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a111: Logged on 2017-12-17 03:52 mircea_popescu does his usual s%\n\n%\r\r% s%\n% % s%\r\r%\n\n% while muttering underbreath about the idiocy of fucktards who STILL DON'T UNDERTAND NEWLINE STANDS FOR NEW PARAGRAPH!!11
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun even know if it is 'good sportsmanship' to count individual langs. oughta count families, perhaps ? slavic, germanic , roman
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: yea but ive just never been in a position where it was desirable to learn that over something else
asciilifeform: ( iirc this is already in mircea_popescu's glossary )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whole day sawed, chopped -- but could not fix the comp !
a111: Logged on 2017-12-27 07:13 mircea_popescu: aaand in other humanities : a. j. ayer was once in the livingroom of one fernando sanchez on west 57th st, hanging out with a buncha young hussies/models when one girl came arunnin' complaining that her friend was being assaulted in the bedroom. ayer went in, where he found mike tyson atop an obscure south london model. when the (at the time 70yo) oxford professor asked him to quit it, mike tyson wanted to know if he knows wh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall your toilet chix ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'целый день пилили и рубили -- не смогли компьютер починить...' (tm)(r)( asciilifeform's brother ) ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 00:05 mircea_popescu: ah, re plebs problems something like http://trilema.com/2013/bitcoin-prices-bitcoin-inflexibility/#comment-92015 may interest you
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: ohhh it highlighted the first line i didnt think to keep reading
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 17:58 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-03#1763108 << i had to google the name, ran across principally the picture of an ugly orc thug in one of those university bonnets. why the fuck is a 18yo monkey wearing collegiate apparel, not nearly old enough ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: AHA.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 14:47 mircea_popescu: well, by far the cheapest masquerade of a solution is spending the 45mn or so to buy a junky old tanker and be happy.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ReadErr when's the last time a veyron/fighter jet etc was advertised TO YOU ? << The last time a Buggatti was marketed to me was about ~45 minutes ago when I went to Tienda Inglesa for Chocolate milk. Here Bugatti markets... High end asado tools.
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: fair point
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: I dont deny that it happens but rather wonder why its not advertised and sold
a111: Logged on 2017-12-25 18:07 mircea_popescu: so, to get on the same page here, the general strategy is, 1. construct undisruptable comms ; 2. disrupt usg&friends comms ; 3. disrupt usg&friends physical presence.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was trying to do a quick likbez on why the linked article might be funny, i believe we used to do a disclaimer, for expert entomologist only
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 22:32 mircea_popescu: BECAUSE http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/#selection-103.0-103.28 THEREFORE "us empire"
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: i wasnt thinking about it like that, more so how much overreach does the current bighand have over the little hand
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was disinfo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dugin is a limonov-like figure, except with moar 'book-larnin''-flavour. if he's an asset, somebody's burning dough for naught.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-16 02:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-15#1752059 << hey, assets gotta ass-et.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-04 07:01 mircea_popescu: or are we rather going with http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759970
a111: Logged on 2018-01-04 07:00 mircea_popescu: o look, ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap on that geopolitica."ru" item. don't tell me it's 100% more of the same old http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-08#1623380 / http://trilema.com/2017/datamarylandgov/#footnote_0_76632 !
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 16:39 mircea_popescu: don't lie, because if you do you form a sort of mental habit that will prevent you from ever inventing anything.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-04 07:00 mircea_popescu: o look, ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap on that geopolitica."ru" item. don't tell me it's 100% more of the same old http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-08#1623380 / http://trilema.com/2017/datamarylandgov/#footnote_0_76632 !
lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-12-18 20:44:22: <lobbesbot> AUCTION # 163 has ENDED: The very notebook displayed in http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ ! Free shipping anywhere in the world included. SOLD to danielpbarron for 1mn coppers. Attn: mircea_popescu
lobbes: !!deed http://lobbesblog.com/billing/2017/q4/mircea_popescu_payment_receipt.txt
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:46 mircea_popescu: seems so improbable.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 0.00224535 * 14843.1629768 = 33.32809598995788
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 14853.01, vol: 12958.33787145 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 14832.0, vol: 40432.6221283 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 14961.3, vol: 2740.43955485 | Volume-weighted last average: 14843.1629768
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 22:29 mircea_popescu: in other lulz : femen, the "ukrainian" organisation is selling shit priced in dollars via 2checkout.com, the columbus ohio us corp.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 22:16 mircea_popescu: but otherwise -- everything's sough. you got tits ? make money. you can code ? make money. you can draw ? make money. you "got relations" / can pr/whatever the fuck you got ? MAKE MONEY!
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I have not followed anything diana_coman has done, whatsoever.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-29 21:30 mircea_popescu: here's a problem i perceive phf : you could guess about log(n) of my understanding of various things that interest me on the basis of reading trilema ; i could not guess epsilon of thge say your understanding of sbcl on the basis of reading whatever you provide voluntarily. i could glean it from this kind of interaction, but here's what that means : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-29#1760839
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu can show them this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1QlEJ-2Gho
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i thought some idiot actually kicked it, which makes no sense seeing how a few layers of metal grates etc to get to it. but i was like... oook, who dies today. << AHA metal grates everywhere here too!
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: bocce ball was my game ;)
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> why the fuck. everything is better with explosions ? << Well, what's the next Republican holiday? Gotta challenge the Latino Christmasen.
phf: mircea_popescu: oblig http://oglaf.com/obituator/
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> (recall that case of usg "trained" special op dead in mortar "accident" ?) << There was one of those from the home town. 1 week till his USMC contract expired, mortar exploded in Arizona desert during training exercise
BingoBoingo: !<mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-03#1763132 << it's kinda funny how all sorta three-toothpicks-tied-together doods go like "oh, knockout game". the FUCKING IDEA is to knock out someone by surprise when it's even vaguely conceivable you couldn't have otherwise. who the fuck is going to "knockout game" some dood that looks like he'd get knocked out falling out of bed / in some kind of toothbrush incident. << In St Louis ☝︎
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: what about a flashbang
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually frag is very capricious item, 'good rng' , 100+ yrs of credible reports of folx within 'guaranteed corpse' radius, surviving with minor injury
phf: mircea_popescu: i go to burning man related parties, i'm unfortunately very familiar with what "kink scene" is. at this point using any relevant terminology as applied to self is suspect.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i pictured 'knockout' as vaguely like the thing where bratva would 'lose a man at cards'
asciilifeform calculated that he could, in principle, do 2way 9600 baud with mircea_popescu with <10 watt
asciilifeform begins to suspect that mircea_popescu is a good candidate for that shortwave thing
deedbot: mircea_popescu voiced for 30 minutes.
BingoBoingo: !!up mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's the one.
a111: Logged on 2015-09-10 00:32 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can.
ReadErr: mircea_popescu you trust wordpress enough ?
ReadErr: lol mircea_popescu nice stuff
scriba: Logged on 2018-01-03: [06:19:00] <mircea_popescu> yes, for instance http://logs.bvulpes.com/trilema?d=2018-1-3#274054
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: is mp-wp some wordpress ?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 04:56 mircea_popescu would link fg, if there was a page ;/
ReadErr: mircea_popescu: i do a lot of stuff
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: may have some fun savaging this one https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/brotopia-silicon-valley-secretive-orgiastic-inner-sanctum
a111: Logged on 2018-01-02 17:20 mircea_popescu: if you study the dynamic equilibrium of liquid you notice first off that most kinetic energy is transferred to wobbly vessel at the peak ends not at the center of movement, and by the fringe liquid not the central mass
asciilifeform: i dun fully buy it, but unlike mircea_popescu would not categorically rule out.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-17 19:23 asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu himself had observation where 'not the fault of the spring, for being springy, if the ratchet broke'
a111: Logged on 2016-11-20 23:49 mircea_popescu: all through this seeking my approval in the sense of trying to verify if im all that impressed. i... wasn't fucking impressed, because why the fuck would i be impressed with the male nurse.
asciilifeform: i'ma guess that in mircea_popescu cosmography , well-oiled, early rome was sabine-powered; later - 'cow'-powered ?
asciilifeform: ( per mircea_popescu's old piece, 'the men who ought to have been crewing german freighters, were instead in philadelphia, unloading american ones' or how did it go )
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 17:18 mircea_popescu: the woj chickies ? kinda remind me of http://trilema.com/2012/test-de-curvidentificare-vizuala/
asciilifeform: what in mircea_popescu's pov ~is~ 'lazy'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a quite selective reading of the warsaw incident. 1000+ of the warsaw pile -- were german
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no 'what-ifs', заградотряд with mg at their back
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, it is a mix. The Uruguayos did defeat the Brits to retake Montevideo. But against the second Brazilian emperor...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dunno, they can just as readily plug embrasures as anybody
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how does that work ?
asciilifeform: but , to borrow mircea_popescu's formulation, 'unspeakabled'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was hammer-in-face obvious after the ~original~ rowhammer demo
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> best thing for all the sysco outlets out there, legal pot. << Other back on mind worry is that perhaps the legal pot thing is slowing down the population here
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i thought nordstrom is for like, blond girls that play volleyball << Nordstrom is alt-walmart for babushkas that imagine themselves "rich"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 17:28 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu loox almost like an earthling man in this one
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu is very fucking happy to see other people can apparently secrete these wonders, i was starting to suspect http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-31#1761935 issues. << It took substantial reading, and re-reading. For the definition of cash used in the standard... There is simply no way USD counts as cash ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well no, he still has what's left of a pile of cash << The pile is sufficient for just about everything except renting the rack.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: << 'eu sunt mic, nu stiu nimic' << ~= 'моя хата с краю ничего не знаю' ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> rly/mid jan it should be coming out the other end, seals & decorations applied. << This is a comfort
a111: Logged on 2018-01-02 06:26 mircea_popescu: anyway, hershey, nestle and the rest of the scum have been lobbying to be permitted to replace the milk fat with margerine for what, decades now.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-02 02:15 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-01#1762131 << ro is very streamlined, from memory specialist accountat/lawyer will get everything together in about a week ; in the us the ~same service (well not really, but anyway) is available online even, takes maybe a coupla weeks till the secretary of state of X (delaware amirite) "signs" the whatevers. im guessing if he finally got everything packaged with local accountant mid dec that ea
lobbes: !!deed http://lobbesblog.com/billing/2017/q4/mircea_popescu.txt
deedbot: mircea_popescu has not rated revnja.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-25 19:00 mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record and in case it isn't entirely self-evident on the basis of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-25#1758486 : whenever some self-proclaimed "sovereign" of the fiat sort tries to say "hey, we have a law", the correct response is to a) point out to that self-proclaimed faux sovereign that there exist other just as valid because just as self-proclaimed faux sovereigns (the eu, russia, china, whatever, bucnha them
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 17:28 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu loox almost like an earthling man in this one
BingoBoingo: trinque: With the debt owed to mircea_popescu by the venture, I lack the arrogance to propose any sort of share arrangement at this time.
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> in other holy shit : apparently omaha, nebraska cancelled ny fireworks because it snowed and the soviets "dun want anyone to get frostbite" << and in other kansas news, wichita saw a man killed on his doorstep 'cause someone prank called 911 claiming a murder/hostage thing at that address, and he came out with his hands up sub-optimally, apparently. http://archive.is/AszYN
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, just called and left a message. if he's interested he should have enough info to join this channel
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 16:43 mircea_popescu: danielpbarron wanna call 512-892-0494 see if mr ritter wants to audit fg ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu loox almost like an earthling man in this one ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hmm, i'ma guess sumthing like 'to guzzle spooje'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i had physical objects largely from junkyard. with the obvious limitations. until, at least, the comp
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 15:52 mircea_popescu: here's something for your collection of ancient crankware asciilifeform : http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/BRAID/BRAID.HTM
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 16:18 mircea_popescu: (as it happens here -- the year being 1991 lubby was still a decade away, and fountain codes poorly understood, so a honest mind might very well have ended up predating lubby through the exercise of trying to make a decent answer for this particular idiot. which process is exactly why "universities" exist in the first place, and teaching all-but-inescapable for researchers : it turns out that answering the malformed questions
asciilifeform: prolly same way mircea_popescu's collander became a calendar, lol
a111: Logged on 2016-02-10 14:21 mircea_popescu: 1998-11-23 Stefan Axelsson: "What is needed, is some other, resilient, long lasting, redundant third party storage of references, such as a library is for printed material today."
a111: Logged on 2017-12-31 15:52 mircea_popescu: here's something for your collection of ancient crankware asciilifeform : http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/BRAID/BRAID.HTM