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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 4300 @ 0.00042457 = 1.8257 BTC [+]
thestringpuller: !up Vexual
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5850 @ 0.00042574 = 2.4906 BTC [+] {2}
Vexual: why never anyone ups me until i am three sheets?
Vexual: ok so we've got a thing about a cat with good quality management teq
Vexual: weve done poisionous snkes lately tho
Vexual: 8 point, what is this..
Vexual: well, i had this cat wot had 5v kittens
Vexual: one died, presumable of snakebit, and the next day it shooed every other to other places
Vexual: it stopped eating fish and dissappeared,
Vexual: it was eating taipans, and i found them about the house missing the tasty parts, then it really dissappeared but remerged from under a junk pile with 3 new kittens
Vexual: they were the same color but better
Vexual: 2 left and one stayed, and the mother also turned into a footstool, again, presumably snakebite
Vexual: aint life grand
asciilifeform: !up Vexual
Vexual: ;;seen xinxi
gribble: xinxi was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 13 weeks, 6 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes, and 58 seconds ago: <xinxi> no one is here?
Vexual: working on the hutter prize?
Vexual: ^theres some more constraints for your perpect laptop alf
Vexual: if you give a fuck i imagine it makes things real easy
asciilifeform: wai wat
Vexual: my ai prefers wrongness
Vexual: well like your classic laptop is to classic cars, you can do a time test, running your own software
Vexual: and one russiian always wins
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5800 @ 0.00041473 = 2.4054 BTC [-]
Vexual: hed have b-a logs on a knuckle tattoo
asciilifeform doesn't know even what kind of dope he ought to take in order to understand any of the above
cazalla: what ya drinking this evening Vexual ?
Vexual: beer, ive gotta drive later
Vexual: as people prefer outcomes these days
Vexual: *ai
Vexual: maybe a taxi then
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cazalla: yeah sounds an idea unless you've only had a few
Vexual: yes
cazalla: i'm drinking some bundy, meant to drink last night but sidetracked with that orlov article and then zzz
cazalla: !up Vexual
assbot: Bundaberg Master Distillers Collection Small Batch Rum 700mL | Dan Murphy's | Buy Wine, Champagne, Beer & Spirits Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1aS8ItU )
asciilifeform: !up Vexual
Vexual: brb
cazalla: those master distiller's batches they put out over the years have been hit and miss
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mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
cazalla: bah soz vexual, was eating muh dinner
mircea_popescu: heh gotta love the "usg could do shit" muppetry on qntra.
cazalla: i wonder if guy commentating as Jorge Stolfi is Jorge Stolfi
mircea_popescu: not like being jorge stolfi is that valuable.
mircea_popescu: who's he again, some random fiat-pushing etatist muppet from brazil ?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i wouldn't know either way, just saw a wikipedia page!! after googling
mircea_popescu: that's good prima facie evidence of nobodyness.
assbot: Talk:Jorge Stolfi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1x2OphS )
mircea_popescu: A Wikipedia contributor, Jorge Stolfi (talk · contribs), may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of this article. Relevant guidelines include Wikipedia:Conflict of interest, Wikipedia:Autobiography, and Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.
mircea_popescu: random etatist muppet from brazil is really a wikipediot first class, too. will wonders never cease.
mircea_popescu: the blondy's name is stolfi.
cazalla: looks like a calypso (iceblock from 80s)
cazalla: danielpbarron, who is avatar x? steph?
cazalla: mircea_popescu: there was a fetlife "btc" fetish group <<< buttcoin? at least it'd be a fitting name
mircea_popescu: lol nope
cazalla: had a few too many drinks so..
indiancandy1: wassup yp
indiancandy1: you guya
indiancandy1: guys**************
cazalla: you cam whoring yet indiancandy1 ?
cazalla: clock's ticking
mircea_popescu: how's the film biz ?
mircea_popescu: !up indiancandy1
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5300 @ 0.0004255 = 2.2552 BTC [+] {3}
indiancandy1: its shit
indiancandy1: u no anything about internet marketing]
cazalla: sex sells!
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 everyone thinks they do.
indiancandy1: man be seriose please
fluffypony: NIGGA BE SERIOSE. PLEASE.
indiancandy1: mp u pervert
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cazalla: !up m4rCsi
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.QNTR] 10000 @ 0.00028609 = 2.8609 BTC [+]
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cazalla: !up indiancandy1
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danielpbarron: cazalla> danielpbarron, who is avatar x? steph? << no idea; some guy who sent me a private message on google+ who thinks he's important or something
nubbins`: re: raspi blob
nubbins`: baby steps
nubbins`: (^ released over 1y ago!)
nubbins`: (Also: lj?!)
danielpbarron: height=257915 vs height=201620 (usb3: height=235018)
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asciilifeform: nubbins`: they are contractually obligated to never fully deblob it on account of mpeg 'license' crapolade
asciilifeform: nubbins`: and the vendor is an known, egregious, and unrepentant liar, intent on giving an impression of 'open' for some strange reason
nubbins`: yeah, i read the non-info of the press release bragging about open-sourcing the shim between the cpu and gpu
nubbins`: who gives a fuck about mpeg tho! (aside from those who do)
nubbins`: re: open, it's just the fashionable clothing these days 8)
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nubbins`: my understanding is that mpeg is required for their camera add-on (no idea why)
nubbins`: really don't see the problem w/ swapping out for ogg
asciilifeform: nubbins`: their chip isn't quite fast enough for guaranteed real-time high-res video without the hardware accel.
nubbins`: and if there's one thing necessary to bringing STEM education to third-world classrooms...
nubbins`: it's 1080p @ 60fps o.O
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nubbins` shrugs, continues using raspi as AirPlay receiver
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assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 13:34:15; nubbins`: also http://anholt.livejournal.com/
nubbins`: he's using livejournal, obv masoch
nubbins`: but yeah, 2nd sentence, "I learned some unstated rules about..."
mircea_popescu: on both scores.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 13:43:26; asciilifeform: nubbins`: and the vendor is an known, egregious, and unrepentant liar, intent on giving an impression of 'open' for some strange reason
mircea_popescu: the eben upton broadcom response to rhel's poettering ?
nubbins`: so, i'm sure we all know why debian is called debian
nubbins`: i'm researching some soy-based industrial cleaning products from a company called franmar
nubbins`: owned by -- you guessed it -- a frank and a marilyn
mircea_popescu: nubbins` because that's the first thin through murdock's mind ?
PeterL: RE gyrojet: one thing that sped failure was 13 mm caliber, which exceeded the 12mm size limit, so needed extra note from stalin
PeterL: it would be interesting to see something a bit larger tried with grenade shell
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: broadcom. but also the apologists (many of whom, i gather, weren't even -paid- shills, but merely fools)
mircea_popescu: well, it tried for the entire "being apple" marketing thing.
mircea_popescu: no steve, so not the same results, but it does show there exists this partiuclar herd of cattle in the wild, ready for a milking
mircea_popescu: PeterL you mean fired from grenade launcher ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i kinda followed the whole thing; even bought - back when it was not clear what it was - the device (1st ed. 'raspberry')
PeterL: yeah, sort of a small grenade launcher combining some attributes of gyrojet
asciilifeform: (still have it, and the camera option. mostly gathers dust.)
mircea_popescu: afaik there's only one size grenade launcher.
PeterL: I guess if you scale up any more you get RPG
PeterL knows little about current tech in grenade launcers
asciilifeform: ^ afaik those haven't really changed since ww2
mircea_popescu: actually you get the muchly admired panzerhaubitze 2000
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V_-iZYIofU <<< in other news, jack black is a talented fuck.
assbot: High Fidelity - Jack Black - Let's Get It On - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1DVAs7W )
PeterL: so my question is if they would be improved by adding gyrojet-type propulsion?
mircea_popescu: "Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business."
asciilifeform: PeterL: different animal, really - rocket vs shell
mircea_popescu: "Obama is an American educationless Stanford graduate in the politics and constitutional amendments business"
mircea_popescu: "H R Clinton is a American penisless disk jockey in the porn and sexy business"
mircea_popescu: gotta love tardspedia.
nubbins`: so franmar's cleaning products are all based on methyl soyate
nubbins`: which means that i can get a goddamn /haze remover/ that's drain-safe :0
PeterL: yesterday I was driving through Western Michigan, saw a house with a big Confederate flag in the front yard. was like WTF?
mircea_popescu: speaking of heavy howitzers : a move reminescent of the dumping of the warthog is the army cancellation of crusader paladin upgrade / any nlsc weapon at all. leaving the paladin, a 1960s make, as the pretty much only us howitzer for the rest of history.
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mircea_popescu: that the russians are beating them at air tech is painful but perhaps unavoidable - kennedy's spur failed to outlast kennedy.
mircea_popescu: but that the germans are beating them over artillery ?! cmon.
asciilifeform: the actual selection criteria for u.s. weapons systems funding are not a secret...
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i thought that thing was toxic.
PeterL: US verison of "austerity" is to cut the most useful platforms, trying to scare politicians into giving more funding?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu apparently way, way less toxic than traditional haze removers: lye and bleach
mircea_popescu: PeterL i dunno, but the parallels with 1935 england are striking.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu also biodegradable fwiw
mircea_popescu: nubbins` now this all depends. lye and bleach ARE biodegradable.
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mircea_popescu: whether this thing degrades or accumulates...
nubbins`: hmm fair
nubbins`: Methyl soyate has a high solvency with a Kauri-butanol (KB) value of 58 and has low toxicity when compared to other common substances. In comparison to most commercial solvents, methyl soyate is safer to handle and store due to its high flashpoint of approximately 360 degrees Fahrenheit and high boiling point of well over 400 degrees Fahrenheit. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not list methyl soyate as an
nubbins`: ozone-depleting chemical (ODC), hazardous air pollutant or volatile organic compound. Methyl soyate�s slow evaporation time can be seen as a disadvantage, but in certain applications methyl soyate outperforms other traditional solvents when longer settle times are needed.
nubbins`: (information provided by the United Soybean Board!)
asciilifeform: when biodiesel is finally boiled from lusers,
asciilifeform: will it be sold as 'methyl luserate' ?
mircea_popescu: no, i get it, there's this soy lobby. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: anyone recall the florida orange lobby push for "use orange peels in cleanning products" ?
asciilifeform: methyl redditate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not ethyl ?
mircea_popescu: make an old bingo happy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what a crock o'shit that was! still sometimes comes with heatsinks as 'degreaser'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shut up you unpatriotic bastard you!
mircea_popescu: IT WAS FOR THE ECONOMY
nubbins`: citrus cleaners are still available
nubbins`: you find em at outdoorsy stores sometimes
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i guess they weren't terribad. but still, the push is the lulz.
nubbins`: FWIW i've used these methyl soyate products before
nubbins`: and they're actually fucking *nuts*.
nubbins`: like, nothing compares.
mircea_popescu: "and im happy to report no flying frogs trying to get into the house yet, so there is that."
nubbins`: nod, they just hover outside the windows 8)
mircea_popescu: "making squealing sounds like my ex wife, trying to get me to go out"
mircea_popescu: "but i know better than that, after what happened to little timmy next door."
PeterL: one project I worked at last job on was making a "cleaner" from glycerol (which is a big side product from biodiesel production)
mircea_popescu: ;;google carbon tetrasulphide
gribble: Carbon disulfide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_disulfide>; carbon disulfide (CS2) | chemical compound | Encyclopedia Britannica: <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/94993/carbon-disulfide-CS2>; Carbon disulphide: <http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5042e/x5042e0e.htm>
mircea_popescu: ^ i used to handle that as a teen!
nubbins`: most of what i know about chemistry comes from screenprinting
nubbins`: phun phact, sodium metaperiodite breaks dichromate bonds
nubbins`: or in layman's terms, emulsion remover removes emulsion ;p
PeterL: nubbins`: FWIW i've used these methyl soyate products before << used as solvent?
nubbins`: yeah
mircea_popescu: nah, he does whippets
nubbins`: they fucking *cancel* plastisol inks
mircea_popescu: with a wide variety of compounds
nubbins`: i actually did a couple whippets last month for the first time since uni
nubbins`: 10/10 would not do again
mircea_popescu: prolly cause they changed the laughing gas for tear gas meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: cheaper per ton.
nubbins`: probs
nubbins`: besides, not like i'd know the diff
pete_dushenski: gooood morning!
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be pointed out that kb 50ish is not really high or anything.
PeterL: didn't we decide propane would be a good substitute gas for the whipped stuff?
asciilifeform: 'a smell of petroleum prevails throughout' (TM)
mircea_popescu: naphtaromatics are what, 500 ?
nubbins`: PeterL propane is used as a propellant in food products
mircea_popescu: PeterL either that or fairy farts, i don't remember. that whole day's a haze.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu try some haze remover
nubbins`: it's made from soy
mircea_popescu: there's hazardous chemicals, and then there's hazearduous chemicals.
nubbins`: yeah
mircea_popescu: how goes petey.
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nubbins`: haze remover was traditionally the most caustic thing in the shop
pete_dushenski: quite nicely mp!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know as a kid i used to go to a school whose wooden floorings were turpentined each week ?
nubbins`: incidentally not all solvents are created equal for these jobs
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mircea_popescu: positively loved the smell.
nubbins`: mineral spirits, for example. terrible ink remover.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: betcha love greek wine too
nubbins`: causes the resin particles to swell
pete_dushenski: two cents say 'sneezing baby panda' runs on the gop ticket against hillary
asciilifeform: drinking turpentine was good enough for socrates..
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait wut ?!
asciilifeform: ritsina
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mircea_popescu: the greek word for hemlock was translated by the amjew word for turpentine ?!
asciilifeform: the turpentine from the casks
mircea_popescu: it's damned pine resin you noob! if you can't tell pine from turpentine you've really no business sniffing aromatics!
mircea_popescu: go back to girls!
asciilifeform: pine resin << and turpentine's waht
mircea_popescu: the distillate from corpses of old lawyers and schoolmasters.
nubbins`: resin-based booze 8)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought that was benedictine, lol
PeterL: pete_dushenski: two cents say 'sneezing baby panda' runs on the gop ticket against hillary << are you referring to one of the politicians, or an actual panda?
mircea_popescu: anyway. a) they're mostly using "syntetic" turpentine, which is an oil product ; b) ;;google pistacia terebinthus
assbot: The Sneezing Baby Panda - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1EpFheZ )
pete_dushenski: other potential gop candidates: purple rain, 'leave britni alone', wayahee guy
assbot: South Park - Youtube Parodies - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1DVFuBr )
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: she's not much for politics ;)
nubbins`: wow, this ink remover is actually marketed as a /mastic/ remover
pete_dushenski: s/purple rain/chocolate rain
pete_dushenski: purple rain was prince...
mircea_popescu: arabic gum ? so ?
nubbins`: i'd vote for prince
nubbins`: "will effectively remove white and yellow mastic and even black asbestos mastic for as low as $.11 per square foot with absolutely no odor and minimal efforts"
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: if you could vote for any american candidate, sure.
nubbins`: yeah, this is all hypothetical
mircea_popescu: fun fact : the island of chios, named Sakız Adası in turkish, is what led to romanian calling it sachiz.
nubbins`: the mastic island!
nubbins`: i can only assume this shares a root with the verb "masticate"
mircea_popescu: it does, as it's how it was used.
mircea_popescu: apparently incredibly loved in the harems, which hadn't yet met the yanks (who had not yet met buffett) so there was no wrigley's.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2015#1045171 << now if only cad would stop getting pounded by chf
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 04:17:02; decimation: heh EUR/USD fell to $1.08 from $1.10
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: how do you feel about this new canadian exchange?
pete_dushenski: why do i care about chf-cad ? planning a trip there for may upcoming!
thestringpuller: My google and youtube is littered with ads from them.
thestringpuller: Smells like neo-bee almost.
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: um quardriga ?
pete_dushenski: they're not particularly new
nubbins`: <--won't sign up
pete_dushenski: but yes, i've also seen their ads splashed absolutely everywhere
thestringpuller: why are they generating so much press right now? (other than the "publicly traded")
nubbins`: thestringpuller only remaining canadian exchange
asciilifeform: apparently incredibly loved in the harems << amplified the lulz from remembering that the first (and until moving to usa, only) gum i ever chewed on was turkish
pete_dushenski: because now some derps in vancouver want to 'get on the bitcoin train'
pete_dushenski: and think that this is a reasonable way: advertising! investing! exchanges!
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-03-2015#1045310 << can't get boys into tech without getting the girls into nudity.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 13:53:13; nubbins`: and if there's one thing necessary to bringing STEM education to third-world classrooms...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i recall reading that you had it too - the one with the racecar photos
asciilifeform: 'turbo' (there were others, i think)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform defo.
mircea_popescu: turbo was for kids tho, we had the one before that. with fake money.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: sorta my (and i'm sure many other's here) youth
pete_dushenski: tech was the gateway to girly pics
pete_dushenski: *others, not other's
pete_dushenski: or maybe others'
mircea_popescu: http://www.robotstxt.org/db/ferret.html << what in the Heaven Of Shit's name is this!
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mircea_popescu: The wild ferret web hopper's are designed as specific agents to retrieve data from all available sources on the internet. They work in an onion format hopping from spot to spot one level at a time over the internet. The information is gathered into different relational databases, known as "Hazel's Horde".
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: either way, they seem to be reasonably reliable
mircea_popescu: known as "we're well the fuck confused, and what are these word things again ? ooo... shiny!"
pete_dushenski: quardriga hasn't done anything exceptionally derpy to my knowledge
pete_dushenski: and i would've heard about it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski at least it's not called bitquacoin.
nubbins`: -cad seems ambivalent
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: "reasonably reliable" sounds like drug dealer who shows up 5 hours late, but still doesn't short you.
pete_dushenski: lol i think they're better than that. a broker i've done a few deals with swears by gerald's business
pete_dushenski: gerald cotton, ceo
pete_dushenski: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 273.72, Best ask: 273.9, Bid-ask spread: 0.18000, Last trade: 273.65, 24 hour volume: 19983.55257685, 24 hour low: 270.55, 24 hour high: 276.93, 24 hour vwap: None
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i'm just not interested in providing a scan of my passport/drivers license
pete_dushenski: nubbins`: you've got a local broker then ? or -otc ?
pete_dushenski: not saying i am either, frankly
pete_dushenski: interested in kyc, that is
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i generally do not buy/sell btc
nubbins`: on the rare occasions that i need to, -otc
pete_dushenski: ya so you *really* have no interest in quadriga :)
pete_dushenski: i don't have a ton of personal interest either, just the least stinky poo, i guess.
pete_dushenski doesn't eat poo
nubbins`: i'm fascinated that they let you deposit and withdraw physical gold
pete_dushenski: and they 'verify' accounts in, like, an hour
pete_dushenski: whereas cavirtex was... weeks ?
nubbins`: fuck cavirtex for 4 or 5 reasons
pete_dushenski: with a spikey stick
nubbins`: fuck vaultofsatoshi because they dealt in fuckin doge
pete_dushenski: i suppose that relative to doge, gold seems like way less of a scam
nubbins`: "but we're serious biznismen, promise"
pete_dushenski: from toronto!
nubbins`: where important men do important things!
pete_dushenski: home of all the bizniz!
nubbins`: and etobicokeans!
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pete_dushenski: lol my bro lives in etobicoke at the moment
nubbins`: tell him to stop voting Ford?
pete_dushenski: lol i tried...
nubbins`: can someone please explain to me why this is an issue?
nubbins`: "massive panic as government needs to change value of magic number that means nothing"
asciilifeform: nubbins`: ceremonial
pete_dushenski: phreak attacks.
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thestringpuller: oh are we talking about debt celining again?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: more ritualistic than ceremonial imo
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: was thinking about you last night as we were messing with high amp electronics in the car.
thestringpuller: we were drunk as fuck and I immediately though, "would alf approve?" to see whether or not the procedure we were undertaking would kill us
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asciilifeform: thestringpuller: just what was it you were doing?
thestringpuller: fucking around with batteries in the not good way
thestringpuller: i eventually had the thought, "Yea ALF would frown on this, lets die another day shall we?"
asciilifeform: thestringpuller was sticking tongue in the smoke socket or what
thestringpuller: ^pretty much
thestringpuller: don't have multimeter? use tongue instead.
thestringpuller: if death occurs prob > 1 amp
thestringpuller: precision may very
nubbins`: good news! my browser appears to be safe from the security bug i just found out about
nubbins` shrugs
thestringpuller: nubbins`: what's the bad news?
nubbins`: ...i can't afford another macbook when this one dies?
nubbins` shrugs again
asciilifeform: nubbins`: this isn't even it
asciilifeform: nubbins`: there -aren't- any more actual macbooks (in, e.g., the 2010 sense) to be had
asciilifeform: and never will be again
asciilifeform: instead you can buy a 'macbook' where the lcd fractures spontaneously. and/or one where the gpu melts
asciilifeform: or you can just mail apple a box of benjies and skip the suffering
assbot: uTorrent accused of bundling cryptocurrency malware with popular BitTorrent client | ExtremeTech ... ( http://bit.ly/1Mi5Eof )
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: we did that one yesterday
kakobrekla guilty
asciilifeform: although
asciilifeform: 'As for the chosen programs, both of Epic Scale’s choices are Y-Combinator darlings, but one of them, the HIV vaccine immunity project, has been heavily criticized by scientists for having no actual scientists involved and for pursuing debunked methods of vaccine research.' << is a new l0l
asciilifeform: anyone care to dig up the details ?
adlai: asciilifeform: all i know is an HN headline which i didn't bother opening: "[yc company] (YC '15) finds cures for diseases which don't yet exist"
adlai: (some mysteries are best left mysterious)
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kakobrekla: > I saw the Add/Remove option in the usual place. The installer, it must be noted, is completely broken and uninstalls essentially nothing — but broken uninstallers, in and of themselves, are not crimes.
kakobrekla: myea, too bad about that.
adlai: eh, i'd say that broken uninstallers are 'crimes' at the same level as running a rigged shell game on a touristy broadwalk
adlai: the marks deserve what they get, but i wouldn't want my daughter marrying the dealer
pete_dushenski: ;;bc,stats
gribble: Current Blocks: 346590 | Current Difficulty: 4.668437631686029E10 | Next Difficulty At Block: 346751 | Next Difficulty In: 161 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 1 day, 4 hours, 12 minutes, and 15 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 47182125267.4 | Estimated Percent Change: 1.0662
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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform has yet to discover "extended care" apparently.
ben_vulpes: proverbial "box of benjies".
ben_vulpes: has this magical effect of guaranteeing hardware performance for 3 years.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didn't work for my 2 chums
asciilifeform: their machines were -new-
asciilifeform: and apple wouldn't take them back
asciilifeform: 'it was something you did'
ben_vulpes: it's because you live in the Forbidden City.
ben_vulpes: nobody likes that part of the country.
asciilifeform: apples stores everywhere
ben_vulpes: apple ships you people all the 'B' grade hardware.
asciilifeform: packed like trains.
ben_vulpes: they also know exactly how quality each device is.
ben_vulpes: east coast gets the bum hardware.
ben_vulpes: call cali: "oop, sorry. we don't like your kind."
ben_vulpes: "why are you using macintoshes anyways - don't you get government stipends to buy the 10k windows laptops?"
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: only the pentagon does
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you're thinking of 'toughbook' and similar, these aren't normally found among 'desk pilots'
ben_vulpes: nah, the pentagon can barely intercept mail to Fat Kim that has "TOP SEKKREIT PLZ NO BULLY" written all over it
asciilifeform: (if you want to see one, peek into a police car. for some reason the laptop permanently bolted in place there is inevitably a 'tougbook')
pete_dushenski: i've even seen the derps in the photo radar trucks using toughbooks around here
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: seen, entirely in character for bezzleprocurement.
ben_vulpes: anyways, feds can't pull their heads out of their arses. apple, otoh, targets you and yours specifically for pain.
ben_vulpes: "lizard steve".
pete_dushenski: ^actual photo
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'for your convenience we have packaged the defective transistors separately' ? (famous)
asciilifeform: (jp reply to an american co. which requested, some time in the '70s, a crate of transistors with the 'usual x% defectives')
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asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/mailman/listinfo/btc-dev << 'CloudFront attempted to establish a connection with the origin, but either the attempt failed or the origin closed the connection. ' >> ??!?!
asciilifeform: jurov ^^^^^^^^ ?!
ben_vulpes: mailman is jurov's beast.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> lol i think they're better than that. a broker i've done a few deals with swears by << it'd help if he were in wot
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> can someone please explain to me why this is an issue? << because for as long as this is a pretend-issue, they can continue to pretend-ignore the various actual issues.
mircea_popescu: i love how "asap", originally a meek "whenver you have a moment" has meanwhile mutated in usenglish to OMFG RIGHT NOW EMERGENCI
danielpbarron: i actually had a pallet take up precious needed space for longer than expected due to the stupid government shutdown
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> nah, the pentagon can barely intercept mail to Fat Kim that has "TOP SEKKREIT PLZ NO BULLY" written all over it << bwahahaha
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mircea_popescu: cloud wut !?
mircea_popescu: "What if the federal government handed you a check for $1,000? Would that go to that new pair of shoes you've had your eye on? Dinner for the family? Credit card bills? The possibilities are endless."
mircea_popescu: dude cnn sure makes the us sound like east africa.
mircea_popescu: srsly, shoes and food, or else debt ?
mircea_popescu: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102318876 << worth reading for the sheer moronity embedded.
mircea_popescu: "Some would argue it would mean nothing to the U.S. economy or the consumer's budget anyway. Only a rich person would be that insensitive," the "Mad Money" host said.
mircea_popescu: "Here's the good news: you could have already received that $1,000, but from another source. Pretty sweet, right? It landed in your pocket from a combination of the Persian Gulf nations, non-Opec trading partners, and U.S. oil companies.
mircea_popescu: Thanks, oil!
mircea_popescu: These entities outside of the U.S. have been making money hand over fist for years from oil, and Cramer thinks it is about time that this cartel that kept oil unnaturally high priced for so long return it back to hard working citizens."
mircea_popescu: it just... it's not even bitcointalk level. if these people were fired tomorrow, not all of them would qualify to write ranty nonsensical posts on tardstalk in defense of an entrepreneurial artisan woodcarver or w/e.
asciilifeform: probably an intern
mircea_popescu: Abigail Stevenson Digital Producer
mircea_popescu: she looks like a would be porn starlet that didn't make the cut, tbh.
asciilifeform analog consumer
mircea_popescu: i wonder how people justify working there to themselves. "o, i am now stuck in traffic driving towards my workplace, which is cnn. where that fucktard abigail stevenson works. it must mean i'm as incredibly stupid as she is ?!"
mircea_popescu: what goes next ? "no, because i bought that new pair of shoes and dinner" ?
asciilifeform: neh it goes 'no i get to pay rent. mine is not to question why, mine is but to do and die (TM)'
asciilifeform: like the microcontroller fella from last night
mircea_popescu: different article, same source :
mircea_popescu: "A leading tax expert says the Internal Revenue Service can, and likely will, let HealthCare.gov customers keep their Obamacare subsidies through the end of this year if the high court rules in June that those subsidies are illegal.
mircea_popescu: And that six-month grace period in turn could ratchet up political pressure on Republican opponents of Obamacare to develop a plan to replace the valuable subsidies, which would be expiring right on the eve of the 2016 presidential primary season, instead of this summer."
asciilifeform: into the valley of derp, rode the six hundred.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything on cnn seems to be on the topic of populism.
mircea_popescu: "giving moneyz to ppls!!1"
mircea_popescu: "About 7.5 million HealthCare.gov customers are at risk of losing those subsidies, which help them pay monthly premiums for health insurance plans purchased through that federally run marketplace that serves 37 states. Experts predict that more than 8 million people would become uninsured next year after finding their plans too expensive without the subsidies, and after plan prices rise to compensate for the loss of cu
mircea_popescu: stomers."
mircea_popescu: that shit worked so well omfg...
asciilifeform: it's cement.
asciilifeform: which is to say, making sure that the thing is not removable under any conceivable 'reform'
mircea_popescu: "Accordingly, I respectfully ask Congress to raise the debt limit as soon as possible," Lew wrote in his letter.
mircea_popescu: "accordingly, we're cutting down our expenditure" said no wh ever.
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assbot: Glitzy bits: Demi Moore bares all for OUI at 18. ... ( http://bit.ly/1wPi7fS )
mircea_popescu: somehow, "pickup mastery" was a thing in 1980.
mircea_popescu: TW: 80s nudity.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, on the poetry translation angle, http://trilema.com/2011/sfinta-inocenta-puberala/
assbot: Sfinta inocenta puberala pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GtSx38 )
mircea_popescu: it's the 1930 anthem of romania's fascist group, rewritten to quite outrageous ribaldry.
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your own creation ?
mircea_popescu: and then had the girls sing it!
mircea_popescu: ;;google sfinta inocenta legionara
gribble: Cassian Maria SPIRIDON - Convorbiri Literare: <http://convorbiri-literare.dntis.ro/TATAsep3.html>; Senzationalul unor amintiri de mare clasa - Observator Cultural: <http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Senzationalul-unor-amintiri-de-mare-clasa*articleID_4369-articles_details.html>; Sfintii Inchisorilor | Facebook: <https://ro-ro.facebook.com/pages/Sfintii- (1 more message)
assbot: Sfanta Tinerete Legionara - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1BixbRI )
asciilifeform: who are the stiffs ?
mircea_popescu: the stiffs ?
asciilifeform: yeah i counted at least 3
asciilifeform: in that film
mircea_popescu: me\ actually looks now
mircea_popescu: you mean dead bodies ?!
asciilifeform: lying about
asciilifeform: 1'32" for instance
mircea_popescu: oh, the first two are prolly repatriated dead in spain.
asciilifeform: condor ?
mircea_popescu: ion mota, vasile marin. dead in alhambra iirc
mircea_popescu: nah, romania had its own thing
asciilifeform: hey even ireland did
mircea_popescu: and the later pic is i dunno what.
mircea_popescu: im not all that up to date to their internal strife, but think in terms of ny mafia. some underboss or other.
mircea_popescu: tony twoteeth or sammy horseplank or w/e
asciilifeform: assumed it was some horst wessel-like figure or other
asciilifeform: fuckdamnit read a 80GB disk seven times and came up with seven distinct images.
asciilifeform: i go to find out why;
mircea_popescu: diddlatroll.jpg
asciilifeform: best hypothesis appears to be: the chinese crapfarm who built the adapter - used conductive glue instead of solder for one of the connectors
asciilifeform: why - no one knows
mircea_popescu: "Multi legionari ar fi dat orice ca sa-i insoteasca in aceasta Cruciada. Insa lipsa fondurilor si previzibila impotrivire a guvernului fata de o expeditie de amploare au facut ca Legiunea sa trimita pe front o echipa alcatuita din numai sapte oameni." << "everyone wanted to go but too poor to afford the trip, and besides, parents wouldn't approve. so they had their own 7 man condor legion."
mircea_popescu: no sword, no horse.
mircea_popescu: granted, the communist halp was by and large not much better, but anyway,
assbot: wtf conductive glue! drops bits... - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1GtV90R )
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mircea_popescu: looks like you found someone's toilet break
asciilifeform: about one per ~10 GB, on average.
asciilifeform: wonder if it's actually slightly semiconductive
asciilifeform: and picking up the proverbial 'voice of america' every now & then.
asciilifeform: looks quite like solder from a distance
asciilifeform: (the grungy, dark lead-free kind)
asciilifeform: oddly enough - used for just the pata 40pin header and nothing else
jurov: http://therealbitcoin.org/ got rebooted , on it
assbot: ..::[ The Bitcoin Foundation ]::.. ... ( http://bit.ly/1GtVZuA )
asciilifeform: jurov: that thing actually uses 'cloudfront' ?
jurov: it already shrugged off a ddos attempt at lower cost than anything else
jurov: so, why not?
asciilifeform is not sufficiently up to date on the subject to remember why he instinctively flinched at seeing 'cloudfront' on the error page
asciilifeform: possibly the word 'cloud'
jurov: we're back online
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mod6: nice
jurov: well, it's just amazon insists on renaming everything to "elastic cloud". cloudfront is just ordinary CDN and the stuff there is static content.
jurov: and i should shot the word "just" to the head
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/one-february-three/
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: .gif << what wasted talent. think of how much cocaine would fit
mircea_popescu: maybe it's training run.
mircea_popescu: jurov it read cloudflare in my head
mircea_popescu: alf prolly same
jurov: aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes!
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asciilifeform: !up ecstaticpessimst
adlai: bu20u/b
adlai: oops
assbot: Ecstaticpessimist ... ( http://bit.ly/1BTLQER )
ecstaticpessimst: danielpbarron: you got it
asciilifeform: ecstaticpessimst: what brings you to #b-a ?
ecstaticpessimst: I heard it was a good knowledgable bitcoin community and I wanted to observe
danielpbarron: heard from who/where?
asciilifeform: ecstaticpessimst: best way to get a feel is to read the log, published on www, log.bitcoin-assets.com
ecstaticpessimst: A friend, I forget their irc name though.
ecstaticpessimst: asciilifeform, ill take a look thanks
assbot: Ecstaticpessimist ... ( http://bit.ly/1MfEFYx )
asciilifeform: ^ worth reading
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^ definitely a 'dulap' sort of flavour
jurov: http://xkcd.com/1495/ lol rmunroe runs foundation code?
assbot: xkcd: Hard Reboot ... ( http://bit.ly/1MfET23 )
ecstaticpessimst: I feel like im immediately being dissected.
jurov: viva la vivisection
asciilifeform: ecstaticpessimst: neh, this is the positive reception. the folks who have nothing of interest published - they're the ones who get the dissection
ecstaticpessimst: I havent given anyone that website, i havent added everything ive done to it yet, its like having someone read a book that you've only made loose scribblings on.
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asciilifeform: it's a www site
asciilifeform: public.
asciilifeform: and anyway that's story's a real riot
ecstaticpessimst: true, I just have a very small web presense so most of the views come from people Ive met in person and I dont tell them about it usually.
ecstaticpessimst: haha do you actually think so? if so I want to know what you hated about it.
assbot: Under U.S. Pressure, PayPal Nukes Mega For Encrypting Files | TorrentFreak ... ( http://bit.ly/1BTOOJr )
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assbot: [HAVELOCK] [ALC] 18 @ 0.1 = 1.8 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: Nobody noticed the hat initially. Was the city too busy for the hat to be anything of interest? It took five or so hours of walking around different parts of Manhattan before anyone said anything. When it started to get dark out people reacted completely differently. One person came up to me, asked about the hat and then offered me a range drugs. http://ecstaticpessimist.in/projects/4-forehead-gallery << LOLOL
assbot: Ecstaticpessimist ... ( http://bit.ly/1MfHFnS )
danielpbarron: ecstaticpessimst, what's the url I can submit stuff to to make it show up on your test subject's head?
asciilifeform: !up ecstaticpessimst
assbot: Forehead Gallery ... ( http://bit.ly/1BTQbHZ )
danielpbarron: !up ecstaticpessimst
danielpbarron: you might need to ask for a cloak in #freenode / there's a DDoS bot hanging around here
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9060 @ 0.00033245 = 3.012 BTC [-]
adlai: "Immediately I noticed the feeling of a fishing line pulling me screen-first throughout the day."
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assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7386 @ 0.00034219 = 2.5274 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: when you peer into the b-a, the b-a peers back into you.
cazalla: i've updated the ulbrich appeal with pdf and text of the motion of a new trial if anyone was interested in reading it http://qntra.net/2015/03/ross-ulbricht-seeks-new-trial/
assbot: Ross Ulbricht Seeks New Trial | Qntra.net ... ( http://bit.ly/1BU5Rv4 )
cazalla: bah, that pdf to text converter butchered a bunch of paragraphs
cazalla: fixed
mircea_popescu: "Thompson was faced with a hardware environment cramped and spartan even for the time: the DEC PDP-7 on which he started in 1968 was a machine with 8K 18-bit words of memory and no software useful to him."
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asciilifeform: 8k x 18 is still a fuckton if there's no extraneous crapolade in there
asciilifeform: how many folks here have written enough asm (let's be liberal, pick any arch) to fill 8k?
asciilifeform has, and it took a while
asciilifeform: before anyone says 'but the data set' - people in the 'age of xx kB' often kept them on tape and operated piecemeal
asciilifeform: see the 'tape sorts' featured in the knuth aop centerfolds, for example
mircea_popescu: it's about 2-4k instructions. a week's worth ?
asciilifeform: if you do nothing else
asciilifeform: and writing mostly 'from your head' already.
asciilifeform: then yes.
cazalla: i take it noone here got an invite to evoorhee's wedding lol
mircea_popescu: well if you're going to write asm you'd better know the opcodes.
mircea_popescu: uh wasn't that in 2013 ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: meant the overall logic, rather than opcodes (of course you know the opcodes, that isn't what takes time)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you said write, not you know, make useful stuff :D
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nfi, just saw an image posted a few hours ago, assumed it was from today, guess not
asciilifeform: since he came up, i'd still like to understand why he took to spam
cazalla: wow, some tumblr pics that aren't 320x480 for once
mircea_popescu: trinque "Last updated 2015-03-03 07:34:57.895386" ?
asciilifeform: http://fetlife.maybemaimed.com/reverse-the-spin.html (from mircea_popescu's comment section) << mega-l0l
assbot: FetLife lies, like, a lot. ... ( http://bit.ly/1COfJYp )
mircea_popescu: really, bitcoin is quite aptly "a microscope". specifically, in this case : the sort of bs idiocy we deride used to pass for "business" and "entrepreneurship" as a regular thing. sop.
mircea_popescu: those dudes find themselves in the position where atrocities that were just fine suddenly are viewed as atrocities by a cohesive group.
mircea_popescu: talk about business disruption.
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah, I've been running the uploader by hand; I'm around to do so
asciilifeform: betcha they see #b-a as something not unlike how normal people see militant 'vegans'
trinque: sometime this weekend I'm going to make some improvements to the thing, including uploading via cronjob
asciilifeform: 'what do you mean i shouldn't butcher my chumps'
trinque: !up deedbot-
trinque: I've had a highlight on deedbot- in the meantime
mircea_popescu: i think "isis" is really the only available symbol to describe chtulhu, the borg, entity q and so forth.
thestringpuller: how is cthulhu and the borg related?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idk, in my head it inevitably evokes a horde of orcs and headsoff.com
mircea_popescu: by being isis.
mircea_popescu: "This is the Plesk™ default page"
thestringpuller: in what sense? fucking shit up?
asciilifeform: jacquerie with kalash is still jacquerie
assbot: pantiesoff.com: The Leading Pantie Off Site on the Net ... ( http://bit.ly/1COgKzI )
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no, in the sense of not dating.
mircea_popescu: also no cc debt, not caring about college, no idea what a quarterpounder with cheese is, completely dissinterested in police sirens in traffic etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: robespierre also did not have cc debt, care about college, nor ate 'quarterpounder', nor ever heard a police siren ...
mircea_popescu: and also was isis.
asciilifeform: nor did any street urchin watching the chop show
asciilifeform: but these folks definitely are not the 'clean backup' for unamericanized civ
asciilifeform: the way north kr at least partly still is
mircea_popescu: lmao no wai.
asciilifeform: they've all seen jpeg porn; probably half tasted the burger
mircea_popescu: wait, i think i lost the convo.
asciilifeform: they aren't uninfected
asciilifeform: is what i was getting at
asciilifeform: or whatever the physically-existing pieces thereof are
mircea_popescu: isis the symbol, not isis the real item it purports to stand for.
asciilifeform: (vs the usg fiction)
mircea_popescu: there's zero relation there.
asciilifeform: limonov's 'escapees from the sanitary asylum' yes.
asciilifeform: as an abstract entity
mircea_popescu: average usian has never traveled, never read a book in a foreign language, never fucked a woman he didn't know etc. his ideas of "isis" are necessarily a reflection of his own pen, nothing else.
asciilifeform: (his gadaffi essay, among other items quoted here in the past, were in 'the disciplinary sanitarium' - great piece on more-or-less this ^)
mircea_popescu: heck, even something as banal as jurisdiction limits or alternative currencies are "confusing" and uncomfortable.
asciilifeform: jurisdiction limits don't confuse americans at all in application to -other- (vassal or non-usg jurisdiction) places
mircea_popescu: half the usian literature (which is 2/3s cinematographic) revolves around the shock and horror of... BORDERS!111
mircea_popescu: that's the main epic device : he crossed the state line!111
asciilifeform: no one in usa thinks that french law applies to him
mircea_popescu: i doubt they generally comprehend there is such a thing.
assbot: Can she be THAT stupid? - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Bjd2Lk )
thestringpuller: !t m s.qntr
assbot: [MPEX:S.QNTR] 1D: 0.00028609 / 0.00028609 / 0.00028609 (10000 shares, 2.86 BTC), 7D: 0.00027068 / 0.00027668 / 0.00028609 (25682 shares, 7.11 BTC), 30D: 0.00021897 / 0.00026524 / 0.000301 (72444 shares, 19.22 BTC)
mircea_popescu: that's some crazy volume
mircea_popescu: pretty much the whole float o.O
thestringpuller: mike_c must be doin something...
thestringpuller: mr. bear
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 15900 @ 0.0003393 = 5.3949 BTC [-] {2}
cazalla: lulz, so my parents called to tell me qantas landed a 747 in the town i grew up in, looked like the entire fkn town was there to watch it too (tbh, wish i could've been there ha) http://imgur.com/u0t6Asf,psLiFgA,aywdo0B
cazalla: everyone will be talking about for weeks, months, probably even years to come
Pierre_Rochard: ^ prime minister visiting? emergency landing?
assbot: Historic Qantas 747-400 makes precision touchdown on its final journey ... ( http://bit.ly/1NvAlI9 )
cazalla: Pierre_Rochard, i think they're going to put it on display at the airport museum or something
cazalla: when we use to wag school to go to the beach, we'd cut across the tarmac at that airport to get to the train station quicker (they put up fencing after 9/11, you could basically wander across it prior to that)
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