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mircea_popescu: cazalla kinda what adolescents have been doing since forever, neh ? pick a movie/music video/whatevs and imagine it was "about
them".
cazalla: 8chan.net/pol is pretty sure
that one is about
them
chetty: I been hearing an ad for a
TV show ...Dark Web, apparently all about Silk Road
mircea_popescu: but qt was fucking incensed at
the
time, and i agree he had a point.
cazalla: what's
the difference, just
the ending?
mircea_popescu: what
the studio released is piss. and
the comparison an interesting exercise in how "management" can fuck up a movie even when having everything needed for greatness in a neat package.
mircea_popescu: true romance ? it's great, provided you have
the director's cut
cazalla: watched
that last night, at least for
the first
time in full, not a bad movie
cazalla: you do all sorts of crazy shit on
that sherm eh
cazalla: these guys just moved on from alibaba
to bitcoin it seems
cazalla: because not even samuel l jackson had
that in mind when he said he eats everything
mircea_popescu: "raffic which is claimed by Zhang
to be around 2500 unique visitors per day." lulziest part.
cazalla: that is probably
the worst
tumblr link i've yet
to see in here
mircea_popescu: which is
the common and imo sensible criterion
to distinguish
the artist from
the common (wo)man :
the world in a raindrop effect.
mircea_popescu: chick has an excellent description (in her area of interest)
that is not merely of
the area in question, but of
the world in general
liquidassets: Doubles is more
technical and more fun
to play, by 16 I was hardly mediocre in singles at
the international level
pete_dushenski: "A group of bikers will hold a Muhammad cartoon-drawing contest outside a Phoenix-area mosque on Friday and
they've been
told
to come armed in case of a "much-anticipated attack."" << inb4
the cops blame
the mosque for starting
the ensuing shoot-out
☟︎ pete_dushenski: though my joints don't have
the endurance
to play 10 games in a day anymore so i just play for fun once a week or so.
pete_dushenski: liquidassets i was always a better doubles player. i'm
too big,
too white, and my size 12s are
too slow
to compete in singles.
pete_dushenski: "I know most blocks would not be 20 MB over night. But only if a small fraction of blocks more
than 10 MB, it could dramatically increase of our orphan rate, result of higher fee
pete_dushenski: liquidassets played nationals 3
times, played club
tournaments for 7-8 years, played college and won a few
tournaments, won high school provincials
liquidassets: How far did you
take it? Were you on a national
team or did you just fuck around in high school?
liquidassets: Canadians always made a showing, Peru, Argentina,
Taipei, Jamaica..
liquidassets: Manhattan Beach used
to have an international badminton
tournament every year
pete_dushenski: when ? where ? be specific man. we don't have
to dance around all day
pete_dushenski: liquidassets well,
the "p" surname doesn't really give me much
to go on.
liquidassets: no big
tournaments..actually I won one mixed doubles international
tournament. My partner I was set up with was from
Taipei
liquidassets: I
thought for sure we played doubles at some point. Haven't been into it for awhile
pete_dushenski: even
though hardly anyone but bartenders speaks a lick of french
decimation: heh yeah isn't
the north and central more german-speaking?
liquidassets: hmm maybe not, but you look pretty familiar, I'm almost certain we were at a few of
the same
tourneys
pete_dushenski: i played
tournies in montreal, winnipeg, saskatoon, calgary, edmonton... and golf
tournaments in victoria... but i really dun
think i played badminton in vancouver.
liquidassets: pete_dushenski: I remember when I beat you 15-0: 15-0 weren't you at
that Vancouver
tournament?
danielpbarron: do support bigger blocks and sooner rather
than later. But we cannot
liquidassets: ok, here goes: newb me..liquidassets
this
time
liquidassets: but have had a
terrible
time using colloquy from my desktop
liquidassets: I always seem
to lose
the ability
to log on..seems I have
the best luck with
the link
to irc #b-a from
the mainpage
liquidassets: ok..uncloaked
this
time again..unsure about my gpg skills
liquidassets: no one knows how
to shut
their mouth, put
their head down, and follow.
liquidassets: no one knows who
the fuck knows what
they're actually
talking about
liquidassets: you know what
this world lacks? at least
the world I've grown up in..?
liquidassets: Can't wait
to lose
the chaff when
they go on
their fork
trinque: I downloaded it for
to be checking out maybe
this weekend
mircea_popescu: trinque speaking of which, game got icons! for all
the... 1k!!11 items involved.
trinque: actually, I guess
the ministry of games
takes
that cake
trinque: however, when
the republic starts its first software company give me a holler :D
trinque: I suspect we all have
to eat
trinque: hey man, you lamented
the lack of hands
trinque: probably no easy way
to make
the deturding casual side-work
mircea_popescu: corporation is "gotta give everyone something
to fill
their company hours with"
mircea_popescu: trinque it's a republic not a corporation, ppls are supposed
to pick up stuff
they're good at and a good fit for
trinque: as somebody who might have an afternoon here or
there,
that plus
the right sequence of patches
to get
to whatever
the present state is would help me contribute
time efficiently
trinque: re: bitcoind
thread, I'm a hair above useless in C++, and also swapping heavily; however, maybe a page on
the foundation site for available missions might help?
trinque: probably did
that for everbody, and made some distinction about "legacy" icons or some nonsense
cazalla: how's
this.. muh bank uses
this select 3 icons from 9 icons as 2FA when logging in except
they've recently changed all
the icons except
the 3 i use
to login
mircea_popescu: jurov's
trying
to get you folks
to stop ruining his mailer an mod6's been profiling
to quote jus' off
top of head
trinque: as
the
thing has no real alternative.. should command a price
that reflects it
decimation: asciilifeform: I certainly understanding
that having firmware in hand is not a full defense against diddling, but it is a strong start
mircea_popescu: the fact
that i decide
the matches is actually sufficient.
mircea_popescu: by
this reason, since all humans use closed designs,
there's no benefit
to accounting
decimation: that's a better argument, but still lame given
that most computing components use close designs; firmware
decimation: or you want information in your console while in
transit
mircea_popescu: but all
this aside, not
that more's needed : i never bought a premade computer in my lyf.
trinque: lol I
try
to keep
the
thing away from
the balls
mircea_popescu: because what, i'm
the servant, and gotta make do with whatever ?
mircea_popescu: decimation
the notion of carrying a portable cooker in your lap as a male should be pretty self-defeating