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a111: Logged on 2018-12-03 13:08 mircea
_popescu: previous thinking was generally that a regrind pretty much means collapsing a whole tree into a single genesis patch. but thinking about it i don't see why that has to be the case, if there's the hands to do more fine work.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-01 14:13 mod6: !!pay mircea
_popescu 1.50000001
a111: Logged on 2018-10-08 18:50 diana
_coman: in other possible interesting things: I got invited to give a talk to students at local uni (Reading, UK) on "bitcoin and blockchain"; personally I'm not all that keen on it but given the recent ideas regarding reach out and all that, I am at least considering this; any input on this is welcome
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It's an industry because monsanto
a111: Logged on 2018-12-02 08:53 mircea
_popescu: (now, all four are demented, a point unrelated to whether they rape any of the kids or w/e. that's what kids are for anyway, and besides, who the fuck cares. the problem is, specifically, that their brains don't work, and don't work in a strictly typical, almost commedia dell'arte highly structured sense. the histrionic valletti or the copacetic anyones-weird-quiet-uncle-that-touches-the-little-nieces quintavalle or the bur
a111: Logged on 2018-12-02 04:10 ben
_vulpes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-30#1876430 << old-timey DSP/IC gent i hired for degrading mobile ui work recently overheard myself and teh boss riffing on john denver; boggled: "that music is older than either of you! in chorus: "sure beats ~anything recorded in our lifetimes, though"
BingoBoingo: ben
_vulpes: tyvm, will anotate and dispatch the transactions in a few hours. About to take a second walk tonight (cold wind == Indoor Uruguayos)
a111: Logged on 2018-12-02 04:05 ben
_vulpes: BingoBoingo: send me pizarro transactions s'il vous plait, note payments for service in advance; i'll put them into the hopper and produce statement numbers. asciilifeform: next girthy table and calculation to write is the customer equity tracker, i will draft and populate with historical data over the next few days and let you know if i hit any puzzlers (low odds, i'm well-acquainted with the process).
a111: Logged on 2015-02-22 21:47 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: actually, disgraced soviet bureaucrats (usually posthumous - see hruschev's speech re: l. beria) had 'rapacious daily rapist' tags nailed on
a111: Logged on 2015-03-04 01:20 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: beria actually picked up women... << based on the sources, i don't regard it as a solid historical fact
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:13 mircea
_popescu: you can't legally do anything but die quietly in a corner.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:11 mircea
_popescu: danielpbarron so why not just use one on the box, send nothing ?
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:11 mircea
_popescu: i suppose they'd host a pogo for you, but latest thinking here is that not rly worth the amps.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:02 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877574 << i just thought that's what being old is. somehow seems to fit 6yo logic, "duckling grows into duck grows into cow grows into tree".
a111: Logged on 2015-10-15 01:03 mircea
_popescu: if you want a Tatra truck, ask for it.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:51 mircea
_popescu: if you tally up the list of "well, since we got engine with turbine we get air conditioning free anyway" on either side, usg is an eyesore, and the argument becomes "steam engine locomotive won race because could offer free tea to passenger ; whereas diesel-electric lost because who wants free electricity anyway".
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:50 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877555 << in fact, atari is terrible example. consider : su housing free, BECAUSE industrial construction process (discussed pluriously eg
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-06#1832377 ) existed, and might as wqell make hruscheba as wartime-replacement-machining-plant-in-six-weeks-in-ural-jungle (which is wat it was invented for, "industrial" meant a specific thing cca 1941, something in the vei
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 21:36 mircea
_popescu: those 16 months doing pushups and fucking the mud, those happened. your dad was army grunt was he not ?
a111: Logged on 2018-07-06 18:46 mircea
_popescu: (ro used the prefab construction process -- first, send mining equipment, flatten land ; then, put in rail ; then, roll out a rail crane, and roll prefab on cars up to it ; then move the derivation
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 20:25 mircea
_popescu: meanwhile at the retard farms, LordMPofTMSR "Not even kidding." Lola
_25 "Umm... what?" LordMPofTMSR "Think of it as an intelligence test. That you're failing." Lola
_25 "Great! It seems like a quiz that I'm happy to fail" LordMPofTMSR "You failed everything to date, what "happy". You're happy like the chair's "happy" it can't walk : since it can not walk anyway... Now get lost."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the retard farms, LordMPofTMSR "Not even kidding." Lola
_25 "Umm... what?" LordMPofTMSR "Think of it as an intelligence test. That you're failing." Lola
_25 "Great! It seems like a quiz that I'm happy to fail" LordMPofTMSR "You failed everything to date, what "happy". You're happy like the chair's "happy" it can't walk : since it can not walk anyway... Now get lost."
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 03:37 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877212 << you can have a decent, new construction, 4-6k sqm floor space metal structure warehouse in ro for 100k+/-. but yes, more generally there's no place for real estate like europe. rest of the world, latam especially, 100% africans, built five huts in fifteen centuries. of which two burned down, so the other three are EVEN MORE VALUABLE NOW
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 03:23 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-01#1877034 << weird "saving self" thing, like the indians have with ejaculation. seems nutty enough if expressed, but it's kinda my takeaway, soviet thought "last man to think wins".
a111: Logged on 2018-08-01 22:03 mircea
_popescu: there is no such thing as data that is all three of 1) random ; 2) useful and 3) buffered.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-29 17:55 mircea
_popescu: led to the usual symptoms of imperial decay -- monetization of real estate (a bad idea throughout, even if it repatriated the money japs made selling toyotas/sinking detroit in the 70s -- sorta like arsenic is bad for you even if it "keeps syphilis inactive" and so on) ; the star model driving and being driven by the fashion cycle, and so the fuck on.
BingoBoingo: Well, they had the whole communism thing where mircea
_popescu got a silver spoon and everyone else payola
a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 18:15 mircea
_popescu: i esp like the - , ! sendoff
a111: Logged on 2018-11-30 17:33 mircea
_popescu: you're kinda famous for your generosity in this vein, actually.