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mircea_popescu: mike_c he held the thing by the fucking blade, too. a 12 inch knife sharp enough to slice beef on touch
mircea_popescu: at it for 39 years, he said when asked. "and after that long time, you'd better be good at it or else you'd better had quit long ago"
mircea_popescu: and speaking of jewish deli, you should have seen this butcher get the steak off the bone.
mircea_popescu: the outlets can't be similar, because podunk doesn't have jewish delis.
mircea_popescu: i guess you've never lived in san diego, manhattan, downtown dc etc.
mircea_popescu: "This white paper seeks to put forth the economic and technical reasons that the digital tokens known as “AppCoins” can develop a value in the market and maintain their value over the long term, should their associated application gain adoption by users. "
mircea_popescu: the notion that the us has the same prices all around boggles my mind.
mircea_popescu: worchestershire (known here as "salsa inglesa") they were out of
mircea_popescu: no, 15km is the whole round trip. market is like 5ish miles away
mircea_popescu: mike_c: tapes are $20 / TB. can't beat that with a stick. << quite true.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: benkay is a queen << ahahaha they got yo numba nao vulpes.
mircea_popescu: lb ground beef, 2lb nice beef steak, 6lb fresh ripe pineaple, half lb fresh figs, lb plums,1.5lb masdaam, swiss, smoked local cheese, lb cold cuts/fungs sausage,lb spinach, salad, 2lb ripe tomatoes, 1/2lb mushrooms, lb red peppers,4 ears young corn,2 artichokes,100g dry shitake,100g maraschino cherries, lb chickpeas,14oz heinz ketchup, half lb exceptionally grandiose aceitunas verdes, imported dijon 210g, cabfare 15kms
mircea_popescu: gonna paste the list in here, anyone's welcome to guess either us, romania or buenos aires prices for the lot
mircea_popescu: admitting against all evidence that there even exists a distinmction between stupid and poor.
mircea_popescu: we really don't want, need or could use more poorfags/stupidfags involved
mircea_popescu: it just implies "accessibility" is about as dumb a thing to think about re bitcoin as you know, speeding tickets for snails.
mircea_popescu: now, 4k txn / second is nothing if you srsly aspire to be visa.
mircea_popescu: benkay " let me know when it's realistic." << let me explain realistic. if there's 4k txn a second, which weigh a conservative 512 bytes each, at 512 seconds per block you get...
mircea_popescu: the us "scene" is like greenspun's ciclid association. all dorks.
mircea_popescu: and women actually paint walls here, which is refreshing.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> asciilifeform, dub: almost needless to point out by now, but the buenos aires public wall paintings are better than anything the NYC scene has cranked out since...forever. << this is true.
mircea_popescu: btw, "coinbr requires btc addr to sign up i b'leev" << so what if it does ? once you're in you can trade with anyone else in.
mircea_popescu: jurov: lol they will find lung and liver fossilies, bones long gone? << this is likely lol
mircea_popescu: smoking TOBACCO doesn't do you in quite as drastically as smoking contemporary ciggaretts
mircea_popescu: and actually good camels, as opposed to the fire-retardant, chemical blend crap they sell in the us/eu to justify the theory that smoking causes cancer
mircea_popescu: it has exactly zero to do with women specifically, and the whiny pretense to the contrary has only one indicaiton :
mircea_popescu: when i want to make tea rather than coffee, i acquire the skill of putting the righjt fucking thing in the pot.
mircea_popescu: when i don't want to be shocked by the mains power, i learn which bits to put my hands on.
mircea_popescu: this has nothing to do with women. when i don't want to be treated like a fucking retarded tourist and charged 2 to 5 x everything, i learn and use the fucking local language.
mircea_popescu: in general, whenever one wants to deal with the world on one's own terms, one's required to take aditional training, and ALSO be talented.
mircea_popescu: dub: so one half of our sepcies should require additional training to protect its ass from the other half? << yes.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: feminists have again come full circle: attacking a beauty queen for insuffiently supporting patriarchy << they're spinnin' so fast they could be weaving wool.
mircea_popescu: so am i right in assuming the only career worthy of a man named brandon billings is... bill collection ?
mircea_popescu: the average redditor's porn stash is bigger than the blockchain
mircea_popescu: mthreat well that for sure lol. fucking trilema is bigger than the blockchain
mircea_popescu: smickles: I have taken over the bitcoin corp in eve << how much shit was in the hangars in the end ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat i don't recall, what's theirtotal data store ? yotabytes ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well if you've microstored the blockchain, they are, yes.
mircea_popescu: there were some people looking into crystal doping storage
mircea_popescu: sorta like the smell of "we burned down 5000 hard drives. hopefully ALL th customers kept good backups
mircea_popescu: (there's this very distinctive vinegary scent of "o shit we just lost this warehousefull")
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i know people who go into seizures just fgrom the smell
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's the old nitro stuff. modern film no lonmger has the problem
mircea_popescu: if you mean silver coloidal, it's utter shit. read up some time on the trouble hollywood has archiving, what itcosts,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's more one of those "let's inject some power into otherwise worthy projects geeks had been dilligently holding afloat with a cuttingboard and a spatula over 30 years"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Ms Boring forgot to make the distinction between the two Erik ventures << yeah not particularly inspiring.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it strengthens the quality of debian's signatures for instance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: storing bits that never need to flip again ought to be technologically simpler - on basic physical level - than the normal kind. << this is a good point, and i imagine within the decade we will have special blockchain ssds being made.
mircea_popescu: benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even. << what happens to you once gb blocks ?