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mircea_popescu: the lulz of that "oldweb.today" thing : i can't click the bnuttons to select
a browser.
danielpbarron: so this latest "mass shooting" apparently targeted
a holiday party in
a state office building
thestringpuller: Coinbase made an exchange cause they couldn't make money being
a broker.
shinohai: Such
a collection of stellar advice.
shinohai: "Did you download
a pirated copy of fallout 4?"
trinque: this guy is
a terrible narrator
punkman: the one time I saw
a locksmith work, it was hammer time
thestringpuller: since unlike the nuclear powers of the 60's; these people just have
a fake "fork it now" button rather than an actual fork ICBM launcher
punkman: is it
a russian proverb or something?
trinque: perversion is its own end for
a deviant child
punkman: and you can massage your GPG key into
a client cert
shinohai: "
a hub went boom" that sounds unfortunate.
mircea_popescu: “What we want is like
a military Schengen zone,” the three-star U.S. general said, referring to the border-free travel regime adopted by most European Union countries. “Right now refugees can move across Europe faster than military convoys.”
BingoBoingo: "On
a personal "hate ramen noodles and tuna" level, I agree. But my good-for-project-good-for-the-world side says the OpenBSD Foundation is more effective at growing the contribution pie and in particular funding the hackathons where great work happens." - Theo De Raadt
☟︎ phf: kakobrekla: hey, so log entry #1314006 has
a handful of newlines in the entry itself. what's the convention there? \n\t\t as line continuation?
mircea_popescu: they can't actually maintain the road infrastructure. they could, perhaps, be able to run decent railroad instead. it's
a degree of magnitude cheaper.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the move would actually stand
a decent chance at fixing the us.
mircea_popescu: it's
a definite possibility, one the nato spent 20 years+ at assembling
mircea_popescu: if the decision is made to actually switch to electricity, with the few trn worth of industrial adjustments this would take, oil could in fact be
a curio in two decades.
mircea_popescu: but more broadly, it's
a bid for survival. for as long as they still have oil reserves, the risk of oil no longer being used is much larger than the "loss" of selling it cheap.
mircea_popescu: not so, i once even posted
a totally flat penis in between two acrylic boards
ben_vulpes: and decreased revenue death for saud before tejas? gimme
a break.
pete_dushenski: seems like
a straight survival play for the saudi monarchy
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not sure there's
a 'usg' side of the saudi project.
pete_dushenski: ""The Big Short" should be required viewing for every mortgage and banking professional in America, and maybe every high school civics class, too. It is
a direct, frontal assault on the bogus claim peddled by Wall Street and conservative media that poor people and irresponsible borrowers were to blame for the housing crash and the resulting chaos." << movie starring Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, directed
ascii_field: because neither pile of shit is ~really~ part of the language (i realize that this has Officially changed. doesn't matter worth
a shit in my head)
thestringpuller imagines
a terrorist attack in canada involving nunchaku and fake ninjas
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: then jesus sheds
a tear for your immorality
mircea_popescu: jurov well so don't immitate him, post
a proper thing.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: it had
a strange and - afaik - unique - system where long-necked cartridge enclosed entire bullet, and cylinder moved against the barrel to form
a gastight seal
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: 'nagant' in question is
a 7-shot revolver, circa 1890s
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: what's the 'blue book' value of
a soul with my mileage, anyway
pete_dushenski: "Zuckerberg, 31, and Chan said they plan to give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares over their lifetimes to advance the initiative, which was formed as
a limited liability company controlled by the two. It will begin by focusing on personalized learning, curing disease, Internet connectivity and community building." << hurry! quick like bunnies! while the shares are still worth even
a dollar
a piece! must! d0n4
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: if this is really
a worthy price to him for selling soul - he oughta hurry up and eat his nagant
ben_vulpes: in other news, there is now
a 'Chef' for mobile phones.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: i was (and still am) at
a lost as to what, if anything, he has to do with the derps who took the money
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: thinking about it, that turd simply has to be
a troll job
assbot: Logged on 01-12-2015 20:59:33; ascii_field: 'Marginalized people also suffer some of the unintended consequences of dogmatic insistence on meritocratic principles of governance. Studies have show that organizational cultures that value meritocracy often result in greater inequality. People with "merit" are often excused for their bad behavior in public spaces based on the value of their technical contributions. Meritocracy also naively assumes
a mircea_popescu: imagine. fucktard has
a once in
a lifetime moment and not even the marginal intellectual curiosity of getting voiced.
pete_dushenski: "Daniel Boulet, Sherwood Park AB" << heh. sherwood park is
a suburb of edmonton. i should go throw eggs at this dude's house.
mircea_popescu: showed up, had
a chat with mod6 as to how to work together.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for my education, describe what
a smart de raadt would've done
ascii_field: 'Our Directors are: Ken Westerback, Toronto ON Daniel Boulet, Sherwood Park AB' << i don't see
a de raadt
adlai: it's already performing
a role as
a little capacitor on the profit release valve
mircea_popescu: somehow
a bunch of [mostly white] kids bought into this theory that "intelligence" as they define it is worth two shits.
ascii_field: jurov: i vaguely recall there were talks of you folks renting
a box somewhere
ascii_field: trinque: in no sense special, it is illustrative of
a particular thing imho
ascii_field: does openbsd have
a ~meaningful~ existence apart from 'what de raadt does' ?
pete_dushenski: "Yes, 20BTC would definately have you listed as
a significant foundation contributor on our contributions page, assuming you wanted to be listed there."