239400+ entries in 0.156s
shinohai: Sounds like
the same
thing
that happens with almost *every altcoin
mircea_popescu: anywya, so obscure altcoin dropped 50% or something and
there's some drama.
walter_: is it appropriate
to discuss alts here?
walter_: last week was full of entertaining events for
this coin
mircea_popescu: lmao, what's with
this anon derps
taking pseudonyms from fiction ? john connor, really ?
walter_: cannot
tell if "good", but what got me interested is it was 1. written from scratch, 2. advertised "innovation" (fast
transactions, hybrid PoW/PoS), 3. main dev sounds arrogant but competent
walter_: Thanks. Anybody watching
the XVC drama?
mircea_popescu: (for
the innocent :
there was a 2015 "we'll
take mosul in spring"
thing, also. you never hear anything about it
today BECAUSE
the key of usg behaviour is exactly
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-17#1523269 :
they make one a year. if
this year's fails
then "it never really happened" ; if it succeeds
then "see, we always win,
told you so!")
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyway.
the battle for mosul, originally slated
to end about a month ago, and
then upgraded
to end about
today, has been upgraded again
to
take "months" hence. i
think i want a refund.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, isn't it remarkable
the ustardian social media isn't up in arms about all
the sex discrimination going on in iraq ? why, pray
tell, ONLY MALES "of fighting age" are being suspected ?
Framedragger: yeah. good
to have a concrete reference in mind i guess.
mircea_popescu idly wonders if
the hama massacre and hafez' socialist roots have anything
to do with
the junior bashar's poor reception in
the us and ru support.
the father did create an unique network of alawites all
through
the 80s...
Framedragger: (oh also, shot from a real gun for first
time yesterday. pretty cool. never
thought
there'd be
that much of a gun powder smell, and flash of light.)
mircea_popescu: you don't have
to ~go~ somewhere
to meet people, especially not in ancient inhabited places like asia.
Framedragger: "i'm coding". yeahyeah. i'm off
to
the DMZ/JSC
tomorrow which is sth i wanted
to go
to. will have opportunity
mircea_popescu: wtf is
this dumb shit,
they ain't got computers where you live ?
mircea_popescu: drop all
the stupid computer shit right now and go out and
talk
to all
the girls you see.
Framedragger: didn't really get
the chance. except for in retrospect missed opportunities :/
Framedragger: i guess i should
try
to
talk
to girls here huh
Framedragger: interestingly i find
the .ko boyz quite subdued, i mean in all kinds of senses incl libido, but
that may very well be a very superficial impression
mircea_popescu: much like castration is
the cultural identity of western europe.
mircea_popescu: very well spread in
the old world, it's çorba in
turkish, ciorba in romanian, i would identify it as
the core of cultural identity for non-western europe.
mircea_popescu can't stand azn soups for all
the fucking oil
they put in
there.
mircea_popescu: eh, i'm more partial
to drier, vegetable heavy, lovage ladden شوربا-style
things.
Framedragger: of
the same kind is fatty polish kvašnica soup. quite good.
Framedragger: (i need
to uh reconnect with my kin-nature or sth, forgot)
Framedragger: ohya. fat everywhere, lots of pig, yes indeed.
there is
that.
Framedragger: this randomly reminded me of
this film ^ from czechoslovakia. mircea_popescu probably knows.
there's a scene with
the guy stamping
the girl in
the
train station. it's beautiful. (but for srsly. 1960s .cz film, you know)
mircea_popescu: apparently not. anyway,
the mp sandwich includes a layer of sour cream.
Framedragger: hmm i guess you can, like, spill
that on girls, etc.; i can see
that.
Framedragger: never had a
thing for large asses and boobs. maybe 'cause i'm quite small...
mircea_popescu: (srsly, napolact,
the
transylvania milk and dairy factory, sells sour cream in
these 600g buckets.)
mircea_popescu comes from dairy country, likes girls with big
tits and eats a cup o' sour cream a day.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu:
totally. i hear you. and lots of sour cream. like srsly lots.
to ease
the potatoes in
shinohai: I had iguana while I was in central america, about as exotic as I got with
the locals
mircea_popescu: eh don't be
too harsh, you also have potato dumplings with a little cheese in
them.
Framedragger: also potato pancakes. but we have
those in .lt. .lt is basically just potatoes.
Framedragger: it's pretty cool :) what's
that
tho? i am most uncultured. lots of octopus, fish, assorted seafood was had,
tho :)
Framedragger: after reflecting upon economic cycles and
the crashes
to come, ii have presently assumed a state of relative
tranquillity...
Framedragger: (there is
that feeling (maybe just a feeling)
that folx here (.ko) always have some spare cash. (i mean like jb financial group, etc.) whereas in yurop, everything's on
the brink of bankruptcy, disaster's around
the corner.)
Framedragger: (oh god, i'll come back from asia believing
that lithuania should seriously suck china's cock as much as possible so
that it could *maybe* get bought by
them. like,
that's
the best option for
them. idem poland, only
that
the latter are way ahead (and a
tad bit more autonomous from bruxelles.usa) (e.g.: coaxing chinese
to invest into gdansk port; .lt's port is just about done.))
jurov: btw, if you saw news.ycombinator recently, a
third of frontpage were about AWS. interesting noone noticed (or was muffled, dunno).
jurov: mod6: fxd, when
their cloudtron IP addresses change, must me manually updated in
their firewall
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
the rise and fall of
the
theranos lizzard club may be of interest
to
the alf minded.
ben_vulpes: jurov: cloudfront errors at
the ml again
a111: Logged on 2016-11-29 16:50
trinque: maybe Framedragger's bag
pete_dushenski: unless its majick mikroskopick invisabru unicode 'l'
tucked in
there in martian font.
pete_dushenski: "That's
the Unicode world, a world where impotence was legislated a litte further" << mircea_popescu, missing 'l'
pete_dushenski: maybe a russian invasion, or at least a smattering of carpet bombing campaigns, will straighten out
their obsession with risk aversion. but
that might be a few decades off. unlikely
trump can live
that long, even if i wouldn't be surprised if he put an end
to
the
two-term limit.
mats: risk aversion runs deep in
the officer corps, it's hard
to say
pete_dushenski: isn't such a faulty approach something mattis could do away with ? or
too embedded ?
mats: >Top-down
training directives and strategies combined with brief leader development experiences for junior officers leads
to a perception
that micromanagement is pervasive.
They do not believe
they are being afforded sufficient opportunity
to learn from
the results of
their own decisions and actions.
a111: Logged on 2015-05-19 02:03 mats:
there is
this
thing known as "zero defect" officers
pete_dushenski: interesting. for
the ignorant, what's
the 'zero defect approach' ?
mats: they're encouraged
to spend, not manage
mats: the zero defect approach
to officer evaluation reports and utter lack of experience managing money in a large org are not good
traits
mats: anyway, i don't believe
that combat vets (or vets of any kind) are suitable for public service in
this manner
mats: fwiw, it reads like he made a good call, with
the information he had at
the
time
mats: some say he wouldn't have refused, if it had been marines in
the fight
mats: although
there's
that incident involving an ODA group asking for medevac, being refused by mattis, forcing usaf
to fly in from k2 with an unrested crew
that didn't have maps
pete_dushenski: refresher for
those who are less familiar with fat
tony : he was
the lead pre-mine scammer behind ethereum. he basically handpicked
the autistic alien vitalik and shoved his greasy wop hand up
the poor kid's butt and played him like kermit
the frog.
pete_dushenski: of course
they framed it as fat
tony 'leaving
to pursue his other blockchain projects' but his days are officially over.
pete_dushenski: speaking of blogs,
this comment came in recently with a link
to an reuters piece about how
the
tsx had just
turfed canadian scammer king anthony di iorio as
their 'chief digital officer', just as i
told
them
to do exactly five months ago. so goddam golden. mega-satisfying even
though i didn't make a penny off
the prediction.
pete_dushenski: also props
to
trinque for
the wot visualiser. nifty bidness,
that.
pete_dushenski: many congrats
to asciilifeform and mircea_popescu on squeeking in under
the nth xmas deadline for #fuckgoats. looking forward
to getting my hands on one, whatever batch
that may be. will probably order a few and give as gifts
to sufficiently nerdy friends.
BingoBoingo: d
to
the emergency department with severe pain, swelling, and warmth
to his knee."
BingoBoingo: Related
http://epmonthly.com/article/treating-chainsaw-laceration-ep-enough/ "The patient claimed
that he was given a staple remover and was
told
to remove
the staples in one week. Emergency department staff stated
that
they gave him a staple remover
to bring
to his primary care physician
to have
the staples removed in 12-14 days.
The patient removed
the staples
three days after
they had been placed.
Two months later,
the patient returne
BingoBoingo: Also possible
Trump want Preet
to leave in scandal
the next activist prosecution overturned on appeal
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 19:25 mircea_popescu: i have personally repaired malfunctioning electronics with a well placed hit
to
the side.
mircea_popescu: i
think maybe it was reddit's rendition of a cock ? crushed ?