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mircea_popescu:
<mats> nobody has the stomach to detonate a nuke over al-raqqah
<< it wouldn't take one. it would take about fifty or so to properly glass the place.
BingoBoingo:
<pete_dushenski> BingoBoingo: could you be persuaded to represent qntra for a voice interview ?
<< The onus is on them to do the text to voice thing.
gribble: chetty was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 8 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours, 24 minutes, and 37 seconds ago:
<chetty> perhaps this will backlash into getting more people off windows ...nah, I dream
punkman: funkenstein_: kakobrekla, 25 cents per 36 hours or so :D
<< I've seen some for 50 cents / month
shinohai: "Yik Yak is basically a bathroom stall,"
<<< <3
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> the way it's going now we have software written by lumberjacks and trees planted by pencilnecks.
<< hahaha
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> BingoBoingo, PeterL: the trick is to soak 'em for a year in running water so's to get the /tannins/ out.
<< Or you let the squirrels get them and eat the squirrels at your leisure
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> hmm, anyone know how you say salt fermented curd in english ?
<< fromunda
punkman: mircea_popescu:
<< you going ?
<< what, on strike?
mircea_popescu: "The Ceremony Administrator boots the laptop from a DVD"
<< example of "security".
☟︎ punkman: "This was clearly a wrong decision so let us be clear to all future attackers – ProtonMail will NEVER pay another ransom."
<< ddos-geld is bad, so we only pay anti-ddos-geld now
punkman:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2015#1322242 << they throw rocks here, and broken sidewalk pieces, and molotovs. and they hit (armored) cops with sticks and pipes. and some kids beat up a politician outside the parliament the other day. but seems to have the same effect as otherwise peaceful protest.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: necessarily a re-route of all traffic through third-party "anti-DDoS" systems.'
<< run moar cloudflare!
BingoBoingo:
<phf> there are stores in u.s. where you can buy some quality rope. hemp, jute, nylon in garish colors, all by the meter. there's probably a harness worth of rope next to a dildo collection in every dorm
<< "Rural King" is the best of those places. Can get rifle, circus peanus, cattle prod, and flowers in the same trip.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> the whole libtard charade literally busting at seams.
<< I'm telling you cultural fukishima. The core has breached
ben_vulpes: "On iOS 9.1, Safari tries to support this, but it is dreadfully buggy. Instead of paging down just less than one screen-height of content, it pages down about 1.5 screen-heights of content."
<< continuing the "apple can't make usable software" thread
ben_vulpes: "First, when the iPad Pro is open with the keyboard attached, holding your arm up to touch the screen for anything longer than a moment or two is ergonomically uncomfortable. "
<< fucking duh, your arm wears out. human factors research on the shop floor demonstrated this decades ago, but does the american tech industry know or give a shit? ahahaha don't make me choke
phf:
<asciilifeform> speaking of tape, i've always lamented that no one sells a reel-to-reel for modern pc
mircea_popescu:
<pete_dushenski> less show-offy, more 'vertical' social life
<< jurov you are fucking crazy if you imagine the thirld worlders are BETTER at being real. they all got tvs over here. every god forsaken favela in brazil, salta, what have you has a tv. no fridge, but tv.
ascii_field: 'Gosh, all of this warm fuzzy coverage of the NSA just brings a tear of thanks to my eye. While you're at it, could you do a puff piece on Stasi, and the KGB/camp system in the Soviet Union? I'm sure they did a spectacular job saving lives and keeping people safe, as well.'
<< from the not-yet-censored commentz
mircea_popescu: And “social goods” is how we got to be surrounded by idiots and their trinkets to begin with.
<< yet again and again it comes back to the name of the rose, and the old monk's hater of laughter.
mircea_popescu: And I hear Buterin just got 44,000 BTC smarter."
<< lol alfie massacring the priesthood.
mircea_popescu:
<PeterL> Is it more insulting to offer wine to Muslims
<< this is not insulting to muslims. it is only insulting to 3rd generation americans who pretend mulsimity to fill the existential void.
mircea_popescu:
<shinohai> Amazon GC ?
<<< every time i see one of these marketed i grin. because i know about eulora, and they don't, and somehow the fact that the swarm loses out pleases me.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson
<< so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in there. which is how i know he doesn't have a chance in hell.
pete_dushenski:
https://archive.is/I11Jn << "Mr. Schneiderman doesn’t see how he can prove harm from fossil fuels. So instead of RICO he appears to be focused on the Martin Act, the appalling New York state law enacted in 1921 to prosecute stock-sale boiler rooms. The Martin Act doesn’t require prosecutors to prove intent to defraud, which is why it was a favorite tool of the Empire State’s disgraced former AG Eliot Spitz
pete_dushenski:
https://archive.is/bN7tZ << "60 billion yuan will go toward a new memory chip plant, and 16.2 billion yuan toward acquisitions “upstream and downstream in the microchip supply chain.” The remaining 3.8 billion yuan will go toward Tsinghua Unigroup’s purchase of a 25% stake in Taiwan’s Powertech Technology Inc."
punkman: asciilifeform: that'd be the braindamaged pack rat approach, and yes, it has adherents
<< dunno, I like archive.org