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decimation: aye. the problem is that the sweep rate is usually very low
decimation: and the res bandwidth is not small
decimation: yeah here's the tool: http://qsy.to/pcr/talkpcr.html < works for pcr-100
asciilifeform: to round out the keyboard thread, i am quite close to being convinced of the necessity of keyboard with optical fiber for mechanism
asciilifeform: or, failing that, mechanical vibration (as in early 'spark gap' cad tablets of the '70s)
decimation: asciilifeform: you could use the telegraph keyer like that ru chick
asciilifeform: decimation: damnably poor idea - easy 'optical tempest' intercept if anyone can see your body move
decimation: well, yeah but presumably normal keyboard is also vulnerable?
asciilifeform: not to same extent
BingoBoingo: !up goofythedog
goofythedog: Whats up
BingoBoingo: puppies
goofythedog: Yoh got pups?
decimation: asciilifeform: it's a shame that nobody produces an 'englebart violin' chorded entry device
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asciilifeform recalls reading patents for fiber keyboards but never saw any hint of such a thing in production.
asciilifeform: though the 'how' is trivial.
assbot: Ben Krasnow: DIY scanning electron microscope - Overview video ... ( http://bit.ly/1wYj9pB )
decimation: lol that's awesome
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BingoBoingo: !up shesek
decimation: asciilifeform: one wonders why some of this kind of thing has appeared to 'stick' to hillary but hasn't to obama
mircea_popescu: Subject: Welcome to Bitstamp From: "Bitstamp" <noreply@bitstamp.net>
mircea_popescu: if anyone was wondering how those "users" keep going up...
decimation: mircea_popescu: the first rule of customer service is to ignore the customer
mircea_popescu: i am not a customer.
mircea_popescu: they are spamming what's most likely a bought list.
mircea_popescu: " Content preview: Dear Alare Kool, thank you for registering at Bitstamp exchange service! At this point you have just contributed a great deal to future of decentralized monetary market."
mircea_popescu: in other words "redditards, welcome!"
mircea_popescu: "grammer, potional."
decimation: re: fake drug seizures < if you drill down in the report, you find that 96% of the 'ditchweed' was destroyed in just one state: indiana
decimation: I'm sure they found a way to game the feds out of bezzlars in exchange for piles of fake weed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sounds like forged headers (why would the actual 'bitstamp' spam ? wtf is the point)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do the links contained in the turd point to the genuine site ?
decimation: lolz > http://blog.mdsec.co.uk/2015/03/bruteforcing-ios-screenlock.html < can bruteforce the 4-digit pin on the iphone 5 in 40 seconds
assbot: MDSec Blog: Apple iOS Hardware Assisted Screenlock Bruteforce ... ( http://bit.ly/1xdp0bd )
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, so they can claim the most valuable email address in bitcoin space as "a customer" ?
asciilifeform: 'What is surprising however is that this still works even with the “Erase data after 10 attempts” configuration setting enabled. Our initial analysis indicates that the IP Box is able to bypass this restriction by connecting directly to the iPhone’s power source and aggressively cutting the power after each failed PIN attempt, but before the attempt has been synchronized to flash memory.' << mega-l0l!
mircea_popescu: Received: from mail.bitstamp.net ([54.235.132.61]:55581 helo=bitstamp.net)
mircea_popescu: it's them alright.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone signed you up as a gag ?
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah. apple supposedly spent years trying to make the device secure
decimation: but it has encrypted storage!!!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right.
mircea_popescu: Please write down the following login information
mircea_popescu: Client ID: <b>051013</b>
mircea_popescu: Password: <b>/lf!iqkR7d!1</b>
mircea_popescu: The above password has been automatically generated. You should <b>change it</b> as
mircea_popescu: soon as you log in for the first time.
mircea_popescu: this, you will note, in a PLAINTEXT EMAIL.
assbot: So how's magic work ? pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1xwFQfJ )
asciilifeform: l0ltr0n
asciilifeform: re: iPnohe bruteforcer - apple could have easily written 1) update counter 2) validate code instead of 1) validate code 2) update counter
asciilifeform: but - didn't.
asciilifeform: not that it would have made a serious difference in the end -
asciilifeform: but shows how much of a fuck was actually given
decimation: asciilifeform: the ultimate problem is not actually having a secure terminal, but pretending that you do
asciilifeform: no shit
decimation: if you read the apple whitepaper on the iphone 5 security, you see they play all kinds of shell games attempting to keep keys in temporary buffers so that the storage can be 'encrypted' while still able to receive texts, unlock screen, etc
asciilifeform: 'fried ice'
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo was just answering that.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but shows how much of a fuck was actually given << or how much of a fuck was available to give.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's just the cascade of fail yudo shits out
mircea_popescu: deup ftw.
decimation: well, they did actually appear to spend alot of time 'giving a fuck'
decimation: it's just that they failed to deliver anything
decimation: actually, since apple controls the complete stack all the way down to silicon, they are in a unique position to actually deliever, but didn't
asciilifeform: deliver what?
decimation: you know, actual security
asciilifeform: -actual- means auditable
decimation: appropriately partitioned code and data
asciilifeform: and no longer fits in pocket.
asciilifeform: or, likely, in the room you're sitting in.
asciilifeform: but certainly not in pocket.
decimation: and doesn't copy bits off the air and save them to 'encrypted storage' without intervention
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/pisatii/ << btw, ancient sf of mine. the central idea being that et come, their home atmosphere is heavy in amonia, so they have some special suits to recycle the amonia, which somewhat leak... which leaks smell like... stale piss.
assbot: Pisatii pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1xwGwBJ )
mircea_popescu: so the et are known as ... the pissed upons.
mircea_popescu: also they want two things from earth : hot peppers
mircea_popescu: and cocaine.
mircea_popescu: because the hot peppers are like lsd + speed, while cocaine is basically sugar++
decimation: I've heard that chicken farmers actually become somewhat immune to the extreme ammonia smell
mircea_popescu: and they wanted to go to where cocaine is made and congratulate the people on their great discovery.
mircea_popescu: "Va dati seama, primul pamintean decorat de extraterestri urma sa fie urmasul lui Pablo Escobar."
decimation: usg helps make roundup resistant cocaine
BingoBoingo: decimation> usg helps make roundup resistant cocaine << Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the cartels innovated that themselves
decimation: possibly, but they could probably get started by picking the plants that survived the spraying
mircea_popescu: well they wouldn't be picking the ones that didn't.
BingoBoingo: decimation: Around here nearly everything is roundup resistant now
decimation: heh yeah, but does it reproduce without monsanto?
BingoBoingo: Oh, I'm not talking the crops
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> check it out, she's got a wiki page an' errything : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanti_Dynamite << one really can buy anything
assbot: Shanti Dynamite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1xwI6U9 )
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> "Parents divorced at age of 9 years..." << wow jeez that's some painfully bad shit
ben_vulpes: "it was cold and completely different to Africa"
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell brendafdez hey where's that shopping list
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: i imagine it sucks.
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ben_vulpes: the shopping list?
mircea_popescu: !up megadeth
megadeth: Mircea, a personal thank you from my side for 1) Placing your money on the bitbet. 2) Spending your personal wealth in the well being of BTC.
ben_vulpes: oh man that video of subcontinental sweets is baaaad
ben_vulpes: <mod6> i have this idea in my mind that people know what stuff is i guess. << i keep falling for this one too.
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> if i had a vanilla linux box here, it'd likely be no sweat << heard of a thing called "vagrant"? "virtualbox"?
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell nubbins "if i had a vanilla linux box here, it'd likely be no sweat" << heard of a thing called "vagrant"? "virtualbox"?
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ben_vulpes: <pete_dushenski> i'd never had a ball boy before and it. was. sweet. < heh.
ben_vulpes: man the temptation to quote out of context is p. strong.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [18:57] but for one thing it's bullshit and for the other thing, it doesn't really wash. << nor do the workmen, and for that matter why would anyone want to be of the unwashed masses?
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [19:01] really there was absolutely no reason (apart from their tim swansonesque contemptuous idiocy) to make the nodes visible. << feel free to block 0.5.3.1 nodes if you can find them, reddit.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [19:53] indescript house in omaha, married, with children. about as boring as it gets. << orgies on the yangtzee with bill gates
ben_vulpes: hey speaking of where are the eager young sluts to be found in bsas?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i was talking about the nodes they were using tro "spy on bitcoin" aka "repackage freely available information for the bezzle idiots"
ben_vulpes: i brought my own last time so didn't have cause to go seeking, and no time this time.
ben_vulpes: i'm...aware.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell jurov <jurov> ben_vulpes rly? you want patches for makeshift build scripts? << look either you run diff or the n people running the list do.
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ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> https://twitter.com/danielpbarron/status/577976775449300992 << this is the most badass thing
assbot: /hashtag/OpenBSD?src=hash 5.6 on an Apple iMac G4. http://t.co/vx5qS4N7WV
ben_vulpes: i am emailing my father right now to see if that model is still in his basement
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes errywhere. if you folks feel like it we'll go check out the local bdsm club.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, prostitution being legal, and the universities being in session...
ben_vulpes: your reports of the local bdsm scene are *not* a sales pitch.
ben_vulpes: i've club sesso right down the street.
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mircea_popescu: im not a salesman.
ben_vulpes: well have you found something good?
ben_vulpes: all i hear is "jesus fuck these people are retarded"
mircea_popescu: that i want to share ?
mircea_popescu: if it makes you feel any better i was saying the same in teh us.
ben_vulpes: i'd not presume to encroach on your area
mircea_popescu: neways, you can has list of pickup places, ie, where the girls go to work.
mircea_popescu: not that you'd conceivably need it, what they do here is print little 3x2 papers and stick them everywhere.
ben_vulpes: anyways, no, thank you, i'll not impose that on the gentle asshats
mircea_popescu: lol which ones ?
ben_vulpes: the bdsm club heh
mircea_popescu: what's this club sesso thning ?
mircea_popescu: !up shesek
mircea_popescu: oh, swinger's club. the local thing i visited and cursed closed meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is ron jeremy
mircea_popescu: that disco face looks oddly familiar
ben_vulpes: oh i'm bashing that
mircea_popescu: "Club Sesso is Portland Oregon's upscale, swingers club."
mircea_popescu: is it any good ?
ben_vulpes: on a previous branch, i'm far more interested in a) vino b) carne and c) tango than the local whatever whatever
ben_vulpes: some nights
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes we're going to this great tango thing
ben_vulpes: YUSSS
ben_vulpes: boss u da bes
mircea_popescu: "Have fun, meet new friends and become a part of the Sesso Community. Become a volunteer at Club Sesso!" dude...
mircea_popescu: it can't be doing THAT well.
ben_vulpes: is it one of those silly 'performances' where dinner is stupid expensive and you watch a theatrical thinger?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: well if you're going to the events listed on the homepage for noobs...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes, except good.
ben_vulpes: look i'm making a reference to the plethora of local fauna.
mircea_popescu: unless they fuck it up, which... argentines are famously unreliable.
ben_vulpes: sesso's an intake and filter point.
mircea_popescu: for coughars ?
ben_vulpes: mk well i've got my intel applied to 'milongas that don't mind shitty enthusiastic gringos too much' and also 'milongas where i should just sit and watch' as backup so i'm not terrifically concerned.
mircea_popescu: "Clean Up Your Own Mess" "upscale" wut!
mircea_popescu: errything in america is self serve by now innit.
ben_vulpes: go write an article
mircea_popescu: no, i'd rather pester you :D
ben_vulpes: outta mah face!
ben_vulpes: so actually entertainingly, one of the decent sex parties happens in the warehouse where i used to house the boys.
ben_vulpes: imagine my surprise.
mircea_popescu: anyway, we're also going to the place's best porterhouse steak imo, so there is that.
mircea_popescu: boys = dogs ?
mircea_popescu: decent = indecent ?
mircea_popescu: y u kids gotta use code on my god damned lawn!
ben_vulpes: infer from context!
ben_vulpes: do a thing you hate and despise!
ben_vulpes: uh no programmers.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: y el vino?
mircea_popescu: there's no wine. sorry.
mircea_popescu: the truck broke down.
ben_vulpes: you drank it all
ben_vulpes: stop lying
mircea_popescu: normally we get it on friday...
ben_vulpes: bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: the cat's eaten it.
ben_vulpes: stahp i'll wake the girl
ben_vulpes: that's an excellent argentine
mircea_popescu: sorry ben, im affraid the wine's more runny than you'd like it./
ben_vulpes: please don't tell me
ben_vulpes: the viscosity is nearly that of water
ben_vulpes: simply will not do
mircea_popescu: there's licorice ?
mircea_popescu: and non alcoholic cider.
ben_vulpes: and some stale crackers, no doubt.
ben_vulpes: OH THERE'S LICORICE IS THER
mircea_popescu: (tru story : mp was once at a guy's bday party, very smart coder guy. the party - total cockfest. mp's escort only girl in the room. mp sighs and goes got any booze ?
mircea_popescu: answer comes back as...
mircea_popescu: so mp goes "go and buy some vodka". everyone (~dozen ppls) gets drunk offa half the bottle. girl drinks other half. her eyebrows slowly but surely keep rising all through the night)
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> "the last remaining bastion " >> http://40.media.tumblr.com/bab78269d215cf75ed1df862a19e1494/tumblr_mz3c8j5Dmq1s0f482o1_1280.jpg << oh homegirl's about to have some fun
mircea_popescu: to my great shame, those eyebrows are the only thing i recall of this girl.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes maybe they just wanna play conect-r with her.
ben_vulpes: no but look at her face
mircea_popescu: she looks like she's done this before.
ben_vulpes: yeah.
ben_vulpes: you know that gangbang where ladybird's really running the show?
ben_vulpes: every good one?
mircea_popescu: which is 80% of them ?
mircea_popescu: it's unavoidable, she's the server, scheduling naturally resides with her, which...
ben_vulpes: oh ffs
ben_vulpes: must you really
ben_vulpes: you see people this is actually the vile shit
ben_vulpes: we're talking about ordinary gangbangs
ben_vulpes: and mircea_popescu must MUST *MUST* start talking about servers
ben_vulpes: fucking disgusting, i tell you.
mircea_popescu: do not hate me because i'm an abstract thinker
mircea_popescu: or ima complain to elikbez'r yadukoksky
mircea_popescu: or w/e his name is.
ben_vulpes: <assbot> Successfully added a rating of 1 for brendafdez with note: no such thing as a chick that can pgp << hawwwww
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> and even taught to a girl << contrary to public opinion this is not really a feat
mircea_popescu: yeah what's with all teh sexisms!
mircea_popescu: buncha chicks in assbot's wot.
ben_vulpes: babes are people too and generally smarter than the doodz in the w0t
ben_vulpes: come onnnnn log only 300 lines left
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [03:20] <asciilifeform> '...no survival kit is complete without silver bullets...' << this is actually a lot more sensible than it seems. silver has some good chars for making a bullet. << no no no no no and again no
ben_vulpes: bullets are dead
mircea_popescu: what do you think sperm is ?
ben_vulpes: to give away *even more* of the game what we're after is mini solids with vanes in the exhaust that protrude out from the projectile body.
ben_vulpes: kinetic energy can be purchased with different distributions of mass and gas.
ben_vulpes: rifling PAUGH
mircea_popescu: what is this, superhero quailshot ?
ben_vulpes: chip and servos.
ben_vulpes: not precisely buckshot, no.
mircea_popescu is kinda happy with guns as they are.
ben_vulpes: include pyrotechnics for...pyrotechnics.
mircea_popescu: one of the few fields humanity got mostly right.
ben_vulpes: guns do not give you air superiority.
ben_vulpes: cannot demolish cover.
ben_vulpes: myriad applications i'll leave for eager students.
mircea_popescu: "air superiority" is for the birds.
ben_vulpes: pluck them mid-flight
ben_vulpes: ugh i can't unsee that pun
mircea_popescu: if what you're doing requires "air superiority" you're essentially trying to construct a nuclear-powered lawnmover
mircea_popescu: these don't exist not because "it wouldn't be cool", but because it'd be pretty dumb.
ben_vulpes: i'm thinking about floaty things that map out battlefields when floating unpricked around the battlefield.
ben_vulpes: not jets, etc.
mircea_popescu: 's put it in an easier context.
mircea_popescu: what can be said about the kid who gets into a fight his first day in the new school ?
mircea_popescu: if you're fighting over terrain you do not know you've got a whole heap of problems, each much bigger than anything a buzzard flying by could solve.
mircea_popescu: this is scarce consolation to the poor schmucks sent to die in the trenches, of course, but we're here discussing the larger problem
ben_vulpes: perhaps i misspeak when i say "superiority" rather than pointing at the value in denying others ownership of a space.
ben_vulpes: "fly your jet through here, i dare you." type of approach.
mircea_popescu: yeah. this of course only works to "me too" monkeys.
mircea_popescu: note that the chinese very smartly did not do what the usians expected them to do in the 70s/80s (an exact rehash of the 60s/70s russian idiocy of trying to copy them and lose at it, Мы вас похороним! and all that,
mircea_popescu: instead of making 25 atomic carriers to the us' dozen, they just made small cheap rockets)
mircea_popescu: thus, they're not bankrupt, and will in fact bury the us.
ben_vulpes: if i can do nothing on my own, i can learn from those who do understand strategy.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason for the yawning geopoliticomilitary chasm centering around pekin, and that cause is that the top brass of the us centcom failed to guess cca 1980.
ben_vulpes: if i understand you correctly, i find myself surrounded by 'me too monkeys'.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the "there's nothing worse for a good startup than a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
ben_vulpes: sure. relevance here, though?
mircea_popescu: the one thing that'll ruin a bright young mind is success among idiots.
mircea_popescu: elitism has its protective advantages, especially for teh youth.
ben_vulpes: well hey i hang out here.
mircea_popescu: not that it's teh panacea or anything
ben_vulpes: hopefully that bears some prophylaxis.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes lol im sure you'll be fine.
ben_vulpes: /s/bears/conveys
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mircea_popescu: wouldja look att hat.
ben_vulpes: dude that is the most cryptic apparent nonsequiter.
ben_vulpes: i'm going to think about it for days, come up with some interpretation, regurgitate it in public to many guffaws
thestringpuller: after screaming at cal3d for 5 hours
thestringpuller: i had to drink myself into a stupor
ben_vulpes: is that a pre-ipo price for mpoe?
thestringpuller: pre owners-share block price tho
mircea_popescu: nah, it ipo'd something like 2-6k
mircea_popescu: yeah that was what, 37 iirc ?
ben_vulpes: ah so btcalpha doesn't have complete history?
thestringpuller: something like that
thestringpuller: only kako has dat ;)
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c dude just fork over the coin for a socket from kakobrekla
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: what was "evolution" ?
mircea_popescu: sounds like an ubuntu torrent client
ben_vulpes: anyways, i'm off.
ben_vulpes: sweet dreams, butt-asses.
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mircea_popescu: cazalla https://blockchain.info/address/1Ps2m56aEudGVKj7ch8mAje4x6bBzGVNgU << the 48k looks more like 1000ish actually there in the past week ?
assbot: Bitcoin Address 1Ps2m56aEudGVKj7ch8mAje4x6bBzGVNgU ... ( http://bit.ly/1BOQthH )
cazalla: mircea_popescu, who really knows, all rumour and innuendo at this point
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: i have great idea for mpex listing. i pretend to own hash power, so i take investor money and pay new investors with it!
thestringpuller: this is what I got from old story
mircea_popescu: "The other model Hariezer lays out is that magic lies on a single recessive gene. He reasons squibs have one dominant, non-magical version, and one recessive magical version of the gene. So of kids born to squibs, 1/4 will be wizards. In this version, you either have magic or you don’t, so if wizards married the non-magical, wizards themselves could become more rare, but the power of wizards won’t be diluted. C
mircea_popescu: all this model 2."
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. i am so sick and tired of this cloying tiresome pedestrian understanding of genetics.
mircea_popescu: the single alele pair model is in the books because fucking peas exhibit it, and because it's easy to teach to biologists, who are people who are bad at basic arithmetics.
thestringpuller: what were those square things called again?
mircea_popescu: irl, most loci have MULTIPLE aleles.
thestringpuller: putin squares?
mircea_popescu: there's places with 30+ genes, of which multiple are dominant.
mircea_popescu: if the gene for being a total fucktard has genes A through P and a through w, where upcase ones are dominant, it may be the case that the AD kid is the geniusest of them all and the BG kid is the total fucking retardest of the lot, way behind ww or ft or whatever the fuck other recessive combo
mircea_popescu: the total possible combinations are
mircea_popescu: ;;calc (16 + 23) ** 2
gribble: 1521
mircea_popescu: that's 1.5k different types for just that one pair!
mircea_popescu: and it is unlikely but technically possible that you actually require a TRISOMY to get the topmost performance.
mircea_popescu: which may put it in the billions to one odds of happening, which means that we know enough about genetics since the genome has been sequenced to make judgements about on par with the quality of the pseudoscience that gave us "global warming" and "carbon"
mircea_popescu: (trisomy is usually a copy of one or the other gene, but it doesn't actually have to be - it could be a mix of them, which ~could~ be a legitimate new gene, if mindbogglingly improbable)
mircea_popescu: (conversely, it's usually the case that you do require a trisomy or other polysomy to get the actual worst performance available - kids with such genetic defects are almost universally retarded and sterile)
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chetty: well epigenetics is starting to be explored, but its so politically incorrect no one will talk much about it
mircea_popescu: yet idiots talking about nonsense abound
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funkenstein_: and folks who think intelligence is genetic don't have it
thestringpuller: scoopbot: --fetch
thestringpuller: scoopbot -fetch
thestringpuller: !up Vexual
scoopbot: New post on Qntra.net by thestringpuller: http://qntra.net/2015/03/security-as-a-coffin/
Vexual: epigenetics is like unexplained inheritence?
funkenstein_: could be explained, but not completely or only by the sequence
Vexual: is there a fruitfly experiment or anything?
funkenstein_: the word gets used for stuff like relative position in the organism, protein folding influence
Vexual: thats what im thinking, it's more of a philospohy of effects not described my empirical shit
Vexual: ah ok
funkenstein_: fun word :)
Vexual: yeah
Vexual: what lat you at on this big spiining magnet in space?
funkenstein_: 45 N or so
Vexual: err 15 s?
Vexual: 20s?
funkenstein_: sounds nice. seen the LMC recently?
Vexual: lmc?
funkenstein_: large magellanic cloud
Vexual: is it seen with the naked eye?
funkenstein_: sure is.
Vexual: i probably have and didnt know it
funkenstein_: the small one is also visible with the naked eye but you need a darker place for viewing
thestringpuller: dr. funkenstein_ how are you
thestringpuller: you must like funk music with a name like that
thestringpuller: !up Vexual
funkenstein_: morning string puller. you sound like a musician too :)
Adlai: funkenstein_: there's also the initial contents of memory upon powering up the device - ie, the 99.9...% of the egg which is NOT dna
Vexual: yes, i've seen clear nights hundred of kilometers from the nearest campfire
Adlai: similarly to how gut bacteria play a larger role influencing personality than, say, the skin cells on the bottom of the foot - despite only the latter being 'human'
Vexual: and twice the horizons to any light polluting town
thestringpuller: Adlai: only cuz those bacteria make you poop.
thestringpuller: funkenstein_: a little. my nick is reference to the godfather. a terribly good movie.
funkenstein_: Adlai, well put
Vexual: they also make up a larege part of your interface with your environment
Adlai: thestringpuller: for me, you always invoke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKhsTXoKCI
assbot: Metallica-Master Of Puppets (Lyrics) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1FAC2jZ )
thestringpuller: aha when metallica was good
thestringpuller: head DBA at first job was a huge 90's metal guy
thestringpuller: had seen anthrax metallica megadeth and slayer play in same lineup
thestringpuller: i'm much moar experienced with jazz and hip-hop music tho
thestringpuller: aka black people music
assbot: TATRAN Live @ Oppikoppi Festival - Anar - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1MIQPLN )
Adlai: ok enough tunespam
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 83818 @ 0.00030769 = 25.79 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 8932 @ 0.00030769 = 2.7483 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 143600 @ 0.00030156 = 43.304 BTC [-] {2}
Adlai: !up Vexual
Adlai: tell'em Vexual
Adlai: spread the spell of god
Vexual: u told em already
assbot: Tatran - Sol the Blue - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1F2udoB )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41200 @ 0.00030032 = 12.3732 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 95650 @ 0.00030669 = 29.3349 BTC [+] {3}
funkenstein_: !up DianaComan
funkenstein_: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 271.56, Best ask: 271.6, Bid-ask spread: 0.04000, Last trade: 271.56, 24 hour volume: 40607.79350542, 24 hour low: 269.09, 24 hour high: 291.48, 24 hour vwap: None
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 69599 @ 0.00029935 = 20.8345 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 228850 @ 0.00029375 = 67.2247 BTC [-] {4}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 16950 @ 0.00028982 = 4.9124 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 39450 @ 0.00028909 = 11.4046 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 35362 @ 0.0002895 = 10.2373 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> because the hot peppers are like lsd + speed << haha yes! I tripped out from eating too much hot sauce once; home made ghost pepper salsa or something
danielpbarron: height=285260 vs height=211953
assbot: Librem 15: A Free/Libre Software Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms | Crowd Supply ... ( http://bit.ly/1AYKXpr )
danielpbarron: anyone, thoughts? probably too good to be true
mike_c: ben_vulpes: I do have complete history, and was the only paying customer of kako's socket when he turned it off.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 38305 @ 0.0002895 = 11.0893 BTC [+]
nubbins`: ;;later tell mircea_popescu Alare Kool is from Bangladesh!
gribble: The operation succeeded.
nubbins`: oh and you need to "verify" your bitstamp account w/ gov photo id to even deposit btc. fyi.
nubbins`: oh and you cannot change the email address associated with your account w/o contacting support
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 11100 @ 0.00028623 = 3.1772 BTC [-]
nubbins`: !up Vexual
Vexual: ah young jack
Vexual: he he, not bait, but an enviable comparison
assbot: 'One less pig: perfect justice': Thug who wore t-shirt with vile slogan just hours after murders of two policewomen is jailed for eight months | Daily Mail Online ... ( http://bit.ly/1EqPVxa )
nubbins`: Stuart Duke, defending, said Thew had been an in-patient at a mental health unit and was still in prescription of anti-psychotic medicine, but Judge Lakin said his mental health was 'not a contributing factor'.
nubbins`: ^ lel.
Vexual: oh theyll shoot you till you're dead then yell at you to take the shirt off
Vexual: you're better off not wearing inflamatory tshirts
Vexual: you print on kevlar belends?
Vexual: "aim for the head asshole"
nubbins`: no kevlar
Vexual: thats guitar business
Vexual: the base player might have done the ssame
nubbins`: no kidding
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10533 @ 0.0002895 = 3.0493 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 176900 @ 0.00029181 = 51.6212 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 67100 @ 0.00028956 = 19.4295 BTC [-] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 222400 @ 0.00028552 = 63.4996 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 133750 @ 0.00029198 = 39.0523 BTC [+]
funkenstein_: perhaps a good day to link this blog http://wtfevolution.tumblr.com/
assbot: WTF, Evolution?! ... ( http://bit.ly/1HZCMil )
danielpbarron: yet another way to deny God: call Him "evolution"
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33500 @ 0.00028506 = 9.5495 BTC [-]
nubbins`: yet another way to jack yourself off with self-importance: refer to "god" as a person
funkenstein_: not sure renaming is denying?
nubbins`: not sure if srs or trolling
nubbins`: sneaking suspicion that srs
funkenstein_: i'm sure She won't mind
funkenstein_: nubbins it's just that you aren't used to romantic languages
nubbins`: expound, please
funkenstein_: even in german you use personal pronouns for most everything
nubbins`: sure. not uncommon in english.
danielpbarron: !up Bagels7
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 130800 @ 0.00029525 = 38.6187 BTC [+] {3}
danielpbarron: nubbins`, the blog personifies evolution
danielpbarron: the author created fictional naratives between a person "evoltion" and an astonished inquisitor
nubbins`: no way
nubbins`: sounds like you hold an opinion as to the nature of your god; would be interested to hear
assbot: A True Church - The Lord Is A Man ... ( http://bit.ly/1BUQ2nj )
danielpbarron: Contrary to popular opinion within the false Christian world (2 Timothy 3:1-5 & 4:3), God is a Man, as Exodus 15:3 plainly declares. Not corruptible (Romans 1:23; 1 Corinthians 15:50), not created (Psalm 90:2), not a man who progressed and "achieved his exalted rank" as Mormons teach (see the report on Mormonism). But nonetheless, the Lord is a Man. He is a Man of war.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, others from last night's thread: http://lasec.epfl.ch/keyboard << oldie re: keyboard rf.
assbot: Compromising Electromagnetic Emanations of Wired and Wireless Keyboards - Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini ... ( http://bit.ly/1BUQr9w )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56950 @ 0.0002855 = 16.2592 BTC [-] {2}
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu: interesting tidbit from the vuagnoux & pasini paper (section 5.5) - the second-keyboard-as-jammer thing doesn't really work.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu: nor is a conventional jammer practical, because pressing keys results in shift of frequency of harmonics. this appears to be one of those cases where not shitting on the floor is considerably easier than mopping it up...
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 147700 @ 0.00028463 = 42.0399 BTC [-] {2}
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why doesn't it really work again ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nice one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if asking about the 'second kbd controller as jammer' - the small physical differences (esp. in the quartz oscillator) add up to a distinguishable 'fingerprint' which lets enemy pull a particular kbd signal out of a room full of'em
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if about hypothetical purpose-built jammer - keyboard scan matrix in particular is a moving target, as the frequency of the telltale signal will vary considerably depending on which key(s) are pressed
mircea_popescu: i was simply thinking a 2nd kbd with a rng tied to it closing circuits.
asciilifeform: that was my thought
mircea_popescu: but re-reading, you actually mean the mechanical keyboard pressing is the source
asciilifeform: the closing of the matrix circuits
mircea_popescu: well...maybe ?
chetty: so wrap you kbd in a faraday cage?
asciilifeform: (and it is also interesting to think about what actually happens on the mechanical contacts. 'key bounce' is not only an annoyance for engineers, but a gift to radiodiddlers, as each spring - and rubber domes not excepted - has characteristic wear)
mircea_popescu: who knew that ipad style on-screen kbds will actually have at least one advantage ?
mircea_popescu: unwieldy as theyare.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 6000 @ 0.00028979 = 1.7387 BTC [+]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those can be 'heard' for considerable distances by intercepting lcd feed
mircea_popescu: yes, but "shield the screen" vs "shield the screen and shield the keyboard"
asciilifeform: i looked into keyboards made of optical fibres, and found none in commercial circulation. looked if anyone has admitted to experimenting with such, and found no credible data - but, interestingly, folks have built mice on this principle, for use inside mri scanners.
asciilifeform: (mice are easy - just pipe picture from the business end of standard optical mouse, hollowed out, into a remote cabinet to which its guts have been moved)
asciilifeform: shielding even a screen is nontrivial.
asciilifeform: http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~zduric/cs803/Simmons.pdf << unrelated but interesting from historical standpoint re: usg and practical use of rsa
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was thinking btw, faraday cage is essentially a passive radiator element. what if made active ?
mircea_popescu: make a sort of cyclotron in your living room, all electrons end up on the plate.
chetty: ouch, worse than having a fan run while you sleep
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's forget optical fibres for a second and consider this : on a standard keyboard, making a spoke portrude from each key so that from a width-long perspective each spoke is separated by any other is trivial mechanically. lighting one width and sticking a camera on the other width then resolves the problem,
mircea_popescu: you now have optical keypress
mircea_popescu: chetty i guess so does all your dust plus the cats, huh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: faraday cage is not (if correctly constructed) a radiating element at all
mircea_popescu: hence passive. it is still a radiator in my theoretical view of things, because it COULD
mircea_popescu: anyway, make mesh of two wires, so that on each hole you have at least one spot of wire at - potential and one spot at + potential. then the size of the hole and the intensity of the emission tell you how much potential you need in the cage.
mircea_popescu: for an arbitrary % of electron escape
mircea_popescu: particle.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spoke portrude from each key << manual typewriter. invitation for acoustic snoopery. (and camera - radiates.)
chetty: dont forget the tin hat
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the spoke doesn't touch anything
mircea_popescu: just goes down a quarter inch or w/e,. into the air.
asciilifeform: the 'tin hat' was always especially funny to folks who actually know a little physics, because parabolic antenna focused on brain.
mircea_popescu: well amygdalla, but yeah
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: into air, sure. and it vibrates. and no two spykes same length
mircea_popescu: oh.come.on.
mircea_popescu: is this your ploy to make me invent thought typing for you ?
asciilifeform: gedankenexperiment to wake folks up that keyboard for secure work ought to be 1) yes, mechanical 2) physically smallest that one can abide
chetty: well you can start with something like dragon speak and improves it :)
asciilifeform: ugh speaking
asciilifeform: fuck speaking
asciilifeform: and yes, ultimate kbd ought to be something you can use with your hands in a sack (of conductive cloth naturally.)
mircea_popescu: !up GlobalSolutions
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 85700 @ 0.0002898 = 24.8359 BTC [+] {2}
GlobalSolutions: Its ok, I can type
GlobalSolutions: Just here to learn...
mircea_popescu: !down GlobalSolutions
assbot: An Important Statement from President Wallace Loh | UMD Right Now :: University of Maryland ... ( http://bit.ly/1xynMSm )
mircea_popescu: "the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct"
mircea_popescu: wait. what ?!
assbot: Office of the President, University of Maryland ... ( http://bit.ly/1xyo9Mx )
mircea_popescu: "The University of Maryland remains committed to our core values of respect for human dignity, diversity, and inclusiveness."
mircea_popescu: the university of maryland is a fraud. those can't be the core values of an university.
chetty: got to love that freedom of speech right
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american universities got cancer long ago ('60s) but now there is scarcely one detectable cell from the original patient at all, only tumour.
asciilifeform: there was perhaps a few shredded flaps of still-chromosomally-passable tissue when i was a student there, a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: such nonsense tho. "our police department remains comitted to our core values of donuts and shooting the nigger"
mircea_popescu: "hey, that's exactly what should NOT be a value of yours, core or no core"
mircea_popescu: an university is by definition dedicated to exclusiveness.
mircea_popescu: it exists so as to exclude the scum so people who can think can do so, and young people who could one day think can come there to be away from their idiot families, small towns and government.
mircea_popescu: and as a side note, that's how probation came to be : originally clerics (ie, university students y compris) could claim eclesiastic jurisdiction before they lay court, and be taken before their rector to be judged there.
mircea_popescu: it was quickly limited to a "first offense only" thing
mircea_popescu: and it survived to this day
mircea_popescu: it is incidentally the model upon which i see the most serene republic coming to an agreement with the obsolete "states" : bitcoiners are outside of lay jurisdiction, and to be judged by bitcoin court.
asciilifeform: the latest lulz from umd almost beats the noose incident.
asciilifeform: (5 or so yrs ago, there was 'mass indignation', hastily-cooked mea culpas from virtually all organizations in any way connected with the campus, demonstrations 'of support' for 'the victims' - after a shred of rope was allegedly found hanging on a tree branch.)
assbot: Campus Noose Sparks Hate Crime Probe - ABC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1xypSBI )
asciilifeform: iirc it ended with something like a confession from whoever saw it that 'noose' was no noose at all, but a piece of garbage the wind carried
asciilifeform: and the idiot parade quietly vanished
mircea_popescu: without anyone ever saying they were wrong, or stupid.
mircea_popescu: because they can't be wrong, or stupid, because they're smart and special.
asciilifeform: no prizes for guessing this.
mircea_popescu: perfect reason to actually hang them.
asciilifeform: !s sistine chapel ceiling
assbot: 1 results for 'sistine chapel ceiling' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=sistine+chapel+ceiling
asciilifeform: or more pertinent example, the fabricated mega-gang-rapes of recent history
asciilifeform: 'sympathy', 'support', esp. of the usg-sponsored very tangible/financial variety is on tap, no questions asked. imagine if insurance worked this way - how many houses would still remain standing ?
asciilifeform: the mechanism in question actually -needs- exercise once in a while, or rusts. hence the increasingly lulzy faux mega-outrages and their regularity
asciilifeform: (thoughtcrimey email, from one drunken student to another, 15 months ago !?!)
asciilifeform: 'On Tuesday, March 10, 2015, the University of Maryland became aware of an email dated January 2014, 15 months ago. The vulgar language in the email expresses views that are reprehensible to our campus community. We immediately met with the individual involved and a University investigation is currently underway, led by the Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct. We are in contact with the University chapter of Kappa Sig
asciilifeform: ma and they have taken swift and decisive action in this matter. At their request, the University has committed to provide educational training on diversity and respect for the entire fraternity. The University of Maryland remains committed to our core values of respect for human dignity, diversity, and inclusiveness. We are deeply saddened by the impact this email is having on our community.'
asciilifeform: ^ copied here for the record
asciilifeform: because the morons think they can magic their own spew away when it turns embarrassing.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: nice what? article? lol
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 103150 @ 0.00029145 = 30.0631 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25700 @ 0.0002891 = 7.4299 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 124679 @ 0.00028653 = 35.7243 BTC [-]
mats: it falls
danielpbarron: !up coinking
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 111246 @ 0.00028653 = 31.8753 BTC [-]
coinking: Hey guys, any BitBet mods around?
assbot: The Lost Art of C Structure Packing ... ( http://bit.ly/1FBuXjr )
asciilifeform: mats: lost!?! l0l!
mats: esr sez so
asciilifeform: mats: incidentally, precise packings are not achievable without gcc pragma (or your compiler's equivalent)
asciilifeform: on of the 1,001 ways in which 'c' specification is a sad joke.
asciilifeform: and it is entirely non-negotiable if you're dealing with a hardware register where the bits have to fall -just so-
asciilifeform: or even if you're writing something as mundane as a disassembler.
asciilifeform: (you can achieve the desired layout with bitshifts and logic ops, and end up introducing hidden platform dependencies - endian and wordsize)
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 134700 @ 0.00029236 = 39.3809 BTC [+]
assbot: GoFuckYourself.com - Adult Webmaster Forum - View Single Post - For Sale Virtual Credit Cards (VCC) - Many Denominations - Instant Delivery - US & INTL Billing AVS ... ( http://bit.ly/1FBxvOr )
danielpbarron: re: the GlobalSolutions guy ^
mike_c: coinking: better to just ask your question.
coinking: ok cool, sure. I wanted to inquire about Content Management for BitBet - and if there was a want for Social Media Marketing & Management
kakobrekla: you want to promote bitbet?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34729 @ 0.00028653 = 9.9509 BTC [-]
coinking: yeah, looking to offer my services to the twitter page
coinking: or any other social sites
nubbins`: bitbet has a twitter page?
coinking: I found one that was pretty inactive
danielpbarron: what are you talking about inactive?
danielpbarron: the thing tweets daily if not hourly
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 81609 @ 0.00029236 = 23.8592 BTC [+]
coinking: oh maybe I was looking at a different one
danielpbarron: there are two; one tweets new bets and the other tweets individual bids on them
nubbins`: oh look
nubbins`: @BitBets and @BitBetsBets
coinking: there's always room for improvements :)
mike_c: coinking: they have an affiliate program if you want to do promotion.
coinking: cool, I'll check it out
assbot: FAQ BitBet ... ( http://bit.ly/1FBzLVV )
kakobrekla: well here is the thing, i am not paying a flat fee to someone to derp around on btc-poor social sites to gather 'likes', 'digs', 'twits' and 'impressions' which do not bring in bettors. but if you actually can bring in people with btc, use affiliate program to collect your reward.
coinking: I have a lot of good contact within crypto and have current and past clients as references. It's about perspective, the leads I bring as crypto enthusiasts yet building your social pages is never a bad move. It just depends on how much you think it's worth. It think long term it is something important in a business and has a direct impact on the bu
coinking: siness as a whole
kakobrekla: ;;gettrust coinking
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user kakobrekla to user coinking: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=kakobrekla&dest=coinking | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=coinking | Rated since: never
assbot: Delusionist ... ( http://bit.ly/1FBB3jX )
mats: fun fact: zeroing a file in windows may actually leave the contents on the disk intact.
asciilifeform: zeroing a file anywhere you don't have direct access to the blocks may leave the contents on the disk
asciilifeform: and btw this includes all modern hdd.
mats: fun fact: the UIPI clipboard format whitelist is permissive enough to allow for exploitation of particular programs on 7 and 8.
kakobrekla: !up coinking
mats: additionally, MS has indicated several times that 'UAC' is not actually a security boundary
kakobrekla: anyway, get in the wot why dont you
asciilifeform: mats: on top of that is the mega-lol where winblows uac is the only usg-blessed 'security boundary' mechanism...
coinking: wot?
mats: so you can e.g. abuse auto-elevation behavior in COM (win7, 8) and use a save file dialog in paint as an elevated iexplore
mats: MS knows, says: feature
asciilifeform searches #b-a log for the discussion of this, for some reason cannot find
asciilifeform: pheature!
coinking: how do I enter?
danielpbarron: coinking, do you know how to GPG?
coinking: no I don't
mats: another fun fact: you can physically damage XP installations via ACPI parsing and NtSystemDebugControl, entirely in usermode
assbot: Please To PGP (Guide for Linux, OS X, Windows) | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1FBDe71 )
coinking: we can't just have a private convo on here?
danielpbarron: GPG is for proving who you are between sessions
coinking: ah ok
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yes., << well ty.
coinking: so is it only for mac?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because the morons think they can magic their own spew away when it turns embarrassing. << b-a logs will become the most interesting resource in not many years.
mircea_popescu: coinking social what ?
mircea_popescu: !up coinking
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2015 17:06:07; nubbins`: log would make a worthy tome, if one were able to sieve it first
mircea_popescu: well... get some teeny girlies on it.
mircea_popescu: that's the traditional socioeconomic use for fillies in human societies.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 28550 @ 0.00029513 = 8.426 BTC [+] {2}
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/the-genetics-of-intelligence/
coinking: Social media management, that's what I was inquiring about
coinking: I'm not sure who is directly involved in this project so I'll just me sending an email
kakobrekla: if you are going to write to @bitbet.us , i will be reading it
coinking: cool, should be there. It's trickier to chat about it through IRC so you will see from my email my personal details.
chetty: <coinking> Social media management//omg has it really come to that?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/1Y8PNX2.txt << mega-interesting
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the scope traces show a working rng, even.
asciilifeform: i did notice weird side terminals on the caps, thought it was a manufacturing artifact.
asciilifeform: (see upper left hand corner of photo, for instance)
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 265.44, Best ask: 265.63, Bid-ask spread: 0.19000, Last trade: 265.64, 24 hour volume: 64508.08782313, 24 hour low: 263.01, 24 hour high: 288.3, 24 hour vwap: None
mircea_popescu: !up vorandrew
mike_c: so normal fuckup then, not even massively incompetent.
mike_c: it's nice that they figured it out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! i wonder what the bug would have been
mircea_popescu: oh it's explained.
mircea_popescu: they have that massive an infrastructure that they cache the application !?
vorandrew: Does anybody know who is trading BTC difficulty CFD/Futures?
mircea_popescu: !gettrust vorandrew
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user vorandrew: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. | http://w.b-a.link/trust/mircea_popescu/vorandrew | http://w.b-a.link/user/vorandrew
mircea_popescu: nobody trades anything with people without a wot.
vorandrew: working on it
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, most public-facing diff futures seems to happen on bitbet.
assbot: BitBet - Bitcoin difficulty at or above 2B before Feb 2014 :: 1750.25 B (93%) on Yes, 136.67 B (7%) on No | closed 1 year 1 month ago ... ( http://bit.ly/1GYTsoX )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 56318 @ 0.00029521 = 16.6256 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this factually true, that you had the wrong part in there for a while, then switched it out to the right part and ordered immediately ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i switched through a number of offered substitute parts, one of which may well have been this inductor-capacitor combo (erroneously offered as circuit-equivalent)
BingoBoingo: So, once you finalize a thing in their webapp you gotta sit on the page for a couple hours just to make sure the cache is sync'd or...
mircea_popescu: well hopefully they fixed it.
mircea_popescu: so let me ask you this composite question :
mircea_popescu: if the world was working as it did before computers, ascii would have been one of the few people with pen and paper, and wrote a description to one of the few people who made what he needed, and by virtue of that fewness they'd have actually been friends. the letter took a week to get there, the work took a week to be done, and so a month later alf has his peas or w/e he's needing for alchemy.
mircea_popescu: as the work works now, software makes everything much easier and faster. errors especially.
mircea_popescu: as a result... a month later alf does not have his peas.
mircea_popescu: please to progress on the dotted line.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 122200 @ 0.00029346 = 35.8608 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: pr0gre55!1111!11
mircea_popescu: "it takes us a second to do things that took a lifetime before - and they come with the guarantee of being something else entirely!"
mircea_popescu: it's easy, and fun.
asciilifeform: but if playing that gedanken-game fairly, possibly the 'progress' is in my being able to get things at all without serious moneys
mircea_popescu: depends how marginal you are.
asciilifeform is pretty marginal
mircea_popescu: if you're in the 1% that did then as it does now, the fact that there's a further aspirational 19% added to the pot does not help you
mircea_popescu: hopefully does also not hinder you, although...
asciilifeform: probably hanging from somewhere in that 19th, like that schmuck swinging from the last chopper out of saigon
mircea_popescu: how would we find this out ?
asciilifeform: idk just pulled from arse
asciilifeform: subjective perception.
mircea_popescu: no, i know. the problem with gedanken experiments is that they necessarily won't fit the reality
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 34800 @ 0.00029171 = 10.1515 BTC [-] {2}
asciilifeform: based on rough eyeball of the kind of things can and cannot afford
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the stair of no return, once you left you can't walk back
asciilifeform: see, if i were the kind of fella who has money, would not have been having any of the problem described in this tale. would have either seen the boards made within a week (actual business relationship with factory, sleep ad libitum and fly in to supervise in person with own eyes) or would have a legit conveyor with requisite machinery in-house, and same
mircea_popescu: it's not a simple matter of money, as money's not invariant over the cases we discuss.
asciilifeform: 'money' in the allocator sense (see old mircea_popescu thread about subsistence vs capital-allocator)
asciilifeform: or the 'percent of pie' sense discussed in possibly same thread
mircea_popescu: but you don't need that. you merely need to be deemed by a major capital allocator worthy of the allocation.
mircea_popescu: the us congress does not particularly think loyd austin of the army is very smart,
mircea_popescu: nor are the billions being spent his own personal pocket money he could buy icecream with otherwise.
asciilifeform: well yes. that is normally how it works.
mircea_popescu: also throws a monkey wrench in our guesswork.
mircea_popescu: where's that oglaf
assbot: Labyrinth ... ( http://bit.ly/1LvUcIS )
asciilifeform: this is why i always say that victory is far, that 'we' are small and 'they' are - stupid, yes - but gigantic. the entire s.nsa ipo would not have bought a proper pick'n'placer, not even talking about real estate to house it in a place which i could economically get to, etc.
asciilifeform: and this was at 'peak btc-usd' to date
asciilifeform: deliberately using the goxbubble numbers
mircea_popescu: well yes.
mircea_popescu: so we are small and they are tinier still and the world's immense.
mircea_popescu: which... yeah.
asciilifeform: 'they', for instance, don't have to split attention between N day jobs
asciilifeform: or ask around, futile, whether a hosting co. or manufacturing house somewhere might agree to take a little btc business
mircea_popescu: right. they just win wars in afghanistan.
chetty: well if it was easy everybody would do it ;)
asciilifeform: 'they' make $maxint by sending cartloads of meat to get liquified in afghan, and the like
mircea_popescu: i know a little girl who is a princess.
mircea_popescu: bout the same thing.
mircea_popescu: she makes $maxint diamonds by flying unicorns around.
mike_c: this still seems promising to me. so new little shop had a bug in their order form. doesn't make them useless.
asciilifeform: mike_c: didn't say 'useless'
asciilifeform: mike_c: if the thing shows up on fri., and works to spec, then useful, sure
asciilifeform: mike_c: but i'm still empty-handed for C-III
mike_c: yeah. debugging is nice, delivering is better.
mike_c: not empty-handed if they deliver though, right?
asciilifeform: mike_c: did you actually think the rng was the cargo? rng was exhibited at C-II
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 72600 @ 0.00029562 = 21.462 BTC [+] {2}
mike_c: i didn't actually think I knew all the details. so schedule for getting it by c3 is blown?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so tell them that you want them to rush the 2nd joib as much as humanly possible and fly it over.
mircea_popescu: and don't wait for the boards to show up to put the 2nd job order in, either.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of doing this.
mircea_popescu: yeah. not enough $ at risk to be that cautious.
asciilifeform: mike_c: understand, i cannot blame this particular vendor for the overall pace of the work - only self. (in particular, i am not clever enough to escape from having a fairly intense day job)
mircea_popescu: yeah, you are a very very bad man.
asciilifeform: mike_c: the tale with the board house was simply a case of 'wunderwaffen' that did not fire to spec
assbot: Bad Man Montage - Babu from Seinfeld - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/18IZajs )
mike_c: i'm not interested in blaming anyone. but if these guys can speed up the schedule, let's keep them working.
mike_c: all the better if they feel they fked up and need to do better on next round.
asciilifeform: mike_c: aha
asciilifeform: mike_c: the other half of that thread was that i had serious doubts re: whether the service offered by mf inc. was actually economically possible as described, and ergo i might be a chump
mike_c: yeah. seems like it might be legit so far.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform corporate moneyz, what do you care.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cared because 'if you don't know precisely who at the table is the chump...'
mircea_popescu: anyway, srsly, it's a reaosnable attempt, go for it.
ben_vulpes: why is it crashing
ben_vulpes: ooh here's a fancy
assbot: BlackRock Sovereign Risk Indicator | BlackRock Blog | Global Market Intelligence ... ( http://bit.ly/1LvZ2FU )
assbot: Sovereign Risk Indicator | The Big Picture ... ( http://bit.ly/1LvZ94m )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 37250 @ 0.00029579 = 11.0182 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 172300 @ 0.00029586 = 50.9767 BTC [+] {2}
ben_vulpes: dude argentina has a negative willingness to pay?
ben_vulpes: what bullshit is this.
mircea_popescu: it does.
ben_vulpes: clearly i don't understand the term of art.
ben_vulpes: i was thinking of the money sitting in NY, intended for bondholders.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2015#1056654 << that's the correct name, how did you know ? got the same ?
assbot: Logged on 18-03-2015 13:57:11; nubbins`: ;;later tell mircea_popescu Alare Kool is from Bangladesh!
assbot: Fed removes 'patient': Prepare for an interest rate hike - Mar. 18, 2015 ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lw1exg )
mircea_popescu: check it out, fed's reading the logs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes saying they're behaving like a forumite scammer is being generous.
mats: i thought the same thing
ben_vulpes: we're both retarded, mats.
ben_vulpes: i must not be reading anything closely enough today.
mircea_popescu: "Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, admitted a Section 4A Public Order Offence (displaying writing or other visible representation with intention of causing harassment, alarm or distress) and was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court today."
mircea_popescu: check out the uk lmao.
mircea_popescu: !up lsaul
mircea_popescu: "hurting people's feelings", a "section 4a public order offence"
ben_vulpes: last few lines of that article suggest there was a parole violation involved.
mats: ben_vulpes: i was responding to mircea_popescu there
ben_vulpes: i'm the idiot today
ben_vulpes: !down ben_vulpes
mircea_popescu: 'To mock or joke about the tragic events of that morning is morally reprehensible and Thew has rightly been convicted and sentenced for his actions.
mircea_popescu: da fuck.
mircea_popescu: speech can not be morally reprehensible for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: morals apply to actions.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 42950 @ 0.00029565 = 12.6982 BTC [-]
assbot: University that went bankrupt amid tighter federal scrutiny looks to collect money from former students @insidehighered ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lw2Wi7 )
assbot: WTF, Evolution?! • "I think I’m kind of over heads." "You’re ‘over’... ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lw3bKa )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 41800 @ 0.00029588 = 12.3678 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: "The closure of a college often leaves students in limbo. Without being able to finish a degree, students must scramble to transfer and to figure out how to deal with the debt they have racked up."
mircea_popescu: wait, someone actually pays a college that doesn't complete the program ?
mircea_popescu: what's next, someone brings you half a hambuger and you pay half the price forone ?
BingoBoingo: Seriously
BingoBoingo: College closed, but perviously had been faking Federal loans, nao wants the money back even though its closed.
mircea_popescu: "Mid-Continent, which first opened in 1949 but received federal student aid only for the past decade or so, caught the attention of regulators at the Education Department in 2011, according to documents obtained by Inside Higher Ed."
mircea_popescu: talk about embrace and extinguish.
asciilifeform: they, of course, would say 'we busted a sc4mz0r'
ben_vulpes: fwiw, the class is the unit of purchase at us scamversity
mircea_popescu: “It’s not to say that we didn’t have the right information but the problem was being able to produce it quickly and produce it” in the format that the department wanted, Walker said.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i went it was the 'credit-hour'
mircea_popescu: i guess they didn;t teach perl.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo check it out btw, no fudstorm ensued.
BingoBoingo: Seriously am surprised
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14600 @ 0.00029588 = 4.3198 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: some signatures better than others.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 50500 @ 0.00029678 = 14.9874 BTC [+] {2}
assbot: Ashley Judd to press charges against Twitter users over sexual harassment | Film | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1Esg0vN )
danielpbarron: she doesn't want them to say the things, so she encourages them by retweeting it!?
danielpbarron: she either doesn't know how twitter works, or knows exactly how twitter works
davout: lol
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 71600 @ 0.00029565 = 21.1685 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: who's ashley judd
fluffypony: who isn't ashley judd!
fluffypony: I think we're all ashley judd in our own special way
fluffypony: what can I say, I'm a juddist
fluffypony: juddist priest
mircea_popescu: lol o wait, singer-songwriter/actress/newswoman/political activist. i see.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well, can you be specific ?
fluffypony: I have no idea who she is
fluffypony: I was just rambling
fluffypony: clearly I'm practicing for the upcoming conference circuit :-P
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27400 @ 0.00029395 = 8.0542 BTC [-]
cazalla: mircea_popescu, some bitch in her 40s who pretends she is being sexual harassed on twitter
mircea_popescu: myeah, about as credible as her pretense to fame, talent et all.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 75350 @ 0.00029573 = 22.2833 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 7363 @ 0.00029682 = 2.1855 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: for those also reading this email dump, 53 is where Hannum finally addresses Theo
danielpbarron: 54/55 is Theo's response which is quite funny
danielpbarron: "Charles, i feel your answer to be a rather virtiolic flame."
danielpbarron: "i'm somewhat unhappy to hear you say what you are saying, or the tone
danielpbarron: you use. you are not being nice. i do not understand what you expect
danielpbarron: to gain from saying things as you have."
danielpbarron: and yeah, Hannum was clearly the aggressor; Demetriou comes off as trying to make reconciliations
danielpbarron: !up vorandrew are your quit/rejoins an attempt to get voice? there are better ways...
vorandrew: :) sorry - debugging some start scripts... will find other server
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that << This is why we read. You've got more important stuff to read most of the time.
[]bot: Bet placed: 10 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 17(Y):83(N) by coin, 17(Y):83(N) by weight. Total bet: 107.9135122 BTC. Current weight: 48,983.
mircea_popescu: heh, believing that is how i end up dumb.
mircea_popescu: btw re the entire satoshi thing : anyone ever considered it's maybe a homage to Satoshi Kanazawa ?
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest miciurins of all time
mircea_popescu: !up danyalos
danyalos: Thanks Mircea
mircea_popescu: sure. who're you ?
danyalos: I am here because a close friend of mine told me that I should read #Bitcoin-assets often to learn a couple of things.
danyalos: So here I am.
danielpbarron: brenda's friend
danyalos: Do I know you, danielpbarron?
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under $35 before June " http://bitbet.us/bet/1129/ Odds: 48(Y):52(N) by coin, 49(Y):51(N) by weight. Total bet: 2.54145355 BTC. Current weight: 94,718.
danielpbarron: danyalos, not yet
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14500 @ 0.00029735 = 4.3116 BTC [+]
BingoBoingo: danyalos: Gossip(tm) travels fast
danyalos: I thought spammers would not be allowded here.
BingoBoingo: Depends on one's definition of spam
assbot: Spamming reddit, an "experiment". pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1BXezs6 )
trinque: !up danyalos
[]bot: Bet placed: 3 BTC for No on "BTC to top $413 before Songkran" http://bitbet.us/bet/1122/ Odds: 14(Y):86(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 22.93804235 BTC. Current weight: 45,539.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 128400 @ 0.00029593 = 37.9974 BTC [-] {3}
assbot: WW2 justified by former German soldiers - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1BXnE3Z )
TheNewDeal: ;;Market -all
gribble: Error: The "Market" plugin is loaded, but there is no command named "-all" in it. Try "list Market" to see the commands in the "Market" plugin.
TheNewDeal: ;;marker
gribble: Error: "marker" is not a valid command.
TheNewDeal: ;;Market
gribble: Error: "Market" is not a valid command.
TheNewDeal: ;;quit
gribble: Error: You don't have the owner capability. If you think that you should have this capability, be sure that you are identified before trying again. The 'whoami' command can tell you if you're identified.
BingoBoingo: ;;ticker --market all
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 252.29, vol: 21409.77003160 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 248.214, vol: 23659.70593 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 252.6, vol: 92831.71285624 | CampBX BTCUSD last: 263.19, vol: 58.0251376 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 251.665018, vol: 189755.23020000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 257.47999, vol: 37.66223963 | Bitcoin-Central BTCUSD last: 264.65119109, vol: 282.21659006 | Volume-weighted last (1 more message)
brendafdez: !up danyalos
TheNewDeal: I was wondering how long it would take the No side to take https://bitbet.us/bet/1129/light-sweet-crude-oil-wti-to-drop-under/#b8
assbot: BitBet - Light Sweet Crude Oil (WTI) to drop under $35 before June :: 1.23 B (48%) on Yes, 1.32 B (52%) on No | closing in 1 month 4 weeks | weight: 94`666 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1BXr4E7 )
brendafdez: I'm missing out on bitbet, never cared much about it
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: It gets interesting, just takes time to internalize what is truly interesting about it.
brendafdez: I read the trilema posts, that's a start
BingoBoingo: BitBet is the greatest provider of insurance BTC has ever seen
assbot: Interlude: Sport betting isn't that big, Here's what is | Bingo Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1GZVeGq )
brendafdez: Insurance as in hedging?
brendafdez feels so ignorant.
TheNewDeal: Sure.
TheNewDeal: Hurricane insirance, theyve got it all
[]bot: Bet placed: 5 BTC for No on "BTC to top $700 before 1st July" http://bitbet.us/bet/1128/ Odds: 15(Y):85(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 72.33330426 BTC. Current weight: 89,368.
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: Insurance limited only by your imagination and wallet
ben_vulpes: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << jurov, would it be feasible to get links to the relevant emails in which patches were transmitted on this page
ben_vulpes: as in: i'd like the sole entry under submitted by to link to the appropriate sig, as well as all of the entries under 'signed by' as well.
ben_vulpes: (perhaps a link to the email list page for the email in which a given patch/signature was transmitted would be even better)
mircea_popescu: !up beetcoin
BingoBoingo: !up gabriel_laddel
BingoBoingo: !up nubbins`
ben_vulpes: upstorm!
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 14798 @ 0.00029439 = 4.3564 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wasn't aware anyone thinks ww2 was avoidable ?
gabriel_laddel: Oh thanks.
BingoBoingo: !up felipelalli
mircea_popescu: poor old guy. basically... you're stuck with your own history. once you're old enough, all that's left is explaining it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked to illustrate that ^ observation.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 76350 @ 0.00029784 = 22.7401 BTC [+]
[]bot: Bet placed: 25.0646 BTC for No on "BTC to top $500 before 1st May" http://bitbet.us/bet/1120/ Odds: 14(Y):86(N) by coin, 15(Y):85(N) by weight. Total bet: 132.9781122 BTC. Current weight: 48,841.
decimation: "We are in contact with the University chapter of Kappa Sigma and they have taken swift and decisive action in this matter. At their request, the University has committed to provide educational training on diversity and respect for the entire fraternity." << asciilifeform: I could imagine this exact phrase being written in the soviet union
decimation: "Komsomol will take swift action"
mircea_popescu: decimation the "at their request ... educaitonal training" is more concerning.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they know it's nothing short of abuse, hence the "educational training" gauche
assbot: Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings | WIRED ... ( http://bit.ly/1LwA9tE )
decimation: asciilifeform: the macrofab guy actually did an impressive amount of follow-up
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:02:57; nubbins`: gabriel_laddel:Does anyone take issue with me describing the lordship as "the peerage" and #-assets as "earth's premiere commercial forum"? <<< ...
ben_vulpes: how is this thread still alive...
ben_vulpes: "earth's premiere clown car and pornography club" << howzat
gabriel_laddel: I'm (in an ad-hoc manner) catching up on logs.
ben_vulpes: well don't mind me.
decimation: so he basically subbed a dead short for your capacitor
[]bot: Bet placed: 10.16739699 BTC for No on "BTC to top $700 before 1st July" http://bitbet.us/bet/1128/ Odds: 13(Y):87(N) by coin, 14(Y):86(N) by weight. Total bet: 82.50070126 BTC. Current weight: 89,332.
[]bot: Bet placed: 5.0356048 BTC for No on "BTC to top $413 before Songkran" http://bitbet.us/bet/1122/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 14(Y):86(N) by weight. Total bet: 27.97364715 BTC. Current weight: 45,410.
brendafdez: ;;buy 1000 USD 12.7 ARS "cash in bs as - price current as of 2015-03-18 updates daily - me@brendafernandez.com to place order"
gribble: Error: For identification purposes, you must be identified via GPG to use the order book.
mircea_popescu: actually clown car is probably the worst description. for one thing, b-a's not funny.
mircea_popescu: for the other, most of the usual clowns hate it.
brendafdez: ;;ident brendafdez
gribble: Nick 'brendafdez', with hostmask 'brendafdez!~brendafde@unaffiliated/brendafdez', is identified as user 'brendafdez', with GPG key id CE5BEE6C81FCA4D4, key fingerprint 59D8599B65A983BF0288E5B6CE5BEE6C81FCA4D4, and bitcoin address None
brendafdez: ;;buy 1000 USD 12.7 ARS "cash in bs as - price current as of 2015-03-18 updates daily - me@brendafernandez.com to place order"
gribble: Order id 22093 created.
brendafdez: does it make sense?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 113100 @ 0.00029784 = 33.6857 BTC [+]
danielpbarron: nope ,,(view 22093)
danielpbarron: needs "at" between USD and 12.7
danielpbarron: ;;view 22093
gribble: #22093 Wed Mar 18 22:04:08 2015 brendafdez BUY 1000.0 USD @ 12.7 ARS (cash in bs as - price current as of 2015-03-18 updates daily - me@brendafernandez.com to place order)
danielpbarron: nevermind
[]bot: Bet placed: 1 BTC for No on "BTC price to rise above 1oz of gold " http://bitbet.us/bet/976/ Odds: 12(Y):88(N) by coin, 27(Y):73(N) by weight. Total bet: 9.68419713 BTC. Current weight: 14,495.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 17950 @ 0.00029784 = 5.3462 BTC [+]
ben_vulpes: bitcoin parity with various things is now a sexy bet.
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker --market xau
gribble: Error: This is not one of the supported markets. Please choose one of ['bcent', 'okc', 'btcn', 'coinbase', 'cbx', 'btce', 'butter', 'bfx', 'btcavg', 'krk', 'btcde', 'bitmynt', 'btsp'] or 'all'
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker --currency xau
gribble: Error: Failure to retrieve ticker. Try again later.
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker --market bitstamp --currency xau
gribble: Bitstamp BTCXAU ticker | Best bid: 0.228321, Best ask: 0.229068, Bid-ask spread: 0.00075, Last trade: 0.228123, 24 hour volume: 22002.37678990, 24 hour low: 0.2241, 24 hour high: 0.2556, 24 hour vwap: 0.23923387779
TheNewDeal: Bitcoin market to reach parity of nyse on mar 1 2020.
decimation: ;;ticker
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 254.43, Best ask: 254.52, Bid-ask spread: 0.09000, Last trade: 254.45, 24 hour volume: 101179.88568595, 24 hour low: 246.98, 24 hour high: 285.03, 24 hour vwap: None
decimation: I wonder how much manipulation is going on before some of those ETFs hit the pink sheets
BingoBoingo: Quite a bit prolly
decimation: well, now is the time to buy
ben_vulpes: i'll take a few
ben_vulpes: or...i would.
asciilifeform: decimation: subbed a dead short for your capacitor << not a dead short, an inductor-capacitor chimera. perfectly legit item, just not what was specced.
assbot: The Perry Bible Fellowship ... ( http://bit.ly/1I0J4OJ )
asciilifeform waits for the inevitable 'that's not shiva' nitpick
decimation: ah. well, dc-short more or less
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform waits for the inevitable 'that's not shiva' nitpick << lol dong-nose
ben_vulpes: kinda looks like ganesha is puching *through* jesus
nubbins`: ben_vulpes earth's premiere cheese club
decimation: I like mod6's ascii-style
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 27000 @ 0.00030003 = 8.1008 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 135139 @ 0.00029746 = 40.1984 BTC [-] {2}
mod6: thanks asciilifeform && decimation :]
mod6: thebitcoin.foundation/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000069.html
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: all kudos to mod6, all critiques to me
ben_vulpes: oh man emacs mangled that email.
ben_vulpes: ah well, onwards and upwards, as they say.
ben_vulpes: i've a whole lifetime to decruft my emacs mail situation.
mod6: thanks for all your help ben_vulpes. couldn't have done it without you.
ben_vulpes: nonsense i didn't do nuffin
BingoBoingo: Congrats to yall
mod6: thanks to everyone who helped out.
mod6: you guys made this happen. you're the real bitcoin heros.
ben_vulpes: yeah asciilifeform thanks for holding our toes to the fire
mod6: ^^^
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron, decimation, et al
mod6: ^^^
ben_vulpes: it's culty circle-jerk time, y'all!
mod6: :]
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: per "asciilifeform: all kudos to mod6, all critiques to me" mod6 get the girls plural, you get singular girl. In the tradition of mp/kako BitBet tradition.
mod6: Thanks to TomServo && Punkman && danielpbarron && trinque && thestringpuller && BingoBoingo
mod6: mircea_popescu && jurov!
mod6: And anyone who I'm leaving out... thanks again.
ben_vulpes: btw, we think this is the first publically-released static bitcoin build.
ben_vulpes: well, recipe at least.
mod6: I think so too.
trinque: great job guys
ben_vulpes: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << please take a look at this list, and the patches we've rolled out with the 0.5.3.1 RI build. if you've time, inclination, and capability - review the patches and submit your sigs.
ben_vulpes: don't sign if you haven't read.
ben_vulpes: this is a pretty good set to get started with - mostly snips.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: mod6 lives too far away from civilization to make keeping a harem practical :P
ben_vulpes: recruiting
ben_vulpes: i'm sure mircea_popescu will take me to task for that but w/e
ben_vulpes: okay qntrites, your turn.
asciilifeform: perhaps for next snapshit,
asciilifeform: the 'gitignores' can go
asciilifeform: (they're in the tarball still...)
asciilifeform: snapshot.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: out of curiosity, what's the elisp doing in http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000070.html ?
ben_vulpes: i think it comes of me supplying application/gpg manually for attachment content type
ben_vulpes: i *really* have no idea.
ben_vulpes: anyways
ben_vulpes to steak
ben_vulpes: have a good night, you all.
mod6: have a good night ben_vulpes, thanks again. :]
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/ < apparently usg will require some level of public access to usg-funded research papers
assbot: US NSF - News - Special Reports - Public Access to Results of NSF-funded Research ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLXN2s )
decimation: I'm sure that some kind of loophole will protect the existing publishing empires
asciilifeform: decimation: it's threatened to happen for more than a decade, yes
asciilifeform: but even the linked item contains 'Be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge no later than 12 months after initial publication'
asciilifeform: which is a mega-laugh
decimation: yeah, and even then I expect all of those words don't mean what you think they mean
asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo.
decimation: well, no problem for a hobbyist
decimation: certainly a problem if one wishes to 'compete' for bezzlars
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 113604 @ 0.00029325 = 33.3144 BTC [-]
asciilifeform: the same folks who were paying the parasites (i will not call them publishers, they withhold only - performing not a single one of the traditional functions of a publishing house save the physical printing) - will continue to pay.
asciilifeform: decimation: depends what sort of hobbyist
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