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cazalla: punkman, fuck that, i has about 10 cups a day
cazalla: without thinking of cultural sensitivity, i say i'm not drinking that shit, she was most offended lol
punkman: well what you gonna do, not drink tea
cazalla: yeah that too
cazalla: anyway, we have green tea grown here, just not as good
cazalla: maybe fukashima farmer takes his tea to west japan, claims tea grown there
cazalla: then i was like, fkn japanese dogs try to sell mongorrians tainted green tea
cazalla: i use to drink a lot of sencha until fukashima
cazalla: you fkn glow as green as the tea
cazalla: nice cup of fukashima green tea eh punkman
punkman sneaks off to make a cup of matcha
cazalla: prefer tea tbh, coffee meh
cazalla: ppl really use those pod things?
punkman: 10 GBP for truck mail? that's highway robbery
punkman: they rebranded earlier this year
fluffypony: oh that's stupid of them
fluffypony: that's the untracked one?
punkman: and I was wondering why it took 10+ days every time
punkman: so turns out royalmail's "airmail" is now "truckmail"
cazalla: it was all a dream, i use to read bitcoin magazine..
cazalla: speaking of black people, i was watching some notorious big music videos and it occurred to me, his weight looks average now, bit much to call him big by 2015 standards
assbot: Bitcoin Launderer From Normal Sentenced To Federal Prison | WGLT ... ( http://bit.ly/1AemUnA )
cazalla: info is scarce at this time, few diff stories floating around http://wglt.org/wireready/news/2014/12/05124_bitcoin_sentence2_164332.shtml
punkman: cazalla: did the normal man have a website?
cazalla: still remember that for some reason, clearly you do too fluffypony
cazalla: ah it was sit but whatever the fuck
punkman: decimation: I guess my question above (rephrased) is this: does the secp256k1 algorithm allow for any arbitrary 256 bit vector to be used as a key? Or is there a restricted set that will be more secure than other cases? <- exponent must be smaller than curve order, which is 0xfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffebaaedce6af48a03bbfd25e8cd0364141
ben_vulpes: decimation: "street urchins" << https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzT8EqhuYxA moar tenements, i say!
ben_vulpes: <danielpbarron> well my having not done it doesn't matter as i'm no longer a lord << when did this happen? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: used to be mats_something
ben_vulpes: ah i think i recall now.
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ben_vulpes: <undata> it's this social progress thing << sounds like it's time to have another dinner party
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assbot: Adam Wainwright apologizes to fantasy baseball players for missing final start | MLB.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1uiRR5l )
asciilifeform: incidentally, german phrase of the day:
BingoBoingo: That's actually the line the Jurassic park sequels take when dinosaur feathers happened to become the consensus-ish thing IRL
decimation: yeah as Mr. Yarvin enjoys pointing out, the past is dead, cannot live again
BingoBoingo: Actual dinosaurs impossible. Theme park monsters with vague resemblance to dinosaurs could probably be done in a decade or two if anyone cared to go monsanto on chickens
BingoBoingo: Or he'd do the Jurassic park, breed theme park monsters thing
decimation: if watson wanted to 'go out with a bang' he would find the right young men to found an institute that explicitly is an enemy of his idio-cratic critics
asciilifeform: on one hand, old man feels old, envies young impotently, etc. on the other - has impulse for 'last hurrah.' word is that e. teller dreamed of presiding over a nukefest until the day he died.
decimation: "Of the 62 universities in the Association of American Universities, only four do not have programs in engineering, according to the plan. Of those four, two have joint programs in engineering with other institutions."
assbot: Indiana Daily Student: :: ​Committee to explore engineering program at IU-Bloomington ... ( http://bit.ly/1uiIhQ4 )
decimation: for instance, Indiana University has floated the idea of starting an engineering school http://www.idsnews.com/article/2014/11/committee-to-explore-engineering-program-at-iu-bloomington
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asciilifeform: ;;google you're older than you've ever been
decimation: all of those except maybe cold spring will waste it on stupid shit
mircea_popescu: lol how old does that make you ?
mircea_popescu: cast a wide net of tormentors looking for a handout, watch em squirm basically.
mircea_popescu: he was also going to buy some painting
decimation: yeah he was unspecific about the amounts - "most"
asciilifeform: but in actuality, mail it to 'isis' ?
mircea_popescu: he will ~talk about~ giving them money.
assbot: Watson Sells Nobel for $4.1M | The Scientist Magazine® ... ( http://bit.ly/1D7jrgj )
decimation: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41594/title/Watson-Sells-Nobel-for--4-1M/ "Watson told The New York Times that he planned to donate most of the proceeds from the sale to academic institutions, including the University of Chicago, which he attended as an undergraduate; Indiana University, where he earned his PhD; Cambridge, where he and Crick worked; and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. “The sale is to support
mircea_popescu: and for this reason, his toermentors.
mircea_popescu: understand old man psychology : the whole world is made out of younger men
mircea_popescu: admittedly, the traditional behaviour of intellectual types.
asciilifeform: giving money to his tormentors looks like pure nuttery
mircea_popescu: he didn't seem to want to personally do anything past telling the others what they should be doing
asciilifeform: and did, iirc, mention donations to various academitrons
decimation: nah he said he would give it to a few institutions
BingoBoingo: But now Watson can surmise he will be saved by stotting behavior until the one time he isn't
asciilifeform: he did utter 'will use it to return to public life'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> and his (alleged) plan to buy back 'respectability' with money is uncharacteristically foolish << i didn't read any such plan in there. just, "i want money" "what for ?" "fuck you lol:
asciilifeform: said, supposedly, that he will buy back into respectability with the money.
asciilifeform: he did not know that it would be returned.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and his (alleged) plan to buy back 'respectability' with money is uncharacteristically foolish << Respect comes from the buyers returning it, like the many "Gems"
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mircea_popescu: <decimation> eh? weren't nearly all the 'returning jews' from german backgrounds? << yep.
asciilifeform: and his (alleged) plan to buy back 'respectability' with money is uncharacteristically foolish
BingoBoingo: Ah, the greatest protest Watson could undertake would be to sell his nobel annually
asciilifeform: picture if - the equalistas will step up their game now. i recall there already was talk of (soviet-style!) revocation of watson's degrees.
decimation: BingoBoingo: that's awesome
assbot: The richest man in Russia bought James Watson’s Nobel prize just so he could return it - The Washington Post ... ( http://bit.ly/1uiEja5 )
decimation: yes, and they can embiggen themselves to squash any troublesome midgets for a period of time
decimation: opec wants to grow into a giant to squash the midgets in oil
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2014 04:04:57; mircea_popescu: you familiar with the "giant stool" approach to economics ?
decimation: opec is dumping oil to kill the fracking producers in the us
assbot: OPEC's No to Oil Production Cut Dents Crude Prices: 3 Energy Funds to Dump - Mutual Fund Commentary - NASDAQ.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1uiAf9P )
mthreat: there's also people asking if the US fracking companies will be "bailed out"
decimation: no talk about rebalancing spending to cover the shortfall
decimation: academic/media/civil servant complex is the us is chattering about increasing the gas tax, since prices have nearly halved
assbot: Jews Stream Back to Germany – Forward.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1uivnlc )
decimation: http://forward.com/articles/154277/jews-stream-back-to-germany/?p=all << "But under German law since May 1949, any Jew — or the descendants of such a Jew — who fled Nazi Germany has the right to become a naturalized German"
decimation: eh? weren't nearly all the 'returning jews' from german backgrounds?
mircea_popescu: anyway, quick quiz : who is the first person to have spoken german in public in israel post ww2 ?
decimation: which is why the englishers had to squash that shit
decimation: yes, the majority of 'white people' in the us are german
mircea_popescu: decimation afaik about 40% of the us is actually from germany at some point
decimation: my family is nearly all from germany, but they stopped teaching their kids the language around wwii (in the us)
mircea_popescu: jurov's from slovakia, that's like 1/2 german, and kako's somalia is an ex german colony. so like 1/6
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm from transylvania, i could as 1/3 german.
mircea_popescu: no but we like them :D
mircea_popescu: at least afaik the only place.
mircea_popescu: but the respective cultures actually accessible and tied in.
mircea_popescu: it just occured to me that b-a is actually the only place on the english web where german, russian,french, spanish etc are not merely spoken,
mircea_popescu: you know, lightbulbs going out, visibly. because back then ? they did.
assbot: Das Schlangenei pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1wZqRPv )