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mircea_popescu: myeah, you;'d have to go to riyadh
asciilifeform: i suppose could add a small '4' , a handful of industries ( pcb electroplating shops ) but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: better usgproof with teh womenz.
asciilifeform: i know of 3 types who want -- 1) crowned heads, largely from inertia 2) gypos, of various nations 3) idjits who 'i'ma usgproof me savings with magic metal'
mircea_popescu: so who wants teh gold.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thing is, i could prolly sell the girls for their quite literal weight in gold, if it came to it.
mircea_popescu: thing with gold is that it doesn't take altogether much (volume) to get a kg or two
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: evidently d00d thought 'gold! movable, liquid, easily testable, 0 tx fee!' 'or hm mebbe not...' moment
asciilifeform was just having a 'spot the gold' exercise in machineroom with pet
mircea_popescu: so it turns out i own much more gold than teh proponent ?
mircea_popescu: o this is ridoinculous
asciilifeform: ook it wiht me to Russia - Vladivostok, where I was informed even by the Sperbank branch, that they had no precious metals assayist, for all they knew it could be fake, and thus they too refused to buy it. Luckily for me, I had a private backup for funds, but - it could have been dicey. '
asciilifeform: from orlolcommentz: ' Much to my surprise, it doesn't translate internationally as easily as one might think. I have a - very - little gold. When I wanted to sell some here in Ecuador early this year, I discovered that in fact there is no-one in Ecuador who buys gold. Moreover, there is also no-one who would take it back to the Perth Mint [Australia] from whence it came. DHL and Fed-Ex only move papers!! There are no couriers. !! I t
asciilifeform: ( though -- not entirely . )
asciilifeform: and fwiw at this point mel is mostly dead.
asciilifeform: fwiw when asciilifeform reversed winblowz crapware all day , every day, with timebudget of approx 2days per item, he muchly preferred to encounter vs-built crapola, vs hand-.
mircea_popescu: let me put it the proper way : one can not forbid mel from using his craft ; mel can not be required to "learn fortran" to "upgrade" and "keep with the times".
mircea_popescu: there is that.
asciilifeform: notrly. even handasm item tends to use lotsa macroasm.
asciilifeform: actually reversing hand-asm is a royal bitch compared to gcc or even vs output
mircea_popescu: this is not the same as llvm or wisual-c shittery.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the item was very much as described, ~"handwritten asm"
asciilifeform: i simply dun fully buy into the 'gnarly source is exactly same level of retardation as straight microshitization'. it isn't quite same thing.
asciilifeform: no one afaik yet tried mips, or itanic, or yet moar obscure.
asciilifeform: but will note that, e.g., trb, builds cleanly on e.g. arm ( and iirc ppc also )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you take mah meanings.
mircea_popescu: like the previous chick ( http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Awer )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: speaking strictly of items known to actually work. ( at one time trinque posted a list of what built, and what did not, on his g5 ppc. iirc . trinque ? ) ☟︎
irene_yvonne: a friend told me about it
mircea_popescu: whenever oen tries -- it doesn't. for as long as one does not try -- "it does just fine".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform permit me to link you to http://trilema.com/2017/lets-revisit-the-google-is-irrelevant-discussion/#comment-123812
asciilifeform: today -- lynx , still ( of last try ) .
mircea_popescu: irene_yvonne not at the moment, but conceivably. how did you end up on it anyway ?
asciilifeform: 'open' contemplated above is the very basic 1990s sense, where 'can i take source, and build for my mips r4000' etc.
irene_yvonne: mircea_popescu: the article said that this isn't one time offer. So, any other photo ideas?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i very honestly dun see the difference (talking here of ancient opera, not hte ipadization)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 21:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746771 << as opposed to what exactly "open" turd out there ? http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-03#1746024 ? or what precisely are we comparing to here. openbios ? name the standard "open".
mircea_popescu: irene_yvonne be a few hours till trinque gets around to it.
irene_yvonne: i'm setting up electrum wallet as we speak, give me a few minutes and i'll give you the address
mircea_popescu: o both of them, scroll trick.
mircea_popescu: irene_yvonne quite ok. i take it this;d be irene then ?
ben_vulpes: nice lipstick graffiti in that first one
irene_yvonne: is that ok?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha ty.
mircea_popescu: totally forgot about the french twins. how's it going you two ?
a111: Logged on 2016-01-10 16:52 asciilifeform: 'when i am gone, they will strangle the lot of you like kittens'
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: pfff. it's in there.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how the original ibn saud tolerated the schmucks tbh.
asciilifeform: evidently 'riyadh prince' in fact turned out to be the item presupposed in the linked orlol : merely a version of american office plankton but with 5 or 6 additional zeroes after the decimal point
mircea_popescu: it just boggles the imagination. why ? what ELSE are they doing with their time ?
mircea_popescu: i very honestly can't begin to understand how one goes about calling self "saudi prince", but doesn't have to type in code every few hours or else riyadh is flat.
mircea_popescu: if they had enough fucking sense to a) rocket field and b) bitcoin, there'd have been no hotel.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 19:33 asciilifeform: 'if some government decides that Bitcoin is not its friend, it can simply ask you, nicely at first, to relinquish your cyberwallet to it. I doubt that too many of the Saudi princes that were recently disencumbered of much of their net worth while being tortured by Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh ended up playing coy '
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746827 << i don't get this. so... "fiat didn't work for fiat dorks ergo bitcoin doesn't work". ☝︎
asciilifeform: after that, 'le deluge'
asciilifeform: or however long they expect to live.
asciilifeform: ~nobody actually walks around believing , literally, in 'thousand year reich'. most of the believers, on examination, believe in roughly a 30 yr reich
mircea_popescu: brick has the speed ^ 4 problem.
mircea_popescu: what, it's going to stay irrational EVEN LONGER THAN FOREVER ?
mircea_popescu: but the baked in assumption is that big ape stays rational ~forever~, and this still doesn't sum up to anything good for it.
asciilifeform: ( if thrown hard enuff -- for potentially rather long time )
asciilifeform: well-thrown brick can fly in the face of gravity for a while.
mircea_popescu: other than flying in the face of both logic and evidence, sure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the least outrageous formulation iirc was something like 'big ape can stay irrational for longer than smart apes can stay solvent' or how it went.
asciilifeform: apeloyee: i'm leaning to using named arguments AND nonoverloaded shift operators.
mircea_popescu: it just never panned out to date is all.
apeloyee: asciilifeform: just that 5 positional arguments is a bit too much to remember, and I was asking why, say, Count is fourth, and not, e.g. second, so it would be easier to remember which is which. alternatively, can use named arguments.
mircea_popescu: which... is a theory.
mircea_popescu: ie, big ape better than smart ape.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform words are "no matter how clever, because they use far less technical means"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not beyuond the realm of the plausible that i fuck some chick and she delivers 3kgs of solid gold 9 months later, by the same measure of realms.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think orlol's argument casts us as the zulu, and usg as the d00dz with the maxim
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 19:33 asciilifeform: representative sample, 'bloodsucking bankers and governments are unlikely to be defeated by an algorithm, no matter how clever, because they use far less technical means to enforce their interests: security agencies, criminal investigators and prosecutors, tax auditors, courts and prisons'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746825 << very fucking lulzy. "zulus are unlikely to be mowed down by machine gun, no matter rate of fire, because THEY ARE REAL MEN" ☝︎
asciilifeform: but it isn't beyond the realm of the plausible that the sc4mz0r actually got to take home 100k usd, say.
asciilifeform: i'll be the first to admit that i haven't the faintest idea.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what portion of this dogecoin is reality ?
mircea_popescu: actually... i don't think. i... know! http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#comment-122811
asciilifeform: but in this case i meant , in reality.
asciilifeform: if one were to believe their plaquards -- then yes
mircea_popescu: i think ~every businessman in luxor center for businessmen made moar than all my creations summed together also.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform didn't we do that thing about young male's "business wet dreams" ?
asciilifeform: ( earned for the peddler, that is )
asciilifeform: and yet -- supposing the numbers have any relation to reality -- it earned moar than all of asciilifeform's creations summed together.
mircea_popescu: lulzy : between feb 14 and may 15 the price dropped 90%.
asciilifeform: to be fair i did not order lolcat. perhaps -- not on time, not to spec, not satisfied users.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is exactly industry tho -- lolcats delivered on-spec, timely , and exactly as the purchasers ordered !111
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 19:00 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746367 << seems to be back.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746820 << https://archive.is/lurkmore.to extensive outage. maybe time to mirror it. ☝︎
ben_vulpes: question then arises, how do you know from cunt alone whether to fuck a la brunette or redhead
a111: Logged on 2017-12-05 18:54 asciilifeform: this, i suppose, is the 'industry' in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746553
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-05#1746818 << no, this is the lohotry. ☝︎
asciilifeform: as observed in the end of ch.1.
asciilifeform: sorta has to be.
mircea_popescu: if your problem is that you want fuck(brunette) and fuck(redhead) to be pretty much the same thing, how about calling it fuck_brunette() and fuck_redhead() instead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not really sure. iirc i only had it in 1 place, (not yet introduced in tutorial) , where the 'add' has an incarnation that accepts a single WBool to add instead of a whole fz
asciilifeform: i picked the variant where there are 3 variants of each shifter ( not counting the secret-shift , made per apeloyee's method )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, i had no idea what the argument PRO overloading was.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 18:08 asciilifeform: diana_coman: you do have a point , though, an ffa that is an ideal mathematical description of every relevant bound, would look slightly different from the ffa i actually have, that has to actually run on idjit cmachine iron in something like real time.