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mircea_popescu: which is on some level funny, considering she looks like a 13yo boy escaped from a siberian orphanage, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: yes. like, if you put a dab of icecream on your tongue, or if you open a creaky door, or if you catch a hare running off in the bushline
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 00:58:45; nubbins`: second one spent a fuckin hour selling us on the experience of selling our house through her
mircea_popescu: which live in a country that's not pobre.
mircea_popescu: just drop this "federation" or w/e it's called, start a new one. who gives a shit
BingoBoingo: Built a brand on neon trunks covered in skulls, but Reebock doesn't think they can market it? FU
asciilifeform: hanbot: the basic idea of 'rotor' is that you have quite the same stator as before, but it is built with a toolchain (gcc and binutils) that were built for the occasion, and use musl
asciilifeform: hanbot: you will have a dir, outermost, named what you like - e.g., 'rotor', and then rotor/toolchain and rotor/buildroot-xxx and rotor/stator, inside the latter - quite the same thing as in normal stator, other than the musl patch and the rotor.sh script (replacing the old stator.sh)
asciilifeform: hanbot: it means that the stator has to be set up in the same way as for classic stator - there is a 'distfiles' dir, the one with MANIFEST, that needs to have the tarballs placed therein
BingoBoingo would happily take 2.5 kilodollars to get beat provided a referee exists to call stoppage for tko. USD have been scarce here since misdemeanor thing started
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not certain that it wouldn't be a step up for me! just think, instead of showing up to the office for a week, just one, just one punch in the head
mircea_popescu: because it's easier to play the clown, and A LOT more hitchhiker hos line up for it.
mircea_popescu: you neglect to consider that for most people we discuss, this would be a step up.
mircea_popescu: be a star! make money! better career than gavin's!
mircea_popescu: According to the released figures, a combatant with less than five fights in the UFC will make $2,500 in sponsorship money per fight
mircea_popescu: i do not expect the head of a headbashing federation to be "diplomatic", whatever that weans
mircea_popescu: "It was just the latest in a string of calloused comments made by UFC's head honcho -- far from the diplomatic dialogue expected of the largest mixed martial arts organization"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo what's a "cutman" << Stops the bleeding in between rounds.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what's a "cutman"
asciilifeform: wrote a spiffy poker bot
asciilifeform: one of my uni profs, a grey old man, was named that
mircea_popescu: ftr : dana is a common female name in romania
assbot: The UFC's Dana White is stuck in a PR quagmire. ... ( http://bit.ly/1LQZMU5 )
mircea_popescu: or just do what i do and run a random box for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: or w/e, make a different random pick.
mircea_popescu: cuz then you're gonna say it was a coincidence.
mircea_popescu: (x is a pos)
mircea_popescu: even using x a lot.
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 04:17:19; mircea_popescu: but the beating usg is taking online for the past half decade makes the beating it's been taking on the ground in any military engagement since ww2 look like a piss in the park.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-07-2015#1216111 << the difference between a 'opm' beating and a genuine one is that the beaten fella isn't back next week asking for more, at the end of a genuine one ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 04:16:42; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're getting decimated alright, you're just not in a too good position to observe it i guess.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's looking like to build a working Eulora Imma have to do it like Bitcoin-qt and hit delete a lot. This closed source Nvidia CS-toolkit is no bueno
BingoBoingo: That was the moment where the transition went from every individual computer manufacterer's branded Microsoft DOS to the unified Windows monolith. It really is no wonder... considering what was going on at IBM in retrospect... that people though OS/2 had a chance
pete_dushenski: "Drivers who work for Uber should verify their vehicles are insured for commercial use, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said Tuesday after the Alberta government concluded the ride-hailing service's insurance policies don't meet that province's requirements." << ayup. sv's 'sharing economy' is a whole whack of insurance fraud.
BingoBoingo: Windows wasn't really even much of a thing apparently until Windows 95 when the local Walmart had lines for it thanks to "marketing"
mircea_popescu: but the beating usg is taking online for the past half decade makes the beating it's been taking on the ground in any military engagement since ww2 look like a piss in the park. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're getting decimated alright, you're just not in a too good position to observe it i guess. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 04:57:56; asciilifeform: essentially, something so utterly catastrophic to usg that it could not possibly be a hangout
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, that was actually a rather lulzy forced humiliation.
gribble: Dear Guardian : stop being retarded. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/dear-guardian-stop-being-retarded>; Trilema Presei on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.: <http://trilema.com/category/trilema-presei/>; Dear Mr Gove: what's so 'British' about your 'British ... - The Guardian: <http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/jul/01/gove-what-is-so-british- (1 more message)
mircea_popescu: still draggedf their feet for almost a whole day.
asciilifeform: that everybody with half a neuron already knew about
asciilifeform: of 1990s-era programs a la 'echelon'
mircea_popescu: also, he had a "safety stash"
mircea_popescu: he had a bag of dicks.
mircea_popescu: this is "my girlfriend was a virgin when i met her because her previous boyfriend had a shitty job"
mircea_popescu: it can only be plausible if simultaneously a) one's never had any sort of interaction wit hthe usg and b) one's stewed for years / millions of words' worth in some armchair generalship club.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the difference is a brick in the face. << I lean towards attributing this to the two having sifferent roles and access. Difference being Snowden1 achieved escape velocity before collaborating with Greenwald and others while 2 blindly followed 1's example into trap
asciilifeform: i can think of a few others
asciilifeform: (they make him work a full shift, imagine)
asciilifeform: as in, a formulated hypothesis ?
mircea_popescu: care to make this a narrative for my benefit ?
asciilifeform: the difference is a brick in the face.
asciilifeform: but a spent shell, and some smoke.
asciilifeform: we don't have a corpse, no
mircea_popescu: not that what you propose doesn't make for a better story, but still.
assbot: 48 results for 'hangout' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=hangout
asciilifeform: hardcore philologists may care about the imaginary personal life of a literary character, sure
asciilifeform: and anyway, snowden is a tv character
BingoBoingo: I find Snowden and Saavis guy a nive contrast. Snowden gets hot stripper wife, Saavis CEO get stripper fired.
gribble: Error: "istrilema" is not a valid command.
mats: a man does not purport to reveal govt wrongdoing and then proceed to dump hundreds of thousands of documents indiscriminately
asciilifeform: he was permitted to write a book, the very typical 'escaped sov brass' boot, nominally 'edgy' but 100% usg-approved
phf: i don't know the bush and the policeman reference, but i assume "bent in two, tied together and thrown out" is a reference to his espionage trial, then the same
phf: i met oleg kalugin at russian cultural center, he had a handler with him, a tall gentleman, presumably from cia, who mas making sure that kalugin doesn't say something he's not supposed to say. i always wanted one of those, but until that time i just look for coded messages in the new yorker :)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, it was a carnegie, and rockefeller, and so on and so on thing
mircea_popescu: very much like a holywood film i guess.
decimation: after wwi anyone who wasn't a dead or on fire was by default the 'winner'
mircea_popescu: sort of a reversed lenin equation. "sturdy but dumb" + "aluminum siding salesmen" = $$$
mircea_popescu: edison definitely instrumental in all of this, but there's a good half dozen names involved.
phf: it's sitll pax americana last time i checked, so everyone's a hater
mircea_popescu: also, anyone who thinks "america has brought porn" is a fucktard of prime order.
decimation: somehow it's okay to drive a gigantic truck with seats (suv) but a minivan isn't - even though it's more efficient and generally can carry more stuff
mircea_popescu: 1.3k cc engine "trucks" that can't climb a 3% incline.
decimation: there's a weird cultural thing in america about minivans
mircea_popescu: they came up with thje "let's put a lawnmower engine in ten cubic meters of injected plastic" thing all on their own
mircea_popescu: a facility which is both why so very few women do anything notable and at the same time why stuff like language even maintains any sort of continuity over time.
mircea_popescu: the avatars of "common sense" as held by the mentally stunted adult roman woman of "respectable extraction" would find exact equivalents in the heads of your new york rachel fucktard today, or in the heads of british imbecile a century ago, or wherever else. and it'd take them all of half an hour to start nodding approvingly at each other
assbot: Logged on 29-07-2015 00:19:03; nubbins`: and then literally reversed a bunch of the terms in the next version, so a site was now a web and a web was now a site
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-07-2015#1215506 << i recall laughing at people for this reason a decade ago. ☝︎
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform as a pot smoking hippie in some alternate reality...the stuff good sitcoms are made of
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: didn't take you for a mission impossible fan.
gernika: There's a generation of americans that believed in those ads and movies too.
BingoBoingo: Only Hollywood movies where CIA is an antagonist are the ones where Tom Cruise works for a still more secret agency
phf: there's a lot of russian jews working at NIH, self style soviet dissidents, who now run various research departments same way as they were doing it back then. the common sentiment is basically "we've been had for a pair of chinese jeans"
phf: BingoBoingo: there's an entire generation of foreigners who believed in the america of coca cola commercials and schwarzenegger movies. they thought the aspirational simulacrum is the real deal. so of course moving here was a huge letdown.
nubbins`: maybe you need to move to a new city ;p
nubbins`: and i've got a two-minute walk.
asciilifeform: didn't say there was a solution, l0l
nubbins`: i'm not sure why i'm trying to help you find a solution
asciilifeform: there is a coffee man there, also. but he sells starbuxified crapbeans
nubbins`: "coffee subscriptions" are a thing, even.
asciilifeform would like to be able to drink a ~decent~ cup of coffee without having to personally import, roast, and grind the beans ☟︎
phf: nubbins`: i always thought blends are like multigrain breads, a way to have a brand separate from the product, so you can easily substitute your sources
phf: asciilifeform: it was a reasonable guess :)
nubbins`: ^ a great place to start if you're curious
nubbins`: asciilifeform a roast takes ~6 minutes in a popper
asciilifeform: 'want a glass of beer? here's some sand, some lime, some hop seeds...'
nubbins`: later, i re-wired a breadmaking machine and heatgun combo into a roaster
nubbins`: low volume tho. 1/4cup at a time.