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phf: mircea_popescu: i was expecting fresh seafood, it being a coastal country, easily available. oaxaca and guerrero for example had fish markets all over the shore.
asciilifeform: a very other thing to cut messages
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the wedge point would take about a week to reach, at typical pace, if starting from nil
mircea_popescu: i think they had a milk bar, funnily enough.
phf: i can believe about a steak, and i think it would've been a safe bet to go to a steakhouse, but after a week of diving and swimming i'm not usually in the mood for heavier foods
asciilifeform: mats: i have that article printed and bound, on a shelf (or... had. iirc it grew legs, wandered away)
asciilifeform: mats: drepper is not a talentless man. if he were, he'd be harmless.
phf: yeah, beans, rice, chicken, plantains on a plate. they are pretty much an item on every small roadside place menu
phf: mircea_popescu: ok, i yield. in the small shore towns all they have is casados, which is not something i expected after shore towns in other countries with rich sea food cuisine. so my first experience in the big city is a cheat sheet silverware and undercooked chicken for the girl. at that point i, and i agree, unfairly, assumed that they just don't like food.
gernika: I'm just trying to imagine life from the perspective of someone who could read that and buy it. A Trilema article mast seem like a solid, impenetrable brick wall.
pete_dushenski: don't tell me you're so rich you have a 'wiper'
phf: we must've stayed in two different san joses, but i stayed for two days, after a week on the coast, so my expectations were already skewed
mircea_popescu: originally was gonna stay for a coupla weeks, but we liked it that much.
mircea_popescu: a soi dissant casino
mircea_popescu: incidentally, site:trilema.com costa rica turns out a bunch of stuff
mircea_popescu: phf you can't miss it, there's a bunch of mcd kfc etc. only place in town they even exist.
mats: but hard to shake the eyeballs as a couple of asians strolling around town
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu phf the three of us should have a costa rica photo comparison event
mats: on that note, was just in ensenada a few weeks ago, great time to be there -- mostly just locals this time of year
mircea_popescu couldn't stand the coasts, way too hot and humid. the city itself is a very pleasant weather.
phf: san jose reminded me of moscow in the 90s, grown men in track suits selling apples out of cardboard boxes, old women selling roasted something or other, all in the middle of a busy street
mircea_popescu: nuts, i liked san jose a decade ago.
pete_dushenski: and greece just snagged a 86 bn euro loan with a 32.5 yr maturity at 1% interest
pete_dushenski: egyptians can't be bothered to lift a finger, it seems
pete_dushenski: My investment is more than a million dollars for the factory here. But during these two years I’ve lost a lot. It’s all the problem of labor—the mentality of the workers. Our factory needs to run twenty-four hours a day; it’s not just for one shift. In order to do this in Egypt, we have to hire male workers, and the men are really lazy.”
pete_dushenski: lol a silverware cheat sheet. that's pretty embarrassing
phf: we went to the nicest restaurant i could find after a week of casados, waiter was reading silverware placement of a cheat sheet, and the chicken was undercooked. it was almost comic
pete_dushenski: the caribbean coast is beautiful in a different way, being more tropical, lush, and mysterious
pete_dushenski: the pacific coast of costa rica is gorgeous, however. monkeys swinging from trees, perfect sand, a wide variety of ex pats
pete_dushenski: san jose is a dump
phf: i went to costa rica recently, bad food, bad services, one city for the whole country which essentially consists of 5 street blocks of what i would recognize as a city. but the beach was nice, can rent a boat and go diving, etc.
pete_dushenski: i won't pretend like there's a nightlife worth the bother, but i went biking, played tennis, drank several bottles of ginger wine daily
assbot: The world is fundamentally hostile. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1hf3lIQ )
assbot: Emancipation shemancipation, independence shmindependence. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1hf3nAq )
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental flaw of the entire non-ba corporate model, and it's unfixable.
asciilifeform: 'What you can infer here (since Ubiquiti won’t comment) is that the scammers spoofed an employee communication from a fake email account, instructing an employee to wire funds to a “vendor.” In its laziest form, it’s an attack that anyone could mount with an Internet connection and about 5 minutes — the B2B version of the old “Nigerian prince” email fraud, except the prince purports to be your boss.'
asciilifeform: herr krebs is a huminter not a siginter
asciilifeform: 'A hacker posed as one of its employees online and stole $46.7 million from the company's accounts.'
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assbot: A not-so-new era begins in Alberta politics. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1hf1qDY )
pete_dushenski: as covered in http://www.contravex.com/2015/05/06/a-not-so-new-era-begins-in-alberta-politics/
pete_dushenski: ^putting a 26-yo whose never tied her own shoelaces in charge of a bank is batty for a reason
phf: i had a Jamaican friend who would scare white people on campus by trash talking them in patois
cazalla: asciilifeform, yeah there are few docs with a time line of events etc, nothing that isn't in the text of the article anyway
asciilifeform: 'Dutch police claimed the perpetrator created a letter in Notepad which was then mailed to the Jumbo supermarket chain demanding that unless an unknown quantity of bitcoin was paid to him, the attacks would continue.' << wat
mircea_popescu: but hey, a country of slutmint, right. whatchagonnerdo.
mircea_popescu is sad that the imbecile "sane stupid and consensual" crowd has managed to make bdsm appear a sort of roadshow discipline, with all the other circus acts.
phf: i saw hook suspension as part of religious ceremony in souther india, they put a lot more showmanship into the whole process then u.s. bdsm crowd. between music, dancing and the general revelry, it's very impressive
asciilifeform: 'BLARNEY is the leading source of FISA collection, producing over 11,000 reports and is consistently a top contributor to the President's Daily Brief. The program contributes to over 60% of product reporting to the Counterterrorism product line and over 80% of the overall FAA reporting.'
asciilifeform: or am i alone in expecting a paragraph to stick to a subject.
asciilifeform: 'Furnished means rat infested and this is not an exaggeration either w/ dirty linen, leaky gas lines etc. We ran out of a fresh tank of gas only in a few days and kept seeing a rat in our unit. We couldn’t find him until one day, living in our sofa. We heard him nightly and found droppings. It wasn’t until I tore apart the bottom of the sofa to find him there. By the way this is considered an upscale area and where there a
asciilifeform: why, one wonders, did he not fuck a pig instead
asciilifeform: few shelves but missed many. I am paying for all of this for her and her 2 siblings and assuming most of the responsibility for everything else. She leaves lights on, fridge door open which is already a piece of junk, food gets wasted, and drinks’ aren’t cold, she takes no initiative and wonders why I am angry with her all the time.' << win
asciilifeform: the condition of the place because the previous tenants were her sister and family members that had lived there and left it in this condition. My girlfriend threw our food in no particular order in the cupboards and fridge. I noticed thousands of red ants all over the counter and in the cupboards. Once I removed the food products I noticed thousands more and ant eggs all over. I asked her to get off her ass to help she wiped a
hanbot: asciilifeform bad hygiene on my part. by the time i'd gotten the release to build my tabs "saved for later when patching" were a mess, and i didn't re-check.
assbot: A Guide To Buying 5000 Ether/Bitcoin, 2.5x More Than Ethereum’s Genesis Sale Offers | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1heNvhq )
mircea_popescu: http://www.contravex.com/2014/07/23/a-guide-to-buying-5000-ether-bitcoin-2-5x-more-than-ethereums-genesis-sale/#comment-26253 << lol at some dude. is this a new alt of an old scammer or wut.
assbot: Logged on 16-08-2015 01:39:37; mircea_popescu: ironically, the phillipines were a great place before being "progressed". so... expect it in maryland.
assbot: Logged on 16-08-2015 00:54:40; hanbot: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-08-2015#1235149 << for the record i bungled this, built a (seemingly working nevertheless) frankenstein patch-quilt (dnsseed_snipsnip, thermonyukyoolar_kleansing, kills-integer-retardation, ver_now_5_4_endless_name_string, zap_hardcoded_seeds, showmyip_crud, if anyone's interested).
mircea_popescu: ironically, the phillipines were a great place before being "progressed". so... expect it in maryland. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: woman married to a pole with a leaky toilet. wtf people!
mircea_popescu: it's almost like dating a mexican and not making him do your gardening.
mircea_popescu: date a filipino chick ; not make her clean up your house. wtf ?!
assbot: My Experience Dating A Filipina | Philippines Fail BlogPhilippines Fail Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1IUfuJY )
punkman: http://philippinefailblog.com/my-experience-dating-a-filipina/ even bigger chump
mircea_popescu: dude's a naive twerp. you put them to work.
mircea_popescu: "#10. I date a girl for 6 months. We get on fine. She texts me and asks for nearly 70000pesos for house deposit for her and her gay friend who are both house hunting. She says she and friend will pay it back to me the very next day. I decline. She tells me I’m dumped."
punkman: "Im dating a girl for over a year. During this period I pay for flights, hotels, food, clothing, gifts for family, medicine, doctors, taxis, coco juice…basically everything. 100s of thousands of pesos. During this time I wasn’t treated to a single drink, not even a glass of water. She’s obsessed with selfies and facebook."
mircea_popescu: "A month later I get a text asking me to invest in her business." right.
hanbot: i had tabs of "patches to apply" open for two weeks in a mess of others, it got nice and fucked up meanwhile and i hadn't reverified before patching, hurrdurr. yest rebuilt with correct sequence (http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-07-2015#1209307), looks good, notes tonight. ☝︎
hanbot: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=11-08-2015#1235149 << for the record i bungled this, built a (seemingly working nevertheless) frankenstein patch-quilt (dnsseed_snipsnip, thermonyukyoolar_kleansing, kills-integer-retardation, ver_now_5_4_endless_name_string, zap_hardcoded_seeds, showmyip_crud, if anyone's interested). ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: ^When facing such a Bob Beck, best not to be the paying Theo
BingoBoingo: "They can’t look after themselves. These are extremely lazy freeloaders that have no concept of things or any initiative. They say it’s their culture but it’s simply a freeloading lazy exploitative narcissistic mentality, a kind prostitution and uncivilized behavior. "
BingoBoingo: "There were 2 puppies that often came to our home to sleep in the shade. I thought they were wild dogs. I gave them milk or water. Well about 1 week later one puppy was dead in front of our gate. We found out the dogs belonged to our next door neighbor. There were many kids laughing around the dead body so we asked the neighbor to remove the dog for us. She said in a while we are preparing dinner. Then a few days later we noticed
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BingoBoingo pretty sure this time it was ascii who recommended butt pikes for Hearnias including a recommendation for a particular species of pine
BingoBoingo remembers owning a perhaps poor translation of the communist manifesto that suggested ho trains as a replacement for marriage.
mircea_popescu: thus every man and every interaction requiring something like a permission slip from... well..
BingoBoingo: And this article is a woman saying nope
mircea_popescu: how is this a subject and who acclaimed when ?
mircea_popescu: as if there exists anyone in the verbiage side of the us who doesn't, as a principal actiuvity, misrepresent their work.
asciilifeform: you're in for a world of turd.
asciilifeform: but if you allow that it is to be ~ever~ a displayable string,
mircea_popescu: how did he end up playing a part ?
asciilifeform: which he regarded (having had the misfortune to play a part in creating!) as a similar kind of retardation
asciilifeform: briefly back to that thread: the only way to have a channel where any possible bits are correctly drawable on a terminal, is to put the control codes (which move the cursor, or flip colours, or ring fucking bells, or release guillotine blade, or whatnot) on ~another~ channel.
mircea_popescu: but ascii is eminently A REDUCTION of complexity!
mircea_popescu: im starting to think there's really a lot more than meets my eye.
asciilifeform: iirc tcp as originally proposed had a second channel for virtual 'out of band' ! but was never used.
asciilifeform: btw, in-band signalling is precisely why an animal like 'backspace' is a character
mircea_popescu: so you're not really defending a principle, you're just saying "we already have all the complexity for X idiocy, and not for Y idiocy, thus X i won't notice and Y i'll reject"
asciilifeform: now have to put in a whole paragraph of sed, tr, and other potentially drepperized utils
asciilifeform: say we ask that a file carry hash in a header.
mircea_popescu: i can write a manual for how to interact with my file with hashes in it
asciilifeform: throwing garbage into a vt100-compatible terminal breaks things for reasons that are not mysterious at all. rtfm?
asciilifeform: you will even notice that sometimes this results in a permanently b0rk3d terminal.
asciilifeform: 2) have to represent the header differently if payload is meant to be displayable ascii, than if it is a binary
asciilifeform: i can (and often do) sign a tar.gz
mircea_popescu: because what is the difference between "this file is noted in ascii" and "this file includes a hash"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform back to the earlier issue. how do you reconcile your concept of "a file" with your concept of notation ?