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assbot: Logged on 10-03-2015 00:04:10;
mircea_popescu: i can accept that SOME PEOPLE actually need their monitor to graphics. so make a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats text. ever.
decimation:
mircea_popescu: re: terrorist < eh, I don't see it. what does it benefit the terrorist to even bother?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, do you get tamarillo's over that way?
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: we may never know. just thought it was relevant when I saw it on r/bitcoin
mod6:
mircea_popescu: is someone coming to pick me up from the aeropuerto tho?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
mircea_popescu: anything damning we ought to know about 'Aerolineas Argentinas' ? << i think they've notlost a plane yet.
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: that sounds like a great video game premise for learning purposes. "Flip the ponzi"
mike_c:
mircea_popescu: inbetween aspirational and funded. i heard about them because they got "best of" at reasonably big tech conference. my curiousity is mostly around the brazen attempt to do money remittance in US without being licensed.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: there is not a non-retarded alternative today
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 00:38:12;
mircea_popescu: be it google or apple, it can fucking rot. everything will have to be reimplemented.
assbot: Logged on 18-02-2014 19:12:31;
mircea_popescu: because it is impossible to establish malice at all, a difference predicated upon establishing malice is meaningless.
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 03:25:08;
mircea_popescu: this is like asking wyatt earp "how do you distinguish between the f brothers and stray dog"
PeterL:
mircea_popescu:pete_dushenski they claimed circle defrauded them, threatened to sue. never sued, disappeared. << was Dwolla, I don't think Circle was a thing yet then, but same idea
Pierre_Rochard: On the subject of french movies,
mircea_popescu & pete_dushenski have you seen jean reno’s les visisteurs?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: the one I was on was crewed mostly by filipinos. I think the different cruise lines 'specialize' in different 'third world' recruitment
decimation:
mircea_popescu: re: old parts < yeah, especially since this particular shop specialized in making 'flyable' aircraft
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu sorta the best way to not get anally gaped by mech/beautician.
decimation:
mircea_popescu:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm " When she first recorded a deer eating nestlings, she wondered if they would eat eggs, too. She incorporated the help of a captive deer at the research center to find out. "We presented it [captive deer] with a few quail eggs -- just to see what it would do -- and it munched them right up."
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu jesus christ on a cross you're fast. like seriously.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu i'm guessing that's 'daddy' and not 'daniel' ;)
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 15:47:58;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why not ethyl ?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: yeah, I've been running the uploader by hand; I'm around to do so
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, nfi, just saw an image posted a few hours ago, assumed it was from today, guess not
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: sorta my (and i'm sure many other's here) youth
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu try some haze remover
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu also biodegradable fwiw
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu apparently way, way less toxic than traditional haze removers: lye and bleach
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: there was a fetlife "btc" fetish group <<< buttcoin? at least it'd be a fitting name
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, i wouldn't know either way, just saw a wikipedia page!! after googling
cazalla:
mircea_popescu> archive.today thing works fine. <<< i have started to do this
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2015 00:01:46; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: and deliberately pseudo-open architecture (runs linux, sure, but with massive closed blobs required even to boot. and vendor regularly pays media mouthpieces to lie about it; also posts astroturfed comments)
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:25:02; asciilifeform: trinque: the hypothetical 'mutual assistance' org you suggest would roughly resolve to a 'society for let's we all get filthy rich, and not warren-buffet-usg-rich either, but
mircea_popescu-rich'
trinque:
mircea_popescu: I want the book on your life someday.
trinque:
mircea_popescu: wow, very cool
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: i just think you'd admire someone who'd want to completely gut the welfare state
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: would like Francis Underwood if he were a real person.
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, it's not that i'm interested in it (or would understand/appreciate the issue tbh) but it seemed obvious way to poke a hole in orlov's prediction, at least that it might occur in my lifetime anyway
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, whether you care or not would be influenced if you are to run out tomorrow or 100-200 years from now though
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 03:30:18;
mircea_popescu: and that is, joining the wot early, and helping set the world on fire. it. strictly it.
jurov: oh and
mircea_popescu withdrawals pls
jurov: <
mircea_popescu> i don't recall why we didn't like the pi for this purpois << alf proclaimed it as depending on binary turd (that supposedly leaks key material by any channel conceivable), thus unworthy
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
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PeterL:
mircea_popescu: Is F.DERP statement coming soon?