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mircea_popescu: punkman: fake boyfriends that is << the trouble with an actual boyfriend is that he just might make you a woman
mircea_popescu: without that, neither al nor francis'd hjave been heard of, perhaps. and yet...
mircea_popescu: it's incredible what people end up having their careers built on.
mircea_popescu: he started it, then the office gofer ran off with the keys,.
mircea_popescu: pair is the bitpay ceo. vladimir is, as far as i know, the owner of btc magazine
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo now that pair is actually trying to resurect bitcoin magazine again, a blow by blow history of exactly how bitpay & the scam foundation stole that magazine from its owners a coupla years ago would be quite topical. the forum's got a pile of posts, see vladimir's stuff, maybe even interview him.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually, no. just, the french civil service must die.
mircea_popescu: ie, you won't get a conviction on it straight ; if you're also prosecuting other indictments it can either blow up, ruin your other counts or at most succeed for no benefit, as it'll get rolled into the other counts.
mircea_popescu: except it's a meaningless ofence nobody prosecutes seriously, because it can get the jury to waste time / negotiate a conviction down, and the punishments are minor anyway.
mircea_popescu: davout the usians are insane. it is apparently a crime to have a house where there are drugs.
mircea_popescu: so now the president is claiming that the evil guys (unspecified) that made the da guy falsely claim she's involved in destrtoying the trial of the iranian terrorists that blew up the jews, also killed him, to make her look even worse!
mircea_popescu: heh, there's actually a us felony charge of "maintaining a dwelling."
mircea_popescu: i think they work on the basis of about five consonants and that's it
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum, argentine spanish spekers can not actually distinguish b, p v and f
mircea_popescu: i think queue has a sharper k which is actually perceptible
mircea_popescu: mon cul / mon cou is certainly in the same position :D
mircea_popescu: davout in other news, rewatching oscar i had the pleasure to expose anglophone ear to the delices of "ta maman / ton amant / demander ta main". no differences could be perceived.
mircea_popescu: What exactly do we mean by “next generation”? We mean a fully regulated, fully compliant, New York-based bitcoin exchange for both individuals and institutions alike.
mircea_popescu: "In the year of '61, we left our native land, 'cause we could not bend our spirits to the tyrant's stern command. So we rallied 'round our Buckner, while our hearts were sad and sore, to offer our blood for freedom as our fathers did before...."
mircea_popescu: (never = not anymore, since gavin is no longer in a position to merge hearnidiocy in any significant manner)
mircea_popescu: a 2 block orphan that's 122 blocks shorter than the main chain is never going to be main.
mircea_popescu: a 900 block long orphan that's 5 blocks shorter than the main chai nshould not be discarded.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> In later versions, they have a cap of 750 blocks max for the orphan map iirc. << yes, and it's idiotic.
mircea_popescu: but! flavour and hotness are different. flavour's a billion different sulphides, alcohols, aromatics etc
mircea_popescu: ah, spice is a different story tho. they can eat pretty hot, especially in the se.
mircea_popescu: "another chain at least 120 blocks longer" or something sane like that ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 do you know right off what's the logic that deems an orphan chain no longer worth tracking ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the xbox was a loss leader. heck, the 94 playstation was a loss leader
mircea_popescu: no srsly, the way computiong works, no loss leader stays a loss leader for long.
mircea_popescu: "take this food away, it... it... it almost TASTES of something!!1"
mircea_popescu: cheese's not really their thing. what passes for "sharp" cheddar in washington dc is in fact barely more than cream fraiche.
mircea_popescu: the thing is, us folk, and especially midwesterners (which is what washington is, in spite of all pretense) have very VERY bland tastes and a taste for blandness.
mircea_popescu: now my house smells like No Personal Higiene High athletic team had been camping out all week
mircea_popescu: i bought myself all sorts of excellent cheeses today, from this very competent deli