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mircea_popescu: honestly, i'd be kinda loath to take bites out of china.
midnightmagic: my mistake the show is called "A Bite Of China" but damned if I can find the episode now :)
BingoBoingo: I'm back, mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo grab a chick'n while at it. << How does that saying go... "Don't shit where you eat"
midnightmagic: mircea_popescu: pure salt is. The impurities give it the weird extra flavours. I mean some I'm not cool with. There's this weird black salt that has a lot of sulphur in it.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but i mean... salt is salt, right ? it forms deposits, acertain way. why labour intensive ?
mircea_popescu: ironically, the sechuan pepper i actually like
mircea_popescu: i never got into chinese. sushi i like, indian lamb i like, but chinese... hm. what's it even for.
dub: i want chinee food now
midnightmagic: you just have to know a chinese person. I got some great stuff smuggled out. :-D
benkay: <bitstein> Somewhat related, I'm working on an article about how merchants are just scammers trying to swindle you out of your bitcoins. // i'm starting to like you
nubbins`: reason i'm wondering is we got a job producing cd jackets etc for a band, and we're printing on the discs
copumpkin: hell, I can't even remember the last time I handled physical media
nubbins`: i know right
nubbins`: i'm trying to see if i can make a business case for buying one of these cd duplication machines
nubbins`: benkay i know all the verbs you just used
mircea_popescu: i never had that thing. what the hell is it
copumpkin: busy eating some hand grasp bread I just made
BingoBoingo: I guess that people will have to read other places that he is suspected of being the lead USG plant
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Ah, I though I'd give him the "UnsavoryGarnish, Vegetable" ninjashogun and gmaxwell earned
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> What was Hearn's nick? << i don't recall he ever managing to figure out the gpg arcana. i imagine he'll first have to implement a google code version, that doesn't work.
benkay: BingoBoingo: still no software then i gather
mircea_popescu: benkay o, i don't imagine his recent derpage has any substance to it, merely him trying his best at crafting effectual calumny.
BingoBoingo: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kn6VXOVa--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zo17x0u9io1fppluzmmk.jpg
mike_c: BingoBoingo: yeah, it didn't seem completely retarded. i had attached some of that feeling to this ethereum thingy. didn't realize it was just a complete nothing.
mike_c: i didn't think we were there yet.
mike_c: jurov is a big fan. unless i dreamt all this.
mike_c: da fuck am i thinking of? mycelium, etherwhoizt. what the fuck is that node-less wallet thingy?
bitstein: Well I'm amazed by any purchase of Ethereum, so...
assbot: merkley???: I May Not Be God, But at Least I'm Real.
BingoBoingo: "I would encourage you to finish before the majority of your committee members retire. (seriously.)" << Roflmao, I know a between one and two hand full of countable fingers of these people.
mircea_popescu: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/behold/2014/06/Troy/lawrence_2007.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg <<< i bet this filename was created on a windows.win.windows.xp.windows system
bitstein: I'll pass on a draft later on. I have school in the way right now.
bitstein: Somewhat related, I'm working on an article about how merchants are just scammers trying to swindle you out of your bitcoins.
FoOdies: I'll consider a shpaga when I meet you
FoOdies: can I have perma voice ?
FoOdies: I like this place, it's all kinds of weird
mircea_popescu: and it's really universal. i was out one night here, and a bum (there's tons of bums in buenos aires, they have matresses in the street and whatnot) started howling. like 3 am.
FoOdies: god damn it don't I know it
BingoBoingo: <FoOdies> true but I doubt people who've been to an interrecial intersex interspecies orgy are interested in reading any porn << if only you knew what a hassel these things are to set up...
bitstein: mircea_popescu: Oh yes! I need to re-read it, but that was a great TLP article.
FoOdies: true but I doubt people who've been to an interrecial intersex interspecies orgy are interested in reading any porn
FoOdies: why would I need to read about other retards' mishaps when I have a first have experience with fbi+mi5+sri
BigBitz: mircea_popescu: BattleField Hardline. I was just making a funny.
FoOdies: I can't believe I took 10 minutes of my precious life to read about some mentally retarded homophobic racist conspiracy nutjob hacker
bitstein: I don't think so.
thickasthieves: i'm selling out for the community
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think the applicable term to describe weev is "fall guy" or "meat shield"
mircea_popescu: one too many trilema links i nthere.
mircea_popescu: well mike_c wanted stabilisation so i guess mike_c gets stabilisation.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I like to think of them as Patrons of the Derps
thickasthieves: i guess mods got me on speed dial or sumth
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yes, i am forgetting the idiots.
gribble: #21131 Tue Jul 22 18:01:45 2014 DoctorBTC SELL 1.0 OTC Handholding @ 0.1 BTC (I'll gently guide you through registering and authing with gribble)
mircea_popescu: i guess i can make a 3 month future too, if enough demand.
BingoBoingo: If ethereum manages to ship this winter I doubt it's market cap will survive at a size greater than ATC's through April next year
thickasthieves: who actually wants these smart contracts anyway? i dont get who ethereum is providing for
asciilifeform: carnegie mellon << 'Silicon Valley, unlike their Victorian forebears, do not realize that, if they want all this science, they will actually have to pay for it - themselves. Instead, they look at their tax forms and think: I gave at the office. But they didn't. They gave to scientocracy. Now, they need to figure out how to patronize science - or there will be no science. Just scientific Bondo, sanded to perfecti ☟︎
assbot: The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) - Why I Hate Frameworks
mircea_popescu: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431 << as usual, joel gets it exactly right. this is why i hate - not frameworks - but java. and all the other hipster languages ran by children with delusions of skills and importance they don't actually have.
thickasthieves: "I am a fan of making volume obsolete as an indicator" ~bitcoin trader
thickasthieves: there was that 5 strikes thing or whatever but i never heard of anyone losing their web access
mircea_popescu: if it were about eating cunt i could see the angle.
mircea_popescu: i gloat over fat fucks being predictably stupid, not over the deck being stacked against them.
mircea_popescu: tell wikipedia boi i said citation needed.
mircea_popescu: wow, i was right two years ago.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> http://i.imgur.com/OJChRcu.gif << whoa that shit's cool!
danielpbarron: the -otc crowd says I don't know how to rate
danielpbarron: wow a 3; i feel special now
danielpbarron: thickasthieves, meh sorta; I linked to the log in my rating for him
assbot: The Joel on Software Discussion Group (CLOSED) - Why I Hate Frameworks
thickasthieves: my wife wants to look at trees n stuff though, so i guess good weather is for the best
thickasthieves: well shit itll be a month before i go, but i want teh rainz
thickasthieves: <+mike_c> and seattle just drizzles at you every day of the year. /// so i will fly there and settle this once and for all!
BingoBoingo: Hey @Medium @marklotto @davidkushner, I have some corrections for your article. https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d …
thickasthieves: which is disappointing cuz i like rain and I am unsatisfied
thickasthieves: yeah i only learned recently that I get more rain than seattle
BingoBoingo: thickasthieves: I think clouds are temporary except up in Benkay land
Mats_cd03: i don't know anything about physics or solar panels. is there some kind of limited power generation even under cloud cover? UV is what made me consider this
thickasthieves: “We’re not doing as bad as people think we are,” says Martinez. “But I think we’ll have an opportunity to advance as the price continues to come down.”
Mats_cd03: i'm basic.
chetty: thickasthieves, uhoh now I have a coffeed keyboard
thickasthieves: http://i.imgur.com/OJChRcu.gif
thickasthieves: local redneck on facebook: "I am offering free bungee jumping to all Muslims - no strings attached."
Mats_cd03: today, i learned Windows will never use the first mb of physical memory for anything, because buggy firmware corrupts it so often
nubbins`: i guess the current system works well enough for the vendors, otherwise you'd see this
benkay: expert system, i lol'd
pankkake: I never know which it which. maybe " is feet because it's bigger?
mircea_popescu: I SAID MY PENIS STATUE SHOULD BE 12 inches not 12 feet!!1
thickasthieves: i like some IPA, witbier, belgian, stout
thickasthieves: I'm gonna visit Seattle and Portland, in case anyone has any recommendations/warnings for things
nubbins`: i'm not even sure this is the right bus
nubbins`: i thought it was tuesday
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> we don't sew << i thought you were married
nubbins`: we don't sew, but i suppose an all-over print isn't out of the question
benkay: <mircea_popescu> bitbet. giving the bitcoin population the sort of graphs it wants to see. since 2012. // i want a shirt that has a bunch of zig-zaggy up-and-to-the-right arrows patterned across it
thickasthieves: NFLX down 5% today :) glad I hung in there
mircea_popescu: but i tell you by the time you're a decade or so in business that itch's well scratched.
mircea_popescu: i mean everyone gets as a kid this urge to write their name on things,
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones i might have to.
mircea_popescu: so today is the sad day i have to sign paperwork for all the llcs and whatnot.