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asciilifeform: see, i dealt with this using the 'oak tree' algo
BingoBoingo: "I was supposed to stay there and lose all my weight and get down to 550 to get the gastric bypass," said Assanti. "That was their plan."
pete_dushenski: but i thought the internet was the classroom of the people of the future of the lala ?
ascii_field: and i'd say more, but it is a little bit off topic...
pete_dushenski: i'm probably ill equipped to appreciate 'scheme-79' but i like the hand-drawings !
pete_dushenski: though i'm now starting to appreciate alf's earlier point about isis : 'show me single kalash bullet'
ascii_field: for all i know, it is a '90s-style chumpatron like the last elbrus !
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: i do not know for a fact that elbrus was made.
ascii_field: notice i did not say 'cpu' but specifically workstation cpu
ascii_field: and, i will note, lifted die contents wholesale
pete_dushenski: ascii_field but if french bureaucracy is (and has been for decades if not centuries) the centralised behemoth that i understand it to be, why h-bomb and no 'pentium' ?
trinque: I've already heard a derp repeat "they're shooting down our drones!"
pete_dushenski: ascii_field this is perhaps a better restatement of what i was getting at with the uniqueness of computing
pete_dushenski: well, i won't speak for intel, but toyota can flatly tell usg where to go.
pete_dushenski: what are the chances that democracy doesn't produce the best results ? but rather the results that favour usg interests ? hm. i wonder.
ascii_field: instead, i look at 2mm tall text.
ascii_field: i cannot even begin to describe how much i hate this thing
jurov: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/ lol "power to handle any taxing software" i understood as "taxation software"
pete_dushenski: well, i'm off for a bit !
pete_dushenski: global phenomenon eh. i don't think they were exactly cheap either. maybe $cad 40 ? in ~1997 money ?
jurov: i didn't, but yes, half of class had
pete_dushenski: jurov: you ever play tamagotchi ? i think i was the only kid in my class who didn't. maybe one other.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski im not so sure of the entire moulding thing. i think i met more competent dogs than competent humans in my life, mostly because the bar so much lower for dog. and it's self-moulding really, just as long as you don't get in th way too much.
pete_dushenski: i mean, if you're going to put that much work into a lump of flesh, from infancy on upwards, why not at least mould it in your own image ?
mike_c: I'm looking forward to Eulora land ownership.
mike_c: hehe, don't lose that guy's number. I bet a good contractor is almost as hard to find down there as it is up here.
punkman: "Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: “See, not so short!” I sent the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, “Actually, quite short.” Which I can only assume gave him fits."
punkman: "Just to drive him a little bit crazy, I took to referring to him as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in the pages of Spy magazine. That was more than a quarter of a century ago. To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump."
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 04:35:36; phf: known as блат in russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..."
trinque: mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293767 <<< i always thought trinque is a pretty good male stripper name. << bwahahaha, I'd have said web work is a proper whore's job ☝︎
asciilifeform: supposing i were not a slave and did not have to live on a plantation
asciilifeform: but re: phf et al, yes, with 5x the budget i would indeed rent five warehouses while living in a coffin.
asciilifeform: i don't give a tinker's damn if obamitler himself drives by my house.
mircea_popescu: oh the interrupt thing. yeah i can see that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i am very easily distracted by people talking
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the one i went to, actually had a chick! who was fond of meetings, minutes, paperwork, the whole shebang, and would gripe about all of this being unappreciated
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my main problem is that i find interacting with meat people to be a very mentally taxing thing. << explain ?
mircea_popescu: i'd rather be charged by angry goats.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:43:46; asciilifeform: i mean, say 241st tank regiment rolls down your street every morning
asciilifeform: at any rate, i actually tried the 'pool resources' thing phf spoke of, with buncha other weirdos. my main problem is that i find interacting with meat people to be a very mentally taxing thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i surmise that the oak may sleep to everything, except those times when it's awake ? :D
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:33:48; phf: apartment living goes well with other outsourced infrastructure, i.e. ghetto warehouse for your lathe-placement-needs. you can do it on the cheap by pulling resources at a hackerspace
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293767 <<< i always thought trinque is a pretty good male stripper name. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-10-2015#1293747 << didja pull a "i'm taking it. you two can stay." ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yo Naphex wouldja consider putting "get in the wot" among the tasks for performers that earn them a fee reduction ? i'm willing to support it on the other end with the cents for tits programme.
asciilifeform: perhaps by winter's end i will hear from him again, with a pgp sig
asciilifeform: he eventually answered my mail, did i ever say. promised to dig out pgp key.
mircea_popescu: (from the "if money's a curse, may god strike me down with it! and may i never recover!" series)
asciilifeform: i'd like to go there one day.
mircea_popescu: i'd say the jury's still out on this one.,
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I remember reading it, and at the time I couldn't tell if you were discussing seriously using V as a basis for academics, or just the general notion of having a explicit academic WoT.
mircea_popescu: i mean v-powered math.
asciilifeform: and i worked at two separate 'pharms', separated by some years
asciilifeform: well i personally never smelled the mice
mircea_popescu: anyway, leach, great book. i dun think i understood most of it, but nevertheless.
asciilifeform: with modelling, i meant.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i used to eat with this.
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2015 03:14:54; phf: hah, i know some people working on that nci db of plausible compounds, part of the whole potomac russian jews community
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd trust a ba mechanic. cook. dentist. plastic surgeon.
mircea_popescu: i dun think they even go there
asciilifeform: i bet 'hummers' turn over like dominoes
punkman: I've looked at cliki entries for clim/mcclim and it's mostly broken links
gabriel_laddel: punkman: what are you looking for? I'm pretty familiar with the current state of the docs.
gabriel_laddel: punkman: not that I'm aware of
gabriel_laddel: I got flexi-trivial-dired to sorta work!
punkman: BingoBoingo: elaborate is also identifying, which I guess might be a problem if you wanna by anonymous
BingoBoingo: Surprisingly common now. When I was going into college dad suggested I do somthing medical with a geriatrics speciality. How he never new when I said no that Bariatrics would be so trendy.
BingoBoingo: "Though I have no way of knowing it, within a few months a crane will hoist the patient’s body through a hole cut in the side of his house, a hole that allowed EMS personnel to lower the body onto their new ultra-wide, ultra-sturdy gurney."
BingoBoingo: phf: This is why I love bars. People have no idea if they know you or not and will talk as if old friends. This isn't favors. This is a nuclear option.
phf: gabriel_laddel: probably not enough to be useful, i played with it but ultimately switched to lispwork's capi for projects
phf: known as блат in russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors). though that word is more often used in context of getting ahead i think it basically applies to overall structure of society. when shit hits the fan you call a your sister's husband's uncle who's a general, "vasily mikhalich, this is such and such..." ☟︎
phf: i remember reading about chinese equivalent and noticing many similarities. they have a cool word for it, but i can't recall it
BingoBoingo: <phf> in su we were taught a different strategy, since "having evidence" is top kek, know who to call if things go bad. if you had no one to call, you were shit out of luck << I figure why call? Make arrest as expensive as possible.
phf: man, i should learn by now not to click on your slimgr links
BingoBoingo: I have to imagine other USian residents here have similar stashes.
BingoBoingo: Mebbe I got people in the US house? Maybe I got people in the Illinois house... Maybe I got people in the US Senate, Maybe I got people in the Illinois senate.
BingoBoingo: I got enough tape of local pols saying racist things to make a Preet believe I was a footsoldier in THEIR conspiracy of hatred
BingoBoingo: <phf> you should try buying some weed from him << Nah, I'll put eye holes in a pillowcase and keep it in my back pocket.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i almost envy BingoBoingo - not even missionaries come to my house any longer. << Jehova's witnesses come here still, but known local.
phf: i'm moving to dc again, so will pay them a visit
asciilifeform: i almost envy BingoBoingo - not even missionaries come to my house any longer.
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> trinque: unless I'm greatly mistaken, he has a court case for something or other physical and US dept of treasury agents have dropped by his house b/c btc. << I have disorderly conduct misdemeanor pending in neighboring county. Fed visit is on pre-qntra blawg
phf: last i was there the big project was public wifi for the neighborhood
asciilifeform: last i heard, they were doing balloons
asciilifeform: it is still there. i haven't visited in years.
gabriel_laddel: trinque: I have a photo of the agent's card, actually
gabriel_laddel: trinque: unless I'm greatly mistaken, he has a court case for something or other physical and US dept of treasury agents have dropped by his house b/c btc.
phf: asciilifeform: i think main use case for a hackerspace is place to deploy own oversized equipment, but have the location subsidized by "makers". most i've been to would go through the typical list of "3d printers", eventually followed by "and here's a cnc laser cutter etc. that you can only use if you ask such and such nicely and make he'll let you under his supervision"
asciilifeform: fwiw i routinely have 3-4 white vans parked outside. snore.
asciilifeform: i mean, it is one thing if they break the door with demolition charges, drag you out in your nighties, and take you to 'the farm' where you can sit in the coke machine and cough out private key bits for 20 yrs.
asciilifeform: i mean, say 241st tank regiment rolls down your street every morning ☟︎
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> Facial recognition goes both ways. I could use pics. << Doesn't need to go far. My street has no black residents. My street is a blind loop. One pass could be a common criminal. Multiple people is Law Enforcement.
gabriel_laddel: Facial recognition goes both ways. I could use pics.
BingoBoingo: So, lets address some points about my current situation: 1) Hai FBI I noticed your Negro in the Lexus driving the street in front of my house three times today that I will admit to catching.
trinque: I thought the point was to go fast ripped
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: I drink too much to boat and sail sleeping
BingoBoingo: <gabriel_laddel> BingoBoingo: yea, but I thought you were scared of the gangs? << Not just any old gangs, specific kinds
asciilifeform: phf: i tried the 'hackerspace' thing, at its best it was an ick
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: yea, but I thought you were scared of the gangs?
phf: apartment living goes well with other outsourced infrastructure, i.e. ghetto warehouse for your lathe-placement-needs. you can do it on the cheap by pulling resources at a hackerspace ☟︎