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mircea_popescu: anyway, in fairness what i'm saying is that i don't believe that chan is impressive enough in bodycount to constitute
a market anyone would wish to cater to, creating the tv version of hot topic, nor intellectually impressive enough to constitute anyone's thought leadership.
mircea_popescu: cazalla kinda what adolescents have been doing since forever, neh ? pick
a movie/music video/whatevs and imagine it was "about them".
chetty: I been hearing an ad for
a TV show ...Dark Web, apparently all about Silk Road
mircea_popescu: but qt was fucking incensed at the time, and i agree he had
a point.
mircea_popescu: what the studio released is piss. and the comparison an interesting exercise in how "management" can fuck up
a movie even when having everything needed for greatness in
a neat package.
cazalla: watched that last night, at least for the first time in full, not
a bad movie
mircea_popescu: which is the common and imo sensible criterion to distinguish the artist from the common (wo)man : the world in
a raindrop effect.
pete_dushenski: "
A group of bikers will hold
a Muhammad cartoon-drawing contest outside
a Phoenix-area mosque on Friday and they've been told to come armed in case of
a "much-anticipated attack."" << inb4 the cops blame the mosque for starting the ensuing shoot-out
☟︎ pete_dushenski: though my joints don't have the endurance to play 10 games in
a day anymore so i just play for fun once
a week or so.
pete_dushenski: liquidassets i was always
a better doubles player. i'm too big, too white, and my size 12s are too slow to compete in singles.
pete_dushenski: "I know most blocks would not be 20 MB over night. But only if
a small fraction of blocks more than 10 MB, it could dramatically increase of our orphan rate, result of higher fee
pete_dushenski: liquidassets played nationals 3 times, played club tournaments for 7-8 years, played college and won
a few tournaments, won high school provincials
liquidassets: How far did you take it? Were you on
a national team or did you just fuck around in high school?
liquidassets: Canadians always made
a showing, Peru, Argentina, Taipei, Jamaica..
pete_dushenski: even though hardly anyone but bartenders speaks
a lick of french
liquidassets: hmm maybe not, but you look pretty familiar, I'm almost certain we were at
a few of the same tourneys
liquidassets: but have had
a terrible time using colloquy from my desktop
liquidassets: I always seem to lose the ability to log on..seems I have the best luck with the link to irc #b-
a from the mainpage
trinque: however, when the republic starts its first software company give me
a holler :D
mircea_popescu: trinque it's
a republic not
a corporation, ppls are supposed to pick up stuff they're good at and
a good fit for
trinque: re: bitcoind thread, I'm
a hair above useless in C++, and also swapping heavily; however, maybe
a page on the foundation site for available missions might help?
trinque: as the thing has no real alternative.. should command
a price that reflects it
decimation: asciilifeform: I certainly understanding that having firmware in hand is not
a full defense against diddling, but it is
a strong start
trinque: any idea what
a cardano might cost yet?
decimation: in fact, why not use
a stallman 'libreboot' laptop?
decimation: that's
a better argument, but still lame given that most computing components use close designs; firmware
mircea_popescu: but all this aside, not that more's needed : i never bought
a premade computer in my lyf.
mircea_popescu: decimation the notion of carrying
a portable cooker in your lap as
a male should be pretty self-defeating
decimation: mircea_popescu: why is
a laptop worse than
a standard workstation console?
decimation: or
a portable machine with error correcting memory?
BingoBoingo: netbook as notetaking machine was
a solid niche
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform thought that it died because machine for viewing porn in toilet doesn't need keyboard << Life for it I saw on campuses was people who wanted laptop, but didn't want to carry
a laptop. Same people the next years I saw with heavier tablet/keyboard combos
decimation: also note that this is
a tacit admission by intel that they can mint lots of transistors but have no idea how their customers want the transistors to be arranged
RUchimp: \Sorry, using
a different handle
decimation: asciilifeform: actually this is probably
a good faraday cage for low frequencies
BingoBoingo: Amazing. So you actually do have
a frame that can handle pretty much whatever weight UPS packages can throw at it without bumping your shit down to "freight" treatment.
BingoBoingo: Oh, I wasn't using this for games, but that would have been grand. I was right by
a PBS station and could watch "The Victory Garden" in all its glory
decimation: thost little guide wires on the screen always made me
a little happy
BingoBoingo had
a nice 9" trinitron rf signal display machine with integrated optical disk player.
A historical, more trusting Bingo loaned it to
a neighbor and gone.
decimation: I had
a 21 inch trinitron back in the day
mircea_popescu: note that for it to be accepted in the discussion, it must exist prior to the event, not merely be constructed ex post facto as
a contrapositive.
assbot: Logged on 30-05-2015 00:40:56; mircea_popescu: honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting
a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all
BingoBoingo: decimation: Nah, known women. Known is
a mitigating circumstance
mircea_popescu: "Chrisopher Serna (archived) was sentenced to 50 years in prison by
a Florida court for cutting off his girlfriend's head and sticking it on
a pole."
decimation: the inspector failed the plumbing on many counts. meanwhile the plumber who did the work had similar work passed by the same inspector on
a different job
decimation:
A friend told me about how
a local inspector came to examine his house (which he was building himself). The inspector told him that he should have hired
a professional to do the plumbing (he did, but represented his own house to the inspector)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you can find someone like this, it'll usually be
a paralegal.
BingoBoingo: decimation: You can hire
a lawyer, but you gotta make sure they understand they are the hired help. They deal with the clerks and the bitchwork. You do the reading and make the decisions.
decimation: representing yourself in us court is
a recipie for disaster - the government clerks do not take kindly to people
mircea_popescu: fresh off
a community college course in "introduction to journalism" from wichita ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That and he's got
a few fresh off the reddit faces he finds to help throw up occasional extra stories
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo afaik it's just
a hard working guy that is completely misguided as to what constitutes business etc.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic> williamdunne: No, there are actual groups of people with years-long accounts who are paid. Coindesk or coinfire, or $random_lame_news_outlet "broke" the story
a while ago including screenshots and lists of reddit accounts (which they kept private) << It was Coinfire. They've done
a few excellent stories in their history, but the way they operate is just so fucking... odd
midnightmagic: williamdunne: No, there are actual groups of people with years-long accounts who are paid. Coindesk or coinfire, or $random_lame_news_outlet "broke" the story
a while ago including screenshots and lists of reddit accounts (which they kept private)
mircea_popescu: and that goes to the rest of you fuckheads. 1) i know who all of you are. this because your overlords can't keep secrets worth
a shit. 2) my people are intangible or you get fucked.
BingoBoingo: Well, for what it is worth this cat sucks at being feral. I went out for
a cig and it was just sitting under
a tree. Might be someone wanted an outdoor cat as
a pet.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of -10 for cusipzzz with note: ex-bitcoin merchant, meanwhile indicted over money laundering and released provisionally with an understanding that he'll use his supposed clout in the Bitcoin community in exchange for "lenience", whatever that may mean.
cazalla: i can't say i've ever had
a problem with mice or know of anyone that has down under.. cats though? huge problem, huge shits, lots of noise
mircea_popescu: whenever anyone tells you that fucktarded "he who represents himself has
a fool for
a client", do remember : at least it won't be as bad as the silk road defense.
mircea_popescu: whereas the rest of the derps are essentially going on
a "holy shit something we never heard of before- BURN THE WITHCq!1"
mircea_popescu: "As I've written before, Silk Road was undoubtedly
a net positive for the health, safety, and liberty of most of its customers and sellers. "
cazalla: what harm is
a field mouse?
BingoBoingo: All last night, every 15 minutes, squeak squeak squeak as it plays with another mouse for quite
a while liek it is eating
a korean octopus dish
BingoBoingo: So it seems we have
a young stray cat in the neighborhood that really likes it's dinner still screaming.
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 21:45:33; trinque: it also brings to mind the way these things develop, where first intent may be something which increases or decreases the legal severity of some other crime, but over time becomes
a crime all its own