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mircea_popescu: ie, not only im never gonna mandate inca's "ntp", but i'm not even going
to make anything like it.
mircea_popescu: blockheight is
the republican
timekeeping item, and in
the case of logs
that's self-evidently line counts.
mircea_popescu: i have no intention o fforcing anything like "time", because (as per ancient discussion i suspect meanwhole forgotten but which i still remember) fiat
time is doomed non-republican construct.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-26 23:07:47 asciilifeform:
the obv. alternative is
to actually do a db lookup when printing links,
to get
the appropriate local date. BUT
this means a db lookup per link displayed, i.e. slowdown.
mircea_popescu: phf, wouldja
take it
to #asciilifeform or whatever already.
a111: Logged on 2019-08-27 02:20 asciilifeform: atm i also suspect
that a certain % of links imported from 'era 2' (phf's april 2016 -- aug. 2019) also do not go where expected, on acct of clock difference b/w
the boxen.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-08-27#1931379 << btcbase is a continuation of kako's log, so
there's no
timestamp divergence. one log stops at dragon, and
the other one starts. never
the less i don't rely on dates at all:
the entirety of log is stored in an array, so kako entry 123 is (aref *log* 123), likewise current log entry 1931379 is at
that particular index in array.
☝︎ lobbes: in my
trilema-lotto today;
the (potential) $2 million couch loan. I worked with someone years ago who "lended" for
the BTCjam
thing...
tried dissuade him and instead get him registered with a gpg key an' into
the WOT but he just was
too
thick. Wonder if he's in a cardboard box
these days
snsabot: Logged on 2017-01-27 17:54:54 asciilifeform: al schwartz wrote about
the roofs, iirc it was. semiconductor firms replaced cathedral roofs all over europe, for 0 cost. just
to get
the valuable pre-hiroshima metal.
mircea_popescu: but yes, most coins are simply worth less
than it'd cost
to make
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, it doesn't hurt
that silver primarily a waste byproduct
that emerges from copper and lead prodction
mircea_popescu: i was
talking more re
the whole best korea "false benjie'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> somehow azn
tards never
think of
THAT. <<
They do, but
they do...
the COINS! "Morgan Dollar", etc
mircea_popescu: should prolly be pretty lulzy hole
to exploit, make old moneys.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Seen many
times. Frequently chosen for gifting children.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 2 dollar bill still in print.
They just print it in qualtities and frequences simular
to local 10 peso coins
mircea_popescu: wth is
the story of
that guy who kept moving $9999 from mexico eventually
they stopped him ?
mircea_popescu: as
these are collectors' items,
they obviously do not count as money for, eg, [][crossing borders].
mircea_popescu: the 1928C and D series 5-dolalr bills again 1-200 up
to 1500-2k+ (and
the 1929 brown seal can be good
too, esp
the finer grades 1k++) ;
the 1928 E series one-dollars can be 2-300 / 1k
to 15k for very fine bills.
mircea_popescu: the 1934B and C series (green seal) go for 3-4k each, and 5k+ in CU ;
the 1928 gold 50s go for 1-200 and 250+ ;
the 1928 C (green seal) 20 is goot for 1-200 / 1k+ ;
the 1934 yelow seal 10 dollar bill can be 1-2k / 10k+ each (as it's very rare)
mircea_popescu: in other lulz :
there's a quite active market in ~old~ benjie bills. all 1k notes go for 1-2k in normal, pocket money like grades (banknotes are graded,
things with >3 folds and maybe a missing corner or such (but no
tears) are VF (very fine)
to EF (extremely), CU have all
the corners, no folds.
the grading goes up
to gem, which are particularly/exceptionally good strikes, vivid and well centered.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, re
the amazon
thing :
that's precisely how
the
twenny dollar bill guy (jackson) got florida from spain : "oh, you're not maintaining it properly"
mircea_popescu: turkey actually kicks ass,
they built a new uberairport
that everyone is all lovey over, and
their road infrastructure defo > yurp.
BingoBoingo: So much noise in
the local presses on both sides of
the river over "Why doesn't
Turkey get a crisis
too! So unfair!"
lobbes: they still believe
they are something special
tho. oh well
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-26 16:00:56 mircea_popescu: speaking of
this, remember back when "bric countries" was a
thing, and ustards seriously believed
they're something special ?
lobbes: takes me an ungodly amt of
time
to login
to
the wp-admin as well. Will need
to investigate
mircea_popescu: lobbes, incidentally, your blog
takes an ungodly amt of
time
to
take a comment. must be some kinda bug somewheres.
BingoBoingo: Per
the deal Mercosur recognizes 357 of
the 3400 "European Geographical Indications", EU recognizes some Mercosur ones, and because of european heritage in
the Americas all sorts of EU geographical indications won't be used against products of Mercosur origin if
there's a
tradition involved.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: AHA.
The EU-Mercosur deal means
the European "protected designations of origin" would not apply
to Mercosur products sold in
the US. So
the Argentines, could market "Parmasean Reggiano Industria Argentina" as "Parmasean"
BingoBoingo: Anyways,
the reasons
the EU-Mercosur
thing as groundbreaking as it would be hasn't made Qntra
to now are
the myriad of factors lined up against it. Namely
the "traditional Argentine cheeses" could be sold in Europe under
their protected in Europe names
trap, etc.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not all
together improbably
the Iriquous forgot
the French were
their reinforcements by
the
time
they came.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: As far as I can
tell
the Miami 5th column is ~the same as Argentina's, but beat more frequently
mircea_popescu: as a factual matter, every warship wreck found adrift in space after
the "empire" spawning it was long fucked out of
the bloodline is still calling for imaginary rreinforcements at specific positions misexpressed in irrelevant systems of coordinates.
BingoBoingo: Then again if Pedro II was fertile enough
to have sufficient children
to select 1 not completely retarded heir, Brasil could have been bigger
than
the US ever was. 1000 year reich and so on.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It could probably benefit.
The defense of Fortaleza has
the potential
to be a sort of Brazilian Stalingrad.
BingoBoingo: Ecuador bananas far superior
to Brasil bananas.
BingoBoingo: Except when it comes
to agricultural products.
That is every bit
the chemical warfare seen in
the US adapted
to
tropical demands.
BingoBoingo: Items labeled at
the same
thing in
the local stores from Brasil and Argentina could not be further apart in
the quality and
their ability
to be what
the label calls
them.
mircea_popescu: but yes, brasil is exactly what argentina could/should have been, if
they weren't utterly braindamaged lazyfucks,
mircea_popescu: whereas brazil is one of
the
top
three producers of gross
tonnage, in
the military-strategic sense, after china and india and ahead of russkis.
mircea_popescu: for some retarded reason usg decided
to concentrate its shipmaking on pacific side
mircea_popescu: because of strategic ineptitude, brazil could actually
take over
the atlantic fleed from
the us within a few years.
BingoBoingo: That momentarily Brazil isn't actively growling at
the US is largely due
to
the personal affinity
that exists between
Trump and Bolsonaro for however long it lasts.
BingoBoingo: Well, now any given BRIC is bigger
than
the US and
they don't
talk about
them at all.
mircea_popescu: speaking of
this, remember back when "bric countries" was a
thing, and ustards seriously believed
they're something special ?
BingoBoingo: lol, yeah.
This
terrain is still mostly "lets detour outside our borders
to
transit
the Paraguay river" sorta stuff no much more accessible
than it was in
the 1860s
mircea_popescu: and if you're gone for more
than a few weeks... godo for you, you get
to do it all over again!
mircea_popescu would not go without dozen+ men, and none of
the "men's club barber shop" cock ornaments qualify
mircea_popescu: as
the expression goes, "you'd be eaten by baby
turtles in half hour"
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-26 15:07:52 asciilifeform: 'But
the case for
territorial incursion in
the Amazon is far stronger
than
the justifications for most war. In
the meantime,
the planet chokes on old notions of sovereignty.' << lol! couldn't make
this up.
BingoBoingo: Brasil also has shipyards, an aerospace industry
that stamps out helicopters, drones, and satellites...
they have
the sorts of industry Argentina should and could have had if Argentines weren't so incredibly determined
to all dole about
the port.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-08-26 11:06:28 diana_coman: if only code were more denuding and batshit - everyone would want
to read it!
BingoBoingo: Taurus's LATAM catalog is more utility oriented
than
their US "sell all comes exactly what
they imagine
they want" catalog