a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:27 asciilifeform: trinque: i've wondered for some time , is the thing where your walletron throws pgpciphered matter into the greater void, as in e.g.
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749739 , without the addressee's name in the line -- deliberate design choice ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:27 asciilifeform: often the link pops up hour or moar after the invocation, and i end up clicking, expecting traditional (i.e. plaintext) deedbot material
trinque: there's no wallet op that takes an hour
trinque: pops up when a deed bundle's tx is confirmed
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:59 mircea_popescu: yeah. possibly though rule to always put addressee name in line when sending encrypted matter may be useful nevertheless.
BingoBoingo: <mats> i keep seeing 'traumatic brain injury' in your statements, BingoBoingo << Well, got anybetter short forms for "The Boingo ISP"?
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 16515.08, vol: 14391.09884846 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 16616.0, vol: 64100.4744167 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 16730.1, vol: 3598.77950646 | Volume-weighted last average: 16603.309971
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Current Blocks: 498897 | Current Difficulty: 1.590896927258E12 | Next Difficulty At Block: 499967 | Next Difficulty In: 1070 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 6 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes, and 46 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 16634.0, vol: 14446.13842017 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 16760.0, vol: 64436.5160404 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 16664.1, vol: 3618.62275037 | Volume-weighted last average: 16733.7308386
mircea_popescu: it redirected me to some kind of "option trading" scamsite.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bw $$$. they're very sensitive to it, best way to hurt them.
mircea_popescu: o wow check it out, this was pretty advanced (class names randomgenerated strings to fool google etc)
mircea_popescu: so basically your blog is a subdomain on nfshost.com is why no ip addressing ?
mircea_popescu: wtf nonsense dns do these people use ? dig doesn't produce an ip ?!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-03 03:05 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-03#1719979 << gotta appreciate this peculiar fact : asciilifeform used nfs co. service since 2007. not misprint : a decade sharp as of a few mo. ago. with ZERO MAINTENANCE and ZERO hassle and ~zero downtime and laughed at GB/s ddoses and do i have to go on ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:20 asciilifeform: and neither of these is a bug, or will ever be fixed, nfs co’s. ddosproofing relies on the dynamic ip shenanigans
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:58 asciilifeform: ( the sad thing re nfs co, is that it is in fact a kolhoz, quite like amazon's and the rest, but more ancient and built by actual men, vs 'millenial' scum, and so it actually ~works~, and delivers on the promise -- you don't own your hdd, BUT you never have to go down from a dead hdd; you own no ip; BUT no ddos; etc. it however IS STILL A KOLHOZ , with the complacency and inevitable day of doom that comes with this. )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems very likely google images automated banditry.
mircea_popescu: which, amusingly, is less than rando spammer above managed.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu forgoing the opportunity to cane the sec? will wonders never cease!
ben_vulpes: they even talk about never having vetted 'crypto-' related securities!
a111: Logged on 2017-08-21 12:00 asciilifeform: 1 level below, x86/arm/pci,sata,usb, etc play same role as unix and microshit -- accumulated layer of sewage
BingoBoingo: En otra cosas: A meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning y entonces the venezualas have referred another firm, meeting to be scheduled
BingoBoingo: So far so fun. Gradually shifting from cold contacting to contacting the referred. The weather is still unbeatable, and the Brazilian stoners have departed.
BingoBoingo: The hostel is far emptier, may start filling up again later in the week.
BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
BingoBoingo: La Tienda Inglesia, wonderful source of food. Local fereterias... dismal affairs.
BingoBoingo: Well, they keep the opening ceremonies short, there are no time limits on speaking, and the meeting ends when everyone who wanted to speaks. Other than the lack of time pressure much more the same than different.
BingoBoingo: Also like back home they celebrate sober birthdays with various treats. So far there have been delicious brownies and giant chocolates
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mostly the same things. Family, work, trudging the walk that is life, the programs, etc
BingoBoingo: The meeting I have been frequenting occurs in giant catholic church, Dracaena trees outside
mod6: lol "plug and play"
deedbot: nocko voiced for 30 minutes.
danielpbarron: !~later tell trinque what's the eta on deedbot withdraw?
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
trinque: danielpbarron: hm, didn't get a printout. possibly that didn't come back up on the new drive.
trinque will run it within the hour
trinque: heh, cups was not set to start at boot, and the box's uptime was so long I never noticed
trinque: yep, trb node with the mighty banhammer vpatch
mircea_popescu: this is straight "living wage"-ism deployed by old marginal ro orc politruk trying to get back on horse.
mircea_popescu: HOW exactly they do this is incomprehensible. but consider : guy who was 3rd echelon politruk under shoemaker ; guy who was too dumb / poorly connected to make anything of the 90s, resurfaces in 2010! with a "proposal" which consists of "here's this adaptation of usg-isms as i understand them".
a111: Logged on 2016-01-28 12:46 asciilifeform: i do wonder, do the 'basic income' folks simply not understand the hierarchical role of money? or think that it can be magicked away? or do not, but lie about it ?
mircea_popescu: very ethnologically interesting, but WHAT the fuck makes the orcs produce these ?
mircea_popescu: it's a very similar disbelief to the "what the fuck makes epitelial cells admit ringworm?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: ie, we imagine "ringworm is a thing", independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "ringworm is the PRODUCT of epitelium cells, it is the long whisp remaining out of specific denials", VERY much a
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-11#1697164 item.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 18:37 mircea_popescu: this is how it manages the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning that latin-style then has so much trouble noting down.
mircea_popescu: similarily, we imagine the usg is a thing, independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "usg is the PRODUCT of what the orcs will believe, very much in the
http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/ sense ; usg is what's left after all the items impossible as far as orcs are concerned were removed ; much like byzantium was "what's left after we eliminated everything the bulgarians wouldn't buy".
mircea_popescu: anyway, i had no fucking idea, back in 2010, what a big deal a random photograph of mailboix spam will become in not even a decade. but it IS a huge deal. consider -- that guy, who IS NOT the proponent, WROTE!!! by hand!!! ie just like
http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ !! so as to stuff my mailbox with xerocopies.
mircea_popescu: why ? why would a dude too dumb to distinguish facebook from the internet do this ?
mircea_popescu: i doubt it's that. i suspect orc simply did not know what this wordprocessor thing is.
mircea_popescu: he had a xerox in his mental space because readily available and cheap (lotta students live nearby) ; but not a wp.
mircea_popescu: Dragi concetateni, Dupa cum stiti OTV-ul are campanie de culegere de semnaturi in sprijinul legii Cojocaru in cadrul emisiunii lui Tudor Barbu : "Se intimpla acum". Am pornit din proprie initiativa o mica campanie pe Bd. Gh. Lazar pentru ca sunt blocuri turn cu multe familii pe scara desi [...]
mircea_popescu: it's clean romanian and well composed. also shockingly honest.
mircea_popescu: well, certainly in a way no redditard/hackernewstard/etc could ever be suspected.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am laughing at him because of many other things ; included among them that he DIDNT eschew buying comp, simply did not understand what it was.
mircea_popescu: i eschew buying fucking apple laptop. he eschews nothing.
mircea_popescu: well, litmi as the researcher decides. but to my eyes, the simple fact that he imagines this is how democracy works as a statal matter ("dragi concetateni" is "beloved fellow citizens", ie smacking very much of "les trois glorieuses", not that he'd know) is enough.
mircea_popescu: this EXACT fellow, living in 2010, was in fact satirized in... 1880! by caragiale.
mircea_popescu: you might greatly enjoy conu leonida fata cu reactiunea btw, ever read that one ?
mircea_popescu: the winner part for this discussion being "EFIMIȚA: Dacă n-o mai plăti niminea bir, soro, de unde or să aibă cetățenii leafă?
mircea_popescu: LEONIDA (în luptă cu somnul): Treaba statului, domnule, el ce grije are? pentru ce-l avem pe el? e datoria lui să-ngrijească să aibă oamenii lefurile la vreme..."
mircea_popescu: (dude's idea of the progressive republic that the reactionary evil men don't let good folk build is a state where it's illegal to pay your debts. his wife inquires whence will people be paid [because evidently everyone's employed by the state, it is after all 1880s romania], and he says that's the state's fucking problem, what's it for!)
mircea_popescu: this understanding is judicious : unless "the state" manages to get dosh out of india or whatever the fuck to pay living wages for people at home to be "british citizens" there ain't gonna be no fucken empire!
mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: the dedication of the imperial peons is remarkable, worthy of a greater goal as it may find itself.
mircea_popescu: but i am convinced that strictly, very and absolutely strictly the only reason why mr adrian crisan is spending his afternoon writing up that and then xeroxing it in preference of say "editing wikipedia" or "working for google" as a "moderator" is that he does not perceive how the later would deliver him more usg empire per unit effort than the former.
mircea_popescu: so he's not eschewing anything, he's just as pantsuit as the pantsuited hilarity herself.
mircea_popescu: just, he was born orc and she was born east coast hottie.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear to me that he wants anything for himself,
mircea_popescu: above and besides the "worker's paradise" as described in badly penned fiction of the recently literate cca 1910s.
mircea_popescu: i suspect actual item orc wants is a land where there's no smart people.
mircea_popescu: in the very strict sense of "anyone whose name you'd see in schoolbooks"
mircea_popescu: he doesn't specifically care if it's 1500s german peasant life, ie, outright medieval peonage. just as long.
mircea_popescu: right, that's it. he just dun want to there be any jews. clearly unites nazi antisemitism with soviet antisemitism with etcetera. socialism, ie, dear lord protect us dumbasses from our betters.
mircea_popescu: "that's the state's job, man, to make sure!" ie, exact empire.
mircea_popescu: ned for that yudkowsky character and just as so following.
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which -- bitcoin DID overperform Berkshire over the interval. by... somewhat of a margin.)
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun know yet, gotta see what BingoBoingo comes up with.
mircea_popescu: as to the above : these are marginal schmucks! their only chance to matter is to go be meaningful in faraway lands.
mircea_popescu: in other sads, fetlife profile now getting >100 pieces of mail a day. da fuck am i gonna do, assign slave to manage it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out the under-30 female crowd is nuts about baby turtles
mircea_popescu: anyway, "AI" consisting of hello-and-1-response is seeing > 50% success rate. can you imagine this ?
mircea_popescu: even fucking eliza had a) less success and b) more preloads.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:26 asciilifeform: because ~same level of sinkage towards africa.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just a simple "hello how goes it ?" ??? | grep for a "how about you" if found feed a "great, here's turtles". works shockingly well.
mircea_popescu: it's what they do 10-20 years before beaching over on okcupid, as best as my xenomorph psychology studies dept can explain
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because youth is fundamentally transgressive as part of what it even fucking means.
mircea_popescu: 1980s teens gotta be "that chick from that mtv video "crazy"".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the cuntbrain works.
mircea_popescu: it'd better not fucking BE transgressive. it has to just be transgressive, geddit ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you're 16yo girl. are you going to a) tell your mom you hate her, which is transgressive except for how she read you were gonna do that in a book when you were 6 ; or b) join isis so as to shoot your classmate in the face by the time you're both 24 ?
mircea_popescu: "she was a (((journalist))) (((working))) in irak, the dumb fucking bitch. man that wet thud of her brain on concrete was fucking satisfying, i went back into the foxhole and rubbed myself raw"
mircea_popescu: but it sure is ~actually~ transgressive, as opposed to expectedly.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of orc techs, could oyu believe that schmuck in new york ? so... in preference of walking into gun shop, buying gun, killing half the town, this dude "made" bomb, which sure as fuck cost more than a walk-in in terms of effort and more than a grand in terms of dough, to... burn himself with it.
mircea_popescu: "i can scarcely apprehend the confusion of ideas" etc.
mircea_popescu: (pro tip : buy AP ammo, kill 4-5 per shot. op is a thing.)
mircea_popescu: but seriously, metro! think about it, people line up to get in! and line up de facto once in! for like a quarter mile, like this! fire six bullets in enfilade, produce 50 dead and 500 wounded.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the fucking fun that could be had. "buy gun, carry on person, use metro all day long, wait for a power outage where train goes dark"
mircea_popescu: or... wait for train to almost pull in, shoot, keep mental bets between your multiple personalities as to whether falling into pit from pressure of squirming mob will do more damage than gunfire./
mircea_popescu: anarchist jargon file of the elders of sinai hospital!
mircea_popescu: which is why yelling fire more dangerous than setting fire.
mircea_popescu: it is a sad comment on the general utility and efficacity of "the state" that had the officious intermeddler "security guard" not intervened, dood probably would have watched the whole concert off his fence.
mircea_popescu: makes one wonder how many of these weren't disturbed by "security", never shot anyone.
mircea_popescu: (also amusingly, nobody, not even a latter day tsp, dared make the obvious point -- moral assassin, the hotel guard.)
mircea_popescu: there's a list of cases where "attacked party produced more damage to attacker than sustained self". it's remarkably short, and it's remarkably tapering -- much more cases in the 80s than in the 2010s.
mircea_popescu: yes well. flamethrower effectual when enemy pinned down, such as in bunker, pillbox or clearing trenches.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mine are going into the boxes proper. q is whether it is worth turning into a catalogue item. << I see it hard to imagine how people could want to vacation here without such a contrivance in the box they leave behind to colocate
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 16:11 asciilifeform: meanwhile,
https://archive.is/uL4b5 << usg burns yet another of $infinity ssl decrypt methods, to push 'Disable RSA encryption!'
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:35 mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this reduces the discussion to "there's two kinds of bipedals, the monkey and the human. the monkey dedicates itself to building wail groups, and the human to not needing to."
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
mircea_popescu: i was always suspicious of this "could not" business. really, you can't ?
mircea_popescu: ran into this lots of times, most chicks are smokers, and most "can't" have a smoke like normal people without turning into their old x packs a day habit over time.
mircea_popescu: then comes the first cold turkey + beating & berating for it, then the second...
mircea_popescu: eventually once there's no hidey hole for "i just can't help myself" and no fucking benefit to binging whatsoever... they can./
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
mircea_popescu: well... kinda the whole point of smoking, neh ? "it just... relaxes me, man" "and how do yo uthink it does that ?" "i don't know, there's some like brain receptors or something"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i was always suspicious of this "could not" business. really, you can't ? << Well advised not to. Once started who knows when stopping happens
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wouldn't avise "free agents" to try, that's for damn sure.
mircea_popescu: but slavegirl is safe in that "tell you what, how about i crack your skull open ?" is very... relaxing.
BingoBoingo: Anyways comparing/contrasting results of past two years vs previous ten makes the case
BingoBoingo: But in a world full of stoned brazilians, one has to have a vice to be trusted, so tobacco returns for now.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 19:57 mod6: lol "plug and play"
mircea_popescu: then again i guess a good third of all trilema convos are about that.
mircea_popescu: consider : take chick to restaurant, do things to her, on cam, then put the files on her buttdrive and have her carry it next time you eat at that restaurant.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, after meeting with accountant tomorrow will likely publish first piece on developing annoyances with subsets of the locals.
BingoBoingo: The fucking sniffling spasm, What the everloving fuck. Go home and leave polite society until you discover the handkercheif.
shinohai: Hey BingoBoingo that little Pink Elephant guy was kinda cute.
BingoBoingo: When I saw it and the zoo I wondered if maybe they'd been trilema'd
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a painted elephant ? i have not really been literally everywhere already, cmon.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! except it's a "school's too hard" somatization.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's near the closed zoo in Montevideo
shinohai: I hadn't heard the term "Pink Elephant" in years ... last time was when I got a bunch of bennies to make sobering up from 3 day binge easier.
mircea_popescu: well you know, works best if you get them in the shadow
BingoBoingo: At the time, that stretch of street lacked shadow. This part of Montevideo has comfortable shaded walks full of sycamores and scorching sun galleries.
mircea_popescu: oh, in other great eggogs : 走火入魔 ie "life energy cultivation error" aka "something has gone wrong in your chigong"
shinohai: Sounds like a weaboo sex robot error.
mircea_popescu: "Holy shit Freud is spelled with an e not an a ? I had been spelling it wrong all these years and had no idea!"
pete_dushenski: "The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by Puzhong Yao"
a111: Logged on 2014-02-14 17:26 mircea_popescu: ok, so school in soviet russia
mircea_popescu: "really feeling" as opposed to, importantly, "not really" feeling. it's a matter of degree not of reality that's being spoken to
mircea_popescu: the "lottery" theory is very much in the vein of "when one is born male, one gets advantages", ie, statistical retrofitting. the past 30 years have well proven that there's no causality there -- yes people who were born male i nthe past also coincidentally later developped into enviable positions. but the maleness was not germane, as proven by the sad scum that is just as biologically male born these days, and holds all the p
mircea_popescu: but as the old saying goes, "if anyobne's selling it, you don't want to buy it".
mircea_popescu: in other "lottery winning", for the past half hour while taking shower i've been mulling over the dilemma of whether i can be arsed to go over to fine restaurant have their absolutely fabulous porterhouse or not really.
mircea_popescu: obviously puţong yao doesn't know what he doesn't know, and consequently his lowly herbivore status remains enviable in his mind only.
mircea_popescu: well, a lot of other women sitting around gossiping about how enviable she is, evidently.
mircea_popescu: since i'm supposed to believe that "quotas are exceeded" is some kind of argument.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, the pancreatic cancer quotas are routinely exceeded each year since 1972 also!
mircea_popescu: that's why they're quotas in the first fucking place : undesirable activities, harmful for everyone. if they weren't, they... wouldn't be quotas, holy hell.
mircea_popescu: throws the curve. same reason kids dun want mp to move into their class.
mircea_popescu: azn with 1mn to throw around is like salt for the ivy mills.
mircea_popescu: at least if he's poor -- then some sort of kowtowing could perhaps be instilled. and even so...
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would anyone with two neurons to rub together ~actually want~ to work for costco is impossible to divine. it's a dead, commoditized item, that's like research physicist desiring to work at cnc mill. wtf to do there ?
mircea_popescu: makes me suspect entirely engineered item, it dun stand up to plain reading.
mircea_popescu: ~every chinese mba i ever met however remotely wants to work for three-white-names-you-never-heard-of financfial firm.
mircea_popescu: gs hires ivy spew, and quite plainly and deliberately.
mircea_popescu: if they had a kickbacks scheme with eg stanford bs i would be utterly unsuirprised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite. whereas where the smart azn kids wanna go is into the firms "retired" ex gs doods start.
mircea_popescu: i guess actually this'd be the best approximation for tmsr currently, at that.
deedbot: gabriel_laddel voiced for 30 minutes.
mircea_popescu: i think this takes the cake. yo why TRIPLE on/off login wtf is this
mircea_popescu: "farting and landing" patch on "breaking and entering" ?
gabriel_laddel: I was computing so they stuck me into mental.. no charge
mircea_popescu: if that nonsense were true costa rica would consist of 50% of the world's tech minds.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 15:01 asciilifeform: for some reason the beautiful equatorial mild valley bananistans, never grew anything in the way of interesting ~people~
mircea_popescu: california exists principally out of having (accidentally, but nevertheless) well managed the gold rush.
mircea_popescu: sparked off accidentally with actual gold, then supported pre and post ww2 by the choice of film industry to move away from the mob rackets (and they succeeded, when the mob caught on and tried to invade the movie folk got the usg to tear it a new hole) and finally post 1960 by the ic folk.
mircea_popescu: the "web 2.0" "mobile" etc "revolutions" however failed to catch, so its port is getting sanded as we speak.
mircea_popescu: anyuay, the quoted piece from a 1990s bit from a local landlord. as such it reflects the predominantly hopeful mood of the landed gentry at the time "yes, it's a downturn portion of a cycle but that's what cycles are".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile however the 90s turned into the 00s and in turn into the 10s and well...
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 20:34 mircea_popescu: incidentally, can anyone recount teh helter-skelter charlie mason scenario of risk, the game of world-diplomacy and international intrigue ?
mircea_popescu: "what did they have in crankcase ?" you ask ? drugs, man.
mircea_popescu: but i mean, REMARKABLY fucking idiotic. dude's idea was that rando movie star is important, on the basis of i dunno, all he ever read was vanity fair i guess
mircea_popescu: or not even. fucking vogue, something. who even thought rando what's-her-husbands-name is important in the 60s ?
mircea_popescu: apparently "goodbye" doesn't mean goodbye in EXACTLY the same way no doesn't mean no.