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mircea_popescu: i think now we've officially done everything.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-21 19:18 Mocky: no, i'm subletting a room via airbnb from a nigerian who rents it from someone who also sounds african on speakerphone. and thankfully unseasonably cool with now 2 years worth of rain in the last 2 days
mircea_popescu: i meant what he's been telling.
mircea_popescu: no i mean, why "mi mismo" rather than "yo mismo"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I didn't ask why. The bearded fellow behind the counter who looked as though he could have been cast as an above average banana republic general in Hollywood promptly shut her up dispensed the product.
Mocky: no, i have it on me. no need
mircea_popescu: Mocky i'm too lazy to type more digits.
Mocky: I'm going to try buying a benjie's worth from one and selling it the other just to meet them
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 20:23 Mocky: theres also a "blockchain doha" group with 103 members, I can reach out to
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-20#1864552 << i expect waste of time ; but in the interest of crossing all bitcoin embassies off the list... ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 20:20 Mocky: i also reached out to local bitcoin guy. turns out there are two. one sells other buys. I reached out the the seller but no response yet. The buyer doesn't have contact info listed and i don't have the bitcoin to answer his ad so haven't contacted yet.
mircea_popescu: well apparently i can't find it anymore, but anyway, ac unit 100% filled with styrofoam. was pretty rich.
Mocky: i don't recall it
Mocky: place i was in had 1940's newspaper in the walls
asciilifeform: Mocky: in my old flat, not only did not crumble, but broke several drill bits when fiber was installed (which i had to do with own hands, lol)
Mocky: i've lived in a couple old houses with ancient plaster. it would chip and crumble pretty easily
Mocky: they say it's not concrete, that only exterior walls are concrete. but it looks and feels like concrete to me. i can't understand what they are calling it, "tabukla" ?
Mocky: i dont' know what these interior walls are made of but they are prying nails out with hammer without damaging it. def not like back home
Mocky: i feel bad for my host, trying to get my ac fixed while dealing with these clowns, and thinks i'm just being gracious by saying it's not been bothering me
asciilifeform: i've also encountered 'parasonic' and similar lulz
mircea_popescu: not like anyone genuninely believes i nthe crap.
asciilifeform: lol i actually had nfi that were in there
Mocky: pretty sure I smell like old married guy, lol
mircea_popescu: you don't smell like "this guy i am". not yet at any rate, if ever at all.
mircea_popescu: nah, too much pressure. your line is "this guy i know".
Mocky: maybe if i had couple girls to polish the dust off my crown as i walk from the bar to the pool...
Mocky: i don't know shit about bdsm
mircea_popescu: i am not kidding -- go to their house, explain what bdsm is, "looky what this guy i know does with the white women ~he owns~". they'll listen to that in preference of fucking playstation.
Mocky: i've been doing java for 20 years
mircea_popescu: i dunno who told you to spend your life on fucking java of all things.
asciilifeform: possibly naively, i thought ~all~ centralbanks hate btc, (e.g. cn's), not merely usg-muppet ones ?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 19:10 Mocky: re meeting Qataris, I found that 30-something aged men interested in business hang out at certain places on a daily basis. if you go and hang there and get to know them, if they like you they may invite you to majalis. which is the regular practice of closing off half of the home from women in the evening and doing man cave shit
mircea_popescu: police picking them up, you know, "you ok sr ?" "i'm fine. i'm fine. it's ok." "did you see a huge clucking airplane coming behind you flapping its wings, hopping up and down and clucking ?!"
mircea_popescu: muttering "i saw some things man... i can't tell anyone the things i saw..."
mircea_popescu: i suspect if you drove that on the highway at night most people would just park the car and go out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i.e. for whacking uppity lackey, rather than other sword ?
Mocky: asciilifeform, I was told they have gold brick atms here
Mocky: unlike london where I coudn't place any cars
Mocky: all the cars here are normal models you'd find in the us, except there are a few toyota models I've never heard of: "fortuner" is one
Mocky: if I had my ford expedition here, I'd be the king of the road. land rovers are a good bit smaller
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> still broke, but it still isnt' a problem. fan blows on me and I sleep fine. 3 day of rain in the dessert. got soaked today waiting for taxi for 30 minutes during downpour which stopped the moment i got in the cab << The incredible similarities to Uruguay
asciilifeform: re 'rolex' etc -- i've only ever seen'em on (usually) arab orcs ~in usa~ . they dun actually look at the time, lol, i suspect they dun even set the thing, it's strictly part of 'gentleman's uniform', by their lights, like sword used to be
Mocky: i'd fucking rock a crown
Mocky: i'm not wise to the ways of watches, wouldn't recognize a rolex. "shiny watch" works for my description
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:53 Mocky: asciilifeform, this I haven't heard, but flashy stuff like rolex, lambos, bentleys I have heard
mircea_popescu: so i can readily see how and why this'd break down, and especially i can see why they'd register the specific complaint in the specific terminology with mocky. who knows, maybe bitcoin was made for their mula's stupid cunt, and maybe the republic is just pantsuitism++. maybe i sent mocky there to finallty right all "wrongs" ?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:50 diana_coman: Mocky, I wonder though how much those burnt partners actually catered to the qatari partner as an ongoing relationship rather than just "he gives money for my biznis" (and how the hell is a charity a business, ugh)
asciilifeform: and yea, makes sense, $spec is for ~client~, deliberately does not detail how spam control, i presume it's an in-house matter.
mircea_popescu: i'm really not that concerned with it.
asciilifeform: so then as i understand , rsa 'ddos' is not possible, i.e. 'allcomer' cannot force serv to perform a modexp simply by asking.
Mocky: I still have 4 leads to finish chasing down re not needing a Qatari to form a company. not necessarily promising leads but still need to get to the truth of them
Mocky: still broke, but it still isnt' a problem. fan blows on me and I sleep fine. 3 day of rain in the dessert. got soaked today waiting for taxi for 30 minutes during downpour which stopped the moment i got in the cab
asciilifeform: tho hm i get it
mircea_popescu: i think i even linked a fetlife discussion re this. "bitch, YOU are doing the work to see if you'd fit in my harem, not i. wtf!"
mircea_popescu: we already have a process whereby i can create an acct ; in the future i just won't care to use it for joe random is all.
diana_coman: I don't really see a problem from eulora's pov with 22 secs for rsa encrypt - it's not for in-game server-client communications so...
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:41 asciilifeform: diana_coman: ikr? it's the last thing i'd think of pitching to dar-al-islam
asciilifeform: ( btw for thread-completeness i gotta point out that asciilifeform spends most time on a rather slow box, that 22 is actually a 10 on recent x86 iron )
mircea_popescu: i agree.
asciilifeform: tho nao that i think about it, i could be wrong :
asciilifeform: i dunno that mine will ever be fast enuff for eulora without asm inline tho
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect all the females he yet spoke with.
mircea_popescu: but there's a lengthy and well documented history of white woman being so far removed from the whip and restraint, she will stubornly do the -ev dumbthing "because it doesn't matter anyway" "i have my own oppinions and experiences" etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently special snowflake is sop in whitewomanistan, tho. i dunno, i care but slightly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought harem were sop in arabistan tho
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-22#1864658 -> ah, I was answering Stan there, not implying Mocky is there to sell anything ☝︎
mircea_popescu: though i thought i had much older description of same thing. but anyways.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-20#1864487 << hey, i do it... ☝︎
asciilifeform: i had nfi there were 'cheap qataris'
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:34 diana_coman: asciilifeform, I don't think so; I think they would pay *you* that 500k if you manage to convince them that you are worth that for them
asciilifeform: !Q later tell trinque is http://trinque.org/2018/07/06/cuntoo-bootstrapper-preview/ still most recent cuntoo ? i got errything ready to bake cuntoo lappy ( the oddball lcd box; old ssd from zoolag ) ; should proceed or wait for update ? ty
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-22#1864635 >> 'Romanian museum keepers are, with very, very, very few exceptions, a bunch of fucking orcs' >> verily. asciilifeform was in timis art gallery, and they offered tickets for extra penny 'take pictures', i gave'em. then i pull out camera, buncha old biddies immediately appear out of nowhere, like swarm of rats, stand in front of my lens like matrosov in front of german mg nest. finally i pul ☝︎
jurov: which caused mild confusion as i don't have so much on the acct and deedbot said nothing
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-21#1864592 << this is a mighty lul, i had genuinely nfi that this had happened ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-10-20 18:32 Mocky: diana_coman, that could be a reasonable assumption and i suggested the same to my companions, they shook thier heads.
Mocky: so far so good. gotta see how well I fit in at these 5 star hotels ☟︎
Mocky: So can be replaced individually i bet! lol
Mocky: yeah, but not a big deal for me. I wouldn't want to be a landlord here tho
Mocky: no, i'm subletting a room via airbnb from a nigerian who rents it from someone who also sounds african on speakerphone. and thankfully unseasonably cool with now 2 years worth of rain in the last 2 days ☟︎
Mocky: so, working on day 3 of no AC. Everyone I mention it to here laughs at me and says that no repair men here actually know how to fix anything, only to install new. AC, cars, computers, machinery. They just spend hours spinning bs to talk you into buying new.
Mocky: I'm still not used to friday and saturday being the weekend & so many places being closed between 1pm and 4pm every day
Mocky: I found out why cars are so nice toward pedestrians in the crosswalks. if you run a red, 3000 USD fine. cameras at most intersections
Mocky: theres also a "blockchain doha" group with 103 members, I can reach out to ☟︎
Mocky: i also reached out to local bitcoin guy. turns out there are two. one sells other buys. I reached out the the seller but no response yet. The buyer doesn't have contact info listed and i don't have the bitcoin to answer his ad so haven't contacted yet. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Well, I mean they could also be stuck on 80's US bzbs books
BingoBoingo: <Mocky> i get the impression from other talks (not today) that there is no end of "i have great biz idea for importing from my home country india" being pitched << WTF does India export that people with options would buy?
Mocky: re meeting Qataris, I found that 30-something aged men interested in business hang out at certain places on a daily basis. if you go and hang there and get to know them, if they like you they may invite you to majalis. which is the regular practice of closing off half of the home from women in the evening and doing man cave shit ☟︎
Mocky: if there is more beyond that, i haven't dug deep enough to find it
asciilifeform: ( i dun recall whether mircea_popescu revealed whether this is troo in egypt, also, come to think of it )
Mocky: asciilifeform, this I haven't heard, but flashy stuff like rolex, lambos, bentleys I have heard ☟︎
Mocky: i get the impression from other talks (not today) that there is no end of "i have great biz idea for importing from my home country india" being pitched ☟︎
diana_coman: Mocky, I wonder though how much those burnt partners actually catered to the qatari partner as an ongoing relationship rather than just "he gives money for my biznis" (and how the hell is a charity a business, ugh) ☟︎
Mocky: but ~all cats i've seen are stones throw from open dumpster. i bet if they had auto-closing lids on dumpsters cats would go extinct
Mocky: maybe they want to claim "i started a charity like my older brother" no idea yet why
asciilifeform: diana_coman: ikr? it's the last thing i'd think of pitching to dar-al-islam ☟︎
Mocky: that I don't know
asciilifeform: Mocky: funnily enuff, it's how i deal with americans..
asciilifeform: but i'ma let Mocky elaborate, possibly diff will become clear
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I don't think so; I think they would pay *you* that 500k if you manage to convince them that you are worth that for them ☟︎
Mocky: also seems to go hand in hand with their impulsiveness. 3 different people described this exact scenario. Qatari goes opens a business with someone (one freelance vet service, one animal rescue shelter, one doggy day care) 3 months later decides, "I didn't realize I was going to have to keep paying so much every month (payroll, rent, etc.) where's the profit?" "it may take a year to become profitable, it's only been 3 months" "I'm not paying anymore." which