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ben_vulpes: nothing compares to bitcoin we all know this
ben_vulpes: it's a bezzle hack asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: nothing as before
ben_vulpes: hsa administrator or usg?
ben_vulpes: which "them"?
ben_vulpes: pile up pre-tax dollars reserved for 'valid medical expenses' without incurring the insurance cost
ben_vulpes: possible husseincare hack: sign up for 1 month of high-deductible, max out HSA contribution, discontinue insurance plan.
ben_vulpes: and at the very least shares keybindings with intellij/android studio
ben_vulpes: appcode: no worse than xcode
ben_vulpes: phf: man once i got the simulator all wired up boy howdy was it nice to have unified keybindings for the mobile scutwork
ben_vulpes: worthwhile translation candidate?
ben_vulpes: link?
ben_vulpes: whoa wait how did i miss that
ben_vulpes: "Obamacare's markets are nearing failure as premiums climb and healthier individuals drop out" << did someone cancel the penalty for rolling uninsured or am i missing something here
ben_vulpes: was there bitching at the top about the selective leaking?
ben_vulpes: mildly
ben_vulpes: the distribution of 'intelligence' by bureaucrats?
ben_vulpes: "The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by 'intelligence' like candy. Very un-American!" god i love realdonaldtrump
ben_vulpes: how's that?
ben_vulpes: superior orc seed
ben_vulpes: owait.png
ben_vulpes: "next you'll want to disband the tribes of the fertile crescent!"
ben_vulpes: challenge it on cultural diversity grounds: "baksheesh is how other cultures work, and this inane attempt to 'combat corruption' is really just thinly-disguised cultural imperialism justifying usg statal overreach"
ben_vulpes: sovereignty gaaaames
ben_vulpes: "There’s no real thought about: what is the purpose of asset forfeiture? What is it designed to achieve?” said Kristian Lasslett, director of the Institute for Research in Social Sciences at Ulster University, who has been working to develop the emerging academic field of 'state crime'."
ben_vulpes: the re-carving of territory up by the replacement right and replacement left could be interesting. not saying that it is yet, or that it mustest be, but that if it does transpire i will pop corn.
ben_vulpes: bone, prelude. or, or, or.
ben_vulpes: church of woke or church of born again, water draining out of both buckets.
ben_vulpes: "house of cards" pissed quite a few 'middle class' murkkans off.
ben_vulpes: decent odds that cutting funding for abortion services abroad is just a prelude to cutting funding for * abroad.
ben_vulpes: 'twas never explicit, but care to explain why?
ben_vulpes: oh we hate uuids now today?
ben_vulpes: you think the phb character knows or cares?
ben_vulpes: docker just sidebar low dough lols
ben_vulpes: anyways, linked for charts
ben_vulpes: "how do you do delivery?" "we just package a whole linux, anything less than that is annoyingly complicated and we can't hire people who know how to do it"
ben_vulpes: iono, aren't republicans in the habit of pasting lulzy pm logs?
ben_vulpes: my freenode password? give me a break
ben_vulpes: at risk of boringly rehashing a point there is nothing to collect!
ben_vulpes: does *anything* work on freenode?
ben_vulpes: > irc: sasl authentication timeout
ben_vulpes: > irc: client capability, server supports: account-notify extended-join identify-msg multi-prefix sasl
ben_vulpes: i don't have enough compenstors on the ground yet apparently if there's a baby stroller type to be had
ben_vulpes: well now i gotta see this f350 of baby strollers
ben_vulpes: > threatened to run over one of the deputies with a baby stroller
ben_vulpes: and by lols i mean deaths-by-bureaucrat
ben_vulpes: so "baww" but perhaps the lols compound
ben_vulpes: right?
ben_vulpes: baww, oroville damn evacuation lifted
ben_vulpes: hang 'em on hearsay i guess
ben_vulpes: if only there were an ounce of "prove it" left in america.
ben_vulpes: good for them
ben_vulpes: if only join/parts weren't so frequently so spammy; it'd be nicely contextual for eg the previous conversation in logs
ben_vulpes: a man may be forgiven the odd transmission to otherwise apparently derelict friends' vessels
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: hope springs eternal
ben_vulpes: you there, boss?
ben_vulpes: !!up mike_c
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: just trying to cheer you up, buddy!
ben_vulpes: wouldn't really know! just crackin wize
ben_vulpes: hey, wiping one's own ass is for poorfags
ben_vulpes: make my butthole great again, baby
ben_vulpes: i think i found some great again in my butthairs last night
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: yellen still planning to raise rates
ben_vulpes: wao, trinque thanks
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: by the way which was the article in which you related telling your father that if you ever saw him again you'd kill him?
ben_vulpes: euphemism, BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: in other news, the wsj is approximately the only place not using a javascript paywall
ben_vulpes: and that's coming from a guy who grew up in portland
ben_vulpes: now that'd take a dyke system
ben_vulpes: "surely come global warming all that land will be so farmable!"
ben_vulpes: the room in which i grew up is larger than the house i rent today.
ben_vulpes: you know what rankles?
ben_vulpes: ancestral home
ben_vulpes: appeals, but "or you could just move in upstairs" also appeals
ben_vulpes: you don't have to convince me
ben_vulpes: i'd not mind teh ukr, provided i could figure out where the shoosting is happening where it's likely to spread to etc etc
ben_vulpes: then i think slovenia was the next "what if"
ben_vulpes: mostly project explore-family-tree-and-meet-long-lost-branches
ben_vulpes: and to think, $girl wanted to move to .lt
ben_vulpes: in other things i don't hate, this yamhill valley rose of pinots is not foul!
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: don't set it in stone, things move very slowly in the republic.
ben_vulpes: sure beats reading the source on over-modal'ed websharts
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel_p: i don't hate this!
ben_vulpes: oh god the microcontrollers
ben_vulpes: please not project mirror again
ben_vulpes: depends on when mine come in relative to how strong the sun is at that time of year.
ben_vulpes: highly dependent on when the crop comes in
ben_vulpes: someone call the old witches and tell them the things they did all day were pointless
ben_vulpes: better throw out the family canning tools i guess
ben_vulpes: "why have healthcare costs quintupled over the past three decades?" "did you roll your children in dirt today?" "no?" "well there you have it"
ben_vulpes: better dirt under your fingernails and a cupboard full of tomatoes than rubber food and children with no immune system
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'we' are mitigating against the star topology in all sorts of stupid and entertaining ways
ben_vulpes: more icefrastructure
ben_vulpes: oh no
ben_vulpes: of course to effectively transport the dirt i'm going to need to buy a trailer
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: funny you should mention raised beds, $girl finished the second yesterday.
ben_vulpes: not particularly interested in large scale soil amendment projects largely benefitting others
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: i will keep that in mind for that oft-dreamt-of-day when i'm unlikely to relocate in five years
ben_vulpes: "are open to anyone who want to create a bright future that's rich with opportunity and freedom for all" << what if my bright future doesn't include towelheads, but it's still bright for everyone else, am i still welcome?
ben_vulpes: thanks BingoBoingo
ben_vulpes: stockpile peat moss. k.
ben_vulpes: or does it come from some bog somewhere, extracted at rates far greater than the bog can replenish
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: do i hafta buy it from a factory?
ben_vulpes: in with these other words whose meanings have drained from them at the hands of leftists bloodletters
ben_vulpes: "on behalf of democracy, equality, human rights, social justice and sustainability" << sustainability!
ben_vulpes: "feel" hyu still cracks me up
ben_vulpes: "when core democratic ideals feel under attack" << core democratic ideals! feel! a+ "assuming the sale" right there
ben_vulpes: "a line was crossed" nobody can use active voice anymore, saying your enemy's name doesn't give him power over you witchcraft isn't a thing
ben_vulpes: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/yCTHc/?raw=true << ho ho ho god the pathologies on display
ben_vulpes: "fuck, buddy. it's just a coordinate transform, you can handle those right?"
ben_vulpes: hey i had a blast with quaternions once upon a time
ben_vulpes: heh yeah
ben_vulpes: "hi i have a rudimentary understanding that some words related to mathematics exist and have spent too much time glomming strings together. please kill me!"
ben_vulpes: what the FUCK
ben_vulpes: ruby has an eigenclass
ben_vulpes: you guys
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-13#1613506 << in none of the experimentation and blather through which i dug did anyone posit 'coal' as a carbon source. my limited understanding is that its role is threefold: surface area for bacterial colonization; surface area to ameliorate fertilizer runoff and leaching into the ground; and to improve porosity.
ben_vulpes: progress!
ben_vulpes: stand back everyone i'm just going to deform the crust to perform a bit of geoatmospheric arbitrage
ben_vulpes: that's what makes it so tempting!
ben_vulpes: dams are my favorite human folly
ben_vulpes: pretty serious risk of losing the emergency spillway apparently
ben_vulpes: obvious conclusion that ms is also wholly owned subsidiary of ministry of wtf has apparently not yet occured.
ben_vulpes: in *entirely* unrelated lols, it turns out that various tribal security directives are to "use ms products and keep all data on local disk because we don't trust cloud because obvious tool of ministry of wtf." meanwhile, it dept struggling to wrap heads around how all of their files ended up on the ms cloud.
ben_vulpes: is he really selling that so hard? looks more like the organized organs of the left are pushing that angle and he's not fighting it terrifically hard, because why bother
ben_vulpes: "useless dorks" aka social media mgrs?
ben_vulpes: verily, we are impressed
ben_vulpes: plus that master stroke of "anti human trafficking" + instantiation of the gendarmerie-as-municipal-officer-coordination-office recently
ben_vulpes: duty/responsibilities
ben_vulpes: these days, everyone watches twitter to see how donny's going to respond to something happening on the teevee, while he waves the red cloak of nordstrom or even just "make america great again" (which i fucking die laughing every time he tweets that phrase naked), while the white house press bureau releases some very well-written copy on "failure(s) to enforce sovereign duty"
ben_vulpes: last eight years everything was this tightly dialed drumbeat of unified talking points
ben_vulpes: the trifurcation of media, white house proclaimations and social media drivel compared to the last administration is very interesting
ben_vulpes: quite impossible to play out literally, lol
ben_vulpes: i am spectacularly unqualified to opine as to how it might happen this time, so i wonder.
ben_vulpes: nevertheless, wind blows, bridge rips itself apart.
ben_vulpes: i wonder what the 'tacoma narrows' moment looks like for intel and friends.
ben_vulpes: i can imagine; seems miserable.
ben_vulpes: magical
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: b-but free energy from the soil timecube
ben_vulpes: (also baby steps towards federal gendarmerie in form of "better coordination of law enforcement")
ben_vulpes: "illegal smuggling and trafficking of humans" is all over that thing. would otherwise be a huge victory for the nonprofits pushing that line, except for how it's donny t doing it
ben_vulpes: besides, paraplane is a+ garage flugenice
ben_vulpes: lifting bodies are neat!
ben_vulpes: g soon? color me excited
ben_vulpes: i am reluctant to consign material from which i may yet extract $use to the public pit
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you know how photosynthesis reduces electron energy by lowering its potential down gradually through a series of steps?
ben_vulpes: as i said, uninterested in full breakdown.
ben_vulpes: would rather not bifurcate waste handling streams if unnecessary.
ben_vulpes: i'd be satisfied if the bones were rendered unattractive to pests.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: concern is more along lines of splintering and intestine perforation
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have been thoroughly terrorized by the fud around passing bones to dogs
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even i can only scour so much off the bones
ben_vulpes: i suppose the smart thing to do is make a highly reduced stock?
ben_vulpes: complexity reduction in waste pipeline, ~
ben_vulpes: i have nfi re latrine design
ben_vulpes: what might handicap the meat/dairy handling?
ben_vulpes: smells, turning, meat/dairy as feedstock to boot
ben_vulpes: also hokum?
ben_vulpes: aight, next pile of nuttery to riddle: anaerobic composting of food waste
ben_vulpes: coal is not the hydrogen-rich rock dug from ground now?
ben_vulpes: wood out of which one burns the various tars.
ben_vulpes: specifically not coal.
ben_vulpes: you gotta burn the gas off, so i have nfi where the "good for co2 metrics" comes from
ben_vulpes: 'tis not 'coal', but i'd appreciate a primer on why not
ben_vulpes: nah what
ben_vulpes: ~charcoal
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i can buy many industrial products, but am not particularly interested in more dependencies on plant-produced amendments
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: oddly enough comes from the "permaculture" wackjobs
ben_vulpes: gasified wood, notionally provides surface area for bacterial colonization and drastically reduces fertilizer/nutrient depletion
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, BingoBoingo have you ever messed with "biochar" as soil amendment?
ben_vulpes: shit must work, first, because it was designed to work. touchy-feelie boob grabs come after.
ben_vulpes: correctness is not a thing to bolt on after the fact.
ben_vulpes: "it'll work, eventually"
ben_vulpes: neat bike
ben_vulpes: part and parcel of the "damn the correctness, all attention to developer uptake"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: not according to the DSMIX
ben_vulpes: *drumroll*
ben_vulpes: where "decisions" ===== "the code i produced that appeared to work a few weeks ago"
ben_vulpes: sane and halfway intelligent folks refuse to touch it, so you're stuck with the dregs and their decisions.
ben_vulpes: got a case of mongo. everything else follows.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i think that's indices of just the acl 'tables'
ben_vulpes: get excited about things, support people.
ben_vulpes: coders support tool diversity, of course
ben_vulpes: you have to identify as "a coder" to even consider the stuff
ben_vulpes: " if important customers lost data due to human error, Facebook engineers would manually recover it from periodic backups"
ben_vulpes: and my favorite
ben_vulpes: persistence is slow and competence expensive, what is a sv fingertrap author to do but eschew writes to disk and hire the lowest common denominator?
ben_vulpes: =====
ben_vulpes: anyone remember the "no seriously flush to disk" flag?
ben_vulpes: "i.e. writes were confirmed before they were replicated"
ben_vulpes: "looks pretty, doesn't work"
ben_vulpes: "the web ui"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: wait 'till you get to "what it got right"
ben_vulpes: buddy if you get crypto involved in your drug production it can only be to hose the state, but w/e
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you want random words in a string, you shoulda seen the guy pitching "a cryptocurrency blockchain signature solution to the marijuana regulatory burden" the other night
ben_vulpes: because omfg the hilarity
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ^^ is why you're reading this
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612725 << "It also takes miners -- despite their state of the art equipment, access to electricity, and cooling -- increasingly longer to verify bitcoin transactions" oh get right the fuck out tell that to the myriad instablocks
ben_vulpes: and to quote myself in another channel, "soz for cynicism but if it looks like madness and a tower of abstractions written by frontend devs who don't in2 systems...it probably is."
ben_vulpes: anyways, it never worked despite facebook buying and trying to make it do so
ben_vulpes: which to quasiquote mircea_popescu "what is even a native mobile developer"
ben_vulpes: near as i can tell, and it tripped my retard alerts fast so i didn't invest much in determining how it works, someone used that to make a "database as a service" for mobiledevz
ben_vulpes: bezos does this thing with the timeshare where he'll keep a virtual instance image warmish and boot it when the rest of the system says "hey we got a request for that instance"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: to revel in others suffering ofc
ben_vulpes: oh god
ben_vulpes: it was
ben_vulpes: you know how mobile devs can't in2 servers?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: eldritch horror
ben_vulpes: http://archive.is/idhye << to quote $wot, "try our reboot, new look, same great mongo, even more dick-holding"
ben_vulpes: drews: mod6 operates thebitcoin.foundation, if you made that typo
ben_vulpes: !!up drews
ben_vulpes: quite regular with the disconnects
ben_vulpes: this is getting annoying.
ben_vulpes: lol, dedication
ben_vulpes: trinque: no, i settled for hooking into ctcp-action-message
ben_vulpes: stormy with a chance of popescurage
ben_vulpes: whole sentence is kinda iffy
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "this coups"
ben_vulpes: i did some amount of reading, sought confirmation
ben_vulpes: strikes me as nutty
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: can ssl or gpg be beaten into eating a specific file of entropy without patching them?
ben_vulpes: no, i goofed. left a link to someone else's css.
ben_vulpes: willfix
ben_vulpes: heh in other miserable names someone put "winkers" in my face last week
ben_vulpes: snoop dog and martha stewart, in mashups from the fourth planet
ben_vulpes: that cooking show lol
ben_vulpes: ah foundit
ben_vulpes: what is the "actually said this" line?
ben_vulpes: central theme of piece, too. 'woe is me, i wasted all this time writing for others'.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: well yeah.
ben_vulpes: "an american flag and a confederate flag on the same truck? that's like 'this tattoo is for steve, and this tattoo is to commemorate the time i tried to run away from steve. we're making the best of a bad situation now.'"
ben_vulpes: trinque: watched the "standup special" of chappelle's writing partner a few nights ago. more of a "babby's first monologue with jokes", some funny, but most remarkable for the restrained wokeness plumage on display and surprising grasp of war of northern aggression dynamics.
ben_vulpes: trinque: sad.
ben_vulpes: "you're paaaartisan haaaaacks. stop huuurrrrrting amerrrrica."
ben_vulpes: is stewart funny again yet?
ben_vulpes: such game, wow
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