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pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: pretty sure you can pay someone to do that with btc now
mircea_popescu: well because they kinda like having the export and the local currencies separate.
BingoBoingo: Now if sponsored I would happily take a crap on their front stoop. As Cartman offers, that is the best way to get an undesirable neighbor to leave.
mircea_popescu: afaik the chinese do not wish this.
pete_dushenski: The yuan overtook Canada’s dollar to rank fifth for use in global payments, bolstering the case for the International Monetary Fund to endorse it as a reserve currency.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski> taking down their front page and posting, for one << Not my kind of mischeif
mircea_popescu: this proposes they're that important.
pete_dushenski: taking down their front page and posting, for one
pete_dushenski: there are creative ways to send letter to make sure they get read
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski pay them a visit, maybe. letter... just goes to recyclew.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: actual musicians tell me that the head music is a mirage. << this is correct. much like "ideal woman" that one wouldn't actually suffer in practice.
pete_dushenski: if they make it that long
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I'll wait until Ars fires their second bullet at GAW at least.
pete_dushenski: "hey guise, i just noticed something funny and i know you're gonna laugh at this too"
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you actually don't need any to have fun :D << this is how nubs got into silkscreening, too :D
BingoBoingo remembers 796 being birthed around the Time MPOE options bot still ran and Ars technical dregged the bottom of the ocean to write on every Bitcoin options exchange except MPOE/MPEx
mircea_popescu: " I wanted and needed the information in its "natural raw" state and in as comprehensive a volume as it was practical for me to make full use of it. But the most important thing about this move was to guard against the chance of intelligence being used to influence or to lead the President into unwise decisions—and I thought it was necessary that the President do his own thinking and evaluating."
mircea_popescu: yeah i recall them.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think hanbot was still on Bitcointalk long enough to shit on them. Basically the same deal except explicitly Chinese.
assbot: Why you can't invest with Cryptostocks pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1u8xM )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo reminds one of the entire cryptostocks / vcx debacle.
BingoBoingo: Speak of the devil. A socialized losses incident https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=938765.0
BingoBoingo: If it isn't in the WoT it is fair game.
assbot: Greece Taps Anti-Bitcoin Video Game Economist as Finance Minister : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1JEWBfU )
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron exact model discussed at length in teh logs, search for pogo.
danielpbarron: and it needs a hard drive too?
BingoBoingo: Hinges on Puzo knowing he was making trash of pulp, but making pulp that was flattering and salable to hollywood
danielpbarron: is this the thing? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006I5MKZY/
BingoBoingo is sure the Godfather is not an Italian work, but a middle western greek tragedy
BingoBoingo also working on a comment to the Godfather Trilema.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i so love that story :D
assbot: test - Imgur ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1q0xK )
asciilifeform: http://imgur.com/mFytet5 << that one
BingoBoingo: Mega lol The turk is to pay the jew, on the price of the day, twenty oca of prime pastrami, which he ate ; and the jew to pay the turk twenty lire, for having tricked him giving a sack of clothes that held no clothes, but pastrami, and not proper sheep pastrami, but jew pastrami.
asciilifeform: (the one in the photo)
asciilifeform: will try with actual drive later
asciilifeform: (figure was total ram usage, incl. os, not process per se)
mircea_popescu: it'll get raped later on as the chain complexifies.
asciilifeform: presumably there was some caching in the mix
mircea_popescu: "some derp told tall tales on the phone!! TO A WOMAN!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol right. so damning, that.
asciilifeform: ru intends to match usa at the 'let's pretend to be cretins' olympics.
mircea_popescu: wait so this is a rehash ?
asciilifeform: 'Podobny explicitly states in a recorded phonecall that he works for the SVR, and even expresses their disappointment that spycraft was not what they dreamed of. Podobny told his colleague, “The fact that I’m sitting with a cookie right now at the … chief enemy spot. Fuck! Not one point of what I thought then, not even close.”'
BingoBoingo: Ironically Anna Chapman resembles local family named Chapman I grew up with. Father was chess coach. Inexplicably bad at playing for his knowledge of the game.
asciilifeform: no that's today's.
mircea_popescu: didn't they just embarass themselves with the "high tech" capture of some slut on vacation and half a dozen steeds, last year ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform again that one /
assbot: US charges Russian 'spies' suspected of trying to recruit New Yorkers | US news | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1nHdZ )
BingoBoingo: tripleslash: No, literally educated black college students acting out old songs from the south for the entertainment of white people
BingoBoingo: !up tripleslash
tripleslash: !down tripleslash
BingoBoingo: tripleslash: I spent this past weekend in an IRL version of reddit. If you are brave enough next year can pass the deets.
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queer | queer: Originally pejorative for gay, now being reclaimed by some gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered persons as a self-affirming umbrella term.
mircea_popescu: "and which one was the llama"
tripleslash: "so which is it: did you have two momrs or two dads?"
mircea_popescu: lmao this suggests a new insult for the chronically whiteknighting libertard warrior.
tripleslash: some things aren't meant to be.
mircea_popescu: !up tripleslash
asciilifeform: doesn't get any easier than this
asciilifeform: i should like to hear tomorrow that one of you folks built it
BingoBoingo: Inevitable consequence of RISC CISC hybrid created for high performance on some tasks and failure otherwise
TheNewDeal: !down TheNEwDeal
asciilifeform: most of the 4m is crud incidentally
mircea_popescu: once people start coding with a view to coding, rather than being massive flaming cockidiots.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Mind too pickled to make trigger decisions atm
asciilifeform: i'm still mindfucking over that it weights only 4m
mircea_popescu: come back in 24 hour sor w/e you have time, see how far it got.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let it go, what. see what happens if it's unattended till tomorrow.
mod6: that's what it does though, chews up ram
assbot: $ armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-readelf -d -t bitcoind There are 28 section - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1lz68 )
asciilifeform: for a minute i almost thought it was all a waste of time.
assbot: $ armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-readelf -d -t bitcoind There are 28 section - Pastebin.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1lsr0 )
decimation: with that I bid good evening gentlemen
assbot: Plastic Bollards | Plastic Traffic Bollards | Removable Plastic Bollards ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1l9N2 )
decimation: they have those too: http://www.barriersdirect.co.uk/bollards-c1022/plastic-bollards-traffic-cones-c1113
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 256.09, Best ask: 257.18, Bid-ask spread: 1.09000, Last trade: 255.99, 24 hour volume: 15905.86238738, 24 hour low: 243.1, 24 hour high: 267.72, 24 hour vwap: 257.153636816
mircea_popescu: maybe they progress to dildos soon
decimation: even our security theater is made of plastic these days
asciilifeform: decimation: lately they skimp, and use gigantic plastic simulacra of these, in neon colours, filled with rancid rainwater
decimation: mircea_popescu: no, around asciilifeform they use 6 ft diameter concrete 'planters' to act as 'subtle' car barriers
mircea_popescu: prolly should put some pics up from sanity land oiver here. everyone's barefoot in the grass for lunch.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they still do that in the us ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that chain reminds instantly of the chains in public parks to keep folks off lawn
BingoBoingo: Barret brown piece on the order for tommorow. Bitcoin Magazine piece... eventually... Not like it is going anywhere
assbot: qntra.net - Twitter Search ... ( http://bit.ly/1z1kcEj )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha. toy computer needs a little bit of own variant
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Opaque grammar version still appears to have hooked massive traction on the socialitard media.
mircea_popescu: http://36.media.tumblr.com/0a69f71f07be6948d17bc1b8eac711a9/tumblr_mgybi1ruLj1rycl0co1_1280.jpg great titjob is great.
asciilifeform: (now we have our first fork of the fork, whoopee)
asciilifeform: that thing needs to piss debug.log to rs232 console, not disk
mircea_popescu: anyway, still great article, hitting the mark. qntra can only go to moon from here.
mircea_popescu: a religion that likes to call itself political because out of historical accident it replaced yahveh with something identical but called "reason" for no good reason is realy butthurt at this
decimation: of course, one can see why the priests would feel threatened
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is apolitical except to the extent it by the harsh realities of mathematics and actual economics finds itself in opposition to all forms of socialism." << "Bitcoin is apolitical, yet by the harsh realities of mathematics and actual economics it necessarily finds itself in opposition to all forms of socialism. Which, arguably, are apolitical as well, inasmuch as politics is about the polis not the utopia."
decimation: mircea_popescu: that's a good point, gotta have the court jester to keep things lively
asciilifeform: wat even is this
mircea_popescu: on average, the profession of vizier scores a hair under the profession of mendicant popular medic.
decimation: mircea_popescu: of course, if such a person would spew such nonsense to many kings of yore he would be hanging from a tree
mircea_popescu: "organized theft and poverty as cultured by sociaism" perhaps a lither, more fuckable version.