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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: your snapshot is ~= what archive.is gets .
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.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 0.00024 * 17133.3184732 = 4.111996433568001
trinque: mircea_popescu: will put that in the study queue. something about visions of angry, loosened/secularized days, maybe? gotta cram more tenses into my skull.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: maybe at some point we auction prototype rng ( asciilifeform has a few , mircea_popescu also, and somebody else i think )
lobbes: mircea_popescu, deal!
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 17133.3184732 * 168 * 1e5 / 1e9 = 287.83975034976004
shinohai: I like the door facades in that house mircea_popescu ... what does kitchen look like/consist of ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: they won't swivel ( or eventually, for that matter , turn ) if not lubricated. and mircea_popescu did find that monkeystani folx dun believe in maintenance..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was it one of those affairs where the windmills swivel ?
asciilifeform did picture mircea_popescu as having a dedicated 'muhahahahaha' balcony
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 17123.07, vol: 18431.67105555 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 17126.0, vol: 86326.20598473 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 17300.0, vol: 4923.59607879 | Volume-weighted last average: 17133.3184732
lobbesbot: AUCTION # 163 STARTED by mircea_popescu: The very notebook displayed in http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ ! Free shipping anywhere in the world included. Opening: 1 coppers Ending: 2017-12-18 20:43:32 UTC (168 hours)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 19:59 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749431 << this live anywhere, or not jetzt ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: definitely point. it's getting renamed in next ch.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'll have to try that the next windy night
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I have given so many people directions over the weekend. Primarily... Delivery drivers.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Slowly in this context means read title, skim, and scribble reminder that post exists in next year's calendar
asciilifeform: today we learn mircea_popescu does not wear a chapeau claque!111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can see , linked turd is entirely 'hey let's try and make paper-btc the way we did paper-au' usg gambit
a111: Logged on 2015-07-08 17:08 mircea_popescu: mod6 "our free market is this thing you can only buy!!1"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-11 13:29 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o wow!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 20:10 mircea_popescu: still, stuff like the raufoss mk211 is the exact pill for "oh, we're armored". orly ? well done, so the round won't blow clear through you! enjoy zirconium fire in your spleen!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: If USG.blue were to off me, is there anyone who would want to take over or wind down the venture, or is this not the time to discuss continuity?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo what's tbi ? << The working name of The Boingo ISP
BingoBoingo: So, as I intensify the abogado search, are there any lord who would like to take on the responsibility of handling TBI responsibilities should something "nailgun" happen to El Gringo Bingo? mircea_popescu? shinohai? ben_vulpes? Anyone else in L1?
BingoBoingo: <deedbot> http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ << Trilema - Of ducks and lameness << Awe, mircea_popescu tries BingoBoingo style exploration
RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu I have a couple of translators sorting out their IRCs today and should be present within the next 24 hrs or so. I've only done some basic screening - they are all native Chinese, speak English well enough and are available to do translation work. Besides speaking to them, I have NOT gone through any further process of elimination - ie. collected writing samples to have compared, etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-20 17:03 mircea_popescu: in other news, ended up in local church after walk this morning. had to leave once priest showed up and the womenz starting "singing" an hymn
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:10 mircea_popescu: the ~other~ explanation, however, might well be that i don't write on topics about which they're trained to think they have an oppinion. it's easy to forget the parameciums are not actually people, and to imagine human process impels them ; this isn't however the case, they just go where they were trained to go and do what they were trained to do, no more.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-10 13:08 mircea_popescu: so we could say the ycombined parameciums are moving, knocking about the walls of the petri dish. nevertheless, they don't feel at liberty to derp in comments there like they do on your site -- notwithstanding the bar to comment on loper-os is actually too high what with the google captcha thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun think we ever published the exact #. although folx oughta be able to arithmetize.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was how usa croaked
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 20:25 mircea_popescu: cuz these people WILL NOT FIX, anything, ever, until it literally breaks.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 01:33 mircea_popescu: idiots stopped taking bitcoin like, wednesday.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-09 01:14 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so, did your time spent with the orlov menagerie pay off ?
deedbot: mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/cMntd/?raw=true
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> idiots stopped taking bitcoin like, wednesday. << Ayer
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> prior to 4am "the night life hasn't started yet". at 3:45, you know, "oh, there's nobody here because NOT STARTED YET". then at 4am "come back next time". << Aha, Argentines last to wake and last to sleep
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: point being, there is also a castrated employed hipster crowd, and every other combinatoric arrangement of these also.
asciilifeform: these are what mircea_popescu calls 'rubber chicken feasts', massive at least in body count
asciilifeform: it's apparently a phrase, but i only know it from mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, I'd never left. So far I am noticing most prices here, where shit apparently happens in Uruguay only moderately lower than rural middle west yet... Quality of everything except door hardware vastly better in most respects
asciilifeform: i laughed the first time, years ago , when i first read mircea_popescu said this on trilema; but since then met whole horde of usa folx who never even had a загранпаспорт
a111: Logged on 2017-11-27 14:20 mircea_popescu: kjj http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/iNoOh/?raw=true
mircea_popescu: !!key mircea_popescu
kjj: mircea_popescu: did you get my message earlier? My router crashed shortly after I sent it, so if you replied I didn't see it
asciilifeform: it wouldn't surprise me, for instance, if one day mircea_popescu said that he made fine shotguns, but only hunted with'em himself. mendeleev made... suitcases. etc.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu says his personal pr0n is of high quality -- why should i not believe.
asciilifeform: otherwise -- habituation, addiction, 'luxury ratchet' as in the old mircea_popescu article re chix with caviar
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu often writes about the degenerately slothful italians. why do you suppose they are so ? could be the 3 harvests they get ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu you never liked seasons ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well tell you what, ukraine does 40 degrees. << Perils of being far from an ocean
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform had a relative recently go to the ruins of the old world, and came back with photos of korean air conditioners installed on ~every wall. no such item existed even in early post-sov 1990s, and not strictly from the cost.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> meanwhile there's a reason the population of eskimo lands was a) never large and b) always selected for suckitude. << Lack of healthful medicinal sweat. Essentially homosapiens are a sort of cabbage, need a bit of frost but also time not froze.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> !~google 20.5 celsius to farenheit. << ~68-69
asciilifeform: dunno, is mircea_popescu's 'chix ~must~ be 2m tall' swede-worship ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 20.5 C in Fahrenheit - CoolConversion .com: <http://coolconversion.com/temperature/20.5-C-to-Fahrenheit>; 20.5 degrees C to Fahrenheit - Celsius to Fahrenheit: <http://celsiusfahrenheit.co/20.5-degrees-C-to-Fahrenheit-20.5>; 20.5 celsius to fahrenheit: <https://convertsumo.com/20-5-celsius-to-fahrenheit/>
asciilifeform: what means 'standard human temp' ? 36.6 ? if mircea_popescu walked into a room at 36.6 he would say 'sauna', betcha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, if 'null crypt' ( make noises, exhaust gasses, but dun actually do any crypto ) remains a valid mode in 100% of usgcryptocrapolade -- why not also md5.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "a maximum of impact with a minimum of effort" as far as the usg is concerned : trades in a worthless dead elephant for the continued attention of 10k useless schmucks it for some reason decided to put on the rolls. << From what I understand when Google hires the 10's of thousands in batches they do so through "Manpower" and other contract work agencies for nominally 12-15 usd/hr (usually less than $fedminwage
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking of derpfunders, https://archive.is/grrrK << 'Patreon lets creators hide the amount of money they are actually making, although the number of patrons is still public. Boruta’s numbers are based on the roughly 80 percent of creators who publicly share what they earn. Of those creators, only 1,393 — 2 percent — make the equivalent of federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or $1,160 a month, in October 2017'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'threatening the structural integrity of the greater reddit community' ?!
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 04:34 mircea_popescu shan't be mentioning maddox again, wtf is this misery.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, you see maddox trying to sue dick for 20m for saying mean things about him on the net?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 22:17 mircea_popescu: oh and in "social media was invented to entertain me" reprints, me : how goes it ? 19yo f iowa : "dying inside casually. you ?" me : "here's yachting pics."
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 11:24 mircea_popescu: mod6 mind adding the "no clearsigned material in patches -- you got the .sig for that" and "no '--- ' anywhere, you have been warned" rules to it ; and phf / everyone mind making it stick ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naturally in the end konsoomer is made to pay, it is rolled into prices.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The retailers offering this are not ones where one easily spends only 2 bucks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly could be 'trying to be american', carries 0 moneys
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo not so smart ; outside of us nobody ever uses anything other than 100s << I have yet to see another confirmed gringo here, but the idea with 20's is more of them and single one is an amount suitable for what alf would call "human" transactions.
asciilifeform: i distinctly recalled mircea_popescu wrote this, and went through some bother to obtain Troo Benjies
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform real gangsters use clips. << rubber bands, hence roll
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> oh and in "social media was invented to entertain me" reprints, me : how goes it ? 19yo f iowa : "dying inside casually. you ?" me : "here's yachting pics." << win
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Dexter's Laboratory NRFB - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D6PrRUKFcnPM>; What does MIB ~ NIB ~ NRFB ~ NOS~MIBS mean? | eBay: <http://www.ebay.com/gds/What-does-MIB-NIB-NRFB-NOS-MIBS-mean-/10000000003599297/g.html>; What does NRFB mean? - NRFB Definition - Meaning of NRFB ...: <https://www.internetslang.com/NRFB-meaning-definition.asp>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc last set of tickets was 20k ea. or sumthinglikethat
asciilifeform: i almost expected mircea_popescu to say 'what airport, i have own diplomatic pouch system'
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 20:57 mircea_popescu: anyway, the pretense of argentina, in all fields, is nothing short of hysterical. they lose a sub, 100% through being TOTAL FUCKTARDS. they act as if adult country had some sort of problem ; as if people on it were qualified -- not to run a sub, but to run a dishwasher and so on.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 21:00 mircea_popescu: "oh, we are currently fibbing about you have immunity, therefore your constitutional protection is null and void, cuz that's how constitutions work now, therefore... oh what do you mean we'll change our mind later ? OF COURSE! you don't understand how the world works ?!"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 21:05 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748231 << don't tell me, usg-run "exchange" periodically "victim of own success", as usg imagines this to go.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 22:15 mircea_popescu: and in further "i can't believe that shit still exists" lulz, coupled with "here comes the self-eating shit sandwich", http://perezhilton.com/2017-12-07-melanie-martinez-rape-accusation-fan-merch
a111: Logged on 2017-12-07 21:07 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748242 << eh get out, when did you see garbage truck go faster than maybe 10 km/h
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-07#1748321 << i take it they dun have hills where mircea_popescu lives ☝︎
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, not since I sobered up
a111: Logged on 2015-08-22 22:03 mircea_popescu: well the entire contention was the strange notion that peasant who "finds" vermeer and "has always had it in family" should get to keep it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "that aside, experimentally BingoBoingo produced a gangster roll out of a btc. i don't expect anything changed other than same item now costs .5" << you get THE ITEM THAT IS. for ever less btc. << And there's the pain of the experiment
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> that aside, experimentally BingoBoingo produced a gangster roll out of a btc. << very doable for BingoBoingo in el estados unidos
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, ah, in general it will be, yes; this is quite particular as it is a rather big block of not-totally-sane code that is imported basically
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, they could, there's no question there; but they are text as it is, not sure what the big gain is (and it would end up in a very long thing)
a111: Logged on 2017-01-03 21:10 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a problem yeah. will however have to be bit, wtf else to do.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I've fixed this, can unban
a111: Logged on 2017-12-06 22:51 mircea_popescu: once we have keccak.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eventually we are gonna need a sane replacement for unix diff/patch. one that not only has e.g. selectable hashtronics but knows what movement and deletion of files is
asciilifeform: programmers see kindness as weakness, diana_coman . borrow a spiked bat from mircea_popescu , it will work wonders.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can: diff ~the patch~ ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, diana_coman if every single patch you release is a genesis ( i.e. previously existing items are lifted with paste ) then you may as well simply publish signed tarballs, you are not actually using v
trinque: mircea_popescu: I'll peek at logs real quick, then let ya know. it hasn't reconnected since the netsplit
asciilifeform: when drawn in phf's viewer, this will appear as a graph with two genesisen. which mircea_popescu seems to have allergy for, for some reason. but there is nothing outrageous mechanically about it.