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mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'm definitely supporting this but more like a matching thing.
mircea_popescu: take obama, he's not rich because he melted down the peace gold medal, he's rich because he bleed dry a quarter billion idiots.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you say that like it's a bad thing.
mike_c: wouldn't that recipient have already amassed quite a sum by doing whatever he won the prize for?
mircea_popescu: all we need is to agree on some gross criteria, then people construct a nominee list and all contributors vote on it
mircea_popescu: we collect a pot by donation, whoever wants to contribute. then the pot is on a fixed date distributed to one recipient.
mircea_popescu: which nobel prize story inspires me. shouldn't we have a yearly prize of some sort for some thing ?
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mircea_popescu: totally worth a nobel prize for going "hey guise, wouldn't it be better if we ipo that shit ???"
mircea_popescu: ed. So in June 1929, a new plan was enacted, floating more U.S.-backed bonds and reducing Germany's payments to $28 billion paid out over 59 years.
mircea_popescu: In 1924, an American banker named Charles Dawes outlined what came to be known as the Dawes Plan — a new reparations agreement under which U.S. banks such as J.P. Morgan issued bonds to private investors on behalf of Germany, which agreed to pay them back when the money became due. Dawes won the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on this plan. But when the first batch of bonds came due in 1928, Germany again default
mircea_popescu: quoty Kosighin "what gold ? we have never heard of such a gold"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romania sent about a billion trillion tons of gold and shit back when russia was run by the tsar (and close ally / relative of the romanian king)
mircea_popescu: well, that's the problem with ww1, for the first time in history governments became a majority of the gdp,
asciilifeform: in an account of turkish concubines, a venetian envoy noted that cucumbers were served to them pre-sliced...
mircea_popescu: it's a self-limiting condition.
asciilifeform: this one's pushing it a bit
mircea_popescu: i'll show you i'm a convicted whore but hide my nipples and wear a slip!
asciilifeform: this one is actually plausible. may be taking place in a barrack belonging to 'lower order' convicts
asciilifeform: the man i quoted re: the meatgrinder was employed as a detective embedded in a prison, in what was then leningrad. he had an interesting take: much of what the rubes think of as 'the cruelty' was simply administration of justice among the convicts
mircea_popescu: if you had the option of running on a stairmaster or turning the meat grinder, what'd you take ?
asciilifeform: by some accounts, the old traditions have died, and the days when a man would be severely punished for an 'unearned' tattoo are gone.
punkman: I got a couple books with tattoos, these russian books seem like a good addition
asciilifeform: ex. of the latter: a devil stoking a furnace (drawn around actual arse, it being the furnace)
asciilifeform: russian blogger, circa '04: 'have you ever beaten a man? had you done so, you would know that it is hard work. no less arduous than turning a meat-grinder. how often do you wake up to the urge to crank a meat-grinder? every day?' ☟︎
asciilifeform: many arguments were against the 'political' slant of the book, rather than the facts. 'some english chick is sitting on a rat pot right now, but where's the book, hah.'
asciilifeform: a herodotus of sorts.
asciilifeform: no serious objection on my part, just that the author has a reputation as a teller of embellished tales.
mircea_popescu: the objection being that such a diverse collection of items could not be found in the same one cellar ?
mircea_popescu: when it's a case of "got five hours to get as many men on the boat as you can, and whoever's left gets to meet herr drakula"... trauma starts looking like cake.
asciilifeform: some scenes are a little bit stretching historical credibility, like this slave ship loading: http://cs409231.vk.me/v409231196/594d/FWKahJoz4aM.jpg
asciilifeform: the compendium is now a best-seller.
asciilifeform: baldaev got quite a lot of shit for these, many folks insisted that he simply drew his fantasies (during his employment as a prison guard)
asciilifeform: h 'flute', a rolled up tube for the ease of entry of ants. to the legs would be tied a 'spreader stick.' often the executioners were helped by female 'vor' ['thief-in-law'] inmates.'
asciilifeform: 'some demented people in gulag during the years of the cult, for their amusement, would select women from the contigent of 'enemies of the people' and for 'some sin' sit them down upon anthills.' bottom: 'young women who refused to become lovers of their executioners in gulag would be sat upon anthills, tied to trees, 'for the mosquitoes and ants.' sometimes a pipe would be inserted, made from a reed or a birc ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the old "each table has a sucker or it wouldn't be a table. if you don't know who then well..." into a "each escape has its bullocks, and upon the eating of the first one you'll know whether you count with him by whether you're invited to dine."
mircea_popescu: because without a 50-50 distribution cads mat has damned serious problems enacting his imagined polity into reality.
asciilifeform: 'the slaying by a convict of a 'bullock' during an escape from camp.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the women specifically, is that nonsense a mainstream representation afayk ?
asciilifeform: a real hieronymous bosch, this fellow.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is lnms and isch btw ? google couldn't just put a ?t=pix or some shit like normal people.
asciilifeform: if anybody has a warez copy of the whole 130+ set, drop it here.
asciilifeform: (he is often said to have spiced things up a bit. so take with a grain of salt.)
mircea_popescu: while i slept i dreamt about these two womenz having an argument which ended by leaving the other tied to a tree in the wild somewhere with her rectum stretch-filled with fresh mud.
asciilifeform: by some accounts, spikes (well, splinters) were considered a mercy, and used in extenuating circumstances, while grease on a smooth stake was used in aggravating ones.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i never heard of anyone running a current branch of anything that didn't crash.
mircea_popescu: mike_c> (which they had) << this is arguyable. the thing run in the red for most of its lifetime, and in a dubious field. they always had trouble finding investors, and the investors they did find were mostly of the imbecile sort. if you want i can dig up the trilema discussion re investors and why they suck, but you'll end up with more shit to translate as a result.
asciilifeform: this is a box devoted to running the 'current' branch.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got some old/bad libraries. i have a reference running since 2011 that never crashed.
mike_c: spent. with a P.
mircea_popescu: mike_c there's always been (since inception) a set of people who believed it is thus exploitable.
asciilifeform: when using a machine with hardwired cameras/microcrophones/anal probes, always smile and speak very politely.
mircea_popescu: o yeah, using a browser made by a search engine was such a brilliant idea.
mircea_popescu: A bug in Google's Chrome web browser enables malicious websites to activate your microphone and spy on conversations that happen next to your computer, even after you've left the website.
asciilifeform: the other crap aside, a service where you do not get to take btc 'home' at the end of the day ought not to be called a btc exchange.
mike_c: well, i guess i'm saying an exchange defined as "hft enabled" is not necessary. just a place to buy/sell.
asciilifeform: i think the implication might have been that 100k users turns you into a 'person of interest' for the vultures
mike_c: jurov, 0 -> 100k in a few years isn't that hard with appropriate resources (which they had)
asciilifeform: hence the question of whether an honest btc/fiat exchange is possible even in principle, without the cooperation of a sovereign.
jurov: does anyone have a competence growing btc/fiat exchange
deadweasel: the dodo told everyone it could fly, when in fact it had never even sold a magic card...
asciilifeform: does anyone here have more than a 'purely zoological' interest in what happens to gox?
cads: above a residential area :)
cads: this is like a full speed freight train that's been magically teleported 2 miles up into the sky
cads: what do you mean, it seems like if you had 300 dollars in a gox account now you could buy coin and jump out
asciilifeform: that's like welding a torn hair back together. sure, it's possible...
mike_c: i'm not going to look at that code anymore because I will have to renege on everything i said the other day and agree that a new reference build is high priority.
mike_c: without having a repo, it doesn't seem hard to crash this if a null node gets in the node vector.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: it means a potentially-exploitable boojum.
mike_c: oh no. that's a lot of globals..
asciilifeform: on a 64-bit linux box.
asciilifeform: e.g. modern russia fields a ballistic missile titled 'voevod.' can you picture naming a rocket 'governor' ?
asciilifeform: moiety: might wanna look for a respectable translation of the whole manuscript.
deadweasel: ;;later tell mircea_popescu no no, I just enjoyed their hometown cuisine with sake, nothing more. hometown cuisine is not a euphemism.
asciilifeform: hen came to them in person, and asked 'what more do you wish?' they answered thusly: 'it is known only to god, lord, and to you: do that which god commands you.' he asked further of them: 'do you wish me to make you happy in this world, wanting for nothing?' they, awaiting from him great generosity, replied in unison, 'yes, we do want, our lord!' and then drakula ordered the house sealed and put to the torch, a
asciilifeform: try this one on for size then. 'once drakula proclaimed: let it be known throughout all of his lands, that all who are old, or invalid, or diseased, or poor, shall come to him. and so came to him an untold multitude of beggars and vagabonds, awaiting generous alms. he ordered them all brought to a house for this purpose built, and had food and wine brought to them. they feasted amidst great merriment. drakula t ☟︎
jurov: i'd say marvelled is just a bad translation
asciilifeform: ke a rogue, storms into the home of a great lord. had he come to me and spoke reason, i would have found the rogue in my home and either given him up, or asked for his reprieve.' the king was told of this. and he laughed, and marvelled at drakula's approach.'
asciilifeform: ht the rogue - and released the rogue. the other constables took flight, and, when they came to the judge, spoke to him of this. the judge and his horsemen went to the king with complaint of drakula. the king a messenger to drakula, to ask, 'why have you wrought this evil?' he replies thusly, 'no evil have i wrought, but the constable has slaine himself with his own hand: such shall be the demise of any who, li
asciilifeform: 'when the king freed [exiled] drakula from the dungeon, he lead him to buda, and gifted to him a house in pest, opposite buda, but to his court not yet permitted him. and then it happened that some fleeing rogue ran into drakula's manor and took refuge there. the pursuers sought the rogue there and found him. then drakula lept up, snatched his sword, ran from his quarters and beheaded the constable who had caug
moiety: as in everything new york gets NYXX treatment. this is a very bad play on that?
mircea_popescu: now that's a good saying.
moiety: it's a real shame there just now too
davout: so they were originally quarries, and a part of them was used to put bones away when paris cemetaries were getting filled up
ozbot: Bitcoin’s largest exchange is dying. Here’s why that’s not a problem for Bitcoin.
ThickAsThieves: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/15/bitcoins-largest-exchange-is-dying-heres-why-thats-not-a-problem-for-bitcoin/ <<< if anyone is in the mood to laugh at current WP commenter ignorance
moiety: might seem a strange question, but is there a smell to these places? i would imagine there would be
kakobrekla: >and due to French unpreparedness, the fort was easily captured by a small German raiding party.
mircea_popescu: you want the entire country to be a cemetery or something ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla romania is a country with ~20mn people alive and ~150 bn people dead.
moiety: you know, there is a park where i usually bury my small pets... im thinking others have probably been uncovered and i just havent seen it...
moiety: yeah I usually am a lot more efficient when not bereaved
kakobrekla: Willdude123 its possible to make a tx in such way it will be valid after n time, or just use bitbet.
moiety: oh lol not a single thing aside from not having any other option
mircea_popescu: what made you think you're a qualified undertaker.
mircea_popescu: why not ask a day before rather than a day after teh failburial ? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: moiety ahahaha you're such a twerp.
moiety: i couldn't bury her for ages you see, I just couldn't do it. so its worse that when i finally managed to bury her, she gets eaten a day later
mircea_popescu: yeah it probably put the thing's head on a pike somewhere.
moiety: im a bit scared to search the garden but i feel i should just in case theres bits i could rebury