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a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 05:10 pete_dushenski is presently enjoying the delight of living in a country that isn't arg. and therefore affords a veritable bounty of incandescent lighting options for his new/old george nelson light fixtures.
mircea_popescu: <tjjtysr> http://68.media.tumblr.com/a4bf7aaf75f3313581b04ef57bec30bf/tumblr_n9igz5L2Lr1tz6ihdo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: and now time for an intromission - i give you merchant-from-the-future girl! http://68.media.tumblr.com/144503737e83614fc6a604fad5072e71/tumblr_n9zc9frpX01sl0njeo1_1280.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:55 ben_vulpes: perhaps he takes pity on the bundies and disbands the BLM
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:57 ben_vulpes: girlol
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:56 pete_dushenski: give the man some credit for seeing his way to dismantling the decrepit two-party system woudlja
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 04:49 pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562105 << lol! natedog had trump at ~15% less than a week ago. at a rate of 2x per week, the hairdo will have 60% 'chance of winning' the day of and then EVERYONE WILL HAVE PREDICTED.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-03 03:20 ben_vulpes: only tangentially relatedly, cheech and chong scrubbed the rape jokes from their classic albums.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Nah, 0-60 is about owning punks at all those stahp lights.
trinque: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/03/when_is_it_okay_to_rape_a_woma.html << oblig.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: gets a bouncer, starts copying lines out of personal logs
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:56 ben_vulpes: nobody shows up at any doors, sheesh
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes | i have half a semi going just at the thought of locking up any fraction of the demcratic party << "honey, i'm feeling #2 tonight, get your furry costume out!"
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 16:11 mircea_popescu: "With Nate Silver putting Trump on a 28.8 per cent chance of victory, it’s almost unbelievable that the race could be so close, given the consequences. A Russian puppet candidate with shady business affairs who hasn’t disclosed his tax returns, Trump has spent his campaign alienating minorities, horrifying women, offending religious and military voters, and having his career of awful business behaviour paraded in public.
a111: Logged on 2015-11-16 21:43 mircea_popescu: then it's going to be the blacks. immutably.
asciilifeform: also since when does ben_vulpes use vs..?
ben_vulpes: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates#_17-rollback
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes carries half tonne plinths with own hands ?
asciilifeform: btw since ben_vulpes asked, what's the cheap way to make gear ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: overcooked
BingoBoingo: Where else from http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bills/2016/11/ask_the_bills_i_m_still_in_debt_thanks_to_my_sickly_cat.html
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically, the whole medieval period lived on hobo wine. cheap, sweetened, etc. the exact thing, midnight thunder or w/e it's called. << Thunderbird, Night Train, Mad Dog, Wild Irish Rose, and Cisco. RIP Ripple.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: France vaunts '40 virtues' of Armagnac | The Independent: <http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/france-vaunts-40-virtues-of-armagnac-1891949.html>; Armagnac (brandy) - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armagnac_(brandy)>; The Virtues of Armagnac - Life At The Table: <https://lifeatthetable.com/the-virtues-of-armagnac/>
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes cognac, ie the first distilled spirit, is about half a millenium old by now.
mircea_popescu: and in other illustrative shapes, http://68.media.tumblr.com/144503737e83614fc6a604fad5072e71/tumblr_n9zc9frpX01sl0njeo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: willingness to depart from routine is orthogonal to virility.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 17:56 ben_vulpes: nobody shows up at any doors, sheesh
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 20:30 mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/62PUQ << apparently it worked alright, supposing you hit it ~10 mins ago ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how to properly separate layers, for instance. how to boil without 'bumping'. various things that sound braindamagedly simple but many folks fuck up somehow.
scriba: Logged on 2016-11-02: [15:46:51] <mircea_popescu> the cuban wiki entry is fucking hysterical. lengthy discussion of the shitty jobs the dork did in college. how come none of these go "and then he took rhetorics with elena dragos and was the only one to get a b in any of her classes that decade"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trainers don't simply hand 'patient' a book..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you need higher field strength for higher f.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 19:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562159 << he was born in soviet russia. there isn't a purpose, just, electricity is all he's got besides "the power of the soviets", and while neither can fill a hand before pissing in it would, nevertheless at least electricity DOES SOMETHING.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 19:29 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-02#1562147 << it is, or at least was, the explanation of "how life begun". nevertheless, this method fails amply for organic compounds : fill a tube with a all the organic compounds you can think dilute in the same solvent, run electrictity through it, congrats you have some lightly chlorinated toilet water.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'nobody' shows up at any door -- until they do.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-17 05:10 mircea_popescu: no, you can't do that, because air friction.
PeterL: ben_vulpes wants a 'rpp'? rocket-propelled projectile?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: antimateriel in general.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: in atmosphere, 'v' only gets you so far.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: some applications call for thermite.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: why 'diy' methods remained popular, and remain today, is own interesting thread
asciilifeform: http://aircraft-museum.ucoz.ru/index/nktl_29_39/0-77 << better photo.
asciilifeform: ( incidentally, does mircea_popescu know what is https://archive.is/71Wfw ? there are hilarious stories connected with it ) ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-10-21 00:01 mircea_popescu: Framedragger what are you, like 26 ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 15:39 mircea_popescu: lol right. the sort of idiot who imagines tor is a thing, aka 20something potheads.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/h0qlr/?raw=true
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: it's already bookmarked and saved. inb4deedbot
mircea_popescu: and in other news, flying sluts http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m93xj64NMw1r1ff3no1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: as i understand, it works by making mircea_popescu 'taint' (yes) his coins with 'doublespendiness'
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 03:16 ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561232 << merely that wallet might reasonably be muntzed out of bitcoind proper into block-muncher-and-tx-indexer. topologically very similar to "reindex" and friends, but could eschew "wallet" idiocies involving change addresses and sensible address reuse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american, also, they traditionally do this in the last days leading up to election to help nail a designated loser with 'turnout encouragement'
mircea_popescu: and in other loving homes & gardens, http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3uaox7LWJ1qk6jw7o1_1280.jpg
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: ty snipped
shinohai: Buena dias mircea_popescu o/
a111: Logged on 2016-11-02 03:16 ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561232 << merely that wallet might reasonably be muntzed out of bitcoind proper into block-muncher-and-tx-indexer. topologically very similar to "reindex" and friends, but could eschew "wallet" idiocies involving change addresses and sensible address reuse.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 03:47 trinque: I will be interesting to hear what ben_vulpes has to say about this, given recent block-parsing adventures
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 02:04 mircea_popescu: happy bday mod6
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 23:51 mircea_popescu: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/l6gup/?raw=true << lordship circular.
asciilifeform: weird, the key i have here for mike_c doesn't seem to expire
jhvh1: asciilifeform: I have not seen mike_c.
asciilifeform: !~seen mike_c
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated deedbot 10 at 2016/04/02 10:54:44 << It is indeed a bot.
asciilifeform: i suppose 1 interesting example of exquisitely mircea_popescutronic arrangement might be yakuza
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal but once you 'church' it begins to matter how many heads you got.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/zTytA << them ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sorta why i was not much hot&bothered re the 'incorporate church' idea
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> they call it "network effects", among the educated stupid, but really what it is - idiocy has no country. it's a thing, a substance, beyond identity. << Aka Baby Boomers lamenting that no one wants to hold hands and get along like during the post war politics of their grandfathers not realizing the handholding and hugs were the anomaly
BingoBoingo: lol http://maddox.xmission.com/c.cgi?u=alt_news_sucks
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Mikhail Gorbachev - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev>; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev - Government Official, President ...: <http://www.biography.com/people/mikhail-sergeyevich-gorbachev-9315721>; BBC History - Mikhail Gorbachev: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/people/mikhail_gorbachev>
asciilifeform: see the wonderful thread currently going on mircea_popescu's www re the crimes of lincoln
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 22:04 mircea_popescu: anyway. yes, ru chicks would suck cock for tp, jeans, you name it. early 1990s, too.
asciilifeform: when i went to the recoleta graveyard in mircea_popesculandia , i could not shake the thought that any single one of the folks buried there, when alive, was worth more than all of current-day usa.
asciilifeform: somehow i had both meat and fish growing up, in what is now urk no less, and did not even have mega-party-functionaries for parents, or even professors like mircea_popescu , but ordinary doctors etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu saw schoolgirls sucking cocks in exchange for meat, and i believe it, but i saw no such thing where i was.
asciilifeform: i have nfi which ru mircea_popescu is thinking of.
asciilifeform: can try to fix it, possibly, mircea_popescu-style, by breeding a wholly different crop of people, but this takes millenia, and nobody alive here and now will live to see the smallest lick of it.
asciilifeform: there was a mircea_popescu thread re this
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 02:24 asciilifeform: this is 'the hole through which the night walks in', to borrow a mircea_popescuism
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: best battleship
BingoBoingo: also thestringpuller if thestring_lab is yours, please rename it because it is cancer that defeats tab autocomplete.
davout: ben_vulpes: but nothing!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes he's not jewish, he's just french.
davout: ben_vulpes: life's good, definitely not complaining
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: this assperiment has been on my todo list since the last time you brought it up
davout: ben_vulpes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Eat_with_Your_Butt
thestringpuller: https://twitter.com/John_Blocke
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 15:03 mircea_popescu: dude reading usg-tard "business" idiots trying to be you know, radical and whatnot is fucking painful.
mircea_popescu: and in other nightlife news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/2750aac3dd38819ad525d5f0a9b5490c/tumblr_nasddvRto81qg7sdjo1_1280.jpg
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: !~later tell gabriel_laddel so the thing is - you have to rewrite this. there's a lot of very powerful ideas struggling in the mire of very poor (and often rushed) writing. there's no way out, i can't rewrite it for you. while it's starting to emerge into sense it's not yet at the level of development where it can be productively engaged. take but one simple example : "$computation against $uri validate videos were watched".
mircea_popescu: and in other slits, http://68.media.tumblr.com/6502dca3383d81e3013c8f519a8a473b/tumblr_n60rfysGPg1rlfy18o1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: lol the newman quote found its way into g_l's arsstep thingee
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes, this'd the 'on top of human fs' scheme suggested in earlier threads
trinque: I will be interesting to hear what ben_vulpes has to say about this, given recent block-parsing adventures ☟︎
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah, fair point.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what was it, Mainstream News Outlet ? << "Propaganda Mouthpiece"?, Whatever it is this question now goes to the Peerage for suggestions.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 03:24 mircea_popescu: i have nfi how satoshi reasoned to arrive at the current nonsense of 2gb monoliths, but it was dumb.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-01#1561154 << those are blox, mircea_popescu ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 03:20 mircea_popescu: also i have nfi what "db" we can trust. they're all shit