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hanbot: <mircea_popescu> yes. the place you describe, btw, is prolly "bad curtain" mentioned afore. << badea cartan was indeed pretty satisfying. except for that one time i went to the fish shop on a blazing afternoon and found the attendant woman eating a rather underdone softboiled egg with a tiny spoon behind the buckets of crap and icre crap and experienced an acute tactile-olfactory horror
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, who's your source for "company costs 800, visa costs 1200" etc ? << "Valet" service for incorporate and move called "Establish Brazil"
deedbot: shinohai rated AndreaGuzman 1 << first bnc customer, longtime friend.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729628 << i expect more a case of english speaking mortodifame imagines he's white because nobody told him otherwise. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729594 << "we don't at this point have a sufficiently palatable whitewash of inflation ; or for that matter even any statement that doesn't reduce to how the best course would be for us to eat shit and die. so in preference of that, we'll just pretend ignorance, because such a course totally works and everything". ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the chinese are also trying, what with their empty towns and whatnot. << Oh, China just held a big presser on Sinicizing region and Make Asia China Again
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729571 << same as ye olde su ☝︎
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CK7x5dJfhI <
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asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-21#1486093 << subj ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'The guy can get his day in court if it wasn’t he who did this but I’m damned glad to see the Romanian general public take her side in this and not just laugh it off.' << waaat
mircea_popescu: https://kingofromania.com/2013/06/19/mr-saxo-beat/ << grep for "low level warfare".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729238 << usa is set 100% to 'binge' mode ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:58 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729201 << oh god almighty, if they only started arresting romanians for bad parking. this is like arresting indians for poor hygiene, or native americans for drunkedness.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729229 << d00d was some sort of german whatever GMbH courier. inside atrociously parked van was a wife-like thing, looking on ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 15:57 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729197 << imagine, you know. contraband cheese sting operations. this is what teh taxpayer wants his money spent on, and somehow no nubbins is on hand to explain better.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729227 << there's a 2010s pc game, where you preside over generic 'iron curtain' apartment block, and get various orders from kgb, e.g. 'root out tenants who read english books', but also had 'apples have been prohibited, storing or eating them is punishable'. i immediately pictured fda. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729222 << i picture that at that time there will be a meaningful l3+ ecosystem ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729212 << no that thing is experstsexchange. reddit originated as a sort of fark, "look at this cool pic" tho it originally was more like original wikipedia, "look at this cool pic of a 6 yo with her mother's toenail polish bottle up her snatch" ; migrated into a sort of livejournal "write lengthy pieces of nonsense so everyone's tulpas can pompously opine on it" sometime in the mid 2010s. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729211 << reddit didn't exist at the time we're discussing in any practical sense above "this obscure website some pedos gathered on to exchange their trading cards". it was something in the vein of metafilter i guess, or else something in the vein of digg, or else you know, one of the first sites making the transition from myspace/tripod/facebook to the latter style reddit/facebook/etcetera. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729208 << amusingly, the same places that permit female drunkedness. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729201 << oh god almighty, if they only started arresting romanians for bad parking. this is like arresting indians for poor hygiene, or native americans for drunkedness. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:24 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729139 << usg - enemy of all things healthily human
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729197 << imagine, you know. contraband cheese sting operations. this is what teh taxpayer wants his money spent on, and somehow no nubbins is on hand to explain better. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:22 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729131 << betcha you did it in own parking, or jungle road, lol. the gas comes from ~other~ people’s tailpipes! in traffic jam, in tunnel, etc !
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729193 << well yes, of course. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 13:21 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729125 << iirc it was a kind of mechanized reddit..?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729191 << something like that. a gameified blog weighing/commenting platform ; worked as the ~onyl source of bitcoin for romanians for a year or two back when if they had the sense, it'd have meant something. a few did have the sense, most are powered by the same broken rustbox as powers the strippers and other experts in hallucinary freedoms. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729160 << for perhaps first time in life i have real shoes nao ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 02:42 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729064 << I'd wager there is no such town on the planet. Spend enough time anywhere and you'll find plenty of subhumans. I'm reminded of mini-thread: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-07#1652720
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729141 << believe or not, none detectable to naked eye. nobody’s smashing things, screaming, barfing ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 02:40 lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728918 << 'Tis insanity, indeed. Some hobbyist cheese-makers / real-milk enthusists near Amish lands have been known to engage in 'black market' raw milk transactions. FDA regularly sets up sting operations to crack down on the 'contraband': http://archive.is/nfrox
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729139 << usg - enemy of all things healthily human ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 00:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729116 << verily. timisoara can be walked on foot in a day.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729135 << we’ve been doing 20-30km/day, explored good chunk of it ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 00:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729102 << i did this recently because car failed emission tests originally ; no beeps.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729131 << betcha you did it in own parking, or jungle road, lol. the gas comes from ~other~ people’s tailpipes! in traffic jam, in tunnel, etc ! ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-26 00:27 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729077 << in some archive somewhere. was going to auction it off but then got annoyed with something in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714557 and simply tabled it instead.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729125 << iirc it was a kind of mechanized reddit..? ☝︎☟︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/talent-triumphant-or-on-empathy/ << Trilema - Talent Triumphant, or : On Empathy
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 20:42 BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people. << There's one of those nearby. Breese, Illinois. A bit further Pinkneyville, Illinois.
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729064 << I'd wager there is no such town on the planet. Spend enough time anywhere and you'll find plenty of subhumans. I'm reminded of mini-thread: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-07#1652720 ☝︎☝︎☟︎
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728918 << 'Tis insanity, indeed. Some hobbyist cheese-makers / real-milk enthusists near Amish lands have been known to engage in 'black market' raw milk transactions. FDA regularly sets up sting operations to crack down on the 'contraband': http://archive.is/nfrox ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729116 << verily. timisoara can be walked on foot in a day. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729108 << actually that's human grade. for reals. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729102 << i did this recently because car failed emission tests originally ; no beeps. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 21:57 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729056 << where didja bury it, mircea_popescu ? i didn't bring my spade but can get at the shop next to jooanathecow!1,
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729077 << in some archive somewhere. was going to auction it off but then got annoyed with something in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714557 and simply tabled it instead. ☝︎☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1729056 << where didja bury it, mircea_popescu ? i didn't bring my spade but can get at the shop next to jooanathecow!1, ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> hungary is wahabifying << I thought they were the reaction to they point one can have such so close to Prussia.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people. << There's one of those nearby. Breese, Illinois. A bit further Pinkneyville, Illinois. ☟︎
deedbot: diana_coman rated alex__c 1 << long time lurking, writes at daimon.me/blog
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 16:51 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728075 << http://daimon.me/blog/2017/04/orientul-cel-nu-foarte-indepartat/ item, for teh curious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your point of interest is around 45.8044717 / 21.2666934. << restated.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 16:13 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666045 << the way the lizards expect the shit to work is exactly in the way mp -saves-openbsd worked : as seen moneyz. recall the story of the us embassy spending a whooping 50k to start an "empire" of fake news tv stations etc ?
asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/foo.jpg << a 'before' ; a (diff. bldg) 90% complete 'after' >> http://www.loper-os.org/pub/bar.jpg
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727535 << a toast to the foundation ☝︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/rocco-and-his-brothers/ << Trilema - Rocco and his brothers
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> to give some colour to the picture, asciilifeform walked on street and on a light pole was commonplace ad for flat for sale, 40kiloeur << What they cost over here.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> full megabenjie ? half ? or wat was it << 100 kiloEuro and 10 jobs
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> they're not detectable here << It's just the US conditions you to more overt visual indicators
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 16:16 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728554 << 0.21 nao!
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728585 << if either of you will be so kind to point out to the schmuck he can make 0.02 each by writing on gf tits, i'll be much obliged. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728579 << gotta love how it's always "this usg agency scammed you, because it was called mp global AND NOT BECAUSE IT WAS AN USG AGENCY!!11" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728564 << ejaculation is over-rated. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728554 << no beggar who wasn't a retard from california on his first day out "public arts"ing ever put down an alms bowl without some money in it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728554 << 0.21 nao! ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728564 << cyanide tooth ☝︎
shinohai: http://archive.is/MGFQB <<<Achtung! To a Thousand-Year Reich! [~]D
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 02:39 deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/a-compendium-of-possibly-helpful-stuffs-for-erecting-mircea-popescus-wordpress-with-nearly-free-speech-hosting/ << The Whet - A Compendium of Possibly Helpful Stuffs for Erecting Mircea Popescu's WordPress with Nearly Free Speech Hosting
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-25#1728494 << this is neato; but otoh, welcome to asciilifeform's 'won't load by ip' kolhoz ☝︎
lobbes: <davout> there's this, and also the necessity of learning new things, very often people get stuck playing the same things, which mostly reinforces defects, instead of seeking new and different stuff to work on for a bit << this makes sense. Explains why I notice my improvising getting 'stale' after a few consecutive days of practicing only to be 'revitalized' after a break. Almost helps to clear that mental buffer of 'go-to musical phrases'
davout: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727578 <<< probably depends on which direction their exchange rate is going ☝︎
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728338 << in my experience with guitar, frequency is more important for muscle memory building (and general finger strength building). I've found that even 5 minutes per day tends to be more effective than, say, a single 2 hour session per week ☝︎
deedbot: http://thewhet.net/2017/10/a-compendium-of-possibly-helpful-stuffs-for-erecting-mircea-popescus-wordpress-with-nearly-free-speech-hosting/ << The Whet - A Compendium of Possibly Helpful Stuffs for Erecting Mircea Popescu's WordPress with Nearly Free Speech Hosting ☟︎☟︎
shinohai: http://archive.is/HfUof <<< " Emin Gun Sirer, a Cornell University associate professor in the computer science department who is a Tezos technical adviser, said he continues to believe the network is still “technically sound.”
mircea_popescu: "muieblackcat is script/bot, supposedly of Ukrainian origin, that attempts to exploit PHP vulnerabilities or misconfigurations." << clearly, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728387 ☝︎
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728160 << >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-21#1727476 ☝︎☝︎
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Gândăcelul - Poezii Romanesti: <http://www.romanianvoice.com/poezii/poezii/gandacelul.php>; ''Gândăcelul'' - Elena Farago. Voce: Dana Maria - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DoaY5DGlukII>; Gândăcelul - poezie de Elena Farago - Povesti pentru copii: <http://www.povesti-pentru-copii.com/poezii-pentru-copii/elena-farago/gandacelul.html>
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Puiul | e-povesti.ro: <http://e-povesti.ro/povesti/puiul/>; Puiul de Ioan Alexandru Bratescu Voinesti - YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DqYYbqhwpQMk>; PUIUL de Ion Alexandru Bratescu Voinesti - povesti Copilasul.com ...: <http://www.copilasul.com/povesti-povestiri/PUIUL-de-Ion-Alexandru-Bratescu-Voinesti-BM-COM.php>
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFO2F37cvB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9l3NVrgSA << moar in teh same vein.
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SFHmiV8Bg < there.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728188 << re >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728153 , but indun expect it can be explained-compactly, no. ☝︎☝︎
davout: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728125 <<< nope, uk ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728126 << possibly it was in the cellar , which looked dark and offline and i did not go to ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728093 << interestingly in comparison with being surrounded by nonloathesome people on nonloathesome streets in nonloathesome house for nonloathesome price etc being in moving iron box dun seem appealing nomoar ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'The cost of fraudulent goods is worth $1.4 Trillion globally. Leverage the Mastercard Blockchain and Authorization Network to easily track high value pharmaceuticals, art, luxury goods as they are created, transferred, purchased and re-sold' << lol!,
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 16:51 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728075 << http://daimon.me/blog/2017/04/orientul-cel-nu-foarte-indepartat/ item, for teh curious.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728097 << oddly, this was a very different museum. but similar idea, tho i suspect it was made by seekrit communist, was full of abstract algebra textbooks, numbertheory, Kvant, catpic embroideries, nostalgic ☝︎
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/10/24/the-data-driven-racer/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The data-driven racer.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728075 << http://daimon.me/blog/2017/04/orientul-cel-nu-foarte-indepartat/ item, for teh curious. ☝︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: An error occurred during a connection to developer.mastercard.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). << aww, check out all the offline noninternet websites! do they do things and utilities ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728058 << this is a poly-nomnomial extrapolation (tm) brought to you by alf's tiny samples foundation. ☝︎
lobbes: "The Person-to-Person global market opportunity is $16 Trillion. Take advantage of the Mastercard Settlement Network to transfer funds between banks." << All these banks drinking the "Blockchain is the next The Cloud" scamolade. Can't tell if driven solely by the marketing-idiocy-cycle or if there is also some deliberate subversion greasing the wheels.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727980 << lol!! wat sort of mosque serves cocacola!! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727981 << i guess what everyone means by "islam" these days is salafism bs, much in the manner ustardianism is what "everyone" takes "western civilisation" to mean. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: loller http://www.loper-os.org/pub/clue3.jpg <<->> http://trilema.com/2011/test-de-cultura-vizuala-16/
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727920 << seems evident like that, costaricaestonia. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727901 << me too, considering who they're dealing with. but i guess they dunno how to factor the alf into all of it. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727899 << turkey is not poor in any sense. ☝︎