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mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> ascii_field: this is 'nyc official truth' afaik
<< it has to be. chiefly because "diversity" has brought nyc back into the 1800s. the early 1800s.
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> if mosquito could move the virus, i and everybody i know in meatspace would be long dead.
<< this is a red herring. if cigarettes caused cancer the world would have ended in 1920.
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> ahahahahahahaha
<< dun laugh, your tax dollars at work.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-11-2015#1326256 << this situation is probably more confusing to the soi-dissant 'entreprenuer' than anything else imagineable. 'what, you don't want me to solve a problem that i think is a problem because reasons ? what, you don't want me to develop an app to disrupt industry x while simultaneously bending over backwards to comply with every last damn regulation designed to
☝︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> wouldn't you expect if i hired a tramp to flood my business for the insurance his story would be "he wanted to strand his wife so he could fish and have an affair" ?
<< lol
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> afaik no one has ever artificially caused a flood to claim flood insurance
<< James Scott, but not for insurance... to strand wife
punkman: mircea_popescu: punkman i really wish to understand how the fuck this "X can not happen" magic started for hiv, and why it continues.
<< starts in school when talking about STDs or disease transmission in general
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> but i'm developing overexposure allergy to this "i don't understand anything so therefore here's my expert opinion on things"
<< I kinda handle it the same way one handles lower animals acting in ignorance of the futility of their efforts. Birds hitting windows, dogs barking at trains, rabbits fleeing pedestrians into traffic...
punkman: assbot: Groom discovers bride isn't a virgin, eats genitals of her rapist
<< I imagine guy's last thoughts were "who are these people, and why is he stabbing me"
mircea_popescu: "All our servers are running on 100% renewable energy. By choosing green services you can help to prevent the climate change."
<< speaking of "idiot signal", here's an easy way to lose business : put that on your site.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> incidentally what's to stop the fella
<<< last time someone tried this (not even 1k) was last week.
adlai:
<< Purse CEO Andrew Lee: ‘People Will Learn to Use Bitcoin Just for Our Discounts’ >>
mircea_popescu: so then your "
<asciilifeform> not even american monkeys, but ru carders " line has 0 to do.
mircea_popescu:
<ascii_field> or is this merely another army of the undead thing
<< it is. bitcoin killed paypal, maggots trying to get a piece.
ascii_field: ' It’s $2.99 on Kindle, if you’d like me to Venmo you the money. As a person who not all that long ago walked away from Gawker Media, and who also grew up reading Gawker, Jezebel, and Deadspin, the little Kindle Single can actually be a delight...'
<< at this point my gas mask clogged and i can read no moar
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> anyone else thinks of timisoara when reads 'tmsr'? confuzzling.
<< Sometimes
assbot: Logged on 16-11-2015 19:25:22; hanbot:
<ascii_field> it's approximately as interesting or laudable as getting typhus.
<< the tmsr~ trail: asciilifeform has contracted dysentery!
hanbot:
<ascii_field> it's approximately as interesting or laudable as getting typhus.
<< the tmsr~ trail: asciilifeform has contracted dysentery!
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<ben_vulpes> bezzle tools for bezzle plays.
<<< fucking exactly. "oh, google can do it". no, they can't.
trinque: "estimated to raise $398 million over 10 years"
<< lulz
mircea_popescu: * ben_vulpes is still planning to scrape metals off the seafloor
<<< alf thinks tmsr silicon is a huge commitment, wait until he finds out about the materially-independent ocean factories.
BingoBoingo: From the same zoo: "The title says it all. My ladyfriend wants baby but skipped a cycle on mast and eq. Does this sound right? Should she stick to test c?"
<< That baby is going to be born with a bigger dick than its father
assbot: Logged on 12-11-2015 07:33:36; mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD"
<< example of "security".
BingoBoingo: "I ran his sdrol of the first batch he came out with, and it was def sdrol. I can't say anything about the following batches however"
<< Because the way to identify chemicals is with one's fee-fees
adlai: there's a difference between "we don't support tor becgause they suck at
<reasons>" and "we don't support tor because 'reasons'"
ben_vulpes: "not deploying giant militaries to bomb targets and wave banners, or propping up regimes and helping them "suppress insurgencies," but working on the long-term realities of helping locals build a government that they're invested in"
<< not that anyone is capable of doing this any ore
phf: jurov: apparently most irc clients try utf8, if invalid, then cp1252 fallback:
http://xchat.org/encoding/ << yeah, that's basically the hack that i'm using in my homegrown log reader. read the stream, if it errors out on encoding issues, rewind back to last known good position, read again with latin-1, switch back to utf-8