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decimation:
mircea_popescu: apparently so. I'm trying to find a way to hedge my mostly long position on us equities
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Gotta check the German story first
trinque:
mircea_popescu: the context was a point about being able to frame any situation in ever more paranoid terms
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu email the smartest journalist in .ar and tell em youve got a bombshell, but they need pgp
decimation:
mircea_popescu: snowden does discredit 'crowdsourcing'
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 17:31:31; felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: thank you so much. But I guess this is not true on OTC WoT? Only in assbot, right?
assbot: Logged on 10-09-2014 13:22:53;
mircea_popescu: you mean Two Dogs isn't originally populated by dogs ?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: there are militia groups around calling themselves "three percenters"
trinque:
mircea_popescu: right, but I recall joe stack day
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> mod6 ben_vulpes think a <27mb bitcoin could be ? << the current statically linked bitcoind is 5.6mb is that what you mean?
assbot: Logged on 26-03-2015 15:54:27; asciilifeform: 'After making public revelations critical of US policies, former CIA director William Colby was himself found dead in 1996 from a laughably improbable 'canoe accident'. US Congressman Wayne Owens was found dead in Israel in 2002 while investigating US corruption connections.' << 'best news is the history you didn't know' (
mircea_popescu?)
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu there's also then the issue of where to stash them etc
assbot: Logged on 24-01-2015 05:51:18;
mircea_popescu: holy hell a sane engineer.
felipelalli:
mircea_popescu: thank you so much. But I guess this is not true on OTC WoT? Only in assbot, right?
nubbins`: asciilifeform
mircea_popescu etc ^^
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 00:52:42;
mircea_popescu: if you decide to fuck whomint, where the fuck is harry poter fanfic boy going to find money to pay for his groceries ?
davout: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu looks like someone has locked S.MPOE's cockpit from the inside!
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 05:12:04;
mircea_popescu: nubbins` can you store a pellet ?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: have you found any particularly good south american wines?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo or you could just pipe awk through sed << Hard on the phone.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Oh my strategy? I retain lawyers because it forces opposition to route annoying phone calls through attorney
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu> how exactly is this strat supposed to go : i couldn't make the "preponderence of evidence" standard but i'll make the "absolute proof" ? << That or make preponderance of evidence standard use as proof in criminal case
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 23:50:33;
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron where was this ?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> get stung by nutso us wasp o may gawd... << There's a burrowing and colonizing Vespid species endemic here. When they nest in the yard it is time for the serious chemicals. Eradicating a nest will scar that part of the yard for years.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu she'll have a series of novels out this year
mike_c:
mircea_popescu: life's too short to read the foundation forum. i flipped the bozo bit on them, no more research required :)
mike_c:
mircea_popescu: maybe not. could be a much dumber reason. "It's all one node just with 600 addresses. This is what happens when you fucking pay people to sybil attack the network."
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> (me last year, waiting for cab with dude in timisoara. cab kinda late. me : "check it out, i'ma light a cigarette and by the magical magic of smoking, it'll show up immediately. << Most well known phenomenon associated with tobacco use
trinque:
mircea_popescu: yeah I will
brendafdez:
mircea_popescu it works now. Anyway the IP I'm on now is one of a public AP, it shouldnt be whitelisted. I'll later give you my home IP, and BingoBoingo has my VPS IP already. I didn't know you were filtering.
ascii_field wishes to ask
mircea_popescu for a favourite tarball of gpg, signed
trinque:
mircea_popescu: 100% granted, that is a fine reason not to do it
ascii_field: trinque:
mircea_popescu was alluding to protocol finesse
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 21:56:26;
mircea_popescu: i totally wish to see it.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu so are you proposing that all pogos ever sent out will contain 0.5.3.1 or w/e current release is when the first one goes out?
nubbins`: <+
mircea_popescu> right but you're adding a narrower version. << so "check the usual places monthly", w/e
ascii_field: the key in
mircea_popescu's ring, or wherever
ascii_field: just for
mircea_popescu's pleasure they will do straight sinkhole
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i get this. but we're dealing with a fundamental case of amplification attack.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: if we're so non-thirdworld, where's my ic fab ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: 20bux + a man with a suitcase to bring it to you, if you're in ar
trinque:
mircea_popescu: yeah thought in the shower today that giving an easy way to dump other code into the thing later was a terrible idea
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: if i understand, the meaning is that there is no phoundation node ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: what about it << it being in a usg-blessed region
trinque:
mircea_popescu: someone should have a business doing aftermarket mods on these
ascii_field thought that
mircea_popescu was asking why the machines are offered for purchase rather than, as often happens with such equipment, for lease
ascii_field: i thought
mircea_popescu was asking why a firm would purchase rather than lease the machines
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: they did try, and result could only fool a muppet
trinque:
mircea_popescu: you're not missing anything
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: do they? or does the dependapotomus and its six screaming offspring wake'em
ascii_field has a possibly different imagination of 'rich' than
mircea_popescu assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 04:12:53;
mircea_popescu: "Jerm La Haine: I’ve been doing music production and graphic design for just under twenty years now."
ascii_field: and where
mircea_popescu wakes up and says 'now the machine is 1000x more complex, needs to know what wot is'
ascii_field: and i disagree with
mircea_popescu's hypothesis that 'enemy is stupid'. he is not stupid. he is being slow, so as to show off his sprezzatura.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 05:10:32;
mircea_popescu: forget it, you want to upgrade get a new unit.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 05:08:35;
mircea_popescu: serviceable 19 dollar units ? gtfo.
ascii_field: and
mircea_popescu will say 'bah, unreliable, you're driving up engineering cost 1000 times'
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu hey who knows, maybe there'll be an osx build some time this summer
chetty: <
mircea_popescu> <PeterL> I've also wondered what would happen if we implanted chloroplasts in our skin, just live off sunlight? << toxic epidermal necrolysis much more likely./// and poor vampires
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 04:30:25;
mircea_popescu: at any rate : expecting human behaviour to be addressed by genetics is a little like expecting food to be discussed by chemistry.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 04:52:20;
mircea_popescu: but to belabour the point : one of the principal reasons "measuring iq" as it were height is so ridiculous, is because nobody has yet had an off day for height.
chetty: <
mircea_popescu> According to the 2002/2003 census, 143,167 farms had plum trees bearing fruit covering a total area of 554 km². According to the same census, about 75% of the crop ends up as țuică.//only 75%?
BingoBoingo: <jurov> <
mircea_popescu> actually, distilling fermented fruit can not yield methanol << wait what??? << It totally can
jurov: <
mircea_popescu> actually, distilling fermented fruit can not yield methanol << wait what???
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, must be making something else then, i have nfi, just hear in the media now and again
BingoBoingo: *
mircea_popescu had a drink at his junior high prom. which was held in a bar. because romanians didn't actually give a shit. << Wait Wut, you only had one drink at prom? Junior year I was trying to keep pace with Anya.