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mircea_popescu: and you know, once they get their bad boy issues sorted, he'll be the only one ready, lubed up and with a (6 inch!) erection going!
mircea_popescu: i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz.
mircea_popescu: "We have plenty of time to see how this debate plays out. There is overwhelming support from the community, the merchant ecosystem and miners for a blocksize increase. If Core fails to sort out its governance issues, then by the time this problem really comes to the fore, XT will be the only solution implemented and readily available,"
mircea_popescu: which is why they call them "traveling people" historically, or "conference scum" more recently.
mircea_popescu: but the shit artists are, of course, "traveling".
mircea_popescu: i think the bitcoin xt might have did the died.
mircea_popescu: The rest of us are busy working, and also a lot of people starting school and stuff so this is a slow period in general."
mircea_popescu: "Gavin and mike are busy travelling again this month https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bitcoin-xt/l0PA7UBuH9s
assbot: cryptonaut420 comments on Did the bitcoin xt died? ... ( http://bit.ly/1iisORD )
assbot: So the broomstick fired. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1J3duik )
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://trilema.com/2015/so-the-broomstick-fired/ << there is a trilema << But the trilema is not their failure to pay
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: 'ddos mitigation' is virtually guaranteed not to help you. likely - the opposite. << ANd then move to one of the ten or so other providers
assbot: So the broomstick fired. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1J3duik )
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/so-the-broomstick-fired/ << there is a trilema
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> apparently they DIDNT actually pay off all the 10-50mn they owed people for their most recent fraudulent move. << care to qntra it?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'ddos mitigation' is virtually guaranteed not to help you. likely - the opposite.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: https://macstadium.com/ and other cheaper options, leader at this point because apparently have "DDoS mitigation"
mircea_popescu: it's a full time job. of the nature and substance of learning to secure windows installations.
mircea_popescu: it's more complicated than that. a very complex balancing act of multiple separate agencies and the overriding consideration of "is the image hit worth it" all evaluated through multiple layers.
asciilifeform: (old thread)
asciilifeform: ah now i vaguely recall this.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: why does it need to have identical appearance? << Apparently Mac Mini in particular is a colocation niche
asciilifeform: (that is, that 'crime pays' for so long as it involves moving btc to usg coffers and not otherwise)
asciilifeform: i do confess, i expected them to get away with it
asciilifeform: they die, but quietly mummify in the cold vacuum.
asciilifeform: now this is a certainty.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why does it need to have identical appearance?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! they're still alive ??!!!
mircea_popescu: apparently they DIDNT actually pay off all the 10-50mn they owed people for their most recent fraudulent move.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: machine of equivalent horsepower and physical dimensions costs around a benjie, brand-new. << Not of identical appearance though. Still looking at that model specific colo niche
mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/STvv9k2.jpg << and the end of bitfinex
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why on earth would you buy crapple unless intending to run their bizarre os
asciilifeform: a good chunk of these is, likely, attempts at massage
BingoBoingo: Just waiting to see if Apel refreshes the Mac Mini to drop used prices some more
asciilifeform: at one point i had a thought: that one might win from logging monstrous tx-en
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Depending on how this bet goes I may get planned node Quantrill running sometime next month.
asciilifeform: (not counting incitatus, which is a thousand blocks behind)
BingoBoingo: it wasn't my node, though it is peering with zoolag instead of Dulap nao
asciilifeform: is that thing actually relayed by somebody, or cooked special-order for my box, i wonder.
asciilifeform: i suppose this is the opposite magnetic pole from chicks throwing panties at you
asciilifeform: repeated 10,001 times
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> but somehow i don't think this applies to most folks afflicted with 'one-eyed' aim << The reason for closing one eye is reaction speed and avoiding "noise" that emerges in binocular vision when eyes are disparate in their image quality.
asciilifeform: but somehow i don't think this applies to most folks afflicted with 'one-eyed' aim
mircea_popescu: but "the intuition" thus formed is that you see better
mircea_popescu: this, of course, because he is diagnosing one item at a time
mircea_popescu: this mention of the snellen chart finally jarred my understanding of the very widespread misconception that closing eye improves aim accuracy
asciilifeform: 'you will receive the standard substandard education!' -- 'tron'
asciilifeform: it is sorta analogous to '100 iq'
BingoBoingo: Up until that summer I used to be able to get all but the last line on the snell chart without effort. Last line could get about 75% nao cursed with 20/20 ish vision
asciilifeform: different folks can take different amount of abuse before permanent mutilation, sure.
mircea_popescu: i have perfect vision, in spite of being on computers since about age 9. nevertheless, that distance is still uncomfortable for the purpose.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the advent of crt ruined eyes << First summer after high school when exposed to computer monitors daily for extended periods of time first... Eyesight measurably worsened, kept myself to panel display only as much as I can after that
asciilifeform: everybody's mother, turns out, was right.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the advent of crt ruined eyes
mircea_popescu: i bet they didn't even need glasses aged 12.
assbot: War on Engineering: Teen Arrested for Building Clock | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1iiqlX8 )
mircea_popescu: fucking master race check that out. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Bundesarchiv_Bild_133-075%2C_Worms%2C_Antisemitische_Presse%2C_%22Stürmerkasten%22.jpg << how the fuck can these people read newspaper print from two feet away. ☟︎
asciilifeform: this does not cancel the idiocy of the whole thing, imho only enhances it
asciilifeform: does not actually translate to english
mircea_popescu: so, "the warlike dough" so to speak
mircea_popescu: blat, in romanian, is the bread of a cake.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: is this observation qntra-worthy? << If you want to write it up or just drop it as a comment I have no reason to deny you that.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: is this observation qntra-worthy?
mircea_popescu: 13 yo performance, in the united states of america and the republic of congo, counts as scholarly engineering.
asciilifeform: i shit thee not, official communique
asciilifeform: mr o: 'hey kid, nice clock, bring it to white house!'
mircea_popescu: well the usians are retarded.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not per se. but this is being pushed as 'scholar'
mircea_popescu: up until the age of about 13 or so anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make a shitty lesser something ☟︎
asciilifeform: in the left side of the hinge, there is a 9v battery connector, hanging loose.
mircea_popescu: "It is not uncommon for the family to buy two or even three grave plots for burial."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is that tonite ? Yeah but I dun have cable, refuse adobeFlasherast, and can't torrent a livestream so must wait.
asciilifeform: notice the object in the lower half of the attache. it is a mains transformer. plug still attached.
asciilifeform: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPCYHKzVAAAJG6w.jpg:large << close-up photograph. if i could bet on this, i would bet a few coin that he ~busted open an ordinary alarm clock~ to make this ☟︎
mircea_popescu: is that tonite ?
BingoBoingo: I am ingnoratish in some matters. Also drinking anxiety vodka hoping my horse Rand can get the seven minutes.
mircea_popescu: aok then.
mircea_popescu: then they wonder why no girls throwing panties. well... this would be it eh.
mircea_popescu: pity kids don't talk back more, you know ? "and you look like a movie idiot to me. where's that leave us."
kakobrekla: “He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
kakobrekla: “I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
kakobrekla: “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.
assbot: A clock is not a bomb. Ahmed’s arrest and why we can’t have nice things. - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1Krb3dB )
asciilifeform: it is in the völkischer beobachter now
asciilifeform: re: the 'clock bomb'
assbot: War on Engineering: Teen Arrested for Building Clock | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1Fh7xSF )
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:25:19; asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1277080 << what is this
assbot: Logged on 28-08-2015 01:24:38; mircea_popescu: the people in life are people from movies,
mircea_popescu: well obviously misrepresentation in commercial matter is the substance of fraud, but so far, not there
asciilifeform: "He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal, but if they 'lost' the money and ~planned~ to milk the insurer, it is fraud
assbot: CNN captures glorious split-screen moment between Donald Trump and Rand Paul - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1iio1zt )
asciilifeform: 'Bitpay tried to get its insurer to cover $950,000 of the loss, but in June the insurer declined to pay. Bitpay is now suing the insurer.' << gold
deedbot-: [Qntra] BitPay Claims Hack Amounting to 5000 Bitcoins - http://qntra.net/2015/09/bitpay-claims-hack-amounting-to-5000-bitcoins/
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1277080 << what is this ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: wife of "big daddy wanted me to become a lawyer, I became a lawyer. he said get married, I got married. he said have kids and i had kids and now he can't stand them. so he never loved me. fine! but I appeal to your common decency! gimme some money!"
mircea_popescu: good people come from eve and bad people spawned off lillith, but americans all crawled out from between the thighs of one mae pollitt! ☟︎
asciilifeform: (they don't marry, they don't x, or y, or z, but everybody dies)