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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell felipelalli actually iirc assbot is not a gribble fork. gribble is supybot, and i dun think kakobreklaa pythons much. i dun actually recall what it was derived from tho.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell cazalla im calling you j. coelho henceforth!
mircea_popescu: then the discussions re meatpacking yest. "why are landlords slumming them up ?" "because they're basically sheep ?"
mircea_popescu: "Nos primórdios, minha fonte principal de notícias sobre Bitcoin era o Bitcointalk Forum. Mas eu cansei de lá." << first off, my principal source of news on bitcoin was teh tardstalk forum. i got sick of it.
mircea_popescu: imagine this shit, i can actually read portuguese straight up!
mircea_popescu: how they expect to stay fed and warm is beyond comprehension. but they do so expect.
mircea_popescu: davout: the "you're mean to me makes me want to take the opposite view" is pretty priceless in itself << there's an entire generation of fucktards who pretty much run on this software with little else.
mircea_popescu: davout: they seem to have the same problem in -dev ,<< top kek :D
mircea_popescu: mats: i have always suspected slush is an idiot << in fairness, i think his involvement with this was more in the lines of typical forum scams (name lending - btw, always a bad idea)
mircea_popescu: "so derps beat you to market ? that's ok, give them half a year they'll hang themselves."
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: Google,s fibre offering annoys me for several reasons. << definitely a power grab.
mircea_popescu: long known as a problem, little to do about it because "must have lusers on the internet"
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: The captures are 5.0GB each. Just a little too large to fit on a DVD:P << last time we diagnosed this it was mostly unpnp pwnt routers that yielded it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: buncha derps in there nobody knows what to do with anyway
mircea_popescu: actually... i doubt obama would mind giving it to them, provided the cia etc still gets to use it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the farce was made public some time around '06, iirc. << i recall that. i also recall thinking "gee whiz, what a pointless thing nukes actually are."
mircea_popescu: The Post Recommends: Remember Russia? It’s still doomed.
mircea_popescu: not like i import the usual sort of teledildonics / ipads
mircea_popescu: and if custom guy wants to steal the thing to run his own node i dun mind lol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: not sure why that thing made such an impression on me << because it's pretty fuckin stupid.
mircea_popescu: you'll be easy to pick up in the airport. "fetch me the guy that's inside a pile of boxes"
mircea_popescu: if worst comes to worst ima have friends import em when visiting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know im so impressed with that little train engine...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw, you're both prolly making too much of this.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: "Since 0.9.0 the number of orphan blocks that is stored has been restricted, so this immediate issue should be fixed." << not really fixed in any sense. just, counter-kludged.
mircea_popescu: Rozal: No worries, I'm here to listen and participate. I used to trade assets in the btct days << o boy.
mircea_popescu: like that, it works. but god help him if he did something like "tight housing for poor folks like you"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dishonestly is by now so much the way of life in the us that no sane businessman intending to sell slum dwellings can possibly proceed in any other manner than by pretending it's low density.
mircea_popescu: then one goes into their dwellings, and understands why catered rubber chicken is a step up
mircea_popescu: one has trouble comprehending why the "conferences" are so exciting
mircea_popescu: and yet these are the derps going on about "intrinsic worth" on reddit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now tell me that taking the whole raft/8pack of dumbass chickies on a dogfoot pellets / leather belts and canes diet isn't somnething THEY should pay you for.
mircea_popescu: let us now wonder and inquire and soulsearch as to why-oh-why tuberculosis, syphilis and lice are on the raise in san francisco
mircea_popescu: clearly the american dream has won out : they live now like the romanian girls i used to fuck in the 80s.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oyu don't understand how the world works!!1
mircea_popescu: when your enemy says this ain't convincing you just scored.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "I write about finance for Institutional Investor and sport and other stuff for The Guardian. In January I'll be directing @dissrupt2015."
mircea_popescu: yeah well, apple pie is probably a lot more convincing than working out.
mircea_popescu: (it's almost exactly the same, minus the exact cutouts - much like the recent "3d fad" is exactly the 80s same thing, rehashed"
mircea_popescu: if you recall the soviet vairant, you know why it's so funny.
mircea_popescu: except, it won't be men in usg-blue shirts humbled before tshirted croc wearing crowd,
mircea_popescu: "The #OWS demo wants to see powerful men humbled before the t-shirted, tweeting masses, it allows them the fantasy that it could some day happen here, which it won't because the propaganda worked."
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> okay! i'm off for a few - going to hack on deedbot with trinque nao < ?! lol
mircea_popescu: all the pissy handlers. all the impatient phone calls. the embarassment of the recent fed paper.
mircea_popescu: and to think, two years of effort, gone. all those "salaries", suddenly unjustified.
mircea_popescu: they hadn't anticipated exactly how easy it is to get killed doing it.
mircea_popescu: well, no, actually yhat's it : they have been trying to break it, and irretrievably so.