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shinohai: So far deviantart search is ..... fruitless. I can't get too many to talk to me yet, its like a sjw site. "Bitcoin is cool, but you trilema people are transphobic"
BingoBoingo: So, it turns out looking directly for abogados was a mistake. The accountant has popped the gringo bubble. Apparently gringos seeking tax shelters for existing money go to abogados. Empressarios like myself go to consultadoras. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: diana_coman not only that, but not a line on "when the bubble will burst on usd prices".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in forgotten lulz, http://trilema.com/2012/lets-dig-a-little-deeper-into-this-entire-deflation-problem/#comment-92662
mircea_popescu: anyuay, the quoted piece from a 1990s bit from a local landlord. as such it reflects the predominantly hopeful mood of the landed gentry at the time "yes, it's a downturn portion of a cycle but that's what cycles are".
mircea_popescu: sparked off accidentally with actual gold, then supported pre and post ww2 by the choice of film industry to move away from the mob rackets (and they succeeded, when the mob caught on and tried to invade the movie folk got the usg to tear it a new hole) and finally post 1960 by the ic folk.
asciilifeform: d00d must be on a propane-powered modem
mircea_popescu: if they had a kickbacks scheme with eg stanford bs i would be utterly unsuirprised.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would anyone with two neurons to rub together ~actually want~ to work for costco is impossible to divine. it's a dead, commoditized item, that's like research physicist desiring to work at cnc mill. wtf to do there ?
mircea_popescu: well, a lot of other women sitting around gossiping about how enviable she is, evidently.
mircea_popescu: "really feeling" as opposed to, importantly, "not really" feeling. it's a matter of degree not of reality that's being spoken to
asciilifeform: 'Warren Buffett has said that the moment one was born in the United States or another Western country, that person has essentially won a lottery. If someone is born a U.S. citizen, he or she enjoys a huge advantage in almost every aspect of life, including expected wealth, education, health care, environment, safety, etc., when compared to someone born in developing countries. For someone foreign to “purchase” these privileges, t
pete_dushenski: "The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective by Puzhong Yao"
BingoBoingo: brb, voy a la cama
mircea_popescu: "Holy shit Freud is spelled with an e not an a ? I had been spelling it wrong all these years and had no idea!"
shinohai: Sounds like a weaboo sex robot error.
shinohai: I hadn't heard the term "Pink Elephant" in years ... last time was when I got a bunch of bennies to make sobering up from 3 day binge easier.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! except it's a "school's too hard" somatization.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo a painted elephant ? i have not really been literally everywhere already, cmon.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Brain fag syndrome - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_fag_syndrome>; Brain fag syndrome : a culture-bound syndrome that may be ...: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706136/>; Brain Fag Syndrome in Africa | ANP204 – Introduction to Medical ...: <http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp204-us13/2013/07/19/brain-fag-syndrome-in-africa/>
mircea_popescu: gotta bitch or else it's not a real blog!
asciilifeform: pretend-i-am-a-disk-drive ?
mircea_popescu: then again i guess a good third of all trilema convos are about that.
asciilifeform: re subj of link, seems like uniquely poor idea from opsec pov , for some reason usg likes to search arse ~first~ , sometimes even they leave the rest of the 'patient' alone. as with the famous fella pictured in old thread, who ate a pistol inside a police station, while already booked, on camera
BingoBoingo: But in a world full of stoned brazilians, one has to have a vice to be trusted, so tobacco returns for now.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
mircea_popescu: ran into this lots of times, most chicks are smokers, and most "can't" have a smoke like normal people without turning into their old x packs a day habit over time.
asciilifeform: ad been for sixteen years. While he used AA. meetings as spy drops, his appetite for what the meetings offered spiritually was real. He once told me, in all sincerity, that the greatest contribution America had made to the world, a contribution that would be remembered for thousands of years, was the invention of A.A.'
asciilifeform: 'Kraft knew a lot more than I did about wines, and he often brought home cobwebby treasures to go with a meal. But, even though Kraft always had a filled glass before him when we sat down to eat, the wine was all for me. Kraft was an alcoholic. He could not take so much as a sip of wine without starting on a bender that could last a month. That much of what he told me about himself was true. He was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, h
mircea_popescu: anyway, i expect there's a market.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:35 mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749871 << https as entirely worthless as ever ; though evidently i don't expect smartypants a la eg http://trilema.com/2017/lets-revisit-the-google-is-irrelevant-discussion/#comment-123821 to perceive THEIR DUTY to now mourn / worship in compensation. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mine are going into the boxes proper. q is whether it is worth turning into a catalogue item. << I see it hard to imagine how people could want to vacation here without such a contrivance in the box they leave behind to colocate
asciilifeform: and what's a e.g. block of flats, if not awkward kind of pillbox.
mircea_popescu: there's a list of cases where "attacked party produced more damage to attacker than sustained self". it's remarkably short, and it's remarkably tapering -- much more cases in the 80s than in the 2010s.
mircea_popescu: (also amusingly, nobody, not even a latter day tsp, dared make the obvious point -- moral assassin, the hotel guard.)
asciilifeform: sit , instead, in a cellar, rust.
asciilifeform: quite a few barrels in usa. most never speak.
mircea_popescu: it is a sad comment on the general utility and efficacity of "the state" that had the officious intermeddler "security guard" not intervened, dood probably would have watched the whole concert off his fence.
asciilifeform: arguably 'had fun' but from a 'mission' perspective -- atrocious
asciilifeform: the rub is that typical 'postalist' is not a thinking agent, on a mission, but a d00d watching a sort of movie inside his head
asciilifeform: one could easily fill a thick book with these. ( in 1970s someone ~did~, but usg unhappened it and composed 'anarchist cookbook' full of items optimized to kill user )
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the fucking fun that could be had. "buy gun, carry on person, use metro all day long, wait for a power outage where train goes dark"
mircea_popescu: but seriously, metro! think about it, people line up to get in! and line up de facto once in! for like a quarter mile, like this! fire six bullets in enfilade, produce 50 dead and 500 wounded.
mircea_popescu: (pro tip : buy AP ammo, kill 4-5 per shot. op is a thing.)
asciilifeform: approx as lame as most of the small arms people , who (with a few notable exceptions ) manage to put entire crate of ammo to waste and maybe injure 4 or 5
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of orc techs, could oyu believe that schmuck in new york ? so... in preference of walking into gun shop, buying gun, killing half the town, this dude "made" bomb, which sure as fuck cost more than a walk-in in terms of effort and more than a grand in terms of dough, to... burn himself with it.
mircea_popescu: "she was a (((journalist))) (((working))) in irak, the dumb fucking bitch. man that wet thud of her brain on concrete was fucking satisfying, i went back into the foxhole and rubbed myself raw"
mircea_popescu: suppose you're 16yo girl. are you going to a) tell your mom you hate her, which is transgressive except for how she read you were gonna do that in a book when you were 6 ; or b) join isis so as to shoot your classmate in the face by the time you're both 24 ?
mircea_popescu: <30yo females don't need a hundy. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i'm still not convinced that spamism is anything but 'fat-powered' item . likely, the chumpers dun have a hundy between them, collectively
mircea_popescu: in fact, it works so well i expect even idiocy a la http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749817 delivers. the quality of the chumps is so fucken low... ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just a simple "hello how goes it ?" ??? | grep for a "how about you" if found feed a "great, here's turtles". works shockingly well.
mircea_popescu: even fucking eliza had a) less success and b) more preloads.
asciilifeform: for a sec i thought they did a formal surrender.
mircea_popescu: in other sads, fetlife profile now getting >100 pieces of mail a day. da fuck am i gonna do, assign slave to manage it ?
asciilifeform: mine are going into the boxes proper. q is whether it is worth turning into a catalogue item.
a111: Logged on 2014-06-04 00:08 asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which -- bitcoin DID overperform Berkshire over the interval. by... somewhat of a margin.)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in other productive discussions that never were, i expect NOT A SINGLE ONE of the various "experts" in their own mind, economists, political theorists, whatnot will actually engage http://trilema.com/2017/the-ecu/ ; much like buffett "couldn't find shorts" back in the days of http://trilema.com/2014/an-era-ends-today-a-new-era-starts-today/ and just as http://trilema.com/2015/the-harry-potter-challenge/ never happe
asciilifeform: and incidentally i oughta ask the folx tuned in, whether there is demand for mass-produced mounting kit for FG-in-1U , that'd include this item + mechanical dildo for hanging from a pci slot bracket.
asciilifeform: speaking of passive actives, asciilifeform found that FG runs ok ( it wants just 8mA @ 5v, recall ) from a https://archive.is/P9vC1 contrievance . a la 1990s serial mice. this seems useless until you look inside server and notice the convenient two rs232 headers in there.
mircea_popescu: well this was a productive discussion!
mircea_popescu: i suspect actual item orc wants is a land where there's no smart people.
mircea_popescu: but i am convinced that strictly, very and absolutely strictly the only reason why mr adrian crisan is spending his afternoon writing up that and then xeroxing it in preference of say "editing wikipedia" or "working for google" as a "moderator" is that he does not perceive how the later would deliver him more usg empire per unit effort than the former.
mircea_popescu: the dedication of the imperial peons is remarkable, worthy of a greater goal as it may find itself.
mircea_popescu: so to get back to mr crisan quoted above : the reason he isn't sitting atop a computer/car/hairblower/starbucks coffee cup is that he doesn't yet understand HOW such item would forward / is requisite for his notion of "a republic" == usgstan. because that is ABSOLUTELY ALL he is interested in, and will give no half a spare cycle to any other consideration, period and fuck you. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: (dude's idea of the progressive republic that the reactionary evil men don't let good folk build is a state where it's illegal to pay your debts. his wife inquires whence will people be paid [because evidently everyone's employed by the state, it is after all 1880s romania], and he says that's the state's fucking problem, what's it for!)
mircea_popescu: well, litmi as the researcher decides. but to my eyes, the simple fact that he imagines this is how democracy works as a statal matter ("dragi concetateni" is "beloved fellow citizens", ie smacking very much of "les trois glorieuses", not that he'd know) is enough.
asciilifeform: i imagine 1 simple litmus would be to learn whether d00d in the end did buy a crapple.
mircea_popescu: well, certainly in a way no redditard/hackernewstard/etc could ever be suspected.
asciilifeform: and so i won't laugh at him simply because he eschewed buying a comp.
asciilifeform: reminds me, when su was a going concern, 'классическое образование' usually referred to pre-1917 gymnasium, latin, greek, etc. but apparently ~today~ folx on ru net refer to su-era school as classical.
mircea_popescu: he evidently didn't need a spellchecker.
mircea_popescu: he had a xerox in his mental space because readily available and cheap (lotta students live nearby) ; but not a wp.
asciilifeform: gotta wonder why by hand. 'luxor centre' charged a funbux too much ?
mircea_popescu: why ? why would a dude too dumb to distinguish facebook from the internet do this ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i had no fucking idea, back in 2010, what a big deal a random photograph of mailboix spam will become in not even a decade. but it IS a huge deal. consider -- that guy, who IS NOT the proponent, WROTE!!! by hand!!! ie just like http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ !! so as to stuff my mailbox with xerocopies.
mircea_popescu: there will never be a bn generations of humans.
mircea_popescu: similarily, we imagine the usg is a thing, independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "usg is the PRODUCT of what the orcs will believe, very much in the http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/ sense ; usg is what's left after all the items impossible as far as orcs are concerned were removed ; much like byzantium was "what's left after we eliminated everything the bulgarians wouldn't buy".
mircea_popescu: ie, we imagine "ringworm is a thing", independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "ringworm is the PRODUCT of epitelium cells, it is the long whisp remaining out of specific denials", VERY much a http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-11#1697164 item. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it's a very similar disbelief to the "what the fuck makes epitelial cells admit ringworm?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: HOW exactly they do this is incomprehensible. but consider : guy who was 3rd echelon politruk under shoemaker ; guy who was too dumb / poorly connected to make anything of the 90s, resurfaces in 2010! with a "proposal" which consists of "here's this adaptation of usg-isms as i understand them".
mircea_popescu: a, not at all. those existed, in the 90s.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 16:32 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749788 << this is a pretty interesting item, and i suspect a very similar problem in what'll remain of usa.
trinque: danielpbarron: hm, didn't get a printout. possibly that didn't come back up on the new drive.
BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: En otra cosas: A meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning y entonces the venezualas have referred another firm, meeting to be scheduled
asciilifeform: but meanwhile-er, in not-at-all-noose, asciilifeform briefly looked into the question of what-would-it-take to make a pci-e FG . found ( e.g. https://archive.is/dGtBI and elsewhere, for the curious ) that it is quite impossible to do with lattice 'ice' or any other small fpga; the complexity is bookcase-length ( supposing one could even ~get~ the req'd docs, many are not only payware but protected via disinfo-flooding )
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749788 << this is a pretty interesting item, and i suspect a very similar problem in what'll remain of usa. ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ( not, naturally, because it matters worth a shit what pseudocipher plebe uses in sslolade. but to fudspray on rsa per se. )
asciilifeform found the pinoy on a few other domains, there's a whole system
asciilifeform: it's a snore
asciilifeform: turns out, it knows how to eat btc, for a few yrs nao
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:58 asciilifeform: ( the sad thing re nfs co, is that it is in fact a kolhoz, quite like amazon's and the rest, but more ancient and built by actual men, vs 'millenial' scum, and so it actually ~works~, and delivers on the promise -- you don't own your hdd, BUT you never have to go down from a dead hdd; you own no ip; BUT no ddos; etc. it however IS STILL A KOLHOZ , with the complacency and inevitable day of doom that comes with this. )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:20 asciilifeform: and neither of these is a bug, or will ever be fixed, nfs co’s. ddosproofing relies on the dynamic ip shenanigans
a111: Logged on 2017-10-03 03:05 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-03#1719979 << gotta appreciate this peculiar fact : asciilifeform used nfs co. service since 2007. not misprint : a decade sharp as of a few mo. ago. with ZERO MAINTENANCE and ZERO hassle and ~zero downtime and laughed at GB/s ddoses and do i have to go on ?
mircea_popescu: so basically your blog is a subdomain on nfshost.com is why no ip addressing ?
trinque: pops up when a deed bundle's tx is confirmed