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mircea_popescu: you already got fucked with
those buey! bring new ones!
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 22:58:52;
thestringpuller: "[Blockchain] is
the
technology beneath
the bitcoin cryptography, but it is not bitcoin."
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not only
that, is "enviro-SUV" crossover weighing more
than actual
Truck-SUV
mircea_popescu: doesn't
that mean
the batteries will have
to power 6x as much car as gasoline ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
these fucking idiots, by now
the car is 90% battery... how
to get 5% extra distance ? make it 95% battery. doesn't
that mean double
the size ? YES IT DOES
BingoBoingo: In other new
the
Tesla Model X is
too obeast
to legally
traverse
the Brooklyn Bridge which has a 3
ton weight limit
mircea_popescu: and what's her face,
the
trailer
trash whore
that was sharing needles with
the nirvana kid ?
mircea_popescu: generally, old people have relatively little
to live for.
this shows.
mircea_popescu: kinda like "i'm so cool i get my salary directly on my credit card, no need
to use cash"
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:54:07; phf: heh actually some boomer at russian cultural center was once
telling me of his adventures, he proudly
told me
that him and his wife had a friend in russia and it was even! a kgb guy.
the implication is
that he was so cool, he even got
to meet a bonafide kgb, befriend him and
that was his best friend.
that's your handler, you dumbass.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:46:39; asciilifeform: it is not clear
to me
that
this was a smart
thing.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:40:53; phf:
their whole experience of su is
through intourist propotainment and politruk control. who's going
to let an american nobody in a company of
the valuable products of soviet system. it's a needless risk. at best you get invited
to some aparatchik family dinner and get
to playbelieve "i was even friends with a russian family!"
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:29:41; asciilifeform: no amount of
travel or whatnot can cure a man who experienced western civilization in 1960, and believes
that we can bring back
the airplanes by cargoculting
to what he perceives as
the rules of
the era.
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck cares what "river macleod"
thinks on any
topic,
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:07:26; asciilifeform: anybody has
thoughts about
the Dolev-Dwork-Naor asymmetric cipher ?
pete_dushenski: there's supposedly a shake down of
the odd pawn broker, which can't be more
than appropriation of a bicycle for
the cop's children, but it's mostly just a list of names of bitches who can't deal with
their own problems.
pete_dushenski: old hostage
taker is familiar, friendly, and has a kind face
mod6: in
this case, 'read-char'
mod6: and since i have no clue "what lispers
typically do", I'll ask: I usually read files one line at a
time and
then do
things accordingly, is
this a
typical lisp convention? Or do most just read one word at a
time and
then do stuff?
mod6: so, with
tinyscheme,
there is no 'read-line' -- which we sort of
talked about; having
to write a bunch of our own procedures.
shinohai: yup. Brian Armstrong will be
there
too.
thestringpuller: "[Blockchain] is
the
technology beneath
the bitcoin cryptography, but it is not bitcoin."
☟︎ thestringpuller: LOL. Blythe Masters is speaking at
the consensus coindesk
thing?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> other
than
to help sink
the enemy. << Mega reason
ben_vulpes: "tell us how much you diddled each other so
that we may distribute other diddling equitably"
assbot: Domain registration company Rightside
tells employees
that W2 forms were stolen in phishing attack - GeekWire ... (
http://bit.ly/1OynlOV )
shinohai: did isis make good on
their
threat
to knock
twitter offline?
pete_dushenski: anyone have any experience with displayport
to dvi adapters for ultra-high-res (eg. 4k) monitors ?
danielpbarron: was considering betting against myself but decided against it because i figured if i was right,
there would be a massive bet
to follow anyway and it would just knock my percent down anyway; might as well stick with my first bet and hope a miracle happens
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pete_dushenski: beautiful white children as
the majority." He signs off by
telling recipients, "Don’t vote for a Cuban. Vote for Donald
Trump." "
pete_dushenski: "In Minnesota and Vermont, a white supremacist super PAC called
the American National Super PAC has begun circulating a robocall in support of
Trump. "The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid
to be called 'racist,' says William Johnson,
the leader of
the white nationalist American Freedom Party. He goes on
to bemoan "gradual genocide against
the white race," and how few "schools anymore
pete_dushenski: bwahaha why doesn't money work in usistan ? it works everywhere else ! reserve currency status seems
to have broken
the currency's use and meaning.
pete_dushenski: as also used
to
the methods we use in Zimbabwe when we get in
these situations, so I said
to him: " Come on Sir, what if I give you something? Will
that speed up
the process?" I'm sure he could
tell from from my accent where I'm from so he looked me in
the eye, lowered his voice and said
to me softly : "Sir, you have just offered me a bribe. We don't do
that around here."
pete_dushenski: "Now, in my first week in
the states, something got
trapped in
the earphone jack of my laptop so I went
to an Apple store
to see if
they can fix it.
The genius
there
told me
that he would need
to first check it in and
that I would only be able
to come back and pick it up after four working days. I knew
there were other computers in line before me and I really didn't
think I could survive four days without a laptop an
pete_dushenski: "He said: "Some of
the people will be
too old or
too weak
to carry
the food
to
their cars so you will have
to carry
the food for
them". What shocked me was
that
these people were being given food hampers because
they were poor but
they drove cars. Some of
them had very nice cars
too. In Zimbabwe, poor people don't have cars."
danielpbarron: funny
thing,
the number is about as long as
the (1 more message)
danielpbarron: he never does;
the final number is always after
the ;;more
shinohai: srsly gribble? You couldn't have just parsed
that in a single statement?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> every
time blockchain counts a new million blocks. << sounds good!
phf: yeah, probably on
the way out. i was
there last about 8 years ago
phf: oh man, plenty of
these people at russian cultural center in DC, can have a little study roster
phf: heh actually some boomer at russian cultural center was once
telling me of his adventures, he proudly
told me
that him and his wife had a friend in russia and it was even! a kgb guy.
the implication is
that he was so cool, he even got
to meet a bonafide kgb, befriend him and
that was his best friend.
that's your handler, you dumbass.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: phf: you're right,
that's far more 'mediated'
than i'd understood
to be
the case previously.
phf: you don't seem
to grok how "mediated" works in
this case, you or your
tour is assigned a dedicated kgb handler and a politruk. if you're not part of
tour,
then you are assigned
those. personally. sop for any sort of interaction with outsiders. politruk is ~personally responsible~ for you not doing anything dodgy. your level of artificial integration depends on how important you are and how experienced your handlers are at running
this
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: editing
text is 99% of what i do as well
pete_dushenski: phf:
that's very much why i specified '2nd-tier' ru city,
though i suppose
this was based on
the presumption
that most of
the mediation was happening in larger urban centres, which i suppose statistically it must have been, but whether
that made it easier or harder
to break mediated mold in smaller centres isn't
thereby granted as being in any way obvious, admittedly.
phf: their whole experience of su is
through intourist propotainment and politruk control. who's going
to let an american nobody in a company of
the valuable products of soviet system. it's a needless risk. at best you get invited
to some aparatchik family dinner and get
to playbelieve "i was even friends with a russian family!"
☟︎