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mircea_popescu: wait... i couldn't actually name one
ThickAsThieves: can;t find it
mircea_popescu: nubbins` aaand it's burried. you couldn't tell them if you wanted to.
mircea_popescu: i don't care for his politics,
nubbins`: i often wondered why south korea hasn't revalued their currency
mircea_popescu: t
nubbins`: because CT isn't as brave as they'd like to be
mircea_popescu: ya but hater isn't.
ThickAsThieves: something about "warns Russia" bothers me... this isn't a 3rd world country he's warning
ozbot: Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python? | Lambda the Ultimate
asciilifeform: he doesn't own the company
asciilifeform: he wouldn't budge
asciilifeform: don't be dumb like the iraqi army
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more's the point... they can't make supermarket carts with working wheels
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine how they figure this thing has a fucking chance.
nubbins`: <moiety> not much point in trying anything if it ultimately doesn't matter <<< "No, Donny, these men are nihilists. There's nothing to be afraid of."
mircea_popescu: wots aren't votes.
moiety: not much point in trying anything if it ultimately doesn't matter
mircea_popescu: moiety you can do plenty of things that ultimately won't matter.
decimation: it's surprising that the internet hasn't linked those WoTs...
decimation: yeah it seems that this netagio is a spinoff of some kind. I'm surprised that he or his staff hasn't contacted you
nubbins`: what next, my lips and anus aren't a hot dog?
mircea_popescu: like you know, a rock falling down a cliff isn't a car.
mircea_popescu: and idiots aren't really assholes, they're just idiots.
nubbins`: you don't think the people shouting over each other at general assemblies were assholes?!
mircea_popescu: "We need a third party!" Come on, do you think the media will allow you to have a third party? John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader-- they let them through to "show" third party candidates aren't any more serious than Howard Stern when he ran for governor. Poor Ron Paul pulls in more people than porn but he can't get a break, sorry buddy, 100 years too late for your kind. There's a difference between what you ne
nubbins`: "Astakhov said the people in the planes refused to identify themselves and waved off customs officials, saying they didn't require their services."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Or to many other places. The most recent local tornado didn't come within a mile, but other weird wind anamolies still had things impacting the roof in interestng ways
moiety: mircea_popescu: it doesn't specify.......
mircea_popescu: money you don't have does not create resources, no.
BingoBoingo: I really don't understand the point of retaining an unconnected lawyer
mircea_popescu: gesell1 i wasn't saying you sohu;dn't, by any means
nubbins`: aren't you glad you bought in?
copumpkin: nubbins`: yeah yeah, but they don't let us downgrade, so oh well :)
copumpkin: so I just don't do anything on it
mircea_popescu: except i guess twitter but i don't really gas if x is y or not there
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't personally use it because i don't actually use any social media sites.
copumpkin: as far as I can tell, their goals are: 1) provide a standard mechanism to link online accounts in a crpytographically secure way that doesn't require trust of their servers 2) make gpg more user-friendly
copumpkin: I actually don't entirely disagree
mircea_popescu: obviously, as you'd imagine, my view is that the world is split among the assholes that admit it and the assholes that don't.
mircea_popescu: hallo we are 12 and don't need to worry about our asshole.
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I'm firmly in the "don't be an asshole" camp :)
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Eh, if it isn't Cueto and Cueto it isn't an Illinois enough case
copumpkin: I want to encrypt my email to office but I can't find the key for it
copumpkin: I don't think I bought enough of it back then
copumpkin: I don't think I can even afford one bentley though
copumpkin: and I can't even run a STAT: P
copumpkin: only because you don't have my email!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Really the point of Ukraine as of now isn't the end political outcome, as far as that bet is concerned. It's determining how overtly "Black Ops" can happen in a white people country before commandos have to have affiliations, because Geneva protocols and conventions and such.
copumpkin: I wasn't paying attention
BingoBoingo: I'm rather surprised http://bitbet.us/bet/769/crimea-2-electric-boogaloo/ isn't getting more action yet as it focuses on the most important precedent this recent crimea lulz covers.
copumpkin: I'm on a different computer and found I didn't have it in my list
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I can't find your key on my keyserver
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i can;t believe it's not margerine.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know real men don't get lyme
BingoBoingo: I mean I don't trust bedbugs because they fuck by cesarean. Ticks though carry all kinds of nasty diseases and fumigating "The Great Outdoors" is difficult.
nubbins`: you don't see ticks here
moiety: oh christ i didn't realise we were being literal as to entry points. i honestly don't think bedbugs use doors
mircea_popescu: (and if they didn't migrate, you'd have difficulty explaining how the fuck they even exist in the americas in the first place)
moiety: no i can't see them migrating like geese their way door-to-door down a street though
moiety: can't** sorry
nubbins`: generally people don't have to wait in the cold for an hour to get a limo, though
nubbins`: people don't hide in cat carriers
nubbins`: animals don't just want a prescription for ritalin
mircea_popescu: md : "its much easier to be a vet. animals don't lie"
nubbins`: the other problem is that welfare tenants generally won't tell the landlord if the house is infested.
nubbins`: they didn't exist here either until the past couple years
nubbins`: well the problem is most of downtown is row houses, attached on both sides. generally fumigation doesn't do shit
copumpkin: mircea_popescu: I don't know! just commenting
mircea_popescu: it IS always the spring, isn't it.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu, the cbc wants that, but the government doesn't
nubbins`: wait, it's friday, isn't it?
HeySteve: discordia is a dark tower thing isn't it? what's that to do with EFNet?
moiety: asciilifeform! did you see the molten metal 3D printer robot? and the one that can print a house in 24 hours? 3D printers aren't as good as lasers but they are still cool.
nubbins`: i actually read it today, don't often click links tho ;(
mircea_popescu: jurov don't do that.
moiety: but yeah, hadn't thought about the other bits of the timezone
mircea_popescu: "hey, you a saint yet ?" "naw, they can't fucking afford the fumigation bill"
mircea_popescu: "Rome won't even have money to canonize two Popes, John-Paul II and John XXIII"
mircea_popescu: passerbys were like... hey dude... don't you like... need that ?
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you think they'd have been reclaimed during the 90s ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think i know a manhattan hotel that doesn't
mircea_popescu: i don't have work to do.
mircea_popescu: i didn;t say "asciilifeform should be less of a soviet" now did i.
mircea_popescu: "eh, you don't need working parts, just add feedback"
asciilifeform: diametric: you don't need much accuracy if you fix a photocell to the platform, to measure power (since whole point of z-axis is to focus the beam ideally)
diametric: asciilifeform: that doesn't speak precision to me
asciilifeform: damn i should actually read the logs, shouldn't i
mircea_popescu: jurov i can't imagine why coinbr'd suffer.
jurov: they don't even take linux seriously. don't ask them about btc
nubbins`: couldn't connect via chat.freenode.net
nubbins`: !t h smg
nubbins`: !t m s.mg
benkay: you're talking about becoming a professional trader by trading your own book. just don't.
benkay: don't do it drifton
Jere_Jones: If you don't know what a bitcoin is, yeah, I understand the confusion. My wife and I do, though. Hence the hilarity.
ThickAsThieves: in the US, you can't even give shit away easily
Jere_Jones_: My wife told me that she couldn't get a birthday cake with a bitcoin on it because it would have been copyright infringement and we needed to get written permission from Bitcoin.
jurov: BingoBoingo: I don't get the boogaloo reference
bitcoinpete: too bad the register can't spell "transpLant"