingly plain.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i imagine you see my point. what truly subtle meta-Agranov would come up with something like that ?
asciilifeform: the whole thing does
mircea_popescu: it does sound rather like something you get convicted to, doesn't it.
asciilifeform: 'January 2009 Completed The Insurance Premium Reduction Program at A and J Driving School.' on a cv !?!?
mircea_popescu: i've not wondered much, kinda discover the potentiality and the actuality in one package as it were.
asciilifeform: whether exist, and where
asciilifeform: looks like the diddler is rigged to reciprocate
asciilifeform: (whether the treadmill actually powers the computer - that ancient dream - i do not know)
asciilifeform: i'm told there are even treadmill desks
asciilifeform: when i'm in the machine shop, end up having to stand, and it tends to keep one awake
asciilifeform: oddly enough, there appears to be something to this
mircea_popescu: the banal observation that three hour's walk is pleasant, but quarter hour's standing unpleasant not exactly with them ?!
asciilifeform: and before the 'stand-up desk' fashion, too
mircea_popescu: do people really have such poor grasp of basic mechanics as to not understand that if you're not walking, there's really noi reason to be standing ?!
mircea_popescu: this "people standing on magic carpets of the future" meme is so incomprehensible to me.
mircea_popescu: much as before. The State controls industry, but there are still rich and poor, masters and men."
mircea_popescu: "One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler's recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler's real self is in MEIN KAMPF, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society
decimation: at any rate, that's all I have for the evening, good night
decimation: turns out you don't have to pay them social security or payroll tax
decimation: there was a class locally, but it was canceled for lack of interest
decimation: eh, kids are gonna have to learn to deal with the electronics one day
mircea_popescu: yeah, that i have seen. there's a koi pond simulator
mircea_popescu: i don't think anything ever was as stulfifying as the ipad game scene. perhaps the failed nes.
mircea_popescu: i borrowed an ipad for a coupla weeks to check out the games and i gave it back without regrets - more with relief.
mircea_popescu: i have half a dozen laptops which i use... maybe a day a season, or something, between the lot.
mircea_popescu: it went from 16 to 64 bits, sure, but otherwise the box is exactly the same size even
asciilifeform: you know, the one that is heavy, if you kick, won't move
mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as a child.
decimation: I guess there are many simple solutions.
decimation: asciilifeform: but how do you separate your changes from the original text? does emacs do this?
mircea_popescu: and the worst thing a maid could do is drop a wreath of books on the way to shelving
mircea_popescu: in the book days i used to have my books filled with papers.
decimation: do you scribble in the margins?
asciilifeform: the model is that one wishes sometimes to emulate a book.
mircea_popescu: decimation my poinbt being, i can't really do anything of the intellect without the whole computer.
decimation: lol mircea_popescu no one types on the kindle
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is like a woman that's useful as long as another woman is around ?
mircea_popescu: but fine, the notes : suppose you now want to write an article. how do you type, and how do you send it to trilema ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a quote collector widget.
asciilifeform: they keep making'em
asciilifeform: as for the chumpatronics, i have no idea who uses.
decimation: I think the ebook sales are mostly woman-porn
mircea_popescu: the kindle ?
asciilifeform: (which one is not forced to use, unlike the one in certain very early 'e-readers', but tempts sufficiently many ESL (to use mircea_popescu's term) folks to bring in a pretty penny for the vendor)
asciilifeform sometimes wonders whether that product category would exist - and what it would cost if it did - if there were not a built-in chumpatronic collector
decimation: I should try the hack to see if I can fix it
decimation: usually, the screen stops updating. I never bothered fixing it, figured it wasn't worth my time
decimation: at any rate, it's moot because libraries in the us don't see the point in keeping books anymore
asciilifeform: the 'fast' e-ink remains mythical.
decimation: I recall the library was running some variant of 'unisys'
decimation: yeah that's the one
asciilifeform still has one of those scanners. with the old stainless steel wand.
asciilifeform: the new one - requires mouse.
asciilifeform: because that was the previous usg monopoly.
decimation: for retail clerks: why not serial terminals? what does the mouse gui add?
decimation: aye. and for the secretary using 'word' it would be fine, more-or-less
decimation: the whole 'thin client' idea is hilarious stupidity
asciilifeform: quite useless, unless one of us were to come across a gigantic crate of these somewhere.
asciilifeform: decimation: just about all of the listed machines are 'old stock'
asciilifeform: not at the sticker price.
decimation: actually that little device (wi-copy) would be a good buy just to harvest the parts
decimation: ah no the android software is running on a phone connected to the device, sorry for the confusion
asciilifeform: there is a mips-android...
decimation: well the main cpu runs some kind of arm probably because it appears to run android
asciilifeform: for some reason sitting on the wireless daughterboard.
asciilifeform: silly or not, apparently there are at least half a dozen makers of just this.
asciilifeform: which does not allow expansion of storage in the customary way
asciilifeform: these are, i think, meant to be used with iPnohe
asciilifeform: peculiarly high price tag, but perhaps will fall to somewhere close to zero as they sit on the shelves.
decimation: asciilifeform: I like the 5.2 amp hour battery
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: has the best toys
asciilifeform: i like that the 802.11 card - comes off.
asciilifeform: of the side not shown, that is
asciilifeform: but, unless i missed something, no info anywhere re: ram on the board.
BingoBoingo: The 86 was a good looking computer
asciilifeform: ^ all of them, i think
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://tiplanet.org/forum/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=253&image_id=3667 << the 'plus module' from earlier. updated rom + eeprom (original -92 lacked eeprom)
asciilifeform: (a second or so, but it much grated on the nerves)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the original 'blue arrow keys' was best.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 89 was same "civillian" form factor as 83, On the 92 user accessible rom like that could be a thing.
mircea_popescu: "simply a hole in the air" !?
mircea_popescu: "And yet somehow the ruling class decayed, lost its ability, its daring, finally even its ruthlessness, until a time came when stuffed shirts like Eden or Halifax could stand out as men of exceptional talent. As for Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air. "
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: No, I had the TI-89, mostly the same except for form factor. I have no idea what that important looking rectangle is.
decimation: http://ww2.gazette.net/stories/04212011/busiplo163111_32533.php < " O'Malley thanked the Konterra developers, Kingdon Gould Jr. and his son Caleb Gould, for cooperating to allow the state to move forward with the ICC plan without the costs of going to court to acquire the land."
asciilifeform: decimation: same dynamics as the management of hunting in game preserves.
asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu knows what the pupils -actually- did with those calculators.
decimation: asciilifeform: it is my understanding that the toll machines are 'banned' from enforcing speed limit
asciilifeform: spot checks, so nobody actually drives the limit
assbot: Agreement allows Konterra project to move forward - Maryland Politics - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1DERLLF )
decimation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-politics/post/agreement-allows-konterra-project-to-move-forward/2011/04/19/AF4neD7D_blog.html "The pact includes construction of a planned I-95 interchange with Contee Road near Maryland Route 198, and extension of Virginia Manor Road for access to the proposed 2,200-acre mixed-use development."
asciilifeform: instead, there are 6 (?) policecars, in special '200' livery, at all times.
asciilifeform: interestingly, speed limit could easily be enforced by the (photo-operated) toll machines - but isn't
decimation: it was built as a favor to one of the wash dc land barons
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ^ these were mandatory (!? i know) in the school << TI's survival is hinged to the "education standards" bezzel
asciilifeform: http://www.farrellf.com/projects/hardware/2013-07-26_Overclocking_the_TI-83+_Graphing_Calculator/overview.jpg << not mine. but did this for a few classmates as a schoolboy
asciilifeform: (an 'arm' cpu, fat ram, and... an emulator of the 1980s calcs)
asciilifeform: as i understand, they've introduced a few devices where this 'problem' is 'fixed'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: surprisingly, the calculators use very well-understood, ancient components
asciilifeform: 1.5b for ibm's chip div. << state of maryland could have bought one and a half of these for the cost of road 200 (a recently built, money-losing toll road i frequent.)
mircea_popescu: nobody else could make ti pocket calculators for lack of ti chip documentation. leaving alone why anyone would want to, after ti paid for tha someone to build their plants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but it makes them because "it controls the ip" or how did that line go/
asciilifeform: or texas instruments and the remaining pocket calculators
asciilifeform: how the mighty have fallen! and to think, ibm was once the sole source of jew list tabulators to nazis
decimation: re: ibm < of course the 100,000 person layoff comes after paying $1.3 bn to not make chips anymore http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192430-ibm-dumps-chip-unit-pays-globalfoundries-1-5-billion-to-take-the-business-off-its-hands
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by cazalla: http://qntra.net/2015/02/canadian-mans-letter-to-court-accept-bitcoin-as-the-one-and-only-global-currency/
assbot: The Chinese Military Blasted a Private Drone With a Shotgun — War Is Boring — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1zmpIBo )
asciilifeform: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-chinese-military-blasted-a-private-drone-with-a-shotgun-5789a7483014
mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of a whore.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: americans themselves have a specially custom rocket that does only this.
decimation: not if the bomb is sufficiently large
asciilifeform: b) if set off, because receiver was built from shoebox, string and dead squirrel - this is meant to happen -before- the truck reaches the mine
mircea_popescu: what are these people, idiots ?
asciilifeform: the particular apparatus involved is discussed in reasonably clear terms in textbooks
asciilifeform: 'The Secret Service uses covert radio-frequency jammers inside a Chevrolet Suburban that travels with the presidents motorcade. These devices disable remotely triggered improvised bombs. But because they have to disable explosives set off by a potentially large number of frequencies, the jammers saturate a wide spectrum, occasionally interfering with cellphones nearby.' << this deserves an aside
asciilifeform: 'A Homeland Security sensor deployed to spot but not interfere with drones flying above the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Minneapolis last July cost several hundred thousand dollars to operate for just that night, reported the New York Times.'
decimation: eh, I'm not so sure. the implication of that would be that usg is extraordinarily competent
mircea_popescu: people's disenchantment with their own wives isn't predicated on the theory that somewhere there's a sane woman waiting.
assbot: Why we should worry about domestic drones and how to bring them down ... ( http://bit.ly/1zmnB0l )
asciilifeform: http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/02/05/why-we-should-care-about-domestic-drones-and-how-to-bring-them-down << loltronic
asciilifeform: 'state ipad', but one nitpick, this presumes that somewhere there lives a 'normal' one.
asciilifeform: 'of course we must assume that the adversary owns the network. this is why nukes must be expected to fly anywhere at all, .... ...'
asciilifeform: decimation: that article has the beginnings of a glorious 'onion piece'
mircea_popescu: decimation they probably manifest that list of qualities which made "state' such a damning adjective in romanian.
decimation: http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE6BF6BZ20101216 < ""There's no such thing as 'secure' any more," Debora Plunkett of the National Security Agency said on Thursday amid U.S. anger and embarrassment over disclosure of sensitive diplomatic cables by the web site WikiLeaks."
asciilifeform: the 'obamaphone' (not the one handed out to paupers, the other obamaphone) is well-known at this point
decimation: "Generals and others have been known to become so frustrated with the existing devices that they switch to personal cellphones to conduct classified conversations, according to a former U.S. official."
asciilifeform: who wants to be the first to buy a certified pre-owned (tm) ru nuke sub as mr buffett ?
asciilifeform: when some hobo successfully impersonates obama, or buffett - then.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg does not care (or even encourages, see earlier 'house-buying' postdoc story) about a plebe impersonating another plebe.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it is a traditional algorithm for crafting fake people for official uses
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: this is probably how CIA makes assets these days
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think this is the best proof possible that current usg does not expect to survive more than a few years into the future anyway.
asciilifeform: generally the credit agencies are somewhat better at tracking deaths than, e.g., the voter rolls
mircea_popescu: and what's better, since they are re=used, you needn't only worry about your own indiscretions, but those of people long dead
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pillow+pants | pillow pants. Pussy Troll. The parents place it in their daughter pussy. If a penis trys entering the pussy before the age of 21 then the Pussy Troll will bite it off.
thestringpuller: unlock all the things
asciilifeform: any other way - treasonous.
asciilifeform: and he sticks his in the wife
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: you go and fuck your wife, but you mustn't slip it in directly - gotta put it in this little gnome fella first
thestringpuller: have you not seen the matrix?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: for keymaker - a smashingly great concept.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: for whom ?
thestringpuller: the keymaker isn't entirely bad concept
asciilifeform: (for n00bs: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1323 << describes, among other things, the curious fact that within usg, only specially trained gnomes are permitted the privilege of generating keys, for use by all ranks from private to president)
asciilifeform: it would be unthinkable for anyone other than usg to wipe arses, if this were practical.
decimation: but you see in the usa, it is unthinkable that usg wouldn't issue keys
asciilifeform: but the notion that commercial identity can exist outside of a key - is a work of the beast.
asciilifeform: just the notion that 'you are a key'
decimation: but I don't see why the government should have anything to do with verifying identity anyway
decimation: asciilifeform: the reason given against crypto is that the masses would reject a 'universal id' card
asciilifeform: just like the failure-to-mention-mpex discussed in mircea_popescu's article
asciilifeform: the fiat world's refusal to use modern crypto exclusively is not a mistake, not an accident, not sloth
decimation: no that's the point of that 'randomization' program I think
asciilifeform: afaik they still are ?
decimation: mircea_popescu: it's a lulzy recycling program - in the past, us ssn's were assigned by geographical region
asciilifeform: 'model m', with the inevitable pen clutter
mircea_popescu: "What is Social Security Number (SSN) Randomization? The project is a forward looking initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help protect the integrity of the SSN by establishing a new randomized assignment methodology. SSN Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide."
asciilifeform: a number of common household tools in the photo
decimation: asciilifeform: look in the corner of his computer room - looks like a radio transmitter above his o-scope
asciilifeform: decimation: looks like that fella wins 'beggar of the year' ?
assbot: The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke - ProPublica ... ( http://bit.ly/1DEC1s6 )
decimation: 'begging for gpg via media' http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke
asciilifeform: system tends to inject bezzlars randomly throughout the 'real' economy << at this point, this is not unlike worrying about the health effects of the embalming solution undertakers inject into their 'patients'
asciilifeform: they also get best of both worlds if the victim is retarded, and saddles himself with the debt
decimation: asciilifeform: right, the banks don't give a shit because 1.) they generally don't get stuck with the bill and 2.) when they do, usg prints them up some bezzlars
asciilifeform: and, having the option to be rid of this mess, he took it
asciilifeform: they caught the woman, eventually, and there was some penalty (a light one, iirc) but it did not send the creditors back to the holes they crawled out of
decimation: it is certainly one way that wealth is is transferred to the 'deserving' - robin hood style
asciilifeform: the biggest criminal, usg, makes most of it.
decimation: asciilifeform: the inevitable conclusion is that the banks/usg do not mind criminals making money off the fucktarded system
decimation: somehow this is not the problem, it's the fact that derps can't keep the ssn 'secret' is the problem
decimation: similarly, they can present themselves to the local doctor as you and send you medical bills
decimation: in the us, if someone has your name, address, and ssn they can apply for 'credit' on your behalf
mircea_popescu: decimation well... secret in the sense you're supposed to keep your genitals secret neh ?
asciilifeform: then safe to ignore.
asciilifeform: i take it you had the latex docs bug ?
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: read the makefile
decimation: the bigger issue is the fact that you have to keep your social security number a 'secret'
decimation: they said they would send a special email later when they "figure out" if I am affected or not
decimation: mircea_popescu: lol anthem is my health insurance
asciilifeform: odd, then
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edAxujKev1I << reminds me of the time i've spent deep in the bowels of D1X and friends