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williamdunne: "This is actually
a very nice write up. Well done.
williamdunne: Just read this comment from
a couple years back, speaks strongly:
mircea_popescu: anyway i should prolly publish the bw graph for the week lol. once it came back online it spent
a few hours at 2MB/s
BingoBoingo: French also has become kind of
a fail language. Too Anglicized last century
adlai isn't sure esperanto meets any definition of "very good" beyond "has been force-taught to
a few kids"
felipelalli: I heard Korean is
a very good (almost artificial) language, like Esperanto.
BingoBoingo also thinks Prussia should have been surrendered as reparations for the purposes of Establishing
a Jewish state after WWII
adlai: hebrew is an interesting language... quite regular, quite abstract. basically what you'd expect of
a [re]constructed language that gets developed almost exclusively by either military slang or theological discourse
adlai: speaking it,
a misdemeanor
adlai: teaching it should be
a criminal offense!
felipelalli: BingoBoingo: True! Most of my reading is technical stuff, because I am
a developer and I am totally focused in it now, learning and developing systems. But it is totally different than the "natural language". I lived 1 year in Australia, it helped me
a lot, but I don't feel very comfortable yet.
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: Well, the second best way to learn
a language is reading stuff.
felipelalli: thanks BingoBoingo! I'd like to read more the logs, it is my TODO list, I just can't priorize too much it in this moment of my life. Also my English is not good as I wish so it is
a little hard to me understand everything in full and because that I became
a little hesitant to participate.
BingoBoingo might consider spending more time in the United States to do law school and become
a "Doing it doesn't mean you're guilty" lawyer
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It would also be interesting to read your counter-complaint - I can only imagine it follows along the lines of your correspondence with the SEC, but with
a few more insults thrown in for good measure
danielpbarron: What's known as "Internet Brigading" - the situation where
a lot of people with no money and no practical importance complain loudly, as if anyone cares what the stupid poor say or think on any topic. << I had this happen to me over
a particularly offensive tweet that got featured on some blog
BingoBoingo: Not yet. I'll drink
a bit, come up with some ideas, and see if any ideas survive the hangover tomorrow afternoon.
BingoBoingo: Could be useful for hosting
a qntra BTC price index. I'm thinking
a static page <body><h1>$5000/BTC</h1></body>
mircea_popescu: "Today, it's all gone. You get
a whale show up with four million in
a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number."
jurov: lol TheNewDeal. what
a statement.
adlai: pawning may be
a better term
adlai: i swear, you stop looking at
a market for
a few days, and it goes crazy
gribble: Error: 'bitstamp' is not
a valid non-negative floating point number.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i had no idea there was restorepkg for
a «Сетунь» !
adlai: this elon, he's
a clever guy. oughtta do marketing.
adlai: there was glass between them, the other guy was sitting in the outside patio of
a cafe... and they just stared at eachother until my friend gave up
adlai: actually there's this game
a friend of mine "invented", where you must maintain eye contact whenever it is accidentally (or not) made with
a stranger
mats: i can't even imagine the vast number of neck, back, and general injuries from poor posture the world will see in
a decade
chetty: so standing in
a line I was noticing all the people doing whatever on cellphones, all I could think was "For this we evolved opposable thumbs?"
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> nubbins`: if i did not have
a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations. << Sprats come in can, RATIONS!!!
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i did not have
a full-time pet to handle the food problem, i would probably have to survive on something like military rations.
nubbins`: but i'm of the opinion that very few adult north americans have even the faintest idea of how to feed themselves properly, let alone on
a sensible budget
ascii_field: nubbins`: academic, though. food is scarcely
a tenth of it
nubbins`: that said, i'm pretty sure
a 15kg bag of rice doesn't cost much more than
a few shit sandwiches from mcd's anywhere in north america
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food,
a luxury. just as air on
a space capsule is not
a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth) <<< i don't fully buy into the "it's cheaper to eat shitty" mentality, but it's my understanding that the dynamics involved therein are vastly different in your country
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had
a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me
a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no. <<< the sets of {co-inhabitants} and {dirtbags} don't have as complete an overlap as you'd think
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> nubbins`: if i worked in
a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy
a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead?
a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ? <<< not in so many words :P
ascii_field: the 'up-side' - perhaps the only one - of being
a hermit monster is that the tools built for nailing the 'eusocial' don't work on you. i.e. you negrate
a usg shill in your mind at most forty seconds after initial contact
ascii_field wonders how many years of jail are given for predicting the output of
a legit, un-pwned winblows rng in lottery
mircea_popescu: "man that didn't shoot the cop had
a gun! neighbours saw it!"
mircea_popescu: <Chillum> How can people be so clever yet make such dumb mistakes << whole thing reads to me more like
a case of baxies than anything legitimately prosecutable.
mircea_popescu: <mats> warehouse of computer antiques sounds like
a lot of luxuries to me. << anything sounds like
a luxury to someone somewhere!
lobbes: maybe he didn't have
a wot
ascii_field: 'The former security director "was 'obsessed' with root kits,
a type of computer program that can be installed quickly, set to do just about anything, and then self-destruct without
a trace," prosecutors wrote. They went on to say
a witness would testify at trial that Tipton told him before December 2010 that he had
a self-destructing rootkit.' << 'hands off the specialist toolz, plebe'
adlai: "live fast, die young, leave
a good-looking corpse" says nothing about the absence of respirators for the autopsy team
ascii_field: and my new digs aren't quite big enough to make any difference space-wise. i moved to
a free-standing building mainly to get further away from other human beings
ascii_field: mats: i lived in
a flat quite like (from what i can tell) yours, for most of
a decade.
mats: rent is not nearly as usurious, as, say, DC, but
a space like mine (own room, roommates adjacent) costs... $1k/mo
mats: in any event -- i'm envious. my living space is too small to accommodate much more than what i could fit in
a hatchback
ascii_field: mats: 'warehouse' is
a bit of exaggeration. the whole lot would (and did, when i moved) fit in
a small van.
mats: warehouse of computer antiques sounds like
a lot of luxuries to me.
ascii_field: (i do not consider eating genuine, vs. recycled food,
a luxury. just as air on
a space capsule is not
a luxury, even if it costs what gold costs down on earth)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but do you know it is in fact
a biological answer << after
a certain amount of exposure, and getting weaker rather than stronger, one leans that - if there was an age where having one's legs pulled on, would have lengthened them - that age is past
ascii_field: i.e., the question may well have
a biological answer, but knowing it does me little good.
adlai: pete_dushenski: why does the
http response never terminate? it's
a .txt...
ascii_field: e.g., why did hanbot work well as
a forum demolitions expert, but isn't (afaik!)
a soldier in meatspace ?
ascii_field: because can be zoologist to text on
a screen
ascii_field: <mircea_popescu> and YET you protest the hyena << so i had
a quiet and physically clean upbringing. this is who i am. i get that it gives me
a short life expectancy, yes. but jumping from cliffs doesn't grow wings, no.
ascii_field: adlai:anthem is precisely the correct dose of ayn rand for
a healthy brain << i will admit to having read pretty much all of rand
ascii_field: and this ^ is not
a toy, it is as essential as clothes to me.
ascii_field: nubbins`: maybe once you get enough toys it'll be
a fair trade << all the toys i buy put together are dwarfed by the cost of living like
a human being (e.g., not having rabid hyenas in my home, nor within 100 metres, etc.)
adlai: kosher laws are such
a messy patchwork of whitelists and blacklists
ascii_field: 'Going Galt' << somehow everybody forgets that the character in the book had
a fucking -invisibility machine- hiding his fort
adlai: "Also,
a kosher variant of Spam, known as Loof (Hebrew: לוף,
a Hebrew linguistic play on meatloaf), was produced by Richard Levi, and mostly used as part of field rations by the Israel Defense Forces."
ascii_field was convinced that his 'bear' had
a snout, ate from
a trough
mircea_popescu: kinda gamey, like
a pig that grew up thinking it's pheasant ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i am told that i did, but methinks it was
a fraud
ascii_field: nubbins`: if i worked in
a cubicle, the last thing i would do is buy
a pogo and mess with it << what did you buy and play with instead?
a nagant, testing how it feels in the mouth, as in mircea_popescu's 'dulap' story ?
mircea_popescu: still, "hard to herd
a herd"... you heard it here first
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ok, but you know... kinda hard to herd
a herd if you're so olfactorily intolerant
ascii_field: whereas i have zero patience with the very concept of having the very smell of
a rabid dog in my home.
ascii_field: nubbins`: but i'll note that this is
a problem with alf, not with walking away << i've noticed that even you have exhausted your patience with the bipedal rabid dog in your home...
pete_dushenski: but i'm not as cultured and worldly as i think i am. just
a soap opera star!
nubbins`: pete_dushenski i bring
a smartphone instead of
a laptop precisely to limit my tech usage
nubbins`: i usually aim for at least
a week or two
nubbins`: everyone who travels has
a point at which they become tired. for some, this is 6mos. for others, 1mo.
nubbins`: (protip: get yourself
a flight rewards credit card /before/ you quit your office job. they only check your annual salary when you first sign up)