gribble: The outlook is good.
gribble: The outlook is hazy, please ask again later.
ben_vulpes: ;;8ball will the coins get stolen?
RebeccaBitcoin: would they get stolen
fluffypony: ben_vulpes: I guess it's using the normal random available to JS and sprucing it up
fluffypony: I don't think the mouse movey thing is any worse than the the way /dev/urandom collects entropy from mouse movements / keyboard entry
ben_vulpes: these are always fun
Vexual: i dunno, one might ace the poop outta one sememster and let a good load of stuff done
gribble: The operation succeeded.
decimation: !up thestringpuller
mircea_popescu: "I think Nine Inch Nail's cover of Johnny Cash's "Hurt" was better than the original."
BingoBoingo: !up thestringpuller
asciilifeform: the meshes are pretty good at selecting mosquitoes.
decimation: I thought studies showed that they were terrible at selecting mosquitos
asciilifeform: decimation: gets whatever flies through the mesh screens
decimation: asciilifeform: do you think the bug zapper does more than murder poor moths?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'bug zapper' on my balcony doesn't bring in 10 bux a day either. only bug parts. and yet i'm happy with it.
asciilifeform: e.g. an 'amd opteron' wouldn't cost any less than what we pay for it here, wherever else on the planet you might go
asciilifeform: also brings to mind another topic that never quite comes up - that 'cost of living' is not really a complete picture of things
assbot: Serenading the cattle with my trombone - YouTube
assbot: The twinheaded announcer announces! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: unless i misunderstand - people have to actually click the ads
assbot: 'Batman v. Superman' Moved Up More Than a Month as Warner Bros. Plots Their Superhero Schedule to 2020 | I Watch Stuff
asciilifeform: so i get a penny now and then, and in exchange... site with ads.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo surprised loper lacks adbox considering it competes with trilema as most read << wait wat. what'd be the point
gribble: The operation succeeded.
chetty: ;;later tell diana_coman pm me for user info or join the #eulora channel
chetty: diana_coman: mircea_popescu hello, I got Eulora up and running on my machine and wanted to give it a try. Can I get an account for it?// pm me or join the #eulora channel
fluffypony [23:45:53] OgNasty: I don't need to discuss anything with that porn peddling pathetic excuse for a man. ;)
fluffypony: [23:44:46] +fluffypony: to quip Apple - "there's a channel for that!"
fluffypony: [23:44:19] OgNasty: I simply hopped on to respond to mircea's nonsense on here and then start getting attacked before I even log off... LOL... You monkey's are mistaking my dick for a tree.
fluffypony: but ben_vulpes and mircea_popescu, you guys missed the funnest conversation in -otc with OgNasty now
fluffypony: I don't use the word "funnest" often
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla well what am i going to give away the sauce ?
mircea_popescu: nah, it's solving the problem that people think interwebs are measurable.
kakobrekla: is van ads solving the problem that advertising bitcoin stuff on non bitcoin site doesnt work or something else
ADutchGamer: and just to listen in on what happens here becaue it seems rather interesting
pankkake: however I found the source of a kazaa video like ten years later (well I knew it was GGG, but not which one)
rithm: the holy grail of head fucking mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: <TheNewDeal> I failed a class called Design of Machine Elements. Fucking horridly boring class << applied statics and dynamics are fascinating topics, wrapped in problem sets designed to condition the student for a life in the mines.
chetty: <pete_dushenski> anyone have experience with filezilla for ftp stuff ?/I use fillezilla all the time
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thickasthieves: what are all the threads tho
pete_dushenski: mp's thermodynamic pic isn't an old man's adam's apple...
fluffypony: which are achievable but useless, do not match or integrate the vision. Finally the last new management will be chop-shop, and pieces will get sold off to the highest bidder."
fluffypony: "My expectation: Just like any dot-com era VC funding scam. They have created impossible expectations in the mindes of the money people who will end up controlling them. They will run in different directions at once, chasing blue sky, have a series of management changes, blow a lot of money on tiki bars and conference splashes. The layoffs will start about the same time as the death march starts. Goals will be scaled down ad hoc to things
fluffypony: I fully agree with what aminorex says about Ethereum:
gribble: The operation succeeded.
thickasthieves: "Microsoft is offering thousands of Chinese factory workers a free Nokia Lumia 630 Windows Phone if they apply for a volunteer resignation package."
thickasthieves: <+chetty> but it would make people think twice about asking for the job /// isnt this already the problem
mircea_popescu: depends on the people.
chetty: but it would make people think twice about asking for the job
mircea_popescu: the people who end up there are ugly enough naturally, imagine if they had boxer mug on top of everything.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a traditional variant of this where you put on glasses that flip the image, then take them off (after brain adjusts. eventually does)
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : introducing mp's cheap drug substitutes. 1. find an item half an inch to an inch tall. 2. wedge it under the foot of your screen, so it's inclined. 3. continue with your daily business. 4. remove the thing. 5. enjoy the unnerving feeling that perfectly level writing is fucking angled.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the most obnoxious habit of the english speaker is this : http://trilema.com/2014/anonymous-derpage/
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones buy 5k eth for the price of 1.x
los_pantalones: what is the bet?
TomServo: The real amazing part... still no takers mircea_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: the quest for metaphores, a metaphorical social game
TomServo: Ethereum has been described by core developers as oil to Bitcoin's gold.
mircea_popescu: no i mean the answers.
BigBitz: They are backedup, of course.
BigBitz: I don't like to move them from my 'main' laptop.
thickasthieves: the etching is what inrigues me
thickasthieves: ironically it helped me see the dust and etches
mircea_popescu: then scaled down about 6x or so
thickasthieves: the image on your page is blown above its resolution a bit
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves you know these were famous as evil shit back in romanian days.
thickasthieves: it has all the crosshatched etches in it
mircea_popescu: take your average "women's studies" thing, there's barely any coherent connection between paragraphs.
pankkake: there's no coherent release of articles in a newspaper. it makes no sense to read them all or in order
pankkake: but my RAGE source is the example of songs, albums and newspapers
pankkake: funny because here it's not very common for a student to be in debt and private schools are much cheaper (granted they also have to compete with the state)
mircea_popescu: win-win-win, cause the students are mentally retarded anyway, so they'll be more than happy to be tested on reddit comprehension.
mircea_popescu: but the various hedge funds operating as colleges don't want to lose money on the deal... so they're pushing to reduce the curricula further.
mircea_popescu: you see, student debt is a major problem, and since the fed doesn't want to give kids free money, the central college administration will have to further cheapen tuition
mircea_popescu: well they gotta push costs down.
assbot: MIT Considers Whether Courses Are Outdated - Slashdot
pankkake: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/08/06/0254235/mit-considers-whether-courses-are-outdated "People now buy songs, not albums. They read articles, not newspapers." ugghhhhhhhhhhhhghguhguhiteraliuteeeealt
mircea_popescu: http://fymaaa.blogspot.com.ar/ << check out romanian red pill. "get out of teh matrix". "bioresonance". "spiritual conferences and training". "how to travel outside of the physical body"
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell thenewdeal http://trilema.com/2014/test-de-cultura-termodinamica/#comment-104220 << check it, everyone's beat you to it.
BingoBoingo: 13 minutes in, is Ron Perlman the Hunger Games Narrator?
BingoBoingo: girl on the far right, just tired
mircea_popescu: http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5235pmE481qlne6uo1_500.jpg << simple test to discern the pros from the amateurs : lordosis behaviour. inward curved butt ? someone's wife. outward curved butt ? party girl.
BingoBoingo: I mean can the same be said for Chicago or Kansas City?
mircea_popescu: i guess, taking a very charitable view of the matter.
BingoBoingo: The latter
mircea_popescu: or you mean, the fact that akron is still inside the us is the one point where us foreign policy is successful ?
mircea_popescu: at which point the innocent bystander wonders : is there currently any single point anywhere on the globe where the us foreign policy is to any degree successful ?
BingoBoingo: Yeah, Some go down 93-80 = B and then steps of ten, but that
BingoBoingo: I didn't fail so much as the Instructor was insufferable and I knocked over my king so I could expend more effort on lava lamp divination or pussy or something.
mircea_popescu: i think the least i ever got would translate as a b or something
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: princessnell was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 5 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes, and 47 seconds ago: <princessnell> the flower?
assbot: Harry Potter And The Cryptocurrency of Stars | Kalzumeus Software
BingoBoingo: mega lolz fanfic http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/08/05/harry-potter-and-the-cryptocurrency-of-stars/?1
mircea_popescu: justusranvier there ?
BingoBoingo: On the flip side my only failed class was beginning drawing...
TheNewDeal: yes the maths is always a good time
TheNewDeal: hopefully they were less of a shit show than the general physics classes I was required to take
BingoBoingo: Exactly 3 physics classes were offered at the school
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: As an Undergrad I took... Astronomy...
TheNewDeal: I took undergrad level thermodynamics and heat xfer and can't identify it outright
BingoBoingo: !up TheNewDeal
kakobrekla: as for the thermodynamic aspect of it, you will be warmer if you cover yourself with it.
BingoBoingo: TheNewDeal: mike_c
kakobrekla: now, here is the critical part
kakobrekla: 'is someone wrong on the internet?'
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla gassen vag is what happens when you play with whipped cream in the pussy and then tire the girl out so she falls alseep
kakobrekla: he should just change the pet to a one that can sleep alone
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla o yeah we gotta get bitbet on that too. pity ben has a gf and thus therefore must sleep at night.
mircea_popescu: a that's a point. asciilifeform you getting on the van train ?
BingoBoingo: They wait for next seekrit...
mircea_popescu: then pretend like you never did
BingoBoingo: Heeps adversaries off their toes
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: The secret is leaving without telling peoples
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i follow in the footsteps of giants: kakobrekla, mike_c, mircea_popescu, jurov
mircea_popescu: nah it's caught in the seat belt.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i wasn't aware entrepreneur ppls are like allowed to go for the night.
mircea_popescu: his cat in a transport box another
mircea_popescu: his tower another
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didn't know there was a weight limit. 'crt or gurl, pick'
ben_vulpes: okay gents, i'm out for the night. please submit further bug reports to benkay@gmail.com
mircea_popescu: i didn't carry a 80lb crt across the oceans
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did you end up having to re-tune your crt for operating in southern hemisphere ?
BingoBoingo: Pete;s is the weirdest stuff
mircea_popescu: you intimating i fucked up the centering in an img ?
mike_c: <+mircea_popescu> http://www.btcalpha.com/ << check out nubbins' idea of "centered" << tough to center when the iframe adds random padding on user agent stylesheet that isn't being removed yet by ad network. but it's pretty center.
mircea_popescu: paging ben_vulpes http://van-ads.com/login/05d5faeb-92c3-48c2-b16f-9fe8533c1xxx << you need to compare them without the cr nooblet! now you've broked it so no one can log in.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://blog.spagni.net/ << check out ben_vulpes ' idea of "i'll do the other ones too" << Is Trilema there yet, because all I see is "White Africa Future"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you gonna pro-rate me for the ~3 hours gone already ? hm ? HMM ?
BingoBoingo: Oh, you should see the "centered" ad I had on Pete's
mircea_popescu: http://blog.spagni.net/ << check out ben_vulpes ' idea of "i'll do the other ones too"
mircea_popescu: mike_c not to worry, tomorrow's another day.
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> "chiggidey check yourself before you wreck yourself...big dicks in your ass is bad for your health"? << Mr. Hands was from your part of the Wastes wasn't he?
ben_vulpes: there's also a change in the works that will only debit your account for days the ad's actually run.
ben_vulpes: d'you recall the dates you used?
BingoBoingo: bitcointrader: What's the news?
BingoBoingo: Is there a way to see your past ad purchases yet?
ben_vulpes: dear god why is the first google result for `gpg homedir` a windows problem
ben_vulpes touches the globe
BingoBoingo: Lamp divination was over rated for sure, plasma globe is the way to go
asciilifeform: unless they build fischer-tropsch plants - yesterday
asciilifeform: 'rolling coal' << the funny part is that, very soon, all vehicles in usa will. as in, these: http://krisdedecker.typepad.com/.a/6a00e0099229e88833012876d498a2970c-500wi
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if i'm not mistaken, psychedelic aficionados in 1960s used them for divination.
TheNewDeal: gotcha, reading up on it at the same time
teward: hah, coincidence that happened at the same time :)
gribble: Connecting with SASL - Freenode: <https://freenode.net/sasl/>; Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) - Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Authentication_and_Security_Layer>; extensions/sasl-3.1: <http://ircv3.org/extensions/sasl-3.1>
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla TheNewDeal: SASL seems to avoid the issue as you auth with nickserve as you connect
kakobrekla: !up TheNewDeal
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: presumably the owner of the machine has better sense than to approach to bird hunt distance
BingoBoingo: !up TheNewDeal
mike_c: they had a broken keyboard. i bought a broken keyboard.
asciilifeform: re: drone war: still seems to me like the best pill against a small flying machine would be a flying 'retiarius'
asciilifeform back from buying a back-breaking 21-inch 'trinitron', missed, as usual, all the goodstuff
gribble: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: Unless the bots are excessively endowed with adipose tissue
BingoBoingo: Wildly seems the better word though
kakobrekla: the 'retarded' part is not wildly advertised
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kakobrekla: mike_c a simple trend follower or even a retarded grid would do better this year. but neither of those is in the description.
mircea_popescu: "minus, of course, the shoes"
mircea_popescu: "this is how girls your age would have been under these arches, five centuries ago"
mike_c: in order to win, somebody has to lose. having two funds trying to win might bring the average down.
mike_c: well, it's like the weather. wait a bit and conditions will change. volatility can't stay in the cellar forever
kakobrekla: mike_c enky has something but its currently being tested on animals. but i fear the story might repeat.
gribble: Currently authenticated from hostmask ben_vulpes!~user@unaffiliated/benkay. Trust relationship from user BingoBoingo to user ben_vulpes: Level 1: 2, Level 2: 9 via 8 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=BingoBoingo&dest=ben_vulpes | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=ben_vulpes | Rated since: Sun Mar 10 13:57:45 2013
mike_c: ikr? it's always nice to end up on trilema and not be on the end of a skewer like so many are.
BingoBoingo: !up The20YearIRCloud
kakobrekla: sorry to disappoint but i really feel its the best option atm.
mike_c: tomorrow's news today: mpif buys ether
mike_c: i gotta say, i'm glad i don't run a btc investment fund in the current climate.
BingoBoingo: <mike_c> speaking of curses, this means the btcalpha income investments page is going dark too. From 3 investments -> 0 in six months. << Probably a good indicator of incredible volatility being likely ahead
mike_c: speaking of curses, this means the btcalpha income investments page is going dark too. From 3 investments -> 0 in six months.
mike_c: i have been in the newspaper multiple times, and i have been in trilema posts multiple times. one of these means more than the other, but I can only show my mother the newspaper clippings :)
mircea_popescu: upside down fucking nonsense, srsly, there is exactly zero difference between reading literotica and reading r/theredpill r/feminism etc. same purple prose, same "sammy was a 95lb triple D tits and fiery red pubic hair cut in a landing strip pattern" dependencies.
mircea_popescu: "Your understanding of how morality works is a bit flawed here. You see, there is no universal morality. There is nothing in the universe applying any law other than those of physics. The rest is abstraction."
assbot: Buying Beauty Products with Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrencies
pete_dushenski: http://www.nuciya.com/nuciya.com/Buying-Beauty-Products-with-Bitcoin-Other-Cryptocurrencies
BingoBoingo: lol, is that when you pull out the hammer from s.mash?
BingoBoingo: The absurd thing is a shotgun seems like the right tools as it is the standard for similarly sized flying objects (i.e. Birds)
mircea_popescu: "oh and by the way it's impossible to shoot a drone"
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BingoBoingo: Seems like part of their Pidgin
mircea_popescu: "Mostly, though, given that the use of government drones on American soil is an issue that demands to be taken seriously, fantasizing about blowing them to pieces doesn't seem to lend itself being an appropriate voice in what should be an important and thoughtful debate."
mircea_popescu: is "absurd" the new lingo for "shit that we feel threatened by" ?
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user pete_dushenski to user bounce: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 1 via 1 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=pete_dushenski&dest=bounce | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=bounce | Rated since: Thu Dec 26 20:47:11 2013
pete_dushenski: wonder if this is the same bounce that chills here ?
pete_dushenski: commenter: "currently the people most likely to end up as the new aristocracy would be the likes of Zuckerberg, people with nary a clue but lots of money, thus influence, and a strong incentive to please their backers, which inevitably ends up selling out the plebs. I don’t think I would particularly like to end up stagnant in such a pool. There is very little benevolent about mob rule, no matter the kind of mob."
pete_dushenski: 10. In the future, all companies will be involved in technology, so no matter what sector you are interested in you could find an engineering role.
assbot: Alaina Percival: 10 Reasons Why More Women Should Work in Software Engineering - The Accelerators - WSJ
pete_dushenski: so they're here for 2.5 years and stayed with me for 3 months while they found a place
pete_dushenski: my mom was invited by the architecture university in bucharest to adjudicate the 6th year final projects since she still speaks the language and they like foreign panelists
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: my mom was born there too. lived in bucharest until age 6. then moved to montreal
pete_dushenski: "jerusalem on the prut"
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i say "student of power" when people ask. << now there's a program. sort of an uber-mba
pete_dushenski: no, more like "curiousity, on the off-chance i'm missing out"
pete_dushenski: a yes, the problem of too much capital
mircea_popescu: i guess best buy some ethereum.
artifexd: mircea_popescu: I can help break the mpif curse, if you want.
mircea_popescu: soo on the sad news front, panacea is going on vacation too.
mircea_popescu: now the spiritual continuator of that mess got all these two star generals that basically sat at a desk 30 years
mircea_popescu: you know one of the major complaints of the french revolution was an officer corps that had never seen the field.
BingoBoingo: There's prolly no good reason, just a lot of Billets to fill
BingoBoingo: Well that second star happens... 20-25 years into one's career so 1994-1999... Prolly scuffled sround a bunch of staff jobs with Glowing recommendations int typical 'Murican fashion. I mean the Flag officer corps is right arounds 1000 across the services or some really hug number like that.
mircea_popescu: "Greene, who was on his first deployment to a war zone" << how can you get a maj. gen comission without ever seeing a warzone is the q.
assbot: The twinheaded announcer announces! pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: penguirker> New blog post: http://trilema.com/2014/the-twinheaded-announcer-announces/ << mike_c ben_vulpes
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla> quick bb, ether will collect over 30k? Doubt it, but who know how much Vitalik swindled in 2012
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i already live five blocks down from it, im already taking the sophomores out for a ride... mgith as well. pretty much everyone's a lawyer here anyway. << WHy not, one needs hobbies
decimation: another usg foreign policy success
decimation: "An engineer by training, he was the deputy commanding general, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan."
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell bitcodernoob <decimation> make copies, put in bit/altcoin profile directory and see which one is vaild after running the client?
decimation: make copies, put in bit/altcoin profile directory and see which one is vaild after running the client?
ben_vulpes: <bitcodernoob> Can anyone help me with a problem. I have two wallet.dat's that I accidentally mixed up. Is there a way that I can findout which wallet.dat goes to which coin?
justusranvier: I had to put something there
pete_dushenski: "Congratulate Brock Pierce on the new job!"
pete_dushenski: and e-mail subject line of the day goes to…. linkedin!
pete_dushenski: gotta edumacate the goldbugs