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pete_dushenski: "The Islamic State also demands
a cut of the revenues earned by small businesses. “We either pay in olive oil or cash, it depends on the production,”" << altcoins accepted for taxes too !!!1
mircea_popescu: this pretense that say france is
a country because holy usg says it's
a country, while isis is not
a country because louise shelley acts as if it weren't...
pete_dushenski: "In Raqqa, the Syrian city that is now the de facto capital of the Islamic State,
a department called Diwan al-Khadamat, or the Office of Services, sends officials through the city markets to collect
a cleaning tax — 2,500 to 5,000 Syrian pounds, or about $7 to $14, per month depending on the size of the shop. Residents go to collection points to pay their monthly electricity and water bills, 800 Syrian pounds
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "“They fight in the morning and they tax in the afternoon,” said Louise Shelley, the director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center at George Mason University." << this is apparently incomprehensible to the american mind. "whaddya mean there's
a time of day when they don't tax ?"
adlai: it's not
a waste of time, it's
a 'student project'
mircea_popescu: "Oklahoma Wesleyan is not
a “safe place”, but rather,
a place to learn: to learn that life isn’t about you, but about others; that the bad feeling you have while listening to
a sermon is called guilt; that the way to address it is to repent of everything that’s wrong with you rather than blame others for everything that’s wrong with them. This is
a place where you will quickly learn that you need to grow up.
adlai: shame, even coinbrlive is
a victim of dns tardation
mircea_popescu: "our critique of structurally established, historically stable hierarchies is to replace them with
a half baked, ad hoc, buggy, half-reimplementation" "why ?" "because it's easier to write than to read."
ben_vulpes: "when nothing more than
a (privately administered) slap on the wrist was ever done to let everyone in the department know" << oh now they want public humiliation
adlai: twas worth venturing thru the esr turd to emerge on the other side with "“Social Justice” has reached
a sort of Poe’s Law singularity at which the behavior of trolls and true believers becomes indistinguishable even to each other"
adlai: from
a sufficiently detached cis-privileged cynicism, this reads as "the only thing you have to fear is fear itself"
ben_vulpes: "Many women are never raped, most women who are raped experience it only
a handful of times, but in
a sense it doesn't matter because the threats are constant, and women are trained to live in
a state of hypervigilance of these threats"
gribble: Error: "sleep" is not
a valid command.
ben_vulpes: another hilarious thing is that apparently that medium author doesn't know how to make
a hyperlink
ben_vulpes: that this is too much trouble for anyone but
a vanishingly tiny fraction of people is totally lost on the outside world.
ben_vulpes: "no listen, we're super inclusive. get yourself
a gpg key, get in the wot, read the logs, submit
a patch, and we'll talk about it."
ben_vulpes: "lived experience" not mattering
a whit in contributions
ben_vulpes: love love love the not taken together at all in
a million years set of headshots and bios scrolling by at lightspeed
kakobrekla: speaking of con(f)s, at the 'Finance Magnates London Summit 2015' there was
a single talk canceled due to 'unforeseen circumstances'; RECODING FINANCE – BLOCKCHAIN with Peter Randal, CEO of SETL
punkman: "We are committed to making participation in this project
a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of level of experience, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, or nationality."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know i can spot your troll accoutns by
a mile by now
punkman: "
a group named Armada Collective had demanded 700 btc"
pete_dushenski: " The vulnerability relies on the fact that
a direct route exists between the VPN client and server. If the client accesses
a forwarded port on the VPN server that is maliciously set up by an attacker, the client will use the direct route using the user's default route, bypassing the VPN entirely."
pete_dushenski: e-mail from private internet access : ""Dear Valued Customer, On November 17, we were privately notified of an IP address leak vulnerability affecting the port forwarding feature of our service. Essentially, anyone connecting to
a forwarded port on any of our VPN gateways could have their real IP address leaked to an attacker specifically targeting
a PIA user."
BingoBoingo: Ponerty: "I am
a one-trick pony; most of you are happy with my trick, so please
trinque: been
a few complaints; I like it as an intro to the feed
pete_dushenski:
a little more familiarity with diana_coman's writings should help to clarify and solidify the abstractions rolling around in my noodle.
pete_dushenski: i come from
a long line of socialists and racialists. what can i say.
BingoBoingo: BashCo: Maybe register with assbot and submit
a piece on the reddit tire fire?
BashCo: it's
a complete mad house.
assbot: You rated user CoraCrist on 30-Nov-2015, with
a rating of 3, and supplied these additional notes: XOtika.tv CEO - Handles bussiness side, press, recruiting, marketing, hr, pr.
mircea_popescu: iirc taki theodoracopulos of "of fucking course you can't rape
a 16 yo MALE" fame got booted from whatever sharecropping outfit he was working for prior and struck out on his own.
BingoBoingo: I also dunno if there is
a single taki? Seems to be
a variety of bylines
BingoBoingo: Mebbe princessnell can drop
a line next time she comes around these parts?
mircea_popescu: anyone sent him
a line, maybe he wants
a weekly column in qntra ?
BingoBoingo: Well, hard to trust signal fidelity with two cans and
a string
pete_dushenski: looks like 'someone claiming to be ceo claims that xxx will be supported on such and such
a date. maybe. if we/they/someone gets around to it"
mircea_popescu: this onlyt happens because the old farts feel safe, and they feel safe because the kids aren't alright, not by
a damn sight.
mircea_popescu: it's true that young kids in the us aren't qualified to be toddlers, and it's true that as
a result they sheepishly accept salaries that are
a decaying joke.
mircea_popescu: so heck, maybe
a new bitcoin every ~30 years is actually the correct state.
mircea_popescu: and, notably, we don't even know generational re-bitcoin is actually such
a bad idea. it's true that some, few and far between, old people have relevancy for young people, and that
a minority of teens will gladly spread for
a VERY thin minority of "come see my new movie. with catherine zeta jones. raaa!"
mircea_popescu: which kinda is why the discussion was about
a time far, far away. four to five halvings into the future this matter becomes important.
mircea_popescu: hence my comment comparing to
a holywood star. it wasn't idle words.
ascii_field: btc is an interesting thing imho in
a good part ~because~ it specifically refrained from trying to solve this
mircea_popescu: note, i did not for
a second propose these are good, or even above 0 solutions. they are not.
ascii_field: this i also don't see - where i live, inflation is mainly
a hammer keeping young schmucks down
mircea_popescu: inflation is
a transfer of wealth from old to young, to mirror the transfer of relevancy.
ascii_field: they get moar coin, yes, continuing reward, but of
a ~fundamentally shittier~ coin
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: possibly i'm thick, but i don't see how inflation is
a pill against miner defection
mircea_popescu: seeing how historically, inflation between .5 and 1%
a year seems to correlate with
a maximum on the wealth creation graph.
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't
a valid number.
phf should try this it at
a towncenter skating rink
ascii_field: aha, 90s, when
a few things still kinda worked
shinohai sheds
a tear for the 90's anyway.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that such
a thing matters anymore. that was more of
a consideration in the 90s, back when there existed some sort of school discipline.
punkman: I was reading more about cjdns yesterday, anyone here run
a node?
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Paul has made his opposition to the Patriot Act
a key plank of his 2016 White House campaign and argued that the program hasn’t foiled
a specific terrorist plot.
punkman: and believed that he was taking part in
a completely legal goat-burning tradition. After Jones was released from jail he went straight back to the US without paying his fine. As of 2006 it was still unpaid."
punkman: "2001: Goat set on fire on 23 December by Lawrence Jones,
a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio in the United States, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages. The court confiscated Jones' cigarette lighter with the argument that he clearly was not able to handle it. Jones stated in court that he was no "goat burner",
BingoBoingo: punkman: Only through XML does
a line of text become
a "stanza"
punkman: re: irc threads, suppose we had
a client that merge multiple channels into
a single stream
mircea_popescu: whenever trinque is the 2nd word in
a sentence my latin parser kids in
punkman: tramazoline hydrochloride and dexamethasone is
a good combination
phf: punkman: looks like
a neti pot alternative for BingoBoingo
phf: yeah.. not actually getting
a connection
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in general the housewives that succeed in their life's work of "getting everyone to stop messing up the house" are ~
a year away from having to decide if they wish to file for divorce or just come to terms with the fact that the husband lives with
a younger woman now.